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Phoenix Drops Badgers, 88-84, in Overtime Thriller
Bryquis Perine (Milwaukee, Wis.) scored a career-high 22 points as Green Bay beat Wisconsin (No. 23 ESPN/USA Today, No. 20 AP) 88-84 in overtime on Wednesday night in front of a sellout crowd at the Resch Center. It was the second straight victory against a top-25 team (No. 11 Butler on Feb. 2, 2009) for the Phoenix and just the fourth ever for the Green Bay program.
The Badgers came into Wednesday's game with a 15-0 all-time record against Green Bay and the Phoenix was just 2-32 against schools from the Big Ten prior to the contest.
The Phoenix outplayed the Badgers throughout the evening, as Wisconsin had just four leads during the contest and never had more than a two-point advantage.
Five Phoenix players scored double figures. Rahmon Fletcher (Kansas City, Mo.) had 18 points for the Phoenix (9-2), who held off a second-half surge by the Badgers and took control in overtime.
Randy Berry (Plover, Wis.) registered his fifth career double and third this season, with 13 points and 12 rebounds. Fellow seniors Troy Cotton (Milwaukee, Wis.) had 15 points and Cordero Barkley (Racine, Wis.) added 11.
Green Bay students swarmed in the middle of the court — but left their seats a little too early, as referees were putting 1 second back on the clock. After returning to their seats, students retook the court to celebrate.
Trevon Hughes scored a career-high 27 points for the Badgers (6-2) but fouled out in overtime.Wisconsin jumped into the rankings after knocking off Duke last week.


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Shutterfly Rumors: Topeka Sees $60-$70/Sh Value; YELP, Z, AWAY Targets?
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Shares of online photo-sharing site Shutterfly (SFLY) today closed up $6.49, or almost 15%, at $50, following an article this morning by Bloomberg's Alex Sherman, Matthew Campbell and Kiel Porter stating that the $1.7 billion (market cap) company has sought the help of boutique investment banking firm Qatalyst Partners to find a buyer, citing multiple unnamed sources.
Barclays's Christopher Merwin, who has an Equal Weight rating on Shutterfly stock, and a $48 price target, this afternoon writes that it's not all that surprising the company might be seeking a buyer given buyers, especially much-larger, established tech outfits, are increasingly chasing growth through M&A. He notes the Priceline (PCLN) bid for OpenTable (OPEN) on June 13th for $2.6 billion.
To his mind, local information providers such as HomeAway (AWAY), Yelp (YELP), and Zillow (Z), all of which he rates Overweight, should equally be targets:
We believe some larger Internet companies may feel a more pressing need to maintain outsized growth and are on the lookout for new areas of growth. Armed with growing cash balances, we believe that the larger players will continue to be acquisitive in the future. For the SMID-cap Internet space as a whole, we believe the perception of increasing M&A will help to support multiples that have historically been highly volatile, as many of these companies are high-growth and do not yet have meaningful earnings to anchor valuation in choppy markets. As we mentioned in our note on the OpenTable acquisition (OpenTable Inc.: Priceline's Bid for OpenTable Underscores Strategic Value of Local Assets, 6/13/14), we believe local assets in particular have the most strategic value. In the local vertical, we currently have an Overweight rating on HomeAway (AWAY), Yelp (YELP), and Zillow (Z).
Topeka Capital Markets's Victor Anthony, meanwhile, who has a Buy rating on Shutterfly, and an $85 price target, writes that he's surprised by the timing, if the story is true, but not surprised that Amazon.com (AMZN) or another party might want them:
We have stated in past notes that SFLY is an attractive acquisition candidate, with e-commerce companies like Amazon being logical acquirers, as well as social media and cloud storage companies. For Amazon, it would be a category expansion and both companies are embracing the cloud. Further, they are similar in that both have physical infrastructure and Amazon could scale SFLY's distribution centers and run them more efficiently. With that said, we thought a sale of the company was a longer-term exit strategy for CEO Jeff Housenbold, so we are surprised by the timing.
The valuation for a deal could be between $60 to $70, but he's not betting on that given that Shutterfly probably wouldn't get as rich a premium as OpenTable:
Based on yesterday's closing price of $43.51, SFLY was trading at 7.3x the consensus 2015 EV/EBITDA vs. a median multiple of 10x for the group of e-commerce stocks. At 10x 2015 consensus EBITDA, SFLY shares would be worth $60 per share, or a 38% premium to yesterday's price. However, we think the stock is worth $58 per share based on a DCF valuation. A typical 20% premium would value the stock in an acquisition at $70 per share, or 12x 2015 consensus EV/EBITDA. The true value in an acquisition may lie somewhere between $60-$70 per share. The most recent public e-commerce acquisition is OpenTable (OPEN-$103.18:NR), which is in the process of being acquired by Priceline (PCLN-$1,239.00:NR) for 21x 2015 EV/EBITDA, after OPEN put themselves up for sale using Qatalyst. That's a ~47% premium to the value of the shares prior to the announcement of the acquisition. An SEC filing confirmed seven interested parties in addition to Priceline. We believe it is unlikely that SFLY would fetch the same multiple as OPEN.

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The former Portland State basketball star nearly gave up on his new sport after yet more ankle problems last season, but patience has paid off in a big way—and now he's become one of Peyton Manning's most dangerous weapons
You shouldn't know who Julius Thomas is.
A year ago the Denver tight end thought about dropping his football experiment, cutting his losses and putting to use that business degree from Portland State—the one he earned on a basketball scholarship.
The Broncos were pushing—the way football teams do when legendary quarterbacks sign on for a career nightcap—to have each of their offensive pieces at Peyton Manning's disposal. Thomas was the promising project who played one year of college football after four years of basketball, impressing the Broncos organization on film and in interviews enough to get drafted in the fourth round in 2011.
For many reasons—reasons we'll get to—that was a miracle in itself. But on the docket in the fall of 2012 was an early exit from football, because Thomas wanted to live the rest of his life with a functioning ankle rather than rush back from surgery the previous April.
"He was getting frustrated because they were expecting too much from him coming off of surgery," says his father, Greg, a high school principal and former college receiver. "They told him he wasn't running full speed in one of the preseason games, and he called me and said 'Dad, if this is what it takes, then maybe this isn't for me. I've got to use these ankles for the rest of my life.' "
Word of Thomas' frustration got back to John Elway and the Broncos' front office. A decision came: Shut him down, but not all the way. Rather than put him on injured reserve, Thomas was moved to the practice squad in October, so he could play scout team tight end and outside linebacker and catch up on all those football practices he missed out on because basketball coaches warned him against injury his whole life.
What did the Broncos get in return for a little bit of organizational patience? Just 65 catches and 12 touchdowns in 2013; a Pro Bowl tight end, seemingly out of thin air. Thomas is suddenly on the short list of basketball guys who found success after converting to football. There's Antonio Gates, Jimmy Graham, and, at the moment, Thomas, a focal point of the league's top passing offenses as it takes aim at San Diego in Sunday's divisional playoff slate.
Did even he know it was coming?
"This was always the goal," he says. "Everything hasn't always been easy or clear-cut. All my life, I see an opportunity and it's not clear-cut. How bad do you want it? I decided to see it through."
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This football journey started at Pacific University in Stockton, Calif., in 1983. Greg Thomas likes to retell this story to Julius, as a way of reminding him of the fragile nature of his existence. There was a new offensive coordinator at Pacific, a skinny, dark-haired former safety at the university in his early 30s. Greg was one of the top returning wide receivers on the '83 team, and one of the tallest in the country at 6-6. He got called into the new coordinator's office one day during the spring before his final season.
"Pete Carroll brings me in and he says, 'Greg, I've got an idea,' and he's bouncing all over the place, excited."
Carroll: "You're drawing a lot of double teams at split end. You're huge. I'm gonna move you to H-Back. We're gonna get you in motion, get some single coverage, move you all over the field, okay?"
Greg Thomas: "Ok, whatever."
So Greg, who liked playing football but didn't love it, moved to H-Back. That spring he was run-blocking in practice when two teammates rolled up on his leg, tearing his ACL and MCL. These were the last days of the flayed-open approach to knee surgeries, and Greg's was botched. They went in before swelling subsided, and they put his knee in a cast. A career-ender.
He would graduate, and marry the girl he met at the Palladium Disco in San Francisco a few years earlier. Then came Julius in '88.
"I was pretty damn wild, so there's no telling if things would have gone the same way if I went to the NFL," Greg says. "I like to tell Julius, if it wasn't for Pete Carroll you wouldn't even be born."
Greg raised his son a Raiders fan, and three generations of Thomas men attended home games together. Thomas grew to love football, and while his father encouraged him to play in high school in Lodi, Calif., a basketball coach always got the swing vote. Greg even promised he would reach out to Carroll, by then at USC, and lobby for a football scholarship if Thomas would just play his senior season of football. Thomas declined.
"I let people talk me out of playing in high school and probably shouldn't have," Thomas says. "It was always like, why would you risk injury when you can get a basketball scholarship?"
Portland State and Boise State offered basketball rides, and Thomas chose the Oregon school. It wound up being the perfect spot for reasons he couldn't foresee: When his four years were up and he was on track to play basketball overseas, his desire for one shot at football coincided with a coaching change at PSU. The previous coach ran a run-and-shoot offense and didn't previously recruit tight ends. If Thomas could learn the new coach's offense he could play immediately. Enter first-year tight ends coach Steve Cooper.
"He came out to the workout and he looked like a basketball guy playing football," Cooper says. "He asked questions, and the next day he was better. We go into the film room and he doesn't have any clue what anything is, and then the next day the information is retained. That's how it went for nine months. Julius is just a sponge."
Thomas spent the summer before his fifth year of college and the entire fall semester in the football office, hanging with Cooper, watching film, learning how to critique himself.
"I had already graduated so I had nothing else to do," he says. "It was like, I have this ability, I have to take this chance at the NFL. The time with coach Cooper was really invaluable."
On the field, everything was new, right down to how to catch a football. On the first day of catching passes, his hands were too far apart and at least one ball went caroming off his face. He knew nothing of blocking footwork, or route-running. For the guy who set a Portland State record for basketball games played (121), it was humbling.
"You go from being a senior captain, understanding your job, then going to play football and you have to learn everything," Thomas says. "Our coach was like, 'You've got to get leverage on that guy,' and I'm like 'What do you mean, 'get leverage'?'"
The Broncos took note of his 453 receiving yards and first team All-Big Sky Conference selection in one season and shipped tight ends coach Clancy Barone to Portland for an extended stay. Thomas and Barone watched film side-by-side until Barone was satisfied in Thomas's football knowledge. The former Chargers and Falcons coach realized Thomas was a "football rat," going back to those days spent tossing around a football in the shadow of the Oakland Coliseum.
"When you're with him you start to develop that big-picture view," Thomas says of Manning. "You start thinking about everything happening around you."
He also found out Thomas was a model citizen—the peer mediator of the year in his senior year of high school, and the first guy on the Portland State team to sign up for charity work with visiting children. At the combine he flashed 4.6 speed, a 35.5-inch vertical with monster feet (size 16) and hands (10 ¼ inches). The team drafted him 129th overall, signing him to a four-year deal worth $2.42 million.
There was but one more question mark. Thomas was a jokester, with a permanent smile and a science fiction book in hand (his favorite title: Beyond the Shadows). Not your typical NFL tight end. The Big Sky Conference was one thing, the NFL another. Did he have the constitution to handle the it? How would he react at the next level?
"He's such a happy go lucky guy, " Barone says. "That might give you the wrong impression."
Early in the 2011 training camp, Barone says, the Broncos got an answer. Then-QB Kyle Orton targeted Thomas on a seam, putting his receiver square in the path of veteran safety Brian Dawkins. The notoriously hard-hitter lined up the rookie and blew him up in front of everybody—players, coaches, execs and fans. Barone held his breath.
"Dawkins cracked him as soon as he touched the ball," Barone says. "It was one of those oooooh hits. Everyone wondered if he was going to get up. He bounced up, had the ball in his hands, scored a touchdown and jogged back to the huddle. That spoke volumes to everyone that this guy was not going to shy away from hits."
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Then came the ankle injury, suffered on his first NFL reception, in Week 2 of 2011, when Bengals linebacker Manny Lawson took him down. Thomas missed most of the remainder of the season. One day the following spring, the just-signed Manning was on campus meeting with offensive coordinator Mike McCoy, now San Diego's head coach, while Thomas was rehabbing his ankle.
"Somebody said, 'Hey, come here. There's a guy in here you need to meet,' " Thomas says. "And it was Peyton."
After Thomas's continued ankle troubles last season, Denver's campaign ended in the divisional playoffs, and Manning's window tightened once more. In the offseason Thomas "trained for real," his dad says. He weighs 250 pounds now, after playing at 215 at Portland State. He's running at full speed despite a midseason ankle scare (MRIs came back negative for tears in late October). The partnership with Manning, who has connected with five Broncos for more than 60 catches apiece this season, is a constant learning process. And the notoriously abrasive quarterback is slightly more patient with his pupil.
"Its incredible," Cooper says. "Three, four years ago, we're explaining what Cover 3 is. Now Peyton Manning wants to know why the corner has his left foot up vs. his right foot up in this formation and so on."
Thomas, who says he's still learning how to decipher coverages, explains the Manning effect: "It's hard to pinpoint one thing he does that makes me better. Throughout practice it's just been small tweaks, like explaining the overall route concept. He says, 'You've got to make sure you're out of this area on time because you've got this guy coming across.' What? That's stuff that wouldn't even cross my mind.
"When you're with him, you start to develop that big-picture view. You start thinking about everything happening around you."
Despite his blossoming awareness, Thomas is still unpolished, especially as a blocker. The Broncos typically don't ask him to play the traditional tight end role with a hand in the dirt. Barone says those kinds of players are becoming extinct in today's offenses, whereas guys like Thomas are cherished. That's why the Broncos modified their expectations and saved a seat for Julius Thomas.
The big man arrived just in time.


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Rebels to send one to state
The Moose Lake-Willow River girls finished third and the boys fifth at the 15-team Section 7AA golf meet held at the Pokegema Golf Course in Grand Rapids on Friday, May 31. The Hibbing Bluejackets came out on top for the girls, while the Hermantown Hawks were victorious for the boys.
Senior Kayla Larson finished tied for ninth overall (97, 100). The top five individuals beyond the winning team scores also advance to the state tournament. Larson finished tied for that fifth spot after 36 holes. She came up short in an exciting three-hole playoff with Katie West of International Falls. The fairways were lined with family and numerous golfers who were cheering for both girls. The Rebels wish Kayla well as she ended her six-year varsity career in style. Sophomore Lindsay Loehlein finished strong only two strokes short of joining Larson in the playoff, finishing 10th overall (101, 98). Other scores were Alexis Babcock (210), Sage Gerard (210), and Future-Hope Vang at (231).
Sophomore Gabe Douglas is headed to the state tournament! Douglas finished tied for third overall (77,76). His last 18 holes were a nail-biter, which included an eagle and a hole-in-one. Junior Grant Douglas (79,79) finished ninth overall, missing the fifth place individual qualifier by two shots. Gavin Douglas (84, 89) finished 32nd. He was the only seventh grader to make it to the section finals. The state tournament will be held at the Ridges at Sand Creek in Jordan on June 11 and 12. Let's rally some community support for Gabe as he makes the trip south.


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FYI Monday: Stunning Vintage Illustrations by Zach Graham
This post is part of the For Your Inspiration Monday series showcasing the most inspiring designs out there. Each week a new artist or design style will be presented in order to get your creative juices flowing for the upcoming week. I hope you enjoy the series.
Zach Graham is a designer & illustrator currently based in Atlanta, GA. Under the name of The Kingdom Unicorn he creates beautiful vintage illustrations. The designs are minimalistic both in style and colour palette. I'm sure you're gonna get a kick out of these. For more inspiration visit theunicornkingdom.com + Continue Reading


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She shopped at Christian Dior, Nina Ricci, Valentino, Pucci, Emanuel Ungaro, and Pierre Cardin. She spent as much as $1.5 million a year on fashion in some years, her company estimates. But couturiers' doors didn't open easily for Eunice Johnson, because for a long time she was a rarity: an African-American fashion client.
Mrs. Johnson, who died in 2010, ran the Ebony Fashion Fair, a runway show that traveled around the U.S. from 1958 to 2009, displaying high fashion for an African-American audience. The wife of publishing mogul John Johnson, founder of EBONY magazine, she bought some 7,000 items of clothing and accessories over her lifetime, for the show and for her personal collection.
Now, curators at the Chicago History Museum are combing through her collection to create a March 2013 exhibition. Mrs. Johnson didn't shy from cutting-edge fashion, and the trove includes dramatic Pierre Cardin and Emilio Pucci designs from the 1960s and 1970s. There is also a well-known "Picasso" dress from Yves Saint Laurent, a gown designed by Alexander McQueen during his brief stint as Givenchy's creative director and two Paco Rabanne hot-pant ensembles made of plastic discs.
"Anybody would be bowled over by what Mrs. Johnson was able to collect in her lifetime," says Joy Bivins, the Chicago History Museum curator of the coming exhibition.
The collection also offers a window on a little-known moment in the civil-rights era when a rising class of African-Americans began to embrace a luxurious lifestyle that had been unavailable to them.
"Black society was never able to participate, and Mrs. Johnson made her own society," says model Pat Cleveland, who got her start modeling for the Ebony Fashion Fair in 1965 at age 14. "She was able to express what it was like to be able to be a luxurious woman."
Mrs. Johnson traveled to ateliers in Paris, Rome and Florence during the buying seasons. Some designers, like Yves Saint Laurent, welcomed her. Others took some convincing.
"We always had trouble getting in," said Audrey Smaltz, a New York fashion-show coordinator who assisted with Mrs. Johnson's buying trips and traveled with the fashion fair in the 1970s. She says their team used the high-circulation Ebony magazine as a calling card or worked through a Parisian liaison.
Yves Saint Laurent was Mrs. Johnson's favorite designer, says Linda Johnson Rice, Mrs. Johnson's daughter and current chairman of Johnson Publishing Co., publisher of Ebony. "She would run backstage to greet him," Mrs. Rice recalls, and he included her in events such as his 40th birthday party.
But at the Rome atelier of Princess Irene Galitzine, who popularized glitzy evening pants for women in the 1960s, Ms. Smaltz sat for an hour trying to get in to see the collection. Luckily, Vogue editor Alexander Liberman stopped in for an appointment, and his introduction helped open the doors, says Ms. Smaltz. (Both the princess and Mr. Liberman are now dead.) "Can you imagine? They didn't want to take our money," says Ms. Smaltz, who traveled in style with Mrs. Johnson, sitting in first class on airplanes and staying at the Plaza Athenée hotel in Paris and the Excelsior in Rome.
Mid-century couture shows were exclusive affairs. Many clients knew each other. Some traveled together each season to order their wardrobes. "Let me tell you, she was alone doing this," says Ms. Rice of her mother. "Flying to Europe sounds very glamorous, [but] here you are, you're a black woman. There's no one like you—no one even on the runway like you."
She adds, "I think it was very lonely and it was tough. But she derived so much pleasure, because she loved the clothes and she loved the fact that she was going to bring them back for people to see them."
Mrs. Johnson bargained ruthlessly with design houses' vendeuses, or saleswomen, pulling out her checkbook to begin negotiations. "She would start to write the check, and she would stop and say, 'You know, I really don't think I like that price,'" says Ms. Rice, "and she would fold the check in half, [and] turn to me and say, 'Linda, let's go.'"
"The vendeuse, all she could see was this five-figure check walking out the door." Mrs. Johnson, funded by her husband and their company, started out without a formal budget. From the 1970s through the 1990s, her spending averaged $1 million a year, Johnson Publishing says.
Mrs. Johnson's buying missions resulted in an extensive personal haute couture collection, but a prime focus of her travels was clothes for the Ebony Fashion Fair. She also collected looks from African-American designers such as Patrick Kelly. The Johnsons "were trying to showcase the success and aspirations of African Americans and show really positive images of blackness to black people," says Ms. Bivins.
The Ebony Fashion Fair toured for up to six months annually, holding shows that raised funds for the United Negro College Fund and other causes. The show launched a generation of black fashion and Hollywood stars. "That was a turning point of my life," says Richard Roundtree, an actor best known as the supercop "Shaft" from the 1970s cult films. Mr. Roundtree had been working as a catalog model when Mrs. Johnson hired him for her tour in 1967.
It was at an Ebony Fashion Fair party that he had a conversation with comedian Bill Cosby that encouraged him to study acting in New York, where he landed the Shaft role in 1971. Mr. Roundtree says the fashions he modeled fueled a sense that elegance was attainable. "This was black people on stage with these incredible clothes," he says. "They could totally relate to it because it was on black people."
Traveling with the Ebony Fashion Fair was far from glamorous. Carole Brantley Pines, a 19-year-old model with the first fashion fair in 1958, says she was one of two light-skinned models who were sent in to get food at restaurants that declined to serve blacks. In some Southern towns in the very early years, Mrs. Johnson's husband arranged for food to be delivered to the bus "so we didn't have to go to any back doors," says Ms. Brantley Pines, who modeled under her maiden name, Carole Preston.
In the still-segregated South, they weren't allowed to stay in hotels, so local groups would put up the models in their homes. "Beautiful homes. Black people were living very well, but we were still segregated," she says.
During the fashion fair's 1965-66 season, the Ku Klux Klan rallied outside a hotel in Little Rock, Ark., where the models were staying, says Ms. Cleveland, the model. "We were scared to death—we were just trying to eat dinner," she says.
"We were dressed in the best clothes," Ms. Cleveland says, describing the dozen or so models with a busload of traveling couture. In the South, "they understood that change was coming down the road."
Eventually, some European designers turned to Mrs. Johnson for help as they courted a new African-American market. Mr. Pucci asked her to help him find black models in the 1960s, Ms. Rice says. (Laudomia Pucci, the daughter of the late Mr. Pucci, says that her father was a pioneer in working with black models, and she remembers meeting Mrs. Johnson.)
The Ebony Fashion Fair was discontinued in 2009 when Mrs. Johnson, who died the following year at 93, became too frail to oversee it. Ms. Rice and Johnson Publishing Chief Executive Desirée Rogers, the former White House social secretary, plan to bring it back next year when the museum exhibit opens.
Virginia Heaven, a fashion historian who was consulted about the choices for the exhibition, says she was "stunned" when she first saw the collection Mrs. Johnson had amassed. "There were pieces that were iconic from Yves Saint Laurent, iconic from Lacroix," she says. Whittling down the choices has been difficult, she says. "We could have put together 10 exhibitions out of this material and all would have been equally good."


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A Story of Slavery and Freedom in Florida's Tomato Fields
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When looking at tomatoes in the supermarket, the questions most people consider are related to the tomatoes themselves. Are they ripe? Organic? Chemically treated? As with most food, it rarely occurs to average shoppers to ask how the produce got there, where it came from, or who picked it.
In 2005 the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) won a major victory when Yum! Brands—owner of Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut—agreed to purchase tomatoes only from companies who raised wages and enforced better working conditions for laborers.
Founded in 1993, the CIW has played an important role in improving working conditions and putting a stop to slavery practices for Florida field laborers. The short documentary Immokalee: A Story of Slavery and Freedom by Jeff Imig, follows the people that were instrumental in forming the coalition and furthering the cause of just wages and decent living conditions for Florida's tomato pickers.
- Read more about CIW in YES! Magazine's Winter 2012 issue!
Workers' rights activists are taking on one of the largest supermarket chains in America, Florida-based Publix.
When farmworkers needed a way to reach one another, they invited activists nationwide for a radio barn raising.


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This week's issue of Nature contained a pair of interesting climate change papers, papers that the authors hope will help to focus attention on the scope of anthropogenic climate change and help policy makers with what are proving to be very difficult decisions.
Instead of thinking about warding off the worst possible warming scenarios by settling on a target atmospheric concentration (say, 450 ppm to avoid warming of more than 2?C by century's end) the papers argue that we need to instead think about total cumulative emissions.
The first paper, by Meinshausen et al1, calculates that in order to avoid warming of more than 2?C by 2100, we need to limit cumulative CO2 (2000-2050) to at or below 1000 gigatons. This would give only a 25 percent chance of more significant warming. Limiting cumulative emissions at 1440 Gt CO2 raises the risk of warming greater than 2?C to 50 percent, odds far beyond what most might consider acceptable. Given that emissions from 2000-2006 were about 234 Gt, and we're currently emitting around 36 Gt/year, one can see that means significant change will have to happen very soon.
Allen et al2 find that setting a cumulative limit, rather than planning to stabilize CO2 concentration, is the preferable choice for policy makers, since "the relationship between cumulative emissions and peak warming is remarkably insensitive to the emission pathway (timing of emissions or peak emission rate). Hence policy targets based on limiting cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide are likely to be more robust to scientific uncertainty than emission-rate or concentration targets. "
Although it now seems that serious discussion regarding carbon emissions is beginning to take place in Washington, DC, I have to admit feeling rather cynical that anything meaningful (ie getting the world to the point where we avoid >2?C warming) is going to emerge. The underlying problem is that energy from fossil fuels is too cheap to account for its externalities.
The obvious solution, then, is to make that fuel more expensive, but the overriding message coming from politicians of all stripes is that, whatever solution they choose, protecting their constituents' pocketbooks is the top priority. It might sound defeatist, but it's time to get working on mitigation strategies.
1 Nature, 2009. DOI: 10.1038/nature08017
2 Nature, 2009. DOI: 10.1038/nature08019


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Thursday, July 01, 2010
Grilled chicken livers in sherry and honey marinade
When planning the menu for the Midsummer's Eve, I knew I wanted something more unusual in addition to the traditional pork shashlik. I ended up making this simple grilled chicken liver dish, which was much liked by everyone. Such a quick dish to throw together and cook, ideal for those quick (yet leisurely) summertime meals in your backyard.
Serve with a green salad or a watermelon & feta or melon & blue cheese salad.
Grilled chicken livers
(Grillitud kanamaksavardad)
Source: Finnish magazine Apu (14.3.2004)
Serves 4
450-500 g chicken livers
2 garlic cloves, minced
a bunch of fresh parsley, finely chopped
4 Tbsp dry sherry
4 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp runny honey
salt and pepper to season
If you're using frozen chicken livers, then transfer them to the fridge night before.
Drain the defrozen chicken livers carefully. Cut each liver into two large pieces.
Mix all the marinade ingredients in a bowl, add chicken liver. Leave to marinate for about 2-3 hours.
Pierce the chicken livers onto a wooden sticks* and grill over hot coals or under a hot grill for about 5 minutes, turning them every now and then.
Season with salt and pepper and serve.
* Soak the sticks in cold water for at least 30 minutes before - then they won't burn as quickly.
5 comments:
I have a weak spot for chicken liver. Sounds delish!
- 3:37 pm, July 01, 2010
- ~~louise~~ said...
I just never think to cook with chicken liver. I'm not sure why though, they are so economical and versatile and one glance at that skewer proves they are pleasing to the palate as well.
Thanks for sharing, Pille...
so funny verification word is winedd:)
- 5:09 pm, July 01, 2010
- Cooking in Mexico said...
What a great idea for serving chicken livers when we want to grill. Thank you for this inspiration.
- 6:03 pm, July 01, 2010
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Liver is one of my favorite meals but I usually end up being to only one eating it. Picky husband and son.
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NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark announced today that former Major League outfielder Jeffrey Hammonds has joined the MLBPA in the newly created position of special assistant, player program development.
Hammonds, 42, played 13 Major League seasons with Baltimore, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Colorado, San Francisco and Washington. In his new role, Hammonds will work in support of current union programs, such as the Players Trust, as well as initiatives administered by the MLBPA's player services department.
Hammonds, a native of Scotch Plains, N.J., is a graduate of Stanford University, where he played for the Cardinal prior to being drafted in the first round, fourth overall, in the 1992 First-Year Player Draft. This past October, Hammonds was inducted into the Stanford University Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Monarch Insider No. 21-Keyon Carter
By ODU Athletics
Feb. 21, 2011
Monarch Insider No. 21 - Keyon Carter Carter fights through shooting slump, helped by ODU fans
Brendan O'Hallarn Monarch Basketball Insider
We all have them. Those days at the office where it seems like nothing goes right. You try, you do your best, but things simply don't work out the way you intended. Here's the difference between us and Monarchs senior forward Keyon Carter: Our tough days at the office are witnessed by our boss and other co-workers.
Keyon's "bad days," - which included a pronounced shooting slump earlier this season, where Carter felt like the basket was shrunk down to carnival-game size - were witnessed by 8,000 fans at every home game, plus thousands more watching on television or listening on the radio.
"It's been rough," Carter said of his shooting woes. "Especially when you come in with the expectations I came into with this year. I started off pretty good, but I just hit a rut. It's tough, because every game is one game lost. I'm just grateful that we were able to maintain a solid record and win, even though I was struggling offensively."
I talked with Keyon last summer, just before the start of the team's training camp. He had just spent a few weeks working one-on-one with former ODU big man Cal Bowdler. His game, and his body, looked to be in fantastic shape.
Then a scoreless game with a few turnovers became a prolonged stretch of futility at putting the ball in the basket. And despite being the strongest guy on the team, Carter has been an offense-first player for the Monarchs. He admits that when his shot isn't falling, it sometimes crosses over to other parts of his game
Carter, however, is also one of the Monarchs' most thoughtful players. He looked inside himself for reasons why he was in a slump.
"It was honestly just a mental thing. As the year progressed, I kind of came to a few realizations about the future and it bugged me as a ballplayer," he said. "Everybody thinks that you're going to play forever. That was kind of weighing on my mind a lot. The end. It was a tough pill to swallow."
And since his "job" is a very public one, Carter had to answer questions about his lack of scoring touch during his senior season wherever he went around the ODU campus. But ironically, that's one of the things that helped him work out of his funk.
"The thing that really brought me through it was the fans," he said. "Even off the court, I try to get out in the community and meet people. And everybody I talked to when I was in that rut was giving me words of encouragement. It really showed me that they cared and it helped.
"The fans kept encouraging me, and I talked with a few people, they just let me realize this is the last time I'll be playing in front of thousands of cheering people, with great teammates, and just to enjoy it. That's the kind of perspective I've taken on it now. Just enjoy my senior year on a great team. It's kind of taken the pressure off."
And lately, the results have shown. Carter isn't scoring at the same rate he was late last season, when he frequently was the team's second leading scorer after Gerald Lee. At the end of last season, Carter hit the clinching free throws against Notre Dame in ODU's NCAA Tournament upset. But he's showing signs of rounding into that form, and he's become more active in other facets of his game as his confidence grows.
Sunday's thrilling 74-63 win over Cleveland State is an example. Carter hit only one outside shot. But he ended up with 14 points but taking the ball aggressively to the basket, one time for a thunderous, one-handed dunk.
"It's extremely satisfying. I couldn't have picked a better game to come out and play well, not only for me but for my teammates," he said afterwards.
Carter has a big fan in new Old Dominion Athletic Director Wood Selig. "Keyon was the first student-athlete I met when I started at ODU. I was so impressed with his enthusiasm for ODU and his character. I walked away from this initial meeting thinking if all ODU student-athletes are like Keyon Carter then I have struck gold with regards to the 440 student-athletes who represent ODU so well."
Carter is also the favorite player of Selig's 13-year-old son Lex. Sometimes Carter wishes he could be like teammate Ben Finney, whose confidence is unshakeable. "I'm more conscious of trying to will it in. He has more of a Tracy McGrady, Allen Iverson mentality - that every shot's a good shot," he said. I kind of envy Ben's mentality of `This one's going in. I don't care if I missed (a bunch) in a row.'"
Part of why Carter felt frustrated about his lack of performance is he LOVES being a Monarch. He loves the area, having come to ODU from Riviera Beach, Fla., to play basketball five years ago. Carter gave a long, thoughtful speech thanking the fans at last week's Monarch Breakfast.
"I love the community, the fans here, and the Old Dominion tradition. Hopefully I'll be able to find a job in the area, so I'll be able to stick around, start a family and make a life here," he said. "I'm not planning on leaving anytime soon. I've made a lot of good friends here."
He's also confident that both he and the Monarchs are going to finish this season strong.
"This season could have gone better for me, but you flip on the TV and you see a lot of other teams that are struggling. We're sitting lovely at 21-6 (now 22-6) coming down the stretch. I could be doing better, but as a team, we could be a whole lot worse."
Brendan O'Hallarn, an employee in public relations at Old Dominion University, writes Monarch Basketball Insider. To see other stories, please see the Monarch Insider website, at http://www.odusports.com/ot/monarch-insider.html. If you would like to share your thoughts about ODU basketball, or have a story you'd like to see Brendan write, contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Top Five Considerations for Enabling IPv6 Support on Your Application Delivery Controller
As we approach the much talked about World IPv6 Launch on June 6th, 2012 it is important to help as many as possible do what is needed to prepare their own Internet Edge to not only participate in the launch but also to ensure business continuity regardless of which IP version is used. Start now so you don't have to rush your deployment at the end.
There are important first steps to take before you ever type the first command or click the first check box on a product. Important stuff like a gap analysis on what you can and cannot support as well as what your provider supports IPv6-wise, what your address plan will look like and other considerations. Luckily Cisco has either written a document or a blog on many of these topics. Recent blogs include:
- "Integrating IPv6 Into Your Network: Five Steps for Building Your IPv6 Address Plan" – by Jim Bailey
- "Taking Advantage of World IPv6 Launch: Practical ways to add more IPv6 to your network" – by Phillip Remaker
- "Deploying IPv6 in the Internet Edge" – by yours truly, Shannon McFarland
Given that we are just shy of a month away from World IPv6 Launch, I wanted to blog on the top considerations for enabling IPv6 support on one of the most important components of any Internet Edge design, the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) or more commonly known as a Server Load Balancer (SLB).
If you are serving web content of most varieties, you are using an ADC/SLB to front-end those web servers. We use ADC/SLB products to serve important functions that include but are not limited to:
- Traffic load distribution
- SSL-Offload
- TCP Normalization
- Server/Application Health Monitoring
- Reverse Proxy
Guess, what? We need all of these and more (stuff I did not list) in both IPv4 and IPv6. In the most pure form of SLB, most products on the market, including the Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance and ACE 30 Module, support the servicing of IPv4 (called SLB44) and IPv6 (SLB66). Basically, the incoming version of IP is matched with the back-end (server-facing) version of IP (i.e. Incoming packet from Internet client is IPv6 and back-end connection from ADC to web server is IPv6).
For the most part, the design considerations for ADC/SLB products are the same between IPv4 and IPv6 but there are times when you have a unique deployment requirement that may actually dictate the translation or mapping between both IP versions. We call this SLB64, where incoming connections on the Internet are IPv6 but we have to map or reverse proxy these connections to a back-end IPv4-only resource. Thankfully, the Cisco ACE can support all of these functions (SLB44, SLB66, SLB64).
Top Five Considerations
If you are deploying your ADC/SLB for IPv6 service, be sure to:
- Use SLB66 whenever possible – Your number one goal should be to have a top-to-bottom dual stack deployment in your Internet Edge to gain maximum performance, high availability and native protocol visibility (for security and logging)
- Treat your load-balancing and SSL-offload policies much the same between IPv4 and IPv6 – For the most part your Layer 4 and Layer 7 policies will look much the same between versions but study and implement any special security policies that may apply specifically to IPv6
- Don't forget the importance of logging – Many people will deploy IPv6 and forget the most basic functions they have enabled for IPv4 such as X-Forwarded-For (XFF) header insertion and logging
- If using SLB64 do so only for a short period of time – Translation/Reverse-Proxy use is like a drug: easy to do, you are instantly hooked and it is hard to get away from and SLB64, Stateful NAT64, Apache Reverse-Proxy all fall into this category and can inject latency, reduce availability and obstruct native protocol visibility
- Don't shortcut your deployment – If you cannot build an IPv6-enabled Internet Edge that supports near-IPv4 performance, availability and security then don't even start as in most cases when a client has IPv4 and IPv6 access and name resolution, IPv6 wins and you don't want the user to suffer from your bad IPv6 implementation
This list is by no means exhaustive but over the last year of dual stack deployments on the Cisco ACE, these seem to be the most common things people are either wildly successful at or forget completely about until they go live and the client user experience suffers.
How to get it done
The technical details on how to deploy your Cisco ACE to support full dual stack (SLB44/SLB66) or, for a short time, support a reverse-proxy approach (SLB64) are included in my Cisco Validated Design (CVD) "Deploying IPv6 in the Internet Edge". In the CVD, you will find details on configuring the Cisco ACE to support SLB66 and SLB64 and address the top considerations listed above.
In the coming weeks there will be several blogs from Cisco that will provide you with practical guidance on preparing for World IPv6 Launch. Stay tuned to blog posts on http://blogs.cisco.com/ and the Cisco Support Community page dedicated to IPv6 Integration and Transition.
Start now so you don't have to rush your deployment at the end. Remember, user experience and business continuity are your goals for IPv6 deployment in the Internet Edge. If you plan and deploy poorly then the user will suffer and that may mean a direct impact to your business.
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Not sure which sunnies to pick up this summer? Choosing the right pair for your face can be a frustrating process, but luckily there are plenty of trendy frames that are universally flattering.
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Sports journalist Scott Fowler has been writing about the Carolina Panthers football team for The Charlotte Observer since the team�s inception in 1995, covering more than 200 games in person for the newspaper.
Now he has written �100 Things Panther Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die� (Triumph Books � Chicago, 2013), the ultimate resource guide for true Panther fans.
Fowler will be at the Gaston County Public Library at 2 p.m. Dec. 21 to present what is sure to be a fascinating multi-media reading/discussion of his new book.
The free public event, appropriate for adults and school-age youth, will be held in the auditorium of the library, 1555 E. Garrison Blvd., Gastonia. No reservations are required for individuals and families. Advance reservations are suggested for organized groups to ensure seating.
Following his presentation, copies of his books will be available for personal purchase and author autograph.
Whether you�re a die-hard booster from the days of Sam Mills, Jake Delhomme and Wesley Walls, or a recent supporter of Cam Newton, Luke Kuechly and Steve Smith, Fowler�s new book literally covers the 100 things all fans need to know and do in their lifetimes.
Included are essential pieces of Panthers knowledge and trivia as well as must-do activities, ranking them from one to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist to follow on the way to fan superstardom.
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And what should all Panther fans do before they die? The list begins with go to a Panthers� home game, then continues with such bucket-list items as: visit the training camp in Spartanburg; have picture taken with the Panthers statues; buy favorite player�s jersey; follow the Panthers on Twitter; tailgate before a game; and get a touchdown ball from Cam.
Scott Fowler, a South Carolina native who graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in journalism, has won more than a dozen national awards for his sports-writing since he joined the staff of The Charlotte Observer nearly 20 years ago. He is also the author or coauthor of seven books. Fowler lives in Denver with his wife and four children.
For more information about the Dec. 21 presentation and other Gaston County Public Library services and events, call 704-868-2164/Dial 4 or visit www.gastonlibrary.org.


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NEW YORK — Journalists from across the nation gathered tonight at New York City's Cipriani 42nd Street for the 2006 Gerald Loeb Awards Banquet, celebrating the best of business, financial and economic journalism. The Loeb Awards, among the highest honors in journalism, recognize the work of journalists whose contributions to the industry illuminate the world of business and finance for readers and viewers around the world.
Judy D. Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management and chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation, welcomed Loeb Awards honorees and their guests. Lou Dobbs, anchor and managing editor of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and a Loeb Awards final judge, served as the master of ceremonies.
The Loeb Awards include two special awards for career contributions, the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was given to Myron Kandel, founding financial editor of CNN; and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award, which went to Ronald Henkoff, executive editor of Bloomberg News and editor of Bloomberg Markets. In addition, there are 11 competition categories in which winners were named at the banquet. Following is a list of the 2006 Loeb Awards recipients, along with brief synopses of their award-winning works.
Large Newspaper Winners
Ann Hardie, Carrie Teegardin and Alan Judd of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for "Borrower Beware"
This series exposes just how egregiously anti-consumer Georgia's lending laws are. Going beyond typical portraits of victims, it meticulously documents tight links between lawmakers, regulators and the lending and auto industry, revealing a system so pro-business that the state blamed consumers for the unscrupulous tactics to which they fell prey.
Medium Newspaper Winners
There was one winner and one honorable mention in the medium newspaper category.
Winner: Christopher Kirkpatrick, Joshua Boak, Steve Eder, Jim Drew and Mike Wilkinson of The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) for "Ohio Rare Coin Funds"
This stunning series reveals a number of major abuses in how Ohio's workers' compensation board invested. Thorough reporting led to disclosures of fraudulent coin deals, missing coins, missing state money – much of it involving a coin dealer and big Republican fundraiser who was a friend of Ohio's governor. The series had tremendous impact.
Honorable Mention: Luke Timmerman and David Heath of The Seattle Times for "Selling Drug Secrets"
This highly detailed investigative report exposes an insidious practice: financial firms paying doctors to divulge details about pending drug trials. The authors found 26 cases that risked the credibility of the trials and harmed unwitting investors in the stocks of medical companies that were manipulated. The series had quick impact, triggering congressional and SEC investigations.
Small Newspaper Winners
Sam Kennedy and Christina Gostomski of The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) for "School's Pursuit of Profit Leaves Students Behind"
This is a hard-hitting and well-written look at a national story told through a local perspective. It reflects a comprehensive approach to problems presented by certain for-profit educational enterprises with all the implications. It reveals the long-term effects that unscrupulous recruitment, marketing and educational financing practices can have on unsophisticated students.
Magazines Winner
Carol Loomis of Fortune for "Why Carly's Big Bet Is Failing, How the HP Board KO'd Carly"
Loomis proves what many HP employees, investors and others suspected: the merger with Compaq was a bust. By methodically picking apart the deal's promises and measuring the results, Loomis confidently proclaimed a merger gone bad. She backs up her claims not only with analysis of publicly-available financial documents, but excellent sourcing as well.
Commentary Winners
There were two winners in the Commentary category.
Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post for "Business and Economics Columns"
Pearlstein's columns appeal to a broad readership, combining smart analysis with good reporting, as well as the ability to skewer subjects with wit. He shows great range, writing about everything from Alan Greenspan, to organized labor, to Barbara Bush's pronouncements on New Orleans.
Robert L. Pollock of The Wall Street Journal for "Review and Outlook: Kianna's Law"
Pollock's pieces on the Food and Drug Administration's slow approval process for new cancer drugs were groundbreaking and resulted in changes by the FDA. Dealing with a subject matter of life and death, Pollock tackles an issue that had been largely overlooked.
Deadline Writing Winners
Maureen Milford, Ted Griffith, Luladey B. Tadesse, Robin Brown, Gary Soulsman, Christopher Yasiejko, Michele Besso, Steven Church, Jeff Montgomery and Peter Bothum of The News Journal (New Castle, Del.) for "Sale of MBNA"
This entry is a fine example of a regional paper getting right to the heart of what the sale of a company means to the community. The package is impressive on account of the viewpoints it presents. It looks at the sale from a global perspective – something often absent from regional coverage.
Beat Writing Winner
Geeta Anand of The Wall Street Journal for "The Most Expensive Drugs and How They Came to Be"
This work reveals hidden truths about the drug industry with a solid balance of supporting facts, numbers and high level sources. It explains how lawmakers created legal monopolies that allowed prices to soar. It asks hard questions, including those about the costs of extending a life and 90 percent profit for drug makers. It also connects the dots, making a complex topic easy to follow.
News Services or Online Content Winners
Frank Bass, Dirk Lammers and Larry Margasak of The Associated Press for "LAX Loans"
While researching databases for a story on the economic impact of a local drought, Lammers comes across something odd: a $135,000 SBA loan to a South Dakota radio station, as part of a program meant to help businesses near the 9/11 attacks in New York City. He and his colleagues dig deeper and find an alarming pattern of SBA loans to businesses far from Ground Zero.
Television Deadline Winners
Anne Thompson, Doug Adams, Liz Brown, Carl Sears, Kelly Venardos, Joo Lee, Rick Brown, Katie Ernst, Rich Dubroff, Doug Stoddart, Chuck Schaeffer, Mario Garcia, Meaghan Rady, Genevieve MichelBryan, Jill Silvestri, Chris Scholl, Sharon Hoffman, Albert Oetgen and John Reiss of NBC Nightly News for "The Katrina Effect"
This eight-part series examines the effects of Hurricane Katrina before and after. Five stories focus on local and national implications of major oil refineries standing in the storm's path. Before anyone fully understood it would be the largest natural disaster in American history, they sounded a reasoned rather than alarmist message of how supplies and prices would likely be affected.
Television Enterprise Winners
There was one winner and one honorable mention in the television enterprise category.
Winner: Paul Solman, Lee Koromvokis, Jeffrey Klein, Jacob Klein and Joanne Elgart Jennings of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer for "China Rising"
The program goes deeper than typical TV news coverage to get the upside and downside of China's boom. The narration is very easy to follow, and it draws you into the story for the long haul. The graphics are simple and elegant but explain in detail why the China story matters to the global economy and how it is likely to emerge as a serious threat to U.S. dominance.
Honorable Mention: Byron Harris, Kraig Kirchem and Mark Smith of WFAA-TV (Dallas, Texas) for "Learning the Hard Way"
This is a well produced regional enterprise story about for-profit higher educational institutions that make big promises but leave students with lots of debt. The reporters probe a very sketchy accreditation process, taking what looks like a one-shot lawsuit story and following it in great depth. They get a former recruiter to confess and one school to change its job placement figures story.
Business Book Winner
James B. Stewart for "DisneyWar" from Simon & Schuster
This is a stirring tale of corporate, executive and personal dysfunction, and it has everything a good business yarn should: good reporting, great writing and access to the key players. It's a terrific story very well told.
The table sponsors of the 2006 Loeb Awards are as follows:
Bloomberg News
CBS News
Dobbs Group
Los Angeles Times
Smith Barney
UCLA Anderson School of Management
USA Today
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page
Crain's Chicago Business
The Economist
Financial Times
Inc./Fast Company
The New York Times
Time Magazine
The Washington Post
A gift bag was given to all attendees at the Loeb Awards banquet with contributions from the following sponsors:
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The New York Times
Simon & Schuster
UCLA Anderson School of Management
The Loeb Awards included a career development seminar exclusively for the 2006 Loeb Awards finalists. The event was held on the morning of Monday, June 26, 2006, and was hosted by Bloomberg News. Featured presentations included: "Covering Corporate Governance – And Its Abuses" by Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Myron Kandel and Lawrence Minard Editor Recipient Ronald Henkoff; and "To Blog or Not to Blog" by several members of the Loeb Awards final judging panel.
About the Loeb Awards
Established in 1957 by Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton, the Loeb Awards recognize journalists who have made significant contributions to the public's understanding of business, finance and the economy. The judges select winners based on quality of reporting and writing, news and analytical value, originality and exclusivity, and in the broadcast categories only, production value and visual impact. UCLA Anderson School of Management has presented the awards since 1973.
For more information about the Loeb Awards, please visit the Loeb Awards Web site at http://loeb.anderson.ucla.edu or call the Loeb Awards office at (310) 206-1877.


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Colocasia looks so much like Alocasia that even experts occasionally have difficulty telling the two apart. One somewhat reliable difference is that Alocasia plants will tend to be larger in stature, and have larger leaves.
Colocasia looks so much like Alocasia that even experts occasionally have difficulty telling the two apart. One somewhat reliable difference is that Alocasia plants will tend to be larger in stature, and have larger leaves. A more specific, technical difference is that Colocasia leaves are always peltate, and Alocasia leaves less so. With peltate leaves, the petiole (leaf stalk) attachment with the leaf is inside the leaf margin, rather than on the leaf margin. For example, a maple petiole attaches at the base of the leaf (on the margin), whereas the petiole of dollarweed (Hydrocotyle) attaches to the middle of the leaf, giving that familiar round leaf an umbrella-like appearance.
Adding to potential confusion between these two genera of the Araceae or arum family is the fact that common names are shared indiscriminately between species such as Colocasia esculentum and Alocasia macrorrhizos. For example, Alan Armitage of the University of Georgia uses the common names taro and dasheen for the genus Colocasia, and assigns the common name elephant ear to the genus Alocasia. But an online article from the Missouri Botanical garden refers to Colocasia esculenta �Black Magic� as both taro and elephant�s ear, and an article from Kew Gardens goes with the omnibus designation �elephant ear taro� for Alocasia macrorrhizos. A bit confusing, but probably not worth losing sleep over.
There are important similarities to consider in landscape use. Both thrive in moist soils, with Colocasia capable of growing in shallow water along the edge of a pond. Plenty of sunlight is a plus, and Armitage states that Alocasia macrorrhiza needs full sun to develop petioles (leaf stems) strong enough to support the large leaves.
In hotter climates, some shade is not necessarily a problem, and our Master Gardener volunteers have a couple of C. esculentum �Black Magic� container plantings growing well in a mostly shady site here at the Agricultural Building.
The leaves and rhizomes of both Colocasia and Alocasia are used as a starchy food source in some tropical regions of the world, but have to be boiled or roasted to break down calcium oxalate crystals that can cause serious problems if ingested. This mode of poisoning also occurs with other familiar Aracaeae members, including dumbcane (Dieffenbachia) and jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema).
Sometimes poisoning occurs even when the Colocasia or Alocasia have been boiled or otherwise prepared. Since most of us in Eastern North Carolina don�t have experience cooking taro, dasheen, elephant ears or whatever you prefer to call them, we�re far better off growing them as ornamentals rather than food.
In our region, Colocasia and Alocasia plants are on the margin in terms of winter hardiness, but I have seen plantings that appeared to have perennialized quite well. If you�re growing them in containers, consider moving the containers to a protected location, or insulating them with mulch in late fall to help them survive the winter.
Don�t forget that local garden centers are loading up on broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, collards, bok choi, Swiss chard, lettuce and other plants for the fall and winter garden. This weekend would be a good time to get started.
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When Bloomberg reported iRadio (as we'll call it) was coming, Pandora's stock collapsed.
Well here's some good news for Pandora investors. (And after yesterday's terrible earnings report, you people need any good news you can get.)
Greg Sandoval at CNET reports Apple's negotiations with labels for a streaming service are "nowhere near to being completed." Further, Apple's offer to the major labels is leaving them "cold," says Sandoval.
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Following a random Naxxramas raid yesterday evening, I sat down and had a chat with the MT of the run. It was refreshing to talk to a tank that actually does his homework; most just blindly socket stamina because "everyone else" does it and don't really know what they are doing.
The discussion, of course, revolved around socketing for avoidance.
Now, in these early stages of WotLK, I believe the primary issue for most tanks is to achieve crit immunity. Arguing about the effectiveness of EH over avoidance is a concern probably best left for the future. However, it might be interesting just to put some figures together.
The most effective way to socket for avoidance during BC was to socket pure dodge (red) gems. The epic kind, preferably.
At 80, there is a slight difference, which may cause most tanks to reconsider the old policy.
The following values are taken from Elitist Jerks:
At level 80, about 39.35 dodge rating equals 1% dodge. Parry is more expensive to develop than dodge (due to the added benefit of parry-hasting), so parry goes out of the question when socketing for avoidance, unless you happen to get it as a socket bonus. In which case, more power to you.
4.92 defense rating equals to 1 defense skill. 1 defense skill was 0.04% chance to dodge, parry, block, and less chance for a mob to hit you. The first two and the last qualify as avoidance, so you're effectively getting 0.04% x 3 = 0.12% avoidance per defense skill.
How much defense skill is needed for 1% avoidance? 1% / 0.12% = 8.33, which equals to almost exactly 41 defense rating. Dodge, is, therefore still gives you slightly more bang for your buck when you're striving for high avoidance values.
However, there is one crucial difference. Since the changing of our shield block ability, where we don't spam it every few seconds anymore, but rather use it in select few situations due to the long cooldown, block rating IS more important than it used to be. We don't get that much block rating anymore. Crushing blows are out of the question, of course, but since block value now scales much faster than it earlier did, you're stopping a lot more damage by blocking than you did at that time.
Consider also the inclusion of Critical Block, which means that every point in block rating increases the chance that the effect will be unleashed. More damage coming from Shield Slam, meaning higher TPS. Less damage coming in (due to more being blocked). Everything is here. The increase is subtle, but, if you look back, the difference between socketing for defense and for dodge is quite "subtle" as well.
So what am I trying to say? While previously the 0.04% increased chance to block was seem as a very "meh" side effect for every extra point in defense skill, it now seems as if this little addition DOES have a significance. Which is why I'm placing socketing for defense higher than socketing for dodge. You'll get less "pure" avoidance, sure, but you're getting a lot of extras out of it as well


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REVIEWS: Velvet #1, Scribblenauts Unmasked and Captain America: The Winter Soldier Trailer
Bloggerinos! Raph here, with reviews of a comic, a new game and the new trailer that debuted for Captain America: Winter Soldier! Thoughts after the break.
Velvet is the latest from the hard hitting noir team of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, whose last collaboration is the subject of my third topic. Velvet revolves around a fictional spy organization, reminiscent of James Bond and M.I. 6, the agents of A.R. 7 are the best in the best, the Batmen of the spy world: hidden in mystery, known only as legend… until one of their agents, X-14, is killed on a mission. This has never happened before, and the search is on for what's gone wrong. Stuck in the middle of this is Velvet Templeton, a secretary at A.R. 7… or so we think. The mystery is just starting to reveal itself in issue one, and it's pace is incredible. If you love Brubaker's previous works, and are a fan of spy fiction, Velvet is a must have. Be sure to take a look at our own Midtown Exclusive Cover as well!
Scribblenauts is one of the most entertaining games I've ever seen: you enter words into a magic notebook, and out pops whatever you can think of. From Godzilla to Grilled Cheese, I don't own the game, but watching friends play it always was an entertaining experience. So when the game makers announced a sequel, and one featuring the characters of the DC Universe, my interest was definitely piqued.
I've only played through about an hour or two worth of the game, but it's already highly entertaining. You play as Maxwell a young boy with a magic notebook, and you are flung into the world of DC Comics, along with your twin sister Lili. Starting off in Gotham City, Maxwell explores the DC Universe, summoning weapons, items and heroes as needed… and the variety is mind boggling.
In one instance, I had Kyle Rayner as Ion, Saint Walker, The Spectre, Electric Red Superman, Zauriel, original Azrael and Azrael-Batman on the screen at one time… AMAZING! It's definitely for fans of the DC Universe, regardless of era (everything defaults to New 52, but you can bring different versions of the characters out to play)
The game is available on Steam (PC Digital Download), Nintendo 3DS and the Wii U.
The Captain America: Winter Soldier trailer debuted recently, and I have to say, it definitely got a few squeals of joy out of me.
The story is based pretty heavily on Brubaker and Epting's initial Captain America run, with a few changes to accommodate the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The plot revolves around two things: Cap being a man out of time, and the seeming return of his thought to be dead best friend Bucky. Robert Redford is supposed to play a senator who might have ties to Bucky's resurrection, and both SHIELD and Black Widow seem to play big parts in this Cold-War style thriller. I am really excited to see this movie, but I'll have to settle for the big dude with the hammer hitting people really hard with said hammer.
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