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GIONTA HAPPY TO BE HOMEby Chris Ryndak / Buffalo Sabres
It was a homecoming of sorts for Brian Gionta when he pulled a No. 12 Buffalo Sabres jersey over his head Wednesday afternoon at First Niagara Center.
He signed a three-year deal with the Sabres on Tuesday and is expected to provide leadership right away. He'll also fill a role as both a skilled forward and a mentor to the younger players on the roster.
Gionta, 35, is from Greece, N.Y. and his wife is also from Rochester. With three young children, deciding to come back to Western New York to play for the Sabres ended up being the best move for him.
"This was my childhood team growing up and it's a dream to play for them and put on the jersey. I can't wait until September comes," Gionta said. "We're confident that we can come here and be a part of something big. That's our expectation: to come here and field a winning team. I think we're putting the pieces in place and we're excited to be a part of that."
While coming home for some players could add pressure, Gionta doesn't think that will be the case here.
"I've been in the League a long time and the distraction of being close to home you might have had when you're a younger player – I think at this stage of my career – that distraction won't be there," he said.
Drafted by the New Jersey Devils in the third round of the 1998 NHL Draft, Gionta broke into the League at 23 during the 2001-02 season. He was surrounded by veterans like Scott Stevens, Jamie Langenbrunner and Martin Brodeur who left a very big impression on him as a young player.
He won the Stanley Cup with New Jersey in 2002-03.
"[They] showed me how to be a professional and how to conduct yourself on and off the ice," Gionta said. "You're talking about a few Hall of Famers on that list and I'm very fortunate to have played with those guys and to have learned from those guys."
Gionta scored 48 goals in 2005-06 and joined the Montreal Canadiens for the 2009-10 season.
He went on to serve as Montreal's captain from 2010 until this past season.
"I try to lead by example and I go about my business and try to be a good influence on and off the ice," he said. "By no means am I going to come here and work miracles, but I just try to be a presence and be somebody maybe for the young guys coming along, that being around and having some experience in the League, that I can be a sounding board."
In addition to signing Gionta on Tuesday, Buffalo added forwards Matt Moulson and Cody McCormick and defensemen Josh Gorges and Andrej Meszaros.
"I think it says something that we were as busy as anybody," general manager Tim Murray said. "That we were able to attract players of this caliber to want to come here whether it's for different reasons like I said going into this. …I just think it was a great day for us."
Murray said his focus in the next few days turns to signings for the team's American Hockey League affiliate in Rochester and catching up on all the other transactions from around the NHL.
He and coach Ted Nolan are also working on assembling a new staff of assistant coaches.


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It's easy for someone who's not a big talker in meetings to be pigeonholed at work as lacking ambition or drive. Conference calls can fly right by and he's still reflecting on what to say.
Thomas G. Lynch, a self-described introvert, shook off his old image among managers as quiet and took on new leadership roles at work—without becoming a backslapping extrovert. Here's how he did it.
The Problem
Mr. Lynch was a sales-support executive with a good track record who was passed over for leadership roles because of his quiet personality.
He was promoted several times at SAP America in Newtown Square, Pa., most recently to senior principal in 2011. He enjoys solving customers' problems and working one-on-one or in small groups with his clients, including top officials at government agencies. After 10 years at the maker of business-applications software, the 44-year-old engineer, who also has an M.B.A., wanted to move up into management.
When he started exploring the idea in 2012, however, he heard from bosses that he lacked drive and ambition. "The feedback I got was, 'Tom, you're a smart guy. You're well-respected. But you need more edge,' " he says. He assumed that meant he had to become an extrovert, or more assertive and dominant.
Mr. Lynch has scored major successes with clients, helping drive at least $20 million to $30 million in sales each year, often earning above-average or "top performer" ratings. "You'd never think I'm an introvert if you saw me in front of a customer, because I'm asking questions and trying to solve problems," he says. Introverts tend to thrive when able to think deeply about solutions.
He was often overshadowed at the office by outspoken colleagues, however. "I'm not the type of person who has to say something at every single meeting," he says.
The Solution
Mr. Lynch focused on making his strengths clearer to others.
He asked Julie Cohen, a Philadelphia career and leadership coach and his former colleague at a previous employer, Ernst & Young, to help him become more extroverted. They agreed on six months of coaching sessions every other week.
Ms. Cohen had Mr. Lynch ask 20 colleagues and friends for three adjectives that described him. He was pleased that not everyone saw him as "this quiet person," he says. Colleagues described him as innovative, thorough, empathic, trustworthy and "highly influential." He also attended an SAP employee-training program on developing a "personal brand," or positive image.
Mr. Lynch made a list of his strengths: his focus on the customer, technical skill and being a team player. He enjoys making presentations when he can prepare in advance. Ms. Cohen also had him list his values, to understand what motivates him. To his surprise, it wasn't status or money, Mr. Lynch says. "For me, it's about helping people. Once I reassessed what was important to me, I came to realize that I am more successful than I thought."
He and Ms. Cohen concluded, based on the exercises, that becoming an extrovert "was the wrong goal," Ms. Cohen says. Some of Mr. Lynch's best qualities were tied to his reflective style.
They refocused on helping Mr. Lynch present himself differently, as an innovator and an expert on public-sector clients. "I realized I needed to stop flying under the radar and take more risks," Mr. Lynch says.
Ms. Cohen urged him to speak up more often in meetings. "Sometimes you need to react in the moment, with something that is not 100% fleshed out" to be seen as a full participant, Ms. Cohen told him. She also suggested he talk more with managers about specific contributions he wanted to make.
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At Ms. Cohen's urging, Mr. Lynch called a boss, Michael Nixon, who he knew saw him as lacking in ambition. He described what he saw as his strengths, and asked Mr. Nixon how he could gain more responsibility.
"I was a little surprised" by the call, says Mr. Nixon, who is vice president, financial services, for SAP America. He told Mr. Lynch, "This can't be an easy call for you to make." Mr. Lynch had a reputation as a "solid, very professional, very disciplined" employee, but Mr. Nixon says he hadn't seen him show the entrepreneurial skills that help managers advance at SAP.
Mr. Nixon says he urged Mr. Lynch to promote himself and his skills, rather than assuming "people would see his ability and tap him on the shoulder." Self-promotion, he added, "isn't a selfish thing."
Mr. Lynch also called a manager who was organizing an annual sales meeting last January, and asked to participate. When she said, "I've got it handled," he pressed the point. "Even if there's a small part, I'd love to do it." She agreed to let him plan a 30-minute presentation to 100 colleagues in Las Vegas, which broadened his network.
The same manager remembered him a few months later when she became his boss.
He has started building relationships two or more levels up. He recently asked a senior executive for leadership opportunities and won an assignment to a new team studying ways to improve his unit's performance. He also has signed up for professional-development services SAP offers employees, including more coaching and an online tool for help finding an internal mentor.
The Outcome
On a recent team project, the change in Mr. Lynch's confidence and leadership was so marked that "I barely recognized him," Mr. Nixon says. "I would label him a difference-maker." The project brought in three times the expected revenue, or several million dollars, Mr. Nixon says.
Mr. Lynch was delighted recently when his manager asked him to lead a 90-minute breakout session for about 100 colleagues at this year's annual sales meeting next week in Las Vegas.
Being an introvert, Mr. Lynch has decided, can be a plus. While he would welcome a promotion or a new title, he is focusing less on that now, and more on the intrinsic rewards of his work.
The changes have rippled through family life with his wife, Robin, his daughters Tyler, 13, and Ryan, 10, and his 5-year-old son, Tommy. Mr. Lynch used to keep to himself at activities with his kids. At a cookout last fall for Ryan's soccer team, he realized that having a father who knows other parents and coaches might help his daughter have more fun and success on the team.
Knowing he was extending himself for his daughter, he said, "I had a purpose. And the more I have a purpose, the easier it is."
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After seven playoff appearances, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs finally is headed to his first Super Bowl. And he celebrated Sunday night with some championship-level trash talk.
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"We came. We saw. We conquered," Suggs said, via Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports, among other reporters, after the Ravens' AFC Championship Game victory over the New England Patriots. "Shut them out in the second half. Tell them to have fun at the Pro Bowl. Arrogant (expletives)."
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We also enjoyed: "That's funny, ever since Spygate they haven't been able to win."
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The first problem is the "80%." 80% of what? What is the sample set? Are the victims in the retail and hospitality sectors or the telecommunications and aerospace industries? Speaking in general terms, different sorts of organizations are at different levels of maturity, capability, and resourcefulness when it comes to digital security.
In the spirit of salvaging this poorly worded statistic, let's assume (rightly or wrongly) that the sample set involves the retail and hospitality sectors.
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To salvage this part, let's assume "breach" means "an incident involving execution of unauthorized code by an unauthorized intruder" on a single computer.
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To salvage the end of the original statement, let's translate "preventable" into "exploitation of a vulnerability for which a patch had been publicly available for at least seven days."
Our new statement now reads something like "In the retail and hospitality sectors, 80% of the incidents where an unauthorized intruder successfully executed unauthorized code on a single computer exploited a vulnerability for which a patch had been publicly available for at least seven days."
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The 1869 killing of a bank cashier in Gallatin, Missouri, has long been considered the first in a long line of robberies by Jesse and Frank James. But in a discussion of his new book, lawyer and author James P. Muehlberger maintains that it wasn't a robbery attempt at all. Rather, as documents that Muehlberger discovered show, it was a carefully planned execution meant to avenge the death of Confederate guerrilla leader "Bloody Bill" Anderson during the Civil War.
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Was the aircraft victim of an accident or was its disappearance a result of terrorism? Was it shot down, hijacked by intruders or the crew, did it ditch and sink rapidly as a consequence, or did it land successfully at one of the 634 runways on its theoretical pathways suitable for a B777 to be stowed away and held for ransom? We might not know the answer to these disturbing questions for months and years to come. However, the travelling public is astonished to learn that the B777 of flight MH370 was not under active surveillance. How can it be that in times where anybody can be located homing on a cell phone a commercial airliner just gets lost?
Since the end of World War II, air traffic has been surveyed by radar. Primary radars pick up the reflection of an electronic beam from an aircraft to determine its position. This technology has its limitations given a range of only 70 nautical miles. Aircraft have therefore been equipped with transponders that respond to radar inquiry. These secondary radar systems typically range up to 250 nautical miles. If an aircraft flies outside of the range of a radar station, such as over the open sea or remote areas, so called procedural air traffic control, which involves position reports and estimates, is used to control air traffic. Nevertheless, unknown to the travelling public, most of the commercial air traffic is not under active control for a large amount of a given flight.
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I am wondering as you are, how can an aeroplane this size fly for some time undetected by any air defense radars or any satellite..!! As they say you can be located if your smart phone is ON, but unfortunately we can not locate a 777 plane with devices on board designed for this purpose...
Thank you Dr. Charles,
Hi Charles,
I was also under the impression that an aircraft was constantly monitored and that's why I was wondering how come they didn't find the Malaysian airline yet. The same exact thing happened to the Air France Flight 447.
Thanks for the informative post. I hope they find a solution to avoid these strategies
Hello Charles - Your comments are bang on, ADS-B used by ATC would eliminate much of the cost of this search, provided the system couldn't be easily disabled. Also, don't you think it is time to replace black boxes with data streaming? No reason why data couldn't be streamed, bandwidth is small compared to entertainment and onboard wifi systems and this would give more info than ADS-B on aircraft problems to help prevent further accidents. Cheers, Glen
Hi Glen,
I agree that data streaming for the so called "black box" should be done via satellite link. Typically, a data recorder catches about 4000 operational data every second. These data could be sent every, say every minute, via satellite link taking very little bandwith. I am sue that the AF447 and MH370 accident will accelerate the discussion on this feature. However, the agreement for this must involve a majority of countries. The best platform is ICAO.
Cheers, CES
Very well explained--as far as it goes. But you must add the difference between ADS-B/IN and /OUT. Not only will this tell the reader that in the context in which you are writing--the missing 777--what data ADS-B makes available is very different in its usefullness. Also, there is no "business case" for /OUT for any airline such as Malaysian but there is a powerful one for /IN. However, the FAA is only funding the ground stations for /OUT which is one of worst public (FAA) decisions ever (for which no FAA executive has ever paid any price).
Hi A.J.
Well, let me correct you by going into some details. There are two ADS-B systems: the classical one with transponders extending their squawk on 1090 MHz, and the UAT system, which works on 978 MHz. The latter allows ADS-B IN (weather, traffic, data messages) and OUT (position report). However, UAT is only suitable for General Aviation and aircraft flying below FL180 (regulation starting 2020 in the US).
Typically, all new airliner and commercial aircraft since 2006 are equipped with a mode S transponder, including an extended squitter. That means that today 60 percent of all carriers are in fact transmitting ADS-B, but there are just a few ground stations (and so far no space based systems), that can read the signals. These airliners do not need ADS-B in, because they get all the data by other systems, such as TCAS (traffic) or ACARS (company communication, weather etc.). Therefore, ADS-B OUT on 1090 ES is sufficient.
Finally, I disagree with your statement that the US is only funding ADS-B OUT. In fact, the US is the ONLY country in the world that installs nationwide (nearly completed) a ground based dual ADS-B (1090 ES / UAT) system. That means that all aircraft equipped with a UAT (including my little Cessna) are receiving ADS-B IN free of charge.
Hi Charles - Thank you for these comments. Just one additional thought: It would have been possible for the crew to disable the ADS-B transmitter the same way they (possibly) switched off the transponder. Let's hope they find some evidence. Cheers. Norbert
Hi Norbert,
Yes, ABS-B on a 1090 extended squitter can be turned off by the crew, by switching off the transponder. Only ADS-B that is transmitting on a UAT (978 MHz) typically is ON as long as the Battery Switch of an aircraft is ON.
I think that in the future aircraft systems will be redesigned so that an ADS-B system never can be switched off. However, we don't know why the transponder stopped functioning. It could have been turned off manually, flown out of range, or malfunctioned maybe due to an electrical fire.
Hi Charles - many thanks for the informative piece, and trust all agencies involved will work in close co-ordination to have a solution in place
I have never felt that without radar an aircraft can get lost. The time has come for the whole world to find a system that will take over from the radar system.
Hi Charles, It is very intersting article that permit know about the new sistems to locate airplanes. I distribute your article to CEECA members in Guatemala.


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Choosing a Food Service Cart Guide: Rolling Utility Cart
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Henry was a doctor with a sickness: in spite of his good intentions and kind deeds, he still fought with a darker nature living in his soul. He decided to separate the two parts of his identity by creating a drug that would allow his evil nature to temporarily come out and have its way, with the understanding that it would leave his good nature alone.
But gradually he began to lose control of the dark side that was known as Edward. Eventually this consuming struggle between Dr. Henry Jeykll and his alter ego, Edward Hyde, cost him his life.
As human beings, we all are a combination of Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde. We possess dignity because we are created in God's image, but we also are acquainted with depravity because we are sinful. Both light and darkness are present in our souls. We are capable of incredible good and unspeakable evil. These two natures are at war inside each of us.
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I have been following Apple for quite a while now, and its trading history for the past year reflects the fickle sentiments of the market.
There was little doubt that under Steve Jobs, Apple was a fantastic company: a poster child of innovation, brilliance and cutting edge technology, combined with incredible returns on capital and a solid balance sheet to boot. I recommend reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson to see the incredible amount of influence Jobs had on the corporate culture of Apple.
2012 was a challenging year for Apple. The emergence of Samsung as a dominant player in the Smartphone industry and the bumbling of key releases such as iOS 6 and the maps fiasco were just some of the challenges it faced. For me, the transition in leadership was the most pivotal.
Apple is unique in many ways: it enjoys an unparallel following, not only by its customers, but by those that purchase its stock. Following on from forum chatter and reports from industry analysts, it's not hard to deduce that Apple has some of the most ardent supporters in the industry.
For me, the decision to not invest in Apple was quite simple. I think that Apple is a brilliant company. My family owns a number of devices: the iPhone, various renditions of the iPad, and I personally understand Apple's appeal. It has an unparalleled track record at allocating capital and for persistent growth, despite operating in a highly competitive and notoriously unstable industry.
What worked against it as an investment were two variables: valuation and the sentiment surrounding the company. Around this time last year, the projections of Apple's growth were absurd in my opinion, with rumors and news stories flying around about whether Apple was going to release the next version of the iPhone, the iPad mini etc. Furthermore, Apple's touching a market capitalization of $500 billion was another red flag to me.
Jim Rogers once opined that very few people make money by buying at historical highs. While this alone is not a conclusive factor, it does weigh heavily. Logically it is much harder for a company to go from $500 billion to $1 trillion than it is for a company to grow from $1 billion to a $100 billion. At some point in time, you run out of customers to sell to and your economies of scale disappear. Whether Apple had hit this point is up for debate, but the probability of this certainly weighed against the company.
Finally, the growth projections that were laid out were in my view highly dubious. I have a very low opinion of projections into the future considering that analysts do not even know what products are definitely going to be released. My worry, as with all growth stories, is what happens with companies who fail to meet growth projections. No company has ever consistently met projections and for that very reason, history is littered with businesses that failed as opposed to those that have succeeded. The odds are just heavily skewed against your favor if you choose to invest with the tide.
Fast forward to today, the sentiment in Apple has swung to the other side. Analysts are no longer as bullish as they once were with margins being squeezed. And yet it is in this that to a contrarian investor such as me the greatest opportunity lies. While I am not longing to invest in Apple at the point of writing, it certainly is far more attractive at $450 than at $700, and I will certainly be watching closely as events further unfold.


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We get a kick whenever Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says something -- anything -- about his former employer.
The latest comes from a Q&A with a German publication, which we first spotted on MacRumors. Here's what Wozniak had to say when asked if Apple could continue its winning streak:
I am proud that we have such loyal fans. But this loyalty is not given, the needs with the best products are always kept alive and confirmed. Currently we are in my opinion in the smartphone business with the features somewhat behind. Others have caught up. Samsung is a great competitor. But precisely because they are currently making great products.


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Chances are that you've received (or purchased) a promotional coffee mug in your lifetime. And while mugs are traditionally thought of as vessels for hot beverages like tea or coffee, there's a bunch of other things you can do with your ceramic mugs including one of my favorites: bake a cake.
I don't know about you, but I like single servings of things. Put an entire cake in front of me and I'll probably eat it all. But bake a cake in a mug and boom: automatic portion control.
(Can we talk about how excited I was to find a picture of a mug cake that's actually in a promotional mug? It's the little things.)
I was inspired to write this post by an article that I saw in Buzzfeed about snacks you can cook in a mug. Then I went onto Pinterest just to see what mug cakes I could find and, unsurprisingly, there are boards upon boards dedicated to recipes of cakes you can make in mugs.
There are tons of decadent desserts but one that really stuck out to me was this 100 calorie 2 minute mug cake. I have all the ingredients at home and you bet that I'm going home tonight and baking up (nuking up?) one of these tonight. I'll report back.
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One of the young stars of "The Hunger Games" franchise, a stand-up comedian and a muscle-bound action hero were among the 271 individuals invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday.
Josh Hutcherson, Chris Rock and Jason Statham's fellow invitees include Oscar-winning "12 Years a Slave" star Lupita Nyong'o; Oscar-nominated, Somali-born actor Barkhad Abdi; sibling directors Jay and Mark Duplass, octogenarian actress June Squibb, recently crowned EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)-winner Robert Lopez and maverick producer Megan Ellison. This year's class is five fewer than in 2013, but much larger than in years past.
"The academy is committed to bringing new voices into our ranks," President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said in an interview Thursday. "We are encouraging our members to be our ambassadors, looking for folks of color, gender and international status to become members. This has been an initiative here for a number of years, and some are a little better than others — but we're committed to diversify."
A 2012 Times study found that the academy's membership was overwhelmingly white and male: 94% of Oscar voters were Caucasian, while 77% were male. Academy members were found to have a median age of 62.
Last December — after the addition of 432 new voting members over two years — the overall academy was still 93% white and 76% male, The Times discovered. The median age, meanwhile, inched up to 63.
Last year, the academy admitted 276 members to its ranks, about 100 more than in 2012. Also in 2013 — after The Times' initial study — the group softened its membership quotas. Previously, the academy would invite about the same number of members as those who had died, retired or resigned.
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Interesting design inference concerning a historic photo
The cloud patterns in two photos taken during the Spanish Civil War are identical, according to a column by George Will:
In a slightly less dramatic photo of another falling soldier, taken by Capa at the same time - the cloud configuration is the same as in "Falling Soldier" - the soldier falls on the same spot.The interesting thing is, don't blame photoshop; these pix were created in 1936.
Will goes on to note, quite properly, that photographer Capa had an honourable career as a war photographer (a highly dangerous profession), which came to an abrupt end when he stepped on a land mine. But it seems likely now that he manipulated an iconic photo.
For the evidence base I'll go with the cloud patterns, whose configuration is the same most likely because they had been captured once on film. A design inference.
Added: Commenter Voice Coil at 1 below gives a more expert account of how the photo was probably staged/faked. Note: When I make a design inference, I don't necessarily know how it was done; it's the statistical unlikelihood of chance that prompts investigation. Reuters bought doctored stuff for quite a while before the penny dropped, as have other news outlets.
Why did Capa do it? First, people have only recently begun to be fairly certain that he did it, and he has been dead a long time, so I can only hazard a guess. Will says he was a man of the Left, so I surmise he probably wanted to help his own side by producing an unforgettable photo. But, as every photographer knows, unforgettable photos cannot be produced just when needed. Lots of people hated Franco, as he did, so there probably was no great incentive to doubt or fact-checking.
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Bulldogs Face Pioneers In Final Non-Conference Game
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale men's soccer team plays its final non-league game of the season Wednesday at Sacred Heart. Kickoff at Campus Field in Fairfield is slated for 8 p.m.
The game figures to be low scoring. Yale (6-5-1, 2-1 Ivy) has allowed the second fewest goals (11) in the Ivy League. Goalkeeper Bobby Thalman leads the league in saves (64) and save percentage (.853) and is third in goals against average (0.89).
Offensively, Peter Jacobson has a team-leading four goals, while Brad Rose tops the team with 11 points (3 goals, 5 assists).
The Bulldogs are coming off a 2-0 loss to Cornell on Saturday. Yale is tied for second place in the league with Dartmouth and Brown. All three teams have six points, three less than first-place Cornell.
Sacred Heart (7-4-2, 3-1-2 NEC) hasn't allowed more than one goal in a game since Sept. 27. Goalkeeper Alex Fait has played every minute of every game and has a 0.74 goals against average. Marcello Castro leads the Pioneers with four goals.
Sacred Heart also is involved in a tight league race. With 11 points, the Pioneers are one behind second-place Central Connecticut and two in back of first-place Fairleigh Dickinson.
Yale topped SHU 2-1 in overtime last year in New Haven. Andy Hackbarth scored the game-winning goal on a penalty kick. Jacobson also scored. The Bulldogs lead the all-time series 4-2-1.
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Flat Abs Made Easy
Sneaky stomach slimmers
Be stealthy to get healthy with these discreet downsizers.
While you're working out
On the elliptical or treadmill, keep your back straight, head forward and abs tight. Perfect posture will target your tummy as you sizzle calories.
When you're in the car
Tighten and release abs repeatedly at red lights. It's the ab equivalent of Kegels: a little move that yields results almost without your noticing.
When you're at your desk
Give belly pooch the pink slip with pilates breathing: Gently suck in your gut as if you were buttoning a tight pair of jeans. Then breathe without allowing your abs to relax. Do this for 30 seconds. Repeat five times, advises Michele Olson, Ph.D., professor of exercise science at Auburn University.
When you're walking Fido
Brace against leash tugging and banish your belly: Keeping torso upright with shoulders back, engage abs for five strides; relax them for five strides. Repeat until you're back at your front door, says Torri Shack, a trainer in Los Angeles. Check out your (bow) wow abs!
When you're in bed
Count on compliments, not sheep, with this mattress move: Place palms right below belly button. Exhale and allow stomach to expand. Then inhale, pulling belly button toward spine, drawing abdomen toward the box spring. Hold for 10 seconds. Repeat four times.
Ab aids that actually work
Baffled by all the gut-busting gizmos on the market? Try these bona fide flatteners!
BOSU ($150; BOSU.com) Standing on this flat-bottomed dome during strength exercises, like lunges or biceps curls, creates instability, forcing you to recruit more muscles in your middle to stay steady.
Xerdisc ($35; Spri.com) Crunches or squats are more difficult when done lying or standing on this wobbly inflatable disk, the less pricey cousin of the BOSU.
Gaiam BalanceBall Chair ($80; Amazon.com) Lose the La-Z-Boy. Instead, take a seat on the Gaiam BalanceBall chair. Enlist your abs or you'll topple over while watching the tube or eating dinner. Talk about mindless, but mandatory, middle management.
Core Roller ($15; Power-Systems.com) This tone-up toy can make a "wheel" difference. Grip the handles and kneel, placing the roller on the floor in front of you. Contract abs and roll out into a modified push-up position. Hold for five counts, then roll back to kneeling. Repeat up to 10 times.
Foam Block ($11; Spri.com) This lightweight brick may help you perfect your poses in yoga class, but you can also use it at home to prevent pooch. Squeezing the block between your thighs while in plank position helps shore up your core.
And two to skip
AB Rocker It's an old-school favorite that assists you to, well, sit up, but it could be a clunker. Researchers at San Diego State University found the AB Rocker to be up to 80 percent less effective than a classic crunch (which itself isn't the best move you can do!).
Slendertone Abdominal Muscle Toner Electrodes and pads on the belt pulse rhythmically on muscles in order to tone them. Sure, a machine that does the work for you would be nice. But you know you have to put in some effort.
2 inches off, no moves needed!
Picking up your pace in any cardio session can streamline your midsection, according to researchers from the University of Virginia. Women who added three 20-minute high-intensity jogs or walks to their weekly walking routine lost an average of 2 inches from their waist over four months; those who stuck with less intense strolls lost only half an inch. Stepping up your sessions may release more fat-burning hormones, helping you trim faster.
Your flat-ab food list
Groceries that fight belly fat? Fork 'em over!
Merely half of one avocado contains 10 grams of healthy monounsaturated fats, which stop the blood sugar spikes that tell your body to store fat around your midsection.
The fruit packs 422 milligrams of potassium, a mineral that can help limit the amount of belly-swelling sodium in your body.
Antioxidants can improve blood flow, delivering more oxygen to muscles, so ab-revealing cardio is easier.
Chocolate skim milk
A glass teams carbohydrates with protein to promote muscle building. Drink post-workout to speed recovery.
Green tea
Three cups daily may rev your metabolism and burn 30 calories, a study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise shows. The compound ECGC in the tea makes it easier to burn fat.
Supermarket shocker: Vitamin C in colorful produce, like oranges and red peppers, can help you zap up to 30 percent more fat during exercise, research from Arizona State University at Mesa suggests.
Whole grains
The filling fiber in foods like oatmeal, brown rice and bulgur aids in keeping your body's insulin levels low. Researchers speculate this may shrink fat cells. Carb lovers, rejoice!
A cup encourages the growth of good bacteria in your gut, crowding out other bugs that can cause bloating.
5 sexy-stomach saboteurs
Don't make nice. These are your ab-versaries.
Feel free to raise a glass—but only one. Women who had one drink a day or less had a smaller belly than both teetotalers and occasional drinkers who had two or more alcoholic beverages in a sitting, a study in the Journal of Nutrition reports. We'll toast to that!
Time in front of the TV
We love a DVR-athon, too, but people who tuned in for two or more hours daily had weaker back and ab muscles (by up to 10 percent) than those who viewed less than two hours, regardless of their overall activity level, researchers from the University of Oulu note. An hour of tube time is fine, especially if it motivates you to hit the gym. Worthy of watching: Smallville's Tom "Clark Kent" Welling and Justin "Green Arrow" Hartley, whose super fly abs sure make us want to breathe heavier.
Stressing out
Feeling frazzled and frantic? Increased levels of the hormone cortisol, a result of chronic worry, lead to excess stomach fat, research shows. To de-stress and weigh much less, learn to breathe. Slowly inhale through your nose, counting to four. Then exhale from your mouth for a count of eight. Repeat until refreshed.
That darn bread basket!
Those fluffy white rolls? They're your flat-ab foe! When facing a bread basket, check its contents before digging in. If you see whole grains, go for it—in fact, feel free to enjoy 3 ounces a day. (One slice of whole-wheat bread or 1/2 cup of cooked brown rice are each 1 ounce.) Dieters who did so lost more stomach fat than those who merely cut calories and ate refined grains, a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals.
Late-night munchies
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Bad Marketing Strategy?April 11, 2003
This is rather odd. I had a message waiting for me this morning to call a guy named Michael. I hadn't heard a thing about the project he referenced in well over 6 months, and I had no idea who the guy was, or what his company did. But, hey, it was in association with a past job so I figured he must have a reason for wanting to talk to me.
So I called back. Introduction, company name, etc. etc. He asked me if I'd heard about what's happening in the past two weeks, and I said, no, to be honest, I haven't heard a thing about it since October or so. He kind of laughed, and then asked me a few more questions.
Am I an investor in the company? No. Do I use the company's services? No. Do I invest in general? Uh, for the sake of argument, no, but what business is it of yours, Michael? And then he dove into a spiel on phenomenal growth and unprecedented earnings and so on and so forth.
I stopped him and said, hey Michael, if I didn't know any better I'd say you were trying to sell me something. Hemming and hawing, he confirmed this was in fact a marketing call.
Okay, what? I was a developer in a very vague sense for these guys. Their branding company contracted my company who put me on the job, which was actually the job referenced here. It was a tenuous connection at best, and now my name is on some guy's marketing list. Wonderful.
Reader Comments
like this one time, at webdesign camp…
hilarious dave. paul tells me the two of you finally got to meet last night at a Meetup event. How are those here in Vancouver (I never seem to make it out to these I am so busy)
Pretty good, actually. There was a diverse mix of people there — a few programmers/coders, a few designers, a few 'do-it-alls'. Definitely worth the price of admission (which is a couple of beers, or similar). Next one's in a month, I'm sure I'll be there.
i enjoyed it too. always seems to turn into a client bitching-fest though when a group of designers get together (very amusing indeed).


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On this day with this homage to the evening papers of old — the budget battle will finally conclude; TWIA could mean a summer special session; a showdown over school funding looms for tomorrow; women legislators complain of a 'men's club' at the Capitol; Slater has more details on a possible Perry' presidential run and Patrick could challenge Dewhurst for U.S. Senate seat.
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***The Beginning of the End
After months of rancorous debate between Republicans and Democrats and Republicans and Republicans over how best to close the monumental $15-27 billion shortfall the state faces — the House will begin debate this afternoon on the final budget compromise with the Texas Senate. In that compromise, the House accepted the Senate's funding levels for public education; essentially freezing education spending for the next two years, which amounts to a $4 billion cut because growth in enrollment isn't being funded. In exchange, the Senate accepted the House's funding level for healthcare and social services, which will lead to severe cuts to those programs.
Behind all of this, there is a political calculus at work — Republicans are hoping that their primary voters will applaud them for the biggest cuts to government spending in recent memory, while hoping they can explain the cuts to independents who have not traditionally looked kindly at massive cuts to social programs and schools. Meanwhile, Democrats are hoping that the budget cuts produce a level of voter outrage against the Republican leadership, the kind that hasn't been seen in Texas in a decade, to propel them back to some semblance of power in Austin.
***Only a 'Slim Chance' for TWIA Deal
The lead House negotiator with the Senate over TWIA says that there's only a 'very slim chance' for a deal on overhauling the controversial windstorm insurance cooperative.
"The odds are we won't be able to get a bill," said Rep. John Smithee, R-Amarillo. "There is only a very slim chance we can get a bill passed."
The Houston Chronicle's Patti Hart and Nolan Hicks reported on how a deal over TWIA fell apart at the last minute after Senate negotiators say the Governor's office made some unexpected demands.
State Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, announced he was pulling down his legislation after Perry said he would veto a deal — even though, according to Carona, staff members from the governor's office had approved the compromise, along with representatives of the Texas Trial Lawyer Association and Texans for Lawsuit Reform. He quoted Perry as saying he would call a special session for July 15.
"Because of the concerns brought forth at this hour by the governor we have some rather upset participants," Carona said. "It's a huge hurdle because the parties thought they had a good faith agreement."
The House and Senate adopted different strategies to revamp an agency that state leaders agree has been plagued by mismanagement and possible criminal conduct. The sides disagree on three key areas – determining how to make the agency more responsive and transparent, overhauling consumer protections and limiting lawsuit damages.
"The most significant obstacle became apparent (Friday) morning when the Governor's office indicated to us that there were at least two provisions in the bill that they were not willing to support," said Carona, who is leading the Senate's effort to pass the TWIA overhaul.
Perry's chief of staff, Ray Sullivan, denied that Perry's office had reneged on a deal. "There is still time to fix the TWIA bill" before the Legislature adjourns Monday, he said. If an agreement is not reached, however, he said "it would certainly be an important reason to call a special session."
Below the fold — Wayne Slater breaks down how a possible Perry presidential bid might work; plus a round-up of who hinted they might be running for some other office and breaking down the deal over school finance.
***Nick Anderson on Possible Perry Presidential Bid
***A Who's Who of Who Might Be Running for Office
Yesterday, two of the most prominent conservatives in Texas announced they might, possibly be looking into seeking higher office and that they're now ready to start talking about it. First up, Gov. Rick Perry who has long denied he was interested in moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The Dallas Morning News' Wayne Slater reports that Perry advisers are going to huddle next week to talk strategy and that Anita Perry is in favor of her husband possible bid for POTUS.
In conversations with friends in recent days, the Republican governor has complained that the GOP field is weak and hasn't excited enthusiasm in the Republican base.
Next week, key Perry advisers and associates plan to meet in Austin to devise a campaign strategy that would put the governor into the race soon. Perry associates say his wife, Anita, wants him to run. And he is a favorite of social conservatives, who will be key in the early nominating states of Iowa and South Carolina.
Perry would bring a strong anti-Washington voice and a rigorous brand of conservatism without the baggage associated with other candidates in the race. He would face criticism for some of his past comments, though, such as expressing sympathy for secessionist views and questioning the direct election of U.S. senators.
As the nation's longest-serving governor, Perry has built a network of big-dollar Texas contributors and, as chief fundraiser and head of the Republican Governors Association, he has ties to deep-pocket donors nationwide.
Unlike Bush's presidential launch a decade ago, which had a political apparatus ready and key contributors lined up by June 1999, there's little indication that Perry has made any such preparations.
***Don't Forget About Me
Before Perry gave that surprising answer to the question he's been asked a 100 times over the last couple of years, state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, went on Laura Ingraham's talk show to announce he was forming an exploratory committee to look at running for the US Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Also looking at running for the seat, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst; the Houston Chronicle's Joe Holley reports.
Patrick's run-in with Dewhurst came when he accused the lieutenant governor, the presiding officer of the Senate, of undercutting his effort to pass a bill that would have made it a crime for Transportation Security Administration officers to touch anyone's private areas during safety screenings.
Federal officials told Dewhurst and other state officials that Patrick's legislation would conflict with federal law and that the federal government would ask the courts to prevent the measures from being enforced if passed.
Patrick said that as he laid out his bill on the Senate floor, he thought Dewhurst was moving from senator to senator in an effort to "peel off votes."
When the Houston lawmaker realized he did not have the votes, he withdrew the bill and fired a few parting shots at Dewhurst.
"Someone who will not stand up to the federal government, you have to ask yourself, is that the kind of person we need in the U.S. Senate?" Patrick said.
***School Finance Vote Tomorrow
Houston Chronicle/San Antonio Express-News reporter Gary Scharrer writes that both the House and the Senate are expected to vote on the school finance proposal hammered out between the House and Senate late Friday and passage is not assured.
"It's important to give the schools some stability," Senate Public Education Chair Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, said.
She and others declined to give details about the agreement until they could speak to their colleagues. A printout showing the funding impact for the state's 1,041 school districts will not be available until today.
House leaders wanted a two-year plan cutting school funding across the board by about 6 percent.
The Senate insisted lawmakers address the controversial "target revenue" system that has created disparities in school district funding. The compromise will use across-the-board cuts for the coming school year before turning to the Senate's version for the 2012-13 school year.
"We believe it's the best way to distribute those dollars out to our communities," Shapiro said.
Preliminary numbers indicate that Houston ISD will lose about $84 million the first year and an estimated $119 million in the second year — or cuts of roughly $328 per student in the first year followed by $490 the second year. Those numbers are based on earlier printouts that should be fairly close when the newest district-by-district impact figures come out, Shapiro said.


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It was 2:30 a.m., Philippine time, on June 20, 2010, when I finally arrived home from my 21-hour trip from Kansas City back to my country, the Philippines. Thanks be to God for a very pleasant trip. What an absolute feeling of excitement and happiness I had during my entire journey. I was reunited with my son, my whole family and my CFCA family in the project. Yes, everyone at home had been waiting for me.
Itís been about six months since I left the Philippines and joined CFCA's Walk2gether in Latin America, and now I am back. Honestly, it was not even easy to leave the walk, the people and the CFCA family who took care of me, inspired me and loved me while I was away from my family. I am blessed to have had this very significant and life-changing experience as a member of the Walk2gether team for five months and 12 days. With Sir Bob and Maíam Cristina (CFCA President Bob Hentzen and his wife, Cristina), I have walked 4,004 kilometers, slept in 61 beds and taken 6.6 million footsteps.
I have truly my innermost, overwhelming feeling being with Walk2gether. Being with the people each day and listening to the words of wisdom of the CFCA president are my greatest gift. I was completely at peace and content, traveling and staying in a foreign land, just keeping in mind that I belong to CFCA. True enough, CFCA is a worldwide family and community. There was no room for uncertainties, only assurances of love, belonging and protection when there are possible dangers. Along the road, we always tell the people that we offer hope and we share love with them. In return, we are receiving more than we gave, as they helped us realize the greatest value of life with simplicity and humility in words and in deeds.
I came home very happy, at peace and ready to face the day-to-day life with my family and the Manila project. I am much honored and perpetually grateful that I represented my country during my time with Walk2gether. I have a renewed spirit of hope, love, service and commitment to the CFCA work and mission. I truly appreciate the opportunity of knowing so many sponsored families and co-workers.
As CFCA offers hope for families in this challenging time, we in the Philippines are becoming more hopeful that changes for the better will take place in this beautiful world. May the Lord bless us as we work hard for this mission.
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UC reinvents itself with partnership
The University of Canberra is going national, partnering with the fifth biggest TAFE in Australia - Holmesglen Institute of TAFE in Victoria - to become the University of Canberra Melbourne next year.
Vice-chancellor Stephen Parker will today announce the partnership, which will also take the UC brand to Queensland through an agreement with Brisbane's Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE.
From 2013, UC will co-locate with Holmesglen in the first arrangement of its kind in Australia, forming a University of Canberra Melbourne campus in Chadstone.
It will offer 11 degrees, across business, commerce, justice, IT, sport management and design. Two of these degrees - fashion and screen production - will be exported to the Brisbane institute, through its partnership with Holmesglen.
Melbourne students will be able to enrol directly into UCM degrees, or transition from Holmesglen degrees or diplomas.
''Really, this is about the reinvention of the UC,'' Professor Parker said.
Holmesglen chief executive Bruce Mackenzie said the partnership represented a new vision for higher education in Australia - a ''polytechnic university'' model that combined industry-focused learning with an evidence base and the latest advances in research.
''The University of Canberra is highly regarded for its ability to prepare its graduates for their chosen professions,'' Mr Mackenzie said. ''For 12 consecutive years it has received the maximum five stars for graduate employment in the Good Universities Guide.
''It is also rated in the top 10 of Australian universities on the Good Teaching Scale of the Australian Graduate Survey and it has a growing research profile. We are pleased
to be able to work in partnership with the University of Canberra to deliver programs targeted to the needs of the Melbourne, Brisbane and international markets.''
Professor Parker said he had long been an admirer of Holmesglen and of Mr Mackenzie's innovative 30-year leadership of the institute - which has more than 50,000 enrolments across four campuses. Holmesglen offers 600 programs across 11 study areas from bachelor degrees to apprenticeships and short courses.
Professor Parker and Mr Mackenzie want the model to include other TAFEs in other states further down the track.
The UC originally received approval for $26 million through the Commonwealth's Structural Adjustment Fund last year to forge closer ties with the Canberra Institute of Technology, although the formal merger of the institutions was resisted by the CIT and UC had to reapply for funding this year.
Professor Parker said he had reasons to be optimistic the university would receive the funding. However he stressed that ''the business case to partner with Holmesglen is positive in its own right'' and was part of ''big changes'' for the UC.
If the university was successful with its revised SAF bid, Professor Parker said the money would be spread across several priority areas, including strengthening the UC College as a pathway to degrees, increasing UC's national and international profile, and investing in online content.
His vision was for UC to deliver online courses and for students to take part in face-to-face tutorials at partner institutions.
''We can be a truly national university through online learning supplemented by locally supported tutorials, assessment and moderation,'' Professor Parker said. ''We are thinking big and I would like to see, at the end of five years, our reach encompassing as many as 300,000 students.''
Professor Parker said Australian higher education was at a turning point with online education, which allowed institutions to cater to student bodies ''across jurisdictions and across sectors through aligning with vocational providers''.
In the past month, the University of Melbourne, University of Western Australia and University of Queensland have announced their decision to become massive open online course (MOOC) providers, offering free online content as part of a global movement from Harvard, Stanford and MIT in the US.
While UC would continue to invest in its main Bruce campus, Professor Parker said the western model of a strictly campus-based higher education was becoming out-dated, and the UC was already familiar with providing flexible online learning to increasing numbers of students.
''This is a natural, and extremely exciting, extension of this,'' he said.


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During New Bern�s first budget meeting to take requests for the 2013-14 fiscal year, the city manager offered a glimpse that suggests department heads and others might be thinking good economic times have returned.
During New Bern�s first budget meeting to take requests for the 2013-14 fiscal year, the city manager offered a glimpse that suggests department heads and others might be thinking good economic times have returned.
Mike Epperson, city manager, said what the departments and organizations were asking for exceeded the general fund by about $1.7 million.
Three of four nonprofits � Craven Arts Council, Friends of the Firemen�s Museum and Swiss Bear � that went before the board Tuesday night asked for a total of $19,304 more than they received last year. Greater Duffyfield Residents Council asked for the same $10,000 they received last year.
Two organizations that have usually presented budgets along with the nonprofits during special appropriations requests � the Highway 17 Association and Allies for Cherry Point�s Tomorrow, or ACT � have been moved to the governing board budget.
That was done during the aldermen�s Feb. 16 Saturday retreat.
Alderman Johnnie Ray Kinsey said he would like to see ACT and the Highway 17 Association present requests to the public.
Epperson said the reason they were moved from special appropriations is because they were lobbying organizations.
Alderman Denny Bucher, who eight months ago was on the ACT legislative committee and is now a board director for the group, said he didn�t know of an organization more important to the area because it lobbies for Cherry Point, which has a strong economic impact in the area.
Bucher said the president�s budget this year is looking at implementing base realignments and closures, called BRAC, throughout the military.
�If that happens, it could have real repercussions to us,� Bucher said.
ACT is asking the city for $14,200 in the upcoming budget. In 2012-13, the city appropriated $4,123 to the organization.
In a letter to Epperson regarding budget requests from ACT, Havelock Mayor Jimmy Sanders, who is the president of ACT, said times were difficult now for Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Points and its tenant and partner Fleet Readiness Center East because of sequestration budget cuts and the possibility of another base realignment.
�If Cherry Point were to close, it would take with it over $2 billion in annual economic impact and about 5,000 jobs from Carteret, Craven, Jones and Pamlico counties,� Sanders said in the letter. ��Every local government would feel a dramatic negative impact. Property values would collapse, tax revenues would dry up and new growth would immediately grind to a halt. It is in every citizen�s interest to protect Cherry Point and every local government organization and business should contribute to the effort.�
To continue lobbying and educating the public, ACT has conceived an annual, ongoing local funding strategy that asks cities and counties for financial support in relationship to the number of citizens they govern within the region.
Because Craven County is home to Cherry Point and is the most populous of the four counties, Craven would be asked to take the lead, Sanders said.
�However the loss of Cherry Point�s economic impact and jobs would affect everyone from the largest county to the smallest town,� the letter said. �Every single jurisdiction organization and person will suffer if Cherry Point goes away and each must help ACT according to the relative impact of Cherry Point�s loss and their ability to participate.�
Rick Hemphill, Craven County finance director and assistant city manager, said ACT is requesting $25,000 from the county for the 2013-14 budget. Last year, Craven County did not appropriate any funds directly to ACT, but did pass on $65,000 from the N.C. Department of Commerce, he said.
In past years, Craven County has appropriated $7,500 to ACT, Hemphill said. He added Craven County has not started its 2013-14 budget deliberations yet.
The $14,200 requested from New Bern, the $25,000 from Craven County and other money from counties, municipalities and the private sector would support the management, administrative, financial and public outreach activities of ACT.
Marc Finlayson, consultant to ACT, said the board was hoping to set up shop permanently. ACT usually only gears up during BRACs, like in 1993, 1995, 2003 and 2005. But Finlayson said more could be done each year to help support Cherry Point.
ACT�s goal for the upcoming budget is $125,000 from local sources. It is also trying to get funding from the state, but there is nothing in the governor�s budget as yet, Finlayson said.
This year�s requests were determined based on the per capita of the towns and four counties of Craven, Jones, Pamlico and Carteret. For example, all of the populations of towns and counties were totaled. Then the population of Craven County was taken out and determined to have 54 percent of the population, which would be $25,000 toward the goal.
Requests at some of the smaller towns could be as low as $100 or $200, Finlayson said.
Besides Finlayson, ACT has lobbyists from a law firm working with the state government, and a consulting firm lobbing at the Pentagon and Congress.
The Highway 17 Association is requesting $12,500 from New Bern. The city appropriated $10,306 to the organization in 2012-13.
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