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Almost a year ago, I wrote a post here on Forbes, The Results Are In: Women Are Better Leaders. I was astonished at the flurry of anti-female (and anti-me) comments it evoked.
In the article, I was citing a study of over 7,000 leaders done by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman. One quote from them, regarding their study: "…at every level, more women were rated by their peers, their bosses, their direct reports, and their other associates as better overall leaders than their male counterparts — and the higher the level, the wider that gap grows."
The title of my post was intentionally provocative - I'm not actually convinced that women are better leaders than men. But I do believe that women are at least as capable of leading as men, and if that's so, I wanted to explore why there are still so few women in senior leadership positions in business and government.
So here we are, a year later, and the statistics are pretty much the same: women hold about 15% of executive positions at Fortune 500 companies; about 18% 0f US congressional representatives are women; full-time women workers still earn, on average in the US, 82¢ for every dollar earned by their male counterparts. I still want to figure out why this is so and what we can do about it.
Most of the negative comments on my earlier post were attempts to discredit Zenger and Folkman's data. Here's a great little video someone sent me last week offering even more data from some very reputable sources:
But I suspect that anyone who feels compelled to respond to this post negatively won't accept this data either.
And, actually, I'm not writing this post for them. With any issue having to do with unfair treatment of a group of people, points of view exist along a bell curve. That is, at any given moment, there are people at the top of the curve who are completely convinced that the group (women, blacks, gays and lesbians, the disabled, etc.) should receive both equal treatment under the law and equal treatment in terms of others' expectations and and assumptions. At the other end of the curve, there are people who are completely convinced that the group (whoever they may be) is not entitled to equal treatment and in fact, is "less than" and should stop whining about their treatment and acknowledge that this is the way things should be. (Most of my commenters on the previous post fell into this group.)
However, most people exist somewhere along the middle of the curve: they may not even be aware there's an issue, or they may have inaccurate information. (For example, many people are surprised to hear that there is still a wage gap between men and women, or that only 12 of the Fortune 500 are run by women.)
I'm writing this post for them - for you, if you're in that group. I'm assuming that you may have daughters, sisters, or wives whose success you support, or that you may be in a position to hire new employees for your company, or to promote existing employees. I'm hoping that by increasing your awareness of women's abilities, and of the ongoing inequalities in the workplace relative to women, and by giving you some information to support that awareness, it might help you better support the success of all the women around you, including those most dear to you.
Information is power...and I want to be generous with the information that will help current and future generations of women achieve their potential.
Check out Erika Andersen's latest book, Leading So People Will Follow, and discover how to be a followable leader. Booklist called it "a book to read more than once and to consult many times."
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It's certainly possible, seeing as he thinks that a million dollars is nothing more than a "small loan".
My mom was worried during at least the early election that people wouldn't go for Hillary due to the fact that she's too out of touch with non-rich people... And then somehow one of the most out-of-touch rich people gets elected.
The sheer magnitude of how much we are screwed is hard to grasp. And it keeps on getting worse and worse with each candidate he chooses for each cabinet position.

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The UNCG Soccer Stadium is a modern soccer-only facility located in the heart of campus. Both the men's and women's teams celebrated their 20th season in the state-of-the-art facility in 2010.
UNCG played on the same site, then known as Campus Field, through the 1990 season. On Dec. 6, 1990, ground was broken on the $3.6 million stadium that fans see today.
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The first women's soccer game played in UNCG Soccer Stadium was against Duke on Sept. 11, 1991. The Blue Devils blanked the Spartans, 4-0. The first victory for UNCG came in a 7-0 rout of Erskine on Sept. 13, 1991.
The largest crowd to attend a UNCG home outdoor athletic event at the stadium was 4,225 on Oct. 5, 1991, for a Homecoming men's soccer game against Ohio State. The Spartans won 6-0.
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The stadium served as a site for the U.S. Youth Soccer Association regional championship during the summer of 1997. The Olympic champion women's national soccer team played the opening game in the Victory Tour presented by Nike in the stadium on April 24, 1997, defeating France.
Also, prior to the 1996 Olympic Games, the Norwegian women's soccer team trained at the stadium and played an exhibition match against United States select players.
A match between the men's national teams of the U.S. and Canada was played in the stadium in 1992. The stadium served as the home of the professional Greensboro Dynamo from 1993-95, and is the site of the North Carolina East-West High School All-Star soccer games each year.
In the summer of 2001, the Boston Breakers of the WUSA held their preseason camp in the stadium.
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Rob and Kristen reportedly just can't get enough of each other between the sheets and they are into some pretty wild stuff! Read on to find out what they do to turn each other on.
Kristen Stewart wants to please Robert Pattinson! The Twilight stars are reportedly totally freaky now that they're back together and they don't hold back in the bedroom. A new report from Star claims that Rob and Kristen enjoy buying blindfolds, feathers and handcuffs to use in the bedroom.
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In yet another horrific sexual assault case in India, a 13-year-old girl was raped allegedly on orders from a village council as retaliative punishment for her brother's sexual assault offense.
The attack occurred in Swang Gulgulia Dhoura, an incredibly isolated village in Jharkhand inhabited only by people of India's lowest caste. The victim's brother Harendra Pasi himself drunkenly molested Suguna Devi, a married woman and daughter of the village panchchayat (headman) Ghosal Pasi.
When the father of Harendra (and the victim) approached Ghosal Pasi the next day to discuss and accept a punishment for his son, whether a fine or a beating, the panchayat gave no answer. But according to the New York Times, Ghosal Pasi gave the verdict to Suguna Devi's husband while the victim's father was away at work:
"Ghosal told his son-in-law, 'You do the same thing to his daughter that this man did to your wife,' so he grabbed her and dragged her to the jungle," said Lakshman Prasad Singh, inspector general of the Jharkhand State police.
No one came to the girl's help despite her screaming. When she returned from the forest, her family took her to the closest police station an hour's walk away, where her rape was confirmed.
The police have stated that they are taking the case very seriously and district administration stationed two armed guards outside the victim's hut. Despite claims made by the panchayat's son that he did not actually specifically order his son-in-law to rape the girl, both Ghosal Pasi and his son-in-law have been taken into custody. Harendra, who initially assaulted Suguna Devi has also been arrested.
In tiny isolated villages like Swang Gulgulia Dhoura, village panchayats wield a lot of power in village justice. On top of that Ghosal Pasi was not an elected panchayat, but rather, a powerful man who merely appointed himself as the village head. While other villagers have stated that from now on, they plan to go straight to the police when a crime is committed, it's unrealistic to expect them to immediately and completely forget the panchayat's authority in such matters.
Interestingly enough, last week the Indian Supreme Court ruled that fatwas, or Islamic opinions or decrees, have no legal standing, a move to dismantle Sharia Muslim legal system in India. The court decreed it would be illegal to impose religion-based opinion personal issues if it transgressed Indian law. The court stated (via Times of India):
"Fatwas touching upon the rights of an individual at the instance of rank strangers may cause irreparable damage and therefore, would be absolutely uncalled for. It shall be in violation of basic human rights…"
Many claim that the dismantling of Sharia court is being hailed as a victory, particularly for Muslim women. It certainly is a victory in many respects, but it obviously does not do much for non-Muslim women in India who continue to face sexual assault, like the Swang Gulgulia Dhoura victim or Suguna Devi.
India's outlawing of Muslim fatwas does not even begin to address the "irreparable damage" of violence against women perpetrated by non-Muslim village authorities, who, in similar fashion exercise their power in direct "violation of basic human rights." Women in India continue to face rape and murder (in general but also) as punishment, and it is women who are in isolated, uneducated, lower-caste villages like Swang Gulgulia Dhoura who are at the most risk.
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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, April 27
It wasn't the kindest of Mondays for a good chunk of our Beat the Streak aspiring multi-millionaires.
Thanks to Franklin Gutierrez, Chipper Jones and Kelly Johnson, an eye-wincing 17.2 percent of our BTSers pressed the reset button in their quest for the mega bucks. And just to pour some Tabasco sauce on some open wounds, Derrek Lee, Chase Utley and Matt Kemp combined to eliminate an additional 6.4 percent of the field.
To quote Coldplay (oh boy), "Nobody said it was easy."
And it shouldn't be.
On with Tuesday's picks.
Oh, hello there …
- Matt Holliday: .563 AVG (18-for-32) lifetime vs. Braves starter Derek Lowe
- Chase Utley: .636 AVG (7-for-11) lifetime vs. Giants starter Todd Wellemeyer
- Ryan Ludwick: .600 AVG (6-for-10) lifetime vs. Lowe
- Aramis Ramirez: .379 AVG (11-for-29) lifetime vs. Nationals starter Livan Hernandez
- Adrian Beltre: .462 AVG (6-for-13) lifetime vs. Blue Jays starter Shaun Marcum
- Geoff Blum: .588 AVG (10-for-17) lifetime vs. Reds starter Aaron Harang
Feeling kinda spicy?
- Adam LaRoche: .500 AVG (4-for-8) lifetime vs. Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez. Who wants to dance with Ubaldo the Incredible?
- Randy Winn: .611 AVG (11-for-18) lifetime vs. Orioles starter Kevin Millwood. Winn should get a hit, ya know, assuming he's in the lineup.
- Ryan Garko: .480 AVG (12-for-25) lifetime vs. White Sox starter Mark Buehrle. I mean, come on.
You'll thank me later …
- Dustin Pedroia: .111 AVG (2-for-18) lifetime vs. Marcum
- Prince Fielder: .111 AVG (1-for-9) lifetime vs. Pirates starter Jeff Karstens
- Franklin Gutierrez: .067 AVG (1-for-15) lifetime vs. Royals starter Zack Greinke
Leaderboard time!
And then there were seven.
Seven Beat the Streakers are rocking 23-game streaks and are 40.4 percent on their way to buying pet zebras. Just because they can.
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- djbloom
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- j4trieze
- kot2
- olifante
Top MLB streakers
- Johnny Damon: 13 games
- Jeff Mathis: 10 games (DL)
- Matt Wieters: 8 games
- Geoff Blum: 7 games
- Carl Crawford: 7 games
- Carlos Guillen: 7 games (DL)
- Conor Jackson: 7 games
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it seems that chase utley is 5-for-26 in the last week
Holliday is 8-for-26, Ludwick is 7-for-26, Beltre 7-for-24
the other two listed are not doing much better.
Hot Hitters, last seven days
1. R Theriot CHC SS .533
2. C Rasmus STL OF .529
3. P Sandoval SF 3B .524
4. K Morales LAA .500
4. T Wigginton BAL 2B .500
6. M Byrd CHC OF .481
7. J Morneau MIN 1B .476
8. B Abreu LAA OF .462
9. P Konerko CWS 1B .450
10. R Cano NYY 2B .429
11. M Wieters BAL C .421
12. K Youkilis BOS 1B .419
13. V Guerrero TEX DH .417
14. J Reyes NYM SS .409
15. Y Betancourt
16. J Mauer MIN C .391
17. J Damon DET OF .385
18. N Markakis BAL OF .381
18. S Rolen CIN 3B .381
20. E Longoria TB 3B .375
20. Y Molina STL C .375
22. B Butler KC 1B .370
23. D Barton OAK 1B .368
23. L Overbay TOR 1B .368
23. M Reynolds ARI 3B .368
26. M Cabrera DET 1B .367
Decisions, decisions, decisions
"And just to pour some Tabasco sauce on some open wounds, Derrek Lee, Chase Utley and Matt Kemp combined to eliminate an additional 6.4 percent of the field."
The Dodgers didn't play yesterday due to the rain. Did those who picked Kemp really get reset to ZERO???
Is $3 million even enough to buy a pet zebra? Because I'm not convinced that it is…
Baseball Musings Day By Day Database, Current Hit Streaks
Through Games of 04/26/2010
Player Games At Bats Runs Hits HR RBI BB K BA OBA Slug%
Johnny Damon 13 46 11 19 0 5 9 8 .413 .509 .543
Jeff Mathis 10 34 5 11 1 3 2 7 .324 .351 .500
Matt Wieters 8 32 3 12 0 4 0 5 .375 .375 .438
Mark Reynolds 7 27 7 12 4 13 3 8 .444 .500 .963
Pablo Sandoval 7 26 3 12 1 2 3 1 .462 .517 .654
Colby Rasmus 7 26 7 12 4 8 3 8 .462 .517 1.115
Bobby Abreu 7 26 7 12 2 4 5 6 .462 .548 .846
Carl Crawford 7 28 6 11 1 4 4 4 .393 .455 .607
Carlos Guillen 7 25 2 9 0 3 4 2 .360 .448 .480
Conor Jackson 7 30 2 9 0 2 3 4 .300 .364 .333
Geoff Blum 7 21 1 8 0 3 0 1 .381 .381 .524
Adam LaRoche 7 25 3 8 2 5 5 6 .320 .433 .640
Ryan Theriot 6 30 6 16 0 6 2 4 .533 .562 .667
Justin Morneau 6 21 6 10 2 7 7 0 .476 .607 .952
Vladimir Guerrero 6 24 3 10 1 8 2 1 .417 .481 .667
Ramon Santiago 6 19 4 9 0 2 2 2 .474 .524 .526
Andres Torres 6 21 2 8 0 1 0 3 .381 .381 .476
Carlos Gomez 6 27 7 8 0 1 4 7 .296 .387 .370
Ryan Doumit 6 18 1 7 0 0 2 2 .389 .476 .389
Chris Snyder 6 22 4 7 1 3 3 6 .318 .400 .500
got an 8 game streak and im going to risk it getting to 9 with marco scutaro. the toronto pitchers have cooled off since their strong start to the season and yesterday was a good example to prove that. im only taking scutaro because hes been consistently getting on base this year and because the blue jays pitchers arent as good as theyve seemed
My fellow Bloggers. I have Braun with my main name and I'm sticking with him no matter what. He is hitting the Pirates and Brewers may score 17 again tonight.
tolvar they did reset people's streaks to 0 if they took someone from the dodgers or mets yesterday. i was wondering if that would happen yesterday because the game was postponed before the picks locked. its unfortunate to those people but i guess that was in the rules somewhere. i think its stupid because those people only had about an hour to make a change of players and most of those people probably didnt have the time to make the change or werent even aware that the game got postponed
if you are looking at phillies to take tonight
jayson werth
chase utley
placido polanco
carlos ruiz
to me they are the only safe picks out of phillies for tonight against wellemeyer and of those 4 guys i would say ruiz or polanco is the best pick
WOW… I can't believe they reset them to 0. Guess we need to double-check the weather and our picks daily before they lock.
yea that was unlucky. i can understand resetting their streaks to 0 if they knew the game was postponed the entire day but it didnt get postponed until an hour before picks locked. maybe they will come to their senses and reset those players streaks back to where they were
The rules seem to give the BTS'ers a fair shake on "suspended" games, so this seems a bit odd. I'm curious to see if their steaks are reset if Kemp get a hit in both games. I gotta go check the weather in Baltimore.
Weather.com shows the wind blowing NNW from 15-20 at Camden Yards. Not sure which direction the field sits, but this could help or hurt the long ball. I'm also going with Cano.
The streaks with any Dodgers or Mets didnt get reset. The BTS blogger made a mistake. Whatever you do, change your pick from Mark Scutaro tonight. Marcum has been holding opponents to a BA of under 230. not smart, alot of better picks out there.
im thinking CANO this evening 6-for-18 against millwood
Yeah, Dodgers and Mets Pickers didn't get reset… I can see some top Current Streakers that picked Dodgers yesterday.
Got Jeter today to get my streak to 11 games. Good luck everyone.
You know what's funny. Braun is hitting .237 at home this year so far but is hitting .537 against Pitt so yeah. It's weird but he will get a hit though.
Yeah, that's good news neil_p and darwri… I see a few BTS'ers with nice streaks picking FURCAL or KEMP today. I can only wonder if they know about the rule for double-headers. It appears dodger_blue only picks Dodger players which is pretty loyal, and it appears to be working well for him. I hope his luck continues this evening.
I picked Robinson Cano, 2day.
The web site above is your golden opportunity to get the weather conditions at all MLB parks. It even shows a picuture of a baseball field witht the direction of the wind blowing at that park. This site is rate A+
Went with Ryan Braun for second straight day.
Suggest those going to the Brewer game tonight and sitting in the outfield seats keep their heads up for HR balls.
Also, Bernie Brewer who sildes down a big slide after every Brewer HR may wear out a pair of pants with Jeff Karstens on the bump for the Bucks.
Thanks for the link dragbunt… that is pretty cool of weather.com! Wish I would have taken Holliday or Pujol for the HR with that wind direction and speed. AND LOL @ the Bernie Brewer comment.
deb23 – dodger_blue picked Braun yesterday and Utley today.
Very strange that Kemp could've ruined a streak. This is from the "Official Rules" (link – http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/fantasy/bts/y2010/index.jsp?content=rules):
"Except as set forth in the Suspended Games Sections below, your streak will remain intact in the event of any cancelled or postponed MLB game. The foregoing is based on official scoring as confirmed by MLBAM"
The Dodgers/Mets game yesterday was postponed by every logical definition of the word. I think this is something that should be corrected by the BTS Gods.
I went with Sandoval today.
Everything looks good for Utley, except the fact that he is hitting .229 over his last 10 games.
Welleymeyer is holding righties to a .18X batting average, so Polanco and Werth would not be good choices, but Howard is even colder than Utley right now!
Sandoval does not have any career data against Moyer, but the two of them give up lots of hits, so it is still likely that he gets 5 AB's anyway.
Today's Top2500 picks. 149 different p.layers picked overall
Player, Times Picked, Top2500 Pct
Chase Utley, 366, 14.64%
Joe Mauer, 358, 14.32%
Ryan Braun, 287, 11.48%
Derek Jeter, 156, 6.24%
Robinson Cano, 102, 4.08%
Matt Holliday, 85, 3.4%
Scott Podsednik, 73, 2.92%
Albert Pujols, 67, 2.68%
No Selection, 61, 2.44%
Placido Polanco, 57, 2.28%
Rafael Furcal, 57, 2.28%
Ichiro Suzuki, 34, 1.36%
Yesterday resulted in 843 streak enders led by F. Gutierrez, K. Johnson & Chipper.
I wonder who tormorrow's top pick will be? Hmmmm, guess I'll wait to see if I'm right.
Can't post tomorrow's picks til I get home, around 6:00pm Eastern time.
If the rainout indeed did kill streaks for those that picked players, a quick count shows an additional 100 Top2500 players that were reset also — wow is right. So if you're at work or somewhere else and you didn't happen to hear about a rainout cancellation that effects your pick and the picks lock before you get home; guess you're out of luck. That bites.
Ignore previous post, I see someone was crying wolf.
one person one the front page has already ended his streak as kemp went 0-4 in game 1
I'm guessing that the new master of the blog reads the comments each day. No streak ends because of a total rain out/game posponement.
Corrections could take a day or so to be made. Best to keep putting your concerns on the blog so they are seen.
For veteran bloggers who were kids when the Beatles were the rage. The Blog Guy quoted Cold Play in his commentary today. FYI – Cold Play is a musical group not a night game at Wrigley Field with a northeast wind and temps in the 30's.
Robinson Cano just got a hit in the 2nd inning.
2 Game hit streak now !
LAD/NYM Game #2. Furcal on the bench, possible pinch-hitting role. Did get a hit in Game #1
Braun already got his hit and I am back up to a 2 game streak. Al Bundy is now at 24 along with olifante.
Furcal went 1-4 in the first game. Hopefully, he does not PH in the second game and only get one AB OR hopefully he will get a hit IF he only has 1 AB. DEB23… I think you meant Willie in terms of picking Dodgers. I noticed that also.
Johnny Damon now has a 14-game hitting streak. Batting .375 against Scott Baker. May not be a bad pick tomorrow. Yankees may miss him before the season is over.
I agree about Damon BUT I am wary of picking hitting-streak leaders as they are due for an 0-for……..
I hear ya, but would have loved to have picked him 14 times in a row… Where is my crystal ball??
thank you scutaro for the hit in the top of the 9th. my streak goes to 9.
i dont think i will be making anymore extremely risky picks like i did for today
All right. I finally picked a guy who didn't buckle under the pressure of my having picked him. Don't think I won't build on this streak of one; All you other Bloggers, BTS Nerds, and Levi Ghetto Cats are meat. Meat, I say.
got magglio ordonez for tomorrow. he has killed scott baker during his entire career and i expect that to continue
Wow I'm at 24, and starting to feel the pressure. It's taking me 20 minutes to make my picks everyday, as I do all the research I can. I hope I don't over think it. 24 is pretty cool, but I'm still not even close to 57. I'm hoping I can keep this thing going, and if I hit 40 I will be super excited. Losing my streak now would be so disappointing. To those who took Joe Mauer tonight, I went to the game, and Ramon Santiago make a nice play to keep him hitless. Props to those who advanced, best of luck to all.
Well Mauer's 0-fer takes out almost 13% and Jeter struck out in the 9th to take another 7%. Utley struck out first at bat.
Congrats Al, Braun pulls through for me as well to get me back to 2. Holliday just got beaned. 1 leader done with Jeter and 1 almost done with holliday.
Picks lock at 12:05pm tomorrow. I'm thinking Furcal from the LAD's.
Utley 0-for-3 after six, has one more AB in the ninth
taking Braun tomorrow
What is that, 35% or so going down today?
Thank you, Chase! A hit in the 9th!
Wow. Utley just singled in the top of the 9th saving lots of ppl.
wow dodger_blue just gave a "shewwwwww" Utley singles in the 9th
I have a feeling many people are going to pick Ichiro tommorrow, be careful i have a feeling meche is gonna come up big
Braun extended my streak to 22 games tonight. Like AL bundy said the pressure is building and we're not even half way home. The picks are taking me 20-30 minutes now as well, hope my go to guy comes through tomorrow. This is a lot of fun!
I had a 16 game hit streak matt kemp singled and it went down to 0 wtf!!!
I have 16 game streak…I picked matt kemp he singled and it went to 0 ….WTH!!!
Goodfella, your streak went to 0 because the dodgers played a doubleheader today, and kemp only got a hit in one game. Stupid rule but if you pick a player who plays in doubleheader he must get hit in both games in order to keep hit streak alive. Its in the rules.
AL and Dodger, congrats and continued success.
Mr. Stache3, good luck tomorow.
Early games tomorow so make sure your picks are in.
@2 thanks to Braun.
"one person one the front page has already ended his streak as kemp went 0-4 in game 1"
Well, I have no idea who he used for today, but he still might be safe, because, according to the MLB.com scoreboard, the 2nd game was officially the makeup game and Kemp did go 1 for 5 in Game 2.
Now, as long as he did not use Kemp again today (which is the 1st game,) and also picked a player who got a hit, his streak would go up 2 games, and rejoin the top group.
"Goodfella, your streak went to 0 because the dodgers played a doubleheader today, and kemp only got a hit in one game. Stupid rule but if you pick a player who plays in doubleheader he must get hit in both games in order to keep hit streak alive. Its in the rules."
Well, that is not exactly true. There are 2 types of doubleheaders in BTS. 1 like the one that played out today and one where a rainout occurs, say, tomorrow and is made up in September.
In this scenario, 2 games are played, but you can still extend 2 games.
Your pick yesterday is actually Game 2 of the doubleheader today. Your pick today is Game 1 of the doubleheader.
That is why that guy's streak went to 0, because Kemp was 0 for 4 in Game 1.
But he had picked Kemp for yesterday and Braun for today, his streak would have gone up 2 games.
If the doubleheader is played in September, than there is no linkage, in terms of picks, to the original day the game was played, so it is treated as a standard doubleheader, and you need a hit in both games to advance 1 game.
That is my understanding of the rules, but I would love for the blog writer to clarify if I am correct or not.
"Wow I'm at 24, and starting to feel the pressure. It's taking me 20 minutes to make my picks everyday, as I do all the research I can."
lol, I spend 2 hours a day making my pick.
Thankfully, the strategy is finally starting to work.
Sticking with Ryan Braun today. He can hit lefty Malholm of Bucs. Day game in Milwaukee. I have a bad feeling about Ichiro – he has ended 3 streaks for me already this year. A bad omen.
champion_88.. unfortunately your thinking is wrong. I wish it was that way for sure. Lets say you had Kemp Monday, it has no barring on Tuesday's games. So lets say you had Kemp Tuesday as well and he got a hit in each game, your streak would be only 1.. not 2.
Well it was nice to wake up and see that Utley came through. 🙂 I have Braun today as well. Only 5 left in first place – congrats to them and good luck to everyone today!!!
I also agree with the blogger (we need a nickname for this guy!!!) – avoid Jeter for now. 0-for-5 last night against Baltimore. Baltimore!!! Was not thrilled with ARod's 9th inning chump move either. 🙂
knowing albundy is a tigers fan and many of the tigers hitters have had great success against baker in their careers im going to guess that the twins tigers game will be one that we will be watching to see if some of the top streaks continue
I have Cano tonight after switching to him from Jeter. Cano is the hottest on the Yanks right now so I like my odds right now.
FYI… Furcal is doubtful for today.
"Sticking with Ryan Braun today. He can hit lefty Malholm of Bucs. Day game in Milwaukee. I have a bad feeling about Ichiro – he has ended 3 streaks for me already this year. A bad omen."
Ichiro's 2 for 5 line is very deceiving, because if you check the strength of the hits, you find a soft fly ball to left field and a bunt ground ball to the catcher.
Essentially, he was 0 for 5 yesterday. He just got lucky and outran a ball.
Not much to pick from today.
I was forced to go with Braun, since every other possibility suffered from one or more flaws, that pointed to Braun as a stronger option.
Wow, 4 out of the top 5 and 15 of the top 25 active streaks have Ichiro as their pick.


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Auto Focus: Laboring in the shadow
Not all lives fit neatly into the TV Biography format. The exceptions are the stuff movie biographies like Auto Focus are made of. Don't ask me to name three. The closest comparison I can think of is the far superior All That Jazz, in which Bob Fosse told his own story (lightly fictionalized with the names changed) with more music and pizzazz and less nudity and explicit sex. But Auto Focus is the story of Bob Crane, best remembered for Hogan's Heroes, the CBS sitcom he starred in from 1965 to 1971. OK, he's only remembered for that unless you read about his 1978 murder.
Greg Kinnear, who already has an Academy Award nomination to his credit for As Good as It Gets, tries to shake his nice guy image by playing Crane, "a likable guy" with a dark side. The agent who warned him not to work with children or animals should have added Willem Dafoe to the list.
Dafoe plays John Carpenter (not the filmmaker), Crane's best friend, and mops the screen with Kinnear in all of their many scenes together. After a clever, lounge-y, '50s-style title sequence to a Buster Poindexter song, we meet Crane, a Los Angeles radio announcer who's been happily married to Anne (Rita Wilson) for 15 years. His hobbies are drumming and photography, and Anne finds a stash of magazines of "photo studies" in his darkroom.
Bob wants to make feature films but likes the script his agent (Ron Leibman) offers him for a TV series "set in a German prison camp." It makes him a star but doesn't change his life as much as meeting Carpenter, who introduces him to the latest electronics, including a "VTR - Video Tape Recorder."
John also starts Bob going to strip clubs after work, where Bob enjoys himself because they let him play drums with the band. From there, it's a natural progression to start bringing women to Carpenter's bachelor pad. John surprises Bob by videotaping some of the action, and Bob loves it!
It's hard to say when a hobby becomes a habit, but Bob's days of being a "one-woman man" are behind him. He tells Patricia (Maria Bello, one of my favorite underused actresses), a second-season replacement as the woman who says, "Commandant, Col. Hogan to see you," "I dream about finding someone who gets me, who I am"; she tells him he's found her. So he trades Anne for Patti.
The post-Hogan years are frustrating for Crane, career-wise. Rumors about his private life make it hard for him to find work other than touring in dinner theaters. He tries more than once to change his luck by dumping Carpenter, and this eventually leads to his death. Although Carpenter, now dead, was never convicted of Crane's murder in court, no one who sees this film will have any doubt about his guilt.
Nor will they doubt that Crane led a wild, strange life, even if the movie only scratches the surface of it. The numerous sex scenes push the boundaries of the R rating, even if they suggest more than they actually show. "A day without sex is a day wasted," Crane and Carpenter chant like a mantra.
Director Paul Schrader is often heavy-handed, but in this case he may have treated his subject too lightly. "A hilarious romp about a man who betrayed two wives and was murdered by his best friend" sounds as marketable as "a jolly comedy about the good times in a Nazi POW camp."
Bob Crane Jr., Bob's son with Anne, cooperated with the filmmakers, perhaps in hopes of making his "Daddy Dearest." Scott, his son by Patti, reportedly did not cooperate and has dissed the finished product.
Auto Focus is hardly an American tragedy. We're left with the feeling that Bob Crane was a mediocre talent (who got lucky) and a mediocre human being (who got unlucky). Kinnear's performance probably captures him as well as anyone could, but it's hard to appreciate him when he's acting in Dafoe's shadow for most of the picture.


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Family lawyer Wick Sollers in a letter sent Friday to the NCAA said the Paternos would like to appeal the "enormous damage" done to Penn State, the community, athletes and the late Hall of Fame coach. He died in January at age 85.
But the NCAA quickly rejected their plan. "The Penn State sanctions are not subject to appeal," spokesman Bob Williams said.
The landmark penalties handed down last month included a four-bowl ban, scholarship cuts and 111 vacated wins from 1998-2011, meaning Paterno no longer has the most coaching victories in major college football.
The family said the NCAA acted hastily and without regard for due process, and that it accepted the results of the school's internal investigation without further review.
The report from former FBI director Louis Freeh said Paterno and three school officials concealed allegations against Sandusky dating back to 1998. Paterno's family and the three officials have all vehemently denied the conclusions.
Once a revered defensive coordinator, Sandusky is awaiting sentencing in jail after being convicted in June of 45 counts of sexually abusing young boys.
Penn State handed the Freeh report to the NCAA, which announced the harsh sanctions on July 23. Also among the penalties was a $60 million fine.
The school accepted the sanctions and signed off on a consent decree, with President Rodney Erickson saying later he didn't see a better option - the threat of the "death penalty," or the total shutdown of the football program, was hanging over the school.
A Penn State spokesman declined comment Friday on the Paterno family's intent to appeal.
Paterno's lawyer said the family had a right to file an appeal because it was named in the NCAA's consent decree with Penn state, as well as the Freeh report. The family said it hoped to formally submit an appeal and requested oral arguments before the NCAA's infractions appeal committee, its executive committee or other leaders.
"Furthermore, the NCAA and Penn State's Board (of Trustees) Chair and President entirely ignored the fact that the Freeh Report, on which these extraordinary penalties are based, is deeply flawed because it is incomplete, rife with unsupported opinions and unquestionably one-sided," Sollers wrote the NCAA.
Sollers called the sanctions possibly "the most important disciplinary action in the history of NCAA," but that it had been handled fundamentally inappropriate and unprecedented manner.
Michael McCann, director of the Sports Law Institute and a professor at Vermont Law School, said Friday he doubts the Paternos have standing to appeal.
"He's not alive, and his family itself would not seem to have any legal standing to challenge the NCAA," McCann said, "at least in terms of filing an appeal."


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yes we do race at chimeny rock a lot.im 40 and i race with thrc and some of the new race sereis hosted by the local tracks "fastrak,M&M's,PLRC,AREA 51,K&M,Lunatics" are a few of the tracks. man there's always something going on,if it's not raining!
lets get it on!!!
hey man if you want to see some racing its going on this weekend at PLRC SPEEDWAY saturday and sunday come by and ck us out.all day long.
lets get it on!!!
I was just about to post something to get something started on my site for local bashers. I am in League City (20 miles South of Houston) and don't know of too many people around here.
I would like to have something a little closer to here (NASA Area) and was wondering if there were. Most seem to be up in Houston and the North part of Houston. But nothing in the South.
If anyone is interested in getting together in the League City/NASA area, or know of an area (ocean is good), send me a PM or email and let me know.
Apparently my opinion differs from your opinion. However, you don't have to be mean about it.
hey ruiner i live in friendswood,about 5 minutes from league city,what kind of rc do you run,and where do you run it at. jeremy
Currently I have a nitro rustler and an ofna buggy (converted to Truggy). I typically run it in front of my house or in the construction area behind my house.
It is more fun with more people and if I had ramps that would be even cooler.
Where do you run at?
If you would rather do this through email or IM you can reach me at firstname.lastname@example.com for email
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Apparently my opinion differs from your opinion. However, you don't have to be mean about it.
I bash at Beck junior high. It has a large field and jumps
Anyone in Sugar Land area wanna just mess around together?
Shoot me an email at email@example.com
I have a Revo and a Nitro Sport.
I live in portland(about 10 miles north of corpus). there are a couple of rc shops and dirt tracks in corpus, but none in portland, just alot of fields and a huge high school parking lot hehe. I could go thrash at the skatepark, but they have cameras
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Anyone here in san antonio?
Cause i am.
Goodbye Revo and Traxxas.
I'm in Sugar Land.
Life, Liberty, and the persuit of RC domination!! Saving the world, one twinky at a time.
Went there today and had a BLAST till I broke my carbuerator. Very cool track, well kept, nice people.
Wasn't easy to find though.
5702 Pearson rd.
Santa Fe Tx 77510
fastrak isn't open on monday's, and lunatic rc closed their offroad track and now only has an onroad track and paintball field. anyone racing at fastrak, pm me
Sportmaxx and TNX for sale in Houston only. very low prices (stock + complete)
I'm in Katy, a suburb of Houston. IM me at yzpilot85.
Has anyone been to the track in Porter, Texas. I live in Kingwood and noticed it one day on my way Stephen F., appears to be a dirt only indoor track. They were closed but I was peeking in the windows and it looks to be one of the biggest indoor dirt tracks I have seen. Maybe 75 x 75, couldn't tell though, like i said i was peeking inside.
Just broke my Revo in, first gas powered RC, and I am 30. My youngest she's 11 has the EMaxx, shes had is since christmas
Weather is suppose to be nice this weekend. anyone going to bashing this weekend?
hey t-maxximum i have an electric 4tec not as hopped up as yours. its broken right now, need new diffs. ruiner im thinking about buying an smaxx and my sister is going to moveto league city s if any one in league city, southeast houston wanna contact me ill tell you when i have smaxx. im 15
Anyone in?near Burleson TX..?Or know of any tracks around here..? Since everyone is telling their age I'm 31 & run a T-maxx
any one live around the woodlands/magnolia or north houston?
2 T-maxx 2.5's w/Golden Horizons cooling heads, traxxas blue tuned pipe, Hot bodies pipe and header, RR steel spur gears, proline hummer body, aluminum lower a-arms, rear MIP steel half shafts, Motor saver air filer, custom body clip retainers, rpm rims.
i live in south east houston about 30 minutes from northside. are you talking about magnolia ,tx or the suburb?
I just bought a Jato. Looking for people who love the hobby as much as me, that is saying alot since i am new to this hobby. But it rocks. I am living in Bellville which is about 35min from Katy area. As for baytown i was born in baytown, and lived there for about 15years out of my life. I am 27. I know alot of you all are young, but i don't know of anybody else in my area that has an R/C much less any interest in the subject. Send me a message and maybe we can all get together one day, and bash, or race.......
Every man dies, but not every man gets to drive a TRAXXAS JATO!
Isn't there any one from Dallas/ Ft. Worth area i'm lookin for someone to bash with. BTW i am 14 an have to pay for every thing i buy with my own money that i earn... so take that all hobby stores that dont wanna help me...
For In Everyone and Everything there is the divine right to Drive RC
read the title of this thread. houston texas. scroll down and you will see fort worth.
REVO: red pushrods, p2 rockers, trinity aluminum shock mounts, motor saver, 40 mm flywheel, S3305 steering and throttle, aluminum rocker posts, ofna/proline wing setup, panthers on geminis, foc, lundsford turnbuckles/ hingepins, mip pivot balls. smaxx: O.S 18 CV-RX, Blue Traxxas Pipe, flm chassis
yeah i realized that after i had posted it...
For In Everyone and Everything there is the divine right to Drive RC
i am in the houston area. where are the tracks? i am looking for something in north houston.
mase...i just seen your post and we are working on opening a track in the oakridge area ..we are trying to be open dec/jan.
for now we found a lot off of the 45 feeder that is lit up at night and have been bashing there ...nobody seams to mind (cops!!)as long as we don't bother anything
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what what. i've got a revo now. from donnie if anyone knows him.
REVO: red pushrods, p2 rockers, trinity aluminum shock mounts, motor saver, 40 mm flywheel, S3305 steering and throttle, aluminum rocker posts, ofna/proline wing setup, panthers on geminis, foc, lundsford turnbuckles/ hingepins, mip pivot balls. smaxx: O.S 18 CV-RX, Blue Traxxas Pipe, flm chassis
new houston track update ...we have dropped about 100 truck loads of dirt in the last 2 weeks !!! we have a great track design ( got input from racers from around the world ) and are going to try to have it done sometime in january .. anyone who wants dirrections please email me and i'll send them to you and keep you updated on the build ...i'll give anyone who reaches me thru the traxxas boards a free onetime pass to come out after we are open and pratice ( no race day passes ...sorry)..one free pass to a person...we are in the woodlands area off of I-45
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track upate ...the drivers stand is almost finished!!!drivers area is just about set up ( well we have some big cable reels ) the timer/lap counter is waiting to get instlalled...we should be race readdy in the next 2/3weeks ...email or pm me for directions or info or see our website at
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track is open for pratice !!!lap counter will be finished but will not stop you from being able to have a blast ..email with any q's and a 's at...email@example.com
you can see pics and info about hours
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On road jato races in baytown? Guy at hobby shop said some guys run on road jatos in parking lot anyone know
I know this is reviving an old thread from the grave, but my job transfered me out to Houston and I will be staying in Clearlake. I JUST got an XTM XT-2 and was wondering if anyone knew of any good places to run it. This thing is awesome. Also, if any of you guys get together in this area let me know. I have and XTM XT-2 that I just got, and HPI RS43 evo, and a highly modded TMAXX that I have never gotten to run properly. I use them mostly for just bashing, no real racing yet.
hey mario whats up i live in houston right next to a hobby shop with an awesome dirt track,i have a brushless e maxx that is bad to the bone.well i was just writing you back,gotta get back to work,if you want directions to the track or maybe wanna hook up and race around sometime(i just bash also)email me at email@example.com and ill give you directions.take it easy man.
sounds like a plan. Might have to be next mon or teus though, some work stuff came up. I'll email you and let you know. later
sup srh folks?
looks like a track change, starting on wednesday.
danny is bringing in 5 loads of dirt so they can get some elevation changes. they are going to rototill all of the old dirt along with the new dirt.
they are promising much more creative track layouts.
anyone out there?
the new track is done and practice opens tuesday at 3 for 7 o'clock races.
the track looks like it will have a pretty good flow.
come on out and check it out for yourself.
Well, i had my 1st chance to run on the new track. I must say that it is very technical. I had my fair share of problems with the step-up in the back left corner of the track.
The rest of the track flows very good.
danny and the guys tilled up the old track sunday and put in a watering system.
it should be open for practice on thursday.
looks like a big motor track. full length back straight.
anyone want to come out sunday?
hey what tracks do yall go ramp at? or what areas? and when? i just got myself a nitro 3.3 stadium truck and wanna get into this sport all the way... btw i can't figure this technical deal out, i pin it for seriously 1 second, shut off the throttle, and it'll die.. what adjustment(s) do i need to make? i can't figure it out
looks like speedrc is going to be closed for this weekend.
me and some friends are going to meet at indy on sunday at around 12 or so for some old fashion practice. come out and play.


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Serious side effects can occur during treatment with this medicine. Sometimes serious side effects can occur without any warning. However, possible warning signs often occur, including swelling of the face, fingers, feet, and/or lower legs; severe stomach pain, black, tarry stools, and/or vomiting of blood or material that looks like coffee grounds; unusual weight gain; and/or skin rash. Also, signs of serious heart problems could occur such as chest pain, tightness in chest, fast or irregular heartbeat, or unusual flushing or warmth of skin. Stop taking this medicine and check with your doctor immediately if you notice any of these warning signs.
Check with your medical doctor or dentist:
For patients taking aspirin to lessen the chance of heart attack, stroke, or other problems caused by blood clots:
Taking certain other medicines together with a salicylate may increase the chance of unwanted effects. The risk will depend on how much of each medicine you take every day, and on how long you take the medicines together. If your doctor directs you to take these medicines together on a regular basis, follow his or her directions carefully. However, do not take any of the following medicines together with a salicylate for more than a few days, unless your doctor has directed you to do so and is following your progress:
For diabetic patients:
Do not take aspirin for 5 days before any surgery, including dental surgery, unless otherwise directed by your medical doctor or dentist. Taking aspirin during this time may cause bleeding problems.
For patients taking buffered aspirin, choline and magnesium salicylates (e.g., Trilisate), or magnesium salicylate (e.g., Doan's):
If you are taking a laxative containing cellulose, take the salicylate at least 2 hours before or after you take the laxative. Taking these medicines too close together may lessen the effects of the salicylate.
For patients taking this medicine by mouth:
For patients using aspirin suppositories:
Salicylates may interfere with the results of some medical tests. Before you have any medical tests, tell the doctor in charge if you have taken any of these medicines within the past week. If possible, it is best to check with the doctor first, to find out whether the medicine may be taken during the week before the test.
For patients taking one of the products that contain caffeine:
If you think that you or anyone else may have taken an overdose, get emergency help at once. Taking an overdose of these medicines may cause unconsciousness or death. Signs of overdose include convulsions (seizures), hearing loss, confusion, ringing or buzzing in the ears, severe drowsiness or tiredness, severe excitement or nervousness, and fast or deep breathing.
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Cloud storage provider Box just announced a new wrinkle for its file-storage service: faster uploads.
Called Box Accelerator, the latest update to Box's service uses multiple local worldwide endpoints to allow faster uploads into the Box network. A user in New York, for instance, would be able to use the Box node most local to him for uploads, instead of the Box headquarters node on the West Coast.
The new feature is part of Box's basic platform of services; no extra charge is being assessed for it. It's already been beta-tested with a major chunk of the existing user base.
Box has used content delivery networks such as Akamai in the past to synchronize the availability of files for download, but Accelerator involved the construction of dedicated Box nodes in many locales: Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Sao Paolo, and Sydney. Box's long-term goal is to have "a pretty lightweight presence in every major metro area," said Box's VP of tech operations Jeff Queisser.
With these changes in place, Box is claiming increases of up to 10 times in upload speed over its competition. The company commissioned Neustar to perform its own analysis of upload performance on Box's network vs. competitors such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive. According to the report, the average upload speed for Box was 2.7 times that of the competition, or around three times faster than the average U.S. speed.
Aside from being a boon for Box, this seems like a future hint for how online storage providers will compete with each other. At first the competition revolved around storage space, download speed, clients for different platforms, and APIs for professional use. Now, upload speeds and varieties of local caching seem like they're becoming the next frontier. Obviously, the biggest limit for upload speed is always the client's upstream bandwidth--something no third-party offering can fix.
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- Ensure you have 'DefaultLanguage en_GB' line in your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and your firewall isn't blocking Port 8611 for TCP/UDP.
- Get the drivers from here. The drivers are available as rpm and deb packages.
- Once you have the packages downloaded and installed on your system, find out the mac address of your printer somehow. The method I used was to watch for packets in wireshark and pinging the broadcast address of the network.
- Once you have the mac address, Run this command as root:
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Saint John's School of Theology and Seminary, in cooperation with the USCCB Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth, the USCCB Committee on Hispanic Affairs, and fifteen co-sponsoring and collaborating organizations, welcomes you to the website of Working in the Vineyard of the Lord: A National Symposium on Lay Ecclesial Ministry. The symposium is a response to the U.S. bishops' call in Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord to better understand the critical issues facing lay ecclesial ministry.
At the symposium over 200 Catholic leaders representing U.S. bishops, diocesan offices, Catholic colleges and universities, Hispanic, African American and Asian Pacific ministry leaders, pastors, lay ecclesial ministers and national lay ministry organizations discussed compelling questions affecting the advancement of lay ecclesial ministry formation, authorization, pathways and workplace issues.
The outcomes of the symposium include a set of recommendations to advance lay ecclesial ministry in the United States and organizational commitments to foster this change.


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More artists are throwing their hats into the iPhone ring by releasing their own standalone applications that they hope will keep their fans engaged. Five groups under the Universal Music Group label have joined the party by offering fans ways to watch behind-the-scenes videos, buy music, chat with each other, and more. The approach is slightly different than the iPhone apps offered by some other bands, so we thought we would take a look to see how they vary.
The five UMG bands that joined the App Store recently are Lady Gaga, the Pussycat Dolls, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, the All American Rejects, and Keri Hilson (via MusicAlly). The apps for all five are more or less the same, but with different content and different visual looks that are specific to each artist or group. When it comes to content that immediately appeals to fans, it's pretty clear up front that the video section is where it's at, offering "exclusive" clips of various things like live shows, video blogs, promotional clips, and (in the case of the Pussycat Dolls, at least), walks on the beach.
The apps also dedicate an entire section to purchasing music from the musicians, which are really just very roundabout links to the Mobile iTunes Store (clicking "Get" will prompt you to open the link in Mobile Safari, which then opens Mobile iTunes Store and brings you to the artist's page there). The Chat and Sharing functions are a little boring, however; does anyone really want to chat with other Pussycat Dolls fans? And on their iPhones?
This approach to the band-in-an-app is different than what some other bands are experimenting with. For example, the Presidents of the United States of America have released an iPhone app that streams the band's entire discography straight to the device over WiFi or the cell network, including previously unavailable music. And in September, Snow Patrol released its own album in iPhone app form, complete with videos, lyrics, and album art. These apps place a higher importance on the bands' actual music, with extra content being the secondary focus, though the PUSA app costs money, while the UMG apps are all free.
Though we must admit that we prefer it the PUSA and Snow Patrol way, that's not to say there isn't value in the apps released by UMG. Fans love behind-the-scenes videos, no matter how contrived they are, and it's clear in the iTunes reviews of the apps that the videos are exactly the kind of content people are looking for. Of course, there's no rulebook for how bands have to use iPhone apps to promote themselves, so we're glad to see different labels experimenting to find the sweet spot.


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Nick joined QBI Financial in April 2017. Nick has a background in utilizing a variety of corporate valuation and affordability techniques, working directly with CEOs and CFOs to develop and execute corporate strategies. Prior to QBI, Nick was an Associate in the M&A Group of Wells Fargo Securities. Nick began his investment career as an Analyst at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. Nick graduated Cum Laude with a BS in Finance from Wake Forest University and earned his MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia.
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US judge won't stop Vegas newspaper buyout bid
The corporate owners of the Las Vegas Review-Journal cleared one hurdle Friday in a bid to buy out the family publishers of their cross-town rival and end a joint operating agreement with the Las Vegas Sun.
But the family member who runs the Sun promised to keep trying to block Stephens Media LLC from buying the newspaper his father started in 1950 and killing the agreement signed in 1989.
"I believe in this city. I believe in two newspapers. I don't have a choice," Sun Editor-Publisher Brian Greenspun said. "What I heard from the judge is, come back with an agreement. This is round one."
U.S. District Judge James Mahan spoke nostalgically about living in a two-newspaper town, then decided that it was too early to block Stephens Media from trying to buy Sun newspaper and Internet interests from four Greenspun family member trustees.
In a courtroom filled with Review-Journal supporters on one side and Sun backers on the other, the judge rejected a request for an injunction from Greenspun, the lone holdout among his siblings in the buyout deal.
Brian Greenspun's brother, Daniel Greenspun, sat in the back of the courtroom and declined comment.
Daniel Greenspun was one of three Greenspun siblings who agreed on Aug. 7 to preliminary terms of a deal to sell their Sun interests to Stephens Media for $10, a one-time payment of $70,000 apiece, and the lifting of an ongoing $2.5 million per year license fee for an Internet website. He was not a party in his brother's lawsuit against Stephens Media.
The sale would end publication of the Sun newspaper - which is distributed as a six-to-10 page daily insert in the Review-Journal - and give ownership of the Stephens Media website lasvegas.com to Greenspun companies that already control the travel booking website Vegas.com.
The Sun website lasvegassun.com and a bid to have Greenspun family members sign a non-compete clause were off the table, Stephens Media attorney Donald Campbell told the judge.
Campbell suggested the Sun could continue to operate as an online news source, competing with dozens of broadcast stations, websites and blogs.
"We would encourage the Las Vegas Sun to continue with their newspaper on their website," he said. "That has nothing to do with antitrust."
Greenspun and his attorneys argue that the Sun online news operation can't survive without revenue from the newspaper, and that Stephens Media wants to monopolize the Las Vegas news market. They say ending the joint operating agreement overseen by the U.S. Justice Department would lift antitrust protections afforded by the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 and violate federal antitrust law.
The 50-year joint agreement runs through 2039. It left the rival newspapers with separate editorial staffs, but combined advertising, printing and distribution under the Review-Journal business operation.
When the agreement went into effect, there were 21 newspaper joint operating agreements around the country, Justice Department spokeswoman Gina Talamona said.
She said six remain, in Detroit, Charleston, W.Va., Fort Wayne, Ind., York, Pa., Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.
Justice Department officials were reviewing proposed changes to the Las Vegas joint operating agreement, Talamona said.
Eric Witkowski, the Nevada state attorney general's consumer advocate, observed the proceedings and declined comment.
Greenspun attorney Joseph Alioto of San Francisco urged Mahan to stop the Stephens Media effort. The Newspaper Preservation Act clearly prohibits one partner in a joint operating agreement from buying the other, he said.
Instead, Mahan, who began the hearing lamenting the slow death of the Las Vegas Sun, ended saying that he had no dispute to decide.
"There's no contract here. There's no agreement," the judge said. "I think the suit is premature."
Mahan noted that he gave both sides advance notice of his opinions in a four-page order Aug. 27 that characterized Brian Greenspun as a dissident minority board member in the Greenspun Corp. and Las Vegas Sun Inc.
The judge outlined his reluctance to have the court oversee Las Vegas newspaper operations and noted the deaths of newspapers in cities including Seattle, Honolulu and Nashville, Tenn.
Mahan also mentioned the passage of Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report magazines, and said he thought the public preferred to get news from the Internet and television.
"I prefer a two-newspaper town. Not because of the two political parties ... but because the two newspapers emphasize different things," the judge said. "But the times are changing."
Stephens Media attorneys have called the printed Sun a financial drain that costs more than $1 million a year to produce and distribute.
Greenspun pointed in court documents to the effects of the Great Recession and said that since 2008 annual joint operation payments from Stephens Media to the Sun have dropped almost 90 percent, from about $12 million to about $1.3 million a year.
A 2005 amendment to the Las Vegas agreement ceased afternoon publication of the Sun. The combined newspapers circulate some 252,000 copies on an average weekday. The Sun no longer has a printing press.


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The human brain goes through a complex process to form and consolidate memories. But is it possible to replace memories of fearful events, and in doing so, assist in the treatment of patients suffering from the debilitating effects of posttraumatic stress disorder or other anxiety disorders?
Dr. Joseph LeDoux and a team of New York University neuroscientists think they have found a way to replace traumatic memories through therapy.
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America's First Tornado Scientists and What They Taught Us
I was afraid this would be another macho book about reckless men roaming the plains chasing tornadoes during storm season. Instead it turned out to be a wonderful compendium of tornado lore through the centuries. Also included are biographies of some of our most important weather scientists.
Storm Kings begins with a description of how during the 1600s New England settlers called any phenomenon that happened in the sky meteors including: meteors (of course), lightning, thunder, rainbows, comets, clouds in the shape of hands and faces, etc. Although the science behind tornadoes was not understood and barely documented then, many colonists recognized that the weather in America was much more violent than in their home countries.
When a tornado swooped down near Cambridge, MA in 1680, two farming families were shocked when one lost a servant and another a barn during the storm. They were so frightened by this event that one wrote to Increase Mather (the father of Cotton) asking about it. Increase, who was a self-educated weather expert, had no answers so he wrote to a scientific association in Europe. No one replied to his inquiry, but Benjamin Franklin found this letter seventy years later when he became interested in the study of weather and electricity.
James Pollard Espy, a poor man from the Kentucky frontier, went to Pennsylvania to become a schoolmaster, but he loved science and was soon drawn to the Franklin Institute in Philly. While there he began investigating steamboat explosions. This led him to studying clouds and he was invited to look at the damage from a New Brunswick tornado in 1835. This changed the course of his life. He started lecturing on the Lyceum circuit about the power of tornadoes; he believed that they were caused by swiftly rising columns of air.
He worked hard to get a government appointment—he wanted to be the U.S.'s chief meteorologist when there were no weather officials in the entire country, and to set up offices in every region to report storms and violent weather. After barraging many government officials, he was appointed a consulting mathematician to the Secretary of the Navy.
In this unlikely office, what eventually became the United States Weather Bureau was born. Espy set up his own weather station in Washington City (as it was called then) complete with a weathervane on its roof and five balloons. He also wrote to volunteer scientists all over the country (he had the perk of free postage) and asked them to send in weather reports. Within a year he drew his first national weather maps.
Another fascinating character discussed is John Park Finley, who was on track to become a Michigan farmer with a law degree (which many farmers had then). Finley decided that he much preferred the science of weather. In the 1870s this meant only one thing: joining the US Signal Core. This office was then making weather forecasts which they called Probabilities. Their chief was called "Old Probability." Soon, Finley had talked his way into the Washington City office where he created his dream job to research tornadoes. He began by investigating damage after one happened. Because of Finley's obsessive nature, hard work, and miles of travel, he became the first person to issue warnings of "violent local storms." The government would not allow him to use the word tornado.
The last biography covered in the book is that of Fujita. Although you may not know of him personally, you may recognize the initial of his last name. He was the first to rate tornadoes on the scale of F1 to F5. They stood for the level of damage the tornado caused. Category 1 was moderate, followed by considerate, severe, devastating and incredible. It was our violent weather that brought this former mechanical engineer to America and to the University of Chicago. Amazingly, he did not see his first tornado until shortly before his retirement, but he saw the aftermath of countless ones. He is also the scientist who determined that tornadoes could never be more severe than 300 mph or a category 5.
If you enjoy history and writing about science this book is for you. It's well written, surprising at times, and very involving. Of the many interesting points Sandlin made, I was most impressed by his statement that many of the scientists that advanced our study of violent weather were not diligent record keepers or field scientists, but very creative people who envisioned the whole picture through leaps of the imagination.


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System near Florida Straits weakens to 0 percent chance of tropical development
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The National Hurricane Center said a system near the Florida Straits weakened to a zero percent chance of tropical cyclone development on Wednesday while a potential system near the coast of Africa could develop with a 30 percent chance by the end of the week, according to an experimental five-day outlook.
Watch Aug. 28 tropical weather update
The low pressure system over south Florida shows no sign of surface circulation, and the hurricane center doesn't believe it will strengthen as it drifts north over the next few days.
Storms associated with a tropical wave that is currently midway between the Cape Verde Islands and the Windward Islands have diminished, the center said. However, environmental conditions are conducive to for "gradual development" as it nears the Lesser Antilles by next week.
As of Wednesday, the system had a zero percent chance for tropical cyclone development, but in the experimental five-day outlook, the system could have a 20 percent chance as it moves west at 10 to 15 mph.
This year, the NHC began working with an extended forecast period for the 2013 hurricane season and are experimental.
Another tropical wave over west Africa is expected to move off the coast into the Atlantic on Friday. The NHC believes that system could get a 30 percent chance of tropical development over the next five days, according to the extended outlook. On Wednesday, the system had a zero percent chance of development over the next 48 hours as it moves northwest at 10 to 15 mph.
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Where are those one-time Oscar winners now?
LOS ANGELES >> What's happened to those onetime Oscar winners who've remained onetime Oscar winners? In the case of Cuba Gooding Jr., if you aren't destined for a return to the Academy Awards stage, you do a Pepsi commercial for the Oscar show.
The ad, touting Pepsi's mini can, celebrates iconic quotes from movies like "Titanic," "Scarface" and "Jerry Maguire."
"People still ask me to say 'Show me the money,'" laughs Gooding, who scooped the best supporting actor win in 1996 for "Jerry Maguire." "You go to a bar and people have a few cocktails and they'll say 'Just say it one time!' "
This year, it seemed "Lee Daniels' the Butler" was going to get Gooding back to the Oscar ceremony, but the film didn't make the cut in any category. Is the actor upset? "You can't get caught up in the horse race that is the awards season," said Gooding during a recent interview.
But that's exactly what the actor did after winning in '96. "Immediately after it was that thing, 'What do I do next?'" said Gooding. It took eight months before he'd commit to another role - in "What Dreams May Come."
"I think the mistake I made then was I was too precious with my art when I should have just been jumping back into it," said Gooding. "When you have people celebrate you in the way that the Oscars are celebrated, there is a lot of pressure to get to that place. Once you get there, there is a lot of pressure to prove that you deserve to be there, so you always second guess yourself. I had to tell myself to get over it and work."
Gooding has since appeared in more than 30 films.
Here are other one-time Oscar winners who have yet to repeat:
In 2009, Mo'Nique picked up the best supporting actress win for "Precious." "After I won I looked at my husband and said 'Daddy, I'm tired,'" said Mo'Nique in a phone interview. After a five-year hiatus, the actress has finally returned to the screen with the indie film "Blackbird."
She assures that offers for other roles were coming in after her Oscar win, but the parts just weren't for her. "A lot of the scripts didn't make sense," she said. "Some of the feelings were as if I had just got into Hollywood off of the Greyhound bus."
But the break has given her time to reconnect with her family. "What I won't do is get to the end of this journey called life and not have anyone there but memories of this business." Yet she's also ready to return to work. Besides "Blackbird," Mo'Nique will also appear in the upcoming "We Are Family" and plans to work with Lee Daniels again on the story of Hattie McDaniel.
Joe Pesci won an Oscar for best supporting actor in 1990's "Goodfellas." Playing opposite Helen Mirren in 2010's "Love Ranch" was Pesci's most recent acting gig, but he'll soon reunite with his "Goodfellas" crew, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, for "The Irishman," according to his manager, Melissa Prophet. De Niro chatted about the upcoming project this month, telling The New York Post," "We have been trying to do (the film) for the last few years. That's something I'm looking forward to very much." Based on Charles Brandt's book "I Heard You Paint Houses," the story focuses on mafia hitman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran.
Goldie Hawn won the best supporting actress Oscar in 1969 for "Cactus Flower." She last appeared opposite Susan Sarandon in the 2002 comedy "The Banger Sisters." In 2013, she voiced a cartoon character in an episode of the TV show "Phineas and Ferb," but she has stepped away from the film world now to focus on The Hawn Foundation, an organization she launched in 2003 that's dedicated to social and emotional literacy for children. Hawn, a grandmother of five (from children Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson), released the book "10 Mindful Minutes" in 2012, which helps parents educate their children. With her long-time partner, Kurt Russell, by her side, the 68-year-old was honored in December by amFAR for her humanitarian efforts. But no acting jobs for the foreseeable future. In 2012, Hawn told BBC radio that she "didn't like the roles that have come her way since hitting 50.


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