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Martin followed up a solid run at the Daytona 500, nabbing his 52nd career pole on one of the last qualifying runs Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway.

"You look at Mark Martin, it doesn't matter whose car he drives, he's good in it," said defending Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart, who will start on the front row next to Martin for Sunday's 312-mile race. "To me, it's cool to see stuff like this where you've got a guy like Mark that has bounced around to different organizations and he's been fast and won races at everywhere he's been."

Regan Smith appeared to be in line for his first career pole, sitting atop the grid with just a handful of qualifiers left.

Two of those drivers were Martin and Stewart, who know a little about racing around Phoenix's mile oval - or anywhere else.

Martin was the first to pass Smith, turning a lap of 26.313 seconds with a top speed of 136.815 mph. Stewart also bettered Smith with the last qualifying run of the day, finishing .13 seconds behind.

Smith watched it unfold quickly, seeing himself go from first to third in a matter of minutes as the TV cameras followed his reaction.

"Yeah, you get nervous," said Smith, who wrecked in both Phoenix races last season. "You want to get it. Poles mean something, they're stats. Nobody is going to remember we qualified third ... but we're happy to be starting up front."

Five-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, off to a disastrous start to the season, will start on the second row with Smith after qualifying fourth. Juan Pablo Montoya qualified fifth, five days after a bizarre crash into a safety truck at the Daytona 500.

Martin has raced for seemingly every team on the circuit while winning 40 career races. He spent the past three seasons with Hendrick Motorsports, but changed teams in the offseason, joining Michael Waltrip for a partial season.

Martin, who will run 24 of 36 races this season while sharing seat time with Waltrip, struggled in qualifying at the Daytona 500 and started 22nd. He was good once the race finally got going after nearly two days of weather delays, leading two laps before finishing 10th at NASCAR's biggest race.

Martin followed that up by grabbing the pole at PIR, where he's won twice - last in 2009 - and has 28 top-10 finishes.

Not bad for a grizzled 53-year-old whose first Sprint Cup race was in 1981.

"I think all of you know that I do work real hard at it, and I know that I have to work harder at it than guys that are 20 years younger than me," Martin said. "I'm willing to do that to be able to compete."

Stewart made a change of his own during the offseason.

Smoke won his third Sprint Cup title in 2011 by edging Carl Edwards in the final race, then fired crew chief Darian Grubb a week later. He later hired Steve Addington away from Penske Racing to serve as his new crew chief.

Stewart and Addington had a good first run together, qualifying third for the Daytona 500. Once the race started, things didn't go so well; Stewart led two laps early, but wasn't really a factor, finishing 16th to extend his winless streak at the Daytona 500 to 14 years.

"It's what I would truly consider our first real weekend with Steve Addington as crew chief," Stewart said. "Daytona is always kind of a different deal, but this is where you first really get to start working on the handling of your car with your crew chief. I'm really proud of what we did yesterday and today."

Johnson needed a good run at Phoenix.

He had his run of five straight Sprint Cup titles last season with his worst season in NASCAR, winning just one race and finishing sixth in the Sprint Cup standings.

Hoping for a bounce-back season, Johnson instead had his car fail inspection on the opening day of Speedweeks at Daytona, then was knocked out of the race on the second lap when he was bumped by Elliott Sadler.

Johnson's start got even worse on Wednesday, when NASCAR announced crew chief Chad Knaus was fined $100,000 and, along with car chief Ron Malec, was suspended six races. Both were allowed to work at Phoenix after Hendrick Motorsports appealed the ruling.

Johnson also was docked 25 points, leaving him 70 behind Kenseth in the season standings. Johnson has been good at Phoenix, though, winning four races in 17 career starts, so starting near the front was good news for what he hopes will be a big rally from a tough start.

I'm very proud of the lap," Johnson said. "The car has been great all weekend, and I look forward to tomorrow's race."

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There were a lot of clips shown that we haven't seen before. Nothing that would blow your mind away. There were clips of Sonja Morgan, recovering from her liposuction removal procedure. Kelly goes to visit Sonja and tells her she's worried about how she's going to tell her daughter, "Your mommy is too lazy and she doesn't want to work out so I got liposuction."

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Red Thread Games have shown off a new location from Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey, Europolis. Europolis is a key location in Stark, the series’ world of science (as opposed to Arcadia, the world of magic), and is a European city-state covering the former independent nations of Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Belgium and the Netherlands. Take a look at it in the video below:

Red Thread Games say that the cyberpunk-esque Europolis is “not just the dark heart of Europe; it is the filthy bowels and bloodied entrails of Europe.” They add that all footage shown in the video above is real-time in-game footage, running in their prototype on the Unity engine, which is being used for development.

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  • surakian

    Oh man The Longest Journey was one of my favorite PC games so I’m so excited! Time to donate to that Kickstarter!

  • Ethan_Twain

    This is becoming a trend, isn’t it? Remeber Me, Cyberpunk 2077, and Dreamfall. Deus Ex Human Revolution kicked it off, and now we’ve got a new video game cliche in the making. Personally it’s an aesthetic I like so this suits me just fine :)

    • Rohan Viajar

      no it’s not a trend. just really coincidental. haha

      I mean if you played The Longest Journey (not Dreamfall. I didn’t get to play that one yet so I wouldn’t know about Dreamfall) they already had some Cyber punk aspects in that game.

      • Nicholas Gatewood

        Yeah, and Cyberpunk 2077 certainly isn’t because of any trend. Remember Me might be the result of a trend, though, it doesn’t seem too original- mostly an amalgamation of stuff like Deus Ex and Inception.

  • Kris

    Love the look of the city, but the main character’s model looks… off to me. I don’t know why.

    • HappyOnion

      you’re not the only one.having played dreamfall, i think what bugs me the most is how plain the shapes on her face are compared to how they used to be. maybe its just early, maybe itll be animated better.

      • Rohan Viajar

        I’m actually okay with the plain-ness. I mean if we were comparing it to what is used to be.. TLJ April Ryan.. man.. those graphics back in the day. haha

        but if it got better that’d be good too.
        let’s just hope for the best, and not be overly whiny (not saying you are) in the end. :D

        • Juan Andrés Valencia

          Funcom games were usually very attractive. Even Pocahontas on the Genesis haves some absurdly big sprites with extremely fluent movements.

    • CirnoLakes

      I haven’t really watched the video, but she looks scared.

      In fact I came in here just to make this joke originally:
      “She looks scared.

      I hope she’s going to be okay.”

      They don’t seem very good at facial design.

    • They need to redesign the character art from the ground up, go for something more stylized, and less Unreal Engine ugly. I take one look at that face and lose all interest in the game.

      She can be plain and still look good from an art standpoint, but if that’s what they’re going for they’ve failed.

  • Juan Andrés Valencia

    I have to wonder why they didn’t use the Secret World and Age Of Conan engine. Add better animations and you’d have one of the best looking games out there (Age Of Conan is so pretty!).
    If it wasn’t for the character models and animations The Secret World could be one of the most atmospheric and absolutely gorgeous games ever made. There’s such a ridiculous amount of detail to every locale (After all, many puzzles involve checking everything in an specific area) and the attention to the lore, plot and multiple influences to horror and fantasy media (Comics, games, movies, books, etc.) is absolutely overwhelming.

    • herolove

      Dreamfall Chapters is being independently developed and funded by Red Thread Games so they don’t have aces to the engine. Unless they don’t pay Funcom a lot of money fore it witch they don’t have.

  • Neko Kawaii

    I just finished Dreamfall yesterday and loved it. I like Zoes old face though, it’s strange here o.o

  • Nicholas Gatewood

    Wait, this game is actually happening? For real this time? Jesus, I played the heck out of The Longest Journey recently(got more than halfway through it, a major bug prevents me from progressing any further since I’m stuck in an area and didn’t pick up one item) and decided not to play Dreamfall yet because I wanted to finish TLJ first, but the fact that this is actually happening is exciting to me. I hope it launches on consoles, because I kinda quit PC gaming a little over a year ago. Vita or PS4 support would be so awesome.

    • herolove

      They already retched there original goal on kickstarter so the game is getting funded. Red Thread Games seems to be interested in other platforms if they get enough money and interest (especially tablets I think) so make a pledge if you like to see it.

      And witch item is it, never experienced it myself and the only thing I can think of is Costapel Guybrush eye.

  • Netherlands! Hell yeah!

  • rebecasunao

    Looks pretty interesting! The character concepts are <3. I'm currently playing The Longest Journey and can't wait for this one to come out.

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The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women
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    The Mommy Myth
    The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women
    Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels

    1. How would you describe the state of motherhood in America today? Do you agree with the authors’ premise of the “new momism”—that women are being conditioned to believe they can find true fulfillment only through the perfection of motherhood? How well do they support the arguments and ideas they present in The Mommy Myth?

    2. What are the tenets of feminism, and how have they been distorted through the years? Do you agree with the authors that “the new momism is the result of the combustible intermixing of right-wing attacks on feminism and women” (24)?

    3. The authors cite numerous instances where newscasters reported a story as fact but did not offer evidence or statistics to back it up. Why do you think the American public is so willing to believe what is reported in the media, particularly when no supporting data is offered? Does it surprise you that government officials are the major source of news for the networks?

    4. What role has politics played in the rise of the new momism over the last several decades? How have conservative mores in particular shaped the American culture’s representation of motherhood?

    5. What ignited the enormous popularity of the celebrity mom profile, “probably the most influential form to sell the new momism” (113)? Why do women continue to be drawn in by the onslaught of celebrity mom profiles?

    6. Discuss the ways in which television shows and movies—including The Cosby Show, thirtysomething, The Simpsons, women-in-jep films, and Kramer vs. Kramer—have impacted our society’s attitude toward motherhood in both positive and negative ways. How have the images of motherhood in television shows and movies evolved since the 1950s?

    7. The “mommy wars” divided mothers into two camps—the working mother versus the stay-at-home mom. What escalated the mommy wars? Is there still a divide today between the working mother and the stay-at-home mom? What about women who work out of necessity to support their children? How has the “Martha Stewartization of America” further contributed to the debate about motherhood and added fuel to the mommy wars?

    8. In what ways did media coverage of “threats from without” in the 1980s, including dangerous daycare and kidnappings, impact the new momism? In the late 1980s, this gave way to “the threat to children from mom herself” (140) with sensationalized stories about Susan Smith, Baby M, and crack babies. What caused this shift in emphasis and what effect has it had?

    9. Trace the evolution of the welfare mother in the news media. How was the issue of welfare and, specifically, the welfare mother, used as a cornerstone of the Reagan administration?

    10. How has the media’s need for heroes and villains enforced the stereotype of the black woman as a bad mother? Have women themselves aided in perpetuating this stereotype?

    11. A central point in the book is the failure of the government to institute a national day care program despite legislation having been introduced to Congress on multiple occasions. How did the media’s coverage of the McMartin daycare scandal reinforce the government’s position against national daycare?

    12. To what degree are advertisers responsible for the new momism, including companies like GE and Johnson & Johnson as well as toy manufacturers and retailers? Have they knowingly or unknowingly added to the cementing of the new momism in our culture?

    13. The authors use Dr. Laura Schlesinger—a working mother whose platform is telling other women to quit their jobs and stay home with their children—to exemplify their point that the new momism is “not about subservience to men. It is about subservience to children” (299). What do you think of Dr. Laura’s message? Does the fact that she herself is a working mother alter your opinion?

    14. Has reading The Mommy Myth changed your views about motherhood, the media, or women’s roles in society? Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels view The Mommy Myth as a “call to arms” and ask women “to just say no to the new momism” (26). How can women do this? Where do you see the state of motherhood in America ten years from now?

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Susan J. Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, and Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922. Her journalistic articles have appeared in The Nation, Ms., In These Times, TV Guide, and The Progressive.

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One of the biggest fears most parents have while camping or hiking with a child, is a child will become lost. Well, while it is rare for a child to become really lost, it does happen at times. There is no way to protect your child to the point of this not being a possibility and have the child still enjoy the outdoors. Oh, sure, you can keep little Billy or Sally on a retaining strap, but how much fun would that be for them? I suggest, that instead of worrying about the possibility of your child getting lost, we teach your child what to do if they become lost, as well as what you can expect as a parent if it happens.

My children have been camping and in the woods since they were about a year old. Yep, it sure cut down on my enjoyment when they were younger, because they required constant supervision…at all times (young children require you to be with them at all times they are in the wild). But, once they were around eight years old, I could relax a little. I still kept an eye on them, but by then I had them conditioned to a certain degree. By age of eight, I had also trained them on what to do if they became lost.

The first thing I taught each child (there were three of them) was to always carry a canteen and a survival kit. The canteen will provide safe drinking water for the child in the event they become lost. The survival kit contained,

  • Trail mix and a high-energy bar, pick the child’s favorite flavor of bar.
  • A plastic whistle, teach the child to blow the whistle for three long blasts, then stop for a while.
  • A large signal flag, cut from an orange garbage bag or use a bicycle safety flag.
  • A signal mirror made from aluminum foil and cardboard.
  • A bright orange garbage bag with a hole torn in the top, so it can be used as an emergency poncho. Do not cut the hole, or it may tear further when used by the child.

It is important for the child to be taught how to use these items. Have the child practice with each component of the survival kit until they can demonstrate how to use it properly (you can have the child demonstrate the proper use of the gear in the back yard).

Another area to train the child in, is what to do it they become lost. Often, a child will wander around because they are scared of getting in trouble or because they don’t know what else to do. This can cause real problems for search and rescue teams, because the child is constantly moving with no sense of direction. Here are some suggestions for a child if they become lost,

  • All children (if more than one is lost) should always stay together.
  • You should stay in one spot, do not walk around.
  • Wait for help to come to you (remember, we love you and want you back).
  • Try to keep warm, if with another child or a dog, cuddle up close to conserve body heat.
  • Find shelter. The easiest shelter is under the lower limbs of a tree. But, try to stay were there is an open spot or field near by.
  • Signal when you see an aircraft. The simplest way is to run out in the field, lie down, and pretend you are making snow angels…that way you are a bigger target for search aircraft to see. At the same time, hold your signal flag in a hand, so it is moving.
  • Do not drink any water, except what is in your canteen. Any other water can make you very sick.
  • Try not to lie on the bare ground (except to signal), because it will make you much colder. Dead leaves or grasses should be gathered up and you can sit on or sleep in them. But, watch out for snakes.
  • Instruct the child to avoid snakes, but try not to scare them.
  • Do not touch any animals in the wild, none!
  • Stay away from rivers, lakes, pond or cliffs.
  • Keep as clean and dry as you can.
  • If you hear a noise at night and it scares you, blow your whistle five or six times, real loud! The whistle will scare off any animals that may be near you.
  • Remember, lots of people are looking for you and we will find you. You can expect to be scared and to feel lonely. But, follow these rules and you will be ok.

There are a number of things parents can do also. First, when hiking, stay on designated trails. Second, until your child has some experience, camp only in designated campsites. Always keep an eye on the younger kids and know where they are at all times. Finally, don’t wait very long to call for help when you notice the child has disappeared. Don’t spent hours looking for a lost child. If the child is actually lost in the woods, you may not be able to find them on your own.

Search and rescue teams use everything from helicopters to dogs and are very highly trained in what they do. So, once you have reported the missing child, stay out of the way. Let them do their job (I know you will be concerned, but let them handle it). But, you can expect to answer some questions from the police as well as the rescue team leaders. They are not trying to put you on the spot, but some information is essential to speed up the recovery of your child. They may ask you about the child’s medical history (are they on any important medication), what they were wearing (import depending on the weather), how much they know about the woods, and so on. Be as honest as you can, because some of this information can impact the rescue.

Each year, thousands upon thousands of families spend time with nature. In almost all of these trips to the woods the child returns home safely. Nonetheless, make sure you and your child have been trained on what to do if the child becomes lost. It only takes a few minutes to make a survival kit, teach a child how to survive, and to prepare for the worse case scenario (it takes less time than that for a child to become lost). Make sure you and your family are properly prepared to enjoy your time in the woods safely. A lost child is a terrible situation.

Child Lost in the Woods

Gary Benton has over 45 years of outdoor experience in camping, hiking, fishing, and other activities. He's no armchair survival man, he's walked the walk from the arctic to the desert and all the area in between. Gary has an associates degree in Search and Rescue, Survival Operations, a B.S. in Industrial Occupational safety, and all but his thesis completed for a M.S. in Counseling Psychology.
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LumiaThe company has unveiled the latest Lumia smartphone – the 650 – and it’s looking like it could be an impressive device considering the details the company has released. Microsoft is nicely blending the lines of a work phone and personal device by making the Lumia 650 easy to set up for Office 365, the latest mobile versions of Word, Excel and OneNote while also ensuring the phone’s equipped with a “super sharp 5’’ HD OLED display that sits elegantly in a precision crafted, diamond cut metal frame. With lightweight design, a thin 6.9mm profile and 16 GB of internal memory,” as the device’s profile outlines.

Lumia’s vice president of device product management, Samuli Hänninen, explained the new phone has been created with the user in mind recognizing many of the Windows 10 phones are being used by business professionals. That market, certainly, is being targeted with the device.

“It’s in that spirit that we designed the Lumia 650 to bring first class to business class; giving our customers the best of Microsoft productivity and security, all wrapped in a beautiful slim package. By providing a consistent experience across PC and phone through the power of Windows 10, we think professionals and Windows fans alike will love using it every day,” he explained in a blog post.

The Lumia begins to be sold this week in Europe. There has been no announcement regarding North American availability as of yet.

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Internet Explorer Tab in Google Chrome

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ie-tab-chrome-thbThis is probably the first Google Chrome extension I’m sharing. I was just waiting for some useful and good extensions to come out after its launch in Chrome.

IE Tab allows you to browse websites in Chrome that are only viewed correctly with Internet Explorer (yes, there are still such sites).

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A standard accommodation hotel opened in 2000. Small lobby and room features similar to that of a guesthouse. They also have a restaurant.

※Hotels outside Phnom Penh and Siem Reap require a USD 10 standard booking fee to be added upon reservation.

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Comparative load ratings

For rolling mill applications, load ratings are typically not calculated according to ISO 281:2007 but are calculated by a different method based on a rating life of 90 million revolutions (500 r/min for 3 000 operating hours). As a direct comparison of these load ratings with ISO load ratings is not possible, even if they are converted for 1 million revolutions (ISO life definition) "comparative" load ratings calculated by the same non-ISO method are provided in the product tables.
These comparative load ratings may only be used together with the life and equivalent load equations specified below; they may not be used to calculate an ISO rating life.

Comparative life calculation

The comparative life is calculated using the comparative load rating CF as follows:

LF10 = 90 (CF/PF)10/3

LF10h = (CF/PF)10/3 (1 500 000/n)

comparative rating life, million revolutions
comparative rating life, operating hours
comparative dynamic load rating to give a rating life of 90 million revolutions, kN
equivalent dynamic bearing load (for conditions please refer to table), kN
constant operating speed, r/min

For load cases 1a) and 1b), see table, it is necessary to use the load rating for one roller row when using PFL. This load rating (for 1 row) can be obtained from

CF(row) = 0,29 CF(bearing)
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Because the Ricky Rubio thing in Minnesota won’t go away, a few things about that situation to start today…

In new L-Wolves GM David Kahn’s interview with Henry Abbott earlier this week, Henry mentioned something about the Rubios not going out to visit Minnesota since the Draft, and Kahn responded, “You presume he hasn’t been here to visit.” Then he started talking about something else.

Why did he answer this way? He didn’t say Ricky had not been there, but at the same time he didn’t do anything to try and reassure the fans by saying that Ricky had in fact been to Minnesota for a visit and meeting. I know it was mentioned last week that Rubio might be visiting the Twin Cities, and then Kahn skated around it.

But from what I was told this morning, the Rubio family did visit Minnesota and met with the team last week.

(I reached out to the Wolves this morning and asked if this was correct. I was told: “No comment.”)

I’m not sure why all the cloak and dagger stuff from the Wolves. Someone I spoke with the other day assured me that Kahn understands a lot more than he’s letting on, that he’s just trying to underplay everything right now. Maybe so. But I still feel a big part of a GM’s job, especially in a market where your team hasn’t won in forever, is to keep the fans at the very least feeling engaged in what your team is doing. And I don’t get the sense that Kahn is doing that.

(BTW, when googling Rubio/Minnesota stuff this morning, I stumbled across an ideal place for the Rubios to hang out should Ricky end up playing in Minnesota.)

Also regarding Señor Kahn…I was IMing with an NBA person the other day who didn’t agree with my criticism of Kahn for drafting Ricky despite knowing he didn’t want to play there. If Kahn had not taken Ricky with the 5th and 6th pick, this person said, he’d be getting killed for passing on maybe the best player in the Draft, twice.

Perhaps. Although four other GMs passed on Ricky also. To me, you don’t pick players based on what you want people to think about you. That’s what you worry about after you put your team together. You pick players based on who can help your team. And while Ricky could definitely help the L-Wolves, he can’t help them unless he wants to play for them. And from everything I’ve read, he kind of made it clear he didn’t have any interest in playing for the team.

OK, that’s it. No more L-Wolves stuff. Been writing about them so much this week I feel like Myles.

• On Twitter the other day I received two DMs from my guy Geoff, who asked the following…

Besides watching games, reading news…any other good resources/books, etc. I can consult to be a more educated basketball fan? Basketball seems as abstract as soccer, but there are a lot of things about the game I just don’t know still. One of most neglected sports.

Great question, and one that I didn’t think I could respond to in 140 characters or less.

There are a lot of really, really good basketball books and films out there. I could probably recommend a dozen of each off the top of my head, but I want to keep it simple, at least my part of this. And I know we can name a lot of movies (“Eddie!”) and books, but I want to just suggest the best.

For movies, you have to see “Hoop Dreams,” if you haven’t already. I watched it again recently on cable, and even now, when we’re used to behind-the-scenes footage of stuff, it’s a very, almost uncomfortably real look at what it’s like to be a young kid in love with basketball. You also have to see “Hoosiers,” and “White Men Can’t Jump,” while you’re at it.

(BTW, for what it’s worth, my favorite sports book of all time is a soccer book, Nick Hornby’s “Fever Pitch.” If you’re a die-hard fan of a team, in any sport, you have to read it.)

The thing about books is that they tend to serve as a snapshot of a moment in time. Everyone hails David Halberstam’s “The Breaks of the Game,” which I finally got around to reading last week on vacation and enjoyed. It paints a vivid picture of the NBA in the 1970s, back when I didn’t even know what an NBA was, but the NBA has changed massively since the book came out. For a more recent NBA book, check out Jack McCallum’s “Seven Seconds or Less,” about his season with the coaching staff of the Phoenix Suns, which I also really enjoyed.

For my money, the best basketball book I’ve ever read is John Feinstein’s “A Season on the Brink.” The book came out in 1989, and I think I got a copy for re-upping my subscription to Sports Illustrated. Feinstein spent the 1985-86 college basketball season shadowing Bobby Knight, who gave him complete access, even into the meetings with the coaching staff, etc. It was also a little jarring to read, at least for me, a book filled with curse words, something I wasn’t used to seeing in my local paper. It made such an impression on me that I still recall a lot of the stories and anecdotes. (The part where Keith Smart shows up to practice in a Puerto Rico t-shirt is priceless.)

One other book that I loved back in the day and had an effect on my knowledge of basketball was “Forty-Eight Minutes: A Night in the Life of the NBA,” which was co-written by two of the NBA’s greatest writers, Bob Ryan and Terry Pluto. (It’s on Amazon here, though it’s only available used.)

I bought this book at a used book store in Atlanta in the early ’90s, not long after it came out. I’m not sure why, other than I was a burgeoning hoops fan and it must have been pretty cheap, seeing as how I had no cash back then. But I still remember it well. The book is about one game in 1987 between the Celtics and Cavs, and it’s told through interviews with everyone involved with the game, from the players to the coaches, etc. There’s a lot of lead up into the game, but the game action itself is broken down play-by-play, with each possession getting its own diagram of the play and then interviews with all the guys involved in the play, explaining why they did whatever they did. That book taught me a lot about the strategy of basketball, about setting guys up on one play to take advantage of them on the next play.

Here’s where I’m looking for help: What’s your favorite basketball book/movie? What would you recommend to someone looking to learn more about the game.


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Sundance Channel’s The Honorable Woman, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, reviewed.

A Rewarding New TV Drama About Why People Even Try to Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict

A Rewarding New TV Drama About Why People Even Try to Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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July 31 2014 12:49 PM

The Honorable Woman

A complex, turgid, worthwhile mystery about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Honorable Woman.
Maggie Gyllenhaal grapples with her past and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Sundance Channel's new drama.

Photo courtesy Des Willie/Sundance Channel

Depending on whether you like your fictional television programs to resonate with real-world events or provide escape from them, The Honorable Woman either has very good or very bad timing. The extremely somber eight-episode miniseries starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, which begins airing on the Sundance Channel (in collaboration with the BBC) on Thursday, is an intricate, at times opaque drama, both mystery and spy thriller, about the incredible complexity, raw emotion, and intractability of the Israel-Palestine conflict. It is not a break from the news, so much as an imaginative footnote.

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The series tells the story of Nessa Stein (Gyllenhaal), who, as a child, witnessed the assassination of her father, an Israeli businessman whose company, the Stein Group, had its name literally stamped onto the mortars, tanks, and walls it manufactured for the Israel Defense Forces. As an adult, Nessa has dedicated her life and the Stein Group to a more liberal mission. Announcing a new business initiative, Nessa says, “In our view, one of the greatest threats to Israeli stability is Palestinian poverty. Terror thrives in poverty, it dies in wealth. And so we decided that instead of mines, we would lay cables—for telephone, for the Internet, millions of miles of communication.” Yet even as Nessa announces these plans, the Palestinian contracted to lay these cables is hanging dead in his hotel room, the victim of a very suspicious looking suicide.

This man’s death is the opening salvo of a complex, emotionally fraught conspiracy, one so vast that it ultimately has bearing on the possibility of Palestinian statehood. But before the show expands out to such a grand stage, it focuses on a seemingly unrelated crime more pressing and personal to the Steins: the kidnapping of a young Palestinian boy. Kasim is the son of Atika (Lubna Azabal), Palestinian housekeeper to Nessa’s brother’s family, a woman with a mysteriously close relationship to Nessa. The murder and the kidnapping bring the Steins to the attention of MI6, and specifically Hugh Hayden-Hoyle (Stephen Rea). Hayden-Hoyle, a hangdog le Carré type, speaks in obscure quips and uses intel more than his gun. He is worried about his job security, which is protected by his boss and ally (Janet McTeer) and endangered by a rogue careerist chummy with the Americans (Eve Best).

The Honorable Woman is in many ways, most of them cerebral, an extremely impressive piece of work. Any series that takes on the Israel-Palestine conflict and does not immediately wander into a morass has accomplished something difficult. It takes its subject absolutely as seriously as it should, and in the endless complexity of motivation, the depth of grievance, the weight of history, the impossibility of honor—it oversimplifies very little. As with any work addressing such a controversial subject, there may be people who find that it vilifies either Palestinians or Israelis, but it is, especially for a TV series airing in the United States, even-handed, indeed oriented slightly toward the Palestinian experience.

Nessa, at great personal sacrifice and with the feverish dedication of someone who feels immensely guilty for the sins of her father, wants to help the Palestinians. But even she has secrets. Her brother Ephra (Andrew Buchan) and the siblings’ much more staunchly Zionist uncle-type Shlomo (Igar Naor) are more compromised still. The series’ other Israelis are largely marginal figures—shady, curt, cutthroat, immoral, and unhelpful. At first it seems the Palestinians fare even worse, constituting the show’s major villains. But The Honorable Woman, unlike so many series that claim to do so, genuinely complicates notions of villainhood and herodom. It does not shortchange historical atrocity, pooh-pooh grievances, or whitewash systematic injustices.

By the end of the series, Atika, who initially seems stuck being not one but two stereotypes—the noble, calm ethnic person and the other woman—emerges as much the titular “honorable woman” as Nessa, with all her dreams of being a savior to the region. Gyllenhaal, with her huge limpid eyes, has the more dynamic part, playing a woman with a charming public face and debilitating inner trauma who is steely even through her fragility. But Atika, slowly and surely, becomes, first, more than mysterious, and then completely human.

And yet The Honorable Woman can be extremely rough going, and I do not just mean because it is about a difficult and taxing subject—though that may explain some of the dreary lethargy that would descend upon me whenever I tried to watch more than one episode in a row. The Honorable Woman has a far more propulsive plot and genre bells and whistles than HBO’s The Leftovers, but like that show it does seem to be exploring a new frontier in depressive TV, the full-body despondent experience.

There is something turgid about The Honorable Woman. The opening voiceover beginning every episode is ponderous almost to the point of nonsense: “Mostly we tell lies, we hide our secrets from each other, from ourselves. And the easiest way to do this is not to even know who you are. So when you think about it like that, it’s a wonder we trust anyone at all.” The idea that everyone is hiding something, that everyone wears masks, has become the baseline cliché of all shows that contain a mystery. Everyone has secrets? You don’t say! That no one in The Honorable Woman is exactly who they seem to be is a kind of obviousness in and of itself.

And the series’ pacing is off. The Honorable Woman has many twists and turns, and I don’t want to spoil them, but the first four episodes are organized around a dramatically irritating mystery of withholding. We see in the first episode that Nessa and Atika were once abducted somewhere in the occupied territories, but what exactly happened there and the secrets germinating from it are meted out slowly—not to the characters in the show, just to us in the audience. This maintains a kind of artificial, plodding sense of suspense that’s at odds with the show’s second half, a headlong dive into a huge, gnarly, frenetic conspiracy with world-historical ramifications.

Whatever the series’ flaws, though, it effectively communicates an impressively high order of ambiguity. Near the very end of the series, an American newscaster talking about the latest spate of complicated developments in Israel-Palestine flippantly says, “It’s a wonder they even try”—meaning it’s a wonder anyone tries to make change in this impossible, thankless region at all. It is clear The Honorable Woman eschews, even disdains this perspective, even as its entire plot is a lesson in the impossibility of making change. It’s not hopeful or hopeless, it’s stalwart: You try because there is no alternative.


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Bhutto's widower will take over the PPP.

Bhutto's widower will take over the PPP.

A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers.
Dec. 31 2007 6:45 AM

Democracy Is the Best Revenge

The Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Washington Post all lead and the Wall Street Journal tops its world-wide newsbox with the rapidly developing political situation in Pakistan, where the Pakistan Peoples Party has named slain leader Benazir Bhutto's widower as party head until her son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, 19, can take over. Having spent 11 years in jail on corruption charges, the interim leader is not popular within the PPP, but he did assert that he would call the shots until Bilawal graduates from Oxford. The party's immediate challenge is making the election go forward as planned on Jan. 8, since the government is working to postpone it by weeks or even months—at least until the surge of anger at President Musharraf's government passes. (Late-breaking news  from CNN says the government will come to a decision Tuesday on whether to postpone the elections.) Meanwhile, the NYT all but states that the government is lying about how Bhutto died in order to deflect blame for lax security. Despite photos of a gunman and initial reports that a bullet had struck her in the neck, officials maintain that she hit her head in the tumult and the official medical report did not specify the cause of death, fueling speculation that the government may have pressured doctors to support the official account. The smoking gun wound may never be found, since her husband declined to allow an autopsy.

USA Today's below-the-fold Pakistan story scoops the info that Bilawal Zardari is a black belt in tae kwon do and regrets having never taken up cricket.

USA Today leads and the rest of the papers front news from Iowa. USAT's overview is a string of sound bites from interviews with seven of the 12 candidates (John McCain: "Look, when you win, the money comes in"), nine of whom could be found crisscrossing the state this weekend and almost all of whom blanketed the Sunday talk shows. The WSJ reports on the "political energy gap" worrying the GOP as Democrats show more pep than Republicans cheerleading for their favorites, with the most recent polls showing a three-way statistical dead heat in Iowa between Clinton, Edwards, and Obama. (Even more worrying for the Republicans—it looks like Ron Paul may have bested their front-runners for fourth-quarter fund raising.)

In the day's profiles, the NYT runs a weepy-eyed piece on the evolution of the Edwards' marriage, from tender moments in their first days of dating to the impact of their son's death in 1996 and Elizabeth's self-effacing but decisive role in John's various campaigns. In a more ominous character sketch, the LAT takes a look at how religion infused Mike Huckabee's governorship and would likely do the same in his presidency. The paper focuses on an instance in which Huckabee held up relief legislation after a 1997 tornado because he objected to the catastrophe—which the bill had called an "act of God"—being blamed on the Almighty. The WP off-leads with a paradox at the heart of the McCain campaign: For all his indignation at the influence of special interests in politics, a recent study found that he's enlisted more lobbyist fund-raisers than any other candidate.

According to the LAT, Iowa's Democrats are all about electability, while the WP runs a story that looks a lot like yesterday's NYT lead about the unprecedented steps candidates are taking to turn out their base. This one focuses on Obama, but it fails to prove that he deserves the attention—his only significant edge seems to lie in a greater facility with online social networking, perhaps attributable to a younger and more tech-savvy constituency. Meanwhile, the NYT looks beyond substance and electability to focus on style: the candidates' cute catchphrases and the atmosphere at their events.

Back in New York, someone's watching the Iowa outcome with greater interest than most: Following a story in yesterday's WP, the NYT more expansively reports (and USAT mentions) that Michael Bloomberg is decidedly interested in a third-party run, depending on the post-caucus political landscape. In a story bizarrely sequestered in the city section, the paper says he's been putting in place a "turnkey" campaign infrastructure should the partisans settle on a diametrically opposed pair like Huckabee and Obama or Edwards.

With less happening on the domestic and international fronts, we might have seen more about the turmoil that followed a too-close-to-call election in Kenya, where the government has sworn in the incumbent president and declared martial law to control the masses of opposition supporters who have declared their candidate the "People's President," as the NYT fronts, the LAT reefers, and the WSJ stuffs. International observers say it's clear the vote was flawed, and violence breaking out along tribal lines has killed at least 15 people.

The LAT's front-page survey of Iran's complex political landscape, detailing the maze of power circles loosely centered around Ayatollah Khamenei but subverted by various councils, clerics, and elected officials, is worth a look, as is its alarming look at the effects of the mortgage crisis on state and city budgets. A WSJ front-page feature brings news that aggressive lobbying by subprime lenders made the whole mess worse when the housing market went south. But USAT's cover story shows that at least the Feds are helping out by subsidizing flights to small towns, which you should bear in mind the next time you buy an $88 flight to Billings, Mont.

USAT reefers a story on the smoking ban to take effect in France, peppered with quotes—undoubtedly spoken in gravelly voices—bemoaning the death of Parisian cafe culture.

Though most of the list-making is over, USAT also gets the award for best bitter-year-end compendium. Although the NYT's nifty photo feature manages to avoid mention of Jamie Lynn Spears.


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Announcing V2: 6 styles including Black

Thanks so much for your support and for patiently awaiting the new inventory. Many of you have wondered why i was out of stock and didn't have more available sooner. Well, instead of just doing a new run of the last one, I refined the design, had new tooling made, and sourced a new printer who specializes in Tyvek.

I took the time to make sure each step was done right and I'm really happy to say that everything is still made in the USA and I'm really happy with the quality.

Black/Orange, Black/Gray, and Gray/Orange are available again... and 3 new styles have been added to the line:
   * Brown/Orange
   * Blue/White
   * Green/White

In addition to improving the printing durability, the ID window has also been refined. Check out the Features Page of the website for details and a short video which illustrates the changes.

I'm really excited to bring this new version to you and I hope you'll agree that it was worth the wait!

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    June 24, 2013

    I wish I could trade my V1 wallet for the V2 because those look awesome and I like the new ID card slot.

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    Tate K.
    June 22, 2013

    Would love to see Orange/White V2. Will buy instantly!

  • Renee
    April 26, 2013

    Would love so see some photos (or video) of the wallet full and in someones pocket.

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    Sam Meyers
    April 19, 2013

    Love the new colors, Dave! Can’t wait to see people’s reaction with the blue one. My old gray one was a hit, so I’m sure this will be, too. Thanks!

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Meet Sally Lloyd-Jones, the most successful Christian author you’ve never heard of

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While she studied art history at Sussex University, she spent a year in Paris, where she grew in the Christian faith of her youth.

"I'd always known, ever since I was a small child, that Jesus was my friend, but I think in some ways I was trying to be on the fence," she said. "I stopped trying to keep my options open."

Her first job was at Oxford University Press as an editorial assistant in the textbooks division.

"Down the corridor from me there seemed to be a lot of laughing, and it was the children's picture book department. I remember thinking 'Oh, I'll never be able to write them, but at least I could work on them.'"

In 1989, she took a job in Connecticut where she eventually became the publisher of the Christian children's book list that was later purchased by Reader's Digest. But first she had to mull the offer to move to the U.S.

"I was thinking that if I don't move, the story will be so awful. It will be like, 'Once upon a time, I nearly came to America. The end.' That's such an awful story!" she said. "So I thought, 'At least find out if it's not good.'"

She moved to New York City in 1998, and began to write full time after she later lost her job as part of a major downsizing. She became a U.S. citizen after 9/11.

"People often ask me, 'What's your theological training?'" said Lloyd-Jones, who reads works by John Stott and Martyn Lloyd-Jones and attends Tim Keller's Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. "I've been at 'Tim Keller university.' I had been hearing how Jesus is in every story for several years."

Keller wrote the forward to her 2012 book, "Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing," and his wife, Kathy Keller, said she gives "The Jesus Storybook Bible" to everyone from university presidents to car salesmen because anyone can understand it.

"Her book isn't a bunch of collected Aesop's fables," Kathy Keller said. "There is an actual narrative to redemption. The stories are not meant to say 'Live like this, be like this.' They're telling us about Jesus. "

Because of her last name, many fans mistakenly believe she is related to Martyn Lloyd-Jones, a Welsh minister influential in the British evangelical movement who's admired by many American evangelicals.

No, she gently clarifies with anyone who asks, she is not related to him.

"You read blogs about yourself and you come across these things that are very authoritative," she said. "I'm so easily convinced; I read this one blog that was so official sounding, and it said that I was his wife."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones died in 1981.

John Starke, pastor of New York's All Souls Church, said he uses her children's Bible with his four children because it gives a good overview of the Bible with quality writing and illustrations.

"I think the main difference is that the book is both biblical and imaginative. Children's books tend to err on one of those extremes," he said. "But Sally's book is strong on both ends."

Her breakthrough as an author actually came through a nonreligious book called "How to Be a Baby . . . by Me, the Big Sister," a New York Times best-seller sold by Random House that won praise in The New York Times. But she doesn't make a distinction between which books are religious or nonreligious.

"I think the danger with Christian publishing is (the attitude), 'If it's got a Bible verse in it then it's OK,' even if it's got really bad writing and bad art," she said. "I suppose my vision has always been that it's got to be excellent."

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November 14, 2012
Carl Joseph Swanson

Documentary Screening

Event Details: 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., November 16, Tegeler Hall, 3550 Lindell Blvd., Carlo Auditorium, St. Louis, MO, 63103

Saint Louis University will host a screening of the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Garden and will feature a talk by and Q-and-A with director Scott Kennedy from 1-3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, in Carlo Auditorium of Tegeler Hall. The event is open and free to all.

Kennedy's film, six years in the making, documents the struggle of a community of Latinos in South Central Los Angeles to fight corruption and local politicking in order to save their public garden from demolition and redevelopment. The film's themes of urban decay and reclamation are all-too-relevant to our own city, while the LA denizens' struggles resonate strongly with the Jesuit commitment to social justice and service to humanity.

The event is sponsored by SLU Film Studies, Micah House, and the departments of English and public policy studies, and is part of the St. Louis International Film Festival. This will be the first time SLU has hosted a SLIFF screening.

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Had I not seen this band in person, I never would have guessed these soulful vocals came from a 6’ Japanese woman commanding the mic with a classic Gretch in hand. But this poppy five-piece rock group really isn’t anything they appear to be, and that’s a really good thing. All five members embrace the quirks that probably wouldn’t gel with other bands they’d be better suited for, and utilize them to piece together this J-Pop four-track EP. The album itself is very beautiful, playing off lead singer Amber Taniuchi’s vocal range chord by chord, as demonstrated on “Hope Is Still Around the Corner” and “Naked Truth.” While the band excels in style, it slightly lacks substance, as with a lot of pop music, and it doesn’t help that the band only put out four tracks. It will be interesting to hear what a full album sounds like when they finally make one.


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How property is shaping Australia's wealth

By Paul Bennion

Property and its ability to supercharge investors' fortunes continues to produce headlines and generate debate - but what role is it actually playing in our wealth creation?

Blogger: Paul Bennion, managing director, DEPPRO

The importance of property to personal wealth creation has been highlighted by the latest survey of household wealth produced by CoreLogic RP Data.

This survey shows that residential real estate accounts for more than half of all household wealth in Australia.

Value Investment Markets in Australia by total Value

Residential Property $6.0 Trillion
Superannuation $2.0 Trillion
Stock Market $1.5 Trillion
Commercial Property $0.7 Trillion
*Source CoreLogic RP Data

In fact, the value of the residential property market is four times larger than the stock market and three times more valuable than superannuation.

These figures underline why so many Australians prefer to invest in property as a way of creating long term personal wealth.

Residential property investment has proven to be a low risk form of investment for investors who take a long term approach to the real estate market.

The size of residential property market is huge with stakeholders ranging from mum and dad home owners to investors who own several properties.

This sheer size of the residential property market and its significance the overall Australian economy means that government is very sensitive to policy settings that might have a negative impact on it and this gives property investors a great deal of protection.

For example, issues such as abolishing negative gearing have been raised many times in recent years but Government has been reluctant to make any radical changes to the taxation system related to the property market because of concerns it may damage the overall economy.

Property investing still allows people to claim generous tax benefits associated with negative gearing as well as depreciation.

The tax benefits associated with tax depreciation can be very significant with some clients achieving tax benefits obtained through depreciation equivalent to 60 per cent of the total purchase price of the property. In some cases these tax benefits can total $300,000 based on a purchase price of $500,000

Many investors in Australia totally underestimate the number of items that can be depreciated for tax purposes and this comprehensive list can even include garden gnomes, cubby houses and if they own an apartment, then common areas such as car parking and recreational facilities.

To qualify for these legitimate tax deductions, an investor must have a fully compliant tax depreciation company undertake an onsite inspection of the property and then compile a depreciation report based on this inspection.

Property investors should therefore check that the company undertaking their tax depreciation schedule is a member of the The Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS).

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Lady Dutch close out regular season with 67-31 win over Ridgway

The St. Marys Area Lady Dutch picked up a 67-31 senior night victory over the Ridgway Lady Elkers on Friday evening at St. Marys Area High School. The Lady Dutch led all the way, taking a 19-7 first-period advantage, leading 36-12 at the half, and 52-20 at the end of three quarters. "It was a nice win on senior night recognizing our three seniors. They played well tonight," said St. Marys coach Leona Hoohuli. The Lady Dutch were led by junior Adair Gennocro with 20 points on seven twos, a three, and a 3-for-4 night from the foul line. Junior Kiana Hoohuli and senior Jenna Anderson each added 11 points for St. Marys. Both had four twos and a three. The Lady Elkers were led by senior Nicole Breier with 15 points on seven twos and a 1-for-2 night from the foul line. Christine Schauer had 6 points on three twos. "Nicole, that was our senior, that was her last game. It was a really good game. I have no idea how many points she had, but she played really good. I thought she did well," said Ridgway coach Glenn Schauer. "It's a little frustrating we can't get back on defense," Schauer added. "I mean, that's what I preached to them and preached to them. That was one of the things I wrote on the board before we went out there, and we still didn't get back on defense."The Lady Dutch went on a 12-point run at the start, with five of the points coming from Hoohuli, four from Anderson, two from Gennocro, and a foul shot from Sloan Foster. Breier put the Lady Elkers on the board as she and Gennocro traded buckets. Angela DeAngelo sank a three for Ridgway to cut St. Marys' lead to 14-5. Gennocro and Foster each added buckets for the Lady Dutch. Christine Schauer scored for the Lady Elkers, and Abby Cribbs ended the quarter by making a foul shot for St. Marys, giving the Lady Dutch a 19-7 lead. Gennocro and Hoohuli each added buckets for St. Marys to start off the second quarter. Amanda Shilk made a foul shot for Ridgway, and then St. Marys went on to add 13 more points throughout the remainder of the quarter, while Breier was able to add a pair of buckets for the Lady Elkers, making the score 36-12 at the half. Breier scored the opening bucket of the second half to cut St. Marys' lead to 36-14. Hoohuli made a bucket for St. Marys and Gennocro sank a pair of foul shots. Breier made another bucket for Ridgway, and then the Lady Dutch went on a 12-point run on a three by Anderson, a bucket and foul shot by Gennocro, buckets by Hoohuli and Rachel Krieg, and a pair of foul shots by Becky Krieg to make their lead 52-16. The Lady Elkers ended the quarter with a pair of buckets by Taylor Roseto and Breier to make the score 52-20 in favor of St. Marys headed into the final period of play. In the fourth quarter, Anderson started things off with a bucket for the Lady Dutch. Breier made a foul shot for Ridgway. Cassie Daniels and Schauer traded buckets, as did DeAnna Yost and Jenni Thomas. Cribbs scored another bucket for the Lady Dutch, Breier answered with one for Ridgway, Yost hit a three, and Foster made a bucket to make the score 65-27 with just over two minutes left on the clock. Breier made another bucket for Ridgway, Rachel Krieg scored the final points for St. Marys, and Schauer added a final bucket for the Lady Elkers to give St. Marys the 67-31 victory. Game notesWith the win, the Lady Dutch finished their regular season with a 10-12 and they were 4-6 in the D9 League. They will now enter the D9 AAA playoffs against an opponent to be named by the D9 committee. Senior players and senior members of the dance team were honored, along with their parents, prior to the start of the varsity contest. The Lady Elkers finished their season with a 1-21 record. Playing in her final game was Ridgway senior Nicole Breier. Ridgway 31Taylor Roseto 1-0-0-0-2, Jenni Thomas 1-0-0-0-2, Katie Oknefski 1-0-0-0-2, Nicole Breier 7-0-1-2-15, Angela DeAngelo 0-1-0-2-3, Sierra Kos 0-0-0-0-0, Savanna Nelson 0-0-0-0-0, Amanda Shilk 0-0-1-2-1, Christine Schauer 3-0-0-0-6. Totals 13-1-2-6-31. St. Marys 67Abbey Cribbs 2-0-1-2-5, Jenna Anderson 4-1-0-0-11, Sloan Foster 2-0-1-2-5, Adair Gennocro 7-1-3-4-20, DeAnna Yost 1-1-0-0-5, Cassie Daniels 1-0-0-0-2, Kiana Hoohuli 4-1-0-0-11, Becky Krieg 1-0-2-2-4, Rachel Krieg 2-0-0-0-4. Totals 24-4-7-10-67. Score by quartersRidgway 7 5 8 11 31St. Marys 19 17 16 15 67 JVs winThe St. Marys Area Lady Dutch junior varsity squad recorded a 25-9 victory over the Lady Elkers in the preliminary contest. St. Marys opened the game by scoring 10 points in the first period while holding the Lady Elkers scoreless. The Lady Dutch added 8 points in the second quarter while limiting Ridgway to just one, taking an 18-1 lead at the half. In the third quarter, the Lady Elkers rallied to outscore St. Marys 5-4 and cut their lead to 22-6. Both teams scored three points in the fourth quarter, giving St. Marys the 25-9 win. St. Marys scoring: DeAnna Yost 10, Cassie Daniels 4, Rachel Krieg 11. Ridgway scoring: Tracy Ecklund 3, Alyssa Mitchell 3, Ellen Toncich 1, Kirsten Woodford 2.


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Energy firms target SMEs in £1.2bn overcharging scandal » SMEInsider

Energy firms target SMEs in £1.2bn overcharging scandal

Small business owners have been overcharged nearly 15 per cent for gas and electricity, as a new investigation reveals that the ‘Big Six’ energy suppliers gained £1.2bn through swindling unaware customers.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has released the findings of its yearlong study, in which the authority investigated some of the UK’s biggest energy companies, including British Gas, EDF, E.on, NPower, Scottish Power and SSE.

The study investigated operations conducted by the energy firms between 2009 and 2013. The report found that overall prices for energy were 5 per cent higher than the competitive level.

The report provides an insight into how small business owners are treated differently to regular customers, with the report stating ‘‘for SMEs, the evidence suggests that average prices have been substantially above the levels we would expect to see in a well-functioning competitive market.’’

The ‘Big Six’ were found to be overcharging SME owners for their energy bills by 14 per cent, meaning that the small businesses community were paying around ‘‘£0.5 billion more on an annual basis than would have been the case had competition functioned more effectively.’’

Gas has been the most expensive source of energy for business owners in recent years, with margins on sales of gas to SMEs (10 per cent) were higher than those on sales of electricity (8 per cent).

‘‘This is a damning indictment of how the energy market is failing consumers, with the biggest suppliers taking advantage of millions of households who have also been hit with the costs of government energy policy,’’ commented Which? executive director, Richard Lloyd.

The CMA suggests that business owners fail to go out and look for the best price on their energy bills. Microbusiness owners fail to get enough access to price comparison websites (PCWs), meaning that they don’t get a complete overview of prices across each market.

The report does defend energy suppliers in some cases, stating that ‘‘suppliers have recently made it easier for SME customers to get quotes, although we do not know if customers are widely aware of this development.’’

The CMA has already set out an initial list of possible measures that small business owners can use to help find themselves a better energy deal. The consumer watchdog is now expected to publish final recommendations to the government by the end of the year.

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    Sad but true. The problem is that small firms and startups either don’t have the time to browse for the best deal or simply don’t know what to lookout for. Matt – Simply Business Electricity


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Volatile . . . Peter Sellers and first wife, Britt Ekland, in 1965.

Australian actor Geoffrey Rush's portrayal of Peter Sellers in an upcoming TV movie about the legendary British comic is at the centre of an emotional row.

Oscar winner Rush is said to have achieved a remarkable physical transformation to play the former Goon, who died of a heart attack in 1980 aged 55.

But Sellers' friends and family are known to be concerned about the film's depiction of his psychological state, with the late star's son calling for audiences to boycott it.

Michael Sellers, 50, says The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers is based on a book that mistook his father's comic genius for insanity, and audiences would be better off enjoying his father's films.

"This film is based on 800 pages of unintelligible rubbish," Sellers told British newspaper The Times. Rush, who won the best actor Oscar in 1996 for his performance in Shine as the troubled pianist David Helfgott, began filming in London last month.

The movie draws on a 1994 biography by Roger Lewis, which concluded that Sellers, who won worldwide acclaim for the Pink Panther movies and Dr Strangelove, was certifiable.

Among the issues explored in the film is Sellers' highly volatile marriage to Swedish actor Britt Ekland - the first of his four wives - played by Hollywood beauty Charlize Theron.

The couple divorced in 1968 after what Lewis describes in his book as an "abusive" relationship, which placed intolerable demands on Ekland.

Rush, 52, was recently pictured filming with Theron in Chiswick, west London, where onlookers praised his apparent 1960s sensibilities.

"He seemed to have got the mannerisms just right," one bystander told Britain's Daily Mail.

"The 1960s clothes and the make-up were fantastic."

Michael Sellers, however, remains unconvinced of the film's ability to accurately portray his father's comic genius.

He said Lewis, who never met Sellers, failed to appreciate the Goons' surreal sense of the ridiculous.

His father once woke fellow Goon Spike Milligan at 3am. Wearing nothing but a bowler hat, he asked: "Do you know the name of a good tailor?" Milligan later called it one of the funniest moments of his life.

Michael Sellers said: "This guy [Lewis] did not understand my father and his comedy. He said it was insanity but he clearly didn't understand the humor of the Goons.

"He was just not up to the task of writing a biography about him."

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Engineering firm Downer EDI's first half profit has grown by 11 per cent and the company has maintained its expectation of improved underlying profit for the full year.

Downer EDI made a net profit of $94 million in the six months to December 31, up from $84.9 million in the previous corresponding period.

Revenue in the six months to December of $4.4 billion was up 18 per cent from $3.71 billion in the same period in the previous year.

The company re-affirmed its forecast for an underlying net profit of around $210 million in the 2012/13 financial year, after it rose by 24 per cent in the first half to $105.5 million.

Chief executive Grant Fenn said the results showed an improved performance from all areas of Downer EDI's business.

"Each of our three divisions achieved substantial revenue growth, underlying EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) has grown over 12 per cent and our cash performance was strong once again," Mr Fenn said in a statement.

"We have continued to build momentum in our operational and financial performance."

Downer EDI operates business in infrastructure, mining and rail.

The company is manufacturing new trains for Sydney's rail network, known as Waratah Trains.

After many problems and delays, production was now at the required rate to complete the project on time, Mr Fenn said.

"We remain on track to deliver the 78th Waratah train in mid-2014," he said.

The company declared an interim dividend of 10 cents per share, 70 per cent franked.

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Moment of truth approaches for Bill Shorten as colleagues fear 'death by a thousand cuts' from AWU revelations

Labor leader Bill Shorten's moment of truth before the royal commission into trade unions has been brought forward to July 8, and the federal opposition leader is likely to appear more than once.

On Thursday Commissioner Dyson Heydon agreed to the request from Mr Shorten's lawyers to bring forward his appearance in what is widely seen as a move designed to limit political damage to the federal Opposition Leader.

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Christopher Pyne puts the heat on Bill Shorten over alleged sweetheart deals between the AWU and big business.

Labor MPs said they were closely monitoring developments, with one suggesting – before the date was brought forward - that Mr Shorten faces "death by a thousand cuts" as speculation grew about his time as head of the Australian Workers Union.

The dramatic developments came a day after the political and business elite gathered in the federal parliament for the annual mid-winter ball dinner, an off-the-record event that raises money for charity each June.

Former Labor leaders Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard were both removed by colleagues a week after the mid-winter balls held in June 2010 and June 2013.

Mr Shorten's standing with colleagues has not deteriorated to that point, but revelations published by Fairfax Media late on Wednesday that Mr Shorten's old union was paid nearly $300,000 on his watch under a workplace deal that cut conditions and saved Thiess John Holland as much as $100 million on the $2.5 billion East Link tollway in Melbourne back in 2005 were the subject of intense discussion on the night.

One Labor MP, who asked not to be named, neatly summarised the view of some in the caucus about the latest revelations when he said most MPs doubted Mr Shorten's pending royal commission appearance would throw up a specific "gotcha moment".

But the question Labor MPs were pondering on Thursday was, he said, "could this be death by a thousands cuts?" for Mr Shorten.

Another Labor source said Mr Rudd's revamped Labor Party rules had buttressed the Opposition Leader's position. While there were "some nervous people, it's not the central point of conversation".

Other Labor MPs contacted by Fairfax Media described the royal commission as a political witch-hunt and several of the Opposition Leader's front bench colleagues, including Victorian Right faction allies and shadow ministers Richard Marles and Mark Dreyfus, as well as NSW power broker Sam Dastyari, stoutly defended their leader.

Mr Marles dismissed suggestions the Mr Shorten's leadership could be in peril, declaring "I have heard none of that" and declared the Thiess John Holland deal was "exactly how enterprise bargaining was supposed to work".

"This was an agreement which paid record rates, record rates for an urban construction project in Australia. This was an agreement which had an impeccable safety record and no industrial action. This was an agreement which delivered a fundamental piece of infrastructure to the Victorian people ahead of time. This was an agreement where everyone won," he said.

In question time, leader of the house Christopher Pyne pressed Mr Shorten for details of another deal struck with builders Winslow Constructors, a $2000 donation from the Industry 2020 slush fund made by factional ally Cesar Melhem to the Maribyrnong campaign in 2009 and the Thiess John Holland deal.

"These are matters that are within the knowledge of the Leader of the Opposition. And that's why he needs to answer those questions. He can't wait until August...why can't the Leader of the Opposition answer them today?" Mr Pyne said.

On Thursday, no past or present union movement would voice support of Mr Shorten when contacted by Fairfax Media.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions declined to comment on Mr Shorten's dealings within the AWU, as did the leadership of the CFMEU and several other prominent union figures.

The letter from Mr Shorten's lawyers to the commission asked for his appearance to be brought forward "so that he may address all issues of interest to the commission at the earliest possible mutually convenient time".

The commission said its preference had been to "address all matters concerning Mr Shorten in one sitting. However, given Mr Shorten's request to bring his examination forward by several months, this will now not be possible" and added that "any person affected by Mr Shorten's evidence will be able to apply for authorisation to cross examine him at a later date".

The political tactics of the Shorten opposition have also come under scrutiny in the last week after the ALP's decision to block the government's changes to the pensions asset test - which opened the way to a Coalition-Greens deal to save $2.4 billion - left Labor isolated.

The June Fairfax Ipsos poll published Monday showed Labor enjoyed a healthy 53-47 lead over the Coalition in the two party-preferred vote, but Mr Shorten only just led Mr Abbott as preferred prime minister, 42 per cent to 41 per cent. He trailed Mr Abbott 39 per cent to 44 per cent last month.

A year ago, Mr Shorten led Mr Abbott by 47 per cent to 40 per cent and after the May 2014 budget, had a whopping 51 per cent to 40 per cent lead.

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