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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Need Suggestions for a Galaxy S4 Case
I bought a GS4 over the weekend and would like some suggestions for a case. I'm not someone who is rough on their phones. *knock on wood* I've never severely damaged a phone from dropping it or mishaps. So I would like some suggestions for a case that has a mid grade protection as I don't feel I need something bulky like OB Defender. I've looked into a few and I really like the Spigen Slim Armor, Puregear Dualtek, and Ballistic Aspira. If anyone has any of these cases let me know how you like it. Or what kind of case you are rocking right now.
One thing that does factor in for me is if it comes with a a screen protector. I would really like to find one that does as it changes the outlook of the value. I would have gone with the Spigen already but one thing that concerns me is people say it can be quite slippery, which just sounds like an accident waiting to happen. Here are the links to the above cases.
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http://www.amazon.com/Puregear-60165...ear+dualtek+s4
http://www.amazon.com/Ballistic-AP11...stic+aspira+s4
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Caren Chesler: Because
"Mommy, why is the sky blue?" "Mommy, why eat dinner? Eddie no want dinner." "Why go bed? But why?" We are officially in the 'Why?' stage.
This morning, my 2-year-old son, Eddie, said he had to make a poopy, so I asked him if he wanted to go on the potty. I could smell that he'd already gone in his pants, but he never tells me beforehand, so I'm left trying to potty train him after the fact, like rushing to catch a school bus that's already departed. Surprisingly, he said he did want to go on the potty.
I carried him into the bathroom and placed him on his little children's toilet and said, "Here," and handed him a book.
"You can read a book while you're on the potty, just like mommy and daddy," I said.
I figured if he reads books on the potty like we do, perhaps he'd poop like we do.
He looked down at the book, "Why?"
"Why, what?" I said.
"Why read potty?"
"Why do we read on the potty?"
"Yeah," he said.
"Hmmm. I don't know," I said. "Because it gives us something to do?"
I didn't want to get into how it takes me a long time to make poopy because I don't drink enough water, but I knew he wasn't going to be satisfied with the answer I gave him.
"Why give something to do?" he asked.
"Because it's boring to just sit there," I said. I picked up one of his books, and said, "Let's read," and I began to read, because sometimes the only way to stop the endless stream of why's is to sever the conversation, like cutting the strands of Play-Doh as they're oozing out of the fun factory.
The interesting thing about responding every time he says "why" is that you begin to see how your thinking doesn't always make sense. This evening, we went to walk a neighbor's dog, and Eddie wanted to hold the dog's leash so my husband handed it to him. Eddie began to run with the dog, pulling on his leash so that the dog would follow, when it seemed like at that moment in time, the dog preferred to just dawdle and sniff.
"Eddie, let the doggie pee," I said.
My son kept pulling on the leash and then started to trot again, as the dog was trying to urinate.
"Eddie, stop. Let him go to the bathroom," I said.
My son stopped for a moment but then began trotting, and the dog began to trot behind him. But the dog soon found a spot on which he wanted to pee, and he tried to stop, but my son kept tugging on his leash.
My husband started to take the leash from my son's hand, but Eddie wouldn't let go.
"I do it," Eddie said.
"Eddie, let daddy do it," I said.
"No, Eddie do it!" my son said, grabbing on to the leash more tightly.
When my husband tried to take the leash away, Eddie began to cry.
"Buddy, let daddy hold the leash," I said.
"Why?" he said, tearfully.
"Because you have to let the dog stop and go to the bathroom," I said.
"Why?"
"Because that's why we're out here. So he can go to the bathroom," I said.
A few minutes later, Eddie managed to get ahold of the leash again. Now, the dog wanted to run and Eddie was trying to hold him back.
"Hey, pal, let the doggie run," I said, knowing I was saying the exact opposite of what I'd just told him.
"Why?" he said.
"Because the doggie hasn't been out for a while, and he wants to run," I said.
"But why?"
"Just because," I said.
Sometimes "why" seems to perform a function, like as a way of keeping the conversation going when he has so few words at his disposal. And then sometimes the "why's" feel like his way of wrestling away control in a relationship where he has so little. My husband sometimes does this on the phone when he detects I want to get off: he'll start asking questions to keep me on, and then when I start answering them, he'll say he has to go.
Sometimes "why" seems almost profound, like today, when I pointed out how someone had put a large plastic fish around the outside of their mailbox. The flap of the mailbox opened inside the fish's mouth.
"Look, Eddie. It's a fish. Their mailbox is a fish," I said, pointing out the car window.
"Why?" he said.
I looked at the mailbox and thought about it. "I have no idea," I said.
I guess we all struggle to understand the things that go on around us. I remember when my husband and I first started dating, he had tickets to see a Red Sox game. The seats were in a corporate box, and he told me he hoped I didn't mind, but it was going to be a "Guys Night Out." Of course I didn't mind, I said -- until he returned home that night and told me his brother and his best friend had both brought their girlfriends. It was basically a party in the corporate box, with food and drinks, and everyone had brought their spouses. I asked him why he didn't think to bring me, and he said, he thought it was going to be just the guys.
"But why did you think that, and they didn't?" I asked.
"I don't know," he said. "I just thought it was going to be the guys."
"But why?" I said.
"I just figured it's a baseball game. It's a guy thing," he said, wishing he'd acted differently.
"But why did you think it was a guy thing, and they didn't?" I asked, wishing he'd acted differently.
"I don't know what to say," he said.
"Maybe you want to hang out with your friends more than you want to hang out with me," I said.
"No, I don't," he said, like a cornered animal.
"But I just don't understand why, when push comes to shove, all things being equal, they thought to bring their girlfriends, and you didn't? I just don't get it," I said.
"I'm sorry," he said.
"I know you're sorry. I know. I just don't understand why you did it," I said.
Sometimes, "Why?" means, "How could you do that to me?"
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A look inside Major League Gaming's 2013 Spring Championship ...
This week in sunny Anaheim, California, for 20,000??pro gamers, amateurs, and gaming fans, the happiest place on Earth isn?t the Magic Kingdom, but the Anaheim Convention Center. Just down the street from Disneyland, the Major League Gaming?s 2013 Spring Championship, one of the league?s four main annual events, is being held. ?
The kool-aid here has more caffeine than cyanide.
For months now, pros have been practicing to get here,?amateurs have been competing for a chance to take part, all while fans followed the events leading to this since the Winter Championship in March.?It?s one thing to know all this, though, but it?s quite another to see it in person. This thing is huge.Although the event began at 5, attendees milled around for hours,?discussing gaming and preparing for the opening ceremonies. By the time Marcus ?djWHEAT? Graham took the stage, they had whipped themselves into a frenzy.
?Welcome!? he cried. ?Now let me hear it from all the people who are veterans to MLG!? The enormous crowd erupted. ?Welcome back!? Graham is an eSports celebrity in his own right, and fans revel in his presence.
A pyrotechnics-filled video with a dramatic soundtrack vaguely reminiscent of The Pirates of the Caribbean?came next. The festivities were about to begin, but first Graham had some important shout-outs. He announced the name of each featured game: League of Legends, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. More eruptions. (The crowd shouted loudest for LoL.) Each team received its own shout-out as well, and each was met with a chorus of hollering. They all have fans at the event, and well known teams like?LoL?s?TSM (Team SoloMid) raised the decibel level in the room.
The games began at 5:30 sharp.
The kickoff began three days of pro teams battling on the trio of main stages, all vying for over $100,000 in total prize money, while hundreds of amateurs compete for the chance to play CoD and Starcraft on the main stages on Sunday. Of all the games,?League?has by far the most spectators, and every double kill and impressive lane push earns roars of appreciation and battle cries from the crowd. The sound is like a Dodgers game, only indoors and more concentrated. It?s impossible to speak over the din, and commentators have to take frequent breathers. One Starcraft 2 commentator, Day9, flashes a cryptic hand signal, which half the crowd mimics. It all seems rather culty, but good-naturedly so. The kool-aid here has more caffeine than cyanide.
MLG was founded over a decade ago, and today it has 8 million registered players online playing over 40 games. A new API recently gave developers an easy way to integrate MLG into their games, and it?s not hard to see why MLG is enthusiastic about it. The league hopes to lure in at least ten more titles by the end of 2013.
The noise, the excitement of the crowd?it?s infectious.
In 2012, MLG began holding quarterly championships, and this marks the second such event in Anaheim. Last year TSM took home the gold in League of Legends, the only team game on the docket that year. This year, however, they lost their first match against a team called DIG (although TSM still has a chance to make a comeback).?The change in the Anaheim event from last year to this is significant.?Hall C of the convention center is filled more or less to capacity; it?s a record attendance for MLG, and they were almost forced to stop selling passes, something that?s never happened before. It?s like a mini convention inside. Microsoft is here showing off a new zombie game for Xbox 360, State of Decay, as well as the Xbox One?s?Killer Instinct. Sony Online Entertainment?s PlanetSide 2 and Warner Bros. and Turbine?s Infinite Crisis share one corner of the hall where casual players can relax and sit down with the games. Their developers are working with MLG in the hopes that their titles will one day be integrated into the competition.
The carnival like feeling is amplified by companies like Benq selling 3D monitors with a special show discount, Gunnar hosting a Super Smash Bros. tournament with a pair of ?advanced computer eyewear glasses? for a prize, and Turtle Beach hawking its headsets. Old-fashioned booth babes hand out chocolate-dipped pretzels, soda, and ?energy sheets? that melt on your tongue. Even anti-smoking activists from Truth are here, with a sign made of chewed gum that reads ?Menthol makes the poison go down easier.?
There are three main stages for the three main games, complete with casters, soundproof booths, and enthusiastic audiences. Players come from all over the world to compete, but South Koreans dominate in StarCraft 2. It?s their national sport, after all, and as one woman puts it, ?They?re all rock stars.? A stone?s throw to her right is where Avenged Sevenfold singer M. Shadows, a real-life rock star, competes in the amateur brackets with his Black Ops 2 team. It?s unclear whether she?s aware how literal her statement was.
The commentator?s chatter is always in the background. Constant analysis for those at the show, as well as those watching at home, can be heard. Millions tune in, but there?s plenty that they don?t see. Forgive the expression, but you really have to be there. The noise, the excitement of the crowd?it?s infectious. You don?t get that over a livestream.
For the first time this year some MLG stream and audio technicians are out in the open where spectators can watch them work. A few hover around, curious. ?People always want to see what goes into it,? a publicist said. Others wait in line for autographs from players. Fans wearing jerseys ask a young woman to pose for a picture with them; ?She?s Regi?s girlfriend!? they exclaim. ?Regi? is Andy ?Reginald? Dinh, a popular TSM player. They?ve been watching his progress since his first season, and right now they?re as excited as kids posing with Mickey Mouse.
The 2013 MLG Spring Championship continues until Sunday night at 9pm, when the victors receive their spoils and the starry-eyed masses will shuffle out to the parking structures and return to their day-to-days.For now, though, they get to mingle with their gaming icons ? and possibly play witness to the birth of something memorable.?
You can follow all the games online via Twitch.tv. For a full schedule,?click here.
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'I Defied The Odds'
This is a teen-written article from our friends at Teenink.com.
I can't complain. I can't complain because I'm alive and walking, and that's more than was expected, honestly.
There's something strange about being a sixteen-year-old stroke survivor. I had the stroke when I was three weeks old, so people seem to think that it would have little bearing on my life now. And honestly, even the title ?stroke survivor? feels weird to me. I don't remember being anything but the kid who had a stroke, so is there really a stroke-survivor title, or is that just a part of me?
At sixteen, I am partially-blind, and I had trouble walking even at eight. Being a kid it was almost impossible for me to actually understand; I didn't grasp the idea of not being able to run and play with other kids, and I didn't get why gravity seemed to constantly be pulling me to the ground and bruising my hands and tearing my clothes. Then I resigned myself to sitting on the steps while other kids played. Most of my time was spent reading a book or watching the sky.
The bright side to being somebody who spent every recess tearing through books and being as much of a philosopher as you can be even at six is that you learned things.
Both fortunately and unfortunately, the fact that I couldn't walk also meant physical therapy. The unfortunate part came from my parents' decision to put me in a full-body sport, in other words, dance. I can't even begin to explain how disastrous this decision was, but predictably a girl who can barely walk can't walk any more easily when her movements are choreographed and she is wearing a pair of steel-toed tap shoes.
The fortunate part came later. When I was nine, they opted out of dance for gymnastics, and that is when my life changed. Girls with streamlined figures pirouetted on their hands, flew and flipped and twirled with a blatant disregard for gravity, swung bar-to-bar like circus performers, and then took their beautiful flips and tumbles and twirls and put them on a four-foot-high, four-inch-wide beam. They ran at vaults with the intensity of creatures pursuing their prey, and then in an instant catapulted themselves into the air. They were superhuman.
Finally I felt determined. I felt ?determined just like I'd felt determined to run with the kids on the playground. But it was even more intense than that: I truly, genuinely, felt like I needed this. I needed to be superhuman. I worked harder than the other kids, and still got fewer results. You can't tumble until you can run, and you can't run until you can walk.
That's just the obvious progression of things. But somehow, I got through it. There were some advantages to my situation, I'd fallen so much that I was extremely pain-tolerant, and unlike the others I felt like I had something huge to gain. I got through conditioning workouts without complaining. I listened to every criticism. I shied away from sympathy. I learned to walk. Then to run. Then to tumble.
Last year I attained my peak. After all that time, I reached one of the highest levels of gymnastics. This meant that I'd earned the right to travel and compete, and even wore an expensive leotard, matching my teammates and was looked up to by the young kids.
Although it wasn't my first year competing, it was the most intense. I knew it might be my last, too; my body had learned the sport, but my heart was growing tired of it. You can only be so committed before your heart gives way, and I'd given up too much of mine at the start. My goal was met and surpassed: I was walking. Screw that, I was flying!
The final and greatest ?opportunities were to compete in Hawaii, and to compete one last time in a State Championship. I took third all-around in Hawaii, and took first on beam at State. The girl who couldn't walk took first on beam. Pigs can fly and the blind can see and I cannot only walk but also win beam.
After a summer of aggravation, I quit. I hardly felt like I'd won anything anymore. I was done flying. They'd given me the ability to leave. I was grateful and amazed, but I was ready to go.
I am sixteen years old. I am partially blind, and I had trouble walking when I was eight. I will never be like everyone else. My left side is weaker than my right, and I walk with a limp even after all of my training. I forget things constantly, and part of me wonders if this is from my stroke. I don't tell most of my friends I had a stroke; they might never look at me the same way again.
But here's the reality: I can't complain. I had a stroke, but I defied the odds. I proved every doctor wrong, and I did it with style.
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Ecuador heats rhetoric as Obama downplays Snowden
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ? President Barack Obama tried to cool the international frenzy over Edward Snowden on Thursday as Ecuador stepped up its defiance and said it was preemptively rejecting millions in trade benefits that it could lose by taking in the fugitive from his limbo in a Moscow airport.
The country seen as likeliest to shelter the National Security Agency leaker seemed determined to prove it could handle any repercussions, with three of its highest officials calling an early-morning news conference to "unilaterally and irrevocably renounce" $23 million a year in lowered tariffs on products such as shrimp and frozen vegetables.
Fernando Alvarado, the secretary of communications for leftist President Rafael Correa, sarcastically suggested the U.S. use the money to train government employees to respect human rights.
Obama, meanwhile, sought to downplay the international chase for the man he called "a 29-year-old hacker" and lower the temperature of an issue that has raised tensions between the U.S. and uneasy partners Russia and China. Obama said in Senegal that the damage to U.S. national security has already been done and his top focus now is making sure it can't happen again.
"I'm not going to have one case with a suspect who we're trying to extradite suddenly be elevated to the point where I've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues, simply to get a guy extradited so he can face the justice system," Obama said at a joint news conference with Senegal's President Macky Sall.
While the Ecuadorean government appeared angry over U.S. threats of punishment if it accepts Snowden, there were also mixed signals about how eager it was to grant asylum. For days, officials here have been blasting the U.S. and praising Snowden's leaks of NSA eavesdropping secrets as a blow for global human rights.
But they also have repeatedly insisted that they are nowhere close to making a decision on whether Snowden can leave Moscow, where he is believed to be holed up in an airport transit zone, for refuge in this oil-rich South American nation.
"It's a complex situation, we don't know how it'll be resolved," Correa told a news conference Thursday in his first public comments on the case aside from a handful of postings on Twitter.
The Ecuadorean leader said that in order for Snowden's asylum application to be processed, he would have to be in Ecuador or inside an Ecuadorean Embassy, "and he isn't." Another country would have to permit Snowden to transit its territory for that requirement to be met, Correa said.
WikiLeaks, which has been aiding Snowden, announced earlier he was en route to Ecuador and had received a travel document. On Wednesday, the Univision television network displayed an unsigned letter of safe passage for him.
Officials on Thursday acknowledged that the Ecuadorean Embassy in London had issued a June 22 letter of safe passage for Snowden that calls on other countries to allow him to travel to asylum in Ecuador. But Ecuador's secretary of political management, Betty Tola, said the letter was invalid because it was issued without the approval of the government in the capital, Quito.
She also threatened legal action against whoever leaked the document, which she said "has no validity and is the exclusive responsibility of the person who issued it."
"This demonstrates a total lack of coordination in the department of foreign affairs," said Santiago Basabe, a professor of political science at the Latin American School of Social Sciences in Quito. "It's no small question to issue a document of safe passage or a diplomatic document for someone like Snowden without this decision being taken directly by the foreign minister or president."
The renunciation of trade benefits was a dramatic but mostly symbolic threat. The U.S Congress was widely expected to let the benefits lapse in coming weeks, for reasons unrelated to the Snowden case. And if they continued, it appeared highly unlikely that the Ecuadorean government would be able to unilaterally cancel tariff benefits that went directly to their country's exporters.
Behind Ecuador's mixed messages, some analysts saw not confusion but internal divisions in the Ecuadorean government.
Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank focused on Latin America, said many in Washington believed that Correa, a leftist elected to a third term in February, had been telegraphing a desire to moderate and take a softer tack toward the United States and private business.
Harder-core leftists led by Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino may be seeking to maintain a tough line, he said, a division expressing itself in confusing messages.
"I think there really are different factions within the government on this," Shifter said. "Correa wants to become more moderate. That has been the signal that has been communicated in Washington."
Embarrassment for the Obama administration over the surveillance revelations continued as documents disclosed Thursday showed the Obama administration gathered U.S. citizens' Internet data until 2011, continuing a spying program started under President George W. Bush that revealed whom Americans exchanged emails with and the Internet Protocol address of their computer.
The National Security Agency ended the program that collected email logs and timing, but not content, in 2011 because it decided it didn't effectively stop terrorist plots, according to the NSA's director, Gen. Keith Alexander, who also heads the U.S. Cyber Command. He said all data was purged in 2011.
Britain's Guardian newspaper on Thursday released documents detailing the collection, though the program was also described earlier this month by The Washington Post.
The U.S. administration was expected to decide by Monday what export privileges to grant Ecuador under the Generalized System of Preferences, a program meant to spur development and growth in poorer countries.
Although the deadline was set long before the Snowden affair, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Thursday that Ecuador's application to add a handful of products such as artichokes and cut flowers ? the latter a major industry here ? would not be decided immediately but would remain pending. That gives the U.S. additional leverage over Ecuador while Snowden's fate remains uncertain.
More broadly, a larger trade pact allowing reduced tariffs on more than $5 billion in annual exports to the U.S. is up for congressional renewal before July 21. While approval of the Andean Trade Preference Act has long been seen as doubtful in Washington, Ecuador has been lobbying strongly for its renewal.
On Wednesday, Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pledged to lead an effort to block extension of U.S. tariff benefits if Ecuador grants asylum to Snowden, who turned 30 last week. Nearly half of Ecuador's billions a year in foreign trade depends on the United States.
The Obama administration said Thursday that accepting Snowden would damage the overall relationship between the two countries and analysts said it was almost certain that granting the leaker asylum would lead the U.S. to cut roughly $30 million a year in military and law enforcement assistance.
Granting asylum to Snowden would cause "great difficulties in our bilateral relationship," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said. "If they take that step, that would have very negative repercussions."
Alvarado, the communications minister, said his country rejects economic "blackmail" in the form of threats against the trade measures.
"The preferences were authorized for Andean countries as compensation for the fight against drugs, but soon became a new instrument of pressure," he said. "As a result, Ecuador unilaterally and irrevocably renounces these preferences."
Alvarado did not explicitly mention the separate effort to win trade benefits under the presidential order.
He did suggest, however, how the U.S. could use the money saved from Ecuadorean tariffs to train government employees to respect citizens' rights.
"Ecuador offers the United States $23 million a year in economic aid, an amount similar to what we were receiving under the tariff benefits, with the purpose of providing human rights training that will contribute to avoid violations of people's privacy, that degrade humanity," he said.
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Pace reported from Dakar, Senegal. Gonzalo Solano in Quito, Peter Orsi in Caracas, Venezuela, and Ken Thomas in Washington contributed to this report.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ecuador-heats-rhetoric-obama-downplays-snowden-194838354.html
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Google+ Tries To Gain Photo Sharing Ground By Making It Easier To Move, Download, And Upload Your Pics
Photo sharing just got a little better on Google+, as the social network has made it easier for users to move, download, and upload their pictures. Google+ engineering manager Jon Emerson wrote today that the new features came from user feedback. Users can more easily move batches of photos between albums, use a new download option to quickly save photos, and upload large sets of photos faster.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Eswm87AyW_A/
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2 new leads are tapped for Broadway's 'Annie'
NEW YORK (AP) ? Two 11-year-old actresses who have played orphans and been understudies in the Broadway revival of "Annie" have been picked to permanently take over from Lilla Crawford in the title role, a step up that has left them beaming.
Taylor Richardson and Sadie Sink, both natural redheads, will share the role of the stage's most famous redhead beginning July 30. Crawford's last performance is July 28.
"It's very exciting," said Sadie, who has played Annie before but not on Broadway. "It is a big step from an orphan to the title role." That's a sentiment that her smiling co-star agrees with: "Definitely."
Taylor, an actress from Richmond, Va., and Sadie, originally from Houston, have both understudied the role of Annie, and both have gone on as the orphan Duffy. "Annie" is their Broadway debuts.
"There's a big difference between going on for one of the orphans and going on for Annie," said Taylor, who has played Annie about 80 times so far. "There's more songs, more dancing, more time being onstage that you have to be prepared for. So I guess you have to work extra-hard when you go on as Annie."
Based on the beloved comic strip that debuted in 1924, the musical is the heartwarming tale of the Depression-era orphan girl who finds happiness with a grouchy millionaire and a lovable dog.
Producers have decided that each girl will play Annie for four of the eight-shows each week. The girl not playing the title role will go on as Duffy, the biggest of the orphans who memorably stomps on Miss Hannigan's foot in Act 2.
Sadie has previously been in productions of "The Miracle Worker" and "The Secret Garden." Taylor was in a regional production of "Honk!" Both played Susan Waverly in "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" when they were 8.
Both adore musical theater and harbor dreams of one day playing either Elphaba in "Wicked" or Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera." They eat dinner together and go out for fun. When they were offered the part, they had to keep it a secret, but each would knowingly smile to each other.
Sadie has a particular tie to the part of Annie: Her grandfather was adopted by parents looking for a child with red hair. "I thought that was really cool that I had that connection once I found out," she said.
The mothers of both girls ? neither who have red hair ? are bursting with pride but shy away from taking credit for producing singing, dancing and acting prodigies.
"There are definitely some people in both sides of our family that are musically gifted and talented. I am not," said Tiffany Richardson, Taylor's mom, with a laugh. "It skipped me and went to her. I'm OK with that."
Though clearly talented, Sadie is not the first in her family to be on Broadway. One of her three older brothers, Mitchell, played a part in "Elf" this winter ? the reason Sadie came to New York. Sadie also has a younger sister with curly red hair who likes to sing.
"The red hair and the talent? I don't know," said Lori Sink, Sadie's mother.
Tiffany Richardson has already seen her daughter take center stage on Broadway as Annie, and said she and Sadie's mother will soon have a special bond. "I can't wait to share that feeling with Lori because it really is a special feeling," she said.
"Annie" first opened on Broadway in 1977 and ran for almost six years, fueled by songs including "It's the Hard-Knock Life" and "Tomorrow." A film version was released in 1982 with Aileen Quinn playing the star and a TV version came out in 1999 starring Alicia Morton.
The musical, which features music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin and book by Thomas Meehan, is directed by three-time Tony winner James Lapine and choreographed by Tony winner Andy Blankenbuehler.
Crawford, who has been in the show since its first preview in October, will have played the role close to 300 times. Other actresses who have had their start in "Annie" include Sarah Jessica Parker, Molly Ringwald and Sutton Foster.
In other "Annie" news, Anthony Warlow, who has been playing Oliver Warbucks since the show began, has extended his contract with the production through Dec. 8. Faith Prince begins playing Miss Hannigan on July 19.
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Mark Kennedy can be reached at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/2-leads-tapped-broadways-annie-180414639.html
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Texas' controversial abortion vote: where was cable news?
By Sara Morrison
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - There was an amazing made-for-television moment in the Texas state senate last night. And if you were watching any of the big three cable news channels, you didn't see it.
Tuesday night (and early into Wednesday morning), the Texas Senate met to vote on a bill that would restrict abortions in the state to the point that most if not all abortion clinics would be forced to close.
Democrats staged a filibuster to prevent the vote, with Sen. Wendy Davis going almost 13 hours without sitting, leaning, eat, drinking, or using the bathroom. Near midnight Central Time, the filibuster was broken and the Republicans pushed through a vote amid strenuous objections in the gallery; that vote was later deemed too late to pass.
None of this was shown live on MSNBC, CNN or Fox News despite intense interest on social media. As the filibuster stretched on, the "#standwithWendy" hashtag was trending in the United States, as were several other associated terms. President Obama's twitter account even directed followers to watch the proceedings.
As the midnight deadline approached, cable news networks played reruns of their various primetime shows. Instead of news about the second-most-populous state's attempt to pass one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the country, we got discussions about blueberry muffins.
Interested parties followed the events through the Texas Tribune's livestream or via Twitter. The Tribune told TheWrap that that over 526,000 hours of its livestream were viewed over that 24 hour period, with more than 183,000 people simultaneously tuned into from the senate at its peak.
MSNBC defended its coverage, telling TheWrap that "The Rachel Maddow Show" "led national coverage of the anti-abortion bill in Texas" from its introduction, on to Wendy Davis' filibuster.
MaddowBlog liveblogged the climatic activities near midnight - making much use of the Texas Tribune's livestream - while the channel aired reruns.
CNN and Fox News did not return TheWrap's requests for comment.
Amid the chaos, the AP first reported that the bill had passed.
In the end, the vote was deemed invalid. Paul Colford, the AP's director of media relations, sent TheWrap a link to the AP's follow up story that more accurately describes the events. At least AP was covering it.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/texas-controversial-abortion-vote-where-cable-news-012227019.html
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