Famous Playwrights And TV Counterparts: If Oscar Wilde Wrote 'Mad Men,' And Other Pairings (SLIDESHOW)

You know it's real when people keep writing eulogies for it: we're in a golden age of TV, everyone. Today's scripted shows are stylish, smart and occasionally revolutionary, a runoff effect from structural and aesthetic game-changers like "Louie," "Mad Men," and yes, "The Sopranos." We at HuffPost Culture can't shake the thought that the medium has become a lot like what theater has historically been -- a destination for a range of people looking to be entertained without fail.

Then there's playwright David Adjmi's "3C," in which "Three's Company" is re-imagined as if Anton Chekhov wrote it. Taken with the oddness of Adjmi's couple, we realized how many of today's shows actually hit heights that a Russian literary genius might not mind substitute navigating for a bit. A show like "The Wire," for instance, might not yield as rich a thought experiment as Adjmi's "3C," but it has playwright takeover written all over it. Inspired by the possibilities, we put together our own list of shows we'd love to see scripted by a specific great. Let us know what you think of our pairings in the comments, and don't hesitate to tell us your own.

• Oscar Wilde/Mad Men

  The glamour, the banter, the covert homosexuality -- there's a lot in common between AMC's prettiest show and the works of Oscar Wilde, a playwright who liked pretty things. Wilde was famously an advocate of aestheticism, inscribing his seminal novel "The Portrait Of Dorian Grey" with the statement: "All art is quite useless," <a href="http://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/journal/past-issues/issue-1/duggan/" target="_hplink">a dramatic way of saying</a> that what's compelling to look at needn't serve any useful purpose. If that isn't a defense of the advertising industry, we don't know what is. Then there's the overt link: Don Draper fled his hometown of Bunbury for a new life, a <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/24/mad-men-account/?pagination=false" target="_hplink">nod to the code word</a> Wilde's male leads coin in "The Important Of Being Earnest" to reference their duplicity.

• Wendy Wasserstein/Girls

  Read the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/theater/31wasserstein.html?_r=2" target="_hplink"><em>New York Times</em> obituary for Wendy Wasserstein</a> -- a playwright born to wealthy parents in Brooklyn -- and just try not to think of that other child of privilege from the Big Apple, Lena Dunham. From the article's headline ("Her Plays Spoke To A Generation") to the description of Wasserstein's heroines ("intelligent and successful but also riddled with self-doubt"), it all sounds like one of those <a href="http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/girls-lena-dunham-2012-4/" target="_hplink">early bright-eyed "Girls" paeans</a>. Ok, Dunham's "Girls" persona isn't exactly successful yet, but considering how <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/05/07/152183865/lena-dunham-addresses-criticism-aimed-at-girls" target="_hplink">close to home the show's sourcing starts</a> we're pretty sure it'll happen for Hannah soon.

• Mary Chase/Wilfred

  Mary Chase wrote "Harvey," a Pultizer-winning play (turned 1950 Jimmy Stewart film) about an eccentric man whose best friend is a six foot tall imaginary bunny. In FX's "Wilfred," Elijah Wood plays a depressive who can't shake the vision that his neighbor's dog is an Australian dude in a dog suit. This playwright/TV connection may be only fur-deep, but you can't deny it.

• Tom Stoppard/Arrested Development

  A self-described "<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/stoppard_transcript.shtml" target="_hplink">language nerd</a>," Czech-born British playwright Tom Stoppard is known for his dense and clever thought experiments, exemplified in his career-making recast of two minor "Hamlet" characters as leads in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead." We'd have no trouble imagining him penning the fast-paced wordplay of "Arrested Development," a show that revels in knotty, knotty plots (absurdist Charlize Theron era strikes us as just right).

• Shakespeare/Modern Family

  We know it's inviting criticism to pair Shakespeare with any modern creation, except maybe the only show people get really poetic about, "The Wire." But hear us out: Shakespeare was one of the most popular entertainers of his time. "Modern Family" sets the bar for widely appealing fare these days, and while it's got nothing on a Shakespearean tragedy, its multi-predicament-into-happy-ending formula makes it ABC's half-hour weekly update of "A Comedy Of Errors."

• Tennessee Williams/Six Feet Under

  Tennessee Williams loved his dysfunctional families -- take the household in "The Glass Menagerie," where the places of honor are reserved for an absentee father and a collection of glass figurines. Meanwhile, HBO's long-running series "Six Feet Under" is nothing if not proof that family dysfunction makes for great TV. We have no doubt Williams' Southern gothic tastes would gel with the show's funeral home backdrop, except maybe he'd move the Fishers down a few states.

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Former Israeli leader Yitzhak Shamir dies

JERUSALEM?? Yitzhak Shamir, the hawkish Israeli leader who balked at the idea of trading occupied land for peace with the Palestinians, died on Saturday after a long illness. He was 96.

He was twice prime minister in the 1980s and early 1990s. Rather than seek accommodation with the Palestinians, Shamir championed new Jewish settlements.

Israeli media said Shamir, who had Alzheimer's disease, died at a nursing home in Herzliya Saturday.

Shamir served as prime minister for seven years, from 1983-84 and 1986-92, leading his party to election victories twice, despite lacking much of the outward charm and charisma that characterizes many modern politicians.

"Yitzhak Shamir was a brave warrior for Israel, before and after its inception. He was a great patriot and his enormous contribution will be forever etched in our chronicles," President Shimon Peres said in a statement obtained by YNet news of Israel.

"Yitzhak Shamir belongs to a generation of giants, who founded the State of Israel and fought for the freedom of the Jewish people in its land," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "He led Israel with deep loyalty to both the people and the land."

Gilada Diamant, Shamir's daughter, said that her father "belonged to a different generation of leaders, people with values and beliefs. I hope that we have more people like him in the future. His political doing has undoubtedly left its mark on the State of Israel.

"Dad was an amazing man, a family man in the fullest sense of the word, a man who dedicated himself to the State of Israel but never forgot his family, not even for a moment. He was a special man," she added.

Barely over 5 feet tall and built like a block of granite, Shamir projected an image of uncompromising solidity at a time when Palestinians rose up in the West Bank and Gaza, demanding an end to Israeli occupation.

Defeated in the 1992 election, he stepped down as head of the Likud party and watched from the sidelines as his successor, Yitzhak Rabin, negotiated interim land-for-peace agreements with the Palestinians.

The agreements, including Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's recognition of Israel, did nothing to ease his suspicion. In a 1997 interview with the New York-based Jewish Post, he declared: "The Arabs will always dream to destroy us. I do not believe that they will recognize us as part of this region."

He embraced the ideology of the Revisionists -- that Israel is the sole owner of all of the biblical Holy Land, made up of Israel, the West Bank and Jordan.

The Labor movement, in power for Israel's first three decades, agreed to a 1947 U.N.-proposed partition plan to allow the creation of the Jewish state alongside a Palestinian entity. To Shamir and other Revisionists, that was tantamount to treason.

In later years, asked his view of territorial compromise for peace, Shamir said often that Israel had already given up 80 percent of the Land of Israel ? a reference to Jordan.

Polish born
Born Yitzhak Jazernicki in Poland in 1915, he moved to pre-state Palestine in 1935. He joined Lehi, the most hardline of three Jewish movements resisting British mandatory authorities, taking over the Lehi leadership after the British killed its founder.

Captured twice, he escaped from two British detention camps and returned to resistance action. The second camp was in Djibouti, in Africa.

After Israel was founded in 1948, Shamir was in business for a few years before entering a career in Israel's Mossad spy agency.

In the mid-1960s he emerged to join the right-wing Herut party, which evolved into the present-day Likud.

Shamir succeeded Menahem Begin as prime minister in 1983 in the aftermath of Israel's disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

His term was marked by the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, and the 1991 Gulf war, when Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles at Israel.

Arguing with the US
During the Gulf war, Shamir went along with American demands not to retaliate for the Iraqi missile strikes. After the war, the United States stepped up pressure to start a Middle East process that could lead in only one direction ? compromise with the Arabs.

Exasperated by Shamir's stubborn refusal to go along with their plans for a regional settlement, then-U.S. Secretary of State James Baker once went on television, recited the switchboard number of the White House and told Shamir to call when he got serious about peace.

In the end, American pressure bent even Shamir. Despite his deep mistrust of Arab intentions, he agreed to attend the 1991 Middle East peace conference in Madrid, sponsored by the United States and Russia.

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Shamir hotly rejected the deals his successors made with the Palestinians, in which Israel turned over control of some West Bank land to the Palestinians.

His pleasure at the 1996 election victory of Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu soured when Netanyahu continued to negotiate with the Palestinians and carry out land-for-security deals.

Before the 1999 election, Shamir resigned from the Likud and joined a new right-wing block called National Union, headed by Begin's son, Ze'ev Binyamin.

The party, which rejected any turnover of land to the Palestinians, won only four seats in parliament, though it had seven members of the outgoing legislature on its list.

In 2001, Shamir was given his nation's highest civilian honor, the Israel Prize awarded annually to outstanding citizens in several fields.

Shamir will receive a state funeral, which has been set for Monday, YNet reported. He will be laid to rest in the Nation's Great cemetery on Mount Hertz.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A surprisingly (but very much welcome) civil Google I/O keynote

It's worth mentioning that for everything we saw in the Day 1 keynote at Google I/O, one "feature" of years past was noticeably absent -- there weren't any major jabs at Apple and the iPhone.

No references to 1984. No talk of a "draconian" future. Google just showed what it came to show -- even giving glimpses of the new and improved Google+ on the iPad.

Apple, at their WWDC event just two short weeks ago, didn't exactly display the same level of maturity. Right from the get go, during Siri's opening comedy routine, Apple went straight at Google and Android -- ICS, Jellybean, who's making up these names, Ben & Jerry? -- and continued the theme throughout the show. Apple SVP of iOS, Scott Forstall referred to ICS as a "dairy product", and once again claimed Google had a negligible amount of tablet apps. 

If that's so, why all the attention? Why not concentrate on their own products and take the high road...?

Now, the Day 2 keynote is today. There's still plenty of time for the barbs on the browser side (though with as poorly as Chrome's been running on the Mac recently, we kinda doubt it). But kudos to Google for staying on message, showing us some great hardware and software, and leaving the pettiness to the other guys.

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Photosynthesis re-wired

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Boston College chemists use nanowires to power photosynthesis

CHESTNUT HILL, MA (June 28, 2012) Harnessing the power of the sun has inspired scientists and engineers to look for ways to turn sunlight into clean energy to heat houses, fuel factories and power devices. While a majority of this research focuses on energy production, some researchers are looking at the potential uses of these novel solar technologies in other areas.

Boston College Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dunwei Wang's work with silicon nanowires and his related construct, Nanonets, has shown these stable, tiny wire-like structures can be used in processes ranging from energy collection to hydrogen-generating water-splitting.

Teaming up with fellow Boston College Assistant Professor of Chemistry Kian L. Tan, the researchers have taken aim at a role for nanowires in photosynthesis.

Their work has produced a process that closely resembles photosynthesis, employing silicon nanowires to collect light energy to power reactions capable of synthesizing the basic compounds of two popular pain-killing, anti-inflammatory drugs, they report in the current edition of Angewandte Chemie, the journal of the German Chemical Society.

The reaction sequence offers an approach that differs from earlier attempts to sequester carbon dioxide with sunlight and solves the vexing problem of carbon's low selectivity, which so far has limited earlier methods to the production of fuels. Tan and Wang report their process offers the selectivity required to produce complex organic intermediaries capable of developing pharmaceuticals and high-value chemicals.

The process succeeds in taming stubborn carbon, which structurally resists most efforts to harness it for a single chemical product. Typically, refined forms of carbon molecules must first be produced to produce the necessary results.

"If we can start to use carbon dioxide and light to power reactions in organic chemistry, there's a huge benefit to that. It allows you to bypass the middle man of fossil fuels by using light to drive the chemical reaction," said Tan. "The key is the interaction of two fields materials and synthetic chemistry. Separately, these fields may not have accomplished this on their own. But together, we combined our knowledge to make it work."

During photosynthesis, plants capture sunlight and use this solar energy and carbon dioxide to fuel chemical reactions.

Tan and Wang used silicon nanowires as a photocathode, exploiting the wire's efficient means of converting solar energy to electrical energy. Electrons released from the atoms in the nanowires are then transferred to organic molecules to trigger chemical reactions.

In this case, the researchers used aromatic ketones, which when struck by electrons become active and attack and bind carbon dioxide. Further steps produced an acid that allowed the team to create the precursors to ibuprofen and naproxen with high selectivity and high yield, the team reports.

Tan and Wang were joined in the research by Research Assistant Guangbi Yuan, PhD '12, graduate student Rui Liu, doctoral student Candice L. Joe, and former doctoral student Thomas E. Lightburn, PhD '11.

Tan said it is no accident that the process so closely resembles natural photosynthesis, as chemists are constantly drawing inspiration from nature in their work.

"Researchers in my field are always drawing inspiration from nature," said Tan. "You take the basic lessons and you try to do it in an artificial way. In this work, we're trying to learn lessons from nature, although we can't copy nature directly."

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Boston College chemists use nanowires to power photosynthesis

CHESTNUT HILL, MA (June 28, 2012) Harnessing the power of the sun has inspired scientists and engineers to look for ways to turn sunlight into clean energy to heat houses, fuel factories and power devices. While a majority of this research focuses on energy production, some researchers are looking at the potential uses of these novel solar technologies in other areas.

Boston College Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dunwei Wang's work with silicon nanowires and his related construct, Nanonets, has shown these stable, tiny wire-like structures can be used in processes ranging from energy collection to hydrogen-generating water-splitting.

Teaming up with fellow Boston College Assistant Professor of Chemistry Kian L. Tan, the researchers have taken aim at a role for nanowires in photosynthesis.

Their work has produced a process that closely resembles photosynthesis, employing silicon nanowires to collect light energy to power reactions capable of synthesizing the basic compounds of two popular pain-killing, anti-inflammatory drugs, they report in the current edition of Angewandte Chemie, the journal of the German Chemical Society.

The reaction sequence offers an approach that differs from earlier attempts to sequester carbon dioxide with sunlight and solves the vexing problem of carbon's low selectivity, which so far has limited earlier methods to the production of fuels. Tan and Wang report their process offers the selectivity required to produce complex organic intermediaries capable of developing pharmaceuticals and high-value chemicals.

The process succeeds in taming stubborn carbon, which structurally resists most efforts to harness it for a single chemical product. Typically, refined forms of carbon molecules must first be produced to produce the necessary results.

"If we can start to use carbon dioxide and light to power reactions in organic chemistry, there's a huge benefit to that. It allows you to bypass the middle man of fossil fuels by using light to drive the chemical reaction," said Tan. "The key is the interaction of two fields materials and synthetic chemistry. Separately, these fields may not have accomplished this on their own. But together, we combined our knowledge to make it work."

During photosynthesis, plants capture sunlight and use this solar energy and carbon dioxide to fuel chemical reactions.

Tan and Wang used silicon nanowires as a photocathode, exploiting the wire's efficient means of converting solar energy to electrical energy. Electrons released from the atoms in the nanowires are then transferred to organic molecules to trigger chemical reactions.

In this case, the researchers used aromatic ketones, which when struck by electrons become active and attack and bind carbon dioxide. Further steps produced an acid that allowed the team to create the precursors to ibuprofen and naproxen with high selectivity and high yield, the team reports.

Tan and Wang were joined in the research by Research Assistant Guangbi Yuan, PhD '12, graduate student Rui Liu, doctoral student Candice L. Joe, and former doctoral student Thomas E. Lightburn, PhD '11.

Tan said it is no accident that the process so closely resembles natural photosynthesis, as chemists are constantly drawing inspiration from nature in their work.

"Researchers in my field are always drawing inspiration from nature," said Tan. "You take the basic lessons and you try to do it in an artificial way. In this work, we're trying to learn lessons from nature, although we can't copy nature directly."

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Google brings incremental app updates, added encryption measures to Android

Google has just announced a new feature for Google Play that's sure to please anyone who's sat though an app update that never seemed to end. It now offers what it calls "Smart App Updates," which will let developers provide incremental updates to apps instead of forcing people to download a whole new APK for every minor update. On average, Google says those should be about a third the size of typical updates. What's more, the company has also announced that it's bringing added encryption measures to Android, which will let paid apps be encrypted with a device-specific key that makes them harder to rip and share. Both features will supported on Android devices running Gingerbread or above.

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Rogers Communications To Fire 300 More Workers As - The Inquisitr

Canadian services provider Rogers Communications Inc. is preparing to fire several hundred workers as part of the company?s cost-cutting strategy brought about as the firm faces fierce competition in the wireless, cable and internet sectors.

According to the?Financial Post:

?New chief financial officer Tony Staffieri is undertaking a review of the company?s multibillion-dollar capital structure in the hope he can trim from the $5-billion a year Rogers spends on contracts with handset makers like Apple Inc. and Research In Motion, Ltd., wireless-equipment providers such as Ericsson AB, and dozens of smaller partners.?

The need to cut costs was verified by spokeswoman Patricia Trott who stated:

?We?re managing costs in areas where it makes sense and continuing to invest in the future.?

Rogers is leaving no stone uncovered as the company examines 375 directors, vice-presidents and high-level sales associates, all of whom have the chance to lose their jobs.

News of more layoffs at the company comes after the organization fired 300 workers in March.

Rogers is being forced to cut jobs as Bell Canada Inc. continues to make inroads against Rogers? television and internet services. According to the company 27,000 customers were lost last quarter while Bell added 18,000 customers.

Despite shrinking TV and Internet sales Rogers still maintains Canada?s largest mobile presence with 9.3 million subscribers.

It?s still not clear when Rogers Communications will fire 300 more workers or from what sectors of the business those workers will come from.

Are you surprised by the company?s turn in fortunes over the last several years?

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Insert Coin: LUMOback Smart Posture Sensor thrums when you slouch, charts your laziness (video)

LUMOback wants to show all those DIY posture dilitantes what's what with its Smart Posture Sensor, an app and hardware combo that tracks your carriage and vibrates when you hunch. The thinnish 8.5mm sensor is worn like a belt, and on top of the tactile nagging, it provides detailed iPhone or iPad charting of the sitting, running and even sleeping you did, complete with an xkcd-like stickman video replaying all your crooked moves. So far the team is about a third of the way to its $100K mark, and a minimum $99 pledge will get you a jet-black model if it's built, with a $125 chip-in letting you vote on a a second shipping color, to boot. If some of your activities consist of, say, blogging in front of a computer screen all day, check the video after the break for relief.

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Reminders of mortality increase concern for environmental legacy

ScienceDaily (June 26, 2012) ? When we turn on the A/C in the summer, our first thought is probably one of relief. If it's 100 degrees in the shade, we're probably not thinking about how our decision might influence the environmental legacy we leave for future generations. It's not that we don't care, it's just that we typically don't think about our behavior in terms of long-term, inter-generational tradeoffs. But new research suggests that reminders of our own mortality may encourage us to keep future generations in mind as we make decisions.

In a study published in Psychological Science, a publication of the Association for Psychological Science, Kimberly Wade-Benzoni, of Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and her colleagues decided to focus on a kind of problem they call an "intergenerational dilemma," examining whether certain factors might lead the current generation to make sacrifices on behalf of future generations, even when there aren't any material or economic incentives to do so.

When people make decisions, they often focus on rewards in the present at the expense of rewards in the future -- a phenomenon called 'intertemporal discounting.' The hurdle to overcome with intergenerational dilemmas is that they require us to focus on future rewards that will be enjoyed by someone else. These dilemmas are unique because there isn't just a temporal distance between decision-maker and beneficiary, there's a social distance, too.

Wade-Benzoni and her colleagues hypothesized that reminding people of their mortality might be one way to strengthen their connection to future others, activating what the researchers call a 'legacy motivation.' They theorized that thoughts of death might be enough to motivate people to want to leave a positive legacy, even when that legacy spans several generations, effectively overcoming the temporal and social hurdles involved in intergenerational dilemmas. The researchers decided to test their hypothesis in several experiments.

In the first experiment, participants were entered into a lottery, in which they had the chance to win $1000. Some participants were asked to read a newspaper article about an airplane passenger's death in a freak accident -- priming their thoughts of death and mortality -- while others read an emotionally neutral story. All the participants were told that they could designate a portion of their lottery winnings to a charity that serves impoverished communities. Some were told that the donations would serve the needy now, while others were told that their donations would go to the needy at a future date.

The researchers found that those participants who had been primed with thoughts of mortality gave more money to the future-oriented charity than to the present-oriented charity. The findings suggest, in line with the original hypothesis, that thinking about death motivated participants to behave in ways that ensured their personal legacy, leaving their mark by channeling their lottery donations toward needy others in the future.

"Creating a positive legacy offers people a means of symbolic immortality," says Wade-Benzoni. "This psychosocial benefit is powerful enough to overcome very basic human tendencies to discount the value of benefits that will be enjoyed by others in the future."

Wade-Benzoni and her colleagues wanted to know more about the specific factors that drive the relationship between mortality and legacy motivation, so they decided to conduct a second experiment in which they created a hypothetical scenario related to energy and the environment.

Participants were asked to play the role of VP for a large energy company. The company had supposedly discovered a new source of efficient, inexpensive energy, and the participant's task as VP was to decide how much of the energy should be used by the company today versus how much should be allocated to another recipient. Some participants were given the option of donating to another organization that would benefit immediately; some were given the option of donating to another group that would benefit in the future; and some were given the option of donating to their own organization in the future. The participants were told that all of the other beneficiaries would make better use of the new energy supply than thier own company would in the present.

As in the first experiment, some participants were primed with thoughts of mortality, and then all the participants were asked to make their energy allocation. To get at the possible connection to future others, the researchers asked participants whether they felt an affinity with the other group.

Just as they expected, the researchers found that participants who were primed with thoughts of mortality were more likely to allocate the energy toward future beneficiaries. Furthermore, this desire to help future others was related to their sense of connection to the beneficiary.

In light of findings from the well-established literature on intertemporal choice, the behavior demonstrated in these studies under conditions of mortality salience is strikingly counter-intuitive. And that is exactly why this research is important, says Wade-Benzoni -- these new studies examine how people make decisions across both temporal and social distances.

"Acting on the behalf of future generations can paradoxically represent a dramatic form of self-interest -- immortality striving," she explains. "Believing that we have made a difference by leaving a group, an organization, a professional field, or the world a better place helps us to gain a sense of purpose in our lives and buffer the threat of meaninglessness posed by death."

The key to effective environmental policies, then, may be to help citizens see their day-to-day decisions as trade-offs between current and future generations and remind them, subtly, that none of us will live forever. We will all, as Shakespeare put it, shuffle off this mortal coil; the question is what legacy will we leave?

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The Bills announced that individual game tickets will be available online on July 9.

Miami needs to take things slowly with the development of QB Ryan Tannehill.

If there?s a spot for a fullback on the Patriots? roster, Spencer Larsen appears to have the inside track.

Said Jets QB Tim Tebow of getting cheers from kids at a football camp, ?It?s very humbling. I just take my role and my platform as a professional athlete very seriously.?

The Ravens are promoting a soccer game at their home stadium.

Former Bengals DE Pollack has become a college football announcer even though, he says, as a player, ?I didn?t care for broadcasters, to be honest. When you?re playing, it?s almost like you?re vs. the media. Coaches always say you should just give vanilla answers.?

The Browns will have an Ohio University Day this season. (And unlike the Dolphins? University of Florida Day last season, they?re not doing it to cash in on the popularity of an opposing player.)

The Steelers expect more than 100,000 fans to attend this year?s training camp.

Texans backup QB Case Keenum thinks questions about his height are silly.

Colts DT Josh Chapman says his recovery from knee surgery is right on schedule.

Jaguars players, coaches and staff members have volunteered to build a house for a Jacksonville family.

Says Titans TE Jared Cook of teammate Craig Stevens, ?Craig?s a beast of a blocker. He?s good at keeping his balance and staying low, and he has good leg drive and upper-body strength to finish a guy. He?s really good at finishing a play and staying on his feet, so that?s what I?ve learned from him.?

The Broncos? website offers some facts and figures about the season opener.

Former Chiefs S Jon McGraw still hasn?t caught on with another team in free agency.

The Raiders hope a change in the team?s culture can result in a better defense.

The Chargers hope they have more speed on offense.

Cowboys G David Arkin says he wasn?t strong enough last season, and he?s getting in the weight room to change that.

Asked about Giants owner John Mara talking about eliminating kickoffs, Giants K Lawrence Tynes said, ?Well, obviously, I don?t like it. But I don?t think it?ll ever happen.?

Here?s the Eagles? full training camp schedule.

The man arrested for extorting Redskins QB Robert Griffin III once appeared on Judge Judy, suing a woman for veterinary bills he claimed he incurred when he took in her dog. (Judge Judy ruled against him.)

Bears Chairman George McCaskey says his team wasn?t ?properly prepared? for injuries last season.

The Lions will owe some money to the league office if any more players are suspended this year.

Said Packers WR Donald Driver, ?We?ve got to continue to improve. Going 15-1 is nice, but to lose in the playoffs was very tough. It sits in your stomach for a long time. Our goal right now is to make sure that we bounce back and we get to the postseason. If you get to the postseason, it starts all over again. If we get back to the Super Bowl, that would be great. It took 13 years to win my first one, I don?t want it to take another 13 years before I win another one.?

The attitude toward Vikings WR Percy Harvin in Minnesota is that he has baggage, but not enough baggage to send him packing.

Falcons TE Michael Palmer is trying to export American football to Serbia.

Panthers LB Thomas Davis is trying to make history by becoming the first player to return to the field after three ACL tears.

The Saints still haven?t said who will coach the team while interim head coach Joe Vitt is suspended in Weeks 1-6.

Eric LeGrand, the paralyzed former Rutgers player who?s now with the Buccaneers, will write two books (one for adults and one for children) about his life.

The widow of former Cardinal Pat Tillman has published a letter he wrote her, to be read in the event of his death.

Do the Rams have a chance of going worst-to-first in the NFC West?

Issues continue to arise over the funding of the 49ers? new stadium.

Seahawks rookie Bruce Irvin predicts he?ll have double-digit sacks.

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Ugliest Dog contest: 'Mugly' had the name, now he gets the prize

Ugliest Dog contest:?Eight-year-old rescue dog 'Mugly' was declared the World?s Ugliest Dog at an annual competition in Petaluma, Calif., making him the latest Chinese crested to get the top prize.?

By Mounira Al Hmoud,?Christian Science Monitor / June 25, 2012

Mugly, a Chinese crested dog owned by Bev Nicholson of Peterborough, England, won the title of 'World's Ugliest Dog' at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif., Friday.

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Mugly, a Chinese crested dog, bested 28 other contestants at the annual competition for the World?s Ugliest Dog in Petaluma, Calif., making him the latest Chinese crested to win the top prize. ?

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Bev Nicholson, Mugly's owner who rescued him in the streets in the United Kingdom after the dog was abandoned by his family, told the Associated Press, "I couldn't speak when they announced Mugly's name."?

"I didn't know which way to look," she said. "I was shaking as much as the dog."

Mugly?s ugliness has long been recognized. In 2005, he was awarded the title of Britain?s ugliest dog. His looks do not, however, prevent him from holding down a job as a therapy dog for children.?

In addition to competing for international recognition, the British dog won a $1,000 prize and a year?s worth of dog cookies. He will also be invited for a photo shoot and a VIP stay at the local Sheraton.?

Last year?s winner at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, Yoda, was a Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix. Since the contest began in 2000, most of the winning dogs have been Chinese crested or Chinese crested and?Chihuahua mixes.?

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Common Mistakes Rental property investorsin Holiday-New Port Richey, FL ? Make and How to Avoid Them,by ?Joe Ski? Joe Zajkowski, Investing Expert.

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Buying rental properties in Holiday-New Port Richey, FL ? is a proven, profitable and relatively safe way of investing in real estate. However, many beginning investors make some deadly mistakes that end up costing them thousands of dollars. Read this page carefully so you know what these mistakes are and how you can avoid them.

Mistake #1 ? Not Carefully Researching the AreaThere are two things you must know before making any real estate investment in Holiday-New Port Richey, FL -. The first is you must know the comparable rental rates in the area. Check for the comparable rates for units like the one you?re considering. Remember to factor in vacancies and maintenance if you can. It?s also important to understand the taxes and restrictions for the particular property in Holiday-New Port Richey, FL ? you?re considering investing in. If it?s a condo, special restrictions may apply. If the building is old, there may be code violations. For your particular investment, it?s important that you know which restrictions apply and where you stand.

Mistake #2 ? Overestimating income and Underestimating ExpensesFor beginning investors, it?s very important to work conservatively. Most investors overlook how much maintenance, vacancies, repairs, etc will cost and they don?t check rental histories closely enough. As a general rule, you want to have at least 20% padding to ensure that your investment is a safe one.

Mistake #3 ? Taking on a Tough First ProjectBeginning investors in Holiday-New Port Richey, FL ? who take on difficult first projects often find that they?ve gotten into something that?s over their heads. They wind up spending much more in restoration than they had planned. Instead, for your first project, invest in a property that is a fairly easy investment.

In other words, avoid investing in rental properties that require more than minor cosmetic repairs. Look for a roof in good condition along with functional appliance and make sure the A/C is at least 15 degrees different in the air out. Carpeting and paint would be the least expensive things that you can do and they would have the most impact in appealing to a Buyer. Find and purchase properties that you can have up and running quickly, so you can get more experience with the closing and investing process quickly.

By avoiding these 3 mistakes, you?ll be well ahead of most other beginning real estate investors.

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Here are my top 7 ?advanced? tips for effective cold calling.

1. What is the Goal of Your Call? Is it to get an appointment? Get in to see the boss immediately? Or is it to make a sale on your first call? First know exactly you want the outcome to be from the call. Given today?s business environment, I would suggest focusing on creating an interest and getting an appointment to come back to present your wares another time. At the very least, leave with the decision makers business card in hand so you can do a follow-up call or email campaign.

2. Know Your Pitch. If you want to achieve the intended goal of your call, have your ask pre-scripted and practiced before you go in. Your initial ask should include who you are, your benefit statement, and an ask for the decision maker. Once the decision maker is there, your pitch should include their name, your name and company, your benefit statement, and an ask for an appointment by suggesting two specific times.

3. Where Are You Going? If you don?t have the luxury of simply walking the halls of a massive office building to cold call, and have geographically dispersed prospects, create a route on Google that takes you to each location in the most efficient manner. Your time is gold. Don?t waste it on the road. (PS ? To MAXIMIZE your windshield time, make prospect calls on the phone while you drive between cold calls)

4. Bring Choch. Okay? The first three tips were pretty basic, and this one sounds cheesy, but stay with me. If you focus on executing these behaviors, you will WIN at cold call prospecting. Now, back to tip number 4 ? Bring a goodie for the gate-keeper (receptionist). Chocolate and manicures typically work very well. Present it with a big smile and they will love you forever. Why else do you think drug reps bring food to doctors offices? It?s not for the doctors?

5. Do Some Strategic Calling. I cold called my office building a couple of years ago, and instead of asking for meetings to show my product, I asked for meetings to discover how I could trade potential business prospects with my prospect. You?ll get an overwhelmingly warm response, a higher rate of appointments set, and probably some deals out of it to. During my strategic calling, I met Scott Cunningham, who ended up referring me some business, becoming part of my referral team, and also a client. Boom.

6. Circle Call. I don?t schedule time to cold call. I simply schedule appointments to sell my product, and then plan 15-30 minutes before or after an appointment to visit the surrounding businesses. Asking the client you are in an appointment with for referrals around their office location can also support this activity.

7. Do It and Mix It Up. Driving to an office complex, having lunch, taking a 1/2-hour nap, and then making 3 calls is not a day of hard cold calling. Make a plan and visit 10-15 offices in a day. Depending on how close they are, you should be able to make at LEAST 2 calls per hour with qualified companies. Don?t rely on cold calling alone. This strategy is simply one of many that should be employed in a robust business development strategy.

What are some other strategies that you have used to make your cold calls more effective?

Jamar Cobb-Dennard
jamar@jamarspeaks.com

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At least 32 killed in Mexico bus crash

MEXICO CITY?? At least 32 people were killed in Mexico on Sunday after the bus they were traveling in turned over on a wet road in the southwestern state of Guerrero, a Red Cross official said.

At least seven people were injured and believed to be in a serious condition, the official said.

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In less than 13 seconds, Ginnie Powell-Crawford saw her future turned upside down.

Crawford, the former Rainier Beach High and USC competitor, was in position to make her first Olympic Games here Saturday evening, getting off well in the 100-meter hurdles. But she gave ground over the last half of the race, and finished a dispiriting fourth in the trials.

Fourth, of course, is where the disappointment begins.

"I don't know," Crawford said, turning philosophical to a handful of reporters. "I never thought it would be so disappointing to make me want to find something else to do."

But Crawford, at first blush, admitted she might be facing that crossroads. She turns 29 in September, and has now known the chagrin of making two Olympic trials finals and not landing on a team. She was sixth in 2008.

"The ending on my race has always been my weakness," she said. "It definitely hurt me today. It's something I haven't been able to figure out my whole hurdle career. No one has seemed to be able to fix that. I've been with two coaches, and somehow I just deteriorate and hit a wall."

Crawford said as her race developed from lane seven, she could sense Dawn Harper, in lane six, surging ahead. Harper won the race in 12.73, with Kellie Wells second in 12.77 and Lolo Jones, who had a late-race fall to thwart a gold-medal run in Beijing, third in 12.86. Crawford ran 12.90.

"I was hoping to look up (at the scoreboard) and see my name," Crawford said, "but I didn't."

She talked about the massive pressure in such an endeavor.

"Your livelihood is on the line every time you step out there," she said. "All that matters is 12 seconds, and it's all you. In a basketball game, LeBron James and the Miami Heat, you're out there with a whole team of people and you get seven games.

"Here, you get three rounds, two days, 12 seconds. It's super-cutthroat. I'm still under contract, it's financially OK, but I may find something else I want to do."

The women's 100 final provided a much less-concrete result.

After a long review, race officials determined Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh finished in a dead-heat for third place, each at 11.068 seconds. Only three spots are available at the Olympics and USA Track and Field officials were huddling, trying to solve a problem for which there is no written solution. Carmelita Jeter won the race in 10.92.

USA Track and Field officials were meeting late into the night to sort out how to break this sort of tie and who will join Jeter and second-place finisher Tianna Madison.

Spokeswoman Jill Geer said she didn't know when a decision would be reached.

Elsewhere, Tyson Gay made it through his first 100 heat cleanly, while LaShawn Merritt, Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards-Ross all advanced in the 400.

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