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You got it. This is my last post ever.
Firstly, I'm called upon to apologize? For my "tone"? The poster who started everything has apologized, so that should be the end of it, but nooooo.
Then, I leave for a few days to think about it. So I think, yeah, okay, I was a bit out of line by biting the guys head off, maybe I'll go back & say I'm sorry.
But then I get hear & read a Calgarypuker being openly welcomed, and I say "No more".
There are just some things a guy can't handle.
Have your politically correct site, but always remember there are a lot of guys who live in the real world that won't tolerate that kind of B.S., and SR is always going to be one of them.
Friends, feel free to drop me an email sometime if you want to chat about real hockey.
After the Canucks are eliminated next year, remember this thread was the first, and how not only was I right about firing AV, I was right about when the bandwagoners would jump on board.
And one last this: F*ck Calgary, it's hockey teams, people that live there, and anyone that supports them.
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Demi Lovato has a new book coming out, and Monday on Facebook she gave fans a taste of what's to come.
In the book's March 15 entry, Lovato reflects on the day that's the anniversary of her sobriety and recovery, and shares the serenity prayer.
"Those who are recovering use this prayer on a daily basis, but what is truly amazing about it is that you don't have to be in recovery to speak these words," she writes. "I have spoken this prayer almost every day of my recovery and it has helped simplify the sea of emotions and feelings that often run through me, especially on a hard day. We do the best we can in life, we take things one day at a time, and sometimes we all just need a simple reminder of that."
In advance of her the release of "Staying Strong 365 Days a Year," Lovato revealed to People that after treatment for
"It is still hard being in front of the camera when you have suffered from eating disorders, and I still don't watch my episodes,"
Lovato added that without going to treatment -- which she did in fall 2010 after a meltdown while touring with the Jonas Brothers -- she wouldn't have the option to ignore herself on the tube. Why? "The harsh reality is that I wouldn't be alive," she said.
In addition to the inspirational book, Lovato has also signed on for a tell-all memoir, though she says she's not sure how much of "all" she'll tell.
"Yes, I've been very honest, but if people really knew how dark and deep my struggles got -- not just with my eating disorder but with drugs and alcohol -- they'd be really shocked," she said in the print version of Entertainment Weekly (via Us Weekly). "But I'll most likely end up saying everything. Maybe it'll help other people in the industry who are headed down the wrong path."
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"What's it like to have a family business?" has been a question often posed to me. My standard quip is "difficult, but rewarding," but I think you deserve a more in depth retort here. These times of change may lead some folks to pursue new jobs or business ventures, and my guess is that some folks will consider starting their own business with family and/or friends. The dynamics of working closely with either family or friends tend to be very similar in nature, and it is something that should be considered very carefully before trying.
Around the Clock – Being in business as a family unit is difficult for many reasons, but top on my list is the fact that once started, it is a 24/7 adventure. It is not like a normal job in that when the workday is over, you can leave it all behind and head home to the bosom of love and comfort. The job tends to follow you home when working as a family. It can easily become the topic of discussion at the dinner table, on the way to do the family shopping, during the commercials of your favorite TV show… and chances are that it doesn't end when your show resumes. I think you get the picture here. It can become consuming!
Timeouts Needed – Now don't get me wrong here, it is always important to discuss issues that are vitally connected to one's livelihood, but being inside the family circle and with each of you directly involved, it can interrupt the normal ebb and flow of daily life. The lesson here is to try to find ways to escape the focus of business… not that I have mastered this over the last 23 years of AmeriBag. I realize the importance of changing the focus, but my own zeal to grow and manage the company has at times overshadowed the need to "take some time out." My bad!
Checkups Necessary – Margery and I have lived AmeriBag since its inception. We've dedicated our lives to caring for our employees and trying to always do right by them and for them, while making sure that we keep the company strong, vital and healthy. It is the center of our universe in so many ways; our personal dream. Trust me here, your business will become your center too!
Playing Nice – We admittedly can clash at times, as will most family members in any intimate family setting, perhaps with even more fervor than in the usual corporate setting? Sure! Can it go from the boardroom to the dinner table? Yep! But I think that in the end we are better for the temporary angst, because we ultimately realize that we're sharing the same goals, and love the fact that we share a wonderful trust. We have come to respect the diversity (most of the time) and can feel good that out of our individual strengths, and sometimes opposing views, comes prudent and well positioned decisions.
I guess that all this prattle is my way of saying to you out there who may now be contemplating or are in a family-owned and operated business, that it is important to keep your focus on the "real core" of your business… your relationships with your partners. You have involved your family with good intentions in mind. Remain true to them with trust, faith and love… and try hard to take some of those precious "time outs" away from the fray, will 'ya?


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'I'm working as hard as I can': For the poor, the costs of life can be higher
By Hannah Rappleye, NBC News
PHILADELPHIA -- On some days, Yolanda Williams says she wonders why its so hard to stay alive. Im working as hard as I can. Every time I talk to my boss I ask, Is there any more work?
Williams works part-time as a home-health aide so that she can also attend the Kaplan school to study medical billing. For about 17 hours a week of work, at $10 an hour, she takes home about $298 every two weeks, which she uses to support her disabled husband and her 21-year-old daughter, both of whom are unemployed.
Im trying to go to school so I can get a better job, so I can get off welfare, added Williams, who receives food stamps and Medicaid. If that means I have to be on the bus 24 hours a day, Ill do it.
Her weekly toil
which includes nearly 30 hours on buses
underscores one of the truths of life for the millions of American living with poverty:
its expensive to be poor.
Williams and her family live in north Philadelphia. She spends her check only on the essentials: rent, gas and electric, bus passes, a phone.
She doesnt have cable or internet.
"If you own a home, plus childcare, plus commuting costs you can be well above poverty and still not be able to make ends meet, said Professor Scott Allard, an expert in poverty and the social safety net at University of Chicago. Youre not doing anything wrong. Youre playing by the rules but youre not making it."
Time is money
The expression time is money is especially true for the poor.
Yolanda Williams prepares for her Medical Billing and Coding training class at the Kaplan Career Institute.
Those who earn little have to work long hours to make enough, and often spend more time than the well-off managing the basics of their lives. N
ot having paid sick days means losing wages when a loved one has a medical emergency, or child care falls through. Not having a washing machine means extra hours at the laundromat. And just getting to and from work can take hours.
Every Monday through Friday, and sometimes on the weekends, Williams leaves home at 7:20 a.m. and takes three public buses to school. She arrives at 9 a.m., and finishes at 2 p.m., sometimes lingering to finish homework. Then she leaves for work, taking three more buses to get to her clients home in West Philadelphia.
The trip back to her house means two more buses, and arriving home around 10 p.m.
The 28 hours a week, spent waiting for, or riding, the bus
, have become another part-time job. Because the agency that employs her requires she pick up her paycheck in person, she takes another two-hour, round-trip, bus ride every two weeks.
I pretty much spend most of my time on the bus, Williams said.
If Williams had a car, she could cut her travel time significantly. Low-income individuals and families in desperate need of a car often turn to so-called buy-here-pay-here car dealers, which typically offer high-mileage, used cars and in-house financing to those without good credit. Loans from these outlets carry an average interest rate of 24 percent, according to the Center for Responsible Lending, and the industry is little-regulated.
Health care
Studies show low-income people pay a larger share of their incomes for health care.
Low-income workers are less likely to receive employer health insurance, or even sick pay, making a day off more costly. Medical care can quickly become medical debt, which can hound people for years, if not a lifetime.
While public programs like Medicaid and CHIP provide health care for low-income individuals and children, getting enrolled and staying on those programs can be tough. Moreover,
many working poor earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to purchase coverage.
Thats what happened to Williams two years ago after she lost her job as a bus driver. On unemployment, she applied for coverage through Philadelphias Health Care Partners, a Medicaid managed care organization. She was told she received too much unemployment income to qualify. When her unemployment benefits ran out, she applied again. A paperwork snafu delayed their enrollment for nearly a year. The delay had real health effects for the couple, both of whom have diabetes, a disease which disproportionately affects low-income people.
We couldnt afford to go to the doctor, she said. We didnt have medicine. We were under control when we had medical insurance.
Banking also is more expensive for poor people.
About 28.3 percent, or one in four American households, are what the FDIC calls under or unbanked. Underbanked households use a bank account, but also use alternative financial services, such as payday loans or check-cashing outlets. The unbanked dont use any accounts at all.
According to the FDIC, 17 million adults in the U.S. live in unbanked households.
Williams catches a SEPTA bus in the morning on her way to class.
Typically, the un or underbanked are low-income individuals or families. They rely on non-traditional banking services like check-cashing stores that carry fees that can add up to hundreds of dollars a month. Pre-paid debit cards often the only kind of plastic low-income people with poor credit ratings can get -- also carry transaction and card-loading fees.
Williams uses a local check-cashing outlet to get her bi-weekly pay. She's charged a fee each time she cashes a check, but as she explains, why set up a bank or savings account when you cant put anything in it?
I know I work harder than $298, she said. Sometimes I get my check and I feel like crying. Im not even in a rush to cash it, because you know they take a little bit more out when you cash it.
Williams expects to graduate from her program this November. Shes confident that her two degrees, plus her experience as a home aid, will land her a full-time job with benefits and a living wage.
When we both worked and were bringing home a nice pay, it was simple, Williams said. We had a car, we had life insurance, we had car insurance. We had enough to pay the bills with a little something left over.
Now, she added, life is more complicated.
I dont want to be on welfare any longer than I have to, she said.
No, I wouldn't call her the stereotypical welfare queen. She's working and wants more work. I'd call her a good example of what the GOP wants to see more of, not less of.
Nice try though, I suppose.
I think the young people enjoy it when I "get down," verbally, don't you?
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MINNEAPOLIS -- As baseball returns to its natural state -- a game in which pitching is once again dominant -- you take the home runs where you find them.
The 2014 Gillette Home Run Derby would be a logical place to look. And, yes indeed, home runs could be found here. True, these are home runs hit against batting-practice pitching, but again, if you're way below your long-ball quota, this was the logical place to be.
MINNEAPOLIS -- As baseball returns to its natural state -- a game in which pitching is once again dominant -- you take the home runs where you find them.
The 2014 Gillette Home Run Derby would be a logical place to look. And, yes indeed, home runs could be found here. True, these are home runs hit against batting-practice pitching, but again, if you're way below your long-ball quota, this was the logical place to be.
Monday night at Target Field, there were some impressive displays of power. But nobody was as impressive as Yoenis Cespedes of the Oakland Athletics. He won the Derby for the second year in a row. There has only been one other back-to-back Derby winner -- Ken Griffey Jr., in 1998-99.
Cespedes closed his half of the show in the finals with a 9-1 victory over Todd Frazier of the Reds. Cespedes drilled a series of no-doubters into the second deck beyond left-center, and for good measure, he put one into the third deck. These balls traveled as though they were flights of home run imagination. There was no power outage for Cespedes.
Cespedes was joined in the Derby field by a teammate, Oakland third baseman Josh Donaldson, who got some laughs out of kidding about the competition at the All-Star media session.
"I was trying to get 5-1 odds from him, but he said it had to be 1-1," Donaldson said of Cespedes. "He's got a lot more money than I have, so it's not fair."
Donaldson said he kidded Cespedes, saying: "He might be the defending champ, but I'm the peoples' champ and I'm going to take it back."
In a more serious moment, Donaldson said that he expected that Cespedes would retain his position as king of the Derby. As it turned out, this was a completely reasonable expectation.
There were other impressive Derby displays. Jose Bautista of the Blue Jays hit home runs in bunches in the first round. Giancarlo Stanton of the Marlins propelled a ball into the third deck beyond left field. This could fairly be described as a majestic shot. It could also be described as sub-orbital.
The Minnesota fans reserved their greatest affection for a former member of the Twins, Justin Morneau. He was a star, and he won the 2006 American League MVP Award while playing for a series of very good Minnesota teams. In fact, Morneau won a Derby title while wearing a Twins uniform.
More recently, Morneau's career was sidetracked by post-concussion syndrome. But he has come back in a big way with the Colorado Rockies this season. The Twins fans cheered Morneau repeatedly, and they cheered him as though he would always be, for them, that MVP-caliber player. It was touching. Morneau did not advance beyond the first round, but in the spirit of the evening, so what?
Home runs were hit without any help from the Minnesota climate. An unusually cold day led into a rain delay for the Derby. This, in turn, was followed by temperatures in the 50s during the Derby. With conditions damp and, even for the upper Midwest, unseasonably cool temperatures, this was not ideal power-hitting weather. And Target Field is no hitter-friendly band box.
But anybody who wanted to be in the presence of power found Target Field the right place to be Monday night.
The new Derby format, which was structured to have a player from each league meet in the finals, might have been potentially intriguing, but it was not completely equitable. The two players with the most home runs in the first three rounds were Bautista and Cespedes. But with this structure, they met in the semifinals rather than the finals. The Cespedes-Frazier final was anticlimactic.
The Derby remains one place where the homer is not an endangered species, but is instead, a way of life. As long as baseball can keep uncovering the occasional Yoenis Cespedes, the Derby will have a reason to live.
2014 Home Run Derby results
|Rd. 1
|Rd. 2
|Rd. 3
|Rd. 3
|Rd. 2
|Rd. 1
|Brian Dozier
|Todd Frazier
|Jose Bautista
|Cespedes 9
|Troy Tulowitzki
|Adam Jones
|Frazier 1
|Yasiel Puig
|Josh Donaldson
|Giancarlo Stanton
|Yoenis Cespedes
|Justin Morneau
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To install MySQL on OpenSolaris, use the pkg command. You will need to be logged in as root, or use the pfexec tool, as shown in the example below:
shell> pfexec pkg install SUNWmysql57
The package set installs three individual packages,
SUNWmysql57lib, which contains
the MySQL client libraries;
SUNWmysql57r which contains the root components,
including SMF and configuration files; and
SUNWmysql57u which contains the scripts,
binary tools and other files. You can install these packages individually if you only need the corresponding
The MySQL files are installed into
/usr/mysql which symbolic links for the sub
directories (
lib, etc.) to a version specific
directory. For MySQL 5.7, the full installation is located in
/usr/mysql/5.7. The
default data directory is
/var/mysql/5.7/data. The configuration file is installed
/etc/mysql/5.7/my.cnf. This layout permits multiple versions of MySQL to be
installed, without overwriting the data and binaries from other versions.
Once installed, you must run mysql_install_db to initialize the database, and use the mysql_secure_installation to secure your installation.
Once installed, you can start and stop your MySQL server using the installed SMF configuration. The service name
mysql, or if you have multiple versions installed, you should use the full
version name, for example
mysql:version_57. To start and enable MySQL to be started
at boot time:
shell> svcadm enable mysql
To disable MySQL from starting during boot time, and shut the MySQL server down if it is running, use:
shell> svcadm disable mysql
To restart MySQL, for example after a configuration file changes, use the
shell> svcadm restart mysql
You can also use SMF to configure the data directory and enable full 64-bit mode. For example, to set the data directory used by MySQL:
select mysql:version_57
svc:/application/database/mysql:version_57> setprop mysql/data=/data0/mysql
By default, the 32-bit binaries are used. To enable the 64-bit server on 64-bit platforms, set the
enable_64bit parameter. For example:
svc:/application/database/mysql:version_57> setprop mysql/enable_64bit=1
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ESPN is reporting that quaterback Peyton Manning has been cleared to play by two doctors who determined that "the stability in his neck would have allowed the quarterback to play this Sunday if the nerves in his arm had regenerated to a satisfactory performance level."
Great. Manning, as you know, has had three neck surgeries the past 20 months and the fact there is stability in the neck is a positive sign for the 35-year-old as he tries to return to his NFL career after missing the 2011 season.
But ...
The nerves that had basically quit firing, causing repurcussions in the triceps of Manning's (right) throwing arm, including him feeling numbness, suffering atrophy, and losing strength, are apparently still not completely regenerated.
And that is very, very important because that means Manning doesn't have full strength in his arm. And if he doesn't have full strength in his arm, he may or may not have an NFL caliber arm yet. The report says that Manning's problem is not a "safety issue; it's a performance issue."
Um, well the only reason the Dolphins are even remotely interested in Manning is his ability to perform at a Pro Bowl level. Nobody cares that a quarterback can be safe. That is fundamental. They want a quarterback that can performn.
And if Manning still is fighting performance issues, he's still not a sure thing. If he's merely a gamble with uncertain arm strength, I'd say his chances of joining the Dolphins remain ... a long shot at this point.
Now, if the nerves do indeed regenerate to the point Manning's arm resembles the helped him win four MVP awards, the Dolphins definitely will be one of the teams chasing him -- assuming he is available. But we've not reached that point yet.
The Dolphins announced moments ago they have indeed hired Jim Turner to coach their offensive line, as I reported two days ago. They have also retained defensive line coach Kacy Rodgers, assistant special teams coach Dave Fipp, assistant strength coach Dave Puloka, and defensive quality control coach David Corrao.


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Three cities, three teams, three jersey numbers.
That's the tally of Erik Walden's two years in the NFL.
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The former MTSU standout defensive end/linebacker just finished his second NFL season with the Miami Dolphins.The nomadic Walden hopes south Florida is his home, at least for a while. "You always hope you don't have to move around, but it happens quite often in this league," Walden said. "I hope I don't have to do that much more. I want to find a place that I can call home."
Walden has had to adjust at the next level. After setting single-season and career records in sacks as an MTSU defensive end from 2004-07, Walden switched to outside linebacker in a 3-4 scheme after being drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the sixth round — becoming the first Blue Raider drafted since Tyrone Calico in 2003.
Walden was cut by the Cowboys before the 2008 regular season and claimed off waivers by the Kansas City Chiefs. He played nine games with the Chiefs before being released and playing the final six games of the 2008 season with the Dolphins. He played 11 games with the Dolphins in 2009.
Walden has taken his numerous NFL moves in stride. "You're never ready to move like that, but I'm glad it happened early in my career," Walden said. "It's going to probably happen anyway. You're going to have to change teams, but it would hurt worse later in my career if I've been somewhere for a long time. "If it's going to happen, better that it happen now than later. Hopefully, I can find a home, though."
Walden, a Dublin, Ga. native, said he has not tried to grow roots anywhere until his NFL status gains a better footing. He has spent the last two years living in various apartments and hotels as temporary homes, including a mere three-month stay in Kansas City.
"I didn't really want to buy anything since I didn't know where I was going to be, but that's just part of it," Walden said. "At first, (changing teams) bothered me. But when I thought about it, I decided that I was not going to let an incident like that affect me. I just had to keep on working hard, and that's what I am doing."
In all three of his NFL stops, Walden, a 6-foot-2, 250-pounder, has spent most of his time on special teams, where he rarely played at MTSU. But MTSU coach Rick Stockstill said Walden must make his mark there.
"Each NFL team is so different, and there's always someone there to replace you," Stockstill said. "Early in his career, Erik has got to be a warrior on special teams. He can run and he's been in there for special teams and some situational things on defense. He's got to do things on special teams. If he keeps his nose clean and works hard, he's got a chance."
Walden was listed as a third-string outside linebacker behind Joey Porter and Charlie Anderson this past season.
Walden said his ultimate goal is to start on defense in the NFL, but he's willing to cut his teeth on special teams.
"This year and last year, I mostly did special teams," Walden said. "But I'm an athlete, so I should be able to adjust to that. That's my job right now, so I'm going to work really hard at it."
Walden recorded 10 special teams tackles with the Chiefs, second-most on the team, and five more with the Dolphins in the 2008 season. In 2009, he had eight tackles in 11 games with Miami. He was declared injured or inactive in five games.
The Dolphins' season ended a week ago with a 7-9 record. Walden said he hopes to return to Miami next season.
"It's a year-to-year thing in this league, and I know that," Walden said. "I'm looking forward to having a long NFL career, but all I can do is work hard. I can't worry about what I can't control, so I'm not going to worry. I will just keep working, but I feel pretty good about things so far."
Hometown:Dublin, Ga.
Position: OLB
MTSU career (2004-07)
MTSU single-season and career leader in sacks
Two-time All-Sun Belt first team selection
Only MTSU player ever to lead in sacks three seasons
NFL career
April 2008: Drafted by Cowboys in 6th Rd.
Aug. 2008: Claimed by Chiefs off waivers
2008 season: Played 9 games with Chiefs
Nov. 2008: Claimed off waivers by Dolphins
2008 season: Played 6 games with Dolphins
2009 season: Played 11 games with Dolphins


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University of Denver hockey coach George Gwozdecky out after 19 years with Pioneers program
DENVER – University of Denver hockey coach George Gwozdecky is leaving the program he led to two NCAA championships during his 19-year tenure.
The school made the announcement Monday and says a national search for his successor has begun.
Vice Chancellor for Athletics Peg Bradley-Doppes is thanking Gwozdecky, noting he had returned the program "to the pinnacle of the collegiate hockey world during our great run in the middle of the previous decade."
Although Gwozdecky was 443-267-64 at Denver, the Pioneers finished 20-14-5 this season, losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament for the fifth time in the last six seasons.
The Pioneers are joining the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference next season following the breakup of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
Gwozdecky is scheduled to address the media Tuesday.


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TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Danica Patrick offered an apology, but admitted she didn't know if it was necessary.
The Stewart-Haas Racing driver was involved in an early incident with 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski during Sunday's running of the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway.
Paul Menard was on the outside, Keselowski in the middle and Patrick pulling the low line battling for the lead as the field headed toward the start/finish line on Lap 14 of the 188-lap event. The cars of Keselowski and Patrick made contact as Keselowski surged ahead, sending Keselowski spinning down onto the apron.
His Ford shot back up on the track, barely avoiding heavy contact from Trevor Bayne.
Patrick was able to continue without damage to her No. 10 Chevrolet.
"I was running the bottom and feeling like I was about to get hung out; he went up to the outside and I was looking in my mirror to see if I was clear of the 24 (of Jeff Gordon) to slot in," Patrick said following her 22nd-place finish. "I was moving up to get in that lane to clear it. I thought the 2 (of Keselowski) had enough momentum to be gone past me."
Not having seen a replay of the incident, Patrick said she didn't know "if it was just me coming up -- it very well could have been. I don't know if it was him coming down. I'm not 100 percent sure.
"But I do know I was looking in my mirror trying to get up behind the 2 and in front of the 24; just about to slot into that spot," she said. "And that's when it happened. My apologies if it was all my fault. ... That by no means is anything I was trying to do. I'm not out here to make enemies, especially on speedways."
Keselowski lost several laps while his team made repairs in the garage. After returning to the race, he was involved in a second incident, spinning on Lap 137 and igniting a 14-car incident in Turn 4.
"We ... made a really aggressive move to take the lead and then it all just kind of bottlenecked from there," Keselowski said of the initial incident. "I don't know if I cut somebody off or got ran over, but just enough to get spun out and tear up the car. … Obviously there was some kind of contact, but I don't know what happened."
Keselowski's crew chief Paul Wolfe took any blame off the No. 10 as he radioed his driver following the contact.
"We weren't clear enough to make that," he said "I'll just call it at that. We weren't clear enough to make that move."
Patrick became the first female racer to lead laps at Talladega when she got past Menard on Lap 6 to lead two laps. After Gordon took the point, Patrick battled back to lead four more circuits.
"It was nice to lead a lot of them, or more than one that you just get pushed by the line," she said. "I think that shows that we've improved our cars and it makes me look forward to Daytona (in July), and think real hard about how to stay up front because you've just got to be there. It's not that easy to go from 25th to the lead. It takes some help; it takes some luck. That little bit of strategy is what I've got to figure out."
Overheating issues eventually forced Patrick out of line and as a result, the No. 10 car dropped to the back half of the field.
"It was definitely hot," she said. "That's the point in time where I started to struggle with it. I was really limited to the bottom lane a lot of the time just because that's where I could get some clean air.
"The power was good and the car was good. It was just really about some track position and keeping that thing cool so you go where you needed to go. Most importantly, run tight to people and be a good helper in the line and push it. But when you're hot you can't run super tight because there's no air then."
The end result was that the team was "going to roll it up on the truck," which is more than a lot of cars can say after leaving a speedway.
"It was a fast, fast car ... we'll be happy to take this thing to Daytona," Patrick said.


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The first phase of the $14-million revitalization project on Kelowna's main downtown street, Bernard Avenue, will wrap up Friday.
After three months of work on the section between Richter Street and St. Paul Street, the avenue will reopen Dec. 7 at 6 p.m., according to the city.
"We are really pleased with the outcome," said Bill Berry, Kelowna's director of design and construction services.
"The first phase from Richter to St. Paul was completed on time, with the old utilities replaced, wider sidewalks, new trees, lighting and benches."
Some remaining work may continue through December and next spring, including adding the public art components on the new gateway feature at Richter Street and other minor streetscape aesthetic improvements. Temporary ramps at crosswalks are now in place and will stay until a top lift paving is completed.
Final streetscaping work between St. Paul and Ellis streets are scheduled as part of the third and final phase of the project, which will begin next fall.
The second phase, from Abbott Street to Pandosy Street, will start in the spring and wrap up in June.
As a result of the recent work, the traffic pattern on Bernard Avenue has changed and a new temporary merging area is now present at St. Paul, where Bernard Avenue narrows to two lanes from four.
Parking between Richter and St. Paul is also now parallel parking only. The city is urging motorists to drive carefully and be aware of all signs, particularly at St. Paul and Richter.
In January, storm drainage improvements at Kerry Park will begin as part of the project.
Depending on the weather, the second phase of the revitalization project—from Abbott Street to Pandosy Street—is expected to start in February and run until June.


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Student Organization Record InformationThe following is a letter distributed to student organization presidents regarding Record announcements. Please also check out the general procedures page.
August 27, 1999
Dear Student Organization President,
I'm writing to let you know about the procedures for placing announcements about your student organization in the Chicago-Kent Record. Last year, law school departments and student organizations became responsible for posting their own announcements to the Web-based Record. Organizations are given a template document for creating Record Web pages, and the Center for Law and Computers provides training for members of student organizations on how to post announcements.
This year, training sessions will be offered during the month of September by appointment with Jim Burke from the Center for Law and Computers. Training will take about one hour and is necessary only for members who do not already know how to create Web pages. If your organization already has members who create Web pages, they need only contact Jim to find out where the Record template is on the Web server and to discuss the file upload procedure for your organization. To make an appointment for training or to find out about file upload procedures, please e-mail Jim at JBURKE or call him at 906-5301.
Until someone in your organization is ready to begin posting your Record pages, you may choose to submit your organization's complete Record announcements to the Office of Public Affairs. If you choose to have public affairs post your announcements during the September training period, please e-mail them to email@example.com by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesdays. Student organization announcements posted by public affairs will be collected together on one general student organization Record page.
Beginning with the October 4 issue, each student organization will be responsible for posting its own announcements on its own Record page each week, and public affairs will include a link to an organization's page from the main Record headline page only if the organization submits headlines for a particular week. Please note that the headline submission deadline is Thursday, September 30 at noon for the October 4 issue. At that time, public affairs will no longer post full announcements for student organizations.
On the attached page, you'll find a set of general procedures for posting to the Record. You can also find a copy of these procedures online by following the link near the student organization section of the main Record page. It is critical that you comply with the deadlines: To post an announcement to the Record for any given week, e-mail a short, descriptive headline describing your announcement to the Office of Public Affairs by noon the preceding Thursday, and make sure you upload your organization's actual announcement to the Web server by noon the preceding Friday.
We look forward to your postings about events and activities. If you have any questions, please e-mail our Record editor, Sue Pierard, at SPIERARD or RECORD, or phone her at (312) 906-5252.
John W. Young, Jr.
Chicago-Kent Names in the NewsAugust 1999 Names in the News is now online! Members of the Chicago-Kent community appear frequently in the media. Highlights of media placements and interviews from recent months appear in the Chicago-Kent Names in the News page.
Contact and headline submission information.Sue Pierard (SPIERARD) is the contact for the Record. Please send all entries to firstname.lastname@example.com by Thursdays at noon. Please remember to identify your department or organization in the subject field of your e-mail.


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It's that time of the year again when the cold temperatures and harsh winds deplete the moisture in your skin leaving you with dry, red, parched, and peeling skin. Piling moisturizer on top of your dry skin will only help so much, so here are some tips on how to add moisture back plus how to help you not get so dry in the first place.
When you shower if you are using hot water – this may feel great on a cold icy day, but you are really robbing your skin of the moisture it already has. Try using lukewarm water, or at least keep your showers quite short because the longer you are exposed to the hot water – the more drying it is.
Unless your skin is extremely sensitive, you need to exfoliate a few times a week to remove the dried skin that is flaking off and to prepare it for the layer of moisturizer which will penetrate deeper on exfoliated skin. For your body the ZENMED Microdermabrasion Complex, or a homemade brown sugar scrub should do nicely but on your face and chest you should use a gentle, non grainy exfoliator such as the ZENMED AHA/BHA complex to create a smoother surface. On days you do not exfoliate make sure you use a gentle hydrating soap.
After stepping out of the shower pat yourself dry gently – leaving skin a little moist – and then apply your moisturizer. Applying moisturizer to damp skin helps it to penetrate deeper and add more softness and hydration to the skin. If you find you are re-applying moisturizer throughout the day to your face or other parts – simply use a spray like Evian water or ZENMED AHA/BHA complex to refresh your skin and apply a hydrating moisturizer such as the ZENMED H series Moisturizer on top.
If your skin is still feeling parched you may need to invest in a humidifier, especially if you live in a very dry area. Keeping the humidifier on while you sleep will help your skin to retain up to 30% more moisture.
Using these tips, and keeping your insides hydrated by drinking lots of water, should keep your skin looking moist and supple through these tough winter months.


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Are you enjoying our wonderful trip down white bread lane? Hopefully by now the idea of making homemade bread is starting to not scare you as much. Bread baking is as much about "Just Do It" as it is about getting something "right".
Do not worry about getting your shape exactly correct or cutting your Epi perfectly (should you choose to go that route). The idea here at The Table is to always have fun and just get in the kitchen! The exhilaration, the feeling of accomplishment, the joy! GET IN THERE AND BAKE SOME BREAD!!! :)
Richard Bertinet has definitely created some keepers in his book Dough. This white bread dough is so versatile and we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of what this dough can be turned into! I firmly believe that once you use this recipe it will quickly become your 'go-to' recipe for bread in a pinch!
(From Dough by Richard Bertinet)
To Prepare:
Line a baking tray with a lightly floured lint-free dishtowel.
To Make:
- With the help of the rounded end of your scraper, turn the dough out onto a floured counter. Using the sharp side of your scraper cut it into 4 pieces (weighing about 8 ounces each) if you are making full-sized baguettes or8 (weighing about 4 ounces each) for the mini baguettes. Roll each piece into a ball and let them rest for another 5 minutes.
- Lightly dust the counter with flour. To mold the baguettes, take the first ball, turn it rounded side down and then flatten it with the heel of your hand into a rough oval shape. Fold one side of your flattened dough into the middle and again use the heel of your hand, or thumb, to press it down and seal. Bring the other side over to the middle and again press down to seal. By folding and pressing in this way, you give the dough some extra strength down the spine of the baguette. Finally, fold in half lengthwise and seal the edges so you end up with a long log shape. Roll each baguette a little to shape and extend it to the length of your towel-lined baking tray. Repeat with the other balls of dough.
- Lay the baguettes on the towel on your baking tray, making a pleat in the towel between each one (to stop them touching as they rise). Cover with another towel and let rise for 45-60 minutes, or until they have nearly doubled in volume.
- Transfer the baguettes to a very lightly floured wooden peel or flat-edged cooking sheet. Using a razor blade or sharp knife, make 5 or 6 diagonal cuts across the top of the baguette. Make the cuts swiftly and cleanly, taking care not to drag the dough.
- The crust on your baguettes will be crunchier if you bake them with a little steam, so mist the inside of the preheated oven using a water spray just before putting them in. Slide them onto your baking stone or tray in the oven. Spray again with water just before closing the door and bake for 10 – 12 minutes until the crust is a nice deep golden color. (Once you have closed the door , do not open it for the first 4-5 minutes so that you maintain the heat needed to form the crust.)
Variation: Epis
Follow the method for baguettes up to the point of laying the bread on a lightly floured flat baking tray. With a pair of scissors, held at a 45 degree angle to the dough, start at one end of the baguette and make snips (cutting three quarters of the way through the dough) at intervals all the way down the center. This will create "V" shaped points of dough which you can push to alternate sides of the bread, so that it looks like a wheat sheaf. Bake, with steam (as above), for 10 – 12 minutes.
I hope you've enjoyed our trip down white bread lane. This is the first of my focused dough type trips. Stay tuned for wheat bread, wet dough, quick breads, and many more!
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Registration and Title Bulletin - #010-13
Date: April 16, 2013
To: All County Tax Assessor-Collectors
Subject: Eligibility Rule for Farm License Plates
These documents contain text of correspondence sent by TxDMV to the county tax assessor-collectors, statutory agents who provide vehicle registration and titling services for citizens in Texas. This information is provided to apprise the general public of issues affecting the state's vehicle titling and registration process.
To inform you of a new eligibility requirement for issuance of Farm license plates.
The TxDMV Board at its March 2013 meeting adopted rules to require applicants for Farm license plates to present a permit issued by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts with an Agricultural and Timber Exemption Registration Number. The permit issued by the state comptroller's office must be current, legible, contain a registration number, and be in the name of the person or DBA (doing business as) in which the vehicle will be registered.
A copy of the revised Form VTR-52-A, Application for Farm Trailer/Semitrailer, Farm Truck, or Farm Truck Tractor License Plates (Rev. 4/2013), with the eligibility requirement listed, is attached and will be posted to the department's website at www.TxDMV.gov.
When accepting an application for Farm license plates, ask the applicant to present a permit with a current Texas Agricultural and Timber Exemption Registration Number. A copy of the state comptroller's permit is not required to be submitted with the application, and your office is not required to maintain a copy of the permit.
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Richard Segers sees things in his paintings that he didn't know were there. And his finished works of watercolor art are never what he had in mind.
THOMASVILLE | He's a polio victim who's been fortunate enough to weather the storm and stay on his feet. Though he walks a bit gingerly, his hands are steady. But who's guiding them remains in question.
Richard Segers sees things in his paintings that he didn't know were there. And his finished works of watercolor art are never what he had in mind.
He believes God speaks to him through his craft. The mysterious images generate philosophical questions for believers. His business card, in fact, poses the query, "Who can paint the likeness of God's great masterpieces?"
The Thomasville resident, 74, only claims to be able to tell a story through his work, something he started after closing the print shop business at his home several years ago. He has no formal training with brush and strokes, but his intricate, brilliant pieces are inspired by his ardent Christian beliefs, his past and those who have touched his life.
Polio, which he contracted at age 9, serves as a basis for Segers' point of view. He spent recuperation time in three hospitals.
"I strongly believe people are supposed to work," he says. "I've never been without a job."
The former supervisor at the erstwhile print shop at Thomasville Furniture Industries took mandatory retirement in 1992.
Conservative and frugal, he and his wife, Vida, have been married 55 years and lived in the same house on Blair Street for 48 years. The couple met at church. "She deserves a lot of credit for everything," Segers said. They had two children. Daughter Julie Byrum, 37, lives in Kernersville. Their son, Joel, was killed in a traffic accident in 1986 at age 23. He had been accepted into graduate school to study art. Today, a scholarship at Davidson County Community College bears his name.
"I grew up in the middle of the century," Segers notes. "I was the youngest boy of 12 children. I had seven brothers in the military, and five of them were in World War II."
Thus, Christmastime in 1944 recently unfolded on canvas where Segers recreates separate night scenes from downtown Lexington, Thomasville and High Point during that time. The Lexington composition shows the Square when the Civil War solider was the middle of the intersection.
Those are the only three pieces Segers has for sale. Most of the others are reserved for what he hopes to do often, which is show a series of his artwork as part of presentations to churches.
"I don't want any compensation," he says. "I don't ask for any. I won't accept any."
He acknowledges that he learned a lot in his initial presentation, known as "Soldiers of the Cross," that took place at Central Wesleyan Church. "Most of it was about time," said Segers, who realizes there are many aspects and stories to be told within just one painting.
The opening piece deals with the creation, the Genesis of humankind. The painting shows the Earth, other planets, a celestial body in the shape of a child and, in the heavens, a lighted cross.
A painting by Joel, his late son, is also involved. It is a portrait of Jesus. His right eye is directed at the onlooker, his left appears looking elsewhere.
Another in the series depicts a lantern and an open Bible on a table. The painting is based upon II Timothy 2:15: "Study to show yourself approved to God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
"I've realized that if you are painting something someone else wants you to paint, it takes the enjoyment out of it," Segers offers.
The painting that sums up the presentation is one that shows a family in the middle of a canyon. It shows darkness on one side and a cross in the lighted sky. It is based on Mark 8:34: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me."
When upon completion of the piece, Segers stepped back and was surprised to spot a beggar in the shadows. He appears hunched over with a sack on his shoulder.
And the question arises: "What do we do about the beggar?" Segers asks.
Dwight Davis can be reached at 249-3981, ext, 226 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Baseball Season Comes To An End With 5-0 Loss To Cal State Fullerton
June 5, 2004
FULLERTON, Calif. (www.TheSunDevils.com) -- For the third time in the last four years, Arizona State had its season come to a disappointing end in the NCAA Tournament at Goodwin Field. The Sun Devils were shutout for the third time this season in a 5-0 loss to Cal State Fullerton in an elimination game Saturday night in the Fullerton Regional.
Cal State Fullerton starting pitcher Mike Martinez surrendered 10 singles and did not allow a run in his first career complete game effort. The senior right-hander improved to 8-2 on the season after striking out a career-high tying seven and walking only two.
Arizona State ended the season 41-18 overall, advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the seventh time in the last eight years. Cal State Fullerton improved to 38-21 and will have to beat Pepperdine twice in the Regional Final on Sunday to advance to the Super Regional. The Titans endured a tough 7-6 loss to Pepperdine earlier in the day on a two-out, two-run walk-off home run.
The Sun Devils were their own worst enemy, striking out five times looking, grounding into three double plays and left eight men on base. ASU managed only 10 singles against CSF and of the 34 hits in the three regional games, only one went for extra bass. The Sun Devils were also 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position Saturday night against the Titans.
After having its NCAA record consecutive games scoring streak snapped earlier this season against Oklahoma (2/15), the Devils have been shutout twice in the last six games.
Arizona State starting pitcher Erik Averill was phenomenal through six innings until giving up three runs in the seventh. The sophomore lefty scattered 12 hits in 6.2 innings and was saddled with his second loss of the regional to fall to 4-4 on the season. Freshman reliever Quentin Andes (Albuquerque, N.M.) finished off the game with 2.1 perfect innings.
The Sun Devils threatened in each of its first two at-bats, putting a runner in scoring position with one out, but came up empty each time. Jeff Larish grounded into an inning-ending double play in the first and Martinez struck out Seth Dhaenens for the third out to end the second inning.
Fullerton got on the board in the fourth inning with a one-out double down the left field line by designated hitter Felipe Garcia. P.J. Pilittere led off with a single to center field and was moved second on a sacrifice bunt by left fielder Danny Dorn. Garcia then ripped a 0-1 offering from Averill down the left field to stake the Titans to the 1-0 lead.
With Martinez in cruise control, CSF added a run in the top of the sixth on a solo home run to left field by Dorn to extend the lead to 2-0.
The Titans added three more runs in the seventh to grab a commanding 5-0 lead. Kurt Suzuki hit a deep sacrifice fly to center field to start the scoring. Pilittere and Dorn hit back-to-back run-scoring doubles to extend the lead to 5-0.
ASU threatened again in the seventh and eighth innings, but couldn't put any runs up on the board. Tuffy Gosewisch and Curtis tabbed back-to-back singles in the seventh, but came up empty after Joe Persichina grounded into a double play and Dhaenens struck out looking to end any scoring opportunities. Josh Asanovich and Larish each hit two-out singles in the eighth, but Martinez got Gosewisch to strike out swinging to preserve the shutout.
Curtis led ASU at the plate going 3-for-4 and finished his freshman season hitting .300 (57-for-190). Junior second baseman Josh Asanovich went 2-for-4 as ASU's only other player with more than one hit. Junior All-American shortstop Dustin Pedroia most likely ended his ASU career going 0-for-3 and ended the season hitting .393 (96-for-244) and ended his career tied for seventh in the ASU record books with a .384 career batting average (298-for-777).
Game Notes: Travis Buck hit leadoff for the first time for his career... Buck went 0-for-4, but still ended the regional hitting .467 (7-for-15).
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Chocolate Truffle Squares
5 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate -- 1/4-inch chop or
2 eggs, separated, room temp
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg white -- at room temperature
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch Process Cocoa -- (unsifted)
2 tablespoons all purpose flour
2/3 cup plus 1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup lowfat -- (1 percent) milk
49 perfect fresh raspberries -- 5 to 6 ounces
2 tablespoons red current jelly or raspberry preserves -- up to 3
9 inch cake pan
Baking pan or roasting at least 2 inches deep and large enough to
hold the cake pan with at least 2 inches to spare on each side.
Position the rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat to 350
degrees. Line the bottom and sides of the pan with foil. Put a
kettle of water on to boil for the bain marie when baking in the
oven. Place chocolate in a large mixing bowl. Combine the 2 egg
yolks with vanilla in a small bowl. Place the 3 egg whites in a
medium bowl with cream of tartar. Set all 3 bowls aside.
Combine the cocoa, flour and 2/3 cup sugar in a 1 1 1/2 quart heavy
bottomed saucepan. Whisk in enough of the milk to form a smooth
paste. Mix in the remaining milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring
constantly with a wooden spoon, to prevent burning (especially
around the bottom edges of the pot), until mixture begins to simmer.
Simmer very gently, stirring constantly, for about 1 1/2 minutes, or
until the mixture visibly thickens. Pour the hot mixture immediately
over the chopped chocolate. Stir until chocolate is completely
melted and smooth. Whisk in egg yolk mixture. Set aside.
Beat the egg whites and cream of tartar at medium speed until soft
peaks form. Gradually sprinkle in the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar,
beating at high speed until stiff but not dry. Fold a quarter of the
egg whites into the chocolate mixture to lighten it. Fold in
remaining egg whites. Scrape mixture into the cake pan and spread
evenly. Set cake pan in baking pan and place on oven rack.
Pour enough boiling water into the baking pan to come a third to
halfway up the sides of the cake pan. Bake for exactly 20 minutes.
The cake will only be about 3/4 inches tall. The surface will spring
back when gently pressed but cake will still be quite gooey inside.
Remove cake pan and water pan from oven. Remove the cake pan from
the water and cool completely on a rack. Cover with plastic wrap and
refrigerate overnight before serving. Refrigerate up to 2 days or
freeze up to 2 months.
After the truffle sheet is well chilled, lift the edges of the foil
to remove the truffle sheet from the pan. Cut the sheet into 7
strips, each about 1 1/4 inches wide, using a long thin sharp knife
dipping in hot water and wiped dry between each cut (the cake is
very sticky) or cut with dental floss. Cut each strip into 7
squares. Transfer each square to a fluted paper candy cup and or
arrange on a serving platter. If garnishing with raspberries, simmer
the preserves for a minute or until thick and sticky. Touch the hot
preserves with the bottom of each berry before placing it on the
truffle square. Refrigerate until serving.
Yield: 49 truffle squares
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2 exciting premieres livened NY ballet season
NEW YORK (AP) — It may be sweltering summer out there, but the spring ballet season has just officially ended in New York, with the last frothy performances of "The Sleeping Beauty" at American Ballet Theater.
And while dance fans often seek out the same classics, again and again, this season's highlights included brand new productions by two of the most exciting choreographers working today: Alexei Ratmansky at ABT and soloist Justin Peck at NYCB.
A look back at these and other standout moments of a busy spring season:
AN AMBITIOUS TRILOGY: Ratmansky, ABT's artist in residence and a former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, has been in hot demand now for years, and has choreographed a number of much-discussed works for both of New York's major ballet companies.
But his "Shostakovich Trilogy," a full-length evening choreographed entirely to the music of that Russian composer, was the most ambitious thing he'd done yet, and it was rapturously received by the crowd at the Metropolitan Opera House.
To his "Symphony No. 9," a vigorous and complex work he'd introduced in the fall, he added "Chamber Symphony," a study of a tortured artist danced by David Hallberg, and the demanding, speedy and exciting Piano Concerto No. 1, with virtuosic performances by its four main dancers — especially the spitfire Natalia Osipova, who shot across the stage in a bright red leotard like a heat-seeking missile.
A CHOREOGRAPHER ON THE UPSWING: Across Lincoln Center Plaza at the David H. Koch Theater, City Ballet audiences had been on the lookout for more work by Peck, a 25-year-old soloist at the company, but also a fast-rising choreographer. He didn't disappoint: His "In Creases," set to the arresting music of Philip Glass, was acclaimed as the best of the several pieces he's done for NYCB.
With two pianos facing each other on the stage, Peck launched his eight dancers into a series of arresting geometric patterns. Legs turned into spokes on a wheel; at another point, they were wielded as weapons. Lying prone, some dancers turned into an obstacle course for others. The star here was a versatile Robert Fairchild, the principal dancer fast becoming one of the most important on the NYCB stage.
A PROMISING DEBUT: While the majority of NYCB dancers come up through the ranks at its School of American Ballet, ABT is different: It features a huge international cast, and brings in guest performers from overseas. The end of the season brought an intriguing debut by the young Alban Lendorf of the Royal Danish Ballet.
Though Lendorf has muscular legs and a stocky build — the better to leap with, my dear — he also has a princely demeanor, which worked well for the role of, well, the prince, in "The Sleeping Beauty." Impressive in his solos, he was also an attentive partner to Xiomara Reyes as Aurora. Hopefully Lendorf will return soon in other roles. And as for the company's homegrown men, Joseph Gorak in the corps commanded new attention in a number of roles.
KEEPING THE MASTERS ALIVE: NYCB tries to strike a balance between new and old choreography. This season, it was a pleasure to see that classic works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins were in fine shape. Especially pleasing was a performance of Robbins' "Interplay," to music by the American composer Morton Gould, in which eight dancers launched into Robbins' exuberant choreography with gusto. Also noteworthy: Principal Janie Taylor in Robbins' eerie "The Cage," about a community of female creatures, contorting her body into awkward and extreme angles and seeming to relish it.
To many ballet fans, there's nothing like a good cry at the end of "Romeo and Juliet," but it's a matter of taste which dancers you want to see. Many have their favorite Romeo or Juliet, but as a couple, it's hard to beat Hallberg and Osipova. The blond, noble Hallberg is energized by the dark-haired, fiery Osipova, and she seems grounded by him. In this, their third tragic death scene together in as many years, they hit home again, with her seemingly lifeless body turning to jelly as he desperately tossed her up and down, to and fro. Mark your calendars for their next appearance in the Capulet crypt.
A real-life love story unfolded at NYCB, as Fairchild and the wonderful ballerina Tiler Peck became engaged in April, just before appearing together in a season-opening piece made just for them by Christopher Wheeldon, "A Place for Us." As it turns out, there are many places for this golden couple of ballet — including at Avery Fisher Music Hall, where the two danced a wrenching duet in the New York Philharmonic's production of "Carousel." It was a highlight of the production, particularly Peck's fabulously emotional depiction of a young woman spurned. (She got to speak some lines, too!) The two reprised their duet at the Fred and Adele annual Astaire Awards later in the season.
In May, the ballerina Irina Dvorovenko retired from ABT with a final performance in "Onegin." If she didn't look too broken up at curtain calls, maybe it was because she'd just launched a career as an actress. In her first speaking role, Dvorovenko stole the show as Vera Baronova, the deep-throated, self-centered, very, very Russian ballerina in Rodgers and Hart's "On Your Toes" at New York City Center. Her kicks in the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" duet were sky-high, but her voice was low and sexy and got even more attention.
What is this with ballerinas suddenly using their voices? One more, and it'll be a full-fledged trend.


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How Free Speech Online Is Enabled By Not Blaming Websites For The Actions Of Their Users
from the save-section-230 dept
But, on the internet, blame often gets thrown around wildly, and websites themselves are too frequently targets of misguided legal claims. Section 230 protects against that and lets companies quickly extricate themselves from bogus legal claims. Unfortunately, Section 230 has been under attack lately by a number of parties. There are a bunch of state Attorneys General who are looking to change the law to exempt it from applying to cases they might bring against sites. You have short-sighted law professors who think that a way to fix "bad" sites online is to gut Section 230. And, unfortunately, you have one really bad district court ruling (which disagrees with every other ruling on the law) which hopefully will get reversed on appeal.
Much of the academic discussions concerning the importance of Section 230 have, quite reasonably, focused on the impact on innovation. As some have pointed out, Section 230 can, in many ways, be credited with "giving us the modern internet." So many of the sites you know, love and use today probably wouldn't exist, or would exist in greatly limited forms, without Section 230. It's truly enabled a revolution in innovation online, allowing sites to build powerful tools for the public, without having to be liable for how the public then uses those tools.
And that brings us to a second important point about Section 230 that perhaps gets less attention, though it probably should get much more. Section 230 has really helped to enable a tremendous amount of free speech online. On a recent edition of his Surprisingly Free podcast, Jerry Brito interviewed Anupam Chander who recently co-authored a paper (with Uyen Le), which highlights "the free speech foundations of cyberlaw" and how Section 230 has been truly key in guaranteeing a lot of free speech online -- basically highlighting how the First Amendment and Section 230 work well together. However, it also points out that it was the First Amendment that underpins all of this, and that we should be wary of challenges to the law that might undermine the First Amendment.
If you know the history of the Communications Decency Act, you know that it was a very, very different bill than Section 230. The original CDA was basically the opposite. It was a bill to censor websites that had "indecent" communications. Most of that got thrown out (after quite the legal fight) as unconstitutional under the First Amendment. What remained, and should continue to remain, is Section 230 -- which was the one part of the bill that was consistent with the First Amendment.
The paper also goes into how copyright law, separately, has been trying to chip away at the First Amendment online, and how dangerous that is as well. Remember, Section 230 doesn't apply to copyright law, though there is Section 512 of the DMCA, which is similar, but not nearly as strong. The paper notes that things like SOPA really were a direct attempt to attack the First Amendment, which is why it's a good thing that it failed.
All in all, it's a good reminder of both how important protecting free speech online is today and how fragile it is, since the laws that have made it possible are so constantly under attack.