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(TMZ) - Country superstar Jason Aldean has filed for divorce, after cheating on his wife last fall, TMZ reports.
Aldean announced last week he had separated from his wife and high school sweetheart Jessica Ussery.
You'll recall, the singer was pictured kissing Season 11 "American Idol" contestant Brittany Kerr on the Sunset Strip in September.
Aldean and Ussery initially tried to patch things up - and they even walked a red carpet side-by-side back in November - but clearly, that didn't work out.
The separation was announced on April 26th. TMZ has learned Aldean filed divorce papers the same day in Tennessee.
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Former Jazz coach Jerry Sloan has pulled out of consideration for the vacant job with the Milwaukee Bucks, NBA.com reported Thursday night.
Sloan talked to officials from the Bucks last week at his farm in McLeansboro, Ill., and the team was said to be "seriously" interested in him.
According to NBA.com, however, agent Keith Glass said Sloan has decided to withdraw from consideration. Glass is "advising Sloan on potential head coaching jobs."
"The bottom line is, Jerry doesn't really feel it's the right fit for him right now," said Glass, who added that Sloan remains interested in coaching again.
"His name keeps popping up with every job, and he hasn't applied for anything. He had a real nice meeting with them. ... It's just not the right fit for Jerry, from Jerry's point of view. That's not a negative thing; that's just the reality."
Two weeks ago, Sloan told The Salt Lake Tribune he'd like to return to coaching with a team that "had a chance to win a few games."
Glass repeated that aspect of Sloan's interest in a future coaching job: "For Jerry to go to a place that's going to take years to build and I'm not talking about Milwaukee, I'm talking about anywhere that's just not right for him. They have to be able to compete. Jerry is a competitor, and he wants to compete and teach."

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Senior Luke Vance concluded his outstanding collegiate running career with a third-place finish in the finals of the men's 800-meter run to earn All-American accolades for the fifth time in his career.
May 20, 2013
The Humanitarian Disaster Institute (HDI) at Wheaton College will present a Disaster Leadership Workshop June 4-7 on the campus of Wheaton College. The workshop is designed to equip pastors and church leaders to lead their congregations in developing effective disaster ministries.
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No. 15 White Sox prospect homers, drives in career-high five
By Brandon Simes / MiLB.com | July 29, 2013 8:14 PM ET
Jacob May has quite the name to live up to, but if he keeps playing like he did Monday night, he'll make his own.
The No. 15 White Sox prospect homered and drove in a career-high five runs in Class A Kannapolis' 10-5 win over Lexington at CMC-NorthEast Stadium. It was also a season high for the Intimidators.
"Today was definitely a confidence booster," May said. "I've been grinding, trying to get better every day. I get to the park early and work hard, so it was good to see some of the hard work pay off today. I'll enjoy it for a bit and then be back at it tomorrow."
The native of Liberty Township, Ohio, was selected in the third round of the 2013 Draft.
"It was a dream come true. I always wanted to play professional baseball. When they called my name I couldn't do anything but cry. I've got a foot in the door and I'm going to take it and run with it," May said.
The 21-year-old started off his professional career hot, hitting .378 with a .926 OPS and five steals in 45 at-bats for Great Falls of the Rookie-level Pioneer League. After just 12 games, May was promoted to Kannapolis, where he's struggled to find the same rhythm at the plate, hitting .167 in 78 at-bats.
"I think it's kind of a learning thing," he said. "I know with my family being around the game that you're going to have some struggles, and it's a chance to show what kind of person you are. Are you going to give up or keep grinding?"
May has an impressive pedigree. His father, Lee May Jr., was a Mets' first-round selection in 1986, and his grandfather, Lee May Sr., hit 354 home runs and earned three All-Star selections as a first baseman and outfielder for four franchises.
"It's definitely helped me now that I'm in the pros. Being around my father kind of taught me the ups and downs of the Minor Leagues," Jacob May said. "Struggles are normal, you've got to take it for what it's worth. I knew coming in that it's not going to be easy and I have to work for it."
Unlike his grandfather, the center fielder doesn't rely on power to make his presence felt.
"My speed [is my biggest strength]. That's something I can really impact the game with as far as taking away hits, laying down a bunt or turning a single into a double," he said.
With a lot of experience in the game just a phone call away, the latest in the May line of baseball players knows he'll have to pave his own road to the Majors.
"It's still a learning process and you're not going to be in the big leagues in a snap of a finger. So I'm just out here to improve and work hard to get better every day," May said.
Jefferson Olacio (5-10) earned the win by allowing five runs -- four earned -- on five hits over six innings, the sixth straight start he's thrown at least that many. The 6-foot-7 left-hander entered the game with the fourth-best ERA in the South Atlantic League since the All-Star Break, a 1.50 mark over 36 innings.
Catcher Mike Marjama homered and drove in three runs.
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Here is a way to show and hide the desktop with a simple bin bash script and a .desktop file. First you need to get the program wmctrl because it will be the program handling the desktop effect ( minimize all & maximize all).
then after that installs run nano (or another editor) correctly and type the following script:Code:apt-get install wmctrl
Save the file to: Desktop.sh (or whatever) and then put the script in bin bash dir (for instance I'll put mine in the home dir for now). Then create a new .desktop file and type in the following:Code:if wmctrl -m | grep "mode: ON"; then exec wmctrl -k off else exec wmctrl -k on fi
Tada!Code:[Desktop Entry] Name=Desktop Path=/home/oddacon/ Exec=sh "desktop" StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Type=Application Comment=Show and Hide the Desktop GenericName=Desktop Icon=user-desktop.png
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Just came back from mikes with some shite! overall good trip worth the bike ride for sure! blazed a doob while i was out to get the creative juices flowin and came back and produced a ton o' slaps! ill get flicks later...for now:
Anyone ever used that krylon original chrome?? seems sick, gay skinny shape tho. some other bastard writer got there before me and racked all the normal silver krylon! >
man the micheals where im living is fucking heated.. cuase i live in a kinda smaller town, alot of people rack there.. and theres only one micheals. so the workers are always watching out. its bullshit.
awhile back...don't remember if i posted this.
one trip to michael's!
some scrap cans and other various supply...(when some of my shit is organized)
its called gloves?
yea okay lol113 cans of belton
3496 sharpies
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cope 2s blood
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she got um for xmas, while i was in jail.... i thought it was fanny shit i was liek
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"oh sorry i was in operating room"
"yeah your sister wanted tits"
"but mom shes only 11"
well the last line didnt happen but still...
well you best be not trippin.
im a jedi fuckin masterrrrrrrr
all y'all padawans best shut da fak upppp
(sex without condoms)
some of my paint and ink
my stash ..i love them streaks!!
my markers
my spray paint
Blackbook+some stickers
I paint because I love it, and it adds character to any inanimate object. Whether it is a wall or a footpath. It brings the streets to life. -Rone
Sorry this is really off topic but how good is black or red garvey?? Is it worth buying or should i just continue making my own ink?
dubstep, cigarettes, tremclad, montana, and split streaks.
how are those dalos?
stocked up, waiting for warm weather
RESP, there pretty sick. I like em. just REALLY loud on dumpsters
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Why is it that sometimes when i boot into the live cd. some commands will not work.
for example when i tried to format a partition with mkfs.ext3
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sometimes when i try to reboot
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this happens randomly. any ideas?
sounds to be corrupted cd again, if you have burned it at 48x it's normal....
i always burn important cd at 4x max.....
please ensure the md5 hash of ur iso is correct.....
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if i want to do the aireplay and get the handshake, it tells me
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what could be the problem?
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A quick search for "aireplay space" would have turned up this recent thread.
hi i have 2 aps.....
if there's space on the (essid) name of the ap i can't authenticate in fake mode...
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i type aireplay-ng wlan0 -1 0 -e Flag Sisters..(or Senza Fili)......... in version 0.8 it's displayed code denied 1...while in new version 0.9 of aircrack suite.....it's displayed type --help....
aireplay have a serius bug becouse the ssid it's correct.....any ideas?
ps. in other ap without space on the name of ap essid i can associated successful
A quick search for "aireplay space" would have turned up this recent thread.
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How do they do it?! Its interactive. each video is a different mobile number and if you text it, the guy on video picks his phone up and reads your text on screen?
Anyone got an idea ?
Only works in uk
Ah i see :/
Its Amazing. Its incredible how interactive it is. Its like texting a real person the way he replies and your phone goes off. I hope someone figures it out
It is all done using mobile APIs.
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It is all done using mobile APIs.
Care to expand pleaase
Im not sure of the exact technicalities but I know some of the people behind it and they are VERY secretive. I imagine the API recognises the video being played (the number is unique to each video if you refresh the page) and the text response to the number in that play and that's how it tells which content to pull into which video. It is also how they determine the fee drinks offers too.


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World professional boxing has no one controlling body that is universally recognized. This situation had its origins in the United States in 1920 when two organizations were established: the National Boxing Association, a private body, and the New York State Athletic Commission, a state agency. Divided control led to competing organizations' sometimes recognizing different boxers as world champions at the same time. In Europe the ruling body was the International Boxing Union, which in 1948 became the European Boxing Union. Several attempts were subsequently made to induce all major professional boxing organizations to agree to the formation of one international ruling body, but to little avail. In the early 1960s the World Boxing Council (WBC) was formed, and the National Boxing Association changed its name to the World Boxing Association (WBA). The International Boxing Federation (IBF) was established in 1983, which added to an already convoluted situation. Since the 1980s it has been common for most weight divisions to have three so-called world champions, and this has considerably diluted the championship class in boxing.
The lack of one unified governing body has also seriously hampered attempts to reform boxing. The sport's chaotic organization makes it nearly impossible to implement safety measures, such as requiring stringent qualifications for ringside physicians, or to alter systemic problems that lead to corruption, such as the practice of permitting those who are promoting a fight to manage one or both of the boxers appearing in that fight. If a promoter or fighter is banned from fighting in one jurisdiction, the fact that the fight can be moved to another venue, which is ruled by a different group, makes avoidance of regulations easy.
During the 19th and again at the beginning of the 20th century, the popularity of boxing brought about the formation of weight divisions other than the heavyweight class to eliminate the handicap of smaller contestants' having to concede excessive weight to their opponents. Some of these weight divisions originated in the United States, others in Great Britain.
There were traditionally eight weight divisions in men's boxing. More divisions were added until professional governing bodies now recognize a total of 17 weight classes. The upper limits of these classes are delimited as follows:strawweight, 105 pounds (48 kg)junior flyweight, 108 pounds (49 kg)flyweight, 112 pounds (51kg51 kg)junior bantamweight, 115 pounds (52 kg)bantamweight, 118 pounds (53.5 kg)junior featherweight, 122 pounds (55 kg)featherweight, 126 pounds (57 kg)junior lightweight, 130 pounds (59 kg)lightweight, 135 pounds (61 kg)junior welterweight, 140 pounds (63.5 kg)welterweight, 147 pounds (67 kg)junior middleweight, 154 pounds (70 kg)middleweight, 160 pounds (72.5 kg)super middleweight, 168 pounds (76 kg)light heavyweight, 175 pounds (79 kg)cruiserweight, 190 pounds (86 kg)heavyweight, unlimited
In all world and national title fights, weight limits must be strictly observed, although fighters are often allowed by contract to weigh-in the day before a fight. If a boxer is over the limit, he is normally given a short time in which to make the stipulated weight. If he still fails, the bout usually proceeds, but if the overweight fighter wins the bout, the title for which he was fighting is declared vacant.
In Olympic-style amateur boxing the weight divisions for men are:light flyweight, not more than 106 108 pounds (48 49 kg)flyweight, 112 115 pounds (51 52 kg)bantamweight, 119 123 pounds (54 56 kg)featherweight, 125 pounds (57 kg)lightweight, 132 pounds (60 kg)light welterweight, 141 pounds (64 kg)welterweight, 152 pounds (69 kg)middleweight, 165 pounds (75 kg)light heavyweight, 178 pounds (81 kg)heavyweight, 201 pounds (91 kg)super heavyweight (, any weight over 201 pounds (91 kg)
There is no universal agreement on weight divisions within women's professional boxing, whether professional or amateur.but amateur weight divisions are:flyweight, not more than 106 pounds (48 kg)bantamweight, 112 pounds (51 kg)featherweight, 119 pounds (54 kg)lightweight, 126 pounds (57 kg)light welterweight, 132 pounds (60 kg)welterweight, 141 pounds (64 kg)middleweight, 152 pounds (69 kg)light heavyweight, 165 pounds (75 kg)heavyweight, 179 pounds (81 kg)super heavyweight, any weight over 179 pounds (81 kg)
Women's Olympic boxing is restricted to just three weight classes:flyweight, 106 to 112 pounds (48 to 51 kg)lightweight, 123 to 132 pounds (56 to 60 kg)middleweight, 152 to 165 pounds (69 to 75 kg)
Because there is no universally accepted world ruling body for professional boxing, each country has its own set of rules, and in the United States there are different rules in different states. Generally bouts take place in a "ring" that is 18 to 22 feet (5.5 to 6.7 metres) square and surrounded by four strands of rope. Professional bouts may be scheduled to last from 4 to 12 rounds of three minutes' duration, though two-minute rounds are commonly used in women's bouts and in some bouts held in Great Britain. Since the late 1920s, professional championship bouts traditionally lasted 15 rounds, but by the late 1980s the WBC, WBA, and IBF championships were all being scheduled for 12 rounds.
A referee is stationed inside the ring with the boxers and regulates the bout. In some jurisdictions the referee scores the contest along with two judges outside the ring. In most jurisdictions, however, the referee does not participate in the judging, and three ringside officials score the bout. The officials award points to each boxer for each round, and a boxer must win on two of the three scorecards to earn a decision victory. In Olympic bouts five judges score the fight electronically by pushing a button whenever a punch is believed to have landed on a boxer. No punch is registered as a hit unless at least three judges press their buttons within a second of each other. Padded gloves, ranging from 8 to 10 ounces (227 to 283 grams) in weight, are worn by the boxers.
A bout ends in a knockout when a boxer is knocked down and cannot get up by the count of 10. A fight can be stopped by a technical knockout (TKO) when a boxer is deemed by the referee (and sometimes the ringside physician) to be unable to defend himself properly, when a boxer is deemed to have sustained a serious injury, or when a boxer or his seconds decide he should not continue. A bout may also end in a decision when the bout has gone the scheduled number of rounds and the scoring officials decide the winner. Several conditions can cause a bout to end in a draw: all three judges awarding identical scores to both contestants results in a draw, as does two of three judges awarding opponents identical scores, regardless of the third judge's score; further, two of the three judges giving the decision to opposing contestants and the third judge's scorecard being evenly divided between the opponents leads to a draw. In a "no contest" the bout is declared a nullity because of a premature and inconclusive end, such as one of the participants being unable to continue owing to a cut caused by an accidental clash of heads early in the fight. A bout may also end in disqualification.
The rules governing amateur boxing are similar in the United States, Great Britain, and continental Europe but differ substantially from those governing professional boxing. Amateur bouts are normally three rounds in duration, and the boxers wear protective headgear. Olympic bouts changed from three rounds of three minutes to four rounds of two minutes for the Games at Sydney in 2000. The referee only supervises the boxing, while three to five ringside judges score the bout. The rules are also more stringently enforced in amateur boxing, and disqualification is more common than in professional boxing.
An effective offense depends on the ability to throw punches quickly and to place them strategically so as to penetrate the opponent's guard. Defensive tactics include parrying or warding off punches with one's upraised arms and gloves, moving the head evasively up and down ("bobbing") and side to side ("weaving"), and bending or twisting one's head and upper body out of the blow's path. Footwork is important to both offense and defense. The two generally recognized stances are "orthodox" and "southpaw." The former has the left hand and the left foot forward, the latter the right hand and the right foot forward—the foot or hand that is forward is known as the lead. Boxers using orthodox stances ordinarily are right-handed and rely on that hand for power, using the left hand to jab and hook; the converse is true of southpaw boxers, who are usually left-handed. In either stance the lead hand is extended forward in front of the body and the other hand is held near the chin for protection, the chin is tucked into the chest, and the shoulders are hunched. There are individual variations.
There are four basic punches: the jab, hook, uppercut, and straight right (straight left for a southpaw), which is sometimes referred to as a "cross." All other punches are modifications of these basic punches. The jab, whether thrown from an orthodox or a southpaw stance, is a straight punch delivered with the lead hand, which moves directly out from the shoulder. The hook, also thrown with the lead hand, is a short lateral movement of arm and fist, with elbow bent and wrist twisted inward at the moment of impact. The uppercut is an upward blow delivered from the direction of the toes with either hand. The straight right or left is thrown at shoulder level with the back hand, usually as a follow-up to a jab from the other hand.
In bare-knuckle fighting the emphasis was on the power of the punch, since bouts usually ended only when one contestant could not continue. The hands were held in front of the body in no particular position, and footwork was practically nonexistent. With the advent of padded gloves and contests decided on points, boxing skills and footwork became more important. James J. Corbett was the first modern heavyweight to concentrate on technique. Ten years after Corbett lost the title, heavyweight champion Jack Johnson showed that he too could box as well as punch. The heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey enjoyed tremendous popularity because he was an aggressive fighter with an explosive assault. Dempsey fought from a crouch, bobbing and weaving to leave as little of himself exposed as possible. The heavyweight champion Joe Louis perfected the "stalking" style, a method of patiently pursuing his opponent until he came within range to deliver damaging blows.
Until Muhammad Ali, heavyweights were not expected to move quickly. At his peak, however, Ali was the fastest and arguably the most skillful heavyweight champion of all time. He danced around the ring with his arms sometimes dangling at his side, his legs ready to take him into punching range or out of harm's way at will. Although Ali did not possess a devastating punch, his hand speed was extraordinary, and he dominated many fights by delivering rapid sequences of blows. Though style remains a matter of individual choice, swift lateral movement, good defensive head movement, combination punching, and effective counterpunching have, to a large degree, become the most important aspects of modern boxing technique.
For such a brutal trade, boxing has attracted more than its share of artists and writers. Of course, it may be more accurate to say that it is boxing's seminaked display of aggression that accounts for its appeal. If all life is ultimately a Darwinian struggle for survival, then boxing at least has the virtue of being open about it. Boxing is also said to foster the "manly" virtues of discipline and fortitude. According to the duke of Wellington, boxing "tends to produce and keep up that natural undaunted bravery and intrepidity which has enabled our armies to conquer in many a hard-fought battle." Whatever its psychological hold, the sport has always inspired wonder and admiration, as well as repugnance, moving the artist to pick up pen, brush, chisel, or camera.
One of the earliest depictions of boxers appears on a Minoan vase from Crete c. 1500 bc. Almost 800 years later Homer recounted a boxing match in the 23rd book of the Iliad (see above), and, in a neat bit of parallelism, the sport became part of the 23rd Olympiad in 688 bc. Later Plato referred to boxing in the Republic and the dialogue Gorgias; Virgil, echoing Homer, included a boxing match in the Aeneid (see above). Pindar composed poems for Olympic champions, as in the Olympian ode written for Diagoras of Rhodes excerpted here:
But, Father Zeus, you who rule over the ridges of Atabyrium, grant honor to the hymn ordained in praise of an Olympian victor, and to the man who has found excellence as a boxer, and grant to him honoured grace in the eyes of both citizens and strangers. For he walks a straight course on a road that hates arrogance, knowing clearly the sound prophetic wisdom of his good ancestors.
Greek and Roman art frequently depict boxing. Greek vases portray many different types of blows and postures and often show blood pouring from a boxer's nose and cuts on his face. The life-size seated boxer (dating to the 1st century bc) now in the Roman National Museum in Rome wears superbly detailed sharp thongs on his hands, and his battered face, broken nose, and cauliflower ears show the effects of such fighting. The brutal and sinister forms of the Roman caestus (glove) frequently appear in small bronzes and in Roman mosaics.
After boxing died out with the gladiatorial games in the 5th century ad, it naturally disappeared from the literary and artistic canvas. When the sport resurfaced in 17th-century England, artists and writers soon gravitated to it. William Hogarth painted the first British champion, James Figg, and Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift attended Figg's exhibitions in London. Early in the next century, Lord Byron and John Keats professed themselves admirers of the sport, while William Hazlitt's essay The Fight (1821) made it legitimate material for men of letters. In 1812 a London journalist, Pierce Egan, wrote a history of British boxing, Boxiana, whose highly stylized prose very likely influenced a young reader by the name of Charles Dickens. Both Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray attended the famous fight between the American John C. Heenan and the British champion Tom Sayers in 1860, and Thackeray wrote a rather silly but endearing poem about it, A Lay of Ancient London. George Bernard Shaw devoted a novel to boxing, Cashel Byron's Profession (1883), which became the play The Admirable Bashville (1903). Arthur Conan Doyle not only made sure that Sherlock Holmes was a good amateur pugilist, he also wrote a half dozen stories about boxers under the title The Croxley Master and Other Tales of the Ring and Camp (1910). Even the poet laureate John Masefield devoted some stanzas to boxing in The Everlasting Mercy (1911). Here a boxer's seconds (a second assists or supports a boxer or duelist) try to ensure that their fighter will be ready for his next round:They drove (a dodge that never fails) A pin beneath my finger nails. They poured what seemed a running beck Of cold spring water down my neck; Jim with a lancet quick as flies Lowered the swelling round my eyes. They sluiced my legs and fanned my face Through all that blessed minute's grace; They gave my calves a thorough kneading, They salved my cuts and stopped the bleeding. A gulp of liquor dulled the pain, And then the flasks clinked again.
Americans resisted boxing until the end of the 19th century, but, once the sport had gained a foothold, men who wrote about boxing often seemed as plentiful as fighters themselves. Among them were Jack London, Dashiell Hammet, H.C. Witwer, Nelson Algren, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James T. Farrell, Clifford Odets, Irwin Shaw, Budd Schulberg, and Norman Mailer.
In fact, it is likely that more literary writing, as opposed to pure journalism, has been spent on boxing than on any other sport, and, indeed, on rare occasions, gifted journalists have blurred the line between literary writing and sportswriting. A.J. Liebling's reportage in The Sweet Science (1956), for example, appeals both to writers and sports fans, and Heywood Broun's newspaper column "The Orthodox Champion" (1922) managed to both celebrate and poke fun at the way boxing and literature are often conjoined. To understand why writers, especially male writers (though not exclusively, Joyce Carol Oates being an exception), are drawn to the sport, it is enough to know that boxers, more than any other athlete, throw into relief the writer's own sedentary and introspective profession. Bluntly put: one writes, the other fights. The boxer engages in a visible struggle, with a designated opponent, whose outcome is usually (though not always) resoundingly clear, while the writer's struggle is always with himself, and success is hardly the product of a unanimous decision. Moreover, if the writer frets that his own experience is somehow less vital or real than that of the man of action, boxing can symbolize this insecurity.
Given boxers' well-developed physiques and the visceral reality of physical combat, such men and the profession they engage in are a natural subject for painters and photographers. The French painter Théodore Géricault and the English painter John Constable portrayed boxers, while such well-known Regency caricaturists as Thomas Rowlandson and Robert and George Cruikshank trained their jaundiced eyes on the London Prize Ring. American George Bellows vividly portrayed boxing matches in Stag at Sharkey's (1909) and Both Members of This Club (1909). Bellows's 1924 lithograph of Luis Firpo knocking Jack Dempsey out of the ring is perhaps the most famous of all boxing scenes. Other American painters of boxing include Thomas Eakins and James Chapin, both of whom ably rendered the movement, power, and grace of men boxing, as well as the fatigue and pathos that often attends the aftermath.
These same dramatic qualities appealed to filmmakers. In fact, the very first motion picture using "actors" was a boxing exhibition filmed by Thomas Edison on June 16, 1894, using the Edison kinetoscope. And in 1897, the championship fight between Gentleman Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons became the first sporting event to be captured on film. The power of such films was attested to when interstate commerce in footage of Jack Johnson beating Jim Jeffries (July 4, 1910) was prohibited by federal law. (The fact that Johnson was an African American and Jim Jeffries a white boxer had more than a little to do with it.) Johnson's life would eventually be the subject of another boxing film, The Great White Hope (1970, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Howard Sackler). As for fictional movies about boxers, they outnumber all other sports films. Although most early fight films followed a set pattern of a poor boy who battles his way out of the slums only to fall prey to women and gangsters, their popularity really depended on the built-in tension in every boxing match. Not only is there danger with every punch thrown, there is anxiety in who shall prevail; and when two boxers represent different constituencies of class, ethnicity, or nationality, a championship fight becomes all the more significant.
A short list of notable fight films includes Rouben Mamoulian's Golden Boy (1939); Robert Rossen's Body and Soul (1947), about an ambitious Jewish fighter's rise from poverty; Robert Wise's The Set-Up (1949) and Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956); Mark Robson's Champion (1949), loosely based on Ring Lardner's short story of the same name, and The Harder They Fall (1956), inspired by the rise and fall of Primo Carnera; Kurt Newman's The Ring (1952), about a young Mexican American's fight for respect in and out of the ring; Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962, adapted from Rod Serling's Playhouse 90 production of 1956); John Huston's Fat City (1972), which captured the unglamorous world of small-time boxers; Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980), based upon the life of the fighter Jake La Motta; Sakamoto Junji's Dotsuitaru nen (1989, Knockout), based upon the autobiography of young welterweight Akai Hidekazu, who suffers brain damage from boxing but eventually returns to the ring (Akai plays himself in this film); the five popular but highly artificial Rocky movies (1976–90), which tell the story of a decent man who fights for a living; Kitano Takeshi's Kidzu ritān (1996, Kids Return), about two Japanese teen bullies who take up boxing and learn about life in the process; Katya Bankowsky's Shadow Boxers (1999), a documentary featuring Lucia Rijker; Karyn Kusama's Girlfight (2000), an award-winning film about female pugilists; and Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004), a drama that focuses on the relationship between a female boxer and her aging trainer. In books or in film, the climactic match often means salvation or redemption—a time-tested formula hard to resist.


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Natalia Stefanovi, a young doctor living in a contemporary unnamed Balkan country, is preparing, along with her best friend, for a goodwill mission across a border which has not always been a border. Right before they leave, however, she receives the news that her beloved grandfather has died. No one else but she knew that he was ill, so the death itself does not surprise her. What is a shock, however, is that he died in a small town on the other side of the border, having told Natalia's grandmother that he was on his way to visit Natalia. But Natalia knows nothing of this. Having arrived in the town where she will be vaccinating war orphans, Natalia finds herself distracted from her work by memories of her grandfather and the puzzling question of just what he was doing so far from home. Her thoughts circle around and around, always coming back to two stories her grandfather always told her when she was a child…the story of Gavran Gaile, the deathless man who collected the souls of the dying, and the deaf-mute woman known as the tiger's wife.
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An old barn door covered in vines hangs by one hinge, years of use evident in its weathered appearance. A black cat peaks through rusted wire amid a pile of old tools. These are just a few images currently on display in the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) Art Gallery that speak for the artist's unique perspective. The gallery was alive with conversation and congratulations during an opening reception for its current exhibition on Feb. 19, 2014. Sharon Boehl, senior graphic design major, is the artist behind the collection. As a culmination of her time at The Woods, the exhibit features various designs resulting from her coursework and internship experience. Boehl, of Oblong, Ill., credits her work as an inspiration from her surroundings and her family. "There are several photographs taken on the farm back home and many designs for a community club I am involved in," states Boehl. The exhibition, on display through March 7, 2014, has a successful first night. Several people attended to browse Boehl's work, and one of her photographs sold.
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By Kevin Grandia • Monday, July 10, 2006 - 07:32
The Bizarre Dance of Wind Power: local opponents and right-wing think tanks is a well researched piece by Erik Curren at the Augusta Free Press.
Curren provides a somewhat disturbing portrayal of the oil money backed US "think" tanks refocussing their efforts away from climate change and on to wind power and renewable energy.
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I wonder if this has anything to do with U.K.'s conservative party leader David Cameron advocating renewable energy. this is from a recent speech:
Local councils have a vital part to play in delivering a low carbon future.
We need to waste less energy; to generate more energy locally, and to generate more energy from renewable sources.
Local authorities can make it happen, and I want to give you all the encouragement and help you need.
The more bizarre dance is that of some environmentalists and big-energy industrialists like GE and Shell in promoting sprawling development in wild and rural areas and in trying to sideline people's concerns as "NIMBY."
Wind power is potentially only a very small provider of electricity. It has and will have no effect at all on global warming. Its elusive benefits are easily outweighed by its own many negative impacts.
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Why stick with oil and coal?
Your statments are pretty hard to swallow when you see recent announcements from massive petroleum companies like BP spending millions on new wind technology.
They become even more unbelievable when you read reports stating:
"U.S. power producers plan to spend more than $4 billion this year to install a record 3,000 megawatts of wind turbines, enough to supply about 600,000 homes."
Tell me, if the technology is there and it works, why would you want to stick with coal and oil? It makes no economic sense.


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MSNBC host has a solution to solving poverty: Just give people money! It's that easy!
Chris Hayes is what passes for a progressive intellectual at MSNBC.
Which makes his simple-minded and manifestly mistaken proposal that much more maddening. Making a peek-a-boo video-clip appearance on today's Melissa Harris-Perry's show, which focused on finding solutions to poverty in America, Hayes was seen holding up a hand-written sign with his solution, reading "Giving people money: It's actually that easy." View the video after the jump.


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a round of applause to surfline, ive surfed about 15-18 times in the last 2 weeks
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a round of applause to surfline, ive surfed about 15-18 times in the last 2 weeks
Way to jinx it.... I'm coming after you if the rest of the summer is flat lol jk
if surfline calls for a good summer, were f'd. thats what happened last year! i surfed like 3 times last summer
last summer was complete ****.. lets hope that doesn't happen again
Just get in all the waves you can now, because by July, it almost always sucks on the East Coast...
June can actually be quite good some years, and August is a toss up depending on when the Cape Verde season really kicks into gear. Some years August is the worst month.
yep... optimisim is a necessity living on the east coast .... summer will test your resolve... saving for a plane ticket myself :)
whoa last summer wasn't so bad compared to others. i remember surfing at least once or twice a week. cheers to a better one this year!
those summertime " Bermuda high " swells can get pretty fun if the local winds are decent.
Yeah I agree with ejensen, I can remember quite a few really fun longboard days right before sundown. That's the best time to score it besides dawn patrol--all the, ahem, visitors are doing other things.


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Farr admits it's still hard to believe he already has a gold record under his belt. He says it's unreal to think that one of his songs is decorating the walls of the Sony Music Nashville building along with other hit singles.
Farr's debut album - also called Redneck Crazy - is due out September 30th.
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:22 pm
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I meet with my park people today and it was great. They offered suggestions of the areas that they would like the cache they. They are trying to give focus to a historical area that had not ever been highlighted before.
I am owning the cache and maintaining the cache.
They gave me forms to claim the gas mileage as a deduction on my taxes. I found out the there is an extension to the park 15 miles away that they want a History cache in also.
To top it off, it is a demo park that is getting 10 GPSs from Best Buy so that the public can sign them out to find the caches. So they want me to put a few caches in to make it worth while for the newbies!
They want me to teach a class once a month all through the summer and train the staff.
I have a feeling that the different park management are interpreting the rules differently.
My experience was awesome!
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:35 pm
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herrwald wrote:
bflentje wrote:
KBayNPapaBear and I have met with both of my park managers so far. I'll tell you what, both were very nice people and very excited to be participating in this program. Although, I am somewhat disappointed in the lack of involvement we're going to be allowed.
- DNR will own the caches
- DNR will list the caches
- DNR will name the caches
- DNR will maintain the caches
- Our park managers already had spots picked out that they wanted us to check out
There was nothing left for us to do with the exception of taking a couple of averages and burn fuel. Don't get me wrong... I want to be a part of this. But it seems as if there is no room.
That is pretty much the impression I got too, I just offered suggestions about placement and took coords. The park staff will do all maintenance, own the cache, etc.
If this is the case then I may have to reconsider. I am in the area of the park I selected o a regular basis but if we are not going to be the owners of the cache listing, hopefully being able to continue the cache after the year, it will not be worth the time and fuel I may have to put in. This all really needs clarification.
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:04 pm
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I met with my park contact today too and she already had a spot picked out (although I liked it) and it does sound like we'll have minimal need to be involved. She did ask me a lot of questions and isn't sure exactly who will be writing the page, etc. but did say that the names, etc. will be consistant and we do have to use the ammo can provided which I expected. Are multi-caches allowed? She suggested that it have 2-3 simple stages giving the visitors that come through and learn geocaching in their programs (they get the 10-12 gpsr's from Best Buy too) will be able to get a little more experience than just the one set of coordinates. I don't have a state park permit but she did give me a one year work permit so I can visit the park whenever I want. Only works for that park though.
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:08 am
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EPMinnesota wrote:
I met with my park contact today too and she already had a spot picked out (although I liked it) and it does sound like we'll have minimal need to be involved. She did ask me a lot of questions and isn't sure exactly who will be writing the page, etc. but did say that the names, etc. will be consistant and we do have to use the ammo can provided which I expected. Are multi-caches allowed? She suggested that it have 2-3 simple stages giving the visitors that come through and learn geocaching in their programs (they get the 10-12 gpsr's from Best Buy too) will be able to get a little more experience than just the one set of coordinates. I don't have a state park permit but she did give me a one year work permit so I can visit the park whenever I want. Only works for that park though.
my contact at McCarthy Beach State Prk, and his supervisor had already pick out where they wanted the 3 stages of thier multi, (along with 3 catchy clues), which was totally cool by me. they are doing all the leg work for this project, which again is cool by me.
Dave showed me around to all the stages, and asked if i'd pick out two finals in the area that they wanted that to be.
all in all i think it'll be pretty cool!!
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:47 am
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I just talked to the manager at Flandrau, they have everything all set up, and don't need any help at all.
He did tell me they are going to have their 'campground host' take care of the caches on a weekly basis, so they definitely won't be neglected.
"We never seek things for themselves-what we seek is the very seeking of things"-Pascal
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:48 pm
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OK, I BCC everyone with the Geocache History Challenge guidelines. If you didn't receive one in your email, contact me and I will send you a copy via email.
If you haven't been contacted by the state park you have adopted,
as the deadlines for submission are fast approaching.
April 7 is the deadline. That is in order to give the state and surfer joe time to review and approve the caches.
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:09 pm
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Um, EskoClimber, you e-mailed me the special application form for the state parks for this challenge. Is that what you mean by guidelines?
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:07 pm
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Just talked with one of my LQP SP by phone this afternoon. Sounds like they have most everything in line for this. They already have the spot picked out and such. They actually had a naturalist come and verify that the spot they were putting it in was OK by the naturalist's standards. I am going over on Saturday to review the info with them and get more details on this. Still not sure if I will be owning this cache or the park will. I guess i'll find out this weekend. I will then be able to verify the site and go over any questions they may have about it.
As far as my other park Upper sioux agency State park. The ranger is just giving me the general area she would like to see it placed in and letting me actually do the hide. She said she knows the park like the back of her hand after being there for nearly 18 years. She wasn't opposed to me placing a multi stage cache either as long as it brought cachers to an area of the park that would be "interesting". we'll just have to see if this one becomes a multi stage cache or not.
I printed the guidelines off of the DNR site. I hope these are the ones Eskoclimber is talking about. I also have many of the registration forms printed out so that I can get these completed this weekend and get them sent to surfer joe for approval.
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:47 pm
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Just a thought on demo parks:
I had a multi planned out until I found that I had a demo park and figured I would have to change plans for raw newbies.
I though a multi would be good so they got more experience, but thought what a hassle it was going to be for the desk staff to teach them how to enter coordinates and who would delete them after they were done?
My wife thought of a good idea, put a bunch of dummy coordinates in the gps and then they would have to figure out the right one at each stage.
But we settled on putting regular caches in besides the history cache would be the easiest and it would get more caches in to the parks.
I think demo parks have to be geared for the newbie crowd.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:20 am
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I got a call from my park manager (Moose Lake SP) today. I'll be heading down there on Monday hopefully to look over what he's got and offer suggestions, if any. They already have a couple of sites picked out, pending approval of the higher-ups. We didn't go into multi/traditional at all (it would be my preference to have a traditional and he didn't bring the subject up).
We also didn't cover any ownership issues at all (although I did confirm that he has the container).
I also informed him on the phone that I was hoping to possibly place a cache in the park on my own during my visit, not related to the history challenge cache, which he didn't seem to have any problems with at all.
In the end I don't care if I own the cache or it's page or if they do. I'm happy enough just participating and helping the DNR out - this should prove to be an excellent way to bring in new cachers to both the sport and the organization. That's worth the small investment in my time/gas to drive down there (it's a little over an hour drive each way for me during a very busy week, so it's not like driving across town on a lazy Sunday afternoon either).
Thanks again Esko for coordinating this - I know this is probably a pretty big handful - hopefully it will have good payoffs for all involved.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:55 am
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It seems there is some confusion lately, and I'm wondering where it originated (and how to get past it).
The division of responsibilities seemed to be well thought out and communicated at the outset:
EskoClimber wrote:
Minnesota State Parks Geocaching History Challenge Details
* The caches will be owned by geocachers and placed by the geocacher with the help of the local park manager
* The job of the cache owner will be to keep the geocache stocked with history cards, check the logbook, and maintain the cache itself.
* The state will provide the ammo can, logbook, history cards
* The local park manager will contact the geocache owner to set up a time to meet to place the cache.
* The parks are looking at the cache owner to maintain and keep the geocache stocked.
* The parks that host the regional finals and the 72 park final are also going to be owned by the geocacher that has that park.
* Cache owners will need to be members of the MnGCA so the we can gather contact information to give to the park managers so they can contact the geocacher that has adopted their park and to make it easier for the MnGCA to contact them as well.
* There will be 5 challenges
* The plan is to have the final coordinates submitted to the MnGCA board so they can issue the coordinates should the cache owner be unavailable.
* The state is hoping to have a trackable geocoin minted that will be given to each person that completes a challenge.
* Each region will have at least one GPS Demonstration Park
I'll bet some of the park managers are more gung-ho than others and want to take ownership of the caches. It seems appropriate for them to visit the caches regularly to see if they're stocked well, etc., but the cache listing should be done by someone who's done it before. If the common name isn't figured out yet, the MnGCA volunteer (if he/she owned the cache) could easily modify the name later. Same goes for special and common graphics the state may want on the cache pages.
Esko, shouldn't you talk to your contact and get them to accept the MnGCA cacher as owner and page editor? I don't think anybody would object to following a common format and graphics if the state wants that, but to make this happen, you're going to want experienced hiders and page submitters to handle that end.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:49 am
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1. It was my understanding that the cachers would own the cache page
- is that still the case? Some are being led to believe that it's no
longer the case.
I just got off the phone with the state and they want to have ownership so they can edit the caches. This had been discussed before and I was under the impression that it had been settled AND that the local geocacher would have ownership of the cache. That seems to have changed again mainly because the state wants to be able to EDIT the cache pages if neccessary.
I am going to try and see if we can do a joint ownership where both of us have access to the cache page. The state doesn't mind who actually owns the cache, they just want to be able to edit the page if neccessary. It is my impression, however, that gc.com doesn't do multi-owners for access to web page.
I will contact Surfer Joe about this problem.
2. Are we filling out the document attached to this email, is the
park staff doing it, or is it a joint effort?
This was supposed to be a joint effort.
I realized today that I don't have the Park Manager's Tip Sheet. That will be sent to me in the next day or so.
The deadline isn't an engraved in stone thing. HAVING SAID THAT, BE AWARE that all these caches need to go through the state to make sure they aren't in sensitive areas which takes time. They also need to get gc.com approval as well. So I wouldn't delay any longer than is neccessary.
The park managers don't have all the stuff for the ammo cans yet. The big thing they need is the locations at this time.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:46 pm
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Naturally, I hope that the geocacher will own the cache.
The park manager I'm working with was concerned about how we would alert cachers to sensitive areas, trail rules, winter parking, Hiking Club trail etc. and I assured him that we could mention those things on the cache page. There isn't any room on that form for details like that. It is hard for me to imagine that someone in St. Paul wants to be deluged with requests for such things, parking coordinates, and hints for 72 caches all at once.
If the MnGCA geocacher does not own the cache, perhaps the park manager could.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:00 pm
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This really has me confused. If the state is going to own the cache why would a MnGCA member need to fill out an application and permit form for placing the cache?
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This really has me confused. If the state is going to own the cache why would a MnGCA member need to fill out an application and permit form for placing the cache?
I have to agree here. If that's the case why are we bothering to fill out the form. It's the park that should be filling it out then. I had been thinking of this earlier but just never thought to bring that up. I was going to ask this weekend.
Personally one of the parks I contacted said that the staff wouldn't have the time to "Babysit" the cache. I guess we'll find out this weekend when I talk with them.
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Andover Emerging faced a pool of tough A-sides in the Newbury Festival and stood up really well and gained some invaluable festival experience, many of whom were first-timers to the competitive game.
Both Freddie Riley and Rhys Griffiths made many piercing runs setting Matt Marquiss and Archie Anderson up for some great tries. The only two girls in the tournament, Brooke Wilding and Sian Watson, played with real guts and passion against some big opponents.
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They won all three matches scoring 18 tries and only conceding three to move into the main cup competition where they played New Milton and Petersfield A.
The New Milton game finished 2-2 and the second match was against Petersfield A which Andover won 4-3.
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A great way for the U9s to finish the season.
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How do executives stay organized? What are their management strategies? And what do they do for fun? Executive Suite seeks answers to the behind-the-scenes questions.
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WSJ: Where are you recruiting from these days?
O'Brien: We're trying to get to schools that are developing people with more of a design talent, like the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), because we find the focus on user experience and design is so important nowadays. It doesn't mean we're not still interested in people from Miami Ad School, but we have to complement more traditional sensibilities with more of a design sensibility. So much of what we do now has to do with creating environments, as opposed to creating ads. If you look at a website as opposed to a banner ad, it's all about bringing people into an environment.
WSJ: What major challenges did you face at the company when you took over in 2010?
O'Brien: We were dealing with a low level of morale when I took the job. I was also dealing with what I call a 'bloated' layer of middle management. When you relieve staff, you tend to relieve the less experienced staff. You end up with a whole lot of experienced people, but not people connected to fresh ideas. I also found out that employees thought all management cared about was profit. We were talking more to our staff about money than about our product. I've tried to change that conversation, to focus on product and talent and make this a place where people want to come to every day.
WSJ: What are clients asking for these days?
O'Brien: Our messaging hasn't changed, but the way people engage with technology changes their habits. It used to be TV and radio, but now the majority of young people spend time online, on computers or smartphones. Where they spend their time doesn't stay steady, either Facebook was huge, but that's increasingly supplemented by Instagram, Tumblr and Foursquare.
WSJ: Do you use these social apps yourself?
O'Brien: I'm on Twitter and Facebook, and doing a lot of Instagramming with my son. He thinks it's the greatest thing in the world. I still have that older mentality of not wanting people to know where I am every second.
WSJ: What's the toughest thing about being an ad executive right now?
O'Brien: Demonstrating to clients that you know what works for them. They have so many options, and so many people luring them in different directions.
WSJ: You started out professionally as an auditor at accounting firm Arthur Andersen. How did those skills translate to management?
O'Brien: My background in auditing taught me about how a company operates based on the numbers. It became clear to me how a company makes money. For me, seeing people's creativity converted into revenue flow is amazing, and for them, seeing me translate creativity into fees and compensation is amazing.
WSJ: Would you call yourself creative?
O'Brien: I'm definitely not a left-brained creative person. I'm a very logical person. But I evaluate advertising and creativity from a consumer standpoint. I really gravitate to what I like and find clever. Every once in awhile, I make a suggestion. They listen to me and nod their heads, and when I walk out of the room, they probably ignore it completely. But I never categorized myself as a financial guy; I always thought of myself as a business person.
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O'Brien: Sure. People like to label everything, and because I came from the finance side, people were waiting for me to crack the whip and say, 'More profit, more profit, more profit.' I wanted them to understand that I get it, that our business is all about what we put out there.
WSJ: In terms of managing people, what's the most important thing you've learned?
O'Brien: The most important thing is to over-communicate. As leaders, no matter how much we feel like we're communicating, people seem to crave more. We do a survey every other year among our employees. In every single survey, the biggest thing we get critiqued on is the failure to communicate.
WSJ: What's your favorite ad of all time?
O'Brien: I love the ad for Volkswagen from the 1960s. It's such a simple ad. It shows a snowplow driver starting up his Volkswagen Beetle. He drives down the unplowed roads to where the snowplow is stored. The narrator says, 'Did you ever wonder how the driver of the snowplow gets to the snowplow?' Then they focus on the symbol on the hood and say, 'Well now you know!' I just think it's a great ad.
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Update: An earlier version of this article misstated Mark O'Brien's job title.