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Paul Bulcke, Nestlé CEO: "In 2012 we delivered on our commitment: a good, broad-based performance building upon the profitable growth achieved consistently over previous years. All our businesses, both in developed and in emerging markets contributed. Our nutrition, health and wellness agenda continued to bring enhanced benefits for consumers, greater brand differentiation in the market place and increased value for shareholders. With creativity and innovation, our people laid the foundations for future growth. We increased the support behind our brands. We further strengthened our global R&D network with new facilities in India and China. We developed new capabilities for Nestlé Health Science and acquired Wyeth Nutrition. We invested responsibly and sustainably, expanding our manufacturing footprint, while continuing to reduce the environmental impact of our business. Despite the many challenges 2013 will no doubt bring, we expect to deliver the Nestlé Model of organic growth between 5% and 6% as well as an improved margin and underlying earnings per share in constant currencies."
Vevey, 14 February 2013 - Nestlé's reported sales were up CHF 8.6 billion, or 10.2%, to CHF 92.2 billion. Organic growth was 5.9%, building on the strong growth of recent years, and was composed of 3.1% real internal growth and 2.8% pricing. After years of adverse impact, foreign exchange added 1.7% to sales, and acquisitions, net of divestitures, a further 2.6%.
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TUCSON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said they felt awed seeing Rep. Gabrielle Giffords open her eyes in her Tucson hospital room.
Amid jokes, comments and laughter about what they'd do once Giffords, D-Ariz., returns to Washington, "we were holding her hand and she was responding to our hand-holding," Gillibrand, D-N.Y., told reporters aboard Air Force One late Wednesday. "She was rubbing our hands and gripping our hands so … we knew she could hear and understand what we were saying and she moved her leg, and so we knew she was responding."
Giffords was shot through the head Saturday when a gunman opened fire during her "Congress on the Corner" event at a Tucson grocery store. Six people were killed and 13 people, including Giffords, were injured.
A memorial was conducted Wednesday in Tucson to honor Giffords and the other victims of Saturday's rampage. President Obama announced the news about Giffords eyes opening during the event. Even more surprising, Gillibrand said, as the lawmakers continued to crack wise, "she started to open her eyes, literally."
Actually, it was one eye -- one was buried under bandages because it was injured by the gunfire -- that Gillibrand, Wasserman Schultz, D-Calif., and other visitors saw flutter.
"You have to recognize, her eyes hadn't opened -- we didn't know that -- and so she started to struggle," Gillibrand said. "So her eye is flickering. … And we didn't -- I didn't know what that meant."
Giffords' husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, urged her to open her eyes and a physician in the room "is like perking up" and people are gathering around the congresswoman's bed, Gillibrand said.
"And she's struggling and she's struggling and it's a good -- we couldn't figure it out, maybe 30 seconds, where she's really trying to get her eyes open," the senator said. "And then she finally opens her eyes and you could she was like desperately trying to focus and it took enormous strength from her."
Kelly was happy and excited, Gillibrand said, "and we're crying because we're witnessing something that we never imagined would happen in front of us."
Both legislators said Kelly was encouraging Giffords to give him the thumbs-up sign, which she didn't do.
"(Instead) of giving the thumbs up, she literally raises her whole arm," Gillibrand said, demonstrating for reporters. "And then she reaches out and starts grabbing Mark and is touching him and starts to nearly choke him -- she was clearly trying to hug him."
After they were shooed from the room so Giffords could rest, Wasserman Schultz said neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Lemole told the women, "I just witnessed the impact of friendship and what you guys (did) ... here today."
"(Really), it felt like a miracle," Wasserman Schultz said. "It felt like we were watching a miracle. … And just the strength that you could see just flowing out of her to get -- it was like she was trying to will her eyes open."


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On a gray winter afternoon in Paris this past January, the Nina Ricci flagship, located on a suitably grand corner of Avenue Montaigne, was a glittering jewelry box. Ivory mannequins in emerald green tweeds, ruffled cocktail dresses, and fluffy marabou coats in shades of dusty pink gyrated on tiny pedestals in the windows. Inside, the newly arrived spring clothing hung next to overstuffed baskets of lace-edged lingerie. Prominently displayed were Lalique crystal bottles of L'Air du Temps—the house's legendary floral fragrance, composed by master perfumer Francis Fabron in 1948.
Far above street level, in a small office off one side of his design studio, Peter Copping, 45, Nina Ricci's artistic director, was sipping tea. He had a serious cold, caught on his way back from Morocco, he said, where he had been with his partner, Rambert Rigaud—who used to work as studio director at Yves Saint Laurent and is now training to be a florist—seeking out Tamegroute pottery, among other things. ("It's very rustic, very heavy, and has a beautiful green glaze," Copping explained.) He was wearing chinos, a navy-and-white-striped T-shirt, and a gray cashmere cardigan. Copping told me he buys almost all of his wardrobe from 45RPM, a Japanese brand known for carefully crafted staples—and occasionally from Comme des Garçons or Ralph Lauren—and balked wryly at the suggestion that he might one day apply his considerable credentials to men's wear design. "Does a man want to say, 'Oh, I'm wearing Nina Ricci'?" he mused, deadpanning: "I think that would be quite a difficult fit. I find that when men are too 'done,' there's a slight embarrassment factor. Do you know what I mean?"
Of all the French heritage names in existence today, Nina Ricci is indeed the most unashamedly feminine—a characteristic that applies to everything from the clothes to the soft-focus advertising campaigns. But despite the fact that images of models like Malgosia Bela and Raquel Zimmermann in liquid floor-sweeping gowns are by now firmly established in fashion's collective subconscious, until relatively recently, Nina Ricci was known first and foremost for L'Air du Temps, which remains one of France's best-selling perfumes more than half a century after its launch.
It is unlikely that many people outside the fashion industry have heard of the Englishman behind the label's current regeneration. After working at Louis Vuitton for a dozen years—most recently as Marc Jacobs's women's wear studio director—Copping stepped quietly into the limelight three years ago, when Nina Ricci president Manuel Puig hired him to revamp the brand. That was not an easy proposition. The house had already been through four designers in the decade before Copping's arrival—including Olivier Theyskens, whose sales figures failed to equal the critical acclaim garnered by his work.
"Sometimes designers have their own agendas, which I understand, but this house was not strong enough to support that," Puig told me in Paris. "We had to reconstruct the codes, we had to look at the past, and we had to be very precise. Peter and I spoke the same language." Copping concurred: "I wanted to go back to the couture essence of the brand. But I think the Nina Ricci customer has a sense of frivolity too."
Perfectly in sync with the prevailing mood in fashion—l'air du temps, indeed—Copping's spring collection was replete with references to the elevated craft of haute couture. "Our clients really do want good quality," he said. "And if something references haute couture, well, then that's a no-brainer for
them. We do quite a lot of special orders, and you have to remember that 25,000 euros for some people is the same as 2.50 euros for others. If you have that amount of money, fair enough. But the one thing I really like is when people enjoy dressing up."
Above all, Copping continued, Nina Ricci is "typically French—sexy but not vulgar." Though he has lived in Paris for 18 years, his status as an expat gives him the distance required to subvert the clichéd jolie madame aesthetic—to transform it into something both pretty and witty. "It drives the ateliers crazy sometimes that, when things are too perfectly made, I'll ask them to go off and dump them in water or crush them. Sometimes we put the dresses in the steam press"—he paused for a moment, before adding mischievously: "like in [cult eighties TV soap] Prisoner: Cell Block H."
Maria "Nina" Ricci, the daughter of a ribbon maker, was Italian by birth. Her outstanding skills as a seamstress led to her working as a premier at Raffin, one of Paris's most feted houses, by the time she was 25, in the early years of the 20th century. In 1932, at age 49—and with a son, Robert, by her husband, jeweler Luigi Ricci—she founded her own label. Nina's technical virtuosity and respect for elegance coupled with Robert's pioneering marketing prowess proved to be a winning combination. Aimed at the comparatively larger crowd of society's well-heeled women more than at the smaller orbit of movie stars and princesses, the Nina Ricci label was as timeless as it was chic, and it soon acquired a client base to rival that of any other major French house.
Copping, true to his word—and in only six seasons—has reinvigorated the label with that original lighthearted élan. "When you look at a brand like Chanel," he said, "it's defined by the tweed suit; by the big easy pants that Mademoiselle Chanel used to wear; by the symbols—the camellia, the pearls. Saint Laurent has Le Smoking and the safari jacket. As a company, Nina Ricci has a long and strong history—but what Maria Ricci left was the legacy of a style, more than iconic pieces as such."
Copping's mission has been to define that legacy by reediting the staples of the Gallic wardrobe—the pencil skirt, the trenchcoat, the day suit, the diaphanous eveningwear, the couture silks, cloques, and jacquards—making them his discreetly irreverent own. Archive prints have been recolored and surfaces patchworked, pleated, folded, draped, and modishly distressed. His juxtapositions of materials—ottomans and crepes with stretch in them, bouclé wool paired with organza—have been surprising and modern. It is a formula that has catapulted the label from dusty obscurity to the red carpet: Carey Mulligan, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara have been photographed in pieces from Copping's collections.
"We are moving from a world of marketing-driven designers toward a world of skilled people," Puig said. "I think this is more real. There is space at the higher end of fashion for smaller brands."
Peter Copping was raised in the English countryside, just outside Oxford. His father was in the Royal Air Force, and his mother stayed at home with her son and his older sister. "We lived in quite a big house that was divided in two," Copping said. "My grandmother lived in one side, and we lived in the other." When the former was finished reading the polite magazines favored by women of a certain age during that time—titles like The Lady and Country Life—she passed them on to her young grandson. Every Friday, Copping visited the local antiques store after school. "When I was about 9, I'd buy things with my pocket money." He sold much of that "collection" in his early teens to purchase a state-of-the-art bicycle. These days, Copping browses auction houses for 18th-century porcelain. "We buy Chantilly plates, and we use them," he said. "Given 5 or 10 years, we will have a very big service." His apartment in the 17th arrondissement is "quite eccentric," he said. "It has a really big oak-studded door with gargoyles and a huge fireplace with twisted columns and carved foliage winding around it. A lot of the woodwork was imported from a Spanish palace that dates back to the 16th century."
"My parents encouraged both me and my sister to have a good work ethic," he said. "We were spoiled in some ways—she had a horse, and so did I—but we were encouraged to work for things as well." Copping studied fashion in London at Central Saint Martins (from where he graduated in 1989) and the Royal College of Art. In 1990 he landed an internship in the couture atelier of Christian Lacroix, and a year later he completed his master's degree in women's wear, then moved to Italy to work at Iceberg. Eventually he headed back to Paris for a three-year stint at Sonia Rykiel.
In 1997 Copping was asked by Marc Jacobs and Robert Duffy to work on a new clothing line at Louis Vuitton, where Jacobs had just been named artistic director. "Louis Vuitton now stands for very beautiful clothes. But there's something a bit larger-than-life about the brand as well, which was a challenge back then," Copping said. "Marc has an incredible knowledge of fashion, and he was very open. I was happy to learn behind the scenes."
Katie Grand, who has been a stylist at Louis Vuitton for almost a decade, has known Copping since the mid-nineties. "Marc gave Peter a lot of responsibility at Vuitton," she confirmed. "It's amazing that they worked together for so long, really. Peter likes organization, not chaos. He likes to design clothes, get them in, tinker with them, and then show them—unlike Marc, who stays up all night and works on things to the bitter end. Peter hates panic; he's completely civilized."
So civilized, in fact, that it is difficult to imagine him so much as raising his voice. When I visited him, the Paris haute couture season was in full swing, and, having debuted his fall precollection in New York a week earlier, Copping was dealing with an onslaught of European buyers and fashion press at his showroom. Unfazed, he seemed to glide through the hubbub. "The collection was based on the book Exactitudes, by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek," Copping said. "They photographed all these people and categorized them by what they wear. It's a very eclectic mix: women in mink coats, businessmen, punks, bodybuilders, all shot in exactly the same position. It became, for me, about uniform, so I asked the question, What can the Nina Ricci uniform be?"
Copping fused the house's signatures with military references: A velvet dress came with passementerie at the shoulder; a camouflage print was rendered in khaki and black. "It's all creasable," Copping explained. "It's very important that the clothes relate to women's lives." As for any narrative: "I hate that cliché of 'She's a woman, she's traveled to the Himalayas via Russia, and that's why she's got her fur hat on,' " Copping sniffed. "But I do think people like to understand the designer's process."
And so for this coming fall, Copping thought about "the way little girls want to be women—when you see them dressing up in their mother's or grandmother's clothes and it completely alters the proportions." At the design studio, Copping's drawings were splayed across a large white table along with books of fabric samples, pens, pencils, bottled water, and a vase of freshly cut white sweet peas. To one side was an inspiration board filled with photographs of somewhat sinister Victorian dolls and young girls in hugely oversize women's clothing (one girl, in enormous overalls, was wearing a plastic pig's snout).
While the head of the atelier, Christine Debras, and her team circled a model, Copping instructed them in a mixture of English and French to move a large faux-fur cuff on the sleeve of a tweed jacket down, so that only the fingertips peeped out, and to alter the fit and the lace trim at the décolleté of a petticoat dress. A split at the back of one jacket came about, he said, almost accidentally: "We were loosening the seam because it was too tight, and we just decided to leave it open." A second tweed jacket was interspersed with lining silk—"so it becomes almost a blouson. Eventually this will come with a skirt, also in tweed," Copping said. "You'll have your little suit, and the skirt will be in a patchwork of lace. These pieces are inspired by negligees and lingerie—we're putting together things that shouldn't go together."
A couple of months later, Copping was beaming in the backstage area of a tent in the Tuileries gardens, where he had just unveiled the finished garments during Paris Fashion Week. "Did it turn out okay?" he asked me, as guests congratulated him. It was a rhetorical question—he was pleased, clearly, as well he should have been. The next day, the collection was rapturously reviewed across the board, and Nina Ricci made the front page of Women's Wear Daily. Puig, too, was happy. "Nina Ricci has been sleeping for many years, but everything is in place now," he said. "We go little by little, no?"


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'Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa' is a tasteless, disturbing farce.
"Bad Grandpa'' R -- Also billed as "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa,'' this movie takes the "Jackass'' film and TV tradition -- performing ridiculously dangerous stunts and lewd practical jokes before unsuspecting bystanders -- to a new level. This time, a fictional story overlays that gimmick. It is not for under-17s, though many will see it. "Jackass'' stalwart Johnny Knoxville, in heavy age makeup, plays 86-year-old Irving Zisman, a spry widower eager to celebrate the recent demise of his cranky wife with a binge of boozing and womanizing. Unfortunately for Irv, his crack-addict daughter dumps her 8-year-old son Billy (Jackson Nicoll) on Irv because she must go to prison for a while. Irv is supposed to deliver little Billy to his dead-beat dad in North Carolina. Irv does this grudgingly, as having Billy around will cramp his style. Instead of adjusting his behavior, Irv includes the kid in his antics as they travel from Nebraska eastward. But what is disturbing about this latest film is not the gross, sexually explicit, glass-shattering stunts themselves. It is the way Knoxville and director Jeff Tremaine use their unwitting audiences. They pull off a majority of their gags in front of lower-income Americans, often people of color, often poor people who are obese, more or less playing them all for suckers, often making fun of their kindnesses. In out-takes at the end, we see the film crew let these folks in on the joke. Yet the film itself often makes them the joke.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Visual penis jokes occur with frequency, and even though it's obvious they're using props, the gags are gross, as when Grandpa Irv gets his organ stuck inside a vending machine after using the machine either to pleasure himself or as an improvised urinal -- it's not clear. Male strippers at a dance club use very explicit sexual moves on their female audience and are nearly naked. At various moments, Grandpa and Billy pull a massively gross toilet humor gag in a restaurant; knock grandma out of her coffin; drop her into a shallow river; crash through a glass storefront; and proposition many women. On his own, Billy asks strange men to adopt him; disguises himself as a little girl and competes in a little girls' beauty contest, where he executes a striptease/pole dance. That bit of spoofery is perhaps deserved because of the pageant subculture. The language is profane, but not horrific.
"Captain Phillips'' PG-13 -- Not graphically violent, but still too high-intensity for middle-schoolers, this re-enactment of a real 2009 incident will give high-schoolers more than thrills, though it surely has those. Director Paul Greengrass' wonderfully acted docudrama offers a sharp insight into Third World poverty. Tom Hanks, in another fine turn, plays Richard Phillips, captain of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama. Phillips' compassion, professionalism and courage face a daunting test when pirates board his ship off the coast of Somalia. Non-actors recruited from the Somali immigrant community around Minneapolis play the pirates (Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed and Mahat M. Ali), and they -- particularly Abdi -- are wholly believable, both frightening and tragic. Phillips offers them $30,000 from the ship's safe, but their leader (Abdi) demands millions in ransom.
THE BOTTOM LINE: For most of the film, the intensity comes from threats and a sense of potential violence. Prior to the climax, any mayhem involves guns fired in the air, punching and shouting. Someone badly hurts a foot on broken glass. The pirates nearly strangle Phillips as they tie him up in the lifeboat. At the end, there are lethal shootings and spattered blood. The script includes rare use of the S-word. The pirates chew a plant that subdues hunger and boosts confidence.
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Several swimmers did well at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming team at the UMD Invitational at the Tripp Athletic Center Saturday. No team scores were recorded at the meet.
For the women, sophomore Morgan Cooper (Sunderland, MA/Frontier Regional HS) led the way, winning both the 50 yard breaststroke in 33:45 seconds, and the 100 yard breaststroke in 1;14.40. Men's winners included freshman Christian Francia (Hampton, NH/Winnacunnet HS), who won both the one meter diving with 213.00 points and the three meter diving with 204.15 points, sophomore Matt Dean (Londonderry, NH/Londonderry HS), who won the 50 yard breaststroke in 30.15 seconds, the 200 yard freestyle in 2:00.76, and the 200 yard individual medley in 2:18.91, senior David Adams (Tyngsboro, MA/ Tyngsboro HS), who took both the 50 yard butterfly in 25.50 seconds and the 100 yard butterfly in 59.31 seconds, sophomore Chris Dodge (Holden, MA/Wachusett Regional HS), who won both the 50 yard backstroke in 29.78 seconds, and the 100 yard backstroke in 1:05.76, sophomore Kevin Janofsky (Brookfield, CT/Brookfield HS), who won the 100 yard breaststroke in 1:12.88, and senior Craig Johnson (Acushnet, MA/New Bedford HS), who won the 500 yard freestyle in 5:38.14. The 200 yard medley relay team of Dodge, Dean, Adams and Johnson was victorious in 1:48.85.
"This is a non-scoring meet that we hold annually to allow student-athletes to compete in events that they may not otherwise be able to swim during a typical collegiate dual meet," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Cathy Motta. "It also allows the coaches to take a look at other events that their swimmers may be able to qualify for championships in."
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The Great Pumpkin is alive and well in Oldham County this season, despite shortages across other pumpkin-farming states.
Pumpkin crops in many northeastern states were devastated by Hurricane Irene, which flooded fields in August. Even before that, heavy rains in the northeast delayed plantings, setting back the Halloween-timed main harvest.
In Oldham, however, pumpkins had a good season, according to several area farmers.
"I think our pumpkin patch has gotten better every year," said Maggie Keith, an owner of Foxhollow Farm in Crestwood. "They've done a lot better than expected."
Keith said Dylan Kennedy, who managed the three acres of pumpkin fields this year, did have to do some watering during this summer's drier months, but only about 10 times.
But Foxhollow staff members have done a lot of other hands-on labor, Keith said, including rotating them and picking off bugs – Foxhollow doesn't use any chemicals on its farm.
David Neville, of Capstone Produce Market in Campbellsburg, said the northeastern shortage has provided an opportunity for local growers to sell more pumpkins to out-of-state buyers. New buyers have come to Capstone this season for pumpkins, including ones as far as upstate New York, he said.
For vendors looking to buy pumpkins, Capstone offers a more time-efficient way to find sellers, Neville said.
Instead of tying up half their day calling multiple producers only to find they're sold out, Neville said buyers come to Capstone and know right away what's available.
But, for those families looking for the pick-your-own experience, Foxhollow's patch has been gaining in popularity, Keith said, especially with the Sherman Minton bridge closure.
"More people are staying close," she said, instead of driving to places like Joe Huber's Family Farm in Starlight, Ind.
But, even without the traffic hassle, Keith has seen pumpkin sales grow. In 2008, the one-acre patch sold out in two weeks.
The next year, she expanded it to two acres, and had just enough for October.
The bigger pumpkin patch has had some special help, too.
Young women from Maryhurst again helped plant a section of the field.
"The ones they planted are the best ones," Keith said.
Maryhurst provides a residential treatment program for teenage girls who have been abused, neglected or traumatized. The organization also provides group home settings for girls and boys, foster care and after-school care for at-risk youth.
This Saturday, Foxhollow will host its fourth-annual festival benefiting Maryhurst. The festival will feature the pumpkin patch, along with hay and pony rides, live music and farm-fresh food.
"Pumpkins like this farm, and we like pumpkins," Keith said.
Prices at Foxhollow range from $4 to $10 depending on size, Keith said, with really small ones at $1 each.
Several other places in Oldham County have pumpkins for sale, including Reardon's Fruit Market in Crestwood.
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"Look at his eyes." That's what Bill, the video director, said as we watched the audition tapes. That's one thing about Chance that stands out. He has great expression in his face; a trait that's valuable to a director and a producer. I think you'll notice it, too, as you watch the Amazing Wonders Aviation Worship Rally DVD.
As you'll discover in Chance's Q&A below, he already is a real professional. And it showed, as he arrived on set prepared every day. Though a video shoot is always hard work, Chance and his fellow cast members helped to make this shoot a lot of fun! It was great to meet his mom, Dawn, and his two brothers, Chase and Chandler (talented actors as well).
Now, I introduce you to my friend, Chance—
Q: What character do you play in the VBS 2012 video?
A: I play the character "T-Man." I'm 12 years old.
Q: What was the hardest part of the video shoot?
A: The hardest part of the shoot was working with the "green screen." For one thing
I had to hold myself in strange positions for long periods of time, and for another I
felt silly acting as if something was happening when it wasn't! But it was all worth it
when I saw the finished product.[A note from Lynne: "Green screen" is when you place an actor against a green cloth or screen and capture him in action. When shooting green screen, the actor is isolated, with only empty surroundings. In post-production, the video editor places that actor into a scene or against a different backdrop. In Chance's case, he was placed against video of a blue sky and was falling into the ocean.]
Q: What was the best part of the video shoot?
A: The best part of the video shoot was working with the awesome team of adults and
with the other kids! I was sad when it ended, because I felt like I had made new
friends. My favorite scene was the one where I have to wear the fruit helmet with
the "spy camera." I looked and felt ridiculous, but it was hilarious and we had so
much fun with that scene!
Q: Was this your first acting job? If not, what other jobs have you had?
A: No, this wasn't my first acting job. I had worked on a couple of films for local public
television, and I have been in a lot of community theatre plays and musicals. I love
live theater, but the good part about film is that if you mess up you get a second
Q: What's your favorite part of school?
A: As you can probably guess my favorite class at school is Drama! We are currently
working on an adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland." I also like recess and study hall.
Q: What sports do you like, and do you play any?
A: I like most sports, but especially like volleyball, tennis, football and basketball. I am
currently playing basketball for a club team.
Q: If you could go on vacation anywhere in the world, where would you go?
A: I have been blessed to be able to travel to many neat places, but if I could, I would go
to Antarctica… preferably on an ice-breaker!
Q: Would you like to continue acting?
A: YES! I hope to make acting my lifelong career…
Q: Anything you'd like to add?
A: Thank you for giving me an opportunity to answer your questions. I hope you enjoy
the film as much as I enjoyed being a part of it!


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I've never written a story that I can't overwrite, and Friday's story about Comcast SportsNet Houston is no exception. If you missed it, it's on the Chronicle premium website. If you can't get it, check out my Twitter feed, @dfbarron, and click on the link you will find there. Brief summary: Dwight Howard is a great addition to the Rockets, but since CSN Houston can't take the Rockets to the entire five-state area, he is not the end-all, be-all solution to the network's carriage issue.
Owing to space limitations, a few quotes from Matt Hutchings, the president of CSN Houston, got left out. Here they are:
"Viewers really want to watch Dwight and watch the Rockets," he said. "(Howard's acquisition) raises the volume and shows how important this team is to viewers."
While the Astros struggle for wins, Hutchings said, "Everyone understands what they are trying to do. They have the building blocks of a very good team. At some point, they're going to be very good. And fans still love their team and get inside information and know what the team's progress is and how things are developing."
He added, "I don't think (the Astros' record) is prohibiting any of these deals. These providers need to appreciate the value of who these teams are and what they mean to the city and region."
One observation that I intended to make but failed to do is that this dispute may yet come down to how willing DirecTV, Dish Network and U-verse are to accept the possibility of customer losses in the Houston area — CSN's inner market, where the network can carry both Rockets and Astros games — just so they can save a few bucks by not carrying the network in the Lubbocks and Amarillos and Tulsas of the world outside the core market. I presume that as the NBA season nears, there will be a greater degree of interest in the Rockets and, thus, the possibility that some DirecTV or Dish subscribers who have the option could switch to Comcast cable. If enough of them do so, perhaps that will be the point where the carriers cave and do a distribution deal for the full five-state area, which is what CSN Houston wants, rather than just a deal for the Houston DMA, which is what the carriers would prefer.
Moving on: I don't think I've talked about this observation before, but I continue to be baffled by a lot of the comments I have seen on chron.com and on ClutchFans, among other locations, from fans who say they love the Astros and/or Rockets but are so bitter about CSN Houston that they want the network to fail.
I am perplexed by this, because since the teams own more than two-thirds of the network, a failure for CSN Houston is a failure for the Astros and Rockets. Granted, I subscribe to Comcast, so I've not been without the network since it launched. But I find it hard to understand how fans can be so bullish on the Rockets or Astros and so angry about CSN Houston. They are, in many ways, one and the same.
I struggle to grasp how you can be a devout fan of the teams and also be dedicated to the proposition that CSN Houston is evil and should disappear from the face of the earth. I can understand being angry about carriage problems, particularly if you live in an area, like Kingwood, where you couldn't get Comcast cable if you wanted it. But the men who own the teams own most of the network. The teams need the network to succeed. I presume that if you're a fan of a team, you want it to succeed. By the same token, it stands to reason that you would want CSN Houston to succeed and for the teams to benefit from its success.
If you think I'm out to lunch here, please share your reasoning with me. I'd like to hear your thoughts.
UPDATE: Reader Tom Doyle of Corpus Christi sent me a note on this topic, which reminds me of another issue that we have discussed in the past but not lately. For all the attention we give to DirecTV, Dish Network and U-verse, Time Warner Cable also is a significant presence in Texas, with systems in Dallas, Waco, San Antonio, Austin, the Valley, Corpus Christi and Beaumont. CSN Houston/NBC Sports Group needs to get a deal with Time Warner, too, particularly to benefit fans who can get Rockets games in Corpus and Beaumont-Port Arthur.


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Why has no one followed up the story of 221 'adverse findings' in pro cycling and only 27 sanctions?
Why has no one followed up the promise of a 3 man TUE committee from Cookson?
Why has no one questioned why UCI has dropped the Cologne lab for testing?
Why has it taken so long for Paolini's B sample?
Why has it taken so long for Danielson's B sample?
Why has no one contacted the relevant authorities to find out the delay?
Why has no one followed up Cookson on all his failed election promises?
I see the Ferrari suing The Program is front pages 'news'........why does CN constantly wait for others to do the work and CN simply copy&pastes it?


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29th June 2017
David Schraeder dispenses some crisis management advice.
Your company has taken a hit and its reputation is slightly less stellar than it was before the matter all began. You and your executive team are feeling exhausted as you worked tirelessly to keep the business going while simultaneously dealing with the high intensity crisis. Even your employees are a bit worn down by it all as they've seen their company pilloried in business publications and on social media.
It's all a bit much. So now what? Who will believe us when we want to tell them about the good things we're doing that have nothing to do with what happened (at least in our minds)?
To start with, whatever happened is now part of your history and your story. Over time, as your good work takes center stage once again, the hard-hitting pieces in the Wall Street Journal, TIME and on CNBC (oh, did your stock crater when they produced that piece…) will fade from page one of your Google results. But they'll still be out there for all time.
Chances are that your crisis, while damaging, won't remain top of mind for long. At least not with the broader public, though certain discrete audiences are going to keep reminding you of it for a long time.
Depending on how the company conducted itself during the crisis, you need to take a few basic steps to begin to regain your footing, and your confidence:
By taking these steps you'll regain your confidence. It's easy to feel anxious and afraid when you're staring at your monitor and wondering what someone might say. It's empowering to act, move forward, generate positive energy, and visualize opportunity rather than risk and failure.
Remember that there's a big world out there, and despite what you think, people have moved on to the next crisis anyway. You need to, as well.
David Schraeder leads Grayling's crisis management practice in the US. Download the PDF for more details.
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Episode 083: The ADHD Advantage with Dr. Dale Archer
Turning Disadvantage into Advantage
What do David Neelman, founder of Jet Blue, John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, and business mogul Sir Richard Branson have in common? They along with Pink, Ty Pennington, Adam Levine and countless other high profile achievers have publicly embraced their diagnosis of ADHD, and for good reason. In today's episode, my guest and I discuss how this trait is a blessing, not a curse.
About Today's Guest
Today's guest is a Medical Doctor, board certified Psychiatrist and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the founder of The Institute for Neuropsychiatry in Lake Charles, LA, a radio and television show host, author of the NY Times Bestseller Better Than Normal and the brand new book that is available today, The ADHD Advantage.
In Today's Episode
Our guest and I talk about:
- What is ADHD?
- What are the symptoms of ADHD?
- 11% of children ages 4-17 are diagnosed with ADHD
- ADHD and Multi-tasking
- What is the "Explorer Gene"?
- How to embrace an ADHD diagnosis
This interview is a great interview for everyone, not just those with ADHD. Dr. Archer talks about how we all process information in different ways. The key is understanding how you process information and then learning to use it to your advantage.


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Two tons of Hearst Castle oranges to go to the needy
Two tons of freshly picked oranges are going from Hearst Castle to needy families' tables countywide by month's end.
Hearst Castle landscaping staffers are plucking citrus from 120 trees, most planted about eight years ago to replace a decorative entry-to-the-estate orchard reduced by age to a scant, scruffy bunch of misshapen, dying trees.
State Parks donates the bounty to the 3-year-old GleanSLO program, now part of the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County.
The program provides tons of fresh-picked produce to county hungry — kiwi from Nipomo, apples from See Canyon, cabbage, avocados, leaf lettuce and more, said Carolyn Eicher, GleanSLO coordinator. It comes from commercial farms, fields and orchards, farmers markets and backyard gardens.
The team hopes to double last year's total of nearly 100,000 pounds distributed, with an emphasis on "not bringing in more food from outside the county, but to rescue that which is grown locally," Eicher said.
GleanSLO volunteers go into fields or orchards, with farmers' permission, to harvest produce left behind by growers' picking crews. Some donors provide already-picked produce. GleanSLO has accumulated and distributed more than 21,000 pounds of produce so far this year.
Because of liability issues and State Park rules, staffers do the harvesting at Hearst Castle. They collect fruit in trashcans, take it down the hill in 30-gallon plastic sacks and put it in bins for loading by forklift onto a truck and a trip to the Food Bank warehouse.
Most fruit on trees near the Castle is left on the branch, as it was during William Randolph Hearst's heyday, because he considered orchards near main buildings decorative. Fruit is harvested from orchards further down the hill.
The new trees are loaded with fruit ranging from small mandarins to seedless navel oranges that can weigh more than a pound each.
"These young trees were just too laden … We're allowing harvesting to help them grow and flourish," said Nick Franco, parks district superintendent. "The fruit was so heavy it could have broken branches and damaged the trees."
Instead, it's parceled out for delivery to hungry county residents.


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New national consortium could help Michigan medical device companies
Michigan's biosciences industry association, MichBio, will be a player in a new Medical Device Innovation Consortium announced Monday in Washington, DC.
MichBio executive director Stephen Rapundalo said the new consortium will help small and midsized medical device companies by making high-level regulatory science advances available to all companies that join the group.
Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com
"So by participating, and it will be affordable, they will be able to benefit from whatever is developed from the pooled resources of a mass of companies. That way they can ensure their product's safety and effectiveness and get it approved more quickly."
The consortium is a national public-private partnership between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Medical Device and Radiologic Health, medical device companies, and patient advocacy groups. A nonprofit organization will be created to administer the partnership.
The consortium's interim executive director Dr. Maura Donovan said on a conference call Monday that the organization's founding board will have representatives from the FDA, the medical device industry, patient advocacy groups, nonprofit organziations and government agencies.
"That broad involvement is something that we want to extend to our sub-committees as well," she said. "We think it's important to have a combination of industry and government leaders."
The new consortium plans to focus on developing new scientific and engineering tools assess the safety and effectiveness of new medical devices. This process, known as regulatory science, is often extremely expensive and can involve testing with animal and human subjects.
Dale Wahlstrom, president and CEO of LifeScience Alley, MichBio's sister organization in Minnesota, said that developments of new technologies can help reduce testing in live subjects make products safer and more dependable before they are introduced.
On Monday's conference call he referenced a line of device that utilize electrodes implanted in the brain to help people control prosthetic limbs as one potential beneficiary of the consortium.
" The problem is that once in brain these electrodes can degrade, and we don't have a way to test that process without putting them into people," he said. "Instead, we are working developing an artificial brain that can mimic the brain so you can implant the device in that and see how durable it is."
Rapundalo said that the evelopment of these types of technologies can be extremely expensive and out of reach for smaller medical device companies. He believes that having a consortium that will work together to create the testing environments will allow for both safer products and speeder FDA approval.
The consortium's funding will come primarily from its industry members. Donovan said the founding members have contributed approximately $500,000 and that the consortium hoped to raise a total of $1 million to cover operating costs and seed funding for initial projects.
No Michigan companies have signed onto the project yet, but MichBio's role will be to connect local medical device creators with the resources that the consortium makes available.
Rapundalo is also currently serving as the chair of the State Medical Device Technology Alliance. In that capacity he will be working with state-based industry groups like MichBio to ensure that they are up to speed with the initiative.
Ben Freed covers business for AnnArbor.com. You can sign up here to receive Business Review updates every week. Reach out to Ben at 734-623-2528 or email him at email@example.com. Follow him on twitter @BFreedinA2
An Arborigine
Tue, Dec 4, 2012 : 3:10 a.m.
This is cool for the type of companies that AA has and is trying to attract.
Mon, Dec 3, 2012 : 11:15 p.m.
If any blockbuster advances happen because of this, I hope we get advance notice here in Ann Arbor.


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No. 17 UCLA beats WSU 44-36
Brett Hundley threw three touchdown passes to help No. 17 UCLA beat Washington State 44-36 on Saturday night.
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Brett Hundley threw three touchdown passes to help No. 17 UCLA beat Washington State 44-36 on Saturday night.
UCLA (8-2, 5-2 Pac-12) has won four games in a row since a loss at California, and is first in the Pac-12 South.
Washington State (2-8, 0-7) has lost straight and new coach Mike Leach is still looking for his first league win. Connor Halliday threw five touchdown passes in the loss.
Washington State dominated the first quarter, then was outscored 30-0 in the second quarter as Hundley threw three touchdown passes and the Bruins piled up 181 yards.
The Cougars played without star receiver Marquess Wilson, who was suspended this week for a violation of team rules and then quit the team.
The Bruins' defense blocked two WSU field goal attempts, returning one for a touchdown. They also returned a fumble for a score and knocked WSU quarterback Jeff Tuel out of the game.
Washington State took the opening kickoff and drove to the UCLA 23, where the drive stalled. Andrew Furney's field goal attempt was blocked by Datone Jones, and the ball was picked up by UCLA's Sheldon Price, who ran it back 68 yards for a touchdown.
On the next drive, the Cougars got to the 1-yard line before a penalty pushed them back to the 16. Furney's 33-yard field goal attempt was blocked by Cassius Marsh.
Washington State finally scored on its third deep drive of the first quarter, when Halliday hit Dominique Williams with a 6-yard touchdown pass to tie the score at 7-7. Halliday had just gone into the game in place of injured starter Tuel.
Washington State outgained UCLA 167 yards to 22 yards in the first quarter.
But it was all UCLA in the second quarter.
The Bruins took a 14-7 lead on Hundley's 16-yard scoring pass to Johnathan Franklin. Teondray Caldwell fumbled on the ensuing kickoff return, and UCLA took possession on the WSU 24. Joseph Fauria caught a 9-yard pass from Hundley to give UCLA a 21-7 lead.
Halliday was sacked in the end zone, with the safety giving UCLA a 23-7 lead. The Bruins also got the ball back, and scored on Hundley's 10-yard pass to Devin Fuller for a 30-7 lead with 6:40 left in the first half. Halliday fumbled after a hit from Marsh and the ball was picked up by UCLA's Eric Kendricks, who ran 40 yards for a touchdown and a 37-7 halftime lead.
Washington State cut into UCLA's lead in the second half while holding the Bruins to one score.
Halliday threw touchdown passes to Brett Bartolone and Marcus Mason in the third, while Jordon James added a touchdown for UCLA on a 2-yard run. Halliday threw fourth quarter touchdown passes to Dominique Williams and Kristoff Williams, the last with 1:31 left.
The 28 points were the most WSU has scored since putting up 34 in a loss to Colorado on Sept. 22.


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We display the history of Mackenzie and area. From Summit Lake to Sifton Pass, we showcase the First Nations people, explorers, prospectors, trappers, and settlers that have left a footprint in our valley. We have a collection of original paintings by Marge McDougall of First Nations residents of Fort Grahame. We also have the World's Largest Tree Crusher.
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A year-round operation, Ziptrek Ecotours is the North American pioneer of zipline tours. We offer an entertaining combination of high-wire adventure and ecological exploration.Soar between Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains on Whistlers most popular zipline adventure. A total of 11 ziplines are joined by suspension bridges and platforms over 150 high in the tree canopy. Choose from 4 distinct zipline tours and then fly through the ancient rainforest on the ride of a lifetime! Now home to the longest zipline in all of Canada and the USA – The Sasquatch®! Spanning a mind-blowing distance of over 2 kms in length, you will experience spectacular views and over 7,000 ft of pure eco-exhilaration! Will you take it on?
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amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
March 2009—Among men who have sex with men (MSM), anal cancer has been diagnosed more frequently among those engaging in receptive anal intercourse and those infected with HIV. In a study conducted in the U.S., anal cancer was reported at an incidence of 35 in 100,000 MSM, with the risk of anal cancer among HIVpositive MSM double that of HIV-negative MSM.1 But in Asia, anal cancer has remained largely understudied.
To increase regional capacity to diagnose and treat anal cancer among MSM, amfAR's MSM Initiative provided funding to TRCAC in April 2008 to establish an MSM sexual health clinic in Bangkok. The clinic provides screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, anal Pap smear testing, treatment of abnormal anal Pap smears, and risk reduction counseling services.
From April to September 2008, 1,719 MSM clients visited the clinic. Of these, 253 received anal Pap smears and 27 percent had abnormal results. These clients are now receiving follow-up care through the TRCAC MSM sexual health clinic. More resources are needed to study anal cancer risk among MSM in Asia and provide diagnostic screening and treatment.
1Frisch M, Biggar RJ, Goedert JJ. Human papillomavirus-associated cancers in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. J Natl Cancer Inst. 20 Sept. 2000;92(18):1500-1510.2 Li A, Phanuphak N, Sathianthammawit W, Avihingsanon A, Chaithongwongwatthana S, Teeratakulpisarn N, et al. HPV-associated anal disease in HIV-positive and HIV-negative men who have sex with men in Thailand. In: XVII International AIDS Conference. Mexico City, Mexico; 3-8 August 2008. Abstract no. THPE0222.
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