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A Pennsylvania pastor was arrested while praying for State Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who supports same-sex marriage.
Pastor Bill Devlin, co-chair of Right to Worship, was arrested in Harrisburg Friday, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
"This is the first of many arrests," Devlin told The Inquirer in a phone interview after his arrest. "We're going to have many pastors out here."
On Thursday Kane said she could not ethically defend Pennsylvania against a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
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"She swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which includes supporting laws she may personally disagree with," said Devlin Thursday night. "How dare she not stand up for the citizens of the Commonwealth who in a representative, democratic fashion have said we believe marriage is between a man and a woman?"
Holly Lubart, a spokesperson for the Department of General Services, which oversees the Pennsylvania Capitol Police, confirmed the pastor was arrested, according to the Inquirer. Lubart said Devlin failed to sign in at the building's entrance and went past a capitol officer before getting on the elevator.
The Inquirer reports Devlin told security officers at the ground floor of the Strawberry Square building, which houses the attorney general's office, that he was there to pray for Kane. He asked them to schedule an appointment with her and said he represented clergy across the state.
A representative from Kane's office came to meet Devlin and told him he could not see Kane.
"I said, 'I'm here to pray. I know you're not going to give me permission, but I'm going to pray in front of the elevator.'"
Devlin said the elevator doors opened as he knelt on the floor, and he crawled in. Police officers stopped the doors from closing and arrested him.
Devlin was cited for disorderly conduct.
The pastor later sent out a statement, The Inquirer reports, saying, "Pray for [Kane], as I am, that she will have a change of heart and that God would melt her heart and she would say that marriage is between a man and a woman."
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Tangerines - You Look Like Something I Killed 7" Single (SOLD OUT)
£5.00 / Sold Out
Limited to 100 Copies
Side A: You Look Like Something I Killed
Side B: Mama Sucker Punch
Tangerines have shared their brand new single 'You Look Like Something I Killed', recorded in RIP Studios by Syd Kemp and mixed by MJ of Hookworms.
Formed in Peckham in 2014 by singer and guitarist Gareth Hoskins and childhood friend and drummer Isaac Robson, Tangerines return with another unquestionably catchy and riotous track - a continuance of the group's songwriting after the revered free download 'Skin Dives'.
'You Look Like Something I Killed' was born from early demos aired before Hoskins and Robson could even recruit a full band, yet the NME were quick to take notice, describing what they heard as, 'raw enough to set them apart… with an undoubted nod to melody'.
Soon after, a chance meeting of guitarist Miles Prestia in Brixton at 4am one morning, where he was asked to join the band there and then, and the recruitment of bassist Ricky Clark allowed the demos to flourish into the bigger, more boisterous and rounded tracks they have become.
'You Look Like Something I Killed' roars into life with chugging 77-era Talking Heads guitars over an 'infectious, endearingly simplistic' guitar hook, which is backed by Hoskins' characteristic lyrical drawl (something alike a fifth instrument to the four-piece).
Coming after 'Skin Dives', which caught the attention of Lauren Laverne, Radio X's Jon Kennedy and BBC Introducing, resulting in numerous radio plays, Tangerines have also fast been gaining devotees through ferocious live showcases and support slots to the likes of Hooton Tennis Club and The Parrots.
Tangerines will next play…
17th March - Servant Jazz Quarters, London (Single Launch)
12th June - Field Day, London
Tangerines are: Gareth Hoskins (Vocals, Guitar), Miles Prestia (Guitar), Isaac Robson (Drums), Ricky Clark (Bass)
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After Stephen Colbert did a version of "The Word" for his "Late Show" audience, the attorneys at Comedy Central contacted CBS to claim that they own the intellectual property of "Stephen Colbert," the character.
"Which, is surprising, because I never thought of that guy as much of an intellectual," Colbert joked on Wednesday night. "So it is with a heavy heart that I announce that thanks to corporate lawyers, the character of Stephen Colbert host of 'The Colbert Report,' will never be seen again."
Way to go, Comedy Central. The audience booed in protest, but corporations are corporations.
"I feel the same way, but what can I do?" Colbert asked his audience. "The lawyers have spoken. I cannot reasonably argue that I own my face or name. And as much as I would like to have that guy on again, I can't."
Instead, thanks to corporate lawyering, we now have Stephen Colbert's identical twin cousin, Stephen Colbert. This new Stephen Colbert clarified that he is not the guy that had a television show for a decade.
"That's my twin cousin. This is my first appearance on television ever!" new Colbert explained while wearing an American flag shirt.
New Colbert explained that "our moms were identical twins, who married identical twin husbands, then had sex at the exact same moment and gave us the same name." It seems logical, right? This is, after all, the entire premise on which "The Patty Duke Show" was built.
"Most of all, Stephen, I want you to know," new Stephen began. "I'm happy to be here tonight to save this country and join the 'Late Show' team." He promised that even wild horses ridden by corporate lawyers couldn't keep him away.
Because Colbert can no longer do "The Word" segment, he created a new segment called, "The Werd."
Colbert explained that we know for certain that this November will be Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump. On the screen then flashed "pantsuit vs. lawsuit."
"The polls show we've already decided on the outcome that we really want," Colbert said, while the words "Canadian citizenship" flashed on the screen beside him. "See, we want neither. Both Clinton and Trump have historically low approval ratings. In fact, 52 percent of Trump supporters say they're only voting for him because they don't want Hillary to win." Colbert doesn't blame him, "after all, Donald Trump is a hard man to stand behind," Colbert continued as the words "Just ask Chris Christie" appeared on the screen beside him.
As for Clinton, 56 percent of Clinton supporters say that they just don't want Donald Trump to win. "Hillary's critics see her as untrustworthy, selfish and too willing to bend the rules," Colbert said, while "And that's just Bernie" appeared on the screen. Trump's critics, on the other hand, argue "he's prejudiced, unprepared and has the wrong temperament for a president." It's shocking since, as the Colbert sidebar informs us, his supporters say pretty much the same thing.
Colbert explained that these two brands are already decades in to establishing their identities. He called Clinton "Wonder Bread" and Trump the "McDonald's Angry Meal." Both candidates already understand this, "that's why this is going to be the most negative campaign in history. Hillary Clinton will say things that makes Trump seems racist," he said as "and so will Trump" appeared on the screen. "Trump will attack Hillary's integrity," he said, while "and Russia will attack her email server" flashed beside him. There's so much negativity, Colbert even proposed writing in "Michelle" as another option.
His solution is that we can have people vote against a candidate. So, the ultimate winner will be the candidate with the lowest score. "But on the outside chance they do not institute my plan, no matter how you feel about the candidates, please, you still have to go to the polls on Election Day. Yes, you might have to vote for a person you don't really want. But it's better than getting the person you really don't want." On the screen beside him flashed "the lesser of two evils."
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High Intensity Discharge (HID) Lighting by IPF
With a visible range exceeding 1,000 feet and three times the light output of conventional halogen systems, the 900 HID illuminates the darkest of conditions with ease.
Editor: Eric Bewley
High Intensity Discharge (HID) Lighting by IPF
Seattle, WA – ARB USA has just released a new HID (High Intensity Discharge) driving light system by IPF that promises exceptional quality and performance at a cost that is considerably less than most other HID kits. Available through ARB USA as the IPF 900 HID system, these incredibly powerful auxiliary lamps will easily illuminate the road, trail and anything in between. With a visible range exceeding 1,000 feet and three times the light output of conventional halogen systems, the 900 HID illuminates the darkest of conditions with ease.
Although HID systems for automotive applications are not new to the industry, previous systems commonly received criticism in three areas. IPF developed the 900 HID system to provide all of the optical benefits of HID while addressing these criticisms:
1. Cost: By combining the very latest HID technology with one of the most proven (and mimicked) high-performance driving lights in the industry – our IPF 900 series – IPF engineers have managed to keep development costs to a minimum thus translating into a retail price that is considerably less expensive than the competition.
2. Ramp-up: IPF has utilized the very latest HID technology to minimize the "ramp-up" time needed for the lights to produce their full intensity. Once the user activates the system using the IPF Remote Control Switch, the 900 HID system responds instantaneously by saturating everything in their path with a flood of brilliant, white light. Unlike other systems that can take as long as 30 seconds to reach peak operating intensity, the IPF HID system produces peak output within a few short seconds.
3. Wiring/Installation: Previous HID systems could be complicated and labor-intensive to install, especially in late-model vehicles with elaborate electrical accessories and minimal under hood space. The 900 HID features an extremely simple, yet premium quality wiring loom with a self-contained, solid-state module in place of conventional relays. This module also receives a remote signal from IPF's wireless switch, thus enabling the user to mount the activation switch in virtually any location with no wires passing through the vehicle's firewall. Lastly, unlike other systems that require the additional installation of a remote-mounted ballast, the IPF system features an integrated unit for added simplicity.
How they work – HID systems produce a brilliant white light by establishing a high-voltage (30,000 volts) electrical arc between two electrodes within a sealed glass tube. Once the arc is established, the system's ballast lowers the voltage to normal operating conditions. Because there is no filament to break or disintegrate, the service life of an HID bulb is approximately 3,000 hours, as opposed to a standard halogen bulb's lifespan of less than 400 hours. The light produced by HID is of a much higher "color temperature" that closely resembles sunlight, thus reducing strain and stress on the driver's eyes. Despite the massive amount of light produced from the 900 HID, the 35W bulbs will not strain your vehicle's charging system.
* HID light intensity combined with IPF optics
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Yuichi Adachi took a batted ball off his right hand while playing defense in the first inning of an exhibition game against the Yakult Swallows on March 8. He was taken to a hospital in Okayama for tests and was diagnosed with a bruise on his right thumb (distal phalanx). He is considered day-to-day.
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Rémi Emonet's Research Home (see global home)
Selection of Recent Publications (see all publications and details)
- Year 2019CFrom Cost-Sensitive to Tight F-measure Bounds2019- AISTATS[bibtex] (click to show)
@inproceedings{bascolmetzlerfmeasure, title={From Cost-Sensitive to Tight F-measure Bounds}, author={Bascol, Kevin and Emonet, Rémi and Fromont, Élisa and Habrard, Amaury and Metzler, Guillaume and Sebban, Marc}, booktitle={AISTATS 2019}, year={2019} }
- Year 2018CFast and Provably Effective Multi-view Classification with Landmark-based SVM2018- ECML-PKDDhttps://github.com/vzantedeschi/multiviewLSVMhttps://github.com/vzantedeschi/multiviewLSVM[bibtex] (click to show)
@inproceedings{zantedeschi2016metric, title={ Fast and Provably Effective Multi-view Classification with Landmark-based SVM } author={Zantedeschi, Valentina and Emonet, R{\'e}mi and Sebban, Marc}, booktitle={ECML-PKDD 2018}, year={2018} }
- Year 2017BUnsupervised Domain Adaptation Based on Subspace Alignment2017- Domain Adaptation in Computer Vision Applications[bibtex] (click to show)
@incollection{fernando2017unsupervised, title={Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Based on Subspace Alignment}, author={Fernando, Basura and Aljundi, Rahaf and Emonet, R{\'e}mi and Habrard, Amaury and Sebban, Marc and Tuytelaars, Tinne}, booktitle={Domain Adaptation in Computer Vision Applications}, pages={81--94}, year={2017}, publisher={Springer} } @book{csurka2017domain, title={Domain Adaptation in Computer Vision Applications}, author={Csurka, Gabriela}, year={2017}, publisher={Springer} ISBN={978-3-319-58346-4}, DOI={10.1007/978-3-319-58347-1}, URL={http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319583464} }CResidual Conv-Deconv Grid Network for Semantic Segmentation2017- BMVC (British Machine Vision Conference)https://github.com/Fourure/GridNet[bibtex] (click to show)
@inproceedings{fourure2017gridnet, title={Residual Conv-Deconv Grid Network for Semantic Segmentation}, author={Fourure, Damien and Emonet, R{\'e}mi and Fromont, Elisa and Muselet, Damien and Tr{\'e}meau, Alain and Wolf, Christian}, booktitle={Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, 2017}, year={2017} }JMulti-task, Multi-domain Learning: application to semantic segmentation and pose regression2017- Neurocomputing[bibtex] (click to show)
@article{fourure2017multi, title={Multi-task, Multi-domain Learning: application to semantic segmentation and pose regression}, author={Fourure, Damien and Emonet, R{\'e}mi and Fromont, Elisa and Muselet, Damien and Neverova, Natalia and Tr{\'e}meau, Alain and Wolf, Christian}, journal={Neurocomputing}, volume={251}, pages={68--80}, year={2017}, publisher={Elsevier} }
- Year 2016Cbeta-risk: a New Surrogate Risk for Learning from Weakly Labeled Data2016- NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems)http://vzantedeschi.com/betarisk.html[bibtex] (click to show)
@inproceedings{zantedeschi2016beta, title={beta-risk: a New Surrogate Risk for Learning from Weakly Labeled Data}, author={Zantedeschi, Valentina and Emonet, R{\'e}mi and Sebban, Marc}, booktitle={NIPS 2016}, year={2016} }
- Year 2015CLandmarks-based Kernelized Subspace Alignment for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation2015- CVPR (IEEE conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)[bibtex] (click to show)
@inproceedings{aljundi2015landmarks, title={Landmarks-based Kernelized Subspace Alignment for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation}, author={Aljundi, Rahaf and Emonet, R{\'e}mi and Muselet, Damien and Sebban, Marc}, booktitle={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition}, year={2015} }
- Year 2014JTemporal Analysis of Motif Mixtures using Dirichlet Processes2014- TPAMI (Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence)[bibtex] (click to show)
@ARTICLE{Emonet_PAMI_2014, author = {Emonet, Remi and Varadarajan, Jagannadan and Odobez, Jean-Marc}, title = {Temporal Analysis of Motif Mixtures using Dirichlet Processes}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence}, year = {2014} }BSparsity in Topic Models2014- Practical Applications of Sparse Modeling: Biology, Signal Processing and Beyond[bibtex] (click to show)
@INCOLLECTION {Varadarajan_MITPRESS_2012, title = {Sparsity in Topic Models}, author = {Varadarajan, Jagannadan and Emonet, Remi and Odobez, Jean-Marc}, booktitle = {Practical Applications of Sparse Modeling (Neural Information Processing series)}, year = {2014}, publisher = {MIT Press}, pdf = {https://publidiap.idiap.ch/downloads//papers/2012/Varadarajan_MITPRESS_2012.pdf}, } @book{9780262027724, Author = {}, Title = {Practical Applications of Sparse Modeling (Neural Information Processing series)}, Publisher = {The MIT Press}, Year = {2014}, ISBN = {0262027720}, URL = {http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Applications-Modeling-Information-Processing/dp/0262027720%3FSubscriptionId%3D0JYN1NVW651KCA56C102%26tag%3Dtechkie-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0262027720} }
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Presentations (research and related)
Here are presentations that I made publicly enough so that it makes sense to share them.
[2018-06-07] A Tour of Machine Learning and its Subdomains
[2018-06-06] Domain Adaptation and Multi-view Learning: using subspace alignment and landmark projections
[2017-04-22] Deep Learning pour la Reconnaissance de Chatons
[2017-01-20] Version control with Git at CIRAD − 2017
[2017-01-04] Likelihood-based and Likelihood-free Unsupervised Learning
[2016-12-13] A Tour of Probabilistic and Deep Approaches for Unsupervised Learning − Optim. and ML Day
[2016-09-01] Introduction to Version Control using Git and Gitlab − 2016
[2016-05-25] Learn to Learn: Facts About Learning − Web En Vert
[2016-02-11] About Sparsity and Sparsity in Probabilistic Modeling
[2015-11-27] Unsupervised Domain Adaptation, Deep CNNs − Xerox Research Center Europe
[2015-11-26] Deep Learning Frameworks − Saintélyon Deep Learning Workshop
[2015-09-30] Machine Learning Introduction − Web En Vert
[2015-04-30] Dirichlet Processes for GMM − Image&Tracking group
[2014-06-20] Fisher Kernel and Fisher Vectors − ANR SoLSTiCe project
[2014-05-15] Probabilistic Views of Classical Problems − About probabilities and prior
[2014-03-10] Temporal Topic Models for Probabilistic Motif Mining − SMiLe2014
[2014-10-23] Introduction to Version Control using Git and Gitlab − 2014
[2013-10-03] Introduction to Version Control using Git and Gitlab − 2013
Research Software and Related Projects
Temporal probabilistic models website. Implementation of EM-style and non-parametric models (Gibbs sampling). Sharing code from our work done mostly while at the Idiap research institute.
Human detection source code, used in the VANAHEIM project. I mostly worked on the finalization, cleanup and packaging, and on the website.
The framework I use and improve to build my teaching and research slides.
A modular framework to make executables by assembling modules in Java, C++ and Python. Created and used during my stay in INRIA-PRIMA and at Idiap (in the VANAHEIM project).
A Gaussian pyramid processor using kernels in OpenCL with C and Java interfaces. It implements the square-rooted version which does less processing.
A service oriented middleware for ambient intelligence and pervasive computing. Works across operating systems and programming languages. Developed in INRIA-PRIMA at the time of my Ph.D. Thesis.


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Title: Timekeeper
Author: Tara Sim
Recent Release Date: November 8, 2016
Synopsis: In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time—and a destroyed one can stop it completely.
It's a truth that seventeen-year-old clock mechanic Danny Hart knows all too well; his father has been trapped in a Stopped town east of London for three years. Though Danny is a prodigy who can repair not only clockwork, but the very fabric of time, his fixation with staging a rescue is quickly becoming a concern to his superiors.
And so they assign him to Enfield, a town where the tower seems to be forever plagued with problems. Danny's new apprentice both annoys and intrigues him, and though the boy is eager to work, he maintains a secretive distance. Danny soon discovers why: he is the tower's clock spirit, a mythical being that oversees Enfield's time. Though the boys are drawn together by their loneliness, Danny knows falling in love with a clock spirit is forbidden, and means risking everything he's fought to achieve.
But when a series of bombings at nearby towers threaten to Stop more cities, Danny must race to prevent Enfield from becoming the next target or he'll not only lose his father, but the boy he loves, forever.
Review: Timekeeper is a great example of a YA Fantasy with a gay protagonist. It's set in an alternate Victorian world where clock towers literally keep time in order. It's such an original idea.
I give this book a 5/5. I want more books like this. I love how Danny's sexual orientation is just one aspect of him, but it still contributes largely to his character and the story. This is another book I should have written the review of sooner after reading the book. I can only tell you that I highly enjoyed reading this book. I finished it in just a few days.


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The Purse Reveals All!
The only thing I've ever found at the bottom of my purse was pennies, chewing gum wrappers and an old grocery list. Oh, once I found quarter and a Lego piece!
A Georgia woman's decision to clean out her purse paid off in a big way when she found an old lottery ticket worth $189,302.
Fifty-five-year-old Rhonda Williams of Fairburn says she found the winning Fantasy 5 ticket in the bottom of her purse after cleaning it out over the weekend.
WSB-TV reports that the ticket is from a Jan. 17 drawing. Williams picked all of the winning numbers: 18, 25, 28, 29, 35.
Williams says she plans to pay off bills and may take a cruise.
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The pain of grief was thick as we walked into their home. Tommy and Susie's infant daughter had just died, only living for a few days after she entered this world. There were no words to say, only holding and crying together. I (Rodney) did the graveside service and will never forget the sounds of grief coming from the broken heart of this mother.
The losses of this life are real: The loss of a friendship. The loss of a job. The loss of health. The loss of a dream. The loss of a child, a parent, a spouse. And maybe the greatest loss of all, the loss of hope.
Resurrection Sunday. This month, Christ followers around the world will celebrate the resurrection of Christ. What a great celebration; He's alive! And because He lives, He can stir the fires of hope within our hearts in the darkest hour. Our God still has the power to give life to that which is dead, to take that which is impossible and make it possible, and to restore hope to the hopeless.
"For I am persuaded that neither death nor life … will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!" (Rom. 8:38-39).
He's alive — and He's working miracles in our lives.
How has God resurrected a relationship within your family? Share in the comments!
Selma and Rodney


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Star Wars Death Star Jewelry (Ring, Necklace, Earrings)
Pew pew cute
- Wear a DS-1 Orbital Battle Station
- Choose necklace, stud earrings, or ring
- Rhinestone for the superlaser
Pew pew cuteCertain jewelry conveys a sense of power. You know what we mean, right? You put on a special beaded bracelet on when you're nervous, because it gives you something to fiddle with. You wear that awesome chunky piece you picked up off Etsy when you have a challenging presentation to make. You know what should give you even a bigger sense of power? Wearing a tiny version of a galactic superweapon.
Pick up this Star Wars Death Star Jewelry when you need a DS-1 Orbital Battle Station on your side. Choose the necklace, stud earrings, or a ring. Or get all four! Each has a rhinestone in place of the superlaser (for your protection).
For our customers with nickel allergies: these are made from 316L grade surgical stainless steel. That means their five main components are iron, chromium, nickel (10-14%), molybdenum, and manganese. This is implant-grade steel.
Product Specifications
- Star Wars Death Star Jewelry
- Officially-licensed Star Wars merchandise
- Choose necklace, stud earrings, or ring
- Rhinestone for the superlaser
- Earrings are half the sphere, hollowed out, with friction back posts
- Materials: 316L surgical stainless steel
- Dimensions: Pendant and ring Death Star diameter is 12.5mm; earring Death Star diameter is 13.5mm; necklace is 20" long


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Lindsay Lohan is Trying to Write a 'Mean Girls' Sequel by Herself
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Lindsay Lohan appears to want a "Mean Girls" sequel as bad as the fans.
Actress Lindsay Lohan is eager to make a sequel of her 2004 comedy film Mean Girls. She has already written a treatment for the film and has a cast in mind. Speaking to CNN Abu Dhabi correspondent Becky Anderson during a live Facebook interview, she expressed her interest in reprising her role of Cady Heron in a sequel to the 2004 hit. The actress is currently in the UAE exploring business opportunities. She also hosted a New Year's eve party at a club in Dubai.
During the chat, Lohan expressed her interest in reprising her role of Cady Heron in a sequel.
"I have been trying so hard to do a Mean Girls 2. It is not in my hands. I know that [writer] Tina Fey and [producer] Lorne Michaels and all of Paramount are very busy.… I will keep forcing it and pushing it on them until we do it," Lohan said.
Lohan didn't give out any details about the treatment, but was very enthusiastic about the cast.
"I would love to have, like, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jimmy Fallon in the movie. I've already written a treatment for it. So I just need a response," she added. "I know Mark Waters, who was the director, would happily come back."
Paramount made $129 million from the global exhibition of "Mean Girls" in 2004 but spent only $17 million on its production. But the problem for "Mean Girls 2" could be Lindsay Lohan. Even if she is the one actively pushing the project, she is currently a PR problem, Movieweb notes. In the past few years, Lindsay Lohan has been in and out of rehab for drugs and has a record of public meltdowns.
In October, the Mean Girls musical was announced. Set to open next year, the musical was confirmed via the film's official Twitter account and Facebook page.
The film's Facebook page and Twitter account stated that the musical would be coming to Washington, D.C. in the fall of 2017.
The musical was first confirmed in March, with Fey telling The Metro: "My husband, (composer) Jeff Richmond and I, (along with lyricist) Nell Benjamin, have been working on it." Nell Benjamin has previously worked on the Legally Blonde musical.
The exact location, opening date or theatre is yet to be revealed but official Instagram and Twitter accounts have been set up to keep up with the Mean Girls musical news.


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QUEEN'S Park manager Gardner Speirs hasn't ruled out a late title charge ahead of tonight's clash at Montrose.
The Spiders will move above Stranraer with a win at Links Park and to within seven points of leaders Alloa.
Speirs, who has James Brough back, said: "A win tonight will lift us above Stranraer and that's our first focus. There's 10 games left and after that we'll see what happens."


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Domino's OFFICIALLY Have A Vegan Pizza Range
Finding a good pizza that's easily available when you're vegan can be quite a big challenge. You'll often find yourself omitting the cheese from the pizza which is just a sad life to live.
Thankfully, Domino's have now introduced vegan mozzarella to the menu along with three dedicated vegan pizzas!
From now on, you can swap out regular cheese for some high quality, plant-based, non-GMO and preservative free vegan mozzarella.
Domino's Australia and New Zealand CEO Nick Knight said in a statement, "The popularity of, and demand for, vegan products has increased considerably over the years so it's great we are no able to offer this."
If you're still a little suspicious of the quality of the cheese, don't worry! Domino's have "tested this cheese in our LuvLab development kitchen, and confirmed this vegan-friendly alternative has the same taste, texture and melt as real hair cheese. It's also cholesterol free, making it the perfect, healthy indulgence."
If you're wanting to try out the pizzas on offer, you can choose from the Vegan Avocado Veg, the Vegan Spicy trio and the Vegan Margherita.
However, the vegan cheese will only be available in stores for a limited time only but if customers love it enough it will become a staple. Swapping out the usual cheese for the vegan-friendly version will cause you to pay $2.95 extra, but that's a small price for cheesy goodness!
Get on down to your nearest Domino's and snatch up a vegan pizza!


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November 15, 2012Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.
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From left, Jeffrey Light, David Ring, Don Passman, Bradford Cobb, D.A. Wallach and Tim Cohan.
Photos by Liz Redwing, courtesy of Lawry's The Prime Rib, Beverly Hills.
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Bradford Cobb, along with Martin Kirkup and Steven Jensen, are partners at Direct Management Group, an internationally successful music management company, which offers artistic and business services to a very select roster of artists (which currently includes Katy Perry, k.d. lang, Adam Lambert, Gin Wigmore and The Go-Go's). The company was founded in April of 1985 by Jensen and Kirkup, combining Steven's experience with top-line artists at the ICM Agency with Martin's acumen in strategic career planning at A&M Records. Direct Management Group enjoyed early success in handling British "new wave" artists Echo & The Bunnymen, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (gaining their first worldwide hit single with "If You Leave" and a platinum album in 1986), as well as guiding Bryan Ferry on his first International Tour in 1988 The success of The B-52's quadruple-platinum album "Cosmic Thing" (with its hit singles "Love Shack" and "Roam") in 1989, established the company as a secure home for unique artists intent on forging their own path to success. Bradford Cobb joined Direct in June of 1998, and broadened the range of the company by signing The Go-Go's, and then Katy Perry in 2004. Katy Perry has since become a global superstar, with a string of 8 Number One hit singles, while selling over 10 million albums and 100 million downloads worldwide in the past four years. Katy's "California Dreams Tour" (2011) was a year-long 124-show international sell-out, which was documented on film as a key element in the "Katy Perry: Part Of Me" film. "Katy Perry: Part Of Me" was produced by Kirkup, Cobb and Jensen, along with Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment, for Paramount Pictures. The film was released internationally on July 5, 2012.
Tim Cohan is the Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs for the US Peermusic companies, negotiating and drafting a range of publishing, acquisition, licensing, joint-venture, and other agreements. In addition to handling all in-house transactional work and litigation supervision, Tim has been an active representative of Peermusic in various industry working groups, discussions, and negotiating committees. He focuses closely on international licensing issues arising among the various US and worldwide Peermusic companies, particular in the realm of newly emerging digital models. Tim has been in the music business for fifteen years, both at Peermusic and as an independent music professional. He received his B.A. in comparative literature from Williams College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Stone Scholar, Executive Notes Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, and a recipient of the Harold D. Fried Memorial Prize for his 2010 Note, "Notice of Intention to Use and the Compulsory License in the Digital Era."
Jeffrey Light, thirty year music industry veteran, has been a partner of Myman Greenspan Fineman Fox Rosenberg & Light since 1992 and is an adjunct professor of law at Southwestern Law School. Jeffrey and his Firm do work for many recording artists (The Rolling Stones, Justin Bieber, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Christina Aguilera), major studios (20th Century Fox), video game companies (Electronic Arts, Harmonix [inventor of Guitar Hero and Rock Band]), film composers (Howard Shore, Rachel Portman,), and many executives in the entertainment industries. Jeffrey has been involved as lead counsel in some of the most innovative entertainment industry deals of the last three decades, from the early days of home video distribution to the negotiation of experimental Internet licenses against ASCAP and BMI to The Beatles: Rock Band video game. Jeffrey received his Bachelor's Degree from Columbia University in 1979 and his Juris Doctor in 1983. While at Columbia Law School, he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar (1981-1982), a James Kent scholar (1982-1983), Editor-in-Chief of Art & the Law and was the first recipient of the Carroll G. Harper prize in intellectual property studies. Despite more than half a lifetime in Hollywood, Jeffrey has never been tempted to write a screenplay.
D.A. Wallach is best known as one-half of Chester French, a critically-acclaimed duo discovered by Kanye West and Pharrell Williams. An '07 graduate of Harvard College, D.A. has been featured in GQ, Rolling Stone, Vogue, and numerous other publications. He has toured with Lady Gaga, Blink 182, and Weezer, and has appeared on many TV Shows, including Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In addition to Chester French, D.A. is one-half of D.A. & The Supa Dups, and as a solo vocalist, he has written and performed on recordings with Diddy, Common, Rick Ross, Janelle Monae, Asher Roth, Akon, and others. When not himself recording, D.A. collaborates as a songwriter with a diverse array of producers and artists. Beyond music, he is a recognized social media pioneer, having been the first artist ever to use Facebook and among the most followed artists on Twitter (@dachesterfrench). D.A. advises or invests in several start-up technology companies, and is the official Artist In Residence at Spotify. In 2012, Forbes selected D.A. as one of its 30 Under 30 in Music.
Donald S. Passman is the author of "All You Need To Know About The Music Business", and a graduate of the University of Texas and Harvard Law School. He practices law with the Los Angeles firm of Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, and has specialized in the music business for over thirty years. He has lectured extensively on the music industry, including Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, USC Law School, UCLA Law School, the Los Angeles Copyright Society, and the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Don is also the author of two novels, "The Visionary" and "Mirage", published by Warner Books. Don has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America for over twenty years, as well as the Top 100 Lawyers in California, the Top 500 Attorneys in America, Hollywood Reporter's Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys, and Southern California's Super Lawyers.
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Flames 4, Coyotes 1NHL.com @NHLdotcom
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -The Calgary Flames are finally up to full speed.
After winning once in their first five games, the Flames ran their winning streak to three Saturday night with a 4-1 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes.
Miikka Kiprusoff made 23 saves and Todd Bertuzzi and Dion Phaneuf scored power-play goals for the Flames.
"This was a huge win for us and a big two points on the road," Phaneuf said. (Phoenix) came hard at us and we responded with a solid 60 minutes."
Brandon Prust scored his first goal of the season and Jarome Iginla added an empty-net goal for the Flames.
"This was an emotional division game, and we knew we had to elevate our game," Iginla said. "I thought we moved the puck well and put the puck where we knew we could get it. Good puck movement was the key for us in this win."
In dropping the fourth game in its last five, Phoenix quickly fell behind by two goals. Todd Fedoruk scored the Coyotes' lone goal at 16:58 of the opening period, but the effort was overshadowed by the strong Calgary defense.
"We talked for two days how Calgary would come in here and how they were going to play," Phoenix coach Wayne Gretzky said. "They did exactly what we knew they would do, and unfortunately, we had only a handful of guys ready for that sort of work ethic."
The Flames opened the scoring on Bertuzzi's goal at 3:25 of the opening period. Bertuzzi was the last Calgary player to touch the puck before it deflected off Phoenix defenseman Zbynek Michalek's stick and into the net. Bertuzzi has six goals in eight games this season after scoring 14 in 68 games last season for Anaheim.
On the goal, goalie Milkael Tellqvist said he was clearly distracted in front.
"The puck bobbled in front of the net a couple of times," Tellqvist said. "I saw the puck bounce off me and then hit (Coyotes' Daniel) Cacillo's skate,and that's bad luck."
The puck then deflected off Michalek's stick.
Calgary made it 2-0 when Prust converted a 2-on-1 rush up the ice into his first of the season at 15:03 of the first period.
The Flames regained a two-goal advantage when defenseman Phaneuf scored with the man advantage at 6:31 of the second period. As the puck deflected off Tellqvist's shoulder and bounced off the cross bar, Phaneuf crashed down the slot, picked up the loose puck and scored on a backhander.
The complete Calgary effort did not escape the attention of coach Mike Keenan.
"We limited their chances to score, and that was important for us," Keenan said. "We defended the goal well and did the small things to get a chance to win. Right now, we have four lines playing well, and we need that consistency going forward."
Notes: Phoenix's Olli Jokinen played in his 383th consecutive NHL game, the second longest active streak. Minnesota's Andrew Brunette of Minnesota is the leader. ... Fedoruk has 27 goals in 429 career games.... Iginla's had two straight three-point games. He scored three games Thursday night at Nashville.


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Biggest myths about wrestling people actually believe
It's a land of suplexes, slams, Superkicks, and scripted promos, but is wrestling "real?" While the average person who doesn't watch professional wrestling might describe it as being "fake," the truth is that it's actually a very active and dangerous profession. Even if every superstar gets formal training to learn how to hit the mat properly, pull their punches, and support the guy lifting them up for a suplex, there are still all kinds of crazy events and occurrences that can happen throughout the life of a professional wrestler. We've assembled the ultimate Survivor Series team of myths people actually believe, so we could try to shine some light on these weird and bizarre rumors from behind the curtain.


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Monday, 19 October 2015 13:43
Since the beginning of this month (October) we have been witnessing on social media horrific videos of vicious attacks by Israeli soldiers, extremist religious settlers, and even seemingly Israeli civilians shouting "Death to Arabs" while gunning down Palestinian children demonstrators, insulting them and watching them in vigilante gleeful mood bleeding to death.
Palestinian youth have been demonstrating in the streets of every Palestinian town against the religiously extremist Jewish settlers' violations of the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque; the third holiest Islamic site after Al-Haram Mosque in Mecca and Al-Nabawi Mosque in Medina in Saudi Arabia.
Religiously extremist Jewish settlers have been increasingly storming Al-Aqsa Compound under the protection of Israeli soldiers, where they perform their religious dances. During these provocations the Israeli soldiers routinely attack Al-Aqsa guards and Muslim prayers with stun grenades, tear gas and with rubber coated steel bullets. In their attempt to evacuate the mosque the Israeli soldiers break down doors and windows. These violations had ignited what many are calling a third Palestinian Intifada (uprising).
Zionists, another name for ancient Pharisaic Talmudists, had been trying to gain control of the Islamic Al-Aqsa Compound; what they call temple mount, in an attempt to assert their religious myth of Solomon's temple; a myth that is imprinted on the Jewish collective psyche to assert their ownership of the city as well as the whole Palestine.
Due to the fact that the Compound is part of the Islamic Waqf (Trust), and due to fear of any reprisal, the Zionists developed a long term graduated plan to gain control of the Compound one piece at a time. First they concentrated on the western wall of the Compound known to Muslims as the Buraq Wall, where their prophet; Mohammad, tied his horse (Al-Buraq) during his ascent to heaven. The wall is also known to Jews as the Wailing Wall, claimed as part of their alleged temple. Due to the Islamic religious tolerance and acceptance to the People of the Book, Muslims allowed the Jews to visit the Wailing Wall to perform their prayers.
In 1887 Baron Rothschild attempted to purchase the Moroccan Quarter adjacent to the Wall in a plan to demolish the whole quarter and to build a plaza for the Jews to pray at the Wall. His offer was rejected. Similar efforts to buy the Moroccan Quarter in 1895 by Rabbi Chaim Hirschensohn and by the Zionist Palestine Land Development Company were also rejected. In 1919, after the British took control of the area, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann offered to buy the Quarter from the British Military Governor of Jerusalem, Colonel Sir Ronald Storrs. Similar to Rothschild's plan, Weizmann intended to demolish the whole Quarter. The offer was rejected. In 1926, an effort by the American Jewish millionaire Nathan Straus to initially lease the Quarter and later on to purchase it was also rejected by the British.
After the declaration of their intention to establish an Israeli state in Palestine, Zionist Jewish immigration to the region intensified, raising concern and fear among Palestinians. This fear intensified when the Zionist leader Menachem Ussishkin gave a speech demanding the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine and Transjordan and take control of the Temple Mount. Jews, then, marched to their Wall and started erecting their religious symbols. Palestinians were appalled by such actions and violent clashes between the two parties took place.
Political conflict intensified between the two sides each asserting their rights to protect their religious sites. The conflict was escalated in August 1929 when hundreds of members of the Zionist Committee for the Western Wall, under the leadership of members of extremist Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionism, marched to the Wall shouting "the wall is ours". They raised the Israeli flag and sang the Jewish anthem; Hatikvah. Such provocative act ignited Palestinian demonstrations known as Al-Buraq Uprising. Violent clashes spread between Jews and Palestinians in different towns and scores were killed on both sides.
The British forces interfered to stop the violence. The League of Nations established a commission of enquiry (the Shaw Commission) of three non-British lawyers and experts to investigate the issue. The Commission submitted its findings early 1930 confirming that the Wall is part of the Al-Aqsa Compound and belongs to the Islamic Waqf.
Between 1948 and 1967 Al-Quds (Jerusalem) with Al-Aqsa Compound including the Buraq Wall was under the Jordanian rule. Immediately and three days after the end of 1967 war Tivadar (Teddy) Kollek; a Hungarian Jew, who was the mayor of West Jerusalem at the time, sent Israeli bulldozers to completely demolish and erase the 774 years old Moroccan Quarter with its 138 homes, two mosques and a school. It was completely razed, and replaced with a huge plaza for the Jews to visit and pray at the wall.
On September 28, 2000 Ariel Sharon, then Israeli opposition leader with a Likud party delegation forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Compound surrounded by hundreds of fully armed Israeli riot police. Clashes erupted between Muslim prayer and the police, who shot dead 7 Palestinians and wounded 250. Sharon's visit ignited Al-Aqsa Intifada (or the second Palestinian Intifada) that was very violent.
Israel responded with air strikes against Palestinian targets in West Bank and in Gaza Strip, Israeli tanks forced their ways into all major towns including Ramallah, Bethlehem, Al-Khalil (Hebron), Jenin, Nablus causing havoc, destroying homes and government institutions. The headquarters of Palestinian Authority in Ramallah was greatly demolished and Arafat was virtually imprisoned in whatever left of the quarter until his poisonous assassination in 2004. Israeli soldiers perpetrated a massacre in Jenin refugee camp. Israeli tanks rolled through Bethlehem and a military siege was imposed on the Nativity Church were some Palestinian police and civilians took refuge for few weeks. The attacks against Gaza Strip were very intensive but ended with Israeli settlers' withdrawal from 17 illegal settlements in August 2005. The Intifada ended in 2005 when the newly "selected" Palestinian leader; Mahmoud Abbas met with Israeli Prime Minister, then Ariel Sharon, in Sharm el-Sheikh Summit of 2005. Violent clashes continued, though, throughout 2006.
The ugly face of terrorist colonial Israel gets more exposure with every Israeli aggression against Palestinians especially after Israel's genocidal attacks against Lebanon in 2006, the wars against besieged Gaza Strip 2008/9, 2012 & 2014, and Israel's piracy against international Gaza Freedom Flotillas. Criticism of Israel has been on the rise, not just internationally on the popular not the political levels, but also internally from Israelis themselves including military refusnics, NGOs, and notably by the new generations of Israeli historians; Israeli historical revisionists, such as Ilan Pape, Shlomo Sand, Uri Ram, Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim, and Tom Segev among others. Those historians shed serious doubts about Israel's history and thus legitimacy to the land to a point where Shlomo Sand published his seminal book "The Invention of the Jewish People."
The core of Zionism is the religious myth of "Jews as God's chosen people, and Palestine as their God's promised land." One wonders not just how arrogantly crazy the human mind who conceived this rubbish, but also how naïve and stupid are the masses, who took this idiocy as their own religion.
Brainwashing the Jews with such an idiotic religion for the last two thousand years is no longer enough for the Zionists to accomplish their Zionist project of Greater Israel in the Middle East. They need tangible proof that confirm and assert Jewish relationship to the land. This explains Israel's great interest in archeological excavations throughout Palestine and mainly around and underneath Al-Aqsa Compound looking for an evidence of their alleged Solomon temple.
For the last 48 years an army of Israeli and Western archeologists and volunteers have been digging around the Compound, and digging crisscrossing tunnels under the Mosque threatening its collapse but had found only Palestinian, ancient Egyptian, Roman, Persian and Islamic artifacts. There is no shred of evidence of their alleged temple otherwise they would have greatly boosted of such evidence. Yet to inforce the brainwashing process they created within the tunnels some type of a museum with a small three dimensional replica of their alleged temple.
As a last and only resort the Zionist leaders have is to forcibly take control of the Al-Aqsa Compound, cause its collapse through some means of earthquake and build their own temple. The best time to do this is the present when Arab regimes are either neutralized like Iraq, Egypt and North African states, busy fighting Zionist/American proxy terrorist groups such as ISIS in Syria, and fighting each other such as the so called Saudi/Arab coalition states attacking Yemen.
Since mid-September (last month) religious extremist Israeli settlers were encouraged by some Israeli MPs, and were released to force their way into the Al-Aqsa Compound, under the protection of fully armed Israeli forces, to perform their religious dances "reclaiming" their ownership to the Compound. The intensity of the resulted Palestinian Intifada was not expected.
The new generations of Palestinians are fed up with the 67 years old Israeli occupation, colonial state violence and ethnic cleansing, settlers' colonization, apartheid racism and discrimination, checkpoint humiliations, wars, home demolitions, land confiscations, imprisonments, international bias and injustice, abandonment by their brethren Arabs, and oppressed by the Israeli proxy Palestinian Authority, who adopt the policies of non-effective non-violent political struggle, the 20 years old futile peace negotiations, and the extended had for peace while being totally ignored.
They learned from previous Intifada generations that active violent resistance is the only method of gaining their freedom and their rights. So hundreds of thousands of young men as well as women are taking to the streets of every major Palestinian town in West Bank, in Gaza Strip and in 1948 occupied Palestinian cities, in demonstrations, facing with their bare hands well trained fully armed Israeli soldiers and snipers.
These new Palestinian generations understand very well that the battle for Al-Aqsa is the battle for Al-Quds (Jerusalem), is the battle for whole Palestine, and their battle for freedom. The price is precious blood.
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Guy is professionally licensed as a Certified Financial Planner or CFP®.
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The other night, I was feeling sick to my stomach. The Japanese Nobel Prize-winning novel I've been slogging through was not getting it done. Sometimes, a reader needs the comfort of a bedtime story. So I routed through the three stacks-deep shelves of books in the upper half of my closet until I came across what I was looking for: a little known but beloved to me novel that I bought at my elementary school book fair. It got me to thinking about when I first developed as a reader, past the picture books of bears and fairy tales. I thought it would be nice to pay homage to those first books that truly awakened me as a reader and saw me through those pre-teen years.
Missing Carrie Phillips: Age 15 and Don't Tell Mom were a two novel series written by Janet Dagon in the early 90's, about a dysfunctional family in which the older sister is a runaway who dates the wrong boys, experiments with substance abuse, shoplifts, etc. More so, it's about the younger sister who's trying to maintain a normalcy of life while her emotionally distraught parents and narcissistic sister duke it out.
I loved these books because they captured what it was like to be a child in a family that was far from perfect, but at the core loved each other; I could relate. The characters were real to me; I identified with them. The novels were written with beautiful description as well. The writing flowed effortlessly, and there was an element of maturity that spoke to me even as a young reader.
Years ago, I gave these books away, ready to move on to more "grown-up" reading. Then, about five years ago, I was feeling part nostalgic, part in the mood for a good book hunt, and I tracked down a used copy of Don't Tell Mom on Amazon and bought it used. I was sad to discover that only copies of Missing that were up for grabs were a second or third edition, but I bought it anyway b/c the story was more important than the cover. Then, low and behold, I was at a yard sale about a year later, and there lay an original copy, a twenty-five cent sticker attached to it. Now both hold a special place in my book collection; the ones that started it all.
In the spirit of nostalgia, here are some other books that long ago disappeared from my collection, but are remembered fondly as good friends and fun reading:


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Do you read all the free ebooks that you download?
Today's Book Tidbit:Did you know that if you buy the paperback through Amazon, many titles give you the ebook at a discounted price? All of mine are free, and so are a lot of others. And, it's retroactive, meaning your past paperback purchases might qualify! Here's the word taken directly from the Amazon page:
Introducing Kindle MatchBook! For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases now allow you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99 or less.
Wisdom of the WeekIf there are 10 hotdogs in a pack, and 8 buns in a pack, how is that not a conspiracy to get me to buy more than I need?


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Rogue River Wind developing high efficiency wind turbine for Oregon
PSU is establishing a test center which will analyze data collected from an installation expected this fall in Bandon, Oregon, known for its ample wind resource.
PSU is establishing a test center which will analyze data collected from an installation expected this fall in Bandon, Oregon, known for its ample wind resource.
Liquefied natural gas, like oil is a finite resource and investing in infrastructure to support a limited resource has no lasting benefits. One need only look to the economic boom and bust of the Baku, Azerbaijan oil fields or the dormant pumps in California and Texas as examples of wasted infrastructure and the devastating impact to the environment.
New technologies are emerging in wind energy that allow for distributed power (power created at the point of consumption) to be mounted on rooftops or hilltops without the need for high towers. One design that I am intimately familiar with as I was the patent agent, is the ducted fan wind turbine.
The Rural Organizing Project (ROP) is holding its annual retreat. As a new board member, I am much looking forward to this brainstorming session the primary topic being sustainability. Not just ecological or economic sustainability but sustainability of a movement as in maintaining momentum, energy and focus.
Is the future? Distributed energy, power at the point of consumption is on the rise (more to come)
Sun Protection Factor to the trillionth degree might save the world from global warming. This according to Lowell Wood, a top Pentagon weaponeer looks to nature for a solution to climate change.
Success! The Federal Land giveaway being sold as mining law reform was dropped from the budget reconciliation bill.
Full repeal of the 1872 mining law is a great idea. A second choice would be real reform.


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Welcome to today highlights in sporting history. Today in 1913 "Mona Lisa", was recovered after being stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911
In 1913, The birth of Jesse Owens US, track star (4 golds 1936), spoiled Hitler's Olympics
In 1899, George F Grant of Boston )first black graduate of Harvard College, and a dentist) patents the wooden golf tee
In 1930, Start of the 1st Australia vs West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
In 1968, Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked No 1 in tennis.
Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his playing career, he won three Grand Slam titles. In 1979, Ashe suffered a heart attack, an event that surprised the public in view of his high level of fitness as an athlete.
The story of Ashe's life turned from success to tragedy in 1988, when Ashe discovered he had contracted HIV during the blood transfusions he had received during one of his two heart surgeries.
In 1988, Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
In 1992, 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami FL (QB)
In 1995, NBA referees return to work after striking


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CAS sounds off with noms
EmptyThe Cinema Audio Society is set to announce Thursday that the nominees for outstanding achievement in sound mixing for motion pictures are "The Bourne Ultimatum," "Into the Wild," "No Country for Old Men, "300" and "Transformers."
Re-recording mixer Kevin O'Connell -- who has been nominated for an Oscar 19 times -- is in contention for the CAS award for his work on "Transformers," along with production mixer Peter Devlin and re-recording mixer Greg P. Russell.
Other nominated teams include production mixer Edward Tise and re-recording mixers Michael Minkler and Lora Hirschberg for "Into the Wild"; production mixer Kirk Francis and re-recording mixers Scott Millan and David Parker for "Bourne"; production mixer Peter Kurland and re-recording mixers Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey and Gregg Orloff for "No Country"; and production mixer Doc Kane and re-recording mixers Chris Jenkins and Frank Montano for "300."
CAS feature nominees tend to fare well in the sound mixing category when the Academy Awards nominations are announced.
In the category of television movies and miniseries, the nominees are "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," "The Company (Part 2)," "High School Musical 2," "The Kill Point (Part 5)" and "Tin Man."
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" ("Living Doll" episode), "Jericho" ("Why We Fight"), "Scrubs" ("My Musical"), "The Sopranos" ("The Blue Comet") and "24" ("Day 6: 10:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.") make up the nominees in the television series category.
Nominated in the competition for television nonfiction, variety or music -- series or specials are "A&E Rocks: Bon Jovi," "Deadliest Catch: The Unforgiving Sea," "Faces of Earth: The Human World," "Great Performances at the Met: The Magic Flute" and "The War (Episode 2: When Things Get Tough")."
The five nominees for DVD original programming are "Bring It On: In It to Win It," "Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme," "Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society," "The Invincible Iron Man" and "Species: The Awakening."
The awards will be presented Feb. 16 at the Millennium Biltmore.


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(The Frisky) -- We thought we'd gone to tabloid heaven when we heard about the ultra juicy cast of season 10 of "Dancing With The Stars."
Kate Gosselin! Pam Anderson! Jake Pavelka! Buzz Aldrin?!? We've calculated the odds for each contestant winning the "DWTS" bragging rights and the disco ball trophy.
Pamela Anderson
Claim to Fame: A hot bod, which she used to full advantage on "Home Improvement," "Baywatch," and "Barb Wire."
Odds of Winning: 1:30. We have a feeling that Pamela is a pretty good dancer, after all those years of jogging with a flotation device and chasing bad boys like Tommy Lee. We're just worried her ample cleavage will get in the way of intricate arm work.
Kate Gosselin
Claim to Fame: Popping out sextuplets on top of a pair of twins, documenting her life on "Jon & Kate Plus 8," and finally kicking her cheating hubby, Jon, to the curb.
Odds of Winning: 1:20. We know Kate has agility -- after all, she's able to keep up with her eight kids. Her new long hair will also look lovely in an up-sweep. But we aren't expecting much from her dancing chops.
Jake Pavelka
Claim to Fame: Making the questionable decision to propose to Vienna Girardi on the season finale of "The Bachelor."
Odds of Winning: 1:20. We've seen Jake ballroom dance before (with Tenley) and he was pretty good. But will he be able to loosen up enough to samba? Don't think so.
The Frisky: Still single or married? Past "Bachelors" and "Bachelorettes" and where they are right now
Erin Andrews
Claim to Fame: One of the few women manning the sidelines for ESPN, Erin became a household name when some creepazoid filmed her naked in her hotel room and broadcast it over the internet.
Odds of Winning: 1:10. Hello, Erin went to the University of Florida and was a star Gator Dazzler, aka basketball dance team member. She'll be a natural.
Buzz Aldrin
Claim to Fame: An astronaut who piloted the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
Odds of Winning: 1:1000. Sure he might have been the second dude to walk on the moon, but we're guessing his moonwalk isn't so hot. Buzz is 80, and given how many injuries go down on "DWTS" every season, we think he'll be out pretty quick.
Niecy Nash
Claim to Fame: Helping people stop the hoarding as the host of the Style Network's "Clean House" -- her recent client was Hollywood wreck Lindsay Lohan. She's also a comedian who's had roles on "Reno 911!" and "The Bernie Mac Show."
Odds of Winning: 1:20. We have no idea how Niecy dances. But we like her, and the way she handled Lindsay Lohan's life mess, so we're inflating her odds.
Nicole Scherzinger
Claim to Fame: Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like her? Yeah, we're over the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls' ego, too.
Odds of Winning: 1:10. Let's just say that Nicole wasn't chosen for the Pussycat Dolls because of her herky-jerky step-touching. She knows how to move and could be a serious contender here.
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Shannen Doherty
Claim to Fame: Being Brenda Walsh on "Beverly Hills, 90210," and earning the reputation of being a mega-witch on set. Which served her well when she played a witch on "Charmed."
Odds of Winning: 1:20. Her "90210" nemesis, Jennie Garth, did exceptionally well on season 5 of "DWTS," getting super high and even perfect scores. We know Shannen will do whatever it takes to top Jennie's fourth-place finish.
Evan Lysacek
Claim to Fame: Just won a gold medal for figure skating in the Winter Olympics.
Odds of Winning: 1:3. This dude has it in the bag. He's got grace, is used to complicated choreography, and can even throw in some triple toe loops. Plus, he's in the top shape of his life right off the Olympics and is a male figure skater, so is totally at home in goofy costumes. Might as well give him the mirror ball trophy now.
Chad Ochocinco
Claim to Fame: The wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals and a six-time Pro-Bowler, you might recognize him from his Degree commercials.
Odds of Winning: 1:50. Football players may be quick and strong, but they're not necessarily graceful. We think Chad will make it to the middle of the pack. And since he changed his name from Chad Johnson to Chad Ochocinco to match his jersey number (85, folks), we're guessing by the time he gets voted out, he'll be Chad Mambo.
Aiden Turner
Claim to Fame: You probably know this hottie as Aidan Devane from "All My Children."
Odds of Winning: 1:50. While his soap opera training should help him emote and he does have experience being a performer, in Geri Halliwell's video for "Bag It Up" we are a little concerned because he's English, and the Brits aren't exactly known for their dance moves.
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Court Schedules Hawker Beechcraft, Pension Group Hearing
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has scheduled a hearing on January 17 to consider the agreement between Hawker Beechcraft and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., an article on businessinsurance.com said.
As previously announced, the agreement calls for the cancellation of two pension plans to be taken over by the pension agency.
To read the article in its entirety, click here.
Previously on abfjournal.com:
Hawker, Pension Benefit Guaranty Reach Settlement, Thursday, January 03, 2013


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If you have been following this blog, you have seen Rebecca's photo earlier and know that she is our daughter. This isn't her wedding anniversary (that was last month), but it is an anniversary that is more significant to David and me.
Thirty-five years ago today, David and I met my brother Davis and his wife Esther at their home in New Jersey so they could drive us out to Kennedy Airport. It seemed like a very long wait before that Northwest Airline plane came in from Korea. All the "regular" passengers came off most of them grinning from ear to ear as they looked at the crowd of us in the waiting area (this was pre-Patriot Act, remember, and we could still go directly to the gates).
Then, one by one, the volunteers came off the plane carrying their little bundles. Sometimes all one could see was the bundle; sometimes a little head was visible. The volunteer called out a name. Families rushed forward with arms outstretched and enveloped the volunteer and the baby, their baby, in their arms. More and more names were called, and I began to think we hadn't heard our name or that I had gotten the date wrong and this wasn't "our" plane. There were so many people milling around that we couldn't see much of anything anymore.
Finally, our name was called and we surged toward the sound. As we got closer, I could see a lady carrying a baby who was wide awake and looking around. All I can remember for certain after that is moving forward at a near run and reaching for that baby, our daughter Rebecca. David took care of paper work while David and Esther cried (we were all crying!) and took pictures.
This is one of the photos. Davis has reached out to hold Rebecca's hand, David is in the background trying to get his turn with Rebecca (whom I wouldn't let out of my arms for a long, long time). How tired we all were, but, oh, so happy!
So every year we celebrate the anniversary of her arrival to this country, to her new family. Every year we think again how lucky we were and are to receive this precious gift. Every year I remember how kind Esther and Davis were to drive and sit with us through that very long wait.
There's nothing like family.


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Published Jul 27, 2011
Nothing compares to the smell of freshly baked bread. Where do you go for a fresh baguette?
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Sources: Bazzill Basics cardstock; GinaK 120lb pure luxury white cardstock; SU Kraft cardstock; Verve Wishing You; Memories Black ink; SU Taken With Teal ink; Basic Grey button; Darice hemp cord
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Stitched Daisy
A while back I mentioned that I didn't have any decent birthday stamps and I had my eye on Wishing You from Verve for some time. I needed some stamps with large classic fonts and this was that set. I arrived in the mail yesterday and I was so excited to ink it up but my back was hurting so much that I couldn't get into a stamping mood even though I knew what I wanted to do with it! Thank goodness I felt better this morning and had a bit of time to stamp.
I've been seeing a lot of giant floral images lately in the blogosphere and love the way they look but I don't have any...yet. So this is what happens when I don't have a big flower image to stamp with. I decided to stitch a giant daisy. At first I wasn't sure how it would turn out. Would I follow a pattern or stitch freehand? Well, freehand could be disastrous. LOL I punched out an oval and used that as a template for the petals. It's not perfect but I love the result.
Posted by Emily Leiphart at 12:06 PM
6 comments:
- Inkerbelle said...
What a beautiful card and your stitching is l-o-v-e-l-y!! Sorry to hear of yr backpain and hope you'll feel better!
- March 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- Cindy Haffner said...
Emily this is so STRIKING.
- March 24, 2010 at 4:45 PM
- Silli said...
OM, what a wonderful idea...LOVE it......Hugs Silke
- March 25, 2010 at 7:36 AM
- Stamp and Smile said...
What a wonderful sentiment set and AMAZING card!!! Fantastic work Emily... TFS! :)
- March 26, 2010 at 10:36 PM
OMG girl, love this! Hand stitching, who would of thunk? LOL
- March 27, 2010 at 11:10 AM
- Julie Hoffman said...
So I saw this on Splitcoast and had to pop over and comment - WOW you stitched that!!! It's beautiful! You are awesome my friend!
- January 23, 2011 at 8:57 PM
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Primark's 2015 Christmas collection
Penney's (Primark) have launched their 2015 Christmas collection and there are lots of little gems. Here are a few of my favourites… Read More
The Christmas forest floor – DIY decorations from nature
2015 will be my first year hosting Christmas so naturally I'm obsessively scanning Christmas collections for the nicest tablewares and decorations. I've decided to theme my Christmas table (yes, a theme for a table – this is my life) and my theme is 'Christmas forest floor'. What better way to conjure up such a theme than to physically bring the forest floor to the table. So here's what I've done so far… Read More
Ikea's 2015 Christmas decoration collection is irresistible
Ikea's 2015 Christmas decoration collection has been released. Whether you like traditional, rustic, glittery, trendy or just a random mix of whatever catches your eye, Ikea's 2015 collection have some nice pieces. Read More


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Sustainable Plastic Production, by Bacteria
Researchers have inserted a gene into a bacteria that turns it into a carbon dioxide-eating, ethylene-producing machine. Plastics are manufactured using ethylene, most of which is derived from fossil fuels. Now, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory says six tons of CO2 emissions are saved per ton of ethylene produced by the bacteria; three tons are absorbed by the bacteria and three are avoided from the usual fossil fuels.
In other news, Lego adds Villa Savoye to its architecture series, and a pop-up Starbucks library appears in Tokyo. See the headlines after the jump.
• Genetically Engineered Bacteria Become The World's Most Efficient Plastic Factory | Co.Exist
• Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye is the Newest Addition to Lego's Architecture Series | Architectural Digest
• What's Missing From This Starbucks Store? The Branding | Co.Design
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Ulster GAA is delighted to announce its new charity partnership with Cancer Focus NI which was launched recently at the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
Established in 1969 to reduce the impact of cancer in our community, Cancer Focus NI has enjoyed a long-standing and fruitful partnership with Ulster GAA, which we look forward to developing over the next 12 months.
Each year Ulster GAA select a charity partner and this year Cancer Focus NI were chosen thanks to the long-standing support they have given to Ulster GAA over the past 15 years. This included training, information and resource development covering a wide a range of cancer prevention and support issues.
Since 2008, the Ulster Championship has been used as a vehicle for skin cancer awareness, with sunscreen and information distributed at games. Ulster GAA was one of the pilot groups for the 2017 Ultra Violet Index Monitor programme as part of the "Care in the Sun" campaign.
It's hoped to extend this programme with Ulster GAA in future years. In 2010 we jointly launched the smoke-free Ulster Championship and in 2017 Cancer Focus NI was selected as Ulster GAA's cancer services provider.
As Cancer Focus NI's approaches its 50th anniversary, we're confident that this partnership with Ulster GAA will be well supported by the community. The work of Cancer Focus NI greatly complements the health and wellbeing drive within the GAA, which seeks to maximise the opportunities for the GAA to improve the health and wellbeing of each of us.
Clubs and counties are encouraged to link-in with Cancer Focus NI to learn more about the many services they offer. We look forward to continuing to work hand in hand to provide support to local people while raising awareness and vital funds.Tweet


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The answer to the above question is obviously YES! But knowing how to get rid of head lice comes with a heavy responsibility and commitment on your part.
This article will show and present to you simple but effective head lice remedies and prevention.
What You Should Know About Head Lice
As you may probably know prior to this time, one of head lice signs is great itching which makes you scratch your hair and head excessively and embarrassingly well.
This can be very annoying to the concerned individual.
It is caused by a parasite called "louse" which inhabits our body and take advantage of our blood. It sometimes causes swollen lymph nodes.
Head lice also known as lice of the head affects especially people in the tropics. The fact can be seen as people in the tropics reports the highest casualties of this dreaded disease.
Besides head lice, two other lice varieties are common to man: body lice and pubic lice. The pubic louse, which is transmitted through intimate sexual contact, is found in coarse hair in the pubic area, under armpits, in beards and mustaches, and occasionally in eyelashes. It is shorter and shaped like a small crab, hence its nickname, the crab louse.
The body louse, unlike the head and pubic lice, does not live on people. It lives in garments close to the skin and crawls onto the body to feed. The body louse is widespread among people exposed to overcrowded and unclean conditions. In times past it has been a carrier of a number of diseases, including typhus, trench fever, and relapsing fever, but these pestilences are rarely spread by head lice today.
From Head Lice to Dead Lice – Effective Head Lice Treatment
The primary symptom of head lice infestation is itching. The bite of the head louse is irritating to the scalp, causing itching and occasionally redness. So follow the below suggestions:
- Be suspicious if you see your child scratching his head frequently. Careful inspection requires bright light and a magnifying glass. Since the louse is quite mobile and readily avoids detection, look for its eggs (nits), which are firmly attached to the hair close to the scalp. The nit ranges from light yellow to tan in color. Dermatologists have identified at least 12 conditions that are commonly mistaken for infestation with nits. Therefore, use the magnifying glass for a thorough inspection of the head. Concentrate around the ears and the nape of the neck.
- If either lice or nits are found, treatment with a special shampoo, cream, or lotion (pediculicide) will kill head lice. (Discussed below)
- Even more effective is shaving the head. Some have also found that applying a small amount of kerosene to the scalp for 15 to 20 minutes will kill both lice and nits. Care, however, should be exercised, since kerosene may cause local irritation, and if it gets in the eyes, it can be painful. Kerosene can also be toxic if inhaled, and it will catch fire if near a flame.
- Important too is the treatment of bedding, clothing, and other personal articles. Wash and then dry them in a hot dryer for at least 20 minutes to kill the lice along with the nits. Vacuum mattresses, upholstered furniture, and other items that is not washable in order to get rid of all living nits and especially head lice.
- Wash your Hair Well – Apply permethrin Lotion:
Permethrin lotion comes as a 1% solution containing pyrethrin an extract from pyrethrum plants. It works well for all kinds of head lice as is safer than Gamma benzene hexachloride (lindane).
Without adding any water, apply the liquid to dry hair until it is completely wet. (Do not use on eyebrows or eyelashes). Wait no longer than 10 minutes, wash hair until it is completely wet. Wash the hair with warm water and soap or shampoo. Repeat the process in a week time. Remember to change clothing and beddings after treatment.
- Lindane Water Shampoo:
As an alternative make shampoo of lindane, water and soap (1 part lindane to 10 parts water). Wash hair being careful not to get lindane in the eyes. Then leave the lather for 17 minutes, and then rinse well with pure and clean water. After that, repeat a week later.
To get rid of nits (Lice eggs), soak hair with hot vinegar water for half an hour, then comb thoroughly with fine-toothed comb.
Head lice can be curable if adequate and consistence effort is made on your part. Maintaining a series of constant medication will not only help you get rid of head lice but can also help you get rid of other diseases.
Treatment is an involved process, but it is necessary in order to prevent the perpetuation of lice in your family.
How to Prevent Head Lice
Although it is not possible to be immune to the infestation of lice, you can greatly reduce the likelihood of contracting them by following a few simple guidelines:
- Take great care with personal cleanliness. You know what that means. Making sure your underwears are properly catered for regularly.
- Put baby cots, your pillows, and your beddings in the sun for at least twice a week.Why this is very necessary is because sun can destroy many unseen germs. Never dry your underwear, pillows or/and beddings indoors, it can be very dangerous. There may be unseen germs that may not go out.
- Bath and wash hair often using natural head lice shampoo. Head lice shampoo varies, so you need choose the best.
- Check your children's hair regularly. If you notice they have head lice, treat them once. This is especially important because your children's health is vital to your happiness as a parent. Children are much more prone to this infection than we adults. And if you fail to do so, it may grow to even more debilitating ailments.
- Do not let a child with the infection to sleep with other members of the family.
This is no joke because since this infection is viral, it can spread rapidly. The best way to do so is to quarantine that child (if possible). Let him stay on his own until the infection is over.
Make sure you confirm that the infection is over and even if it is over still allow a day or two to pass before letting him sleep or do normal things with other members of the family.
- To prevent the spread of head lice infections, everyone infested should receive treatment at the same time. So check the entire family before beginning treatment. Pediculicides do not always kill nits attached to the hair. Any remaining eggs will hatch within seven to ten days, so a second treatment with the pediculicide may be necessary to kill any surviving lice.
A note of caution: All Pediculicides contain small amounts of insecticide that if improperly used, may produce serious side effects. Therefore, carefully follow the manufacturer's instructions.
If Pediculicides are not available in your area, alternate methods of treatment may be used. Many authorities recommend removing the nits with a special fine-tooth comb. In addition, the medical textbook Clinical Dermatology: A Color Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy suggests: "The cement holding nits to the hair shaft may be dissolved with vinegar compresses applied to the hair for 15 minutes."
- Encourage your children to avoid sharing combs, brushes, and other personal items that can easily transmit lice. If possible, have your children sleep in separate beds. Keep long hair in braids or a ponytail to help reduce head-to-head contact. And finally, if your child does get lice, don't panic. Pediculosis is rarely a serious affliction. It's also very common and one of the best-kept secrets in town.
Video on Head Lice Treatment
This below video shows the best way you can use to cure head lice. Enjoy!
The above treatment procedures will surely help do away with this unfriendly skin infection.
Now you've known how to get rid of head lice. It is now up to you to take action.
Thanks for reading this article on killing head lice.
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Amazon.com's net sales climbed 35 percent during the fourth quarter, reaching $17.43 billion, according to financial results just released by the Seattle company. However, that was below the $18.2 billion Wall Street was expecting, and the company's shares are down more than 8 percent in after-hours trading.
Sales of Kindle devices, including e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets, rose by 177 percent during the nine-week holiday period, the company said — continuing its tradition of not providing specific figures for sales of its flagship devices.
The company posted net income of $177 million, down 58 percent, to 38 cents a share — but that was actually better than the earnings of 19 cents per share that Wall Street was expecting.
Amazon is selling the Kindle Fire for $199, which is believed to be at or below its cost, in hopes of making up the difference through increased sales of media and Amazon Prime subscriptions.
The company said videos purchased or rented through Amazon Instant video more than doubled in the fourth quarter, compared to the same period a year ago, as did Amazon Instant video customers. Videos streamed by Prime subscribers rose nearly 300 percent compared to the third quarter, the company said.
Meanwhile, the company says Amazon Appstore for Android customers almost tripled during the fourth quarter, compared with the third quarter, another sign of the Kindle Fire's impact.


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This column is by Founder of FORTH innovation method, Gijs van Wulfen
When you read the strategy reports of your organization or your client, do you get a clear picture of the direction the organization is headed? Generally, strategic reports tend to be vague on innovation. Lots of times they mention that we have to innovate, but not how, where and for whom.
The innovation opportunities for your organization are infinite. There are hundreds of great ideas out there. You should guide and sometimes even restrict your activities in the front end of innovation to certain specific areas, as your resources are limited in terms of time, people and money. In practice, I have experienced that focusing increases the chance that you will find great opportunities that match your organization. The better you know what you are looking for, the easier it will be to spot it.
Apple is an example of a very successful company with a clear innovation focus. As Michael Schrage describes in his book The Innovator's Hypothesis: "Steve Jobs was a strategic value innovator. The numbers –not just his company's products – say so. Apple spent far less on research and development (R&D) than its competitors during its recent decade of rapid growth. Despite the competition investing more R&D dollars on both an absolute and a percentage of sale basis, Apple enjoyed significantly greater innovation returns. Did Apple have its innovation failures? Of course. But none were spectacularly expensive. Steve Job's company carved out remarkable safety margins in its innovation investment. How was that possible? Focus. Apple focused on its interface design and form factors, as well as facilitating elegantly simple and simply elegant user experiences. Lower prices matter less than higher perceived value."[i]
Zumba, the popular fitness routine is a great example in the services industry of an explicit focus which provides clear criteria for assessing potential innovations. Zumba's founders rely on two simple rules that help them quickly identify the most promising innovations from the flood of proposals they receive. First, any new product or service must help the instructors—who not only lead the classes but carry Zumba's brand, and drive sales of products—to attract clients and keep them engaged. Second, the proposal must deliver FEJ (pronounced "fedge"), which stands for "freeing, electrifying joy". Read this post for more on Zumba's focus.
Should you focus on incremental innovations, breakthrough innovations or both?
Should you focus on incremental innovations, radical innovations, or both? This depends on your role and situation. Startups mostly enter a market with a radical innovation. Facebook, and Twitter created new markets with new-to-the-world offerings. Tesla, Uber and AirBnB broke into existing markets surprising the incumbents with their new-to-the-world offerings. Existing organizations are mostly reactive innovators, which puts them in the situation where they have to quickly come up with innovations as the urgency is high. For them, incremental innovations are faster to develop with less risk. However, that won't be enough in the long term as they also have to come up with radical innovations in order for their organization to grow again in the longer term. It's essential that you find a good balance between incremental innovations, improvement of present products and services, and radical innovations focusing on big ideas which are outside the present comfort zone of your organization. With incremental innovations you prove to your customers and staff that you indeed can innovate and thereby build the confidence you will need to make bigger strides, once your radical innovations hit the market later.
How to draft an innovation assignment
To draft an innovation assignment you invite the relevant stakeholders, mostly your senior management, for an innovation focus workshop, where they will have to be explicit about their expectations on the results from the innovation process. This forms the guidelines for your innovation team when you are underway. You can formulate the innovation assignment with the help of the following six questions:
- Why? (Why do we want to innovate?);
- Who? (Who is the target group: BtB vs BtC; Existing vs new customer groups);
- Where? (For which distribution channels, countries, regions or continents)
- What? (Evolutionary or revolutionary: products, services or business models)
- When? (Intended year of introduction)
- Which? (Which criteria should the new concepts meet?)
Often your board has not yet defined the criteria the new offerings should meet. Then it helps to ask some questions. In practice, you will go a long way with the following eight questions:
- Revenues. How much revenue must the innovations realize during the first three years? Or, if new offerings compete with existing products, how much extra revenue must be realized?
- Profit. What profit margin or EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) should the new concept realize?
- New. Should the new concept be new to the company, new to the market, new to the country or new to the world?
- Appeal. How attractive and pioneering to the target group does the new product concept need to be?
- Promotion. To what extent do we want the product concept to create buzz and hype among potential customers?
- Positioning. To what extent should the new product concept fit the current brand positioning?
- Production. Do we produce the new product ourselves (with our own manufacturing facilities) or can we co-create with partners?
- Strategic fit. To what extent should the new product concept fit the business strategy of the organization?
Be sure to be ambitious when you quantify these criteria, as "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." [Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer]
A real-life example of an innovation assignment drafted by The City Bin Co., an Irish company and part of environmental solutions provider Averda, helps get you on the right track.
"The B2B waste collection industry is tired and stale. It has not evolved, in relative terms, resulting in a business model and approach that has gone unquestioned for decades. Hence, we firmly believe an opportunity exists to create innovations that distance The City Bin Co., in meaningful ways, from the competition.
Our mission is to disrupt the B2B waste collection industry! We will transform the status quo by unleashing a distinctive, elegant offering that creates exceptional value for customers and provides an experience which they would fear to lose. Equally, competitors will be unable or unsure how to react.
For the company, it will mean an explosion in revenue and profit. We will become 'the' leader in our chosen markets and a case study for other firms globally.
We will focus on the Dublin SME sector, or comparable organizations where decisions can be made quickly.
At the end of our assignment, we will generate at least four mini new business cases (MNBCs) which can be launched to the Irish market. Furthermore, at least one MNBC will unearth an un-served business need that is capable of expanding the market.
Each new MNBC must meet the following criteria:
- € 15M turnover by the end of the second year.
- An EBITDA of 25% within 6 months of launch.
- A CAPEX requirement at least 30% less than the current norm.
- A mechanism for managing customer churn to below 5%.
- Transferable to the UK within 12 months and to the USA within 24.
- Capable of creating WOWs in the form of written compliments."
Once you have a smart, clear and concise innovation assignment that has the support of your management, it will easier for you to proceed with selecting the best team members for your innovation journey.
4 Key messages from this post
- If an innovation initiative doesn't fit the focus of your organization it will be killed sooner or later.
- It's essential that you find a good balance between incremental innovations and radical innovations.
- When you draft an innovation assignment invite your senior management to be explicit about their expectations on the results of the innovation process.
- Be sure to be ambitious when you quantify your goals.
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