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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Note to Media: Leave Hillary Clinton Alone
Now, I admit, it was not Hillary's finest hour, but please, talking TV heads, stop with the Cheshire Cat smiles and gleeful comments. You are taking entirely too much pleasure in painting Hillary as a hot tempered virago. It's making me and a lot of other women really angry.
The question really was insulting and I don't blame Hillary for being pissed and letting it show. She was absolutely right. Her husband is not the Secretary of State and this was an official, diplomatic visit. Yes, it would have been better if the hair and make up crew had done better by her, and if she had been wearing something other than a blue cotton pantsuit that looked like hospital scrubs. It would have been better yet if she hadn't been quite so tired, or perhaps suffering in the tropical heat.
All things being equal she could have framed a more diplomatic response, but that question pushed an emotional button that lies buried in the bosom of every married woman who has ever carved out a career outside the home. Even if she becomes a world famous brain surgeon or the CEO of a major corporation people will still ask her " what does your husband do" Rarely will they ask her husband, the same question. Working women still have to deal with the mommy track and the boys club every day and Hillary has had to put up with more than her share of it, since her husband is a charismatic ex President and larger than life personality-- not to mention a major league philanderer.
I didn't think Hillary was a great First Lady, but she was a smashing Senator, ran a great Presidential campaign, and has put her ego on hold to serve the current President brilliantly as Secretary of State. If she were male not female, nobody in Congo or anywhere else would have asked her about her spouse's opinion. I don't blame her for being defensive. I don't blame her for being angry. I'm a bit angry on her behalf myself.
If you are one of the few people on the planet who has not yet seen the clip, here it is. Have a look and then, please, leave Hillary Clinton alone and let her do her job.
4 comments:
- Susan said...
I had heard about it, but hadn't seen it. Thanks for posting it. The context is far clearer and you bet that question could get a rise out of just about any woman.
She's no dummy and I'm sure she's kicking herself now, but I can understand how she could lose her cool.
Diplomacy is not easy.
- August 13, 2009 at 9:18 PM
- JamaGenie said...
Sorry, but the way I heard it happened is she was asked "What does Mr. Clinton think?", but meaning **President OBAMA**. A slip of the questioner's tongue, but still...the media **shouldn't** have made such a big deal of it.
- August 14, 2009 at 8:33 AM
- Wendy R said...
Dear PPR
I thought it was refreshing that Hillary Clinton reacted like that. It was honest, well merited, and actually served to draw attention to the deep roots of chauvinism in many people's taken for granted world view. More of that kind of honesty, not less is called for. Diplomacy is becoming interchangeable with hypocricy.
Enjoying your blog.
- August 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM
- Sally's Trove said...
Just listened to your reading of this post on WAMC's 51% The Women's Perspective. Way to go, PPR!
- August 27, 2009 at 8:14 PM


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This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers.
One early sign of this shift was the 2010 launch of paywalls for the London Times and Sunday Times. These involved no new strategy; however, the newspaper world was finally willing to regard them as real test of whether general-interest papers could induce a critical mass of readers to pay. (Nope.) Then, in March, the New York Times introduced a charge for readers who crossed a certain threshold of article views (a pattern copied from the financial press, and especially the Financial Times) which is generating substantial revenue. Finally, and most recently, were a pair of announcements last month: The Chicago Sun-Times was adopting a new threshold charge, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune said that their existing one was also working well. Taken together, these events are a blow to the idea that online news can be treated as a simple product for sale, as the physical newspaper was.
For some time now, newspaper people have been insisting, sometimes angrily, that we readers will soon have to pay for content (an assertion that had already appeared, in just that form, by 1996.) During that same period, freely available content grew ten-thousand-fold, while buyers didn't. In fact, as Paul Graham has pointed out, "Consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either…Almost every form of publishing has been organized as if the medium was what they were selling, and the content was irrelevant."
Commercial radio is ad-supported because no one could figure out a way to restrict access to radio waves; cable TV collects revenues because someone figured out a way to restrict access to co-axial cables. The logic of the internet is that everyone pays for the infrastructure, then everyone gets to use it. This is obviously incompatible with print economics, but oddly, the industry's faith in 'every reader a customer' has been largely unshaken by newspapers' own lived experience of the move to the web.
A printed paper was a bundle. A reader who wanted only sports and stock tables bought the same paper as a reader who wanted local and national politics, or recipes and horoscopes. Online, though, that bundle is torn apart, every day, by users who forward each other individual URLs, without regard to front pages or named sections or intended navigation. This unbundling leads to the odd math of web readership — if you rank readers by pages viewed in a month, the largest group by far, between a third and half of them, will visit only a single page. A smaller group will read two pages in a month, a still smaller group will read three, and so on, up to the most active reader, in a group by herself, who will read dozens of pages a day, hundreds in a month.
Against this hugely variable audience behavior, a paywall was all-or-nothing: "If you won't give us any money, we won't show you any ads!" Offered this all-or-nothing choice, most readers opted for 'nothing'; the day they launched their paywall, the Times of London shrank its digital audience from a large multiple of its print circulation to a small fraction of it. This isn't a problem with general-interest paywalls — it is the problem, widely understood before the turn of the century, and one to which there has never been a convincing answer. The easy part of treating digital news as a product is getting money from 2% of your audience. The hard part is losing 98% of your advertising base.
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To understand newspapers' 15-year attachment to paywalls, you have to understand "Everyone must pay!" not just as an economic assertion, but as a cultural one. Though the journalists all knew readership would plummet if their paper dropped imported content like Dear Abby or the funny pages, they never really had to know just how few people were reading about the City Council or the water main break. Part of the appeal of paywalls, even in the face of their economic ineffectiveness, was preserving this sense that a coupon-clipper and a news junkie were both just customers, people whose motivations the paper could serve in general, without having to understand in particular.
The article threshold has often been discussed as if it was simply a new method of getting readers to pay, to which the reply has to be "Yes, except for most of them." Calling article thresholds a "leaky" or "porous" paywall understates the enormity of the change; the metaphor of a leak suggests a mostly intact container that lets out a minority of its contents, but a paper that shares even two pages a month frees a majority of users from any fee at all. By the time the threshold is at 20 pages (a number fast becoming customary) a paper has given up on even trying to charge between 85% and 95% of its readers, and it will only convince a minority of that minority to pay.
Newspapers have two principal sources of revenue, readers and advertisers, and they can operate at mass or niche scale for each of those groups. A metro-area daily paper is a mass product for customers (many readers buy the paper) and for advertisers (many readers see their ads.) Newsletters and small-circulation magazines, by contrast, serve niche readers, and therefore niche advertisers — Fire Chief, Mother Earth News. (Some newsletters get by with no advertising at all, as with Cooks' Illustrated, where part of what the user pays for is freedom from ads, or rather freedom from a publisher beholden to advertisers.)
Paywalls were an attempt to preserve the old mass+mass model after a transition to digital distribution. With so few readers willing to pay, and therefore so few readers to advertise to, paywalls instead turned newspapers into a niche+niche business. What the article threshold creates is an odd hybrid — a mass market for advertising, but a niche market for users. As David Cohn has pointed out, this is the commercial equivalent of the National Public Radio model, where sponsors reach all listeners, but direct suport only comes from donors. (Lest NPR seem like small ball, it's worth noting that the Times ' has convinced something like one out of every hundred of its online readers to pay, while NPR affiliates' success rate is something like one in twelve. Newspapers with thresholds now aspire to NPR's persuasiveness.) Paywalls encourage a paper to focus on the value of their content. Thresholds encourage them to focus on the value of their users.
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Threshold charges subject the logic of the print bundle — a bit of everything for everybody, slathered with ads — to two new questions: What do our most committed users want? And what will turn our most frequent readers into committed users? Here are some things that won't: More ads. More gossip. More syndicated copy. This is new territory for mainstream papers, who have always had head count rather than engagement as their principal business metric.
Celebrities behaving badly always drive page-views through the roof, but those readers will be anything but committed. Meanwhile, the people who hit the threshold and then hand over money are, almost by definition, people who regard the paper not just as an occasional source of interesting articles, but as an essential institution, one whose continued existence is vital no matter what today's offerings are.
In discussing why the most loyal subset of readers would pay for access to the Times, Felix Salmon described some of the motivations reported by users: "I like the product, understand the incentives involved, and want its production to continue" and "I feel that maintaining a quality NYT is immensely important to the country as a whole." Now, and presumably from now on, the readers that matter most are disproportionately likely to score high on the God Forbid index (as in "God forbid the Sun-Times not be around to keep an eye on the politicians!")
The people who feel this way have always been a minority of the readership, a fact obscured by print bundles, but made painfully visible by paywalls. When a paper abandons the standard paywall strategy, it gives up on selling news as a simple transaction. Instead, it must also appeal to its readers' non-financial and non-transactional motivations: loyalty, gratitude, dedication to the mission, a sense of identification with the paper, an urge to preserve it as an institution rather than a business.
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Thresholds are now mostly being tried at big-city papers — New York, Chicago, Minneapolis. Most papers, however, are not the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Most papers are the Springfield Reporter, papers with a circulation 20,000 or less, and mostly made up of content bought from the Associated Press and United Media. These papers may not do well on the God Forbid index, because they produce so little original content, and they may not find thresholds financially viable, because the most engaged hundredth of their audience will number in the dozens, not the thousands.
On the other hand, local reporting is almost the only form of content for which the local paper is the sole source, so it's also possible to imagine a virtuous circle for at least some small papers, where a civically-minded core of citizens step in to fund the paper in return for an increase in local coverage, both of politics and community matters. (It's hard to overstate how vital community coverage is for small-town papers, which have typically been as much village well as town crier.)
It's too early to know what behaviors the newly core users will reward or demand from their papers. They may start asking to see fewer or less intrusive ads than non-paying readers do. They may reward papers that make their comments section more conversational (as the Times has just done.) The most dramatic change, though, is that the paying users are almost certain to be more political engaged than the median reader.
There has never been a mass market for good journalism in this country. What there used to be was a mass market for print ads, coupled with a mass market for a physical bundle of entertainment, opinion, and information; these were tied to an institutional agreement to subsidize a modicum of real journalism. In that mass market, the opinions of the politically engaged readers didn't matter much, outnumbered as they were by people checking their horoscopes. This suited advertisers fine; they have always preferred a centrist and distanced political outlook, the better not to alienate potential customers. When the politically engaged readers are also the only paying readers, however, their opinion will come to matter more, and in ways that will sometimes contradict the advertisers' desires for anodyne coverage.
It will take time for the economic weight of those users to affect the organizational form of the paper, but slowly slowly, form follows funding. For the moment at least, the most promising experiment in user support means forgoing mass in favor of passion; this may be the year where we see how papers figure out how to reward the people most committed to their long-term survival.

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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2006 News Releases > June 2006 > Wayland unveils new administrative structure
Wayland unveils new administrative structure
PLAINVIEW – The President's Cabinet at Wayland Baptist University will be a bit smaller these days with the new administrative structure unveiled recently for the system.
According to President Dr. Paul Armes, the changes came about after several meetings with his vice presidents and reshuffling of duties in the wake of Dr. Bill Hardage's death on March 25. Having served as executive vice president for several decades, Hardage not only had years of experience but also years of familiarity with the position, which included oversight of the 13 external campuses, information technology, property management and maintenance.
Rather than filling the vacant position of executive vice president, Armes and his cabinet opted to restructure the administration and streamline some processes.
"Several elements were involved in the restructuring," Armes said. "First of all, Dr. Hardage did an effective job at what was a very complicated position. I'm not sure it would have been fair to ask anyone else to manage the breadth and depth and complexity of Dr. Hardage's responsibilities.
"Second, I wanted a more direct relationship with all the VPs and the Chief Financial Officer, and we wanted a single individual responsible for the external campuses. We wanted the external campuses to know they will have someone who works uniquely and solely with them. That person will work under the supervision of Dr. Hall, who will be a strong and compelling advocate for our external campus program at the cabinet level."
The restructure creates a level of VPs under Armes, including the vice president for institutional advancement (held by Betty Donaldson), the vice president for enrollment management (held by Dr. Claude Lusk), the Chief Financial Officer (held by Jim Smith) and the revamped position of provost/academic vice president. Dr. Bobby Hall has been the vice president for academic and graduate services and he will move naturally into the amended provost position.
The biggest changes in the organizational chart come under Hall, who will oversee the academic programs, Virtual Campus, Learning Resources Center, academic achievement, Community Classroom and the institutional research and effectiveness and accreditation process as usual.
In addition, however, Hall will oversee an associate vice president for external campuses who will manage those operations and the governmental/military relations associated with them. The search for someone to fill that position will begin soon. Hall will also oversee an assistant academic vice president who will manage the registrar's offices, information technology and strategic planning and policy.
Stan DeMerritt, who had held the position of assistant executive vice president since February 15, will move into the role of assistant academic VP. Formerly the university registrar, DeMerritt is familiar with many of the roles involved in his new position.
In other changes, Donaldson will take on oversight of the Museum of the Llano Estacado, and Lusk will oversee the property management and maintenance offices as well as the university Web site.
Armes said the changes also allowed for an additional development officer to be added under the VP for advancement, bolstering the university's fundraising ability. And he is quick to add that the new chart is not set in stone and is open to "tweaking" as needed to make things flow smoothly. He feels, however, that the new structure will streamline processes and improve relations in general.
"In some ways, this adds more supervisory roles for me, but having more direct access to the CFO and VPs will enhance communication and planning at the cabinet level," Armes said. "This gives us more opportunity to work as a system. All members of cabinet have some kind of system outlook."
Armes added a word of gratitude for cabinet members who have helped work through the process.
"I would not have done this if I did not have strong confidence in the four individuals who serve on the president's cabinet," he said. "They do a great job with minimal supervision. My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with the most capable and gifted individuals I can find. I believe Wayland's cabinet is comprised of just such individuals."


text: Sixth annual "Law and the City" discussion panel addresses race, class issues in urban planning projects February 22, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos As part of Loyola University Maryland's Ethics Week 2013—an annual series of speakers and presentations on ethical business and social issues—Loyola held a panel discussion on Wednesday, Feb. 13, examining the intersection of race and class within Baltimore City's urban planning and transportation projects, with a particular focus on the city's proposed Red Line. Panelists for the discussion were Antero Pietla, author of Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City; Tamika Gauvin, community outreach specialist, Baltimore Red Line project; and Gerald Neily, former Baltimore City transportation planner and author of "Baltimore InnerSpace," which has been named "Best Urban Planning Blog" by the Baltimore City Paper. An audience of students, faculty, community residents, and members of the media listened as the panel responded to questions pertaining to the degree of interaction between law and ethics in urban planning. Following the panel, an open forum discussed racial, socio-economic, and class issues as they related to the proposed Red Line. Michael B. Runnels, J.D., assistant professor of law and social responsibility and co-moderator of the event, said the discussion developed into a positive vs. negative weighing of how gentrification affects the culture of the city, and whether the Red Line will add value to Baltimore through hard tax dollars and creating a more cohesive city. "While many of my neighbors in Canton base their opposition to the Red Line on their fear of 'certain undesirable elements and people' being brought into our neighborhood, I always respond that such racial, socio-economic, and cultural diversity is what separates cities from suburbs," said Runnels, who teaches in Loyola's Sellinger School of Business and Management. "Indeed, I often understand Baltimore as a series of self-segregated neighborhoods loosely connected by a less than efficient public transportation system. This project appears consistent with the cultivation of a more diverse city, rather than a city apparently designed to reinforce segregation along racial, socio-economic, and cultural lines." Runnels added that he was particularly encouraged by the level of student involvement and the sophistication of their questions. "At one point, I noted how many students were using their smartphones. After walking around the room during the Q&A, I realized that these students were actually using their phones to review neighborhood maps of Baltimore City. Awesome." Ethics Week is a collaborative effort across the University to inspire intellectual curiosity, support thoughtful discussion, and raise awareness about topical ethical issues. Other events this year included lectures on ethical foreign direct investment in emerging economies and the concept of social justice in the writings of economist Adam Smith, plus a screening and discussion of the film The Devil Wears Prada. The week is sponsored by the department of law and social responsibility in the Sellinger School; the department of philosophy in Loyola College; the national business honor society Beta Gamma Sigma; the national Jesuit honor society Alpha Sigma Nu; and the office of mission integration.


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The sun-scorched surface of Mercury may be the last place you'd expect to find ice. But NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has found the strongest evidence yet of frozen water — and carbon-rich material — on the planet closest to the sun.
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The final eight episodes of Breaking Bad begin airing one week from today on AMC – a pop culture event preceded by 13 Emmy nominations for the bloody and brilliant show, a Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame star ceremony for actor Bryan Cranston, numerous appearances before media and fans, and endless speculation about the final fate of his high school teacher-turned-drug lord character, Walter White. Will Walt go down in a hail of bullets? Get captured by his DEA agent brother-in-law, Hank (Dean Norris)? Will he and former student-turned-long-suffering-partner Jesse (Aaron Paul) retire from the methamphetamine trade and live out their days in cozy suburban quietude?
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Cranston joked that Walt spreads "love and joy" in these final eight installments when he talked to press at the Television Critics Association Press Tour last week, but he also called the ending "unapologetic." The Breaking Bad team, led by creator Vince Gilligan, also appeared in a New York Times-sponsored TimesTalk a few days ago, where fans brought up Walt's death as the possible ending. Cranston replied, "There's a good case for that, that maybe that's the fitful end. And yet, what if the thing [Walt] wanted the most – which was the togetherness of his family – what if he lived, and they didn't? Wouldn't that be a worse hell to be in?"
Hell. Yes, Walt's fall from grace has been of biblical proportions, or at least epic ones. Gilligan considers the sixth episode of these final eight to be the best. It's titled "Ozymandias," as in Percy Shelley's poem about how leaders fall. AMC has Cranston reciting that poem in a promo clip, a literary moment befitting the great drama. This is the week to catch up or brush up on Breaking Bad, via the AMC website, Netflix and/or DVD. Be forewarned; they've also used such terminology as "a violent and brutal sprint to the finish line" to describe the final eight episodes.
"In a way I'm sad to see it go but in another way I'm so proud of it. To me it's like retiring after winning the Super Bowl," Cranston told fans in an online chat. At the Comic-Con panel in San Diego last month, a BB fan asked: if Season 1 was about providing for his family, Season 2 about survival, and Season 3 about Walt's quest for power, "what is his motivation and drive now?" "Empire. He's in the empire business," Cranston replied. "His ego is – he's never felt this before, to have this kind of power… It got to him. He's succumbed to it now. It's like an aphrodisiac. He's helpless to it now."


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ANDERSON, S.C. – The Coker College women's soccer team had a tough day on the soccer field, losing to the Anderson University Trojans 9-1 in a non-conference match at Anderson on Sunday.
Freshman Emily Morrow (Columbia, S.C.) netted the Lady Cobras lone goal in the 27th minute off a deflection of the Anderson goalkeeper.
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Tom Brady threw for 316 yards and two touchdowns as the New England Patriots held off a furious Atlanta comeback Sunday night, beating the Falcons 30-23 to improve to 4-0 for the first time since their near-perfect season in 2007. New England built a 30-13 lead before the Falcons rallied.
Tom Brady threw for 316 yards and two touchdowns as the New England Patriots held off a furious Atlanta comeback Sunday night, beating the Falcons 30-23 to improve to 4-0 for the first time since their near-perfect season in 2007.
New England built a 30-13 lead before the Falcons rallied.
They had a chance to tie it up in the final minute, but Matt Ryan's fourth-down pass went off the hands of Roddy White in the end zone with 36 seconds remaining.
The Patriots seemed in control when LeGarrette Blount scored on a 47-yard run, and Brady threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to rookie Kenbrell Thompkins.
Thompkins finished with six catches for 127 yards — nearly as much as the first three games of his career. Julian Edelman chipped in with 118 yards on seven receptions.
Atlanta (1-3) is two games below .500 for the first time since 2007.
The Patriots started the quarter with a third-and-19 play, that Brady converted by hitting Thompkins with a 26-yard pass that was augmented with a 15-yard personal foul penalty to Moore. Blount scored on the next play for a 20-10 lead.
New England also got a touchdown on its next possession, when a 44-yard pass from Brady to Edelman set up an 18-yard TD strike to Thompkins and a 27-13 lead.
An Aqib Talib interception then led to a quick drive that resulted in a 49-yard field goal by Stephen Gostkowski.
The Falcons closed the gap when Ryan connected with tight end Tony Gonzalez on his second TD of the night, this one an 11-yard score.
The Patriots had gone ahead 13-10 with 5:29 left in the third on Gostkowski's 22-yard field goal.
Brady was 20-of-31 passing for 316 yards in the third, but he lost another receiving target on the snap that preceded Gostkowski's third-quarter field goal.
Receiver Aaron Dobson was injured in the end zone while attempting to catch a touchdown pass.
Falcons cornerback Robert Alford appeared to hold Dobson on the route, and Brady threw the ball into the artificial turf in front of both players.
Atlanta safety Thomas DeCoud knocked his knee against the front of Dobson's helmet as Dobson fell to the turf. Dobson was on his back for a couple of minutes before New England's medical staff attended to him.
Dobson walked off the field under his own power, but was questionable to return.
Gonzalez caught a 21-yard touchdown pass from Ryan to help the Falcons tie it at 10-all tie late in the second quarter.
Brady's 1-yard touchdown pass to Matthew Mulligan and Gostkowski's 48-yard field goal gave New England a 10-3 lead earlier in the second quarter.
Gonzalez was open on the right sideline after linebacker Dont'a Hightower bumped him in coverage and let the 13-time Pro Bowl tight end catch the pass easily and beat safety Steve Gregory to the right goal line marker.
Matt Bryant kicked a 23-yard field goal to give the Falcons a 3-0 lead on the opening drive. He added a 45-yard kick in the fourth quarter.
The 13-play, 75-yard drive stalled at the 6 when Ryan overthrew Gonzalez and Julio Jones in the end zone.
New England's first drive ended when Thompkins dropped a pass that would've been a first down, and the Patriots had to punt.
Stevan Ridley energized New England's offense late in the first, catching a 24-yard pass and running three times for 26 yards to help set up Mulligan's TD catch that gave the Patriots a 10-3 lead early in the second.
The Falcons went three-and-out on their second possession due in part to a holding penalty on left tackle Sam Baker that wiped out an 18-yard run by Jacquizz Rodgers.
Atlanta, which began the game with a 1-2 record, failed to convert a fourth-and-2 from the New England 7 midway through the second when Ryan threw behind Roddy White near the left sideline.
New England, off to its best start in six years, improved to 4-0 and tied Denver and Kansas City for the AFC's best record.
The Patriots had yet to face a quarterback this season as successful as Ryan. Others were rookies EJ Manuel of Buffalo and Geno Smith of the New York Jets and Josh Freeman of winless Tampa Bay.
New England's defense had allowed just three touchdowns this year, but the Patriots' offense has only four touchdowns in 13 trips inside the opponents' 20-yard line for an NFL-worst 69.2 percent through three games.
Atlanta entered the game with a 34-7 record under coach Mike Smith at the Georgia Dome, but his defense looked confused on a 49-yard pass from Brady to Thompkins that set up Gostkowski's field goal.
Brady faked to Julian Edelman on a reverse and connected with Thompkins, who jumped to beat strong safety William Moore for the big gain.
Brady attempted just nine passes in the first half, completing five for 96 yards, but he has thrown a TD pass in 52 consecutive games, the NFL's second-longest career — and active — streak behind Drew Brees' 54 straight for New Orleans.
New England defensive tackle Vince Wilfork left the game on the opening drive with a right ankle injury and did not return.
Wilfork, a five-time Pro Bowl selection, appeared to turn his right foot while trying to pressure quarterback Matt Ryan from the New England 6-yard line.
He was able to walk off the field under his own power.
Rookie Joe Vellano, who sacked Ryan for a 13-yard loss late in the third quarter, took some snaps in Wilfork's spot after the injury.
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Tight end Rob Gronkowski and wide receiver Danny Amendola were again inactive for the Patriots.
Two Falcons starters — cornerback Asante Samuel and running back Steven Jackson — were also unable to play.
Samuel, a four-time Pro Bowl selection, missed his second game this year. Robert McClain started in Samuel's spot at left cornerback.
Gronkowski, a two-time Pro Bowl selection, and Amendola did not travel with the team to Atlanta.
Patriots reserve running back Leon Washington missed his third straight game.


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Site administrators can use the Task Settings and Display page in Microsoft Project Web App to change how resources report task progress, how actual work can be updated, and other task settings.
To configure task settings and display options:
On the Quick Launch, in the Settings section, click Server Settings.
On the Server Settings page, in the Time and Task Management section, click Task Settings and Display.
In the Tracking Method section, select the tracking method that best represents how you want team members to report their progress on project tasks. Options in this section can only be modified if you are not using Single Entry Mode. If you are using Single Entry Mode, the Hours of work done per period and Force project managers to use progress reporting method specified above for all projects options are automatically selected and cannot be modified.
Tip: If you want project managers to have the option of displaying different reporting methods for their projects, clear the Force project managers to use the progress reporting method specified above for all projects check box. However, requiring the same reporting method provides a consistent user experience throughout all projects in your organization, and may make it easier for team members to report progress.
In the Reporting Display section, choose whether you want resources to report their hours daily or weekly. If you select the Resources should report their total hours worked for a week option, select the appropriate day from the Week starts on list.
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To prevent the project manager from updating a team member's actual time worked, select the Only allow task updates via Tasks and Timesheets check box.
To import actual work from all timesheet lines, regardless of line classification, select the Import all timesheet line classifications check box. If this check box is cleared, only actual work from timesheet lines that have a standard classification are imported into task status.
To enable users to provide task updates by using periods that they define, select the Allow users to define custom periods for task updates check box.
In the Define Near Future Planning Window section, type the number of reporting periods you want to include in the Near Future Planning Window on the Tasks page.


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For Visitors
Venue and Opening Time
Official opening:
2 October 2018 at 11:00
International Exhibition Center,
15 Brovarskiy Ave., Kiev, Ukraine
Dates of Work: 2 - 5 October 2018
Tuesday 11:00 - 17:30
Wednesday 10:00 - 17:30
Thursday 10:00 - 17:30
Friday 10:00 - 14:30
Please become acquainted with the list of the best hotels in Kiev.
According to the prices and grade of service ( * * * , * * * * or * * * * * ) you can choose the most appropriate hotel and book a room online on your own.
Premier Palace - a unique hotel in the very heart of the ancient capital of Ukraine is just a few steps from Khreshchatyk, Kiev's main shopping street, the "Zoloti Vorota" (Golden Gates), the State University, Kiev's Central Park (Taras Shevchenko Park), and the Nationalniy Opera. The hub of Kiev's business, educational and cultural life is all within a short walk of the hotel's doorsteps. The central focus of Kiev's business, educational and cultural life is within a short walk of the hotel's doorsteps. Accommodation is provided in single and double rooms.
All rooms are equipped with a bathroom. The hotel also offers king-size rooms with an average area of over 27 sq. m including bidet, king size bed, and 3 telephones.
There is also a hair and beauty salon, gift shop and an excursion service. And, of course, the most distinctive feature - a fitness center with a large pool beneath a glass dome, solarium, sauna, fitness equipment, massage and toning rooms. The hotel has one of the finest restaurants in Kiev, located in the picturesque penthouse. For lodgers and guests of the hotel, it offers a bar as well. The restaurant boasts an excellent international and Ukrainian menu.
Presidential Hotel Kievskiy ****
The Presidential hotel Kievskiy is situated downtown in a quiet, green location. The Boryspil Airport is a 39km away. The Central Railway Station is 5 minutes drive. The city centre - Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) is a 15 min. walk. The Olympic Stadium and Sports Palace is a 5 min. walk. The Presidential Hotel Kievskiy is a four-star hotel complex (since 1990). The complex includes: 340 rooms of various categories, 2 elite European and Slovyansky restaurants, business center, congress hall for 465 seats, comfortable conference- and meeting-rooms, a secure underground garage, and an open parking lot. Rooms include queen-size bed or two single beds, bath-room, air-conditioning, mini-bar, radio, TV, telephone (local calls free of charge), and trouser press. The price includes: buffet breakfast, handling of two pieces of luggage, open parking place, mail delivery, indoor pool, sauna, and fitness center (8:00 - 11:00 a.m.).
Тhе Dnipro hotel is located just in the centre of the Ukrainian capital, in the main street of Kiev - Kreschyatik, in a few minutes walking towards Government of Ukraine building, not far from the Sofia cathedral and the Pechersk Laura as well as the Ukrainian National Opera and Art museum. The hotel offers 186 rooms of different ranges.
All rooms are equipped with the direct dial telephone, internet access, satellite, cable and interactive TV.
There are safe, mini-bar and conditioner in the majority of the rooms. Concierge, telephone operator, fax, computers with the Internet access, printer, xerox, currency exchange, room catering service, laundry, guarded parking as well as conference-halls and room for negotiations are at your disposal.
"Dnipro" and "Panorama-Club" restaurants as well as "European" and "Munich" bars will offer you best dishes of the Ukrainian and European cuisine.
The hotel is situated at number 5 Lypska street in a very prestigious part of Kiev called Pechersk. Pechersk is a wealthy neighborhood with beautiful parks and linden trees. In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was here that the city leaders preferred their residences. The hotel Nationalniy accommodates official delegations that come to Kiev at the invitation of Parliament, the Ukrainian President, and of Cabinet Ministers. The hotel has the ability to comfortably accommodate guests of the Ukrainian capital in suites of higher and first category. Suites are equipped with TV-sets, city phones, minibars or refrigerators, complete sanitary arrangements, and some with air-conditioners and jacuzzi.
You can use business-center services: printing machines, computer leasing, Internet-services, intercity and international communication, fax, and telex. You can also visit a hairdressing saloon. Nationalniy has a restaurant with banquet and dinner halls and a night bar.
Ambassador Plaza hotel****
Ambassador Plaza hotel is situated within a short drive from "KyivExpoPlaza" exhibition centre with a convenient location between 2 subway lines ("Nyvky" station of red line and "Syrets" station of the green line). Convenient location of Ambassador Plaza hotel is advantageous both for tourists, and for businessmen, especially those visiting Kyiv exhibitions and taking part in them.
The hotel offers 44 comfortable rooms of suite, junior suit and standard category, which will meet any customer's requirements, being equipped with all the things needed for a comfortable stay and reasonably priced.
Twenty-four-hour room service, parking on the territory of Ambassador Plaza and free Wi-Fi are at your call. Our friendly staff will meet you and take care of your comfort and rest during your stay.
The Adria Hotel is located on the picturesque left bank of the river Dnipro overlooking the ancient hills of Kiev-Pecherska Lavra with its golden domes of old churches. It is close to the downtown and the Boryspil International airport.
In the hotel, two floors have been refurbished to provide comfortable accommodations. The hotel offers 44 air-conditioned rooms equipped with cable TV, telephone, and minibar.
The Riviera Restaurant offers guests a large selection of European cuisine and wines. Feast on over 60 traditional Japanese dishes at the Kyoto Restaurant. After dinner enjoy draft beer, bottled beer, cocktails, live music or excellent pub fare at the Adria English pub, Corner of Great Britain.
The hotel is situated in the center of the city, on 1 Ploshcha Peremohy (1, Victory square) near the circus and the biggest Kiev supermarket and only one kilometer from the railway station.
In the hotel Lybid there are 273 comfortable rooms, including 27 suites and two 3 - 4-room apartments. All rooms have air conditioning, television and telephone. Washing- and room services are available. A business center is located within the hotel. The restaurant Lybid serves original Ukrainian cuisine and for special events room reservations are possible.
Rus' ***
The Rus' Hotel, located in the heart of Kiev only a footstep away from the city's famous Khreshchatyk street, is a preferred place for business and leisure travelers. Many tourist attractions and fine restaurants are only a short distance away.
The Hotel has 402 rooms including suites, twin, and single rooms. The Hotel can host up to 832 guests. All rooms feature a private bath, air-conditioning, natural wood furniture, TV broadcasting international channels, international direct telephone line, minibar, direct Internet access in Single Superior rooms and Suites, and an electronic security system in elevators and all rooms. The rooms offer a spectacular view of the downtown.
Dry-cleaning, laundry, and 24-hour room service is available. A buffet breakfast is included in the room price. The Rus'´ serves a gourmet array of European and Ukrainian cuisine. Breakfast is served in the Rus'sian Hall from 7am, and room service is available around the clock. The hotel can cater for anything from small personal parties to receptions and ceremonies for 500 guests, as well as wedding parties and national holiday celebrations.
Sport is a centrally located hotel with the Respublikansky Stadion metro station within walking distance. Accommodation is provided in single, double and triple rooms. All rooms are equipped with TV, telephone and refrigerator. There is a currency exchange, luggage room, hairdresser, pharmacy, dentist, laundry, sauna, two parking places and a casino. Guests can visit the restaurants, buffets and bar.
Raziotel Kyiv is the first hotel of the new 2-star econom-hotel chain for business travelers. Raziotel Kyiv is located in 500 m away from Boryspilska metro station, only in 10 minutes by car from the Boryspil International Airport and 20 minutes away from the city center. Thanks to the modern rooms, the European level of service and reasonable rates the hotel will become the best choice for a business trip.
Business hotel Reikartz Attache Kyiv is conveniently located in an elite building – Diplomat Hall in the very center of Kyiv near the underground station – Vokzalna. The hotel offers its guests 20 comfortable and modern rooms decorated in European classic style.
Parking is available in specially assigned and guarded spaces for a fee. Please contact us for more information at email@example.com
Note: the number of parking places is limited.
Tuesday 11:00 - 17:30
Wednesday 10:00 - 17:30
Thursday 10:00 - 17:30
Friday 10:00 - 14:30
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Valentine's Day Is Big Business
If you're remembering your special sweetheart with cards, candy, flowers or jewelry on Valentine's Day, you're not alone!
According to the National Retail Federation, more then half of gift givers will buy candy, spending $1.6 billion in total, and another one-third will give flowers, with total spending expected to top $1.9 billion. Others will treat their special someone to jewelry spending more than $4.4 billion on diamonds, gold and silver. Gift givers will buy gift cards for their loved ones, totaling $1.5 billion.
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|1,309 free recipes at www.edenfoods.com
Serves 8 | Prep Time 10 minutes | Cook Time 40 minutes
2 cups Eden Kamut Spirals
or Eden Kamut Elbows, or Eden Spelt & Buckwheat Gemelli
2 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 medium onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 Tbsp dried rosemary
1 Tbsp crushed bay leaf
or 2 whole dried bay leaves
1 cup carrots, chopped
2 medium organic potatoes, chopped
6 cups vegetable broth
or water
15 ounces Eden Spaghetti Sauce
1 cup organic sweet corn, fresh or frozen
15 ounces Eden Great Northern Beans, do not drain
2 Tbsp Eden Barley Malt Syrup, optional
2 tsp Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce, or to taste
Cook pasta as package directs, rinse and drain. Heat oil in a soup pot and sauté onions and garlic until onions are translucent. Add herbs and sauté briefly. Add carrots, potatoes and water. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to medium low and simmer 30 minutes. Add spaghetti sauce, corn, beans, barley malt and shoyu. Cover and simmer 5 minutes more. Add pasta, stir and serve.
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Results tagged ' 2014 Hall of Fame Voting '
Taking a Whack at 2014 Hall of Fame Voting
I have to say I'm glad I'm not one of those 600+ members of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) who have put in the mandatory 10 plus years of service covering own slivers of the Major League Baseball fishbowl who have to parlay their thoughts along with slicing and dicing their own set in clay adverse and varied opinions about the nominated few and somehow find a cohesive way to whittle down their list of potential former MLB players for possible selection and immortalized in bronze forever within the hallowed halls of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
But wouldn't it a hoot if I did have a envelope to send into Cooperstown. That my own personal baseball opinions could be voiced upon that black and white card of my 10 selected baseball heroes from the past that I personally would LOVE to see in bronze for eternity. The reality is I will never have that opportunity. I wasted my chance at being within that brotherhood long ago when I left my Sports Correspondent slot soooo long ago. But I would cherish and relish a chance to send just such an envelope into the mail and then sit back and see how many of my picks could/would get a phone call and the prestigious yellow jacket this summer.
I would consider such an envelope a huge responsibility both as a life-time baseball spectator as well take into account morally that I not only follow my gut reaction for such voting, but also toil and weather such stormy matters as if a finalist had used or ever abused the pre-PEDs mandates (McGwire) and testing regulations (Clemens/Bonds), whether a career-long DH (Martinez) merits a hearty Hall nod. Or maybe I might wrestle on a solid and concise benchmark for statistic considerations of both starters and relievers. I would hope I can show empathy with finalists who might have suffered in their careers by playing on mediocre teams (Morris/Raines) that did not parlay their own bits of success into playoff berths or shot in the World Series. Does getting a World Series ring (or 2) trump a player with a den full of MLB hardware?
And even if I did produce 10 ducks in my selection row, that the moment the selection process is finalized I could end up with a whittled down list maybe into the single digits and as low as 3 of my selections receiving that prestigious phone call on Wednesday, January 8th. But no matter the results, I know there will be chatter, both realistic and convoluted as some inductees and finalists will miss the cut and not meet both the required minimal votes for this summer's Hall induction and possibly fall off the 2015 ballot due to lack of support or future consideration by the growing group of 600+BBWAA voters.
My first 5 selections will bode well with most voters, but my other 4 might ruffle some PED feathers or be called into question because of their non-God like stats, plus I added 1 Hometown hero to my selection list but that is what this voting blog post is all about……my personal Hall of Fame choices.
Without further ado, this would have been my ballot for the Hall of Fame Class of 2014:
1) Greg Maddux 355 W's, 17 seasons of > 15 W's, 4 Cy Youngs. Could garner over 98.84% of votes
2) Tom Glavine 305 W's, 14 seasons with >200 innings, 5- 20 W seasons, 2 Cy Youngs
3) Frank Thomas 7 straight seasons with .300 AVG,20+ HR,100 RBIs, 100 Walks, + 521 career HR
4) Craig Biggio 3,060 hits, 668 doubles are most by any right-handed hitter
5) Jeff Bagwell 7 100R/100 RBI seasons, NL ROY, Gold Glove, MVP, .408 OBP.
6) Mike Piazza 427 HRs, 12 X All-Star
7) Barry Bonds 762 HRs, 1,996 RBIs, 2,935 hits, 7 MVP, 8 Gold Gloves, 14 All-Star selections.
8) Jack Morris 15th (Last) year on ballot. His 3.90 ERA would be the Hall's highest.
9) Lee Smith Was MLB Saves (478) leader when he retired. Great pressure guy.
10) Fred McGriff 493 HR were done clean and legal. 200+ HR in both AL and NL
Rays Trivia: What other Hall of Fame finalist besides Fred McGriff played for the Rays during his career?
Answer: Hideo Nomo who wore # 11 while going 5-8 in 100.2 innings in 2005.


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|2006-10-16, 01:48
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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 32
Yea, i know they are the official names, but more often than not the alternatives are used as well Dont ask me why the subbers decided to name them that way (tho the Levantine is understandable - one would get his eyes in a knot trying to read it in the original way). As for myself i must say i for some reason prefer the alternate names to the official ones.
|2006-10-25, 16:05
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I am mowing clowns
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|2006-10-25, 17:46
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Just call me Ojisan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: U.K. Hampshire
|2007-01-18, 07:06
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
I was thinking, how about a Nanoha universal-random discussion thread? Talk about anything, like future of Nanoha series, spin offs, dreams you had with Nanoha in it, about the characters, etc.
There is a lot of non-speculation/discussion related things in the StrikerS thread, we should create a thread for that kind of stuff.
|2007-01-18, 07:22
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Just call me Ojisan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: U.K. Hampshire
But we already have three Nanoha threads (one for each series) and that's where such general discussion belongs.
Now if there was a demand for threads such as "Nanoha - Theories and Speculation", "Nanoha - Magic & Technology", or "Nanoha Q&A", fair enough but I'm not convinced that we want to encourage random discussion (see the first post "Please bear in mind that we will only accept reasonable requests, we wish to maintain the focus within the forum and cut down on the noise (so no pointless threads cluttering up the place).")
|2007-03-02, 10:31
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Vampie Walrus. Big fangs
Join Date: Oct 2004
I have a request for new threads. My pants are old and the colour's faded. I should really get new ones.
Seriously tho, I second the request for some sort of fanfic or such type of thread. I've seen some good ideas put out as just passing comments here. And it's such a shame. If that stuff is posted in the series threads they'd likely be shot down in no time. On top of that, it'd take up a mountain of space.
|2007-03-02, 10:49
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Secret Society BLANKET
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: 3 times the passion of normal flamenco
Second that idea, since I'm sure there's lots of ideas people are just dying to talk about, but can't in the current StrikerS thread (which have long become the general discussion thread). Once StrikerS begins, I can imagine that each episode will get its own thread like in the other sections. The current StrikerS thread would likely be closed, or renamed into general discussion.
|2007-03-02, 11:51
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Just call me Ojisan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: U.K. Hampshire
New thread created, Nanoha Fanfic Discussion.
|2007-03-03, 02:43
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
What Lowegear said.. sort of... whenever the new season starts, I'd like to see some cleanup/rename/freshstart on the StrikerS thread (after 2400+ posts, it isn't very useful as an episode discussion tool and has become more of a "magic & tech" ramble ... ). Suggest renaming it as Lowegear envisions and and creating a "series discussion" thread????
|2007-03-03, 04:09
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Weapon of Mass Discussion
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, USA
I've already been considering that. (Didn't you mention your concerns to me in a PM, or was that someone else?) That thread really does need to be retired because of massive multi-off-topic irrelevancy. When the series starts I intend to close the old thread and rename it "Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS Anticipation Thread." Then we can create a brand new generic discussion thread for the series.
|2007-03-13, 00:33
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We're Back
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Redgrave City
Age: 30
When the new season comes out, I'm thinking of a thread along the lines of "Skills, Spells and Technology: Who's packing more heat?"
And of course, depending on how things go, a 'Romance' thread might not be too far fetch.
|2007-03-13, 16:32
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Just call me Ojisan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: U.K. Hampshire
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In late 2009 I was contacted by Tom Baker, Emmanuelle Bermes and Antoine Isaac to help fund the Library Linked Data Incubator Group (XG) at W3C and although I personally didn't actively contribute (more a hurler-on-the-ditch like commenting, really) I am really, really happy with the outcome. To be fair, DERI was very active after all and provided great input – thanks to Jodi Schneider.
After the regular year the XG was extended for three months to complete the multitude of deliverables. A very ambitious, and as it looks like successful endeavor – bravo to the chairs and group members for this achievement. I gather that a transition to a W3C Community Group is discussed, something I applaud and support.
Why do I mention this now? Well, first of all (digital) libraries are an important and vibrant Linked Data application domain. I predict that after the attention the eGovernment domain has witnessed something like this could happen soon in the DL domain as well … hm, on a second thought, actually it is already happening 😉
In this context I stumbled upon two interesting new publications I'd like to share with you:
- 'Facilitating Access to the Web of Data: A guide for librarians' contains an introduction to the Web of data and explores how you can harness the power of the technologies from a professional point of view.
- 'Metadata for Digital Collections' is a how-to-do-it manual covering metadata topics, mapping between different schemes, metadata interoperability, OAI harvesting, as well as Linked Data stuff.
It's an exciting time to work in the Linked Data area, activities in many application domains and on the systems level (NoSQL, SEO, etc.) are popping up like wild.
What do you think? Is the time ripe for a large-scale deployment of Linked Data in the DL domain? What other good resources do you know of?