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—Sebastian Smythe, The First Time
Sebastian Smythe is a recurring character on Glee during the third, fourth and fifth seasons. He is the former lead singer of the Dalton Academy Warblers, and is originally portrayed as the show's main villain in his introduction at the beginning of Season Three. He is captain of the Warblers during the third season, and for much of it leads them in a personal vendatta against the New Directions. In Season Four, he is demoted from his position, being replaced by Hunter Clarington. After Hunter is forced to step down due to drug scandals, Sebastian is reinstated, and remains in the position. He is last seen helping Blaine propose to Kurt in Love, Love, Love and graduated off-screen after these events. Since his first appearance in Season 3, he is mostly mentioned by Kurt Hummel, verbally or in his head.
He was portrayed by actor Grant Gustin.
Sebastian first appears in The First Time during the Warblers' performance of Uptown Girl. Upon seeing Blaine, Sebastian takes immediate interest and takes his hand to join him in the song showing his confident nature. Blaine invites Sebastian as well as the rest of the Warblers to their opening night of West Side Story. Immediately following the song, the two are shown speaking at a table in what is assumed to be Dalton's cafe. Sebastian shamelessly flirts with Blaine and indicates that Blaine was a "legend" amongst the students at Dalton and says Blaine is "sex on a stick and sings like a dream," and asks why Blaine transferred. The scene is intercut with the performance of A Boy Like That/I Have a Love, suggesting Sebastian's promiscuity. Blaine seems bashful and flustered by his advances; however, he agrees to see Sebastian again for more "insight... Warbler to Warbler." They later visit the Lima Bean, where Sebastian continues to flirt with Blaine. Blaine responds by explaining that he has a boyfriend. They are interrupted when Kurt himself enters the scene. It is clear that Kurt feels threatened by Sebastian's desire for sexual relations with Blaine so Kurt asserts his dominance over Blaine by linking arms with him. Sebastian, after implying that their relationship is unexciting, invites them to visit the gay bar Scandals in West Lima with him. Blaine initially declines the offer, but Kurt is quick to decide for the both of them that they will go.Sebastian manages to get them all fake ID's. Kurt and Blaine meet him at the bar, and Kurt admits, "I really don't like that guy." Sebastian gives Blaine a beer, and Kurt, the assumed designated driver, a Shirley Temple. While Kurt and Karofsky are conversing, Sebastian dances with Blaine. He is later seen with the rest of the Warblers watching West Side Story. New Directions into a "legitimate threat." Blaine abruptly leaves for more coffee, leaving Sebastian and Kurt alone. After each bluntly states their dislike for the other, they trade insults, culminating in Sebastian revealing that by the end of the year he plans on having Blaine and the Nationals trophy. Blaine returns and Sebastian leaves, winking at Kurt and advising Kurt to "take care of that Warbler."
During New Directions' Sectionals performance, Sebastian is seen in the audience cheering on Blaine and giving standing ovations. At one point he makes eye contact with Kurt during the performance, causing a visible reaction from Kurt.
Sebastian interrupts a conversation between Kurt, Artie, Santana, Rachel, and Blaine at the Lima Bean.Sebastian explains that the Warblers plan on taking the New Directions' idea of performing Michael Jackson at Regionals, information Blaine leaked to him during their phone conversations. After Santana ultimately fails to reciprocate Sebastian's insults towards her, Sebastian says "I'm captain of the Warblers now and I'm tired of playing nice," ending their exchange.
The New Directions infuriated by the Warblers stealing their song choices, ultimately decide to have a duel with the Warblers to settle who gets to sing Michael Jackson at Regionals. Responding to this, Sebastian, accompanied by the Warblers, meets New Directions in a parking garage to duel the New Directions through the performance of Bad. The Warblers all assist Sebastian in passing around a slushie for him to toss at Kurt. The attempt is foiled when Blaine jumps in the way at the last second. Initially Sebastian is disappointed that it hit Blaine, but all of the Warblers walk away from the scene, none of them attempting to help him.
Back at Dalton, Santana visits him and informs him that Blaine would need surgery for a scratched cornea, and she relates her suspicions that the slushy had been tampered with. They duel over a performance of Smooth Criminal. It ends with Santana pestering Sebastian for a confession about what he had added. Sebastian admits to adding rock salt, a halite mineral used commercially to keep ice cold. The Warblers, knowing about Blaine's injury, the rock salt, and Dalton's zero-tolerance bullying policy, assist Sebastian once again by handing him yet another (non-tampered with) slushie to throw at Santana. Little to his knowledge Santana was wearing a hidden microphone that recorded his confession.The Warblers and Sebastian are invited by the New Directions to watch them perform Black or White in an effort to explain what Michael's music is really about. During the performance, all the Warblers get up and join the New Directions, apart from Sebastian, who stays in his seat. Santana reveals that she had recorded his confession and could use it to get him kicked out of Dalton or even arrested. However, Kurt decides that he'd rather be able to compete against him at Regionals, and Santana gives the tape to Sebastian. Sebastian leaves.
Sebastian is seen in the beginning of the episode trying to blackmail Rachel into dropping out of Sectionals by threatening to post a photo-shopped picture of Finn naked on the Internet. Sebastian and Kurt exchange insults back and forth. Momentarily before he finishes, he says she has 24 hours to drop out.
After the revelation of Dave Karofsky's suicide, Sebastian calls Blaine, Kurt, Santana, and Brittany to a meeting at The Lima Bean. He apologizes to Blaine for his eye, telling him it was a joke that went too far, and admits that he destroyed the doctored photos of Finn. He proceeds to say that he has never taken things too seriously, flashing back to a scene at Scandals where David Karofsky is talking to him, asking for advice on how to get a guy, and Sebastian insults him calling him "100 pounds overweight" and his eyebrows makes him look like Liberace. He ends the exchange saying that he should remain in the closet. He, visibly upset, proceeds to say that it's "All fun and games, until it's not." Sebastian says that they are taking donations to Lady Gaga's Born This Way fund and are dedicating their performance to Dave, win, lose or draw and invites the New Directions to do the same.
At Regionals after the Warblers perform Stand as an opening number, he pauses in their performance to remind the audience to donate before leading the Warblers in perform their next song Glad You Came. He is seen openly cheering for the New Directions as they perform.
In the end when the Warblers place second, he and Blaine are seen shaking hands. This is the final time Sebastian is seen in Season Three.
He is mentioned when Blaine and Kurt are arguing. Blaine is said to have texted Sebastian everyday and night like Chandler texted Kurt, but Blaine explains that he and Sebastian's texts were "family-friendly." Later Blaine admits he was "Kinda doing the same thing" with Sebastian. This is the final time Sebastian is mentioned in Season Three.
When Blaine confessed that he had cheated on Kurt, Kurt automatically assumes it was Sebastian due to their history, though Blaine denies it and tells Kurt that it was someone else that he had cheated with.
Blaine mistakes a blurred faced Hunter in a video for Sebastian and returns to Dalton to confront him, thinking he stole the New Directions' nationals trophy. Sebastian instead insists he has turned over a new leaf and directs him to Hunter instead, after revealing he has stepped down as captain of the Warblers. He takes the lead in enticing Blaine into performing My Dark Side with the Warblers.
He appears again later in the episode on a balcony with Hunter witnessing Blaine and Sam escaping with the nationals trophy.
In this episode, Sebastian performs two songs with The Warblers at Sectionals: Whistle, sung by Hunter, and Live While We're Young, which was his solo. When The Rosedale Mennonites performed, Sebastian was seen sitting in the audience smiling and chuckling to the performance.
In Swan Song, it is revealed that the Warblers claimed victory at Sectionals.
Sam and Blaine begin to investigate the Warblers cheating. Sebastian is briefly mentioned when Sam and Blaine get proof from Trent that they took drugs and cheated.
Sebastian is first seen in the Warbler choir room during the performance of Help!, after which he interrupts Trent when he tries to speak on behalf of the Warblers, then requesting a show of hands in support of Blaine. Later in the episode he dances and sings backup with the rest of the Warblers during All You Need Is Love, and is seen celebrating Kurt and Blaine's engagement.
Kurt begs in his mind that Blaine's partner isn't Sebastian. He is also not present within the new group of Warblers, suggesting he graduated prior to this episode.
Sebastian is a foil character for the New Directions. He has been shown to be condescending, forward, snarky, cocky, and unapologetic. He also appears to be extremely snobby, as he openly hates living in Ohio, as well as the idea of going to a public school. Originally described as being the "male Santana," he is one of the only characters who can effectively out-do her in terms of insults.
He is openly gay, and continually makes advances on Blaine throughout much of Season Three, spoiling relationships between him and Kurt. He is generally promiscuous, and frequents Scandals, a gay bar in Lima, looking for men to pick up.
Otherwise, not much is known about his background, apart from having a father who is a state attorney. Sebastian's mean-spirited personality and actions have earned him the position of a villain for the New Directions. He appears to be used to getting his way, and seems to be willing to do anything to get what he wants as he doesn't give up on Blaine and blackmails Rachel to forfeit.
Sebastian attempts to begin an act of redemption in On My Way, apologizing to Blaine and trying to make things right between the show choirs, and for himself after some of the cruel things he said to Dave. In Dynamic Duets, he tells Blaine that he's done playing the villain and has decided to leave that position to Hunter Clarington.
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Blaine suspects Sebastian is behind the robbery of the New Directions' Nationals trophy, when it is in fact Hunter Clarington. Sebastian does, however, help Hunter persuade Blaine transfer back to the Dalton Academy Warblers, but their attempts are ultimatively fruitless. Despite their bad history, Sebastian agrees to help Blaine set up a proposal for Kurt in Love Love Love.
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Kurt and Sebastian are unintentionally introduced to one another at The Lima Bean when Kurt catches him and Blaine drinking coffee together. Kurt instantly feels threatened by him and even admits to Blaine when they see him later: "I really don't like that guy." Kurt is the one to accept Sebastian's invitation to Scandals, presumably because he wanted to show Blaine that he, too, could be fun like Sebastian. Sebastian treats Kurt condescendingly, teasing him about his lack of sexiness, as well as giving him a Shirley Temple while automatically assuming him to be the designated driver. Kurt is shown jealously watching as Blaine dances with him. In Hold on to Sixteen, Kurt's feelings are made expressly clear when he confronts Sebastian about his dislike for him. Sebastian reacts to this by reciprocating these adverse feelings. The two of them keep their feelings for one another from Blaine, who seems to have been unaware that any arguing had gone on at all. When Kurt spots Sebastian at Sectionals, he is shown having a very negative reaction to his presence. In Michael, Kurt and Sebastian's hate for one another peaks when Sebastian injures Blaine in a failed attempt to slushy Kurt, and Kurt becomes infuriated with Sebastian and deems that he is "evil" and calls him the "criminal chipmunk."
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During Michael, a rivalry grows between Santana and Sebastian. Later in the episode, Santana shows up at Dalton Academy to get answers to what was in the slushie that damaged Blaine. In a deleted scene, while Sebastian and The Warblers are singing I Want You Back, Sebastian pushes Santana then proceeds to call her names as they walk out. The two end up singing Smooth Criminal and soon after they finish, Sebastian reveals that he put rock salt in the slushie that damaged Blaine's eye and then proceeds to slushie Santana. In On My Way, their rivalry has loosened up as Sebastian is seeing the repercussion of his actions towards Karofsky and apologizes to her, Brittany, Kurt, and Blaine. In fact, during Regionals, Sebastian smiles as Santana is singing What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger).
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- He is a lacrosse player.
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- The character was originally supposed to be called Cameron Connors.
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- He likes to drink Courvoisier with his coffee.
- He is described as "the male Santana" by Ryan Murphy.
- He is a regular at Scandals. (Michael)
- His father is a state's attorney. (Michael)
- Since his debut in The First Time, he has made an appearance or has been mentioned in a conversation every three episodes up until The New Rachel: He appeared in Hold on to Sixteen, Michael, and On My Way. Kurt mentioned him in Dance with Somebody and he appeared in the intro of Props. Though this isn't true for The New Rachel, he is mentioned in The Break-Up, which would have been the next episode in line, then is featured in the episode Dynamic Duets, three episodes later.
- He is the first captain of a show choir on the show to be relieved of his position and remain on the same team. (Dynamic Duets)
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Consumers hoping that the worst of the recession is over may be setting themselves up for disappointment as the US economy continues to deteriorate, a panel of economists and financial experts said Tuesday.
Surging unemployment and the slow-moving impact of the government stimulus program will stall any real economic recovery until 2010 or even later, the panel said. Consumers fearful of losing their jobs are likely to continue to spend less while the housing and financial crises continue to unwind.
"I'm fairly pessimistic about the near-term future," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center of Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. "I can't imagine a situation where unemployment doesn't go to 10 (percent). My guess is we're going to cross 11 by sometime next year."
The Conference Board's consumer confidence index jumped in April to the highest level this year, reflecting consumer hopes that the economy is nearing a bottom even if the index itself shows the economy remains weak.
But speakers at a New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants briefing said the future remains murky.
Government officials' talk of "green shoots" in the economy—a term introduced several weeks ago by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and which optimists have used widely since—was highly premature and even irresponsible, Baker said.
"Economically and politically I thought it was poor judgment by the Obama administration to start talking about that," he said. "If I were President Obama I'd be very worried about this. You don't want to be the one saying my program is working and four, five months out there unemployment is really bad and they're going to start blaming you."
There are a number of ways to measure economic growth and tax revenues that are high on the list for government officials. By that standard, the current economic picture is anemic in many regions.
"Sales taxes have dropped off a cliff," said Nassau County (N.Y.) Comptroller Howard S. Weitzman. "The fourth quarter—it's like everybody got a Twitter: Stay home, don't buy."
The news hasn't gotten any better in 2009, with sales tax receipts down 10 percent year-to-date, he said.
Falling sales tax revenues are a direct result of consumers' unwillingness to spend money, something Weitzman said has pervaded his county even as unemployment and foreclosure rates there remain well under the national numbers.
"People are putting their money away, paying down debt, paying off credit cards, doing whatever they have to to get their households in order," he said.
"They're marshaling the resources they have because of that uncertainty," added John D. Finnerty, professor of finance at Fordham University.
The US will not be able to depend on other nations to rescue its economy, Finnerty said.
Aggressive government stimulus, a rebound in consumer spending, and the continued reduction in business inventory will be needed for recovery. But when that happens is anyone's guess, he said.
"In order for the economy to (recover) a lot of the stimulus is going to have to come from consumer spending and government spending, and it's hard to know when that's going to kick in," Finnerty said. "It's going to take into 2010 before we work off that excess inventory and government spending starts to kick in."
"The federal government's the deep pockets in this story," Baker said. "They really have to bear the burden because there's nobody else out there."
The discussion, however, was not all doom and gloom.
While no one was willing to green-light the economy, they said consumers probably won't need to worry about inflation becoming a major problem, and there even was some sentiment that fears of unemployment could be overblown.
"Don't get spooked by it--it's going to go up," said Timothy P. Speiss, partner-in-charge at Eisner. "The economy will do better while, counterintuitively, unemployment goes up."
Speiss said that in past times of unemployment reaching comparable levels it then decreased to between 5.8 and 6.2 percent within 24 months.
Much of the panel's discussion also focused on the root causes that led to the financial crisis.
They agreed that the crisis arose primarily due to profligate lending to underqualified customers and a lack of common-sense regulatory practices.
A likely result, then, will be a tightening of rules under which banks can operate, particularly as it concerns capital ratios. Banks are likely to be forced to keep a higher amount of money on hand compared to how much they lend out.
"The government was extremely aggressive in promoting mortgages on terms that were probably not appropriate," Speiss said.
While there's only limited sentiment for over-arching government involvement with banking practices, there's been a clear call for more common-sense regulation.
"The market system can work. What regulation does is it establishes the rules of the game," Finnerty said. "The rules of the game were much too permissive."


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Bethenny Frankel's Talk Show Has Been Canceled
The syndicated Bethenny will not return for a second season
Bethenny Frankel can still do plenty of talking – just not on her own show.
Bethenny, the eponymous talk show hosted by the former reality star, has been canceled, PEOPLE has confirmed. Deadline.com reports low ratings doomed the show, although it appears she'll be ending her run in May on excellent terms.
"I had a blast doing this show with Telepictures," she says in a statement. "My entire staff worked so hard and made every day so much fun. I am thankful for the experience and for all my fans who tuned in every day."
Her production company echoed the warm sentiments. "While we are disappointed not to be able to bring the series back for a second season, we remain convinced that Bethenny has a unique voice and that she will continue to be successful in the future," said a Telepictures rep.
The Skinnygirl mogul, 43, rocketed to fame in 2008 as a star on The Real Housewives of New York. Her ambitious, straight-talking style connected with viewers and led to her own spinoff show, Bethenny Ever After, in 2011.
The Bravo series chronicled her first year parenting daughter Bryn, now 3, and her new marriage to Jason Hoppy. The two split last year and Frankel has been recently linked to financier Michael A. Cerussi III.
Bethenny launched last fall after a test run in the summer, and was plagued by low ratings and some negative feedback from critics. Yet despite this latest professional setback, an inside source does not expect the self-made star to flounder.
"She's a fighter," the source tells PEOPLE. "She'll continue to grow, focus on her brands and work on growing her empire."


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On 11/06/2011, the Chatsworth Kiwanis, Glendale Kiwanis, and Chatsworth Key Club joined at Operation Gratitude and served lunch and drink to around 500 volunteers. Operation Gratitude seeks to put a smile on a service member's face & express our nation's appreciation by sending care packages & letters personally addressed to U.S. Military deployed in harm's way, their children left behind and Wounded Warriors recovering in transition units.
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Operation Gratitude annually sends 100,000+ care packages filled with snacks, toiletries, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation addressed to individually named U.S. Service Members deployed in harm's way, to their children left behind, and to Wounded Warriors recovering in transition units. Our mission is to lift morale, bring a smile to a service member's face and express to our Armed Forces the appreciation and support of the American people. Operation Gratitude receives the names of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines from commanders in the field who see the positive impact of care packages on their troops' morale. Each package contains donated product valued at ~$125 and costs the organization $15 to assemble and ship. For safety and security, assembling of packages occurs at the Army National Guard armory in Van Nuys, California. Since its inception in 2003, Operation Gratitude has shipped more than 750,000 packages to American Military deployed overseas.
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Gerd Merling to Peter and Cynthia Munich at 1810 Harcum Way for $88,500.
IMC to Baker Main Properties LLP at 1822 Mary St. for $83,000.
Pius Street Assoc. L.P. to Joedda McClain at 1 Pius St. B2 for $262,000.
Eric Johnson to Jacqueline Zanardelli at 29 S. 14th St. for $146,500.
Jane McCreery to P Angelopoulos at 159 S. 16th St. for $95,000.
Lawrence Hillenbrand to Richard Lesikiewicz Jr. at 2519 S. 18th Street Ext. for $30,000.
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Bertha Yekel to Robin Brown at 948-1/2 E. Warrington Ave. for $7,500.
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Nicholas Parrendo to Erik and Christine Huber at W. Carson St. for $2,800.
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Housing & Urban Development to Margaret Schneider at 2232-2234 Brownsville Road for $77,000.
Citicorp Trust Bank to Solaris Holdings LLC at 119 Ravilla Ave. for $34,000.
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Death came for Edward M. Henderson, Sheriff of Lowndes County, GA on July 20, 1836, he having been mortally wounded in the Battle of Brushy Creek five days earlier. In death he joined those killed in action at Brushy Creek – Pennywell Folsom and Edwin Shanks of Lowndes, and Burton Ferrell of Thomas County. Nine other settlers were wounded in the battle. The names of the Native American dead, "who had been goaded into madness" are not known.
Captain Levi J. Knight, original settler of the Ray City, GA, arrived at Brushy Creek with a company of men just after the conclusion of the fighting, having marched across the county from and earlier engagement at William Parker's place. Knight and the troops from Brushy Creek were then engaged in actions along Warrior Creek.
Edward Marion Henderson, also known as Edwin Henderson, was born in 1810, a son of David A. Henderson. He was born and raised in Liberty County, GA before moving with his parents to Ware County, GA. On July 3, 1829, he was commissioned as Postmaster at Waresboro, Ware County, GA, and served until June 4, 1830. He was Tax Collector of Ware County from 1828 to 1832.
In 1832, he came to settle in Lowndes county, GA on Land Lot # 168, 15th District, in that area which was later cut into Brooks County. He was elected Justice of the Peace for the 659th District of Lowndes, serving from 1833 to 1834. He was elected Sheriff of Lowndes County on April 4, 1834, while Franklinville was still serving as the County Seat. Martin Shaw was his Deputy Sheriff.
According to Lowndes County Tax Digests for 1834, Edward M. Henderson owned 965 acres on lots 168 and 155 in the 15th District, near the Withlacoochee River, and 250 acres on Lot 150 in the 15th District in Thomas County. In 1835, he retained only the land on Lot 168.
Edward M. Henderson married Martha McMullen in 1835; she was born 1813 in Telfair County, GA, a daughter of James McMullen. Her father was a prominent citizen of Lowndes, and served as a representative in the state legislature.
Child of Edward Marion Henderson and Martha McMullen:
- Rebecca Henderson: born 1836, Lowndes County, GA; married Joel M. Morris, April 13, 1854 in Madison County, FL;
When Indian troubles began in 1836 following the uprising at Roanoke, GA, Edward M. Henderson served with the Lowndes County militia. He was mortally wounded in the Battle of Brushy Creek and died a few days later on July 20, 1836, leaving behind his young wife and infant daughter. The site of his grave is not known.
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The estate of Edward M. Henderson was administered by his brother, Samuel T. Henderson, and his home place on Lot 168, 15th District was sold at auction in December 1838. His widow, Martha McMullen Henderson, with baby Rebecca Henderson returned to her father's home. She never re-married. When Rebecca married Joel M. Morris in 1854, Martha moved into her son-in-law's household in Jefferson County, FL.
Related Posts:
- Final Report of General Julius C. Alford on Actions at the Little River and at Grand Bay, August, 1836
- Col. Thomas E. Blackshear's Report on the Battle of Brushy Creek
- Levi J. Knight Reports Indian Fight of July 13, 1836
- Lasa Adams' Account of the Battle of Brushy Creek
and Actions on Warrior Creek
- Martha Guthrie: Babe of the Indian Wars
- Short-Arm Bill Parker and the Last Indian Fight In Berrien County
- Bryan J. Robert's Account of the Last Indian Fight in Berrien County
- Berrien Skirmishes, the Battle of Brushy Creek, and the Indian Maiden
- Historical Marker ~ Last Indian Fight in Berrien County
- Pennywell Folsom Fell at Brushy Creek
- Interview With an Indian Fighter
- Norman Campbell Collected Taxes, Fought Indians
- Etheldred Dryden Newbern ~ Pioneer Settler
- An Antebellum Trial at Troupville
- Knights Come to Lowndes County, GA
- Levi J. Knight's 4th of July Address at Franklinville, GA 1835
- Young Johnson and the Florida Indian Wars


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Canucks' Cup dreams left to rot in hockey graveyard
Head coach Alain Vigneault and his Vancouver Canucks watch from the bench as their season slips away in Game 4 of their NHL Western Conference semifinal series against the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. The Sharks won 4-3 in overtime to sweep the best-of-seven series four games to none.
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Erect a tombstone on the Vancouver Canucks' season and the epitaph would read: What if?
Like, what if Richmond referee Kelly Sutherland hadn't blown an overtime call from 100 feet away? Or what if coach Alain Vigneault hadn't publicly blasted Sutherland after another terrible call cost the Canucks a regular-season game in Calgary?
What if Kevin Bieksa hadn't accused the San Jose Sharks of diving, a charge that doubled as an allegation against the referees?
What if goalie Cory Schneider didn't bobble pucks on the two goals that ended the Canucks' season? Or what if Vigneault had made a safer choice — on numerous levels — to start Roberto Luongo in the last game that mattered?
What if Jannik Hansen hit the empty net near the end of Game 2 or Daniel Sedin had buried his open-net rebound chance in Game 4?
What if key secondary scorers Hansen and Chris Higgins had managed even one goal each in the series instead of combining for zero points against the Sharks?
What if Canuck penalty killing or discipline had been even a little better?
What if general manager Mike Gillis had acquired Raffi Torres and Michal Handzus instead of Derek Roy at the National Hockey League trade deadline?
What if the obvious need for more size and grit among the top nine forwards had been addressed any time in the last two years or Gillis put money wasted on Keith Ballard to better use any time in the last three?
Only losing teams ask questions like these.
And we've been asking them about the Canucks for four decades.
For half that time, the team wasn't good enough.
For most of the last 20 years, it hasn't been good enough when it mattered in the playoffs.
Sure, the Canucks got robbed on Tuesday. And if two paramount officiating decisions had gone the other way, Vancouver would still be down 3-1 in the first round to the Sharks, precisely 15 wins shy of the Stanley Cup. Fifteen more playoff wins for these Canucks? May as well be 50 or 500.
None of the what-ifs should cloud the fact that the Canucks, as configured, simply are not good enough and require substantive changes.
This should have been a series, not a sweep. But even had Vancouver, which managed its A-game for maybe three periods out of 12 (plus overtime), somehow made it through San Jose, it was not going to advance further against a brawny, powerful second-round opponent like the Anaheim Ducks or St. Louis Blues or Los Angeles Kings.
The Canucks lack physical heft. They are too small, too easily forced to the perimeter, on the top three lines. They've had no third-line centre — or a third line — since Max Lapierre played above himself in the 2011 playoffs after Manny Malhotra's eye injury.
The defence is solid at the top but needs better depth.
And the irony in goal is that a team that boasted of having "two No. 1 goalies" couldn't get enough saves from either Luongo or Schneider to beat Antti Niemi.
And looming bigger than all this is the uncomfortable truth that the best seasons of the Canucks' best players are melting away, year by year, like the Greenland ice sheet, gone forever. The team is one or two neglectful seasons away from joining the Calgary Flames at the precipice.
There is also this troubling big-picture question: Is the Canucks' reputation for diving and complaining, a cliché unfairly applied to all their players, so permanent the team can't escape the toxicity and will never get the benefit of the doubt from referees?
If the answer is yes, then the Canucks are doomed until they dismantle or part with Ryan Kesler and Alex Burrows.
If the answer is no, it's difficult to explain the 24-10 disparity in power plays against the Sharks. To be sure, there were some plain careless or dumb penalties by the Canucks. But they weren't two-and-a-half times rougher or more reckless than the Sharks.
I was unfairly hard on Bieksa for his cross-check of Tommy Wingels late in Tuesday's third period, which set up the Sharks' tying goal. But knowing the officiating climate through four games, the leeway given Vancouver — almost none — and the likelihood a Sharks player would topple if given the chance, no Canuck could afford to push a player from behind into the boards.
Vancouver failed to adapt to the officiating, although even that doesn't explain Danny Sedin's boarding penalty in overtime.
Outrage aside, the Canucks need to get younger and stronger, and deeper at forward. Yes, these are largely the same things we were saying last season. And, yes, it remains harder to achieve than people realize due to the salary cap and no-trade clauses that have been given out like Timbits. That's why management teams get paid millions to run NHL clubs.
Gillis, NHL general manager of the year only two years ago, had as bad a season as anybody on the Canucks. Well, maybe winger David Booth's year was worse. The sleep doctor is nice; a genuine third-line centre would be better.
Nothing if not methodical (see Luongo trade mission), Gillis will now take his time deciding when he might fire Vigneault. But coaching is down the list on Canuck problems.
Hope has always heartened Canuck fans still waiting after 43 years for their first Stanley Cup parade. Almost always there is the belief that next season will be better, partly because so many years have been atrocious and, recently, because the trajectory of both the team and its top players tilted upwards.
That trajectory has flattened as the players age. Without key fixes, there's no reason to think next season will be less disappointing than this one's four-game playoff exit. Unless the immediate objective no longer is to win the Stanley Cup.


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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The world's stronghold for Indian rhinos—the state of Assam—has seen its population leap by 27 percent since 2006, despite a worsening epidemic of poaching that has also seen 156 rhinos killed during the same period. According to a new white paper, the population of Indian rhinos in Assam hit 2,544 this year up from a nadir of around 200 animals in the early 1900s, as reported by Environmental News Network.
Indian rhinos (Rhinoceros unicornis), like their African relatives, are facing a recent upsurge in poaching for their horn, which is ground up and consumed as a curative in East Asia. Even as there is no evidence that rhino horn has any medicinal benefits, some people in countries like Vietnam and China view consuming illegal rhino horn as a status symbol.
This year, 18 rhinos have been killed in Assam by poachers, but the government has defended its actions in combatting rhino poaching.
"We have been taking steps to stop the poaching. When our government came to power in Assam there was lack of manpower in Kaziranga [National Park]. We have increased the manpower strength to 1,200 inside the park," Assam Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain. "We have also amended the Wildlife Protection Act so that the jail term of the poachers can be enhanced. We have also empowered the forest personnel to use arms to fight the poachers."
Indian rhinos, also known as greater one-horned rhinos, are the world's largest rhino species and the fifth biggest land animal. Although found in Nepal as well, the vast majority are in India and specifically in Assam's Kaziranga National Park, which is home to over 60 percent of the population.


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New York's Epic Win Burlesque once turned Barbara Gordon's crippling into a sexy striptease, but in their most recent show Ghostbusters!, they unleashed something far more offensive — Slimer's denuded rack. NSFW for pasties and puppet nudity.
In addition to appearances by Janine, Gozer the Gozerian, Zuul, and Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the Epic Win show featured Bonnie Voy'age's sexy/harrowing Slimer act. It is the epitome of "Haha, this is fun-OH MY GOD I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS."
Geez Louise. That above clip is akin to walking in on H.R. Pufnstuf and Mrs. Pufnstuf. According to Epic Win's Facebook page, their next show is Twilight Zone themed. We're eagerly awaiting photos of a go-go dancing cornfield and a demonic Dan Aykroyd with breasts.
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The subject of this article is a real-life person, company, product, or creative work that has been mentioned "in-universe" in a canon source. The Harry Potter Compendium is written from the perspective that all information presented in canon is true (e.g., Hogwarts really exists), and, as such, details contained in this article may differ from real world facts.
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The PlayStation (abbreviated PSX, PSone, or PS1) is a fifth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony.[1] Dudley Dursley threw his out the window in the summer of 1994, because his parents threatened to cut his allowance if he didn't stop sneaking unhealthy food while on a diet. As such, he was unable to play Mega-Mutilation Part Three, a game for this console.
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- The PlayStation was not commercially released until December 1994 in Japan and September 1995 in Europe.[1] However, prototypes were made available to game developers before December 1994, some of which ended up being sold to private consumers.[2] It is possible that Vernon and Petunia Dursley, as indulgent parents, purchased one of these prototypes for Dudley. Alternatively, the Harry Potter novels may take place in a universe in which the PlayStation was released earlier than in our own, or Harry, due to his lack of interest in Muggle technology, might have confused the PlayStation with a similar console.
- Harry Potter series author J. K. Rowling has stated "I can't work PlayStations. I'm no good at these things."[3]
- The PlayStation and its future incarnations, the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 have been amongst the many consoles that have hosted versions of the Harry Potter video game releases.
- In April 2013, Pottermore will be integrated into PlayStation Home, a feature available to members of the PlayStation Network, accessible through the PlayStation 3 console. The feature will introduce a new minigame called "Book Herding," as well as an expanded Duelling system and will also allow exist Pottermore users to link their accounts and collect new trading cards.[4]
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First mentioned)
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "PlayStation" on Wikipedia
- ↑ "The Years in Which the Stories Take Place" on The Harry Potter Lexicon
- ↑ J.K. Rowling at the Royal Albert Hall, available on Accio Quote!
- ↑ IGN - Harry Potter Coming to PlayStation Home Through Pottermore
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WASHINGTON — Monday marks the first day of construction for the D.C. Streetcar Project and traffic will be affected along H Street and Benning Road.
The work is scheduled for completion by mid-June and will extend the streetcar tracks from 3rd Street Northeast to the top of Hopscotch Bridge, according to a news release.
Once finished, it will provide access to Union Station and allow the streetcar to change directions.
According to DC Streetcar, traffic will be affected as follows:
- I Street, currently one-way east, will be made two-way from 3rd Street to 5th Street, continuing until October.
- The 800 block of 3rd Street, between H and I Streets, will be restricted to local traffic only. Entrance to and exit from this block of 3rd Street will be at I Street only.
- The 700 block of 3rd Street, between G and H Streets, also will be restricted to local traffic only. Entrance to and exit from this block of 3rd Street will be at G Street only.
- Parking will be temporarily removed on 3rd Street between H and I Streets, except for spaces in front of the residences on the northeast portion of 3rd Street near I Street.
- No turns onto 3rd Street will be permitted from H Street.
- Parking will be temporarily removed on H Street between 4th Street and the Hopscotch Bridge, eastbound and westbound.
- The Kaiser Permanente building and the Union Station loading dock will be right-in, right-out only. This is a permanent change.
Dara Ward, with The District Department of Transportation, says drivers should be on the lookout for parking and turning restrictions around the area.
Streetcar service should be available before the end of the year.
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Shot in Soho is an exhibition curated by the spanish curator Julian Rodriguez. The exhibition celebrates Soho's diverse culture, community and history of creative innovation as well as highlighting its position as a site of resistance. Through a range of photographs, ephemera and varied presentations, the project reflects the breadth of life in a part […]
A major exhibition exploring the non-stop nature of modern lives. Curated by Somerset House and Sarah Cook, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey from the cold light of the moon to the fading warmth of the sunset through a series of interactive installations and interrogations of 24/7 life. The exhibition is inspired by the book of the same title by art critic and essayist Jonathan Crary (Verso, 2013).
Eco-Visionaries is an exhibition composed of film, installation, architectural models and photography that reflects on how architecture art and design are reacting to a rapidly changing world, beyond mainstream notions of sustainability.
"A Very Human Rationality", by Enrique Brinkmann and Verónica Vázquez
The Spanish artist Enrique Brinkmann and the Uruguayan Verónica Vázquez will showcase their works at the rosenfeld porcini Gallery in London, which collaborates with Piero Atchugarry Gallery in this exhibition. The intense responses which the artworks of both Enrique Brinkmann and Verónica Vázquez conjure up in us relate to one of the principle dilemmas which […]


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Microsoft has launched the "Office 2010 Real Life Stories program" on Microsoft Connect. The program is looking for home users, small businesses, and college students that use 5 PCs or fewer on a daily basis and are willing to test Office 2010 extensively. The Web versions of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel that come with Office 2010 will also be available for testing. For your chance to participate, you'll need to fill out a 13-question nomination survey. Although the program doesn't specify that it is US-only, it asks for a "State" in the survey, suggesting that it probably is. Deadline for submissions is June 30.
This isn't your typical Microsoft beta program; you'll be expected to commit a minimum of six months, use the Microsoft-provided "loaner" laptop for your daily business or personal tasks, participate in training, surveys, and calls, as well as agree to share your experience through marketing and public relations efforts. The last point is the important one: Microsoft says that can mean everything from being featured in case studies and videos to acting as a press reference or even just letting Microsoft use your testimonials about the software. Redmond will be using testers' experiences to figure out how consumers use Microsoft Office and how it impacts their daily routine.
In return for participating you'll receive the following:
- Microsoft Office 2010 pre-installed on a "loaner" laptop PC
- 24-hour unlimited e-mail support Monday through Friday, with phone support for escalations
- Monthly webcast training and Q&A sessions
- Community site access, so you can connect with other participants and easily use resources like feature videos and announcements
- Free copy of Microsoft Office 2010 (once it is available)
Whether that makes it worth it or not is up to you. If it's not, don't worry: the Office 2010 Technical Preview is set to begin next month anyway, so you'll be able to test an official build soon enough if you're in the "normal" beta program. For those that don't get into that beta, there's always the public beta build that is set to arrive this summer.
Microsoft confirmed in April that Office 2010 will be the first release of Microsoft Office to ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, possibly on one DVD. Screenshots of the alpha version of Office 2010 (then codenamed Office 14) leaked in January and a Technical Preview build leaked in May.


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--Dmalcolm (talk) 18:34, 8 January 2013 (UTC): as noted in http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-January/175988.html, I think it's worth spelling out that the "dtrace enabled build" effectively means "systemtap enabled build" (should it say this instead?), and giving some information on how a user might make use of this. Similarly, perhaps the "How to Test" section could include using the script from http://blog.experimentalworks.net/2012/12/probing-php-with-systemtap-on-linux/ as a test case?
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Irwin Wilkins named director of Princeton Writing Program
Amanda Irwin Wilkins has been appointed director of the Princeton Writing Program.
Irwin Wilkins has worked with the writing program in a variety of capacities since 1999, and has served as interim director since September 2009. The program offers more than 100 writing seminars a year for freshmen on a variety of special topics to provide intensive instruction in college-level inquiry and arguments.
"Her outstanding teaching skills, deep familiarity with the best practices in writing pedagogy and significant administrative experience give her the broad range of skills required to ensure that the Princeton Writing Program remains one of the finest programs in the nation," said Deputy Dean of the College Peter Quimby, to whom Irwin Wilkins reports.
For several years, Irwin Wilkins served as associate director of the writing program with responsibility for the Writing Center, which offers Princeton students one-on-one conferences with experienced writers. She led the center during a dramatic expansion, when it went from seven graduate tutors to a staff of roughly 60 undergraduate and graduate fellows. She also developed a comprehensive program for preparing and supporting fellows, established popular "dissertation boot camps" for graduate students, and created a scheduling and tracking system now in use in writing centers around the country.
Irwin Wilkins has taught writing seminars on "The Meaning of Home" and "Modern Memory," both of which draw on her research into how writers imagine war from the home front and navigate the aftermath of collective and individual trauma.
Irwin Wilkins received her B.A. from Haverford College and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton in 2005. She succeeds Kerry Walk, who became associate dean of the faculty at Pitzer College.


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We saw belligerence in action this week, an imbecile movie maker in California stirring anti-Islamic sentiment and an out-of-his-depth Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, bashing the commander in chief while the country is under attack.
Intended or not, these two incidents serve one cynical outcome � the preservation of the status quo that nurtures endless tensions and religious and ethnic intolerance worldwide.
It has often been said that the United States, because of its strength and moral compass, stands uniquely qualified to lead the world.
What�s often understated, however, is the undeniable proposition that the country�s greatest strength lies not in its military might, but in the uncompromising adherence to its values.
President Barack Obama said as much during a campaign rally yesterday.
�These are tumultuous times we are in, but we can and will meet those challenges, if we stay true to who we are,� he said.
Mr. Obama was referring in part to Tuesday�s assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed.
The assault on the consulate was partly launched by Libyans protesting a video created by a California man in which the Muslim Prophet Muhammad was portrayed, among other things, as a pervert.
Snippets of the film posted on YouTube ignited, or were used by some to incite protests and violence against America and its interests throughout the Islamic world.
Early Tuesday morning, hours before the attack on the consulate in Libya, a staff member at the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, sent out a tweet in hopes of easing the tension of the video-spurred protest building up outside the embassy compound.
�The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims � as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions,� the tweet read.
�Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy.
�Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.�
This tweet was what Mr. Romney, looking to score political points, used to accuse the embassy staff and the president of being enemy sympathizers.
�It�s disgraceful that the Obama administration�s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks,� Mr. Romney said in part.
It was bad enough that Mr. Romney�s attack on the president failed to recognize that the tweet was put out many hours before the attack on the consulate in Benghazi. It didn�t help that his disgraceful charge was made before all the names of the fallen had been identified, before all the facts were known and before the president had addressed the nation on the attack.
But the most egregious and damaging aspect of Mr. Romney�s blustering was its attack on the foundation of our democracy � our values.
It is not an apology to tell the world, as the embassy tweet did, that America is founded on respect for religious beliefs.
It is not a weakness to say that while we protect freedom of speech, we are just as adamant in denouncing those who use that freedom to fan hatred and violence.
It is adherence to our values that gives us the moral authority to say to the Arab world, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did yesterday, �Violence�has no place in religion and is no way to honor religion.�
�Islam, like other religions, respects the fundamental dignity of human beings, and it is a violation of that fundamental dignity to wage attacks on innocence,� she said.
Granted, after decades of dictatorial leadership, the challenge in the wake of the Arab Spring is for the new leaders of the Arab world to speak as firmly as Secretary Clinton. They have an obligation to help their people learn and master the shared values of a true democracy, if that is their goal.
Indeed, we should insist on these shared values being a necessary outcome of our continued engagement with these countries.
It doesn�t help our cause, however, when Mr. Romney, a man seeking to be the leader of the free world, recklessly speaks of our values as a weakness, instead of the strength they are.


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Stem Cell Technology Used To Create Neuronal Model For Alzheimer's Disease
Researchers at UC San Diego have developed a "true human neuronal model" that replicates the early stages of Alzheimer's disease in actual human brain cells. They have accomplished this model by using adult stem cells to more accurately demonstrate the pathology of the disease.
The UCSD team took skin cells from Alzheimer's patients who died from the disease and converted the skin cells (pluripotent stem (iPS) cells) into brain cells, using a newly developed stem cell technology. The brain cells developed in the lab closely replicate those found in living Alzheimer's patients.
Larry Goldstein, professor of cellular and molecular medicine at the UCSD medical school and leader of the study, said that the cells can be used to observe how the disease progresses and to test drugs for Alzheimer's disease. The team's technique, to separate the neurons from various other types of cells, makes it possible to grow the neurons without interference, thereby allowing sufficient quantities to be produced for many studies.
Unlike most of the previous research in this area, the converted skin cells were taken from persons with non-hereditary forms of Alzheimer's disease, found in 95 percent of Alzheimer's patients. Alzheimer's 'stem cells in a dish' studies may have implications in diagnosis and treatment of the disease at some future time.
The UCSD study will be published in the journal Nature. Today's news in Nature features an interesting article about the study.