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The Black Cocker Spaniel, GCH CH Casablanca's Thrilling Seduction, last year's Number One Dog All Breeds, has no intention of resting on his laurels. Today he grabbed the back2back BIS at the day two show of the Sara Bay Kennel Club in Lakeland FL.
Joining Beckham and handler Michael Pitt were the Smooth Dachshund, CH Passport Prelude to a Kiss SS, the Rottweiler, Ivoss Sonny's Angel, the Australian Terrier, GCH CH Kamabara's Zebulon, the Miniature Pinscher, GCH CH Marlex Classic Red Glare, the French Bulldog, GCH CH Bandog Bayou's The Warrior, and the German Shepherd Dog, CH wolf Creek Galaxy of Merivern. That's Beckham's 96th career BIS and his fourth of the year.


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April 4, 2004
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Kristy Kwiatkowski hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning as Yale rallied from a 2-0 deficit to defeat Seton Hall 4-3 to earn a split of a doubleheader at Dewitt Family Field. Jillian Miles struck out six and scattered six hits to earn the win on the mound for the Bulldogs (15-13). Shortstop Leah Kelley went 2-for-3 with a run scored. Seton Hall won the first game 2-0. Megan Meyer pitched a one-hitter for the Pirates (20-8). The loss snapped Yale's eight-game winning streak.
Meyer made quick work of the Bulldogs in the opener. She struck out 10 in the game and retired the first 15 batters before Jessica Meyer singled up the middle leading off the sixth inning. The Pirates scored the only run they would need in the second when Lindsay Trottier homered. Seton Hall added an insurance run in the seventh. Katie Pierce led off with a double, and scored on Trottier's double two batters later.
In the second game, the Pirates scored twice in the first inning, but Kate Meserve's two-out single to center in the second scored Cheslea Kanyer and pulled Yale within 2-1. The Bulldogs tied it in the fifth when Kelley tripled to the right-field gap and scored on Christina Guerland's single.
After Kwiatkowski's two-run homer in the sixth, Seton Hall rallied in the seventh. With two out, pinch-hitter Darcy Djakalovic singled home Mary Carroll Smith to make it 4-3. Miles, though, got pinch-hitter Daniel Steinseifzer to pop out to third to end the game.
"I felt good and was throwing hard," said Miles, who earned her second win of the season. "We wanted to start another winning streak as we get ready for Ivy League play."
The Bulldogs have a doubleheader at Rhode Island on Wednesday before returning home to host Cornell on Friday in the Ivy League opener.

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The adrenal gland. Oftentimes, it can be like the human anatomy's Rubik's Cube.
Katlyn Bay found that out
first-hand March 22 at Town & Country Lanes in Joliet.
The Reagan Middle School eighth-grader opened her 10-game experience at the IESA state bowling tournament with a 279. The only pin she didn't knock down with her first ball was the 10 in the eighth frame. She converted the single-pin spare and threw four more strikes to set the new girls record and tie the boys' record.
Throughout the game, she was as cool as Fonzie.
"I just wasn't really paying attention to what my score was," Katlyn said. "We were just talking about other things. I was really relaxed about it."
When the dust from the overpowered pins cleared, Bay stood atop the all-time leaderboard. There was only one problem. Well, nine of them.
"Coming down off a big game like that is hard," her dad and longtime bowler, John, said.
"She was in the pocket all game. No Brooklyns. One pin away from a 300.
"After you throw eight strikes in a row and miss one, that adrenaline kind of goes away."
"At that point, I knew I was up in the standings," Katlyn said. "I was kind of freaking out about if I was going to do well."
The nerves showed. But, despite throwing back-to-back 156s and a 173 to wrap up the first-day series, Bay's 764 series was tied for the lead with New Lenox Liberty's Haley Jabloski.
"It was hers to lose, basically," her mother, Debbie, playfully jabbed. She also was happy to point herself out as "the weakest link" in the bowling family.
Both bowlers were overtaken by Barrington Prairie's Sarah Tenyer, who eclipsed 250 twice during her six-game series Saturday to win the title with 2,005 total pins.
Bay took second with 1,834. She trailed Jabloski by 23 pins going into the 10th game. Three games prior to the finale, she rolled an abysmal 136 and had to shake off the lingering effects.
"It was kind of a downer, and I thought it would push me back in the standings," Bay said.
Nothing like a 201 to pick up one's spirits, although they were dampered by a 168. The 14-year-old mustered up just enough adrenaline and strength, after throwing almost 200 shots in about 24 hours, to throw a 203 in the finale.
Despite the valiant close, weighing her silver medal against the record-setting opening game was no contest.
"The high game, just because it's my own personal record," Bay said. "I thought that was pretty cool."
Her previous best was a 255 in her Friday Rockford league, in which her average sits in the low-150s. On Saturdays, she's the only girl on her five-bowler team.
On Saturday in Joliet, she won some lunch money off fellow Reagan eighth-grader Austin Wilson, who knocked down 1,683 pins for a 31st-place finish.
But more importantly, she got to relish her favorite aspect of bowling: making new friends.
"If you're not bowling too well, they tell you to let go of it," Katlyn said. "That's what I love about bowling, just being on a team."
And she's on plenty of them. She plays volleyball and softball, plays the flute in the band, sings in the choir and will perform as one of the Mer-sisters in "The Little Mermaid Jr.," the third production this school year by the Woodlawn Arts Academy.
Also the November Student of the Month, Katlyn has a smart response for those who belittle bowling.
"I think that's ridiculous," she said. "I want to see them go out and bowl a perfect game, or throw 10 games in 2 days, and see how they feel after that. There's a lot more to it than people think."
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Katlyn's older sister, Sam, knows that struggle all too well. The 2012 Dixon graduate was surrounded by some pretty rabid galleries at sectionals.
"It's really hard," Sam said. "You know everybody around you was watching you bowl that awesome game, and then they're kind of expecting you to bowl another one."


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I would like to express my deepest gratitude to those individual citizens who came to my aid, especially the two gentlemen who helped me out of my truck while it was upside down.
Additionally, an unknown woman, who I only remember as saying she was a nurse, who helped keep me calm and prevented me from moving to prevent possible harm.
I would also like to thank all of the emergency services whose quick and kind response made the whole situation somehow less traumatic.
It is wonderful to live in a community where people will stop and help one another in times of need or distress.
I know there were many people that stopped and I thank them all. However, in the chaos and confusion of the accident, I can only remember these three who came to my immediate aid.
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MOCRA exhibitions: Jordan Eagles
For over a decade, Jordan Eagles has garnered public and critical attention for his unique, signature use of animal blood in his works. Through an experimental, self-invented process, the artist combines blood with Plexiglas, UV resin, copper, gauze, and other media to produce arresting works that both fascinate and challenge audiences.
exhibition extended through June 28, 2013
Sunday, January 20 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
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About the exhibition
New York artist Jordan Eagles began using animal blood as a painting medium 15 years ago in response to a philosophical debate with his best friend about life after death and the connection between body and spirit. Traditional red paint fell short of expressing the emotional vitality that Eagles sought, so he ventured to local slaughterhouses. But the works he created changed shade as the blood oxidized, causing Eagles to develop a means of suspending and encasing the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin in a way that permanently retains the organic material's natural colors, patterns, and textures. His innovative technique challenges nature by preventing the works from decomposing. MOCRA is pleased to present for the first time in St. Louis these arresting works that both fascinate and challenge audiences. Eagles' use of blood evokes reflections on the corporeal and the spiritual, on the scientific and the mystical, on mortality and regeneration. In MOCRA's unique former chapel space, the potency of these themes becomes particularly acute.
Jordan Eagles
Even the very processes by which Eagles prepares his medium show a ritualistic sensibility. He uses various mark-making methods, including layering the blood at different densities as well as heating, burning, and aging the material. Copper, an electrical conductor, imparts a fiery energy to some works. Loosely woven gauze saturated with blood and encased in Plexiglas echoes burial cloths and ancient wrapping rituals. In some instances, decomposed blood is ground into dust and tossed into the works as a sign of passing and change. Eagles also creates immersive "blood illumination" pieces in which transparent preserved blood works are projected onto the walls. The MOCRA exhibition includes examples of all of these techniques. Highly textural and dimensional works, most incorporating copper, will be presented in MOCRA's side chapel galleries, while a site-specific installation of "blood illumination" pieces will be projected onto the walls and ceiling of MOCRA's balcony gallery. The centerpiece is the massive nine-panel, 32-foot-wide installation, BAR 1-9, on display in MOCRA's central nave gallery.
Jordan Eagles
About the artist
Jordan Eagles received his BA in Fine Arts/Media Studies from New York University's Gallatin School for Individualized Studies in 1999. Eagles has been profiled in TIME, The New York Times, New York Magazine, FRAME, ArtInfo.com, and The Huffington Post, and his work is found in numerous private and public collections, including the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA), the Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ), the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI), the Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA) and the Everson Museum (Syracuse, NY). His work has been shown at venues including the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT), the High Museum (Atlanta, GA), the Elmhurst Museum (Elmhurst, IL), the Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, AL), Trinity Museum at Trinity Church, Wall Street (New York, NY) and most recently at the International Museum of Surgical Science (Chicago, IL). Simultaneous with BLOOD / SPIRIT at MOCRA, Eagles will have exhibitions at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (Summit, NJ) and the Everhart Museum (Scranton, PA).
MOCRA thanks Causey Contemporary (New York, NY) and Krause Gallery (New York, NY), for their generous assistance in the organization of this exhibition. We are also grateful to the collectors who lent their works to the exhibition.
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Jordan Eagles: BLOOD / SPIRIT in the media
Listen to an interview with Jordan Eagles on the MOCRA Voices podcast:
Read a profile of Jordan Eagles in TIME
Read a profile of Jordan Eagles in The Huffington Post
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As it steamrolled into the state tournament, the North Andover girls' volleyball team did not let the controversy surrounding former captain Erin Cox slow its momentum.
Cox, a four-year varsity player, was suspended for five games and stripped of her captaincy by school officials last month after she was identified as being at a house party in Boxford where alcohol was present. Cox said she went to the party to drive a drunken classmate home. The suspension prompted a debate over the zero-tolerance policy enforced by North Andover school officials, with Cox at the center of a national debate over trying to do the right thing.
Cox, a senior honor student and the team's top setter, returned to the court after serving her suspension and continued as one of North Andover's top players. Coach Veronica Schaefer declined to discuss the incident, and said her players were unavailable to talk about it.
Cox's attorney, Wendy Murphy, who said previously she was considering filing a federal lawsuit against the school district over Cox's punishment, said in an e-mail Thursday "there is no litigation yet — nothing pending and nothing planned until after she graduates."
It is unclear if the suspension will hurt Cox's chances of earning a sports scholarship.
Despite the distractions, Cox and the rest of the Scarlet Knights kept their eyes on the ball.
They went into the North Division 1 Sectionals as the No. 2 seed with a 19-1 record and swept Medford and Masconomet, 3-0, in their first two tourney games before losing to archival Andover, 3-1, in Thursday's semifinals.
Schaefer rebuilt a team that lost eight seniors to graduation last year into another powerhouse. North Andover shared the Merrimack Valley Conference title with Andover, the only team to beat the Scarlet Knights during the regular season. For that game on Oct. 11, Cox was out of the lineup, serving her suspension.
"We brought on seven new juniors this year that had played as sophomores on the JV team," Schaefer said. "Their enthusiasm, their love for the game, their intensity, their desire to get in at any possible moment they can get in, I think has led us to where we are."
But it is the senior core that led the way. Cox has been on varsity for four years, captains Merry Eagan and Caroline Schmidt since they were sophomores, and captain Katie Lessard for two years.
"They kind of have walked through the system for many years," Schaefer said. "So for them to be on the top teaching the younger kids what it means to be here, I think, is a huge asset that we have.
"And, of course, with Erin running the court like she has for four years, the kids are very lucky to have someone who can put the ball where it's supposed to be. That's been a huge help for the team."
"It's been interesting," said Lessard, "because I'm only one of four seniors, so I've kind of gotten to know the girls on my team throughout the last two or three years — especially since most of them are younger than me. It's been awesome just building relationships with all of them; we've just grown really close and it's really helped the chemistry on the court."
Schmidt, one of the other three captains, said: "It's been a really fun season. I have really good teammates, and a really fun time, and a great coach."
Schaefer has been the only coach in the program's 13 seasons, taking a team that went 0-20 to a cochampionship this year in the Merrimack Valley after moving from the Cape Ann League.
For Schaefer, who went to Billerica High School before playing volleyball at Plymouth State, the move to the Merrimack Valley was like "coming home."
"We never took anything home from the Cape Ann League," Schaefer said. "This is our first banner year, which is very exciting for me."Maureen Mullen can be reached at mullen_maureen


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December 24, 2005
Hood River lost one of its leading ladies this week when Leila Crapper, 90, died at home on Thursday.
Crapper left behind a long and distinguished record of community service. One of her most notable achievements was election to the role of president for the state American Legion Auxiliary. She also headed the local branch of that organization off and on for decades.
The longtime resident was well known for her love of country. She married the late Harvey Crapper, a World War II veteran, in 1937 and they took every available opportunity to promote patriotism. Each year, the Crappers helped organize Hood River's Veterans Day and Memorial Day events.
"When the war was over I felt like I was a very fortunate wife to have my husband home and it was my duty to do something to help veterans and their families," said Leila during an interview in early 2004.
She loved to tell the story of first meeting her husband of 67 years when they were infants. Their families were living in Lyle, Wash., at the time of their introduction.
"I knew from the time that she was five months old that I was going to marry her," Harvey, a career veteran's service officer, would joke.
"But he didn't ask me for another 22 years," Leila retorted.
In May of 2004, just months before Harvey's death at the age of 91, the couple repaired and ironed the wrinkles out of 875 flags. They wanted the flags in good condition for posting on the graves of soldiers and sailors throughout the valley on Memorial Day.
While serving as head of the state auxiliary, Leila even went to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. to lobby for upgrades in military pay scales and better veterans' pension benefits.
She continued in her service to Legion Post 22 work even after Harvey's death on Aug. 18, 2004.
In November, Leila passed out Blue Star Banners to military mothers at the Veterans Day remembrance. She wanted the banners hung in the windows of local homes to make citizens aware of the sacrifices made by soldiers and their families.
But Crapper's community service was not just confined to Legion activities. She was once named as Volunteer of the Year by the national office of the Special Olympics. And earned the title of a Woman of Distinction from Hood River's Soroptomist Club. She was a charter member of Hood River Women for Agriculture and a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church Altar Society. She was also a member of the Red Hat Society.
"Leila can be out in front leading the troops or she can stay in the kitchen and bake the beans. She looks for what needs to be done and does it. She's an inspiration," said Jean Harmon after nominating Crapper for a Soroptomist Award.
Prior to her retirement, Crapper owned Le Harve's beauty salon. She and Harvey had one daughter, Gerry, who resides in Guymon, Okla.
Anderson's Tribute Center has arranged a service for Leila Crapper at 10 a.m. on Tuesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1501 Belmont Avenue.
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Buoyant consumer goods sector amid banking blues
Buoyed by strong retail sales, employers in the consumer-goods sector remain the most optimistic about hiring relative to other segments, a recent Hudson survey revealed.
The quarterly poll found that 57 per cent of respondents from the industry plan to increase their permanent headcount during the first three months of the year. The figure is up 10 percentage points over the preceding quarter, and, according to the report, mainly stems from the large number of mainland shoppers who continue to visit Hong Kong.
'The revenue that these visitors bring in is huge,' says James Carss, general manager for Hudson Hong Kong. 'And it doesn't look likely to let up any time soon.'
Asked about how the recent negative sentiment towards mainlanders - among some locals - might affect this revenue, Carss says it's still too early to tell. 'As far as we can see, it hasn't put people off visiting Hong Kong at all,' he says.
On the issue of declining consumer confidence, however, the recruitment executive notes that competition in the sector does seem to be increasing.
This, he suggests, could affect how much employers were willing to invest in expansion, including headcount.
'A couple of years ago, China was the great hope, relative to other economies in the world,' Carss explains. 'Businesses who were struggling in Europe and the US were keen to throw resources at Asia, especially in retail.'
'But as things have become worse in Europe, they've also started to slow in China. As such, companies may no longer wish to pursue aggressive spending plans here,' he adds.
Despite this, Carss predicts that hiring in the consumer sector will likely continue to outpace that of other industries, particularly banking, where jobs have been slashed recently.
Of the banking and finance executives who took part in the survey, 20 per cent say they plan on reducing headcount this quarter. Rather perplexingly, however, 33 per cent also say they plan on hiring, with many expressing a willingness to pay larger salaries than before to attract new managers.
Carss attributes the discrepancy to the still talent-driven nature of the market. 'What I would surmise is that we're mainly talking about niche skill sets,' he says. 'So a bank letting go of staff in one area may still be willing to hire in another, more critical, area.'
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Seems like the perfect excuseOriginally Posted by TouchingVirus
Seems like the perfect excuseOriginally Posted by TouchingVirus
Well I guess that really is it, I'm going - Even though Ryanair jacked up the price by 20 quid over last week, the thieves!That's it! Your booking is complete, this is your Itinerary/Receipt.
It'll be worth it though, right Markus? Hayley? Darren? Rick? Monika? xander? :lol:
Of course it willOriginally Posted by TouchingVirus
Fantastic that we are getting 3hrs of Markus !!!! PARTY
My tickets are ordered. Will be flying over from Holland.
See you there,
ROLL ON FRIDAY :mrgreen: :lol: :lol:
I hope the tracklists from both gigs either from 19th either from 20th wont be the same..
Of course they won't, have you read any of Markus' Tracklists I'd say if he was playing two events in the one night there'd be significant differences between the two tracklists too, so many good tunes need playtime :lol: :lol:
Set Times are in the first post now - 2 hrs 15mins of Armin, and 3hrs 15 mins of Markus! Awesome
Right, I'm just finished the long drive home from the airport, I'm absolute wrecked tired too 8-)
Yesterday started off cool, flights were on time, trains ran on time and all in all I was at the Ministry of Sound at 10:30 or so. I thought that'd be pretty early considering the lack of a queue last October at the same time but boy was I wrong The queue was incredibly long, there was way more people in it that would get in (limited space). I eventually got in up the guestlist path (thanks to those who helped, much appreciated!!!) and inside I went. I met Hayley's dad & boyfriend in there, no Hayley though because she was sick. I was meant to meet xander/Alex in there too, but there was no sign of him and then it got far too crowded to go looking for somebody - Armin sure does pull in the crowd.
Gavyn Mytchel played a good warm-up set but the crowd really just wanted Armin to get on stage. He didn't disappoint with some truly awesome visuals & lights/laser show - something that was lacking last October and the only thing I could fault the MOS on really.
*begin minor rant* Because of the way the club is laid out it's incredibly dark and there's a fair bit of smoke from the smoke machines, while this all adds to the atmosphere it makes taking videos and pictures nearly impossible - the flash hits the smoke and you get a white picture, and when you don't use the flash you can't see a thing because there's no light. Increasing exposure on the camera (so the lens takes in more light) is a no go because you can't hold the camera steady enough. So all in all you sorta have to be at MOS to get it or have some big mad camera that costs €2000 like the professional photographers...grrrr * end rant *
Anyways, Armin played a stormer. He left most of his mediocre tracks at home and went for the heavy bassline stuff - I loved it There was the odd track thrown here and there that kinda made me go all euugh, but overall it was a great set. Afterwards Armin was whisked away by security because he was playing at Godskitchen later on in the night and had to get there but I still managed to ask him for a smile and snap a picture :P
After Armin was Markus, who was actually late and looked pretty pissed off about it too :mrgreen: By now we were in the booth, it was just incredibly packed on the dancefloor but it was all right up there. I tried my best at tracklisting but quickly realised I'm useless at it with more ID's of songs I've heard before than ones I could name. So I did what any aspiring tracklister does, I looked at the CD stack where Markus was placing CD's after playing them and nabbed all the names I could so while I missed a few at teh start I still got a lot of ID's (Thanks Markus! )
There were some mad people hopping up on other folks shoulders to get pictures, shake hands and just generally enjoy themselves, it was great to see Markus interact which each and every one of them. Well, except for the crazy girl who threw her jacket up, Markus didn't quite know what to do with that one :lol: Somewhere, most likely on the Gallery website, you'll get a picture of Markus with a Santa hat on his head (somebody threw that too). There was also this blow-up poodle that was being throw around the crowd like a beach ball..
On to the music, Marcus opened with The New World Intro, moved into his remix of Bittersweet Nightshade then I got a few ID's (took sound clips of most of them so I could get them ID'd). The following tunes were then played:
Another You Another Me (Big Room Remix)
Sweet Dreams Space Dreams (or Sweet Dreams vs. The Space We Are)
Ronski Speed vs Rex Mundi - Space Perspective (Markus Mashup)
Marco Jooston vs E.C. - Offshore
Wippenberg - Chakalaka vs some Arnej tune (didn't get the name)
Roland Klinkenberg - Monday Groove (Remix)
Timmy & Tommy - Full Tiltin (Markus Edit)
Simon & Shaker - Starstuff (2007 Edit)
Cass & Slide - Perception (Remix)
Markus Schulz - Perfect (Agnelli & Nelson Remix)
Gareth Emery vs Delirium - This is that vs Silence
Robert Burian - Vegas (Gleave Remix [Edit])
Rank1 - L.E.D. Let There Be Light
Markus Schulz - The New World (Markus Schulz Return To Coldharbour Remix)
Embrace - Embrace
Markus Schulz - Daydream (Remix, didn't catch what one)
Sia - Buttons (Markus Schulz Dub)
Afterwards Markus signed Progession Progressed, Amsterdam '08 and Armada at Ibiza for me (I'm such a fanboy but seriously .. HOW COOL IS THAT? \o/ :lol: ) and I left the club about 6am and Markus was still inside relaxing after the set!
Another great night at MOS, it's becoming by bi-monthly trip abroad now and my Carbon Footprint is going through the roof, or should that be ozone layer? :twisted:
Thanks again to Markus, Phil & Dan for a great night, see you all in February 2009!
Pictures & Videos to come later, when I trim down the bad photos and short clips and get some high-speed upload internet connection
fantastic report mate i cant hardly anymore now!!! i am about leaving my house now but took some minutes to read it... so nice you had a great time :mrgreen:


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LAURENS- Thirteen hits wasn't enough for Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire in their Class 1A Region 2 first-round game on Monday.
Laurens-Marathon broke a 6-6 tie in the bottom of the sixth inning and held on for an 8-6 victory.
The Chargers had scored four runs in the bottom of the second with the Titans putting up five runs in the top of the third inning. The Chargers retook the lead with two runs in the fourth with the Titans tying the game with a run in the fifth.
Brooke Hoffman and Morgan McGrauth led the Titans as each went 3-4 while Daisy Jordan and Cassy Hampson each went 2-4 and Alyssa Hoffman, Grace Skattebo and Sara Harris each went 1-4.
Alyssa Hoffman pitched six innings and gave up five runs (four earned) on eight hits with five strikeouts and four walks. Brooke Hoffman took the loss. She pitched one inning and gave up two runs (one earned) on three hits with two strikeouts and two walks.
Laurens-Marathon's Briley Sullivan earned the win as she gave up six runs (three earned) with six strikeouts and two walks.
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Nine years ago Monday, a Harvard sophomore student launched a website called 'the facebook'. Several legal actions, a $104 billion IPO and over 1 billion active users later, Mark Zuckerberg is founder and CEO of a company that has already forever changed the way people communicate and share information.
What started as a social network for bringing Harvard undergraduate students together is now a website which counts one in six of the world's population as members -- members who log on regularly. It coined the term 'to friend' and has redefined the use of words including 'like' and 'poke.' It has helped build political campaigns, helped people find true love or find old friends and has done it all virally. The company didn't start advertising until 2012.
To understand how quickly the site has become ubiquitous: it took until 2007 for the site to have 50 million users worldwide, and until 2008 -- the year it launched translated versions of the site for Spanish, French and German-speaking countries and hit the 90 million user mark -- to overtake MySpace in terms of popularity.
Today it has 1.06 billion active monthly users including 168.8 million in the US, 64.6 million in Brazil, 62.6 million in India and 243.2 million users across Europe and has slowly evolved into a communications and search portal. As well as hosting a cumulative 50 billion uploaded photos, Facebook now offers voice and video calls, music streaming and social gaming and, most recently and, perhaps most controversially, a social search called Facebook Graph. It has also expanded to mobile and hit yet another landmark in January. It now has over 680 million monthly mobile users, meaning that more than half of its 1.06 billion users are logging in via smartphones and tablets rather than from desktops.
Meanwhile its founder, Mark Zuckenberg, has been lauded as a tech icon, a man with a vision and the means with which to implement it. In January he was voted CEO of the Year by influential tech site TechCrunch, beating out competition from Google, Twitter, Evernote and an invigorated Yahoo.
Of the decision to award Zuckerberg above his peers, TechCrunch journalist Ingrid Lunden said: "Facebook, as conceived of and led by him, has transformed how we as a culture share information about ourselves and the world. As the site has grown, it has also taken that central premise into new dimensions - namely through the social graph and the Graph API that interlinks with so many of the services we like to use online and on mobile devices today."
However, now that it is a public company -- following the biggest IPO in history for a tech company -- it will fall under greater scrutiny, particularly in terms of its business plan. It doesn't matter that people are calling their children 'Like' and 'Facebook' in tribute to the site, if this love and attachment can't be turned into sizable dividends for investors.
It has amassed an incredible amount of personal user data, and innovative use of this information will be key to the site's future success. However, users might start logging off if they don't like the ways Facebook is sharing their data -- Instagram's recent terms of use changes being a case in point. Miscommunication surrounding ownership and use of photos hosted to the site led to weeks of negative headlines and a mass exodus of users who were worried their family holiday snaps were going to be re-appropriated and used in an advertising campaign.


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– by Phil Dennison, Senior Marketing Specialist
It's a topic we've addressed before — buzzwords and jargon in press releases — but Mark McClennan at Schwartz Communications has come at it from a unique way. He took Adam Sherk's list of the most overused words and phrases in press releases, and made a word cloud out of it. (If you're unfamiliar with word clouds or tag clouds, they provide a visual representation, usually via size, of how frequently various words are used on a site or in a piece of text.) Seeing McClennan's word cloud really drives home how often some of these words are used:
Well, not much more to say, is there? It seems like, much as in Lake Wobegon, everyone's a leader.


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Chinua Achebe, widely considered the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. His popular book, Things Fall Apart, tackled the effect of colonialism on Africa, and has sold more than 10 million copies. Host Michel Martin is joined by NPR Africa Correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton to look back on his life and work.
Remembering Chinua Achebe, Who Defended Africa To The World
By editor • Mar 22, 2013


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I have more fun shopping. Real life is so much better. TV people are fake and just not my type.
I have more fun shopping. Real life is so much better. TV people are fake and just not my type.
do the cute guys needa be human? I mean, does Wilfred count? HE'S ADORABLE!
okay bye!
yes I did and thank you sweetie, I have it on my calender lol
Elijah is adorable
okay bye!
Ricky Martin's Behind The Music came on Sunday.It's re-airing constantly on VH1.It's more than likely on there website.It was a good ep.
M1000, you really love TV. How many hours per week do you watch it, talk about it, or think about it? You should get a job on E, or on the show The Morning After.
Apparently, I don't watch enough television. Or the wrong shows altogether.
Saturday, September 24th
Radiohead is the musical guest on the season premier of SNL
Monday, September 26th
"The Colbert Report" will air its first hour-long episode with Radiohead.
I am falling for Kenny Wormald!!
Do you know in which episode of Boardwalk Empire Tommy Cannavale takes his penis out and waves it around?
How do you find all of these ahead of time? Do you take requests? There are only a few people I like to see interviewed. I think I have seen every Lily Tomlin interview since the 60s but I usually catch them after the fact because I never know they are on beforehand....and I like to see Mariska Hargitay, Terry Crews, Chaka Khan and Danny DeVito.
Big Brother 15 (USA) premieres June 26th
The live feeds will not be on RealNetworks Superpass but rather on CBS.com this year
The price is lower, $10 per month, but all the same features are there except for the $10 in free Rhapsody songs. I didn't see that.
True Blood 6 (HBO) premieres June 16th
^ I heard stories about Zac Efron and Vin Diesel during TIFF
I heard they were fast and furious.
love makes world go round.
There are hot bodies on American Ninja Warrior (season 2 premiered tonight) NBC
Chippendale guys on 'The Lookout' (Abc)
Sat, July 13th
There is a muscle guy on The Newlywed Game. This aired in Canada, Gameshow network. I dont know if they show the same episodes in the States
I know the 4 episodes back to back repeat so it will be on later tonight
America's Next Top Model
cycle 20 premiere FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 8 .7c
Daft Punk, the French duo who pretend to be robots, will be joining Stephen Colbert, the American personality who pretends to be a Republican, on The Colbert Report this coming Tuesday, August 6.
Shawn Christian (thanks to Mbblover for the hook up to the clip)
Following Arcade Fire's September 28 appearance as the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live", NBC will air a 30-minute concert special from the band.
Here Comes the Night Time
Nicki Minaj, hunks & perfume test
Ellen played a game with Nicki Minaj in which she had to find exactly where Ellen had sprayed Nicki's new scent on some hunky guys! Find out how well she did, right here.
I like the middle guy (James Ellis). What a body!!!
I wish I were on TV.
From a few weeks ago, paint . . .
the video shows slo motion of the paint throwing
This was meant to go in the Corey Monteith thread but it was locked
Its a brief glimpse at the episode about Finn's death this Thursday
Miley Cyrus says she is going to 'out do' her VMA performance on Saturday Night Live when she hosts tonight
Miley Cyrus revolts us some more -SNL
I fast-forwarded her parts.
She did nothing shocking.
Male model's salary
Michonne presents Rick with an electric beard trimmer, but he doesn't take the hint. Later, in the face of adversity, he breaks down and starts sobbing again. - The Walking Dead
Saturday, Oct 19th
There are three muscular guys on 'The Newlywed Game' that is being shown in Canada. I dont know if the episode will be shown in the US.
The show repeats tonight so the same episode might be on tonight (Game show network)
Muscle guys on The Newlywed Game, Parts 1 & 2
The guy who had plastic surgery to look like Justin Bieber is on Betheny Frankel. It's a short interview and probably on her website
Channing Tatum on Ellen
Tyson Beckford will be shirtless on (I forget which talk show) today
I thought if I posted this last week, others would forget but I forgot
It's luxury car week on The a Price is Right. Today, a woman lost a $90,000 Porsche and she had chosen all the right numbers. But she took the gifts in the Temptation game.
Monday: Lady Gaga on Ellen but I think Gaga fans probably already know this
Muscle guys on Bethenny's pajama party. (They have small muscles, FYI) not that that is a bad thing
Mon Dec 2nd
Shirtless guy during Alison Janney's (sp) segment on Ellen
December 28
Speed skating on NBC
For those who like to see 'men in tights' . . .
Sunday morning (NBC)
BMV driving on Ice: Olympic Bobsled
Skating and Gymnastics Spectacular
US Olympics trials: Short track speed skating
Prince will be on 'New Girls' after the Superbowl
New Girl Enlists Prince for Spectacular Super Bowl Episode
Upon learning that the Fox comedy would air in TV's plum timeslot, executive producer Liz Meriwether said they immediately started planning with an eye toward making a spectacular episode both new viewers and old fans alike would enjoy. "Luckily, Prince reached out to us around the same time, so we started out ahead," Meriwether tells TVGuide.com. "With Prince wanting to do an episode, that was exactly what we needed to do for the post-Super Bowl episode."
New Girl: What happened to the Schmidt we knew and loved?
So how does the legendary music icon come into Jess' (Zooey Deschanel) world? "Legend had it that Prince had these house parties where he performed for a small group of people," Meriwether explains. "When Prince said he was interested in being on the show, we thought we'll actually re-create one of these parties where Prince performs and they're at his house."
When Cece (Hannah Simone) and Jess are nearly run over by Prince's manager, they're invited to an exclusive house party, where Prince will actually perform one of his new songs. Jess will even sing with him at one point as Prince tries to bestow relationship advice on Jess and Nick (Jake Johnson) - who, along with the rest of the guys, has crashed Prince's party.
"A big moment happens for Nick and Jess in their relationship," she says. "They're trying to deal with this big relationship moment at the Prince party, which is an unlikely place to deal with your relationship. Prince ends up helping Jess through this moment by giving her a full mind and body makeover to bring out her most Prince-like qualities."
Freaks and Geeks' Linda Cardellini joins New Girl as Jess' sister
Joking that this is "just one of those classic episodes," Meriwether insists they tried to make the story line as plausible as possible. "We were so excited to have Prince on the show, but we really wanted to make it feel organic and not such a step out from the world of the show. The fact that these characters aren't the kind of people who rub shoulders with celebrities ever, we're trying to make sure that still feels real for these characters."
Are you excited to see Prince on New Girl? Hit the comments with your thoughts!
New Girl airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on Fox.


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Preliminary Inventory to the Louis Edgar Browne papers
Container List
Trade: Milliye nos. 1-2, 1919 September 14 and 17
Umumi Kongre Heyeti, Umumi Kongre Beyannamesi, Sivas, 1335 September 11
Dispatch concerning Halidé Edib, no. 1, n.d. (in English)
Miscellaneous papers concerning the Sivas Congress. Includes conversations with Charles R. Crane, chief member of the American section of the Allied Committee on Mandates for Turkey (in English)
Sharki Anadolu mudafan-i hukuh cemiyeti. Sharki Anadolu Vilayeti Erzerum kangresi beyannamesi, 1335 August 7
United States Naval Radio Press, 1919 August 11, 28 and 31, September 15. USS Galveston,1919 August 31
Telegraphic dispatches, in draft form, from Sivas, 1919 September (in English)
Letter to Charles R. Crane, 1919 August 25
United States Navy reports on the Greek occupation of Smyrna, 1919 May
National Congress of Sivas to the President of the Senate of the United States of America, 1919 September 19
Umumi Knogre Heyeti, Umumi Kongre Beyannamesi. Sivas, 1335 September 11
Edib, Halidé. Letters to the American public, Istanbul, 1919 August 17
Dispatches. Typed drafts, carbons
Miscellaneous material on National Congress at Sivas. Memoranda, notes, inauguration speech of Kemal Pacha, miscellaneous translations, and manuscripts
"Copie du Memorandum remis le Janvier 18, 1919 aux Hauts Commissaires des Puissances Alliées et au Commissaire des Etats-Unis d'Amerique," Constantinople, 1919
Corey, Herbert, 1919 October, 1920 May
Bristol, Rear Admiral Mark, 1919 October 24, December 6
Campbell, W. Archie, 1919 October 18, 1921 February 7, 1922 September 16
Carter, John, Jr., 1919 December 5, 9 1920 March 8
Diary, 1919
The Georgian Messenger, nos. 1-8, 1919 February 23 -April 26 (in English)
The Trans-Caucasian Post, nos. 1-17, 1919 February 21 -April 26 (in English)
Covenant Preamble, Paris, 1919 February 14
Dispatches to Chicago Daily News, nos. 39-54, 1919 October 1-November 1
Dispatches from Turkey, n.d.
Copy of a section of The Nineteenth Century, vol. LXXIX, no. 472, "The Future of Asiatic Turkey"
Why Armenia Should Be Free, by Dr. G. Dasdermadjian, Boston, Hairenik Publishing Co., 1919
Address by President Wilson, delivered at Mt. Vernon, 1918 July 4
Address by President Wilson, delivered at Joint Session of Congress, 1918 November 11
Correspondence with J. C. Callahan, 1919 October 17, December 9
"Turkish Conscription." Graph, 1914
"Nationalities in Turkey." Map and Table
Population statistics before 1914
Public schools in Turkey, n.d.
Dispatches from Greece, September 1-10
Miscellaneous newspaper clippings regarding Kemal, etc. (in French)
Correspondence with A. Lapine, 1919 December 8, 1920 February 11, March 17
Letter from the National Congress at Sivas to the President of the Senate of the United States, signed by Mustaysha Kemal Pacha and four other officials, 1919 September 9
Extract of telegram sent by the National Congress at Sivas to "Your Majesty," 1919 September 1
Description of events at National Congress at Sivas. Typescript with some handwritten variations
Excerpts from Isvestia, Rabochy Narod, Petrograd Ryech, Vpered, Vetser, etc. (in English), and unidentified excerpts, regarding the statements by Trotsky, 1917 November 22, 28; recognition of Bolshevik government by the United States; decree on nationalization of banks; Brest Litovsk; Red Cross 'conspiracy'
Dispatches on Russian affairs, 1917 October-1918 May
Mimeographed sheets entitled "Opinion" on political affairs in Russia, etc. (in French)
Newspaper clippings regarding Russian conditions, Germany, etc. (in English)
Typescript report entitled "Russian American Commercial Relations," written after 1916. Includes miscellaneous notes on Trotsky
Translation of Pravda, regarding arrival of German Ambassador, 1918 April 24
Copy of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics appeal to the United States regarding chief of American Red Cross, Raymond Robins, n.d.
Memorandum on various subjects, including Vladivostok, the Murmansk incidents, and foreign relations, 1918 April
Table of governments in Russia, 1917 March-October
"Russian Revolutionary Pamphlets, Decrees, Orders and Proclamations of the Provisional Workmen's and Peasants' Government of the Russian Republic," vol. 1, 1917 October 25 -December 1. Petrograd, 1918 February. Typescript
Material regarding French forces leaving Odessa, 1919 April?
Memorandum entitled 'Vechnie Chass', April 4; typescript entitled "Evacuation of French Expeditionary Force and Russian Volunteer Guards from Odessa," 1919 April 4; excerpt from News ( Isvestia)' "Comrade Workmen of the City of Sebastopol"
Memorandum from William B. Webster(?) on Bolshevism in Russia, Stockholm, 1918 October 12
Reports by A. Lessin, "Germans in the Baltic Provinces"
Note quoting Lenin, March 14
Dispatch, Petrograd, January 13. Typescript
6l Memoranda entitled "Pro and Con for Allied Recognition of the Soviet Form of Government," 1918 May 2 and 5
"Lenin and His Party." notes based on Tsialovski's 'Bolsheviki' regarding Bolsheviks found in the political section of the police department in Moscow, and Baturin's 'History of Social Democracy in Russia.' Typescript
Report on Russo-Ukraine conflict. Typescript
Report on law in Russia, 1918 August
Report on German forces in Ukraine. Typescript with handwritten annotations
Report on Japanese intervention in Russia (and Siberia, etc.)
Report on Czechoslovak forces in Russia, 1918 July. Typescript with handwritten annotations
Report on Finnish socialists and the effects on Russia. Typescript with handwritten annotations
One package of negative photostats from the Chicago Daily News, of articles on the Russian situation, mostly by LEB
Map of Armenian populations


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May 7, 2008 > Ohlone Women's Softball Team advance in playoffs
On Tuesday, April 22, Ohlone College Renegades softball team defeated Foothill of Los Altos Hills 19-1 in a game called after five innings because of the eight run mercy rule. The victory capped a perfect Coast Conference North (CCN) Division season for the Renegades as they finished 24-0 and 38-7 overall for the regular season. It was now on to regional post-season play last Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4. First and second round regional play was a best two out of three format for this and seven other first round regionals in NorCal with eight similar regionals taking place in SoCal. Ohlone received the fifth seed out of 16 teams in NorCal, and hosted number 12 seed, Solano of Fairfield. The two teams met three times earlier in the year, with Ohlone winning twice and Solano once. Other teams that met in NorCal over May 3-4, with the higher seeded team hosting, were Siskiyous of Weed (1)-College of San Mateo (16), Sacramento City (2)-Hartnell of Salinas (15), San Jose City (3)-Reedley(14), Shasta of Redding (4)-Napa Valley of Napa (13), Sierra of Rocklin (6)-Cabrillo of Aptos (11), Cosumnes River of Sacramento (7)-College of the Sequoias of Visalia (10), and Merced (8)-Gavilan of Gilroy (9).The eight regional winners advanced to the second round of regionals on Saturday & Sunday, May 10 - 11. The four highest remaining seeds after the first round will host the four lowest remaining seeds for the right to go to the state tournament, May 16-19 in Riverside.In game one last Saturday, the two teams went scoreless over the first two innings before Solano took a 2-0 lead in the top of the second inning on a lead-off two base error by the Renegades followed by a Solano triple and a ground out to score the second run. Ohlone would answer in the bottom of the second as right fielder Katrina Roman led off with a double and came home on consecutive ground outs. The game would remain 2-1, Solano, until the sixth as the Renegades could only manage three base runners, two hits and a walk, over the first five innings. Solano opened the sixth with a double, which brought in Ohlone freshman, Sarah Lawrence, in relief of Ohlone starting pitcher, freshman Kelly Colker. Lawrence then continued her penchant for getting opposing batters to hit ground balls and got out of the inning unscathed.Ohlone's bats finally went to work in the bottom of the sixth when centerfielder Danielle Yee led off with a triple, then after an infield flyout, the Renegades put together three consecutive hits to score two runs on a single by catcher, Kathryn Sumner, a double from second baseman, Kassandra Winger and another single by first baseman Cassandra Ortega to give the Rengades a 3-2 lead. That is all Ohlone would need to capture game one as Lawrence did her thing and induced Solano to hit two ground ball outs and a pop out in the top of the seventh.Game two on Sunday saw the Renegades jump out to an 8-0 lead on three runs in the first and five more in the second inning. Meanwhile, workhorse Colker, held Solano scoreless over the first three innings. Finally, Solano broke through with a run in the top of the fourth and two more in the fifth. Colker was again relieved by Lawrence after Colker allowed the first three batters to reach base safely in the fifth. Lawrence was not quite as sharp as she was on Saturday as she gave up three singles and an intentional walk over two innings of work, including a run in the sixth, to make the score 8-4 going into the bottom of the sixth. Ohlone then clinched the best of three series in their half of the sixth when the Renegades scored four runs on a double by Roman, a successful suicide squeeze bunt by Sumner, and back to back singles by Winger and Ortega to make the final score, 12-4. At this point, the game was ended because of the eight run mercy rule after five or six innings of play.Ohlone will travel to Shasta of Redding to play another best two out of three format game, one will be played on Saturday, May 10, at 2 p.m., and game two will be held on Sunday, May 11, at noon. Game three, if necessary, will be held 20 - 30 minutes after game two ends, so around 2 - 2:30 p.m. Other second round games will have Siskiyous hosting Merced, Sacramento City hosting Sequoias, and San Jose City hosting Sierra.Aside from local teams Ohlone and Chabot of Hayward, other teams playing softball in CCN are De Anza of Cupertino, Foothill, Mission of Santa Clara, City College of San Francisco and San Mateo.Players from Ohlone and Chabot making CCN honors with local high schools attended, James Logan of Union City, Milpitas, Newark Memorial, and Washington of Fremont were as follows: Most Valuable Player, Ohlone sophomore second baseman, Kassandra Winger; and Most Valuable Pitcher, Ohlone freshman, Kelly Colker (Newark). Both Winger and Colker earned first team all state honors for the 2008 California Community College Softball season by virtue of being league MVPs. In addition, Coach of the Year went to Ohlone Head Coach, Donna Runyon, who also picked up her 700th career win this year while leading the Renegades to their sixth consecutive CCN championship. Local players receiving all CCN first team honors are from Ohlone, sophomore Cassandra Ortega (Logan) and freshmen Kim Cawley (Milpitas) and Kathryn Sumner (Washington) and from Chabot, sophomore Shampayne Clay and freshmen Rachael Kroneder and Deena Qualls (Logan). Second team honors went to Ohlone sophomores Danielle Cameron, Katrina Roman and Danielle Yee (Milpitas) and freshman Jamie Miller. Chabot second teamers are sophomore Emily Cipolla and freshmen Cristina Panuco (Logan) and Natalie Malasavich. Ortega and Clay also made first team all NorCal.Chabot finished in third place in CCN play with a 13-11 conference record, were 25-21 overall and just missed making the playoffs. For Chabot Head Coach, Chelsea Spencer, 2009 should be a season in which they will be challenging for first or second place in league and a position in the post season as they return a nucleus of seven or eight freshman, including both pitchers, who all steadily improved over the course of the 2008 season.


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CHICAGO (AP) — Brandon Young scored 21 points, and a renewed defensive effort in the second half allowed DePaul to overcome a 14-point deficit Wednesday and beat Chicago State 74-64.
On the day Chicago State announced it will join the Western Athletic Conference in 2013, the Cougars nearly delivered an upset win against their crosstown foe. Chicago State (2-8) shot 53 percent in the first half, including 4 of 8 on 3-point attempts, to help build a 44-30 halftime lead.
DePaul (5-3) couldn't have played much worse in the first half. The Blue Demons committed 12 turnovers — finishing with 21 for the game — and shot only 30 percent from the field.
Chicago State went cold and put up an ugly shooting performance in the second half. The Cougars went 5 of 26 from the field and did not make a shot until Matt Ross' layup with 11:39 remaining.
A 9-0 DePaul run gave the Blue Demons an 18-10 lead, but they failed to capitalize and extend their lead to double digits. The Cougars took advantage. During the final 8:49 of the first half, Chicago State went on a 30-6 run and at one point outscored DePaul 17-2. Chicago State switched into and out of a 2-3 zone, slowing down DePaul and frustrating the guards.
But DePaul's defensive pressure disrupted Chicago State in the second half. The Blue Demons extended their man-to-man defense to beyond the 3-point line, cutting down the Cougars guards' penetration and drive-and-dish plays. Turnovers followed for Chicago State. Mistakes and forced passes resulted in 13 second-half turnovers, which quickly erased the Cougars' lead.
Although the Blue Demons finished with only seven second-chance points, they dominated the boards and outrebounded Chicago State 48-30, including 20 offensive rebounds. Hitting the glass aggressively extended possessions and gave ample looks to DePaul scorers Young and Cleveland Melvin (12 points), though the Blue Demons struggled behind the arc all game, making only 4 of 15 attempts.
Ross scored 20 points to lead Chicago State, which proved it's capable of competing with teams in elite conferences. That didn't eliminate the sting of losing a winnable game to a Big East foe.
DePaul chipped away at Chicago State's lead in the second half, eventually going ahead 51-50 on Melvin's two free throws with 8:22 left. The Cougars briefly reclaimed the lead with 6 minutes remaining after Ross knocked down a jumper, but the Blue Demons closed the game on a 16-6 run.
(© 2012 by STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.)


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Kantar Health, a leading global advisory and marketing research company, today announced that Chief Information Officer Mary Sobiechowski will participate in a panel discussion at the 2013 CIO Summit of America on January 28 at the Harvard Club of New York.
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As CIO, Sobiechowski provides technology vision and leadership for Kantar Health's global business, driving innovation and new product development for client-facing activities as well as the consultancy's internal and external technology and digital programs.
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If it can't pump out Java byte code, I'm not interested.
I doubt you are able to write a class file byte wise.
Well in ancient times gurus piped their code with cat into asm, perhaps _you_ indeed can do that with a midi device
That's nothing. Play something by John Cage, and you get Windows OS.
Clippy: It looks like you're trying to play John Cage's "4:33". Would you like help?
Now we just need to make every day objects MIDI instruments and your plant (via midi-enabled soil sensor) can write the code to turn on the tap to give it more water....
Beware! Write your stream encryptor in a lydian mode and the PHB will come back and ask for it in phrygrian.
That was a truly great game.
The gameplay itself was a bit lacking, but the atmosphere was amazing.
...I'll spare you the trouble of the finding anything made from it.
It'll sound like a bunch of random notes. If the coders were thoughtful enough, they'd have taken simple common strings and made them correspond to notes in a chord, but beyond that it'd be atonal garbage with occasional breaks for My Dog Has Fleas.
Perhaps then functions need to correspond to chords, operators to notes, etc etc
I wonder what would happen if someone took this concept and reversed it, what would currently used code sound like?
I suspect that some of my code would sound like Death Metal.
A keyboard is a keyboard. Might not be qwerty but it is still a effing keyboard.
My Piano keyboard has MORE keys than my computer keyboard. Have you people seen these things lately? It's got your standard 88 keys, 20 trigger pads, 4 analog controllers, 9 analog sliders, 8 analog turny nobs, and a dozen or so buttons like "Select" "pause" etc...
with my Atari ST. It was trivial then since the same chip controlled both the keyboard and MIDI ports, just redirect one of the intercept vectors to catch the incoming MIDI packets and feed the notes to the keyboard buffer.
It's more fun to do this with a Zeta MIDI violin. I programmed it to move the mouse pointer on glissandos too, could do pretty much anything without touching keyboard or mouse.
I remember playing around with GFA Basic and a Midi keyboard hooked to my Atari ST. I had it set up so that whatever note you played on the musical keyboard, the computer would calculate a note an octave higher and then send that note back out to the musical keyboard and it'd play that note. It was pretty cool.
It seems like there should be useful mappings between the linear layout and chording affordances of a piano keyboard, and some computer-based tasks (although probably not "typing", I'd think). Maybe a less wrist-wracking rendition of Emacs commands?
Let's see. If you're typing with a normal alphanumeric keyboard, keystroke ordering matters, but keystroke force (velocity) doesn't, and hold time matters only crudely. How would you take advantage of velocity sensitivity?
... using computer code or math to make music. Back in the (early) '70s, you'd sometimes see these weird commercials where Fred MacMurray (I imagine most
Two words: chord keyboard.
I used one in '87 or '88 at SRI. It was old then, part of Engelbart's mouse/keyset interface. He first demo'd it in '68.
:P It lacks certain subtleties of a proper midi keyboard such as velocity, but with 2-3 stacked octaves it's possible to play quite a lot. Learning a different arrangement isn't all that hard, it's just like playing a slightly different instrument. I actually find certain types of playing like monotone arpeggios easier with the supper light action laptop style keyboards, i guess it's also not that dissimilar to using a programmable midi pad.
My most fun tune to play this way yet has to be "The Halls of Scien
Yep - anyone who's ever composed music using a tracker should be familiar with this.
"If it's not loud, it doesn't work!" -- Blank Reg, from "Max Headroom"


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I had to do a few hours work to make sure I properly understand how to rip apart the URL that invoked my code, so I figured I might as well share it with you, too. A helpful diagram is attached.
You have permission to use this diagram for personal purposes, but not for any profit-making purpose. I ask only that you post any errors you may find so I can update the diagram. Thanks.
Warren Gaebel, B.A., B.C.S.


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Running aggregations are calculations that continue to accumulate measures over a sequence—typically temporal, and possibly within partitions. An example of obtaining a running aggregate is finding a running sum of quantity for each employee and month, from a table that holds a row for each employee and month with measures such as quantity and value. That is, for each employee and month, you return the sum of all quantities from the beginning of the employee's activity until the current month.
Last month I started a series of articles that explore the performance aspects and algorithmic complexity of different solutions to running aggregations. I covered two set-based solutions—one using subqueries and another using joins. (See "Subqueries and Joins for Running Aggregates.") This month I cover a solution based on cursors.
Some developers and database administrators consider cursors to be evil, even going so far as to recommend avoiding them at all costs. Indeed, set-based solutions have many advantages over cursor-based solutions in terms of being more aligned with the relational model, requiring less code, being more readable, involving less maintenance, and typically performing better. However, cursors perform better than set-based solutions in some cases. In this article I show that under certain circumstances, cursor-based solutions to running aggregations provide better performance than set-based solutions.
Sample Data
In this article I use the same Sales table as last month. Run the code in Listing 1 to create the table. The Sales table contains a row for each employee and month. The definition of the Sales table contains an attribute for the employee ID (empid), month (dt), quantity (qty), and value (val). The primary key (as well as the clustered index) is defined on the key list (empid, dt). The clustered index follows the indexing guidelines to support solutions to running aggregates—the key list should be the partitioning column(s) followed by the ordering column(s), and the aggregated measures should be covered by the index as well.
Run the code in Listing 2 to create the helper function GetNums, which returns a table of numbers with a requested number of rows. Next, run the code in Listing 3 to populate the Sales table with the desired number of partitions (employees) and the desired partition size (rows per employee).
As a basis for comparison, I'll use last month's set-based solution using subqueries, which Listing 4 shows. The query in Listing 4 returns a running sum of quantity for each employee and month.
Cursor-Based Solution
Listing 5 shows the cursor-based solution for our running sum request. The solution is fairly straightforward. The code defines a table variable called @Result where the result will be stored, as well as a few local variables where the values from each row will be stored. The code declares a cursor based on a query that sorts the data by empid and dt. Based on this ordering, the code fetches the cursor records one at a time. In each iteration of the loop, the code handles the current row. If the current row's empid value is different than the previous row's value, this indicates that the current row is the first in the partition (for the employee). In such a case, the code initializes the variable holding the current running aggregate (@sumqty) with 0. The code then adds the current quantity to @sumqty and inserts a row with the current details and the running sum into the table variable @Result. Finally the code queries the table variable to return the result.
The clustered index created on the attributes (empid, dt) as the key list is ideal for this solution. Figure 1 shows the execution plan for the query that the cursor is based on. As you can see in the plan, SQL Server performs an ordered scan of the index.
Like I did last month, I'll now analyze the solution's algorithmic complexity to see how changing various factors in the solution affects its performance. The factors that I'll examine are the number of aggregations to be calculated, the number of partitions involved, and the average number of rows per partition (assuming even distribution for the sake of simplicity). Again, I'll use the letter p to represent the number of partitions, r to represent the average number of rows per partition, and a to represent the number of aggregations.
Let's express the number of rows processed by the cursor-based solution when one aggregation is involved. As you can see in the plan that Figure 1 shows, the rows from the Sales table are scanned once from the clustered index, in index order. You can therefore express the number of rows processed as pr rows (again, assuming fairly even distribution of rows among partitions).
Note that individual row processing is more expensive when you process data with a cursor than when you use a set-based solution. For example, if you represent the cost of processing n rows with a set-based solution as n, you can express the cost of processing n rows with a cursor as n(1+ o) or n + no, where o represent the extra overhead associated with the processing of a row with a cursor. In terms of run time, n + no typically translates to several dozens of times longer than just n. So if pr is the number of rows processed by the cursor-based solution, and you want to add the cursor overhead to the formula representing the solution's cost, you can express it as pr + pro. This is in comparison with set-based code that just scans pr rows, and whose cost you express as pr.
Effect of Number of Aggregates
Last month I covered in detail the set-based solution using subqueries, which Listing 4 shows. As you might recall, I expressed the number of rows to be processed by this solution as ap(r + r2)/2. I explained that unfortunately SQL Server's optimizer performs a separate scan of the data for each subquery, and if you have a aggregates to calculate, this means that the work involved in handling each aggregate will occur a times. In other words, in terms of changes in a, this solution has linear complexity.
Now let's explore the effect that increasing the number of aggregations has on the cursor-based solution. The two main factors contributing to the cost of the cursor-based solution are the number of rows being processed (pr) and the cursor overhead associated with each record manipulation (o). These two factors remain constant when the only change is in the number of aggregations to calculate (a). In other words, with respect to changes in a, the cursor solution has constant complexity, or close to it. Of course, a few more CPU cycles are required to calculate the additional aggregates, and a bit more space is necessary for the expanded row in the table variable, but those shouldn't have a dramatic effect on the solution's performance. Therefore, theoretically, adding aggregations to the cursor solution should cause only slight performance degradation.
To test this theory, I used the code in Listing 6 to calculate four running aggregates instead of one. The effect on performance was only about 10 percent degradation, thus proving the theory.
Effect of Number of Partitions
The next factor to evaluate is the number of partitions involved—that is, the effect of increasing the number of partitions on the solution's performance. Regarding the set-based solution, when calculating a single aggregate, you can express its cost as p(r + r2)/2. If you increase the number of partitions by a factor of f, you get pf(r + r2)/2. This means that with respect to the number of partitions, the set-based solution has linear complexity; in other words, if you increase the number of partitions by a factor of f, the cost (which translates to run time) increases by a factor of f as well.
Earlier I expressed the cost of the cursor solution as pr + pro. If you increase the number of partitions by a factor of f, you get pfr + pfro, meaning that with respect to changes in the number of partitions, the cursor solution should also have liner complexity. Figure 2 shows a benchmark in which I started with 10,000 partitions with a constant partition size of 10, and I kept increasing the number of partitions by 10,000 every time until I reached 100,000 partitions. This benchmark clearly shows that the cursor solution also has linear complexity with respect to the number of partitions.
Effect of Partition Size
It's interesting to see in Figure 2 that the cursor solution is significantly slower than the set-based solution when dealing with a very small partition size (10 rows in this case). Next, let's evaluate the effect of increasing the partition size on the solution.
Regarding the set-based solution, if you increase the partition size by a factor of f, you can express the effect on the cost of the solution as p(rf + (rf)2)/2. This tells you that with respect to the partition size, the set-based solution has close to quadratic complexity. If the partition size increases by a factor of f, the cost increases by almost f2. For example, if you increase the partition size by 2, the run time increases by almost 4 times.
As for the cursor solution, when you increase the partition size by a factor of f, the effect on the cost is prf + prfo. This means that with respect to the partition size, the cursor solution has linear complexity.
To test this theory, I ran a benchmark in which I started with 1,000 partitions with a partition size of 100, and I gradually increased the partition size by 100 each time until I reached a partition size of 1,000. Figure 3 shows the result of the benchmark. Even though the result merely confirms the theory, I find it fascinating. You can clearly see that there is a point where the cursor solution becomes faster than the set-based solution. In my benchmark, this point is around 500 rows per partition.
A Necessary Evil
Perhaps you've grown used to the idea that cursors are evil. I must say that in many respects, I agree. However, the way SQL Server's optimizer currently handles set-based solutions to running aggregates is with quadratic complexity (n2) with respect to partition size, whereas it handles cursor-based solutions with linear complexity. So in terms of performance, when dealing with small partition sizes—as many as a few hundred rows per partition—you're better off with a set-based solution. However, when dealing with large partitions—more than 500 rows—you're better off with a cursor-based solution. In addition, adding aggregates has only a minor effect on the performance of a cursor-based solution, whereas adding partitions causes linear performance degradation.
Next month I'll explore even more solutions to running aggregates. Stay tuned!
Listing 1: DDL Statement to Create Sales Table
SET NOCOUNT ON; USE tempdb; IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.Sales', 'U') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE dbo.Sales; CREATE TABLE dbo.Sales ( empid INT NOT NULL, -- partitioning column dt DATETIME NOT NULL, -- ordering column qty INT NOT NULL DEFAULT (1), -- measure 1 val MONEY NOT NULL DEFAULT (1.00), -- measure 2 CONSTRAINT PK_Sales PRIMARY KEY(empid, dt) ); GO
Listing 2: DDL Statement to Create GetNums Function
IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.GetNums', 'IF') IS NOT NULL DROP FUNCTION dbo.GetNums; GO CREATE FUNCTION dbo.GetNums(@n AS BIGINT) RETURNS TABLE AS RETURN WITH L0 AS(SELECT 1 AS c UNION ALL SELECT 1), L1 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L0 AS A CROSS JOIN L0 AS B), L2 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L1 AS A CROSS JOIN L1 AS B), L3 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L2 AS A CROSS JOIN L2 AS B), L4 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L3 AS A CROSS JOIN L3 AS B), L5 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L4 AS A CROSS JOIN L4 AS B), Nums AS(SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT 0)) AS n FROM L5) SELECT n FROM Nums WHERE n GO
Listing 3: Code to Populate Sales Table with Sample Data
DECLARE @num_partitions AS INT, @rows_per_partition AS INT, @start_dt AS DATETIME; SET @num_partitions = 10000; SET @rows_per_partition = 10; SET @start_dt = '20090101'; TRUNCATE TABLE dbo.Sales; INSERT INTO dbo.Sales WITH (TABLOCK) (empid, dt) SELECT NP.n AS empid, DATEADD(day, RPP.n - 1, @start_dt) AS dt FROM dbo.GetNums(@num_partitions) AS NP CROSS JOIN dbo.GetNums(@rows_per_partition) AS RPP;
Listing 4: Set-Based Solution Using Subqueries
SELECT empid, dt, qty, (SELECT SUM(S2.qty) FROM dbo.Sales AS S2 WHERE S2.empid = S1.empid AND S2.dt FROM dbo.Sales AS S1;
Listing 5: Cursor-Based Solution
DECLARE @Result AS TABLE ( empid INT, dt DATETIME, qty INT, sumqty BIGINT ); DECLARE @empid AS INT, @prvempid AS INT, @dt AS DATETIME, @qty AS INT, @sumqty AS BIGINT; DECLARE C CURSOR FAST_FORWARD FOR SELECT empid, dt, qty FROM dbo.Sales ORDER BY empid, dt; OPEN C FETCH NEXT FROM C INTO @empid, @dt, @qty; SELECT @prvempid = @empid, @sumqty = 0; WHILE @@fetch_status = 0 BEGIN IF @empid <> @prvempid SELECT @prvempid = @empid, @sumqty = 0; SET @sumqty = @sumqty + @qty; INSERT INTO @Result VALUES(@empid, @dt, @qty, @sumqty); FETCH NEXT FROM C INTO @empid, @dt, @qty; END CLOSE C; DEALLOCATE C; SELECT * FROM @Result;
Listing 6: Cursor-Based Solution with Multiple Aggregations
DECLARE @Result AS TABLE ( empid INT, dt DATETIME, qty INT, val MONEY, sumqty BIGINT, avgqty NUMERIC(12, 2), sumval MONEY, avgval MONEY ); DECLARE @empid AS INT, @prvempid AS INT, @dt AS DATETIME, @qty AS INT, @val AS MONEY, @sumqty AS BIGINT, @sumval AS MONEY, @count AS INT; DECLARE C CURSOR FAST_FORWARD FOR SELECT empid, dt, qty, val FROM dbo.Sales ORDER BY empid, dt; OPEN C FETCH NEXT FROM C INTO @empid, @dt, @qty, @val; SELECT @prvempid = @empid, @sumqty = 0, @sumval = 0, @count = 0; WHILE @@fetch_status = 0 BEGIN IF @empid @prvempid SELECT @prvempid = @empid, @sumqty = 0, @sumval = 0, @count = 0; SELECT @sumqty = @sumqty + @qty, @sumval = @sumval + @val, @count = @count + 1; INSERT INTO @Result(empid, dt, qty, val, sumqty, avgqty, sumval, avgval) VALUES(@empid, @dt, @qty, @val, @sumqty, 1.*@sumqty / @count, @sumval, @sumval / @count); FETCH NEXT FROM C INTO @empid, @dt, @qty, @val; END CLOSE C; DEALLOCATE C; SELECT * FROM @Result;


text: Headed down to the cabin this past weekend and was able to get on the Hiwassee for two great days of fishing. Apparently due to a considerable amount of rainfall (observed lots of standing water in fields) they have been constantly running two generators to keep the reservoirs at winter pool level. Day one, the morning was cold, 37 degrees when I arrived at the river to fish below the powerhouse. I have been hearing of sporadic shad kills so I thought I would start there and work a white woolly bugger. I tied on a cone head with 3 split shot as the 2800 CFM flow was immense and I wanted this to sink down as much as possible before the final swing and when I would start stripping it back. My first cast I got a bump, so things looked promising. Second cast I got nice hit, I set the hook and the fight was on and this definitely was a nice size fish. As the fight ensued, I was sure this was going to be the best trout that I have pulled in on the Hiwassee, instead it turned out to be the nicest Bass....guess they like the shad too! I continued working the woolly bugger and had a couple more bumps and then got another nice hit and this time it was a big fat female rainbow. I worked downstream a little and caught two very nice males with absolute gorgeous color!!! Lost an enormous female, was having difficulty getting it in the net and started to lift it up with the fish not completely in the net, lost the hook set and she was gone. Did catch a good number of fish in the 10 -12 inch range during the outing as well. Day two, I drifted the river from the put-in about a ½ mile below the powerhouse and floated down to Towee Creek, during the 4 hours of fishing, brought to hand over twenty fish. Again caught a couple of these dark red males, these are awesome looking fish and I can only hope with that some of these miss the creel basket when the DH is lifted in March. Did not see much Shad either day but did witness crows flying around and every now and then one would swoop down and grab a dead Shad as it was floating by.


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I bought Shadowgrounds (and it's sequel) long ago. Shadowgrounds remains one of my favorite action games - it's not very deep, but the atmosphere really works for me and the (top-down) engine is very smooth and just old-school gaming fun.
Even though it's not first-person, I found it more immersive than any shooter in reent memory, with several great "Oh shit, how am I going to kill that?" moments.
I don't have the time to play the bigs games I want to play right now (Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age 2) and I still haven't played most of the games from the first two bundles. But I'm still buying this just on principle.
IMHO Aquaria has been the best one so far (oh how I wish they'd get back together and do a sequel), but then World of Goo was part of the first, so YMMV. I definitely haven't played all the ones from the second yet.
(Y'know, I think I've actually paid for World of Goo at least twice over now.)
Nah, I thought Braid was the best. Simple game, brilliant concept, and you HAVE to play through to the end to really grok the game. The twist ending is fantastic! It's only a few hours of playing time for a seasoned gamer, but enjoyable.
ME2 is fantastic. I highly recommend it. About 45 hours worth of gameplay for me on the first playthrough. I highly recommend the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC as well.
I re-played ME1 as a Renegade (first character was a Paragon) and will start ME2 anew with that character. We'll see how that goes.
Still has draconian DRM though? Or have they done away with it. That's been the only thing holding me back from Mass Effect 1 and 2.
Still has draconian DRM though? Or have they done away with it. That's been the only thing holding me back from Mass Effect 1 and 2.
Pirate Bay has a DRM-free bundle.
I'd prefer not to pirate software. I have plenty of non-DRMed but legal sources of games.
Yes, I know that buying the game and then downloading the non-DRM version is technically still "pirating", but I somehow can't make myself feel bad about doing it.
I don't think anyone was trying to make you feel bad. At least I wasn't. I was merely asking if they still had dropped the draconian DRM because I'd like to pick up a copy if they had.
Dunno. I bought both on Steam, so I presume they come with whatever DRM Steam uses. The Steam DRM hasn't ever been a problem for me. Your mileage may vary.
For whatever reason, many Steam games still have SecuROM DRM anyhow. I refuse to install any product with SecuROM on my machine even if it apparently works fine.
I wouldn't mind a single download that I could use instead of 5 or 10 of them (hint hint).
Bundle 2 offered a single torrent download legally if I recall. Bundle 3 might as well.
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/12/Download-the-Humble-Indie-Bundle-2-using-BitTorrent [wolfire.com]
The last two bundles did make it on torrent sites. Wolffire Blog tried to estimate how many people were pirating a bundle they could have had legally for a penny.
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Saving-a-penny----pirating-the-Humble-Indie-Bundle [wolfire.com]
Considering that you can choose not only how much to pay but also how it gets divided and how the transaction is processed, I wish that they'd provide a little more information so that we could maximize the proportion of our contribution that goes where we want. For example:
For any company or even non-profit organization, unless they are already substantially developed, part of the goal is some level of growth. Break-even means there's not really a possibility for growth, and the organization will have a hard time getting better.
For the folks behind the HIB's, that might mean that with a bit more money, perhaps they can provide more technical support people (though they've done, from what I can tell, an awesome job with what they had, I also think they ended up all working 80+ hour weeks during the big events). It also might mean that, if they can make a bit of money, perhaps they can get developers of better titles to participate in the future, maybe a little more publicity to get even more people to hear about and particpate in the bundles, better servers, better website design, etc.
Now, there's a difference between a 'healthy' profit and a glutonous one, of course, but a little bit of profit really is necessary for any organization to thrive in the future, not just 'break-even'.
Well, there's also the server bandwidth and their time for maintaining things and promotional costs... Credit card transaction fees alone is probably a loss for them.
Between PayPal, Amazon Payments and Google Checkout, which has the lowest fees (for the payment amount chosen)?
If you pay less than $10, Amazon Payments takes the smallest cut (5% + $0.05). If you pay more than $10 and less than a few thousand dollars, they're all the same (2.9% + $0.30).
Note that this is assuming a normal payment. Wolfire/Humble, Inc. could very well have some business account with reduced fees or something.
I'm curious if anything has really happened with community development of titles open sourced in the previous two bundles. I'd be interested in checking out community builds.
And while Jack Claw is Windows only in this release, I wonder how long it will take to get ported since the source is being released.
I missed the previous two bundles, but I would still like to buy them. Does anyone know if they are still available? I purchased this one, and hoped there will be a link to older ones, but no.
The entire point of the bundle was that it was a limited time offer. You can still buy the individual games for full price, but you won't get the earlier games if you buy this bundle, though the last one did give you the older bundle if you improved the average... Who knows about this one?
Courtesy of @humble [twitter.com]:
How to use Jack Claw without a 360 controller [frozenbyte.com]
Download this file [frozenbyte.com] (right-click and "Save as"), and put it in your Jack Claw\Config folder. It should overwrite the original file, that's ok.
After that, keyboard & mouse should be enabled - pressing the left mouse button (or ESC) will proceed to the game.
WASD - Character movement
Mouse - Claw movement
Left Mouse Click - Press once to grab an object, press again to release
Right Mouse Click - When holding an object, throws the object
Note: You can quit only by opening the console with the F8 key and writing "quit" there. We'll try to fix this shortly.
I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.


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New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Tuukka Rask stopped 43 shots as the Boston Bruins took a 2-1 victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday night.
Daniel Paille and Shawn Thornton each scored for the Bruins, who have won six of their last seven games.
"We had a tough stretch before these wins and we said that we wanted to do better in our own zone," said Rask. "We've kept it pretty simple and it's paid off."
Derick Brassard had the lone goal of the game for the Rangers, who have lost three of their last four. Henrik Lundqvist stopped 20 shots in the loss.
"We're not scoring and you have to come up with the big saves and I didn't," said Lundqvist. "All of us are just not getting the job done."
Chris Kreider was hooked on a breakaway by Johnny Boychuk during a New York power play with 6:16 played in the first period, but was denied on the chance by Rask.
Boston got on the board at 4:58 of the second as Thornton skated the puck down the right wing and wristed a shot in from the circle for his third of the year
Skating shorthanded, the Bruins took a 2-0 lead as a turnover saw Paille go the other way on a clean break and slide a backhand between the pads of Lundqvist for a 2-0 lead at 11:30 of the second.
On the same power play, New York was able to make it a 2-1 game with 7:29 left in the middle stanza thanks to Brassard's wrister from the left circle that found the back of the net.
Rask, though, stopped 11 shots in the third period and helped his team kill of an early penalty to hang on for the win.
Game Notes
New York starts a five-game road trip in Dallas on Thursday ... Boston hosts St. Louis on Thursday ... New York took two of three from Boston last season ... New York was 1-for-3 on the power play while Boston went 0-for-2.