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McGregor, N.D. : Herald Pub. Co.
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 22, 1914)-v. 9, no. 47 (Dec. 29, 1922).
Published Weekly in English language.
Other information: "Hamlet times" began as back page of McGregor herald but did not continue as a separate paper: (Mar. 19-June 18, 1914.)
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If the ties between the NHL lockout and politics were not clear already, Monday's revelation from Deadspin that the league hired Republican messaging mastermind Frank Luntz to do focus-group research on fans brought it home. The news itself was not surprising—any corporation worth its salt does focus groups, and there is little doubt that the NHL has gauged fan opinions in similar ways before—but the release of the contents of Luntz's survey raised eyebrows about how the owners are trying to frame their message in what has been a losing PR battle against the NHLPA.
Luntz does not come cheap, so without revenue from tickets or concessions, it is in the league's best interest to avoid having to go back to him before the lockout ends. With that in mind, Sporting News has generously put together a follow-up survey, and by going public with it, allows fans to voice their opinions on key issues directly to hockey's higher-ups.
Here is the survey. Please mark all answers clearly.
UPDATE: The owners have made a 50/50 offer to the NHLPA
DIRECTIONS: This survey will help us to know where you, the fan, stand on the key issues of the NHL lockout, and the future of top-flight pro hockey in North America. Before you begin, please rate your feelings on the lockout on a scale of 1-10, with "1" meaning that you fully side with the PLAYERS, "10" meaning that you fully side with the OWNERS, and "N/A" meaning that you fully side with the FANS.
Exercise 1
Imagine that it is a weekend in hockey season with no NHL hockey. What will you do to fill the void?
a. Watch other hockey in person
b. Watch other hockey on TV
c. Watch/attend other sporting events
d. Watch something else on TV
e. Spend time with friends and family nowhere near a TV or sports
f. Hey, did you know that if I buy beer at the supermarket, it's not $7 a cup?
Exercise 2a
Which of the following statements about the owners' position in the NHL labor dispute do you agree with? Mark up to three.
— The owners' spending spree over the summer, including the crying-poor Minnesota Wild spending $196 million on two players, shows that NHL owners are incapable of financial self-control without stricter rules in place, and without those rules, teams will just bankrupt themselves.
— Players are paid too much money.
— With the rising costs of jet fuel and massage therapists, there is no way the NHL can continue to pay players the dollar figures that they agreed to pay, even the dollar figures that they agreed to pay the day after Gary Bettman cited jet fuel and massage therapists as reasons to lock out the players.
— The NHL's last CBA was "more fair" than it should have been.
— It is the responsibility of taxpayers to build brand new arenas, or owners can freely threaten to move to Seattle or Quebec.
— The players have a responsibility to work with the owners in a partnership to ensure the future of the game.
— Revenue sharing is a nice idea, and worth including in a CBA, but does not matter unless the sharing comes from the new money owners will be making with a more favorable HRR split. Otherwise, it's just redistribution of existing wealth.
— Donald Fehr is a big meanie.
Exercise 2b
Which of the following statements about the players' position in the NHL labor dispute do you agree with? Mark up to three.
— The owners operate a government-legalized cartel, which is totally a new thing and not the way it has been in every major sport for years.
— Because the players agreed to a 57% share of hockey-related revenue in the last CBA, anything short of that figure in the future is unacceptable.
— Major League Baseball hasn't had a work stoppage since the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. Hockey should copy baseball, and maybe think about getting rid of the ice in favor of grass and dirt. It's cold, for crying out loud.
— The players just want to play hockey. This isn't about the money. It's the principle of the thing.
— You have to spend money to make money.
— There is no urgency to put a new labor proposal on the table because union members are finding work in Europe, and players still get signing-bonus money, and injured guys get paid, and other players are in the AHL, so what's the big deal anyway?
— Wayne Gretzky thinks the lockout will be over by January, and you don't want to make The Great One look the fool, do you?
— Gary Bettman is a big meanie.
Exercise 3
Luntz Global's survey of NHL fans included a picture of the late Derek Boogaard to symbolize fighting in the NHL, which was either an honest mistake by a non-hockey fan intern tasked with finding a picture of an NHL fight, or the subversive act of a mole at Luntz Global. Either way, do you think that person is still employed today? Please circle your answer.
Exercise 4
What will you miss most about the NHL if there is no 2012-13 season? Please underline your answer.
a. The thrill of seeing the best players in the world do amazing things on a nightly basis.
b. The drama of the playoffs, where anything can happen, exemplified by the 2012 Kings.
c. The fun of going to the arena and getting to scream for my favorite team.
d. The ecstasy of forgetting about the problems of ordinary life for a few hours.
e. The joy of booing Gary Bettman when he presents the Stanley Cup to the new champion.
Exercise 5
When the NHL does return, it will not be easy to make things up to fans, who have been the real losers of this whole situation from the jump. What should the league and the individual teams do? Please mark all that apply.
— Paint "Thank You Fans" on the ice, as in 2005.
— Lower ticket prices, offer free parking to season-ticket holders, more giveaways, etc.
— Supplement the shootout with the new "super shootout," in which the goalies are blindfolded, and also are the shooters.
— Promise never to have another lockout again.
— Actually never have another lockout again.
— Let fans drive the Zamboni.
— Free NHL Center Ice television package every Saturday night.
— Clone Teemu Selanne
— Play with two pucks at once, for double the action!
— Promise to never again associate with Jay Mohr, Nickelback, or Mike Milbury.
Exercise 6
Should the NHL continue to allow players to go to the Olympics? Please circle your answer.
Exercise 7
Last year, the NHL announced a realignment plan from six divisions to four conferences. The NHLPA would not go along with it. What do you think the NHL should do to get the Winnipeg Jets out of the Southeast Division? Please circle your answer.
a. Convince the NHLPA that a four-conference system is the answer, and add two expansion teams over the next five years to balance each conference with eight teams.
b. Convince the NHLPA that a four-conference system is the answer, and contract two teams, then add four expansion teams so that the NHL can reap more expansion fees.
c. Instead of fewer divisions and conferences, split the NHL into 30 one-team divisions, thereby allowing each team to claim a championship every year.
d. Move Columbus to the Eastern Conference so the Blue Jackets can have more legitimate regional rivals, and dismiss the Red Wings' pleas to join the East because they do just fine anyway, and for crying out loud, they should always be in direct competition with the Blackhawks. How hard is this, really?
e. This fall's utter lack of hockey has made me realize that this doesn't really matter so much. Put Winnipeg in the Pacific Division for all I care. Just get back on the ice.
Exercise 8
Which former player, now on the ownership side, would you want to see called in to sort out this mess? Please cross out all answers that would be unacceptable.
1. Brendan Shanahan
2. Mario Lemieux
3. Cam Neely
4. Steve Yzerman
5. Glen Sather
6. Joe Nieuwendyk
7. Jim Rutherford
8. Marc Bergevin
9. Don Maloney
10. Garth Snow
11. Paul Holmgren
12. Dale Tallon
13. Doug Wilson
Exercise #BS
Which animal's excrement would you use to characterize the NHL's labor negotiations so far? Please circle your answer.
a. BULL
b. HORSE
c. DOG
d. BAT
Exercise 10
Luntz Global's survey of NHL fans lifted material directly from Yahoo Sports' Puck Daddy. Which blog would you like to see shape the NHL's position next? Please mark all that apply.
— Backhand Shelf | Down Goes Brown | Eklund | Kukla's Korner | mc79hockey | The Hockey Writers | TMZ
After Deadspin released the details of his focus group survey, Frank Luntz tweeted the following message: "My focus group research was made public today in attempt to discredit NHL efforts to reach agreement w/ players on new CBA." Why is this a crock?
i. The NHL has already done a great job of discrediting itself, and does not need the help.
ii. Focus groups are part of North American corporate life, and not a big deal. It's not that doing a focus group discredits the NHL, it's that fans are interested to get a look on the other side of the curtain.
iii. The focus group survey had nothing to do with the NHL attempting to reach an agreement with the players, and everything to do with shaping the owners' message for a debate that long ago forgot about hockey.
iv. It's not a crock at all. Thanks for lending me your pen, Gary.
Congratulations! You have finished the survey. To make your voice heard, please mail your survey, along with any other thoughts on the NHL lockout, to the following addresses:


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Fixed Cross wrote:Void_X_Zero wrote:Yes. By devaluing their own minds and truth, humans forfeit their own existence. So be it.
This is why I never accepted the general denominator "human". Ive always known this category to include many unviable beings.
Thus, this caste division is not entirely a joke. We may have to help nature out a little bit in the coming centuries where she will definitively separate the leeches from the beings.
Human nature is just starting to show its inner rift, and it is an absolute rift.
There will be two entirely separate human species at the end of 500 years.
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The Golgi apparatus is a sophisticated cytoplasmic organelle involved in the modification of specific proteins and glycoproteins, as well as the sorting and transporting of both proteins and lipids received from the endoplasmic reticulum. Though present in most eukaryotic cells, the Golgi apparatus appears to be more extensive in areas where large amounts of enzymes and other substances are secreted. A number of proteins are localized in the series of stacked cisternae that structurally comprise the Golgi apparatus, one of the most studied of which is giantin. A type II trans-membrane protein, giantin is an integral component of the Golgi membrane with a disulfide-linked lumenal domain. Though research is ongoing, evidence suggests that giantin contributes to the formation of the intercisternal cross-bridges characteristic of the Golgi apparatus.
The culture of Indian Muntjac fibroblasts that appears in the digital image above was fixed, permeabilized, and blocked with 10-percent normal goat serum in phosphate-buffered saline prior to immunofluorescent labeling with primary antibodies to giantin, a protein resident in the Golgi complex of mammalian cells. The culture was subsequently stained with secondary antibody fragments (heavy and light chain) conjugated to Cy2. In addition, the culture was labeled for mitochondria with MitoTracker Red CMXRos, and for DNA with Hoechst 33342. Images were recorded in grayscale with a QImaging Retiga Fast-EXi camera system coupled to an Olympus BX-51 microscope equipped with bandpass emission fluorescence filter optical blocks provided by Omega Optical. During the processing stage, individual image channels were pseudocolored with RGB values corresponding to each of the fluorophore emission spectral profiles.
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RICAP 6 Proposed Draft Released for Public Comment
The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability has released the Regulatory Improvement Code Amendment Package 6 (RICAP 6): Proposed Draft in preparation for the upcoming Planning and Sustainability Commission (PSC) public hearing on April 22, 2014.
This Proposed Draft updates the public Discussion Draft, released in January. The Proposed Draft includes staff consideration of the many comments received over the seven-week outreach period. The bulk of the public comments were on the code amendments addressing short-term rentals. A summary of the feedback on the initial short-term rental proposal is available and contains City staff's responses to these issues.
Public Hearing on RICAP 6
Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission – Public Hearing
Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 6 p.m.
1900 SW 4th Ave, 2nd Floor, Room 2500A
View the agenda: www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/psc
View the Proposed Draft: www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/484884
For detailed instructions on submitting testimony: www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/383906
The project team will brief the Planning and Sustainability Commission on the short-term rental proposed amendments on April 8 at 12:30 p.m. No public testimony will be taken at the briefing, but the public is welcome to listen to the staff presentation and hear what questions the commissioners are asking. The briefing will be in the same location as the public hearing noticed above.


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First it was tiny magnets, then it was detergent pods. Now gel balls, water-absorbing playthings that can be ingested by little kids, are the latest household hazard doctors are warning parents about.
Sold under the name WaterBalz by Ohio-based DuneCraft Inc., the polymer balls, marketed as a science toy for kids 3 and up, can grow up to 400 times their size in water. If ingested, they can expand and get stuck in the digestive tract, as they did for an 8-month-old girl in Texas, who needed to have the racquetball-size toy surgically removed from her intestine.
Plus: LEGO Up Boy's Nose for Three Years
While no one calling for a ban of the product yet, the new warning re-ignites the debate over where public health ends and parental monitoring begins. Many say it's a parent's responsibility to keep age-inappropriate products away from small children, and common sense is needed – not consumer protection.
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Below are the Troop 27 general policy and procedure forms including an introduction to the overall Troop policies, bylaws, operating procedures, and personal conduct. Please read and review these as necessary.
Troop 27 Conduct Discipline Policy
A Time to Tell- Troop Meeting Guide
How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse - A Parent's Guide
Troop 27 Scoutmaster Conf Guide
Merit Badges Requiring Prior Approval
Sample Letter of Recommendation
national_honor_patrol_award.doc Scoutmaster Note The Scoutmaster must be made aware PRIOR to a Patrol beginning tracking this award. i.e. you cannot start and use the previous 3 months as accomplishments.
permissionslip_1-2010_camporee.doc This is a typical, already filled our Permission Slip. Change location, cost, times, etc. as needed. Email to all ahead of time. Print multiples and bring to meetings prior to event.
blank_roster_template.xls This excel form is highly flexible - use and/or tailor it to your liking. Easy to keep track of who paid and cash vs. check. When filled out with the attendees and printed, it makes a nice "headcount" checklist to bring on the event.
camping_activity_template.xls A few years back, another leader created this very useful set of Worksheets which allow for better organization with the heavy activity weekends. Again - tailor it to your needs.


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How to Have a Great Summer
July just started and we have two months of summer left, never mind that the back to school ads are going to come out in a couple of weeks. Ignore them and follow these directions for a great summer.
Celebrate Anything
Every day can be a holiday, so pick one and celebrate. String up paper lanterns through the back yard, build little forts and tents with blankets, sheets and pillows and place luminaries all over, break out the speakers, hook up your phone or iPod, whip up some appetizers and mix up some sangria. Invite the neighbors and your best friends and it's an instant party.
Make a Wish List
What are some of the things you want to do this summer, and painting the deck doesn't count. This list should be all about fun. Take a family trip to the beach for a day, visit an amusement park, do a spa day with your mom and sisters, learn a new skill, and take a day trip to some place you've never been before may all be on the list and there are a lot of websites and resources out there to help you.
Savor the Season
Everyone can be the paparazzi with cameras on phones, they're everywhere. When you do your family outings, make sure to take a lot of pictures, but just don't forget to print them out. When you get your pictures back, buy a scrapbook and make a Summer of 2013 Family Memory Book, that way you can always look back and remember a great summer.
Date Night
Even if Mom and Dad can escape for just a couple of hours once per week, do it. Escape for just a cocktail and dessert, or ship the kids off to the neighbor's house and have strawberry shortcake and lemonade on the deck, it's a good time to talk to your spouse without interruption. No talking about kids or work, either. This is about reconnecting with your partner.
Eat Something on a Stick
Silverware? BAH! Eating something on a stick is very summertime. Whether you grill up some kabobs with shrimp, steak or chicken and vegetables or make rainbow colored fruit kabobs with some killer dipping sauce, who can resist food on a stick? Cake pops and doughnut holes make a cool fun way to eat dessert.
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The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child
Gateway Press, 1993 - Family & Relationships - 231 pages
THE PRIMAL WOUND: UNDERSTANDING THE ADOPTED CHILD, by Nancy Verrier, is a challenging and courageous work. A book which adoptees call their "bible," it is a must read for anyone connected with adoption: adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, therapists, educators and attorneys. Dr. Thomas Verny, author of THE SECRET LIFE OF THE UNBORN CHILD, calls it "the best psychodynamic study of adoptees ever undertaken...tremendously helpful to those who really want to understand their psychological process." In its application of information about perinatal psychology, attachment, bonding and loss, THE PRIMAL WOUND clarifies the effects of separation from the birthmother on adopted children. In addition, it gives adoptees, whose pain has long been unacknowledged or misunderstood, validation for their feelings, as well as explanations for their behavior. As one adoptee said, "Only one thing has caused me more pain and damage than the existence of the primal wound: the world's insistence that it does not exist." The existence of the primal wound and suggestions for healing that wound are intelligently and compassionately set forth in this book, which is fast becoming the quintessential work about the complex and life-long process of adoption. The insight the author brings to the experience of abandonment and loss will contribute not only to the healing of those connected with adoption, but will bring understanding and encouragement to anyone who has ever felt abandoned. To order Contact: Nancy Verrier, publisher, P.O. Box 208, Lafayette, CA 94549. 925-284-5813, Fax 925-284-4248. Bookstores receive a 40% discount when ordering directly from publisher. Also available from Baker and Taylor and Ingram.
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African Americans: Immigrants of African Origin
Fariyal Ross-Sheriff and Tamarah Moss-Knight
The number and percentage of immigrants and refugees from Africa to the United States have increased substantially since the mid-1990s. Though still a relatively small percentage of the immigrant population, immigrants from Africa encounter many challenges that are important for social work professionals to address. This entry examines two groups of immigrants from Africa: legal migrants (immigrants) and refugees. It provides information on distinctive characteristics of recent African immigrants, reasons for emigration from Africa, challenges they face in the United States, and their settlement (geographical distribution) patterns. While black Africans are the focus of this entry, the research literature does not provide clear distinctions within the group of African immigrants. The emphasis is on black African immigrants to the United States as their experience is unique in terms of their race in America and the types of stigma and discrimination they face as a result. Critical issues for social work practice are examined through a case example of Somali refugees, followed by implications for social work practice and research.
Arab Americans
Kristine J. Ajrouch
This entry defines the term Arab American, followed by a discussion of the two waves of immigration: before 1924 and post-1965. A demographic overview is presented next, drawing from data available through analysis of the ancestry question on the long form of the United States Census. Previously invisible in the scholarly and practice literatures, key concerns related to stereotypes emanating through recent world events, assumptions about gender relations, and struggles concerning family relations are highlighted. Finally, practice implications are considered, with an emphasis on cultural sensitivity and social justice.
The term Arab American is relatively new, signifying a pan-ethnic term meant to capture a diverse group of people who differ with respect to national origins, religion, and historical experiences of migration to the United States. Arab American refers to those individuals whose ancestors arrived from Arab-speaking countries, including 22 nations in North Africa and West Asia. Religious faiths include both Christian and Muslim; Lebanon is the number one country of origin for Arab immigrants to the United States, followed by Syria and Egypt. Defined objectively, any individual with ancestral ties to an Arabic-speaking country may be considered an Arab American. This characterization, however, rests upon a language-based definition, obscuring the cultural and structural variations that differentiate those who fall within this pan-ethnic category (Ajrouch & Jamal, 2007).
Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Immigrants in the United States
Miriam Potocky
This entry presents introductory information on asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants in the United States, including distinctions among them, major regions of origin, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, challenges in social and cultural adaptation, and best practices for social work with these populations.
Ecological Social Work
Uschi Bay
Ecological social work requires a shift in thinking for social workers because it does not place humans at the center of its concerns. Rather ecological social work puts the interrelationship between humans and nature at its center. This radically de-centered view of humanity aims to bring consideration of the planet and all of its environmental systems into decision making to ensure the sustainability of natural resources for the long term. Ecological principles can guide social work practice, research, and education in ways that promote a transition to sustainable practices in every sphere of life. Widespread ecological consciousness is advocated as an important focus for change by some social work authors promoting this approach. A global consciousness is understood to enable humanity's capacity to deal with the growing concerns about the survival of planet earth as a suitable habitat for humans, animals, and plants. Humanity's activities are understood to contribute to the ongoing degradation of fresh water, fertile soils, and pollution of the atmosphere. Drastic changes in the way humans behave and relate to the earth are considered necessary at the global, national, and local levels. Social workers are thus called on to engage with others in taking on significant roles in many areas of practice to facilitate these crucial societal transformations.
Global Community Practice for the Global Agenda
Manohar Pawar and Marie Weil
This article presents an integrated perspective and framework for global practice towards achieving the Global Agenda. First, it presents the origin and current understanding of the Global Agenda for social work. Second, it illustrates the utility of the term "global practice" as a progressive, comprehensive, and future-oriented term that encompasses social work and social, economic, and sustainable development at multiple levels: local, national, regional, international, multinational, and global. Third, it discusses ways of moving forward on the Global Agenda at multiple levels through an integrated perspectives framework consisting of global, ecological, human rights, and social development perspectives to guide practice. Finally, it concludes that global practice and the Global Agenda need to be translated into local level social work and development practice and local level agendas, making a case for social work and sustainable social development leadership and practice at grassroots and national levels.
Immigration Policy
Uma A. Segal
Individuals and families from around the globe form a continuous stream of immigrants to the United States, with waiting lists for entry stretching to several years. Reasons for this ongoing influx are readily apparent, because the United States is one of the most attractive nations in the world, regardless of its problems. There is much in the United States that native-born Americans take for granted and that is not available in most other countries, and there are several amenities, opportunities, possibilities, lifestyles, and freedoms in the United States (U.S.) that are not found together in any other nation. In theory, and often in reality, the U.S. is a land of freedom, of equality, of opportunity, of a superior quality of life, of easy access to education, and of relatively few human rights violations. This entry will focus on immigration policy through legislative history and its impact, demographic trends, the economic impact, the immigrant workforce, educational and social service systems, ethical issues, and roles for social workers.
Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival
Priscilla A. Day
Indigenous people across the globe are struggling for the cultural survival of their families and communities. This article provides an overview of indigenous people across the world and some of the many challenges they face to keep their cultures alive and strong. Indigenous peoples live throughout the world and share many common characteristics, which are described in detail in the article. Historical and contemporary challenges affecting cultural survival are provided, including accounts of the history of colonization and some of its lasting impacts on indigenous people and their cultures. Bolivia is highlighted as a country that has embraced the "living well" concept. The article closes by encouraging people to learn about and become allies with indigenous people because, ultimately, we are all impacted by the same threats.
International Social Work and Social Welfare: Africa (Sub-Sahara)
Kwaku Osei-Hwedie
Africa is one of the world's poorest regions and it faces numerous and complex challenges as it strives to achieve its development objectives. The main challenges relate to poverty and its alleviation, economic growth, democratization leading to political stability, improving social welfare, and generally creating a just and equitable society. The resolution of these issues is critical to social work if the profession is to make an impact.
International Social Work and Social Welfare: Asia
Ngoh Tiong Tan
Asia contains more than 60% of the world's population and is the fastest growing economic region. However, it faces challenges, including poverty, HIV and AIDS, and human rights concerns. In the midst of rapid changes in the social–political context, social workers and welfare organizations are making a significant contribution in addressing these challenges and improving social well-being in the region by broadening indigenous social networks to incorporate private, public, and community interventions.
International Social Work and Social Welfare: Australia and Pacific Islands
Mel Gray and Kylie Agllias
Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand are among the world's most "livable" countries, despite the increase in relative poverty and the negative effect of past policies on indigenous populations. Social work is well established and is social-justice oriented. In the Pacific Islands, where social work is much less developed, economic and social potential is hampered by political instability and a lack of sustainable economic management, rapid urbanization, unemployment, and crime.
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Nothing Nutty About Acorn 4's Powerful, Affordable Image Editor
May 28, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Acorn 4 is available for US$29.99.
Acorn 4's tagline says all you need to know about the app. It's "The Image Editor for Humans."
Image editors are like a new pair of shoes. You have to walk in them awhile before they get comfortable. With this latest version of Acorn -- the first major overhaul since 2011 -- author Gus Mueller keeps that comfort period short and sweet.
He's also keeping the price of the program in a comfortable zone. Although you can pay an arm and a leg for an image editor like Adobe Photoshop, which sells for more than $600, you can also pay as little as $15 for a program like Pixelmator. At $50 -- $30 if purchased before the end of the month -- Acorn 4 is in the middle of the pack of non-professional editor programs.
Mueller doesn't try to overwhelm his users with Acorn's interface. Its main floating palette, for example, is nice and simple -- some might say too simple, although I didn't find that the case.
Non-Destructive Filters
On the palette, you've got your basic pan, zoom and move tools. There is a crop tool and some drawing implements -- pen, brushes and shapes, including stars and arrows.
There are also your selection tools (rectangle, ellipse, polygon and freehand), modification implements (clone, dodge, burn, smudge and erase), and magic wand, flood and text tools.
You are by no means limited to the palette tools. There are plenty of additional features located in the menus on the Apple bar -- many of them new.
For example, non-destructive filters have been added to Acorn's feature mix. Not only can you chain filters like posterize and blur together, but you can do so with the confidence that you can change your mind at a later time.
Levels and Curves
You can also fine-tune an image with Acorn's levels and curves features.
Levels allows you to control the blacks, white and midtones in a photo with a histogram. At one end of the histogram is a slider for the black point; at the other, the white point; and in the middle, the midtones. By moving the sliders, you can make the subject of an image pop better.
Curves lets you control the color in a photo -- RGB, red, green and blue. RGB or a color is represented by a line graph. You can grab the line at any point and bend it to add or subtract colors in the image.
Curves and levels are the stuff of a professional quality image editor.
Text Without the Hoops
Layers are another professional feature found in Acorn 4. Layers are like transparent screens that can be stacked on an image. You can use layers like masks -- cut a hole in it to expose a portion of an image under the layer, or add shapes or text to them without changing the original picture.
With this version of Acorn, you can select multiple layers and move, delete or reposition them.
Another new feature in the latest version of Acorn is the ability to control the center point and radius of a filter directly on the image. For creating gradients -- where one color morphs into another -- or blur effects, that's a very handy feature to have.
Some programs make you jump through hoops to place text on an image. Not Acorn. After clicking on the text tool, a small box will appear on your image. You can grab the handles on the box to resize it.
You can rotate a text box by hovering your cursor on the box's edge and waiting for the cursor to change to two circular arrows. Then you move the circular arrows to where you want to rotate the box and click. The process is a bit clumsy and not entirely intuitive.
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In addition to the new rotating text feature, this version of Acorn lets you customize your text from a single floating palette.
From the palette, you can choose your font family and typeface -- regular, light, oblique, bold, etc. -- as well as size and characteristics, such as bold, italic and underline.
You can also control your type's baseline, kerning, line height, spacing, alignment and stroke, as well as blending and opacity.
This edition also has some features to help you quickly clean up images. For example, Instant Alpha can quickly remove unwanted pixels from an image, and Quickmask lets you swiftly zoom in and edit selections with ease.
If you like to automate your imaging tasks, Acorn lets you create scripts for it with Automator, AppleScript or JavaScript. In fact, you can even write plug-ins for it in Python, JavaScript or Objective-C.
Another useful non-image editing feature: creating a layered image from all the windows you have open on your computer.
Although a major update hasn't be made to Acorn 4 in three years, those familiar with the software will find the wait was worth it. As for new users, they'll be treated to a spry app with an excellent arsenal of features for creating memorable images.


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In 1855, George Eastman of Rochester, New York made a device that attached to almost any camera to hold rolled-up photographic paper. The paper replaced the glass slides previously used. In 1888 he decided to market his own camera. This would be cheap to make and simple to operate, and the original Kodak model could film for 100 images. When they were exposed, the consumer sent the entire camera back to the factory for processing. Other models followed. This Model 3A Folding Pocket camera was one of the most popular ever made. It was manufactured from 1903 until 1934 (with modifications). One of its most popular features was that it made an image that was 3 1/4" x 5 1/2". Earlier Kodak cameras and the cameras of its rivals made pictures that were only 2 1/4" x 3 1/4". A bigger image meant that pictures did not have to be enlarged after they had been processed, and that saved money.
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February 14, 2007
LOS ANGELES — A team of five UCLA Anderson School of Management students won first prize at the 14th annual Deloitte Consulting Case Competition, held January 11-13th at UCLA Anderson. Team Mindstorm received a cash grand prize of $5K. The four finalist teams won a $1K prize. The competition consisted of 22 teams made up of four to five UCLA Anderson students, for a total of 106 first-year MBA and second-year Fully Employed MBA (FEMBA) students.
This year UCLA Anderson student teams were given the task of expanding J. Fold, a leather goods manufacturing company, into the women's handbag market. The company primarily manufactures men's wallets and is looking to grow. Teams were asked to make recommendations regarding target segment and placement, market entry strategy and economics, make vs. buy, and J. Fold's organizational structure.
"The Deloitte Competition was a great simulation of what an actual strategy position would entail," said Steven Toomey (MBA '08), team Mindstorm captain. "I think we ultimately won because we didn't just accept that task as a given, but questioned whether the task itself was the best use of the client's core competencies and resources."
The Competition was led by Deloitte's campus recruiter Amabelle Cardenas, UCLA Anderson School's director of student services Susan Corley, and UCLA Anderson School's manager of academic services Lynn Foxx. Students were given the opportunity to focus on a broad business problem that requires them to integrate many management disciplines.
The members of the winning Mindstorm team are Steven Toomey (Captain), Andy Calver, Tara Hintz, Tyler Morris, and AJ Prager (all MBA '08).
Each judge was paired with a Deloitte & Touche USA LLP Executive. Teams had 5 minutes to set up, 20 minutes to present and 10 minutes to answer questions led by the judging panel. The competition began with 22 teams on a Saturday morning, and by afternoon the judges selected five finalist teams to compete for first place.
Members of the $1k finalist teams were:
- Avalanche: John Chan (Captain), Pakkawan Pongpornprot and Kevin Wong.
- Casetastic: April Huang (Captain), Christophe Daguet, Adele Li, Craig Nesbitt and Delwin Ng.
- Clutch Consulting: Michael Uyeda (Captain), Jachin Cheng, Robert Crowley, Greg Little and Fernando Saiz
- The Apex: David Zhou (Captain), Brian Gamido, Vincent Hou, Nancy Hwang and Ricky Lin.
Judges included UCLA Anderson faculty: George Abe, lecturer; David Aboody, associate professor; Andrew Ainslie, associate professor; Jack McDonough, professor; Marvin Lieberman, professor; and Hans Schollhammer, professor. Also, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP Executives Chris Bonner, Jim Moffatt, John Simrose, Mitch Stern and Albert Sun.
Judging criteria included:
- Presentation Style
- Presentation Content
- Q&A Discussion
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UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the very best business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty are ranked #1 in "intellectual capital" by BusinessWeek and are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,600 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 35,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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I am never one to say no to free food, so I take a bite. Definitely citrus. Even the skin has the distinct taste of citrus rind but…it's…sweet! I take another, and yet another bite to verify this little observation. Yes, cute little citrus fruit with sweet edible skin! This is my lucky day! But we are in a hurry, so I have to leave the charming man and his delicious fruit. I vow to return though, because even as I am rushing off, there is only one word dancing in my mind, a word that sighed in my head the moment I tasted this fruit and its edible rind: marmalade.
When I get home I hunt for more info on kim kyat but I can't find any. Hmmm. Searching, searching…little citrus fruit with sweet skin. Could this be a kumquat??? The name certainly sounds similar, and the pictures on the internet certainly look similar. I can't be sure because I have never seen nor tasted a kumquat before. Yes, just like figs. I was again on the verge of adding another fruit to my stable. Hooray!
So I hurried back another day and got myself a kilo of the kim kyats/kumquats. I let them decorate my dining table for a couple of days (they make a gorgeous centerpiece! just pile them on a white platter or stuff them into a clear glass jar) before finally attempting marmalade for the first time.
I have made jam before, but never marmalade. I seem to have fallen into a jam-making thrall. Honestly, I probably would have gotten to something marmalade-y at some point, but tasting those tiny orange fruits put it on the fast track. To me they just tasted of marmalade, as if it was their life's wish. So I dutifully complied.
Being totally inexperienced in the marmalade department, I didn't bother with pips and cheesecloth and whatsuch. I took my 1 kilo of fruit (minus a few that I ate) and boiled them for about an hour, in enough water so they could all float pretty much freely. I then sliced them up and discarded the pips. After which they weighed 550 grams. I tossed them in a pot with 500 grams sugar and heated it slowly until all the sugar melted, and then let it boil until set (used the saucer in the freezer test).
I think I may have overcooked this batch because the resulting marmalade was a tad too sticky, but what an interesting flavor! It was sweeter than most marmalades I've tried (I assume because the rind was sweeter) but still had a tiny bite of bitter that makes it a marmalade. I gave a bottle to my mom, who loved it, but said it was a bit too sweet owing to her being a solid, non-sweet, rind's-the-best-part, marmalade lover. I had some over a calamansi muffin my best friend K brought me back from a trip to Boracay (pictured above). And I'm sure it will be sublime on some warm toast with lots of butter.


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What are Earthquakes?
An earthquake is a shaking of the ground that occurs when two large blocks of Earth's crust (tectonic plates) slip suddenly past one another. They are the planet's way of relieving stress in its outer surface and happen because the tectonic plates are in constant motion across the face of the planet. In a way, they reveal an interesting contrast: what humans consider a horrible and deadly occurrence is, in actuality, an essential geologic function.
Most earthquakes happen on or near a fault, the places where tectonic plates meet, forming a kind of interlocking, planet-size puzzle out of Earth's crust—except the puzzle pieces can be larger than entire continents and move at about 2 inches (5 centimeters) per year. The plates also have jagged, rocky edges that cause them to lock together, even as the rest of a plate continue to move. This causes the faults to slowly build up stress.
When the stress in a section of fault overcomes the strength of the rocks holding it in place, the fault breaks. The result is a sudden release of energy into the surrounding rock in the form of waves of energy that, if the rupture is large enough or close to the surface, we feel on the as shaking in the ground. If the earthquake is large enough, these waves of seismic energy can even travel to the other side of the planet.[ MORE ]
The faults that cause earthquakes come in several different forms. The two sides of a strike-slip or transform fault move parallel to each other in opposite directions. One side of a thrust fault moves over the other (which plunges deep into the planet). Normal faults occur where two plates pull away from each other, causing sections of one or both to fall or molten lava to well up in between and form new crust.
Most of the world's large earthquakes occur on thrust faults, in regions called subduction zones where one plate dives or subducts beneath another plate. Because subduction occurs primarily in off shore regions of the seafloor around the Pacific Ocean's so-called Ring of Fire, most of the largest earthquakes also occur deep below the ocean surface.
Earthquakes can also occur in the middle of tectonic plates for a variety of reasons. Most of these are small, but a few, such as the 1811 and 1812 earthquakes along the New Madrid fault in the Mississippi Valley, are strong enough to cause significant and widespread damage.
Measuring and Locating Earthquakes
Small earthquakes shake Earth's crust all the time, and not always where tectonic plates meet. Volcanoes tremble as magma moves through subterranean chambers and channels, the weight of water in reservoirs as they fill often cause small tremors to occur, earthquakes on faults in the middle of continents occasionally remind people that places like Kansas, Siberia, and the Sahara Desert are also a part of our active and ever-changing planet. Most earthquakes, however, occur at plate boundaries and many of those are in the crust beneath the ocean.
The type of fault and the "stickiness" of a particular section of fault can influence the size of an earthquake, or its magnitude. The best-known scale for measuring magnitude is the Richter scale, but that yardstick is a relative measure of earthquake size and is estimated from instrument readings of ground shake. The Richter scale is gradually being replaced by the moment magnitude scale, or seismic moment, which is a calculated measure of the energy released by an earthquake that takes into account such factors as the area of fault ruptured, the amount that the plates moved relative to one another, and the rigidity of rock that broke. Like the Richter scale, the moment magnitude is a logarithmic value, so that a magnitude 6 earthquake releases twice as much seismic energy as a magnitude 5 quake.
No matter the source, the resulting earthquake will send off seismic waves through the Earth's rocks that scientists can use to determine where the quake occurred and what type of fault or motion caused it. Extremely sensitive instruments called seismometers measure and record seismic waves given off by earthquakes and other events, many of which are too slight to feel. Networks of seismometers, located around the world enable scientists to determine the location of an earthquake on the surface of the Earth—its epicenter—above its hypocenter, or its precise origin below the ground.
Types of Seismic Energy
The shaking motion we feel as an earthquake is actually made up of different types of seismic waves that can be separated into two different groups: body waves, which travel through the depths of the planet, and surface waves, which shake the outermost crust. Body waves make up the largest of an earthquake and include primary or P waves and secondary or S waves. P waves compress and decompress the rocks in the direction the wave is traveling as it passes through the Earth as if the rocks were a giant spring. S waves move the rocks up and down or side-to-side perpendicular to the direction they travel. These waves travel slower, but can be the most damaging, shaking buildings and other infrastructure on the surface.
Surface waves travel through the uppermost layers of Earth's crust and are similar to ripples in water. They are divided into two types: Love waves and Rayleigh waves. Love waves are similar to S waves in that they move perpendicular to the direction of the wave, but they only move side-to-side. The horizontal shaking of Love waves is particularly damaging to the foundations of structures. Rayleigh waves produce motion similar to rolling ocean waves in the ground. They move both vertically and horizontally in a vertical plane pointed in the direction in which the waves are travelling. Surface waves travel more slowly than body waves (P and S); and of the two surface waves, Love waves generally travel faster than Rayleigh waves.[ LESS ]
Why Do They Matter?
Earthquakes come in many sizes and happen all across the planet every day. Of course, large earthquakes often cause more damage than small ones, but when small or medium-size earthquakes occur in densely populated regions or in regions with poorly designed or in adequate infrastructure, the results can be just as destructive.
On the morning of January 12, 2010, a magnitude-7.0 earthquake shook the Caribbean nation of Haiti. While not as large as some other recent earthquakes that did less damage, the shaking demolished everything from shacks in shantytowns to the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince. Nearly a quarter of a million people died and more than a year later many people were still living in temporary shelters or in badly damaged buildings. Since then, the Haitian people and government, as well as aid agencies working in Haiti have also had to deal with increased crime and outbreaks of serious communicable diseases such as cholera.[ MORE ]
Many Risks
Such conditions arising in the aftermath of earthquakes can be almost as devastating as the seismic event itself—sometimes more so—and can take many different forms.
Landslides and avalanches: Earthquakes can dislodge or weaken soil and rock on hillsides that may not actually slide for decades.
Floods: Earthquakes may cause damage to dams or trigger landslides into lakes and rivers that in turn overflow their banks.
Fires: Following an earthquake, damage to power and gas lines can spark fires; if water mains have been ruptured, it may be difficult to extinguish fires.
Soil liquefaction: Shaking water-saturated, granular soil transforms it from a solid to a liquid, causing buildings or bridges built on it to tilt or sink.
Tsunamis: Undersea earthquakes and earthquake-triggered landslides into the sea, can trigger a tsunami such as the wave in 2004 that swept across the Indian Ocean and killed nearly one quarter million people.
Societal impacts: Conditions after an earthquake may include a disruption of basic services and widespread disease that result in additional loss of life, damage to property and infrastructure that could result in a lengthy and expensive rebuilding period, as well as higher insurance premiums or tighter building codes that makes future development more difficult and costly.
Earthquakes also act as a sort of spotlight into the deep interior of the planet. The different wave types travel at different speeds through different parts of Earth's interior. By measuring the speed and path of the waves, scientists can determine such things as the temperature, composition, and deformation of the material that the waves travel through. Better knowledge of the planet helps improve understanding of hidden processes that occur in Earth's core, mantle, and crust and that may affect us on the surface.
The characteristics of an earthquake itself, such as its location, magnitude, fault orientation, and direction of slip, are important for understanding tectonic processes at global and regional scales. Researchers also pour through historic records and monitor specific segments of large faults that have ruptured in the past to see if conditions are building towards another large event.
Although scientists are unlikely to ever be able to exactly pinpoint the exact date and time of an earthquake in the future, they are becoming better able to calculate the probability of large events along certain faults. This allows people to prepare in advance if they are in areas of higher risk, which is certainly better than being caught completely by surprise when the ground begins to shake.[ LESS ]


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When I ask athletes, families, and coaches about the benefits of participation in Special Olympics, I often hear responses that speak to issues of improved self-esteem and social skills, formation of friendships, experiencing of joy and acceptance, enjoyment of competition and of winning, and the satisfaction in being athletes and demonstrating their abilities like everyone else.
These benefits are common to the athlete experience, both within and beyond Special Olympics. The additional health benefits of physical activity and fitness are also well-documented; however these are less often cited as such by our Special Olympics coaches, family members, and athletes. Perhaps this is because Special Olympics has historically operated primarily on a model of recreational sport, where social and emotional well-being have been prioritized over serious sport training, physical fitness, and health. This is not to say that athletes haven't benefited physically from their participation in Special Olympics, but rather that our athlete and coaching models have tended to focus more on sports skills, teamwork, and fun than on fitness and conditioning.
While it seems likely that our athletes, as a group, are more physically active then the wider population of persons with ID, we do see troubling indications that our athletes could benefit from enhanced fitness and conditioning, not only to improve sport performance but also to promote better health and well-being. Globally, 36% of our adult athletes and 18% of our youth athletes are obese. These numbers soar highest in our North American region (where 45% of adults and 32% of youth are obese), but even regions where overweight and obesity have not historically been problematic are beginning to see increased rates among children.
We are all well aware of the secondary conditions tied to overweight and obesity, some of which can have earlier onset in people with ID than in the general population. Our systems of care, lack of readiness of healthcare providers, and insufficient health promotion targeting this population create additional health risk factors for our athletes.
While Special Olympics alone cannot address all of these risk factors, we can increase our role in the area of prevention, through enhanced physical fitness and nutrition education, both during and beyond training and competition events. Today we are beginning to see a shift in culture at the international level of Special Olympics, one that is evidenced in the release of the new 2011-2015 Strategic Plan. This plan calls for the creation of a new athlete sports development model that challenges athletes to strive for their personal best in training and competition and to make physical fitness a way of life. The plan also focuses on enhanced recruitment and training of coaches and the setting of coaching excellence standards that incorporate nutrition, fitness, and wellness.
While the health benefits of enhanced physical activity and fitness are likely obvious to everyone reading this newsletter, our sports team and our athlete leaders have been promoting the same agenda, in part for non-health related reasons. Our Sports personnel, at headquarters and in the field, have called for a shift in culture toward one that treats our participants as serious athletes. Programs and Regions increasingly want Special Olympics to be viewed as a credible sport organization to enhance attractiveness to potential partners. Athlete leaders have demanded that we look closely at where we as an organization may have set our own expectations for our athletes too low, and to raise them. While Special Olympics will continue to offer opportunities to athletes of all ability levels, our stakeholders throughout the Movement are asking for an increased focus on sports models that encourage each athlete to achieve his or her own personal best.
How does Healthy Athletes fit into this shift in focus? Clearly, all sports initiatives targeting fitness and health align with our work. Our Health team is, therefore, sitting at the table with our Sports Training & Competition team, Program leaders, Board members, and athletes to support and guide new programming in these areas. Some early activities include the development and piloting of a sports nutrition and readiness assessment, creation of athlete-friendly guides and regimens for fitness and conditioning both in- and post-season, planned launching of an 8-week fitness challenge this Fall, and development and piloting of nutritional guidelines for meals at Special Olympics competition events.
Most of these activities will be developed jointly by the Sports and Health teams at Special Olympics, however they will be disseminated to the field primarily through sports channels. Because Healthy Athletes is most often conducted as a once-a-year event attended by a small number of athletes within a Program, it makes sense to offer these activities where athletes spend most of their Special Olympics time – in sports training and competition activities. Thus, tools are being developed to enhance the coaching and sports experience, as well as improve healthy behaviors and well-being.
As these activities are rolled out, Healthy Athletes volunteers may choose to team up with their sports counterparts to support local implementation, for instance, serving as "fitness coaches" to athletes off-season, advising Programs on implementation of the Games nutritional guidelines, conducting health education sessions for coaches, or running sport and nutrition readiness clinics.
This fitness and conditioning programming effort is part of a larger agenda through which, over the next five years, Healthy Athletes will step out from under the screening tent and become integrated into all programming offered by Special Olympics. Similar work is being undertaken in areas related to family and youth programming. It is by inserting health education into all of the programming of Special Olympics that we can create reinforcing messaging and influence not only our athletes, but also their coaches and families – key environmental players in our athletes' health.


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All dates given here are subject to revision, but we will try our best to stick to them if possible. Note that "Tagging" that the codebase is closed for this release on the date mentioned. The tarballs and packages are then being prepared and released approximately one week later. The KDE Release Team is acting as the coordinator for the 4.0 release.
Note the release is done in two portions: the KDE Development Platform 4.0 and the KDE Desktop 4.0. The KDE Desktop contains the complete package: all the main modules plus a release of the extragear module. The KDE Development Platform contains all the bits and pieces necessary to develop KDE4 applications. This means kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs and kdebase/runtime. Note the earlier freeze date for those modules and make sure you don't miss the deadline to get your fixes in.
The first technical preview, a developer release.
The second technical preview, a developer release.
The third technical preview, a developer release.
The kdelibs API will remain as stable as possible after that, so that application developers (in particular those not having their code in the KDE SVN) can start porting towards a stable kdelibs API.
Of course the applications in the KDE SVN will have been ported all along, and it will possible to alpha-test them at this stage.
Milestones help guide us toward a final release, and the dates are subject to change. For more details see our roadmap.
From this date forward, no new KDE subsystem or major changes can be committed to kdelibs.
The buildsystem requirements (i.e. cmake version) are fixed.
The kdelibs API is "soft-frozen", meaning that changes can be made but only with the consent of the core developers.
The Alpha will be source only -- without translations.
Trunk is frozen for new or resurrected applications.
A list of main modules that will be included in the final release will be made.
The Alpha2 will be source only -- without translations.
The core library APIs are frozen solid.
Beta 1 is prepared and released after some initial testing.
Beta 2 is prepared and released after some initial testing.
Trunk is frozen for feature commits. i18n string changes are allowed.
Beta 3 is prepared, initially tested and released on October 9.
The KDE Development Platform is frozen. For the modules that are included in the KDE Development Platform, only patches reviewed on the development lists are permitted. If in doubt, contact the release coordinator. The KDE Development Platform covers kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase/runtime and kdebindings (Ruby and Python bindings only).
This is the very last chance for committing anything that isn't reviewed on the development lists. If in doubt, ask the release coordinator.
Release Candidate 1 of the Desktop is prepared, initially tested and released on October 30. The KDE Development Platform is tagged for final release and released on October 30.
Release Candidate 1 is prepared, initially tested and released on November 20.
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The Chicago Blackhawks haven't won the Stanley Cup in 49 years. Since they last hoisted the "toughest trophy in sports to win" they've lost in the Finals five times: 1962, 1965, 1971, 1973 and 1992. They made the playoffs 28 consecutive years from 1970 to 1997, so it's not like they were awful, but hockey's holy grail hasn't come close to the Windy City for a long time.
After their 28 year-run they stunk, missing the playoffs nine of ten years until finally getting back to the dance last season. And lots has changed in the world since the Hawks last drank from Lord Stanley's Cup; Brownlee is the only person who reads, writes or posts on the Nation that was alive in 1961.
1967: The ATM was invented I remember when they only had ATM's at banks. 1969: Air Hockey debuted, although it didn't get big until the mid-1970s. The most astonishing fact about air hockey is that is played competitively in the USA, Spain, Russia and parts of the Czech Republic, but it isn't that big in Canada. How do Canadians not dominate at this game?
1972: Pong, one of, if not the greatest Atari game ever, was the brainchild of Ralph Baer.
1974: Rubik's cube became the frustration of many youngsters. Wanye has yet to figure it out, and he even tried peeling off the stickers and re-applying them to no avail.
1982: Barry Bonds' favourite year, as Human Growth Hormone was genetically engineered. Who knows how small his head would be today if HGH was never invented?
1983 The first Cabbage Patch Kid doll was sold. Easily the ugliest doll in history, and one of the most dangerous toys ever made. The heads on those dolls was hard as a rock, and when your sister hit you with it, it stung.
January 24th, 1984 the day that changed the world as the Apple MacIntosh 128K was unveiled. Brownlee was 43 and he told me he lined up for hours outside the SAAN store waiting to buy one. Unfortunately SAAN didn't carry them, and he left with three pairs of corduroy slacks instead.
1988: Gretzky got traded and digital cell phones entered society. They didn't become popular in Canada for many years, but those big bulky grey phones were a hit for the first users. (Adam can you get a pic of an old CELL PHONE here?
1990: Tim Berners-Lee, Bingofuel's hero, invented the World Wide Web. He had lots of help of course, but he was the leader and is the reason we are here at the NATION today. God bless you Timmy….
There have been many more changes: The collapse of the Berlin Wall, Seinfeld, The Vietnam War, Viagra, a Canadian team winning the World Series, OilersNation.com and much more since the city of Chicago had a parade for their hockey team. If they don't win it this year, I wonder what else we will discover before they win again.
While many feel the Hawks will crush the Flyers, history shows the fans of Chicago aren't privy to witnessing many championships.
Below is an explanation of the supposed Goat Curse of the Chicago Cubs, courtesy of Wikipedia.
"The Billy Goat curse was supposedly placed on the Cubs in 1945 when Billy Goat Tavern owner Billy Sianis was asked to leave a World Series game at the Cubs' home ground of Wrigley Field because his pet goat's odor was bothering other fans. He was outraged and declared, "Them Cubs, they aren't gonna win no more," which has been interpreted to mean that there would never be another World Series game won at Wrigley Field."
The best part about this supposed curse is that the Cubs and their fans believe it is true and they've tried some hilarious stunts to try and break it.
"Sam Sianis, nephew of Billy Sianis, has been brought out onto Wrigley Field with a goat multiple times in attempts to break the curse: on Opening Day in 1984 and 1989 (in both years, the Cubs went on to win their division), in 1994 to stop a home losing streak, and in 1998 for the wild card play-in game (which the Cubs won)."
"In 2003, a group of Cubs fans headed to Houston with a billy goat named "Virgil Homer" and attempted to gain entrance to Minute Maid Park, home of their division rivals the Astros. After they were denied entrance, they unfurled a scroll, read a verse and proclaimed they were "reversing the curse". The Cubs won the division that year and then came within five outs of playing in the World Series but were undone by the Florida Marlins' eight-run rally, and possibly the Steve Bartman incident; they then lost the following game and with it the series (the Marlins went on to win the World Series against the New York Yankees.) Further salting the wound, the Astros earned their first World Series birth two years later."
"In another bizarre twist, it was reported that a butchered goat was hung from the Harry Caray statue on October 3, 2007, to which The Chicago Sun-Times noted: "If the prankster intended to reverse the supposed billy goat curse with the stunt, it doesn't appear to have worked."[4] While the Cubs did win the NL Central Division title in 2007 and 2008, they were swept in the first round of the playoffs in both years: by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2007 and the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2008. The elimination by Arizona came on October 6, the same date that the goat appeared at Wrigley Field in 1945.
The act was repeated before the home opener in 2009, this time a goat's butchered head being hung from the statue. The act was futile as the Cubs were eliminated from postseason contention on September 26, 2009."
They actually butchered a goat's head; Twice. Pure comedy.
The Cubs haven't won since they won back-to-back World Series in 1907 and 1908. They haven't won in 101 years; even Brownlee hasn't seen them win. The Cubs haven't been to the World Series since 1945, and had they won, they still would hold the longest World Series drought. The Cleveland Indians have the second longest losing streak, having won last in 1948.
The White Sox went 88 years between Championships: 1917 to 2005.
The Chicago Bears have one Championship since 1963; in 1986 Jim McMahon and company shuffled their way to their only Super Bowl title.
The Bulls are the only exception to the losing ways of Chicago, winning six titles in the 1990s.
These five teams have played a combined 435 seasons and have a total of 23 championships. Bears have nine, Bulls six, Hawks and White Sox three and the Cubs have two. Winning hasn't come easy in Chicago and if the Hawks win you know that city will go nuts.
But it's not like Philadelphia is a Mecca of success either
The Flyers have two championships in 42 years, and they came back-to-back in 1974 and 1975.
The Eagles have three league titles in 77 seasons and haven't won a championship since 1960, when they became the only team to defeat Vince Lombardi and his Green Bay packers in the playoffs. Since 1960, the Eagles have lost in the Championship game twice, 1980 and 2004.
The 76ers have three championships since entering the NBA in 1949, but haven't won since Doctor J (Julius Erving) and Moses Malone took home the Championship in 1983.
The Phillies are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating back to 1883. But they only have two championships in 127 seasons, winning in 1980 and in 2008. The Phillies are currently the toast of the town with consecutive World Series appearances, but you wonder what a Stanley Cup would do for one of America's most blue-collar cities.
I'm not sure if Transformers really needs a third edition, but up until today I was annoyed that Megan Fox wasn't going to be in it. Fox won't be back, but according to reports Rosie Huntington-Whitely could be replacing her. Not a bad choice. You decide which one you'd prefer.
- Most think the Hawks will dominate the Flyers, but I don't see that happening. One trend is going to end this year: Either "The Marian Hossa curse" or "Cinderella can't finish" will cease after this year. Hossa has lost two consecutive finals, while we've seen seven surprise teams make it to the Cup final the last 14 times, only to see all six of them lose. (Florida 1996, Washington 1998, Carolina 2002, Anaheim 2003, Calgary 2004, Edmonton 2006 and Philly this year). Something has to give and I'll go with the Flyers in seven completing the Cinderella post-season.
- I keep hearing one of the biggest steals at the upcoming draft could be Finnish forward, Mikael Granlund. Granlund's best asset is his hockey sense, and one guy who loves him is Kyle Woodlief from the Red Line Report http://www.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/columnist/woodlief/2010-05-18-mikael-granlund-third_N.htm It's hard to call a player a steal if he goes in the top-five, but Woodlief is the only guy who has him rated this high.
- Sam Gagner, Andrew Cogliano, Gilbert Brule and the Canucks Mason Raymond are all RFAs. Who deserves the biggest contract? Keep in mind only Brule has arbitration rights. Here's a quick comparison of the four players.
Cogliano: 246 GP; 46 G; 65 A; 111 PTS
Gagner: 223 GP; 44 G; 87 A; 131 PTS
Brule: 222 GP; 31 G; 41 A; 72 PTS
Raymond: 203 GP; 45 G; 52 A; 97 PTS
Raymond is coming off a 25-goal, 53-point season, Gagner and Cogliano had their lowest point totals while Brule set a career high with 17 goals and 37 points. The Oilers can't over-pay any of their players and with Raymond being the only offensive RFA in Vancouver I bet he gets the most money.
- I wonder if the Oilers will be a bit gun shy with their young players, and not hand out a three-year deal like they gave Robert Nilsson two summers ago?
- If I'm the Flames I trade Jarome Iginla to try and re-stock the organization with youth. If Iginla truly wants to win, I don't see how he feels he can do it in Calgary. It won't be the most popular move for Darryl Sutter to make, but I think it's the right one.


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I hope we're still Pals, Mike and Lindy.
Yesterday's post called out the play of Mike Weber this season, and called out the handling of Weber by coach Ruff. In short, Weber emerged as a rugged leader on defense last season, and this season, well, has been a disaster for him. How Lindy has handled his ice time, in my theory, played a big role in his regression.
Today, sports hypothesis becomes fact!
From NHL.com's preview of tonite's Sabres/Flyers matchup:
Sabres: Less, apparently, is more for defenseman Mike Weber.
In a 13-game span from Dec. 28 to Jan. 21, Weber played at least 20 minutes 11 times, and had 1 goal and a minus-8 rating. In eight games since then, however, he's averaged about 16:30 per game, and has 2 assists and a plus-2 rating.
More importantly, the Sabres went 2-9-2 in those 13 games with Weber playing extended minutes, and 5-2-1 since he had his ice time cut back.
"That's been the biggest, to get back to playing the minutes he seems suited to, that he's not trying to do too much, that when he gets out there he's fresh," coach Lindy Ruff told the Tonawanda News. "His game is a lot of times energy. It's playing hard in a short period of time, and I think when we've overplayed him he's just tried too much. He's over-handled some situations. He tried to make plays into areas he doesn't need to make plays. I think that part of his game has really cleaned up."
Figure it out, Lindy!
Anyway, there you have it – my hard-hitting Sabres analysis, backed up a day late by real news sources. Beer: earned.
Tonight Lindy, Weber, and the rest of the beleaguered Sabres take on the Flyers in Philly. It's the return of Leino to Philadelphia, in a game that means virtually nothing for either team. Should be fun. Oh, and there's these people, too:
It's 9am right now. I wonder if they're booing yet?
In any event, the correct lyric is "puts on women's clothing." Figure it out, Philly fans!
And there you have today's hard-hitting sports analysis.
Go Sabres.
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Penicillin Allergy?
When I was a baby I had an allergic reaction to penicillin, I guess. My mother's dr told her to never, never, never let anybody give me penicillin ever again. So since I became an adult I have always answered 'yes' when asked about drug allergies, and have always reported being allergic to penicillin. (I am now in my mid 40's.) Recently I changed primary care drs (employer changed HMOs) and my new dr asked me `what happens when you take penicillin?` I've never been asked that before & I didn't know, so I asked my now elderly mother. She doesn't remember. I certainly don't remember. All I know is that I was always told not to take it. I have mild asthma, and I did have allergy tests by an allergist 20 yrs ago and tested as allergic to mold and house dust. And I know penicillin is a mold. But is it possible that I outgrew the penecillin allergy (if I ever really had it)? Is there some test that could test to see if I am still allergic to it? I asked my new dr if she could do a skin test to see if I was still allergic to it and she said, `not really.` Why not? Can't they skin test for just about anything?
This is an excellent question which is often asked by patients. It is not unusual for patients to have a "reported" history of a penicillin allergy without knowing the details of the reaction. Penicillin and penicillin derivatives are responsible for most allergic drug reactions primarily because they are the most frequently prescribed medications by physicians. If a patient has a history of a penicillin drug reaction no matter how poor the history, we recommend that an alternative class of antibiotic be prescribed. In other words, all penicillin, penicillin derivatives (i.e., Amoxicillin) and cephalosporin antibiotics (especially first generation agents such as Keflex) should be avoided. If the patient, indeed, had an allergic reaction to penicillin, the immune system can remember this for years and a similar or more severe reaction can occur. We stress to physicians that antibiotics be only prescribed for "bacterial" infections. Overuse of antibiotics has resulted in an increased frequency of allergic or adverse drug reactions and antibiotic resistence. We also stress that physicians do not act cavalier when a patient reports an allergic drug reaction to any medication, no matter how poor the history, since in most instances alternative agents with similar efficacy can be substituted safely. In the event a penicillin or penicillin derivative is neccessary, skin test reagents to detect whether or not an individual is allergic are available in most academic allergy centers around the country, including the NetWellness.org. These test reagents have an excellent negative predictive value (i.e., if they are negative, it is unlikely the patient has allergic antibodies to penicillin). If they are positive and no alternative to penicillin is available then desensitization to penicillin is possible but should only be performed by an experienced allergy specialist. Typically, patients who are allergic to mold spores that are known to cause allergies and asthma are not automatically allergic to penicillin agents. Although, allergic antibody levels decline over years, it is still possible to have an allergic reaction and, therefore, we advocate that all patients be tested to penicillin prior to taking this drug if a penicillin agent is absolutely necessary for use to treat an infection.
For more information:
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Chicago Bulls (1 - 0) @ Golden State Warriors (0 - 1)
Start time: 7:30 PM PST @ The Oracle Arena
Local TV: CSN Bay Area
Nat TV: NBA LP
Probable starters for the Golden State Warriors:
C - Andris Biedrins
PF - David Lee
SF - Dorell Wright
SG - Monta Ellis
PG - Stephen Curry
Probable starters for the Chicago Bulls:
C - Joakim Noah
PF - Carlos Boozer
SF - Luol Deng
SG - Richard Hamilton
PG - Derrick Rose
Team leaders:
PPG - M. Ellis (24.1) | D. Rose (25.0)
RPG - D. Lee (9.8) | J. Noah (10.4)
APG - S. Curry (5.8) | D. Rose (7.7)
SPG - M. Ellis (2.1) | R. Brewer (1.3)
BPG - E. Udoh (1.5) | J. Noah (1.5)
Game Thread: Chicago Bulls @ Warriors 2011-12-26
Talk about the upcoming Warriors game here
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
Monta on D-Rose, gave him a tough time last time we played them.
Bulls are so solid, well rounded team, will be a tough one.
Bulls are so solid, well rounded team, will be a tough one.
We are not getting any breaks in our schedule, Chi. NY. Then Mia....
Kwame playing some damn good defense, and his offensive game was pretty decent so far. If he continues to play like this, he would turn out to be quite a good signing. Everyone playing good game so far. Really enjoying watching the game.
My internet connection is slow so can't stream the game but looking at the boxscore glad to see we are playing well, containing D-Rose at the half. More of the same.
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much better game by our guards.... glad to see them bounce back. And Lee has 2 straight solid performances to start the season.
Curry hurt his ankle again. Didn't look as bad as last time. Think he is just going to have to play through it because no matter what, he is going to sprain it until they get stronger.
Our front court is looking pretty solid so far.
Our front court is looking pretty solid so far.
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Yeah, can't complain about that game! Although we do match up pretty well with the Bulls, we seem to play better defense against their guards. I mean their big guys were hardly a factor! Hopefully we can keep this up against the Knicks..winning record at home Dubs!
7 steals between Beans and Kwame, another 6 from Curry, that's pretty solid.
I did not watch the game, but who ever played D-Rose, the league MVP, deserves major props. This guy has one of the quickest first steps and is strong as a "Bull". Moving forward I hope this guard plays the likes of Westbrook, and Rondo the same.


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Two allegedly drunken women stormed the cockpit on a British Airways flight from Gatwick London to Tunis, Tunisia, forcing the plane to land in Lyon, France. The two were taken into police custody upon arrival.
At first, it sounds like the work of rowdy teenagers, right? Or at least a comical film. Didn't Bridesmaids have a drunken disruption on a plane scene? It was hilarious, right? But in real life, maybe not so much. And these women were anything but teenagers.
In fact, the two women were middle-aged. They reportedly swore in front of children and demanded to see the captain while IN FLIGHT. My guess is if you were on that plane, it would have been anything but funny. Further, in this day and age, it's just idiocy.
Security on planes is extremely tight. And rightly so. Any disruption like that is not only dangerous, it's also criminal. Since 9/11 and the multiple terrorist attacks on planes, people just don't take too kindly to bad behavior on flights.
For travelers, flying is a massive inconvenience. Yeah, yeah. We all know no one HAS to fly. But that is sure easy to say when you live within driving distance of family. Many people don't and so plane travel is a necessary evil. The amount of indignity involved with flying cannot be overstated. One has to take off their shoes, throw out liquids, submit to searches, go through an x-ray machine, and then fight others for overhead space, all while being treated like scum by rigid airline employees who don't seem to care whether you make it to your destination ever.
AND we get to pay $1,000+ for this "privilege." So, no. I am guessing the fellow passengers on this flight didn't take too kindly to this drunken disruption. The women were allegedly drinking Malibu, too, which lends a whole other comic element (even though it isn't very funny). Malibu? Really?
I feel for those passengers a lot. It's a crime and, as such, should be heavily punished. Rumor has it that these women will be banned for life from British Airways, but more punishment is deserved to deter others from making the same mistakes.
These women should have sat quietly in their seats like everyone else. If they wanted to drink, they could have waited until after landing.
Whatever the punishment is, it likely will not be enough.
Do you think these women deserve a harsh punishment?
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