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human landscapes in south west florida from google earth (via the big picture) illustrate the boom and (2008) bust of the housing market, as huge developments sit partially completed among densely built up neighborhoods and swampland (5th and 6th photos). many of these homes are empty and have been for years now.
When art meets engineering
The GIFs above show Metropolis II, a kinetic sculpture of the modern bustling city. The project — by artist Chris Burden — took nearly four years to create and features 1,100 cars zipping around 18 roadways, including one six-laner. "The noise and level of activity are both mesmerizing and anxiety provoking," he explains.
Burden has created a number of large-scale installations that walk the line between engineering and sculpture:
As an art-school graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, his friends were physics students who played around in the lab the way he experimented and daydreamed in his studio. "They'd say, 'We follow our hunches, we freeze things to 300 degrees below zero and then we hit them with hammers,' " he recalled. "I thought, 'Wow, that's kind of what I do.'"
His retrospective show, Extreme Measures at The New Museum, is showing through January 12th, 2014.
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Bern Identity Best in Saratoga's Sanford Stakes
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Bern Identity followed up his nearly 14-length maiden win last time out with an impressive score in Sunday's Sanford Stakes (G2) at Saratoga.
Ridden by Rosie Napravnik, Bern Identity rated off the blazing early pace of Handsome Jack and Brave Dave. The fast fractions took their toll on the pacesetters late as Bern Identity rolled past Handsome Jack late to win by 1 ¼ lengths. The 2-year-old son of Bernstein covered the six furlongs in 1:11.13,
"He ran great. He's really got a lot of grit," Napravnik told NYRA Press. "We weren't quite as forwardly placed as I thought we might be, but the pace was extremely fast. He just hung in there down on the rail and finished strongest coming for home. [Co-owner Lori Hall] asked me if this was my first Sanford and I said, 'Yes.' I've had a lot of firsts for these guys. They're great supporters and I'm glad to be riding for them. He's extremely talented and, on top of that, he's got a lot of heart. I'm excited to see where he goes from here."
Bern Identity, now a winner in two of three starts, is owned by George and Lori Hall and trained by Kelly Breen.
"He's a fast horse," said Breen. "After he won, he came back and worked extremely fast. That kind of indicated to me he was the real deal. That's how I feel in my heart anyway. They outran him a little bit in the beginning; I was a little surprised. Maybe the fast workout last week took a little bit out of him. But he showed his grit, got a little bit of dirt in his face and ran nice. He didn't break great, but in the blink of an eye we were a length behind. She had to ride him coming out of there. Around the turn it was a little nerve-wracking – is he going to keep coming? – she never had a chance to give him a breather. She sat on him a little bit around the turn and then asked him to go again. He showed a lot of grit. I wouldn't be here if I didn't think he was a nice horse. We take our chances coming to New York, and when we show up we're here for a reason. We were here with what I thought was a nice horse."
Along with his $120,000 share of the purse, the Bernstein colt became the first horse to win the new $100,000 juvenile bonus from The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA). The bonus, instituted this year, is awarded to any 2-year-old maiden winner at Aqueduct Racetrack or Belmont Park who goes on to win a graded stakes at a NYRA track.
"The extra $100,000 bonus makes it all sweeter. So, thanks, NYRA!" said Breen. "Even for his first start, without the bonus, I don't know if I would have run him in New York to begin with. Maybe with the big money here, we'll have to think about bringing some more horses here."
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New Surgical Device Aims to Stop Strokes
The prototype stroke-busting SHELTER device goes after a mock blood clot -- a Gummi Bear.
CREDIT: Insera Therapeutics
A new surgical instrument aims to trap and entirely remove blood clots that can otherwise cause strokes.
The device's makers hope they have invented the next-generation surgical tool of choice for battling strokes that, although similar to heart attacks, have lagged behind for decades in effective clinical treatments.
Human trials must be done before the device goes to market, which could be years from now.
The instrument carries a hefty acronym: SHELTER (Stroke Help using an Endo-Luminal Transcatheter Embolus Retrieval device). "The acronym is a terrific metaphor for what we're trying to do here," said Vikram Janardhan, an engineer as well as CEO of Calif.-based Insera Therapeutics. "The device shelters the brain from any debris during the process of clot removal."
"This is the first clot entrapment device wherein the clot is completely entrapped and pulled out . . . and as a consequence we are able to salvage a lot of the brain," Janardhan added.
Current surgical devices do not seal off the far end of a clot, and pieces can break off that cause secondary strokes in smaller blood vessels upstream, said Vallabh Janardhan, an interventional neurologist with Insera Therapeutics and Vikram's brother.
SHELTER goes on the end of a catheter that is threaded into a patient's brain vasculature toward a blood clot. Once there, an ultrathin wire bores through the semi-solid clot and unfurls an umbrella-like filter on the other side.
Tiny holes in this net allow small blood particles to pass through but snare the clot and any fragments. The device essentially bookends the clot, allowing it to be removed and freeing up blood flow in the stricken vessel.
A heart attack in the head
During a stroke, like a heart attack , blood is choked off by a clot in the labyrinth of the brain's blood vessels. (Strokes are sometimes referred to as "brain attacks.")
Victims can experience sudden dizziness, headache, or numbness or paralysis on one side of their body, as well as trouble speaking, seeing and walking.
Time is of the essence in strokes: brain cells deprived of blood-borne oxygen and nutrients start to die off within minutes. According to the World Health Organization, 15 million people suffer strokes worldwide every year, with a third suffering some level of permanent disability and another third dying. In the U.S., though there are more than 780,000 stroke incidents annually, treatment options remain rather limited.
Victims undergoing a stroke who can make it to a hospital in less than three hours are usually given infusions of a drug called a tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) that – rather like Drano for clogged plumbing – breaks up a clot and restores normal blood flow in the brain.
Studies have shown that this therapy, in use since 1996, only works in about a third of patients, Vallabh Janardhan said, and tPA can unleash bleeding elsewhere in the body so some doctors are appropriately "gun shy" about dispensing it.
Overall, 97 percent of brain attack victims never even receive this treatment because of missing its three-hour window of stroke onset. People may not recognize stroke symptoms or be aware of one if it strikes while they are sleeping. Also, many people live too far from one of the 640 specialized stroke care centers in the nation to get there in time.
Accordingly, stroke treatment has been shifting toward so-called interventional, catheter-based therapies that can be effective up to eight hours after a stroke strikes. These treatments have successfully relieved heart attacks for decades by going in and removing clots in blocked arteries.
Currently, about five percent of stroke patients receive catheter-based therapies similar to Insera's, said Vallabh Janardhan, and while the first-generation devices have saved many lives, they have significant room for improvement.
"While these devices work well, there's no perfect mousetrap yet," said Huy Do, an endovascular neurosurgeon at the Stanford Stroke Center in Calif.
The first approved device, in use since 2004, is the Merci Retrieval System made by Concentric Medical. A thin wire that is coiled like a spring pierces the clot and wends through it as a corkscrew would through the cork on a wine bottle.
Vallabh Janardhan, who has used this device in clinical practice, said the wire sometimes does not have the tensile strength necessary to really grip the clot, and the wire straightens out while trying to retrieve the blockage.
"It is a frustrating procedure at 2 a.m. when someone is lying there paralyzed [by a stroke] and the wire just slices through [the clot] and you pull the device back empty-handed," Vallabh Janardhan told TechNewsDaily.
The other catheter-based therapy, made by Penumbra and around since 2008, sucks up a clot like a vacuum. The device's tube becomes very thin to allow it to fit into smaller brain blood vessels, and a result it cannot apply sufficient suction, so the instrument can only reliably get clots in big vessels, said Vallabh Janardhan.
And both devices can leave patients vulnerable to secondary strokes by not capping the far-end of the clot. SHELTER, on the other hand, traps the clot on either end for easy removal without fragmentation, the Janardhans said.
Gumming up the works
While developing SHELTER on an innovative tangle of silicone tubes modeled on blood vessels from human cadavers, Insera actually ended up using Gummi Bears to mimic clots.
The popular candy turned out to be surprisingly good analogs for blood clots, the Janardhans said, that could be sliced into various shapes to represent the sticky, squishy blockages.
To make a facsimile of human vasculature, liquid plastic was injected into the brain of a deceased medical donor. The plastic stiffened in the vessels and created a mold of their tortuous windings. (The technology is similar to that used in "Body Worlds" and "Bodies . . . The Exhibition.")
CREDIT: Insera Therapeutics
So SHELTER could be tested in normal as well as damaged vessels, the researchers mimicked disease states, such as aneurysms and blockages, in their silicone model made from these cadaver molds.
Future silicone assemblies based on the one used for testing SHELTER will be more accurate and humane than relying on laboratory animals for medical device development and physician training, the Janardhans said.
Some years off
The brothers plan to submit SHELTER to the Food and Drug Administration in the coming months, after which human trials are expected to begin. Their device is still several years from potentially being available in clinical practice. Fortunately for stroke victims, several other new stroke-busting devices are in the works, such as ev3 Inc's Solitaire brain stent and clot remover.
Stanford's Do said "we interventional neurosurgeons are very excited for new devices and technology," and that devices like Insera's seem poised to revolutionize the stroke treatment field as catheter-based therapies and awareness did for heart attacks in the 1980s.
"From an engineering point of view, [a stroke] is a clog in a pipe," said Vallabh Janardhan. "This is something we should have solved a long time ago."
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Instead of cutting a population in two, a mountain range or a forest could just become an island of inhospitable habitat in the sea of that species' range.
That's how being larger might make the tropics more diverse. Now for warmer. As we have seen, the amount of energy pouring into a place is a good guide to the number of species living there. But it seems that the amount of fuel alone cannot account for the difference in diversity. Instead, extra energy might create species by speeding up life's tempo. This is where metabolic rate re-enters our story.
By influencing metabolism, temperature affects evolution. Organisms whose body temperature matches that of their environments—meaning plants and all animals except for the warm-blooded birds and mammals—have faster metabolic rates in warmer climates and so grow more quickly. They will reach maturity quicker, which will make each generation shorter, and so natural selection will have more to work with. The malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquito, which can crank through 10 generations in a year, is likely to evolve more quickly than a temperate species that can only manage one. In general, species with fast generation times can adapt quickly. That is why pesticide resistance in insects, and antibiotic resistance in bacteria, is such a problem.
Jim Brown's team has found that the warmer and smaller a species is, the more quickly its DNA changes. Like cellular metabolic rate, mutation rate over time falls as the −1/4 power of body mass. And besides speeding up the life cycle, hot temperatures cause mutations. Male mammals carry their testicles outside their bodies to keep them cool, in an attempt to reduce the mutation rate in their sperm. The effects of temperature on the pace of life, via metabolism, therefore provide a mechanism by which climate can influence the rate at which new species form. About the same amount of energy is needed to spark a mutation in all cells and species. The effect of temperature on mutation does not translate directly into evolutionary change. How much a species alters through time depends on the selective forces it experiences. But it does show that, other things being equal, the DNA


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Notable "Home Court" Advantage Predictions
After an excruciatingly painful long three days of no basketball, the Madness finally picks back up again with the Sweet 16! This time we don't even have to pretend like we're working while the games are on! The first tipoff is at 7:15pm ET Thursday with four games that night and four on Friday. Find tickets to watch the games live on the StubHub 2013 NCAA Tournament page.
Of course, there's no home court advantage when it comes to the NCAA tournament…or is there? I asked fellow Stubber, Andy Sevastopoulos, to dive into some of StubHub's buyer numbers to find out who he thinks will have the fan advantage for the upcoming games.
NCAA East Regional (Washington D.C.) – (4) Syracuse vs. (1) Indiana; (3) Marquette vs. (2) Miami
New-York based Syracuse has a lot more support in Washington than Indiana. New York buyers outnumber Indiana buyers 6-1.
Marquette (Wisconsin) and Miami see similar levels of out-of-state buying for the game.
NCAA West Regional (Los Angeles) – (6) Arizona vs. (2) Ohio St.; (9) Wichita State vs. (13) LaSalle
Due to the proximity of Arizona and L.A., Arizona has a sizeable advantage. Arizona buyers outnumber Ohio buyers by 7-1. Upset potential?
We're not seeing large contingents from either Kansas (Wichita State) or Pennsylvania (LaSalle).
NCAA South Regional (Dallas) – (1) Kansas vs. (4) Michigan; (3) Florida vs. (15) Florida Gulf Coast U
A lot of Kansas fans are willing to make the eight hour drive to Dallas. Kansas buyers outnumber Michigan buyers 8-1 in this matchup.
Since both UF and FGCU are both from Florida, it's hard to tell which school is being supported by Florida buyers.
Also to note: of every single event ticket listed on StubHub (across all genres – sports, entertainment, etc.), the South Regional is leading all site–wide sales as of late last night. Site-wide runner-up is the Midwest Regional.
NCAA Midwest Regional (Indianapolis) – (1) Louisville vs. (12) Oregon; (2) Duke vs. (3) Michigan State
This is where we think the home court advantage will be biggest. Louisville is on the border of Kentucky and Indiana, two hours away from Indianapolis, so Kentucky fans are buying in big numbers. In fact, more people have bought from Kentucky than from any other state, including Indiana! In every other case, the state hosting the event had the most buyers by far. Kentucky is bringing 125x more buyers than Oregon to their matchup. It's essentially a Louisville home game.
Michigan State has a similar advantage. As Lansing is only four hours from Indianapolis, we are seeing a lot of Michigan buyers turning out as well. Despite Duke's name appeal, buyers from Michigan will outnumber buyers from North Carolina by 20-1. This is another good shot at a small upset.
Thanks Andy. Now I have some inside info on where I'll bet my mone…err wager my jelly beans with my friends. So it looks like Arizona might have a pretty big advantage against OSU from a fan stand point on Thursday. What do you think? Is it going to be upset city baby???


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Excuse me, Julian. Where is Jeffery? I haven't seen him lately since the 2nd season of Kidnapped.
Is that how he lost ex-Chelsea?
I luv Jeffery and I really want pizza now
What are u stupid bill red eye flashes twice✌!
I LOVE your videos! They are just wonderful from Oh Jeffrey to Racist Coffee, they bring a smile to my face every time i watch them! Thank you for your contribute to the culture of art and hillariousity!
What are you stupid! Red eye flashes twice!!!
real gun…….? O-O
What are you stupid? I have seen your movies twice!
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Earlier this month, The Akira Project debuted its fan-made live action trailer based on the now-legendary works of manga and anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo.
It's a labor of love that has been in the works for nearly two years and a striking example of how Akira can be brought to fans in live action form. Whether you're a die-hard aficionado of the manga and anime, or you never read or watched the source material, you should check out this stunning, yet brief, clip of sci-fi artistry.
The Akira Project was spearheaded by Nguyen-Anh Nguyen, a longtime fan of Otomo's work who also co-founded a production company in Montreal called CineGround. He's an award-winning producer and director of short films and had a team of skilled people working with him on the project. It's fan art made by people who already had the experience to understand what kind of job they were undertaking.
In the summer of 2012, the group launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise some of the funds needed to complete the endeavor. The goal was $7500 to add to the $5000 that they had. By the end of the campaign, they raised $3,428, a little less than half of what they requested. Ultimately more than 40 people – from actors to VFX artists – from across the globe were involved in the project. Filming took place over the course of four days later in 2012. More than a year later, the trailer hit YouTube. In only a few weeks, it has already racked up over 2 million views.
The Akira Project is significant for a few reasons. Akira, first a manga by Otomo and, later, an anime directed by the same artist, remains incredibly popular years after its release. It was a global hit, one of the titles that helped popularize anime and manga in North America, and went on to inspire a new generation of sci-fi storytellers. For years, there has been talk of a Hollywood-made live action adaption of Akira. It's talk that has been met with varying degrees of groans from fan communities. Not long before The Akira Project launched, Hollywood casting rumors and talk of changing the location from Neo-Tokyo to Neo-Manhattan stirred controversy. In fact, The Akira Project mentions the Hollywood Akira chatter on their site. The fan project, Nguyen notes, is "a chance to stick as close to the source material as possible."
The amount of love that went into making this trailer is obvious. There's an incredible attention to detail in everything from the costumes to Kaneda's bike to the look of Neo-Tokyo. It's a trailer, so you're not going to get too much of the story in the clip, but you will get a feel of the visual identity of Akira. That's important because the look of Akira's futuristic metropolis is as crucial as the complex, science-fiction narrative that unfolds.
More importantly, this fan-made trailer shows what can be done to bring the famed manga and anime into a live action setting. It is possible to adapt the story with reverence towards the original and still make something that will capture the audience's attention. Akira is a work that deserves a live action adaptation, if for no other reason than to introduce this world to audiences who are unfamiliar with it.
With one trailer, Nguyen and his team managed to capture the excitement and drama in a form that could draw new folks into the world of Akira. If this were a feature, I would absolutely head out to the theater to catch it on opening night.
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Results vs Decisions
Jan Kuom and Brian Acton didn't set out to create a 19 billion dollar company.
They built a product. Built it well. Found customers who loved it.
They built a scalable product. Leveraged their expertise of working at yahoo to make it scale. It was not always scalable or available. Their service was down for days at a time in the past.
They solved the problems that came up. When security holes were found, they patched them…sometimes well, sometimes with a hack until they found a permanent solution.
Their scalability skills would have looked lame from April 2009 to November 2009 when they didn't have enough customers or reasons to scale.
They bucked the trend and stayed true to their core principles…their own core principles. No advertising, No gimmicks, No games.
No one put a gun to their head and asked them to make those core principles. Those core principles were there, not because those happened to be the most popular ones in the valley that year.
May be they didn't even have all 3 core principles when they started.
May be just one - 'No advertising', which came from the founders hatred of having worked at an ad driven company - Yahoo.
From 2009 to 2014, Google grew from 100 billion dollar company to 400 billion dollar company selling advertisements….probably questioning the sanity of whatsapp founders and them sticking to their core principle.
May be they felt it was their differentiator against the competition.
There will be another billion dollar acquisition soon enough in the future and people/media would be all over it. We will be counting the billions the founders made, the millions of dollars each employee made, how, Google/Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Microsoft/etc are stupid for paying that much money.
The previous one was Nest.
The one before that was Instagram.
Most of us have no idea of what it took, to make a simple SMS type app, believe in it enough to commit working full time, scale it to be able to send 27 billion messages a day, acquire 400 million customers and keep them happy or sit across the table from Mark Zuckerberg and ask for a seat on the board of directors at Facebook in addition to the 19 billion they grudgingly agreed to offer.


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Unity from fredseibert on Vimeo.
"PEACE! UNITY! LOVE! And HAVING FUN!"
Over nine years, Fred/Alan only made two* music videos**, but they were both doozies. First up, James Brown and Afrika Bambaata. I mean, wow, wouldn't it too cool to work with The Minister of the New New Super Heavy Funk?
JB was half a decade away from his latest chart hit and hip-hop was beginning to explode, completely usurping The Godfather of Funk's excitement. A pioneering Bronx DJ, Bam had hit it big in 1982 and was looking for his way back on the charts.
Fred/Alan had been around less than a year and exhilarated by all the possibilities in front of us. We called anywhere that seemed interesting and one of those places was Tommy Boy Records. Fred had read about their trailblazing Malcolm X & Keith LeBlanc mix "No Sellout," the first sampled record, picked up the phone and started talking to label president Monica Lynch and founder Tom Silverman, figuring (correctly) they might be kindred spirits.
In 1984, Tom called and told us about an amazing session they'd just recorded. James' contract with Polydor had expired a few years before, and Tom snagged him for just one single, a Bambaata duet, a perfect marriage of mentor and student. Indies didn't know too much about this music video thing (they could just about afford the record), but they'd videotaped the vocal dubs in lovely (ahem) VHS. Could we somehow make it into a video? The average video in 1984 probably cost $40,000. Tommy Boy's budget was $5000.
We had three things going for us: Fred had a vision of James Brown's feet, producer/director Tom Pomposello, and producer/artist Marcy Brafman. Oh, and we were so psyched to be working with James (OK, at least were working on something of James') Fred/Alan was willing to make zero dollars.
Tom had just started working with us, but he was an ace blues guitarist and didn't really know much about television. But, he came in every day eager to do anything we had, and he was willing to try anything. When we asked him to produce this video, no matter how much time it took, he jumped at it.
Marcy was a producer (and painter) who'd been the senior producer that launched MTV in Fred's promo department. She'd recently become the creative director at her friend Peter Caesar's independent video production facility in Manhattan and Peter had one of the few digital painting devices in the world at his studio. Fred/Alan was willing to hand over the entire $5000 fee to Caesar Video.
We'd always loved James Brown (we weren't dead), and for some reason Fred had always imagined the hardest working man in show business's dancing feet generated electrical sparks.
Put the original VHS footage in a Blendtec, with all this stuff plus a dash of hip-hop graffiti, and a lot of long days and night. It made a pretty happening video. Low-fi? Sure. It was shot on a home video camera, for funk's sake.
* The other way Amy Grant's "Find a Way."
** Neither Alan or Fred was a director, and in the final analysis, video music is a director's medium. Besides it was really hard to make a profit.0 comments Tagged: 1984, Tom Pomposello, Tommy Boy Records, music video, television, soul, R&B,.
A few years in the company was getting a little worn out exclusively working on branding projects, and we looked for assignments that would get us a little closer to the television show productions we hoped for when we started the company in 1983. Sometimes things would come our way that allowed us to bridge past our visible strengths towards our bigger goals. Like Rockschool.
This was a wacky gig. Whatever it is that moves rockers to be legit (can you imagine Hip-Hop Fantasy Camp?) has spawned a number of how-to-rock venues, but this BBC2 TV series was one of the first that tried to be formal about it all.
Fred/Alan didn't produce the show itself, but in 1988 we were asked by our friend David Thomas at Thirteen to repackage it for United States consumption. We were to keep the name, but produce the American wrap-arounds with host Herbie Hancock (still hot enough off his MTV hit Rockit), and design the branding, instruction books, and advertising.
Tom Corey and Scott Nash (Corey McPherson Nash, Boston) collaborated on the print (Scott did the illustrations); our colleague Tom Pomposello oversaw the television production.
Poster copy:
Be True To Your School.
There's one school they make you go to…now there's a school you'll want to go to.
A TV series where real rock stars show you how they make their music.
With guest starts Chet Atkins, Bootsy Collins, Sly Dunbar, Bernard Edwards, John Entwistle, Larry Graham, Gary Moore, Ian Paice (Deep Purple), Carl Palmer, Nile Rogers, Robbie Shakespeare, John Taylor (Duran Duran) and more.
And special appearances by Stanley Clarke, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Maiden, B.B. King, Motorhead and The Police.
Hosted by Herbie Hancock.
Lifetime IDs 1985 for Fred/Alan from fredseibert on Vimeo.
Tom Burchill had a good idea in 1984. Lifetime (the result of a merger between Cable Health Network and Daytime Television) would become "Talk Television", the TV euqivalent of talk radio. The hosts would be everyone from Regis Philbin to Dr. Ruth. Good idea, poor execution, run by the wrong executives, who were still trying to make broadcast television, when cable had clearly morphed into something different. And even talk radio hadn't yet supercharged into the conservative powerhouse Rush Limbaugh initiated in 1988.
But I enjoyed the work we did. Lifetime was our first Fred/Alan branded network after Nickelodeon, and the IDs were done with Corey McPherson Nash, Buzzco, Colossal Pictures, Olive Jar Productions. Tom Pomposello produced, and that's Tina Potter as "the annoucer."
(Tom Burchill recovered, I should hasten to add, when he dumped the talk format and Lifetime became the very successful "Television for Women." We, alas, were not involved.)
Animation by Colossal Pictures, Buzzco Associates, Charlex, Olive Jar Studios, Filigree Films.
Lifetime logo designed by Tom Corey & Scott Nash, Corey McPherson Nash, Boston, Mass, USA
See more of our Nickelodeon posts here.
Fred/Alan started with working with Nickelodeon in late 1984 when Bob Pittman was made President of MTV Networks and he fired the existing staff, which had succeeded in losing the company tens of millions of dollars, and worse, making Nickelodeon the lowest rated cable network in America.
Bob assigned us to the remaining executives, Gerry Laybourne and Debby Beece, and suggested to them the Fred/Alan approach to branding could help them succeed. We immediately introduced them to our notion of network "promises" and then redesigned the network with Tom Corey and Scott Nash (Corey McPherson Nash, Boston) and hired some of our favorite writers and producers to create a 'brand'. There was no money for programming or advertisting, so all the work needed to be done by the airtime on the channel itself. Nonetheless, our efforts succeeded in bringing Nickelodeon from worst to first in the ratings within six months, and Nickelodeon remains America's #1 cable network of any kind, earning billions of dollars and making millions of kids happy.0 comments Tagged: Corey McPherson Nash, MTV Networks, Network IDs, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon IDs, Scott Nash, TV spots, Tom Corey, animation, branding, cable, television, Tom Pomposello,.
Nickelodeon Camp IDs 1988-1990 from fredseibert on Vimeo.
Howard Hoffman is an artist and animation director who'd worked with Fred/Alan on a number of projects. One day he presented a zany idea. Howard spent Augusts at the Maine summer camp of his youth running an animation workshop, and wouldn't it be better if the kids were animating something "real" like some Nickelodeon network IDs? That could be cool, right?
Well, sure. How bad could they be?
Not bad at all, it turned out; they were great. Howard made Nick IDs (and we filmed the kids introducing their shorts) for several years, and they were some of the best pieces we ever ran on the network.0 comments Tagged: MTV Networks, Maine, Network IDs, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon IDs, branding, camp, Tom Pomposello,.
Illustrated by Joey Ahlbum
In 1986 music videos were still the coolest thing on earth and our friend Steve Dessau thought there was a way to make some money with them. Edgar Bronfman Jr. had just taken over his family's liquor business and was obsessed with music (he's now the CEO of the Warner Music Group). He was frustrated that liquor couldn't use television to sell its wares and that he couldn't take advantage of his favorite entertainment trend.
Who better to sell an idea to him than the only credible MTV guys who weren't working at MTV (us)?
Partnering with Steve's company (we set up a joint venture called Mystery Train Partners; see the business card below), we convinced Edgar Jr. that the Myers's Rum Video Network could be his own "network" at the "video nightclubs" that were springing up around the country. It kind of worked.
Fred/Alan IDs for Myers's Rum Video Network 1987 from fredseibert on Vimeo.
Produced for Fred/Alan by Tom Pomposello; Executive producers: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert. Animation by Joey Ahlbum, Charlex, Alan Goodman, and Marv Newland/International Rocketship. Logo designed by Arlen Schumer.
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Business card designed by Kathy Seibert Carey
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The Jive 5 on Nickeldeon from fredseibert on Vimeo
Eugene Pitt and The Jive 5 were as perfect an element of network identity as Fred/Alan ever found. All the filmmakers who worked with us on Nickelodeon lined up to be the first to use their soundtracks on their network IDs.
The Fred/Alan television branding execution often started with defining a network's sound. A background in music and radio made this logical for them, though it was a philosphy grounded in their belief that TV was driven by the sounds first, with the visuals often following the audio lead. In the case of the Nickelodeon rebranding in 1985 the time frame was short, under six months, so the audio and the visual identities were developed simultaneously.
For over a year Alan and Fred had been thinking about old radio jingles, and thinking of ways to incorporate a human, vocal sound on their identities. In 1983, working on The Playboy Channel's Hot Rocks, they scouted around for an a cappella group to record distinctive IDs for the music video show. Alan's former colleague, writer and producer Marty Pekar, had started Ambient Sound to capture contemporary recordings of classic doo-wop groups from the 50s and 60s. He introduced them to the leader of The Jive 5, Eugene Pitt, as "not only a great singer, but a smart man." They found Eugene to be, as Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO Terry Stewart said, "the most underrated soul singer in America," and a wonderful collaborator. When the opportunity to work with Nickelodeon presented itself, Fred, Alan, and producer Tom Pomposello immediately knew the Jive 5 would be the perfect underpinning for defining the vocabulary of the network.
Convincing Nickelodeon was another story. When we brought up the notion of a sound identity, Nickelodeon executives, still not fully understanding of where we intended to steer the channel, suggested a consideration of Raffi, then a recent phenomenon as a singer for young children. "He's very popular; our research confirms it." Fred/Alan tried a lot of arguments to bring them around to a doo-wop sound, but they fell on deaf ears. "Doo-wop's 30 years old, no kid has ever heard of it."
Frame grab from "The Jive Five", by Jon Kane/Optic Nerve
We won the day on two grounds.
Fred played on the executives' liberal backgrouds. "We love all forms of African-American music, and using doo-wop will be a great way to educate American kids without anyone being the wiser."
Alan's worked even better. He opened his mouth and, quoting The Marcels' arrangement of chestnut "Blue Moon," sang:
"Bom-ma-bom, a-bom-bom-a-bom, ba-ba-bom-bom-a-bomp, b-dang-a-dang-dang, b-ding-a-dong-ding."
"What kid isn't going to relate to that right away?" Alan asked.
Case closed.
Animation by Eli Noyes & Kit Laybourne, Joey Ahlbum, Colossal Pictures, David Lubell, Jerry Lieberman & Kim Deitch, Marv Newland/International Rocketship, and Jon Kane/Optic Nerve. Additional singing by Juli Davidson, and Paul Rolnick.
Fred/Alan IDs 1989 featuring Dr. John for TV Heaven from fredseibert on Vimeo.
After Tom Pomposello introduced us to Fred Mogubgub's pop-art style for the TV Heaven/Channel 41 station IDs, our creative department researched a series of 'heaven' quotations which would be read by actors for the animation soundtracks.
In another life Fred/Alan Managing Director Ed Levine (now a famous food writer) had co-produced two amazing records by New Orleans stylist Dr. John (real name Mac Rebennack) and had convinced him to play our annual holiday parties. Ed reminded us Mac was singing commercials (for their big payday) and thought he might do us a favor and put one of the appropriate quotes to music to give the campaign a little flavor.
Session arrangements were made and Ed and our production team went over to the studio for what we thought we be a normal three hour session with Mac singing and playing solo piano. A little over an hour later they were back in the office doors. We were shocked and concerned they were back so fast; what had gone wrong?!
As often happens with magic talent at the right moment, nothing had gone wrong and everything had gone amazingly right. Mac had taken a look at the lyrics we'd prepared, with the syllables' rhythm worked out perfectly, and come up with a melody that fit 10 seconds in about…10 seconds! He'd asked for other lyrics and we put everything we had in front of him whether they "worked" or not. One by one, with over a dozen set of lyrics, Mac ran them down in real time, and before our team knew it, he'd sung every word we had. All of a sudden we'd almost doubled our ID output, and with a N'awlins joie de vivre at that.
We eventually used visuals from all of our contributors — Fred Mogubgub, International Rocketship, Mark Karzen, Mark Beyer, and others from our agency creative team— with the unique soundtracks Dr. John provided us.0 comments Tagged: Dr. John, Network IDs, TV Heaven, TV Heaven IDs, TV spots, UHF, animation, branding, broadcast, television, Tom Pomposello,.
Fred/Alan IDs 1989 for TV Heaven 41 from fredseibert on Vimeo.
In 1988, a friend of ours bought a couple of failing UHF TV stations in the upper suburbs of Minnesota. He asked Fred/Alan to work our branding and programming philosphies on the station (linked together with common programming). We made them the first broadcaster* to use an "oldies television" approach and creative director Noel Frankel, dubbed it "TV Heaven."
For the animated IDs we felt were so integral to branding TV in the 1980s, our producer Tom Pomposello convinced us that the pioneering work of animator Fred Mogubgub would be just the original ticket. Fred's style had a kind of staccato, pop-art feel, and he'd made an animated film completely out of still images illustrating the text. We hired Fred, Marv Newland's International Rocketship (Vancouver), and various illustrators and photographers. For text we researched enormous amounts of quotations with the word 'heaven' in them. Like "Heaven is on Earth when I look at you, but when I see you in a mirror it's reversed." We chose a few dozen and had them read or sung by actors like Fran Rizzo or Dr. John**, put the results together, and had a campaign that was one of our proudest accomplishments.
* Note our post title says "station" not "network." Alan and I had created the first oldies TV approach for an ABC development deal we had in 1983. After they passed we held onto the idea and reworked in 1985 it when Nickelodeon needed to fill their non-kid hours from 8pm-6am. Immediately, 'Nick-at-Nite' became #1 in cable prime with the highly coveted (among programmers and advertisers) group of adults from 18 to 34 years old.
By 1988, the geniuses in the MTV Networks sales department decided that oldies programming (Bewitched, My Three Sons, The Donna Reed Show, and the rest) in black & white couldn't be sold to advertisers, and the publicity folks insisted the TV writers didn't want to write about "old shows". At the time, no one there understood it was the format that innovative and it was the format the audience was in love with. They demanded Nick-at-Nite "reposition" itself. We suggested an all comedy network, since the most successful shows on the network were old sitcoms, and for nine months we preceeded HA!, Comedy Channel, and Comedy Central.
The Nickelodeon folks gave us permission to bring the format to the tiny, tiny TV stations in Minnesota; how much trouble would that cause a big, ole cable network?
Within three weeks of launch TV Heaven had generated more publicity than Nick-at-Nite had in three years. Our marketing client told us we would not only be fired from Nick-at-Nite but from all Nick related channels, maybe even MTV. We resigned TV Heaven and they never paid their bills to Fred/Alan.0 comments Tagged: Network IDs, TV Heaven, TV Heaven IDs, TV spots, animation, branding, Tom Pomposello,.


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The Exodus, According to Stephen Colbert (VIDEO)
By Jspace Staff on 3/12/2012 at 5:42 PM
Categories: Gossip, Religion, Entertainment
Listen closely, and Stephen Colbert will recall how the Israelites were enslaved for forcing the Egyptians to provide complete contraceptive coverage. God heard the Jews groaning, and said, "Mishpochah! What's the matter?" Then came the gift of frogs, for as Colbert astutely observes, they're not really a plague.
Colbert calls out Jonathan Safran Foer for thinking he can improve on Moses with his new book, "The New American Haggadah." Colbert displays some impressive knowledge of the Tribe, boasting, "I knew it was Passover, that's why we have an extra chair here for Elijah, in case he shows up."
Safran Foer does manage to interject a wonderful and historically based reason for releasing a new version of the Haggadah between all the four question and matzah ball jokes, but we all know his real motive.
Everyone at a sedar gets their own copy. "Cha-ching!"
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"To much outsourcing "
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I worked at Portugal Telecom full-time (more than an year)Pros
You learn enterprise size methodologies there. The company lunch area is reasonable although it could have more variety.Cons
They don't have good work life balance and the outsourcing is terrible, seen people there that are outsourced by as much as four companies before being deploy in their work post, a victory for the middle men.Advice to ManagementAdvice
the outsourcing is not really saving any money, offer those workers half of what you pay to the outsourcing companies and the "real" workers will be be very happy with the 50% raise and a stable job. I simply quit and moved on to a better work because these critical points would not be meet even if I was very good at my work.Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEO
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"Not a good place to unleash your full creativity. "
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I have been working at Portugal TelecomPros
Safe job; Perks like health insurance, telecommunications products discounts, etc; Lots of people using the products you gonna help design and develop.Cons
Low wages; incompetent management; corporate environment; many internal divisions with the different commercial brands (SAPO, MEO, TMN), which hinders your work; lots of focus on charging the customer instead of creating great products; cultural division of employees by their rank and job skills;Advice to ManagementAdvice
Be more organized; think ahead of time; don't always make last minute decisions; give more autonomy to your team members; stay focused instead of trying to create too many products; give real and honest feedback to the team; give importance to continuous assessment of workers job, not only at yearly evaluation.Doesn't RecommendApproves of CEO


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Now two studies find that diets high in meat and cheese, when eaten in middle age, might shorten people's life spans.
However, in a surprise twist, the same research team found that eating lots of animal-based protein in old age might actually do the opposite.
"The research shows that a low-protein diet in middle age is useful for preventing cancer and overall mortality [death]," study co-author Eileen Crimmins, the AARP Chair in Gerontology at the University of Southern California, said in a university news release. "However, we also propose that at older ages, it may be important to avoid a low-protein diet to allow the maintenance of healthy weight and protection from frailty."
The findings were published March 4 in the journal Cell Metabolism
In the study, the researchers looked at data on more than 6,800 middle-aged and older adults in the United States. They found that 50-year-olds who got more than 20 percent of their calories from animal protein -- mainly meat or dairy products -- had a fourfold increased risk of death from cancer or diabetes. And they had a nearly twofold increased risk of death from any cause over the next 18 years, compared to people on more low-protein regimens.
Even middle-aged people who consumed only "moderate" levels of animal protein had a threefold increased risk of death from cancer, the researchers reported.
This increased risk of death was much lower or non-existent in 50-year-olds who ate a diet high in protein sourced mainly from plants, the researchers added.
However, the study also found that people older than 65 who consumed high amounts of animal protein had a 60 percent lower risk of dying from cancer and a 28 percent lower risk of death from any cause, compared to people who shied away from meat and dairy at this age. Similar benefits were seen in seniors who had moderate levels of protein intake.
"The majority of Americans are eating about twice as much protein as they should, and it seems that the best change would be to lower the daily intake of all proteins but especially animal-derived proteins," at least in middle age, study senior author Dr. Valter Longo, of the University of Southern California, said in the university news release. "But don't get extreme in cutting out protein; you can go from protected to malnourished very quickly."
A second study, this time conducted in mice, found that a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet shortened the rodents' lifespan.
Overall, the findings provide "convincing evidence that a high-protein diet -- particularly if the proteins are derived from animals -- is nearly as bad as smoking for your health," Longo said in a journal news release. He was the senior author of the study conducted in humans.
The effects of protein consumption on a person's risk of an early death may be partly due to the activation of natural growth hormone and a cellular growth factor called IGF-1, the researchers explained.
"Notably, the activity of these factors, but also body weight, declines naturally with aging, which may explain why older people not only did not benefit but appeared to do worse if they ate a low-protein diet," Longo said.
The researchers believe the studies will boost understanding about links between diet and health.
"We have shown explicitly why it is that calories aren't all the same -- we need to look at where the calories come from and how they interact," Steve Simpson, senior author of the mouse study, said in the journal news release.
"This research has enormous implications for how much food we eat, our body fat, our heart and metabolic health, and ultimately the duration of our lives," said Simpson, a researcher at the University of Sydney in Australia.
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SOURCES: University of Southern California and Cell Metabolism, news releases, March 4, 2014
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Booked this hotel for part of a trip with German friends and could not have made a better choice. Rooms were comfortable with great showers. Staff were highly attentive and food was good. Even the bar was reasonably priced given that we were captive customers. Unfortunately we had only one night in this hotel!!
Great Hotel would go back any time
Stayed at the hotel for two nights can't fault the hotel. Rooms were clean and modern, staff very helpful and friendly and the food was great.
Wouldn't go back
A recent tour included four nights at this hotel. The lounge and dining room were attractive, service was excellent and prompt. However, the beds were impossible for sleeping. The mattresses seemed new, but the springs are barely covered with fabric making for a lumpy and stabbing surface. I managed about one to two hours of sleep per night. Others expressed similar experience. Our stay was divided into one night here, two nights away, then two nights here, so we were staying in different rooms. As far as we could tell, all the mattresses were of similar quality.
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We have just returned home from our stay at this hotel and what can we say ?Lovely bedroom shower curtain needing a good clean or replaced .Reception staff friendly but that is where it ended .We booked our table for dinner on arrival 1st night when we went to dining room at booked time was told we would have to wait a few minutes which ended up being 35 minutes. 2nd night we again booked table for dinner and again on time we arrived and was told by a member of staff the table would be a few minutes which this time turned into 1 hour .Only after asking twice when a table would be ready were we shown to a table We suffered all this only to find the food of a poor quality and bland. The soup tasted as if it was from a packet and generally poor all round meals (TDH menu). We paid a higher rate than others in the hotel and still had to pay for our overpriced wine whilst having to wait for our meals. The entertainment was good but had the feel of a retirement home.We stay in hotels all over the country 35-40 weeks of the year and can assure you there are better and cheaper hotels elsewhere- we will not be back
Good stay
We had 3 single rooms at �55 pppn. One room had a lovely view and was totally refurbished (115). Room 123 was also rotally refurbished but looked onto roofs. My room 132 had been partially refurbished (bathroom horrible) with other bedroom windows as views. My point is surely the room rate should be lower especially in room 132 where I did not have the same location and facilities??? I have put this to the hotel - and await their comments.
Staff were excellent, food great and varied, entertainment - not my cup of tea.
Would I go back??? Yes but I would request a room with a view.
A reasonably good stay... but
The grounds to this hotel are smart and pleasant. Our room overlooked the gardens and valley beyond - beautiful! the room was large with a huge bed (singles bolted together) and the bathroom looked to have been updated recently.
However, the decor is a bit tired in places - dated wall paper, but then also gorgeous new curtains.
Main problem is that hotel also had a wedding and other residents were disadvantaged by this. The regimented meal times were a surprise, and then our appointed meal time ran an hour late due to the wedding. We were then served a 4 course meal, (which was very nice) in 30 mins flat, by over zealous staff making up for the delay. Wedding noise until after 2am, followed by coaches running their engines from 7 in the morning! The hotel should warn other guests on booking about the potential for such disturbances.
On the whole, this hotel is ok, but could be a lot better.
Well kept Hotel
A well presented hotel in a beautiful location, hotel was clean and seemed freshly decorated, room was fair size but ours unfortunatly over looked a roof with verry little veiw, entertainment was very much aimed at the older customer, The international Caberet atist was more intersted in playing on the fruit machine! food was poor for the quality of the hotel, mixed veg potato croquets etc, we only ate there on first night at �18 each, and ate out rest of the stay.
A beautiful old building set in its own superb landscaped gardens. The hotel is wonderfully decorated inside in all areas and it even has its own cinema. All the staff were friendly and helpfull and made us feel like we were their top priority. The food was delicious and plenty of it. There is a rumor that they are going to add a swimming pool and spa to the hotel, when that is done there will be no better hotel in our opinion.
OK place
Nice, older hotel in the highlands of Scotland. The staff was very polite and professional, and were helpful in makings us feel welcome. The rooms were a little small and not much a a view, but comfortable. The dinning room served good food, but the service left a lot to be desired. Rude wait staff, and they were never around if you needed anything extra.
Superb Stay at Ben Wyvis Hotel
Found this hotel to be superb throughout. Rated 3-Star, should be at least 4. Situated in a beautiful part of Scotland.
Food delicious. Rooms immaculate. Received excellent service from staff. Evening entertainment very enjoyable. Hotel even has a cinema.
If looking to stay in this part of Scotland, this hotel should be top of your short-list.
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The winners of the conference's North and South divisions will play at the home field of the team with the best conference record.
The Big Game between Stanford and Cal will be played this season at Memorial Stadium in Berkley on Saturday, Nov. 22, and will not be the final regular-season game for either team. Stanford closes its conference schedule at UCLA on Friday, Nov. 28, and the Golden Bears host BYU for a non-conference game on Saturday, Nov. 29.
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Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau predicted that Dallas would play their strongest game of the three game miniseries tonight and his prediction proved true as the Stars beat the Ducks in Anaheim, 3-1.
The first period proved to be chaotic for the Ducks who played without their captain and first line center, Ryan Getzlaf. Saku Koivu would step into the first line center role, resulting in all the Ducks lines being more mixed and matched than usual, (which is saying something for a Boudreau coached team). The Stars would take advantage of the Ducks chaos, scoring all three of their goals in the first period.
The first goal of the game would come courtesy of Lane McDermid halfway through the first, followed by a quick response from Andrew Cogliano just about 20 seconds later in the game. With such a quick response things were looking up for the Ducks until just minutes later goalie Viktor Fasth left his crease to play a puck, which he decided to retreat from as Eric Nystrom was able to get an angle on Corey Perry for the loose puck. Fasth's poor decision to play a loose puck left Nystrom with, essentially, an open net and an easy 2nd goal of the game for the Dallas Stars.
The Ducks would not respond and the Stars added salt to the wound as Alex Chiasson would score on the rush, bringing the first period to an end, and concluding the scoring for the rest of the game. The Stars got some strong play from their goaltender Kari Lehtonen allowing them to shut the door for the rest of the game, but the game could easily be chalked up more as a Ducks loss than a Stars win. That isn't to say the Stars didn't play well, clearly they did, but the Ducks were clearly hurt by a jumbled lineup, some poor decisions, and perhaps an underestimation of their opponent.
As the game went on the Ducks shut the door, not allowing any additional Stars goals but the same would be true for the Stars who have declared they aren't out of the playoff picture just yet. The Ducks game improved but they struggled to find their offensive rhythm and when facing Kari Lehtonen simply couldn't find a way to get the puck in the net. The Ducks were impressive on the penalty kill, going 6 for 6, but then disappointed by going 0-4 on the powerplay.
All in all it was a disappointing night for the Ducks, who, with a regulation loss, have allowed Los Angeles and San Jose to creep closer in the division standings, and have given the Stars some playoff hopes. Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau was critical of the team, stating that they need to get their mouths under control to help them gain sympathy with referees, rather than finding themselves rewarded with unsportsmanship conduct penalties as Matt Beleskey did in the 2nd period. The Ducks have certainly fallen victim this season to missed calls, and Ducks fans can only hope that Anaheim's roster can do a better job of not shooting their mouths off and maybe gaining some favor with referees. With such a feared powerplay it would be nice to see it on the ice more often.
Matthew Lombardi looked good on the ice for the Ducks and shows promising signs, but at this point, Getzlaf can't return to the lineup soon enough. Beyond Getzlaf however, we can only hope that Jonas Hiller returns fully healthy soon after sitting out tonight with a cold. Fasth has, (per usual), played very well and his mistake can even be a good one in that hopefully it isn't repeated, but having Hiller in the lineup certainly makes the Ducks a much more formidable team.
If there is a silver lining to tonight's game it's that the Ducks are, with every loss, working kinks out of the system. The Ducks played one very poor period and paid an enormous price for it, but then went on to play two solid periods. Hopefully the Ducks figure out how to both play a 60 minute game, and play through adversity. There's no guarantee that the Ducks will be fully healthy in the playoffs, and learning to jumble lines and play in different spots, while not ideal, is a good lesson to learn.
Tonight proved the value of having depth in the lineup. Having more options at center proved invaluable as Nick Bonino and Ryan Getzlaf sat out, and the Ducks had to go so far as hiring a local goaltender to come in and sit on the bench until backup and Norfolk affiliate goaltender Igor Bobkov arrived from Virginia to step in for Jonas Hiller. On night's like this, despite the loss, it's nice to know we have guys like David Steckel, Matthew Lombardi, Viktor Fasth, Saku Koivu and beyond who are able to step into larger roles, albeit temporarily.
Hopefully Getzlaf is back by Sunday to play in the freeway faceoff against the Los Angeles Kings. It's sure to be a good game as the Ducks will be looking to rebound from tonight's loss, and the Kings are looking to gain ground on their Pacific Division rival. Bonino won't return for probably a couple more weeks, but even so, the Ducks should be a much better team on Sunday than they were tonight.
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