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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
A New Year
Happy New Year, everyone! As I've mentioned recently, 2012 was a particularly trying year for me and for my family, so I am so glad that it is now behind us. I am truly hoping that 2013 will be kind to me and that I have the courage and wisdom to take advantage of any opportunities that may come my way. The past couple of years have had some wonderful moments as well as some big set backs, but I am welcoming 2013 with a positive outlook and an open mind. Rather than make resolutions, I have made annual to-do lists in the past. I just find resolutions to be rather trite and let's face it—no one ever really sticks to them! I went back and read my New Year's post from last year and it looks like I still have a lot of the same things weighing on my mind as well as similar aspirations. Instead of making a big to-do list or setting unrealistic resolutions, this year, I am keeping things simple by writing out a few reminders based on lessons I have recently learned.
1. I recently read a status update that Pencils of Promise founder, Adam Braun posted on Facebook and it really resonated with me. It is a wise and powerful reminder that I will keep in mind this year: "Don't try to win over every person, instead build deeper relationships with those most important to you."
2. If I learned anything in 2012, it was the supreme importance of one's health. You can have everything else in the world, but without your health, it doesn't mean a thing. After going through two surgeries in the latter half of 2012, I am all out of useless organs to lose. Gallbladder—check! Appendix—check! I really plan to focus on getting my body as healthy as possible this year and hope to get my stress level under control. Easier said than done, but absolutely necessary! I can't help but think that the health problems I've had in the last year have to be linked to stress somehow. I need to learn to not sweat the small stuff and just let go.
3. In health related news, I'd like to think that this might be the year for a baby Contreras. I've been saying it for years, but never felt ready and if I am completely honest, I don't know if I will ever feel 100% ready to start a family, but we've been married for seven and a half years, I turned 31 in November and it would be nice to have a sweet little baby. In an effort for full disclosure, the fact that I have dealt with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) for the past several years makes me really nervous. I can't help but feel in my bones that this journey will be challenging for us, but we shall see!
4. Speaking of babies, La Dolce Vita has been like my baby for the past five and a half years and I really hope to take things to the next level with the blog this year. I am still figuring out what that looks like, but I should have a lot of exciting blog-related things in store this year. Everyday, I thank my lucky stars for my wonderful readers. You all enrich my life in a way that I will never be able to fully express through words. Thank you for the gift of your readership and support.
5. The events of 2012 have also taught me to cherish the people and things that I love more than ever. I am so thankful to everyone who has been there for me when I needed them and hope that I have done the same for you. I plan to spend more quality time with those who matter most in 2013—Fabian, Tate, my family, and friends—both old and new and to do more of the things I love like traveling and blogging.
This certainly is not my most ambitious list or resolutions or hopes for a new year, but I suppose that is the biggest lesson for me to keep in mind—the importance of simplifying one's life and focusing on the things that matter most. I truly hope that this year will have lots of positive things—health, happiness, prosperity, and love in store for all of us! Thank you again for taking the time to visit my blog each day. Your support means the world to me.
What are you hoping to achieve in 2013?
8 comments:
- Lucia Flores said...
Happy 2013! Wishing you all the best!
XOXO from the Netherlands,
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- January 1, 2013 at 8:08 AM
- Jules said...
wonderful post, paloma! you've pretty much summed up what i'm trying to focus on in 2013 - simplifying my life and taking better care of my health, which will allow me to be a better wife, friend and mommy! i had my first child last may at 31 years old, and 5 years into my marriage, and i totally hear you on not being 100% ready to start a family of your own. i was the same way and decided to just go for it...and of course, my son is the most amazing blessing! you'll never feel totally ready, but it's wonderful when it happens. sorry for the ramble! happy new year :) xoxo - julie
- January 1, 2013 at 10:26 AM
- Quite Sensible Indeed said...
Happy New Year! I am a long time reader and 1st time commenter. I too have PCOS. I have 4 children. 2 came easily and we thought the other 2 may never come to us.
Please let me know if you need support, I've been there! XO Jody
- January 1, 2013 at 10:29 AM
- celesteandpearl.blogspot.com said...
Happy 2013, Paloma! Your honesty regarding having children is inspiring. I think those fears are common within our generation, and I personally believe your life will unfold exactly as it's meant to. Thank you for your continuing inspiration; I can't wait to see what 2013 holds!
xx Liz
- January 1, 2013 at 10:54 PM
- Amy said...
What a wonderful post and happy new year to you, Paloma! I am such a big fan of your blog and really enjoyed reading about your resolutions and hopes for the new year. Cheers to a bigger and better 2013!
- January 1, 2013 at 11:31 PM
Happy New Year! Wishing you a healthy and prosperous New Year.
- January 2, 2013 at 7:28 AM
- Holly Phillips @ The English Room said...
Hi Paloma-
Such a fan of your blog. I have followed daily for years. Your taste is impeccable.
I applaude your honest in your resolutions. Such a hard task. I too have PCOS and know the struggle. I have 3 children- first 2 by IVF and the last was quite a happy surprise.
Best wishes for 2013!
Holly Phillips @ The English Room
- January 2, 2013 at 1:59 PM
- celine [starbies and sangrias] said...
I too think this is the year for a baby. Wishing both of us lots of luck!! Have always loved your blog. xoxo
- January 3, 2013 at 7:15 PM


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USA wins gold at FIBA U19 World Championships
The United States' journey to victory at the FIBA U19 World Championships was punctuated by a lob pass inside the final 30 seconds from Elfrid Payton to Montrezl Harrell, which Harrell slammed through the goal with the sort of force that seemed designed to show that American basketball power has not faded in the least.
When the trials began in Colorado Springs for the U.S. team, Payton was a late addition from Louisiana-Lafayette who was barely known outside the Sun Belt Conference. Harrell had been a key reserve, but still a reserve, for Louisville's national championship team.
They were among the stars of Sunday evening's 82-68 victory over Serbia in Prague. Harrell led the U.S. with 17 points and 4 blocked shots. Payton scored 9 points and led the team with 6 assists and 5 essential steals.
There were plenty of heroes for the Americans, who did not lose a game in the tournament and only once—against this same Serbia team in the final game of the second round—were held to a single-digit victory margin.
Washington-bound point guard Nigel Williams-Goss again took charge of the offense when All-America guard Marcus Smart encountered minor final trouble, and Goss scored 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the field.
Duke guard Rasheed Sulaimon got the U.S. off to a great start with two first-half 3-pointers and scored 12 points.
Arizona forward Aaron Gordon scored 6 points and got 6 rebounds and was part of the defense-first outfit that took control of the game in the fourth quarter. The U.S. leading scorer, he was named the MVP of the tournament.
Smart scored 11 points and bothered the Serbians with his physical play. Chicago high school senior Jahlil Okafor of Whitney Young made all three of his shots from the field. In nine games, Okafor missed only 13 shots. He tried 57. He joined Gordon on the All-Tournament team.
The victory gave the U.S. the U19 World title for only the second time since 1995. It also meant the Americans now hold the FIBA world titles at every men's age group: U17, U19, senior and Olympics.
It was no surprise the game was tight until late. Serbia's outstanding point guard Vasilje Micic had scored 24 in the first meeting and figured to be a tough challenge again. His clever play bothered the U.S. in the first half. Even though the defense held down his scoring, he passed for 10 assists and helped set up wing Jovan Novak for five 3-pointers and 21 points on the night.
Struggling to defend Serbia's pick-and-roll offense, particularly with key defenders Smart, Justise Winslow and Gordon resting with two fouls each, the US led by only two points at the half, 40-38.
The U.S. picked up a huge break in the third period, though, when Micic committed a third personal foul. With the game close, his coaches chose to rest him. The U.S. didn't really punish that as it might have, but was able to keep its lead and build it to 8 points when Smart converted an offensive rebound with 2:56 left.
It was only a four-point game early in the final quarter when Serbia's Nikola Milutinov was called for an unsportsmanlike foul on a muscular Smart drive. Smart made one of the two free throws, and Gordon and Payton executed a pretty give-and-go that resulted in a Payton layup that stretched the U.S. lead to 60-53.
Coach Billy Donovan went with his best defensive group at that point, hoping that some fourth-quarter pressure would undo a wearying Serbia backcourt. He'd also made an essential change in his pick-and-roll defense, going with a more athletic inside game and choosing to switch pick-and-rolls involving Micic.
This particularly worked when Harrell was defending the big man and was moved onto Micic. The traps that were helping to set up Novak and Nikola Jokic for open 3-pointers were gone, and instead Micic was having to create against a defender with overwhelming strength and astonishing length. Micic took only four shots in the game and scored 13.
Payton was the key to the success of the fourth-quarter defensive burst, picking up a steal off a bad pass by Novak and feeding Gordon for a ridiculous one-handed lob dunk that pushed the lead into double digits for the first time at 64-53. It was a matter of finishing intelligently then, and the Americans did.
Their reward was to stand on the highest elevation of the medal stand and listen to the Star Spangled Banner, then to accept the trophy presented to the world champion. Smart got his hands on it first, but everyone had a piece in the end.

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An investor may pay a terminally ill person $70,000 for a $100,000 policy. The investor receives the full payout when the original policyholder dies. However, the industry has become one that is prone to widespread fraud, according to witnesses before a House committee.
Developed in the 1980s as a way of providing cash to individuals with AIDS who had life insurance but no heirs, viatical settlements became one of the largest and fastest-growing financial crimes in the country, according to the North American Securities Administrator Association, with investors losing more than $400 million to fraud in the past three years. Viatical settlements are exempted from federal securities laws.
In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, investors, associations and state regulators reported multiple problems with the industry. Stephen Mercer, a Washington attorney said "I see firsthand how persons living with the stress of a terminal or chronic health condition benefit from cashing out their policies, and I desperately want viatical settlements to continue to be a practical option for persons living with HIV and AIDS." "At the same time as the market is currently structured, no one should be putting a dime into it," he said.
In January, Ohio authorities charged 17 people with trying to defraud investors of $105 million in a scheme involving Liberte Capital Group, a Toledo viatical company that allegedly arranged for terminally ill people to conceal conditions such as AIDS when applying for insurance. Ohio recently passed legislation to put viatical settlements under state securities regulators.
The half-dozen people who testified before the committee said the only way to resolve the industry's woes was to create national legislation that would give the Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators authority to oversee viaticals just like any other security sold to investors.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. –– Fisk University has selected a college administrator from Michigan and the founder of a consulting practice as finalists to take over as president of the Nashville college.
H. James Williams is dean of the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich.
Lawrence M. Drake is chairman and CEO of Hope 360 Degrees, a consulting group that advises corporations and institutions on career and organizational transitions, entrepreneurial and executive strategy and leadership.
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Dodgeball banned after bullying complaint
Windham school district bans 'human target' activities
A New Hampshire school district has banned dodgeball and other "human target" activities over concerns about violence and bullying.
The school board in Windham voted 4-1 last week to remove the game and nine others from the district's curriculum.
The Eagle-Tribune reports the board voted after a committee of physical education teachers studied the issue. A middle school parent complained his child was bullied during a dodgeball game.
The committee recommended eliminating the game, and others, including prison ball, slaughter, and bombardment.
"We spend a lot of time making sure our kids are violence free," Windham superintendent Dr. Henry LaBranche said. "Here we have games where we use children as targets. That seems to be counter to what we are trying to accomplish with our anti-bullying campaign."
School Board member Dennis Senibaldi cast the sole vote against the ban.
"We have rules that are set in place to deal with bullying," he said. "We don't need to ban an entire round of games just to enforce those rules."
The National Association for Sport and Physical Education said there are any number of reasons to drop dodgeball.
"It's an elimination game," said Andrew Mead, program manager at NASPE. "Games like dodgeball and tag don't keep kids involved and physically active. They objectify slower students who don't catch as well."
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If Jason Campbell bolts in free agency, the Chicago Bears are staring at an empty cupboard behind starting quarterback Jay Cutler.
Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times reports the team is interested in re-signing Campbell after he played through a one-year, $3.5 million contract last season. Campbell started just one game for the Bears, a disastrous 32-7 loss to San Francisco on "Monday Night Football" that saw him punished by the 49ers to the tune of six sacks.
Campbell appeared in parts of five other games and -- the 49ers debacle aside -- brings more veteran experience than most of the passers set to hit the open market. Certainly more than Bears third-stringer Matt Blanchard, yet to take an NFL snap.
Matt Moore's decision to re-sign with the Miami Dolphins has altered the quarterback market. Unless they plan to find help in the draft, Campbell is an attractive (and relatively affordable) option for the Bears. If they let him reach free agency, he's likely to find a home elsewhere.
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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is expected to start a campaign to boost support for changes to state pension systems. Quinn has been in campaign mode for months, repeatedly bringing up to the media and legislators the importance of tackling the state's massively underfunded pension system.
But legislators didn't pass any pension changes back in the Spring session. When Quinn called them to Springfield last week for a special, one-day session to pass something, they didn't.
Without a vote, many worry about downgrades to the state's bond ratings. Now, Quinn says he's taking his pensions campaign in a new direction.
"We've gotta, I think, activate the taxpayers," Quinn told reporters Friday.
Quinn said he's starting a grassroots campaign, which will put pressure on lawmakers in a way that hasn't been used yet.
"If they can't do it on their own, we're gonna help them do it with the people of Illinois," Quinn said.
He said his pensions campaign will last as long as it takes for the legislature to act.
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BrianVDB necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 92 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
Cygnus Cyclone
Background of myself: My formation is a Captain. I'm now working as a Pilot and bring merchant ships in and out of the port of Antwerp. I have also a company in marine consultancy. http://www.maqs.be.
I have sailed since childhood with my father on his motorboat. We went fishing and on holiday with the boat. There was one better boat than my fathers'. It was the Cygnus Cyclone.
I have now the opportunity to be the sole dealer in Europe for this craft.
The craft is very strong built, very seaworthy, fast and stable. It is the ideal craft for both the professional and the recreational motor sailor.
The logo used to be a flying cygnus with very simple lines. See http://www.cygnusmarine.com/ on top left.
You can find the two models that we sell on http://www.murphymarineservices.com/. The short wheelhouse is for the professional user, the long wheelhouse for the recreational user. My site will be built along the same lines as http://www.sea-doo.com/en-US/ (Concept)
Recreational user and professional in Europe and later world wide.
Recreational sailors want to use the boat to go fishing at sea or to go on holiday, spend a day with the family, etc.
The professionals can use it for potting, trawling, as survey vessel, to go diving, etc.
So my customers are governments (Customs, Policy patrol,etc), fisherman and recreational sailors. Most of them above age of 30 and better earners.
I want to introduce something modern and hip in the brand. So that people realise its better to invest in a seaworthy boat that is very well known in this target group. People must be proud when entering a harbour with this boat. The logo should reflect this. Elegance is a plus.
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While the BSA Supply Division currently only carries Interpreter Strips for American Sign Language (ASL), Arabic, Cantonese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese, that does not, in any way, mean that these are the only ones authorized for earning the Interpreter Strip.
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Sikorsky has started final assembly on the S-97 Raider prototype after receiving the fuselage structure from Aurora Flight Services on September 20.
The composite fuselage structure – which includes a cockpit, cabin and tail cone – is undergoing completions at Sikorsky's Development Flight Center in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Sikorsky plans to convert the fuselage, which is 36 feet long and weighs 11,000 lbs, into the S-97 Raider prototype. Demonstration flights are targeted in 2015 for U.S. military and other potential buyers.
Sikorsky launched the S-97 Raider program in late 2010 as the first offshoot of its X2 Technology demonstrator, choosing 36 industry partners in 2011. Sikorsky and Boeing are submitting a version of the X2/S-97 as one of the competitors in the U.S. Army's Joint Multi-Role (JMR) technology demonstrator, which leads into the Future Vertical Lift program (medium variant).


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Q&A: Stanley Cup Quest For Gold Runneth Over For The NHL, Marketing Partners
By Barry Janoff
March 26, 2012: The National Hockey League strongly believes that its fans are the most loyal of any in sports. According to the league, all metrics are up this season, including social media participation, merchandise sales and viewership on NBC and NBC Sports.
But the NHL is on a mission to get more casual and non-hockey fans to pay attention (and spend money) during the upcoming Stanley Cup playoffs, which begin April 11 and will run through mid-June. To that end, the league has put the Stanley Cup itself - arguably the best-known sports trophy in the world - into the heart of its post-season marketing and activation.
The NHL said that its new campaign, "Because It's The Cup," represents the most "strategic and creative campaign collaboration ever among the [league], NBC Sports Group, CBC, TSN, RDS, teams and sponsors.
One spot, "Where It's Been," follows the Stanley Cup on its epic travels around the world, which have included Mario Lemieux's swimming pool, baptisms and night clubs. Another spot, "Story" follows the evolution of the Cup in stop-motion time lapse from its original bowl more than 120 years ago to its current incarnation. The lead agency is DraftFCB. Chicago.
NHL league partners also are vesting heavily in the Stanley Cup aura. Discover Financial Services is using Facebook as a landing spot for people to show why they should spend a "Day With The Stanley Cup," being supported by multi-media marketing that includes a TV spot with Phil Pritchard, one of the charged with the care and handling of the Cup.
And league partner Miller-Molson Coors is working with some 6,500 bars across the U.S. and Canada for POP signage and Stanley Cup tap handles that draw Molson Canadian and Coors Light draft. Coors Light also will have Stanley Cup images on cans available at retail.
Brian Jennings, evp-marketing for the NHL, spoke with NYSportsJournalism about the challenges and rewards facing the league as the Stanley Cup playoffs approach.
NYSportsJournalism.com: How would you assess the 2011-12 season as we near the playoffs?
Brian Jennings: In many ways this has been a remarkable season. As we are heading into the most important time of the year for us, the playoffs and the marketing of the Stanley Cup, this season has been very rewarding. Right now, from our sponsorship to digital metrics, consumer products and everything around the league is trending upward. We are bullish, and excited, about our plans and outlook for the future.
NYSJ: What are the challenges in keeping that going?
BJ: Keeping the momentum and energy behind the brand is essential, but is no small task. The marketplace, and most importantly our fans and our sponsors, have been responding positively to everything we have done. We look at the marketing calendar, and we continue to build out platforms, be it the Thanksgiving weekend with the float in the Macy's parade, the Winter Classic, the All-Star Game, looking ahead to the post-season, we have something going on almost each month for our partners to rally around and celebrate.
NYSJ: For sports fans and marketers, there is a lot happening now. Are you finding that the NHL brand is resonating with fans and consumers and that NHL marketing messages are reaching them?
BJ: Most certainly. The challenge to any marketer and just the sheer volume of messaging in the marketplace can be daunting. But we believe that we have been very successful with our approach to date. Now, looking at the 2012 playoffs, there has been a bit of a shift strategically in the sense that we are trying to socialize the Stanley Cup playoffs. All of the things we are doing in marketing behind the playoffs are trying to take advantage of the equity in the Stanley Cup itself. During focus groups we held [to get consumer and fan insights into the NHL] in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto, we had maybe not an 'Aha!' moment, but one of those moments where we recognized that we had such an asset in the Stanley Cup that it would be perhaps the best gateway to welcome new fans into what we think is the best two-and-a-half months of sports competition in the world.
NYSJ: What has been the reaction of NHL marketing partners to the new post-season campaign?
BJ: There have been two moments that showed the high level of satisfaction. One was coming out of the All-Star in Ottawa when we had all of our Canadian partners in a room and I was making a presentation about our playoff plans. And this is an audience that understands hockey, reveres the game of hockey. And they embraced it. The other pretty much came when when we were making the post-season presentation to all of our partners that active heavily where for two months we are a traveling road show. And they said to us, 'We get it. We like it. We understand it.' Getting back to the ability to cut through all the other messages and to reach fans and consumers, it is not about a clever tag line. It's really about the voluminous activation that you have going on that allows you to execute and effective campaign. And when you have a level of brand consistency where your partners are using your brand material or they are talking about the Stanley Cup playoffs in a similar realm that you are, everything you do reinforces the message in the marketplace.
"It's not about a clever tag line. It's really about the voluminous activation that you have going on that allows you to execute and effective campaign."
NYSJ: What was it specifically that you found in the focus groups about what casual and non-hockey fans know about the Stanley Cup?
BJ: Some of the qualifications [for participation] were self-defined sports fans and some of it was built on actual behavior. We received some very good insights, and some things that we were very encouraged about. For the most part, the participants told us that they were open to the NHL; they don't reject the sport. But that we need to find them. They are not necessarily seek us out. Which directly addressed our association with and being strategically aligned with strong media partners. The importance of profiling and telling player stories. We also found that the Stanley Cup playoffs are clearly our biggest opportunity to attract casual fans.
NYSJ: What was it that specifically came out during the sessions that was a catalyst for the league?
BJ: I attended two of the three focus groups we had and watched video of the third. At the end of each, the facilitator asked the men and women sitting around each table, 'What is the name of the trophy that they give out at the end of the NHL season?' And almost in unison, among 14, 15 people at each session, they would respond, 'The Stanley Cup.' And not only did they know the name, but they also knew that there was a handler who takes care of and travels with the Stanley Cup, that players on each winning team got to keep the Cup for a day and went deeper into some of the history of the Cup than we could ever have imagined. It was one of those insights that leads you to say, As far as our [post-season] marketing, let's really make it about the Cup.
NYSJ: Why do you think people respond that way to the Stanley Cup?
BJ: Credit is given to the league, which all along has done a good job to make it a focal point of the NHL and a focal point of the playoffs. But it also is about the uniqueness trophy. It is iconic. I even go back to when I was on the consumer-products side, we would have it show up at trade shows. And even if there were other sports championship trophies there, people showed more interest in the Stanley Cup, lined-up to have their picture taken with it. It didn't matter where we were or what market we were in. It was hard to put your finger on it, but it has a celebrity status. One new spot really connects that, talks about where the Cup has been and reinforces that while treating it with the respect and reverence it deserves.
NYSJ: Beyond winning the NHL championship, how important is the Cup itself to players?
BJ: When you talk to athletes, one of the most coveted honors is to represent your country in the Olympics and to win a gold. But when you talk to our guys, winning the Stanley Cup is right up there with that as far as respect and pride and the sheer will to win and then hoist the Cup and skate around the rink with it. That holds true for any player who has ever laced up a pair of hockey skates. Grown men crying, realizing what they have accomplished. The sheer will to win as a team. That honor makes them a band of brothers, even if they get traded or when they retire and move on. They will always have that moment of winning and having their name alongside the names of their teammates on the Stanley Cup.
NYSJ: How significant was it for the league to replace its two-year-old 'History Will Be Made' post-season campaign with 'Because It's The Cup'?
BJ: The word 'Because' instead of 'History' was another area that led us to that insight. We felt that 'History' may have excluded too many people but that 'Because' gave us a lot of room to grow in a lot of different directions. And it gave our partners a lot of room to activate. Miller-MolsonCoors alliance with us really allows us to active in bars, on-pack, in-premise, other areas that are critical to us to reinforce this message of social relations during the Stanley Cup playoffs. This year's campaign, perhaps more than ever, capitalizes on the social connections among fans during the Stanley Cup and the playoffs.
NYSJ: What role will local marketing featuring each team and players from each squad play in the overall campaign?
BJ: When you look at history and traditions, you typically are talking to a more heavily engaged fan, who are already invested in the property. But we wanted to look at the casual fan and see how they fit in. We looked at team rivalries as an entry point, because anyone can understand a good rivalry. The events that we put on have a social and pop-culture kind of notion to them: The Winter Classic, [the season-opening] Faceoff, Hockey Day in American or Canada, those are moments when people come together in celebration. Then when you go up the ladder, talking about players and the nuances of the game itself, you are talking about more heavily engaged fans. So we wanted to make sure that there were enough things happening in and around the playoffs to engage the casual fans and welcome them in to watch the hockey being played every night.
NYSJ: The NHL and Comcast NBC-Universal signed a ten-year deal last year, and this year NBC rebranded Versus as the NBC Sports Network. How important has that been to the league and marketing partners in getting the game and its players to core and casual fans?
BJ: When the deal was signed, [NHL] commissioner Gary Bettman called it 'the most significant U.S. media rights deal in the league's history.' We recognize that with NBC as our media partner, they are serving our fans unlike any time in the history of our sport. Every game, every night being broadcast as part of our new alliance with NBC Sports. And now there will be this frenetic pace of hockey, beginning April 11 until the conclusion of the Stanley Cup finals. When you look at the creative we have produced for local markets, highlight players on each respective team, there is a common thread that the clubs can take and customize for their broadcast marketing and for use in-arena. That is very important.
"We recognize that with NBC as our media partner, they are serving our fans unlike any time in the history of our sport."
NYSJ: In talking about players, how important is it to have Sidney Crosby, arguably the player best known to casual and non-hockey fans, healthy and back on the ice?
BJ: First and foremost, having a player of Sidney's caliber healthy and back on the ice is nothing short of a wonderful positive. It's a great development for Sidney and for our fans. He is a great player and a fiery competitor, which aligns quite nicely with this time of the hockey season. But you have to give credit to the Pittsburgh Penguins organization. Even with Sidney out, they were still winning hockey games, were still very competitive. And you look at guys like Evgeni Malkin and James Neal, who had to step up a take a larger role. They get to create more awareness for themselves and for the team.
NYSJ: How big an impact can Crosby's return have on post-season awareness among casual and non-hockey fans?
BJ: Clearly, we want the best players on the ice all the time. But I remember during the 2010 playoffs when both Sid and Alex Ovechkin [of the Washington Captials] both got knocked out of the playoffs early and people were asking, 'What's going to happen? Who will watch now?' But the momentum continued to build all the way through the Stanley Cup finals when the Chicago Blackhawks defeated Philadelphia Flyers in six games. The game is played on the ice by 22 guys and we have a competitive balance throughout the NHL that, frankly, many of the other leagues are striving for.
NYSJ: Can up-and-coming young players who can be like Sid and assume not just local but national roles as marketing spokesmen?
BJ: One of the things that the NHL wants to continue to do is make sure that many of our top players and young stars get national awareness. When you look at the emergence of Patrick Kane (Chicago Blackhawks), Steve Stamkos (Tampa Bay Lightening), Jonathan Toews (Blackhawks), Tyler Seguin (Boston Bruins), Taylor Hall (Edmonton Oilers), Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (Oilers). All of a sudden you look look at the impact they are having, young 21- 22-year-old players who are putting their mark on the game. Where in the past the maturation process might be three or four seasons, now they are making an impact much quicker. And that's a very good place for us to be.
NHL, Discover Marketing Stanley Cup For Post-Season Drive


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Western states' attorneys general convened in Park City, Utah over the weekend. At the head of the table: California's AG Kamala Harris.
Harris said she called the special summit to meet with law enforcement officials across the US, Mexico and El Salvador. The summit was designed to tackle the issue of trans-national crime that crosses borders.
Immigration, ID theft, money laundering, gang warfare, drug smuggling and human trafficking all took center-stage.
Harris spoke about technology's role in crime and shared insight California police departments have been using to help stay ahead of the game against criminals.
With recent immigration headlines pointing to Central American countries like Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, Harris quoted a United Nations study claiming 48% of unaccompanied children entering the United States from Latin America are threatened by transnational organizations. Harris said she was able to meet one-on-one with the AG from Mexico and El Salvador.
"What this does is it improves relationships which will improve our ability to coordinate around a common purpose," Harris said about the summit.
Human trafficking for labor, drugs and sex was a major focus as well. An analyst from Carnegie Melon showed examples of how ads for sexual favors peak around large sporting events, using the 2013 Super Bowl in New Orleans as an example.
Harris said she worried many of the unaccompanied minors crossing the border could fall into the human trafficking trade.
"When I see images of people surrounding a bus of women and children and chanting go home as though they're trying to take anything from anyone," Harris said, "They're literally trying to seek refuge."
Mexico's attorney general, Jesus Murillo Karam, spoke one-on-one with NBC4 just after his conversations with Harris. He said the collaboration between governments is fundamental. Karam says money is Mexico's biggest issue with the drug cartels and just how much of it there is, most of which comes through in American dollars. He also joined Harris in her belief that in the issue of supply and demand, both need to be dealt with as a whole.
But in the area of drugs, Harris and Karam differed. Karam insisted that drugs are being bought and sold on both sides of the border while Harris claimed 70% of all methamphetamine in the U.S. comes from Mexico by way of San Diego.
"I'd like to see Mexico's law enforcement strengthened to do what it wants to do to stop the production of methamphetamine in its own country," she said, "because perhaps that will then reduce the meth entering our country and our state."
The attorney general from El Salvador spoke a little more candid about the issues his country faces and how it affects California.
"Today," he said, "justice has no borders."
Luis Martinez said he's working hard to fix the perceived corruption in his government, even going to so far as to investigate his own president. But he added that times are tough in El Salvador, that society has become too angry and vengeful that it's led to the mass exodus of new generations of Salvadorans.
Harris called the summit a success before heading back to Sacramento, but she added that there is still a lot of work to be done.


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AAC notebook: UConn still waiting on Facey's status
TICK TOCK: UConn still is waiting for an answer from the NCAA on the status of forward Kentan Facey, a 6-foot-9 forward. The NCAA is considering whether Facey must fall under its delayed enrollment rule, which could mean Facey must sit out a couple years plus a redshirt season.
The forward graduated from a school in Jamaica before moving to New York where he graduated from Long Island Lutheran. A lesser penalty could allow Facey to play immediately with three years of eligibility.
UConn coach Kevin Ollie said they have submitted everything to the NCAA on the case.
"Now it's just a waiting game," Ollie said. "Hopefully, they can fast track it, and we'll hear it soon because we have a season coming upon us and hopefully they take that into consideration."
BACKCOURT BOUNTY: The new American Athletic Conference just may make its name based on the strength of its teams' backcourts.
There's Russ Smith and Chris Jones at Louisville. Memphis has Michael Dixon joining Geron Johnson, Joe Jackson and Chris Crawford. UConn has Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatright.
And that's just a few of the them.
"Every team has got some amazing guards, got some guards that are studs that area returning, very explosive guards," Ollie said Wednesday at the league's men's basketball media day. "That's definitely going to allow us to be identified across the country as a high-octane conference with our guards able to play with a freedom and explosiveness that everybody likes to see."
Coach Rick Pitino already had a senior guard returning from the Cardinals' national championship team, but the Louisville coach is adding Jones, the national junior college player of the year. The 5-foot-10 guard from Memphis is so dynamic that Pitino raved over how this might be one of the better backcourts he's coached in his 35 years with Kevin Ware returning from his gruesome injury too.
But Smith and Jones are so good that Pitino said he tries not to put them on opposite sides in practice.
"If I want to have either one of those guys standing, it's best to put them on the same team together," Pitino said. "It's so competitive that it's not healthy for us."
Smith said the Louisville guards know how good they are and the type of competition they'll be facing this season because he's watched some of the AAC's other guards on tape. He wants to be ready to defend them and has some extra motivation.
"They do a lot of things well that I try to emulate and put in my game," Smith said. "If I don't respect them and if I don't love their game ... then it's not going to make me a great competitor. You have to know your opponent to play against them."
NOT FIRST THIS TIME: Memphis coach Josh Pastner is experiencing something completely different for him, and so are fans of the Tigers. With Louisville being voted by American coaches as the league's preseason favorite to win the title, that ended a serious streak for Memphis.
"This is going on my fifth year as head coach, and this is my first time we weren't picked to win the league as a head coach," Pastner said.
Memphis dominated Conference USA after Louisville left for the Big East in 2005. Now the teams are together again, even if for only a year before Louisville bolts for the ACC.
"But hey, you have the defending champs, so that's understandable," Pastner said.
NEVER TOO OLD: SMU coach Larry Brown may be a member of the Naismith Hall of Fame with decades of coaching experience. That doesn't mean he's ever too old to learn something new. He said coaches always have to grow because they owe that to their players, a philosophy he learned as a young man himself from Bear Bryant.
The football coach explained at a clinic that he wouldn't install something until Bryant could teach it better than the guy who invented the particular offense.
"That always hit home with me," Brown said.
So when Brown goes to clinics and talks to coaches on how to do better that's the message he sends. Don't just draw up the drills and plays like other coaches but learn how to teach them first.
"So that when you do go out on the court with your kids you're ready to really implement that where it is helpful," Brown said.


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In West Chicago Dist. 33, even how talks ended is in dispute
Striking teachers were walking picket lines Monday in West Chicago Elementary District 33 with little immediate hope of a contract settlement that would allow roughly 4,000 students back into their regular classes.
Negotiations between the teachers union and school board collapsed Sunday night after more than 16 months at the bargaining table, triggering Monday's walkout. No new talks have been scheduled.
Picket lines went up as early as 5:40 a.m. outside West Chicago Middle School as the strike canceled classes at six elementary schools, the junior high and a preschool that meets at two locations.
It's the first strike in District 33 since the teachers union organized 52 years ago.
The district's 284 teachers walked picket lines outside every district school except Indian Knoll, said Bridget Fors, a member of the union negotiating team and a speech pathologist at Pioneer School.
It appears they will be back at it on Tuesday.
"We were hoping to avoid this at all costs," Fors said. "We were prepared to be in class today."
Negotiating teams for the union and school board met for nearly 11 hours Sunday but emerged frustrated and angry and without an agreement on a proposed three-year deal.
The two sides remain far apart on the issues at the heart of the disagreement, including salary, health insurance, retirement benefits, class sizes and methods for teacher appraisals.
They met three times in the past week with a federal mediator, but their disagreements run deep.
Even the end of Sunday's last-ditch bargaining session was shrouded in controversy. The school board said the union rejected its settlement offer at 10:38 p.m. and also rejected a suggestion that it postpone the strike while continuing talks.
But Mary Catherine Kosmach, the union's chief negotiator, said teachers weren't aware the talks had ended.
"The board walked out and didn't tell us," she said. "We asked the mediator to ask them to consider other options, but they had already left. No dates have been set (for further talks) because they left the building without telling us.
"We teach students to respect and listen to one another. I know people can have their differences, but this was a lack of respect."
The union negotiating team sent school board President Chris Scheck an email Monday afternoon expressing its frustration. Scheck has not attended the last two negotiating sessions.
"As the school board's president and chief negotiator, you might have been in a position to help us reach a different outcome if you had been present for the two bargaining sessions leading up to the strike deadline," the letter stated.
In a written statement, the board said it took "extraordinary measures to close the gap" on Sunday between the union's proposal and the board's last offer. Those measures, the board said, included:
• Agreeing to delay implementation of any salary changes for one year. The teachers would receive raises this year based on the current salary schedule. The average teacher salary in District 33 exceeds $75,000, the board said.
• Agreeing to delay any changes in health insurance plans for 1½ years and promising that the same insurance changes will be implemented for administrators concurrent with the teachers.
• Agreeing to accept a proposal to give retiring teachers a post-retirement bonus of $700 per year of service; a teacher with 30 years of service would receive $21,000. The money would be paid by the district and would not impact the state pension teachers receive.
• Dropping a proposal that teachers have up to two paid evening meetings with parents each year in addition to the two that already are required.
• Dropping a proposal to require teachers to have two 75-minute faculty meetings a month instead of the current single 90-minute monthly meeting.
• Agreeing to incorporate substantial changes proposed by the union in language regarding teacher evaluations and reductions in force.
But those proposals were made in an effort to avoid a strike and are now "not necessarily on the table," school board spokesman Dave Barclay said Monday.
"At this point, we need to negotiate from our official last best offer (from December)," he said.
Here's a closer look at the key disagreements between the two sides:
Salaries: The board is seeking a new 23-step salary schedule with automatic annual raises between 2 percent and 2½ percent. The union wants automatic raises of up to 3.4 percent, as well as a 1.25 percent increase on base salaries in years two and three of the contract.
Kosmach said the request is only fair because teachers took a 1.75 percent stipend cut at the start of the school year.
She said the union is willing to accept an 18-step schedule -- an increase from the current 12-step schedule -- but the board doesn't appear willing to budge.
Teachers previously offered to accept a one-year salary freeze as part of a package of economic concessions that Kosmach says would save the district more than $2 million over the course of the three-year contract.
"Teachers understand that times are hard and we're willing to do our part," she said. "It's a question of how much cutting is reasonable and what the board is demanding will ultimately be bad for students and this community."
Insurance: The district currently covers 80 percent of the costs of insurance coverage for teachers' families in what Barclay calls the district's "rich" PPO plan. The board is seeking to limit how much it pays at $1,200 in an effort to control costs, but it would continue to cover 80 percent in one of the district's less-expensive insurance plans.
Kosmach said teachers want the same type of coverage as administrators and custodians, whose union has a three-year agreement keeping the 80 percent coverage in place.
The board says it's committed that changes in insurance will be rolled out concurrently with those affecting administrators.
Class sizes: Barclay said the board can't accept the union's plan to cap class sizes that is estimated to cost $1.6 million in salaries for new teachers and would require the district to build another school or rent classrooms from other districts.
He said it would be "logistically impossible" to implement.
Barclay said the district has been forced to enact belt-tightening measures over the past three years in the face of declining revenues. Cuts have included a reduction in administrative, library and support staff and elimination of a gifted program.
"We have to work with the revenue we have," he said.
Kosmach expressed frustration that the board spent a $4.5 million surplus last year after it received increased state funding due to the district's poverty level status. She also says the board is using a "very conservative" budget estimate.
Talks between the two sides have been ragged for some time but became more intense in January when the board announced it would impose its final contract offer on the union if an agreement wasn't reached by Feb. 21. The union responded by voting to authorize a strike.
Barclay said school days missed due to the strike will have to be made up, though district officials aren't sure when that will occur.


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Synopsis: Disc Makers ReflexMax7 ($1,490) improves on its Reader's Choice Award-winning predecessor, the ReflexPro, by adding 16X DVD recording, 4X DVD+R DL, and 48X CD-R to the seven-disc tower duplicator. CD-R burning was mostly consistent in testing and DVD recording was nearly flawless; while not setting any speed records in the emergent 16X set, the tower performed admirably, making excellent use of its seven Editor's Choice-winning Plextor PX-716A drives and its sizeable 120GB hard disk, which neatly arranges multiple imported disc images for faster burning and full access to the seven target recorders.
The best way to start getting your feet wet in DVD duplication as your clientele begins to demand longer runs is to invest in a standalone DVD duplicator. The learning curve is minimal, and the investment is smaller than with an automated DVD production system. Tower duplicators only do half the job, of course; if you're producing DVDs for clients, you're going to want to print attractive labels on them, and a standalone tower duplicator like the Disc Makers ReflexMax won't help you with that. But it will off-load DVD duplication chores from your PC or Mac, and allow you to get other editing and postproduction work done while the discs burn.
This is not news to many of you; the ReflexMax7's immediate predecessor, the ReflexPro7, recently took home the 2005 EventDV Reader's Choice Award for DVD Duplication Towers. The ReflexMax7 adds several new features, notably increased recording speed (16X for DVD±R, 48X for CD-R), a bigger hard drive (120GB), and DVD+R DL support.
All these features are well-implemented, though anyone who's been around the DVD block knows that speed increases come with diminishing returns. 8X wasn't twice as fast as 4X, and 16X is nowhere near twice as fast as 8X. And you can only achieve "full" 16X DVD recording when burning from the on-board hard disk, but this is hardly a shortcoming for runs of seven or more, since burning from an image stored to the hard disk gives you access to another target drive. And even if they aren't twice as fast as what you get with 8X, ten-minute-or-shorter full-DVD burns are nothing to sneeze at.
I'm guessing that Disc Makers named this product the ReflexMax because they thought it was a cool-sounding name, which of course it is. But it's also worth noting that the "Max" moniker is especially fitting since 16X is, in fact, the maximum recording speed that DVD will reach. Perhaps they'll enhance the unit in future generations by increasing DL recording speed, adding more hard disk space, incorporating drives with dual-layer DVD-R support, or rolling out a 10- or 11-drive model; but as for its core capability—DVD±R recording—16X is as fast as the ReflexMax or any other DVD recording system is ever going to get.
How it Tested
We tested the ReflexMax7 here in our editorial office over several weeks with a variety of projects. It proved easy to use, fairly fast, and largely reliable—not perfect by any stretch, but its performance was very much in line with that of similar units we've tested. The tower ships with seven Plextor PX-716A DVD recorders. The Plextor recorders offer 16X recording to DVD±R and 48X CD recording. (Both of those are maximum speeds; the drive doesn't actually record at a full 16X or 48X across the breadth of the disc, reaching full speed only in the last stretch of a full-disc burn.) The Plextor drives also offer 4X burning to 8.5GB DVD+R DL media.
Usability is another hallmark of this unit, once you get the knack. You navigate the panel of options using a membrane keypad that consists of up and down arrow buttons and ENT and ESC keys. The simplest operations are disc-to-disc copies using the top recorder (ID:1) as the source drive. For faster operation or to bring the maximum number of simultaneous copies to seven, navigate through the main menu to Image and then to Load Image, and the ReflexMax will copy the complete disc in Drive 1 to the hard disk (ID:0) as a compliant DVD-Video image, or whatever format you have on the source disc. The 120GB hard disk is divided into partitions marked A, B, C, D, etc., and will keep your loaded images distinct by partition, but you'll have to note what content you have in each if you intend to keep multiple disc images resident on the drive. (This may prove useful if you're producing stage events, for example, and expect additional requests for disc copies to come in incrementally; you'll have your disc images at the ready for quick burning when the demand arises.)
We're not especially interested in CD burning in a professional sense, since few event videographers are delivering work to their clients on CD, but for the record, the ReflexMax proved a mostly effective CD duplicator, whether using the top drive as source or CD-Audio images stored to the hard disk. Most of our six- and seven-disc duplication exercises went well, although the duplicator occasionally reported errors when burning to Drive 2 and failed to burn the disc (performance was much better burning from an image on the hard disk than when working from a CD source). The system consistently burned at 32X (about 3:30 for six full discs) when burning from a disc source, and 48X (about 2:45 for seven full discs) when burning from a hard disk-stored image. Our CD-R tests were performed using 48X CD-R media from HP, Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden, and Ritek USA (Ridata).
DVD performance was even more reliable. All the DVD burns we attempted succeeded, and verified properly. Sometimes they weren't as fast as we expected, but I'll happily wait an extra minute or so for a full complement of successfully burned discs rather than get a mix of good and bad discs faster. Disc-to-disc copies of our 4.55GB source DVD-Video were achieved in just under 13 minutes using Verbatim 16X DVD media. DVDs burned from Partition B on the hard disk (after waiting 6:30 to load the image) took 9:55 to produce seven good discs that played back and verified well. We also tested the system on a 7.7GB DVD+R DL source disc; success once again, with the burn clocking in around 31 minutes.


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Skip to comments.Not Ready to Make Nice (Dixie Chicks in Australia, STILL Whining About Free Republic)
Posted on 10/07/2006 1:04:19 PM PDT by kristinn
It's hard to believe this petite, well-mannered Texan - sitting opposite in a Sydney harbourside hotel - caused the kind of stir the music industry has not seen since John Lennon sang about being crucified in 1969.
It's the day before the band's first Australian concert on their Accidents and Accusations world tour.
Maines looks younger than her 31 years.
Aware she may sound "bizarre", the 31-year-old believes the vitriol directed at The Dixie Chicks was part of a right-wing conspiracy.
An organised group known as the Free Republic set out to bring the band down.
The organisation's power, she says, comes through the internet. The site has thousands of subscribers, all of whom were encouraged to destroy the band's music and boycott the radio stations that played it.
"It's scary how much power they do have," she says. "They can take down someone singlehandedly and I don't think Americans are aware of that.
"It's the same group that went after (former US president) Bill Clinton and (gay actress) Ellen DeGeneres."
In the beginning, Maines says, they tried to fight their detractors. Their management tried to alert radio station programmers to what was happening.
"But they weren't open to it and just thought we were grasping at straws to try and salvage something," she says.
"It was just bigger than we could fight and we weren't willing to put ourselves out there to be made to look stupid if people weren't willing to investigate this thing and be open to it."
"For the Free Republic we were a dream come true; they made it their mission to take us down. Apparently we were not supposed to think like this because we play country music."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Hey Natalie-FOAD !!!!!!
Hee hee...funny! This thread is great!
Oh, and Natalie, your weight problem? Have you considered having a chemical analysis of your "Diet" Coke? . . .BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I really only ever listened to the cross over country. But, I can't stand their traitorous ignorant speech. So I say go find your country, since this cross over listener would not care to support the Chicks.
Also, growl like this: "Mua ha ha ha ha ha ha!
And your little dog too!
It doesn't matter, because she doesn't have as much to count as she used to.
All their bases belong to us. Resistance is futile.
Be careful what you wish for...
She's not only got a really big mouth with sharp teeth, she looks mighty hungry...
You would be amazed at what a really fat chick will eat...
Hundreds of thousands.
"It's scary how much power they do have," she says. "They can take down someone singlehandedly and I don't think Americans are aware of that.
Its also a known fact that we control the weather.
I think Ellen DeGeneres is her nickname for Hillary Clinton. What them both being blondes and all.
Our Founding Fathers warned us of such demagoguery and designed our Constitution to protect against such abuses by both the demagogue and those who he/she may dictate to .... Natalie obviously doesn't know the difference, or what America is all about in terms of free speech
"The Dixie Chicks have every right to express their political opinions, even in places where people have paid to hear their music, not their opinions. However, people also have every right to disagree with the opinions of the Dixie Chicks and to express their disagreements in public venues (like Free Republic) and by not buying Dixie Chicks music and concert tickets.
Politics is always a pay-to-play venue."
Agreed. And it's not just the dixie chicks. After years of traveling and too many concerts to count, I received a politically charged e-mail and promptly gave up 4 Warehouse memberships that afforded me 8 great seats at DMB shows.
Truthfully though, I wish they'd all shut up about their politics...they ought to know it's bad for business and WHATEVER they say is going to piss off at least 1/2 the population. When they do it anyway, I have difficulty getting past it and then more difficulty enjoying the music.
Nice one!
Not sure, who's next on our zot list?
I love that album cover! And so did some entertainment magazine....
Silly lass! It doesn't have anything to do with music. What I wonder most is how they manage to think at all.
You are exactly right.
Am I mistaken or didn't she attend Berkeley? If so, there is a bad ad right there.
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Last week the Fellows Blog gave us glimpses into life on the ground for Kiva fellows, Kiva borrowers, and that unique moment when those lives are brought together by a Kiva loan! Whether riding in Daniel's bush taxi on the way to work in South Africa, exploring Bafut and crossing the threshold into borrowers' homes with Faith in Cameroon, or sharing a meal with Megan and 'her' borrower Graciela in the market in Ecuador, these posts illustrate the world of actors brought together by Kiva.
Bafut by Foot
Country: Cameroon / Fellow: Faith Garlington, KF15
Faith takes Bafut by foot and observes GHAPE's Basic Needs Test, a tool employed to identify borrowers with the highest need. Throughout Faith's long day and through these tests, GHAPE offers a little ashia (Cameroon Pidgin for "encouragement") to all.
Video Journal: The Most Exciting Thing to Do in Richards Bay, South Africa
Country: South Africa / Fellow: Daniel Jung
If you've been doubting your ability to successfully take a bush taxi in Richard's Bay, South Africa, you can breathe easy once again: Daniel Jung shares his handy video guide to riding bush taxis during his usual morning commute.
Meeting "My" Borrower
Country: Ecuador / Fellow: Megan Bond, KF15
Few Kiva lenders have the opportunity to meet 'their' borrowers. Megan Bond, however, sets out to meet Graciela and enjoy the fruits of her investment: a delicious meal in a market comedor in Ecuador, and a connection that transcends a $25 loan.
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Updates from the past month:
Externalities, New Faces + Loans that Change Lives
Dangerous Streets, New Vocabulary + A Senegalese Spring
Zulu Weddings, More Country-Specific Microfinance + Fighting Crime
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iPhone and iPad Game Development For Dummies Cheat Sheet
iPad and iPhone game programming requires several special elements. These essential steps give your program the action and interactivity that today's gamers demand, regardless of the platform where they play.
Building a Game Loop in iPhone and iPad Game Development
A game loop gets your code to update the game world on your iPhone or iPad many times a second — fast enough to make it look like fluid motion to the player.
To do this, you need to update the position of all your views every time the screen is redrawn by iOS. To be notified of when this happens, you need to use a CADisplayLink class. CADisplayLink is an object that, when you create it, sends your class a message just before the screen is about to update. This gives you the opportunity to move your views around.
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selector:@selector(update:)]; [displayLink addToRunLoop:[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop]
When your view loads, you receive the update: message many times a second, which is your opportunity to update the game world.
Setting Up a Nib for your iPhone or iPad
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Callback functions
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Basically, I am a lazy gardener. I think that is why I haven't planted green beans. I have memories of what seemed like hours and hours spent picking green beans from my mother's garden as a child. (Followed by hours and hours of sweating in a hot kitchen over a pressure cooker to can said green beans in mason jars as a store for winter.) I love green beans, but those hours and hours are lost forever...not that I probably had anything better to do.
This spring, this lazy gardener has a desire for green beans and peas. I am not sure that my small garden space can handle enough rows to be worthwhile (while still limited to few enough rows to hold my interest without seeming taxing). Pretty peas of fresh sweetness. Crisp, but tender green beans. I am thinking about it. We will see what I plant...
(adapted from Food Network Magazine)
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
kosher salt
freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
flour, for dredging
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1/2 small yellow onion, chopped
8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
1 1/4 cups chicken broth
3/4 cup heavy cream
2 cups snow peas, stemmed and sliced
Preheat oven to 200F.
Butterfly the chicken breast.
Place chicken between two sheets of plastic wrap and pound with a meat mallet until uniform thickness.
Cut each chicken breast into 2 pieces (making 4 portions).
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
Season the chicken with salt and pepper.
Dredge the cutlets in flour, shaking off any excess.
Cook until golden, about 2 minutes per side.
Transfer to a baking dish; cover loosely with foil; keep warm in the oven.
Add the butter to the hot skillet.
Add the onions and saute until tender.
Add the mushrooms and brown.
Pour in the broth and bring to a boil, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan.
Cook until the liquid is reduced by half, about 3 minutes.
Add the cream and boil until sauce thickens slightly, about 3 additional minutes.
Stir in the snow peas and heat through.
Season with salt and pepper.
Serve the chicken topped with the creamy vegetables. (Garlic mashed potatoes are a great comfort on the side.) (Serves 4)


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Scanning Sheet Music
From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
Scanning Sheet Music
- Open Epson Scan. --Be sure to scan sheet music with the following settings in Epson Scan (once you set each of the tabs, your settings should be saved, but always check after you login):
- Mode: Professional Mode
- Document Type: Reflective
- Document Source: Document Table
- Auto Exposure Type: Photo
- Image Type: 24-bit Color
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Whats Needs To Be Fixed?
May 23 2007, 10:15 PM
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From: Cape Canaveral, FL
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As usual, life's been busy as usual for me since my move down to Texas. New job, new house blah blah excuses whatever who cares. Anyway, I'm trying to set aside a couple days to just fix everything that's broken on this site. I'm shooting for this weekend, but please don't shoot me if I can't.
I am aware of the attachments issue. Is there anything else? Anything you guys want added? Give me a nice laundry list of stuff to do and order it by priority.
Things to note:
- I don't have access to the old stuff, Mike does. This means that any missing files are out of my reach.
- The site might be down at times if I need to replace something. Expect outages.
- I would love to upgrade to the latest IPB, but I need to find the files and I dont have access to our customer portal. I'll do my best on that end.
- Texas is much hotter than back home.
May 29 2007, 07:11 AM
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From: Cape Canaveral, FL
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So far I've been a failure, haha. I haven't been able to fix the attachments thing, but I'm working on getting the latest version of IPB. Once we upgrade to that it should fix the attachments thing.
Once that's fixed, I'll move onto the rest.
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Anyone get a Beta invite for Christmas? Let me rephrase...Did ANYONE ELSE get a beta invite.
Now you're just being cruel.
*Makes with the grabby hands*
Keep in mind it's a beta, not a demo. Those prices and materials could change post-release!
Oh, that reminds me, how are you enjoying the Beta-only tattooing options for the demon hunter, Callie? You know, those extra designs you only get to customize on your characters if you got into the beta?*manages to ask this with a straight face*
Man, I've signed up for every freakin' option to try and get into this Beta...Oh, well, glad you're having fun, Callie. I'm assuming that Shjade has also been a participant? Congratulations to both of you.When I get my copy of D3, I'm going Barby first, with a side order of Demon Hunter.
Me? No, I didn't get a beta invite. I'm just messing with you. =D
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