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The son of musical-comedy star Mary Martin, Hagman worked on the New York stage through the 1950s, on and off-Broadway, then moved into movie and TV roles. But it was as the star of "I Dream of Jeannie" that he first became widely known, a good-looking, dark-haired leading man in the mold of contemporaries like Jim Hutton and James Garner.
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A knockoff "Bewitched" in which Hagman played Maj. Anthony Nelson, a bachelor astronaut more or less cohabiting with curvaceous female genie Barbara Eden, who called him "Master," the series, which was risque in a way about to become outdated, ran from 1965 to 1970 -- its end, one might note, concurrent with the rise of the women's movement. But Hagman's easygoing approach made its weird power relationships palatable.
And then there was J.R. I can't swear, without spending some time in a library, that he was television's first antihero. Ralph Kramden might be, viewed from a certain angle, and daytime soap operas, of which Hagman was a veteran and "Dallas" a prime-time variant, were full of characters You Loved to Hate (yet really loved). But J.R. was the godfather, certainly, of Tony Soprano and Walter White, of Nucky Thompson and Al Swearengen -- and their better, one feels.


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A member of the film crew for the "SpongeBob Squarepants 2" movie caused an accident Wednesday morning that sent a woman to the hospital and damaged a downtown building, according to city officials.
Paul Brinkley, a resident of Wilmington, N.C., was cited for failure to yield while entering a roadway after the John Deere utility vehicle he was driving east on Congress Lane entered Whitaker Street without stopping and collided with a van about 6:30 a.m., reported Savannah-Chatham police officer Michael Zaragoza.
The driver of the van, Barbara Maxwell, then crashed into the wall of the Hercules Bar & Grill Restaurant on the west side of Whitaker, slightly north of Broughton Street.
Maxwell was treated and released that day after being transported to Candler Hospital.
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Brinkley and his passenger, Kevin Trombley, were not injured.
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There was no mention of Brinkley being involved with the film in the police report, but city officials have confirmed that was the case. Zaragoza could not be reached for comment in time for publication.
Owner Harry Kyriakides said officials with the film company have agreed to cover the costs of repairs to the building and restaurant.
"I just got going a couple of months ago and now this happened," Kyriakides said of his business.
The restaurant was open on Friday afternoon, with the damaged portion of the exterior wall sealed up with plastic sheeting as customers dined on burgers and gyros.
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Before we eat Thanksgiving dinner at my house, along with saying grace, each of the 20 or so people at the table takes a turn lighting a candle and expressing gratitude. The appreciation can be lighthearted — for mashed potatoes or a day off from school. Or the thankfulness may be accompanied by a heavy heart — for the memories of a loved one recently passed.
As it happens, this expression is not an empty exercise. And if we developed the discipline to be consciously grateful on a regular basis, year-round, research shows we'd be happier and suffer less depression and stress. We'd sleep better and be better able to face our problems.
There's evidence that gratitude is uniquely important to well-being. Long embraced by religion as a "manifestation of virtue," it's one of the few things that "can measurably change people's lives," says Robert Emmons, a UC Davis professor who has been studying gratitude since 1998 and is the author of the book "Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier."
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Larico Nettles, of Cleveland, was the keynote speaker Friday during a community discussion at Friendship Baptist Church. He spoke to an audience of a few dozen of all ages about his battles with drugs, alcohol, guns and incarceration.
After carefully taking notes Friday morning during the first part of a community discussion at Friendship Baptist Church, 9-year-old Samuel Johnson of Massillon was able to summarize nicely what he learned during the keynote address.
"When you make mistakes, you pick yourself up, and drugs won't help you and smoking won't help you," said Johnson, who attended the program with his 10-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother Thelma Johnson.
Organized by the Collaborative Agency Network, this was the second discussion that addressed whether violence is a community health issue. The topic also was highlighted at community discussions in February in Alliance, Canton and Massillon in response to a surge in violence and murders in 2012 in Stark County's urban areas. Organizers plan to continue to make this an annual event open to all ages.
"It's a community effort we're looking to address," said Remel Moore, CAN convener. "We decided we needed to do something."
Larico Nettles said he remembers being 9 years old when "things started happening." During his keynote speech, the 37-year-old Cleveland man took an audience of a few dozen people on a journey of his life. He began with how he grew up as a straight-A student surrounded by adults who used drugs and alcohol.
"At an early age, I had already erected barriers," he said. "Is violence a disease or a mental health issue? I say absolutely yes. I was incarcerated before I even got locked up."
He recounted how peer pressure and a violent neighborhood led to abusing and dealing drugs on the streets and carrying a gun as a teen-ager. He described how he saw a friend shoot a man, and how felt invincible with a gun at his side and a van full of illegal drugs.
"I'm seeing all of this and I'm thinking this is normal," he said.
Nettles also described how he felt fear his entire life. His mother was addicted to crack cocaine for awhile. When his father was released from prison, he met him for the first time and was immediately introduced to guns. He would sell drugs to his dad just to bond with him. As a youth on drugs, he would feel a destructive energy and he would release it by robbing people and stabbing them or hitting them on the head.
"I was a kid who was hurting; I was a kid who was scared," he said. "Fear ran deep. I didn't realize how deep it ran."
Along the way, Nettles had a grandmother and an aunt who tried to help him. His grandmother used to call him "preacher boy."
"There's always signs along the path and there's always opportunities," he said. "We all have somebody in our lives to instill morals and values."
The father of six children said after serving 10 years at Grafton Correctional Institution on a drug conviction, he learned to turn his life around.
"I started to tear down those barriers," he said. "I've got to try something different — not try — I've got to do something different. When you start doing something right people start showing up in your life to assist you."
Participants were invited to breakout sessions with different topics ranging from bullying among children and youth to the impact of social media on community violence.
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Catfishes are a species rich and exceptionally diverse group of fishes ranking second or third among orders of vertebrates. The Catalog of Fishes (Eschmeyer, 1998 et seq.) database treats 2,855 species of catfishes as valid. About 1 in 4 valid species of freshwater fishes, 1 in 10 fishes, and 1 in 20 vertebrates, is a catfish.
Although most catfishes are of small to moderate size (5-20 cm), some aspredinids and trichomycterids are among the smallest vertebrates in the world, reaching sexual maturity at less than 10 mm in total length. Others are among the largest freshwater fishes in the world: Silurus glanis (European wels, to 5 m, 330 kg, the largest of catfishes), Pangasianodon gigas (giant Mekong catfish, to 3 m, 300 kg), and Brachyplatystoma filamentosum (Amazonian goliath catfish, to 3+ m, 200 kg).
Most catfishes are omnivores, but some have highly specialized diets, e.g., wood-eating loricariids (Nelson, et al., 1999) and parasitic catfishes that feed on the blood of other fishes (de Pinna, 1992; Spotte, 2002). Most catfishes have defensive fin spines that can inflict severe wounds. Species in several families are venomous. Like their close gymnotiform relatives, many catfishes are electroreceptive (Baron, et al., 1996a,b). Species in the genus Malapterurus are capable of generating charges of 400 volts or more (Burgess, 1989). Unlike most freshwater fishes, many catfishes are nocturnal and depend mainly on senses other than sight, such as tactile and chemosensitive barbels, or enlarged olfactory organs. Thus, catfishes are preadapted for life in caves, aquifers, and deep river channels, and troglobitic catfishes have evolved in North and South America, Asia, and Africa. Air-breathing clariid catfishes regularly leave the water and move over land (Burgess, 1989). Several groups of catfishes communicate acoustically; some by vibrating the swim bladder, others by stridulatory fin spines. Most species of catfishes provide parental care to eggs; some also provide care to young. In an interesting symbiotic relationship, certain African bagrids also protect the young of cichlids (McKaye & Oliver, 1980). Most families of catfishes including basal diplomystids and their closest otophysan relatives are strictly freshwater. Consequently, the marine habitat of Plotosidae, Ariidae and some Aspredinidae is considered derived for catfishes.
Because of their worldwide distribution and diversity, catfishes are of great interest to ecologists and evolutionary biologists, and are important in studies of biogeography - from regional, e.g. post-glacial North America (Bailey and Smith, 1981) and Southeast Asia (Bornbusch and Lundberg, 1989), to continental - e.g. North America (Patterson, 1981, Grande, 1994) and South America (Reis, 1998; Lundberg, 1997), to global (de Pinna, 1993, 1998; Lundberg, 1993). Catfishes are most diverse in species and morphology in tropical South America, Africa, and Asia. However, catfishes live or have lived in the inland or coastal waters of all continents, including Antarctica, where fossils of Eocene age are found on Seymour Island (Grande and Eastman, 1986). The earliest known fossil siluriforms are in freshwater and marine deposits of late Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) age.
Many catfishes around the world have huge economic value and are fished for human consumption, the pet trade, or recreation. Worldwide capture production of freshwater and marine catfishes in 2000 exceeded 500,000 mt (FAO Yearbook of Fishery Statistics 2000a). The North American channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) supports a $450 million/yr aquaculture industry (FAO Yearbook of Fishery Statistics 2000b). The South American, armored "corydoras" and "plecostomus" catfishes are icons of the aquarium trade. Several catfishes (e.g. the flathead catfish in North America, goliath catfishes in South America) are aggressively sought by big game anglers. Conversely, translocated species cause substantial economic loss and damage to natural ecosystems and native fish stocks. Significant catfish pests in North America include the walking catfish, Clarias batrachus, in Florida, and the flathead catfish, Pylodictis olivaris, in Atlantic slope drainages (Fuller, et al., 1999).


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- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 11/06/12 @ 110.27. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 11/06/12 @ 110.27. Upside Targets = 112.48 – 114.73.
- January Brent Crude gave back some of its early gains on Monday to finish in the lower 35% of the daily trading range as the spread between itself and the spot WTI contract narrowed to $22.58 after failing to break through last week's OVB high.
- Although the technical indicators still suggest that Brent should trade through $110.69, the volatility in the market over the past week has been unpredictable at best and could move lower back near $106.
- Projected Daily Range: 2.39
- Projected Weekly Range: 5.27
- Projected Monthly Range: 10.65
WTI Crude Oil (December):
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- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 11/07/12 @ 84.33. Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 11/07/12 @ 84.33. Downside Targets = 81.36 – 78.69.
- Inside VRCB generated on Monday.
- December WTI Crude Oil moved back slightly lower on Monday in a compressed trading range due in large part to Veterans Day as it was unable to follow through on Friday's bullish OVB.
- Look for an early retest of $85 on Tuesday where the market finds support near $84.65 before trying to stage a rally.
- Projected Daily Range: 2.23
- Projected Weekly Range: 4.75
- Projected Monthly Range: 10.61
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- Short Term trend is bearish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 10/25/12 @ 3.751. Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 10/26/12 @ 3.724. Downside Targets = 3.501 – 3.476.
- New lows made on current move Monday @ 3.470.
- December Natural Gas traded one tick through the contract close gap left from the November contract before reversing course early in the session and led the market back higher near $3.60.
- While Friday's bearish close indicator was fulfilled with the weekly low having been violated, Monday's price action lends itself to the possibility of a bullish OVB week should natural gas trade through $3.621 and sets up the possibility of an extended run higher near the contract highs of $4.
- Projected Daily Range: .119
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- Projected Monthly Range: .624
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When Lydia Davis's new collection hit bookstores this fall, New Yorker critic James Wood—known for his scant praise of contemporary fiction—exulted over the writing's "combination of lucidity, aphoristic brevity, formal originality, sly comedy, metaphysical bleakness, philosophical pressure, and human wisdom." He predicted that the compilation of four previously published collections spanning two decades would "in time be seen as one of the great, strange American literary contributions."
But whether stories is the right term for her "distinct and personally crooked" oeuvre (as Wood puts it) is another matter.
"As soon as you say 'prose poem,' the person you're talking to looks extremely bored," Davis explains on the phone from upstate New York, where she lives with her husband and younger son. The writer, translator, and 2003 MacArthur Fellow speaks at a musing pace, her voice mellifluous. "And if you say 'experimental' or 'philosophical'— anything—they will wish they were talking to somebody else. So I tend to stick to 'story'—long, very long, short, very short, and very, very short— because everybody does love stories."
Still, when readers encounter a "very, very short" specimen such as "Insomnia"—it reads in full, "My body aches so—/It must be this heavy bed pressing up against me"—they are likely to exclaim, "How odd that this supposed short-story writer has written only two lines!" Davis attests, "It's the first thing they latch on to." Later they may notice what else she leaves out besides words: scenes, place names, and all but the slimmest of plots. Plus, there is often only a single character, whose head we are locked inside. "I work from what a character is likely to remember," Davis has said. "Our memories don't usually serve up whole scenes complete with dialogue."
In the seven-page "A Few Things Wrong with Me," a woman contending with a sudden breakup is trying to figure out whether the ex-lover's admission that "there were things about me he hadn't liked from the very beginning" means he never loved her. Her hyperlogical obsessiveness is at once poignant and comical. In the one-page "Enlightened," the narrator contemplates dumping a friend for being unenlightened, "although I know it's not very enlightened to say that. But I want to say it, so I'm willing to postpone being more enlightened myself."
Given that Davis's characters are mostly women, does she see excruciating self-consciousness as a female trait? "I wouldn't be distressed if someone said, 'Oh, this isn't limited to women,'" she counters. "I can think of men friends with the same brooding over themselves, and I can think of female friends who are oblivious. I once wrote a story where all I did to fictionalize something that happened was reverse the genders so that the woman became a man. And men would say, 'I'm just amazed how you could put yourself in a man's mind like that.' It made me think there's not as much difference as we would think."
Both of Davis's parents were writers. Hope Hale Davis wrote stories and Robert Gorham Davis—"the ultimate professor," on the Columbia faculty from 1957 until he retired two decades later—published scholarly studies, book reviews, and stories too. Davis didn't have to go searching for literature: it was all around her. The family lived adjacent to the Columbia campus, which she liked traipsing across on the way to the subway. She used the library and visited her father in his ample office at the very top of Dodge Hall, where by spooky coincidence she taught a writing class many years later. "The room was imbued with his presence," she says. "It sort of freaked me out."
Earlier, when she was at Barnard, he felt far enough away that she could major in his field. Davis has long worked as a French translator: her last project was Swann's Way; her current one is Madame Bovary, to be published by Penguin this fall. But as an undergraduate, "I thought that if you wanted to be a writer you majored in English, it was that simple."
And she still thinks it's a decent plan.
Columbia's Creative Writing Lecture Series presents the Lydia Davis talk, "A Beloved Duck Gets Cooked: Innovative Forms," Thursday, March 25, at 7 p.m. arts.columbia.edu/cwls/32510.html
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Dear kite flyer/kite group,
I am writing to see if you or your club/group might be able to help support this years Bristol International Festival of Kites and Air Creations which is due to take place over the weekend of 12 & 13 September.
Plans are going well - exhibitors and traders are confirming and invitations are going out to kite guests. But this year is proving really tough for everyone, and businesses and organisations are just not spending on marketing or sponsoring events. The bottom line is that to go ahead we need to raise at least £10,000 to fund essential on site infrastructure and cover the costs of flyers and participants - or else we may have to cancel.
We have launched a special fundraising campaign aimed at businesses, the kite industry, kite enthusiasts/clubs/societies and the public. We are fortunate to have strong local, national and international support for the Festival, and hope that by offering opportunities for businesses and individuals we can raise much needed funds, and at the same time supporters can benefit from being a part of our Festival.
The Festival was started by Martin Lester, myself and another colleague and is still organised and run by a small team of local flyers on a voluntary basis. It has become a major event in the South West and is well known within the international kite world. The Festival pulls in crowds of over 30,000 people and last year we had peaks of over 2,200 daily hits to the Festival website and were thrilled that both BBC Blue Peter and Channel 4s Scrap Heap Challenge filmed over the weekend.
So how you can help!
We have three packages for businesses, organisations and/or individuals: Gold (£1,000), Silver (£500) and Bronze (£50). In addition, local people are invited to get behind the event by becoming a Friend of the Festival for a donation of £20. In return for their donation all supporters will receive a commemorative Bristol Blue Glass kite-themed coaster being created especially for the Festival.
Supporters who take up one of the top three packages can benefit from promotional and corporate opportunities providing publicity and profile in the run up to the Festival, and also have the chance to get involved during the weekend. Gold supporters will have their own branded Japanese kite made and flown in the kite fighting battles and have an opportunity to fly some of the stars of the show. Silver supporters will see their names flying high on an air banner attached to one of the large special shape kites. Bronze supporters will be thanked publicly at the festival and have their names included on the Bristol 2009 Serpent kite which will be displayed and flown at the Festival and afterwards by Avon Kite Flyers Club.
I am contacting you to see if you can help support us. I would also be grateful if you could spread the word and forward this message on to any of your friends or contacts who might also be interested. Would you also be able to post this message on your club newsletter or add it to your website if you have one?
We have given ourselves a month to see if we can secure some support. If there isnt a realistic chance of covering our costs or underwriting the event in some way, we will have to make the difficult decision to cancel this years Festival, in which case we would of course refund any pledges made. Cancelling would be a huge disappointment to all our flyers, exhibitors and our new nominated charity Marie Curie Cancer Care, as well as the many members of the public who come along every year and join in the fun. We are determined to do everything we can to go ahead this year and also to make it to 2010 - which will not only mark our 25th year but also give us the chance to join in the exciting celebrations for the Bristol Year of Flight.
If you can help, please visit
or make a cheque payable to: Bristol Kite Festival and post to c/o Festival Office, 5 Lilymead Avenue, Bristol BS4 2BY. If the Festival is cancelled all donations will be refunded.
For any sponsorship enquiries or fundraising ideas please do contact me
Thank you very much i
Avril Baker
Festival office
5 Lilymead Avenue BRISTOL BS4 2BY
tel: 0117 977 2002
fax: 0117 977 4255
This is Ben from Revolution Kites and I wanted to share this with the world for several reasons, this year has seen the passing of to many kite festivals and I do not want to see
another bite the dust...... So in my sick little mind I have taken on a task to raise money for
this event in the form of some on line kite raffles where all money will go to the event.
What we are doing is in the next few days we will present a Bazzer B-Series Pro custom
Bristol kite which Bazzer and team iQuad have put together and we will sell a very limited
amount of tickets for $20.00 US on "revkites.com" and then we will donate this money to
Bristol. Also with help of the kiting community mainly "The Decorators" and Jose Santz we
hope to have more kites which we can use to raise more money so keep an eye out in the
coming weeks and help if you can...... Ben
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The tickets are being sold on the Revolution web site
now, so just
go to the forum, then look at the heading from Rev and you will see whats going on....Ben
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I blinked and missed the raffle. Did I read right, there will be two others?
(And who do we send the PayPal to?)
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I too sent in money, but to JB's "other" email and it wasn't read in time to be in this raffle.
Beautifully done Rev too. I'm happy to see the tickets went so quickly for a worthy cause.
Maybe next time they can do $10 tickets at a 100 entries to give those of us who are a bit slow on the trigger to have a chance.
John Chilese: Las Vegas, NV
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Scholastic Releases Third Volume of Storybook Treasures DVDs
Following the first two installments in the Scholastic Storybook Treasures' My First Collection DVD series comes another DVD set for preschoolers and their families: My First Collection: Volume 3 Featuring Chicken Little. Featuring 12 stories on three discs, the set includes three new stories: "Chicken Little," "Scaredy Squirrel," and "Katie Loves the Kittens." The three DVDs in My First Collection: Volume 3 include Scholastic's innovative, read-along function and features narrators such as Sean Hayes, John Lithgow, and Randy Travis. The set will be on sale June 12 for $24.95, with the individual DVDs priced at $12.95 each. For more information on other Scholastic Storybook Treasures, visit New Kideo's website or Facebook page. This post was originally written by Ali Mierzejewski and published by ToyBook.com. For more news, visit www.toybook.com, follow The Toy Book on Twitter, and like The Toy Book on Facebook. The Toy Book is a bimonthly trade magazine covering the toy industry, published by Adventure Publishing...Read More


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"Chinatown" writer Robert Towne has listed his estate on the Westside at $12.995 million.
Built in 1926 and designed for grand entertaining, the restored English country-style mansion and guesthouse have seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms and 10,000 square feet of living space. The nearly three-quarter-acre property is wooded and includes a swimming pool, a rose garden and a spice garden.
Towne, 77, won an Oscar for original screenplay in 1975 for the Jack Nicholson-starring film about land and water rights disputes. He wrote the screenplays for "Days of Thunder" (1990), "Mission Impossible: I" (1996) and "Mission Impossible: II" (2000).
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I think dodge would make a decent second doubles after block guard. On a team like humans, I'd either give dodge to all blitzers on doubles (in which case I'd want it on a lineman or ogre second doubles too), or skip it on all of them (jump up for the blitzers, skip on the linemen). Dodge is the kind of skill that's meh if you have a few, and amazing if you have a ton. That's because a few dodge can be countered by tackle, but a lot of dodge will spread the tackle too thin.i second guard. The role of lineman is a supporting role to get 2 dice block for blitzer or slow down the opposition so the ball carrier can escape to the td. They are doomed to get damaged. Dodge will only be interesting if you decide that guy becomes a key player (like your runner with av8 but mvt6 )
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Ottawa, ON – Ben Bishop made 24 saves to register his second career shutout, and the Ottawa Senators scored twice in the third period to pull away for a 3-0 victory over the New York Rangers at Scotiabank Place.
Andre Benoit, Guillaume Latendresse and Colin Greening each scored in the Senators' third consecutive win and sixth triumph in seven games, with Mika Zibanejad and Chris Neil each contributing two assists on the evening.
"It's always nice when you get the win against a good club like that," said Bishop. "I thought the guys in front of me played unbelievable."
The Rangers had their offense clicking in a 5-2 verdict over Philadelphia on Tuesday, but went 0-for-4 on the power play and mustered few scoring chances en route to a third setback in their last four contests.
Henrik Lundqvist stopped 26-of-28 shots for New York.
Lundqvist was able to match Bishop most of the way over the first two periods, and the game appeared destined to remain scoreless entering the second intermission until Ottawa was able to cash in a power-play opportunity.
With New York's Anton Stralman in the box for a hooking infraction, Benoit rifled a drive from the right point that made its way through a screened Lundqvist to break the stalemate with just 49 seconds left in the middle session.
Lundqvist had come up with 20 saves prior to Benoit's goal, as well as a diving stop while coming out of the crease that thwarted a breakaway attempt from Ottawa's Jim O'Brien just over six minutes into the second period.
The Senators were able to kill off a hooking penalty to Jakob Silfverberg prior to the midway mark of the third period to protect their 1-0 edge, and Latendresse gave his team a little breathing room not long afterward.
Zibanejad rushed up the ice with a head of steam during a 3-on-2 situation before giving the puck up to Latendresse, whose wrister from the left circle beat Lundqvist to the stick side with 7:44 left to play.
"I just don't like our 40 minutes," said Rangers coach John Tortorella on the team's performance in the first two periods. "Im just a little frustrated with that after playing the way we did in Philly and not generating any offense until the third period."
The Rangers pulled Lundqvist with around 2 1/2 minutes left, but Greening ended any comeback hopes by taking a backhand feed from Neil and firing the puck into the vacated net from close to center ice with 2:02 remaining.
Game Notes
Bishop's first shutout came via a 39-save effort at Edmonton on Feb. 25, 2011 ... Zibanejad now has posted five assists over his last four games ... Ottawa topped the Rangers for the fifth straight time in regular-season play, with three of those wins coming this season ... The Senators improved to 13-2-3 at home and 16-3-4 when ahead or tied after one period ... Rangers center Brian Boyle participated in his 300th career NHL game ... New York signed forward Mats Zuccarello, who appeared in 52 games with the club over the last two seasons, on Thursday. The 25-year-old had been playing with Magnitogorsk Metallurg of Russia's Kontinental Hockey League.


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But at least the Dodgers acquired a hitter who paid immediate dividends in Adrian Gonzalez. He blasted a 3-run home run on his first swing as a Dodger Saturday night. It was a thing of beauty.
But considering the circumstances, the Red Sox made out quite well in Saturday's nine-player deal with the Dodgers. Boston acquired major salary relief (in the neighborhood of $260 million), James Loney, Rubby De La Rosa, Allen Webster, Jerry Sands and Ivan De Jesus.
I gave my thoughts on the Dodgers' return yesterday, so now I'll look at who the Dodgers gave up and what it means for the Red Sox.
Loney, a once top prospect, is going to be fighting for a job come the winter. His offensive production is just offensive and not even his Gold Glove defense can land him a starting gig.
And Loney did what he does best in his first at-bat as a member of the Red Sox: he grounded into a double play.
He'll likely be Boston's starting first baseman the rest of the season, but I'd be shocked if he was there beyond this season.
Rubby De La Rosa
Because he was on the 40-man roster, De La Rosa is a player to be named later in this trade. He was reportedly claimed by the Blue Jays, which means the entire National League and a few American League teams passed on claiming him. That doesn't make sense, but I'm not a baseball executive.
De La Rosa was optioned to Double-A Chattanooga and I'm admittedly unsure what the plan is with him. I assume he'll pitch because for the Lookouts until the season ends. Chattanooga is three games up for the second-half division title with eight games to play. So, there's at least eight games remaining plus any potential playoff games.
Or, the Dodgers could be under strict orders from Boston to not pitch De La Rosa in game action and just continue to have him work on the side, potentially avoiding injury. We'll see what happens.
But Boston acquired a potential No. 2 starter in De La Rosa. His fastball, clocked as high as 101 MPH, is his best pitch. He throws it in the mid-90s with movement. It's a filthy pitch. He also owns a devastating changeup, when he's consistent with it.
The only thing holding De La Rosa back from achieving his potential in the rotation is a third pitch. He has a slider that's loose and loopy more than it's tight and sharp. His makeup is that of a top-of-the-rotation starter or a dominant closer, so no concern there.
He has a much better shot of ending up in the bullpen, but I could definitely see De La Rosa figuring it out and him being a pitcher in the mold of Pedro Martinez.
Now, some have said the Dodgers just traded "the next Pedro Martinez," but I think that's a bit far-fetched. Yes, they have similar repertoires and are both from the Dominican Republic. But that's where the similarities end.
De La Rosa isn't the most physically imposing figure, but he also isn't 5'10, 175 pounds like Martinez was. It's far more likely De La Rosa is an average MLB pitcher than a Hall of Famer.
Boston did quite well to get De La Rosa from the Dodgers in this deal, as they did with the only true "prospect" they received in the deal.
Allen Webster
Webster, the Dodgers' consensus No. 2 or No. 3 prospect heading into the season, started off the season about as poorly as one could. On May 9, he owned a 7.49 ERA in the Southern League, a league in which he struggled during the second half of last season.
Things weren't looking good for him until a demotion to the bullpen changed his season. He had a five-game bullpen stint, starting May 15, and he gave up just one run in that time. His work out of the 'pen allowed him to get his control and command figured out because his stuff has never been a question.
Since returning to the rotation on May 31, he hadn't allowed more than three earned runs in any start and reduced his ERA down to a manageable 3.83.
Webster boasts a low-to-mid-90s fastball with movement, an advanced changeup, a solid curveball and a decent slider. He has a classic starter's arsenal. Aside from his changeup, he's also known for having good control. His 3.7 BB/9 is solid, but he has the potential to be a sub-3 BB/9 guy when he's at his peak.
He has a ceiling of a No. 2 starter, but it's more likely he'll be a No. 3 or No. 4 guy, which is nothing to scoff at. Webster should challenge for a rotation slot in Boston come 2013.
Like De La Rosa, Sands is officially a PTBNL in this deal because he did not clear waivers. And that's just fine with Isotope fans as Sands smacked a 2-run home run Saturday night to continue his torrid second half.
Yes, his numbers are somewhat inflated because he plays in one of the best hitting environments in professional baseball, but there is potential in this kid. I mean, he had a 1.078 OPS in the Midwest League as a 22-year-old (69 games). That's hard to do.
I ranked him as my No. 1 prospect heading into last season and he's gotten limited opportunity with the Dodgers thus far. In fact, I'm not sure he was ever going to get a fair shot. I mean, when a team will play the likes of Juan Rivera and Loney instead of giving a 24-year-old power-hitting prospect a shot, it says something about the player or the organization. It's probably a little of both.
But Sands has ability. If he reaches his potential, he could be a 20-plus home run a season corner outfielder who hits in around .270 to .300 with an on-base percentage .350 or better. He isn't afraid to talk a walk, as his minor-league walk rate is an impressive 11.6 percent. He's done nothing but hit in the minors (.290/.377/.566), yet the Dodgers never gave him a legitimate chance at being a regular.
Sands profiles better as a corner outfielder than a first baseman. He has a strong arm and has a little more range than folks give him credit for. With the Red Sox trading their left fielder and first baseman, Sands could get a shot at either position come 2013.
Sands might be Boston's wild card in this deal, as the Dodgers clearly (and unfairly) lost faith in him too soon.
De Jesus is kind of in the same boat as Sands, but he got there first: a once highly rated prospect who fell out of favor in the organization.
Now, De Jesus is never going to be Dustin Pedroia at second base, but he has on-base ability and a solid glove.
He's more of a utility player at this point in his career, which has value to a team. He has a little doubles pop and a good eye at the plate, posting a 9.7 percent walk rate in the minors.
He hasn't done much in the majors, but he hasn't been given much of a chance either. We'll always have that pinch-hit double in Arizona earlier this season that won the game for the Dodgers.
The Dodgers still gave up a bit too much in this deal for my liking. If they had given up De La Rosa or Webster, along with the other two, and a lesser prospect, I'd feel a little better about this. I just don't like giving up two potential frontline starting pitchers while taking on more than a quarter of a billion dollars in salary. But at least the Dodgers got the big bat they needed.
I'll look at what impact this trade, and all the trades Ned Colletti and Co. have made in the last couple months, has on the Dodgers' farm system tomorrow.
Photo credits
Loney and Sands: LWY, Flickr
De Jesus: wisely, Flickr


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Branding tool for marking deserters, London, England 1810-1850
Branding tools stamped the letter 'D' on the skin of army or navy deserters. The adjustable points, which still bear ink traces of ink, were pushed through the skin by a sprung-powered mechanism. This unpleasant device was made by Savigny & Co, better known as a major London maker of surgical instruments in the 1700s and early 1800s. Branding as a form of punishment and a mark of ownership exists throughout history. The Greeks and Romans branded slaves and runaways by stamping the skin with hot irons. In England during the 1500s, Edward VI decreed gypsies and vagabonds could be stamped with a 'V' on the chest. Branding was abolished in 1829 with the exception of army deserters. After this time, the mark was tattooed on the body. The practice was totally abandoned in 1879.
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So much for power to the people. Seems like it is power to the biggest corporations:
BitTorrent Case Judge Is a Former RIAA Lobbyist and Pirate Chaser
Less than a week after her investiture ceremony, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell laid down a landmark verdict that will make it easy for copyright holders to send cash demands to people they suspect of copyright infringement. Many people called the decision into doubt, and the revelation that Judge Howell previously worked as an RIAA lobbyist and as the Managing Director of a pirate-chasing outfit hints at a conflict of interest.
Last week, the freshly appointed U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell gave copyright holders carte blanche to continue their profitable settlement schemes. This verdict weakens the position of thousands of alleged BitTorrent users, some of whom may be completely innocent.
Despite opposition from ISPs and consumer rights groups who described the tactics as "extortion," Howell decided in favor of the copyright holders. An extremely unfortunate precedent to say the least, and this is confirmed by lawyer Robert Cashman who represents several defendants in similar cases.


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"If you see something, report it because that really helps us with animal services," Sterling McHale, policy advisor for Fourth District Supervisor Ron Roberts, told Bird Rock residents about ongoing off-leash dog problems.
BRCC chairwoman Jacqueline Bell said there have been instances where people have "literally been driven out of the park" at Calumet by unrestrained dogs and owners who felt entitled to let their pets go off-leash.
"It's a difficult problem to change the cultural attitude toward dogs," she said, noting off-leash dogs are virtually unseen in Canada where it is unacceptable to ignore animal-control laws.
"Ron knows that the beach communities are very concerned about two things: homelessness and animals," McHale said.
Resident Mike Costello suggested people could curb troublesome off-leash dogs by photographing them and their owners and taking them to civil court.
"Right now it's to the point where most of us agree there is virtual non-compliance with nuisance, off-leash and sanitation laws," said resident Mike Costello, adding "a little bit of law enforcement would help, even if it is spotty."
Peter Martin, a senior water resources specialist with the city of San Diego Public Utilities Department, filled residents in on a Water Purification Demonstration Project, which uses a multi-barrier system to reclaim water.
"Water is recycled no matter what," said Martin. "This is just carrying on a natural process."
Martin said San Diego imports the vast majority of its potable water from the Colorado River, adding the cost of that water "is expected to double over the next 10 years."
Hence, he said, the search is on for alternative water sources like desalinization and the Water Purification Demonstration Project.
Noting the water purification pilot program has met health standards and expectations, Martin said ultimately, it will be up to the San Diego City Council to decide whether or not to use it on a more permanent basis or on a grander scale.
Local resident Sharon Wampler commented that San Diegans have poor water conservation habits compared with some people elsewhere in the world.
"In Ireland, where people have much more water, they are more conservative with their water usage, not letting water run while washing dishes, etc.," she said. "Here in San Diego, even though we don't have a lot of water, we're not as conservative."
A Summer Walk event with music, artists and restaurant menu specials is planned Thursday, July 25 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. along La Jolla Boulevard.
"The purpose is to provide the community with a fun, social event, as well as to promote the Bird Rock business district," Bell said. "Success will be determined by whether we get a good turnout, and if the participating businesses are pleased with the foot traffic."
In other matters
• A community happy hour for residents to mingle is set for Tuesday, Aug. 20 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Lupi Vino Cucina, 5518 La Jolla Blvd.
• BRCC's annual summer picnic in lieu of the usual monthly meeting will be Tuesday, Aug. 13 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Calumet Park, 5424 Calumet Road at Colima Court. The picnic, catered by Beaumont's Restaurant, costs $10 per person.


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The Thin Blue Line "Kids Today" Fowler, Gladstone, Habib and Goody go camping with some juvenile criminals while Goody faces charges of assault for punching a skinhead who used racist language towards Habib.G
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The Red Green Show "The Chainsaw Races" Harold hosts gifted children at the lodge only to find his event is competing with chainsaw races. Then Red turns a van into a giant portable boom box.G
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My Family "Dog Dazed" Ben overhears Susan talking about adoption and is relieved when he realizes she is talking about a dog. However, Ben is still unsure, but Susan talks him into looking at the puppies she has in mind. First their home must be vetted to see if it is suitable for the dog.G
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Bell's Two Hearted.... Ale?
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I was at Payless/Krogers yesterday to buy my $20 worth of food and $60 worth of beer for the week when I notice they had new labels up on all of the beers. I can tell that they are trying to sell their craft section to more conservative drinkers because they are starting to put up the style that the beer is with an SRM blended chart of color to represent the color of the beer. As I am walking through I expected to find beers that were miss labeled and I came to one of my favorite IPA's, Bell's Two Hearted Ale. The tag under it said " AMBER LAGER" I thought man they messed that up. Then my roomate grabbed a bottle and read the back, " Inda Pale ale style". There was a flash of a second, I mean a tiny little flicker of a second where my entire world got turned upside down. Now I feel like the doubting Thomas of the beer world and I have to ask. Is there any way in hell that this is a crazy red headed step child of an IPA that is really a lager? The fruity esters and the clean crisp taste. Is it from the top fermenting yeast and pale 2 row or is it a lager masked with a butt load of Centennial hops? Someone pimp slap me back to reality and tell me I'm retarded.
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WASHINGTON, U.S. - A conspiracy theory or an actual body that is working non-stop to undermine the Trump presidency? Whatever it might be, the U.S. President is reportedly drawing out battle plans to thwart the threat that 'deep state' enemies are posing against his supremacy.
The deep state is believed to be an entity that coordinates efforts by government employees and others to influence state policy without regard for democratically elected leadership.
While the existence of the alleged deep state is debatable to start with, Trump's administration has been paranoid about the body right from the start of his presidency, which his close aides believe is his real 'Opposition.'
Trump and the 'deep state'
So strong were the fears that an extraordinary memo by a former national security official was leaked to the media mid-way through the year, which revealed the administration's fervent belief and paranoia about the cabal of bankers, globalists, the media and even Republican leaders - or Trump's perceived enemies within the White House.
The internal document written in May this year, by Rich Higgins, who was ousted by the national security adviser, HR McMaster, showed the fears further accelerated by the now-ousted 'alt-right' Steve Bannon wing of the administration.
The seven-page document entitled POTUS & Political Warfare and written in florid pseudo-intellectual language, claimed that the Trump administration is suffering under "withering information campaigns designed to first undermine, then delegitimize and ultimately remove the president."
The document, which was handed to Trump by his son Donald Trump Jr, illustrated the siege mentality that fuels Trump, his then-chief strategist, Steve Bannon and the "alt-right" in their endless running battles with the media, the so-called "deep state" and others.
The document stated, "Recognizing in candidate Trump an existential threat to cultural Marxist memes that dominate the prevailing cultural narrative, those that benefit recognize the threat he poses and seek his destruction."
The document reportedly identified seven groups that Higgins claimed are part of a huge conspiracy to bring the president down.
What's Trump's game plan?
Now, reports claim that the Trump White House is considering a proposal for a global, private spy network to counter "'deep state' enemies" who want to undermine Trump's presidency.
The proposals for the network were reportedly developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos – as well as retired CIA officer John Maguire and Oliver North, who was heavily involved in the Iran-Contra scandal and was reportedly brought on board to "sell the effort" to the administration.
According to current and former U.S. intelligence officials quoted in The Intercept report, the spies would be "off the books," sidestepping official U.S. intelligence agencies and would report directly to CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
A former senior U.S. intelligence official with knowledge of the proposals reportedly said that Pompeo doesn't trust the "CIA bureaucracy," so a global spy network is necessary to collect intelligence that is not shared with the intelligence community.
A source noted, "Pompeo can't trust the CIA bureaucracy, so we need to create this thing that reports just directly to him. It is a direct-action arm, totally off the books."
Trump has repeatedly alleged that there are officials in politics and government departments and agencies who seek to undermine his administration - calling it a 'deep State' conspiracy.
Now, the plans include a network that would reportedly consist of an "army of spies" in countries worldwide, including in North Korea and Iran, both of which are currently "denied areas" for U.S. intelligence.
According to the report, the Vice President Mike Pence was among those who had been briefed on the plan.
However, once the report appeared, a spokesperson for Pence said there was "no record of [Prince] ever having met with or briefed the VP."
Meanwhile, two former senior intelligence officials said that Pompeo has "embraced" the plan and is pressuring the White House to adopt the proposal.
According to the report, individuals involved with the plans have held secret meetings with potential donors in the Trump Hotel.
A spokesman for the National Security Council quoted in the report said that the White House "does not and would not support such a proposal," and that he could find "no evidence" that the proposals were ever brought to the attention of the White House or the National Security Council.
A CIA spokesperson meanwhile said, "You have been provided wildly inaccurate information by people peddling an agenda."
Even Prince and Maguire have denied that they are working together, and Prince has denied involvement in the project at all.
A source quoted in the Intercept report, however, said, "There is no doubt that Prince and Maguire were working together."
According to one source, Maguire was concerned about "deep state" operatives within the CIA who joined under Obama and were withholding information from Trump.
The source said,"[Maguire] said there were people inside the CIA who joined in the previous eight years, and inside the government, and they were failing to give the president the intelligence he needed."
Who are the enemies?
Amongst the enemies mentioned in the report were the mainstream media, the academy, the deep state, global corporatists and bankers, Democratic leadership, Republican leadership, and Islamists.
According to the memo, the mainstream media was described as "the principle [sic] mechanism for implementing narratives."
Keeping up the strategy to fight the first enemy, Trump frequently attacks CNN, the New York Times and Washington Post and has described the media as the "enemy of the American people."
White House press briefings have frequently involved acrimonious clashes with certain reporters and at the same time, Trump evidently continues to crave media attention.
Secondly, there is "the academy," and Higgins has argued in the memo that it is "a key conduit for creating future adherents to cultural Marxist narratives."
The perceived foes in this category would presumably range from climate scientists to liberal academics to university campuses that ban offensive speech.
The deep state, the third enemy is a bureaucratic state beholden to no one, certainly not the American people.
Higgins claims that with no considerations other than furthering its own power, "the deep state truly becomes, as Hegel advocated, god [sic] bestriding the earth."
Pro-Trump media such as Breitbart have frequently railed against intelligence agencies for leaking against the president.
Trump too has repeatedly mentioned that he has no confidence in the CIA and more recently, attacked the FBI's reputation.
Global corporatists and bankers are the next 'enemies' on the list.
According to the memo, the "global corporatists and bankers," who indulge in "exploitation of populations, unfettered by national protections and notions of personal morality and piety."
Trump has pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, criticised trade deals such as Nafta and threatened a trade war with China.
Fifth on the list of enemies is a more predictable - leadership of the Democratic party.
The memo refers to the obvious 'opposition' as "a counter-state enabler that executes, sustains, and protects cultural Marxist programs of action and facilitates the relentless expansion of the deep state."
Trump has repeatedly blamed Democrats for pushing the investigation into his election campaign's alleged collusion with Russia and blocking various of his policies.
Even a year after the election, the president continues to take swipes at Democrat Hillary Clinton and has appeared to be obsessed with undoing Barack Obama's legacy and criticizing his predecessor.
The next on the list is the Republican leadership, which is described as being "more afraid of being accused of being called a racist, sexist, homophobe or Islamophobe than of failing to enforce their oaths to 'support and defend the Constitution'" and "increasingly indistinguishable from their Democratic counterparts."
Over the last year, Trump has clashed with several GOP members too, and has more prominently fought publicly with Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and other establishment Republicans.
Seventh and last on the list is "Islamists" whose strategy "seeks to divide American society against itself with the forced imposition of Islamist objectives on one half of American society by the other half."
Trump has made moves to fight this enemy, with his travel ban and criticism of Islamist attacks in different parts of the world.
Higgins's memo concludes that the "defense of President Trump is the defense of America" and compares him to Abraham Lincoln.
When the memo was leaked to the media, Ken Gude, a senior fellow on the national security team at the Center for American Progress thinktank in Washington, said, "It's the craziest thing I've seen come out of the National Security Council staff, that's for sure. It's the bizarre ramblings of a conspiracy theorist. It's unhinged."
Gude noted that the list of Trump's foes "could be read to describe just about everybody except for loyalists. It's quite alarming to think this is how people close to the president view the world and view the country."
He noted, "It's in some ways reassuring that this individual was removed but it's deeply troubling he got there in the first place and it seems to be a reflection of some individuals close to the president. Steve Bannon doesn't descend into the depths of lunacy this memo expresses but it is a similar worldview that links globalists and Islamists in a world conspiracy."
Meanwhile, Joshua Green, author of the bestseller Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency, said, "The memo itself is so overheated and batty that it doesn't sound like Bannon. Or it sounds like Bannon if Bannon took a bong before writing it. I've never heard him use phrases like 'cultural Marxist memes' that Higgins does."
He, however, pointed out, "I'm not sure I entirely understand what the point of the memo is or who it's meant to be read by, but the general paranoia that Trump is under assault by enemies including people in the administration is certainly something in the thinking of people around Bannon."
The memo even managed to leave White House veterans aghast.
Commenting on the memo, Bill Galston, a former policy adviser to Bill Clinton, said, "It's a classic example of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you begin by treating people as implacable enemies who can't be conciliated, you're bound to harden their opposition. What I'm really trying to figure out is what someone on the National Security Council is doing writing such a memo. I can't imagine that expelling Mr Higgins from Eden is going to get rid of the snake. It is hard to believe that Mr Higgins is the only one in the upper echelons to hold such views."


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Salary Increase Budgets 2009: Financial Crisis Edition
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December 2008
About a quarter of The Conference Board matched case sample of companies reported change in their salary budgets, the clear trend being downward. Among the 195 matched case companies participating in the survey, 27.2 percent say that their 2009 salary increase budget has changed since it was first approved. Even though this crisis created a tipping point for salary adjustment decisions, a large number of companies were already feeling economic pressures on payroll. Almost half (46.1 percent) report a longer term economic trend prior to the immediate crisis is a contributing factor to the salary changes they're making.


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Barclays Premier League champion Manchester United exploded for four second-half goals en route to a 4-1 win over the New England Revolution in the opening game of the 2011 Herbalife World Football Challenge on Wednesday night at Gillette Stadium.
A total of 51,523 fans flocked to Foxborough for the midweek contest, establishing a new record for a club friendly match at Gillette Stadium.
Following a scoreless first half, the Revs and Red Devils combined for four goals in a hectic 10-minute stretch early in the second half. Halftime substitutes Michael Owen (51) and Federico Macheda (54, 61) struck for Manchester United, while Kenny Mansally (56) registered the Revolution's lone tally. United midfielder Ji-Sung Park rounded out the scoring with a sublime goal in the 80th minute.
Playing their first match in nine days, the Revs began the game with a full-strength starting lineup featuring captain Shalrie Joseph, U.S. National Team midfielder Benny Feilhaber and veteran goalkeeper Matt Reis. In the first match of its preseason schedule, United handed starts to Wayne Rooney, Dimitar Berbatov, Nemanja Vidic, Ashley Young and Nani.
After soaking up a bit of early pressure, the Revs created the game's first real chance in the 12th minute. Chris Tierney's deflected left-wing cross found Joseph, whose glancing header from eight yards flashed just wide of the right post.
A bit of brilliance from Nani unlocked the Revolution backline in the 18th minute when the Portuguese winger danced free in the right channel and delivered a teasing cross into the box, but Rooney's subsequent header looped over the crossbar.
Manchester United continued to threaten throughout the first half and Berbatov forced Reis into a remarkable save to keep the game scoreless in the 41st minute. Rooney's clever pass sprung Fabio into the left side of the box, where the Brazilian slid the ball across the face of goal to Berbatov. The Bulgarian striker connected from point-blank range, but Reis sprawled to his left to deny the effort.
Both teams made multiple substitutions to begin the second half, with the Revolution introducing six new players and United making three changes to spark the game to life.
One of those substitutes made an immediate impact as Owen put United ahead in the 51st minute. Michael Carrick delivered the killer pass to spring Owen into the left side of the box and the 31-year-old striker finished coolly past new goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth inside the far post.
Carrick was the provider once again three minutes later when another substitute, Macheda, doubled the Red Devils' lead. After beating the offside trap, Carrick played a simple pass into the path of Macheda, who side-footed his shot inside the left post from 12 yards out.
It took the Revolution just two minutes to cut the deficit to 2-1 as the home side scored in bizarre fashion. Feilhaber's low free kick from the top of the box was drilled straight at teammate Mansally, who inadvertently deflected the ball into the vacant net past helpless goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard.
The goals continued to flow as Manchester United responded to restore its two-goal lead in the 61st minute. After receiving a short corner, Rafael delivered the ball to Macheda at the back post, where the Italian forward settled the ball with his first touch before ripping a low drive into the far side netting.
Shuttleworth did well to deny Macheda's bid for a hat trick in the 70th minute, diving full stretch to his left to push away a long drive, while Mansally threatened for his second in the 73rd minute, forcing Lindegaard into a quality save with a blistering shot from the left side of the box.
Manchester United rounded out the scoring in the 80th minute with a classy piece of interplay between goal scorer Park and legendary winger Ryan Giggs. Receiving a pass from Gabriel Obertan, Park used one touch to direct the ball to Giggs, who similarly used a single touch to flick the ball back to Park as he surged past his marker. Park finished the move with a delicate chip into the roof of the net.
The Revs return to league action this weekend when they'll host Eastern Conference co-leader Philadelphia Union on Sunday, July 17. Kickoff from Gillette Stadium is set for 7 p.m.
2011 Herbalife World Football Challenge
New England Revolution vs. Manchester United
July 13, 2011 – Gillette Stadium (Foxborough, Mass.)
Manchester United 4, New England Revolution 1
Scoring Summary:
MUFC – Michael Owen (Michael Carrick) 51
MUFC – Federico Macheda (Michael Carrick) 54
NE – Kenny Mansally (Benny Feilhaber) 56
MUFC – Federico Macheda (Rafael) 61
MUFC – Ji-Sung Park (Ryan Giggs) 80
New England Revolution: Matt Reis (Bobby Shuttleworth 46), Chris Tierney (Darrius Barnes 46), A.J. Soares (Otto Loewy 46), Franco Coria (Ryan Cochrane 46), Kevin Alston (Kenny Mansally 46), Zak Boggs, Benny Feilhaber (Ousmane Dabo 65), Shalrie Joseph, Pat Phelan (Stephen McCarthy 46), Sainey Nyassi (Ryan Guy 65), Rajko Lekic (Zack Schilawski 64)
Substitutes Not Used: Tim Murray, Alan Koger, Diego Fagundez, Andrew Sousa, Ryan Kinne
STATS*: Shots: 12; Shots on Goal: 6; Saves: 4; Corner Kicks: 0; Offside: 1; Fouls Committed: 4
Manchester United: Anders Lindegaard, Fabio, Jonathan Evans, Nemanja Vidic (Rio Ferdinand 46), Rafael, Ashley Young (Gabriel Obertan 67), Anderson (Mame Diouf 75), Michael Carrick (Ji-Sung Park 75) Nani (Ryan Giggs 67), Dimitar Berbatov (Federico Macheda 46), Wayne Rooney (Michael Owen 46)
Substitutes Not Used: Sam Johnstone
STATS*: Shots: 19; Shots on Goal: 8; Saves: 5; Corner Kicks: 7; Offside: 1; Fouls Committed: 10
* Note that all statistics are unofficial
Misconduct Summary:
Referee: Mark Geiger
Assistant Referees: Claudio Badea, Steven Taylor
Fourth Official: Niko Bratis
Weather: Cloudy and 69 degrees
Attendance: 51,523


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Impact of habitat loss on species
Losing their homes because of the growing needs of humans
It is identified as a main threat to 85% of all species described in the IUCN's Red List (those species officially classified as "Threatened" and "Endangered").
Increasing food production is a major agent for the conversion of natural habitat into agricultural land.
Why is it happening?
Forest loss and degradation is mostly caused by the expansion of agricultural land, intensive harvesting of timber, wood for fuel and other forest products, as well as overgrazing.
High land conversion rates
The net loss in global forest area during the 1990s was about 94 million ha (equivalent to 2.4% of total forests). It is estimated that in the 1990s, almost 70% of deforested areas were converted to agricultural land.
Around half of the world's original forests have disappeared, and they are still being removed at a rate 10x higher than any possible level of regrowth. As tropical forests contain at least half the Earth's species, the clearance of some 17 million hectares each year is a dramatic loss.
Coastal and marine areas
Human impact on terrestrial and marine natural resources results in marine and coastal degradation. Population growth, urbanization, industrialization and tourism are all factors.
In 1994, it was estimated that 37% of the global population lived within 60 km of the coast. Poverty, consumption and land-use patterns contribute to the degradation of marine habitats and to the destruction of the species that rely on them to survive.
For example, well-planned and well-managed protected areas can help to safeguard freshwater and food supplies, reduce poverty, and reduce the impacts of natural disasters.
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