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OREGON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says his 19-year-old son's decision to act as a witness at the same-sex marriage of a relative is not a policy statement.
Walker was asked Tuesday about his son Alex's decision to serve as a witness to the June 9 wedding in Waukesha County. The marriage was between the first cousin of Walker's wife Tonette and her female partner.
Walker says he was aware that his son was attending the wedding, but Walker himself was in New York at the time of the ceremony. Walker says of Alex's decision to be a witness, "He doesn't need my blessing to do anything he does."
Walker is a longtime opponent of same-sex marriages and is defending the state's ban which a federal court judge last month said was unconstitutional.


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Halle Berry is taking some time away from her holiday weekend drama.
The 46-year-old Cloud Atlas star was snapped taking her 4-year-old daughter Nahla to the Yo Gabba Gabba show at the Nokia Theater at LA Live in Los Angeles Friday, just one day after her fiance Olivier Martinez and ex Gabriel Aubry got into a physical altercation outside of her home.
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In spite of the spat, Berry was all smiles as she and her little one watched the performance.
Alyssa Milano was also attendance with her son Milo Thomas Bugliaria, as was Anne Heche, as well as Nicole Richie, who brought her daughter Harlow Winter Kate, son Sparrow James Midnight, and hubby Joel Madden along for the ride.

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Establishment media instantly turns to conspiracy theories to hide fact that country is in a state of civil war
Paul Joseph Watson
Friday, December 23, 2011
At least 30 people have been killed and dozens wounded after terrorists attacked two Syrian state security buildings today, prompting the establishment media to launch a barrage of conspiracy theories in a flailing attempt to hide the fact that Syria is in a state of a civil war, a reality which dismantles the phony narrative that the Syrian regime alone is responsible for bloodshed in the country.
"Two booby-trapped cars blew up at Syrian security sites in Damascus on Friday, state television said, and witnesses heard large blasts rock the capital, with Hezbollah's al-Manar TV reporting that 30 people were killed in the blasts and 55 were wounded," reports Haaretz.
The plausibility of terrorists targeting the Syrian regime is perfectly viable given the fact that hundreds of Libyan rebels, commanded by Abdulhakim Belhadj, a committed jihadist who fought with the Taliban against U.S. troops in Afghanistan, were airlifted into Syria last month to aid the opposition in carrying out attacks against government forces.
US Special Forces are also massing on the border waiting for the green light to launch the NATO-backed "humanitarian" bloodbath, in a mirror image of how Libya was overthrown with the aid of western-backed Al-Qaeda militants, while at the same time the western media characterized rebel fighters who were commandeering fighter jets and carrying RPGs as "innocent demonstrators".
In a desperate effort to prop up the phony narrative that the Syrian regime is attacking innocent protesters, when in reality there is an ongoing civil war with killings and atrocities on both sides, the corporate press responded to the bombings by instantly implying they could have been staged by Syrian authorities.
The establishment media, which unquestionably accepts and immediately regurgitates the official narrative when terror attacks occur in the west, has instantly begun to generate what they would usually term "conspiracy theories," even implying that the Syrian regime could have been behind the blasts as a spectacle to garner sympathy from Arab League observers who entered the country yesterday.
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While this is certainly possible, it's amazing to witness how news organizations that routinely attack anyone who questions the official story of an event like 9/11 or 7/7 are now eager to provide a platform for skepticism simply because the attacks occurred in a nation which is one of the prime targets for the next NATO-backed "humanitarian intervention" (bombing campaign).
The London Guardian is a prime example, featuring numerous tweets from anonymous persons, almost all of which suggest that the circumstances behind the attack were manipulated.
"Is it merely a coincidence that these bombings only happened when the monitors' advance team arrived?" asks one.
"Either it is a bogus attack carried out by Assad's incompetent secret police, or it is a genuine attack carried out by the opposition's incompetent armed wing," writes another.
Incompetent? At least 30 dead and 55 injured hardly seems "incompetent" from a terrorist's viewpoint. In addition, this is just the latest of a series of attacks against the Syrian regime that have been ignored or downplayed, including last month's attack on an army base which killed ten Syrian air force personnel.
The west's need to fool the world into believing that heavily armed Syrian opposition militants, backed by Libyan rebel terrorists, are in fact peaceful protesters who are being indiscriminately slaughtered by order of Syrian President Bashar Assad, necessitates the requirement to frame opposition attacks as suspect.
It's just a shame that such skepticism completely disappears when terror attacks take place in the west. In those instances, all critical thinking ceases to exist and the press hastily prostrates itself to slavishly repeat the official story and denounce anyone who dares question it.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
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Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have revealed the names of their newborn boy and girl, drumroll -- Moroccan and Monroe.
The couple chose to name their son Moroccan Cannon after the Moroccan-inspired décor of the top tier of Carey's New York City apartment. The so-called Moroccan Room is also where Cannon proposed. The bouncing baby boy weighed in at 5 pounds, 6 ounces.
The couple named their daughter Monroe Cannon after Marilyn Monroe, who inspired Carey. Little Monroe was born first, at 5 pounds, 3 ounces.
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Longhorn Mountain is located in the beautiful Wichita Mountains in Southwest Oklahoma. It is about to be destroyed by the rock company Stewart Stone. A representative from the rock company states they "will begin blasting by the end of this summer." We need to STOP them!
The Wichita Mountains are historically significant as they are one of the oldest mountain ranges in the United States.
An article titled "Oklahoma History and Culture" from the Oklahoma State Universities Historical Society tells of the significance these mountains have played in the history of our state.
Not only is this mountain part of the beautiful Wichita Mountains but it is also a sacred mountain to the Kiowa Tribe. They pray on this mountain and they harvest the cedar from this mountain for their sacred cedaring ceremonies. Joe Fish, a Kiowa tribal member, frequently climbs the mountain to pray. Fish told KFOR News, "This is only place in the world this cedar grows. It has it's own unique smell, and it's what God, he gave us this sacred mountain and sacred cedar, and we hold it dearly."
I have started a petiton that we will forward to Governor Fallin.
You can sign the petition here!
Stewart Stone can be contacted at (918) 225-2704
UPDATE 07/04/13 – Over 650 signatures have been added to the online petition. We have also attracted the attention of AIM (American Indian Movement) and they have promised to support our petition and forward the information to CNN The Situation Room. They stated it would be on President Obama's desk by the end of the week! Thank you for sharing this information. Please continue to request signatures from your friends and family. The residents of this area are talking a LOT about this right now!
UPDATE 07/03/13 – I corrected the photograph that was in the post to the correct picture of Longhorn Mountain. We have over 500 signatures on the petition from all over the country! Please share this with whomever you think might sign the petition. The more voices we get the louder we are!


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If you think logos and corporate identity and any other brand logos are truly original these days… think again.
There's plenty company, the world over. Whether doppelgängers, look-alikes, wannabes, copies, or plain plagiarism, similarities abound. Sheer coincidence? Or copycats? Hey, in the era of internet, anything is possible! An ever changing, ever amassing encyclopedia of visual identity is just a click away.
I've found them, surely others have too! (I meant all the graphic designers, web developers, and brandologists who may have been inspired by the same visual!)
AECID (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo) Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development, Madrid-based Fundación Carolina, Foundation that Promotes Culture, Education and the Sciences between Spain and Spanish-speaking South American countries; Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball Team; Letter "C" font created by graphic designer, Steffan Morgan; Comedy Central's revamped logo for 2011; Comcast; Cool TV, Hungary; Concept Logo Design with letter "C", design by Michelle Villasenor, NYC, USA; Logo Concept Design for Creative Circle.
You don't need to search far and wide to realize that the modern homo sapiensis is inspired by the same thing when it comes to creating logos and corporate identities. The internet has brought the world to our fingertips like never before.
Images that we've never had access to, or could only see on TV or read in the news irregularly and without our control, are now in cyberspace. All awaiting our discovery… that is if you know where to look.
Having the world so much closer, and on our screens, also means that we can see how more similar we all are. How we see our own immediate environments and how that inspires us. Including how businesses and organizations communicate their message through their identity.
After all, a Logo is the primary visual identity that the outside world sees. And the internet has enabled us to see the similarities in corporate identity from distant shores, representing organizations that are vastly different and yet have somehow been inspired by the same idea. All brought together by a similar vocabulary of design language!
And although two logos may be close to identical, the message they emit is not the same. For its the meaning that customers attach to them according to their culture that gives them the value.
In other words, a logo is a sign or symbol that carries a meaning.
"People only value things that have meanings.
Brand building occurs when brand owners understand the meanings of their brands in the customers' minds. The strongest brands are those that are able to connect with customers on an emotional level through an engaging relationship built on mutual trust. Just like an old friend.
Recognizing this is key to building stronger brands that go beyond functional, and tap into the emotional and symbolic meanings. After all, people value more what things mean than what things are!"


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We've seen the venerable "wheat-and-brick-and-yelling board game" Settlers of Catan go gigantic and to the final frontier. Now — in a marvelous act of nerdiness — LEGO sculptor Ryan H. has built a playable Catan board out of little plastic rectangles. Explains Ryan, "I played this every night at Brickworld; I think every game I taught two people how to play." He also admits that he was roundly clobbered during every game, but he wins our plaudits and/or invisible ore cards simply for the effort.
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Tickets for the Sept. 11 U.S. National Team World Cup qualifying match vs. Jamaica at Crew Stadium will go on sale to the public in July. The game, in the Semifinal Round of CONCACAF qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, will kick off at 8 p.m.
Tickets go on sale to the general public Tuesday, July 17, at 10 a.m. through ussoccer.com, by calling 1-800-745-3000, at all central Ohio Ticketmaster ticket centers (including Kroger stores) and the Crew Stadium ticket office (open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
Crew Soccer Nation Gold, Black and Silver members will have access to a special presale opportunity from Monday, July 9, through Tuesday, July 10. Further information will be emailed directly to them.
Ultimate Fan Tickets (special VIP packages that include a premium ticket, a custom-made official U.S. National Team jersey with name and number, VIP access to the field before and after the game, and other unique benefits) are also available exclusively through ussoccer.com.
As a sponsor of U.S. Soccer, Visa® is pleased to offer all Visa cardholders access to an advance ticket sale prior to the sale to the general public. This advance sale starts at ussoccer.com on Friday, July 13, at 10 a.m. and runs until Tuesday, July 17, at 8 a.m. Visa will be the only payment method accepted through the Visa presale and is the preferred card of U.S. Soccer. Terms and conditions apply.
The U.S. currently leads Group A with four points, ahead of Jamaica based on goal differential. Semifinal Round action resumes Sept. 7, with the United States facing Jamaica at "The Office" in Kingston.
U.S. MNT in Columbus:
- The U.S. holds an unbeaten 5-0-3 record lifetime at Crew Stadium dating back to 2000.
- Columbus Crew Stadium has hosted six World Cup qualifiers, with the USA collecting four wins and two draws.
- The U.S. has surrendered only one goal in eight matches in Columbus, outscoring opponents 12-1 in that span.
- Columbus was the site of the last USA-Jamaica meeting in World Cup qualifying, a 1-1 draw on Nov. 17, 2004, in the final match of the semifinal phase.
- The stadium has hosted the USA's home qualifier against Mexico in the Final Round for the last three consecutive World Cup qualifying cycles, with the U.S. collecting identical 2-0 wins in 2001, 2005 and 2009.
Guatemala, Jamaica, Antigua & Barbuda, and the United States make up Group A. Each opponent meets twice, once at home and once away, in round robin play. The top two teams from each of three groups will advance to the Final Round of qualifying, which will take place in 2013. Three teams will automatically qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, while the fourth place team will play in a two-leg playoff against the winner of the Oceania region.
Located adjacent to the Ohio Expo Center, Crew Stadium is a 20,145-seat facility with the ability to hold up to 35,000 for concerts, that features a permanent main stage and roof structure. It is home to the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer and is a target destination for other marquee sports and entertainment events including U.S. Soccer matches, NFL exhibitions, NCAA soccer and concerts.


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Family Historian 5 - Coming Soon and a Free Upgrade Offer Now
10th November, 2011. Calico Pie today released details of version 5 of Family Historian, the UK's leading genealogy software program. The new version is due for release in February 2012, but thanks to a Christmas offer, anyone who buys Family Historian 4 now from a participating stockist, or as a download, will get a free upgrade to version 5 when released.
Version 5 - a Great Christmas Present
Although version 5 isn't quite ready yet, you can still effectively give it as a Christmas present! This is how:
While stocks last, customers who buy the full version of Family Historian 4 on or after November 10th, from participating stockists only, will be sent a free CD upgrade to version 5 when it is released. So you can give friends or relatives version 4 to unwrap on Christmas Day, with the upgrade to follow shortly. Or you can just keep it yourself of course...
Also - anyone who buys the download version of Family Historian 4 now (full version) will get a free downloadable upgrade to version 5 when released.
For full details of this offer, including the list of participating stockists, see www.family-historian.co.uk/v5-xmas-offer.
What's New in Version 5
* New tool for creating family tree books and booklets
* Much improved website generation and support for family tree CDs & DVDs
* New Fan Chart diagrams
* New 'flat' style All-Relatives diagram (much-requested)
* Improved data entry - especially with regard to date-handling and date validation
* New query for detecting possible errors with dates in existing records
* Enhanced 'How Related' tool shows graphically exactly how people are related
* Improved, more comprehensive backup-and-restore
* Improved import and export, including direct import from other program formats
* All reports have enhanced performance and features, including optionally an index
* Silhouettes can now be used in diagrams where required
* Much improved support for background pictures in diagrams
* Much faster diagram loading
* New reports, including a new 'how-related' report
* New tool for marking lines connecting individuals & branches in diagrams
* New 'shapes' toolbar for diagrams, including 'smart shapes' such as arrows
* Extensive new formatting options for diagrams
* Enhancements to the query capability for searching & analyzing records
* Support for plugins - a new way of extending the power of the program
* Integrated access to a new Plugin Store, with numerous free plugins adding even more features - such as a new mapping tool - and more being added all the time
* Numerous improvements to make the program even easier and more enjoyable to use
* And much more...
In the coming weeks, we will be adding more details about version 5 and the new features on our website, at www.family-historian.co.uk/features/whats-new/whats-new-in-5.


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Here is the good news, Shameless fans, the latest look at Season 9 is far more upbeat than the last one that had us fearing the worst.
The Gallaghers are back in action doing what they do best: scheming, taking on the patriarchy, and most importantly sticking together. Frank (William H. Macy) will be pretending to be Latino for his next trick but at least he's getting politically active? Debbie (Emma Kenney) is standing up for herself as a female welder and Fiona (Emmy Rossum) is trying to get Ian (Cameron Monaghan) out of his deep legal trouble after his stint as Gay Jesus in Season 8.
The bad news is that Season 9 takes place in Chicago's hot summer and Lip (Jeremy Allen White) has decided to go for a buzzcut to beat the heat. Oh, sure, it's just a haircut to some people, but do you not remember how fluffy and beautiful it was last season? It was a work of art and now it's all gone. Just give us a moment to deal.
Shameless Stars Get Sappy for Season 9 Premiere Date Announcement
Okay, in other Lip news it seems that he's having a bit more trouble being a foster dad to a pre-teen than previously expected. The new trailer reveals he's already lost track of his 10-year old ward after his ex-friend-with-benefits left her at the bike shop in the Season 8 finale. We're here for Lip being a dad, though, even with short hair.
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People call me the painter of dancing girls… It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes. Edgar Degas to Paris art dealer Ambroise Vollard, around 1900
At the turn of the twentieth century, the circumstances of a changing modern world were visible on the stage of the Paris ballet. Social classes mixed in this public setting, where some of the city's poorest young women pirouetted across the stage for paying audiences. The dancers' internationally influenced costumes often reflected larger cultural exchanges. Edgar Degas became a regular visitor to the ballet at the Paris Opera, which appealed to his interest in classical beauty and modern life. His studies of the ballet over four decades inspired generations of artists to take up the subject.
Some artists, like Degas and Auguste Rodin, depicted dancers as models, rendering their movements and innovative costumes. Other artists, including Jean-Louis Forain and Dame Laura Knight, studied dancers as entertainers who served both public and private audiences, illustrating intimate moments between productions. These works of art reveal the creative world behind the public spectacle.
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Faster, easier website unveiled today
The Telegraph is today unveiling a significant upgrade of its website, making thetelegraph.com easier to navigate, faster to load and more effective for advertisers.
As with this week's launch of our redesigned print product, the new website is largely the result of feedback from both readers and advertisers over the past several months.
Among our improved and upgraded features are:
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• A rotating display of the top stories of the day.
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• More options than ever for advertisers to reach the broadest possible audience, and to better interact with consumers.
In our evolving digital world, it's never quite accurate to say that an online platform is finished. Constant changes in technology require ongoing upgrades and improvements, and our goal is to stay on the cutting edge.
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Technological advances that are fueling a natural-gas drilling boom across the country are contributing to a bust in the San Juan Basin, a place where many of the advances were pioneered.
Last week, WPX Energy, the newly independent exploration-and-production arm of Williams, announced it would postpone plans for a major horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing operation that was to begin this summer on the Middle Mesa, just north of Navajo Reservoir near the town of Allison.
Instead, the company will focus on more lucrative oil and gas plays in northeast Colorado, North Dakota and Pennsylvania, said Kelly Swan, spokesman with WPX.
Until the announcement, WPX was one of the only operators in the area going forward with gas drilling.
Most companies are waiting for natural-gas prices to climb, said Dave Mankiewicz, minerals manager for the Bureau of Land Managements Farmington field office, which oversees the area of WPXs proposed project.
Production in other natural-gas plays has flooded the market and depressed the price. The average price of natural gas in February was $2.50 per million British thermal units, down from about $3.80 mBtu at the same time last year.
Other energy companies have followed a path similar to WPX. From 2009 to 2012, the number of drilling rigs in the San Juan Basin declined from 57 to 35.
Though the companys decision to put its drilling plans on pause represents a blow to the regional economy in terms of jobs and revenue, some say it is a needed break to consider the possibly sweeping environmental impacts of the project.
This is unlike anything weve ever seen before, said Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program director at Wild Earth Guardians, one of the groups filing to appeal a preliminary approval the BLM granted the project in December.
Many involved say the project once again could put the San Juan Basin on the cutting edge of natural-gas development.
Untapped reserves
The project would target the previously undeveloped Mancos Shale formation, which lies 5,000 feet underground and stretches south from Durango to Chaco Culture National Historic Park and west from Dulce to Shiprock in New Mexico. Until recently, the natural gas it held wasnt profitable to recover.
Like previous developments, the WPX project would use horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing to unlock gas in deep formations by breaking open the rock with millions of gallons of high-pressure, chemical-laced water.
The machinery to be used would be some of the most advanced in the industry, and it would allow the company to drill deeper, faster and more precisely.
Though drilling plans are on hold, Aztec Well Cos. is proceeding with its contract to build a multimillion-dollar custom-built drilling rig for the project that is expected to be complete in August. The machine runs on natural gas from the wells it drills and will move along tracks to drill multiple wells per location, minimizing the need to deconstruct and move the rig. Most of the operations are computerized, allowing them to proceed faster and more precisely than previous technologies, Swan said.
Purpose-built rigs are one of the newest technologies producers are using to streamline their operations and unlock more natural gas, said Jason Sandel, Aztecs executive vice president.
The drill rig will employ about 30 people, Sandel said. Many of those positions will be filled with local employees, with salaries that start at about $40,000, he said.
How big a prize?
Data from the Energy Information Administration suggests that the Mancos Shale has a lot to offer. The administration estimates there are up to 21 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas in the shale. Currently, the San Juan Basin in New Mexico produces 0.7 to 0.9 trillion cubic feet annually. The key will be how much of the shale gas companies can profitably extract.
They may say the prize is so large, but that doesnt necessarily equate to produceable gas, said Gary Torres, field manager for the BLM Farmington field office. Technology, prices and a lot of other things drive whether it becomes viable to produce.
Performance data are scarce, and only a few test wells have been drilled in the formation, Mankiewicz said.
In December, the BLM approved the modification of a seasonal wildlife closure to allow the WPX rig to operate 365 days a year. The company also will need to gain BLM approval before it begins work on each well.
Approval questioned
But the federal agencys methods werent adequate in the eyes of several environmental groups. At the beginning of this year, San Juan Citizens Alliance and Wild Earth Guardians submitted an appeal to the Interior Board of Land Appeals.
The groups argue that the BLMs environmental impact statement doesnt adequately assess the effects of the type of natural-gas development WPX is proposing.
Shale gas is new and different, yet the BLM is treating it like any other form of oil and gas development, said Nichols, of Wild Earth Guardians.
BLM officials maintain the drilling operations pose no risk to water sources, the surrounding ecosystem or air quality.
But the groups contend that shale gas requires fracking on a much larger scale than other types of drilling, which could result in more profound air- and water-quality impacts.
Emissions from such natural-gas and oil production, for example, most likely will spread across a much broader area than the drilling site, said Bruce Baizel, an attorney with the Oil and Gas Accountability Project in Durango. Statistics also show that one to two wells per one hundred drilled will contaminate water in some way, Baizel said.
Theres also a concern about how fracking horizontal wells will interact with existing wells in the area, said Mike Eisenfeld, New Mexico energy coordinator with San Juan Citizens Alliance.
In a broader sense, the environmental groups said their goal is to ensure rigorous standards are in place ahead of any future shale gas rush.


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Stevens25 wrote:Hey guys. Been lurking around these forums for a while, finally decided to join now that I need an answer.
When I watch games via NHL.com or local feeds (WSH) is there a way to delay mike langes radio casting by the 7 second delay? It can be a bit stressful to here what is happening before I see it.
shmenguin wrote:seems like a lot of work for little gain. but i'm not much of a lange fan, and i hate his catch phrases.
pittsoccer33 wrote:Here is what I've found interesting. For both Steelers and Penguins games (on Root at least, havent tried NBC or NBCSN) if I select the second language track (which I assumed was Spanish) you don't hear any commentators or play by play - just the crowd, stadium announcers, pa system, players yelling/hitting into each other, and other playing surface level noise. It won't help you get the radio audio, but I think it's a pretty neat way to watch the games - its more like youre there. And if you did manage to get the radio sync'd up you might still enjoy it.
MRandall25 wrote:How do you select the different language track?
thepittman wrote:shmenguin wrote:seems like a lot of work for little gain. but i'm not much of a lange fan, and i hate his catch phrases.
and thanks for posting
relantel wrote:we hated Stu Barnes for leaving? I must have missed something, somewhere. Thought he was traded for Barnaby?
Idoit40fans wrote:If the problem is that the radio is ahead of the TV, pausing the tv with dvr is going to exacerbate the problem.
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SANDY, Utah — The feelings around Real Salt Lake following their 2-1 loss to San Jose on Saturday night were to be expected: frustration, disappointment, disheartening, anger.
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Real controlled much, if not most, of the run of play. Outside of the first 15 minutes, RSL were clearly the team deserving of all three points. They had more possession (60.1% to 39.9%), better scoring chances (19 to 12 in shots) and all the momentum going their way.
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After several glaring defensive lapses against LA that led to RSL's losing a two-goal lead, this was yet another error that gave a game away.
"I wouldn't disagree with that at all," Borchers said. "We controlled the game, for sure. Both games (LA on Wednesday and San Jose) we had full control and weren't even able to even get a point out of it, so it's tough."
RSL will now have a full week to regroup, and then they go on the road to face a tricky side in the Columbus Crew next Saturday. Despite the disappointment at giving away two games, there doesn't seem to be any panic in RSL.
"I'm discouraged and mad at the world, right now like I've never been before that I can remember," Kreis said. "But I'm not ready to throw in the towel."


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Architects accuse The Brits Who Built the Modern World TV series of 'distorting history' by excluding leading female figures
The BBC has been criticised for painting a 'biased and misogynistic view of architecture' and for largely ignoring women architects in its series The Brits Who Built the Modern World.
At the beginning of the third episode, viewers were 'appalled' and 'outraged' to discover Patty Hopkins appeared to have been removed from a recently taken group photo, in which she stood alongside the show's male stars.
One of six architects featuring in the RIBA's tie-in exhibition (also called The Brits Who Built the Modern World) Hopkins had posed with Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Nicholas Grimshaw, Terry Farrell and her husband, Michael, at the gallery's opening last month.
Unknown to the BBC, Patty Hopkins had been 'photoshopped' out of the key shot by the photographer. The broadcaster admitted it had asked her to step aside during the shoot, claiming she had been happy to let the five men be taken together for the show, but this had not resulted in a suitable photograph.
The furore comes in the wake of the BBC's pledge to secure more professional women commentators with its Expert Women training programme, which was launched last year.
After appearing in the first episode, Patty Hopkins received little attention during the series, despite having co-founded Hopkins 38 years ago and being instrumental in its development.
This is a very biased and misogynistic view of architecture
Yasmin Shariff of Dennis Sharp Architects said: 'It was not just these five men who built Britain. This is a very biased and misogynistic view of architecture. Decisions Foster and Rogers made at Team 4 were also down to the two other founding partners. Yet Wendy [Cheesman] and Su [Rogers] were also lacking from the show.'
Deborah Saunt of DSDHA said: 'By her very exclusion, photoshopped or not, the BBC is promoting a distorted view of architecture and how it's really made. To knowingly choose a photo without Patty is an outrage.'
Lucy Mori of KL Mori Business Consulting for Architects said: 'I am shocked that women's contribution to architecture has again been "airbrushed" from this populist history programme.
'The final part of the [series] may have dwelt on the teamwork and collaboration involved in delivering large-scale projects such as the Gherkin and Terminal 5, but managed not to include a single female face. It's depressing that this was allowed to happen.'
Jane Duncan, the RIBA's equality and diversity champion, agreed: 'I share the frustration many people have expressed to me about the BBC's focus on male architects in the series. This is particularly pertinent with Patty Hopkins, who had so little air time on the programmes, despite being a full partner in Hopkins Architects from the beginning.
'The premise that the BBC was focusing on a generation of architects born in the 1930s does not justify their reasoning. This is a disgraceful over-simplification, distorting history at the expense of female architects.'
This is a disgraceful over-simplification, distorting history at the expense of female architects
Explaining why the BBC had taken a different approach to the RIBA in terms of its coverage, a spokesperson said: 'At the start of making the series, the director met with both Michael and Patricia Hopkins to discuss their involvement in the series. At that meeting, [Patty] Hopkins specified the degree to which she wanted to be featured in the series".
'The series did not aim to be a comprehensive story of post war British architecture, it is the story of a very specific group of architects who were united by close connections, both personally and in terms their early work.
'As is set out in the first episode, these five were born in the 1930s, worked in different combinations with each other, and were seen as the originators of high tech. It's the story of those five individuals which is traced by the series, with contributions from their collaborators on specific projects - hence Patty appears to talk about the Hopkins House, which she was heavily involved with; but not about certain other projects which were less of a joint enterprise.'
The spokesperson added: 'Female architects have regularly been featured across the BBC. Recent examples Zaha Hadid, Amanda Levette, Eva Jiricna, Soraya Khan, Sadie Morgan, Fiona Raby and many others".
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Deborah Saunt, founder, DSDHA
'The point is that the BBC are publicising the work of these great British architects without including a very important sixth member - a member who was present at the time when the group photo was taken! To knowingly choose to use a metaphorically or literally edited photo without Patty in it, is an outrage.
To knowingly choose to use a metaphorically or literally edited photo without Patty in it is an outrage
'By her very exclusion, photoshopped or not, the BBC is promoting a distorted view of architecture and how it is really made. It undermines the notion of collaboration and partnership, erasing inconvenient complexity, and promotes the idea of the single genius author/artist/architect.
'Of course it leads to other related questions about to what extent either Sue Rogers or Foster's first wife Wendy are acknowledged in the TV show (which I've yet to watch) too. Have they been conveniently airbrushed out of history too? Like for example the two Mrs Aaltos that are so little known, and if they are mentioned at all they are assigned the identity of having been more concerned with interiors, or Jane Drew who I was told only last week by one of her contemporaries was not a real architect: 'The real architect was Maxwell Fry, Jane was a dynamo not an architect.'
'The need to correctly credit everyone's contribution in architecture remains.'
Lucy Mori, KL Mori Business Consulting for Architects
'I am shocked that women's contribution to architecture has again been "airbrushed" from this high-profile and populist history programme. The final part of the 'The Brits Who Built the Modern World' may have dwelt on the team-work and collaboration involved in delivering large scale projects such as the Gherkin and Terminal 5 but managed not to include a single female face. The concluding aside from the former AJ Editor did mention the all-male line up of Foster, Rogers, Hopkins, Grimshaw and Farrell but to ignore the significant role of female partners and colleagues such as RIBA gold medal winning Patty Hopkins, Wendy Cheesman and Georgie Wolton, is regrettable and their inclusion would have been inspirational to BBC and Open University viewers. It's a depressing indictment of the image of the architect in the media that this was allowed to happen.'
Hannah Corlett, director, Assemblage
'I was truly appalled to see these images, and I hate to think that Patty Hopkins will see herself evaporated in this way. I was lucky enough to hear her speak at the Women in Architecture awards recently when her unjustified humility with regard to her achievements and contribution was apparent. Obviously this brings back memories of Denise Scott Brown's and Lu Wenyu's omission from the Pritzker prize. How can the perception of architecture as a profession for men be changed when the media literally erases the contribution of women from the public eye like this?'
Yasmin Shariff, director, Dennis Sharp Architects
'"Airbrushing" Patty Hopkins out of the photo is consistent with how womens' contributions have been airbrushed out of history.
'But it wasn't just Patty. Decisions Fosters and Rogers made whilst at Team 4 were also down to the partners, yet Wendy and Sue were lacking from the show. Only Team 2 is represented. Where is Team 4?
Only Team 2 is represented. Where is Team 4?
'The show puts out a biased message against women architects. It was not just these five men who built Britain. This is a very biased and misogynistic view of architecture. It has left out the social sensitive side of the profession. Where are Jane Drew and Alison Smithson? Alison Smithson's work on Hunstanton school changed school design and was hugely influential in modernist architecture – yet she is rarely mentioned.'
Mary Duggan, director, Duggan Morris Architects
'I suppose it sort of proves a point that you cannot just delete someone. Her influence is widely known. So it's an error, a nonsense, an untruth, but perhaps in the act of erasing her sadly male chauvinism rears its ugly head. In the context of celebrating British Architects it feels like a fatal own goal.'
@HodderPRIBA: But Patti Hopkins has been Photoshopped out of the opening photograph taken @RIBA #BritsExhibition !!!!!!!— Stephen Hodder (@HodderPRIBA) February 27, 2014
BBC slammed for 'bias' after Patty Hopkins is sidelined in TV show
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The BBC's bias is a real pity. Mass media, and especially the BBC and the Open University, influence not only how we perceive the past, but also how we plan for the future.
Research shows that diverse teams are more productive, more successful and more creative.
'A Danish study found that companies with good numbers of women on the board outperformed those with no women by 17% higher return on sales and 54% higher return on invested capital.'
'Leeds University Business School reports that having at least one female director on the board appears to cut a company's chances of going bust by about 20%. Having two or three female directors lowers the risk even more.'
As the economy picks up, architectural practices need the best people - and that includes women.
'Looking to the future, 63.6% of girls achieve 5 or more GCSEs at grade A* to C or equivalent, including English and mathematics, GCSEs compared to 54.2% of boys'
The architectural profession needs to look around itself and see what is happening in other traditionally masculine businesses like Lloyds Bank (who recently announced 40% of its 5,000 senior workforce will be made up of women within the next six years) and realise that urgent action is needed now. Practices and the RIBA need to be pro-active to support more women to take senior positions in practices.
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If ever an image painted a thousand words this is it! I think this is a very contemporary example of the way women get painted out of the history of architecture, its happening to that generation now right in front of us.
This parallels the travesty of the Prtizker (or lack for) for both Lu Wenyu (Wang Shu's Partner, 2012) and Denise Scott Brown (1991).
Why aren't the men in these positions rejecting these storylines and defending their female partners? Can Rogers or Foster comment on the hidden 2 from team 4? What does Michael Hopkins think about his wife being airbrushed out?
Well done for highlighting the BBC's cavalier attitude towards women architects (5 March 2014).
The story of the Brits Who Built the Modern World has been oversimplified in an unacceptable, misogynistic account that reinforces the discrimination of women in the profession. The low pay (25% less) and poor registration numbers (21%) highlight current conditions and the last thing we need is such a poor account of history from the BBC. Airbrushing Patty Hopkins out of the illustration is entirely consistent with the way that Female Brits who Built the Modern World have been airbrushed out of living memory and their work trivialised and overlooked. Many have had their names and achievement absorbed into their partners.
The true story of British Modernism is more complicated than the Famous Five playing with lego or mechano and building a Brave New World. Before any of the famous five were born, Norah Aiton and Betty Scott had designed and built, in 1931, one of the first high tech buildings in Britain- factory offices for Aiton & Co. in Derby. This pioneering steel framed building is an early exemplary piece of high tech design, yet hardly anyone has heard of it. Neither was there any mention of Mary Medd or Alison Smithson who both pioneered high tech school design. These women, like Su Rogers and Wendy Foster in Team 4, were not accessories and architecture was not a part-time interest or hobby when they weren't changing nappies or cooking wholesome meals. For these pioneering women, architecture was a full time career, a profession they were passionate about and they were determined to make a mark in against all the odds. They were financially, intellectually and technically as adept as their male partners. It is about time their story was told.
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