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NL DIVISION SERIES: DODGERS v CUBS
October 1, 2008
Joe Torre
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: Game One
Q. How do these weather conditions affect the way you manage a game?
JOE TORRE: They really don't. If we had someone injury-wise, then I guess we have to consider those conditions, if it was the pitcher. Usually the player, once he gets going, he usually stays pretty warm. The pitcher when he comes in and sits and has to get up and go back out there, it's sometimes an issue. But as far as this club out here, I don't think I have any issues.
Q. You've got a lot of experience in this park managing. As a matter of fact, if I remember correctly, you managed your first game here?
JOE TORRE: No, my first game was in New York, Shea. Although when I was with the Cardinals I was accused of managing (laughter).
Q. Obviously there's no surprises here for you weather-wise or how this ballpark plays.
JOE TORRE: No, not at all. And I think that's probably what you're alluding to as far as play big, play small in this park. You know, I'm a little reluctant to do some things in this ballpark with players that aren't used to doing it. Our ballclub right now is pretty versatile. I think we've had everybody -- a number of these players, you've got Loney, we've had Ethier, we've had Matt Kemp, Casey Blake, all these guys have laid down sacrifice bunts. So we're pretty much ready to do anything, and it could be that the conditions will dictate something like that.
Q. Could you talk a little bit about Chad Billingsley, what he brings to the table for you, and does it help him that he's pitched once here this year?
JOE TORRE: You know, it was interesting, when I first came on board here and went to Vero Beach, I heard a lot about Chad, just about the type of competitor he was. I saw the competitiveness in spring training, but I didn't see everything about him. He didn't have a good spring. He threw the ball all right. He had a little leg issue early, which probably never really went away. But once he sort of got going, he's been pretty special.
And sure, I think it helped that he pitched here early, and probably conditions are about the same as they're going to be here because it was pretty cold when we played that three-game series.
But once he got his confidence -- he had maybe a bad game, but for the most part he believes he can do a lot of things. The most important one is go out there and compete on a regular basis.
Again, you take him out of the game because of his pitch count, and he still wants to go out there and finish it, because that's what he's made of. He's living up to all the previews that I heard about before spring training. He's a special young man. He certainly has a No. 1 mentality the way he goes out there and takes the responsibility.
Q. Can you get into a little bit the Troncoso-McDonald flip?
JOE TORRE: Yeah, you know what was interesting was, we're going to take 11 pitchers, and initially I had told Troncoso when we were in San Francisco that he was going to go to Arizona. Then we started thinking, while you're going through this process, you're thinking about all the pluses and minuses, and what Troncoso obviously brought to the table was, yeah, he can get a ground ball plus the fact that you can warm him up, you can sit down, you can warm him up. So we started thinking a little bit about that and asked him to come with us here. And then we talked early yesterday in our meeting, and we were going to have more discussion here.
You know, I jumped the gun basically. Nothing had been decided, but I was assuming it was decided, so I had told McDonald that he probably wasn't going to -- and I said, you're not going to make it at this point, and then I called him back about five minutes later -- when I saw called him back, we were all at the clubhouse. I said, we're still talking about this stuff, so just keep it under your hat.
And then we revisited and basically came down to the point that, taking nothing away from Troncoso, but what McDonald brought to the table was a variety of stuff. Yeah, he's inexperienced, he's 23 years old, but the fact that he could throw a fastball in the 90s, he has a good breaking ball, a good change-up, size-wise, and he probably pitched five or six times for us. I knew nothing about him before really seeing him because he came to spring training, but he got hurt early on and I didn't get a chance to see a lot of him.
And we just decided that we felt that he could handle it emotionally and wanted to probably include his stuff into our group as opposed to Ramon.
Q. New team, of course, this season, but so many times in the postseason, is it still a fresh and exciting thing to be in the playoffs for you?
JOE TORRE: You know, what's really weird, I mean, I had all this playoff experience, but hell, it didn't start until I was 56 years old (laughter). I had a little bit of a taste of it in '82 when I managed the Braves, but to come into Wrigley Field, I've been in the American League now for 12 years, to come into Wrigley Field for a playoff game, this is pretty cool. I just hung up from Zimmer because every time I come into this ballpark I think of him.
It's pretty exciting. Obviously, we all know the history. I played with the Cardinals for six years and managed them for another five, so you certainly know what the Cubs are all about. But this is pretty exciting to me.
Again, even if I was still with the Yankees, it would still be exciting even though it would have been the 13th time. It never gets old. That's one thing you know. It never gets old, because it's always different in some way every year. There's always a different reason you got there, and hopefully you can move on and all that stuff.
But being in Wrigley Field is pretty exciting.
Q. A two-part question about Russ Martin. One, can you quantify what he brings to your team defensively and then offensively? And two, how he stacks up with other catchers that you've been associated with over the years?
JOE TORRE: Well, Russell, first off, before I got a chance to know a lot about him, I was sort of given some advance notices on him about his ability, and I've seen that. He hasn't had the year that he wished he had. He's a special competitor.
Again, I think he gets a little emotional at times, but he doesn't lack confidence. He's got great tools behind the plate. You know, he's still working on making sure he's there for every pitcher that he catches. He's got great release time with his throws to second base.
Hitting, he's got the ability, I think, to hit .320-plus in this league, or in any league, because of his ability to use the whole field. He'll hit some home runs. He'll probably hit 20-plus because he hits the ball so hard so often. But again, this year you didn't see that from him, but I have a great deal of confidence that if he stays healthy that he's going to be a special catcher for a long time.
Q. You talked last week about not wanting your players to feel the baggage of the 20 years without a postseason series win and all that stuff. How much do you think the pressure is on the Cubs? Because of their history, do you almost feel like they're the ones that have the pressure as opposed to you guys?
JOE TORRE: I think the pressure is on the Cubs. We're playing in their ballpark. They're among the few teams that really dominated the league this year. You have Tampa, you have the Angels and you have the Cubs. I know I mentioned earlier, I maybe missed somebody, but those three teams got my eye this year that they never wavered. They went from out of the gate right to the finish line and really stayed right there.
Sure, having been with the Cardinals for as long as I was with the Cardinals, we certainly knew about the Cub legacy and the players. But I think the fact that the Cubs are a good team, I think takes really center stage over the fact that they haven't -- the organization hasn't been to the World Series in a long time.
Q. What do you remember about Alfonso Soriano? And what do you think of the player he's become since he left you guys?
JOE TORRE: Sori, he was terrific. We didn't do him any favors. We brought him to the big leagues with the Yankees. We played him third base a little bit, switched him back and forth. Told him he was going to make the club as an extra player. Wound up being an outfielder, you know, playing second base. We had him at outfield at first, played second base. Shortstop was his original position. But he always took it and never seemed to have it bother him.
To me he was a special talent. I thought he handled pressure extremely well, not very disciplined at the plate, but again, he's one of those guys that has fun playing the game.
It used to be the running joke he'd walk twice in one game with the Yankees, and that was something he bragged about at the time (laughter). As I said, the big key to him, aside from his ability, and I think we all know what he's capable of, the fact that he enjoys playing the game, and obviously that body stays in shape pretty well. He's dangerous. He's really dangerous because he's so unpredictable on where to pitch him, that he won't be able to hit the ball. He beat us a ballgame here earlier this year, I think the ball was about three inches off the ground, and off the plate outside, and he pulled it down the left field line.
So he's very difficult to, first off, try to pitch around. Not to say I won't try to do it maybe a time or two. But as far as his makeup and having him as a player, I really enjoyed the heck out of him.
Q. Can you talk about managing against Lou. And you're faced each other so many times. At this point you kind of have an idea of what the other is thinking?
JOE TORRE: Well, the thing is Lou is emotional, and he shows it more than I do. But the fact that he's had the experience, he's won championships, he's been down this road a number of times, he knows baseball. Lou knows baseball. He was a great competitor when he played, and he knows how to win.
What can I say? I don't think there's anything predictable about Lou. The fact that he basically manages -- from what I've seen, he manages for right now. If there's something he doesn't like, he changes it or will make a change because that's the way he believes and that's the way he's pretty much managed the whole time.
I did run into him last night at a restaurant, and I felt pretty good about it because I said, if you're here, it must be a pretty good restaurant.
Q. You talked about talking to Zimmer before. Is there any part of the conversation you can share?
JOE TORRE: Well, just Ned Colletti and I were sitting in my office, and we both go back with Zim, just to see what he was doing. I knew they didn't have a game today, so he was relaxing. I'll just say he was relaxing, and you people who know him know what he was doing (laughter).
We just chatted a little bit, and I put him on the phone with Ned. But he's a friend. A lot of managers will hire friends to be coaches. When I took the Yankee job in '96 I hired a couple guys for coaches, to be coaches, that became very dear friends, and it's both Zim and Mel Stottlemyre, and we continue those relationships. But he sounded great. He's got the best job of his life now. He's living at home and now he has a part of postseason with that Tampa club.
Q. The decision to take Maddux with you, anything to do with Wrigley Field and that he's pitched here before?
JOE TORRE: No, I think it just has something to do with him. The only hesitancy I had early on was knowing there's a possibility we'll go with three starters in this series because of the second off-day, and how he would take to the bullpen. It didn't really surprise me that he's here for whatever we need him to do. He's a special person.
I was telling somebody upstairs that here's a guy that when I was managing against him, I never wanted to see him pitch, but I always loved to watch him do that. It was sort of a double-edged sword because he was such an artist, he is such an artist in how he goes about it, and what I'm witnessing now is how great he is to be around. He's really a class act and calm. He always appeared that way. Every once in a while there would be an expletive out there. But he was always very calm.
I see that, and a lot of our other players have benefitted from that.
Q. When you said you didn't know how Greg would take to the bullpen, does that mean how he would handle the news or how he would pitch?
JOE TORRE: Well, both. Well, not pitch. I didn't worry about the pitch part because he pretty much can will himself to do anything he wants. I certainly didn't want to slight him.
I mean, I respect him too much for what he's done and who he is. But before I even forgot to seriously ask him that question, he made it clear through my pitching coach, Rick Honeycutt, that that would be no problem.
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WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India voiced firm opposition on Tuesday to EU plans to impose a scaled-back carbon charge on flights over European airspace while a senior U.S. lawmaker said the EU proposal runs afoul of a law intended to shield U.S. airlines from such charges.
The European Commission, the EU executive, last week proposed to make all airlines pay for emissions over European airspace in a retreat from a suspended EU law that covered the duration of flights using EU airports.
India said the EU proposal defies a global aviation agreement hammered out in Montreal earlier this month at an assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the U.N. body in charge of civil air travel.
"What they (the European Commission) have now done is in total conflict with what the ICAO has decided. The multilateral body has to intervene in this matter," K.N. Shrivastava, India's aviation secretary, told Reuters.
Along with China, India has defied the European Union move, even refusing to submit emissions data before the EU suspended it for a year amid threats of a trade war.
The EU proposal also could push the U.S. government to invoke a law signed by President Barack Obama in November 2012 that would shield U.S. airlines from what Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx may deem an unfair charge.
Republican Senator John Thune, who introduced the measure in the Senate, will raise the issue in a letter to Foxx and other U.S. officials, his office said. The law gives the secretary of transportation the authority to ensure that U.S. carriers are not penalized by unilateral EU emissions charges.
"Senator Thune believes that any such effort by the European Commission would be in direct violation of the legislation that was signed into law last year to hold U.S. air carriers harmless from such unilateral actions," Thune spokesperson Andi Fouberg told Reuters.
ICAO negotiators this month reached a consensus on a market-based system to curb carbon emissions from airlines by 2020, but rejected a proposal to let Europe apply its own plan to foreign carriers in the meantime. The deal averted a looming global trade dispute over aviation emissions.
U.S. airlines hope that because the European Commission's most recent proposal was a draft, the Europeans will revise the plan in line with what was agreed to at ICAO, according to Vaughn Jennings, spokesman for the industry group Airlines for America (A4A).
The European Commission said it is acting in good faith.
"Limiting it to EU airspace and not touching on somebody's else's airspace. That's our interpretation of what was said in Montreal," Artur Runge-Metzger, director for international climate strategy in the Commission's climate department, told Reuters.
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Patience isn't just a virtue with the Los Angeles Galaxy's Tristan Bowen and Yohance Marshall. It's more like a way of life.
Bowen, a second-year forward who became the first player in MLS history to be signed directly from his club's youth academy, and Marshall, a second-year defender who was not drafted out of college, got exactly one minute of playing time between them during the 2009 regular season. They entered this year's training camp with a new appreciation for the game and an understanding of what it takes to succeed at this level.
"The game's obviously faster, the guys are faster and more physical and it takes another part of the brain that you have to use," Bowen said. "It's a lot more competitive. And what the coaches require out of you every day is different than on the youth level."
"It's more of a mental game than a physical one," Marshall said. "I'm still getting used to that."
Bowen first came on the scene in Los Angeles toward the end of the 2008 season, when he appeared in four reserve division games and signed with the club that November. He has played for the U.S. under-18 and under-20 national teams and was called into the U-20 national camp last December. He did see some playing time in 2009 with the PDL's Hollywood Hitmen, then went to the Miami FC Blues of the USL First Division before coming back to southern California in late August.
Marshall, a former youth international with Trinidad and Tobago -- he was born in Diego Martin, Trinidad -- was an undrafted free agent out of the University of South Florida, where he started 73 games and was a three-year captain for the Bulls. The 24-year-old went the distance in a U.S. Open Cup play-in game against the Colorado Rapids last March, went on the disabled list that month with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee and was loaned to the USL's Austin Aztex in late June. He returned to the Galaxy the following month and was on the bench for the final five games of the regular season.
Both players said their rookie seasons were not what they expected, but they figure it's all part of the learning process.
"Coming in, I thought I was going to get more playing time and transition into the game a little bit easier," Bowen said. "It's so competitive. The one day that you don't bring it to practice other guys are going to show you up. You have to make sure every day you're on top of your game, and the little things are what count the most.
"Those are the things you have to focus on. Once you do the little things right the big things take care of themselves."
Said Marshall about his rookie campaign: "It was frustrating, but that's part of what it takes to be part of the team. You have to be there and you have to be ready when you're needed. It was frustrating that I wasn't getting to play, but you also have to focus on that you're still a member of the team and you still have to go and perform.
"No matter what, you have to be ready."
Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena has talked to both players about what he expects out of them this season. The emphasis for Marshall was improved fitness, but Bowen's instructions were more game-specific. Arena told him he might be used in much the same way as former Galaxy standout Cobi Jones, now an assistant coach -- roaming the wings and getting behind the opponent's backline.
Bowen said he would love to emulate one of the greatest players in MLS history but with one exception: he won't sport the same hairstyle.
"I'm a short cut guy," Bowen said with a laugh.
Bowen and Marshall emphasized last season was not a total loss despite the inactivity.
"Everything else this year is coming a little easier, now that I have a year of experience," Bowen said. "I'm much better prepared."
"Mentally I'm a lot stronger," Marshall said. "I kind of have a better feel for things from last preseason to this preseason. I know what I have to do and I love what I do."


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I baked German Five-Kern Bread from Peter Reinhart's "Crust & Crumb" a few weeks back. This has turned out to be one of my favorite breads and I wish I had discovered it sooner. The Five-Kern is made from coarse dark rye flour (20.26% - I used NYBakers Dark Rye), bread flour (KA), cooked brown rice, polenta, oats, flax seeds and honey. And water and salt, of course. I guess I turned it into a Six-Kern bread with the poppy seed embellishment.
I followed Peter's book closely, but do not feel comfortable posting his commercial formula. It does involve building a rye sponge followed by a firm rye starter over the course of a couple of days. The flavor was incredible, particularly the crust, and the crumb was much lighter than I expected. An enticing aroma filled the house during the bake.
Even with the 2 stage elaboration, the amount of pre-fermented flour was only 15.19%. The final dough hydration was 63.80%, but the crumb of the finished loaves seemed moister than that.
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Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Inducing falling from treadmill, bone marrow, heat and ice (cream)
14 comments:
- Julie said...
Interval training is something I know I really need to do but I never seem to do it.
I saw your picture in this months Ultrarunner magazine! Pretty cool.
- 24 July 2012 at 23:17
- Robyn said...
Sorbet! And coconut milk ice cream! You'll never miss the dairy.
- 24 July 2012 at 23:30
- Karen said...
I also saw your photo in Ultrarunner! I just picked up my first copy at a running store in Oregon.
It is awesome that you intimidated that guy enough that he fell off the treadmill. Made me LOL thinking about it.
I feel like for every study that they do that proves something is good, there's one saying things are bad. I just go with what makes me feel good and I ignore studies.
I occasionally eat meat and looooooooooove ice baths if my legs feel like they want one. I also have a hot tub that I use often, it makes me feel stiff if I don't stretch again right after using it though. :)
- 25 July 2012 at 01:14
- CP said...
Thank you for saying something about paleo! It's a huge fad here and it drives me insane because it's not even accurate!
- 25 July 2012 at 01:40
- sea legs girl said...
Julie & Karen
Thanks for letting me know about the picture! Which race is it from? I'll have to get a copy.
Robyn, funny thing is we actually DID get sorbet, but it's just way too sugary for me.
Agreed, CP. It's a fad, but there is certainly truth in the idea that it is healthy to eat like our ancestors and to eat whole foods. No one is probably arguing against that, though.
- 25 July 2012 at 04:17
- Julie said...
The picture is from Mad City and it's a picture of you standing with RD Tim Yanacheck. Nice little article about the race and you of course are mentioned in the article as well since you won. :)
- 25 July 2012 at 05:14
- mmmonyka said...
You are responsible for a guy falling off the treadmill. So funny.
Since you are so anal about those intervals (exactly 0.1 walking, 0.27! jog...), do them right! 0,625 mile is not 1k. 0,6215 is 1k. So you are even faster than 3:55:)
- 25 July 2012 at 08:54
- maria said...
+1 for coconut milk ice cream - I only eat it about once a year but it's AMAZING
I can't believe you kept sprinting while the guy next to you fell off the treadmill! Well, actually I can believe that YOU would keep running. I would've had to stop for fear of falling over myself.
Here's the link again to the article in case peeps are curious http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/07/23/human-ancestors-were-nearly-all-vegetarians/
I would be interested to see what your new(ish) gluten free health diet looks like, maybe you can put a few days or a week's worth of food journal up? Will it be harder to avoid gluten in Denmark? I eat criossants and get really fat in Europe. Guessing you don't have this problem. Good luck with your move.
- 25 July 2012 at 16:24
- SteveQ said...
I'm willing to bet the majority of protein in the paleolithic diet came from insects and worms. Why that never seems to get mentioned is beyond me.
- 25 July 2012 at 17:12
- Alicia Hudelson said...
I saw your picture in Ultrarunner too but I forgot to bring it (along with all your other magazines!). It looks good though:)
Your intervals are making me excited for a good track workout!
My main problem with the paleo diet people is they seem to assume that this diet must have made our ancestors healthy and well-prepped for good ultrarunning. And maybe it did, but we don't know how healthy those ancestors were (no data on disease rates from that period!), and even if we had some data, our ancestors weren't living long enough for us to know if they would have had, for example, Japanese diet levels of health or American diet levels of health... Also, how many of our ancestors were racing (not walking or jogging) ultras on a regular basis?
Maria, you totally would have kept running! Also, I need to try this coconut milk ice cream, yum.
Okay, sorry, one more thing. I always learned that icing for more than 10 mins was good for tendinitis because the vasodilation increased blood flow to the area and thus increased the rate of healing. Is that not the favored plan anymore?
- 25 July 2012 at 18:26
- sea legs girl said...
Alicia- this icing thing for tendonitis has me confused. Cold causes vasoconstriction and not vasodilation. So I am not sure what the thinking is behind this since vasoconstriction generally won't promote healing but perhaps the physiology of tendons are different. Do you have an article on this you could send me?
- 25 July 2012 at 22:19
- Alicia Hudelson said...
What I've always learned is that cold initially (for about 10 minutes) causes vasoconstriction, but after that causes vasodilation. Check out the section on cold-water immersion here:
"The initial vasoconstriction
induced by the cold exposure is followed in 5 to 15
minutes by a vasodilation of variable duration and
magnitude (cold-induced vasodilation, CIVD)."
But, one of my climber friends did mention recently that there's been new research on the use of cold water for healing of tendinitis--I don't remember exactly what because he was talking about this while pacing during the later parts of the West Highland Way race:)--so I thought maybe that's what you were getting at.
- 26 July 2012 at 00:09
- SteveQ said...
Four years late on this one, but "Middle Distance Runner" by Sea Wolf. Not the right tempo for me, though.
- 1 August 2012 at 18:05
- Alicia Hudelson said...
Ahem. It is totally unfair to have a photo from the triathlon up as your new blog photo but not to have a race report!
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Lesson Two: Cultivating the Next Generation of Qualified Workers
Successful companies know that meeting the growing need for talented employees in the next 10 years means educating students with the right skills now. Educators play an important role in connecting people with disabilities to employers. The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services' (OSERS) Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) works with OSERS' Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) and with state education agencies to prepare students with disabilities for higher education, employment and independent living.
OSEP also requires schools across the country to establish transition curricula, which include community work-based learning experiences for youths with disabilities. By partnering with schools to offer work-based learning experiences for students with disabilities, your business can help create a pipeline of future employees who are knowledgeable and trained for jobs in your organization. These work-based learning opportunities may include the following:
- Apprenticeships On-the-job training and related classroom instruction provides students with disabilities an opportunity to learn the practical and theoretical aspects of highly skilled occupations. Joint employer and labor groups, individual employers and employer associations sponsor apprenticeship programs.
- Career academies Schools create a personalized and supportive learning environment for students with disabilities by combining academic and career-related competencies organized into small learning communities.
- Internships While spending time in a business, industry or other organization, students with disabilities gain insight into and direct experience with different types of work environments. Internships can be paid or unpaid.
- Job shadowing and mentoring days These activities are designed to allow students with disabilities to "shadow" or observe workplace mentors as they go through a normal day on the job. Job shadowing and mentoring provide students with disabilities a realistic look at the workplace.
- School-based enterprises Tapping into entrepreneurial talents, students with disabilities organize into a group to produce goods or services for sale. Your success as a business leader places you in a position to offer advice to these future entrepreneurs.
- Service learning Students with disabilities expand their horizons by combining meaningful community service with academic learning, personal growth and civic responsibility.
Work-based learning experiences can help students with disabilities prepare to enter your workforce and
- develop positive work attitudes and behaviors;
- learn general workplace readiness skills as well as job-specific skills;
- identify necessary work accommodations and supports;
- gain exposure to diverse working environments;
- apply practical theories learned in the classroom to your business;
- clarify and get excited about their career choices; and
- network with potential employers.
No Child Left Behind and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act work together to give students with disabilities the educational foundation they need to be productive employees. This preparation is making a difference for our young people. The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, shows that in 2003, 70 percent of students with disabilities who had been out of school for up to two years had paying jobs, compared to only 55 percent in 1987.
Work-Based Learning: A Win-Win Experience
Employers benefit from work-based learning experiences as well. Companies that institute mentoring, job-shadowing, apprenticeship and internship programs learn firsthand how people with disabilities can contribute. Businesses discover that working and interacting with employees with disabilities raises morale and eliminates the mystery of workplace accommodations. Positive experiences with students dispel the fears that employers have about giving people with disabilities a chance in full-time employment. Most importantly, businesses that implement these programs cultivate their next generation of qualified workers and attract new customers.
Lesson Two: Strategies
The strategies listed below are some of the ways you as an employer can get involved in creating work-based learning opportunities for people with disabilities in your community.
Strategy 1:
Connect with your local schools by:
- helping schools and career counselors identify competencies, both personal and technical, that students with disabilities will need in the workplace;
- instituting mentoring and internship opportunities to place students in your company-sponsored programs;
- using your business connections to provide schools with instructors in specific professional and technical fields who can work with special education and VR professionals in your community;
- assisting schools and special education coordinators to develop curricula and instructional plans that prepare students with disabilities for jobs in the local market;
- providing assistance to students who want to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors; and
- advising educators and counselors of the future skill needs of your workforce.
To assist you in completing this strategy, locate local high schools in your area by contacting your state education agency through the Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) at http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/.
Strategy 2:
Connect with your local community colleges and universities.
When you recruit at colleges and universities, indicate to the career office that you have an interest in recruiting students with disabilities. To provide work-based learning experiences to college students with disabilities, reach out to colleges or universities.
Strategy 3:
When you attend school-sponsored open houses and job fairs, provide recruiting materials in accessible formats, make sure interviewing locations are accessible, and be sure your Web site is accessible to people with disabilities. For more information, visit the Job Accommodation Network at http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu.
Strategy 4:
Serve as a mentor to students with disabilities. Contact your local CIL (www.ilusa.com/links/ilcenters.htm) to identify possible opportunities or contact the American Association of People with Disabilities (www.aapd-dc.org) to find out how your business can participate in the annual National Disability Mentoring Day in October.
At Cingular Wireless, accessibility is more than a word it's a commitment to ensure equality in our workforce and convenience for our employees and customers with disabilities. Increased accessibility and usability of our products is good business for everyone. From our participation in annual Disability Mentoring Day and our strategic alliances with national disability organizations whose leaders compose our Wireless Access Task Force, to our leadership in the creation of our National Call Center for Customers with Disabilities, our efforts are raising the bar across a variety of sectors. Our 2003 New Freedom Initiative Award presented by U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Elaine Chao was a tremendous honor, and a great recognition of our efforts toward inclusion of people with disabilities in all facets of our business.
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A woman sunbathing at Venice Beach was in critical condition Wednesday after being hit by a county maintenance worker's truck.
The 49-year-old woman, who was not immediately identified, was lying face down in the sand on Via Marina Peninsula beach around 10:30 a.m. when she was hit by a 2 ton, Nissan Xterra driven by a veteran county employee.
Residents in the area said they weren't shocked by the incident but surprised.
"The amount of traffic on the beach is unacceptable," Bob Mannheimer said, who lives in Venice Beach. "There should be a little more focus on efficiency."
Mannheimer also expressed his concern for what he believed was unnecessary trips taken by county workers on the beach.
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"They take trips back and forth where nothing's going on," he said.
Accidents of this nature, although unlikely, have happened before.
A woman was killed in 2006 when an Oxnard Police Officer, who was patrolling the beach, ran over her with his SUV. Oxnard Police Chief John Crombach told the LA Times at the time,"We've been patrolling beaches for at least 30 years, since the mid-1970s, and nothing like this has ever happened."
Wednesday's accident was the first of its kind for LA County in 25 years.
Before the incident, the maintenance worker stopped his vehicle near the woman to survey some debris on the beach and arrange for its removal, according to a statement issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors.
"She was laying very close to the shoreline. She wasn't in the wet sand, but she was in the dry sand very close to it," said Carol Baker, a spokeswoman for Department of Beaches and Harbors.
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Baker said there were other witnesses on the beach at the time.
The driver didn't see her on the beach and struck her with the vehicle as he attempted to leave, Baker said. He stopped to help once he realized he'd struck someone. His name was not immediately released.
The woman was alert following the incident, and was taken to UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, where she was listed in serious condition.
Los Angeles Police Department investigators responded to the scene, and the driver, was questioned and later released.
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The editors of Sudden Denouement Literary Collective know that our strength is our writers. We hope that you enjoy getting to know them through our new Writer Interview Series.
What name do you write under?
Most of the time, my own. Past blogs have taken on a moniker that is not my own, but every book I have published bears my name and not the project it's associated with.
In what part of the world do you live?
I live in Canada, in the national capital, Ottawa. My parents met working the Prime Minister's office in the late 70s. It's pretty quiet here, unlike our neighbours Toronto and Montreal. Very much a political town, full of old buildings and the Parliament can be seen from every direction when downtown.
Tell us about yourself.
I am a writer. I feel like I can say because there are almost physical withdrawals to going a day without writing or creating something. I started writing poetry when I was eleven. To be honest, it was never part of my plan to be a poet, but my father was gone a lot and I was left with his monster of a third wife who emotionally manipulated every second of my day. Writing became my form of control in a hostile environment, and poetry was so easy, it just evolved from there.
Where do you publish your work?
FVR Publishing
When did you begin your blog and what motivated you start it?
When I was 22, my friend took her life and ever since, not only have my own mental health issues become more prominent, but I promised to honour her somehow. After completing my first novel in 2011, I started thinking about blogging. All the poetry on my hard drive, some stretching back years, wasn't exactly my first attempt at a blog, but the reactions were swift and positive, and it's something I spent the last six years honing. I feel truly blessed for having had the experience, which has opened so many amazing doors and introduced me to some wonderful people.
What inspires/motivates you to keep blogging?
Honestly, I just love writing. I have struggled with some facets of it over the years, but even at my most financially or mentally precarious, I feel so blessed to have the compulsion to create. Not everything comes out the way you'd hope, but that only makes your best work stand out more.
When and how did you find your way to Sudden Denouement?
Very recently, in fact. I'm the new kid here. For me, joining SD is the outcome of cultivating relationships with some amazing people. I believe the earliest exchange between one of its writers and I was with Kindra on my blog. Others followed my blog, and I followed them back. I found Nicole on Facebook while looking through poetry pages, and her work spoke (and still does!) volumes to me. I remember meeting Christine through my mental health book, Swear to Me, although I'm sure we had exchanges before that. It took awhile to connect everyone to Sudden Denouement, but I could not turn down the chance to work with so many of my favourite modern poets.
What does "Divergent Literature" mean to you?
Well, to diverge is to separate, and I take that to mean we stand apart from the mainstream, carving out our own niche in the literary world. I have nothing but respect for for those who do the things they've always been done, but I was never good with conventional means, so I'm happy with that definition.
Jasper Kerkau frequently talks about Sudden Denouement writers using the 'secret language.' What is it?
I don't yet know Jasper well enough to deduce much from this statement, honestly.
Tell us about your literary influences.
Stephen King was my first huge literary influence- my mom gave me a copy of Cujo when I was 9. Once the nightmares subsided, I went on to read most of his work up until the mid-2000s. Chuck Palahnuik is another huge one. I used to read a lot more before my kid was born. I should correct that. I used to read more than Dr. Seuss before my kid. I'm happy because she's now learning how to read, and hopefully I can show her there's a lot more than picture books. My dad once gave me a copy of the Two Towers without having read Fellowship of the Ring, so needless to say, I hope to do a better job teaching her than he did with me.
Has any of your work been published in print? How did that happen?
I have published three full collections of poetry- GROUND ZERO, SWEAR TO ME and the FVR Collection. There have been five smaller chapbooks, ten to twelve poems each, that focused on subjects ranging from economic disparity to Donald Trump. Those are some of my favourites.
I have completed two full novels in my lifetime. The first one was a mess and the second is in eternal limbo. I will publish my third, which is about half finished, sometime next year, using all the experience I've gathered publishing poetry.
What are your writing goals?
I used to write because I thought I was a great writer, but I have been humbled the last five years. Part of that was my own mental health deteriorating, another was seeing the sheer breadth of talent I had to compete with. At my lowest moment, I had this epiphany, that all my secrets had to come out, including my struggles with my sexuality and depression. I had to stop pretending to be what I wanted to be and be what I am, or it would kill me. To make this a bit more succinct, the goals are momentary now. I don't need to be the world's best writer, just one I like myself.
Which pieces of your own writing are your favorites?
There's no easy to answer to this, as I am my own worst critic. Everything in the FVR Collection comprises the poems I keep closest, the ones I would want my daughter and family to see after I'm gone. At the risk of diverging from the pack, I will leave this quote instead, from my poem "AlterKnitUniVerse":
Skies under
the influence of
a cooler shade of day;
a pair of new
moons serve to
ascertain this
isn't a world created
for me but
the one I endlessly
and adapted,
and I let
its rapids
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What else would like to share about your writing, Sudden Denouement, or yourself?
You are more than the sum of your struggles. That is the message my poetry has sought to leave. That is the message it will continue to cultivate, while I work alongside some of the world's best writers to help SD thrive.
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If you were looking for model golf swings to teach to a new player, Inbee Park's would not immediately jump to the top of your list. Not that the new Kraft Nabisco Champion has swing flaws; it's just with her slightly closed clubface and steep plane, it is a swing that requires good timing and a steady base – perfect for Inbee, but not for everyone.
Her putting stroke is a different matter.
Inbee won her second major by being No. 1 in putting for the week, which didn't surprise anyone who follows women's golf. She has averaged 28 putts per round for two years, so when he hits a lot of greens in regulation, as she did at Mission Hills, she is hard to beat.
Her putting stroke is a thing of beauty, as rhythmic as rushing water and consistent in every circumstance. As a result, she drained one putt after another in the desert, capturing her second major with what appeared to be relative ease.
The key to Inbee's stroke is the total lack of tension in her arms and shoulders. If you were to walk up and grab her putter at address you could pull it out of her hands because of how loosely she holds it.
Grip pressure is a tricky subject, because you need enough to control the putter face. But too much pressure leads to tension, which impedes your ability to make a free, rhythmic stroke. Being in a tense situation exacerbates the problem. Whether it's a woman playing in her first nine-hole ladies' day event, or a leader teeing off in the final round of a major championship, the heart races, the breath quickens and tension increases, starting in your hands and running throughout your body.
That tension shows up in all parts of your game, but especially in putting. It's why you often see tournament leaders struggle to hit putts the right speed. Inbee didn't have that problem. Even the putts that didn't go in looked good. She had command of the speed, and most cases the line. When she missed, she left herself tap-ins.
You can achieve that same consistency, but only if you rid yourself of tension in your arms and shoulders. One trick to get you there is to take long, deep breaths as you line up your putts. You should count slowly to five as you inhale and then again to five as you exhale. You will feel the tension melt. As a result, you will make better putts and become more consistent on the greens.
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Happy Friday everyone! Casey here.
Right before Christmas Day I swore that I would finish edits to Mystic Storm so I could send it to my first readers. This book really challenged my resolve. Unlike my other books, it's taken me all year (on and off) to complete the story.
Part of the problem – I knew the story was missing something. I wasn't exactly sure what was missing or how it should be fixed. Silly me, instead of following my own tried and true advice – keep going and look back later – I stopped.
Then I was snared, snarled, in a quagmire – take your pick. I was stuck. I even wrote another entire novel (Misfortune Cookie) under the belief that time would solve the problem. You know, a little perspective and time apart and the solution would present itself.
Well. . . no. That didn't work.
Instead, I had to suck it up and finish, word by gruelling word. Because, by golly, I was finishing Zephyr's book in 2012. So there.
As a result, this year, I skipped NaNo and finished the first draft. Finally. Problem solved right?
Again. No. The something was still missing. Not a big something, but a more subtle element was needed earlier in the story. By this time, as you can imagine, I was really, really sick of Mystic Storm. Zephyr and I were barely on speaking terms at this point.
What's a writer to do?
Throw in the flying monkeys. In my case, I did that – literally. Sorry, you'll have to wait for the actual book to find out how.
The point here is this – conflict is king. If you don't have it, you don't have anything. I had clearly defined goals and motivation (internal and external) and I had some conflicts but I needed more of the right kind of conflict. The kind that moves the story along. Never, never throw in a flying monkey (or whatever conflict you choose) just because. It has to serve a purpose or your reader will know you are padding your word count.
Once I solved the "Case of the Missing Something", I made those edits and now the book is in the hands of my trusted first readers (who are actual readers and not writers). If it passes their reader instincts then I know I'm good to move onto the next stage – more edits!
Who knew that some flying monkeys could bring my hero and heroine closer together. Funny how life works isn't it?
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A technique developed from the Nara clan's hiden Shadow Imitation Technique with combat in mind. It is possible to inflict direct damage to the enemy by transforming and moving shadows endowed with physical power.
It is possible to attack body parts like fingers and such by turning the shadow slender and to bind the opponent's body in order to restrain them. It was given its name because, above all else, strangulation is the most efficient method. The smaller the distance to the target, the greater the power of the shadow. This technique cannot be used for an extended period of time, as it weakens with each passing minute.
- Shikamaru used this technique on himself to break his finger, using the pain to escape from Tayuya's genjutsu.
- In the anime it was shown that this technique can be manipulated in a similar manner to the Shadow Sewing Technique.[2]
- The technique appears in Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm as Shikamaru's ultimate technique. However, rather than strangling the opponent, it binds them to a nearby rock and then tightly squeezes them, destroying the rock and crushing the opponent.
- In Naruto: Path of the Ninja 2, using this technique on multiple opponents at once gives it the name Shadow Sinking Technique.
- Shikaku calls this technique "Leaf Secret: Shadow–Neck Binding Technique" (木ノ葉秘伝・影首縛りの術, Konoha Hiden: Kage–Kubishibari no Jutsu, Literally meaning: Tree Leaf Secret: Shadow–Neck Binding Technique). Shikamaru also calls it like this in Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3, Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 4 and Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 5.
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I think it was fitting that this photo was first posted on the Our Amazing Planet blog (via Reddit).
Check out the size of that thing!
We have driftwood where I live in Portland, Maine, but nothing like what washes ashore near Washington state's Olympic National Park, where this photo was taken. The tree most likely fell into a river after flooding and floated out to sea. High tides and strong wind then pushed it back on shore.
It should be noted that the woman standing in front of the tree is six feet tall.
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The purpose of the ICI Library is to assist the ICI Staff and Fellows in their research with customized services. The library collection is focused on materials related to the ICI Core Project and ICI Events, the latter of which are recorded and made available on DVD in the ICI Edition. The collection of research literature concentrates on key works from Contemporary Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Gender and Queer Studies, Cultural Science and Literary Studies, the Anthropology of Art, Cultural Anthropology, Postcolonial Theory and the History of Science. This profile follows the development of the ICI Berlin. The ICI Library is conceived as a hybrid between a traditional book collection and a special virtual library. In addition to its own holdings, it relies on the resources of other libraries and institutions.
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Why Milwaukee Wisconsin Area Business Owners Need to Be Concerned About Vapor Intrusion
The Threat of Vapor Intrusion to Your Milwaukee, Wisconsin Business
If you call the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area home, you may already be familiar with the problem of radon contamination. You may even have had your home tested for such contamination and perhaps even repaired. If you also own and operate a business in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, you also need to be aware of a similar problem that can plague commercial buildings the same way radon can cause contamination in residential homes.
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I began taking piano lessons again on Monday, my first time since elementary school. I'm pretty pumped about it. My 11-year-old daughter is incredulous.
"OMG Mom, really?" Holly asked. "A 45-year-old woman taking piano lessons?"
My Facebook friends were more enthused.
Devonne says she's looking forward to a Chopsticks duet and Shereen, a piano teacher, says I should go for it, as she's taught many an "over-forty-fiver." (Hey, Shereen, I'm not quite 'over' 45 yet – unless we're counting months, but I digress.)
I remember how good it felt to really lose myself in a tune, and I want that feeling back. I really need to learn something besides my own crazy rendition of "Für Elise," though, the only tune I can recall from my childhood.
Beethoven might roll over in his grave at this, but I never did read the sheet music, so my version is whatever stuck from that one afternoon about 35 years ago when I attempted to imitate my accomplished pianist-cousin, Anne. I get a kick out of the fact that "Für Elise" is our other cousin, Janet's, "go-to" tune, too, which she says she sometimes plays to impress her young boys. That, and her own brief version of Van Halen's "Jump." Whoa, very cool.
I wonder what I could possibly play that would impress Noah and Holly? My Aunt Kathy, who, as a young adult, lived with my family around the time I last took lessons, piped up when I asked that question.
"Please, no 'Swans on the Lake,'" she joked. Yeah, I practically lit my mom's piano on fire from playing it so often. (Now that I think of it, I do still know how to play that one!)
My friend Amber, another mom, also responded to my post. She says she's always wanted to learn how to play the piano, and just might try it now, too. I sure hope she does.
The thing is, learning isn't just for kids. I also think that sometimes we moms (and parents in general) fall into the habit of tending to everyone else's needs before our own. It seems we can't justify spending money or time on something unless it makes the house look nice, enhances our kids' lives or somehow helps someone else, right? But consider that doing something nice for yourself models for your children that it's OK to invest in oneself, sometimes. Not just OK, but necessary. After all, a happy mom makes for a happier family, doesn't it?
But my point goes beyond taking care of yourself. Isn't it OK for moms to do something every now and then simply because it just feels good? I think so. After all, we may be moms, but we're not dead yet.
"I'm dying to take lessons from her," I admitted, as I pulled into Mrs. Muir's driveway for Holly's piano lesson last week.
"If you want to take lessons so badly, just do it," Holly remarked. So, with a "Why the heck not?" in my heart and a grin on my face, I e-mailed Mrs. Muir before I even backed out of her driveway.
I get Holly's ambivalence about my piano lessons. After all, she's taking lessons, too, and is at that age where having things in common with your mom isn't always so cool. I guess I felt like I needed her permission, in this case.
Several months ago, after we bought our piano and she began her lessons, I suggested that she be my teacher and teach me everything Mrs. Muir taught her (I figured that by teaching me, she'd reinforce the learning for herself). She agreed, as long as I paid her $5 a lesson. I had to laugh at her ingenuity, but we shook on it.
The lessons were great. Holly's a patient and thorough teacher, but things kind of petered out when she decided I wasn't cooperating, as between our lessons I snuck peeks at later pages in the book and took a stab at those, when I thought she wasn't paying attention. We had a good laugh when she admitted that she was trying to keep me a week behind her.
Mrs. Muir astutely suggested that I get my own music books, so it seems I'll be playing different music altogether. Clever, that one, and a darned good teacher, too. Holly jumped on the idea.
"She writes in my books," she said. "notes – just for me." Yes indeed, my daughter should play a different tune, one all her own.
The first time I sat down to practice, though, she made sure I didn't miss a beat.
"Something's not right," she said, as she trotted downstairs to see why my book's version of "Mary had a Little Lamb" had a little kink in it. Awesome. I'll take all the help I can get. (I've noticed, too, that since I've begun practicing every day, Holly's more inclined to tickle the ivories a little more often, herself.)
Seems she's a-OK with my taking lessons, but what's more, so am I. It really is OK for me to do something purely because it feels good. To me. And it's about time.
A 45-year-old woman taking piano lessons? Why, yes, I do believe I will.
• Jennifer DuBose lives in Batavia with her husband, Todd, and their two children, Noah and Holly. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Congratulations Mike. Glad not to see them get away with it.
Wonder why he wants this URL to be removed from search:
"What does this signal for copyright owners who expect to get paid for their content?"
"It signals nothing."
I am a photographer and make my living licensing images.
Even so I agree with the article completely. The C of C is just ridiculous
Yes some of those industries are profitable exactly because they have tended to abuse copyright, to wit the publishing companies which have regularly exceeded the terms of the licenses granted to them
I'm surprised they didn't charge the local Catholic Church for not being sufficiently prayerful, or for uttering ineffective prayers.
Maybe they are next.
Clearly the most egregious and illegal activity was violating his twitter name!!
Eh, what??
Mike, it is unclear from the article whether the researcher actually ended up publishing the image.
If not, why the reticence in discussing details?
There's probably a market opportunity then for non-SABAM books free from any such restrictions.
Instead of music consider another medium. Let's say you think of a hilarious joke (like the one about the three nuns in a taxi…..) and you tell a friend. She thinks it's the funniest thing she's ever heard and tells her friends and they tell all their friends and soon it spreads like wildfire. You go on a trip to another state and are at a party and someone asks you "did you hear the one about the three nuns in a taxi? " You say "hey that's my joke, you stole it. You can't tell it. You have to pay me."
Now it sounds ridiculous but digital content is somewhat like this. In economic terms it is non-exclusive, meaning it's not really possible to prevent it spreading. Try telling people not to tell your joke.
To be sure there are still differences between music. Oral jokes are not copyrightable; but if you wrote it down after you told it, then it would be. Also joketelling is not a commercial enterprise so you aren't expecting to be paid. But in terms of how easy it is to transmit and how unlikely you are to be able to prevent it spreading, it is very similar indeed.
That's the larger problem we are facing long-term, not copyright, but that with digital technology created content is becoming less like a private good, such as books and cars, and more like a public good, such as language, and we don't know exactly what to do about it
well I'll just charge them $3 for the privilege of receiving my payment
Ebert mentions "Competition from other forms of delivery" and you add "Competition from other forms of entertaintment."
More significant I think is competition from all the other movies made in the past.
You can't see them in theaters, but only via home rentals of some sort. With today's technology we are no longer restricted to seeing just the few films most recently released and being marketed, but can, at our leisure and on our own time, see any of tens of thousands of films.
I'd gladly have seen 3:10 to Yuma, Unforgiven, Gone With the Wind in theaters last year but they weren't showing anywhere so I watched them on Netflix.
There aren't enough cinemas to show even a fraction of films people want to watch and this is an inevitable consequence of today's technology.
What about the fact that they registered a trademark in the word Righthaven?
"IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: Searching and retrieving information, sites, and other resources available on computer networks for others. FIRST USE: 20100301. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20100301"
Although SOPA refers to copyrighted material the motivation behind it is exclusively focused on Hollywood films and big label music.
Does anyone think for a minute that the Attorney General, or the ISPs or anyone else will be interested in, or capable of, identifying infringements of photographs, poems, fonts, children's drawings, quotations, logos and distinguishing them from licensed usages or fair use? Not a chance.
This in effect provides for elevated copyright protection for a very small subset of content, films and music, supported and paid for by MPAA and RIAA.
Not a good idea at all.
I read the NY Times quite often and enjoy it as one of my news sources along with BBC Reuters the Washington Post and (recently) Al Jazeera, and sohave no problem paying a small amount for doing so with ease.
$35 a month is way way too high in my opinion. When I found out you could get full digital subscription by subscribing the Weekend Book Review for $1.75 a week I signed up. That's about $7.50 a month, which is more reasonable (the right price, I'd say, would be $4.99 a month)
They since seem to have disabled the link, but you might still be able to get a subscription.
As for hacks, the easiest way of all I found was to go to nytimes.com and then instead of clicking on links, do a right-click-copy-link-open-new-window-paste. No ?args. No paywall.
Even so that's a pain and I chose the $7.50 a month instead.
I donate $1 + a month to you, Mike, and they write many more stories than you do.
Making it a highly porous barrier may turn out to be a fair compromise. Traffic will tell.
The Social Science Research Council's study is a landmark in the copyright literature: an actual empirical investigation into what works and what doesn't in the enforcement arena. If policy makers want to be guided by evidence and not rhetoric, they will begin with the Council's study and stay with it for a very long time.
— William Patry, senior copyright counsel, Google
nice work he has there. funny that very few of the images are actually NY Times images. Most are artwork or historical
There's a lengthy discussion over at the law blog
http://volokh.com/2011/02/25/suppression-of-jury-nullification-advocates-speech-outside-cour thouse/
The argument (perhaps from the studios) that it would not be fair for Netflix to buy just one dvd of a movie and then stream it tens of thousands of times, does make some sense.
But a reasonable solution could be that if they buy (license) say, 10,000 copies at the dvd price, then they can stream up to 10,000 simultaneous showings of a movie.
It wouldn't be too much of a hardship for viewers to understand that all the available films are being watched at some particular time and Netflix could manage their purchased to meet demand just like they do now with physical dvds.
So who has the copyright on the vuvu sounds. Surely they are creative, with beat and rhythm?
Did Ubisoft get licenses from the copyright holders, the vuvu players, or did they just take the recordings and use them?
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I recently attended a small conference that included some of the best and brightest minds in the industry to discuss solutions to current economic issues impacting our industry. This conference included manufacturers, club owners and consultants to the industry. The focus was on stabilizing and expanding the commercial fitness business through turbulent times.
The tone was optimistic, but what struck me most was the uniquely realistic perspective that I have not seen before. Some people at the conference were competitors, and after being in this industry for more than 23 years, I was struck by their candor and openness. It was as if everyone was recognizing publicly — for the first time — the outside economic issues facing our customer base and, more importantly, discussing solutions that will help all of us.
The most pervasive message came from a well-known CEO in the industry who said that we've all been through difficult economic downturns through the years and made it through them, but this one is different. If anyone is expecting the next busy season to solve our problems, we are not being realistic. This is not a one- or two-year cycle. He went on to say that in order to survive and thrive, the best clubs will need to not only control costs but also, in some cases, completely re-think how they engage and keep customers. Finally, he stated that traditional selling and referral models would not work going forward.
One solution is online lead generation, which many mature industries have been using for years with great success. Many companies are experts at helping create architecture for your business that will take your existing tools (Internet, intranet, e-mail addresses) and sculpt them to systematically and regularly drive and capture qualified leads and referrals.
Online lead generation systems have become very adept at focusing on the highest yield populations within your club and also targeting those most likely to join through search engine optimization and strategic partnering. Those that specialize in service businesses in this category will also take into account your current sales system, including your sales staff, to embrace and use this technology. There is a cost to using these services, but it can be much less, and more "surgical" than traditional lead sources that cast a wide net and can waste time and resources.
Without sales and staff support, technology will fail. Technology is simply a tool to help facilitate the sales process. Your sales team must be both personally invested and skilled in using these tools to close sales and drive referrals into your club. Even if you don't engage an online lead generation system, it is time to have your team meet and determine a targeted strategy that squeezes every ounce of productivity they can out of your existing technology. You'll surprise yourself at the ideas that come from your internal staff.
Depending upon your size and level of sophistication, this targeted strategy can range from capturing e-mail addresses for every member and prospective member to creating outbound fitness and nutrition content and messaging that adds value to a call to action for members and those likely to become members. Everyone reading this has some technology capabilities that they can use to proactively "touch" members with support and guidance that will lead to more fee-for-service opportunities and a greater chance to gain members.
Get creative. The only cost is in taking the time to meet regularly with customer-facing employees to create a blueprint for taking action in these turbulent times by using your technology tools.
Gregory Florez is CEO of FitAdvisor Health Coaching Services and First Fitness Inc., which was rated as the No. 1 health coaching online training service by The Wall Street Journal. Florez can be contacted at [email protected].


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Haskell support on various Linux distributions. How to find Haskell applications and tools, contribute new packages, and get help for your distribution.
Mostly distributions should provide:
- Core libraries
- Core development tools
- Cabal and cabal-install
Optionally they provide parts of the emerging Haskell Platform.
Arch Haskell
- Wiki
- Arch Haskell Blog
- IRC channel #arch-haskell @ freenode.org
- Applications: Haskell applications provided on Arch Linux
- Libraries: Haskell libraries on Arch Linux
- Tools: cabal2arch
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Debian Gnu/Linux provides a good toolchain for Haskell development
- Libraries: The most important packages are available in the stable, testing and unstable trees.
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Slackware does not have official Haskell support.
An unofficial Slackware repository for Haskell tools, library and programs is available here. This repository works with slapt-get and swaret.
Tools: slackbuild
This is pretty much the same as Debian, providing you add the 'universe' and/or 'multiverse' repositories, which import Debian packages and recompile them to match Ubuntu dependencies. The exact versions of packages may be different from Debian, but they tend to be ahead of Debian stable (sometimes by a long way).


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David Lecomte, the head winemaker for all City Winery locations – New York, Chicago and opening soon in Napa Valley—is a strong advocate of the advantages of tap wine. Under his direction, City Winery in New York City started with three tap wines in the spring 2009, then upgraded to five in the spring 2010 and ramped up to 11 tap wines in the summer of 2011. City Winery, the only winery in New York City's geography is also probably the seller of the greatest volume of tap wine on the East Coast of the United States.
Lecomte explains his emphasis on tap wines and why you probably want to add tap wine to your life. Lecomte says, "I always been a big supporter of tap wines as a way to serve fresh and good wine. In Europe, bulk wine "vin en vrac" does not necessarily carry a connotation of poor quality. When you know the right spot and the right wine (either local wineries or a wine shop), it is often a good way to get pleasant everyday wines for a great price. Wine by the tap is similar, but the possibilities it affords a winemaker has potential to add even more advantages.
"First, consider that tap wines are ones that have been exposed to less stress. What do I mean by referring to them as lower stress wines? Pretty obviously, wines by the tap do not need to be bottled. One of the most difficult tasks for any winemaker is bottling. There are always last minute problems --not enough glass, not enough labels, incorrect labels, not enough staff, wine plugging during the final filtration, the threat of microbial infection during bottling, equipment breakdowns, etc.
"During the winemaking process, we work hard caring for the wines. We witness our wines fermenting and maturing in front of us. This evolution is usually slow and we can influence it if it goes awry. All our attention and care provided over 6 to 18 months can be wasted if we encounter any problems during bottling. If we eliminate the bottling step we make our lives easier and don't have to worry about our months of work to make the wine going awry.
"Next there is the benefit of using minimal sulfur dioxide (SO2). When bottling a wine, most wineries will push up the SO2 content to prevent any chance of microbial infection during bottling and to preserve the wine after bottling. Many people can, for example, note the obvious sulfite odor found in some recently bottled sweet white wines such as a German Riesling. Those who are expert in making tap wines know that you never are compelled to add sulfite before kegging a tap wine. The wine is stored at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and covered with inert argon. One simply doesn't need to do anything more to protect the wine.
"Filtration steps can be eliminated for certain tap wines that would otherwise need to go through a filtration step if they were bottled. For example, City Winery's Sauvignon Blanc does not go through malo-latic fermentation. If we wanted to bottle it safely we would have to sterile filter the wine. Such a tight filtration would damage the wine by decreasing its richness and perhaps inducing some dryness. Filtration needed to insure stability in the long run is simply unnecessary if the wine is kegged as a tap wine.
"Consider too that tap wine is always a greener product. One doesn't waste resources or energy for supplies-- cork, label, foil, bottle, or boxes. This also means less waste in the world, something we all should appreciate.
"From a business perspective, there is greater economy in tap wines because of reduced wine losses. There is no need to worry about an oxidized bottle opened last week or worry about unsatisfied a customer complaining that wine is corked. When you are serving tap wine, such considerations are not part of the business equation.
"For both the winemaker and wine enthusiast perspective there is an element of fun and experimentation that is more possible with tap wines. What I mean is that there are always some small batches of wine that are odd but somehow interesting. They are usually light or hard press wines kept separate from the classic free run wines. We are speaking about 15 to maybe 60-gallon lots. However there is no way to do a bottling with such small volumes because of bottling costs and because there wouldn't be enough to market with so few cases. A place like City Winery can readily feature such small lot wines on tap as a special barrel or keg of the week.
"Overall, you can think of tap wine as relatively worry-free wine. There are so many ways a wine can go bad in a bottle. When we bottle our wine we take great care to prevent any potential chemical instabilities – e.g. protein and tartaric precipitation for whites, copper case and color instability for reds, cork taint. We also need to protect against microbial instabilities such as re-fermentation in bottle or the development of a type of yeast, Brettanomyces, in the bottle. Just as an example, City Winery's Sauvignon Blanc has some fresh aromas of citrus, hawthorn, with a lively mouth feeling. However it may not be tartaric stable, meaning than a few harmless tartaric crystals might appear. Tartaric crystals do not change the wine's taste but their appearance may make the wine unmarketable. Serve the same wine as a tap wine and you do not have to worry about it because the wine is stored at 60F in the cellar and is chilled down to service temperature en route to the tap. Even if a few crystals appear, they will be in the bottom of the kegs.
"People interested in furthering their wine education can learn much more quickly by visiting a winery with tap wines that is making education a key part of their offering. For example, one could sample the same wine aged in French vs. American oak barrels and immediately learn to distinguish what these different type of oaks do to the wines' taste. Wine flights from tap wine are ideal matches for wine education, for such reasons.
"To conclude, wines by the tap have numerous advantages. At City Winery, it enables us to prepare our house wines with minimal winemaking intervention: no or minimal filtration, no fining for white wine, and no SO2 addition before kegging. This makes tap wines closer to their true nature. One might think of them as raw wines. And wine enthusiasts should especially know that when they are in a winery specializing in tap wines they can sample new tastes of fresh and alive wines that have not been altered to enable them to ship across a continent."
You can sample tap wines at City Winery locations in New York City, Chicago, and soon in Napa Valley.
For information visit the City Winery website or call NYC City Winery at 212 608 0555.
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The University of Houston's Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts will continue exploring the intersection of creativity and social action with world-renowned visiting artists and citywide partnerships.
The Mitchell Center's 2010-2011 season will showcase projects and events that examine community activities in global contexts. Among these is "Life Is Living: Houston," a community festival focused on environmental justice, neighborhood sustainability and hip-hop culture.
The season also will include the opening of "Oil," a new exhibition by artist and filmmaker Amy Patton and the launch of "The Shrimpboat Project," an extended 2011 residency with Houston-based artists and researchers Zach Moser and Eric Leshinsky.
The center also will co-host the Red Block Bash at Blaffer Art Museum and will continue to deliver innovative arts curriculum through its Interdisciplinary Arts (IART) minor.
"The Mitchell Center's 2010-2011 season engages artists in a number of juxtapositions - celebratory presentations with serious undertones, global artists examining local subjects, and regionally-driven projects with global implications," said Karen Farber, director of the Mitchell Center. "We are thrilled that such accomplished artists as Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Amy Patton have chosen the Mitchell Center and Houston as home for these exciting projects."
The center's 2010-11 activities include:
- Aug. 28 - Nov. 13; Opening Reception: Friday, 6 - 8 p.m., August 27
"OIL": Amy Patton - Blaffer Art Museum
"OIL" is both a filmed theater piece and a documentary on the making of the film itself. Amy Patton takes Upton Sinclair's novel, "Oil," as a point of departure and plays with slippages between the novel's characters and plot and the experiences of the actors and artist in making the film. An installation will accompany the film for the run of the exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum. The exhibition is commissioned by the Mitchell Center with support from the Blaffer Art Museum and the School of Theatre & Dance. Location: Blaffer Art Museum, 120 Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX 77204. Free admission.
- Sept. 16-18
Media Archeology Festival: Texas Focus
The Mitchell Center joins the Aurora Picture Show to present a three-day media dig right in the heart of Texas. Featured artists include Luke Savisky of Austin, Potter Belmar Labs of San Antonio (Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens) and Graffiti Research Labs of Houston (Kirk Moreno and David Sutherland). Through site-specific installations, these artists will present cinematic experiences that explore the past and the present. See Aurora Picture Show's website for additional details www.aurorapictureshow.org.
- Sept. 30, 4 - 7pm
Red Block Bash: a UH Arts Open House - Arts Quadrangle (Entrance 16 off of Cullen Boulevard)
The Red Block Bash features live music from the Moores School of Music, readings from the Creative Writing Program, demonstrations by the School of Art and performances by the School of Theatre & Dance. All events offer a sneak peek at the UH arts fall season. Free admission.
- October 2
Deborah Hay- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (5216 Montrose Blvd.)
In collaboration with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), the Mitchell Center will bring legendary choreographer and artist Deborah Hay to Houston for a lecture and performance in conjunction with the CAMH exhibition "Dance with Camera." The exhibition explores a crossover between artists and dancers who create choreography for the camera.
- Nov. 6, 11 - 5 pm
"Life is Living" Houston - Emancipation Park in Houston (corner of Dowling Street and Elgin Boulevard)
Artist-in-residence Marc Bamuthi Joseph will lead "Life Is Living: Houston" festival in the Third Ward. The hip-hop and environmental justice event features music, dance and spoken word performances and activities by celebrity guests and Houston-based organizations including Aerosol Warfare, CKC StART Street & Urban Arts, The Last Organic Outpost, Workshop Houston, The Awakenings Movement, Project Row Houses, the UH College of Architecture and youth slam poetry group Meta-Four Houston. "Life Is Living" is a national campaign celebrating neighborhood sustainability and exploring new pathways to environmental justice. Previous festivals have been held in Chicago, Harlem and Oakland. "Life Is Living" also will include a day of service and volunteerism at a range of urban community gardens Nov. 7. Free admission.
For additional details on these events or updates, visit www.mitchellcenterforarts.org or call 713-743-5548.