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BOSTON (AP) The Boston Bruins made up for a slow start with an impressive finish.
Patrice Bergeron played a key role.
Bergeron score two of Boston's three goals in the third period, and the Bruins pulled away from the Calgary Flames for a 5-2 win on Tuesday night.
Boston held Calgary to 17 shots in the last 40 minutes and scored four straight goals after falling behind 2-1.
''We played much more to our style of play, how we want to wear teams down and eventually get our looks,'' coach Bruce Cassidy said.
''That's essentially what we asked our group to be after the first period. Let's just play hard, get back to competing hard and winning pucks, getting there first. If you're not getting there first, arrive ornery and I thought we did a good job.''
Riley Nash also scored twice and David Backes had two assists for the Bruins, who won for the sixth time in seven games. Zdeno Chara had an empty-net goal and Tuukka Rask stopped 27 shots.
''I thought the last 40 minutes were the way we want to play,'' Bergeron said. ''That's heavy team that's got a lot of skills. It's going to happen. You're not going to dominate and be at your best all the time.''
Calgary had won four of five. Sam Bennett and Johnny Gaudreau scored for the Flames, and David Rittich had 35 saves.
Down 4-2, the Flames gambled by pulling Rittich for an extra skater and Chara made them play with an end-to-end shot with 3:46 left to play.
After coming up empty on five power-play opportunities, the Flames felt they cost themselves a chance at a point or two in the fifth of six straight on the road.
''We've just got to better obviously on special teams,'' said Flames captain Mark Giordano, who assisted on Gaudreau's goal. ''We had our looks on the power play. We had some good kills early but at the end of the day not good enough.''
The Flames wrap up the long trip Thursday at Nashville.
Boston jumped in front on Nash's ninth goal just 28 seconds into the game, but Bennett got his eighth of the season at 2:03 and Gaudreau stuffed in a rebound at 9:12 to put Calgary up 2-1.
Nash tied it with 3:40 left in the second, and Boston regained the lead 1:15 into the third period when Bergeron scored on the power play. Bergeron took a long pass through center ice from Torey Krug and beat Rittich with a wrist shot to the stick side.
It was the 26th goal of the season for Bergeron, who added No. 27 at 9:19 when he tipped in a shot from Brad Marchand after blocking a shot in Boston's own zone and starting the Bruins on an odd-man rush the other way.
''You always try to take care of the D-zone first and then you can think offense,'' Bergeron said. ''Obviously after that we were able to sustain some pressure and eventually get the goal.''
NOTES: Nash's two goals gave him 10 for the season, tying the career high he set with Carolina in 2013-2014. ... The Bruins honored the 40th anniversary of the 1977-78 lineup that featured 11 players who scored 20 or more goals. Ten members of the team were introduced in a pregame ceremony along with former coach Don Cherry. ... Rittich was making just his 11st start of the season. G Mike Smith is day to day with a lower-body injury that forced him to leave Sunday's win against the Islanders in New York with 2 seconds remaining. ... The Flames were without F Troy Brouwer, placed on injured reserve Monday with an upper-body injury.
Flames: Visit Nashville on Thursday night.
Bruins: Open a five-game trip at Vancouver on Saturday night.


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Adore, adore, adore the new Kinfolk Magazine - as soon as I read it I wanted it in print but the online only videos and features makes it a virtual delight as well. It's peaceful, endearing, beautiful and such a wonderful escape.
Completely, hopelessly in love with Schwood sunglasses - with frames made from rare and repurposed woods. The video where they used broken skateboard decks to make a pair of completely beautiful sunglasses won me over...alas the price point is not for my budget but I can admire fervently.
The world's largest stop motion film - the making of is pretty great as well.
This series - commissioned by an Australian travel agency - takes three men on a journey of 11 countries over 44 days, they pieced their experiences together in three very interesting short films: Move, Eat, and Learn. Learn, though maybe not as technically difficult, was my favorite - what's yours?
I won't even begin to lie - the first time I saw Donal Skehan my reaction was a cross between "What?" and "He's so young?" and "Is he really famous?", but I watch a video and let him endear me and then I tried a recipe. These.were.amazing. AMAZING. Fishcakes! Not something I ever thought I would rave about. We made extras and froze them - still as good as fresh. I'm making more of his recipes for sure!
Funny enough, I mentioned the fishcakes to Tami at Running With Tweezers - and one of her recipes is next on my docket. Thai red curry coconut soup. Please. May I?
Ashley from Not Without Salt never fails to impress me - and this gorgeous, gorgeous post on her favorite summer treat of grilled soft cheese, thyme honey and fresh figs didn't let me down. One of my favorite blogs on the web by far.
Jaw dropping simplicity - one ingredient corn pudding!
I love the idea of making a printer-proof file - especially for sensitive files - even better as a means by which to save paper and save the world just a little, so the World Wildlife Fund paperless PDF immediately appealed. Find out more about how to make unprintable PDF documents and download the software here.
Éadaoin from City of Blackbirds mentioned this AMAZING resource - The Do Lectures - for lectures all about creativity, ideas, change, food, technology, business - doing. It's pretty fantastic.
Jessica Hische is secretly one of my gurus and this guide to CSS and HTML for non-web designers is just another reason why...even if it is for Wordpress blogs (which I am not), le sigh.
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Newswise — Molecular and cellular biologists have made tremendous scientific advances by dissecting apart the functions of individual genes, proteins, and pathways. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering are looking to expand that understanding by putting the pieces back together, mathematically. John Yin, a professor of chemical and biological engineering, developed computer models of a relatively simple virus to show that genes alone do not make an organism. With mathematical representations of the virus's known biology, he and former graduate student Kwang-il Lim demonstrate how genomic organization and regulation can have a large impact on biological outcomes. As shown in a new paper, simply shuffling the order of the five genes in the virus's genome has a huge impact on how well the virus grows and how it interacts with its simulated host cell. Their new results are reported Friday, Feb. 6, in the journal PLoS Computational Biology at http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000283. The eventual goal is to understand the full picture of how an organism's genome guides its growth and development, Yin says. "How does the biology of individual genes come together in genetic interactions to ultimately give rise to behavior?" He and Lim, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California-Berkeley, computationally modeled the lifecycle of the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a well-studied virus with only five genes and years of background research on its growth and function. Virologists have previously created strains with 11 of the possible gene arrangements, but with their computational models, the Wisconsin researchers were able to simulate all 120 possible gene-order variants. Comparisons of the simulated strains revealed that the positions of the first and last genes are key to viral success. The work has many potential applications. Understanding how to control the virus's growth and infectivity will help guide efforts to develop VSV as a cancer-targeting agent and create vaccines against more problematic viruses such as HIV-1 and influenza. The models can also be used to investigate the genetic basis of other viral characteristics. For example, Yin is currently working to simulate drug effects on a virus to look for ways the virus can evolve drug resistance. Ultimately he hopes his approach will scale up to more complex organisms with more complex genomes. For example, the completion of the Human Genome Project has inspired hopes of understanding how a person's genome determines their biology. The era of such "predictive biology" is a long way off yet, Yin says, but the ability to identify key elements of genetic organization and regulation are a critical early step. "This establishes a foundation for linking a genome to developmental processes and ultimately to phenotypes or behavior of biological systems," he says.
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Exactly! Small has a way of getting much bigger over time. Just looking at LST's plans for this year their new Dallas corporate office will go from 10 people up to 30 ... in percentage terms that is staggering growth in one year!
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Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) has expanded its Afterschool Supper Program to include two additional school sites, for a total of 117 schools serving nutritious meals to students. The supper meals ensure that more than 14,000 students participating in regularly scheduled afterschool educational or enrichment activity programs receive the nutrition they need to learn and grow. The suppers are funded through the Child Care Food Program, a federally funded program, which provides healthy meals in the childcare setting. Meals meet all USDA requirements and include a milk, fruit, vegetable, grain and meat (or meat alternate), and are offered in the school's cafeteria. The healthy meals are available to children participating in afterschool programs at no separate charge regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability. The new school sites beginning January 2019, include Lloyd Estates Elementary School and Oriole Elementary School.
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The pollsters and pundits got it wrong. The theory of the "shy Trump supporter" was correct. This morning on Fox & Friends, Kellyanne Conway (Trump's campaign manager) alluded that "undercover" voters played a larger-than-planned role in tipping the scale toward Trump.
What's a "shy Trump supporter?" I was one–shy to admit to friends, or almost anyone, that I was voting for Trump fearing angry backlash. I didn't answer polling phone calls, and I only hinted that I was leaning toward Trump. I was afraid of losing friends.
I experienced that backlash last night when I wrote a Facebook post supporting Trump's victory. The angry backlash was swift, and an angry feud ensued among my Facebook friends. I wound up deleting the unproductive and anger-escalating post, regretting my gloating.
I can now come out of the closet and say with pride, I voted for Trump.
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Sydney Morning Herald
- October 26 2016
Donald Trump, Brexit and the shy voter theory
Nick O'Malley
Washington: Depending on what side of the political spectrum you fall, the theory of the shy Donald Trump voter is either your last best hope or nagging fear that wakes you up with night sweats.
The theory is that pollsters were wrong predicting the Brexit vote for two reasons. There was a group of "shy" Brexit voters, who told pollsters they would vote to remain, but in the privacy of the booth voted to leave. Then there were the voters who were so alienated from the political process that their existence was not known to pollsters.
[For video, see: http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/donald-trump-brexit-and-the-shy-voter-theory-20161025-gsao0a.html%5D
As polls have hardened against Donald Trump some of his supporters have suggested the same phenomenon could be at work in the US, and that many people who have claimed in interviews with pollsters to be outward looking and welcoming, will sneak into polling booths and vote for Trump's beautiful big wall.
As recently as this weekend one of Donald Trump's key supporters, the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, advanced the theory during a radio interview.
"Just as with the Brexit vote in Great Britain, [Trump] is in fact very likely to end up in a position where there's three or four percentage points that won't say his name [to pollsters]," he told a New York program.
The theory is widespread enough that pollsters have spent a lot of time this year in a confounding search for shy Trump-voters.
"The very simple answer about hidden votes is that we have no way of proving them one way or the other," John Zogby, founder of the Zogby Poll, told Fairfax Media.
"Our way of getting information is to talk to people about what they are going to do, not not talking to people."
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives in Florida, campaigning for votes in the vital swing state. Photo: AP
On balance, Zogby believes the theory might be correct, but he has not seen the evidence to prove it.
Douglas Schwartz, director of the respected Quinnipiac University Poll, told the Financial Times earlier this year that the primaries elections proved the theory of the shy Trump supporter wrong, noting most had accurately predicted the primary outcomes, meaning that when, say 10 people told pollsters they were going to vote for Trump, the polls revealed those 10 showed up.
Newt Gingrich has pushed the theory of the shy Trump voter. Photo: AP
"My thinking is if it didn't show up in the primaries it's not going to show up in the general," he said.
"The Trump voters don't seem shy. At the rallies they don't seem afraid to say how they feel."
Supporters of Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Florida. Photo: AP
One of America's leading political scientists, the University of Virginia's Professor Larry Sabato, also has little time for the theory.
"Where is the evidence? This candidate election couldn't be more different than the Brexit issue vote," he told Fairfax Media. "Just one example: 6 per cent of UK Brexit voters were minority, while 30 per cent of US voters will be."
Whether or not shy Trump voters exist, polling is becoming more difficult, more expensive and less accurate says Zogby, not because people are hiding their preference from pollsters, but because they are using mobile phones, and pollsters do not have access to mobile phone numbers.
These days, he says, pollsters have to make thousands of calls to get a single response.


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A Worcester Regional Transit Authority bus driver has been issued a citation for motor vehicle homicide in connection with a fatal pedestrian accident last month on Sagamore Road.
Edward Rossi Jr., 70, of Shrewsbury, was issued citations for motor vehicle homicide, driving to endanger, and failure to use care while turning, police said.
Mr. Rossi was at the wheel on a rainy night Sept. 28 when a WRTA bus struck Linda Sneed, 62, of nearby Sigourney Street. Ms. Sneed later died at a local hospital from her injuries.
The accident occurred near the corner of Grove Street, a short distance from the WRTA bus depot.
Police said a court date for Mr. Rossi is pending, and has not been determined.
According to police, they inspected the bus and determined it was in good working order.
Mr. Rossi was taken off the road during the investigation that followed the collision and has since retired, according to John F. Carney, general manager of RTA Transit Services, the contractor that operates the city buses for the WRTA.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – A show that's known for its drama and interaction between human and horses is closing after 25 years in the business.
Arabian Nights has put on more than 10,000 performances and hosted more than 10 million dinner guests. The final show of "Arabian Nights" happened on New Year's Eve.
Owner Mark Miller announced in November the marketplace has been pushing for lower prices and they can't meet the mark.
Miller said the transition at the start of 2014 will be difficult for his family and 224 employees, who are now looking for new employment.
"I have some sadness, but I have satisfaction and even joy because we touched so many lives," said Miller.
Miller said most of his employees have taken jobs with other local attractions like Disney, Gatorland and Legoland.
"That makes me tear up, the respect, we've been treated by the big guys has been great," Miller said.
Carley Orr fought back tears after giving one of her last performances as a trick rider.
"It's an emotional rollercoaster," Orr told Local 6. "It's a very memorable night, an end of an era, but at the same time it's very emotional because I'm very close with everyone here."
Orr is one of many employees that has a job lined up, performing at rodeos in the Lakeland area.
For one last night the performers and horses put on a magical Christmas themed show full of tricks on horses, acrobatics and fire.
Carolyn Stapp brought her 6-year-old daughter, Ariah, from Seattle.
"I have never seen her eyes so big. My daughter was blown away," said Stapp.
Her daughter chimed in saying, "My favorite part was when the unicorn came because I've never seen a unicorn."
Miller said that he has already received four offers to buy the building, but hasn't made any decision yet on what he'll do with the building.
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UTD Women Upset Louisiana College To Win First ASC Crown
The Comets celebrate after clinching the conference championship and earning a chance to make their first-ever trip to the NCAA Division III National Tournament.
The UT Dallas women's basketball team will be making its first-ever trip to the NCAA Division III National Tournament after a 67-63 win over No. 23-ranked Louisiana College in the American Southwest Conference title game Sunday afternoon.
The Comets will travel to Memphis, Tenn., for a match-up Friday against Washington University-St. Louis in the national tournament's first round.
"I don't have any words to describe it," head coach Polly Thomason said. "To win it all after the kind of year we had, it's amazing what these girls were able to accomplish."
With the 3-0 sweep in the tournament, UT Dallas finished the season winning seven straight games after suffering through a six-game losing streak midway through the season.
Morgan Kilgore was named Tournament MVP after scoring a game-high 16 points in the Comets' second win this season over the Lady Cats. Kellie Loukanis added 14 points while Amber Brown scored 11 points to round out the Comets in double figures. Katie Korioth added seven points while pitching in nine rebounds and seven assists, both game-highs. Loukanis and Korioth joined Kilgore on the All-Tournament Team.
"It was a game of really two halves," the Comet coach said of the championship game. "LC played strong and aggressive in the first half and we didn't match it. We were fortunate the lead wasn't any bigger."
The Comets (now 20-8) erased a 38-28 halftime deficit as they claimed their first conference crown in their first-ever trip to the ASC title game. UT Dallas shot 68 percent from the field in the opening half, but suffered from 18 first-half turnovers as the Comets.
Morgan Kilgore was named the tournament's most valuable player.
UT Dallas gave up the ball just eight times after the break and continuing to shoot better than 60 percent. The Comets also took advantage of 17 fouls called on the Lady Wildcats after halftime, hitting 16 of 19 free throws after intermission.
"We told the girls at halftime to just calm down and slow the game down," Thomason said. "We were trying to match Louisiana speed-for-speed in the first half and that really isn't our game. We told them just to regroup, start contesting shots and play our game … and it worked."
The Comets finished the game shooting 64.9 percent as a team and were 78.3 percent from the free-throw line. Kilgore was 5 for 9 from the field and a perfect 6 for 5 from the foul line. Kilgore averaged 19.7 points and shot nearly 70 percent from the field for the tournament.
The Comets' opponent in the national championship first round is no stranger to the event. Washington University will be making its 24th straight trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Bears have advanced to four of the last six national title games, winning the championship in 2011. In all, Washington-St. Louis is a five-time national champion, winning four straight titles from 1998-2001.
The UT Dallas Comets don their American Southwest Conference champion T-shirts after the win against Louisiana College on Sunday.
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At least 215 patients had to be evacuated from NYU Medical Center when the backup generator failed. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports.
Power went out at a major New York hospital Monday night, just at the height of superstorm Sandy's worst winds and flooding, forcing staff to evacuate at least 215 patients, including many who were critically ill.
A failed back-up generator forced NYU Langone Medical Center to send 93 patients to hospitals in the North Shore-LIJ health system, in emergency transfers one spokesman described as "traumatic."
"They were literally carrying them down the stairs," said Terry Lynam, spokesman for the North Shore-LIJ system.
Another 19 NYU patients, presumably cancer patients, went to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, said Chris Hickey, a hospital spokeswoman.
Critically ill patients, including babies, from the NYU Langone neonatal and pediatric intensive care units went to New York Presbyterian Hospital at both the Weill-Cornell and Washington Heights campuses, said spokeswoman Kathy Robinson.
AT NYU Langone, the hospital's telephone service, email and website were all down Tuesday morning.
"Due to the severity of Hurricane Sandy and the higher than expected storm surge, we are in the process of transferring approximately 215 patients within the medical center to nearby facilities," the hospital said in a statement Monday.
Patients who were transferred from one hospital to another amid the howling storm were understandably shaken by the ordeal, said Lynam. He said social workers were being made available to patients who needed counseling or other assistance Tuesday.
"We are recognizing that this was obviously a traumatic incident," Lynam said.
Mount Sinai Medical Center also joined in efforts to evacuate patients, the hospital said in a statement.
Across the city, other hospitals also opened their doors to evacuated patients. At St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, Dr. Ernest Patti said hospital officials were in discussions with at least two other hospitals to accept patients after back-up power systems failed.
"We're fortunate. We sit up on a high hill. We didn't drown in the flooding," said Patti, senior attending physician of emergency medicine.
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You've seen the "we buy houses in Philadelphia" and "cash for houses" signs all around town when you're driving around… even in other cities across PA… so who are these cash house buyers in Philadelphia PA? Are they legit? How does it work? Who should I trust? We'll dive into these questions here in this … Continued


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For the second consecutive year, Hope College has been named one of the "101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" in West Michigan.
The competition is a program of the Michigan Business and Professional Association (MBPA) and the National Association for Business Resources (NABR). Hope and the region's other 2007 winners will be recognized during an awards luncheon at The Pinnacle Center in Hudsonville on Thursday, May 3.
Businesses are evaluated in nine categories: communication, community initiatives, compensation and benefits, diversity and multiculturalism, employee education and development, employee engagement and commitment, recognition and retention, recruitment and selection, and work-life balance. Considerations within each category include a unique thought process with top support from senior management and policy makers; the quality of programs, services and solutions for employees; and adaptation to new factors in the marketplace.
The West Michigan honorees have been selected from nominations in a region running from Traverse City in the north, to Kalamazoo in the east and New Buffalo in the south. Separate competitions are also held for companies based in Chicago, Ill., and metropolitan Detroit.


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CEO Moves this week include:
|Adolfson & Peterson Construction
|AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
|Cota, Inc.
|Beauty Brands, LLC
|Racepoint Global
|Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
|Bellatrix Exploration Ltd.
|XTI Aircraft Company
|Oceaneering International, Inc.
|Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
|DDS Wireless International Inc.
|Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
|The Crypsis Group
|FelCor Lodging Trust Incorpo
|NID Security
|Airborne Wireless Network
|DineEquity, Inc.
|Red River
|InGeneron, Inc.
|SSM Health
|National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation
|FLIR Systems, Inc.
|Western Gas Partners, LP
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Adolfson & Peterson Construction (AP) [MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA] announced the appointment of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jeffrey Hansen to fill the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Hansen has been serving in a combined role of interim CEO/CFO since October 2016, when former CEO Rick Whitney stepped down. Prior to joining AP, Hansen held senior leadership positions in the construction, real estate development and property management industries.
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [REDWOOD CITY, Calif.] (NASDAQ: ACRX) announced that Vincent J. Angotti has been appointed chief executive officer and a member of the company's board of directors. Mr. Angotti brings over two decades of experience leading most recently as CEO of XenoPort, Inc. Mr. Angotti succeeds Howie Rosen, who will continue on the AcelRx board of directors. Vincent J. Angotti joined XenoPort, Inc. in 2008 as SVP and chief commercialization officer and was promoted to EVP and COO in 2012 and to CEO in 2015. Previous to joining XenoPort, Mr. Angotti held senior sales and marketing positions at Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2001 – 2008. Mr. Angotti began his career in the life sciences industry at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., where he worked from 1991 – 2001 in sales and operations positions of increasing responsibility.
Cota, Inc. [NEW YORK] announced it has appointed John Hervey as Chief Executive Officer.
Beauty Brands, LLC announced that it has named Caryn Lerner Chief Executive Officer. Current Chairman and CEO, Lyn Kirby, will remain Chairman of the Board. Prior to joining Beauty Brands, she was an Operating Partner at Palladin Capital Group, LLC. Previously, Lerner served as President and CEO of Holt Renfrew, LTD, and President and Chief Marketing Officer of Escada, U.S.A. In addition, Lerner previously held positions with QVC Networks, Jones New York, Barney's and Bloomingdale's. Lerner graduated from NYU with a B.F.A. in Theatre.
Racepoint Global [BOSTON] announced that Peter Prodromou, the company's president since 2013, will immediately assume the role of Chief Executive Officer. Prodromou will also retain the title of president and industry legend Larry Weber, who founded the firm in 2004, will assume the title of Founder and Chairman. Prodromou has been part of Racepoint since its founding. Before Racepoint, Prodromou worked with Weber for several years at the industry's seminal technology PR agency, The Weber Group. Prodromou was also a partner in an advertising agency and before that, spent several years as part of a deal origination group at Lehman Brothers affiliate, The Boston Company Advisors.
Fuze [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced the appointment of Colin Doherty as the company's chief executive officer (CEO). Founder and former-CEO, Steve Kokinos, will serve as executive chairman. Doherty joins Fuze after 10 years of holding CEO positions at software-defined networking (SDN) leader BTI Systems and DDoS and security solutions provider Arbor Networks. Most recently, Doherty served as CEO of Dyn,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [BOSTON] (NASDAQ: HMHC) announced the appointment of John (Jack) J. Lynch, Jr. as the company's president, chief executive officer and a member of the Board of Directors. L. Gordon Crovitz, a member of the HMH Board of Directors, will continue to serve as Interim CEO until Lynch joins. Most recently Lynch was the CEO of Renaissance Learning. He has been active in the K-12 education industry since 1999 and was the founding CEO of bigchalk.com. He was later president and CEO of the Pearson Technology Group. Prior to joining Renaissance Learning, Lynch was a member of the executive board of Wolters Kluwer.
Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. [CALGARY] (TSX, NYSE: BXE) announced the appointment of Brent Eshleman as the new President & Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of Bellatrix. As previously announced on November 25, 2016, Brent Eshleman was appointed Interim President & Chief Executive Officer of the Company and today's announcement completes the formal leadership transition as part of the Company's succession planning efforts. Mr. Eshleman joined Bellatrix as Executive Vice President in July 2012 and was subsequently named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company in September 2014. In connection with Mr. Eshleman's appointment, Raymond Smith, has retired from his role as President & Chief Executive Officer.
XTI Aircraft Company [DENVER] announced that Robert J. LaBelle has joined XTI as its Chief Executive Officer. He joins XTI after three years as CEO of AgustaWestland North America. Prior to that he served as President of AgustaWestland Tiltrotor Company, Inc. LaBelle replaces Charlie Johnson, who was XTI's interim CEO. Johnson will remain on XTI's board of directors, a position he's held since 2014.
Oceaneering International, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE: OII) announced that Roderick A. Larson, who currently serves as Oceaneering's President, has been designated to succeed Kevin McEvoy as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Larson has served as President since February 2015 and is expected to continue in that role as CEO. He previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from May 2012 to February 2015. Prior to joining Oceaneering, Mr. Larson was with Baker Hughes Incorporated for more than 20 years.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center [WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.] announced Julie Ann Freischlag as its new chief executive officer (CEO). Freischlag succeeds CEO John D. McConnell. Freischlag, is currently Vice Chancellor for Human Health Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California Davis (UC Davis). Prior to her career at UC Davis, Freischlag served as the first female chair of the department of surgery and surgeon-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and earlier as professor and chief of vascular surgery at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
DDS Wireless International Inc. [VANCOUVER, British Columbia and SEATTLE] announced the appointment of Scott Hardy as its next Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Hardy served as President of the company's StrataGen division and succeeds the Founder and original CEO, Vari Ghai. Prior to his arrival at DDS, he spent 30 years with IBM. Mr. Hardy also had a successful business consulting practice and began his career at RBC Royal Bank in their investment banking and IT organizations.
MDA [CHICAGO] announced that Kristine Welker, a member of the Board of Directors, has been appointed Interim President and Chief Executive Officer and is succeeding Steve Derks.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation [PRINCETON, N.J.] has named Richard Besser, President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Besser will succeed Risa Lavizzo-Mourey. Besser came to ABC News from the CDC where he served as director of the Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response.
The Crypsis Group [MCLEAN, Va.] announced the hiring of Bret Padres as Chief Executive Officer, effective today. Prior to joining The Crypsis Group, Mr. Padres was most recently Managing Director at Stroz Friedberg. Mr. Padres was also the Director of Incident Response for Mandiant (later acquired by FireEye).
Nexsan™ [CAMPBELL, CA and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM] announced the appointment of Ron Bienvenu as CEO. Bienvenu was appointed Vice Chairman in January and takes on the CEO role effective immediately, replacing Robert Fernander who has been appointed Chairman Emeritus. Bienvenu has more than 25 years of broad industry and leadership experience where he has held several key executive positions, including CEO at Process Software, and founder and CEO of SageMaker, Inc. Bienvenu is also the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Spear Point Capital Management LLC.
FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated [IRVING, Texas] (NYSE: FCH) has named Steven R. Goldman to be the Company's next Chief Executive Officer. He will also join FelCor's Board of Directors. Troy A. Pentecost will continue as President and Chief Operating Officer, after serving as Interim Senior Executive Officer since September 2016. Most recently, Mr. Goldman was a Managing Director at Starwood Capital Group. In addition to his experience with Starwood Capital Group, Mr. Goldman served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Sunstone Hotel Investors. Mr. Goldman was also head of Global Development and Asset Management for Hilton Worldwide. Earlier in his career, Mr. Goldman held senior management positions with the Walt Disney Company.
NID Security [RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, Calif.] announced the appointment of Niels-Henrik Andersen as CEO. He previously managed the Financial Services Institutions activity for OT (Oberthur Technologies).
Airborne Wireless Network [LOS ANGELES] (OTC: ABWN) announced it has appointed Michael (Mike) J. Warren as Chief Executive Officer. Mike has recently served as the Regional Operations and Security Director for ECC International. Before that, Mike was the Director of Operations, Security & Safety for Checchi & Company Consulting, Inc. Prior to that he was the Program Manager for the Human Terrain Systems under the International Security Assistance Force for NATO and the US Army G-2. He has been an advisor to the US Embassy, to COMISAF and CJ2X at HQ's ISAF in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mike retired from the US Marine Corps with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1994.
Embraer [MELBOURNE, Fla.] announced the appointment of Michael Amalfitano as the President and CEO of its Executive Jets business unit. Amalfitano will succeed Marco Tulio Pellegrini, who will assume another leadership position to be announced soon. Amalfitano joins the company bringing 35 years of experience in corporate aircraft finance, having held several global leadership positions with equipment leasing companies such as Stonebriar Commercial Finance, Banc of America Leasing, Fleet Capital, and GE Capital.
Quebecor [MONTRÉAL] (TSX: QBR.A, QBR.B) announced that Pierre Karl Péladeau is resuming his role as President and CEO. Pierre Dion, who has held the position since April 2014, has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Quebecor Media and a director of Quebecor. Pierre Karl Péladeau served as President and CEO of Quebecor from 1999 to 2013.
DineEquity, Inc. [GLENDALE, Calif.] (NYSE: DIN) the parent company of Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar® and IHOP® restaurants, announced that chairman and chief executive officer and interim president of the Applebee's business unit Julia Stewart will resign from the Company. The board of directors has named its current lead director, Richard Dahl, to serve as interim chief executive officer and chairman, effective March 1, 2017. Mr. Dahl has served on the board of directors since February 2004 and has more than 35 years of experience in senior management of public and private companies, including service as chief executive officer, chief operating officer and chief financial officer.
Red River [CLAREMONT, N.H. & RESTON, Va.] announced that Jeff Sessions has been appointed the company's new CEO. Sessions succeeds Rick Bolduc, who will remain with Red River as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Sessions joined Red River in 2007 as the company's first Vice President of Sales. He most recently served as the company's President.
PCPI [CHICAGO, IL] named Kevin Donnelly as CEO and executive director. At the College of American Pathologists (CAP), he served as vice president and general manager of SNOMED Terminology Solutions.
InGeneron, Inc. [HOUSTON] announced Michael Coleman has stepped down as President and CEO and will join InGeneron's Scientific Advisory Board.
SSM Health [ST. LOUIS] selected Laura Kaiser as the health system's new President/Chief Executive Officer. Kaiser will replace William P. Thompson, who will retire at the end of April after 37 years of service with the organization. She comes to SSM Health from Intermountain Healthcare, where she has served as Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer for the past five years. Prior to Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser spent 15 years at Ascension Health
National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation [CHARLESTON, S.C.] named Mark K. Updegrove as the foundation's new CEO. Updegrove currently is director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) Presidential Library and Museum. Earlier in his career, Updegrove served as manager of Time in Los Angeles; president of TimeCanada, and publisher of Newsweek in New York.
FLIR Systems, Inc. [WILSONVILLE, OR] (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced that Andrew C. Teich, its President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of its Board of Directors, plans to retire. Mr. Teich will continue to serve in his current roles until a successor is appointed.
Vexos [KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.] announced that David Buckley has resigned his position as President and CEO. The Board of Directors has appointed Paul Jona as the new President and CEO. Jona, most recently served as Senior Vice President of the SATCOM division of Cobham. Prior to Cobham, Paul was CEO and Chairman of CoActive Technologie. Paul began his career at Du Pont de Nemours.
Boostability [SILICON SLOPES, Utah] President and COO Gavan Thorpe has been elevated to CEO. Thorpe joined Boostability as an Infrastructure Architect in January 2013. He was promoted to COO in 2014 and was given the title of President in mid-2015. Prior to joining Boostability, Thorpe served in an executive position at OrangeSoda and technical positions at Ancestry and Ah-ha.com.
Western Gas Partners, LP [HOUSTON] (NYSE: WES) and Western Gas Equity Partners, LP (NYSE: WGP) announced that Benjamin M. Fink has been named President and CEO. Fink has served as the Sr. Vice President (SVP), Finance and CFO of WES since 2009 and of WGP since its formation in 2012. Don Sinclair has stepped down from his WES and WGP officer positions as well as his role as SVP, Midstream at the Partnerships' sponsor, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. Sinclair will continue to serve as Senior Advisor to Anadarko and the Partnerships. Fink also will replace Sinclair as a director of the Partnerships and will remain the Partnerships' principal financial and accounting officer until his successor is named. Fink has 25 years of financial and operational experience and joined Anadarko in 2006.


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Why are we taking this approach? Hundreds of thousands of you have voted with your keyboards to start using the power of the Internet with Hybrid Calling. Organizing the next round of beta in waves will allow us to serve more of you sooner. You'll have plenty of advance notice of when you'll be invited to join. It also allows us to reward those who've been waiting the longest, by letting them in as quickly as possible.
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I also mentioned new phones. I'm pretty sure you want to know about those, too. We're not ready to announce them yet, but I can tell you we're all stoked about what's coming your way. We're also working on the updates Brian mentioned—the handover between Wi-Fi and cellular and a way to save money on your cell bill before you even switch to republic. Keep an eye out for more details on these coming up.
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So I have managed to play in Singleplayer and still you can't dock on Strail, and I belive that I am not the only one who got Singleplayer working
I guess you are not doing something wrong if you want to dock on Strail in Singleplayer.
So I am asking for help, I have tried with Save Editor too, it didn't work.
There are 10 bases in Babylonia, at the number 10 it spawns you in space in the very middle of the system.
All I am asking for is help in Singleplayer.
Not sure if I'm gonna get banned from the site if I post this =)
hell mate, 1 year i stay in Omega 11 for diamond, 1 year i'm exposed to radiation, 1 year i think about real fresh pinacolada from Hawaii in Sigma-19, 1 year i try to repair my ship (booster and cruise has dead, i must remplace it).
but everything are not black and moron, i meet some guy from freital base and we have long speech about omega 11, history, things we can do here and more.
3 month ago a red hessian friend give me a wetsuits with new anti-radiation material, good stuff to explore the asteroid ring around the red giant sun "Wardoo go to explore wrecked ships in D-6 and E-6 sectors i buy infos about weapons in these ships".
the travel has not fun and cool, radiation, bounty hunterss think we are wanted...because our ID readercard don't like radiation and the recognize signal can't be read propely by hunters.
finally we reach the first wrecked ship, nothing except a
dead guy inside the *****pit but we found an letter from a station abandonned on deidus planet....so few years ago scientists try to understand deidus and her sand storm and more, but after 6 month they must come back to solarius station because all guy breathe too much small particles of irradiated sand, maybe air filter is the cause.
finally after two day the loot has rich, 10 canons, 25 units of h-fuel, 156 units of diamonds, 15 units of light arms, oxygen and more.
i hope with this loot and my 362 units of diamonds i repair my ship to leave of this system.
first thing i do i go to a medical center for a full radioactive decontamination,
in second have fun with escort girls in the best place of sirius (hawaii is a good choice i think).
in three sell my old ship stay few month in omicron alpha, a friend request me to search about origin of nomad and other research about hispania ship, maybe we found some loot and data in the computers.
for deidus planet i keep the letter and try to find the excactly position of station on the planet and maybe we try to reach it i'm worried about irradiated sand particles and i don't want to loose my lungs for nothing, good preparation is essential
so now i think i stay 6 more month in omega-11 for deidus project.... and 6 months for the recovery of loot and other information on deidus....no more
Well here it is, my Diary, of how it all began. I was 21 and my Father had just died, he was the only family I had left at the time. I had nothing to keep me there......... well. I will let you read what is written and find out for yourself. My name is Nicholas Payne and this is my story:
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Well that about does it. They installed the new engines yesterday. They wanted the fighter engines so bad they swapped straight across even though mine are bigger and more efficient.
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Alternative rock's super-couple has split after 27 years of marriage, leaving plans uncertain for their legendary band Sonic Youth.
Late Friday night, Spin Magazine reported that Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore were separating — bad news that's sure to shake fans' faith in the longevity of love and rock bands.
The announcement came in the form of a release from the couple's rep at their home on Matador Records.
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The future of the band — regarded as one of the most influential in noise, alternative and art rock — is unclear. Although the issued statement says Sonic Youth will finish out its slated South American tour dates, plans beyond are tenuous.
Gordon and Moore are parents to a 17-year-old daughter, Coco, who fronts her own band, Big Nils.
The erstwhile couple formed Sonic Youth together with guitarist Lee Ranaldo back in 1981, and long-time drummer Steve Shelley joined four years later. Gordon and Moore married in 1984.
The band has released 16 studio albums, including the landmark "Daydream Nation," during its 30-year tenure. Its members have also become sentinels of indie rock and mainstays of the New York art and fashion worlds.
Despite trenchantly non-commercial roots in experimental noise, Sonic Youth flirted briefly with mainstream cross-over success in the early '90s when it signed to Geffen Records — and helped friends Nirvana score a record deal there, too.
Most recently, Sonic Youth has been releasing albums on Matador and busily touring. Its members have also been performing and releasing music solo with other collaborators.
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You may not know it, but you do know Ken Nordine, and you know him well. His deep resonant, baritone voice, gritty in a perfect kind of way, has sliced through television and radio ads for decades now. But you should know him for his "word jazz." He recorded his first Word Jazz album back in 1957, backed by the Chico Hamilton band. Nordine's pieces play in the common -- words, bopping and shifting, wit pedaling to and fro in between the everyday bits of everyday life nimbly budging the predictable out of the way. Colorful is the perfect adjective, absurd is another word that should have a turn here too. Mundane is not in his vocabulary.
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Greetings everybody.
I'm new to .net and WPF and I've bumped into a problem I can't seem to figure out.
I wan't to clear all items from a listBox just prior to refresing it's data.
Using XAML, the listBox is bound to a DataSet named movies as seen below:
<ListBox ItemTemplate="{StaticResource listBoxTemplate}" ItemsSource="{Binding movies}" Name="listBox1" Margin="36,61,322,123" />
Now in my C# code, if I use listBox1.Items.Clear() I get this error:
"Operation is not valid while ItemsSource is in use. Access and modify elements with ItemsControl.ItemsSource instead."
I'm not 100% sure what to make of the above error message. Someone told me to clear the bindings, in order to clear the values in the listBox, but then I can't get the values to appear in the listbox in the first place.
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It's the holiday season, which means gadgets and toys galore for many of us. One problem is that they can be so ugly. Case in point:
This inductive charger. It's so ugly! It sits there on the nightstand. It goes with nothing. It collects dust and hair and it shows immediately.
The solution is obvious: give it a little holiday gift wrap! It retains its wonderfully convenient utility and serves to make the room look better instead of worse.
Other ideas for temporary wrapping:
- Not-festive-enough hanging pictures/mirrors
- Xbox Kinect (minus holes for the sensors)
- Clocks (minus the hands)
Do you have any holiday decoration hacks that you'd like to share? Do so below (or in your own Hackerspace post).
Edit: As suggested in the comments, it might be a good idea to use common sense when wrapping electronics that get hot.


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Each author's prose is unique. Her style includes how she describes action, conveys dialogue, sets the sense of time and place, and crafts word pictures that help her readers see and feel everything for themselves. (Yup, I'm assuming female authors to keep the pronoun count down.) Some authors' style is funny, some straightforward, and some flowery. And it's that last category that interests me here. (It's a bit like Potter Stewart's definition of pornography. I can't define flowery prose, but I know it when I read it. At a minimum, there's some imagery involved: metaphors, similes, analogies -- but don't make me identify which are which!)
Now, I personally don't much like flowery prose. But after seeing glowing mentions of some books I personally didn't like, I wanted to be extremely fair. I've selected seven books that seemed long enough to have something flowery somewhere, although page count isn't really the point. Of the seven books, I'm in the middle of reading one of them, two I stopped reading mid-way because they made me cranky (see Reasons #8 & 9 here), three I like, and one I really didn't like. I'm not going to identify which are which, nor are any titles, authors, or characters explicitly identified below. If you recognize a book, congratulations: You either have an amazing memory (or a so-so memory that allowed you to guess), or you wrote it. And if you wrote it, please know I mean no disrespect by anything I say about your book or writing; after all, every single book I picked is well-loved.
Methodology: To prevent cherry-picking (you know: going through the book page by page to find the most elaborate flowery bits), I got a random number generator to give me six page numbers between 1 and 400: 19, 294, 372, 185, 55, and 76. For each number, I went to that page and found the floweriest sentence or excerpt there (in three cases, I found two worthy selections on that specific page). I tended to exclude dialogue, descriptions of action, and discussions of technical matters contained in the book. (I have included one line of dialogue, in quotes, and one excerpt from a character's journal, in italics as it was on the page.) If I didn't find anything flowery, I just went to the next number in the sequence. In some books, there was no page 372 (in one, it was an excerpt from the author's next novel; I disallowed that). In another book, page 185 was the short last page of the chapter. Everything in brackets is my substitution, and ellipses were used to show where I skipped material on the page. All other punctuation is from the books.
Here, then, are the seven books I harvested like a purveyor of the world's finest blooms:
Book 1:
19: I cherished each day that slipped by without seeing her face or hearing her name. Cherished time slipping away like sand sliding through fingers. Quickly, painlessly.
294: Pure, sheer happiness filled her soul. . . . His warrior eyes grew fierce, his hand drifting down to the gentle curve of her belly.
185: But he couldn't stop the touch any more than he could stop himself from breathing.
55: For the first time, anger marred [X's] face. . . . His anger turned to something more elusive, dark, and troubled.
76: [She] stopped just outside the room as if peering through a looking glass at a foreign world, taking in the woman who sat so gracefully in a finely crafted wingback chair with a notch in the middle.
Book 2:
19: The ocean rose into view over the rail -- a high black swell covered with a vast reticulation of white foam, like endless yards of white lace -- then dropped, sending a spray up over the deck.
372: Her laughter became deep, a drum roll of mirth.
55: Caught staring again, the woman laughed -- partly a nervous, self-conscious sound, partly the odd, gleeful cackle she was finding so hard to contain.
76: "To let them know me for something other than how I look, something closer to the heart of me than the way my skin spreads over muscle and bone."
Book 3:
19: He felt bleak inside, and absurdly let down. Cheated, as if he'd been declared ineligible for a spectacular prize he'd set his heart on.
185: In that way it was a revelation, and she had a long time to ponder it as she struggled back up the straight, muddy, killing ladders, pausing at every sollar to rest while [her employee] gazed off into space a respectable ten steps below and tried not to let I told you so show in his dark, glaring features.
55: The women seated on long Sunday school benches in the vicarage meeting hall were all misty-eyed, and as enchanted with the love scene as [she] could wish.
76: The scent of her, faint as a whisper, potent as an aphrodisiac.
Book 4:
19: And behind it all were the green mountains rising up to mist and a double rainbow that spanned the entire sky.
294: It had arrested his breath, centered all his consciousness on exploding pain, annihilated him -- and he had had to go on, to keep fighting, to move when his body was paralyzed.
372: [His Japanese mentor] made a sound like a controlled tempest. Not anger, but a sound of pure energy.
55: She sat down next to the crown and peered into the infant face. It was ugly, it truly was, all wet mouth and wrinkled skin, and its mother didn't want it.
76: She pulled the cloak around her, realized she'd forgotten shoes -- forgotten even to dress -- a perfect picture she would make, running along the mucky street barefoot in her nightrail.
Book 5:
19: She was a narrow woman, narrow everywhere -- in the hips, the shoulders, the face, the hands; [her nephew] would have added, in the mind.
294: From an orange tree beyond the shaddocks came mockingbird song that filled the pause like tuned bells.
372: With temper chills biting like teeth in the lining of his stomach, [X] wrenched up the boot, strode with it to the window, pushed open the casing, and flung [Y's] boot into the harbor, where it drowned in a crown-shaped splash. Its halo of disturbed water had expanded and vanished before [Y] spoke.
185: The sweet novelty of it cut like tin scissors through the resistance she had spent the night building toward him, but however attractive the man was, whatever the graces of his character, this man [...] would never be for her. . . . In his glowing eyes, in the sensual line of his lips, there was no sign it might be a struggle for him to deny the joyous enchantment of yesterday's kisses and transform the gentle, playful lover into a temperate companion.
76: Tremors began in her chest and rolled violently into her limbs, where the stiff wires of the jute ropes were methodically gnawing the living flesh from her ankles and her wrists, and her hair became fouled by the sloshing bilge water.
Book 6:
19: All color bleached from his face. Oh dear. Blonde hair didn't look so well on skin that particular shade of green.
185: It had been her sanity when the waves grew restive, when they had leapt up against the porthole as though calling her back to them.
55: His movements were seamless, and she closed her eyes, feeling his hands firm around her. She didn't need to count, didn't need to concentrate; she was flying, and if she stumbled, his hands would be there, strong enough to catch her --
76: She laced her hands together in her lap, squeezing hard to channel a tumult of foreign emotions.
Book 7:
19: She liked his eyes, and they had a way of turning soft when they'd light on the boys.
185: Though his insides were jumping with impatience, [he] forced himself to sit easy in the kitchen chair, an arm propped on the table edge, a finger hooked in a coffee cup.
55: He chuckled and ruffled the boy's hair. It felt as soft as it looked.
76: But his thanks made her efforts seem worthwhile and filled her with a sense of accomplishment she'd never known before.
Okay. What I have learned from this exercise is that, for me, less is more. Book 7 surprised me with its simple, spare prose. Very few adverbs, but the ones Author 7 uses are so powerful: "forced himself to sit easy ..." (p. 185) where easy (normally an adjective) is used adverbially to convey both the man's effort to seem relaxed and perhaps his lack of more extravagant words. And while our gastro-intestinal organs don't actually jump, we know exactly what he's feeling, and we've probably felt it ourselves.
By contrast, Author 5 has very elaborate word pictures indeed. I'm pretty sure the character on p. 372 is just very angry, but is that really best conveyed by saying that "temper chills biting like teeth in the lining of his stomach"? I like the description of the narrow woman (p. 19), but if I'd been editing Book 5, I might have suggested making the nephew's point a more straightforward sentence on its own: "She was a narrow woman, narrow everywhere -- in the hips, the shoulders, the face, the hands. [Her nephew] would have said she was narrow-minded as well." "Narrow-minded," in that context is already a metaphor (or is it a simile? -- damn, I knew I'd get this wrong) and not actually a reference to a physical dimension of the body. No need to make it a meta-metaphor, if you will.
Authors 1 & 6 seem to have a similar tendency to get the imagery almost right, but then either oversell it, or not really consider the plain meaning of their words. We know what they mean, but it's not actually what they've written. For example, on p. 185 of Book 1, what she writes is just not accurate. You can stop your own breathing, at least for the length of time it takes to touch something. We know she means to suggest that he can't stop himself from touching her -- that's it's a gesture he's compelled to make. But we're not precisely compelled to breathe; it's an autonomic action that we can -- and do -- consciously control on occasion. And consider this: When we're reaching out to touch something in precisely the way Author 1 wants us to imagine, we often hold our breath!
Similarly, we know that the characters are dancing on p. 55 of Book 6, but there's really nothing new being conveyed. He's strong and surefooted; she's safe and can let go. Got it. But consider the character's mood (action?) on p. 76: We get the image of her gripping her hands tight as an exercise of self-control, but does "squeezing hard to channel a tumult of foreign emotions" actually tell you what she's feeling? I think we're filling in for Author 6 when we read that sentence more like this: "She laced her hands together in her lap, squeezing hard to control her thoughts." You could make them "unruly thoughts," I suppose, but since when do we need to control our placid thoughts?
I would contrast the overwrought efforts in Book 5, and the rather sloppy images in Books 1 & 6, with the spare prose in Book 7. Book 7 conveys to me more clearly what's actually going on. Author 7 gets out of the way of my seeing the characters in that scene. In fact, her prose makes it easier for me to feel that anxiety on p. 185, the boy's hair on p. 55, and the fondness of the man's gaze on p. 19. (Or, if I might lapse into a highly personal observation: I would give a lot to write half as well as Author 7 does.)
With the remaining three books (2, 3 & 4), there's nothing too objectionable here. It turns out that I dislike one of those books intensely and love the other two, but reading these excerpts, I really have nothing to complain about any of them. All good, workmanlike writing. (Special mention, though, to Author 2 for describing white caps on ocean waves as an endless yards of lace (so true!) and to Author 4 for her bravery in acknowledging that an infant can truly be ugly, "all wet mouth and wrinkled skin," while still conveying compassion with the conclusion, "... and its mother didn't want it.") This tells me that what I dislike about the book I dislike isn't the author's writing style, but her storytelling.
Because, ultimately, we can read through the most flowery prose, but if the story's crap, we just don't like the book.


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Right about now, AnnaSophia Robb expected to be hitting the books as a freshman at Stanford University. Instead, she's doing her best to step into the fancy spiked heels of one of television's most iconic characters,
With her long curly locks and wide, sparkly eyes, Robb is instantly appealing as a 16-year-old Carrie Bradshaw in "The Carrie Diaries" (8 p.m. Monday, The CW), a fun and frothy "Sex and the City" prequel that dares to imagine what its beloved leading lady was like before she started dating Mr. Big and having cosmos with the girls.
Robb, 19, admits that she felt plenty of pressure taking on the role, but took comfort from a "lovely" note of encouragement sent to her by Sarah Jessica Parker — the original Carrie — before production began.
"That was huge for me," she told reporters Sunday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.
"The Carrie Diaries," based on young-adult novels by "Sex and the City" author Candance Bushnell, whisks viewers back to 1984. Carrie is 16 years old and about to start a tumultuous junior year in suburban Connecticut — just months after the death of her mother.
She's down in the dumps, but a dreamy new transfer student (Austin Butler) brings some excitement into her world. And when her father (Matt Letscher) helps to land her an internship at a Manhattan law firm, her eyes are opened wide, for the first time, to the glamour and grit of the big city.
Amy B. Harris, who wrote for HBO's "Sex and the City" and is an executive producer on the new show, sees "The Carrie Diaries" as an "origin story."
"You think of 'Smallville' and how that was about Clark Kent before he discovered his powers," she said. "I wanted to meet Carrie before she had sex, before she fell in love and before she met Manhattan. I wanted to explore all of that in the first season."
Yes, the Carrie in this show is a virgin among friends who have already had sexual experiences. Have the producers plotted out Carrie's first time yet?
"We've definitely been talking about that a lot, because it's a first that means a lot to everybody, whether it's in the back of a car or … romantic," Harris said. "But we haven't nailed it down yet. No pun intended."
Harris is also interested in exploring the emotional impact of early relationships and their link to the adult Carrie.
"How does that first love play out? Why does she end up with someone like Big and not Aiden?" she said. "It will be fun to let that simmer for the 'SATC' audience."
It's all great big playground for Robb, who was told by producers not to emulate Parker on "SATC."
"So my character is a combination of the books, the scripts, what I'm bringing to the role, Amy's vision and myself," she said. "I feel I'm becoming more like Carrie or Carrie's becoming more like me. … At times, I want to calm her down a bit when I should really just let my own neurotic feelings come out. It's a growing process."
Robb was just 12 years old when "SATC" went off the air, so she never saw the racy cable comedy during its original run. But she has been binge-watching since she got the job and has nearly covered the whole series. Does she have a favorite episode?
"Oh, that's so hard to choose," she said, after her media session. "But I really like the one where Mr. Big moves to Napa and he and Carrie dance to 'Moon River.' That's so romantic."
Robb, a native of Denver, also has had fun learning more about the 1980s (she likes Michael Jackson and David Bowie), and its vibrant colors and crazy styles. As for the big hair, well, she's into that, too.
"I do like the hair," she said. " … Actually all senior year, I was thinking about getting a Perm because I wanted curly hair."
Robb was reportedly one of 500 actresses who auditioned for the role. Upon landing it, she decided to defer her admission to Stanford, but hopes to make it to the Bay Area for college some day.
"I didn't think I'd ever get in, but I was very studious in high school," she said. "I'm really excited about that opportunity."


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Way, way back in the primordial ooze out from which MLS crawled, the league's powers that be conceived of a format where the yearly campaign was merely a prelude to the playoffs. Eight of 10 teams qualified for the postseason, the regular-season champion wasn't recognized outside of a No. 1 seed, and some fans threw a snit.
Traditionalists cried foul, making one of two arguments: that MLS should do things more like they're done in Europe, the birthplace of the game (bad argument); or that the playoffs devalue regular-season accomplishments (good argument).
In what is still one of the greatest moments in MLS history, a collection of intrepid fans of the second argument got together and, with league blessing, created the Supporters' Shield to honor the best regular-season team. It's a perfect example of a business listening and responding positively to their most avid consumers.
That was in 1998. MLS didn't do away with the playoffs, of course, and MLS Cup is still the league showcase (as it should be – and yes, we'll get to that in a bit).
It took nearly a decade for the Shield to gain recognition outside the circles of MLS' hard-core fanbase, but said recognition eventually came in the most tangible way: entry into continental competition. In 2006, MLS and the US Soccer Federation pushed to have the Shield winner granted entrance to the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League. Same goes, of course, for the MLS Cup winner.
[inline_node:329066]Around that time, with the expansion boom and brighter media lights, balanced schedules became a creeping inevitability, greatly benefiting the prestige of the Shield.
And the Shield needed it. Not to take anything away from the 2005 San Jose Earthquakes, for example, but their 64-point season was padded with a double-handful of games against expansion sides Chivas USA and Real Salt Lake. The New England Revolution didn't have the same cushion that year and finished just five points short playing a much, much stronger slate.
In 2010, the balanced schedule became reality. There's no arguing who was the best team from March through October of last year. The LA Galaxy earned their hardware and their Champions League spot.
So, too, did the Colorado Rapids, who weren't even done taking their MLS Cup victory lap before a vocal minority of fans began questioning their championship bona fides – a silly argument since so many of the most high-profile competitions in the game, including the World Cup, the UEFA Champions League and the Copa Libertadores, are really just playoff-style competitions.
And despite overt snickering in some corners, the North American-style postseason is expanding in the so-called traditional soccer nations.
The English Championship now has a four-team playoff to determine the final promotion spot (there are already talks of expanding it to eight teams and two promotion spots). The 2.Bundesliga has the third-place finisher face the third-from-the-bottom one in the top flight; if the third-placed team loses, it doesn't get promoted and the third-from-the-bottom doesn't drop.
In Greece, there's a playoff to determine European spots. And in Brazil, there were real, actual riots when they discontinued the playoff system a decade ago.
And, of course, the Mexican champion is determined by the liguilla playoffs.
So, yeah, MLS was ahead of the curve when it came to the postseason.
The end result here in MLS is that we have two different competitions that are perfectly complimentary.
Want to know which are the best MLS teams of all time? It'd be the ones came out on top in the 30-plus game grind of the regular season, then did the same in the three week slug-fest that is the playoffs.
The list of teams that have won both in the same year is short: 1997 and '99 D.C. United, the 2000 Kansas City Wizards, the '02 Galaxy and '08's fantastic Columbus Crew side.
(For what it's worth, both the '97 DC team and '02 Galaxy squad just missed out on the treble by falling in the US Open Cup final.)
There's no better way to determine greatness. Not only are teams bloodied in different ways, but you can put an emphasis on whichever competition happens to light your fire.
Hans Backe, for example, wants to win the Supporters' Shield. Last year's Columbus Crew seemed to feel the same way, making not-so-subtle comments about Real Salt Lake's 2009 MLS Cup win.
Bruce Arena and Sigi Schmid – the two men who've won everything there is to win in MLS – disagree. It's MLS Cup or bust for their teams in 2011.
Both sides obviously have their merits. What Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund are doing this year – dominating their respective leagues – deserves to be celebrated and rewarded with a title.
Same goes for winning a cup final. There's nothing quite like 90 minutes (or 120, as the case may be) with a title on the line.
That's why MLS Cup will always be the league's showpiece. Cramming nine months of intensity into a single event is great sport, great spectacle and great theater.
And the truth is, if you really want to be a great team, it's easy: Go win both.
Matthew Doyle can be reached for comment at firstname.lastname@example.com and followed at twitter.com/mls_analyst.


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I'm not understanding your phrase "hashes of hashes of combinations" very well. If the order of testing does matter, it would not retain that information. If it does not, it seems like this would generate redundant information.
It seems to me that you have a list of one or more rules, which a message either passes or does not:
Where Combination is a (string-y) list of one or more rules which, when combined, cause a message to fail. A corresponding perl structure is:
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Great quote here from Matt Ryan. While I often find myself disagreeing with Pete Prisco (at least over the last 2 years in particular), he has a good column today. Just a great quote by Matt Ryan on Williams:
"He's a really good player," Ryan said. "He's a real pain in the ass to play."
Not surprising though considering Williams was a good part of the reason superstar WR Roddy White was mostly ineffective against the Pack. One of the things I've noticed this year about Tramon, is that he appears to have bulked up some. Speed has never been an issue, but his added bulk seems to help him tackle more effectively. A few games ago, he even had a monster hit – a rarity in his past anyway.


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The once familiar clatter of the feed shoes means that it's milling and baking day on the Mills Route. Nowhere else is the diverse craft of milling showcased to such a degree as during the much-loved milling and baking days. On these days, knowledgeable people who mill for leisure and tradition-conscious women from the villages show visitors from the city how grain is ground into flour and baked in stone ovens to make nutritious bread.
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In addition to flour for bread, these mills also ground barley grain to make Minden beer, which was much-praised in the Hanseatic period. There are other cultural monuments to be discovered alongside these ancient mills and bakehouses, for example interesting museums, artists' workshops, imposing farmhouses with their typical gardens, as well as mineral baths, the so-called "Bauernbäder", and their over 250-year-old spa tradition.
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Length: approximately 320 km
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Bad Oeyenhausen: spa resort, Aqua Magica Park, the Jordansprudel fountain
Hille: large peat bog
Limberg: Hüffe Castle, the Gutswassermühle watermill
Lübbecke: historical brewery
Minden: passenger ship, waterway junction and lock, ship mill
Petershagen: the Stork Route, Glashütte Gernheim Museum
Porta Westfalica: Wittekindsburg Castle, visitor mine, the Westphalian Gap gorge
Rahden: the Hochzeitsmühle mill, farm museum
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