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Hugs, smiling, and interactive Twitter accounts, don't mean winning baseball. Until this community understands that we are cursed to relive the madness.
I wouldn't mind seeing Fickell brought back and here is why.
This team has improved as the season has gone along. They now have a realistic chance to go to the Big 10 title game, heck you could even say they may be the favorites to do so. The team is extremely young and a QB who was about as raw as they come. If you take out the Miami debacle they have been in position to win every other game this season.
The other part of me that wouldn't mind is the quality of coaches out there. Lets say Urban Meyer doesn't want to return to coaching right now. So now you have your up and coming coaches, retreads, and lateral move coaches. With the exception of Meyer I don't see any other home run coaches out there. There isn't a Saben or even Patrino out there who would take the job. I don't really want to go the ex-has been NFL coach either. A guy like Pelini would interest me but I don't know if he leaves Nebraska. And I hope and pray that OSU doesn't pull off a Rich Rod hire that sets the program back 5+ years. That brings me to the up and coming coaches, and you can make the argument that Fickell would fit into that group. Do you want a coach with on the job training at San Diego State? or a coach whose on the job training at OSU? If Fickell can pull of a Big 10 title game appearance I think you can say it would have been one of the best non championship coaching jobs in OSU history.
I do think that Bollman is a problem but if you hire Fickell you would have to give him the power to hire/fire coaches at his disposal.
I agree with what a few others here have said, Ohio State is not the place for a new head coach to learn on the job. One year's experience is not enough. I think Fickell has done a respectable job, but I've seen a lot things this season that have been huge downgrades from what Buckeye fans are accustomed to seeing, and I can't blame it all on youth.
I may be getting a little ahead of myself here, but there is a real good chance that OSU goes 3-1 or 4-0 to finish off the season. If they go 4-0 they win the division and head to the title game. Now if that happens at UC he would become one of the hottest coaching candidates in the nation.
I get the notion that you don't want a coach to get his on the job training at OSU. But I also think that one year in the pressure cooker known as OSU football is worth a heck of a lot more than a year or two in a MAC school. The thing is Fickell was considered a top coaching candidate when jobs would open up elsewhere. He may go the Mark Snyder route and become an utter failure at a program or he may just go the Bo Pelini or Mark Dantonio and build a very good program at a top tier school.
Other than his inexperience (which has shown at times) I think Fickell has done and admirable job in dealing with tattoo's, suspensions, and Bauserman's this season.
And I would have to disagree that a coach making it to the title game in the Big East would make him the hottest candidates in the country, with only one year of experience under his belt and winning with another coach's recruits.
I agee, I think he has done a very admirable job considering the circumstances he inherited, but I want a more proven commodity for one of the top football programs in the country.
I think if Urban Meyer wants the job OSU will give it to him, no matter what Luke Fickell does the rest of the season.
If he doesn't want the job and people like Bob Stoops or Nick Saban don't want it either and Fickell gets to the BIG Championship Game, I think he has a good chance at being retained.
He hasn't completely sold me yet. He still makes mistakes that he shouldn't make like going for 1, realizing he should be going for 2 and wasting a time out. But you can see his growth from the start of the season and if can continue to be less Zookian by the end of the season I wouldn't be opposed to keeping him.
If Urban Meyer doesn't want it then I think it'll be Fickell if he takes them to Indianapolis in December
Name a hot coaching candidate who built his team. Even Brain Kelly at UC did it with the majority of Dantonio's guys. It takes time, at least 3 years, to build your program the way you want it. Most hot coaches jump from job to job without staying at a program for more than a handful of years. The guys who stick around for 5+ years tend to be more hesitant to leave.
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If Urban Meyer comes calling, you hire him. Period! How many times in collegiate athletics have we seen this happen where an interim coach comes in and does a pretty good job in tough circumstances and is rewarded with the permanent job only to show that they weren't ready. It has happened in basketball more than football, but it has happened before. There's little that the Bucks could do the rest of this year that would make me want Fickell to be given the permanent gig unless there's no one else worthy of the job that really wants it.
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They've gotten the numbers, coaching budgets and all that stuff already out of the way. It's just a matter of being offered and then getting an acceptance. I don't anticipate Fickell being retained regardless of what happens the rest of the season... unless Meyer decides to stay in the booth.
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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/s...incinnati.htmlOhio State has replaced Cincinnati with Central Florida on the 2012 football schedule, OSU announced this afternoon.
The game against the Bearcats has been rescheduled for an undetermined date in 2018. The teams will also meet in 2014 as scheduled. Both games will be in Columbus, as will the Central Florida game, which is scheduled for Sept. 8.
Why can't they get together?
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After several decades of relative obscurity, the idiosyncratic yet pioneering career of Les Krims has recently gained the attention of new audiences: uber-hip places like
and Purple Magazine. In this interview with Krims by the downtown designer, fashion icon and all-around arbiter of cool Jen Brill in the
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Considered together [Incredible Case of the Stack O'Wheat Murders, Deerslayers and Little People] were meant to needle aspects of past and present practices of photographers — to drive a stake through the heart of what I thought of as "concerned photography." I presented faceted works that objectified a conceptual, fictional method of using a camera.There was little context for my work [in the 70s]. Socially motivated and "concerned" photographers held sway. Only gradually did that begin to change, over the next ten years. By the end of that decade I'd become the scapegoat for radical feminists emerging in the Society for Photographic Education. Andrea Dworkin had the hots for me. However, almost from the beginning, I found an audience in Paris, in Europe, and in Japan.
Making Chicken Soup
. Photographs, text and design by Les Krims. Humpy Press, Buffalo, NY, 1972. 68 pp. Duodecimo (5 3/4 x 5 in.). First edition. *With type-written, SIGNED letter dated November 26, 1972 to a 'Ms Seiberling'--probably art & photo historian Grace Seiberling, longtime faculty member at University of Rochester. Stiff photo-illustrated wrappers. 28 sepia-toned reproductions.
Fine; very slight rubbing; no spine crease.
Inlcuded in Parr & Badger (vol. II) and
802 Photo Books. A selection from the M+M. Auer collection
"That was in 1965. My mother volunteered one day when I complained that I couldn't find a model to work with at Pratt. I was still living at home with her. I photographed Sally seated on her plastic-covered couch. She wore only white panties. She was modest. Such leaps were a lot less complicated for working-class people, crowded together as we were. I grew up living in two rooms. Modesty wasn't in great supply. By then my parents had been divorced for almost 20 years. My father had twice married the same showgirl and was living in Las Vegas."--from Jen Brill's interview.
The Little People of America 1971
. A limited edition portfolio by Les Krims. Text by A.D. Coleman. Self-Published, 1971. 24 sepia-toned plates printed on glossy card stock (measuring 5x5-3/8 in.). Housed in photo-illustrated hinged box. Signed and numbered on separate sheet that also contains Coleman's text.
Contents Fine; box with slight wear at 'tips'; hinge attaching top to bottom detached.
"...what Krims shows us in these images is that Little People are not much different from anyone else...And, as such, they are as much fair game for Krims' satiric eye as any other subculture...Krims mocks his subjects with that same honed ironic blade he uses to dissect everyone, regardless of race, color, creed, place of national origin--or size"--A.D. Coleman
The Deerslayers
. A limited edition portfolio by Les Krims. Text by Alex Sweetman. Self-published, 1972. 23 sepia-toned plates printed on glossy card stock (measuring 5x5-3/8 in.) Housed in photo-illustrated hinged box. Two sheets containing Alex Sweetman's text laid in; one signed and numbered. Contents Fine in Near Fine- box-top; light abrasion to joints of box-top with small splits to corners only (box bottom fine); hinge attaching top to bottom detached.
"The Deerslayers," supposed hunters to be conceptual artists making sculpture. Near the end of Vietnam war, radical leftist activists using nasty ad hominem attack, characterized any gun-toting hunter as a murderer; police, as some may remember, were called "pigs." Tongue only slightly in cheek, I suggested that the deer trussed to cars, pick-ups, and campers-commonplace in upstate New York during hunting season-were best understood as sculpture, and a "performance" Hermann Nitsche would enjoy. The title was suggested by James Fennimore Cooper's novel, The Deerslayer. Those pictures were meant to conjure a creative appraisal and positive spin for a utilitarian sport practiced by many people living outside the radical-intellectual epicenter of New York City. Most deer hunters ate what they shot. And it's my guess that many lefty intellectuals would have strapped-on a Glock and gone hunting, too, if lox ran wild in Central Park."--Les Krims
The Incredible Case of the Stack O'Wheat Murders
. A limited edition portfolio by Les Krims. Text by Robert Sobieszek. Self-published, 1972. 10 sepia-toned plates printed on glossy card stock (measuring 5x5-3/8 in.). Housed in photo-illustrated hinged box. Two sheets containing Sobieszek's text laid in; one signed and numbered.
Contents Fine; box Fine- with touch of wear at 'tips'; one side slightly 'flared'.
"The Incredible Case of the Stack O'Wheat Murders is a series of pseudo-crime scene photographs depicting nude or semi-nude women as victims of sexualized murders. Beside each victim was a stack of pancakes. Anybody who purchased a complete set of the ten 14 x 17 prints also received a can of Hershey's syrup…which was used to simulate blood in the photos…and enough pancake mix to make a single stack of pancakes. In 1980 the University of California at Santa Cruz was exhibiting this series. Nikki Craft, an activist who protested against pornography and rape, saw the photographs the day after a local woman was raped and murdered. She ripped up the photographs and poured Hershey's syrup over them. (As an aside, Craft was acquitted of the charge of Malicious Mischief after she presented a defense arguing that the destruction of Krims' photos was itself a work of performance art. Another aside…months later, Craft purchased a complete set of the Stack O'Wheat series and donated them to the university.)"--from Sunday Salon with Greg Fallis,
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: A Book-Work by Les Krims. Introduction by Hollis Frampton. Humpy Press: Buffalo, 1975. 93 pp. Square octavo. INSCRIBED on verso of front wrapper. Photo-illustrated wrappers. 40 color reproductions.
Fine+; unusually crisp copy.
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802 Photo Books. A selection from the M+M. Auer collection
"By the end of that [70s] I'd become the scapegoat for radical feminists emerging in the Society for Photographic Education. Andrea Dworkin had the hots for me."--from Jen Brill's interview.
This hysterical book by Les Krims contains reproductions of SX-70 photographs that have been altered during the development process. This technique lends a wacky, sometimes surreal sensibility to the conceptual nudes Krims has set up to photograph. A humorous look at the nude and sexuality and Krims' creative spirit.
Leslie Krims: Eight Photographs
. Projections Photography Portfolios/Doubleday & Company, 1970. Stiff paper portfolio containing one-page introduction by A.D. Coleman + 8 loose sepia-toned gravure reproductions on 11" x 14" sheets + title sheet. Enclosed stiff cardboard slipcase.
Contents Fine; age darkened paper folio; slipcase just slightly shelf-worn
"What moves me most about Les Krims, as a photographer and as a person--in short, as an artist--is that he is the most durably comic photographer around and, at the same time, profound enough to scare the living hell out of me."--A.D. Coleman
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I just got the SW tag!! This will be my first time bear hunting so I'm pretty stoked!!
I drew 746A which was no suprise. Hope this forecasted storm through the weekend doesn't bring a bunch more snow to the high country.
I just got the SW tag!! This will be my first time bear hunting so I'm pretty stoked!!
I missed out on making my 4 th trip in as many years to the Snake....bummed but happy for the three straight years.
Drew Saddle Mt/Scappoose as my second choice. Tryed it a little bit last year and only found sign but no bears. Did get some tips from a couple locals this year so hope to get closer to a bear.
I too got the 746a
Got a Sled Springs/Chesnimnus tag with 1 point. Live in the area so have been doing a bit of scouting lately. Snow is going off pretty quickly with the weather and have seen one hog of a boar so far...Can't wait for the 15th!!!!!!!!!
I have elk and sheep hunted Chesnim, too many bears there. Go get um!
Amen to that! Seems to be pretty good carry-over on the bulls this year. Of course they're out on the Zumwalt right now so it's easy to see them. Deer have'nt looked good in several years (primarily predation) and now we have wolfs too...!
I noticed there's not alot of deer there, I am considering deer hunting there once or twice though in the near future, even though I saw as many bears as I did nice bucks. I saw a couple good bucks when I was looking for sheep in '11, it would be a hell of a pack out from where they were, but the ones I saw would be worth it. I wish I wasn't 9 hrs away from that country, I don't get to go there enough. I would take up bear hunting if I were closer.
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I wasn't fortunate enough to pull a tag for my section of the snake river. I am going to be shooting a camera though as my hunting buddy was still fortunate enough to pull a tag.
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The feel-good chapters of Juan Nicasio's major-league story are heroic and heartwarming. He overcame the chilling line drive to his head that led to a broken neck in August 2011. He recovered, only to injure his knee in early June last season.
What the tale has been missing is success on the mound. Nicasio began adding that chapter Sunday afternoon at breezy Coors Field.
"He's been through a lot the last two years," said Rockies pitching coach Jim Wright. "He needed a breakthrough game. Maybe this was it."
Nicasio, a 26-year-old right-hander, pitched six scoreless innings and allowed only three hits as the Rockies beat the defending World Series champion Giants 5-0 in front of 47,494 fans. After blowing a six-run lead in a demoralizing 8-6 loss Thursday, the Rockies rebounded to take three straight from the Giants and win the four-game series.
Make no mistake, when Nicasio trotted out to the mound, there was a lot of weight on his broad shoulders.
Not only was Nicasio the key to the Rockies' chance to win a rare series from the Giants, he was pitching to secure his fragile spot in the rotation.
Nicasio responded in splendid fashion, pitching one of the best games of his career. Plus, he added an effective two-seam, sinking fastball to his repertoire that could make a major difference moving forward.
Nicasio improved to 4-1 and lowered his ERA to 4.47. He said he didn't put added pressure on himself. "I just went out to pitch," he said. "I just wanted to do my job, throw strikes down in the zone. I threw my fastballs for strikes. That was a good start."
Nicasio's pinnacle moment arrived with two outs in the sixth inning. The Giants had runners on second and third, thanks to an error on a routine grounder booted by second baseman Josh Rutledge. Just before Nicasio's critical 3-2 pitch to Giants first baseman Brandon Belt, veteran catcher Yorvit Torrealba came to the mound for a quick consultation. Nicasio then threw a biting slider that Belt swung over the top of for an inning-ending strikeout.
"I said to him, 'You need to pick somebody up, and that would be Leo,' " Torrealba said, making a joking Leonardo DiCaprio reference to Rutledge, who somewhat resembles the actor. "I won't make any signs, I just want you to throw a 3-2 slider. If we walk him, we will get the next guy. And he was able to throw it down like I wanted and we got out of that spot. It was huge."
Nicasio whiffed five in all and walked only one. He needed just 89 pitches to get through six innings. Mixing in his two-seamer with his mid-90s, four-seam fastball for the first time in a game, he got 11 groundball outs.
Wright said Nicasio added the two-seamer while playing catch in Chicago last Tuesday, a day after Nicasio lost to the Cubs, giving up five runs and eight hits in six innings.
"He added a little two-seam action on his fastball that helped him," Wright said. "He threw it for the first time ever, in Chicago, just before this start. There is some natural movement with the pitch. He had the courage to take it out there."
San Francisco starter Barry Zito had been a left-handed Rubik's Cube for the Rockies, owning a 2.47 ERA against them coming into Sunday. But the Rockies finally cracked the puzzle. Colorado scored two runs in the fifth inning on a leadoff single by Dexter Fowler and an RBI double off the right-field wall by Carlos Gonzalez. CarGo scored on a base hit up the middle by Jordan Pacheco to increase Colorado's lead to 3-0.
"We made him earn his outs," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said of Zito. "To his credit, I thought he battled really well, hung in there and stayed in the game for a while, worked out of some trouble. But I think we had a nice approach offensively."
The Rockies struck quickly. Eric Young Jr. led off the first with a single, stole second and advanced to third on Zito's wild pitch. Gonzalez poked a single to right field to drive in Young.
Zito hadn't suffered a loss to the Rockies since Sept. 25, 2008, and was 6-0 with a 2.96 ERA in his last 10 starts against them. But he got beaten up Sunday: five runs on 11 hits in 5 innings.
Giant progress
The Rockies have foundered against the Giants in recent years, but their 5-0 victory Sunday was a giant step in the right direction. A closer look:
The Rockies won three straight games vs. the Giants after losing 10 straight.
Colorado got its first series win over the Giants in the last 11 series played.
The last time the Rockies shut out the Giants at Coors Field was Sept. 1, 2008.
The Rockies beat left-hander Barry Zito for the first time since Sept. 25, 2008.
Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post
Diamondbacks' Patrick Corbin (6-0, 1.52 ERA) vs. Rockies' Jon Garland (3-4, 4.89), 6:40 p.m. Monday, ROOT; 850 AM
The Rockies scored 31 runs in four games against a gantlet of star San Francisco Giants pitchers. Now they get to face 23-year-old Arizona ace Patrick Corbin. How good has the lefty been? He's the only pitcher in Diamondbacks history to begin a season with eight consecutive starts, going at least six innings with two or fewer runs allowed in each game. In his last start, he pitched seven scoreless innings against the Braves, allowing three hits and five walks while striking out five. Coors Field, however, has been a house of horrors for Corbin. In two starts there, the Rockies are hitting .419 against him and he's 0-1 with an 11.00 ERA over nine innings.
Upcoming Pitching Matchups
Tuesday: Diamondbacks' Ian Kennedy (2-3, 4.88 ERA) at Rockies' Jhoulys Chacin (3-3, 4.07), 6:40 p.m., ROOT
Wednesday: Diamondbacks' Trevor Cahill (3-4, 2.48) at Rockies' Jorge De La Rosa (5-3, 3.58), 1:10 p.m., no TV
Thursday: Off
Friday: Rockies' Tyler Chatwood (2-0, 2.55) at Giants' Tim Lincecum (3-3, 4.70), 8:15 p.m., ROOT
Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post


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One of Cory Monteith's unseen final films will receive its moment in the sun at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Organizers announced Wednesday that "All the Wrong Reasons," a Canadian drama Monteith shot last year during breaks from "Glee," will have its world premiere at the festival.
Gia Milani's debut feature follows a group of four people with connections to a department store who are each struggling with their own demons. Monteith plays a manager trying to help his wife (Karine Vanasse) cope with post-traumatic stress disorder after she suffers a loss.
"My film would not have been made without him," Milani wrote of Monteith in an e-mail shortly after the actor's death July 13. "I am so grateful to Cory that he took it on. I was surprised he did. It is a film that has a dark subject matter, and his character is far from the loveable Finn Hudson," she said, referring to Monteith's upbeat character on "Glee." She added: "I was impressed with Cory's ability to embody my flawed character, and I am fiercely proud of Cory's performance."
The Canadian actor was working on "Glee" and "Reasons" simultaneously last summer, spending weekends in Los Angeles and returning Monday mornings to Milani's set in Nova Scotia. "He never missed a beat. I am sure he was tired, but didn't show it," Milani wrote in the email. The filmmaker said that after completing the movie in June, she had screened it for Monteith in L.A.
Milani added in a statement Wednesday that "While we are still reeling from the loss of Cory far too soon, we are very happy that we can present this film to the world at the Toronto Festival and show audiences what an incredible dramatic performance he delivers in it. The film offers a glimpse of him I don't think people have had a chance to see before."
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The movie, which does not yet have a U.S. distributor, was part of a group of Canadian premieres organizers announced Wednesday. Among the other titles are the Daniel Radcliffe romantic dramedy "The F Word," directed by Michael Dowse; veteran director Bruce McDonald's "The Husband"; and "Enemy," Denis Villeneuve's second film with Jake Gyllenhaal at Toronto (after "Prisoners").
Monteith, who battled with addiction, was found dead in a Vancouver hotel last month at age 31. He also completed another film, "McCanick," in which he plays a street hustler also coping with addiction issues.
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Day 157 without playing golf
The three-foot putt when something is on the line -- is there anything scarier in golf? I mean, really. It's the great equalizer (and destroyer), whether you're a weekend hacker or John Daly going against Tiger Woods in a playoff.
JD seized defeat from the jaws of victory when he hiccupped on a short one yesterday at the American Express Championship in San Francisco. I'm glad I didn't witness it. It's too painful to watch.
Other famous misses:
*Retief Goosen from two feet on the last hole in the 2001 U.S. Open. He went on to win the next day in a playoff against Mark Brooks.
*Doug Sanders muffed a short one on the 72nd hole of the 1970 British Open. A guy named Nicklaus stole the Claret Jug from Sanders in a playoff the next day.
*Scott Hoch missed a win-clinching putt from 18 inches in a playoff at the '89 Masters. Nick Faldo prevailed.
*Sam Snead missed from inside three feet at the 1947 U.S. Open, giving the title to Lew Worsham. In an illustrious career, Snead never wins the U.S. Open.
In a few weeks, the three-footer would make a good Halloween costume. Nothing's scarier.
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Thus, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Whip Kevin McCarthy staked out cheap ground to the right of Speaker John Boehner by voting no. The speaker, meanwhile -- with more sincerity -- ratified his defeat at the bargaining table by voting for a "compromise" that was, in reality, a total surrender. If this was a compromise, so was the ceremony on the deck of the USS Missouri ending World War II!
The "good" news is that this "victory" gives Obama more than enough rope with which to destroy himself. Its tax increases and mammoth additions to the deficit and debt will likely lead to recession and even higher unemployment. Obama is about to learn the validity of the wisdom he received -- and ignored -- from Bill Clinton that "I don't think it's a good idea to raise taxes on anybody during a recession."
But let's not permit those who voted against the deal to parade their ballots as evidence of their dedication to principle.
Rather, look at the real moment of political principle and courage that arose before the vote to approve this awful deal. Before Speaker Boehner brought the bill up for a vote, he offered the Republican majority another alternative to surrender to Obama's plan. He said that if the members would support him, he was willing to say no and to pass, instead, a bill with the tax increases but with real spending cuts added in.
Some members were willing to take him up on the offer. Others were reluctant to join in, fearful of voting for tax increases in any form. How convenient to be able to say no all the time. Once the tax increases were inevitable, the time had arrived to fight to add in spending cuts to the Senate passed bill. But too many Republicans were AWOL for the battle on spending to wage it with any prospect of winning. Instead Boehner caved and passed the Obama bill, relying largely on Democratic support to get it through.
It was not a great day to celebrate being a Republican.
To find out more about Dick Morris and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at creators.com.


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Whole weekend of Bitcoin-related hacking awesomeness.
Pitch your idea or join a team. Write open-source software, or start your new awesome Bitcoin startup company. Find people to work with.
Don't worry if you are not yet a Bitcoin developer. Projects need web pages, documentation, ideas, propaganda, etc.
Also, if you are a store/restaurant in Bratislava and you would like to accept Bitcoin, come and we will teach you how.
Write articles, promote Bitcoin, create posters, design logos for projects, code, learn, meet new people, invent amazing things. Because this is about creating new stuff!
Bratislava is a Bitcoin capital of the world for once. Join us!
More information about the idea of BitHack (Bitcoin hackathons)
Facebook event (click join for us to know how many people are coming and you can get notifications about event announcements)
On Friday: Pitch your idea, join a team. Hacking starts.
Saturday: Programming, creating and hanging out. Join any team you like or form your own.
Sunday: More creating. Afternoon: Demo day!
Q: What is BitHack?
A: Bithack is dedicated to bringing together the bitcoin community to share existing projects, start new ones and meet new people.
Events begin with pitches around existing ideas or new ideas. Teams then form and begin hacking on their project for the duration of the event.
Q: Who can get involved?
• Developers!
• Designers!
• Miners!
• Entrepreneurs!
• Business backgrounds!
• Investors!
• Sponsors!
• Venues!
• Event Organizers!
• Marketing types!
• Writers!
• Bitcoin fanatics!
Q: My idea is not about Bitcoin...
A: That's ok. All future of money thinkers and ideas are welcome.
Q: Does Progressbar accept Bitcoin for drinks?
A: Of course
Q: Is this event friendly for English-speaking people and people who have never been to Progressbar?
A: Of course
Q: What's the price?
A: Just be awesome and create. We appreciate donations for the space, but they are completely voluntary
Q: I have another question
A: Write to firstname.lastname@example.com


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Frames & Banners Font by Outside-the-Line
About: 32 illustrations of 15 Frames and 17 Banners. Most are line drawings with a reverse version. Lots of dots and grids, scallops and stripes to mix and match. Quick way to add some punch to your layouts. Great for mailing labels, labeling for jars, borders for this and that. Nice scrapbook additions too.
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Santa Claus had another busy day at the annual South Tama Project 60 dinner and entertainment for seniors. South Tama?High School and Middle School student council members along with the high school food service staff served a holiday meal to some 300 attending. Festive musical was provided by STC?Concert Band, Harding Street Singers and Josh Grimes on the piano. Elementary students made place mats and the STC?FFA provided fruit for the event.
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By Bronwyn Long, Examiner.com
Planning a day trip to Vail? Here are five great places for a glass of wine in Vail. Stopping at more than one of them offers the chance for a nice walking tour of Vail Village, which is in full bloom this time of year.
La Tour Restaurant & Bar, 122 East Meadow Drive, has been a top-rated restaurant in Vail for many years. One reason is its exceptional wine list, which includes some of the rarest and most sought-after Burgundy wines in the world, as well as bottles from the great champagne houses. Two of the notables on the list are a 2001 Romanée-Conti Domaine de la Romanée-Conti — only 600 cases produced from what has been regarded as the single-greatest site for Pinot Noir, and a 1959 Clos du Vougeot Grand Cru-Remoissenet. For the casual wine-drinker, they offer more than 23 wines by the glass, nine half-bottles, and more than 550 wines by the bottle. La Tour's Collectors' List, which contains top-rated wines, has been discounted for the summer. La Tour is located across from the westernmost entrance to the Vail parking structure.
Restaurant Kelly Liken, 12 Vail Road, a relative newcomer to Vail's dining scene, is an energetic destination for wine and food. They maintain a focused cellar of American and French wines. Ongoing staff education assures assistance with navigating the list of 250 grower champagnes and other wines by the bottle, and more than 50 wines by the carafe, full, and half-glass. They pour five custom wine flights daily, including one of Colorado wines. Canyon Wind Cellars, Infinite Monkey Theorem, and Jack Rabbit Hill wines are among the Colorado wines available currently by the glass. Colorado ingredients are used in the cocktails seasonal cuisine. Summer Harvest Dinners, available on Sundays during the summer season, use items from that day's farmers' market.
La Bottega, 100 East Meadow Drive, offers 30 wines by the glass, 15 by the half-bottles, and 400 by the bottle. Seating choices include large and small bistro tables, bar stools, low tables with benches and chairs, and a large patio that runs the length of the restaurant along Meadow Drive. It is a relaxed and rustic environment, reminiscent of an old farm house in Europe, with its white stucco and exposed brick trim and fieldstone fireplaces and pillars.
Sweet Basil, 193 Gore Creek Drive, a longtime favorite among locals and visitors alike, pours 10-15 wines by the glass, 50 by the half-bottle, and more than 550 by the bottle. Located centrally in Vail Village, their selection of champagne and sparkling wine is unusually diverse, offering bubble-lovers the choice of new world sparkling wine, and vintage, non-vintage, and rosé champagnes by the full and half-bottles. After pouring wines by the glass, the bartender offered a sample of the Hendricks Haze, a tasty gin martini made with fresh cucumber, fresh lime, and coriander syrup. A nice alternative to a summer rose or white patio wine.
Terra Bistro, 352 East Meadow Drive, is located at the corner of Vail Valley Drive and East Meadow Drive, across from the easternmost entrance to the Vail parking structure. Terra Bistro is on the main level of the Vail Mountain Lodge & Spa. Happy Hour is from 5:00-6:00pm daily. During Happy Hour they offer six wines by the glass and nine appetizers. The bar is open until 9:30pm, offering 15 wines by the glass, 19 by the half-bottle, and 300 by the bottle, and innovative appetizers, including sprouted quinoa lettuce cups and an inside-out spicy tuna roll with watermelon.
Honorable mention goes to Up the Creek Bar and Grill, 223 Gore Creek Drive. Its waterside dining at the edge of Gore Creek lures diners to the restaurant, while seasonal wine specials and such menu items as truffle fries and gnocchi with duck confit, pine nuts, chives, bleu cheese, and lavender-honey cream keeps them there, sampling the extensive wine list.


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Thursday, September 06, 2007
More healing, more healing!
Well today, our new best Thursday friend of all time, Bill, has come through for us with a very soothing, calming picture of a very dedicated Auburn fan.
Now, I don't know about the rest of our readers but I'm feeling better and better each day. In fact, after about, say, 642 more such pictures of extremely, uh, "passionate" female college football fans, my pain might be reduced to that felt after a tough OT loss to Iowa on the road. I'm just saying.
So please, dear reader. Continue to do your part.
Memo to Auburn Fans: Uh, we no longer give a rat's cornhole how many mascots you have. We're sold.
12 comments:
- Katie said...
Somehow these pics just aren't doing it for me Yost.
- September 06, 2007 12:53 AM
- not said...
The problem is that the tits are as fake as the football teams.
What happened to real boobies?
- September 06, 2007 1:05 AM
- MarkMack said...
Yost, I have no problem with fake boobs. They have a great porno quality to them. Please continue with this healing process.
- September 06, 2007 3:46 AM
- ChicagoWolverine said...
You think those are built for speed or for comfort?
- September 06, 2007 8:48 AM
- intellidouche said...
The only set of teats in Auburn that doesn't have a calf nursing on 'em.
- September 06, 2007 9:30 AM
- WingRG said...
This set isn't as real as the one on the Texas girl (imho), but then again: "if you can touch them, they're real"
- September 06, 2007 11:01 AM
- dtw2phx said...
C'mon Yost...bust out some pasties and show us YOUR skin!!! Be a true Blue fan!
- September 06, 2007 12:16 PM
- san francisco values said...
Wait til you see the one with the Oregon logos :)
- September 06, 2007 4:12 PM
- TitleIX said...
nice SF values.
here's the deal about fake DD boobs--you put a little pressure on them or try and spread them out/move them around or, even just put a little pin in 'em and
you are left with 1-AA.........
- September 06, 2007 6:21 PM
- MGoBlue93 said...
san francisco values... what, boobies covered in diamond plate???
- September 06, 2007 11:58 PM
- Kraut said...
mgoblue93, I think san francisco was thinking of an "O" logo ... which bascially means it wouldn't cover much. (At least that's what I pictured!)
- September 07, 2007 10:42 PM
- god of the whoppers said...
why does her belly look like mine?
- September 08, 2007 11:03 AM


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The End is Distillery Program year end exhibition
April 10, 2012
The Brew House Association's Distillery Program presents its year-end exhibition The End highlighting the work of seven emerging local artists at the end of their eight-month residency.
The End
is the accumulation of new and ongoing creative developments in the work of the artists in the Distillery Program. Now in its sixth year, this program in contemporary practice yields varied approaches to making art within the culturally diverse landscape of Pittsburgh. It showcases a rich collection of artists and their respective research at the culmination of their residency.
The opening reception will be held on Friday, April 13, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Brew House. The artists will host Artist Talks at the Brew House on May 1, and May 3 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Participating artists include Matt DiClemente, Amy DiPlacido, Zach Dorn, Marytna Matusiak, Laurel Mitchell, Jim Rugg, and Bec Young.
The Brew House is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individual artists. Delivering uncompromising attention to artist development through residency programs, the Brew House provides individual artists and artist initiatives with the support necessary to foster invention, creation and collaboration.
Additional information on Distillery 6 can be found at http://www.distillery6.com.


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BOSTON -- Massachusetts could become the first state to ban plastic-bag use at large retail stores, part of an effort to prevent litter from harming marine animals and to reduce waste scattered through streets and stuck in tree branches.
Lawmakers on the Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture Committee quickly moved the legislation (H696 and S359) forward Monday, immediately following a hearing on the issue. The bills ban single-use plastic bags at retail stores larger than 4,000 square feet. The ban would exempt smaller retail stores and not include plastic produce and bakery bags used inside grocery stores.
Rep. Lori Ehrlich, D-Marblehead, who sponsored one of the bills given a favorable recommendation, said society's disposable culture "seems to be catching up with us." Ten percent of the debris that washes up on the shore is plastic bags, she said.
"Nothing that we use for a few minutes should pollute the oceans for hundreds of years," Ehrlich said.
Hundreds of communities across the country have instituted some type of ban. Mostly recently in Massachusetts, Brookline and Manchester-by-the-Sea approved bans. No state has enacted a statewide ban. However, Hawaii does have a de-facto statewide ban, with all four counties in the state now banning non-biodegradable plastic bags at checkout as well as paper bags that are not at least 40 percent recycled.
Similar legislation was recommended by Massachusetts lawmakers on the Environment Committee last session, but it never surfaced for a vote in the House.
"I think there is a growing movement across society," Pacheco said after the hearing.
No one from the plastic bag industry testified against the bills.
Other states are considering similar bans, including Rhode Island.
Environmentalists said the bags are a danger to the state's coastlines, and kill sea turtles, whales, seals and other marine wildlife that swallow plastic or get strangled by the bags.
Americans throw away more than one billion plastic bags a year, with less than 5 percent recycled, according to Roxanne Zak, from the Sierra Club. "They are creating an environmental crisis for us here, and in the whole world, not just the United States," Zak said.
The bags -- which take hundreds of years to decompose -- end up in trees or settle in storm drains, and eventually wind up in waterways, she said.
Ehrlich's bill makes an exception for certain biodegradable plastic bags.
Recycling the bags does not solve the problem, environmentalists argued. In most cases, the resin in plastic bags can only be used once, and recycling them is costly, according to proponents of the ban.
Approximately half of the bags are rejected for recycling because they are contaminated by food waste, according to environmentalists. "You get one product out of it, and that is it. With bottles, you can make more products," Ehrlich said.
Sen. James Eldridge, an Acton Democrat who sponsored one of the bills, said he feels strongly that plastic bags do not have a place in society. Plastic-bag litter creates a "blight" on communities and damages oceans, Eldridge said pointing to the debris floating in the Pacific Ocean known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.


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Friends, supporters and snowboarders will give back to a woman who has worked tirelessly for breast cancer, and now needs their help.
Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC) is holding "B4BC 4 MEGS" a large fundraising event Wednesday to help and honour Megan Pischke, a professional snowboarder who has led the group's "Survivor ReTreats" for the past five years, and has been a tireless volunteer with B4BC since it was founded in 1996.
Pischke was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and is undergoing treatment.
The event will be a fundraiser for pro snowboarder Megan Pischke, will take place Wednesday April 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Merlin's Bar and Grill, at 4553 Blackcomb Way, Whistler.
A 3 p.m. après gathering will kick off the main fundraising event.
The goal is to raise $50,000 for Pischke and her family. About 20 per cent has been reached with $14,636.
More funds will be raised through a silent auction, a raffle, and live art sales. Music by Scott Sullivan and Wes Makepeace, Northwest Scott with DJ TROUBLE Andrew. There will also be live art by Shanna Duncan, Matt French, Vanessa Stark, Mark Kowalchuk, Matel among others.
Event tickets can be purchased for $20 at the door and include a free Kokanee and raffle ticket; doors open at 7 p.m.
Those who can't attend are encouraged to make a donation through the online fundraising page at http://www.stayclassy.org/whistler-bc-canada/events/b4bc-4-megs-fundraiser-for-b4bcs-friend-pro-snowboarder-megan-pischke/e23910
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Buford, Wyo. -- population 1 -- heads to auction
BUFORD, Wyo. (AP) -- What's advertised as the smallest town in the United States is scheduled to go up for auction next month.
Buford, between Cheyenne and Laramie in southeast Wyoming, is famous for having just one inhabitant, Don Sammons.
Sammons plans to retire from managing his businesses at Buford and move on. The auction is set for noon on April 5.
Buford traces its origins to the 1860s and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and had as many as 2,000 residents before the railroad was rerouted.
Sammons and his family moved from Los Angeles to Buford in 1980. Family members moved away over the years, but Sammons stayed on as sole resident and "mayor" of the unincorporated community. He bought the trading post in 1992 and operated it until last year.
"It was a great life for me and for my family," he said, adding it would be the same for anyone looking for a unique operation.
Buford sits at an elevation of 8,000 feet and is the highest town along Interstate 80 between New York and California. The area offers impressive views of the Rocky Mountains but is prone to extreme winds and frigid temperatures -- even by Wyoming standards.
Foul weather shuts down I-80 between Cheyenne and Laramie at least a couple times during a typical winter. Each time that happens, Buford might as well be at the North Pole rather than next to one of the busiest cross-country thoroughfares in the U.S.
Assets up for sale will include a gas station and convenience store, a 1905 schoolhouse that has been used as an office, a cabin, a garage, 10 acres of land and a three-bedroom home, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported.
Buford has its own ZIP code and post office boxes for people who live nearby.
It's a business opportunity that also offers a romantic lifestyle, said Amy Bates, chief marketing officer for Oklahoma City, Okla.-based Williams and Williams, which is handling the auction. Bidding will open at $100,000, she said.
"We're going to have a variety of people attracted to this property, based on what it would mean to them," Bates said.


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Edgar Evans Memorial - St. Mary's Church - Rhossili, Swansea County, Wales
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Memorial to member of the Scott Expedition to Antarctica located in parish church in the small village of Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales
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location: South Wales, United Kingdom
date approved: 1/4/2011
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Edgar Evans - Welsh Polar Explorer - Swansea - Wales.
Edgar Evans was born 1876 at Gower, Swansea, Wales. He was a member of the fatefull British Antarctic Expedition's attempt to reach the South Pole First. The 5 man team reached the Pole on 17th Jan 1912 but all perished on the return journey.
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date approved: 7/19/2012
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A Centenary Garden for Captain R.F. Scott - Roath Park, Cardiff, Wales, UK
This prize-winning garden titled A Centenary Garden for Captain R.F. Scott was devised in 2010 to commemorate Captain Scott's failed attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. He and his crew set off from Cardiff aboard the Terra Nova.
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Scott Memorial, Roath Park, Cardiff, Wales
Monument to Scott of the Antarctic.
Captain Scott, set sail in the S.S.Terra Nova, from Cardiff, in Wales, on his expedition to Antarctica in 1910.
date approved: 3/3/2012
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Robert Falcon Scott - City Hall - Cardiff, Wales.
Memorial bronze plaque for Robert Falcon Scott and his companions by W. Wheatley Wagstaff. Located on the staircase of City Hall, Cardiff, Wales.
date approved: 11/5/2012
last visited: 2/15/2014
SS Terra Nova - figure head - National Museum of Wales.
In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, hoping to be the first people to reach the South Pole. They departed from Cardiff Bay in the vessel SS Terra Nova, this is the Figure head from that ship.
date approved: 4/28/2012
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Scott of the Antarctic - Cardiff Bay - Wales.
In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, departed from Cardiff Bay in the vessel SS Terra Nova but the expedition ended tragically and never returned.
date approved: 4/12/2012
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Antartica 100 Memorial - Cardiff Bay - Wales.
Terra Nova Expedition Centenary, commemorated by this monument 'Antartica 100 Memorial' located at the dock in Cardiff Bay, from which this fateful expedition departed Wales, for the South Pole.
date approved: 3/25/2012
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Privacy vs. transparency… How much political staying power does this story have?... May jobs report: 175,000 jobs added last month; unemployment rate ticks up to 7.6%... The White House's health-care PR problem… Ranking the 2016 GOPers… Christie's appointment and Booker's slam dunk… This week's 2016 wrap… And other noteworthy nuggets from the NBC/WSJ poll.
This undated government photo shows an aerial view of the National Security Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, Md. The Obama administration on Thursday defended the National Security Agency's need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, calling such information "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats."
*** Transparency problems: The news of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs has dominated the last 48 hours. To understand the political impact of this story, it's perhaps instructive to look at it through this lens: privacy vs. transparency -- and transparency could be the most potent issue for an administration that promised to be the most transparent in history. What the White House has to understand is this: The president's own credibility is on the line on this story when it comes to transparency. Candidate Obama expressed outrage over many of these programs back in the day and at the time, and when pressed at the time his outrage usually centered on how the tactics were implemented, not necessarily with the tactics themselves. The president promised more transparency about some of these operations, tactics and about making sure the public was comfortable that there was a serious process when it comes to oversight of these programs. You can't just take anyone's word for it, even he has said that numerous times. And that's the political problem he needs to nip in the bud. The public expects a level of secrecy but not an abuse of it and they certainly expect an explanation.
*** Privacy less an issue: As privacy issue, it's likely that the American public will collectively shrug its shoulders over this. Why? Because they probably realize that corporations are already tracking their every purchase and that surveillance cameras are already capturing their every movement. And even if they don't shrug and it bothers them, they probably feel a bit powerless about it. But as a transparency issue, the story might have more legs. The whole reason this has become front-page news -- when USA Today had already reported about the NSA phone-record program back in 2006 -- is because of its secrecy. And the question the Obama administration must ask itself is: Would it be better off if the American public knew about this? Would it restore more trust in the government?
*** How much staying power does this story have? As a strictly partisan issue, however, we're not sure this story has staying power. After all, outside of a handful of libertarian Republicans (Rand Paul, Mike Lee), GOP politicians are defending the NSA's programs. On the Democratic side of the aisle, there are critics too, but it appears to be a minority of the party. As we figured would happen, bipartisanship broke out in a big way yesterday on this issue -- both in support of the tactics and in opposition. But that bipartisanship on both sides of this issue probably also means it's not exactly an issue that will have political staying power. If you've learned anything about American politics, a story becomes supercharged when the opposition party begins raising its voice in unison. And out of all the controversies the Obama administration is facing (IRS, Benghazi, leak investigations, and now NSA), this is one a majority of Republicans have no problem with.
*** 175,000 jobs added in May, unemployment rate ticks up to 7.6%: Meanwhile, here are the breaking job numbers from May, per the AP: "U.S. employers added 175,000 jobs in May, steady hiring but below the more robust pace that took place during the fall and winter. The Labor Department says the unemployment rate rose to 7.6 percent from 7.5 percent in April. The increase occurred because more people began looking for work, a good sign." This economy is trying so hard to recover; call it stagnant progress. Many Democrats are going to be arguing today that if it wasn't for the austerity standoff in Washington (including sequester), the economy would be recovering A LOT faster. The Republicans will likely focus their ire on the slowness of this recovery on the new tax increases. But make no mistake: Progress is being made.
*** The White House's health-care PR problem: In California at 11:50 am ET, President Obama delivers a statement to reporters on implementing the Affordable Care Act. And it's another opportunity to mention the numbers from our recent NBC/WSJ poll: The health-care law's unpopularity has reached new heights -- 49% say it's a bad idea (the higher number recorded on this question since the poll began measuring it in '09), while just 37% say it's a good idea. The poll also finds that 38% say they and their family will be worse off under the health-care law, which also is the highest percentage on this question that dates back to 2010. By comparison, 19% say they'll be better off, and 39 percent say the law won't make much of a difference. The poll, however, shows deep divisions by political party and health insurance status. By a 35%-to-11% margin, Democrats say they'll be better off under the health-care law. But Republicans say they'll be worse off, 67% to 4%. What's more, those who currently don't have health insurance have a more positive view of the health-care law than those who have insurance -- either through individual purchase or through their employer. Bottom line here: The Obama White House has a massive PR problem with health care. And it probably doesn't help that opponents have outspent supporters on TV ads by a 5-to-1 ratio since 2010, per Kantar Media CMAG.
*** Ranking the GOP 2016ers: Since December, our NBC/WSJ poll has begun measuring potential 2016 candidates. And here's a fun little exercise: We're ranking these GOP politicians among Republican respondents in the poll, as well conservatives respondents. Here's the order among Republicans:
Paul Ryan (62%-13%)
Rand Paul (53%-6%)
Marco Rubio (49%-6%)
Jeb Bush (48%-7%)
Chris Christie: (40%-16%)
Scott Walker (21%-5%)
Ted Cruz (21%-6%)
And here's the ranking among conservative respondents in our poll:
Paul Ryan (58%-11%)
Rand Paul (47%-5%)
Marco Rubio (45%-6%)
Jeb Bush (44%-7%)
Chris Christie (33%-15%)
Ted Cruz (21%-6%)
Scott Walker (19%-5%).
So note how well Ryan and Paul are faring, and note how Christie is trailing among these groups.
*** Christie's appointment and Booker's slam dunk: Speaking of Christie, he announced yesterday that he was appointing state Attorney General Jeff Chiesa to temporarily fill the Senate seat vacated by Sen. Frank Lautenberg's (D-NJ) passing. Make no mistake: Appointing a caretaker like Chiesa wasn't Christie's first choice, but he had no choice after announcing that the Senate election would take place in October. (If you're a Republican, you'd rather want to run alongside Christie in November, or wait until 2014.) But here's perhaps the biggest story out New Jersey this week: No one has been more helped by this entire process than Cory Booker. Quick Democratic primary? Check. Two Democratic congressmen who are also running (Pallone and Holt) that might split the anti-Booker vote? Check. October general election? Check. On paper, Booker's election is starting to look like a slam dunk.
*** This week's 2016 wrap: Also this week, Hillary Clinton spoke at Frank Lautenberg's funeral; she was argued over during a Massachusetts Senate debate; and at a fashion awards gala she joked about her pantsuits. Wearing one designed by Oscar de la Renta, she said she had pitched a new reality show, "Project Pantsuit."… Vice President Joe Biden also spoke at Lautenberg's funeral and the L.A. Times dubbed him, "King of the eulogy."… Martin O'Malley's (D-MD) still dealing with the fallout of a scandal at a Baltimore jail… Marco Rubio continues to walk a very fine line on immigration reform, speaking out at times against the very bill he helped author and voted for out of committee… Raul Labrador may have walked away from the group negotiating a compromise immigration bill in the House, but Paul Ryan endorsed it, calling it a "good product" and "good policy."… And Rand Paul's not happy with the NSA or President Obama; he claimed Obama's "bent towards authoritarianism is probably worse" than Bush; and that we're living in the novel "1984." …
*** By the way, here are the fav/unfav numbers among ALL the potential 2016ers from this week's NBC/WSJ poll:
Hillary Clinton
Overall: 49%-31%
Women: 54%-24%
Men: 43%-40%
Whites: 41%-38%
African Americans: 76%-12%
Latinos: 58%-19%
Dems: 83%-6%
Indies: 32%-36%
Republicans: 15%-61%
Chris Christie
Overall: 41%-12%
Women: 39%-12%
Men: 42%-12%
Whites: 41%-12%
African Americans: 41%-11%
Latinos: 36%-7%
Dems: 43%-10%
Indies: 41%-9%
Republicans: 40%-16%
Tea Party supporters: 40%-22%
Ted Cruz
Overall: 10%-12%
Women: 6%-12%
Men: 13%-12%
Whites: 10%-12%
African Americans: 5%-18%
Latinos: 16%-8%
Dems: 3%-23%
Indies: 11%-8%
Republicans: 18%-5%
Tea Party supporters: 28%-10%
Jeb Bush
Overall: 26%-23%
Women: 32%-21%
Men: 29%-26%
Whites: 30%-22%
African Americans: 6%-32%
Latinos: 16%-24%
Dems: 11%-38%
Indies: 22%-24%
Republicans: 48%-7%
Tea Party supporters: 53%-10%
Scott Walker
Overall: 12%-12%
Women: 9%-10%
Men: 15%-14%
Whites: 13%-12%
African Americans: 5%-12%
Latinos: 8%-6%
Dems: 4%-20%
Indies: 11%-10%
Republicans: 21%-5%
Tea Party: 33%-4%
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Both the Royal Institution (RI) and the Science Museum have been talked about this week and their validity has been brought into question. It led me to thinking about my childhood and what inspired me as a young person to get into science. What I came up with was a broad range of things that I remember having a profound effect on me and formed part of my journey. This is of course a bunch of anecdote so unless you are interested in other folks experience stop reading here.
My dad:
My dad is a tool-maker and has worked in factories making tools all of his working life. As a young child (~4/5) I would slope out to the garage at the weekend and watch dad fixing our car, an old rust-laden ford Anglia that needed constant attention. Sometimes I would hold a spanner or do a minor job, sometimes I would just squat down and watch patiently as my dad worked away. The garage was a constant attraction to me all the way up until I left home – filled with drills, soldering irons, jars of nails and screws, and any manner of kit you could lay your hands on. I feel that it was here that the seeds of "an experimentalist" were sown. Dad always encouraged us to do projects and would always spring into action if I had a grand idea but could not see how to make it work.
The Usbourne Dictionary of Science:
I had a beautiful hard back junior science dictionary from Usbourne. I could often be found reading this book from cover to cover. I can't remember how many times I read it but always seemed to find something I'd missed each new time I read it. When I got a bit older, there was a more substantial Usbourne science dictionary which I also proceeded to devour. This was the first time I saw the term quantum physics and I proceeded to write down my thoughts about what I'd learned in my little Garfield diary (which I still have).
Mr Edwards:
This is funny, as I'd forgotten Mr Edwards and it wasn't until my dad reminded me that I realised what an effect this teacher had on my choices. When I was 9 we had a teacher called Mr Edwards. We did all sorts of projects like making kites, playing with bulbs and batteries, and all sorts of other fun things. Of course this was all science, but I had no idea. I just remember them being the most fun six months of school I ever had. Sadly, he left halfway through the year so that put pay to all the fun! According to my family I talked about him a lot and I remember him looking a bit like Freddie Mercury.
The RI:
In year 6 (when I was 11) I was chosen as part of a lucky few from my school to watch a lecture at the RI. I remember arriving outside this enormously grand building that somehow portrayed all of the weight of its history at once. I don't remember every single piece of the day, I don't even remember what the lecturer was talking about although there were lots of fun demonstrations (as you would expect at the RI). What I remember is how I felt. I felt like an entire world I'd known nothing about previously had suddenly appeared before me and that I just wanted to know what it was all about. It's hard to describe the feeling, nebulous but very real, wanting to understand something but not even knowing the right questions to ask. It was utterly thrilling.
Later (~15) when I had a lot more chance to think about science and had three years of formal science lessons behind me I had the opportunity to go back and listen to a series of lectures at the RI. As part of this we got to have a tour of the museum and Faraday's labs. I actually found this bit more interesting than the lectures because it was a chance for me to walk in the footsteps of the greats of science. Being connected to the history of discovery was the key here. It felt important, and it felt like nowhere I'd ever been before as a bog standard, working class, comp student.
The Science Museum:
I cannot underestimate how much I fell in love with the Science Museum. I have been many times in my life and I can't remember how old I was when I first went but I think I was 10/11. There was just so much to take in. There were huge steam engines, aeroplanes, and rockets and all manner of curiosities. I remember down in the basement there used to be a weird area with loads of strange hands on pieces of kit that smelled like a workshop and looked like it was from circa 1950's. I remember the excitement and hilarity of our allotted time in the "launch pad" playing with huge bits of foam, fibre optics, lasers, and many things I strain to remember. I do remember some of the boys discovering that if you scuffed around on the carpet you could give each other electric shocks. Discovery right there!
The space gallery was the part that really left an impression on me. As a small child the concept of "all of space" and space travel petrified me (possibly because of Challenger). When I visited the space gallery I was started to realise how incredible space travel was and how brave and/or stupid the folks were who strapped themselves into these enormous vehicles. I remember the way the rockets and one of the Apollo capsules were arranged in this dark and labyrinthine room and the hairs on my arms standing on end. Sometimes I take a moment if I am at Imperial or the Dana centre to sneak into the space gallery and recapture the moment. It always feels like coming home.
The Eureka Science Master classes:
The RI trip when I was a teen was part of a scheme run by the University of Surrey (I grew up in surrey) called the Eureka Science Master classes. It was a university outreach scheme that gave the opportunity for school kids in the area of 14 or 15 years old to come into the university and learn about science and engineering in all its forms. I remember doing practical workshops on things as diverse as CAD design, biochemical engineering, and Boolean logic. There were also trips arranged to various lectures and museums in London. We went to what is now known as the Wellcome collection to the museum and to watch a lecture on the human genome project. I thought it was so fascinating that I almost did biology and genetics instead of physics (luckily I came to my senses). What my parents can attest to is that these master classes blew me away. I talked about them incessantly for weeks…and weeks…and weeks. It really sealed the deal for me and I also think it had something to do with me ending up at Surrey for my first degree.
It's hard to know what had the most significant effect, and if any of these things had not happened whether I'd have still ended up where I am now. Maybe the most important thing is that my parents and my teachers never told me I couldn't do science. I don't know. What I do know is that all of these different factors produced a profound and memorable effect for me. I think it's important for us to remember our own journeys since it will help shed light on how we should share science and technology to the next generation. Write about yours and pass it on!


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FORT COLLINS -- Was it worth it? Did she enjoy it? And would she do it again? Colorado's Golden Girl responded with a resounding yes to each question.
"It has been incredible," an exhausted and hoarse Missy Franklin said Saturday night at the Edora Pool Ice Center after capping perhaps the most unlikely, celebrated and scrutinized schoolgirl career here and nationally.
The senior at Regis Jesuit High School won races for the Raiders individually and as a relay member, set state and national swimming records and led her teammates to the Class 5A state championship. But she acted just as she did in London, when she won five medals, including four gold, as a member of the U.S Olympic team, saying all the right things, giving credit to others and treating the local stage as she did with the one worldwide.
"Now, I realize why I did this," she said. "It's being with my girls for the last time. It's the very last swim with all of them and for me to have a Regis cap on my head."
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IRVING, Texas (AP) — Tony Romo still wakes up thinking about how he can get better at football, not if he is running out of chances with the Dallas Cowboys.
The quarterback and first-time father also gets a smile on his face being around his newborn son each day.
"Yeah, I think it's definitely a good change and as you continue to grow, you obviously go through the different life changes," Romo said Tuesday after a workout at Valley Ranch, four days after his 32nd birthday. "We're lucky enough to have everyone be healthy and through the process and it just makes you smile every morning. It really does."
While Romo is just getting starting in fatherhood and has been married less than a year, he is heading into his 10th season since joining the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent. There are only two years left on his contract, and he's got only one playoff victory in his six seasons as the starting quarterback.
Romo threw for 4,184 yards with 31 touchdowns and 10 interceptions last season, but the Cowboys were 8-8 and missed the playoffs for the second year in a row.
"It's frustrating whenever you don't accomplish your goal each season and obviously that's to win the Super Bowl," Romo said. "The thing I can control is how hard I work, how much better I'm getting every single year and am I bringing these guys along to make them as good as they can be. Because that's part of my job and I think that that's part of what it takes to win a Super Bowl. And that's what we're doing."
The three-time Pro Bowler said the exciting part personally is that he still thinks he is getting better every year.
When asked how much longer he wants to play, Romo smiled and responded, "15 more years, maybe." He later said he'd probably stop only when he feels he is regressing, but he doesn't feel that is close to happening yet.
Still, he has to be taking better care of himself since he's getting older. Right?
"Nah, that's probably not accurate yet. I think that I didn't start playing in the league at 22, 23. A lot of that's the hits that you take over time," he said. "So I think I'll probably have a lot of that stuff later on. That probably starts creeping in about 34, 35. Hopefully I'll be able to make it until a little later than that before you start feeling that."
Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman, who won three Super Bowls for the Cowboys in the 1990s, recently made comments about Romo already being a better quarterback than he ever was during his 12 seasons with the Cowboys.
Romo responded that Aikman is "on his own mountain top by himself," a place where he doesn't belong.
When Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was asked about those comments at the NFL meetings last month, Jones said he had three Super Bowl rings because of Aikman.
"We have many things I think that we agree on. His assessment that Romo is a Super Bowl-caliber quarterback is one that we really agree on," Jones said. "But I have a little hard time making the same comparison he did."
Jones said such discussions give credence to why he was "as disappointed as I am about last year, and as positive as I am about this year or years to come."
Romo quickly pointed out that aside from Dan Marino, there will rarely be discussions about greatest quarterbacks who didn't win a Super Bowl.
"You know that. It's the same thing as winning majors in golf," Romo said. "We know what matters as a quarterback. We know what matters. Until you do that stuff, it's hard to say that."
Speaking of golf, Romo is bypassing any chance to qualify for this year's U.S. Open. For now, his focus is on football and fatherhood.


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Two methamphetamine dealers from Parkdale were recently sentenced for selling drugs to undercover police last summer.
"Meth is poison, pure and simple, and anybody caught dealing that stuff shouldn't expect much in the way of leniency when they're prosecuted," said Hood River District Attorney John Sewell.
On Monday, Randy A. Brown, 40, of Clear Creek Road pled guilty in Hood River Circuit Court to delivery of a controlled substance. He admitted to selling $250 -- about one-quarter ounce -- of meth to a member of the Mid-Columbia Interagency Narcotics Taskforce (MINT) last June at a Belmont Street residence.
John Sewell said because that crime took place within 1,000 feet of the Horizon Christian School, it carried a stiffer penalty under Oregon law.
Brown was ordered to serve 15 days in jail, followed by 36 months of probation and 240 hours of community service. He was directed to pay $1,900 in court fines and fees and $450 restitution to MINT. In addition, Brown was directed to seek a drug and alcohol evaluation within 45 days and enter any recommended treatment program within 30 days of that assessment.
On Jan. 9 Patrick M. Walker, 43, of Trout Creek Ridge Road admitted to scoring $200 at a Cooper Spur Road residence last June through a drug sale to a MINT member.
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The affliction of party affiliation
I commissioned a We Ask America poll on April 21 of the races for governor, comptroller and treasurer. But I forgot to put the candidates' party labels in the poll's questions. The results came out very weird.
Bruce Rauner led Gov. Pat Quinn by 11 points in that poll, 49-38. Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka trounced Lt. Governor Sheila Simon by an astounding 27-point, 56-29 margin. And Rep. Tom Cross led Sen. Mike Frerichs in the state treasurer's race by 13 points, 33-20.
The Topinka crosstabs were bizarre. The Republican was leading among Democrats 55-30, ahead in Chicago 57-23 and among African-Americans 55-22. No way.
Garbage in, garbage out, as they say, so I dumped the poll and ran a new one on April 27. This time we identified the candidates' party affiliations.
The results were strikingly different.
In the second, April 27 poll, which specifically told respondents which candidate was a Democrat and which was a Republican, The Republican Rauner and the Democrat Quinn were tied 44-44 – an 11-point swing. Topinka still led big, but by a much more believable 51-38 – a 14-point swing. And Republican Cross's lead over the Democrat Frerichs dropped to 41-37 – a nine-point swing.
Both polls had almost identical partisan breakdowns of respondents and both had similar margins of error, ±3.21 percent in the first poll and ±3.14 percent in the second.
The crosstabs show just how dramatically the results changed when voters were given candidate party labels.
The first poll, which didn't give voters the candidates' party labels, Rauner led 62-27 among downstaters. But the second poll, which did include the partisan info, Rauner's downstate lead dropped to 52-33. Among whites, Rauner led 57-33 in the first poll, but 51-38 in the second, when they knew which party the candidates belonged to.
The partisanship impact was even clearer with traditionally Democratic-leaning constituencies. Rauner's recent TV ads have featured his Democratic wife, and the first poll found that Rauner actually led Quinn among women 44-41 when women weren't told which party he or Quinn represented. But when women did have that partisan information, they flipped big to Quinn in the second poll, 48-38.
When African-Americans weren't told that Rauner was a Republican, he trailed Quinn 55-22. But when black voters were given both candidates' party labels, Quinn led Rauner 70-19. That's still not horrible for Rauner, but far more believable.
Rauner ran some Spanish-language TV ads after the primary was over, and the first poll, which didn't tell Latino voters that he was a Republican, showed him winning that crucial demographic by 3 points, 37-34. But the second poll, which identified Rauner as a Republican, had Quinn winning Latinos 52-36.
Let's look at the Topinka numbers, which were what initially made me realize that I'd made a wording mistake. Topinka has been around for decades and voters clearly like her. She's also a liberal-leaning Republican, which makes her much more electable in Illinois.
But Topinka's 55-30 lead over Simon among Democrats in the first poll was more than reversed to a 24-67 deficit when Democrats were told that Topinka was a Republican. Her initial 57-23 lead in Chicago and 55-22 margin among African-Americans were also reversed in the second poll, when she trailed Simon 35-54 in the city and 29-58 among African-Americans. And her 55-28 lead among women dropped to 48-40 when voters knew that Simon was a Democrat and Topinka was a Republican.
Tom Cross is better known than Michael Frerichs because of his years as a legislative leader who lives in the Chicago media market and because he had a contested GOP primary race. Frerichs' 26-19 lead among Democrats rose to a 68-11 lead when Democrats were given candidate party affiliation labels a week later.
The difference between the two polls is far more interesting to me than the actual results. It's early. Results will change over time.
But if it wasn't before, it's now crystal clear that a large number of likely voters cast their ballots based on partisanship. And as a result the Republican Party faces a gigantic hurdle in Illinois. That's probably not news to most of us, but at least now it's somewhat quantifiable.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.


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Celtic reminded everyone why they are Clydesdale Bank Premier League champions with a comprehensive 4-0 win over Hearts at Tynecastle.
The Hoops have stuttered in their journey to the top of the SPL this season but they responded to their shock home 1-0 defeat by Inverness at the weekend in fine style with goals from striker Lassad Nouioui and right-back Mikael Lustig before Charlie Mulgrew's cut-back was deflected into his own net by Gorgie midfielder Ryan Stevenson.
The second half was a formality for the clinical Parkhead side with striker Gary Hooper grabbing a fourth late in the game before Hoops goalkeeper Fraser Forster showed why he has forced his way into the England set-up by saving a late penalty from Hearts skipper Marius Zaliukas.
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Hey guys,
So I have 3 constructor classes and a main method. The three constructors are Product, LineItem, and Invoice. The main method is Cashier. In class Invoice, I'm trying to create a method called getRunningTotal() that scans through all the positions in the array and returns it's price and quantity. This is my method.
Code Java:
public double getRunningTotal() { double runningTotal=0; for(int i=0; i<numItems; i++) { runningTotal=runningTotal+collection[i].getPrice()*collection[i].getQuantity(); } return runningTotal; }
The method getPrice() is declared in the Product class, and getQuantity() is in my LineItem class.. What do I have to do to make Invoice recognize those methods?


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Alright, it's that time of the year again!
And I want to thank VottoFan54 for sending me a PM and reminding me too, because you all remember the last two years where, in my absent-mindedness, I started it late and missed the first week.
They'll be two categories again.... BIG TEN and OTHER NATIONAL GAMES
I thought about changing it up this year and playing the regular season schedule, like we did the bowl games at season's end, and utilize the point spread, but decided to keep it simple for the simple-minded (like me)
So here goes, and GOOD LUCK TO ALL (lets have fun!)....
Thursday (8/29)
Indiana State @ Indiana
UNLV @ Minnesota
Friday (8/30)
Western Michigan @ Michigan State
Saturday (8/31)
Southern Illinois @ Illinois
Purdue @ Cincinnati
Massachusetts @ #23 Wisconsin
Buffalo @ #2 Ohio State
Syracuse vs. Penn State
Northern Illinois @ Iowa
Central Michigan @ #17 Michigan
Wyoming @ #18 Nebraska
#22 Northwestern @ California
Thursday (8/29)
North Carolina at No. 6 South Carolina
Tulsa at Bowling Green
Ole Miss at Vanderbilt
Rutgers at Fresno State
Friday (8/30)
Texas Tech at Southern Methodist
Saturday (8/31)
No. 1 Alabama vs. Virginia Tech
No. 5 Georgia at No. 8 Clemson
No. 12 LSU vs. No. 20 TCU
No. 19 Boise State at Washington
Temple at No. 14 Notre Dame
Toledo at No. 10 Florida
Nevada at No. 21 UCLA
Brigham Young at Virginia
Sunday (9/1)
Ohio at No. 9 Louisville
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No. 11 Florida State at Pittsburgh


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May 7, 2010 > Golden State Road Warriors going to Irvington
Nationally-known wheelchair basketball team the Golden State Road Warriors will be visiting Irvington High School on Saturday May 15 at 6 p.m. The Golden State Road Warriors are sponsored by the NBA Golden State Warriors. Members of this award-winning wheelchair team will be providing a demo to students of Irvington High School.Some of the team members who will be participating include coach Paul Jackson. Jackson was recently inducted into the National Wheelchair Basketball Hall of Fame. Jackson is also the assistant coach for the U.S. Paralympics team.Fremont resident Chuck Gill, who has played throughout the world and a parolympian, will also be on hand with a few other members of the Golden State Road Warriors. Members of the team visit schools throughout the Bay Area providing demonstrations, fundraising events and halftimes at NBA Warrior games at Oracle Arena in Oakland. Gill recently played in Dallas, Texas, at this year's NBA All Star Weekend Wheelchair Game.Members of the Golden State Road Warriors are excited about their visit to Irvington High School. Administrators, staff, district officials, teachers, coaches, student athletes, PTA members, security and local businesses will have a chance to play a scrimmage game against the Golden State Road Warriors.Tickets are available for this unique fundraising event that will benefit the athletic programs at Irvington High School, as well as the Golden State Road Warriors wheelchair basketball team. Tickets are $20 for general admission; $10 for students, children under 12 and seniors; and $50 for a family package of tickets for two adults and three children.This unique fund raising event will also have a number of door prizes being given away courtesy of the Irvington Business Association, as well as a silent auction. Don't miss your chance to help support high school athletics at Irvington High School.For more information on this exciting wheelchair basketball team, visit their website at www.goldenstateroadwarriors.com.For more information on this event, contact Victor Backer at 510-551-3521 or via e-mail at email@example.com, or Pam Roza-Bohrk at 408 390 6334.


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From FT: It has been a great week for commodities. But has the price rally got ahead of itself? Although demand has improved relative to the dismal conditions of late last year, analysts and traders warn that conditions have yet to perk up sufficiently to warrant an across the board price rally beyond current levels.
"The market is ignoring near-term bearish fundamentals," says Adam Robinson, director of commodities at Armored Wolf, a California hedge fund…..Full Article: Source


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On Wednesday, Sim Sangjeung (left) poses with Namhee Lee, a UCLA specialist in modern Korean history.
Sim Sangjeung, a prominent labor organizer who spent years on the run as South Korea made its democratic transition, addressed an audience of about 55 in UCLA's Moore Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 23, saying that her country's labor movement would have to change dramatically to avoid becoming irrelevant.
Sim Sangjeung spent years in hiding while South Korea was under dictatorship, wanted for her role in organizing the Kuro labor strike of 1985. She later became a legislator and a 2007 progressive presidential candidate, always with the goal of strengthening workers' rights in a country where unions have an uphill struggle. Today, about 10 percent of the South Korean labor force is organized, and the movement is threatened by the changing conditions of a globalized world, she explained to about 55 people in UCLA's Moore Hall on Feb. 23.
Jane Kim (right), a doctoral candidate in history in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, interpreted for Sim during the question period.
"There's a strange phenomenon now in Korea," said Sim. "Although all the political parties are shouting for welfare and welfare reforms, the government at the same time is encouraging more irregularization of workers."
Indeed, and especially since the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, part-time employment has become the norm in South Korea, Sim said. Counting workers who are self-employed on a small scale, about two-thirds of the country's workers are irregular. Only one percent of these people are union members.
As a matter of policy, Sim said, South Korea needs to reverse the overwhelming trend toward irregularization of the work force, with European-style laws that would limit the practice. She charged that employers have abused a law that made hiring irregular workers easier, in order to keep wages down. At the same time, the labor movement must work far harder to organize these workers as well as the fast-growing population of migrant workers from China and other Asian countries, she said.
"The mainstream labor movement must renew itself as the representative of the entire working class by organizing irregular and migrant workers," Sim said in her prepared remarks, delivered in English.
Sim expressed happiness about the toppling of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak by a protest movement driven in part by workers who organized in the face of repression. She said that the news from Cairo reminded her of the resistance in Kwangju, 1980, to military rule in South Korea.
"It was a time when there was a need for generational change," she said. Not long after the Kwangju massacre, Sim dropped out of college and got certification and a job as a sewing machine operator near Seoul, and began educating co-workers about how to organize and protest the "atrocious" conditions in factories.
"A human being cannot live alone with his or her own, individual hope," Sim told the audience. "They need to participate in what society and history are calling them to do."
The UCLA Center for Korean Studies hosted Sim, along with two co-sponsors, the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the Department of Political Science.
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Post IPO Report: Facebook Drops In Customer Loyalty Ranks, Down 7% In Brand Equity
The Facebook IPO has been a disaster for the social network, not just financially. BrandKeys, a brand and customer engagement consultancy, reports that the networking giant dropped from #1 to #5 in the Social Networking Category in their Customer Loyalty Engagement Index. The index polls over 49,000 consumers, 83 categories and 600 brands. As recently as February 2012, Facebook was at the top of the Social Networking list. Since the IPO Facebook has dropped below YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn to 5th place. Here are the top 10 performers on the Engagement Index:
- YouTube
- Yelp
- MySpace
- Four Square / Google +
- Flickr
- Quora
The drops come from some factors closely tied to the IPO debacle. The polls show a loss of 11% on self-image, and a 20% drop on trust & security. Other factors like ease of connection and brand value/content did however remain steady. Overall Facebook lost consumer engagement and loyalty, something that BrandKeys identifies as "the ultimate leading indicator of profitability," ending in a 7% loss in overall brand equity.
BrandKey's president, Rober Passikoff, shared the following on the decline of Facebook in the index:
"Its completely consumer-driven … First you need be resonant enough with consumers to make the list. Then were able to determine how well a brand meets or exceeds expectations consumer hold for the drivers of engagement and loyalty in the category. Five months ago Facebook was doing just fine."
The study also showed the rise of Pinterest, not listed in the top 10 in February to the 3rd spot on May 30th. For more information see BrandKeys.
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