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Jojo John walked into the Orangetown Courthouse in Orangeburg, Rockland County, N.Y., Wednesday with a team of lawyers and several family members. He was wearing a neck brace.
John did not speak to reporters, but defense attorney David Nahrain said outside the courthouse his client wanted to extend his condolences to the victims.
Authorities said there was probable cause that John was intoxicated when he was crashed the 21-foot Stingray into a construction barge near the Tappan Zee Bridge on July 26.
There were four other people on board the boat, including Lindsey Stewart, 30, and fiance Brian Bond, 36, who were set to be married Aug. 10. Bond's best man, 30-year-old Mark Lennon, was also on the boat, along with another friend.
Stewart and Lennon were thrown overboard in the boat crash and killed.
Their families have said that the passengers on the boat "had consumed very little alcohol and considered themselves sober," and pleaded for information from boaters familiar with the crash scene.
Stewart's and Lennon's families also said in the statement, "Compounding our agony is the rush, by some, to cast blame on or even malign the victims."
The families asked Hudson River boaters to submit information about the barges in that area, suggesting they were not properly lit.
John's lawyer David Nahrain said he was also conducting an independent investigation and asked boaters and witnesses to contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The New York State Thruway Authority and the Coast Guard have said the barge lighting appeared to be functioning normally and met all regulations.
Prosecutors asked the judge Wednesday for a one-month continuation to conduct a felony investigation. John is due back in court Sept. 25.


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Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth edition, focuses on the Yanomamo. These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This new edition includes events and changes that have occurred since 1992, including a recent trip by the author to the Brazilian Yanomamo in 1995.
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Tools required for tear-down are pretty straight forward. You'll need a phillips head screwdriver, an 8mm nut driver or scoket and maybe a pair of needle nose pliers.
First, let's assume that the throttle body is off the car. If it's not, you'll want to remove it to do this procedure. Mitsubishi was actually kind in this area in that all 4 of the 12mm bolts holding the TB to the manifold are accessible. However, you will need to remove the fuel lines (feed and return), a few coolant lines and some vacuum lines. And, of course, you'll have to disconnect a few wiring harnesses related to the TB. Once it's off the car and on your bench you should be looking at this:
Depending on how often things have been apart on your car this very first step could be your most difficult and make you want to abandon doing this altogether. You need to remove to the top two screws pictured below. They can be really frozen in there and I've read horror stories of them shearing off trying to get them off. Hopefully that doesn't happen to you and they come right out. There's very little room to get vise grips or anything of the like in there so you might want to soak them in PB Blaster and wait 24 hours. I WOULD NOT recommend putting these two back in, we'll talk about that more later.
Once those two screws are out, the "top hat", or the fuel injector housing, should pop right off, it's only pressed onto the injectors. Once removed it should look like this:
First, let's disassemble the pulsation dampener. Remove the two screws holding the cover on.
Once you open this up there will be an o-ring, a spring, and a diaphragm-type gasket that will be replaced later on in the rebuild.
OPTIONAL: Depending on what you plan to do with your rebuild you may be interested in adding a fuel pressure gauge. There's a great little spot to do this on the back of the housing. All you need to do is remove this allen key plug. It might be tough to get out, a little heat may help here. Thread is a 1/4" BSPT (taper thread). Most fuel pressure gauges are 1/8" NPT. You can tap this out to just a 1/4" NPT at this time, and put a 1/4" to 1/8" reducer, or find a 1/4" BSPT to 1/8" NPT adapter (they do make these), or you can purchase other Earls-type fittings to change the position, angle, whatever you want.
Getting back to our TB, it should now look like this with the top hat removed:
Next up we're going to remove some of the wiring harness brackets so we can get the ISC off. Remove the 3 screws shown:
The brackets will come right off with the screws removed. Set them off to the side.
With the brackets out of the way we now have access to all the ISC screws. There are 5 total that you need to remove in order for it to come off.
Once they are removed the ISC will "fold" over out of the way. It will still be attached by the long thin spring. Get your needle nose pliers and gently twist it out to fully remove the ISC.
Removed. Set if off to the side. (NOTE: now is a good time to make sure this thing works. There are some FAQ tutorials, or your FSM, to explain how to test it. All you need is a 6V lantern battery and some wire.)
If you haven't already, pop out the primary and secondary injectors. Make sure the bottom o-rings come with.
You can set those off to the side too, more about them later.
The last step to getting your TB tore down into it's basic pieces is to separate the TB halves. There are two screws left that hold it together.
Once those screws are removed the top should lift right off...
... and you'll be left with this underneath.
For the basic disassembly of the TB, that's it. We're going to take things a bit further by disassembling the throttle plate as well and replace those pesky shaft seals.
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In my email I noted that one warm sunny day my husband and I went to the cemetery and took pictures of our ancestors. I noted that they were still on my hard drive as well as some I had not posted. I requested that they remove their name from my pictures...
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Orcs of the Majestic Wilderlands and other things
At one time I went through the Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, and Monster Manual II and noted all the possible culture forming races. There was a huge number well over a hundred!
I thought this was a bit ridiculous to try to come up with anything plausible out of. But rather than just cut and pare this I tried to think of a way of making this exist.
By then I already had established an Uttermost War and that it was a war between the Gods and the Demons. The demons were not a special group but rather gods and mortal who revolted and decided they knew how to run creations better than the original plan.
So I decided there were only two races in the beginning elves and human. The elves were created to be guardians of the wilderlands and their ultimate destiny was tied to its fate. Humans were destined for something beyond and their time in the wilderlands was just a step to their ultimate destination.
But how do I get from two to over a hundred sentient races?
It the demons fault. The demon were largely comprised of gods and elves. Humans that came under their control were enslaved. Unfortunately humans being humans made for poor slaves by demon standards. Either they rebelled or broke too easily when driven. So the Demons decided to create the prefect servitors.
They used magic to twist humans into new races. The first batch consisted of Dwarves, Gnomes, and Halflings. With them they were focused on physical hardiness (Dwarves, Gnomes) or reduced need for supplies (halflings). But they had too much of the human spirit and still caused problems.
So next they experimented with animal hybrids the result were things like centaurs, lizard men and the like. The results were often strange and for many there were breeding issues.
Finally they realized they need to go after the mind as well as the body. So they created the Orcs, goblins, and the rest of the humanoids. For goblins they tweaked them so that had a obsessive attention span. They would focus on a task to near exclusion of all other things.
For Orcs they greatly increased their aggression levels and introduced a dominance mechanism based off of that. Orcs will readily follow any leader they perceive to be stronger than they are and their in-fighting left them too divided to think of resisting the demons.
After the Uttermost Wars the Gods tried to integrate demon created races but only succeeded with the earliest that did not have their minds effected. Unwilling to commit genocide they scattered the other races to isolated regions of the Wilderlands. Of course as millenniums passed eventually they all came into contact with one another again.
I felt this explains the AD&D setup rather nicely. While the story of the orcs is tragic, it is understandable why there is so much bloodshed with civilizations that border them.
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- Martin R. Thomas said...
Great stuff. I did something somewhat similar in my campaign world, wherein I had one race of "first ones" that were sort of like proto-elves and they ended up, over thousands of years, sort of genetically engineering all of the other races to perform specific tasks. But, all of the humanoid races can technically be traced back to the first ones.
None of the modern races know this, though.
- March 13, 2011 at 1:56 PM
- Johnathan Bingham said...
Really interesting take. I always try to limit sentient races because, well, it just always seemed so implausible that there would be so many different cultures. Now having the different races essentially being corrupted or manipulated humans or elves, etc, I can totally go for that.
- March 13, 2011 at 2:37 PM
- Phersv said...
In myths, there are often only two great species: mortal humans and Otherworld creatures (Faeries, Djinns, and so on).
I know DragonLance is considered as opposite to many things in the OSR but its setting had a similar solution with a "phylogenetic" tree.
There were only three original races: Titans (Ur-Ogres), Elves & Humans.
Then a Chaotic mutation created all the other sentient species (and animal hybrids): Giants, Ogres, Minotaurs from the Titans (other Humanoids are more mixed IIRC, a hobgoblin was an offspring with more elven blood than ogre, and a bugbear was an offspring that had more ogre blood than elven), Dwarves from Humans (and Gnomes from Dwarves), Wild Elves and Kenders from the High Elves.
- March 14, 2011 at 5:23 AM


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Wael Bakry is a physical therapist who — according to Medicare data — operated on his own out of a modest storefront on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn.
Yet he billed Medicare for $4.1 million dollars in 2012, according to federal data released earlier this month — vastly more than the national average for physical therapists of $32,341.
As noted by Julie Creswell and Robert Gebeloff in The New York Times, Bakry apparently treated 1,950 Medicare patients that year, providing about 94 separate procedures for each one, a total of around 183,000 separate treatments or, 21 per hour.
"I'm not Superman," Bakry, who did not contest the numbers, told The Times. Instead, he argued that the raw data could be "deceiving," saying that he employed 24 physical therapists and assistants in four separate offices who all billed under his name. (He also said he no longer worked out of the Ocean Avenue address.)
"While Medicare has encouraged providers to bill under their own numbers," The Times notes, "the agency acknowledges that data for some providers covers multiple practitioners."
It's true: While practitioners billing Medicare what seem like exorbitant amounts warrant a closer look, a sky-high charge is not, in itself, evidence of wrongdoing. Multiple providers may bill under one number, as Bakry claims explains his account, and while Medicare patients make up a small percentage of all patients at some practices, they may make up the majority of patients at others.
Furthermore, Medicare payouts — like the $4.1 million to Bakry — should not be interpreted as a salary. "The money often must be split amongst other physicians, nurses, and specialized support staff in addition to paying for actual drugs and medical devices," Brandon Turner explains at The Atlantic. "Think of it like paying for a meal at a restaurant — even though the waiter serves you the food, he's not taking home the whole bill for himself."
Bakry told The Times that Medicare "had never questioned his billing practices."
Yet his high charges and high number of treatments per patient make him an outlier. Indeed, as The Times notes, "the 94 treatments Mr. Bakry's average patient received during the year were more than three times the national average."
These findings point to irregular, if not necessarily illegal, practices. And things got even stranger when we saw what we could learn from Bakry's various places of business.
Following a trail of addresses
In the Times article, Bakry says he is operating out of four offices. Through some digging, we found five different addresses associated with him (including the 2518 Ocean Avenue address he claims he no longer uses).
Some addresses may be outdated, but each offers clues about Bakry's operation.
Bakry's National Provider Identifier, a unique ID assigned to all healthcare providers by the federal government, is associated with another address in Brooklyn: 1218 Neptune Avenue.
Another practitioner at that address, an occupational therapist named Victor Genkin, has already caught the eye of state regulators.
On June 14, 2012, New York's Office of the Medicaid Inspector General sent a letter to Genkin announcing the results of an audit report. Inspectors concluded that Genkin double-charged Medicaid and Medicare for the same patients and consequently owes the state more than $15,000. (This may have been a billing error or something else.)
Genkin, whose $2.3 million payout from Medicare was the second-highest occupational therapist reimbursement in the country, seems to have close ties to Bakry. They frequently refer patients to each other, and Amerigroup's 2014 directory of providers lists them both at a practice called Priority Medical Group, located at 16204 Jamaica Avenue in Queens.
Something close in name, Priority Care Rehab & Physical Therapy, is also listed at that address, with Bakry as the president.
Priority Medical Group's one review on Yelp — which, like all unverified Yelp reviews, should be taken with a grain of salt —accuses the practice of focusing on money, not care. "This is the most unprofessional medical office I have ever been to," Jonathon P. writes. "The urologist is ... more concerned with insurance information being correct as opposed to the patient's well-being."
Bakry is also listed as the owner of Cure Touch Rehab, which has a separate provider ID and is located at 2911 Surf Avenue in Brooklyn. (That address is also listed elsewhere as the home of Priority Care Rehab & Physical Therapy as well as Victor's Occupational Therapy Solutions, which is owned by Victor Genkin.)
Cure Touch, meanwhile, is also registered with the New York Department of State, using what appears to be a residential address on Staten Island. Bakry's license to practice physical therapy, which is currently in good standing, is also registered to Staten Island.
A web of high payouts
Victor Genkin is one of several practioners who referred patients to Bakry while receiving high payouts themselves.
Alexander Khavash, the No. 1 source of referrals for Bakry, also received $1 million from Medicare in 2012 — more than any other chiropractor in the country.
The highest Medicare biller among all occupational therapists, meanwhile, was Mayura Kanekar, who received more $2.9 million in 2012 and was also a top referrer for Bakry. The average for occupational therapists in New York is $40,000 (nationwide, it's even less: $17,232).
Another top source of referrals for Bakry was Abraham Demoz, a doctor at Sunshine Medical who was among the top 25 Medicare billers in internal medicine. He received $2.6 million from Medicare in 2012, including more than $1 million for 15,581 intravenous injections.
We reached out to Bakry, Genkin, Kanekar, and Demoz for comment and will update the post if we hear back.
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You know it's sad when both the general public (57 percent) and reporters (52 percent) agree that the media does a poor job explaining religion to the broader public. And then two-thirds of the public think religious coverage is scandal-driven, compared to 30 percent of journalists who say the same thing, according to a new study from the Knight Program in Media and Religion at USC and the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. So why is there such poor coverage of religion?
Maybe it's lack of a basic understanding of faith and belief. Half of all reporters say a major challenge to covering religion is a lack of knowledge of religion, according to the report. Just 19 percent of reporters say they are "very knowledgeable" about religion, one-third consider themselves "knowledgeable," 40 percent say they're "somewhat knowledgeable," compared to about 10 percent who say they're don't know much at all. You can see reporters having a hard time admitting they don't know much about religion, so I would guess the number is even lower than what they self-report. But when belief or unbelief is so crucial to understanding so much of our world, it's an amazing state of the media.
On a pretty basic level, media outlets are fairly concerned with wide representation in the newsroom, ensuring race, gender, and other demographic qualities are covered. However, the report says that minority Christians and white evangelical Christians are under-represented among journalists who cover religion when, ironically, they are the groups that consume the most religion news.
"Religion figures into American politics, popular culture, foreign policy and even the economy more strongly than ever before. But the disconnect between news consumers and producers suggests that current news media coverage isn't making the importance of these overlapping relationships clear," said John C. Green, director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, who managed the study. "This situation presents the news media with both a challenge and an opportunity at a moment when innovation in the profession is paramount."
Earlier this week, we talked about whether it's startling that only 19 percent of Americans say the media is "friendly" toward religion. Commenter Carl Jacobs responded:
I have never noticed any media hostility to the Women Catholic Priest organization. Or the Episcopal Church and their theologically liberal ilk. Or the 'spiritual but not religious' First Church of Starbucks crowd. It's religion based upon a fixed and knowable and binding revelation that inspires their animosity.
Or as John M. put it:
Headline proposal: "19 Percent of Readers Surveyed Need to Spend More Time Reading the Howlers That Come Across GetReligion".
I mean, seriously, between Bill Keller and the head of the BBC, even the pretense of objectivity is being shed when it comes to covering people like me.
Of course, John is referring to the former editor of the New York Times and the BBC's Mark Thompson, both of whom have had interesting things to say about religion coverage. (Hint, Thompson apparently said it's acceptable to subject Christians to more criticism and satire, to treat their beliefs with less sensitivity.)
There's a group of reporters out there who strive to cover religion accurately and thoroughly (they tend to go to events like the Religion Newswriters Association conference, attend denominational gatherings, check out ReligionLink, read religious publications, etc.). But a number of media outlets either don't prioritize the religion beat or don't have reporters who are qualified to cover religion. Can you imagine if an editor assigned someone to cover the Romney campaign who didn't have some background or understanding of politics?
You certainly don't have to be religious to cover religion well, but I would think editors would want reporters who have at least studied it or have a background that would shape an understanding of how religion works and influences people. It's why we sometimes you get more religion coverage out of the Colbert Report than you from mainstream news outlets. Just 28.1 percent of the public and of 8 percent reporters said that broadcast news provided "good" religion coverage, the survey suggests.
Most reporters think their audiences want personality-driven religion news that connects to institutions and events, the release for the study says. But about 70 percent of Americans say they're interested in complex coverage that looks at religious experiences and spiritual practice. And in case editors aren't convinced that the American public want more religion news, there's a little nugget to reinforce the idea: A majority of respondents (63 percent) says religion coverage is important to them.
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Product Security Incident Managers…A Closer Look
Product security covers quite a broad spectrum of knowledge areas within the realm of technologies applied to enable communications in this highly connected world. However, there is a natural tendency to first focus on the basic capabilities of the product itself. But later, questions arise such as "Is the product in operation vulnerable and if yes, what are the next steps to protecting against the vulnerability?" or "What can I do if I suspect a security issue with a product?" As much as one would like to sustain 100% immunity against any vulnerability or issue, events happen, inherent product weaknesses are discovered or new attack vectors and methods arise to expose ways to compromise a product's operation or behavior. At Cisco, the people that rapidly converge on such occurrences or the potential for such occurrences are the Incident Managers (IM) who reside at the core of the Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) within Security Intelligence Operations (SIO). I think it is fascinating how well this team seamlessly executes with the precision, efficacy, and timeliness on a day-in-day-out basis covering a large array of complex hardware, software, and technologies. The IM focuses on driving the underlying processes around the discovery of security disclosures and issues related to Cisco products and networks. I hope you will find that this article provides you with an informative and personal perspective on the IM role that is integral to the ongoing efforts essential to protecting the Cisco customer.
The IM must diligently investigate and report on security vulnerability information and issues related to Cisco products and networks. An IM can be called into action via multiple communications channels including, but not limited to these methods:
- Externally via E-mail or Hotline Call by a Cisco customer, independent customer, etc.
- Internally within Cisco by any group, such as a product business unit.
The steps that an IM performs on a security disclosure or issue can culminate in the publication of one of three PSIRT documents:
The process flow diagram that follows is also available on the Cisco Vulnerability Policy webpage and shows the numerous steps that an IM is engaged in. The IM's efforts are highly collaborative among several Cisco groups ranging from Security Intelligence Operations (i.e. Applied Intelligence for AMBs) to Development, to Release Operations, and of course the customers.
The IM uses the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) as part of the standard process of evaluating reported potential vulnerabilities in Cisco products and determining which vulnerabilities warrant a Cisco Security Advisory or other type of publication. CVSS is used to convey vulnerability severity. More information about CVSS is available at the FIRST.org web site
Similar to my previous article in this series on individual contributing security roles at Cisco, the following section is taken from an interview that I conducted with the goal of providing a closer look into a day in the life of a Cisco PSIRT Incident Manager and also helping those of you considering this type of career in the information security field.
What range of background does an Incident Manager (IM) role have?
A lot of the individuals come from diverse backgrounds. We focus on a range of products, i.e. everything that Cisco does. So someone needs strong investigative skills that can be applied to any product in question. You need to be personable, since you must be able to communicate with anyone at any time. You also need to be able to adapt to a variety of communications, whether it be voice, email, video, in-person, etc. Adapting to the individual's temperament (i.e. stressful situation) while being able to communicate urgency and importance is an essential soft skill. You also need to be able to converse both technically and non-technically in order to properly translate issues into a form that can be readily understood and applied.
What does an IM do to come up to speed?
Please keep in mind that this not a junior position. An IM is considered a seasoned professional with previous experience within the security arena. That said, we have a lot of documentation for this position covering particular responsibilities from a procedural perspective. In this case, the IM more often than not hits the ground running. We have mentors who are senior members of the team. For example, a mentor will help you write the first few security advisories. We "learn by doing" is pretty much the theme.
What do you like most about your role? (i.e. Why would you want to do this)?
It's exciting to see the new vulnerabilities as they come along and know that you are protecting customers from the bad guys that want to do harm to their network. I have the opportunity to interact with people from all over the world. You never know who (i.e. customer, developer, product manager, etc.) you are going to work with from anywhere and at anytime. Therefore, this role is both dynamic and challenging at the same time.
Can you share some insights on what your day-to-day core activities involve?
The predominant focus is on managing our caseloads, which involves an average of 20 cases happening at the same time. From a process perspective, we will pick up a customer case, make an initial contact with the reporter and jump into an investigative mode. We also focus on evaluation and assessment of the risk that the issue may pose. I should point out that this happens even when we are participating in major events like Cisco Live or security events.
How does your day usually begin?
We check e-mails to make sure nothing critical happened over night. Then we pull up the case queue/backlog and then prioritize what needs to be worked on for the day. We may also start some advance preparation for meetings that might happen during the day.
What is a key aspect (i.e. qualitative or quantitative) of being successful?
It is imperative to have good organization skills. This includes the ability to plow through email as we typically receive 200-300 per day. Therefore, being able quickly filter, distill, and absorb large volumes of information is critical in order to keep up with the flood of information. Along those lines, you need to also sift through a fair of amount of spam, which can be in various languages. It is also key to filter out what you do not need to give your attention to.
Are there any other aspects of your job that are especially essential as you work with your team members or others that depend on your work?
Your availability is essential since not only do others need to communicate with you, you also need to communicate with them. At times, this involves e-mail communications that underscore the necessity to have excellent written skills. This is highly evident in our most visible communications which is through the PSIRT Security Advisories.
What else can you recommend to others regarding optimizing their practices based on your experience?
We believe in responsible disclosure and that results in providing the information that our customers and partners need. We also want to make sure that we publish information in as timely of a manner as possible to make sure that our customers are protected as much as possible.
What do you like to do for fun when you are not a practicing IM?
I enjoy photography and astronomy. For example, I showed several co-workers the Venus transit (Venus past in front of the Sun for 8 hours) event that won't occur again for more than 100 years. I also enjoy spending time with family at the beach. I also practice Yoga, and was a fixed-wing pilot.
In case you have not already noticed, many of the PSIRT IM's have been regular contributors to the Cisco Security Blog over the years where they have shared valuable knowledge on a variety of security topics that you might find interesting. Meanwhile, I encourage you to check out the wealth of information and resources available on the SIO portal as well as related security blog articles covering several other roles behind the scenes that are dedicated to delivering early-warning intelligence, threat and vulnerability analysis, and proven Cisco mitigation solutions to help protect networks. I welcome your questions or comments on this or any other product security role at Cisco.
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JP PARISÉ: I think it was Dave Lewis who dumped the puck into the Rangers corner. And at that time, Jude and I had a play, where he would go to the puck, and just kind of bang it behind the net. I would automatically go to the far corner and receive that pass. We bought time so I could make a play - give him a chance to get back in front of the net or follow behind the net. We had different options. And for some reason, I decided to go to the net, instead. And Jude got to the point, first. One of the Rangers didn't pick up the puck, so Jude was right on top. He's the guy that made the whole play - he spotted me going towards the net. All of a sudden, it was right on my stick, and I had a whole open net. I scored, and that's the last I remembered, because after I scored, I got hit from behind. Brad Park hit me, and I fell down on the ice. But we all went nuts, and the game was over. It was just a great, great feeling.
STAN FISCHLER: The overtime happened so fast, it was a blink of an eye. The whole sequence was surreal - so fast and very little replay availability in those days. I watched it on television. I still can't believe it.
EDDIE WESTFALL: That was a playoff record at the time [the goal was scored eleven seconds into overtime]. We were surprised. You don't know you're going to score. You can't set it up to say, "This is how you're going to score it." You set it up so you give you and your teammates the best opportunity to win the hockey game. And that's really what that whole thing was about - to give yourself a chance to win it.
JEAN POTVIN: I remember sitting on the bench, and watching a lot of the fans still trying to make their way back from the hot dog stand to their seats, when JP scored eleven seconds into overtime. I will never forget with all the cheering we were doing, you couldn't help but when you were skating off the ice, to notice all the fans that were still in their seats - many of them were just there with a blank stare. They could not believe that this had taken place. And you had people who were still coming back from the hot dog stand, rushing to see what the roar was, and they couldn't believe it! People were telling them, "It's over. They scored." It was unbelievable.
GLENN "CHICO" RESCH: To get the early goal in the overtime really helped. I wouldn't have wanted that to go too much further than that.
AL ARBOUR: It really sticks out. Beating the Rangers is really something. We were just starting at the time, and that made our team go. It was a very big win for us.
CLAIRE ARBOUR: I certainly do remember that! Oh my gosh - I was there. I went to very few Rangers games. It wasn't an easy thing for me to do. Our neighbors down in the courtyard, they knew nothing about hockey, but they said, "Claire, if you want to go to the game, we'll take you." So off we go to the game. We're sitting, and we're very politely applauding every time the Islanders scored. So people around us kind of knew we were Islanders fans. They didn't say anything. Then, when they tied it up and we were going into overtime, they tapped us on the shoulder, and said, "Oh, you guys had a great season." They were kissing us goodbye. "We go to the Coliseum, we have season tickets there too, and it's really nice. You can be proud of your team." And of course, the overtime lasted so little - I still don't know how I got the courage to turn around and say, "Well …see you at the Coliseum!" I was so excited; it was such an unexpected thing. Poor Al - he was in tremendous pain with his back. And they all got up at the same time. The bench went flying on his feet, and he's trying to cheer that he's happy, but he's trying to get the bench off his feet. [Laughs]
BILLY HARRIS: We get down the back freight elevator to the bus, and there's a mob scene out in the street. They've got beer bottles; they're throwing shit at us. We had to get a police escort to the Midtown Tunnel.
CLAIRE ARBOUR: We came back home, and sat there in total disbelief, that we had won the series. But that was always what he aimed at - to win the playoffs.
AL ARBOUR: It was really great to beat the Rangers in the first round, the first time we were in the playoffs. I mean, it was unbelievable.
BOB NYSTROM: In just the first round with the Rangers, I think it was as if we had grown up. That series really put us on the map, because we beat "the big bad Rangers." From that standpoint, it was a real feather in our cap. We finally got a little bit of recognition.
GARY "BABA BOOEY" DELL'ABATE: With the Rangers series, my dad was really excited about it - he always loved the underdog. So after they beat the Rangers, it was a huge statement.
STAN FISCHLER: That series was without a doubt the turning point for the team. The enormity of the upset - considering the relative talent on the team - cannot be measured. It was one of these hundred-to-one shots, and the way it was done was even more amazing. It was so tremendous in so many ways. First of all, it established that this was an exciting team. There were individuals now who were becoming personalities, like Potvin and Gillies. And of course, the fact that they were young and were underdogs, there was a romance about these guys. It was the key. It was the kind of thing that's missing in teams like the Blue Jackets, for example, or the Thrashers - these guys never won. And the Islanders won. It started with that playoff.
GARY "BABA BOOEY" DELL'ABATE: Everything after the Rangers win was gravy.
GLENN "CHICO" RESCH: It was just sort of our year. It was meant to be our "Cinderella year/coming out year."
JEAN POTVIN: I'll never forget in the paper the next day [after the Islanders eliminated the Rangers], Derek Sanderson was quoted as saying, "This is a terrible hockey team" - the Islanders are. "They were lucky to beat us. I predict they will never win another game this year in the playoffs." And we almost didn't.
Greg Prato is a Long Island based journalist who has been featured in Rolling Stone and is the author of several popular books including the one excerpted here, Dynasty: The Oral History of the New York Islanders, 1972-1984. The book is available here as an ebook and paperback. This excerpt has been reprinted with permission.
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Greenpeace is currently investigating the manufacture of phosphate fertiliser in Sichuan, China. Chemical fertilizers play an integral role in industrial agriculture and food production. However, its manufacture have proven to be highly polluting, which contributes to wide-spread environmental contamination and causes distress for local communities living in the vicinity of the production facilities.
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The longtime producer of the Grammy Awards is offering apologies to Metallica and Shirley Caesar after a technical glitch and a misprint marred their inclusion on the show.
The mic for Metallica's James Hetfield wasn't initially working when the band took the stage to perform with Lady Gaga, and Caesar, a lifetime achievement award honoree, was misidentified during the televised ceremony when a photo of another gospel star, CeCe Winans, was shown instead of her during a montage clip.
"These kinds of things are horrible when they happen," Ken Ehrlich said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday. "That's one of the risks of live television."
The Metallica glitch, for which the band has blamed a dead microphone, resulted in Hetfield making a decision to improvise and use Lady Gaga's mic.
Ehrlich has heard a different story from his crew about the problem.
"My guys say that the mic cable was connected," he said. "My guys' theory was that ... one of the extras (on stage) accidentally kicked out the cable that went to the mic."
Still, the end result was Hetfield's singing couldn't be heard for the first part of the performance.
"Obviously, we apologize to the band," Ehrlich said, calling the mishap "awful."
He added that he's worked with Metallica for years, so to see that happen was personally upsetting to him: "You hurt."
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said lead singer Hetfield was "livid" over the technical mishap.
Ulrich told Grammy host James Corden on Corden's "The Late Late Show" on Wednesday that Hetfield was furious about the snafu. He said Hetfield is normally a "chill guy," but it "was not a lot of fun" in the dressing room after the set.
Ulrich said the band "fought through it" and some people told him afterward that even with the mistake, the performance was "great television."
In the case of Caesar, the gospel legend, Ehrlich had a better understanding of what happened. When preparing for a clip to run of her for the show, footage of a classic Caesar, Winans and Whitney Houston performance was used, and Winans was mistakenly shown.
Ehrlich said he usually checks such footage but didn't get a chance to this year, since he was busy with the show and the Recording Academy's tribute to the Bee Gees, which taped in Los Angeles on Tuesday and will air at a later date.
"We obviously want to apologize to Shirley Caesar," he said. "It's unfortunate that happened."
Ehrlich was also frustrated that the mistakes have overshadowed some of the great performances that occurred on the show, including Beyonce, Bruno Mars and Adele, who had her own hiccup when she restarted her tribute to George Michael.
"When you do a three-and-a-half hour live show, it's fraught with danger," he said. "It was an adventurous show in many ways."
Ehrlich has produced the Grammys for years and has also produced other events, including the Emmy Awards.


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In Synaptic I locked skype to version 22.214.171.124 and the package manager is correctly ignoring newer version (it doesn't select skype upgrade).
On the contrary, apt-get upgrade will propose the upgrade.
I know I could lock the package with
echo "skype hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections, but I'd like to have Synaptic changes being reflected in apt-get


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Treasured Images Part 10 (#91 - 100)
I'll continue with some of cinema's most treasured images. For those familiar with the scenes represented they're bound to invoke a strong emotional response. The narratives' indelible moments are the primary reason these captures were selected.
More will come. Any suggestions are welcome in the comments section.
(A link to Part 11 is here.)


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BillNYC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 32 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
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> Award-winning, published writer and world traveler, with an extensive background in corporate and financial communications, as well as social media.
> Quoted as a Social Media Strategist/Analyst in the Associated Press, E-Commerce Times, MSN Money and elsewhere.
>Recently served as a highlighted panelist at PR News Online's Digital PR Summit in New York City.
CEOs of biotech companies, internet startups, CE companies and others who want to get more plugged in with NYC media.
These folks are coming to us to find exposure to the world and the investment community through exposure in the media.
Many of them are seeking investment capital, and seeking to position themselves in front of investors through our help. That ties in with the financial theme of the logo.
They are seeking a company based in New York City, media capital of the world; hence the NYC theme of the logo.
We are in need of a logo for use on business cards, our stationary and our website. The logo should evoke the following:
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We hope a logo can capture all of these themes.
- No cartoons. We can't be too playful with this, as many of our clients are fairly button-down CEOs of publicly-traded biotech and other companies.
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text: The U.S. President's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently released a policy memorandum directing each Federal agency with over $100 million annually in research expenditures to develop a plan to support increased public access to federally funded research results. The American Anthropological Association applauds the OSTP's collaboration-based approach to increasing access by working with the federal research funding agencies, and by encouraging these agencies to embrace the challenges and public interests that are unique to each field. The American Anthropological Association believes that when it comes to increasing access, it is highly appropriate to take into account the knowledge cycle, researchers who are not funded by the Federal Government, and the need to protect sensitive cultural data. Our members look forward to providing meaningful input over the next six months to the agencies' plans to contribute to innovative breakthroughs through access to scientific data and research findings.


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|Poached Monkfish, Jardiniere de Legumes, Vadouvan
I've often wondered what it would be like to go back and relive a single night of the early days of LudoBites. Much in the same way that my college friends and I have wished we could spend one more Saturday afternoon squeezed thigh to thigh watching "Gilmore Girls" on the knobby, high-backed monstrosity we affectionately dubbed "heinous couch," I feel a deep sense of nostalgia for that period of time circa 2009 when I wiggled my way into the Los Angeles dining community via a very pink blog and a Nikon Coolpix digital camera.
While I started this site in April 2008 to memorialize my dining exploits from the perspective of someone with a newly discovered passion for food, my experiences at LudoBites 2.0 at Breadbar in the summer of 2009 were the true beginning of the "Diana Takes a Bite" story.
It was the moment when something clicked for me -- not just in terms of how I would subsequently approach dining (with an open mind and palate), but also in terms of my personal trajectory within the industry and eventual career as a food & beverage and hospitality publicist, a profession I've now held for nearly five years.
It was during that summer that the Los Angeles dining community invited me to join them at the table, an open-armed welcome that I hadn't before experienced in the four years that I'd been living, half-heartedly, in a city that still felt foreign from my Newport Beach hometown. I certainly never felt embraced when I was dabbling in the entertainment industry as an assistant fetching oatmeal and scheduling pitch meetings, and felt even less so when I made an ill-advised detour into the realm of advertising sales.
As a doe-eyed 25-year-old who had, just three years prior, selected The Cheesecake Factory at The Grove for her birthday dinner, I had no qualifications to be at that communal table other than my desire to be there. I was accepted because, like my fellow bloggers, I was excited about what was happening in the restaurant scene, and because I showed a willingness to push myself outside my comfort zone to expand my horizons.
LudoBites brought us together in a tangible way over the course of those early runs at Breadbar, Royal/T and Gram & Papa's. Los Angeles was ours for the tasting, and I followed my more intrepid contemporaries to the San Gabriel Valley for dumplings and dim sum, to Thai Town for curries and noodles that scorched my tongue, to Boyle Heights' Breed Street for birria tacos and huarache con pollo, and to Church & State for fried pig's ears and escargot in the, then, decidedly less polished Arts District.
|Squid Pad Thai
Every new culinary experience whetted my appetite for more, and ultimately led to my "Aha!" moment that I had to find a way to turn this side hobby into a viable vocation. I wasn't content for "Diana Takes a Bite" (or "D Takes a B," according to some) to be my alter ego; I wanted her to be a fully actualized person. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic and horrifically cliché, it truly was a dream come true when I was hired at a boutique food & beverage PR firm.
Five years later, I still credit my path to a career I love so much that I consider hanging out at a client's bar taking photos of cocktails for work a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon to those early days of self-discovery at LudoBites. So, when I was asked to attend a taping of the premiere episode of season five of "Mind of a Chef" with Chef Ludo Lefebvre to pay tribute to that time that was such a watershed moment for him (and us), I accepted the invitation. I viewed it as an incredible opportunity to join my friends and former blogger contemporaries (who have all similarly evolved personally & professionally), and share with him just how profound an impact LudoBites had on our community.
Yet, gathered around the center island in Chef Ludo and Krissy Lefebvre's kitchen yesterday for the shoot, which was set up to be a recreation of LudoBites, I realized just how acutely I have changed since 2009. Beyond the natural maturation that comes with age, my story has veered in a completely different direction since the nights when I would rush home from a meal to upload out-of-focus photos and craft an often embarrassingly cheeky blog post.
While I've been tempted to go back and delete those entries that shed far too much light on my naivety and lack of understanding and context for that which I was whimsically critiquing, they are part of my journey and the eventual person that I would become. Have become.
Since assuming my profession as a publicist, I've awkwardly straddled the line as it relates to my identity as a former blogger. This site is where it all began, and even as I've grown busier at work and become further devoted to and proud of the role I play within the industry's ecosystem, I've attempted to keep it alive…even when months have gone by between posts, many of which I wasn't even particularly inspired to write.
As fun as it was to remember and reminisce over squid pad thai noodles, and crème fraîche panna cotta with caramel sauce and caviar on Saturday, over the course of the filming I had the distinct feeling that this portion of my journey has come to a conclusive end. This site will always be part of my identity, and its name will live on via my social media handles, but it feels like the appropriate time to end the story of the girl with the very pink blog and announce this as my final post on "Diana Takes a Bite."
I'll likely end up starting an equally janky Tumblr page to catalogue recipes in the future, but in this current moment, I'm happy to be exactly the person I've become: Diana Hossfeld, a food & beverage and hospitality publicist.


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This Reddit user's speedo broke, and the way he got around the problem is hilariously clever.
Reddit user brusifer posted the above picture to r/shitty_car_mods under the title "My speedo is broken, but the tachometer works fine. Lets fix it with vector graphics." Basically, brusifer put up a graph around the still-working tachometer indicating vehicle speed in relation to engine speed in each gear.
The solution is a little complicated, and a little hard to read at a glance, but it's cheap, simple, and it looks awesome.
(Hat tip to TheCroatianGuy!)


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India's Hindu nationalist party scrambled on Saturday to win support from the movement's most senior leader over a decision to anoint controversial politician Narendra Modi as candidate for premier in looming elections.
Senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including lower parliamentary house chief Sushma Swaraj, visited 85-year-old BJP cofounder LK Advani at his New Delhi home.
However, they failed to smooth over differences with Advani, who had written to the BJP earlier in the week to say he was "anguished and disappointed" about developments in the party.
Advani boycotted Friday's ceremony at which Gujarat Chief Minister Modi, his one-time protege, was nominated to be the BJP's prime ministerial candidate in polls due by the end of next year.
The unhappiness of Advani, who has harbored his own prime ministerial ambitions, has underscored discord within BJP's ranks over Modi's nomination.
"Every family has a right to its disagreements," BJP president Rajnath Singh said.
Hardline Hindu leader Modi is one of India's most polarizing politicians, tainted by deadly anti-
Muslim riots on his watch in 2002, but also credited with turning Gujarat into an economic powerhouse.
Newspapers on Saturday splashed Modi's nomination on its front page. "BJP Crowns Modi. Will India Follow?" The Economic Times ran in a headline.
Modi remains under a ban from entering the US imposed in 2005 over the riots. The Press Trust of India on Saturday quoted a US Department of State spokeswoman as saying there was "no change" in Washington's visa policy toward Modi.
Modi has become a hero of middle-class India, hailed as a business-friendly modernizer who could revive a sharply slowing economy, while the BJP hopes he can end the party's near-decade in the political wilderness.
Detractors revile Modi as a Hindu zealot who allegedly turned a blind eye to anti-Muslim riots on his home turf, in which as many as 2,000 people were hacked, burned and shot to death, according to rights groups. Modi has denied any wrongdoing.
After his nomination, Modi, 62, returned to his home state to supporters' cries: "The lion of Gujarat has arrived."
"The BJP has become the only ray of hope for the common people," the charismatic orator said in a speech late on Friday. "Only the BJP has the capacity to bring our country out of these [economic] crises and take it to new heights of development."
Such was public revulsion over the riots, Modi at one time seemed to have no future on the national stage in constitutionally secular India. However, voter disenchantment with the corruption-tainted ruling Congress and the economic downturn has created a groundswell of support for Modi.
Modi is expected to be pitted in campaigning against Congress heir-apparent Rahul Gandhi, 43, whose family has given India three prime ministers.
Yet Modi's pan-India appeal and ability to erase memories of the riots remain an issue, while there are doubts about Gandhi's ability and desire for the job.
Polls point to a fractured election outcome in which smaller regional parties with differing agendas, which rely on Muslims and other religious minorities for support, could end up with the upper hand.
While former India prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was known for his "consensus" touch in forging alliances, Modi's brand of hardline Hindu politics are seen as discouraging prospective coalition partners.


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