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Fashion Week Fall Winter 2012 FULL RECAP!
MODERN SALON Media has just returned from a week-long, fashion-fueled binge while reporting backstage and front row at New York's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week.
Designers debuted their Fall/Winter 2012 collections under the tents while fashion enthusiasts, beauty editors, celebrities, VIPs, socialites and aspiring designers flocked New York City to get a preview of the fabrics, prints, styles, and fashions that will be big come Fall.
MODERN was given tremendous amounts of access backstage, covering all the action with some of the industry's greatest hairdressing leads and their teams. And, we were also sitting front row, rubbing elbows with some of Hollywood's leading actors and fashion icons—it was so exciting!
Here are some of our favorite moments:
Eugene Souleiman for Wella at Peter Som: Eugene Souleiman for Wella Professionals created "handsome" finishes for the Peter Som fall/winter 2012 collection. Souleiman created a deep, low side part, swopped into a chic pony. "It's about making these girls look handsome rather than pretty," he told MODERN's Maggie Mulhern in an exclusive interview. Click the link above to watch the full interview live backstage!
OPI at Herve Leger: OPI was used on nails for the Herve Leger by Max Azria 2012 autumnl/winter show at Lincoln Center on Saturday. Passion was painted on models' nails for a clean, barely-there nude look that complimented the show's black and neutral-colored dresses with leather strap detailing.
Frank Rizzieri Interviews Sasha Quarles: In a fun way to mix up the editorial interviews, we asked Frank Rizzieri to gran the MODERN SALON TV mic and interview Sacha Quarles about some of the behind the scene factors of the movie business. We were all backstage at Milly and Kevin Ryan threw in some of his own questions and comments.
Nyree for Phyto at Erickson Beamon: At Erickson Beamon show at Milk Studios, it was "old world" beauty and fashion from head to toe with 1920s-inspired hair, make-up, nails and wardrobe... even the music. It was incredibly entertaining watching the models pose and dance as if at an old school nightclub. We met with hair lead Nyree from Salon AKS for Phyto who used Phyto products and Scunci hair accessories to bring her bobs to life, and also with Faatemah Thomas of MAC, who chatted up her power eye as she put the finishing touches on one of the models.
Guido for Redken at Rag + Bone: Guido used Redken products to bulk up the hair into what he calls sexy, feminine and soft dreadlocks at Rag + Bone. "It's about using the products to create sexy, young hair that resembles gentle dreadlocks," he says.
Peter Gray for Moroccanoil at Badgley Mischka: It was a wild scene backstage in the hair room as Peter Gray created his exciting finishes for the Badgley Mischka Fall/Winter 2012 Collection shown at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. "These are fluffy cloud bombs," he told me as he pulled out the tight curls he created earlier with small curling irons. Click the link above to head backstage AND get the step-by-steps on recreating the look.
Nick Irwin for TIGI at Mara Hoffman: While backstage at Mara Hoffman, lead hair Nick Irwin revealed his inspirations for the hair were drawn from South American cowboy culture. "it's very windswept, sort of cowboys in the desert," he says. The hair was set by wrapping sections around the fingers and heating the spiral with flatirons, creating hold by spraying with TIGI's Your Highness Firm Hold hairspray. Then the hair was brushed and fingers seperated the curls. Strategic pinning creates a triangular effect in the hair for an al around "lightweight, soft feel," Irwin says. "The hats worn in the show can sit on top of the shapes of the hair, and the scarves can easily fit under the chin," he says. Click the link to watch the finale at the show!
Philip Pelusi at Venexiana: The Venexiana show was absolutely fantastic. Seventy looks were debuted in a show that had music pumping from Ben Brunnemer, make-up by Lisa Aharon for Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics, and hair by Jeffrey Reitz for Tela Design Studio by Philip Pelusi. The Fall 2012 looks were a combination of luxe fabrics, bright prints, one-shouldered gowns and crystal-strapped cocktail dresses. Spots of fur were also seen on the runway, alongside sage, rose and metallic reptile-scaled evening looks.
Texture on the Runway: MODERN SALON Media was so proud to have been the media sponsor for TextureMedia's first Fashion Week event, Texture on the Runway, which featured fab runway shows from sponsors Matrix (showing off talent from its dynamic duo of Nick Stenson and Daniel Roldan), who used inspirations from the Victorian era; Minardi Luxury Color Care, featuring the talents of Mark Mileti and Stephen Wang; Arrojo, with lead hair Amanda Jenkins, who showed off the American Wave texturizing service; Hair Rules, which brought out its team lead by Dickey; and Curls Unleashed, which had the crowd cheering in excitement for its texture-infused show.
Brian C. Hawkins for Paul Mitchell and Mirabella at Ivana Helsinki: Brian C. Hawkins was both hair lead, for Paul Mitchell, and make-up lead, for Mirabella, at Ivana Helsinki's show. Wow! Those are two major roles to have in creating the overall look. Click on the link above to get the full story and a how-to!
Wendy Ruiz for CND at Struts Fashion Show: Wendy Ruiz of CND fills us in on the importance of the Shellac manicure at the Struts fashion show during Mercedes Benz Fashion Show.
Ted Gibson for Carmen Marc Valvo: Ted Gibson and his team styled the hair for the Carmen Marc Valvo show, and we were given a fantastic opportunity to interview him backstage. "It's couture meets masculinity," Ted told us shortly before the show began. "I wanted the hair to be very masculine and strong with a deep side part and slicked back look, keeping the hair close to the head." Get the how-to, and watch Ted in action by clicking on the link above.
Orlando Pita for Moroccanoil at Carolina Herrera: Orlando Pita used just one product to create this amazing do for Carolina Herrera's show: Moroccanoil hairspray. In a show that featured an incredible finale, the event's largest, most backcombed hair, attendees were repeatedly wow'd over and over again. Click the link above to watch Orlando in action.
Rodney Cutler for Ulta Beauty at Carlos Miele: The hair was smooth and shiny for the 2012 fall/winter collection by Carlos Miele. MODERN met with Rodney Cutler for the Salon at Ulta Beauty who was finishing up his last model before she hit the catwalk. "The look is quite feminine and effortless," Cutler told us as he put the finishing touches on his last model after getting the word he had just a few minutes left. Click the link for a how-to, finished photos, AND our exclusive interview with the man himself.
Anthony Cole for Sebastian at Alice and Olivia: Putting a fresh, mix-and-match twist on dressing for a dinner party, Sebastian Professional lead stylist Anthony Cole created a swept-back, "romantic with an edge" chignon for the Alice and Olivia Autumn/Winter 2012 collection shown yesterday at New York Fashion Week. It was a beauty festival backstage with a wonderfully organized area for hair, nails and make up, but it was the models' loosely constructed chignons that was creating much of the buzz. "It's a sexy and playful look," Anthony told me. "It offers the best of all worlds.This shape perfectly complements the fashion. And to top it off, this is a fun show to be part of!"
Oribe Team at Patrik Ervell: MODERN had such a wonderful experience interviewing the Oribe Hair Care team backstage at Patrik Ervell. Specifically, our conversation with Donna Gentile, from Salon Coccole in Lake Zurich, Illinois, who told us all about her personal experience at her very first New York Fashion Week. "This is something I have strived to do for a very long time," she says. "The looks were going for are all very soft, shiny and sleek, like the fabrics in the line." Click the link above to hear from Donna all about her experiences.
Jon Reyman for Aveda at Betsey Johnson: The Betsey Johnson show during New York's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is always such a blast. Betsey makes it as fun as possible for everyone who is working the show backstage, and watching the show front of house (think cupcakes, champagne, Twizzlers, confetti, flowers, hand-drawn signs, music, everything bright colored). "This collection is really a celebration of Betsey Johnson in the '60s, so we wanted to highlight the transition from big '60s fun hair to real clean, smooth straight hair that's really healthy and young," Jon Reyman told MODERN as we interviewed him backstage. "We did two looks: one is a center part, flatironed smooth and straight. And the second is a side part wih side ponytail and a three-strand braid that's simple and clean to help complement Betsey's incredible collection." Click the link to watch the exciting finale of the show, and to hear from Jon backstage!
Amit Abraham for L'Oreal Professionnel at Bibhu Mohapatra: Amit Abraham is one of the funniest, most enjoyable people to hang with backstage at Fashion Week. Not only is he incredibly focused and professional, but he is a blast! Backstage at Bibhu Mohapatra, he created hair that resembled 20th Centruy Opera. Amit told us about 'The White Haired Girl', which tells the stories of the trials of Chinese peasant life and enduring spirit of love in colonial China . "All the hair is shiny and healthy...and super long." Amit straightened out that length by taking a clipper to the ends of the long ponytail for a sharp, clean and blunt edge.
Essie at Fashion Week: Neutral cream nails with a semi matte finish were the trend seen at Richard Chai's 2012 Autumn/Winter show at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. To achieve the look from the show, use two coats of essie glamour purse topped off with essie man-e-cure for a subtle matte finish. "This manicure was inspired by the gorgeous wool, cashmere clothing in Richard's collection," says Essie Weingarten. "The matte finish on the nails complimented the textures of the fabric beautifully."
Want to see all the Fashion Week coverage? Um, of course you do! Be sure to check out youtube.com/modernsalon for your "backstage pass" to all the hot shows at Fashion Week. To scope out the finished looks, and see pics of the hair, fashion and nails, be sure to visit Modern Salon's Fashion Week coverage on the site! And, stay tuned to MODERN SALON TV for the full story!


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Blackish Red YT93010M
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Blackish Red YT93010M is a newly-developed magnetic, conductive pearl pigment that has a particle diameter of 10-60µm with a blackish red color in a pigment that is also called a 3D effect, magnetic pearl pigment. The pigment however, does not have magnetic properties. It can be used in automobile and refinished paints, on exterior and interior wall paints as well as gravure, screen and offset inks.
Guangzhou Yortay Fine Chemicals Co. Ltd. is a pearlescent pigment manufacturer with a research and development team that provides service for the different needs of customers. Yortay Chemicals produces high performance pigments for the graphic art and inks industry at home and abroad. Their products are sold to more than 40 countries and they include conventional industrial grade and special effect grade pearlescent pigments.
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The Sincerest Form? Three New Restaurants in the Sticks
So since today is the day the New York Times writes both on the Catskill Slogan Contest (in an awesome and funny piece by Peter Applebome) and Stanley Fish covers the same three new restaurants I did a couple weeks back for The Catskill Mountain News, I thought it time to stick this up on the blog... And to say, I feel in good company....
By Jennifer Kabat
While ad honchos are busy rebranding the Catskills, trying yet again to get away from the Borscht Belt image that they think bedevils the region, the Catskills themselves seem to be doing just fine on their own, at least in our neck of the woods. Long known for food with local farms and farmers' markets like the Round Barn now celebrating its 20th anniversary, in Delaware County this summer local restaurants are springing to life – or back into it.
The week of July 4th alone two new cafes opened. In Bloomville, the corner of Main and River Streets was packed as motorcycles and vintage cars and convertibles lined up. Inside were couples in straw hats and Converse sneakers for the opening of Table On Ten. Bloomville is more known as a crossroads, a place on the way from here to there, where people rarely stop, but they're stopping now.
Charming decor
Inside, tables are bedecked with wildflowers and the rooms restrained with a rustic elegance. Here, the Catskills are almost even returning to their Dutch roots. You're nearly as apt to hear Dutch spoken as English, and staple items include Dutch specialties like spiced brown speculoos cookies. Table On Ten is owned and run by 20-something couple Justus and Inez Valk-Kempthorne. A Dutch former model, she was in New York for work where she met and later married Justus. The two moved fulltime to Bloomville three years ago.
All of that time they've had their eye on the building on the corner. Three years ago they tried to buy it, but it was too expensive. This winter when it was still unsold, they went back to the realtor to see if the owner might lower the price. Soon they had a building, but no business plan, Valk-Kempthorne recalls.
A trained carpenter and cabinetmaker, Justus did all the renovations, and the couple put together a business plan, working with Delhi's economic development center. Now the business isn't reliant simply on serving food but serves as she describes it, "as a beehive" and "a community hub."
The café is devoted to local food, or "as local as you can realistically get," she explains, in the midst of making a milkweed frittata and preparing a catered chicken dinner for a fashion shoot in Bovina over the weekend. Upstairs are studios. Sonia Janiszewski from Farm Catskills has an office there, as well as award-winning poet Anna Moschovakis who recently won the lauded Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Bovina-based, British photo agent Julian Richards.
Woodworking setup
Soon the basement will be Justus Kempthorne's carpentry workshop. A carpenter in the city before he moved up, he practices traditional woodworking from timber framing to cabinetry, skills that show with the work he's done in the café.
The small menu is dedicated to what Valk-Kempthorne calls "simple" food, but that simple includes her Egg In A Nest, aka eggs baked in a biscuit in a ramekin with herbs and cheese. Pillow-y and addictive would be a better way to describe them.
"We want to use what's around you," she says searching for a word for wild edibles and herbs. Soon they'll also fire up the stone oven for sourdough pizza. The café also includes what the couple are calling a microshop, dedicated to the few things they missed most in the city, including exotic Maldon sea salt, hand dried in Essex on the English seaside and praised by many including the queen and Valk-Kempthorne.
"I know it's not local," she laughs, her lilting Dutch accent rising on the words. "I missed it and was bringing it back from the city. On a caramel apple pie, it's perfect." She promises just such a pie will be on the menu come autumn.
Buttercup opens in Andes
In Andes a cat gets credit for the new café Buttercup – and gave it its name. Located in the building that once housed the Slow Down Cafe, the cat hated going back and forth to New York City. He'd hide under the bathtub, his owner Victoria Charkut explains. Add to that her finding two abandoned kittens, and going to the city with four cats was too much. So what to do? She and her husband Peter Mullin went into the restaurant business.
The couple had long had a place in Bovina. He has a background in finance and technology and she in theater, starting when she was 18 on the first run of the "Rocky Horror Picture" show in London. Now, though, as she got to thinking about an upstate business, she and Mullin turned their sights on the old Slow Down. She jokes that because they'd kept to themselves so much up here, they opened Buttercup just to have a social life.
Knew where to look
"And, for a chef," she laughs, "we turned to Craig's List."
That chef, Chris McGee, however, is no laughing matter. He comes with a resume that includes some of New York City's best restaurants. He helped open Jean-Georges Vongerichten's 66 and Danny Meyer's Blue Smoke and worked at the hip retro-bistro Pastis.
From Kansas City, McGee is also obsessed with barbecue, and to that end had a food truck, that introduced Kansas-City-style smoked delicacies to Brooklynites. This fall he decided to simplify his life and moved to the Catskills. Asked why, the answer to him is obvious. The food.
He bounds around the kitchen ebullient and talks about how cooking here is perfect.
"It's a no brainer," he says. "It's the same clientele I was cooking for in the city without the hassle and a better product."
To that end he can wax rhapsodic about the eggs that are delivered by a neighbor and goat cheese from Davenport.
Simple cooking
"I wanted to lose any kind of pretension," he explains, "and cook the way I eat at home." If that's true and a taste of his buttery pate is any hint, he eats well and cooks even better.
Joining the other restaurants this weekend will be the launch of Two Old Tarts in Bovina. Before relocating to LA for work, the Tarts had long lines at their stall at the Round Barn as dedicated fans queued up for the croissants and, of course, tarts. Now the two Tarts, couple John Schulman and Scott Finley, are taking over the building that once housed the bakery/café Heaven and before that a restaurant.
Jokes are free
Maybe the Catskills are still the Borscht Belt, only now the borscht is being made with heirloom beets and yogurt and goats cheese from local pastured cows and goats. And, given the sense of humor Charkut and Chris McGee have and that you can find in the name Two Old Tarts, you might not get stand up with your salad but probably a joke or two.


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Gate Time Change? Please?
Recently, PNC Park held a training sessions for all of their employees. All employees are required to attend this training to make sure that they are aware of the facility's rules and regulations. I was there this weekend.
Since I don't work there, I waited outside.
Most of the information that my source told me was presented to the staff was stuff that I already knew. The session is more of a review for current staff and is more helpful for new employees of the park. However, you can't work without completing your 'Grand Slam' training.
There isn't much new to report. For you fitness enthusiasts, you can now ride your bike to the park and take your helmet in with you. Motorcycle helmets are not allowed. Also, you fans can bring in as much water as they please as long as its sealed and fits into a 16x16x8 container.
I was hoping to get some new information about a possible adjustment to the gate times. Fellow ballhawk Zac Weiss wrote a formal letter to the head of operations of PNC Park in September that several ballhawks and season ticket holders signed which asked the Pirates to consider opening the Center Field Gate at 4:30 rather than 5 PM. This would allow the fans to actually watch the Pirates take batting practice and enjoy watching their home team shag fly balls, hit homeruns, etc.
Typically, the Pirates portion of batting practice ends at around 5:03 PM. There has been much documentation about this on my blog, Nick Pelescak's blog and Zac's blog. If you kept up with us throughout the 2011 season, you saw us a lot of the time complaining about the early end time for batting practice.
Early entrance to PNC Park is a perk. It's the ultimate perk for me. Without it, I can definitely say that I would not be a season ticket holder. Season Ticket holders should be rewarded and treated great to keep them returning year after year. I admit, we are treated well in Pittsburgh, but I think that this one minor tweak would make PNC Park's season ticket benefits the best in the country.
There are many other stadiums that open early for season ticket holders such as Cincinnati, Baltimore, New York Mets, San Diego, Detroit, Texas, etc. There are some stadiums such as Cleveland, Washington and Atlanta that open at 4:30 to all fans.
The Pirates definitely have room for improvement in terms of season ticket sales. They are making some strides, but this simple perk would accelerate that process.
From the Pirates perspective, they may not want to open at 4:30 because they would have to pay staff an extra half hour of pay each day. Really though, they'd only need to pay one or two security guards to stand in left field, the ticket scanner, and the ticket supervisor the extra money.
If they wanted to, they could even have a season ticket holder only gate that opens at 4:30. They would just need to open the Stargell statue or left field gate to season ticket holders. Only season ticket holders with cards could have their tickets scanned to let them into left field. Currently, we have our tickets scanned twice. The first scan is to get into the stadium, and then another scan by the bullpen to let us into left field. By creating a season ticket holder only gate, it would eliminate the need for that extra security guard to stand by the bullpen for a half hour.
Anyhow, Zac Weiss informed me through his contacts that the topic of opening the gates earlier for season ticket holders was being discussed at a meeting this month.
By the way, to finish off this entry, I'd like to share Zac's letter to the Pittsburgh Pirates that got the discussion started on whether or not to open the gates at 4:30:
From the desk of Zachary M. Weiss
August 18, 2011
Dear Pittsburgh Pirates organization:
I write to you today to make a very simple request, please fix PNC Park. You brag about being the 'best ballpark in America' but in order to achieve this status you need to treat those fans that have been loyal for all of these years with some more respect; the season ticket holders.
There is a reason why us season ticket holders pay for our tickets, some of which are quite expensive and that is to watch the team, however, we also love meeting the players and getting to know them. Every weekday, the gates open at precisely 5 O'clock and this is a problem. By the time us season ticket holders get into left field to watch the team hit, they are off the players. We are lucky to even see our team hit for three minutes, and it is a shame.
It is my belief that opening the gates at 4:30 on weekdays and Saturday games is very reasonable. It would allow for season ticket holders to experience an almost entire batting practice. This allows for people such as myself to try and catch baseballs, others to get that elusive autograph and for children to meet role models and perhaps even heroes. Us season ticket holders are a family, and these 81 home games are all we have together because of various things going on in our lives…
In the end, we all want the Pirates to succeed; we are all season ticket holders and furthermore fans of the team. We all just want our experiences to be more enjoyable each game and to make new memories that we can tell our co-workers, friends and families about. The more word spreads, the more excitement will build over the Pirates and even more business for the team. Think about it, the choice is yours.
Sincerely, Zachary Weiss
72 more days until opening day…


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Implementation of the Electrical Equipment Safety System
The EESS commenced In Queensland on 1 March 2013 with a 12 month transition period. Tasmania and Western Australia have recognised the EESS. Australian jurisdictions are currently progressing or considering their implementation of the EESS and all jurisdictions are participating in an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) process. New Zealand will have complementary legislation in due course.
During this IGA process the legislation of jurisdictions, other than those mentioned above, remains unaltered; funding from EESS registration fees are being retained in a trust fund; and the current check testing and compliance activity supporting the EESS is being sourced from within jurisdictional resources.
Due to the ongoing transition the EESS requirements for after 1 March 2014 have been reviewed.
The ERAC Equipment Certification System
ERAC has created a central portal for identifying all certificates of electrical equipment issued under electrical safety laws in Australia.
To verify your product has a Certificate, click here for the public search of certificates.
Uniform Electrician Licensing Across Australia
In 2001, the National Uniform Electrical Licensing Advisory Council (NUELAC) released the following uniform set of requirements for licensed electricians.
Electrical Equipment Safety Recall Guide
When faults or safety concerns arise with equipment already on the market, a recall may be needed. This can be in the form of a mandatory recall or voluntary recall.
Provided to assist traders in the conduct of the recall is the Electrical Equipment Safety Recall Guide
Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) and Labelling Program, Australia
Certain electrical products in Australia must be labelled with their energy efficiency rating and/or meet minimum energy efficiency standards before sale.
For more information visit energyrating.gov.au
Accident Statistics
Electrical safety regulators collect and analyse electrical fatality data to assist our work towards improving electrical safety in Australia and New Zealand.


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Popovich wins Coach of the Year
Some coaches would try to brush off the disappointment of letting a title slip through their fingers and refuse to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
Gregg Popovich took it head on, embraced the heartache, and in a career full of masterful coaching performances, delivered perhaps his finest effort in season No. 18.
"The way we lost in the finals wasn't an ordinary loss, it was pretty devastating," Popovich said on Tuesday after being named NBA coach of the year. "We decided that we needed to just face that right off the bat at the beginning of the season and get it out of the way. Don't blame it on the basketball gods or bad fortune or anything like that, the Miami Heat beat us and won the championship and that's that."
Popovich joined Don Nelson and Pat Riley as the only coaches in league history to take home the Red Auerbach trophy three times in their career.
"They're on the hood of my car," Popovich cracked. "One, two, three, right on the car, the way players do license plates. ... I've got three of those right on the hood."
He's never liked the attention, never bought into the proclamations of his genius. When the accolades come his way, Popovich is quick to deflect them, giving the credit to his players, his assistant coaches, owner Peter Holt and general manager R.C. Buford. The humility in his voice on Tuesday was genuine, the challenge of putting the pieces back together after last season's finish as daunting as ever.
They showed up to training camp still stinging from that defeat, and Popovich had to get to know a new-look coaching staff after losing longtime assistants Brett Brown and Mike Budenholzer to head coaching jobs in Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Then he led the Spurs to a league-best 62-20 record, which gives them home-court advantage throughout the playoffs. And he did it while deftly navigating a season filled with nagging injuries to several key players. Tim Duncan was the only starter to play in at least 70 games. No Spur averaged 30 minutes per game and Tony Parker led the team with a modest 16.7 points per game.
Despite all of that, the Spurs won at least 50 games for the 15th straight season and topped 60 for the fourth time in that span.
"Day after day, year after year, the energy that Pop provides our organization is truly unique," Buford said.
The Spurs lead the Dallas Mavericks 1-0 in their best-of-seven series, with Game 2 on Wednesday night in San Antonio.
"He's a gentleman," Spurs swingman Marco Belinelli said. "Everybody knows that he's the best coach in the league. So to say that is not really important. But maybe some people, they don't know he's really a great guy, a great gentleman. He really helps guys, helps each other. He wants to help everybody. Great person."
When Miami topped San Antonio in that classic seven-game series, Popovich's reaction resonated deeply within some members of the Heat organization.
Instead of showing his disappointment at the final buzzer, Popovich lingered on the court for a few minutes, sharing heartfelt embraces and words with Erik Spoelstra, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, among others - even smiling as he chatted with them and congratulated them on winning the title. And when told of Popovich's award Tuesday, James offered high praise to the Spurs' coach.
"Not surprised," James said. "It's well-awarded. I have the utmost respect for Gregg Popovich, man. Not only what he's been able to do for that team, but him just being able to always keep those guys motivated and always keep their best interests. ... From the outside looking in, it seems that he has their best interests and all he cares about is the team's success and nothing else matters. That's big-time."
Behind all his press conference bluster and the orneriness he directs toward the officials, there is a softer side that endears Popovich to those around him. That much was revealed during Game 1 against the Mavericks when he was interviewed by Craig Sager Jr., who was filling in for his father, a longtime sideline reporter who is being treated for leukemia. Popovich's curt demeanor and one-word answers to the elder Sager's questions have become appointment viewing, but this time the coach stopped in the middle of tense game, stared right into the camera and delivered a heart-felt message.
"We miss you. You've been an important part of all of us for a long time, doing a great job," he said. "We want your fanny back on the court, and I promise I'll be nice."
Popovich garnered 59 first-place votes and 380 total points in voting conducted by a panel of media members. Phoenix's Jeff Hornacek (37 first-place votes) finished second and Chicago's Tom Thibodeau (12) finished third in the voting, with Charlotte's Steve Clifford and Toronto's Dwane Casey rounding out the top five in a season so strong that Spoelstra did not make the top 10.
AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami contributed to this report.
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I don't know, I just woke up with this crappy headache. I'm going to start each blog post in the middle of a conversation, I hope you don't mind. So I imagine that we've been chatting for a few minutes now and you finally just blurt out, is something wrong or do you hate me? And then I say, etc. Bad headache. As if any headache can be good? I guess the headache that tells you you're alive. Like, you wake up in the hospital, filled with tubes, and your head is pounding, and you're all, I can feel my head! Jubilee! You use "jubilee" as an exclamation, did I mention? If you didn't before, now you do. Come on, try it. It will make you happy! Jubilee!
I have the kind of headache that screams you need coffee, friend, but I've now enjoyed far more coffee than a hothouse flower such as myself should ever enjoy, so I'm trembling and my head is still pounding. I don't know, I don't even know why I'm mentioning the headache. It's probably allergies. That's my mom's answer to everything. Did I ever tell you about the time I developed severe vertigo? One day I was in my apartment, sorting through the mail—I think this was, oh, six years ago—and WHAM the entire room tipped over, and BOOM I was on the ground, and FLIMFLAMAROO I was then okay but wondering if rooms are supposed to tip over like that. Then it started happening every twenty minutes or so, this normal normal normal BAM normal vertigo attack, and it was no good at all. My doctor sent me to another doctor who screamed ANEURYSM! EMERGENCY! And Scott and I were screaming and crying all the way to the emergency room, but of course it wasn't that, and then the neurologist said MS! YOU HAVE MS! And we wept and rent our garments, but nope, it wasn't that, and all along my mom is calling me and insisting, allergies, I know it's allergies, in her Long Island-by-way-of-Astoria accent, ALL-UH-GIES, and OH it made me mad. Allergies, she says, when I am clearly nearing death! Then the weeks passed and the vertigo went away and I stopped thinking about it until exactly one year later, when it hit me again. At the beginning of autumn. And I went for more tests. Final diagnosis: allergies. Damn it all to hell.
I was going to write about something else, but I am both sped up and foggy, kind of like I imagine Izzy is, all the time. What's this? Whatever it is, I will kill it. And—POUNCE! Oh, my poor dog. I will write more about cat/dog relations some other time, so you non-pet-loving people can skip over that entire post. But my poor dog is not happy with this kitten. I am betting on her calming down with age, but for all I know she will just gather more strength and more energy until she is able to tear him apart with the force of her mind. I always wanted a telekinetic cat, sure, who doesn't? but not at this price, dear God, no.
Hey, it's our eighth wedding anniversary today! Which makes it especially wonderful that I woke up growling my goddamn head is killing me can you quit it with the goddamn whistling? He would marry me all over again, if he had the chance. Seriously, though, if you're not married but want to know what to look for in a spouse, I will lend you Scott for a day or two. All right, that's creepy, so I'll just tell you why he's excellent marriage material. First of all, he wakes up with Henry, allowing me extra sleeping-in time. I'm almost embarrassed to add that he brings a cup of coffee to me each morning, too, but there, I just did. And on the weekends, he makes pancakes, baby, and the pancakes are delicious. So the whole morning-routine thing alone makes Scott a man worth marrying. And he's scarily funny. This weekend alone, at several different times, he had me laughing so hard I got a little frightened that I might not be able to stop. Ah, that heady combination of giddiness and terror—you can't beat that. So marry Scott today! Oops, too late. Hands off, ladies. You too, men.


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Why The Theory Of 'Tarnishment' Doesn't Make Sense For Trademark Law
from the nope deptWe've pointed out many times in the past that trademark law really doesn't belong under the same heading as patents and copyrights, even though they're frequently lumped together as "intellectual property." Patents and copyright are from the same clause in the Constitution and, we're told, are supposed to be about "promot[ing] the progress of science and the useful arts." The origin of trademark law, however, comes out of the commerce clause, and was initially designed to be a consumer protection vehicle, to protect consumers from confusion: you wouldn't want to buy Bob's Crappy Cola thinking that it's really Coca Cola. Over the years, however, some lawyers have worked hard to turn trademark from a purely consumer protection play, into something more akin to copyright and patents, granting trademark holders greater and greater rights to limit what others can do. These are more recent variations on trademark law, and unfortunately some of them have snuck their way into the law. That's why you see things like discussion about "dilution" or "tarnishment."
The theories behind such efforts have always seemed quite questionable and, as with these kinds of laws, the effort to put them into the law (and to expand them) are almost always anecdotal, rather than empirical. So you hear plenty of talk about how even if there isn't any consumer confusion, a brand could be "harmed" by dilution or tarnishment. For example, just recently, we had a discussion about Ben & Jerry's ice cream suing a porn company, for creating porn movies that used covers that looked similar to Ben & Jerry's packaging. We noted a complete lack of likelihood of customer confusion, but, as many of our commenters pointed out, the theory in the lawsuit was more focused on tarnishment.
However, for the life of me, I can't see how a brand is "tarnished" if there's no consumer confusion. The two seem intimately linked. If someone knows that it's just some porn company -- and not Ben & Jerry's itself -- making those movies, how would it ever actually harm Ben & Jerry's? No one seems to be able to explain that part.
And, now there's some empirical evidence to suggest that the theory of tarnishment isn't particularly well supported in the real world. The study is one that we already wrote about, Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter the Public Domain?: Empirical Tests of Copyright Term Extension by Christopher Buccafusco and Paul Heald -- though we focused on the main argument in that paper, that the public domain does not harm works. However, in proving that point, Buccafusco and Heald actually dabble a bit into the question of tarnishment as it pertains to trademarks. That's because they explore whether or not tarnishment is an issue with works in the public domain, and come up with a situation that has close parallels to the trademark realm. And, as I expected, the tarnishment argument has little support. As you may recall, the study looked at audiobooks for works both in the public domain and out of it. But they also compared professional recordings to amateur ones (from Librivox) and looked at how people judged the quality -- but also how that impacted the perceived value of the underlying works. The results are quite informative:
outside of the realm of copyright law, our study might provide support for those who applaud the judiciary's continuing reluctance to vigorously implement the Federal Trademark Anti-Dilution Act. The tarnishment prong of dilution doctrine asserts that a trademark loses some of its intrinsic value when consumers encounter the mark used in an inappropriate context, such as when the mark is placed on goods of inferior quality. Our data show that listeners to Librivox recordings find the readers to be inferior but do not translate that sentiment to a significantly lower valuation of the associated work. Finally, the doctrine of post-sale confusion in trademark law rests on the assumption that a trademark owner is harmed when a bystander merely observes a trademark on an inferior product (imagine someone who sees a poor quality Chicago Bears sweat shirt without knowing that it's a knock off). Our data may suggest that the assumption of such a harm is unrealistic.This seems rather important, and raises significant questions about why we still allow dilution and tarnishment claims under trademark law, when the data continues to suggest little support for the anecdotal reasons behind them. Perhaps it's time to revisit these theories and bring trademark law back in line with its intended purpose: as a consumer protection statute, and not as a tool for brands to shut down things they don't like.
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During today's episode of the Hinderaker-Ward experience, Brian Ward made a great point about Joe Biden's debate performance. Biden, said Brian, was behaving like a Democrat. Not all Democrats, of course, but certainly a great many of those one encounters on the internet. Like Biden, they are rude, eager to prevent the other side from talking, and prone to attack arguments they don't like with bad behavior rather than reasoning.
What would happen if two such Bidenesque Democrats debated? It probably would look something like this clash between Democratic Congressmen Howard Berman and Brad Sherman, who are running for the same seat:


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Author Notes: This is a dish my father made for every bbq while I was growing up. I was so fond of it that I remember asking him to make it for my birthday when I was 12 (my birthday is in December, not exactly asparagus season). This recipe is great because it's fresh, versatile and just the right flavors for warm weather parties and easy dinners. I just made this for a babyshower and it was a hit! It can be served warm as a main course or as a side to whatever else you cook up- just remember to add extra lemon right before serving to keep it zingy! —enbe
Serves: 4 as a main dish, as many as you want as a side
pound dried farfalle
bunches asparagus, tough ends trimmed
cups fresh or frozen peas
teaspoons lemon zest
cup finely grated parmesan
juice of 1-2 lemons
tablespoons olive oil
kosher salt & freshly ground black pepper
- Start a pot of well salted water and cook the pasta al dente.
- While you're waiting for the pasta, wash and trim the asparagus. Snap off the inedible bottoms and cut stalks into one inch chunks. Steam the asparagus until bright green and crisp. If it starts turning brown and limp, you're starting to overcook it. It won't take long. While you're at it, cook the peas.
- In the bottom of a large bowl, combine olive oil, parmesan (save a little to sprinkle on top), lemon zest, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, a big pinch of salt and a heavy sprinkling of pepper. Stir. Drain the pasta well and toss it, the asparagus, and the peas in a bowl coating well with the dressing. Do this while all of the ingredients are warm so the pasta absorbs some of the lemony flavor. Take a little taste and add more lemon juice or pepper to your liking. Some like it with more lemon, some with more pepper. Serve with a sprinkling of parmesan and enjoy! Note: if you're making this a bit in advance of serving, make sure to add more lemon later as it dissipates over time.
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Bitcoin — and the fall of Mt. Gox in particular — is the story that no one can stop talking or tweeting about.
That\'s with good reason, after the Mt. Gox website went blank late Monday, amid rumors of insolvency. There\'s also talk of a theft of more than 700,000 bitcoins from the Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange, which halted withdrawals earlier this month. Some raised flags of suspicion after noticing that all tweets had disappeared from Mt. Gox\'s Twitter account.
Now Coindesk and others are tweeting out something unusual in the source code for the site — a hidden note in the HTML saying the following: <!– put announce for mtgox acq here –>
On social media, speculation was rife that this line of code meant the company was indeed gearing up for a sale. Bitcoin-focused publication Coindesk reported that a document — \"Crisis Strategy Draft\" — has surfaced, with items saying the bitcoin exchange will close for a month as part of a re-branding plan, and that Mark Karpeles –who just resigned from the Bitcoin Foundation board — will leave his post as chief executive. MarketWatch has approached Mt. Gox to confirm the plan but hasn\'t heard back.
Jeremy Bonney, product manager at Coindesk, said in an email that it didn\'t make much sense for Mt. Gox to put that source code in again, but many decisions the company has made in the last year \"in retrospect seem very irresponsible.\"
\"I can\'t speculate as to who would buy Mt. Gox, but if someone does, they are certainly going to have a tough time turning around its fortunes. Mt. Gox has been dying a slow death for a long time now, but it\'s getting closer and closer to the grave.\"
The price of a bitcoin has been volatile on the Coindesk index, dropping to as low as $418.76 and currently down 7.2% at $505.87. Over on Fiatleak, which shows the world\'s currencies moving into bitcoin in real time, it seems bitcoins are flowing like a river into China.
For investors at Mt. Gox, news of a buyer for the exchange would be better than a continued blank website.
Over at Reddit, there were plenty of battle scars and tales of woe at the \'Gox horror story thread: How much did you lose?\' One user of the social platform, calling himself goxloser posted this several hours ago: \"I am the biggest loser at 4700+BTC, offering up a screenshot of his account a few days ago. \"I don\'t know how dying feels, but I\'m pretty sure that\'s how I feel now,\" goxloser said to responses estimating he lost over $2 million worth of bitcoin. (MarketWatch can\'t verify the stories or identities of the Reddit users.)
Another Reddit user with the handle ebass, said that \"144 BTC and 100 were entrusted to me by a friend because he wanted to get into cryptocurrency. I haven\'t told him what happened just now though he has been updated all this while. I don\'t know how to.\"
User mtreme reportedly invested his life savings — $357,000 — in bitcoin via Mt. Gox, to try and build for his son\'s education fund, he said, while another also spoke of losing college-tuition money. And lots of others talked about desperate and futile attempts to get their bitcoins out when they started realizing something might be wrong, garnering sympathy, but also plenty of \"What were you thinking,\" type comments from the Reddit crowd.
— Barbara Kollmeyer writes for MarketWatch. Follow her @bkollmeyer
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Who says breakfast has to be eaten in the a.m. only? Especially today -- Tuesday, February 5, otherwise known as National Pancake Day -- it's an all-day affair. Or should I say all-night? Because for the eighth year in a row, IHOP is serving free plates of pancakes to all diners tonight between the hours of 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Come 'n' get 'em piping hot! Nom nom nom.
And as if the offer couldn't get any tastier, it's for a sweet, philanthropic cause ...
Tonight's free pancake event is clearly designed to draw customers into the chain's 1,500+ locations to spend some dinero on other dishes ... Because, come on, what's a stack of pancakes without some sausage, bacon, eggs, etc.? But the goal is also to get people to donate money to the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals "and other unspecified local charities" for the pediatric cancer center's 30th birthday. One hundred percent of the donations will help local charities provide vital equipment, life-saving procedures, and critical care for sick and injured children.
So, in other words, these free pancakes have a lot of heart, people. In fact, IHOP has their fingers crossed that getting people in to chow down on the freebie stacks will help them raise a total of at least $3 million for sick kids (which would bring their impressive grand total of funds for charity to $13 million since they started this tradition eight years ago). We hope so too!
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Previously two of the best US professional road cyclists and TdF winners - now locked in mortal combat on the Internet, TV, in print, within the Forums and on blogs like this one. Both cheated and lied - but only one will emerge victorious, having told the Truth, and not just his version of it. With so much at stake:
What is the difference between Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong?
One said "It's not about the bike".
The other said, "Where the hell are all the bikes??"
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DES MOINES, Wash. -- Apollo Williams and his mother Barbara Miller call the mess piled up in their living room a "Christmas miracle."
KOMO News introduced you to Apollo earlier this month. The 11-year-old has autism, and his mother told us he has trouble making friends. Only one kid came to Apollo's birthday party this year. So with Christmas approaching she asked anyone willing to send a Christmas card to her son, to show him he has friends.
Santa delivered.
Since our story aired, cards have been flooding in and piling up, carrying messages of love and support for Apollo.
Thousands of cards have arrived from all over the world – across Asia and Europe all the way to Canada. They received a sheriff's badge from Missouri and a giant bear from students in Texas.
"I'm probably going to be in the Guinness book of world records," Apollo exclaimed looking at the pile. "Look how many cards I have!"
"That made me feel so good as a parent," Miller said. "That people still have a good heart. That people are still willing to do something as simple as write a card to make sure somebody has a holiday experience that they never have."
It's a lesson Miller found buried in her new living room mess. That the best gifts don't just come from Santa; they're delivered from the heart.
"He definitely has a lot of people thinking about him," Miller said. "And he knows he's not alone."


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MADONNA says it best on the opening track of her twelfth album: "No one can put out my fire." At 53, she's still got it going on.
And thankfully so.
Her newest release, MDNA - her first apart from her longtime label, Warner Bros - is full of upbeat dance jams and simmering slow grooves, and it delivers for the most part. True, it's not nearly as top-notch as past records from the pop icon; the songs on MDNA, despite some risque language, are much safer and tread familiar ground. Still, there are some standouts.
Girl Gone Wild, produced by Benny and Alle Benassi (Chris Brown's Beautiful People), starts things off nicely with its European flavour and addictive hook.
Then there's I Don't Give A, the second track on the album to feature Nicki Minaj, and the better one (first single Give Me All Your Luvin' sounds like a Gwen Stefani demo circa 2004, and that's not a compliment).
The album's best song is Love Spent, with its Bollywood beat. It finds Madonna calling out a lover with lyrics like: "You had all of me, you wanted more, would you have married me if I were poor?" It's worth noting that the album is Madonna's first collection of new songs since she divorced director Guy Ritchie in 2008. Bitter much?
The dance sound dominates most of the 12-track set, but Madonna sometimes trips over on her own disco ball.
Gang Bang is a complete mess, I'm Addicted sounds overproduced and I'm a Sinner is mediocre.
She shines brightest when she brings down the pace. Falling Free is soothing, the Golden Globe-winning Masterpiece from her film W.E. is soft and classic, and I (Expletive) Up sounds like a raw and honest apology to an ex (perhaps another ode to Ritchie).
On MDNA, Madonna has a wide array of helpers: Singer Priscilla Renea, who has written for Rihanna and Selena Gomez, co-wrote two tracks; Alain Whyte, the main songwriting partner to Morrissey, co-wrote a song; and Klas Ahlund, the producer behind Swedish dance singer Robyn, co-produced a tune. The CD also has assists from producer Jean-Baptiste (Chris Brown, Black Eyed Peas, Kelis); British singer-songwriter Mika; and French DJ-producer Martin Solveig. Then there's usual suspect William Orbit, who produced Madonna's Ray of Light.
It's a bit of a mash-up, and may be the reason why MDNA is good, but not great.
CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: Both Minaj and Madonna bring the swagger on the enjoyable I Don't Give A


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August 2, 2012
The temperature has probably never been officially recorded for the IAWM Mitchum Crock Golf Tournament, but the 2012 outing had to be one of the hottest ever. Temperatures soared into triple digits at Plum Creek Golf Club in Carmel as approximately 110 golfers participated in the annual event.
After a long round of golf in the intense heat, the Barnes and Thornburg team of Bob Grand '78, Paul Jefferson '92, Brian Burdick '91, and David Pryzbylski '05 emerged as winners of the Crock (low net). Seems only fitting as Barnes and Thornburg was on board this year as the title sponsor of the event. Finishing in second place was the PT Buntin '65 foursome who also finished in first place for low gross with a 15 under par score.
Following golf and dinner President Pat White made a few brief remarks before giving way to Athletic Director Joe Haklin '73 and Jim Kerr '92 who introduced honorary alumnus and emeritus cross country and track coach Rob Johnson H'77. The IAWM honored the long time coach and mentor for his everlasting commitment to the Wabash athletic department and the men he coached.
In addition to the title sponsor Barnes and Thornburg, this year's outing included a beverage cart sponsorship from Triton Brewery (David Waldman '93) featuring their popular selections, and a food cart sponsorship from Bose McKinney & Evans(Steve Badger '87). Many thanks to these people and to all the other major sponsors and hole sponsors for supporting the Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men.
Thanks also to the members of the Mitchum Crock committee for organizing and executing another successful outing.
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
In development is a new CONCEPT for Nor-Cal RIDERS.
The "idea" is to DEVELOP kiteboarding in a caring and productive manner.
Every ship needs a rudder, for thrust alone leaves the ship UN-MANAGEABLE..
OUR SPORT is GROWING, yet we have little direction.. Pressure on our launches will eventually hit a tipping point, some of you already see this coming, for others the time has come..
A MAJOR COMPONENT of the proposed KITEPARK is to get us to WORK TOGETHER to help steer the ship.. Therefore- RIDE ALONG RULES will be IMPOSED on TEAM MEMBERS (Riders) of the KitePark in design phase at Shermin Island.. NO ONE wants to be ruled- but the fact is without adherance to the GUIDELINES, more riders will get SCHOOLED!!
We ALL hate to show up to find our FRIENDS broken up, tossed on the ROCKS OF DISPARE!!!!!! For this REASON- I HAVE proposed the Nor-Cal KitePark...
Personally- I don't plan on using this equipment much- but others probably will.. The most HARD-CORE among US will find this equipment VERY ATTRACTIVE.. MY GOAL is SAFTY , there goal is pulling off the impossable and getting EXPOSURE for their ACCOMPLISHMENTS.. I believe, WE CAN ACHIEVE BOTH... The idea is to use ATTRACTION rather then PROMOTION to achieve SAFTY..
How it works: When the playground is moved AWAY from the launch ZONES.. When the ACTION is happening somewhere OTHER then in FRONT of the L.Z., the PRESSURE will be drawn AWAY from the L.Z... Additionally the BEST RIDERS (the TEAM Riders) will HAVE to use basic safety equipment to be able to use the new equipment.. Lets FACE IT, when a guy like Ruben Len-10 show's up no-body PREACHING SAFTY can get his attention- he just goes and goes and goes, this has a profound effect on the whole scene.. The kids want to be JUST LIKE HIM- I don't blame them either because a guy like that is the CENTER OF ATTENTION!!!!!! Who wouldn't want to kite like GOD..
Well my plan "might" allow us to all to be happy- while allowing the best among us to get MAJOR EXPOSURE- instead of subjecting EVERYONE to major STRESS...
I ask you ALL to JOIN ME; SUPPORT the Riders, Support the KitePark, SUPPORT KITEBOARDING'S FUTURE, Support YOUR SELF INTEREST- THE PARK (Shermin Island).. We have one of the 7 natural wonders of the world (for kiters).. Lets make that a WONDERLAND, where everyone is STOKED to come and PLAY.... Please stay tuned to the developing idea's I'm proposing- LET'S WORK together for the GREATEST GOOD OF ALL....
Soon I will be pitching this idea to the local Kite Community- with THEIR APPROVAL, I will then pitch the idea to the governing bodies of the area.. Without backing, this concept is JUST AN IDEA, but I believe it's an idea who's TIME HAS COME!!! I WILL NOT FORCE MY IDEA'S ON THE COMMUNITY, instead- I will WORK VERY HARD TO WIN YOUR APPROVAL!!
This is about POSITIVE PEER PRESSURE! I do NOT want to draw negative attention to Northern Califorina's FINEST FLAT-WATER PLAYGROUND.. I will ASK YOU ALL to chime in and give feedback.. This discussion will be BATHED IN SUNSHINE!! (meaning very public discussion), for it MUST be community APPROVED FIRST!!
Don't fall down on the job- OUR FUTURE depends on OUR involvement. TELL YOUR FRIENDS, tell your side of the story.. GET INVOLVED!!


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SplashShopper is a shopping list application for BlackBerry that is perfect for keeping lists of groceries to buy, movies to rent, CDs to buy, books to read and more! You can create an unlimited number of lists, and each list can be customized to record and display only the information that is relevant. And data can be easily synchronized between SplashShopper on your BlackBerry and SplashShopper on the desktop (Windows only).
SplashShopper on the BlackBerry and SplashShopper Desktop are virtually identical. This user guide focuses on the features in SplashShopper on the BlackBerry. You may prefer to do most of your data entry in SplashShopper Desktop, however, since it's faster and easier with a keyboard, and then synchronize the data with your BlackBerry.
Launch the SplashShopper Installer and follow the on screen instructions. You will be required to connect your BlackBerry to complete the installation. The installer installs the following files:
Launch SplashShopper
After the application is installed on the BlackBerry, go to Applications and select the SplashShopper application icon to run.
Quick Start
Following is a quick overview of how SplashShopper can be used as a tool for grocery shopping:
That concludes the Quick Start. Read on to learn more about the individual features of SplashShopper.
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You may print your shopping lists from the desktop by selecting Print from the File Menu. SplashShopper will print whatever is displayed on screen. You may wish to customize the print format by hiding or showing columns or adjusting their width.
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It is easy to create the above format in Excel by creating a spreadsheet with 13 columns (as described above) with one record per row. Then save the file in CSV format.
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My father eventually rose to First Class Clerk and by 1948 was promoted to Trustee in Bankruptcy. I remember that as long as I knew him his hair was perfectly white. My mother said it had been like this from his youth, though it does not look quite like that in their wedding picture. This is a copy of the photograph which appeared in The Gleaner when they were married on April 27, 1926 at the Kingston Parish Church.
My Dad was the most easy-going guy I ever knew. Although he had been brought up Catholic and had gone to a Catholic school, he went along with my mother who was adamant about remaining Anglican (and high-church Anglican at that) and so they were married in the Kingston Parish Church, after being engaged for seven years, as my mother told me ... but that's another story.


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The only saving grace is the CGI of this movie. The story had potential, the story take on a wired overcomplicated turn and simply loses the audience. It's a fun ride if you are into B movies style stories. Ultimately forgettable.
This was a very disturbing movie in many ways. Love conquers all. Who was really real anyways? We had to watch it several times because the story jumps around a lot. There were too many gaps in the story line.
Annihilation of your money!
This has to be the worst of the worst b films ever.
It's not war of the worlds.
It's just stupid.
Terrible movie
It's a waste of time
I dont normally take time to write reviews but had to comment after seeing several people rate this as "the worst movie ever."
This was a thought provoking, beautiful movie with one of the most terrifyingly tense scenes (involving a bear) I have witnessed in a while.
The film is not perfect, but most of my beefs with the choices made by the writer and director of the film, Alex Garland, on the first viewing, made more sense on the second viewing.
This is a science fiction, psychological horror film. If you have seen all 8 Fast n Furious movies and can hardly wait for 9 & 10, you may not like this film. Saying it is the worst movie ever made is ridiculous.
Don't waste your money ! ! ! Drags for the first 30 minutes and goes downhill thereafter. Imagine a woman being dragged into the water by a giant alligator, flipped back and forth a few times only to escape without a scratch. . . . and the gator has a monstrous mouth and giant teeth. . . and not a scratch afterwards. . . I did the only reasonable thing. . . I walked out ! ! !
Brilliant, works on so many levels. The most psychedelic film I've seen. The whole movie appears to be a metaphor for a heavy mushroom or acid trip.
To say this is the worst movie ever is an insult to the worst movies ever. It's better than that but definitely not by much.
The casting is terrible. Not one single actor is believable or even interesting. Nothing is created to keep your attention with any of their acting abilities or their character development.
The story, though alien based and therefore a certain level of "Suspension of Disbelief" is required, is just terrible. A five women team of "experts", all with obvious psychological issues (established immediately through open discussion about those issues...Literally 5 minutes of them becoming a team!) would NEVER have been selected to investigate this ridiculous situation. It makes you shake your head dozens of times as they make their way through to the conclusion.
Nothing makes you feel for the characters in anyway.
You will regret watching this movie the moment it ends and forget about it completely two days later.
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Aleksandra Milosevic is a graduate student in Speech Pathology at CSUN and one of four recipients of the EBS (Educational Based Services) Healthcare Scholarship. A community partner with CSUN, EBS is the largest provider of specialized health care services to the pediatric population. Aleksandra always wanted to work with children, and more recently realized speech pathology was the way she could help the most, so when she found out about the EBS Scholarship, with two years employment as part of the contract, she applied quickly. We spent five minutes with Aleksandra to learn more about her experience at CSUN and how the EBS scholarship is helping shape her future. She plans to graduate with her Master's Degree this spring.
Q: What was your undergraduate major?
A: I received a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Disorders and Sciences with an emphasis in Speech Pathology here at CSUN.
Q: How did you find out about EBS scholarship program and how has your life changed since you got it?
A: I came to class one day and saw posters all around the building in Monterey Hall. Amanda Miller, the social skills clinic supervisor in the Language Speech and Hearing Center, had set up a table in the lobby where students gather before class and she was telling everyone about the scholarship. I knew her because she was my supervisor when I was a student clinician in her in clinic at the Language Speech and Hearing Center. I asked about EBS and what I needed to do to apply. I also did some internet research and saw really great reviews from people who had actually worked for EBS. Everything about it really hit home for me-- and I have always wanted to work in pediatrics, and so this was perfect.
I applied and was excited and nervous about whether I'd get it. Amanda explained there were so many people reading applications and participating in the decision making process.
After a long wait I finally found out I got it! The same emotions came back that I had getting into grad school. I was really overwhelmed and I was really really excited–only four of us got picked from those who applied and it was such a great honor to know that my dream of working in pediatrics was really coming true and that after I graduated I could go to work in my field. They place you with schools, private practices or hospitals that deal primarily with pediatric populations. I knew it would be perfect--the scholarship comes with a contract that includes two years of full time employment after graduation, and they have mentors to guide students through the educational and professional phases.
Q: What do you think will happen with your career and what opportunities have been made possible for you because of the EBS scholarship?
A: That's a great question! I feel like being contracted through EBS is going to provide me with some great opportunities in the future and already has! Speaking with you is giving me the chance to spread the word about our wonderful field of Speech Pathology. I will also get the opportunity, along with the three other recipients of the scholarship, to participate in presentations and/or training within a school about a given topic to spread awareness. There is tremendous value in the guidance and mentorship they provide. They work with you to decide on an area and facility to work in. They are able to connect you with fellow Speech-Language Pathologists and other professionals to "pick their brains" about tough cases or therapy ideas, which will be very helpful as a new clinician! Their team, who continually calls me to touch base, has really created a sense of support and made me feel like I was part of the EBS family and I'm not even done yet! I'm just so happy that I will be able to work with children in a field that I find so gratifying.
Q: What is it that appeals to you about pediatrics? Is there experience in your past that pointed you in that direction?
A: It's just always been my dream. Ever since I was in elementary or middle school I've always felt this connection with kids, I'd always get a really great response from them. I always knew I wanted to work with kids, and after entering this field and seeing how there are so many children diagnosed with various disorders in which they are not able to communicate effectively. Not to sound cliché, but I just knew this was my calling. Sometimes I would go into a session, and see this tiny child, who had this particular look on their face or gleam in their eye and I would just know they wanted my help. I love seeing those milestones with the little ones, and being there to guide them through maybe saying their first word, having them make the "k" sound or having a child meaningfully communicate with a device or through body movement are all things that are worth celebrating! For me, it's seeing them making those small and big leaps toward their goals; it's the most rewarding feeling in the world. My heart just melts every single time I get the chance to work with a kid and it solidifies the fact that that this is the population I want to work with.
Q: As a speech pathologist, I know one of the disorders you work with is Autism Spectrum Disorder, what other kinds of conditions to you address?
We help children with a variety of disorders and different types of delays. Our field is amazing because we have the chance to work with not only children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, but also with children and adults with fluency disorders, neurologically based communication disorders, speech and language delays, voice disorders, and much more. I've personally worked with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the CSUN social skills clinic with Amanda [Miller]. I've worked with children who are delayed in either or both receptive and expressive skills, fluency disorders, and speech disorders or delays. Often times, children can go through a period of phonological processes where they're saying "wabbit" for "rabbit", "tar" for "star." And sometimes a child needs help getting through those stages, but there are also chronological processes, perhaps cases where there is a developmental delay.
Most recently, during my student teaching experience, I worked at a special education school for individuals who present with severely handicapping communication disorders like low functioning autism, Down Syndrome, different types of chromosomal disorders, intellectual disabilities and traumatic brain injury.
Q: I understand an externship is also part of your graduate program. Is this with EBS?
A: No, it is not apart of EBS, it's a graduate course that I am taking to complete client hours. It's similar to student teaching but instead of a school site an externship can be with adults or children in a hospital, skilled nursing facility or a type of private clinic.
Q: And where are you doing your externship?
A: I'm doing my externship this semester at Pasadena Child Development Associates.
Q: What age range of children do you find yourself working with most?
A: With EBS the age range for pediatrics that I will be working with is birth to 21. I've worked with children from 2 up to 17 years old during my experiences at CSUN. Also, something to keep in mind when working with children is depending on what type of population you are working with, and the severity of their disorder, I found myself modifying my treatment session to not necessarily match their chronological age, but more so matching what their cognitive age and capacity was.
Q: Have you had any experiences that "made the textbook come to life" for you?
A: One particularly memorable experience during my student teaching was with a child who had been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and exhibited echolalia; where the client essentially gives a parrot like repeat of whatever you say. At first I was thrown off because I've only read about it, so all I ever really knew was a definition.
In my mind I wasn't sure how to cross that barrier with him, but the training kicked in. I wanted him to use his own communication and get a chance to say whatever he wanted to express. For example, we'd say something like, "What do you want to play today? and he'd say it back just like we said it, "What do you want to play today?" We'd say, "Do you want to play a cooking game?" And again he'd repeat, "Do you want to play a cooking game?"
We had to come up with a tactic to help him to overcome the barrier, not only with us in our sessions but to take into his life—to tell his mom about school, ask the teacher if he could go to the bathroom--very simple things like that. So we came up with a type of low tech AAC [Augmentative and Alternative Communication] strategy. We wrote and used simple symbols taken from Boardmaker and used it as a type of pointing board where he learned to point to certain pictures to formulate a sentence. We had a picture of a boy that was representative of "I" and a picture of a hand pointing to blocks which represented "want" and then we had nine icons representing certain games or choices. Over the semester, session by session, with practice and cues, he got the sense of what we were doing, and then one day he could, for the first time, tell someone what he really wanted to play that day!
I got emotional because until this point, he had just been repeating everything I had said and then suddenly—as if out of nowhere--he's pointing out this sentence by himself and it was amazing! I couldn't believe my eyes! I could say, "Do you want to play this game?" And he would be able to tell us yes! Or I'd confirm and provide feedback to him to encourage his communication by saying "I love the way you used your board to tell me what you wanted to play today!" This was a turning point. He was able to communicate with us meaningfully! At that point I really felt that he understood the cause and effect of his actions. For the most part, he carried that over in to each and every session thereafter.
Q: With a disorder like echolalia, is it that the child doesn't really understand what communication is? Does he just know there's a sound to make that appears to have some kind of meaning so he just repeats what he hears?
A: Sort of. With autism there's a huge pragmatic component; for this case in particular, I felt that socially he didn't really know what his role is as a communication partner was so there was a disconnect. Since he wasn't really sure what his responsibility was, he would just repeat whatever I said because he knew he was supposed to say something and behave as that meaningful communication partner, but didn't have the appropriate tools to tell me.
Q: So you're helping him make cognitive leap between mystery and epiphany?
A: Exactly! Before it was basically, "I know I'm supposed to say something but I really don't know what to say." So he'd repeat the statement, question, or comment with exact imitation. Echolalia is a very long process to get through but what some might think as such a simple step was actually such a giant step! Seeing him request his favorite activity to play on the iPad was great, but more than that, I just saw the happiness that came along with getting to play what he truly wanted. Experiences like this one are so gratifying, and all the disorders and diagnoses that I've been working with throughout student teaching and my clinical experience just, again, solidify the fact that that this is the population I want to work with and has taught me so much about our field.
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"Agriculture has a vested interest in participating in cap and trade and climate change legislation," says Jon Scholl, president of American Farmland Trust. "There are many stewardship and economic opportunities for producers to capture under a cap and trade system and in climate change legislation in general, but we must include agriculture or we'll face potentially onerous regulations that were not designed to address the agriculture sector well."
Scholl spoke to agricultural leaders in early June as part of the Farm Foundation's Forum on "Carbon Policy Options and Implications for Agriculture" in Washington, D.C., where he outlined why he's "optimistic" on the opportunities for agriculture and refuted the idea that cap and trade legislation will only result in increased costs to agricultural producers.
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"Congress is in a tough position," Scholl says. "They must balance environmental goals with the effects on consumers, agriculture, and other sectors, and the economics of this legislation will be difficult. But we also know that given the recent EPA endangerment finding and a 2007 Supreme Court decision, that either legislation is going to happen or the EPA is required to act to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act."


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"Nikita"star Shane West will participate in C2E2 April 13-15 at McCormick Place in Chicago, stepping in for Maggie Q, who had to cancel due to the filming schedule for the final episodes of the CW series.
West plays Michael, the ex-Division agent who has teamed up with Nikita both romantically and in her quest to take down the the rogue spy agency. I will moderate the "Nikita" panel 1 p.m. Saturday in IGN Theater, when West and creator/executive producer Craig Silverstein will share insider secrets about the final episodes of Season 2 and will show an exclusive sneak peek and recap film.
I'll start out with some questions for the gents, but fans attending will get to ask their own questions, too. So come on out, but no heckling allowed, OK? At least not me. Heckle West.
"Nikita" returns with new episodes at 7 p.m. April 20.
"Nikita" isn't the only TV show coming to the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo. Steven Yeun and Lauren Cohan, Glenn and Maggie in AMC's "The Walking Dead," will participate in a Q&A with fans at 4 p.m. Saturday in the IGN Theater.
Stephen Rannazzisi, who plays Kevin in FX's "The League," will host the C2E2 Comedy Show at 7:30 p.m. Friday that includes Kevin "Dot Com" Brown from "30 Rock.".
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Belittling kids as harmful as beating, study finds
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(Time.com)-- It may be the most common kind of child abuse — and the most challenging to deal with. But psychological abuse, or emotional abuse, rarely gets the kind of attention that sexual or physical abuse receives.
That's the message of a trio of pediatricians, who write this week in the journal Pediatrics with a clarion call to other family doctors and child specialists: stay alert to the signs of psychological maltreatment. Its effects can be every bit as devastating as those of other abuse.
Psychological maltreatment can include terrorizing, belittling or neglecting a child, the pediatrician authors say.
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"We are talking about extremes and the likelihood of harm, or risk of harm, resulting from the kinds of behavior that make a child feel worthless, unloved or unwanted," Harriet MacMillan, one of the three pediatrician authors, told reporters.
What makes this kind maltreatment so challenging for pediatricians and for social services staff, however, is that it's not defined by any one specific event, but rather by the nature of the relationship between caregiver and child. That makes it unusually hard to identify.
Can spanking cause mental illness?
Keeping a child in a constant state of fear is abuse, for example. But even the most loving parent will occasionally lose their cool and yell. Likewise, depriving a child of ordinary social interaction is also abuse, but there's nothing wrong with sending a school-aged boy to stew alone in his room for an hour after he hits a younger sibling.
All of this means that, for an outsider who observes even some dubious parenting practice, it can be hard to tell whether a relationship is actually abusive, or whether you've simply caught a family on a bad day.
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For as long as I can remember, I've thought that belittling kids was as harmful as a beating. It seems to be true for adults as well. That's why I dislike "practical jokes" and anything that embarrasses someone.
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I saw no research to back up the claim in the headline. it was interesting that twice as many women as men reported psychological abuse as children.
You would have to ask Time Magazine about that
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