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Hernan JARAMILLO
Manager HSE-Q
AGIP Oil Ecuador Block 10 field is located in the Amazonians in Ecuador. The Camp has an average production average of 19,000 bopd. Main Facilities include Villano A&B platforms, flow line, CPF, secondary pipeline, Sarayacu Pump Station and Baeza Terminal.
Q. Which are the main objectives and the activities of the HSE-Q department?
A. All main objectives and activities somehow refer to studies of environmental impacts and environmental management plans. Some examples of the activities we are carrying out are annual programs for the environmental monitoring, abandonment plans, evaluation of legal compliances, operational plans of solids waste handling and oil spill contingency plans.
We carry out the environmental impacts studies since the beginning of the project, even before environmental national laws existed in Ecuador (environmental regulations exist since 2001). The good advance is now allowing Agip Oil Ecuador to fully comply with all the environmental requirements requested by the national authorities. Environmental plans include daily monitoring activities made for gathering all necessary data.
Finally, the HSE-Q department manages the relations with the government with regard to the management of the environment protection activities.
The relations with the communities regarding environmental issues, are followed by a the "Technical Environmental Committee" (CTA, comité técnico ambiental), made up of representatives of the indigenous organizations, Petroecuador and Eni which guarantees that operations are carried out in respect of the environmental management plan. The Committee meets several times a year, undertaking "on-site" inspections and responding to specific requests from the local communities.
Q. What is your background and how come you arrived to work in the Villano project?
A. I have a geotechnical background; geo-technique is a practical application of geology to civil engineering works. It includes everything that involves earth sciences for applying to engineering activities. In areas like Ecuador geotechnical conditions are very critical and must be carefully evaluated before starting operations.
This is how I approached the Villano project in 1997: I was contacted by an American consulting group which asked me to work for the Villano project design and engineering areas. Thus, I started to work at the Villano project in the very early stage, since its feasibility studies, before all the operations started.
Q. How did you move from a fully technical position as geotechnical expert to HSE manager?
A. At the beginning of the project I dealt with the technical drawings (Hernan was the one designing the artificial small lake in CPF!) because that was my role, everything regarding land was of my interest.
The lands of the Oriente are very critical, the studies related to lands are, as direct consequence, very complex. After the early stages I was also involved in the construction process of the CPF and Villano platforms. Afterwards, we started to design the secondary pipe line which was planned to be constructed in an extremely complex geological zone, in very dangerous conditions for constructions that could be put in serious danger by landslides; I dealt with the selection of routes for the pipelines.
Following the construction of the pipeline there was the need of someone who knew the region, able to supervise the pipeline and to manage operations. In fact, it was necessary to avoid pipeline breakages due to landslides, mitigate earthquakes' impacts or the ones of other geological phenomena (quite frequent in the region).
I remember very well when in 2000 there has been a landslide impacting the flow line. Thanks to the very good engineering design and construction the pipe bent but did not broke. This event warned the project team over the risk of future incidents.
The second event (when Nicola Salmaso was the MD) impacted the secondary flow line, in the valve 12. Some road works were being carried out and these works caused a serious landslide and we worked for two months in order to stabilize the zone and to avoid break of the pipe line.
In both cases operations did not stop during recovering works. An important fact to be considered is that oil projects usually dispose of many resources: in emergencies is possible to mobilize all needed machines available in a country if necessary.
Today we have a landslide prevention program which has been studied since 2002.
Having always been involved in operation activities since the beginning of the Villano Project, I've always been concerned about potential damages to the environment and working hard to put in place all measures as to reduce possibilities of incidents occurrence.
The past experience dealing with pipelines emergencies brought me in a position to be a well skilled technician regarding to pipelines and environmental issues. When in 2003 the HSE manager, Francisco Vacas, was asked to move to Kazakhstan, I've been recommended for replacing that position. As said above, my background was very technical and I decided to get (later on) a master's in HSE management. I also needed to improve my planning skills and I am still trying to learn in everyday's work!
The invisible pipeline
Villano B looked much different during the construction phase. It was a very complex construction project including piloting the heavy-lift helicopters to build up tanks.
This is the Arbol Sagrado (the holy tree, a very old ceibo) In the beginning of the project ARCO and other companies in charge of the construction works were supposed to fall a tree, but at the end the tree hadn't been touched.
Even the rig had to be heli-transportable.
A mono-rail system (a rail-based transportation system based on a single rail, which acts as its sole support and its guideway) has been used to transport food and to transport the pipes (see also JJ interview in section B eni's people). As a matter of fact, the pipe line has been built by hand! The construction works have been very quick: it only took 6 months to build the pipeline. There were a lot of workers involved in the operations!
The process was all managed by the people working on the field; even the cranes, which allowed moving and lifting the pipes, were manual! The helicopters were leaving pipes in proper areas (one each 6Km) and the pipes were then transported with the mono-rail where needed.
The project decided to use "walking excavators' Kaiser (excavadoras caminantes) to limit the project impacts on the Amazon forest. The Right of Way (ROW) was limited to 4/5 meters. Actually, I believe that it would also be a great place where to bring tourists and stimulate local businesses! Agip Oil Ecuador does not deal with this, since it's not its sector, but some government representatives might consider the opportunity. It's a unique environment!
These were all the machineries which have been used to complete the invisible pipeline.
Q. In Ecuador there have been many protests and disputes over Texaco and Chevron projects and their unwillingness to consider the impacts of their activities on the environment. What do you think about this approach?
A. I do not intend to defend oil companies, but what I can affirm is that these companies you mentioned started to operate in Ecuador around mid 50's. During those years in time there wasn't an idea about environmental (and sustainability) standards. There was only the business with its goals. They did not think, in my opinion, that nature in a future could suffer from their activities. It wasn't bad faith but was ignorance, a lack of awareness on the issues. Moreover, there wasn't any law for environmental protection.
On the Villano project several situations have occurred in which Agip Oil Ecuador has received accusations of polluting the region, poison or even killing indigenous people. Sometimes these are only allegations based on nothing. The company applies very high standards. There is certain person who's asked to do this work and they do it. One needs to be extremely careful in analyzing data.
People who do not know the sector, who work to protect the environment or human rights can be deceived from some information that can circulate on the impacts of the oil activities. Sometimes they do not know the reality of facts, but you can understand and see that things can be different than what media can show.
Agip Oil Ecuador do not have a press/media department and cannot reply to these allegations, but it would really be necessary to respond to those accusations using the same methods.
Q. Mrs. Sabina Ratti, sustainability Vice-President, says that it'd be great if the sustainability department will disappear because that day all the processes will incorporate a responsible way of doing business.
A. I totally agree with Mrs. Ratti. It's not been always like this. In fact it's only 3 or 4 years that these issues are discussed (internally).
You can notice the importance of these issues even during annual meetings: Eni CEO now opens conferences talking about health and safety and only after referring to operations and financial results. This makes you understand the importance of the topics in the practice. In many instances, even in the Villano project, there has been some resistance on these issues. It's a matter of culture and mentality.


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Nya ooo, Bippies, then what
от Dr. Snyder 16 септември 2003
Top Definition
BIPPY - A jocular euphemism for ass, as in "bet your (sweet) bippy) by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, an NBC-TV comedy series, 1968-1973. From "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, A-G" by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994.
You bet your sweet bippy
от LabRat63 08 юни 2007
Butt, Ass, Booty, a Mid-Western term.
Yeah, sure, you bet yer bippy!
от Anonymous 08 август 2003
A Bippy is a slang word for your bottom or hiney. It is used in a saying; "You bet your sweet Bippy!" It is more or less a Midwestern type of term.
"You bet your sweet bippy I'm gonna run you over with this tonka truck if you don't get yo'self inside for dinner!"
от Cozy Rugburn 25 януари 2012
It's used as slang just like the word 'shorty' however it means
a male 'shorty'. Usually used by negros.
a male 'shorty'. Usually used by negros.
yo bippy hook me up wid dat sheet son
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Little boys penis; derogitory word for your friends and their "little bippy" who suck at wiffle ball
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Luis Suárez took a leaf out of Jürgen Klinsmann's book with his sardonic diving celebration under the nose of David Moyes during the Merseyside derby. Whereas some would argue Klinsmann had far more redeeming features than the largely loathed Uruguayan, it was a fearless act in front of the Everton manager.
And Suárez is the first of many to execute the self-deprecating celebration...
Tragi-comically, Merson refers to his penchant for a drink before he sought rehabilitation
Teddy Sheringham suggested Klinsmann take a dive if he scored to prove Germans do have a sense of humour. He did score, and his act was copied by team-mates
England pay tribute to the dentist's chair against Scotland at Euro 96
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Amid allegations he snorted cocaine, Fowler saw the funny side after scoring against Everton
Accused of being overweight by John Gregory, Ginola was keen to show off his pecs after an equaliser against Manchester City
Rooney revelled in the fat jibes he received off Liverpool fans to strike a pose Darwin would have been proud of after he scored at Anfield's Kop. A mobile phone was thrown at him, but missed
Having threatened team-mate John Arne Riise with a golf club, Bellamy took a swing after scoring against Barcelona. Riise, aptly, got the other in a 2-1 win
On the same patch and at the same end that Phil Brown gave his infamous half-time team-talk the following year, Bullard paid homage after equalising against Manchester City
Same face, same pose, different shirt. In his penultimate Old Trafford game Tévez scored for Manchester United against Manchester City before cupping his ears in front of Sir Alex Ferguson to emphasise the supporters' reverence for him. Eight months later he did it again, having put the Blues 2-1 up against United
Days after he had been sent off for an overzealous challenge against Manchester United, Shelvey exhibited his frustration with a two-footed celebratory 'tackle'
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Taken lessons? Wish you had? Can't carry a tune in a bucket?
I took 8 years of piano, first through eighth grade, 8 years of flute, fourth through senior year in HS, officially took 4 years of choir in school (3 in junior high, 1 in HS) But when I wasn't in choir, I did participate in the school musicals and church choir.
Wish I could take more piano lessons. And I would have played my flute more probably if I hadn't gone to a college with no football team, which meant no marching band.
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.-- Henry Ford
I'd say I'm pretty inclined, not as much as I was through MS and HS, but still pretty good. I was All-State in band for 8th grade. Through high school I was always pressured by my director to try out for All-State but I never really had the initiative to go for it. Just did honor bands here and there, along who solo and group contest type stuff. I did marching band, pep band, jazz band, all that stuff.
On top of that I play drums, used to jam with some high school buddies, played a couple of local events, but that fizzled out once we went to college. I've played some drums at church as well. Still like playing them whenever I go home.
I took piano for 10 years but never learned to read music. I ca hear something and play it back pretty well. In 8th grade I switched to drums and and guitar because you don't need sheet music for those really. I never understood why horn players needed sheet music!
So I'm pretty musically inclined.
2015 CF Avatar of the Year winner.
I play either trumpet or French horn almost every night of the week. Come to Ballet Des Moines' performance of Cinderella this weekend, I'll be in the pit.
Mods please change thread title to "Wednesday OT - How big of a Band Nerd Are You" or "Wednesday OT - Should the Pep Band do Chants During BBall Games?"...as I can already see where this is going.
Campbell In!
Very, though its been quite awhile since i played.
I did 4-5 years of piano lessons when i was younger, followed by playing trumpet all the way through college both in the ISU marching\basketball band and drum corps, and did the choir thing all the way up through soph year of college as well.
These days my only musical performing is the random karaoke night after seaveral drinks.
I played piano for about 5 years, then decided I wanted to spend my spare time playing basketball rather than piano. I have a keyboard that I'll pull around around Xmas to play some Christmas carols. I like to dabble on the guitar a bit. I'm not really trained or good, but I can knock out California Stars good enough.
I don't like to hear myself, but apparently to others I sound good enough to pay to sing at weddings and funerals. I can plunk on the piano and dabble in brass instruments.
Won "Outstanding performer" award my jr year of high school with a perfect score at contest and was invited to perform at ISU's showcase of that.
Was the only one in my class to make the Wartburg Choir on first audition of my frosh year (also played football) and got to tour Europe 3 times because of it. Had a nice little music scholarship to help me through college.
Was selected as a soloist several times at honor choirs in HS including the Dorian festival at Luther.
Still sing quite a bit and won the "Princess Pop star" on a cruise a few years ago but haven't done any competitions in a long long time. I still love to sing and it is fun to hear my girls start to pick up on it. My oldest (8) will be a nice role player but my 5 year old has an incredibly awesome voice and I am started to hear glimpses of that with my 2 year old
Funny thing is I was an average at best football player but make a ton more money coaching and helping at camps now than I even come close to making as a singer
Exaggeration is a BILLION times worse than understating.
Originally Posted by mtowncyclone13
I took piano for 10 years but never learned to read music. I ca hear something and play it back pretty well. In 8th grade I switched to drums and and guitar because you don't need sheet music for those really. I never understood why horn players needed sheet music!
So I'm pretty musically inclined.
Lol, how can you take piano lessons for 10 years and not know how to read music?
Originally Posted by longtimeclone
Lol, how can you take piano lessons for 10 years and not know how to read music?
I think he must have been taught by a hippie.
My mother held a BA in Music (voice emphasis), so let's just say I've been steeped in all kinds of music since before birth. I started singing in the children's choirs at church with my older sisters when I was three...I've pretty much been in some sort of choir ever since, did a lot of solos in my day, and was at one time the "on-call" for local funeral homes when families wanted a soloist but didn't have a personal friend/acquaintance to ask.
Took piano from age 5 to age 12. I quit when my married teacher (who played at my church) ran off with the (also married) lead tenor in the choir. *gasp!* QUITE the scandal back in those days! Other than a substitute gig pounding out chord progressions in high school stage band when the regular pianist broke her wrist, I have rarely played in public. I was fine on my own, but if anyone was listening, my fingers became all thumbs. I sold my piano a few years back when arthritis made it too difficult to play without pain...removed the temptation for me. I miss it, badly.
I also played cello (badly) for one year, fifth grade. That sucker was almost bigger than I was, and I had to carry it to school! Then we moved to a region where they had band but no orchestra, and I had to give it up. Try to imagine my disappointment...
Last edited by ImJustKCClone; 03-05-2014 at 11:17 AM.
Originally Posted by longtimeclone
Lol, how can you take piano lessons for 10 years and not know how to read music?
Wondered that myself!
My music experience includes playing the recorder in 4th grade and playing the trombone for one year in fifth grade, then I quit because the teacher sucked and band wasn't cool.
I took piano lessons for about 4 years as a kid, then taught myself to play guitar at 14. I can read music somewhat as it relates to piano, but I almost never do with guitar as I learned all the chords, and just play off of chord charts or tabs (which isn't really reading music). I can play pretty much any string instrument to an extent. I have a mandolin as well as two guitars. I'm an average singer - I'm decent when I'm drunk and mediocre when sober.
I wish I spent more time with piano though.
In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.
Originally Posted by Doc
I think he must have been taught by a hippie.
Yeah I had a mean old lady that started drilling me on day 1. I can still remember "every good boy does fine"
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Call it the Memphis Misery Tour.
Steve Barlow, a local attorney who focuses on social justice issues, recently gave me a driving tour of parts of the Medical Center neighborhood ravaged by blight.
He did the same thing for a National Public Radio reporter interested in the city's lawsuit against Wells Fargo. The city and county are suing Wells because they believe the lender targeted black borrowers for predatory loans, and that the city's high number of foreclosures is one effect of that.
A response in the piece from Wells national sales manager Brad Blackwell:
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This is an original oil painting on stretched canvas of a restaurant in Old town San Diego. The restaurant is an iconic feature of the wonderful food and ambiance of the border town. The snaky branch of the tree overhanging the tables and people contrast with the wrought iron to the right.


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Debounce asynchronous functions
Debounce asynchronous functions.
Debouncing means that given function is only run after no calls to it have happened for
x milliseconds. With functions that do asynchronous work, i.e. not finish in the same tick, you also want no calls to happen while the function is currently running - limit the concurrency to one - and rerun with new arguments afterwards.
var debounce = require'async-debounce'; console.log'start' num; setTimeout console.log'done' num; done; 200; var debounced = debounceasync 50; console.log'call 1'; debounced1;setTimeout console.log'call 2'; debounced2 100;setTimeout console.log'call 3'; debounced3 200;
And in the output you can see that the function is run at max once at a time and if the debounce triggers while the function is still running, it will be queued.
$ node example.jscall 1start 1call 2call 3done 1start 3done 3
Install with npm:
$ npm install async-debounce
Install with component(1):
$ component install juliangruber/async-debounce
Returns a decorated version of
fn that when called calls
fn only when no further calls have happended for
interval milliseconds and if it's not currently running. When it's done running and a call has happened while it was still running, it's called again with latest arguments.


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We review developments in the SRI Language Modeling Toolkit (SRILM) since 2002, when a previous paper on SRILM was published. These developments include measures to make training from large data sets more efficient, to implement additional language modeling techniques (such as for adaptation and smoothing), and for client/server operation. In addition, the functionality for lattice processing has been greatly expanded. We also highlight several external contributions and notable applications of the toolkit, and assess SRILM's impact on the research community.}, address = {Hawaii}, author = {Andreas Stolcke and Jing Zheng and Wen Wang and Victor Abrash}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop}, month = {December}, publisher = {IEEE SPS}, title = {SRILM at Sixteen: Update and Outlook}, url = {http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=165613}, year = {2011}, }


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Brit character actor Ray Winstone is in talks to star in the tussled-about "Point Break" remake as FBI agent Angelo Pappas, a role Gary Busey immortalized in Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 homoerotic cult classic about bank-robbing surfers.
He'll be joining Gerard Butler, currently cast as wave-chasing, surfer-gang leader Bodhi (originally played by Patrick Swayze). Aussie hunk Luke Bracey will star opposite Butler and Winstone as FBI rookie Johnny Utah (played Keanu Reeves in Bigelow's film).
Winstone induced shivers in 1999 as a walking picture of paternal evil in Tim Roth's indie "The War Zone," but you've also seen him skulking along the fringes of many mainstream and indie films, including "The Departed," "Cold Mountain," "Hugo," "Sexy Beast" and as a descendent of Cain in "Noah."
Across the pond, he's been a film and TV mainstay for decades, with two BAFTA noms under his belt, accolades from the British Independent Film Awards and love from critics for his performance in John Hillcoat's blood-stained western "The Proposition" (2005). Winstone inhabits his roles fearlessly, while balancing wicked comic chops with his rather sinister presence -- though no one was laughing in "The War Zone" -- which makes him perfect for iconic, meatball-loving wisecracker Pappas.
The remake will need to lean into the original film's campy undertones, and avoid becoming an overly earnest action film, if it's going to swim. Unlike Bigelow's gen-X action movie, the new "Point Break" will focus less on surfing and more on a variety of other extreme sports. Ericson Core, helmer of Disney's moribund football drama starring Mark Wahlberg "Invincible" (2006), is currently set to direct the screenplay by Kurt Wimmer (one of six writers on 2012's disastrous "Total Recall" remake).


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There must be a simpler, more pythonic way of doing this.
Given this list of pairs:
pp = [('a',1),('b',1),('c',1),('d',2),('e',2)]
How do I most easily find the first item in adjacent pairs where the second item changes (here, from 1 to 2). Thus I'm looking for ['c','d']. Assume there will only be one change in pair[1] for the entire list, but that it may be a string.
This code works but seems excruciatingly long and cumbersome.
for i, pair in enumerate(pp):
if i == 0:
pInitial = pair[0]
sgInitial = pair[1]
pNext = pair[0]
sgNext = pair[1]
if sgInitial == sgNext:
sgInitial = sgNext
pInitial = pNext
pOne = pInitial
pTwo = pNext
x = [pOne, pTwo]
print x
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ISU football: Rookie Lenz focused on return job in debut | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register
Essentially a continuation of a debate had here last week. It sounds like Rhoads trusts him back there. Let's hope he has a fine debut on Thursday.
Should be fun to watch him, I believe he's one of our top 2 PR options with Money.
it surprises me they chose a true freshman with all the return options that there are on the team. It will be interesting to see what happens. Of course the first think that has to happen is the defense has to force a punt.
KR: Money and LJ
PR: Lenz w/ Money backing up
I'm looking forward to having guys who can catch a punt AND than get some yards
I have to think Allen Bell gets in that mix at some point.
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KR: Money and LJ
PR: Lenz w/ Money backing up
I'm looking forward to having guys who can catch a punt AND than get some yards
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Healthcare | Depending on perspective, Sen. Reid's reform bill is either 'outstanding' or a 'turkey'
WASHINGTON-In a crowded conference room tucked inside the 1-year-old Capitol Visitors Center, top Senate Democrats Thursday lavished praise on their day-old $849 billion healthcare overhaul bill. In a pep rally-style atmosphere, the lawmakers-surrounded by white-coated, pro-reform medical professionals-used words like "really good," "outstanding," and "incredible" to describe a plan they say will insure an additional 31 million Americans while simultaneously reducing the deficit by $127 billion over the next decade.
"The momentum has now shifted to us," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "All the fears and negativity will be blown away."
But over at the Senate chamber, Republicans used very different words to describe the bill: massive, stunning, mammoth.
"Senator Reid's bill is appropriate for the season: It's the same turkey you didn't like in August, and it's not going to taste any better on Thanksgiving," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
The day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released his 2,074-page bill, Senate Democrats claimed that Congress is closer then ever to reforming healthcare while Republicans continued to urge the Democratic majority to slow down. Reid said at Thursday's rally that senators would get to make their first vote on the bill this Saturday, roughly 72 hours after the bill's release. Reid will need 60 votes to move forward on the measure and begin debate.
The bill includes a government-run insurance plan, called the "community health insurance option," that will compete against private insurers. It mandates that both individuals carry insurance and employers offer insurance or face penalties.
The bill unleashes complex federal regulations on the nation's healthcare system that many believe will drive up costs. It also expands federal subsidies to more Americans, which The Heritage Foundation predicts will make "scores of Americans dependent on the government to finance their healthcare."
To pay for it all, the bill cuts Medicare by $465 billion and raises taxes by $493 billion.
"[The] bill is government-centered, not patient-centered," said Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo. "It's chock-full of new taxes and higher healthcare costs that would threaten jobs, weaken our economy, punish families and small businesses trying to make ends meet, and stick our children and grandchildren with the bill."
The Senate bill also does not include strict limitations on taxpayer-funded abortions. It rejects language in the House healthcare bill that pro-life Democrats secured after successfully pressuring House leaders.
Rather than containing tight exclusions against federally funded abortions, the Senate version adopts an approach that could lead to the inclusion of abortion coverage in the bill's public option. It mandates the inclusion of at least one plan with elective abortion coverage in each state's health insurance exchange.
While wrapped in legal language, the intent of the eight pages in the bill devoted to abortion can be discerned by the way pro-abortion advocates have praised it while pro-life groups have attacked it.
"Reid has sought to please the militant minority that demands funding of abortion through federal programs, even though substantial majorities of Americans believe that abortion should be excluded from government-funded and government-sponsored health programs," said Douglas Johnson with the National Right to Life Committee.
At Thursday's rally, Reid said the bill's abortion provisions are "in keeping with what the traditions have been in our country for more than 30 years."
But his bill also empowers the Health and Human Services secretary to perform periodic updates of a qualified plan's essential benefits. Such a review could lead to a major change: the eventual inclusion of abortion as an essential benefit.


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Sports governing bodies from Japan and Australia are under fire after complaints that male Olympic athletes flew business class to the London Games, while the women sat in the cheap seats.
Japan's world champion women's football team took exception to flying economy while their male counterparts sat in business class on a flight to Europe for the Olympics.
The Japan Football Association said the men flew in business because they are professionals.
The women's team was assigned seats in premium economy for the 13-hour flight to Paris while the nation's under-23 men's team was up front on the same flight.
"It should have been the other way around," 2011 FIFA women's world player of the year Homare Sawa told Japanese media after arriving in the French capital. "Even just in terms of age we are senior."
Basketball Australia says it will review its travel policy for national teams after complaints that the men flew business class to the Olympics while most of the women sat in premium economy.
The women's team is by far the most successful of the two, having won silver medals at the last three Olympics. The men, who will be led in London by San Antonio Spurs point guard Patty Mills, have never won an Olympic medal.
Today, the sport's national governing body said it would "review our Olympic travel policy with the goal of ensuring there is equity between travel arrangements for the men's and women's teams attending future Olympics."
The Opals' most-famous player, though, was not in economy: Seattle WNBA star Lauren Jackson was in first class because she is an "ambassador" with the airline involved. And another WNBA player, Liz Cambage, paid to upgrade herself to business class.
In a statement, Basketball Australia acting chief executive Scott Derwin said the "policy around budgets for each national team gives the leadership group of those teams some discretion over how their funds are spent - and that includes travel arrangements.
Women's sport receives only 0.5% of the total sponsorship income into sport. Investec's deal with women's hockey (reportedly worth over £1.5 million) is one of the biggest deals on record.
61% of sports fans say they want to see more women's sport on TV
Girls leave school half as likely to meet recommend activity levels as boys but 61% say watching women win medals would inspire them to be more active/
Women's sport currently receives less than 5% sports press coverage - but when it is covered it gets great figures. 3 million people watched the England v France ¼ Final at the 2011 Women's World Cup live on BBC2.
"We should bear in mind that in fact, historically, more funding has been directed towards the Opals. But the simple fact is when a policy results in gender inequality, it's very clearly not the right policy."
Incoming BA chief executive Kristina Keneally, a former state political leader of New South Wales, will start in her new role on August 4. She said Friday she welcomed the travel policy review.
"In this day and age, there's just no excuse for men's and women's sporting teams to be treated differently when they both compete at the same world-class level," Ms Keneally said. "The disparity is even more glaring when you consider that our women's basketball team is one of the best in the world."
In London, Australian chef de mission Nick Green said the Australian Olympic Committee provides return economy airfares for all team members with the official airline sponsor.
"We're comfortable for the sports to look after their athletes," Green said. "We give them the travel subsidy to travel ... and the sports themselves determine how they use that."
Other Australian Olympic teams also fly economy, but some organisations, like Swimming Australia, give its athletes the option to upgrade to business class at their own expense.
Former Australian women's basketball captain Robyn Maher said the Australian women's team had repeatedly asked Basketball Australia to justify the inequity.
"Over the years it's been a multitude of (reasons given) - the men get better funding, so they've been able to do it; the men are bigger so they need more space," she told the Sydney Morning Herald. "It's been a bit of a sore spot, especially since the women are much more successful."


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Despite the tortured self-analysis some critics feel the need to use as ostensibly humbling preface for their top tens, at Reverse Shot we're thankful for best-of-year round-ups -- we savor any chance we get to reiterate our love for films that might not have had the benefit of a massive marketing team behind them. Pitting the year's best films against one another in a top-ten list may seem like an arbitrary comparison of national cinemas, moods, genres, and political statements, but it doesn't necessarily invalidate the act.
Furthermore, is compiling top tens really so arbitrary that we should include thirty-year-old films along with new ones? For that very reason Reverse Shot has always banned reissues and rediscoveries from our year end "election" -- this is a conscious political choice meant to better skew our lists towards the requirements of the present. (We'd wager our selection criteria aren't really all that far advanced from what the majority of Americans use to choose leaders--in the end we're all trying to reconcile immediate needs and concerns while keeping an eye towards posterity.) We don't mean to suggest that "Killer of Sheep" (or "Army of Shadows," a consensus favorite from last year) has nothing to offer the present moment -- it surely does, and the film would have placed highly had we included it -- but what these older films say to us "now" is always mediated by what the films tried to say to their lost "thens."
As usual, we polled our major contributors and staff writers, with the highest ranked film receiving the most votes, and the rest in descending order. An exciting line-up of daring movies, the resulting top ten stretches from Thailand to Portugal, with a few American pit stops in between. Here's hoping 2008 brings as much daunting, challenging cinema.
1 "Syndromes and a Century" It must sound insufferably pretentious and difficult to the uninitiated: we see two doctors, a man and a woman, meet in a rural hospital and then go about their daily lives; halfway through the film, we watch their initial meeting again, except the setting has changed to something modern, sleek, and urban. Scenes, images, and characters from the first half of the film continue to recur in its second half, more as echoes than mirror images. "Syndromes and a Century," like Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul's last film, "Tropical Malady," is a half-told love story twice told. But if it sounds like a movie only a critic could love, it plays like something entirely different -- funny, light on its feet, and delicately human. More a journey for the heart and the senses than a puzzle for the head, "Syndromes" demands that we let go of our need for everything in a movie to make sense and surrender ourselves to its sublime, mysterious beauty. In return, this strange and astonishing art work offers nothing less than the most joyful, rapturous moviegoing experience of the year. -CW
2. "There Will Be Blood" Right now, the critical community may be falling all over itself to find the appropriate superlatives for Paul Thomas Anderson's devilish, newly forged film frontier, but the real winners will be those who discover the film as it gradually rolls out over the next few months, years, even decades; whether or not it passes or fails as viable multiplex entertainment, "There Will Be Blood" will remain ripe for wrestling, discussion, and giddy bafflement for generations to come. To all the naysayers who think the outlandish praise is generous at best, it must be stated that the response says less about the film itself than the way film criticism has changed: in the mad dash for instant response, everyone wants to be the first to notice genius. And anyone who knows anything about filmmaking knows there's genius here: in the rattling extremes of hush and fury, in the gripping visual discordance between Daniel Day-Lewis's beanpole behemoth Daniel Plainview and Anderson's horizontal widescreen glories, in the elegant time jumps and abstract cacophonies. To say that Anderson is merely patching together his greatest movie hits (Scorsese, Altman, Malick, zzzzzz....) is like condemning Fassbinder for reappropriating Sirk or dismissing "Chinatown" for "riffing" on noir. "There Will Be Blood" needs to be measured on its own terms -- and it's thrillingly, beguilingly, oddly huge, not to mention the year's most effective political American film. -MK
3. "I'm Not There" "Don't Look Back," "Eat the Document," Alias in "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," "Masked and Anonymous" -- as these titles announce, "I'm Not There" is not the first movie to frame Bob Dylan in terms of negation and shapeshifting. Much as "Far From Heaven" inhabited and reworked melodrama, Todd Haynes's latest work of creative reenactment extensively cites and quotes Dylan's own poses and words (skim a book of Dylan interviews or an "Eat the Document" bootleg to see just how much). But while this performed pastiche has obsessed both proponents and detractors, I'll say it again: "I'm Not There" actually comes alive through the frisson and the nuance of its personalities, like Carl Franklin's wise boy wonder, Christian Bale's overgrown, long-gone evangelist, or the grounded, reverse-shot presence of Charlotte Gainsbourg. It's possible to imagine other "I'm Not There"s, even to long for the astringency of Peter Watkins's "Edvard Munch," but Haynes's movie made for one of the year's most engaging experiments. -NR
4. "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days" The unlucky triumvirate of "Juno," "Waitress," and "Knocked Up," in which unwanted and highly problematic pregnancies are undertaken with casual can-do and a beauty-of-unborn-life attitude that, however unintentionally, plays into the hands of pro-lifers, only makes the necessity of Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'or-winner all the more apparent. Even more exciting, Mungiu creates not a reducible tract on a specific social problem but an expansive, humane look at the limited avenues of women in Ceausescu-era Romania, and a cathartic, expertly crafted drama about the self-preservation of desperate alienated people. Forget the film's much argued "money shot" (though, admittedly, it's hard to) and marvel over how Mungiu stages a simple single-take dinner scene that's as tense as any of Javier Bardem's devil's bargains or "Zodiac"'s dead-end interrogations, or how, most importantly, Mungiu allows his main actress, the spellbinding Anamaria Marinca, to intuitively feel out situations so dramatically fraught they would give Daniel Plainview heart palpitations. -MK
5. "Regular Lovers" Philippe Garrel's ode to May '68 and the long morning after forgoes the simplistic tactics of celebration, condemnation, or exploitation for an austere yet tender depiction of his youthful, would-be revolutionaries. Garrel's penchant for the mythological undoes the cultural mythmaking that surrounds the French May and brings it into the present tense, even as he hearkens back to the archetypal Ur-forms it sought to emulate, in the charmingly straightfaced fantasy sequences wherein 20th century youth transmute into 18th century sans-culottes. This forthright parallel has less to with the ideology of the event than its emotion and, one might say, its magic -- as well as that of film itself, which the director has long ingenuously regarded as a transparent window into the psyche and the soul. Garrel's striking horizontal compositions and William Lubtchansky's ethereal black-and-white cinematography not only create a remarkable texture of cut-rate authenticity but evokes the fantastical element inherent in the medium itself. The use of irises, jump cuts, and white flare-outs are not cute devices but evocations of cinema's beginnings in all its alchemical innocence, which Garrel aligns with the naive beauty of his young protagonists. Though relentlessly clear-eyed and free of self-flattery, Garrel's vision of '68 is not a tale of historical defeat but eternal recurrence, a paean to youth that views it as a well to ceaselessly return to rather than a moment to be irretrievably lost. -AT
6. "No Country for Old Men" After a recent run of comedic duds, Joel and Ethan Coen have with "No Country for Old Men" returned to their strength -- noirish stories suffused with off-beat detail and a sly subversion of generic pleasures. This time the pleasures the Brothers provide in their meticulously and laconically constructed set pieces, featuring macho men dueling it out with hunters' acumen, are undermined by a faithful and genuine visual approximation of Cormac McCarthy's novelistic dread. It's been a long time ("Miller's Crossing") since the Coens have tilted in the direction of seriousness rather than irony in regard to their characters. Like little else currently showing, "No Country for Old Men" struggles almost religiously with the specter of violence and the inevitability of chaos, ennobling characters who are left, like its audience, to face the void with no false and condescending sense of succor. -MJR
7 "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone" A companion piece and rejoinder to his unfairly dismissed relationship drama-cum-porn musical "The Wayward Cloud," "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone" finds Tsai Ming-liang in a quiet and tender place. And I mean "quiet" quite literally: in dual roles (one, as a comatose patient, the other as a homeless man) the film's star and Tsai regular Lee Kang-sheng has little to say but a vast emotional terrain to navigate in this, Tsai's first film set in his native Malaysia. It's no exaggeration to assert that Tsai may have the most rigorous command of framing and mise-en-scene of any director working in the world right now, and "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone" offers ample evidence to support the claim, from its first frame to its breathtakingly exquisite last shot. Here is a story of longing and alienation, loneliness and desire, told with little more than a mattress, some gas masks, and a funny little lamp. It's pure filmmaking -- the kind that simply defies words. -CW
8. "Zodiac" Who knew the director of kinetic disturbances like "Seven" and "Fight Club" was capable of such profound restraint? In the unshakably haunting "Zodiac," David Fincher subdues that trademark visual virtuosity honed through years of making music videos to devastating effect. Aided by the beautiful, textured digital cinematography of Harris Savides, the director's stylistic shifting of gears imparts his period piece a perfectly suited atmosphere of dread. Tracking the ultimately stymied, decades-long search for the eponymous murderer, "Zodiac" exhilaratingly frustrates the impulses latent in its composite construction of serial killer/backstage newsroom/police procedural genres at every turn. In place of action-packed set pieces, it leaves room for existential contemplation, and real-life letdown replaces cathartic takedown: "Zodiac" upends "Dirty Harry" mythology, and turns the psychological profile of the studio epic on its head. The successive defeat of the three perfectly cast potential heroes -- the newspaper cartoonist (Jake Gyllenhaal), journalist (Robert Downey, Jr.), and chief investigator (Mark Ruffalo) -- unravels in a manner that shocks even if you know the string of murders remain among the most famous of unsolved crimes. There's no one to save the day here, and Fincher, in sticking closely to the facts, and refusing to provide the audience either cheap thrills or closure, creates as breathtakingly uncompromised a vision as American cinema has seen. -KM
9. "Offside" Nothing against Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis," but let's face it: it's a depressing comment on the state of the foreign film -- and Iranian cinema in particular -- in the U.S that more people will have seen that slight charmer in a week than saw Jafar Panahi's "Offside" in its entire run. It's particularly galling because "Offside" is as close to a crowd-pleaser as the art house gets. This ingenious act of subversion follows a group of girls who try to attend a soccer match between Iran and Bahrain -- a freedom denied women in the Islamic republic. Considering its portentous subject, "Offside" is miraculously dexterous, not to mention less despairing than its brilliant predecessors, "The Circle" and "Crimson Gold." Panahi presents the standoff between the girls and their guards as less a dramatic showdown than a farcical joust of wits -- with the male rubes completely overmatched. Shot digitally guerrilla-style, the movie cloaks its polemics in engrossing neorealism. "Offside" suggests a society united in tacit opposition to a repressive regime. Panahi ends it all with the year's most euphoric coda, set amid the actual street celebrations following Iran's victory, a riotous national party that hangs in the air like a promise. -EV
10. "Colossal Youth" In a year of movie miracles large and small, Pedro Costa may have been responsible for the most astonishing in "Colossal Youth": he stopped time. And then, for good measure, he sped it up, slowed it back down again, stretched as if it were putty, skipped it like a stone across a lake. His DV poem to Portuguese slum living, edited from hundreds of hours shot over years into a lyrical and lulling three-hour epic, flirts with narrative coherence, but culminates in the actualization of a new kind of film logic, one that draws equally from Robert Bresson's harsh elisions and the concrete stasis of installation video. "Colossal Youth" demands we engage with it, but cares little if we do so by vigorously grappling with its knotty strands, walking out in frustration, or simply closing our eyes and letting the ambient sound carry the experience. (Maybe we should call it this year's "Inland Empire.") What happens in "Colossal Youth"? Not much, and a great deal. Thankfully Costa's located the striking non-actor Ventura and placed him as our avatar -- finding one's way through this physical and intellectual labyrinth isn't an easy prospect. But then, ease of operation shouldn't be what we look to great art for. With Ventura leading, "Colossal Youth" takes us to places most Western critics probably don't even know they wouldn't want to visit, and the film is valuable for that, but more so for paving a path forward for high art cinema in the digital age. I'm guessing years, and many more Pedro Costa films, will pass before "Colossal Youth" winds its way to the light of broader approbation, but this is a film that certainly isn't in much of a hurry to get anywhere. Vote for Pedro, indeed. -JR
[Capsules written by Reverse Shot staff writers. Critics from Reverse Shot write weekly film reviews for indieWIRE.]


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It's good to be Jennet Chow.
Or maybe I should say, it's good to be friends with Jennet Chow.
Not only does the Chinese American own adorable shoe line Jellypop [1] and its sister shoe company Prima Royale, but for her 30th birthday, she decided it'd be a good excuse to give back to her friends and family with a huge Thank You party. Yup, Jennet was hitting the milestone, but she was treating her friends to all manner of sweets (gastronomic and otherwise) at her Southern California home.
Flowers by Fleuretica decorated the Chows' home.
From left: Kendra Liu-Ackerman, Jellypop owner and creative director Jennet Chow, Euri Wong, and Kelley Lee Gin, with their Jellypop gift bags.
For the party, Jennet called in some flavorful favors from friends. Flowers were courtesy of Fleuretica [2], a company run by two Asian American women, Euri Wong and Kendra Liu Ackerman. And Popisme Dessert Concierge [3], run by Asian American Kelley Lee Gin, along with Wong and Ackerman, set up an amazing "hanging" dessert bar.
The "floating" dessert bar by Popisme.
Guests noshed on pistachio macaroons, sea salt caramel macaroons, kiwi tarts, white chocolate cream puffs and chocolate chip cookie milk shooters.
Popisme offered delectables like pistachio macaroons and sea salt caramel macaroons.
White chocolate cream puffs by Popisme.
And what's a party without some gorgeous baubles? Guests perused two jewelry lines, both owned by Asian Americans. Lucky Grace features beautiful jewelry handmade by Grace Lu, and Matt Wang showed off Guy and Eva [4] pieces.
Lucky Grace jewelry by Grace Lu.
And of course, there were plenty of Jellypop shoes to sweeten the aesthetic palate. With dainty floral prints, stripes and wovens, candy-sweet hues, and lacy, ruffled details, the shoes were a perfect complement to the dessert bar and décor.
As sweet as can be, Jellypop shoes and look book images.
Jellypop shoes were prominently on display.
Want a taste of the sweet life? In another post, we're giving away Jellypop shoes [5], so scroll down!
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"The Informant!" is a hoot, an ever-escalating tale of corporate crime, greed and out-and-out craziness.
Naturally, it's based on a true story.
Matt Damon, beefed up and doughy, is outstanding as Mark Whitacre, a troubled high-ranking executive at food-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland who, in the early 1990s, provided damning information on the company's price-fixing practices (which he also participated in).
Director Steven Soderbergh expertly builds the story layer upon layer; what appears to be a simple case of a whistleblower becomes a comedy of lies and delusion, with emphasis on comedy.
The story is much more complex than it seems, in part because of the byzantine nature of corporate price-fixing, in larger part because Whitacre himself is such a bizarre, complicated fellow. He's a brilliant man, loves his family and his job. But a lot is going on beneath the wonkish exterior.
Whitacre tells his bosses that a mole is tipping off Japanese competitors about his company's work on lysine, an animal-feed additive the company couldn't get to work right. The FBI is called in; agent Brian Shepard (Scott Bakula) stops by Whitacre's enormous home to tap his phone line so investigators can listen in on the next call from Japan. Whitacre is happily compliant - and then his wife, Ginger (Melanie Lynskey), demands that he tell Shepard everything. Say what? Reluctantly at first, then enthusiastically, Whitacre begins spilling details about an enormous international price-fixing scheme that has ADM at its center.
Shepard, of course, is intrigued. Will Whitacre wear a wire? Oh, yeah. Whitacre jumps at the chance, relishing the notion of playing spy. Shepard and his partner, Robert Herndon (Joel McHale), are bemused by Whitacre's zeal but also are under pressure from their superiors to make a case. It takes time; Whitacre tapes conversations and meetings for more than two years.
Then things get really weird. The price-fixing is real. But the rest of Whitacre's story - the rest of his life, in fact - begins to spring leaks.
Soderbergh treats the story with a genial amusement, giving the film an off-kilter charm. Yes, the story is based on fact, but the director's perspective is skewed. The casting, for instance, is both bizarre and inspired. Bakula hasn't been this good since . . . well, ever. Who would have thought of him for this role? McHale is host of "The Soup" on E! and Tony Hale, who plays one of Whitacre's increasingly frustrated attorneys, is best known as Buster from "Arrested Development." Even the Smothers brothers get in on the act, with Tommy playing ADM's chairman and Dick playing a judge. Marvin Hamlisch has fun with a goofy score, and Damon has a voiceover that occasionally explains what's going on but also veers off into funny non-sequiturs, providing both laughs and a clue into the different way Whitacre's mind works.
Damon is the linchpin, and he's fantastic. For the movie to work, Whitacre has to be a sympathetic character. If we resent him or, worse, dislike him - and as the story unfolds, that becomes more and more a possibility - there's nothing to care about. No worries. Damon mixes humor and self-delusion with ease, which is no easy task. Along with Soderbergh's generous sense of whimsy, he keeps "The Informant!" entertaining throughout.
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Pitt County Sheriff Neil Elks has some words of advice for parents as their kids are getting set for summer vacation. Keep tabs on them to keep them from getting into trouble.
Sheriff Elks' comments came after several car break-ins recently- the latest Wednesday night just off of Highway 43 near Manning Road and Ivy Road. He says the previous break-ins were mostly done by teenagers. Elks says the rate of these crimes could go up once school lets out in a few weeks, and he blames their parents.
"Responsibility of knowing where your kids are, being responsible, setting curfews, knowing where your children are. Do them a favor. Make them come home instead of letting them be out in the streets committing crimes," said Elks.
Sheriff Elks says the easiest way to prevent your car from being broken into, is to simply lock your door.


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I've been experiementing with mounting our accounts via webDAV on OS X.
I noticed when mounting the folder (https://proxy/dav/username) Access feels sluggish and I cannot successfully upload any files in any of my folders.
I can create new folders, and upload 0 byte files
I then unmounted the webDAV folder and mounted the mailbox server my account is on directly: https://mailbox2/dav/username and I have no issues. I can puruse the folders quickly, and successfully upload files.
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Their starting pitcher did not have his best stuff, they could not take full advantage of opportunities, and they were staring at a defeat.
And in the dugout, manager Kirk Gibson was devising schemes and strategy. It seemed like the perfect scenario for the Diamondbacks to get yet another improbable victory.
This time, however, they could not find the last-second magic - but they did find a silver lining in the loss to one of the poorer teams in baseball.
Despite a 5-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates in front of 30,114 at Chase Field on Tuesday night, the Diamondbacks' magic number to clinch the National League West was reduced to three, as the San Francisco Giants dropped a 2-1 decision to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
"I've said all along, we've got to worry about ourselves," Gibson said. "We've lost some games, it's going to happen. It's just when it comes down to it at the end of the season like this, for whatever reason, it just never works out that things are going to come off easy.
"It just doesn't happen that way. We accept that. It's what we're in the game for. We accept it, it's a good feeling."
Gibson said he does not think about when his team will clinch a postseason berth.
"I just know we just keep pushing ahead game by game, try to play a good game, pitch good, execute better at the plate, and I believe things will take care of themselves," Gibson said.
It was as rough outing for Daniel Hudson (16-11). He lasted five innings, was touched up for seven hits and left trailing 3-0. Hudson, who had a no-decision against the Pirates earlier in the season, dropped his second start in a row. He threw 103 pitches, struck out four and walked three.
"He wasn't getting the ball where he wanted to put it, and they pounded it," Gibson said. "Give them credit. He made some mistakes, and they got on it.
"He gets made at himself, just trying to be perfect; just didn't work out that way."
Eager for more runs with a 3-0 lead, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle lifted starting pitcher Charlie Morton for a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning, much to the relief of the Diamondbacks, who had managed only three hits. Morton (10-10) handcuffed the Diamondbacks and made his night even more satisfying with a couple of hits to improve his .043 batting average. He pitched six innings, limiting the Diamondbacks to three hits, and struck out five. He got a huge lift from third baseman Pedro Alvarez, who homered and made three standout defensive plays.
The Diamondbacks jumped on two relievers and cut the margin to 3-1 on Willie Bloomquist's RBI single. After those three consecutive hits, however, the Diamondbacks made three quick outs.
The Pirates got two runs in the top of the eighth, but the Diamondbacks trimmed the deficit to 5-3 with a pair in their half of the inning.
Bloomquist was right in the middle of that surge, too. After Ryan Roberts singled home Chris Young, Gerardo Parra singled; Bloomquist then bunted, with Roberts scoring while Alvarez's throw sailed past first base.
Despite an uneven effort, Gibson praised his team's no-quit mind-set.
"We remained aggressive," he said. "I loved that."
The tone was set in the first inning, and it was this: It was not going to be the Diamondbacks' night. With two runners on and two outs, Pirates right fielder Garrett Jones made a diving catch to rob Paul Goldschmidt of extra bases and save two runs. Though the Diamondbacks would have a few opportunities later, they could not get the lead. Those two early runs could have swung the momentum in their direction.
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We discuss this week's top stories, from Scott Brown's steps toward a run for Senate in New Hampshire, to new security measures for this year's Boston Marathon, to the ongoing debate over whether to increase the minimum wage in Massachusetts.
Jim O'Sullivan, political reporter for The Boston Globe and politics editor for Boston.com. He tweets at @JOSreports.
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The Boston Globe: DeLeo Joins Effort To Raise Minimum Wage
- "Massachusetts House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo Thursday proposed gradually raising the state's minimum wage from $8 to $10.50 an hour by the middle of 2016, brightening prospects for a wage hike to become law this year."
The New York Times: Breaking Out Of The Library Mold, In Boston And Beyond
- "That will be evident at the Boston library's new section for teenagers. Teen Central is to become what is known as "homago" space — where teenagers can "hang out, mess around and geek out." It will include lounges, restaurant booths, game rooms and digital labs, as well as software and equipment to record music and create comic books."
WBUR: Fox Cuts Ties With Brown As He Explores Senate Bid
- "Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown has notified executives at Fox News Channel that he intends to form an exploratory committee to enter New Hampshire's U.S. Senate race against Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a move cheered by Republicans in New Hampshire and Washington."
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Every episode of Bill Ruppert's Effectology - a series where he creates classic sounds using effects pedals in a modular synth style manner - is fascinating.
The latest episode, though, is especially fun as Ruppert recreates Delia Derbyshire's vintage electronic arrangement of the original Dr. Who theme, using just a guitar and Electro-Harmonix effects pedals.
No keyboards, samplers or midi pickups were used.
Details on Ruppert's settings are available at the EHX forum.
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Am I the only one in a little bit of disbelief that Easter is right around the corner? I guess it is unusually early this year, but still… it snuck up on me.
Luckily, there's always Pinterest to turn to when holiday inspiration is needed. I thought I'd share a few of my favorite Pinterest Easter Finds in case any of you are looking for something yummy to bring to a family celebration.
Cadbury Crème Egg Cupcakes
I actually have two versions of Cadbury Crème Egg cupcakes pinned. The first version, from Pizzazzerie has a Cadbury Egg baked inside of the cupcake.
The second version, from Culinary Concoctions by Peabody has a Cadbury Crème Egg Filling Buttercream Frosting… whoa.
Unfortunately, Windows Live Writer isn't allowing me to add a picture of these cupcakes, but you can check them out here.
Admittedly, I've never been a huge fan of Cadbury Crème Eggs, but Chris is, so I want to make one of these versions for him.
Easter Bunny Bait
This recipe, created by Sweep Tight, is similar to Puppy Chow. I love the presentation idea, too. This would be a great, homemade gift idea (similar tins are available in the $1 section at Target!).
Peanut Butter Cookie Pie
Crazy for Crust is a woman after my own heart. Peanut butter? Yum! Cookie pie? Double yum! This could really be for any occasion, but the pastel-colored peanut M&Ms add a nice touch for Easter.
Mexican Deviled Eggs
I've had these deviled eggs from Run Pretty pinned for a while now. Deviled eggs are a staple within my family, and I'd love to give these a try. The addition of avocado, jalapenos, cilantro, and cayenne pepper are what make them "Mexican." I highly doubt my presentation would look anything close to these, though!
As you can see, my Easter pins are heavy on the sweets! My mom is hosting Easter this year, and I want to bring a side dish. So, my question to you all is…
What's your favorite, Easter-appropriate side dish? Feel free to include links!
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Two American wives with very different views on how best to raise a family, embed themselves in each other's broods for ten days to discover if they can change their outlook or learn something from their way of life. In this series, a thrifty wife swaps with a big spender.
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PITTSFORD, N.Y. — The last time Morgan Pressel won on the LPGA Tour, it was 2008, so long ago that Annika Sorenstam was not yet a mother and was still furthering her Hall of Fame legacy.
That's quite an epoch — 106 starts to be exact — for a player who has been considered one of America's premier talents, a player who still holds the LPGA's record for being the youngest major champion when she won the 2007 Kraft Nabisco at 18 years, 10 months of age.
"It was a long time ago," Pressel said Saturday after shooting a 2-under-par 70 in the second round of the Wegmans LPGA Championship. "I've been through a lot since then. A lot has happened in golf and life, but that being said, I've done it before. So I just need to go out there and remember that I can do it and just get it done."
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Earning her first victory since Kapalua in '08 won't be easy, not with the world's No. 1 player, Inbee Park, winner of five tournaments in the last calendar year, walking side by side with her for all 36 holes that are scheduled to be played Sunday.
However, Pressel will start the day at 6-under-par 138, two strokes ahead of both Park, who shot 68 to sit at 140, and first-round leader Chella Choi (73-140), and she'll do so with renewed confidence in her re-emerging game.
"I feel like I've been very close for a couple of months now, and I just haven't been able to put it all together," said Pressel, who hasn't led at the mid-point of a tournament since 2008, right here at Locust Hill, when she ultimately faded to a tie for 10th.
"The times when I hit every fairway and hit every green I wasn't making the putts that I needed to, and the times when I had my putter rolling, my swing was just a little bit off. This week I feel like I've put it all together."
Pressel said she hurt her wrist last year at Locust Hill and battled through it the rest of 2012 and early into 2013. Finally, she's playing mostly pain-free and she's starting to hit the ball with more consistency.
"My wrist is fine," she said. "I hit it out of the rough a few more times today, but it's still OK. And you know, I'm not worried about it. I'll get a little bit ahead of it, certainly ice it tonight and take some Advil and anti-inflamatories just to prevent anything. If it hurts me on Monday, well, then that'll be OK. As long as it doesn't bother me (Sunday)."
A total of 77 players made the cut which fell at 6-over 150. The world's No. 2 player, Stacy Lewis, has had a tough time and she's eight strokes back at 146, one shot better than both Cristie Kerr and Paula Creamer.
Choi played the soggy layout six strokes worse than she did on Friday and was in the clubhouse at 4-under right around the time Pressel began her round.
"I think the course is really hard, fairways so small and greens are small," Choi, a South Korean, said. "I played really good yesterday, so I have confidence better than the last couple weeks. So I think just trust my swing and focus on my every shot."
For awhile it looked as if Pressel might run away from Choi and everyone else. She almost made birdie on her first hole, No. 10, then made a six-footer for birdie at 11 to take a lead she never lost. Nice par saves at 12 and 13 were followed by back-to-back birdies at 14 and 15. She hit a 4-hybrid to seven feet at 14, and stuck an 8-iron to 10 feet at 15 to get to 7-under.
There was a stumble when she pushed her drives at 16 and 18 into the right rough and bogeyed both, then blew her birdie putt at No. 2 about 10 feet past the hole. But she made that to save par, and it steadied her for the finish as she parred every hole but No. 8 where she made a four-footer for birdie.
"That was a big putt, for sure," she said. "That green had a lot of casual water on the front. I was a little bit surprised by that, and I think that I just thought it would slow my putt down a lot more than it apparently did and I hit it way too hard."
Park played the kind of round she has played so often for the past year with five birdies against a lone bogey and before you knew it, there she was, right in the hunt.
Pressel knows the challenge she has in front of her, but playing next to Park — against whom she has competed since their junior golf days — won't be an issue.
"Inbee and I have played together for a long time, since we were very young, in South Florida, and I'm looking forward to playing with her," Pressel said. "She's a great champion, and she's certainly won a lot out here. I'm just going to go out there and play my own game and try not to worry about what she's doing and see where that stacks up at the end of the day."
Sal Maiorana writes for the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle.


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Twitter, the social networking site used by millions across the world, will begin to restrict its tweets. In a blog titled "Tweets still must flow" , Twitter announced that it may need to withold tweets in certain countries as it begins global expansion plans.
"Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world," Twitter said in a post on 27 January.
If a tweet is restricted, a grey box will pop up on the feed: "Tweet withheld,"it would read "This tweet from @username has been withheld in: Country."
It's a marked shift from a year ago, when Twitter posted a blog in the early stages of the Arab Spring. Their stance at that time was focused on the pioneering role that Twitter used the blog to promote free communication.
"Our position on freedom of expression carries with it a mandate to protect our users' right to speak freely and preserve their ability to contest having their private information revealed."
However this year's Twitter blog is far more careful, curious given Twitter's historical legacy for being used in countries rife with repression. Their position on censorious nations is clear:
As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there"
Twitter was most famously used to organize political change during the Arab Spring, so much so that Google launched a voice to Twitter service to help suffocated communication in Egypt.
In Mexico, Twitter is used to warn others of gang violence and illuminate the organised crime that the media is too scared to report.
Riot Clean Up in London was organised via twitter, although the August disturbances also proved that social media can be used for more disruptive purposes.
Twitter has pledged that though some tweets will be removed when they breach laws in one country, they will be able to be seen from elsewhere. It uses the example of Germany and France where laws ban pro Nazi content being broadcast. However, Mark Gibbs points out in a blog article for Forbes, if an algorithm is used to detect pro-Nazi tweets, will it pick up sarcasm?
Twitter's promised to continue to support free speech, and alert users whenver it witholds something and why.
"We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can, and we will be transparent with users when we can't. The tweets must continue to flow."
However some users are so angry they have pledged to boycott the social networking site on 28 January. Hashtags #TwitterBlackout" and #TwitterCensored are being used to complain of the new policy. Facebook and Google already employ policies similar to Twitter's micro censorship


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The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This book is neither a history nor a survey but a comparative phenomenology. Concentrating on five major cults. In defining the mysteries and describing their rituals, membership, organization, and dissemination, Walter Burkert displays the remarkable erudition we have come to expect of him; he also shows sensitivity and sympathy in interpreting the experiences and motivations of the devotees.
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KNOXVILLE (WATE) — As freeze warnings are forecast for East Tennessee, it's time to protect your plants.
Bring outdoor potted plants inside during frost warnings. But be sure to put them back outside when temperatures increase.
For plants that are planted outside, make sure there's anywhere between two to four inches of mulch around them. That keeps the ground protected from freezing overnight.
When covering plants, one suggestion is hammering stakes around the perimeter. Then put a plastic or blanket cover over the stakes. This keeps leaves and branches from breaking.
For smaller plants, cover them with an upside down cardboard box. But remove the box as temperatures rise.
A good rule of thumb for the best time to cover plants is right before sunset. That traps some of the day's heat.
If there's damage to plants, decrease watering to avoid root rot. And hold off on pruning damage from plants. Some growth may return in spring.


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girl [needs to] meet health.
Making the shift from Girl Meets Health to Girl Meets Life was a decision that I've never regretted. It left me feeling a greater self of freedom, creativity, and made blogging much more enjoyable.
There is one and one thing only that I miss about GMH: it gave me a sense of accountability, which made my vegetable intake hit an all time high. Ever since I stopped posting the majority of my eats, though, I barely eat any vegetables at all. I'm talking…having two servings of vegetables would constitute a good day for me 😕
And that needs to change.
You see, even though health isn't a major passion of mine, it is definitely still one of my top priorities. When it comes to my diet, I lean more in the direction of adding as many nutrient-rich foods as I possibly can (rather than restricting or cutting anything out). And, as much as I would like to fool myself, opting for an apple fritter instead of a scone doesn't exactly count.
I thought about creating a challenge for myself, but I'm not really into that sort of thing. Instead, I'm just going to…well…try harder to eat more vegetables! That shouldn't be too difficult because I really DO like vegetables (preferably when they're cooked and/or covered in some type of dressing). I guess it's just more of a "I'm too lazy to prep and cook vegetables" sort of thing.
Since I despise wasting food, the best way to get myself to eat more vegetables is to simply buy them. So, I raided the produce store today and got a whole slew of vegetables, including Kabocha squash. I've seen Kabocha all over the blog world, but this was my first time trying it.
I've seen prettier vegetables, that's for sure. I must admit that there was some intimidation going on…primarily because knives and I aren't the best of friends. But I didn't let that stop me. I found a reliable tutorial, rolled up my sleeves, and got to work.
Per HEAB's method, I roasted the Kabocha for 40 minutes on 425 degrees. It turned out perfectly soft and somewhat caramelized.
The taste, though? Not a huge fan. It was a tad too pumpkin-y for my liking, and the skin was way too tough. I think I'll stick to butternut squash in the future.
The squash certainly didn't go to waste, though. I added some to the veggie bowl that I made for dinner, which included roasted brussels sprouts, carrots, and spinach. I topped everything with coconut butter and hummus.
I rounded the meal out with a peanut butter-filled tortilla (for a very Gabriela-esque meal, wouldn't you say?).
Moral of the story: I need to meet health again…in the veggie department, at least. Oh, and I don't really like Kabocha. NBD.
How many servings of veggies do you average per day? Any tips/recipes I should try?


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