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With its long history and vibrant present, art, entertainment, food and drink plus exciting towns and cities with culture and superb nightlife, Germany has everything needed for fantastic incentive events. It's everything you hoped for, and more. Choose from an inspiring range of ideas and activities from Formula 1 to festivals, from world heritage to wellness. Whatever you opt for, you'll feel at home in Germany with its warm welcome, regional character and abundance of charm.
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Luscious Lemon Angel Roll
I came across this recipe while preparing for a party and was thrilled with how easy it was to make. My guests were impressed that I could use a few simple ingredients to create such a stylish dessert.
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Bake: 30 min. + chilling
Makes12 servings
- 1 package (16 ounces) angel food cake mix
- 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar, divided
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
- 6 to 8 drops yellow food coloring, optional
- 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided
- 1 jar (11-3/4 ounces) strawberry ice cream topping, divided
- Additional confectioners' sugar
- 12 fresh strawberries
- Line a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan with parchment; set aside. Prepare cake batter according to package directions. Spread evenly in prepared pan.
- Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched (cake will rise above edges of pan). Cool for 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar over a kitchen towel. Invert cake onto towel; gently peel off parchment. Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar. Roll up cake in the towel jelly-roll style, starting with a short side. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, lemon juice and zest, food coloring if desired and remaining confectioners' sugar until smooth. Fold in 1 cup whipped topping.
- Unroll cake. Spread 1/3 cup strawberry topping to within 1 in. of edges. Spread cream cheese mixture over topping. Roll up again. Place seam side down on a serving platter. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Dust with additional confectioners' sugar. Cut into slices; garnish with fresh strawberries and remaining strawberry topping and whipped topping. Refrigerate leftovers.
Nutrition Facts1 slice: 368 calories, 10g fat (7g saturated fat), 21mg cholesterol, 345mg sodium, 65g carbohydrate (51g sugars, 0 fiber), 5g protein.
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It looks really appetising but I haven't made it yet I'm willing to try it
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Great recipe. I added alittle more lemon to filling since we really like lemon. Light and can be eaten on diet if low or fat free ingredients are used.


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NWO, in close cooperation with the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (RISTEKDIKTI), launches a call for research proposals on Food security and Agriculture, Regional Planning that includes Water Management and Hydrology or Governance and Rule of law. The call is executed by NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development. A compulsory Letter of Intent must be received by 17 May, the deadline for full proposals is 14 June.


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were flying from MIA to Buenos Aires. they ran right down the plane being filmed. Can't upload photos on my device, sorry!
I can't remember which early season(s) off-hand, but the show has confirmed using Miami as a connecting flight for the first leg in the past. (Amazing Yellow Line, y'all) I think it was TAR 5, but I'd have to pull out the episode and check.
Thanks to my friend in Baidu Forum,got some photos of teams checking in Italy!checking time:10 PMprobably last team checking in,after this team arrive ,crew left.
Of interest...Google Maps gives a 127 mile, 2 hour 27 min drive to LAX. Is this the longest start line drive we have ever had??
Also means the teams had to drive through the mountains to get to LAX, right? Which could make an interesting filming montage either for Phil's opening stand-up or the teams racing to LAX.
Most of the drive is along the coast (near Santa Barbara) which is definitely beautiful, but you don't drive through the mountains.
QuoteMost of the drive is along the coast (near Santa Barbara) which is definitely beautiful, but you don't drive through the mountains. You could save some time (unless production steers traffic to Hwy 101); San Marcos Pass road is shorter, a bit faster, more hilly and scenic but possibly not as safe.
Peach,A Bangkok spotting yesterday would guarantee that a team could not get back to the U.S. before today. That would be a 23 day race, which would be at the high end of races I remember since I joined RFF 6 years ago. for multiple reasons, I consider it unlikely but not absolutely impossible.If a team were in Bangkok, the best route back to either San Francisco or Los Angeles is via Narita airport. Connecting in either Seoul or Hong Kong have longer total route times and the plane that can do a commercial route from Bangkok nonstop to the U.S. West Coast does not appear to exist now.
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The action thriller Act of Valor (opening in theaters on February 24th) tells a fictionalized account of real-life U.S. Navy SEAL operations with a group of heroic, active-duty U.S. Navy SEALs in the lead roles. When a mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative (played by Roselyn Sanchez) unexpectedly uncovers a chilling terrorist plot on America, a team of the most elite, highly-trained warriors is dispatched on a top-secret operation, the result is a gripping story that takes audiences on an adrenaline-fueled, edge-of-the-seat journey through a dangerous and unpredictable world.
At the film's press day, Collider spoke to directors Mike "Mouse" McCoy and Scott Waugh, in both a roundtable and a 2-on-1 interview, about what led them to this unusual blend of filmmaking, how their background as stuntmen enabled them to do what was necessary to make the film, adapting the story to suit the real SEALs who would be taking on these roles, what surprised them the most about the men that they worked with, making sure that they didn't reveal how any of the tactics are actually done, why this movie also appeals to women, and where they go from here. Check out what they had to say after the jump.
How did this film come about for you?
MIKE "MOUSE" McCOY: We set out to make an action narrative, but it started with an exploratory phase of, "What would it look like to work together with Navy Special Warfare and the SEALs, in a way that's not impactful on their training cycles or their operational deployments and doesn't tax their resources, but yet communications all the values we want to communicate in the film?" The most important thing was to communicate the brotherhood of the men and the sacrifice that they make.
Do you feel like you could have ever been able to approach something like this, if you hadn't had a background as stuntmen?
SCOTT WAUGH: I think you nailed it. That was one of the reasons they trusted Mouse and I so much. It was funny because they definitely did their background checks on Mouse and I. They knew all about us, by the time we went down there. They started naming off all these people that we knew and I was like, "Wow!" Because of that, they were able to trust us to be in situations that no other filmmakers would probably be allowed in. They knew we would listen to them, and that we would be physically capable of it.
McCOY: And that we would be safe, as well, because this wasn't a cowboy venture. I think there was just a commonality of cultures with us and them that really allowed the dialogue to open up. Once it opened up and we started to really learn about these acts of valor and the things that have happened to the men on the battlefield, in the last 10 years, we felt really compelled to communicate that in an authentic and genuine way.
Once you decided to have the real SEALs in the film, were there ways that you adapted the story to suit them?
WAUGH: We formed the story around two big set pieces. There were the five acts of valor that they told us about. There were multiple acts of valor, but we found five of them that Mouse and I really liked because they were very powerful stories that we wanted to weave a fictitious storyline through. That's when we brought in (screenwriter) Kurt Johnstad to help us write an enemy threat line through these five acts of valor. But, the thing that was really interesting was that, once the eight guys we approached said no, and then finally said yes, Kurt wrote the screenplay around them. They were themselves. They were never playing characters. He got to meet all the guys and understand them.
McCOY: Approaching it, all the operational planning was done by the SEALs, but then, on a day-to-day basis, scene by scene, they would really rewrite the dialogue, as it would be in that moment. So, it became very comfortable for them. It became a natural thing. They were saying what they would say, in their own voice. They weren't playing characters, they were just being themselves.
Since it took some convincing to get the SEALs to be in the film, were you ever worried that they just wouldn't do it?
WAUGH: It's funny, I don't know if I was ever worried. At that point in the journey, we had become friends. I think, in the back of our minds, we felt that if they knew our true intentions for the film, they would probably do it, so we just wanted to let them know that our intentions were to honestly show their community, their ethos, their sacrifice and their brotherhood. Once they understood that, they each individually signed on and said, "Yeah, okay, I'll do it."
In the process of making this film, there was suddenly a huge light shone on the SEALs for their successful mission in taking out Osama Bin Laden. Do you think that new attention will help get people interested in this film?
McCOY: The film was completely finished before the Bin Laden incident happened.
WAUGH: Yeah, we had been making the film for four years.
McCOY: It was two and a half years of principal photography. I think it probably raised the awareness of the SEALs with the American public, but for us, as filmmakers, it wasn't really about, "Yeah, you took down the bad guy." It was more about, "Wow, you guys did that for each other on the battlefield. You laid it down, that hard."
WAUGH: I think the year is very representative of the feature. Within this last year, the teams have had incredible victories and the worst of disasters that happened with the helicopter crash. For the four years that Mouse and I were making the film, we'd always said, "We don't have stars for our movie, we have heroes." Sometimes events like that actually raise people's awareness of that and also makes them go, "They don't have stars in that movie, they have heroes." We've been saying that very loud, but they didn't hear us before.
Were there things that you learned that surprised you, in working with and getting to know these guys?
McCOY: Yeah, they were some of the most humble men we've ever met. They've been extremely misrepresented in popular culture, especially in film. The guys aren't some crazy Rambo/Terminator dudes. They're actually really genuine, down-to-earth, good guys who are fantastic family men and fathers. The devotion to their family and their kids, and their ability to go do their job but still be great dads, is what stood out for us.
WAUGH: We truly didn't know much about the community before we started to take a look at their world. All I knew was Charlie Sheen in that Navy Seals movie, and I was pretty sure that probably wasn't accurate. So then, when we got to meet the guys, they were the antithesis of everything they've been portrayed as.
McCOY: They're definitely some of the most intelligent and intellectual men you've ever met. They're maybe even smarter than they are tough, if that's possible.
WAUGH: It's almost like they're trying to be the perfect man because they're constantly educating themselves. We stop educating ourselves. They just keep pushing themselves to become better people. It's great.
Was it challenging to show what these guys do while always keeping in mind that there were certain things that you couldn't show or reveal?
McCOY: Well, they did all the operational planning, so we're showing capabilities, but we're not showing how you actually do tactics. We had complete creative control on the story, which was important, but they had a scrub on the movie for what's called T.T.P. – technique, tactic and procedure. So, they scrubbed the entire movie to make sure that we weren't giving away anything classified to the enemy.
WAUGH: We didn't want to do that, either. We're proud Americans and didn't want to give our enemy the upper-hand. Having them on set kept us in check. They're very aware of what the enemy is not aware of.
Was there anything that you were given access to that surprised you?
McCOY: Well, it's the first time the world is ever going to see a nuclear submarine in a movie, for real. I can guarantee that. It's the first time they've ever really let it be photographed. So, that was a big deal, that we were able to showcase the submarine.
WAUGH: It was very beyond James Bond.
From a technical standpoint, how much of a challenge was it to be working with such complex situation and the addition of live fire?
WAUGH: That's why it took four years. It was very complex.
McCOY: It was a lot of fun. To be challenged that much, mentally and physically, and to really challenge our backgrounds as stuntmen and professional athletes, and to rise to the occasion and roll in real time on these operations with some of the most talented men in the world, was just really rewarded and pretty rad, if I can use that term. Being in the middle of a live fire exercise or gunfight, and then putting the audience in the middle of that situation, was really important for us. We wanted the audience to really feel what it's like to be in their boots and see the world the way they do. So, it was cool, but extremely complex. It was a very disciplined working environment. We weren't just winging it out there. Everything was really thought out and blocked out.
WAUGH: The interesting thing about the project was that it did go on longer than we anticipated just because of asset availability and the guys on deployments. Dave, our lead in the film, just got back last week from being in Afghanistan for 11 months. These guys are constantly being deployed. Every Christmas, somebody would ask me, "So, what are you doing now?," and I'd say, "I'm still on that Act of Valor movie." It went on for four years. We were working on it so long, I got engaged, married and had to kids before we were done.
McCOY: The hardest thing about the film was watching your friends go back down range. Almost every guy that's in the film re-deployed on a combat deployment during the making of this movie. At that point, you don't care about the movie anymore. You just want your friend to come home. For us, that was when we really started to understand what it was like for the friends and family to watch the guys go.
How did you choose the actors you surrounded the SEALs with?
WAUGH: When we were talking about casting, once we realized that we were going to use the real guys, we had to decide who we were going to surround them with. We didn't want to alter the authenticity of the movie by having them go in and rescue Michelle Pfeiffer or Dennis Hopper, before he passed away. That would really just wreck the whole experience. So, we wanted to find the most talented actors we could find that weren't that recognizable. Roselyn [Sanchez] was the furthest we went with being facially recognized by people. Jason Cottle is a Broadway actor. He's a theater actor that you would never know about until this film. Nestor [Serrano] is definitely recognizable, but he doesn't last too long, so we didn't think it would alter it too much.
McCOY: For Roselyn's character, it had to be somebody who you would believe was indigenous to the area. Her role as a CIA operative working under the cover of Doctors Without Borders was indigenous to the area. She had the ability to totally blend in, being fluent in Spanish and English. We took our chance on somebody as well known as Roselyn not being a distraction from the film and that authentic mission.
Did you ever worry that you were making the film too brutal?
WAUGH: We asked a lot of the guys about the things that they've seen and [what Roselyn's character goes through] is probably the most tame thing that they would have seen. What they've seen is so far beyond our comprehension of brutality. These people are bad people and they do really horrific things. What we did with Roselyn, as horrific as it is, it's elementary compared to the things they're doing to hostages.
McCOY: It's an important point to make that this film is a total indie film. That's getting lost because it's getting a big release, but this film was as indie as it gets, so we could explore that potential without having any oversight. We really set out to make a new kind of action film that was grounded in reality and grounded in physics. There's no CGI in the movie. It's all in-camera and for real, and we're proud of that. We didn't get forced down that road by a studio, so we were able to stick to our guns throughout the entire process. That was rewarding for us.
Obviously this is a guy's movie, but what would you say to women who are wondering if this movie would appeal to them?
WAUGH: When we first set off on this film, Mouse and I both looked at ourselves and said, "We need to make this movie for women." That was a primary focus of ours.
McCOY: And that was really natural because, once you start to understand the depths of sacrifice that the women have gone through, it really hits you between the eyes. Our lead in the film, Chief Dave, just got back from an 11-month deployment in Afghanistan, and his wife was home-schooling five kids for 11 months, while he was gone. These women are really strong and really courageous, and they hold their families together. They just start taking care of business. We have more respect for them than anything.
WAUGH: When women watch this film, they get to personally see and identify with the sacrifices of the wives, but they also get to see these incredible men. It's a win-win for a woman, with this film. You get to laugh, cry and also get to stare with your jaw dropped down, at how great these men are.
Where do you guys go from here? How do you decide what you're going to do next?
McCOY: Well, Bandito Brothers is all about heartfelt stories immersed in great action. So, we'd like to head down that same path. Right now, we're still in the moment on this project. It's one of those ones that we don't want to end. It's been too rewarding.
WAUGH: It's been a great process. We feel very blessed, on this film.
Is it difficult to have to go back to doing action scenes with actors again and getting them to do their stunts?
McCOY: We respect actors. They're great. But, these guys were the opposite of that primadonna character. We were shooting the scenes in the swamp and the A.D. said, "Okay, get make-up in here to spray them down with water to make them look like they're getting out of the swamp," because there were alligators and snakes and every bad thing, in that swamp. The guys just jumped back in the swamp and said, "Okay, we're ready to go. We're good." It was great.


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Gary Shusett dies at 72; co-founder of Sherwood Oaks film school
Hollywood had a hard time saying "no" to Gary Shusett.
In the early 1970s, he co-founded Sherwood Oaks Experimental College, a professional school devoted to the craft of filmmaking, and kept it going for the rest of his life by brandishing a trait never in short supply in this town: tenacity.
After a guest lecture by reclusive record producer Phil Spector proved popular, Shusett realized he could make a go of it by persuading the industry's big names to share their experiences and expertise with students. Within the industry, his efforts at recruiting speakers became legendary.
When he ambushed Lucille Ball while she was having eyeglasses fitted at the optometrist, she ended up teaching a six-week course on comedy acting. He failed to woo Lily Tomlin with an invitation written in calligraphy on a window shade but succeeded after he asked a music student to compose a song for her.
Although Robert Duvall once called hotel security because of Shusett, many of the famous agreed to speak at Sherwood Oaks, if only to end the pestering, former employees said.
Shusett died Aug. 9 of cancer at his home in Hollywood, said Christine Owens, his producing partner and close friend. He was 72.
"Gary was very important, instrumental really, in bringing the continuing education model to the industry so they could share their experiences with the community," said Syd Field, who laid the groundwork for his now-classic "Screenplay" text after he began teaching at the school in the mid-1970s.
Asking celebrities to essentially bare their professional souls in a public forum was a radical notion when Shusett set out to try it. Many assumed they would never agree to it, but "as it turned out, everyone came," according to Field.
Actor Richard Dreyfuss, who spoke at the school in its early years, called Shusett "a very imaginative educator."
"In the '70s he had a good film school, eccentric and realistic as anyone could run without the millions universities now have" to accomplish the same thing, Dreyfuss said in a statement.
Screenwriter Paul Schrader taught there on a regular basis, as did producer-director Tony Bill, who once said that Sherwood Oaks helped demythologize the notion that the movie business is closed to new talent.
One notable seminar Shusett held in 1974 presented a panel of young directors who appeared to have bright futures. It included George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma.
Over time traditional classes were discontinued in favor of seminars given under the banner of Sherwood Oaks Experimental College, which was not a true college and didn't have much of a campus. It once operated from "a funky, rundown storefront on Hollywood Boulevard," according to Field.
Shusett eventually found it more expedient to bring students to the speaker and rented convenient spaces to hold seminars. During the Academy Awards, he would book a nearby room, then talk a new Oscar-winner into addressing waiting students.
"It's like a game," he once said of his nudging in the name of education.
His long list of speakers included writer-producer Rod Serling, directors Robert Altman, Billy Wilder and Scorsese; and actors Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Steve McQueen, Robert De Niro, Sissy Spacek and Bea Arthur.
Another regular at the school was his brother, Ronald Shusett, a screenwriter and producer known for such films as "Alien" (1979) and "Total Recall" (1990).
Gary Lynn Shusett was born July 19, 1941, in Los Angeles to David and Fanny Shusett. His parents divorced when he was 10, about the time his real estate-developer father commissioned architect John Lautner to design a modern home in Beverly Hills. Despite preservationists' efforts, it was demolished in 2010 long after the Shusetts sold it.
After graduating from Beverly Hills High in 1960, Shusett attended several local colleges. Formal education bored him, he later said, so he dropped out in 1968 out to help a friend run private Sherwood Oaks High School in Encino.
A couple of years later, they turned it into an "experimental college," offering courses in music, batik, building ships in bottles – anything they thought might attract students. Once they discovered the allure of entertainment classes, they moved the enterprise to Hollywood. Eventually, his partner fell away.
The organizational and communication skills needed to run a growing business were not Shusett's strength, he told The Times in 1979. "I'm really not a social person," he said at the time. "I'm best at turning ideas into a reality."
Shusett "had one velvet jacket that was burgundy red, and he would wear it every single day," Field said. "His hair was never combed. But he had this persistent energy about him."
He remained fiercely devoted to making Hollywood accessible despite the school's ever-shaky finances. He made enough money to pay his bills, according to Owens, enrolling about 4,800 students in the last eight years alone. There are plans to continue Sherwood Oaks.
Besides his brother, Ronald, Shusett is survived by a sister, Cindy.
He was to be buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, long known as the final resting place of many Tinseltown legends.
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Australian superannuation research firm, SuperRatings, is about to direct its rigorous scrutineering skills to New Zealand's KiwiSaver market.
The first firm to shine a light on the numerous and often opaque Australian superannuation funds, SuperRatings was instrumental in bringing a greater degree of transparency to the industry.
Amazingly, SuperRatings only launched in 2002, 10 years after the compulsory superannuation system kicked off in Australia but it has become an influential voice over its decade-long existence.
I vaguely recall the company's launch and its founder, Jeff Bresnahan, was often seen floating around the Australian publishing house I worked in at the time.
SuperRatings, of course, banged on a lot about the high fees buried in many superannuation funds, especially in those offered by retail providers such as banks and insurance companies (as opposed to those run by the, mainly union-based, industry fund sector). Bresnahan told me retail super schemes are finally producing lower-fee products, partly as a result of SuperRatings, and others, "rattling the cage".
The new MySuper rules, which require all super schemes offering default funds (of which, more than 80 per cent of Australians belong to) to switch to low-fee products, is also having a huge impact in Australia.
But SuperRatings isn't just concerned with fees and performance. Its researchers forensically examine most aspects of super fund life (including life insurance, which is generally offered as part of the package across the ditch).
For example, the firm charges super funds to produce reports that analyse "over 1000 points of fund operations, including a quantitative and qualitative review of growth metrics, investments, administration, fees, member services, advice, education and insurance structures".
In many ways KiwiSaver is a much simpler environment than the Australian superannuation system but SuperRating's experience in dredging through the minutiae of scheme operations should be of value here too.
SuperRating's push into NZ (it also launched recently in Hong Kong) will be headed by Darren Howlin, research manager at the group's retail fund rating business, Lonsec.


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More than 10 years after similar proposals were first introduced, President Barack Obama is scheduled to sign into law federal hate crimes legislation today. The NEA applauded the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act as a critical milestone for civil rights.
The following can be attributed to NEA President Dennis Van Roekel:
"As educators, NEA members share a commitment to protecting the civil and human rights of our students and communities. We applaud Congress and President Obama for taking a leadership role in confronting criminal acts motivated by prejudice.
"NEA has taken aggressive steps to address the issue of hate crimes in the context of schools and school districts. NEA and its affiliates have worked to develop training for educators and programs for students regarding hate crimes and human relations skills. But the efforts of educators and community leaders must be accompanied by federal partnerships."
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Assign one group to one side of the issue (this will be the "pro" side - who will argue in favor) and asking the other group the other side of the issue (the "con" side - who will argue in opposition). After about 10 min (or just when they seem to be getting really entrenched in their sides) stop the debate and say "Switch!" and now they each have to take the opposite side of the issue and build on the arguments already made.
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- no one should be allowed to x
- X is not our responsibility
- As a team we are more like Encyclopedia Britannica than Wikipedia
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WATERTOWN - Golda Meir – Israel's first, and so far only, female prime minister – was seen by some as the straight-talking grandmother of the Jewish people. In "Golda's Balcony," however, playwright William Gibson makes clear that, even with her gray bun and ever-present sensible shoes, Meir was anything but benign.
"I'm known for making chicken soup for our soldiers," says the self-aware Meir at the outset of Gibson's 2003 one-act play now at Watertown's New Repertory Theatre. "Chicken soup, yes, but there is blood at the bottom of the pot."
The house lights are still up when we first glimpse Meir – being played by the appropriately diminutive Newton actress Bobbie Steinbach as every inch the steel-fisted strongwoman – she is stolidly making her way to center stage behind the gauzy fabric panels that serve both to encase Jiyoung Han's stylized, multilevel set and to display Seaghan McKay's evocative projections.
Set in 1978, the play has the then-80-year-old looking back on her life with particular focus on the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when both Egypt and Syria attacked Israel. The term "Golda's balcony" refers to an area from which high-ranking visitors can view the underground section of Israel's Dimona nuclear installation. With that in mind, Gibson has the Kiev-born, Milwaukee-raised Meir threatening to launch nuclear weapons against her adversaries – and potentially initiating World War III – if then U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger don't bring America's power to Israel's defense.
Before becoming Israel's fourth elected prime minister in 1969, at the age of 70 - she would die of lymphoma in 1978 -Meir had a long and varied life. Emigrating from Russia with her family in 1906, she fervently embraced Zionism from an early age. When she married Jewish socialist Morris Meyerson in 1917, the onetime Wisconsin schoolteacher made settling in Palestine a prerequisite to the union, and by 1921 the young couple had moved to a kibbutz there.
Meir soon began her rise as a formidable politician and fundraiser who would bring in $50 million from U.S. donors to purchase arms from Europe and to support the 1948 establishment of the state of Israel. Meir was referred to as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics, long before that moniker was applied to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The versatile Steinbach – last seen at the New Rep as Yente the matchmaker in the sold-out December run of "Fiddler on the Roof" – blends world-weary exhaustion with firebrand ferocity to bring the always strategizing stateswoman vividly to life. Not long after quietly sharing, "I am at the end of my stories," Steinbach sheds Meir's chenille robe to take us back to a time when she was feverishly fielding phone calls in an effort to settle her country's rapidly escalating conflict with Egypt.
Under Judy Braha's taut direction, Steinbach moves with skillful aplomb between the heavier themes – supported by everything from cawing birds to rapid-fire artillery in David Wilson's mood-setting sound design – and the play's lighter moments. Steinbach's ability to bring Meir's mother, Kissinger and other characters to life is hampered somewhat, however, by her use of essentially the same voice and sound throughout.
Gibson first wrote about Meir in his 1977 multi-character play, "Golda," which, even with Anne Bancroft in the title role, had only a short Broadway run. He revisited the subject 25 years later with this single-character treatment, which had its 2002 premiere at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox where it featured Annette Miller. A 2003 production at New York's Helen Hayes Theatre earned star Tovah Feldshuh a Tony Award nomination and went on to become the longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history.
New Rep Artistic Director Jim Petosa had a different kind of history in mind when he decided to present "Golda's Balcony" this season. According to Braha, writing in a program note, Petosa wanted to present the story of Israel's first female prime minister shortly after what he expected would be the election of the first woman president of the United States.
That plan did not come to pass, of course, but that doesn't make this the story of a Hillary Clinton who actually won the election. Like the singular woman whose long life of service inspired it, "Golda's Balcony" stands on its own quite nicely.
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Vail Daily letter: Eagle needs ERS
Vail, CO, Colorado
I live and vote in Eagle. My wife and I moved here because we saw Eagle becoming a truly healthy, vibrant community. Today, that prospect is endangered unless we take positive action.
Grow or die: Over time, communities, towns and cities grow and continue to grow. Or they grow, then stop growing and eventually die. There is usually no rebirth. Look at all the ghost towns in Colorado.Community growth is not just about population and dollars. There are other equally important aspects of healthy growth, but those are harder to measure. However, the fact is that without people and money, no community can survive.
Successful cities and towns have strong employment and retail bases because retail produces sales tax and sales tax provides for the infrastructure that keeps communities healthy.
Our communities in the Eagle Valley are disproportionately dependent on sales tax revenues for their survival and will continue to be for a long time because revenues from new construction will not return to pre-recession levels any time soon.
The survival of the town of Eagle depends almost entirely on sales tax revenues. The 2012 budget is $5.4 million, half of this coming from sales tax (down almost $1 million in three years).
Eagle has a history of being less than business friendly.
That's why Eagle River Station was voted down last time; why Costco is in Gypsum (not Eagle); and why City Market might be looking in the same direction.
The impact of the recession and need for increased revenues has made the proposed Eagle River Station development a hot and hotter topic for several years.
Based on conservative, expert estimates, the town of Eagle will potentially receive approximately $2.3 million in sales tax revenue from the first phase of Eagle River Station. This looks likely to increase to over $3 million after project completion.
The town also stands to receive about $700,000 over the construction life of the project from permits and other fees.
These numbers do not include the human and financial benefits from many hundreds of new jobs that will result from Eagle River Station.
I understand some of the objections of those who voted no last time around. I would just ask them to consider the consequences of another no vote on May 22 – a town of Eagle destined to decay and die because it cannot grow and sustain life as we know it.
To those who would have supported it last time, but didn't – please, on May 22 or in the mail-in ballot: Vote yes for ERS!
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Fringe has been teasing us for ages with hints that Peter Bishop and Olivia Dunham are super important — and that their romance could have universe-shattering (or saving) consequences. Now, with last night's episode, we finally get to see the reason why these two lovebirds matter so doggone much.
Spoilers ahead...
Last night's Fringe episode introduced us, at last, to the spawn that Peter and Olivia were supposed to have, Henrietta "Etta" Bishop. (And yes, it's awesome that Etta hands out candy.)
You might recall that not too long ago, September told Peter that he'd made a baby with the "wrong" Olivia in the timeline that was erased — Henry, born on the Other Side. When that timeline was wiped out, Peter was erased along with his newborn son. And most of the Observers seemed extremely keen to keep Peter from being restored to the timeline — except for September, who rebelled against his crew to help restore Peter to the universe. And September basically told Peter that the reason it was important for him to exist was so that he and Olivia would make a very special baby.
September also told Olivia that she would have to die — and now we know when. She dies roughly in 2016, when Etta is four years old.
So what does Etta do that makes her so important to September? It seems likely that she's a direct threat to the other Observers, and that's what made them so keen to have Peter stay erased, back at the start of this season. All we know, for now, is that she is instrumental in rescuing Peter, Walter and Astrid from amber in 2036. And that she has some kind of weird mental power that makes it impossible for Observers to read her mind. A side effect of being the daughter of a Cortexiphan kid? (I'm not advocating Lamarckian genetics here, just saying that the Cortexiphan may have tweaked Olivia's genes somehow, or may have had some influence on Henrietta in the womb. Plus we still don't know what William Bell did to Olivia.)
So was the future we saw in "Letters of Transit" one possible future, or THE future? I'm inclined to say the latter. Of course, September has told Walter before that the future is always in flux, and he sees many possible futures coming in and out of likelihood — but think about how the show treated the future the last time we visited it, in "The Day We Died," the third season finale. There, it seemed like the dystopian 2026 that Peter visited was what would happen, unless Peter made a change in 2011. Peter sent his consciousness back in time so that his past self in 2011 could make a different choice — and that dark version of 2026 was averted. In "Letters of Transit," there's no communication with the past, and thus I think we're left to assume that this is what will happen, if nothing is done to change the timeline. Again.
Plus, if this was just one possible future, then what was the point of it? Our heroes in 2012 don't know about this version of 2036, so there's no way for them to try and avert these events. September presumably saw this future and deliberately didn't warn them — instead, he influenced events so that Peter and Olivia would get together and create the (presumptive) savior Henrietta. (Plus given the amount of time this episode spends introducing her character, you can bet the adult Henrietta will reappear in season five, if there is one. When Georgina Haig was first cast, her role was described as "potentially recurring" next season.)
In any case, here's what we know about the timeline we glimpsed last night. Sometime in 2012, Peter and Olivia make a baby, Henrietta. And then in 2015, a ton of Observers show up from the future — way more than can be covered by "months of the year" names — and they take over the planet. At some point during that year, soldiers (Native ones, I guess) go door to door, pulling suspected Resistance members out of their homes and shooting them. By 2016, the Observers' grip is tight — although the Fringe team keeps fighting them. Eventually, the Fringe team gets cornered, and Walter puts himself, Astrid, Peter and William Bell into amber so they'll be hidden from the Observers.
By 2036, the world is a full-on dystopia, and the Observers have become your standard evil overlords, oppressing the "Natives" of the 21st century. Whether the Observers traveled back in time to avert the ecological disaster that makes the world uninhabitable in 2609 or just to gain a new dominion to rule over, they've gotten totally corrupted. They even go into speakeasy-style nightclubs and demand the hottest women for themselves, because apparently Observers have needs too. Manhattan, referred to as "The City," is pretty much exclusively their domain.
And the Observer overlords have a slew of human lackeys, who have symbols tattooed on their faces, and the once-defiant Fringe Division now polices human-on-human crime for them. Broyles, in particular, seems to have become a willing collaborator with the occupation, and has a very Casablanca-style relationship with the Observer known as Widmark, who swigs water as though it was... well, water. (Although he doesn't seem in a hurry to tell anybody when he finds one of Walter's trademark Red Vines at the end of the episode.)
Widmark makes a notably creepy villain, especially the way he threatens to take over policing Native crime with methods that Broyles wouldn't like. And the way he explains his current "crap detail" by smiling and saying "I like animals."
But luckily, a couple of Fringe agents are still secretly working with the Resistance. There's Simon (Lost's Henry Ian Cusick) whose parents were killed for being Resistance members, back in 2015. And Etta, who seems reluctant to tell Simon why she's so attached to Walter and Peter Bishop. One of Etta's contacts has found the Fringe team in amber, and managed to pull Walter's piece of it out, before being killed. So all Etta and Simon have to do is figure out how to get Walter out of amber that re-solidifies the moment it's dissolved, and then enlist the aid of a ridiculously wigged Nina Sharp to restore Walter's amber-addled brain.
Oh, and back in 2015 Walter designed some new crazy device, which will supposedly rid the world of the Observers once and for all.
So what happened to Olivia? How did she die? It could have something to do with the spent bullet casing that Henrietta wears around her neck, which she instinctively touches when she first sees Walter in amber. Also, I'm guessing that whatever William Bell did to Olivia that made Walter so mad, it's somehow connected to his mind-possessing "soul magnets" — especially since I highly doubt they'll coax Leonard Nimoy to return to the show in any active capacity. So a Bell-possessed Olivia is the only way we'll probably see Bell again.
There's a lot to love about this episode, including some high-quality future dystopia. Full of fog and weird-colored lighting, plus curfews and checkpoints. (And also full of the Keystone Kops-level efficiency that pretty much every future dystopia has to exhibit, for the good guys to stand a chance.) But really, the main thing to love about this episode is John Noble getting to go all out as a subversive element in a world that's determined to crush him. Between last week's episode and this week's, it feels like Noble is making up for almost a whole season of Walter being cooped up in the lab.
There are almost too many great Walter moments to count in this episode. But they include: The brain-addled Walter repeating the word "liquorice" over and over. Walter reminiscing about monkey feces, brain-eating and LSD. A totally demented Walter casually fixing Nina's arm. The extended Obi-Wan Kenobi riff with the Evil Guard, who probably hasn't even seen Star Wars. (It's a dystopia, after all.) The way Walter starts chewing out his rescuers for tripping the alarms, once his brain is back together. The secret exit, because "Belly and I never left ourselves only one way out of a room." The way Walter sends his new friends off, and then slips away to create an anti-matter bomb. And then there's the way he gets William Bell to give him a hand with his problems.
Walter basically gets his Patrick Troughton on — the funny little man who runs rings around everybody else. (Except I can't quite picture the Second Doctor blowing up a building full of thugs and slicing his former best friend's hand off. That's cold.)
All in all, the timeline in "Letters of Transit" does for Fringe precisely what "a timeline where Peter died as a child" failed to do. It recharges the show with a new level of possibility. It provides a new antagonist, one who's got more long-term potential than David Robert Jones, who's already died once. The show has a real mission statement again, and this new storyline turns the show's mythos on its side without contradicting anything we've previously learned. And it takes all of the (sometimes kind of annoying) hints that Peter and Olivia's romance was something the fate of worlds depended on, and gives us a concrete reason, in the form of the mentally gifted Henrietta.
All in all, a fifth season of Fringe suddenly feels like a much more intriguing prospect. As Hail Mary passes go, this one seems to have landed nicely.


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"The Falcons were certainly one of the most underrated and unappreciated of the hundreds of vocal groups who recorded rhythm and blues in the mid-to-late 1950's. Usually ignpred by ardent fans of r&b group harmony who preferred the smooth stylings of the Moonglows, Five Keys, or Spaniels to the rougher, gospel-tinged tones of the Falcons, the guys from Detroit are more often venerated for the great lead singers who once sang with the group. How many other r&b groups could boast both an Eddie Floyd and a Wilson Pickett, not to mention the great Joe Stubbs, lead on "You're So Fine," or Mack Rice, later of "Mustang Sally" fame?...
This, the first Falcons' album ever, spotlights the versatility and talent of Eddie Floyd and Joe Stubbs, two powerful lead voices who could shine on any kind of r&b songs. Whether it be traditional group harmony ballads, jumps, or the gospel-influenced melodies of "You're Mine" or "You're So Fine," the raw talent and professionalism of the group are evident....[T]his LP contains ten unreleased songs by the group from their first recording sessions in the late fifties." (Cover Notes)
"Often credited as having cut the first true soul record in 1959 with "You're So Fine," a host of '60s soul stars called themselves Falcons at one time or another, including founder Eddie Floyd, Wilson Pickett, Sir Mack Rice, and 100 Proof Aged in Soul's Joe Stubbs. Originally an integrated R&B group headed by Floyd, the Falcons debuted on Mercury in 1955. Under the production aegis of Robert West, the Falcons' sound became more gospel-based as time passed, and with Stubbs as lead, the seminal "You're So Fine" was a major hit in 1959." - Bill Dahl
Rare & killer r&b from Detroit's Falcons, whom, retrospectively, can easily be considered something of an early soul supergroup. 320 vinyl rip by yours truly.
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stopped by the local shelter the other day to check out the new improvements. Before it was just a dreary regular county animal control. Now they have a huge new office, a room where you can take a potential adoptee and play with and a room for the cats with all kinds of cat trees and toys. It's pretty awesome now! Plus they got like 10 more kennels.
anyway here were the doggies that were there..there were a few more but i couldnt get good pics of them..all i had was my camera phone
a golden/poodle mix. He reminded me of a giant henry
chow mix? i dunno. he's older and SO sweet
ADORABLE lil pitty guy. He's probably around a yr old and sooooooooooo sweet and full of spunk
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White House had requested $431 million for the 28-acre data mining facility near Baltimore.
Deep inside legislation authorizing 2014 Pentagon activities is a line item that reduces construction spending for a National Security Agency data mining facility near Baltimore. The Obama administration had requested $431 million for the third phase of development of the 28-acre server estate.
A report accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act -- expected to clear Congress as early as Thursday night -- caps expenses at $396 million. The vague explanation states that military officials said they won't be able to expend the full amount asked for in fiscal 2014.
The budget trimming coincides with calls from Congress, a federal court and a White House review panel to sharply curtail the stockpiling of information concerning American citizens. Costs were expected to total $792 million in May, when workers broke ground on the center near the agency's headquarters at Fort Meade.
Recommendations released on Wednesday by White House-appointed intelligence watchdogs call for legislation that "terminates the storage of bulk telephony metadata by the government." The practice, a post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism program, amasses U.S. citizen and foreign national call logs with phone numbers, conversation lengths and other phone records that can show relationships between individuals.
The Maryland facility is the younger sibling of a $1.2 billion surveillance warehouse in Utah that is 15 times as large as MetLife stadium. NSA recently hid from the public electrical meltdowns that were delaying the activation of data-munching machines in Utah.
Both centers are part of a series of NSA computer complexes that one day could manage yottabytes of data. Wired has reported that "should the agency ever fill the Utah center with a yottabyte of information, it would be equal to about 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text."
Last year, the Energy Department, in a cost-savings move, brokered an agreement with technology companies to prototype exascale supercomputers (a million exabytes equal a yottabyte) needed by 2020 for espionage, among other national security efforts. This year's defense bill directs Energy to develop a new class of exascale supercomputers to model nuclear weapons explosions.


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CUPE Local 1281 held a rally outside the Student Campus Centre Wednesday to mark 30 days of stalled negotiations with the Continuing Education Students' Association of Ryerson (CESAR.)
Speakers included Local president Saira Chhibber, Ryerson Students' Union president Melissa Palermo and Winnie Ng, Ryerson's CAW-Sam Gindin chair in social justice and democracy.
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Finite element fracture modelling of concrete gravity dams
Q Cai; J M Robberts; B W J van Rensburg
A smeared crack model, based on non-linear fracture mechanics, was developed which allows for either linear or bilinear softening and assumes shear retention dependent on the strain normal to a crack. A mesh objectivity verification study proves that the proposed crack modelling method is mesh objective. The crack model and its computational procedure is verified for a benchmark concrete gravity dam model and an existing concrete gravity dam by comparing the results with those of numerical investigations obtained by other researchers. Furthermore, an existing concrete gravity dam in South Africa is analysed and evaluated with regard to dam safety in terms of the maximum overflow level. A higher imminent failure flood is predicted in the analysis than that obtained by classical strength-based methods. The study proves the usefulness and applicability of the proposed crack model and implementation procedure in predicting crack response and evaluating the safety of concrete gravity dams. A sensitivity study on the material fracture properties and fracture parameters is included for the purpose of investigating the uncertainties often encountered in this type of analysis. The influence of the fracture properties and parameters on the cracking response and the overall structural behaviour is discussed.
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The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) is thanked for permission to publish this paper. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily of the DWAF.
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JOHN ROBBERTS was associated with the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Pretoria at the time this paper was produced. John Robberts obtained his BEng (Civil) in 1986 from the University of Pretoria and then joined this institution as lecturer in Structural Engineering. He obtained his MEng (Structural Engineering) from the University of Pretoria, and his PhD from Imperial College London. John also worked at the Atkins bridge office in Epsom (UK) and PBMR (Pretoria). John is currently a director of Nuclear Structural Engineering (Pty) Ltd. He remains involved with the University of Pretoria, as a part-time lecturer, supervising research students and presenting postgraduate courses in Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete.
QINGBO CAI was associated with the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Pretoria at the time this paper was produced. He is a deputy chief engineer in Directorate: Options Analysis at Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. He obtained his BEng (Civil) from the Southwest Jiao-Tong University n the People's Republic of China, an MSc (Structural Engineering) from the Northern Jiao-Tong University in the People's Republic of China, and a PhD from the University of Pretoria. Over the last 20 years, he has been involved in structural design of various buildings and research on railway prestressed concrete poles and sleepers, and advanced finite element analysis of civil and mechanical structures such as dams and pipes.
BEN VAN RENSBURG is a professor in the in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Pretoria where he teaches and does research in structural engineering. He started his career in consulting engineering, worked in a research organization, and subsequently joined the University of Pretoria. de obtained BSc and MSc degrees in CM Engineering from the University of Pretoria, an MSc (Structural Engineering) from the University of Southampton and a PhD (Civil Engineering) from the University of Pretoria.]]>


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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that the Fed was in no rush to end its easy-money quantitative easing program because the U.S. jobs picture remained weak overall while inflation was low. The Treasury bond market responded with a drop in prices and a rise above 2% in the 10-year note yield.
But even as low interest rates have helped create jobs and support home prices, savers who rely on interest income from savings accounts or government bonds are receiving very low returns, Bernanke acknowledged in prepared remarks before testifying before Congress' Joint Economic Committee.
"Another cost, one that we take very seriously, is the possibility that very low interest rates, if maintained too long, could undermine financial stability," Bernanke said in his remarks. "For example, investors or portfolio managers dissatisfied with low returns may 'reach for yield' by taking on more credit risk, duration risk or leverage."
The Federal Open Market Committee does recognize the drawbacks of persistently low rates, Bernanke said, adding that the FOMC "actively seeks economic conditions consistent with sustainably higher interest rates."
But ending QE can't guarantee that outcome, he said: "Unfortunately, withdrawing policy accommodation at this juncture would be highly unlikely to produce such conditions. A premature tightening of monetary policy could lead interest rates to rise temporarily but would also carry a substantial risk of slowing or ending the economic recovery and causing inflation to fall further."
In early afternoon trading, the 10-year Treasury note was trading up 4.78%, 0.09 points higher, to yield 2.04% versus the day's open of 1.93%.
Anthony Valeri, fixed-income market strategist for LPL Financial, said the bond market's response reflected uncertainty about where the Fed is ultimately headed.
"Unfortunately, I don't think Bernanke clarified anything today," Valeri said in a phone interview about an hour into Bernanke's congressional testimony. "The market knew that tapering QE was going to happen sometime this year. But as for Bernanke's comments about doing it over the next few meetings depending on the economic data—we already knew that. That creates nervousness in the bond market because we don't have clarity."
The 10-year rallied right after the release of Bernanke's prepared comments, "which were quite dovish," Valeri said. A strong equity market reaction then led to the Treasury selloff, he said, noting that the Japanese yen also weakened substantially as money left that safe-haven currency.
In an analyst note, Jim O'Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, agreed that Bernanke's testimony was "fairly dovish," with no mention of tapering. O'Sullivan then mentioned a Tuesday morning interview with New York Fed President William Dudley on Bloomberg TV, where Dudley suggested that officials could potentially start tapering in "three to four months," but for now there is too much uncertainty.
"The words appear consistent with our expectation that tapering could start by the September FOMC meeting," O'Sullivan wrote.
Bernanke in his remarks also pointed to favorable factors in the economy, including real GDP's estimated rise at an annual rate of 2.5% in the first quarter and an unemployment rate at 7.5%, down half a percentage point since last summer. In all, he said, payroll employment has risen by about 6 million jobs since its low point, and consumer price inflation has been low, with personal consumption up only 1% over the 12 months ending in March.
"With unemployment well above normal levels and inflation subdued, fostering our congressionally mandated objectives of maximum employment and price stability requires a highly accommodative monetary policy," Bernanke said in his remarks.
Congress came in for criticism from Bernanke. He said that fiscal policy at the federal level has become significantly more restrictive, to the point of harming the U.S. economy. Throughout his congressional testimony, he kept sounding the warning that although near-term fiscal restraint has increased, much less has been done to address the government's longer-term fiscal imbalances.
"The expiration of the payroll tax cut, the enactment of tax increases, the effects of the budget caps on discretionary spending, the onset of the sequestration, and the declines in defense spending for overseas military operations are expected, collectively, to exert a substantial drag on the economy this year," Bernanke said. "The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the deficit reduction policies in current law will slow the pace of real GDP growth by about one and a half percentage points during 2013."
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This is the second part of our preseason series looking at the Blackhawks' roster heading into training camp in 2010. In the first part, we focused on the centers on the roster. Now, in the second edition, we'll focus on the skaters that will work with those centers: the wings.
We're not going to continue beating the "roster turnover" drum here, because that's an overplayed and overstated piece of the Hawks summer. By now most Hawks fans are just as sick of hearing about the guys that are gone as they are about spending $150 on a jersey with the name of one of the departed on it.
However, for the sake of remembering the wings that the Hawks will have to replace this year, here they are:
- Kris Versteeg
- Dustin Byfuglien
- Andrew Ladd
- Ben Eager
- Adam Burish
We already discussed the impact of losing John Madden and Colin Fraser at center, both of whom should be more than adequately replaced by a healthy Dave Bolland and Ryan Potulny. However, at wing there is a unique group leaving the roster that leaves some question regarding how, and who, will take their place.
Let's circle back to the critical (and inappropriate) assumption that the Blackhawks roster was left empty by the summer exodus.
It was not.
Of the 12 forwards that will dress for Opening Night, at least eight of them were on the NHL roster in Chicago at some point last year. Adding the reality that the Hawks will begin the season with Bolland and Marian Hossa both fully healthy this year is already an upgrade to this time 12 months ago. Here are the wings that will return to the team this year:
- Patrick Kane – 82 GP, 88 pts (30 G, 58 A), +16
- Marian Hossa – 57 GP, 51 pts (24 G, 27 A), +24
- Troy Brouwer – 78 GP, 40 pts (22 G, 18 A), +9
- Tomas Kopecky – 74 GP, 21 pts (10 G, 11 A), E
- Bryan Bickell – 16 GP, 4 pts (3 G, 1 A), +4
If Hossa performs at a level around his career averages, he'll be pushing Kane for the team lead in points in April next year. Brouwer and Kopecky are both coming off career-best seasons, and hope to improve again in the final years of both of their respective contracts.
Fortunately, the Blackhawks planned ahead for the day when the list of departed players would have to leave.
Bickell not only saw quality regular season time on the third and fourth lines in a checking role, but also played as a primary power forward with Jonathan Toews and Kane in the first round of the playoffs (even while Byfuglien was on the roster). Where he will skate this year is open to some debate, but the three-year commitment he received from the Hawks this summer indicates that the organization believes in him and hopes he can use his 6'4, 223 pound frame to make life miserable for opponents.
Another safe assumption is that Viktor Stalberg, who was acquired from Toronto in the deal sending Versteeg north, will make the NHL roster. He's an elite skater and showed flashes of solid scoring ability last year with the Leafs, posting nine goals in only 40 games. At 6'3 and 210 pounds, Stalberg is five inches and 30 pounds bigger than Versteeg, but could bring a similar game to the ice this year. And, at just 24 years old, the roster got older by only a matter of months by replacing Versteeg with Stalberg; the only difference (and a big one) is Versteeg's NHL experience.
Versteeg will be the toughest of the departing Blackhawks to replace. Despite being a Calder Trophy finalist just a year ago, most fans were torn about how to feel regarding the would-be rapper. The things he could do with the puck in open ice led to him being called "Patrick Kane Light" on many occasions, but his tendencies to make bad plays at critical times led to a lot of spilled beer and foul language as well.
However, as the regular season concluded and the playoffs began, Versteeg began to assume a more prominent role on special teams. He saw a lot of time on the second penalty killing line with Bolland in the playoffs, and played well in that role. Similarly, because of his ability to put the puck in the net he was a central figure on the secondary power play unit, and was effective there as well. By the end of the postseason, Versteeg was one of the few forwards on the Blackhawks roster that was contributing to every aspect of the game.
So while Bickell can be seen as a replacement option for Byfuglien's size, and Stalberg's frame is closer to Ladd despite his skating leading to Versteeg comparisons, the question for many fans is how will the Hawks fill out their lines, and complete their power play and penalty kill units to be as effective as they were last year.
Here is how the lines could look when the season opens:
- Hossa-Toews-Stalberg
- Kane-Sharp-Brouwer
- Pisani-Bolland-Kopecky
- Bickell-Potulny-_______
Something that undoubtedly sticks out from these projected lines is the separation of Kane and Toews. This shouldn't be a shock to most Blackhawks fans, though; at the beginning of the 2009-10 season, Quenneville tried to break up his two young superstars. It didn't work, though, as the injuries keeping Hossa off the ice and Bolland not skating at 100 percent made for unbalanced lines and awkward play; the Hawks hadn't fully committed to Sharp at center at that point, either.
However, as the playoffs progressed, Quenneville came back to his plan to break the two up (with Byfuglien moving as well), and this time it was a success. Toews skated with Hossa and Kopecky, while Kane skated with Sharp and either Byfuglien or Brouwer later in the playoffs and the two were able to play effectively and score well independent of each other.
Putting Stalberg's skating ability and good hands on a line with Hossa and Toews is the best opportunity for him (or anyone who can stand up on ice) to succeed. Similarly, Kane and Brouwer worked well together with Toews last year, and could do equally well with Sharp between them this year.
The checking line and fourth line is where there could be some movement, and you'll notice one empty spot on the lines that's still to be determined.
When the Blackhawks added Fernando Pisani, they brought in one of the more respected penalty killers in the league. Adding him to Potulny, who ranked tenth among all NHL forwards in blocked shots last year, the Blackhawks suddenly have great depth and Joel Quenneville will have options to work with this year.
What's important about having guys like Pisani and Potulny on the roster is that they will fill the ice time left by Madden leaving the penalty kill, allowing Quenneville to use someone other than Toews and Hossa if (heaven forbid!) they need a break. In the postseason last year, the average ice time for Toews, Hossa and Bolland escalated because of the prominent roles all three played in killing penalties and the offensive power play; Pisani and Potulny will give Quenneville two options in whom he can have confidence.
Quenneville will have to decide if he want Pisani's experience with Bolland on the checking line, a very good possibility, or if he wants to go bigger with Bickell and/or Kopecky. There's a very good chance that the bottom two lines will be fluid throughout the season, and that matchup will dictate who's skating where.
In June, it looked more and more like there would be a wild, fascinating competition for a handful of kids to break into the NHL this year. Many, including CommittedIndians, assumed players like Jake Dowell, Jack Skille, Kyle Beach, and even someone like Hugh Jessiman or Rob Klinkhammer had a shot at making the cut. However, with the additions of quality veterans like Pisani and Potulny, the available roster spots just aren't there any more.
If we were handicapping the final spot on the 12-forward lines on Opening Night, the smart money would be on Skille.
Still only 23, Skille has been an enigma in the Hawks organization since being selected seventh overall in the 2005 Draft. He's posted decent numbers, but has failed to translate effectively into the NHL; he's also had trouble breaking through the concrete ceiling of free agent acquisitions like Martin Havlat, Hossa and Kopecky and players added via trade like Ladd.
Because of his draft position, and the Hawks' salary cap issues, Skille had trouble getting a legitimate chance in the NHL last year because of his cap number. However, with a new one-year deal in place with a lower cap number, this will probably be Skille's first (and potentially last) shot at making the Blackhawks. At 6'1 and 215 pounds, Skille has the size to factor into the rotation well, and he's been able to score consistently in his AHL career. Perhaps in 2010-11 fans will finally see why the Hawks picked him over Anze Kopitar, TJ Oshie and Niclas Berfors… just a few of the names to be called after Skille in 2005's first round.
The Blackhawks have enough cap space to accommodate bench depth, so Dowell, Jeff Taffe, Igor Makarov or even perhaps Jessiman could find a way onto the bench because of their cap numbers. Just a few weeks ago the competition was thought to be for third and fourth line spots; now it appears to be for bench depth.
The trickle down from the belief that Skille will make the roster is that another top pick, Beach, isn't in the NHL. In my opinion, Beach should go to Rockford and be glad he's going there.
Beach has had a tough summer, struggling to score at the Hawks prospect camp in July and now struggling in the Maple Leafs Rookie Tournament. He's played with a physical edge that GM Stan Bowman has encouraged, but he hasn't shown the scoring ability that made him such a threat coming out of juniors.
Given the number of top prospects the Blackhawks have signed this summer, Beach should welcome the opportunity to build chemistry with some of the young talent for a season. Being able to play with Jeremy Morin, perhaps Makarov, Brandon Pirri, Brandon Bollig, Evan Brophey and other top prospects will help the Blackhawks develop talent together, bringing up players together in the future to give the team a seamless transition when other veterans leave the team down the road.
Overall, the Blackhawks lost a number of forwards but they have adequately replaced their losses and could actually have a better forward group in place to begin this season than 12 months ago.


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Turn Your Obsolete Tech To Some Useful Thing!
Ever thought of doing some thing creative with that stored junk of tech toys you had. Inspite of knowing that they ain't do anything except occupying some of your wardrobe space.
An Artist named Rodrigo Alonso made some good thing out of nothing. Well he took all his junk old obsolete tech stuff, put them in a mold of stool and started adding some clear Epoxy Resin in it which filled all the empty spaces. On drying he got a stool which seemed like some crunched techs held together in a large block of ice. So finally he could make use of all that recyclable material. No doubt it would be having some odd looks like not fitting in house with other furniture but surely with some decorative artistic patterns and even the use of some colourful resins can make it look better in your room.