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Firstly, I would like to highlight some opinions of UX (and UCD) themes in evidence in the last 6 months…
The purists - those who believe UX should be kept out of the advertising agency world (Merholz and Bowles).
The integrators – those who feel that UX must play a part in communication of a product or brand and be an integral element of an ad agency (Abby the IA and Karen McGrane)
The skeptics - those who don't believe in UX being a discipline at all (Ryan Carson).
The naysayers - those who believe UCD (and indirectly UX) is a waste of time and even misleading in terms of creating a truly innovative solution (Skibsted and Hansen)
Eric Reiss in the Journal of IA took a balanced and considered view to these opinions. Framing them with a sense of perspective and presenting some deeper thoughts about UX and the role of IA in all of this. I particularly like his focus on business reality and the clarion call to embrace Information Architecture as the label that defines what we really do;
Ultimately, it will be our understanding of disciplines both within and beyond IA, that will ensure us a place at the table around which the big decisions are made.
Why UX must be present in the advertising industry
I think it's important to reaffirm why we should not have an elitist view of UX and why IA is at the very core of the user experience collection of disciplines.
Clearleft and Adaptive Path do excellent work as UX design companies. But they are a minority in a huge marketplace of varied design companies and to say that UX doesn't have a place in other types of business is contradictory to their usual UX evangelism. Isn't it much better having people in all sorts of businesses doing information architecture and interaction design under the umbrella of UX?
In the company I work at, we are growing our UX offering around a product and it is a slow but sure process of convincing people that this approach (with the right designers) can really work for their business. However, we must also embark on communication and design work as our market is not as big or as mature as the US or UK. These are driven by the need for business survival but it also ensures we have diverse viewpoints on our projects. Different perspectives provide value.
The concept of baked-in marketing
…there are so many opportunities for engagement through interaction, conversation, utility and actual *use* between the initial message and the product itself.
A day before Peter Merholz posted his view on UX and advertising, Andrew Hinton highlighted that product development and communication go hand in hand. This closer alignment will have repercussions for UX – pushing it into mainstream design consciousness. Just about every design pursuit will need to look at wider issues that surround the customer and product. Companies will strive to engage, to create interaction. Creating users who become customers.
Service design is the natural progression from UX - taking interactions across platforms and concentrating on the invisible and tangible connections around customer or user interactions. Information architects should be at the heart of this design work and don't be surprised to start to see IAs appear in companies that you didn't even think of as 'digital'.
Let's also remember that this isn't just the domain of designers but all stakeholders. We must realize UX work is done by those who do not call themselves designers. This can have both good and bad sides but if there are more people who know what we are talking about, in the right domains, this can only be for the good.
Design practice – risk and innovation
The reality of the times, is that a business needs to innovate and create better products, faster than before. But they need to mitigate risk, and UX methods offer a way of backing this up with real and relevant data. It seems at this stage to be a correct and considered way to ensure you have the right approach.
But the caveat is how to interpret data from users and it can be a minefield. The best designers will filter and discard many findings and see the real gold in reams of user interviews. This level of skill is learnt through experience. The ability to be a synthesiser of data and create meaningful relationships between themes is a core quality of any designer.
Conceptual work needs verification with customers at some stage and even Apple does this before they go to market. So to say they do not listen to users is a fallacy. They have conducted ethnographic studies with their customers, observing them using their products in their homes and offices for weeks.
The amount of data they acquire from these sessions would warrant a convincing case to not go for persona creation or user interviews, ever. They pretty much know how people feel about and use their products, so for them to innovate they need to pick up on areas that are hinted at by user comments and their behaviours through their usage. Concepts that are achievable by being verified with customers who have previously talked about the 'what ifs' and the 'nice to haves'.
Action research and design doing
Negating risk by investing in research that is actionable is a shrewd move, especially in a marketplace where customers are more vocal and more likely to be persuaded by peers than ever before. For business, the value of UX can be seen in exploring hypotheses backed up by quantitative and qualitative research.
Optimization, concept creation and execution on innovative ideas can all be handled and explored by UX teams. Considered product developments and the tangible tools to be innovative, create real business value.
Software design, integrated service design and product design all benefit from design research. In my opinion UCD is purely another way of obtaining the right information. I wouldn't design anything without ensuring a brief that included as much background information as possible. Would you?
Design thinking is one thing but design doing is a far more powerful act for business. A necessary part of this act is to gain real insights from user (or customer) research.
Envisioning the future by studying the present
It is not just interface design. It is not just about making the world more usable and ethically correct. It's all this and more. It is a force for changing business in its approach and to make it economically stable by providing for needs but also satisfying wants beyond the present day. This is the business value of UX. How you interpret the data you collect, and create something truly unique, relies on the teams skill set and experience.
All of this leads me back to my belief that UCD as a philosophy and UX (and especially IA) form the foundation for the best products and service design. A whitepaper was released as I wrote this, defining UX - written by academics, practitioners and industry. It would be good if this were a full stop to the infighting and misinformation the discipline faces, but somehow I doubt it.


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TEHRAN, Iran – Former president Mohammad Khatami has called for a nationwide referendum on the legitimacy of the government, just days after another ex-president criticized the government's response to Iran's disputed election.
Khatami said Iranians have lost faith in their political leaders after the election, according to reports posted Monday on several reformist Web sites.
The opposition charges that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the June 12 vote through mass fraud.
"Durability of order and continuation of the country's progress hinge on restoring public trust," Khatami, a popular reformist, said, according to the sites.
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Khatami, according to the Web sites, also accused hard-liners of undermining democracy and challenging the foundations of the Islamic republic when they chose to stand by the election results.
"We need to ask the people whether they are satisfied with the current situation? If a majority of the people are happy with this situation, we will submit (to their vote)," he said, referring to the referendum.
It is too early to say whether Khatami's call for a referendum would be adopted by authorities, but it constitutes the latest challenge to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader who has the last word on state matters. Khamenei has declared the results of the elections valid.
On Monday, The Associated Press reported that Khamenei has told politicians to be careful in their stances on the country's postelection unrest, saying that disturbing security is "the biggest vice."
Under Iran's constitution, a referendum has to be ordered by Khamenei himself. All popular votes in Iran are monitored by an oversight body, the Guardian Council. Khatami, however, proposed that a neutral body, such as the Expediency Council, should monitor the proposed referendum instead.
Reformists have accused the Guardian Council of openly supporting Ahmadinejad in the election dispute.
The Expediency Council is a powerful clerical body that arbitrates disputes between the legislature and the government. It also advises Khamenei.
Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi claims he won the election, saying official results showing a landslide victory for Ahmadinejad are fraudulent. Hundreds of thousands of Mousavi's supporters have staged street protests to denounce the results.
At least 20 protesters have since been killed and hundreds detained in clashes with security forces.
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Rafsanjani denounced the government's violent crackdown against protesters and demanded the release of those detained. Instead of suppression, he said the government should work to address the concerns Iranians have over the legitimacy of the vote.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - In the days leading to the 2012 Georgia College Athletic Auction, Saturday, April 14 at 6 p.m. in the Centennial Center, Bobcat Nation will sit down with a few current and former Georgia College student-athletes for a few personality profiles.
The Athletic Auction helps to support student-athlete scholarships and other capital projects for the athletic department. Individual tickets, which admit two people, can be purchased for $125 and include free food and drinks along with entry to the $10,000 reverse raffle.
The first featured student-athlete is women's basketball player Shanteona Keys (Roswell, Ga.). Keys led the Bobcats with 16.6 points per game this season, and was named the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Freshman of the Year, while garnering All-PBC Third Team honors.
- How does your team give back to the
We have hosted elementary school children to show the around the gym. We also gave a free basketball clinic earlier in the semester, but we love going to the Boys and Girls club of Milledgeville! We like to go help them with homework during power hour!
- How has being on a collegiate team shaped you
On a collegiate team everyone was once a leader on their high school team, so I had to learn how to be leader and still be a team player because that is the most important part of being a team. Personally, I have also learned that there is always someone better than you, so it's important to constantly work toward improving. Also, hark work and dedication will pay off!
- What are your plans for the future and how will this
scholarship help you reach these goals?
My dream is to become the next Oprah! I hope to choose between athletic training and broadcast journalism in the near future. If I choose athletic training, I hope to work in the Olympics one day and if I choose broadcast, then I hope to be a great television personality like Oprah Winfrey!
- What does the GC Athletic Department mean to you and
how has it helped you thus far?
The athletic department is full of wonderful people with smiles on their faces all the time! I appreciate their hard work and positive attitudes! It has helped me the most by assuring me that I will have help if I struggle in classes.
- What are some of the learning experiences you've taken
away from your time as a student athlete at GC?
I've learned it is important to balance school and classes because that is the only way to have the full experience. If you focus too much on one or the other, it becomes difficult to stay level headed. I have learned to just try to be my best in both categories to make sure I don't take either for granted.
- What made you choose / pursue Georgia
I chose GC because of the beautiful campus and wonderful basketball coaching staff!
- How have you personally seen the Athletic Department
grown since you have been here?
I've only been here a year, but I see lots of dedication from all parts of the athletic department including academics, community relations and campus relations! There hasn't been emphasis just on sports, there is importance in all aspects of our student-athlete lives.
- Background (Age, Hometown, High School, Year in
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I am an 18 year old freshman from Roswell, Ga. I attended Roswell High School. I play one of the guard positions!
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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CitationsAUA Practice Guidelines Committee (2010). AUA guideline on management of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Chapter 1: Guideline on the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Available online: http://www.auanet.org/content/guidelines-and-quality-care/clinical-guidelines.cfm?sub=bph.McNicholas T, Kirby R (2011). Benign prostatic hyperplasia, search date July 2009. Online version of BMJ Clinical Evidence: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.Roehrborn CG, et al. (2008). The effects of
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President Obama's approval rating has risen to 56 percent in the latest AP-GfK poll, up from 50 percent in September and the first time since January that his approval has gone up in the poll. Thirty-nine percent said they disapprove of his job performance — down from 49 percent last month.
Among the poll's other findings: 41 percent say the country is headed in the right direction, compared with 37 percent who said so in September; 50 percent approved of Obama's handling of the economy, and 48% approved of his handling of health care.
In fact, the president fared better on his handling of every individual issue except one: the war in Afghanistan, on which 46 percent said they approved and 41 percent disapproved, unchanged since last month. Overall, 40 percent said they favored the war in Afghanistan (down slightly from September), while 57 percent said they opposed it.
But while Obama's numbers are up, Democrats have lost their edge in the 2010 congressional elections, according to a new Gallup survey that shows voters closely divided on whether they would rather support a Democrat or a Republican for Congress next year.
"Forty-six percent of registered voters say they would vote for the Democrat, and 44 percent say the Republican when asked which party's candidate they would support for Congress if the election were held today," Gallup reported.
In July, the Democratic Party held a 6-percentage-point lead on the same question — 50 percent to 44 percent, Gallup said.
Both surveys "show a more competitive political environment than Gallup has generally seen since before the Democrats regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2006 midterm elections," the polling company said. "Closer to elections, Gallup bases its results on 'likely voters.' Doing so typically improves the Republicans' positioning by several points; thus, when Democrats lead slightly among registered voters, it is possible for Republicans to be ahead among likely voters."


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Service Fabric IoT Sample
This sample project demonstrates a multi-tenant IoT solution using Azure IoT Hub for device message ingress and Azure Service Fabric for device message access and processing.
- Install Visual Studio 2017. Any version will do. Make sure you have the following workloads installed:
- Azure development
- .NET Core cross-platform development
- Set up your Service Fabric development environment.
- Create an IoT Hub in Azure or use an existing IoT Hub in your Azure subscription that is not currently being used in a production application. The sample application will run without IoT Hub, but you won't be able to send devices messages through without it. If you're creating a new IoT Hub to run the sample, you can simply use the F1 - Free tier under pricing and scale tier in the Azure portal.
Looking for the Visual Studio 2015 version? It's in the vs2015 branch
- Make sure you have a local cluster running
- Open a PowerShell window and CD to
- Connect to your cluster using
- Run
- The deployment command defaults to a local 5-node cluster. If you're running a different configuration, pass in the name of the publish profile you want to use. For example, for a one-node cluster, use
.\deploy.ps1 -PublishProfileName Local.1Node.
- The deployment command defaults to a local 5-node cluster. If you're running a different configuration, pass in the name of the publish profile you want to use. For example, for a one-node cluster, use
View application traces
- Open the solution in Visual Studio.
- Open the Diagnostics Event viewer: View -> Other Windows -> Diagnostic events
- In the Diagnostics Event viewer, click the Configuration button with the gear icon, and replace the existing ETW providers with the following ETW providers, then click "Apply."
Have fun
- Once the application deployment has completed, go to
http://localhost:8081/iotin a web browser to access the admin web UI.
- Using the admin UI, create an ingestion application. Give it any name, your [IoT Hub connection string], and click "Add."(https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/iot-hub-csharp-csharp-getstarted/#create-an-iot-hub).
- Using the admin UI, create a tenant application. Give it any name, any number of data service partitions, 1 web service instance if running locally, or -1 if running it Azure, and click "Add."
- Once the tenant application is created, click the "Web portal" link to see the tenant's dashboard. Note: It may take a minute for the web portal to become available.
- Run the simple device emulator that's included with the sample under
- Open the solution in Visual Studio 2015.
- Set the Iot.DeviceEmulator project as the start-up project and press F5 or ctrl+F5 to run it.
- Follow the instructions in the command prompt to register devices with IoT Hub and send messages to the tenant application created in step 3.
Clean up
- Open a PowerShell window and CD to
- To completely remove the sample from a cluster, run
- To clean all build output, run
Conceptual overview
In this example, the system allows an adminstrator to add any number of "tenants" to the system to consume messages from device field gateways through any number of IoT Hub instances. Tenants can view their devices and device messages through a Web UI. Messages sent from devices are expected to include a tenant name and device ID for the message ingestion application to determine which tenant to send the message to.
Patterns demonstrated in this sample
- Reading messages from IoT Hub with EventHubReceiver. A partitioned stateful Service Fabric service provides a simple and intuitive way to read from IoT Hub partitions by simply mapping stateful service partitions to IoT Hub partitions one-to-one. This approach does not require any addition coordination or leasing between IoT Hub readers. Service Fabric manages creation, placement, availability, and scaling of the stateful service partitions. A Reliable Collection is used in each partition to keep track of the position, or offset in the IoT Hub event stream.
- Multi-tenancy using dynamically-created named application instances. An administrative application uses the Service Fabric management APIs to create a new named application instance for each new tenant, so that each tenant gets their own instance of the message storing and processing service, isolated from other tenants.
- Service-to-service communication using HTTP with ASP.NET Core. Services expose HTTP endpoints to communicate with other services.
Architectural overview
This example makes use of several Azure products:
- IoT Hub for device management and device message ingress.
- Service Fabric hosts the message processing applications.
- Azure Storage (optional) can optionally be used for long-term message storage, but is not shown in this example.
The solution is composed of three separate Service Fabric applications, each with their own set of services:
Admin Application
Used by an adminstrator to create instances of the Ingestion Application and Tenant Application.
- Web Service: The only service in this application, the web service is a stateless ASP.NET Core service that presents a management UI. API controllers perform Service Fabric management operations using
Ingestion Application
An instance of this application connects to an IoT Hub, reads device events, and forwards data to the tenant identified in the device event message.
- Router Service: The only service in this application, the router service is the stateful partitioned service that connects to IoT Hub and forwards device messages to the appropriate tenant application.
Tenant Application
A tenant is a user of the system. The system can have multiple tenants. Device event data flows into tenant applications for viewing and processing.
- Data Service: A stateful service that holds the most recent device message for a tenant. This service is partitioned so that tenants with a large number of devices can scale horizontally to meet their requirements.
- Web Service: A stateless ASP.NET Core service that presents a UI for the tenant to see devices and their most recent messages.
This sample project does not create instances of each application during deployment time. The project is designed to create new application instances at runtime through the Admin UI. In order to create application instances at runtime, the application types must be registered at deployment time. A fresh deployment of this sample looks like this:
- IoTAdminApplicationType
- fabric:/IoT.Admin.Application
- IotIngestionApplicationType
- IotTenantApplicationType
Note that only the IoTAdminApplicationType has a named instance running. The other two application types are registered, but no named application instances are created by default. The web UI in the admin application is used to dynamicall create named instances of the other two applications.


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Even Pros Don't Always Do Their Homework
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 12:26PM
Like the preceding post, this one features a game where one of the players - a professional player, again - makes what can only be described as an odd opening choice. In Nielsen's case (last post), it allowed his lower-rated opponent at least an immediate draw with the black pieces; in this game, Vitaly Kunin allowed his opponent to win by following an earlier high-level game all the way to a dead won position. Was it laziness from Black, a memory failure, or did he get surprised by his opponent's opening choice? Whatever the case, he reached a completely lost position without making a single new move, as you can see for yourself.
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The following stories were collected in the 2007 second Hack/Slash trade paperback volume Death By Sequel. However, I myself read all these tales in the Hack/Slash Omnibus.
Hack/Slash: Land of Lost Toys #1-3
Hack/Slash: Trailers
Hack/Slash: Slice Hard
Hack/Slash: Land of Lost Toys #1-3 (Devil's Due Publishing, 2005-2006, $3.25)
Dave Crosland seems like a swell artist, based on an opening sequence involving My Little Pony figures coming to unholy life and trampling a little girl. Then the book progresses to Cassie and Vlad in a graveyard dealing with a Memorial Day slasher that are kind of rough. The main story kicks in of a Freddie Krueger type who kills through twisted dreams involving licensed toy lines. By this point, Crosland is drawing like a poor man's Bob Fingerman, which is totally inappropriate for the real world sequences. The art further degenerates from there, playing out as some sort of college comedic minicomic, destroying scenes written to be tragic and gut-wrenching. Somehow, the art keeps getting worse-- more choppy, amateurish, and subversive of the story's intent. Vlad's origin is revealed, and as depicted seems laughable. Finally Crosland tries to supply some T&A with asses that look like potato sacks and tits that look like pears in a plastic bag. I think I may have made it through the first issue in one sitting, but I only made it a few pages into the second before setting the volume aside for a week or two. I finally powered through the last 37 pages, aided by a lack of dialogue and a lot of large panels/splash pages. The story isn't the greatest, but it isn't bad either, just so poorly served visually as to become unpalatable.
Hack/Slash: Trailers (DDP, 2006, $3.25)
In an amusing turn, this special was a collection of short teaser stories intended to play like movie trailers for upcoming stories (although only Machete has actually been released. Er-- I mean "Tub Club.") It's a fun way to allow new artists to try out on the property, and old ones to revisit it.
- Blood and Nuts: An unnecessary potential sequel to Comic Book Carnage elevated through nice art by Skottie Young, mostly drawing himself.
- Renegade Knife: Itai!: A solid premise, but the art of Sean Dove is inspired by the worst manga filler material.
- Tub Club: Not a very legit "sounding" trailer, and the good girl art reminds me that I'm glad Tim Seeley decided against drawing the series himself, but the premise and "scenes" are solid enough to explain why this was ultimately "produced."
- ORBITuary: Jason X was probably my favorite Friday the 13th sequel, but my dislike/disinterest in that franchise likely played into my enjoyment of the parody. Sending Hack/Slash into space has no similar appeal, because it is ridiculous in the context of featuring (vaguely) realistic characters I like. Beyond that, the slasher seems really lame. It's a shame, because Mike Norton's art is appealing.
- Dead Celebrities: Stefano Casseli provides good art and a decent premise.
- Once Bitten: Josh Medors' art is alright, but our heroes seem out of their depth, and the story's structure is less trailer than a comedic short offered in full.
I'm not sure where it was originally presented, but the Hack/Slash Omnibus offers the holiday short "Slashing Through the Snow" bundled with the trailers. This one is five pages of verse with spot painted illustrations by Mike O'Sullivan and Steve Seeley. It's an amusing enough distraction with one of the better iterations of Santa Claws.
Hack/Slash: Slice Hard (DDP, 2006, $4.95)
After a mini-series with lousy art and a special without a single complete story, Slice Hard was a rebuilding edition. Like Trailers, the art was wildly varied, and this time in service to one plot, but both disciplines were of sound quality. The story opens with a misdirection, then switches artists/gears for some foreshadowing. Another shift into exposition finally allows entry into the high concept premise. Though more than a bit of a stretch in the believability department, the schizophrenic art makes sense when our deadly duo are faced with a super-group of slashers in a confined space. The pieces are put together briskly, and the shit hits the fan early on, leaving plenty of killer action and inventive variations on fright flick analogues. There's lots going on to hold your interest, and you wish other slasher movie mash-ups worked as well as this. Artists include Tim Seeley, Mark Englert, Nate Bellegarde, Andy Kuhn, and Joe Largent hold together well enough stylistically, and the story does the rest of the work.


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How Rectifier Circuits Work in Electronics
One of the most common uses for rectifier diodes in electronics is to convert household alternating current into direct current that can be used as an alternative to batteries. The rectifier circuit, which is typically made from a set of cleverly interlocked diodes, converts alternating current to direct current.
In household current, the voltage swings from positive to negative in cycles that repeat 60 times per second. If you place a diode in series with an alternating current voltage, you eliminate the negative side of the voltage cycle, so you end up with just positive voltage.
If you look at the waveform of the voltage coming out of this rectifier diode, you'll see that it consists of intervals that alternate between a short increase of voltage and periods of no voltage at all. This is a form of direct current because it consists entirely of positive voltage. However, it pulsates: first it's on, then it's off, then it's on again, and so on.
Overall, voltage rectified by a single diode is off half of the time. So although the positive voltage reaches the same peak level as the input voltage, the average level of the rectified voltage is only half the level of the input voltage. This type of rectifier circuit is sometimes called a half-wave rectifier because it passes along only half of the incoming alternating current waveform.
A better type of rectifier circuit uses four rectifier diodes, in a special circuit called a bridge rectifier.
Look at how this rectifier works on both sides of the alternating current input signal:
In the first half of the AC cycle, D2 and D4 conduct because they're forward biased. Positive voltage is on the anode of D2 and negative voltage is on the cathode of D4. Thus, these two diodes work together to pass the first half of the signal through.
In the second half of the AC cycle, D1 and D3 conduct because they're forward biased: Positive voltage is on the anode of D1, and negative voltage is on the cathode of D3.
The net effect of the bridge rectifier is that both halves of the AC sine wave are allowed to pass through, but the negative half of the wave is inverted so that it becomes positive.


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Teacher, can you check these sentences for errors? "Using the names of.." sound awkward. Is there another word to replace it? Thank you.
The secretary conducted searches on her company database using the names of XXX Company and YYY Company but nothing came up. But when she used ZZZ Company, the search came up positive indicating that they do have records and this company is of their members.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.


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Chirilagua is a city in the department of San Miguel – a south-eastern region of El Salvador.
Chirilagua is also the nickname of a city in the state of Virginia in the United States.
How did this happen?
Apparently so many inhabitants of the original city in El Salvador immigrated to this area between Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia, (which has also been nicknamed "Arlandia"), that it became known as Chirilagua. I drove through recently to check it out. The area seems to be a few blocks of mixed residential and business. A few of the businesses even had "Chirilagua" in their name: Chirilagua Unisex Hair Salon, Chirilgua Arlandia Apartments, and Chirilagua Pollo & Steak.
It seemed like every single person on the street was Salvadoran – Salvadorans running errands, Salvadorans walking with a baby in a stroller, and many Salvadorans sitting outside talking on patios, balconies, steps, and street corners. (This is something I like to see since most of gringo suburbia stays indoors.)
As I looked at all these Chirilguans and descendents of Chirilguans, I began to wonder how many years ago the first one set out for the United States and settled here? Maybe fleeing the civil war during the 1980's, he decided to immigrate here. He chose Washington D.C., the nation's capital but finds a house to rent not too far away in Virginia. Once he finds work, he calls home to his brother and tells him to come. His brother comes, and calls home to tell their cousin what a great place it is. Pretty soon, dozens of family members have come, word spreads, and little by little, thousands from this same town almost two thousand miles away, make their way here.
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I have two wonderful successes for the animals to share with you! On Friday the RAR team was in Tecuci to spay/neuter 105 animals for the community. On Saturday the Dream Team moved to the neighboring town of Adjud where they performed 100 more free sterilizations. All thanks to donations from YOU!
Here is Mihaela Mocanu's documentation of events from
"Hi dear friends! The Association for Animal Protection Tomita and the people from Tecuci are very grateful and thank all of those wonderful people who made possible the castration of 62 dogs and 43 cats. Thank you RAR and Sterilize Dogs and the generous donors, thank you Nancy Janes and Maria Farro, Dr Aurelian Stefan, Dr Irina Corbu, Dr Ana-Lucia Udrescu, technician Ruth Osborne, thank you the volonteers who helped us every month, and also thank you to the City Hall for provoding us a vet clinic where we were able to castrate in good conditions the animals and for giving us a car to bring them to be castrated. We are happy that our Mayor, Daniel Tuchel, not only promised, but also he kept his word. Good job, Mayor!Mihaela Raducanu, President of Association for Animal Protection Tomita, Tecuci"
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"It has been two long and busy days for the RAR surgical team. Friday saw us arriving bright an early in Tecuci where the Mayor opened proceedings. We worked long and hard into the night helping 105 dogs and cats lead healthier lives. We waved goodbye to Tecuci and arrived in Ajud before midnight. It was a pleasure to see the people of Adjud again. Here we operated on 100 dogs and cats including a huge testicular tumour. The people bringing the animals they care for really understood the importance of spay and neuter. Thank you to everyone involved in these last two days and most of all thanks to anyone who has donated to RAR, as without you none of this is possible."


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Bill & I never tire of the conversations we have with our guests. It's a good portion of why we enjoy being innkeepers as much as we do–the genuine connections we can make with our guests enrich our lives and theirs too. Take, for example, this little story:
It's always slow in March in Joseph Oregon because the weather isn't the best for outdoor activities, but a couple returning home to Sisters, Oregon, decides to spend the night with us on their way home. As it turns out, TR and Jenny McCrystal own a restaurant in Sisters called Jen's Garden. It's an "intimate cottage cuisine" setting with food inspired by the South of France with 5-course, 3-course, or a la carte menu choices. We have a nice time talking about the restaurant, about Sisters, about Central Oregon, and all is fine. I make a mental note that we will definitely plan for dinner at Jen's Garden the next time we visit Sisters and to mention this same restaurant to other guests headed that way.
Over breakfast, somehow I mention my alma mater, Pomona College. Often one or more guests will recognize Pomona College as one of the Claremont Colleges in Southern California, but I cannot remember when I heard a guest say, "Yes, and I was a student at Cal Poly Pomona." Turns out TR McCrystal was a Cal Poly hospitality program student studying restaurant and hotel operations.
But here's where it gets even a little more odd. Knowing that he's a restaurateur, I added, "I'll bet you never had dinner in Pomona at a little pink restaurant called Tropical Mexico." His eyes widened. "Trop Mex!" he exclaims. "Yes, a great place for college kids to go and the dishes–the mole, the menudo, everything I can remember–top notch."
How serendipitous is this? Here we are, the restaurant owner and the innkeeper, talking about a place each of us remembers from decades and lifetimes ago. What we each remembered were sweet, college year memories. As I started to write this blog post, I wondered if Tropical Mexico was really now just a memory; that it isn't the hole-in-a-wall restaurant it used to be. Surprisingly, it's still there (and with a web presence). Tropical Mexico has changed and grown significantly from that little pink bungalow I remember from the late 1970s. But TR and I made that connection across the years and across the miles.
Will TR and Jenny remember us? Probably. Will I remember them? Undoubtedly. It's these kinds of intimate happenings you probably won't discover staying at a hotel–one of the beautiful little connections about the bed and breakfast experience.


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Cheat Sheet
Digital Wedding Photography For Dummies Cheat Sheet
As a wedding photographer, you get a front row seat to some of life's most beautiful moments, and you have the job of capturing the love story and the feel of the event. To photograph a wedding effectively, a photographer needs a specific set of technical skills and know-how to get the job done, such as techniques for lighting, composition, and shooting scenes and portraits. When you have some experience under your belt, you can increase your business by getting your name out there.
Lighting and Composition Techniques for Digital Wedding Photography
Great wedding photos rely heavily on the photographer's understanding of lighting and composition. Though a photographer can use lighting and composition creatively, the following basic tips help ensure you take stunning wedding pictures:
Get more appealing pictures by using soft light. Soft light, such as light reflected off a wall or the ground in front of your subject, provides a smooth and even look on your subjects. Try to avoid hard light, which creates high contrast and shadows.
Use natural light whenever possible. Place your subjects in the shade and use natural reflectors to bounce the light source evenly back toward them.
If you can't use natural light, shoot with an off-camera flash the correct way: with a bounce flash, bounce card, or diffuser to even out the light. Never shoot with a direct off-camera flash.
Use the rule of thirds when composing your images. To understand this concept, imagine a tic-tac-toe grid drawn across your viewfinder, breaking your image into thirds horizontally and vertically. Subjects placed on a line or at the intersection of two lines draw your viewer's attention.
Pay attention to your background. Try to place your subjects in front of neutral backgrounds that are free of clutter.
Photographing Scenes to Frame the Wedding Story
One of a wedding photographer's primary jobs is to tell the story of each individual wedding day. Stay on track by breaking the wedding day down into scenes to build the story, piece by piece:
The preparation: In this first scene of the wedding story, you introduce the characters and begin the plot. Focus on creating a mood of excitement by capturing key expressions from the bride and the groom as they get ready, which builds the story's tension.
The ceremony: The wedding day builds up to the vows. When the couple says "I do," you've reached the climax of the wedding story. Focus on photographing little actions during a ceremony scene that you don't want to miss, from the groom's expression during the bride's entrance and the officiant's exhortation to the couple to the wedding vows and the exchange of rings.
The reception: The reception is the release of all the tension of the day. The reception wraps up the plot, and the story moves in a downward arc toward the ending. This scene should have a celebratory feel to it as the newlyweds and their guests feast and dance in honor of the new marriage. You can create the mood in your photographs by focusing on all the happy faces around you.
Preparing for Wedding Portrait Photography
The formal portraits of the bride, the groom, their wedding party, and their families are without a doubt the most hectic part of a wedding day. Navigating the formal portraits requires the ability to stick to an organized plan, think quickly, and keep calm in the midst of chaos. The following tips can help you stay organized when preparing for a wedding's formal portraits:
Set realistic time expectations. Before the wedding day, tell the couple about how long each grouping of pictures will take. They can use that time frame when planning the schedule of the wedding day.
Get a schedule and a list of names. Ask the couple in advance for a schedule of the day's events and a list of names of people to be included in the formal portraits.
Bring an assistant. Having someone with you to manage the list and stage the groups while you're shooting can be invaluable. This assistance keeps the process flowing and well organized. If you don't have an assistant, you can appoint a wrangler, someone who the couple recommends to help organize the portraits who isn't in the wedding party.
Stay flexible. Even if you're 100 percent prepared, most likely something won't go according to plan. And that's okay! Accept the things that are beyond your control and move forward; don't let the unexpected induce a "blowing into a paper bag" type of panic.
Use your outside voice. For most of the wedding, the photographer is the quiet observer; however, the formal portraits are the exception. During this segment of the day, you'll need to assume a commanding presence and take charge of the situation. To get the attention of a large group of people, use a loud voice (but don't scream) and say things like, "Can I get everyone's attention, please?" or "I need the Smith family front and center!" After you have the group's attention and begin to give directions, continue speaking loudly enough that everyone can hear you clearly.
Drawing Attention to Your Wedding Photography Business
One of the toughest parts of starting your own wedding photography business is getting your name out to prospective clients. Luckily, you can use a few tactics to bring in new business as a wedding photographer:
Utilize social media platforms. Posting your wedding photos on social media platforms such as Facebook, Pinterest, a blog, and Twitter is one of the best ways to draw attention to your photography business. The best part about it? It's free!
Build relationships with other vendors in your area. Get to know other people in the wedding business. If you establish good relationships with other vendors, they may refer you to their own clients.
Build and market a website. A website for your wedding photography business gives it credibility and helps potential clients find and evaluate your work. Become familiar with SEO (search engine optimization) tools that can help your website show up in results when people search for wedding photographers online.
Get published. Submit your weddings for publication on popular wedding blogs and magazines. If your work is featured, it can be seen by many brides-to-be and may bring in a significant amount of business.


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Since I wrote this over thirteen months ago, Andy Coulson has resigned from his post as Cameron's spin doctor, Rebecca Brooks resigned from News International, both have been arrested, the News of the World closed in ignominy, senior police officers have either resigned or been prosecuted – or both – and the Murdochs have been humiliated. But the Cameron gang have got away unscathed so far.
The Scottish Justice system and the police consumed an enormous amount of taxpayers; money and time on this misconceived prosecution in straightened economic times – and to what end?
I hope Tommy Sheridan rebuilds both his life and his career. I wish him and the brave, loyal Gail well. I know one thing – the shameful assault by Glasgow City Council and the police on the Jaconelli family and the destruction of the lives and small businesses in Dalmarnock would not have gone by virtually unremarked and unchallenged by the Glasgow media and professional classes and ALL of the politicians of the West of Scotland. The closure of The Accord Centre for disabled children would have had a charismatic champion who would have kept it in the media eye, instead of being relegated to footnote.
Friday, 24 December 2010
Sheridan: Yesterday the verdict – today the inquest
I would categorise the polarities of the reactions – media and individual - to the verdict in the Tommy Sheridan perjury trial as follows -
1. Justice has been served – he brought it upon himself. Sheridan was undoubtedly guilty. Perjury is a serious offence, and has the capacity to seriously damage the criminal justice system – it must be feel the full force of the law and be punished severely. It was not a political trial – it was public money well spent.
2. It was a political trial – a show trial – designed to satisfy News International, Rupert Murdoch, those who detest socialists of whatever ilk, and it was also a valuable smokescreen to cover the much more serious questions hanging over Andy Coulson, former editor of the NotW, now a senior advisor in the ConLib Government, over the phone tapping scandal by the News of the World. Tommy Sheridan is innocent of all the charges brought against him. There was a wide-ranging conspiracy to bring him down, one that included most of his former Scottish Socialist Party colleagues, News International, the Scottish Police and the Scottish justice system.
The truth, as always, probably lies somewhere in between, and that is the area I find myself in, much as I would like to be absolutely clear-cut in my view.
Let's try to nail a few things down …
Did Tommy Sheridan bring it upon himself?
Leaving aside for the moment the question of his guilt or innocence (the Law has spoken but in a free country we may express our doubts over its verdict), Tommy Sheridan faced two crucial decision points – one when the News of the World's made allegations about his private life, and the second when the Crown Office launched a prosecution for perjury against him and his wife, Gail Sheridan.
The original choice was to either ignore or contest the NotW allegations. To ignore them would undoubtedly have cost him his leadership of the SSP, and perhaps ultimately his parliamentary seat, but he could have survived that, diminished but not destroyed. His enemies would have claimed that his failure to contest the allegations was tantamount to an admission of guilt. His wife, the staunchly loyal - and in my book, wholly admirable - Gail Sheridan, would have stood by her husband. He could have rebuilt his career, perhaps with a new, Jack-the-Lad dimension to it, and could even have enhanced a media profile.
If Tommy knew the allegations were true, he was extremely unwise to pit himself against the Murdoch empire, and in choosing to do so, he was following the paths of Aitken and Archer, both of whom destroyed their political careers and were imprisoned as a result of their choice. Only cynical self-interest, the instincts of a gambler and vanity could have led him to contest allegations that he knew were true.
If Tommy was innocent of the charges, then given his personality and the core of his political convictions, he was inevitable going to engage in the fight, even though the risks were appalling.
My advice to him, regardless of his guilt or innocence of the charges would have been – don't do it, Tommy.
Nobody expected him to win, and there is some evidence that he did not expect to win against such a powerful adversary. Although he trumpeted his win in typical barnstorming, populist style, he must have known the inevitability of what would follow. The die had been cast, and a 21st century tragedy was about to unfold.
The second choice was whether or not to defend himself against the perjury charges laid by the Crown. Here, in my view, he had no real choice, whatever his private knowledge of guilt or innocence – he had to defend himself. To suggest as some have done, that he should not have defended himself to save the public purse the expense of a trial is utter nonsense. It is the legal system and the nature of the police investigations that create these enormous costs, estimated at £1m for the police investigation and £4m for the trial.
Sheridan was facing the inevitability of prison and crippling costs that would lead to bankruptcy. In my view, he had to fight, guilty or innocent. Most importantly, it would have been a betrayal of his wife's unflinching loyalty and commitment to give up. There was no way back.
I say no to both questions. It should have been left to News International to decide what their remedies were after losing the initial civil action for damages.
Perjury, an offence that is committed countless times in every court daily throughout the land, is almost never prosecuted, and the egregious exceptions to this have been political – notably the Jonathan Aitken and Jeffrey Archer (Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare) perjury prosecutions.
In both these case, the prosecutions were justified by the rationale that these were powerful politicians and public figures – both Tories – who could not be seen to flout the law. Jonathan Aitken was seen as a future Prime Minister: Archer was a life peer and had been Chairman of the Conservative Party.
The same arguments and justification have been applied to the Sheridan prosecution. Why therefore was it wrong to prosecute him?
My answer is that in the Aitken and Archer cases, only they had been accused of perjury – in the first Sheridan trial, the Crown believed that many witnesses must have perjured themselves, but they only chose to prosecute Tommy and Gail Sheridan? Why not the others? Why not the ones who had testified against Sheridan? Why was a police investigation launched that appeared to focus solely on the Sheridans?
Secondly, the context in which a prosecution would have to be launched implied a political witch hunt, and some would say, a political smokescreen for the much more serious allegations against Andy Coulson, the former editor of the NotW, and now an influential man in Government, right-hand man to the Prime Minister.
All of this was taking place against a background where the very foundations of British democracy had been shaken by the expenses scandal, and were arguably being undermined by the concentration of power and influence in one media empire, News International, one that was seeking to extend its grip over news media by the BSkyB takeover.
And who would be the central players in a perjury prosecution against Tommy Sheridan?
News International's flagship paper, the News of the World, and its former editor, now ConLib Government spinner-in-chief, Andy Coulson.
Where did the public interest lie under these circumstances, and where did the other, shadowy interests lie? In a time of economic stringency, was it wise or prudent to divert substantial police resource to investigating allegations of three-in-a-bed sex? To incur a cost of millions to the public purse for a long-drawn out show trial?
I close with a clip from last night's BBC documentary on the case – a police interrogation of Gail Sheridan. These interrogation tapes appear to have been freely released to the BBC by the police, with what motive I cannot fathom.
But this excerpt is both damning and shaming in my view. It shows Gail Sheridan, a young mother, devoutly religious, deprived of her rosary beads, trying to act on the advice of her lawyers to exercise her absolute right not to answer questions.
Faced with her quiet determination to remain silent in the intimidating circumstances, after years of intolerable pressure on her and her family, in a bare room, the police interrogator virtually accuses her of having been trained in terror suspect techniques to avoid looking at the interrogator.
He refers to people "just like yourself" who have been held under the Terrorism Act for a period of seven days, "and that is the kind of activity I would expect from them. It is a recognised PIRA, IRA whatever – form of terrorism technique." He waits, then asks "Who has trained you in the technique?"
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A joint force of U.S. and Japanese infantry secured the airfield on a remote training range off the coast of San Diego Monday during the Dawn Blitz military exercise.
The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and the Navy's Third Fleet are frequent visitors at San Clemente Island, where they practice the complex coordination required of ship-to-shore operations and live fire exercises.
But political sensitivities in Japan about its self-defense forces, expanded military training between Japan and the United States, and regional tensions with China put the spotlight on the exercise this year, drawing two dozen Japanese media representatives.
About 5,000 troops are training during Dawn Blitz, which began Tuesday and finishes June 28. For the first time since the annual exercises were launched in 2010, Japan sent maritime, aviation and naval forces to participate. Personnel from Canada and New Zealand also joined in, and seven other countries sent observers.
The 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade and troops from three foreign nations are slated to storm Red Beach at Camp Pendleton June 24, in what the Marine Corps says is the largest multilateral amphibious landing in base history. Other aspects of the two-week exercise include prepositioning logistics supplies, a mass casualty exercise and a raid in Yuma, Ariz.
On Monday, Osprey MV-22 from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 166 out of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar flew off the amphibious assault ship Boxer, picked up a company of infantry Marines from the amphibious transport dock New Orleans and inserted them near the airfield.
The battalion landing team for Camp Pendleton's 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit fought the opposing force with rifle and machine gun fire as they ran toward the airfield, in a dual exercise meant to certify them for deployment in August.
When the area was secure, the Marines handed off their security cordon to Japanese infantry flown in by Japanese Chinook helicopters deployed at sea.
Later that afternoon, the Japanese landing ship tank Shimokita lowered the ramp to its well deck and spit out its hover craft, to stage supplies on the island for a live fire exercise Thursday involving Japanese troops.
Japanese vice chief of the joint staff, Lt. Gen. Koichi Isobe, said during a press conference aboard the helicopter destroyer Hyuga that Japan needed to develop its amphibious operations capability to better protect its island nation.
U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Gerard Hueber, commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3, said there is no better place to do that than Southern California, where U.S. Marines and Navy train almost every day of the year at San Clemente Island.
The Marine Corps has two-thirds of its force stationed in the Pacific, at major bases in San Diego County, Hawaii and Japan, and a long history of expertise in amphibious operations, said Lt. Gen. John Toolan, commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force headquartered at Camp Pendleton.
"We have an obligation to work with our allies. We have an obligation to help and assist in developing capabilities. For the Marine Corps, particularly in amphibious development, that happens to be our core competency. That is what we are known for … so we are able to share that with our allies and our partners in the Pacific," Toolan said.


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Floyd Abrams is one of the nation's most famous First Amendment lawyers. He represented the New York Times in the case of New York Times v. Sullivan, which gave newspapers robust protections against libel lawsuits, and has been involved in numerous other prominent free speech cases over his half-century career. So the major Hollywood studios were understandably pleased when he wrote a letter on their behalf arguing that the Stop Online Piracy Act was not a threat to the First Amendment.
In a letter to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the lead sponsor of SOPA, Abrams did not mince words. "It is one thing to say that the Internet must be free," he wrote. "It is something else to say that it must be lawless." Abrams dismissed concerns that SOPA would squelch free speech and praised the legislation for its robust procedural protections.
Is Abrams right that SOPA's opponents are making much ado over nothing? We decided to get a second opinion from Wendy Seltzer. Seltzer is a former EFF attorney who created Chilling Effects, a clearinghouse for copyright takedown notices. She is currently a scholar at Yale law school.
"Strong, uniform, and constitutionally rooted?"
SOPA's critics have warned that the legislation lacks the procedural safeguards needed to protect free speech. Abrams emphatically disagrees.
"SOPA's procedural protections are so strong, uniform, and constitutionally rooted that it is no exaggeration to observe that complaints in this area seem not to really be with the bill, but with the federal rules of civil procedure itself," he wrote. He noted that injunctions against publication have always been an important part of copyright law, and portrayed SOPA as a logical extension of offline copyright law to the online context. And he argued that the legal procedures spelled out in SOPA are identical to those that govern traditional copyright injunctions.
But Seltzer told Ars that Abrams is dodging the central issue. "Copyright injunctions, while they are permitted, are typically directed at the direct infringer," like an author or book publisher, she said. In contrast, SOPA focuses on "parties that are far more peripherally connected to any alleged copyright infringement."
That's important because parties who are directly involved in publishing content have both the knowledge and the right incentives to scrutinize takedown notices and challenge those that are erroneous or over-reaching. A publisher, for example, will vigorously contest a court order to stop publishing one of its books if it believes it's based on a legal error.
In contrast, SOPA goes after search engines, DNS providers, and the operators of payment and advertising networks. "It's really misleading to compare them to the traditional publishers offline," Seltzer told Ars. "These providers may still be far removed from any knowledge of the activities going on, and haven't participated in them." Without direct involvement in publishing the content, they're much more likely to take a "no questions asked" posture in response to takedown requests.
Increasing indirectness
"Abrams doesn't address the strongest complaints about SOPA, which are increasing indirectness," Seltzer said. As previous efforts to crack down in copyright infringement have failed, copyright holders have lobbied for antipiracy efforts to cast a wider and wider net.
The DMCA gave copyright holders a new notice-and-takedown regime that focused on the direct infringers and their ISPs. When that failed to completely halt infringement, Congress passed the Pro IP Act, which gave the government new powers to shut down websites by ordering registrars to transfer the offending domain names.
In response, infringing content has increasingly shifted overseas, so now Big Content wants to expand the dragnet to cover parties like DNS providers and search engines that are only weakly connected to the alleged infringer. Not only is this unlikely to work, but Seltzer also believes that casting such a wide net creates a danger of collateral damage.
For example, earlier this year the government used a domain seizure to shut down 84,000 distinct websites that were sub-domains of the mooo.com domain. One of the subdomains was alleged to contain child pornography, but thousands of completely innocent websites were accidentally booted off the Web in the process. That likely would not have happened if the feds had approached the owners of the mooo.com domain rather than going straight to the site's registrar. Seltzer suggests SOPA would make this kind of mistake more likely and harder to correct.
So how do two experts on free speech and copyright reach such different conclusions? Seltzer is certainly not the only legal expert concerned about SOPA's effects on free speech. In July, dozens of law professors argued that the Protect IP Act (basically the Senate version of SOPA) was unconstitutional.
Of course, it's probably not a coincidence that the Abrams letter was sponsored by Hollywood. Seltzer suggested that there's a divergence of opinion between lawyers who mostly work with content companies on the one hand and lawyers who mostly work with technology companies on the other. "Spending more time with parties involved in the big entertainment industry and less time with the Googles and Facebooks and other kinds of creative enterprise" causes people to become more complacent about the First Amendment implications of tougher copyright enforcement.
On the other hand, Seltzer said, "more time spent with those producing new media, using search engines for link exchange and discovery, building new tools for creation and exchange might give a broader perspective."


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In his first US concert event, to be taped this month at Madison Square Garden, Gervais plans to take on "comedy classics: Hitler, famine."
Gervais, creator of the original British "The Office," and "Extras," will have a standup special on HBO this fall. "The audience chooses the best bits for you, it's almost cheating" compared to writing a sitcom, he said.
In other HBO news, execs say the chances of a "Deadwood" finale are "slim to none." It's dead. David Milch has moved on to a drama about NYC cops. "Tell Me That You Love Me" and "In Treatment" are coming back, the later with new patients. "Big Love" is currently shooting another season and will return early next year.
"The more expensive a show is, the harder it is for us to bring it back for a second year," said HBO President Michael Lombardo.
It's a "fool's errand" to search for the next big thing, HBO co-president Richard Plepler said. Crazy to try to swing for a home run, Lombardo echoed. "Quality first," Plepler insisted. In other words, they've got some good little shows on now but no massive hit like "The Sopranos." They claim not to be worried.
If you asked me today what's the most promising series for fall, I'd have to say "True Blood," the Alan Ball ("Six Feet Under") rendition of the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris. This is a genre-bending comedy-romance-vampire-southern gothic oddity with equal parts violence and laughs. The vampires are "out of the coffin," hoping to pass the "Vampire Rights Amendment" and such. Ball says it's not an allegory for gays, "it's about vampires."


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Pete Rose was known as Charlie Hustle, and baseball's all-time hit king certainly earned his nickname, playing an all-out style everyday of his career. But not everyone is like Rose, and so we have had two unfortunate stories surface this week involving a lack of hustle.
In one incident, Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was caught admiring his own hit on Tuesday against the Yankees. When the ball didn't leave the yard, he ended up being thrown out at second base, drawing criticism for not hustling out of the batter's box.
In a far different story, Florida Marlins star Hanley Ramirez booted a ball on Monday, and was slow to chase it down. Two runs scored on the play, and Ramirez was not only pulled from the game, but was benched the following day as well after he ripped his manager and teammates.
In both instances, players were accused of dogging it. But these are entirely different circumstances. Let's examine the differences.
In Ortiz's case, he was guilty of failing to hustle out of the box. This is not a good thing, but there is a fine line — and an important distinction — between failing to hustle and dogging it.
Ortiz simply made a mistake, misjudging his own fly ball. He thought the ball was gone and he took awhile to get going. He's not the quickest guy on Earth anyway, and you can tell by the way he runs that he's hurting. That stuff just happens. I know David Ortiz, and he's not a dog in any way, shape or form.
Was it wrong? Yes. But I've seen it happen many times, even to great players. Barry Bonds did it all the time, and I even saw Harmon Killebrew do it once. So I think we can cut Papi some slack.
The Hanley Ramirez situation was different, as he failed to hurry after a ball he kicked into the outfield.
But there may be some wiggle room in his case as well. Ramirez had fouled a ball off his shin earlier in the game and may have been hurting.
Some might ask: "Well if he was hurt, why was he in the game?" But players want to be tough and play through their injuries, and most guys do. You're always going to have aches and pains, especially the everyday players. What is 100 percent? It's all relative. No one is really ever in perfect condition. In fact, I heard a saying that goes "if you're 80 percent, you have to give 100 percent of your 80."
Whether Ramirez was hurt or not is up for question. Was he hustling, but unable to go hard because of an injury, or was he completely dogging it? Only he truly knows the answer to that, but it seems as though the team thought he was dogging it, and so manager Fredi Gonzalez benched him.
It's possible there was more going on behind the scenes than we know, but it seems unlikely to me that this happened over just one incident. It could be that Gonzalez noticed a pattern in his young star and thought he needed to put a stop to it.
It's also possible that there was something bigger going on in the Marlins clubhouse. Perhaps other guys were dogging it, too, and Gonzalez decided to send a message. After all, if he'll bench his star, he'll bench anybody.
Ramirez seemed to hint at that himself when he said he didn't see why he should apologize: "We got a lot of people dogging it after ground balls," he said. "They don't apologize."
The big mistake with this whole incident is that the argument came out from behind closed doors and into the press.
In fact, I think it is far worse that Ramirez ripped his manager and teammates in the media than the fact he dogged it. That is a poor way to respond to his benching. Ramirez said that Gonzalez didn't understand how hard it is to play in the big leagues because he never played on that level, essentially questioning his credibility.
But I don't care what Gonzalez's background is, a manager always has the right to discipline a player if he thinks he doesn't hustle. And Gonzalez played in the minor leagues and knows just how hard it is to have success in this game.
Gonzalez, however, also deserves his share of blame. He should have talked to Ramirez right after the incident and handled it before it turned into a "he said, he said" sort of situation in the newspaper. That sort of thing is not good for the Marlins and could only lead to tension and awkwardness in the clubhouse. They should have come together right away and got it out in the open.
As soon as the media gets involved you have all sorts of problems that can tear a team apart. A player says something, then all the reporters run to the manager's office for a response. It creates a negative situation. The Marlins are having a pretty good year, entering Wednesday's game at 21-19 and four games behind the Phillies, and don't need any negatives, so it's too bad something like that had to happen.
Everything I've heard about Hanley Ramirez is that he's a great player and loves to play baseball. I believe he and his team can recover from this incident.
The Marlins are playing well, having won seven of their last 10 games. They can salvage this without a problem, and already took some positive steps on Wednesday as Gonzalez and Ramirez cleared the air.
If anything, I think this incident can unite the Marlins and help their chemistry in the long run. You're not always going to get along with everybody in a clubhouse. A team is supposed to be a collection of brothers. But you know what? Brothers sometimes fight. You have your ups and downs, but you learn from them. And this is a learning experience for Gonzalez and his young Marlins.
A key thing is for Ramirez to be more of a leader from this point on. He needs to set an example and show the fans — who pay good money for tickets to the game — that he's trying out there.
This is a big lesson for Ramirez and his teammates. Whatever you do in life, you don't take anything for granted. You always hustle whether you are a star or not.
The thing every player, no matter how good he is, must remember is that the game will go on whether you're there or not. The game will always be there long after you're gone. That's why you have to play as hard as you can while you're in the game, and play the game right.


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CARTHAGE, N.C. - The No. 2 Georgia College & State University golf squad took third at the 2009 Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Championship today, hosted by UNC Pembroke at Little River Golf Club.
Georgia College finished nine over par in the three-round event, firing a 289-287-297=873 on the par-72, 6,939-yard course.
All five Bobcats finished in the top half of the 40-man field, led by junior Pedro C. Lima (Sao Paulo, Brazil) at two over. Lima fell one slot to seventh, following a consistent 71 and 72 with a 75 today.
In ninth at four over, sophomore All-PBC pick Joe Young (Cochran, Ga.) joined Lima with a 75 in the final round, following a 73 and 72. Junior All-PBC Niclas Johansson (Skanor, Sweden) shaved five strokes off yesterday's second round 78 (70-78-73) to finish 13th at five over.
In 14th, junior Francisco Bide (Buenos Aires, Argentina) shot a 77-71-74=222. Sophomore Billy Shida (Berkeley Lake, Ga.) joined Bide at 14th, sandwiching a pair of 75s around a 72.
The third-place finish was the same as last year's take, as the Bobcats have won the PBC Championship just once, that victory coming in 2000. No. 15 Clayton State University won the team title at two-over (289-289-288=866), led by individual medalist Wade Binfield at six-under (67-70-73=210), bettering his teammate Will Wilcox and UNCP's Jordan Walor by just one stroke.
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