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Eugene Kontorovich: Federal judge advances lawsuit challenging academic group's Israel boycott
I noted the case in these columns when it was filed a year ago, and helped advise the plaintiffs' legal team. Back then, Palestine Legal — an activist group that provided legal advice to the ASA during its adoption of the boycott — claimed the lawsuit was designed to "chill speech supporting Palestinian rights," and predicted the lawsuit would be would "thrown out by the court."Col. Kemp: The chutzpah of Sayeeda Warsi
Instead, a Memorandum Opinion by Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the defendants' demands for dismissal of most of the plaintiffs' causes of action (waste, breach of contract and violation of the D.C. Nonprofit Corporation Act).
The court rejected what was perhaps the defendants' most vocal contention, which invoked the First Amendment. They claimed the group had a broad "right to engage in a boycott," and that enforcing the group's own associations rules, or general provisions of corporate law, would infringe on their free speech. The judge noted the obvious — the dispute does not involve any state action, but rather members of an organization seeking to enforce the group's own private rules and arrangements. Judicial enforcement of contractual arrangements does not constitute state action, and the defendants were surely unwise to rely on famous outlier cases such as Shelley v. Kraemer. Moreover, the fact that complying with the requirements of the D.C. nonprofit code might make it harder for the association to pass boycotts does not make it a First Amendment issue.
The ASA case will now proceed to discovery, which may shed more light on the full circumstances and considerations that lead a group of academics to adopt a unique boycott of a foreign country's academic institutions.
The chutzpah of Sayeeda Warsi. I mean that in the Yiddish sense of despicable insolence, but likening the Israel Defence Force to the Islamic State is much worse, it is dangerously irresponsible. Warsi excuses IS and Muslims who leave Britain to murder and rape for them yet condemns the IDF and British Jews who serve in their honourable ranks.Brendan O'Neill: The short path from censorship to violence
Coming from the most prominent Muslim parliamentarian, this will make Islamic jihadists sniff blood. It will encourage UK Muslims to join terror groups and embolden IS. Repeating the lie that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza validates Hamas's human shield strategy and encourages further violence and killing. She has blood on her hands.
Her arguments are absurd. She obviously doesn't care about the so-called loophole she demands is closed: allowing British citizens to join a foreign army. If she did, she would apply the same in reverse, condemning the thousands of Gurkhas and Commonwealth soldiers in the ranks of the British forces today.
She would also condemn the hundreds of thousands from her parents' native Pakistan who served in the British Army, including in two world wars.
Among them were both her grandfathers.
So what is this all about? Warsi objects to the increasing action against hundreds of UK Muslims fighting with Islamic terror groups and wants an excuse to demonize Israel as she's done before.
The news that Ayaan Hirsi Ali has cancelled her speaking tour of Australia due to 'security concerns' should concern anyone who believes in freedom. It is a dark day when a woman who fled to the West to escape the Islamist suffocations of Somalia, and precisely so that she might think and speak freely, feels she cannot say certain things in certain places. That even a Western, liberal, democratic nation like Australia cannot guarantee Hirsi Ali the freedom to speak her mind without suffering censorship or harm is deeply worrying. It points to the mainstreaming of intolerance, to the adoption by certain people in the West of the illiberalism that makes up the very Islamist outlook that Hirsi Ali and others have sought to escape.
Hirsi Ali's Oz tour, 'Hero of Heresy', had been due to kick off this Thursday. She would have visited Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, hosted by Think Inc., an organisation devoted to 'the promotion of intellectual discourse'. But today, citing, among other things, 'security concerns', Think Inc. announced the tour was off.
This isn't the first time Hirsi Ali has effectively been hounded out of even tolerant nations, made to feel unwelcome in the West because of her strong, critical take on Islam and its treatment of women. She had to leave her adopted home of Holland after receiving death threats for her involvement in the 2004 Islam-critical film Submission (the film's director, Theo van Gogh, was stabbed to death by an Islamist). She still has heavy security whenever she speaks in public. Certain campuses in the US have made it clear she isn't welcome, because she's 'Islamophobic'. That is, she criticises Islam, which today is treated as a species of mental illness. How perverse that even a woman who has suffered under extreme forms of Islam can be treated as dangerous for daring to ridicule that religion.
Alan Dershowitz: A euphemism for anti-US, anti-Israel and antisemitic bigotry?
What do Hamas and the anti-violence group Black Lives Matter have in common? What does Israel have in common with the Ku Klux Klan? What does the Islamic Republic of Iran, which throws gays off rooftops, have in common with gay right activists? What do feminists have in common with radical Islamic sexists who support the honor killing and genital mutilation of women? Nothing of course. Unless you subscribe to the pseudo-academic concept of intersectionality.NYTs: Why Israel Is Nothing Like Apartheid South Africa
Intersectionality – the radical academic theory which holds that all forms of social oppression are inexorably linked – has become a code word for anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Israel and antisemitic bigotry.
Nowhere has adoption of this radical paradigm been more pronounced than on college campuses, where in the name of "identity politics" and "solidarity," intersectionality has forced artificial coalitions between causes that have nothing to do with each other except a hatred for their fellow students who are "privileged" because they are white, heterosexual, male and especially Jewish.
Students at the University of Illinois (UIC) recently took to social media to express their distress after flyers were plastered around campus calling for the "end of Jewish privilege."
The movement points to the boycotts it says brought down apartheid, and argues that this is the way to attack Israel. That belief is simplistic and mistaken. While boycotts were certainly important, they were not as decisive as B.D.S. supporters claim. A combination of factors pressured white South Africa into surrendering power. The most significant was the end of the Cold War, which meant that while black liberation movements lost Soviet support, whites lost the crucial backing of their anti-Communist Western patrons.The Watchman Episode 48: Fighting Back Against Palestinian Terrorism
During the yearslong struggle for freedom in South Africa, the African National Congress, now in government, refrained from violence against white civilians, with very few exceptions. This was, in large part, a strategic decision to avoid scaring whites into a refusal to yield power. Suicide bombings and murders by ramming pedestrians with vehicles never happened in South Africa. Yet Israel has had them aplenty. Security concerns have dictated Israel's precautions and responses, not an ideology of apartheid racism.
The most deceptive of the B.D.S. movement's demands is for the return of Palestinians who fled Israel or were chased out at gunpoint, mostly in the 1948 war. This "right of return" seems reasonable and just, but relatively few people realize that — uniquely among the world's 65 million refugees — the Palestinians' descendants are defined as refugees. The original 750,000 Palestinian refugees now number six million to seven million. A mass return would destroy Israel as a Jewish state, which is the whole purpose of its existence.
South African apartheid rigidly enforced racial laws. Israel is not remotely comparable. Yet the members of the B.D.S. movement are not stupid. For them to propagate this analogy in the name of human rights is cynical and manipulative. It reveals their true attitude toward Jews and the Jewish state. Their aims would eliminate Israel. That is what's at stake when we allow the apartheid comparison.
Host Erick Stakelbeck joins Israel's elite volunteer counter-terrorism unit for a patrol of Jerusalem's Old City. Plus, we take an in-depth look at the Palestinian Authority's support for terrorism and author David Brog discusses his latest book, "Reclaiming Israel's History."
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Panelists Prove Jewish Voice for Peace is Neither
There's a simple way to end global oppression, racism and immediately create a world overflowing with "equality, dignity and human rights," panelists agreed Saturday morning during a Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Conference in Chicago.Pro-Israel Group Holds Memorial for Victims of Palestinian Terrorist Rasmea Odeh, Speaking at Left-Wing Jewish Organization's National Conference in Chicago
Simply eliminate Zionism from the planet.
"Arguing for a softer, less harsh, nicer version of capitalism, colonialism and racism won't do it," said Black Lives Matter leader Rachel Gilmer. "Many liberal Zionists believe that the problem with Israeli apartheid is simply a few bad policies, or Netanyahu, or the wall, but the problem is with the ideological foundation of the state itself: Zionism. Zionism at its core is white supremacy."
While JVP claims its mission is to "end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem; security and self-determination for Israelis and Palestinians," the conference so far has failed to mention any plan that keeps Israel intact. That's not a surprise. JVP prides itself for playing a key role in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement that pressures corporations, churches, and colleges and to drop investments in Israel.
"A world without Zionism is a world without oppression" and create "equality, dignity and human rights," said panelist Lubnah Shomali of the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights. It also would mean Shomali's claim ignores human rights violations by Palestinian leaders against inside the West Bank and Gaza. Hamas and the Palestinian Authority use intimidation to silence journalists who dare to engage in peaceful criticism, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported in 2016. Journalists face arrest and detention for exposing corruption. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas flout international law by issuing death penalties, using torture and extrajudicial killings.
Activists held an interfaith memorial service for the victims of a female Palestinian terrorist, scheduled to coincide with her speech before a gathering of an anti-Israel Jewish organization, one of the organizers told The Algemeiner on Sunday.Convicted terrorist vows to continue fight against Israel after US expulsion
Peggy Shapiro, Midwest director of Israel education group Stand With Us (SWU), said that she rented out a private suite at Chicago's Hyatt Hotel to hold the event during convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh's appearance at the closing plenary session of the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) National Member Meeting (NMM) at the same venue, because Shapiro believed JVP's "unconscionable" decision to "honor the killer and erase the victims" could not go uncontested.
"It really can't get any worse than honoring a murderer, alongside other speakers who are proponents of more genocide," she said, referring to the panelists featured with Odeh, including Linda Sarsour, who has called Zionism a form of racism.
In the JVP NMM program, Odeh and Sarsour are touted as among "the most dynamic, powerful, and visionary community and faith leaders of our time."
Shapiro said her program was held in a guest room, because JVP directed the Hyatt to refuse to rent space to SWU at the hotel's large convention center. The service featured religious exercises led by local rabbis and pastors, and letters from the families of Odeh's victims, Leon Kanner and Edward Joffe, read by SWU representatives.
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh vowed on Sunday to continue the struggle for "the right of return, for self determination, and for the establishment of a democratic state on the historic land of Palestine", after she will be leaving the United States in the next few months, as part of the plea deal she accepted last week for failing to disclose her terrorism conviction on her US visa application.BDS Activist at Jewish Voice for Peace Conference Urges 'Guerilla Disobedience' Against Israel
Odeh, who was imprisoned in Israel for her involvement in 1969 terror attacks in Jerusalem, made the comments at the closing session of the controversial Jewish Voice for Peace summit held over the weekend in Chicago.
After being released in a prisoner exchange in the 1980s, she moved to the United States, but has been facing the country's justice system since 2014, for immigration fraud as she concealed her arrest, conviction, and imprisonment for the 1969 bombings.
Last week, she agreed to leaving the country in exchange for no jail time. Odeh said she didn't disclose her past because of post-traumatic stress disorder from being tortured in prison.
Anti-Israel activists, supporting the boycott or BDS movement, protest in New York, July 24, 2014 (credit: REUTERS)
"A revolution of anger sweeps over me these days and my heart screams against injustice," she said in broken English, crying at the podium.
Palestinian activist and Stanford University graduate Fadi Quran told the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) conference on Friday night that "guerilla disobedience" is needed against Israel. Quran, who was arrested by Israeli security forces in 2012, told his fellow participants that activism was not enough. Instead, they must become "freedom fighters."Five Minutes for Israel: I just joined Jewish Voice for Peace!
"We must realize that it's not enough to be organizations, to be civil society anymore. We must cross the threshold to become resistance movements. And we must realize that it's not enough to protest anymore. We must transform the equations of power," Quran said.
"Guerilla disobedience" means copying tactics used by American anarchists to shut down traffic, Quran said. He urged attendees to target Israeli army supply chains and the Israeli economy in order to make occupation costly for Israel. Quran claimed that these tactics are needed to defend Palestinians from Israeli encroachment.
A new "Nakba," or catastrophe, is underway for the Palestinians, Quran said, and Palestinians therefore need new tactics that go beyond those used in the past.
"We're going to occupy the occupation; we're gonna build barricades; we're gonna bring thousands of people there," Quran said. "And if we manage to liberate this land, if we manage to stop the plans from going forward there, we will stop them from going forward everywhere."
I just joined Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). All I needed was a credit card – not even a real one. They will probably catch on – eventually but I bet they will still number me among the members for a long time to come.Meet the onetime Jew-hater who thought terrorism was God's lessons for unbelievers
Are JVP Jewish?
There was considerable social media dispute, about whether there were really one thousand Jews, when JVP claimed over 1,000 people gathered at largest ever Jewish pro-BDS conference. Or perhaps the question should be were there one thousand real Jews?
Here's what I found.
Some are Jews and JVP definitely sprinkle some schmaltzy shtick around (like rewriting the Pessach Haggadah) but their FAQ makes it clear that they don't have to be.
Do I have to be Jewish to join JVP?
No you don't. JVP is an organization that is inspired by Jewish values and traditions to work towards peace and justice. We are committed to building an inclusive Jewish community, that, like many of our families, welcomes Jews and allies who share our values and appreciate our traditions, who advocate for an end to Israeli human rights abuses, and who oppose anti-Jewish hatred, anti-Arab racism, and Islamophobia.
Megan Phelps-Roper grew up believing she would arrive in Israel at the end of days to witness the rapture of the Second Coming. She hated Jews and homosexuals, celebrated terror attacks and famine, and picketed the funerals of United States soldiers killed in Iraq.Texas House unanimously passes anti-BDS bill
Instead, she'll be arriving in Israel next week as the guest of David Abitbol, the Jew who saved her soul by engaging her online. Abitbol and Phelps-Roper — who was recently featured in The New Yorker and described her experience in a TED talk viewed 2 million times — will be speaking together to audiences in Israel for the first time.
You can catch them in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, April 4, and in Jerusalem on Wednesday, April 5, at two events in the Times of Israel Presents series.
Phelps-Roper was raised as a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, founded by her grandfather, Fred Phelps. As a child, she joined her family as they traveled across the United States picketing soldiers' funerals, synagogues, schools, events and more. There they would spread their message — that Jews killed Jesus, that God demanded the death penalty for homosexuals and that He hated everyone that wasn't them.
Young and net-savvy, Phelps-Roper led her church's efforts to spread their toxic message onto social media, targeting, among others, prominent Jews on Twitter. One such person was Abitbol, the Jerusalem-based founder and editor of the Jewlicious blog. He caught Phelps-Roper's attention after JTA named him as the 2nd most influential Jew on Twitter.
The Texas House State Affairs Committee passed on Wednesday a bill banning state contracts and investments in companies that boycott Israel.'A thank you to the people of Israel'
The anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment,Sanctions) legislation, which was spearheaded by Republican representative Phil King, passed unanimously 10-0.
Writing on his website prior to passage of the bill, King said: "Texas will not tolerate national-origin discrimination against Israel, which is precisely what BDS is. Efforts to inflict economic harm upon Texas' trading partners weaken our state's ability to conduct trade, and harm our vital social interests. BDS is not only Israel's problem, its Texas' problem as well."
He added," I am hopeful that Texas will join other states around the country in protecting our economy, our taxpayer dollars and our great ally Israel from national origin discrimination."
Moshe Weidberg, the CEO of Hashachar Ha'ole responded to an op-ed which appeared in Haaretz calling for a boycott of the chocolate company because of his donations to Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.Student report reveals 45 percent of Jews not confident discussing Israel
"This is a company that donates tens of thousands of shekels a year to the settlements," Roger Alpher accused, referring to the company which makes one of Israel's most popular chocolate spreads. Alpher called the company "tainted" by Weidberg's donations.
Following Alpher's column in Haaretz last week, many Israelis took to social media to say that they planned to buy Hashachar Ha'ole chocolate. Weidberg said that it is impossible to know at this time if sales have increased.
"The changes are seen in later stages, and it is important to remember that sales always rise before Passover."
Weidberg said that he is moved by the support he received from Israelis. "We stand amazed and speechless in the face of the boundless love and support we receive as a result of the call for a boycott of our products."
A report examining the experience of Jewish students on campus say almost half do not feel comfortable voicing their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in class, but that most don't worry about hate crime.CAMERA Prompts Herald Sun Headline Correction on Palestinian Attack
Published on Monday, the report is the culmination of five months' research, and is described as a "first-of-its-kind study" by the National Union of Students (NUS) to help make university life more "inclusive and welcoming" to Jewish students.
Researchers found that while 73 percent of Jewish students polled were not worried about hate crime, two thirds of respondents who said they had been the victims of crime believe they were targeted because of their beliefs, and almost three in ten said they had experienced abuse through social media.
Likewise, 45 percent of the 485 self-defining Jewish students surveyed said that they did not feel confident voicing their views on Israel-Palestine in class.
Other concerns expressed by respondents included lack of access to kosher food on campus (42 percent) and the timetabling of exams and activities over Shabbat and Jewish festivals (59 percent).
CAMERA Prompts Herald Sun Headline Correction on Palestinian AttackNew York Times Critic Complains Holocaust Movie Isn't Gory Enough
Earning itself an inglorious spot on the list of grossly distorted headlines depicting Palestinian attackers as victims, Australia's Herald Sun yesterday stated: "Israeli police killed Palestinian man."
But, as the accompanying Associated Press story noted:
Israeli police say they have shot dead a Palestinian who stabbed three people in the old city of Jerusalem.
Spokeswoman Luba Samri says the man stabbed two Jewish youths Saturday before fleeing, with police forces giving chase. He then stabbed one of the policemen before he was shot and killed. Samri says the victims suffered light to moderate injuries.
Notably, the original Associated Press headline had accurately stated: "Israeli police kills Palestinian who stabs 3 in Jerusalem."
In response to communication from CAMERA's Israel staff, The Herald Sun commendably corrected the headline. It now reads, "Israeli police kill Palestinian attacker."
In addition, another News Corp Australia media outlet, The Australian, likewise corrected, starting with the same distorted headline and making the identical change to "Israeli police kill Palestinian attacker."
As is often the case, the most telling New York Times coverage of the Jews comes not in the news columns or on the editorial page, but in the movie reviews.IsraellyCool: The Media Taught ISIS How To Fight
The latest example comes in a film review in which a Times critic complains that a Holocaust movie doesn't contain enough graphic violence or terrifying depictions of "Jewish suffering."
The Times reviewer, Stephen Holden, complains that the movie, "The Zookeeper's Wife," is too "sanitized." It "avoids graphic depictions of Nazi barbarism," he writes, disappointedly. It "plays like a medium-gloss rerun of other more gripping depictions of Nazi evil and Jewish suffering."
The review further complains that the Jewish fugitives "don't look much the worse for wear."
Perhaps it's reasonable of the Times to complain that a movie about the Holocaust is too much of a whitewash. But in making the complaint, the Times risks setting up an ideal that goes too far in the other direction.
This is a big story in the New York Times: New ISIS Tactic: Gather Mosul's Civilians, Then Lure an Airstrike.Daily Beast: Israeli Stabbing Victims Only "Allegedly" Stabbed
Every single article the media ever wrote about "disproportionate" civilian casualties in Gaza at the hands of the IDF or alleging the same, through quotes of notoriously unreliable "Palestinian sources", made this ISIS tactic inevitable.
It was always obvious to non-partisan observers that Hamas tried to maximise their own civilian casualties and always tried to declare the deaths of their terrorists as civilians. This nearly always won them uncritically positive reporting.
Now another brand of Islamic Jihadi terrorists are using the same tricks. Only fools or those who believe the old media could be surprised.
These are the fatal results of lethal journalism. Well done press, you're as complicit in the murder of civilians as anyone could possibly be who wasn't pulling the triggers.
Two stabbing attacks took place this week in Jerusalem's Old City. On Wednesday Israeli Border Police shot and killed a Palestinian woman as she attempted to stab them with scissors outside Damascus Gate. On Saturday, a Palestinian teenager stabbed two young men and a police officer, wounding them, before being shot and killed by security forces.Jerusalem is a "West Bank Town?"
Here's how the Daily Beast's "Cheat Sheet" reported the latest attack:
The victims were "allegedly" stabbed?!
Interestingly, the short article includes a click through to "READ IT AT REUTERS." Yet, the Reuters report does not use the word "allegedly" to describe the stabbing attacks, which leads us to believe that Daily Beast editors deliberately inserted that particular form of language.
Izzard appeared in Tel Aviv on Thursday night, which is certainly not the Israeli capital.Jewish center in Sweden closes after anti-Semitic threats
And to add insult to injury, Jerusalem does get a mention in a photo caption:
In any case, the Palestine Marathon took place on the streets of Bethlehem and not Jerusalem.
We've contacted Mail Online asking for both of these errors to be corrected. Watch this space.
A Jewish center in northern Sweden decided to close after receiving anti-Semitic threats.'Jewish heirs can sue Germany for return of Nazi-looted art'
The members of the Judisk Föreningen, or Jewish Association, in Umea decided at a meeting on Sunday to close its building and end the association's activities, The Local-Sweden reported.
The association has been received threatening emails, and its building was vandalized with stickers of swastikas and spraypainted threats such as "we know where you live," the report said, citing the Swedish-language SVT News Västerbotten.
"Too many things have happened lately which mean that Jewish parents don't feel safe having their kids at the schools. Our children shouldn't live in a world where they have to be ashamed for what they are, but it's not possible to operate if people are scared," Umeå Jewish Association spokesperson Carinne Sjöberg told SVT.
Sjoberg told the BBC that the neo-Nazi group Nordfront was responsible for the campaign of intimidation and threats. She said the decision to close the center was made after the windows of one of the community's members were smashed.
"My mother and father are (Holocaust) survivors, so this is not OK. Enough is enough. It was like stepping into their shoes in the 1930s," she said. (h/t Zvi)
A US district court has cleared the way for descendants of Jewish art collectors to sue Germany in the United States over objects allegedly obtained from their ancestors under duress during the Nazi era, JTA reported Monday.Wallenberg-signed document fetches over $13,000 at auction
The ruling comes three years after a German investigative commission found that the owners of a collection – known as the Welfenschatz, or Guelph Treasure – were not forced to sell it by the Nazis.
In what lawyers for the complainants are calling a landmark ruling, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Friday that claims regarding the collection – which the Dresdner Bank purchased on behalf of Hitler's deputy, Hermann Goering, in 1935 – can be filed in a US court.
It is the first time that a court has held that Germany can be sued for the return of Nazi-looted art and artifacts under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
A document signed by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg that saved a Jewish woman from the Nazis sold at auction for more than $13,000.Israeli scientists design robot to squeeze through small intestine
On September 22, 1944, an affidavit signed by Wallenberg in Nazi-occupied Budapest saved the life of Zsigmondne Simko, a Hungarian Jewish woman, by declaring that she was under the protection of the Swedish government.
The document was purchased on Thursday for $13,310 (some NIS 48,300) through the Nate D. Sanders auction house in Los Angeles. In keeping with company policy, Sanders did not divulge the identity of the document's seller or buyer.
Bidding for the "protective" certificate or passport, which exempted the bearer from forced labor or wearing the Jewish yellow star, started at $8,000 (about NIS 29,000) and attracted three other bidders, in addition to the winning collector.
Wallenberg, the scion of an aristocratic Swedish Lutheran family, was sent to Budapest in July 1944, through the joint efforts of the US War Refugee Board and the Swedish government, the latter appointing Wallenberg as First Secretary of its embassy in the Hungarian capital.
With no previous experience as an organizer, the 32-year-old Wallenberg established a network of hospitals, nurseries and some 30 "safe houses," and issued a stream of "protective" passports and papers to save an estimated 15,000 Jews from almost certain death.
A tiny ingestible robot designed by Israeli scientists may one day have the capacity to slither its way through the small intestine, upgrading the effectiveness of the colonoscopy test.Israel, European states advance plans for world's longest underwater gas pipeline
Created by scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the SAW (single actuator wave-like robot) will have the ability to navigate forward and backward through the cramped terrain of the small intestine thanks to its unique wave-like locomotion. It would be able to analyze the digestive tube using a small camera attached to the snake-like robot, according to a report last week on the Live Science website.
"The external shape of the robot is a 2D projection of a rotating helix.The result is a continuously moving wave. We can simply reverse the direction by reversing the direction of rotation of the motor," explained mechanical engineer David Zarrouk.
The SAW is constructed using interlocking 3D-printed pieces of plastic that resemble vertebrae.
Aiming to transform the Eastern Mediterranean into a regional energy hub, Israeli and European officials signed a joint declaration on Monday to promote the construction of the world's longest subsea gas pipeline.Watch what happens when ad comes alive at Israeli bus stop
"This is the beginning of our wonderful friendship between four Mediterranean countries – Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Italy," National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Minister Yuval Steinitz said at a press conference in Tel Aviv that morning. "This is going to be the longest and deepest subsea gas pipeline in the world. It's a very ambitious project."
The unprecedented, $6 billion-$7 billion plan in question involves building a privately-funded, 2,200-km deep-sea pipeline linking Israeli and Cypriot gas to the Greek and Italian shores. With a recent feasibility study indicating that the daunting project would be technically, the energy ministers of all four countries, as well as the energy commissioner of the European Union, came together on Monday for their first quadrilateral meeting to promote the plans.
If all goes according to plans, the ministers hope to see gas flowing through the pipeline by 2025.
Imagine you're waiting for the bus, and the guy in the watch ad next to you suddenly starts talking to you.
A handful of straphangers in Israel recently enjoyed (if that's the word) such an experience, thanks to a campaign from Samsung and Leo Burnett Tel Aviv for the Gear S3 smartwatch.
The billboard—actually a live video feed—aimed to play up the classic look of the newfangled timepiece, which at first blush might pass for an analog wristwatch, rather than a miniature internet-connected supercomputer.
The deception relied on passing off the Samsung watch as a fictional brand, "Frontier," until the reveal, which came as nearby commuters began playing with their phones, and the actor in the billboard used that as excuse to come to life and start demoing the watch's capabilities, much to their surprise (if the case study video is to be believed).
HILARIOUS: Leftists Fall For Mock Petition Blasting Israel For Not Letting Palestinians Fish In The DEAD SEA
On March 29, a guy named Ian Brown in the United Kingdom started a Change.org petition titled, "Stop Israeli apartheid against Dead Sea fishermen - make Israel give them a fair deal." The petition says the following:Sifting for Temple Mount artifacts halts as funding dries up
Since Israel took control of the West Bank in 1967:
This petition, of course, is a gag. The Dead Sea, which is situated between Israel, the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, and Jordan, gets its name because its salt content is so high that it cannot sustain life. The petition also makes fun of Jeremy Corbyn, the leftist Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom's parliament who referred to the genocidal terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah as "friends" of his cause. In short, the petition was intended to mock how anti-Israel zealots will find any excuse to blame Israel (read as the Jews) for the Palestinian leadership's failure to create a peaceful solution between Israelis and Palestinian-Arabs.
- It has not issued a single fishing permit to Palestinian fishermen for fishing in the Dead Sea.
- Irrigation projects have reduced the supply of fresh water entering the Dead Sea.
- It has allowed millions of Zionist tourists to bathe in the Dead Sea and to remove minerals from it, whilst not a single fish has been legally caught by local fishermen.
However, many leftists took the bait and started slamming Israel and the "Zionists" for their supposed oppression of Palestinian-Arab fisherman from granting access to the Dead Sea.
Efforts to find artifacts buried in soil removed from Jerusalem's Temple Mount in the 1990s have ground to a halt following financial cutbacks, the project's directors announced Sunday.
The Temple Mount Sifting Project said it was "on the verge of closure" after the Ir David Foundation pulled its financial support after 12 years. "In the absence of funding we won't be able to continue searching for archaeological fragments," it said.
The organization headed by Gabriel Barkay sorts through soil removed from the site during construction between 1996 and 1999. The Temple Mount is considered the holiest in Judaism, the site of two Jewish temples, and is also the third holiest site to Muslims.
The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, the institution overseeing the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, excavated a section of the Temple Mount for the building of a subterranean mosque in an area known as Solomon's Stables. Tens of thousands of tons of dirt — roughly 400 truckloads — were excavated by heavy machinery, without the supervision of archaeologists, and were dumped outside the Old City.
The piles of earth sat in the Kidron Valley for over four years until the project commenced in 2004. Since commencing operations, the Temple Mount Sifting Project said, it's gone through around 70 percent of the soil removed from the site.


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We're looking for a small color icon [16x16, 32x32] that also performs well in grayscale, to be used as the primary visual access point for our software
ExpanDrive is a small Boston based independent software company. We make the best file access client on the planet - allowing you to securely access your remote servers just like a USB Drive, over the internet - using SFTP/FTP/S3. Our user interface generally sits in the background, and is accessed by clicking an icon in the system try. Customers complain our current icon is ugly, and looks like a stapler. We'd like something better.
- Clear and obvious silhouette
- Hand tuned to look good at 16x16 and 32x32
- Hand tuned to look good in color in Windows, and Grayscale on Mac
- Something too complex or detailed
- Icon is too obviously derivative of built-in Mac/Windows icons
- Something which uses just the letters "ED"


text: Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: > The recent emails from rgb and Doug lead me to a question. Has anyone > tested codes running under a VM versus running them "natively" on > the hardware (native isn't a good word and I hope everyone gets my > meaning)? The last word I heard is that performance takes a substantial > hit if you are running a code in a VM. Some of the reasons are that the > code has only virtualized access to the hardware (particularly the NICs) > and memory management is a bit more difficult (although Barcelona with > nested page tables should help there). I do remember VirtualIron saying > that they had IB drivers so that the VM had direct access to the hardware. > > Thanks! > > Jeff > I ran some comparisons this spring on a small 4*2P AMD Opteron cluster using VMWare Player and Workstation. The results seemed quite promising and I'd like to share them but the VMWare EULA restricts the publication of unvetted results: "You may use the Software to conduct internal performance testing and benchmarking studies, the results of which you (and not unauthorized third parties) may publish or publicly disseminate; provided that VMware has reviewed and approved of the methodology, assumptions and other parameters of the study. Please contact VMware at benchmark at vmware.com to request such review." I just sent a request to VMWare about this. Let's see what they say... -- Olli-Pekka Lehto, Systems Specialist, Special Computing, CSC PO Box 405 02101 Espoo, Finland; tel +358 9 457 2215, fax +358 9 4572302 CSC is the Finnish IT Center for Science, www.csc.fi, e-mail: Olli-Pekka.Lehto at csc.fi


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Russell Westbrook scored 29 points, Kevin Durant recorded his third career triple-double and the Oklahoma City Thunder finished a perfect three-game homestand by routing the short-handed New Orleans Hornets 119-74 on Wednesday night.
Durant had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists as Oklahoma City finished a dominant four-game sweep of the season series against New Orleans, which was without starters Anthony Davis (shoulder) and Eric Gordon (knee). The Thunder led by at least 29 in three of the four meetings this season,
With the Thunder firmly in control, Durant made a clear bid for the triple-double. He got the assist on five straight Thunder baskets in the third quarter, grinning widely at the bench after his ninth assist. He and the rest of the starters exited soon after.
Ryan Anderson started in place of Davis and led New Orleans with 14 points.
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Director's Corner
14 June 2007
A technically driven timeline for the ILC
Last week, I made a presentation at Fermilab's 40th Annual Users Meeting where I focused on the GDE's technically driven timeline for the ILC. Following Ray Orbach's statement that the ILC completion will likely be delayed until 2025 or later, Fermilab has undertaken a study to develop a strategic plan for the laboratory that takes into account a possible stretched out schedule for the ILC. Young-Kee Kim, deputy director of Fermilab, is leading the study with a goal of producing recommendations later this summer. In the context of this study, I decided it was important for me to lay out the basis of our GDE project timeline.
We do not have a true project "schedule" at this time and won't have one until we complete the ILC engineering design in 2010. Nevertheless, we have studied the critical path for the project and as a result put together what we believe are the main elements of a technically driven "timeline."
What do we mean by a technically driven timeline? Our timeline is based on our best assessment of what could be done if only technical considerations are taken into account. We have used a combination of the ILC Reference Design, our R&D plan and our EDR plan to make our estimates. This is a very important planning tool internally, as we will be developing the engineering design towards this baseline timeline.
The first top-level milestone in our timeline is production of an engineering design and report (EDR) in 2010. The Reference Design Report (RDR) we recently completed is a self-consistent concept, one we were able to cost and one that will give us a solid platform from which we will develop the engineering design and supporting R&D. Nevertheless, the reference design does not define an ILC that we would want to build.
We expect the design to undergo considerable evolution in the next phase to optimise performance to cost, minimise technical risks, match resources and industrialise. R&D will continue after the EDR is complete so that the evolution of the design will continue until we actually build the ILC. The projected resources appear sufficient for us to achieve the first milestone, provided we bring on sufficient project strength and establish priorities for our R&D programme. For example, we must demonstrate the accelerating gradient as well as test schemes for mitigating electron cloud effects before we can complete the engineering design.
The second major milestone in our timeline is to initiate the project start in 2012. The host country will begin to make major investments in site and facility development at this point, and we will need to commit resources for long lead items like the 14 thousand cavities. We also will need to support systems tests that will be needed to reduce the risks in the large scale production of main linac components. We are not yet able to make a good bottoms-up estimate of project resources needed for the first year, but we have estimated that upwards of 10% of total project costs will be needed.
The last date on our timeline is project completion in 2019. This date reflects the seven-year construction period that we used for the reference design. We still need to do a parametric study to assess the cost and technical risks for different construction periods, but an initial study indicates we might save 10% on the civil costs for an eight-year construction period. The primary ingredients in construction will be the civil and facilities construction that will take 4 to 5 years, followed by accelerator and detector installation and testing. The general scheme includes building and commissioning the central injectors early and assembling the detectors in large systems on the surface, before lowering them into the experimental halls.
Our technically driven timeline is admittedly our first attempt toward a project schedule, but is already realistic enough to help us identify the key milestones and considerations in achieving our timeline. For example, we are in the process of defining the pre-construction work that must be achieved for candidate sites, in advance of site selection. We have determined the early decisions that will be required for completing the design and the RF cryomodule systems tests we will need to sufficiently reduce risk before mass production.
Other crucial factors, like project approval and funding, international agreements and governance and siting must be accomplished before the ILC becomes a reality. These factors may or may not significantly lengthen our schedule. The key will be minimising these effects by working these issues in parallel with the design and R&D effort, and that is exactly what we intend to do.
-- Barry Barish


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Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization records
|1 of 2
Records of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization at Georgia State University:
A Guide to the PATCO Records, Series XII: Accident Files
Georgia State
Georgia State University Library
Special Collections and Archives
100 Decatur St., SE
Atlanta, GA 30303-3202
Fax: 404-413-2881
February 2010
Profile Description
|EAD version 2002 finding aid created in XMetaL 4.5 by Traci JoLeigh Drummond, February 27, 2010.
Collection Summary
|Georgia State University Library, Special Collections and Archives, Atlanta
|Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Washington, D. C.)
|Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization records
|204.75 linear ft.in 517 boxes
|The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was formed in 1968 to represent the interests of federally employed air traffic controllers and was dissolved in 1981, after a strike against the United States government resulted in all PATCO members being fired from their Federal Aviation Administration jobs. This finding aid (number 12 of 18) describes Series XII, Accident Files, 1970-1982 (8.5 linear feet of records in 20 boxes), which includes analysis of airline accidents from the controllers' perspective.
Organization of the RecordsThe records are organized into 18 series.
Scope and Content of Series XII: Accident Files
The Accident Files (1970-1982) contain PATCO's internal accident investigation files, accident investigation guidelines and handbook, and other accident-related correspondence (1974-1982). These files include PATCO's efforts to contribute to air safety and include in-depth analysis of the causes of accidents from the air traffic controllers perspective.
The later files in this series reflect PATCO's post-shutdown perspective on air safety, and their efforts to prove that replacement controllers were poorly trained and that their new computers were not adequate for safely directing air traffic.
History of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was formed in the New York area in 1968 to represent the interests of federally employed air traffic controllers. The objectives of the organization were to preserve and promote the profession; to improve working conditions for air traffic controllers within the United States, its territories, and possessions; and to represent its members in dealing with the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other agencies concerning grievances, personnel policies, practices and other matters. In 1981, though as federal employees it was illegal for them to do so, PATCO members went on strike. Over 11,000 controllers were subsequently dismissed.
Wages, work hours, and retirement were the significant issues for the PATCO rank and file in their 1981 negotiation with the FAA. Members wanted an across-the-board $10,000 salary increase (base pay for a controller was then $20,462). PATCO President Robert Poli also wanted the 40-hour five-day week reduced to a 32-hour four-day week without a decrease in salary. Controllers deemed the shorter work week their most important issue, because they hoped it would reduce the on-the-job stress that many of them experienced. They also wanted a change in retirement requirements because they claimed that controllers experienced "burn out" faster than other federal employees. The government refused to discuss the last two demands. An agreement was reached by June 22 that called for a 10% pay hike for controllers, a 20% increase in the nighttime work pay differential, and a guaranteed 30-minute lunch period. Though Poli had managed to get a few more benefits, he felt the overall package was not enough. When it went to a vote, 95% of his members rejected the pact. Though the two sides went back to the bargaining table on July 31, neither seemed willing to budge. On August 3, 1981, the 15,000-member Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization went on strike.
Because PATCO members were responsible for guiding commercial airline flights throughout the United States, the strike caused confusion, long delays, and worries about air travel safety. Furthermore, as federal employees, PATCO members by law were not permitted to strike. On August 5, the federal government issued dismissal notices to over 11,000 controllers who refused to return to their jobs. To President Ronald Reagan, the air traffic controllers had quit their jobs by striking illegally. Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis said, "To all intents and purposes, the strike is over. Our concern is to rebuild the system."
On August 6, a federal judge imposed a fine of $2.4 million per day (later reduced) on PATCO as long as the strike lasted. The government also obtained a court order that barred the union from using its $3.7 million strike contingency fund and began proceedings to have it decertified. Union members and other unionists claimed that the government was union busting. New workers were quickly trained and installed as air traffic controllers and in October, PATCO was decertified and dissolved. The PATCO strike and firing was one of the most significant and controversial episodes involving the American labor movement during the era.
On August 12, 1993, President Bill Clinton, by an executive order, lifted the ban on rehiring PATCO controllers who had been fired twelve years earlier.
Presidents of PATCO
|James E. Hayes
|John F. Leyden
|Robert E. Poli
|Gary W. Eads
Executive Vice Presidents
|Robert E. Poli
|Robert E. Meyers
|Domenic Torchia
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the Georgia State University Library online catalog (GIL). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Restrictions on Access
Access to materials with personal or sensitive information has been restricted. Please consult with archivist for more information about accessing these records. This collection is stored off-site. Contact archivist in advance to view these materials; 24-hour notice is required. All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
To quote in print, or otherwise reproduce in whole or in part in any publication, including on the Worldwide Web, any material from this collection, the researcher must obtain permission from (1) the owner of the physical property and (2) the holder of the copyright. Persons wishing to quote from this collection should consult the reference archivist to determine copyright holders for information in this collection. Reproduction of any item must contain the complete citation to the original. All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.
Administrative Information
[item], [folder title], [series title], Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization Records, L1986-45, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
Acquisition Information
Records donated by Terrence A. Shannon of PATCO Local 159, 1986.
Processing Information
Series I through IV processed by Pam Hackbart-Dean and Annie L. Tilden, 2001. Series V through XVIII processed by Harold V. Hansen III and George Rounds, 2009.
EAD finding aid created by Morna Gerrard, September 2002; revised by William Hardesty, February 2006. Further revisions and additional series added by Traci JoLeigh Drummond, 2010.
Related Material
Related materials in this repository: The Southern Labor Archives contains the Chet Kisling Papers, 1978-1996 (bulk 1981-1982), L2005-17, personal papers of a fired PATCO member.
Related materials in other repositories: The Texas Labor Archives at the University of Texas at Arlington holds many collections related to the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. Below is a sampling of these collections; please contact the Texas Labor Archives to find out more about these and other collections.


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Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a public health emergency for all of New York on Saturday in response to this year's severe flu season. According to the Center for Disease Control, New York is one of 41 states with widespread influenza activity, though the Rockville Centre hospitals and school district seem prepared to deal with the virus.
According to Dr. Aaron Glatt, the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Mercy Medical Center, the hospital has seen the activity level for the flu that the CDC has described.
"We are doing everything possible to deal with the increased workload, and we have done wonderfully so far," Glatt, who is also an infectious-disease physician, said. "We have a very active influenza campaign in the hospital to try and make sure all of our employees can get vaccinated and any patients who wish to get vaccinated."
Glatt said that the severity of the virus fluctuates year by year, though the CDC says that the average number of deaths as a result of the flu is 36,000 a year. He also said that the strain that is spreading throughout the country is actually well matched with the vaccine available.
"People who got the vaccine are more likely not to get the flu, or get a less intense version, but the vaccine is not perfect," Glatt said. "We're very equipped to handle and see patients in our express care and we're more than happy to help the residents of the community."
According to a press release from Cuomo's office, the governor issued an executive order which allows pharmacists to administer flu vaccinations to patients between the ages of six months and 18 years, suspending for thirty days a State Education law that limits immunization by pharmacists to those older than 18.
There have been 19,128 cases of influenza reported in New York this season, more than quadruple the total cases reported in 2011-12. The New York State Department of Health has received reports of 2,884 patients hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza, more than double the reported hospitalizations of last year.
"We are experiencing the worst flu season since at least 2009 and influenza activity in New York State is widespread, with cases reported in all 57 counties and all five boroughs of New York City," Cuomo said. "Therefore, I have directed my administration, the State Health Department and others to marshal all needed resources to address this public health emergency and remove all barriers to ensure that all New Yorkers — children and adults alike — have access to critically needed flu vaccines."
Tara M. Algerio-Vento, the Rockville Centre school district family nurse practitioner, said that the students have not had flu incidents in any significant amounts and that the cases have been scattered throughout the classes and schools.
"There are the same numbers that we would have consistently because it is winter," Algerio-Vento said. "We do have some flu-like incidents but nothing that has been causing clusters, which we keep an eye on."
The school district keeps track of clusters of students who have confirmed cases of the flu, Algerio-Vento explained, to see if the virus is spreading.
Custodians clean the district schools once a day, but once the first case of flu is confirmed, the custodians go around opening windows to aerate the schools and cleaning the desk surfaces and walls with cleaning agents approved by the CDC. Algerio-Vento said that this year, the first confirmed case of the flu among the students and staff was reported in late December, just before Christmas vacation.
She said that if clusters of influenza outbreaks are seen, or if someone is hospitalized with a case of the flu, the district will send out notifications to the parents.
Algerio-Vento also said that the school promotes the importance of flu vaccines in September, and that the entire staff is inoculated to the virus in October. She added that recently cases of the flu have been seen even in the summer, but that the flu season generally begins to slow down around March.
Oceanside and the surrounding communities have seen a spike in influenza cases and influenza-like illnesses, said Dr. Joshua Kugler, Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at South Nassau Communities Hospital and Chairman of the Nassau County Regional Emergency Medical Service Committee.
According to Kugler, influenza like illness share some of the same symptoms as the flu, such as headache, fever and running nose, but they don't test positive for the influenza virus.
"Both of these are much higher this time of year than they have been in the past decade," Kugler explained. "There are several reasons and the epidemiologists look back and try to find out why were are seeing it earlier."
Kugler said that groups of people cohorted, or grouped together inside could make it easier for the virus to spread.
This year's vaccine for the influenza virus is very effective, Kugler said, adding that the epidemiologists did a good job predicting the types of flue that would be affecting this region.
"It is genetically very appropriate for the flu that we are seeing," Kugler said. "It's protecting against two-thirds of the flu or flu-like illnesses. It mitigates the effects, depending on the prior health of the person."
Kugler added that it is important that more people get vaccinated, because it makes it less likely that the virus will spread throughout the community. He said that if you are 6 months or older and don't have very specific reasons, like an allergy, you should get a vaccination. Kugler also advised to stay at home when sick, and keep good hygiene in mind.


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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Where does the time go?
10 comments:
- Notre Vie Juteuse said...
yes, the internet sucks the life out of you. We went without for the last 3 weeks, while we moved here and tried to get our EDF bill to show we existed. It was actually nice not having it. But it's nice having it again too. It just seems that the day does go by so fast, I try and stop and notice small things during the day instead of just letting it slip by.
- 24 November, 2010 20:02
- auntiegwen said...
It is for me
- 24 November, 2010 20:11
- Lesley said...
@NVJ: I think they have some system in Iceland that involves no TV one day each week. I think that might work for the internet too.
@auntiegwen: I'll be wanting it back then.
- 24 November, 2010 20:40
- Jordan said...
I blame Facebook and Twitter! (And maybe the rest of the Internet...but mostly those two.)
- 25 November, 2010 02:58
- Lesley said...
@Jordan I think you're absolutely right. It's certainly not blogging.
- 25 November, 2010 14:42
- materfamilias said...
Funny, I keep resolving to go a day or two without, just to own some time, but never quite maintain the resolve long enough.
Really like your new template . . . the effect of tacking notices up on a wooden fence is great.
- 25 November, 2010 16:01
- BeefKing said...
the time disappears into the shiny color screen, and it never comes back out.
- 25 November, 2010 17:54
Sedentary habits always feel like time-wasters, I remember my father getting annoyed seeing us sitting around reading at weekends when we should have been outside sweeping up dead leaves or picking fruit.
I can sit for hours (and hours) reading on-line papers, blogs, wikiwhatsit and other agreeable trash but all the while feeling guilty that I should be out on my bike or doing something 'constructive' i.e. something which involves movement! So yes, the internet is another culprit.
It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't addictive ... ay, there's the rub.
(Forget the Bard, I sound like Mary Bennet this morning)!
- 26 November, 2010 08:06
- Dick said...
Weirdly, retirement alongside having young kids stretches it out again. Not like it used to be when it was fresh and ours alone, but just about enough.
- 27 November, 2010 09:32
- Lucy said...
But I also find there are internet things I should do and don't get round to, like e-mails, and even reading the blogs I want to. I don't even do Facebook and Twitter, but still get distracted wandering off on links and reading articles about things I didn't know I cared about and probably don't.
Then sometimes I sit and read a book then feel guilty that I'm not up on current issues which I'd surely know more about if I read up more on the internet...
But I think it's good to have more things lined up than you can really do, it shows an appetite for life.
- 08 December, 2010 07:34


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Color categories allow you to easily identify and group associated items in Microsoft Outlook. Assign a color category to a group of interrelated items—such as notes, contacts, appointments, and email messages—so that you can quickly track and organize them. You can also assign more than one color category to items.
You can choose from a set of default categories or create your own, and then assign the categories to your Outlook items. The category colors are prominently displayed in table views, such as your Inbox, and within the open items themselves. You can rename the categories to something more meaningful to you or choose different colors for the categories. This flexibility enables you to design a color category system that fits your personal work style.
Assign a color category to an email message
To assign a color category to a message from the message list, right-click the message. Select Categorize, then select a category from the list.
Tip: If you right-click the message and you only see options to flag the message, try right-clicking in the blank space to the right of the sender's name.
If you want to assign a second or third color category, you can perform this action multiple times.
You can't assign a color category to a message from the reading pane or from the message list if you're using Conversational View in Outlook 2016. For more information, see Learn more about Conversational view.
To assign a color category from the reading pane or an open message, select Categorize from the Tags group on the ribbon and then select a category from the list.
If you don't see Categorize on the Ribbon, select the drop-down under Tags.
Note: The Categorize drop-down displays the ten most recently used categories. If you have additional categories, you'll need to select All Categories to see the rest of the list.
Create a color category
In any message folder, in the Tags group on the Ribbon, select Categorize > All Categories.
Note: For calendar items, the Tags group appears on the Appointment or Meeting tab. For an open contact or task, the Tags group appears on the Contact or Task tab.
In the Color Categories dialog box, select New.
Type a name for the category and select a color and optionally, a shortcut key. Then select OK.
Set a Quick Click category and assign it to messages
A Quick Click category is a default category that you can set in certain table views. For example, if you turn off the reading pane or move the reading pane under your message list, you'll see additional columns in your Inbox, including Received, Category, and Mention. To assign a Quick Click category in one of these views, you can click in the category column to set a category.
On the ribbon, in the Tags group, select Categorize > Set Quick Click.
Use the drop-down to select a color category, then select OK.
Tip: From an open message, you can click Set Quick Click on the Categorize menu to set the default color category for all future messages, not just the message that is selected.
What would you like to do?
Learn more about color categories
Color adds visibility to your Outlook items. If you create a category named Morris Project, for example, and assign items to it, you can keep track of all the meetings, contacts, and messages associated with the project.
Color categories are prominently displayed in table views, such as your Inbox, and within the open items themselves. The default set of six color categories is designed to be customized. You can rename the categories to something more meaningful to you or choose different colors for the categories. Beyond these six, you can create as many more color categories as you need, and you can assign multiple color categories to items as well. This flexibility enables you to design a color category system that fits your personal work style.
You can also choose a Quick Click category that allows you to click only once in your Inbox or other table view to assign a default color category to a Microsoft Outlook item. Find out more in Assign a Quick Click category.
To make finding your categorized mail items easier, a Categorized Mail Search Folder has been added to Search Folders in the Navigation Pane and provides a view of all your categorized mail items. Within this folder, you can sort and group the categorized items. You can also create additional Category Search Folders for specific categories.
Create a color category
Although you can use and customize the six default color categories, you may need to create new ones while you continue to organize your items. The properties that you can apply to any category are color, name, and shortcut key.
On the toolbar, click Categorize .
Click All Categories.
Click New.
The Add New Category dialog box opens.
In the Name box, type a name for the new color category.
In the Color list, choose the color that you want, and then click OK.
Choosing a shortcut key is optional.
If you want to create a color category without a color assigned to it, click None in the color palette. The category will apply a name (and a shortcut key if you choose) to items, and you can sort and group the items according to the category. The items also will be available in the appropriate Category Search Folder.
Assign a color category
Assign a color category to an Outlook item
A color category must be listed in the color category list before you can assign it. If the color category is not listed, you can simultaneously create a new color category and assign it to an item.
Note: The first time that you assign a default color category to an item, you are prompted to rename the category. At that time, you can also change the color of the category, rename it, and choose a keyboard shortcut.
Assign a color category to an item in a table view
Assigning color categories to items in your Inbox or other table views is similar for all types of Outlook items.
Note: Assigning color categories in a card view in Contacts (such as Business Cards view) or Icons view in Notes is the same as assigning color categories in table view.
To assign a color category, do one of the following:
Select the item, click Categorize on the toolbar, and then click a color category.
Right-click the item, point to Categorize on the shortcut menu, and then click a color category.
Only the 15 most recently used color categories appear on the Categorize menu. To see more categories or to create a new category, click All Categories. To assign a color category from the Color Categories dialog box, you must select the check box next to the color category.
The Color Categories dialog box is also a quick way to assign multiple categories to an item.
In timeline views such as those offered in Tasks and Journal, the only way to assign a color category to the item is by using the shortcut menu method described above.
For Journal view, the Categorize button is not displayed on the toolbar by default. To add this button, on the Tools menu, click Customize. On the Commands tab, in the Categories list, click Actions. In the Commands list, click Categorize and drag it to the toolbar where you want it to appear.
Rename a color category
The default color categories have generic names, such as Red Category and Blue Category. To easily identify and organize your categorized items, you can rename the color categories by using names that are meaningful to you.
Note: If you change a color category that is already assigned to items, all of the items that have that category assigned are updated to the new name.
On the toolbar, click Categorize .
Click All Categories.
In the Name list, click the name of a color category, and then click Rename.
In the Name list, type the new name for the color category.
To automatically assign the color category that you are renaming to items that are selected in the main Microsoft Outlook window, select the check box next to the color category in the Name list, and then click OK.
The first time that you assign an existing color category to an item, you're prompted to rename the color category.
Set or change the current Quick Click category
On the toolbar, click Categorize , and then click Set Quick Click.
In the Set Quick Click dialog box, in the list, choose a color category.
Changing to a different Quick Click category does not change the color category already assigned to any item. However, if you change the name or color of any color category, all of the items that have that color category assigned are updated to reflect the new name or color.
You can also set your current Quick Click category from the Categorize menu in any open item.
Assign a Quick Click category to an item
You can assign a Quick Click category to most Outlook items when you view them in a table view, such as your Inbox, or in the To-Do Bar.
In your Inbox or other table view, click the Categories column next to a message. This adds the color associated with your Quick Click category to the column. If you open the item, the color and the name of the color category appear near the top of the item.
You can remove the Quick Click category by simply clicking the Categories column again.
You can assign a Quick Click category to multiple items at the same time. Just select all of the items, and then click the Categories column next to one of the items.
Assign a shortcut key to a color category
By associating a keyboard shortcut key with a color category, you can quickly assign the color category to an item, such as an e-mail message, by selecting the item in your Inbox or another table view and then pressing the shortcut key. You can also use the shortcut key to assign a color category to multiple items at the same time.
On the toolbar of the main Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 window, click Categorize .
At the bottom of the menu, click All Categories.
In the Name list, select the check box for a color category.
In the Shortcut Key list, choose a keyboard shortcut.
Restore the default color categories
You cannot reset the list to the six default categories from within Office Outlook 2007. These default categories are offered as placeholders for you to customize, as needed.
Although you cannot restore the six default categories from within Outlook, you can recreate the list. Or, you can run a command by using a command-line switch in the Windows Run dialog box to automatically restore the default list of six categories.
Recreate the list in Outlook
This basic set of color categories is designed to be customized. You can rename the categories and associate them with different colors. Beyond these six color categories, it is easy to create new color categories. The following are the six, default color categories in Outlook 2007.
Red Category
Yellow Category
Blue Category
Orange Category
Green Category
Purple Category
The properties that you can apply to any category are color, name, and shortcut key. If you change a color category that is already assigned to items, the color category is updated in those items.
Note: If you upgrade from another version of Outlook when you install Office Outlook 2007, the first time that you open the Color Categories list, the six, default color categories are displayed, along with any categories that had been applied to items in your earlier version of Outlook.
Restore the list by using a command-line switch
There is a command-line switch that will restore the six, default category colors and names in the category list. Learn more about using command-line switches.
Important: Running this command-line switch will delete any custom categories that you created. If you upgraded to Office Outlook 2007 from another version of Outlook, any custom categories or categories from the Master Category List will be deleted. Items will still retain the category name, but not a color.
First, verify the location of outlook.exe on your computer. If you accepted the default folder locations when you installed Office Outlook 2007, outlook.exe is located at c:\program files\microsoft office\office12\outlook.exe.
If you do not find outlook.exe at that location, search for the file and make a note of the full path.
Do one of the following:
Windows Vista
Click Start , point to All Programs, click Accessories, and then click Run.
Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Run dialog box, type a quotation mark, enter the full path for the outlook.exe file, and then type another quotation mark. Alternatively, click Browse to locate and select the file. In this case, the quotation marks are supplied automatically.
After the closing quotation mark, type a space, and then type the switch /cleancategories. For example, if you use the default installation location, the text you would type would look like this:
"c:\program files\microsoft office\office12\outlook.exe" /cleancategorie s
Click OK.
Switches are not case-sensitive. For example, /CLEANCATEGORIES functions the same as /cleancategories.
Remember to include one blank space before the switch.


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Sumit Birla needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 14 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
We are a pet products supplier. We ship products directly to customers.
Pet owners - dogs, cats and horses.
The design for barkingdeals.com will resemble the following websites in several respects:
1. http://www.crowdsavings.com/
2. http://www.groupon.com/tampa/
3. http://livingsocial.com/
4. http://www.buywithme.com/
5. http://www.justdeals.com/
Things I am looking for - simple and clean page. First-time visitor should easily understand the concept. Big fonts and soothing colors. Use a dog on the page.
Should have the following links -
1. Enter your email to sign-up
2. Login / Login using Facebook Connect
3. Links to our Facebook and Twitter pages and RSS feeds (use icons).
4. Center-piece Deal of the Day. Show cost and $savings.
5. Show number of people who have already purchased.
6. Show time remaining creating a sense of urgency.
7. How this works, Contact Us, Recent Deals, FAQ and My Account
8. An area to show product description and photo(s)
9. Perhaps an area or separate tab to show product reviews.
This site will be nation-wide (US) and not specific to any city unlike the list of sites above.
Please let me know if you have any questions and good luck.


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UltraVP necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 130 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
Healthy Living
This logo will be the start of a rebranding for us. We are a global company
our current website is http://www.shoplsp.com
we are a family owned and operated company that specializes in creating pure soap and skin care products for the home and office. Our concentrated formulas are designed for optimal use and value when used in conjunction with treated water.
Since opening in 1987, we have served more than a 100 million households worldwide. Today, our company has grown to feature over 100 trained staff members with 500,000 square feet of manufacturing, warehouse, and office space to serve your needs.
Built on the cornerstones of health, beauty, quality and value, our products have always been distributed exclusively through pure water specialists. With the launch of LSP Healthy Living in 2007, we are excited to now feature our more than 500 products direct to customers online.
Health/Enviromentally conscious audience, interested in healthy products for themselves and around their home, including soft water.
A logo concept that includes the words "Healthy Living".
This is strictly a logo, but you can place it in healthy imagery to show how you would use it (ie, on a box, or website)
Should stick to a green/blue color pallet since both colors convey health and nature. We are a global company, so a "world/globe" type image could be integrated (but not necessary). Should have a vibrant, healthy & natural feel to the logo. Could also have leaf/tree/nature/water type images integrated with the logo.
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|STS088-703-032 (4-15 DECEMBER 1998) --- Blanketing clouds form the backdrop for this 70mm scene of the connected Zarya and Unity modules after having been released from Endeavour's cargo bay a bit earlier. Six crew members, who had earlier spent the majority of their on-duty mission time working on the tandem of space hardware, watched the joined modules from Endeavour in a survey and fly-around mode.
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A hundred and forty years ago, this very day, was born a man in a middle-class Gujarati business family, who was to devise his own path and principles to redeem himself as a man, even as he was to head a revolution to redeem a nation and its people from the slavery of the mind, as well as that of an imperial power. The essence of his strength came from his belief in truth which he variously extracted from the collective wisdom of all religions, civilizations, and the concept of humanity that dawned on him. This is so clearly described in his favorite devotional song, 'Vaishnav Jan…….' (the true man of the Lord is the one who can empathize with the pain of another). Surely, the barriers of class, colour, religion, were meaningless if one was to respect a single concept of humanity.
(Mahatma Gandhi at Noakhali in December 1947: Did his faith in humanity fail him?)
For Gandhi, the victories of the battle within, were bound to bring successes in the battle without. He was an experimenter of the tendencies of the mind, and derived his worldly motivation as he restored order within. As a warrier of truth, who shared his own experiences, he trained a batch of learned men – Nehru, Patel, Maulana Azad, Gaffar Khan and others – to learn this unique discovery of strengthening oneself inside out, to be a winner. He reached the pedestal of a 'saint' or 'Mahatma', even though a very bright Churchill, even in his slanderous comment, conceded the term 'The Naked Fakir (hermit)' at the sheer arrogance of his simplicity. He finally fell to bullets from his own brethren 'Hindus', washing away even in his last breath the possibility of a communal thought, while a large part of the subcontinent burnt in communal violence. That was the 'Partition' of the land. The Mahatma's lament perhaps was not the creation of two countries but the immediate, maddening bloodshed and violence between his own people, even as he spent a lifetime preaching 'non-violence' against the Imperial Power that was occupying his land. Worst still, he realized that one man, one lifetime was not enough to teach the blessings of 'non-violence' over any dogma, ritual or religion. Did the man fail?, Was it the failing of his faith, or his God? Or was it a mistake to prime so much goodness in the masses who were incapable to think beyond 'a tooth for a tooth'.
Gandhi's sublimation from the usual to the saint came in various stages. Having qualified as a barrister and settled in South Africa, his first instincts were legal, in terms of his fight for equality of the races. He knew his mind and his beliefs were his prime strengths. His concept of spirituality was the ability to defy and suffer, suffer long enough to change the opponent's mindset from rivalry to embarrassment.
He set foot on Indian soil in the first decade of the 20th century. A military option was unthinkable, but that was not the reason for his 'non-violence'. His strategy had already succeeded in South Africa, and he knew this was the shortest, safest route. He educated himself in the social stigma in the society, the rural economy, and the common man's thinking. These were the ingredients of his army of 'non-violence'. He studied with great astuteness the micro-economics at the level of the village hut. Economics and self-reliance were essential to lead a winning campaign. That made him the biggest marketer of all times. The trademark 'khadi' is still the Indian politician's dress code, sans publicity, sans propaganda – what Kotler would say as the higher the vision, the easier the marketing. He was quite clear about the attributes of economy and self-reliance in fighting any national aggression.
His strategies did change from indifference towards the rulers, to aggressive campaigns, as he pressed the pedal harder. In came 'Civil Disobedience', 'Swadeshi'– a ploy to deplete the rulers of revenues. 'Dandi March'. Setting aside an illegal 'salt tax', and finally, in '42, when England was wobbling in the throes of war, he sprang for the 'knock-out' by declaring the 'Quit India Movement'. The British had no options but to call him for talks, to promise Independence, but seeking cooperation till the war was won.
Did Gandhi let go the crucial penalty at this stage? Because a later, negotiated liberation gave enough room for strife for leadership and stirred communal instincts. Perhaps not. Being what he was, weakening England and the Allies was to go against his own philosophy of universal human equality, giving Nazism a chance. There was another well-defined philosophy he had evolved to by then. It was his wish, that if the British leave, we should part as 'friends'.
This last one is the final and relevant message for our times. Violence, devastation, suffering may not be preventable. Wars may occur for greed, hegemony, or revenge. If that be not preventable, the wisdom of the final message applies. 'There is time to wind up, and do it while you are still in a position to 'Part as Friends'.
Yes there was bloodshed and a painful, 'Partition' in the end. That's the common man. Imagine if this had started 50 years earlier? No man, saint or prophet stays on. It's the message that lingers.


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US stock market turns lower as tech sector slumps
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are turning lower on Wall Street in midday trading, erasing an early gain.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell seven points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,881 as of noon (1600 GMT) Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 32 points, or 0.2 percent, to 16,539.
Technology stocks fell sharply, pulling the Nasdaq composite index lower. The Nasdaq dropped 72 points, or 1.7 percent, to 4,249.
The market opened slightly higher as traders were encouraged by news that U.S. employers added to their payrolls last month. The overall report was mixed, however, and the unemployment rate remained steady at 6.7 percent.
CarMax slumped 3 percent after the used car seller said its quarterly income fell as the effects of an accounting correction offset higher vehicle demand.


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Stanley Cup Playoff Preview - Pittsburgh vs. Ottawa
It took a change in goal, but the Pittsburgh Penguins are finally back in the second round of the playoffs.
Although it was a more competitive serious than most people expected, the top- seeded Penguins were able to get past the No. 8 New York Islanders in Round 1, marking the first time the club has advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals since 2010.
The Pens were tied at two games apiece with the pesky Isles when head coach Dan Bylsma decided to replace Marc-Andre Fleury with veteran goaltender Tomas Vokoun. Fleury posted a shutout in Game 1 before allowing 14 goals over the next three games.
Vokoun, who hadn't seen action in the playoffs since 2007 before this spring, recorded a shutout victory in Game 5 and then kept Pittsburgh in the game long enough to win the series in overtime of Game 6. All told, the 36-year-old stopped 66-of-69 shots in two outings for a .957 save percentage and 1.41 goals against average.
Although Fleury was the No. 1 goaltender when Pittsburgh made consecutive trips to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2008 and '09, the 28-year-old has not fared well in recent postseasons. In his first three playoffs, a run that culminated with the 2009 Stanley Cup crown, Fleury was 31-18 with a 2.45 GAA and .915 save percentage. In four playoff years since then, he is just 14-16 with a 3.15 GAA and .881 save percentage. Fleury's GAA jumps up to 3.46 if you count only his last three spring postseasons.
Although the coach hasn't officially announced a starter for Game 1, all signs point to Bylsma sticking with Vokoun, who is 5-8 with a 2.30 GAA in 13 career playoff games, at the start of the second round. However, don't be surprised if Fleury, a veteran of 79 career playoff games, finds his way back into the crease should Pittsburgh struggle in this series.
Scoring is never a problem for the Penguins, who led all teams with 25 goals in the opening round. However, Pittsburgh has surrendered a whopping 47 goals over 12 playoffs games in the last two seasons, an average of 3.92 goals per contest.
Vokoun did appear to be the answer to that problem in Games 5 and 6 against the Isles, and the Pens hope he can continue to keep the puck out of the net in Round 2 against Ottawa.
Evgeni Malkin led all Pittsburgh players with 11 points (2 goals, 9 assists) in six games against the Isles, while Pascal Dupuis paced the club with five goals.
Captain Sidney Crosby missed the first game of the playoffs due to a fractured jaw that caused him to sit out all of April, but he still managed to finish second on the Pens with nine points (3G, 6A) in five games against New York.
All told, the Pens had seven players register two goals or more in the opening round. That is, of course, a testament to Pittsburgh's tremendous scoring depth up front, but defensemen Kris Letang and Douglas Murray also managed to chip in two goals apiece.
Jarome Iginla, one of a handful of marquee names acquired by Pittsburgh at this year's trade deadline, recorded two goals and seven assists in the opening round.
Brenden Morrow, the former Dallas captain, was another player added during this season, but he managed just one assist against the Isles and was a minus-3 in six games.
James Neal, who finished second on Pittsburgh with 21 goals this season, missed Games 2 and 3 in the opening round due to injury and had one goal in the series.
Letang and Paul Martin log the big minutes at the back end for Bylsma. Another minutes-eater for Pittsburgh is Brooks Orpik, who missed the first three games against the Isles but came back for Game 4 and wound up scoring the OT winner in the clinching win.
Murray and Matt Niskanen played in all six games for the Pens in Round 1, while Bylsma played musical chairs with the rest of his defensive corps. Mark Eaton saw action in four games, while Simon Despres and Deryk Engelland played in three and two tilts, respectively.
Pittsburgh's power play is extremely dangerous and the Pens managed to score on one-third (7-of-21) of their chances in the opening round. They also finished the regular season with the second-best power-play numbers in the NHL, but Ottawa had the league's top PK in 2013.
The Pens also killed off 18-of-20 (90 percent) of New York's power-play chances in the conference quarterfinals, but Pittsburgh was ranked 25th on the PK during the regular season.
OTTAWA SENATORS (7th seed, East)
2013 PLAYOFFS: Defeated Montreal 4-1 in conference quarterfinals
Last spring, the Ottawa Senators were lauded for pushing the top-seeded New York Rangers to seven games before getting knocked out in the opening round.
This year, however, Paul MacLean's club has bigger things than moral victories on the mind.
Although only the seventh seed in the East, the Senators are clearly a more dangerous team than their standing in the conference suggests. Ottawa showed as much in the opening round, when it dismantled the second-seeded Montreal Canadiens in five games.
Ottawa finished fourth in the Northeast Division this season -- seven points behind the Canadiens -- but there was no question who was the better team in the conference quarterfinals. The Sens outscored the Habs by a combined score of 20-9, posting a pair of 6-1 victories to help make quick work of the division champions.
The Senators may have been seeded higher if not for losing over 200 man-games to injury this season, including absences by some big names. At this stage, however, all the key names are back healthy except top centerman Jason Spezza, and even he could be back sometime in the second round.
Ottawa's most important player, defenseman Erik Karlsson, sat out 31 games during the regular season due to a torn Achilles tendon suffered when Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke stepped on his leg during a Feb. 13 meeting. The injury was originally expected to end Karlsson's season, but last year's Norris Trophy winner came back in late April and he tied for the team lead with six points in the opening round.
Karlsson had one goal and five assists against Montreal, tying him with captain and fellow Swede Daniel Alfredsson for the team lead in points.
The offensive-minded Karlsson led Ottawa with nearly 27 minutes of ice time per game in Round 1 and he is normally paired with stay-at-home defenseman Marc Methot. Methot had two goals and nine assists in 47 games during the regular season before breaking out for one goal and four helpers in five playoff tilts against Montreal.
Veteran blueliner Sergei Gonchar was second to Karlsson in ice time (23:04) against the Canadiens and also notched four assists. Gonchar usually pairs with either Chris Phillips or Jared Cowen, who each had an assist in the opening round.
Eric Gryba was suspended two games in Round 1 for delivering a big hit on Montreal's Lars Eller, but he was back on the blue line for Games 4 and 5.
Playing behind Karlsson and the D-men is goaltender Craig Anderson. The 31- year-old was a leading Vezina candidate in the early going this season before missing over a month of the season from Feb. 23-April 2 due to an ankle injury.
Anderson went 12-9-2 with a 1.69 GAA and .941 save percentage in 24 games during the regular season and his first-round numbers were stingy as well. The American netminder stopped 171-of-180 shots in five games against the Canadiens, posting a 1.80 GAA and .950 save percentage.
For his career, Anderson is 9-9 with a 2.16 GAA and .938 save percentage in 18 playoff games.
At 40 years of age, Alfredsson is the most recognizable name up front for Ottawa. The Sens' longtime captain is a valuable two-way forward who had two goals, four assists and a plus-5 rating in the opening round against Montreal.
Kyle Turris also has done a terrific job replacing Spezza as Ottawa's top centerman and the 23-year-old had three goals and two assists in the first round.
Turris leads the way for an Ottawa team stacked with talented young forwards. Like Turris, Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Jakob Silfverberg, Cory Conacher and Mika Zibanejad are all 23 years old or younger and each player contributed to the series win over Montreal.
Pageau recorded a hat trick in Game 3 and finished the series with five points. Conacher also had three goals in the series, while Zibanejad added a goal and three helpers and Silfverberg notched two goals and an assist.
The Sens' forward mix also includes Milan Michalek, a veteran with goal- scoring ability, and tough guy Chris Neil.
Ottawa's scoring depth could get a big boost if Spezza is able to return in this series. Although he recently participated in a full practice for the first time since undergoing back surgery, MacLean still says Spezza is "a long ways away."
Spezza hasn't played since the fifth game of the season, but he is a proven playoff performer. The 29-year-old center has 51 points (17G, 34A) over 53 career postseason games.
Ottawa scored on 24 percent of its power-play opportunities (6-of-25) in the first round after tying for 20th in the league on the man advantage during the regular season.
After finishing first in the NHL during the regular season with an 88-percent penalty kill rate, Ottawa stopped Montreal from scoring on 16-of-19 chances (84.2 percent) in the first round.
This series pits the league's best offense against the second-ranked defense, as Pittsburgh led the NHL with 3.38 goals per game in 2013 and Ottawa was second in defense with an average of 2.08 goals surrendered each tilt.
The Penguins won all three meetings with Ottawa during the regular season. Fleury was 2-0 in those games and Vokoun also posted a victory for Pittsburgh. Anderson started all three tilts for Ottawa and was 0-2-1 with a 2.61 GAA and .909 save percentage.
Neal led Pittsburgh with three goals and four points in the season series, while Crosby added one goal and two assists. Gonchar and Alfredsson each had two assists for Ottawa.
Ottawa was able to slow down the Penguins' power play, however, as Pittsburgh scored once on 15 chances with the man advantage over the three meetings.
This will be the fourth all-time playoff series between the clubs. Ottawa won the first encounter in the 2007 conference quarterfinals, before Pittsburgh ousted the Sens from the first round in 2008 and 2010.
However, Pittsburgh's loaded roster didn't earn many style points against the Isles in the first round and the Pens will have to play a much tighter game defensively if they expect to get past the dangerous Sens.
Although Ottawa finished 27th in team offense during the regular season, a healthy Senators team averaged four goals per game in the opening round against Montreal. Only Pittsburgh had a better scoring average in Round 1, as it posted 4.17 goals per game against the Isles.
Since winning it all in 2009, Pittsburgh hasn't lived up to its perennial Stanley Cup favorite status. Some of the blame for that downturn can be blamed on Fleury's poor postseason play, but Bylsma's skaters also have shown a tendency to break down defensively in the playoffs. If that happens in this series, expect MacLean's opportunistic Sens to make life miserable for the favorites.
After surviving a tumultuous regular season, the Senators are riding a wave of momentum into the second round. It won't be a quick series, but Ottawa is primed to pull off the upset against the Penguins.
Sports Network predicted outcome: Senators in 7


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