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September 12, 2011 Rosalea Barker Columns, World 0
BART starts a free speech firestorm
By Rosalea Barker
If you accept that social media are more of a plaza (where people meet and exchange views and information) than a highway (where views and information are driven at you), then claims that shutting them off temporarily is akin to a temporary road closure make no sense. That is the comparison that Conservative MP Louise Mensch made in support of PM David Cameron's plan to shut down social networking services during the recent UK riots. Even the local police thought that idea was daft.
Here in the US, the current advertising campaign by wireless carrier Verizon has the tagline "Rule the Air!" and rival AT&T's ads declare "In the network, anything is possible". Little wonder then that ordinary people, reliant on email, texting, and social media like Facebook and Twitter to keep in touch with each other, see access to those communication tools as something THEY, not corporations or government entities, are in control of. To be deprived of those tools is to be deprived of a basic civil and political right.
In the States, the first recourse is to the Constitution, specifically 14 words contained in the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". State constitutions also contain similar wording, and the principle of free speech applies in a general sense—not just to laws that Congress or states make.
So when the Bay Area Rapid Transit police cut off cellphone service on the platforms of four underground San Francisco BART stations on August 11 in order to stop protesters organizing a demonstration, the focus quickly shifted from what the initial protest was about to questions of free speech and First Amendment rights.
Before getting to the free speech issue, let's remember what the initial protests were about. On July 3, BART police shot and killed a drunken homeless man on the platform of SF's Civic Center station after he threw a knife at them. This wasn't the first incident of BART officers shooting to kill—back in January 2009, an unarmed man, face down on the ground and handcuffed, was shot in the back by a BART officer standing over him on the platform of Oakland's Fruitvale station. (I wrote my thoughts about that incident here.)
The BART Board of Directors—democratically elected by voters like myself—seemingly learned nothing from that first deadly shooting. They never demanded the resignation of the Police Chief, who was left to collect a big, fat pension when he eventually retired—and they have been the target of numerous protests about their actions ever since, with the lead role taken by No Justice No BART, which wants the police force disbanded. To his credit, NJNB's spokesperson—"Krystof" (pictured left) as he is chyroned on TV news reports—keeps the message of the original protests to the forefront, despite the tangent that the cellphone service shutdown has led the media off on. Here is what he said at a recent BART board meeting, and here are his local beginnings as an anti-war-on-terrorism protestor immediately post-9/11. (See the last section about Christopher Cantor.)
The colonial beginnings of Free Speech
On November 2, 1734, a New York printer by the name of John Peter Zenger was arrested and thrown in jail. He had been publishing a popular twice-weekly journal that was critical of the colony's governor, who would brook no opposition. When the resultant libel case finally came to trial by jury at the end of July the next year, Zenger found himself being defended by one of the greatest lawyers of the day, Alexander Hamilton. A Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger, Printer of the New York Weekly Journal, a 40-page booklet that was published several times in London, Boston, and Philadelphia, contains some of Hamilton's oratory, and was influential in persuading colonists to rebel against Britain, and the nascent States to demand a Bill of Rights that included the right to free speech and a free press.
The following short extract is as apposite today around the globe as it was in 18th Century New York:
"I pray, what redress is to be expected for an honest man, who makes his complaint against a governor, to an assembly who may properly enough be said to be made by the same governor against whom the complaint is made? The thing answers itself. No, it is natural, it is a privilege, I will go farther, it is a right which all free men claim, and are entitled to complain when they are hurt; they have a right publicly to remonstrate the abuses of power, in the strongest terms, to put their neighbors upon their guard, against the craft or open violence of men in authority, and to assert with courage the sense they have of the blessings of liberty, the value they put upon it, and their resolution at all hazards to preserve it, as one of the greatest blessings heaven can bestow."
SCOTUS fine-tuning
Over the years, the US Supreme Court has continually refined what is considered to be "protected speech"—most notably, where "public safety" or "national security" is involved, First Amendment protections aren't applied. Other SCOTUS decisions have revolved around whether interference with free speech was content-neutral, and whether the "time, manner and place" of the exercise of FA rights is inappropriate.
Jesse Choper, listed as a faculty expert on constitutional law on UC Berkeley's website, gave an explanation of why he thought the BART telecommunication shutdown was not breaching free speech principles when he was interviewed by Warren Olney on To the Point, a Public Radio International program broadcast on August 18, and available for download here. (The discussion begins about 8 minutes in.)
"There is no exercise of First Amendment rights [involved in the protests on the BART platforms]," said Choper. "The devil is in the details, and in the facts. I think it's wrong to compare what happened here as what happened in the Arab Spring. … The rule is pretty simple. It's got to be a content-neutral regulation. That's not self-defining. First of all, they [BART] didn't have a rule" about when cutting off telecommunications would be appropriate. "They will after this—there will be a general rule that talks about interference with the safety of passengers on platforms. The BART board will get their lawyers to draft up a rule that will protect them."
Choper continued later, "If people want to protest against the killing by the BART officers, they have every First Amendment right to do so. Is it important that they do it at the BART station? Well, if they think it is, they can parade peacefully and without interfering with traffic all day long outside, right outside the entrance to the BART station. This is not a restriction of speech; it's a regulation of time, place and manner."
One of the other guests on the show, Judith Donath (pictured left), who is Faculty Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, expressed the opinion that the technology of today's world means that:
"We'll be thinking about different types of public spaces that are purely virtual, which may change some of our constitutional understanding of when we can shut down a network if we say that the things we want to protect about the ability to speak freely and to hold a rally in a public space—what about if those spaces increasingly become online forums? What does that mean about the importance to the access of technology? One of the things we can see already is that our understanding of what is traditional public and private space is a little iffy. We really don't quite know what a train platform is. It's going to be changing a lot as technology both spreads our physical public space into the virtual world through cameras, etc, and the virtual world increasingly becomes our gathering spaces."
Meanwhile, the protests about BART's handling of the police shootings—and now, also, their handling of access to commercial telecoms networks on their platforms—continue every week. Commuters are variously in support of the protestors, or mightily pissed off with them because of the mess it makes of their evening commute. Some have adjusted by going in to work early on the days that protests are planned so they can leave early, before the stations might potentially be shut down.
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For the sake of Argument, God the Father has always been God (as far as we are concerned in this discussion). Jesus was a member of the Godhead before he recieved a body and came to Earth. He is still a member of the Godhead now that he has a body. The Holy Spirit is a member of the Godhead without a body.
That is where your nicean mental gymnastics cause you to be completely mistaken in your thinking.
One in purpose, not one in substance being the same Person. Evidenced by the scriptures which Elflord put up which you dismissed because in your own words, it was about the manly attributes of Christ (albeit Stephen's vision was a couple of years removed from the Ascension, and Paul's words about us being inheritors of God and coinheritors with Christ is from a couple of decades after Christ's mortal ministry.
This is not my doctrine, its what the Bible says in plain english.
Joseph Smith led people astray with his false ideas of God, Jesus etc. That by definition makes him a false prophet.
Websters dictionary states that everlasting means "lasting or enduring through ALL time." Let me paint it this way so you can understand this time. From "lasting or enduring through all time" to "lasting or enduring through all time" thou art God. Looks like it means He has always been God. Sorry, Joseph was wrong.
Your Jesus is different than the Biblical Jesus.
No, He isn't. Your interpretation of the Bible is in error.
I mean, how many ways can the Bible say that Jesus is God.(John 1:1-14, John 8:58, John 10:30, Col.1:16,17, Hebrews 13: The mormons don't believe that.
Actually, we believe every single one of those, and in the way they were originally intended. You just don't have a correct understanding of what they really mean.
We could go through each and everyone of those if you like. But I suspect it would be a waste of our time as it is OBVIOUS that you have a closed mind.
Nice logic, BUT Mormon doctrine is consistent with Biblical doctrine. It is your doctrine that is incompatible with Biblical doctrine.
We can show you how, but I doubt you would open your eye to see it.
Its not a restored gospel but a whole new religion which unfortunately is false.
Jesus warned in Matt. 7:15 "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
Yes he did. Why warn of false prophets if there were not going to be true prophets?
I say Joseph Smith fits the bill pretty well.
And you would be wrong. Nothing new about that.
You really aren't paying attention are you?
One more time, the hills are "everlasting". What is so difficult to understand about that?
I messed it up. This is the way I wanted to put it.
.Point #2 This is not my doctrine, its what the Bible says in plain english..
Point #3 Joseph Smith led people astray with his false ideas of God, Jesus etc. That by definition makes him a false prophet.
And what does the Bible say about "everlasting"?
So these "hills" and "mountains" are "lasting or enduring through ALL time"?
Is the Bible false or is your definition wrong?
Point #1 In other words you don't believe what the Bible says.
We believe what the Bible says. We just don't believe what you say the Bible says. We read what the words actually say, not the false interpretation you put upon them.
Wrong. It is your false interpretation that you put upon those words. We could go through each of those scriptures and show you where you are in error but would it do any good?
Point #3 Joseph Smith led people astray with his false ideas of God, Jesus etc.
Actually it was the council of Nicea that led people astray, that by definition makes them a false prophets.
Here is an example where you are wrong.
In beginning was the word and the word was toward the god and god was the word.
The preceding list is by no means exhaustive, but it is sufficient to indicate clearly that debate concerning the matter is alive and well.
There really is no debating with you because its like debating with a brick wall. You have no substantial reasoning in your debate. To say that I am wrong or what I say is false without logical points is not debating. When you said earlier that I have built a "strawman argument" but yet don't back it up with anything to prove your point than why debate.
Hopefully you'll realize that Mormonism is nothing more than a counterfeit Christianity.
So you don't want to go through the documentation, or Vance's posts on everlasting mountains and hills, or my musing on John 17, or the other posts by Elf, Mola and the others?
All right. Now just to be intellecually honest, you are conceding defeat. The Creation story, John 17, the words of Paul, Stephen's vision, Mary of Magdalene's experience, all of them are against your interpretation (or should I say it, the Nicene version) of the Trinity.
Ok, we have givin you very susbtasitive posts. You have vitrually ignored everything we have said. Vances last post to which you just responded is a case in point. You ignored the main thrust of scholarship on what the bible actually says in favor of how you currently view things and with the wave of your hand just asserted that it is wrong.
BTW What does real Chrisianity look like?
Do you know what a straw man is? I suggest you educate your self.
Ok lets take a look at your new post.
Your interpretaion is not what the bible says. It is exactly that, your interpretation of what you think the bibles says.
Acutally no, it is your interpretaion. We have shown you why everlasting to everlasting does not mean eternity past to eternity future. Vance and others have quoted other scriptures to illistrate the point that ever lasting just means a long time.
That is your opinion and your assertion. You have not even come close to demonstrating this.
Wow! This really made me laugh. I followed this thread through from the OP reading each post as Vance, Elf, Mola and Muc'ul gave "substantial reasoning" and hundreds of "logical points" for their opinions, and this is what you write in response? I'm no religious scholar, so I don't jump into debates like this, but I like reading debates with intelligent points coming from both sides, but so far, the intelligence seems very one sided.
PS. Do you even know what a "strawman argument" is?
First of all why don't you let Vance speak for himself. Second, I have not conceded defeat. Its quite the opposite.
Ok then, you tell me what Psalms 90:2 means.
The Book of Mormon and the D&C have a trinitarian view of God.
When the term "one God" is used it means they are one in purpose. It does not mean one in a monothesitic sense or one in a metaphysical or one in essance. It never has and it never will. We have cited numerous scripture that back this up.
Why didn't Joseph say in the D&C or in the Book of Mormon that they are one in purpose but three separate gods. That is a rediculous argument. Sorry.
BTW D&C 20:17 just backs up what I have been saying all along about who God is. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!!
John 17:20-22. We have been over this.
Jesus desires us to be one as He and His Father are one. In what sense is Jesus one with His Father?
That is the key to understand what being "One" means, or being One God means. It never meant they are numerically one. He doesn't mean they are 1 God metaphsycially. That is how you understand the verse.
First of all why don't you let Vance speak for himself.
His response was perfect. I could not have improved upon it.
Second, I have not conceded defeat.
Your failure to acknowledge our responses and address them point by point is an implicit admission of defeat.
Do you know what "implicit" means?
Point #2 This is not my doctrine, its what the Bible says in plain english..
A pity that the original languages of the Bible are archaic forms of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
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When finally published, apart from discussing many other topics and scriptures related to the Trinity, you will discover that there are some 400+ scholarly reference works (including those by Trinitarians) which have opted to say something other than, "and the Word was God," and that, among these are included over 100 which had chosen to use "a god" (as by a number Trinitarians as well) within the third clause of their renderings.
... Joseph Smith led people astray with his false ideas of God, Jesus etc. That by definition makes him a false prophet.
QED. So let JSBG say it, so let it be done! Shut 'er down, Clancy! She's pumpin' mud! I don't know about anyone else, but JSBG has me convinced. Will the last person to leave the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints turn out the lights?
... [Y]ou said earlier that I have built a "strawman argument" but yet don't back it up with anything to prove your point than why debate.
Is there a mirror anywhere near you? Pot, meet kettle?


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Q: force file creation/writing before the end of the test I have the following code in a test:
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void genericTest() {
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The file is correctly created. The problem is that func.method does not find it, indeed Intellij only shows me the file created (appearing in the file list) at the end of the execution of the test.
The issue is not the file path because on the further executions (when the file already exists since it was created at the end of the previous one), the test regularly passes.
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'An artist recreates history, not like a historian, but as a poet. The artist takes the communal ideas and associations that surround the various gods of his or her time and plays with them, inventing another story for these mythic characters.'
Robert Wilson works across a wide variety of artistic disciplines and is an acclaimed director, stage architect, designer, choreographer, curator, visual and light artist. Since the late 1960s, his productions have decisively shaped the contemporary aesthetics of theatre and opera. Through his signature use of light, investigations into the structure of simple movements and the classical rigour of his designs, the force and originality of his vision is apparent across all media.
Wilson's graphic works are fuelled by influences ranging from performance art to Minimalism. While these are often intimately linked to his work for the stage, acting as records of his creative process during rehearsals, they also exist independently as purely poetical objects. Often presented in sequence, his drawings offer subtle variations on the same motif, such as his Der Messias series that relates to Mozart's adaptation of an oratorio by Handel. Rendered in subtle tones of black and white, these works range from pure abstraction to specific sketches of what Wilson envisioned for an act, scene or interlude. Rather than a realistic rendering of the stage design, they represent energy streams, echoing his use of light to define space on stage.
Born in 1941 in Waco, Texas, Wilson studied at the University of Texas and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He founded the New York-based performance collective 'The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds' in the mid-1960s and developed his first signature works, including Deafman Glance (1970) and A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974–75). With Philip Glass, he wrote the seminal opera Einstein on the Beach (1976). In 1998, the renowned production of Bluebeard's Castle & Expectation, with Jessye Norman in the role of the Woman, premiered at the Salzburg Festival. Wilson's artistic collaborators include many writers and musicians such as Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed and Anna Calvi. He has also left his imprint on masterworks such as Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Brecht/Weill's Threepenny Opera, Debussy's Pelléas et Melisande, Goethe's Faust, Homer's Odyssey, Jean de la Fontaine's Fables, Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Verdi's La Traviata and Sophocles' Oedipus.
Wilson's drawings, paintings and sculptures have been presented in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions and are in private collections and museums internationally. He has been honoured with numerous awards for excellence, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination (1986), two Premio Ubu awards (1994 and 1996), the Golden Lion at the 45th Venice Biennale (1993), and an Olivier Award (2013). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the German Academy of the Arts, as well as holding eight honourary doctorates. France pronounced him Chevalier des arts et des lettres (2003) and Officier de la Légion d'Honneur (2014), while Germany awarded him the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit (2014).
Wilson is the founder and artistic director of The Watermill Center, a laboratory for the arts in Water Mill, New York.
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Available works by Robert Wilson
Der Messias 008.07.24.20, 2020
Der Messias 001.1.24.20, 2020
Der Messias 026.1-6.07.24.20, 2020
Charcoal on paper, six parts
Each 25 x 35 cm
Charcoal on paper, 6 parts
Der Messias
13 September—28 November 2020
Der Messias—Zeichnungen
23 January—28 March 2020
Video Portaits of Lady Gaga
30 November 2013—8 February 2014
Video Portrait Drawings
24 July—24 September 2011
Faces Of Mozart
Charity Exhibition
Charity Exhibition 'Licht Ins Dunkel'
Charity Exhibition for 'Licht Ins Dunkel'
2 November—24 December 2011
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Bob Wilson: L'icône et le Messie
Ses dessins, minimalistes, font bien plus qu'illustrer ses productions. Ils en capturent l'esprit.
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Ruth La Ferla, 3 November 2017
Robert Wilson Puts on a Show
Mr. Wilson tapped his enduring fascination with a cast of outsize characters
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Julie Baumgardner, 1 June 2017
Animal instinct: Robert Wilson taps into his wild side in Venice
The sensorial exhibition is staged across seven rooms in a Venetian warehouse
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Andy Battaglia, 26 July 2016
Robert Wilson Keeps It Weird at the Watermill Center
Dozens of artists are working up to the wire on avant-garde projects for the center's summer gala


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FTTH residential standard to solve a number of practical problem
From:Hunan Phoic Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd Date:2014-07-23 10:37:20 Hits:2647 Belong to:Industry Information
Broadband strategy implementation program is expected to be announced in September the long overdue, but the feet are already underway to amend the relevant specifications of the existing regulations.Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Construction of Housing and Urban organization of businesses and experts revised and completed residential and residential building communication facilities engineering design specifications "and" residential and residential building communication facilities engineering construction and acceptance "( hereinafter referred to as the "specification"), two national standards manuscript, and the convening of the National Institute of Standards Review.
The Revision of the greatest significance and highlights that complements FTTH able to more effectively implement the principles and policies of the countries on the promotion of the fiber-optic broadband network construction, resource sharing specification.This means that, at the level of national regulations, the CPN will be forced to have a multi-access capability of the service provider, CPN open construction of the relevant laws and regulations from this will be the end of the previous provincial and municipal "fragmented" situation, a high degree of unity at the national level.To solve a number of practical problemIn fact, as early as July 15, 2010, China's Ministry of Housing and Urban had released a national standard residential and residential building communication infrastructure engineering design specification "and provides effective as of February 11, 2011. , Followed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban released a national standard residential and residential building communication facilities engineering acceptance ", and was implemented with effect from October 1, 2011. Henan Communications Authority official said two "of the 2010 version of the specification, in mandatory" to be further strengthened.The views of all parties, residential and residential construction, communications facilities must be designed to meet the requirements of the revised "norms", "The user can freely choose the telecommunication business operators, companies in the telecommunications business operators fair access" requirements, It also requires the city at or above the county level must achieve fiber to the home, other regions should be promoted using fiber-optic broadband access, speed up the construction of information and communication infrastructure; communication facilities construction projects must be carried out simultaneously with the construction of residential and residential construction.
The revised draft also makes provision for the residential area of communication facilities design, choice of communication facilities within the residential building design, cable and wiring devices, machine room location and process design requirements, transmission indicators standards.The newly revised "norms" root causes to solve the problem of the CPN building norms involved in the revision of the "norms" an insider told reporters that the "norms" to develop the norms and standards of the CPN construction to determine the final acceptance of responsibility unit, to develop criteria for the quality of the project.Is not difficult to see that the revised norms "play the two, the first is to ensure that the fiber infrastructure as an integral part of the planning of the construction work will be carried out simultaneously with the civil infrastructure; addition, to ensure that the major telecom business operators equal access capabilities, to prevent redundant construction of telecommunications infrastructure.This reality CPN building and sharing to solve a number of the CPN construction and maintenance issues. Example to Hainan, the Hainan Communications Authority had told reporters Over the years, the relevant departments of Hainan of CPN building by developers to invest in construction took a different view, not pay enough attention to in terms of design, construction, and acceptance of the CPN planning, review the terms of the relevant departments of the design review of residential the district CPN subsidiary of newly developed communication facilities relatively loose; In addition, there is no mandatory requirement to invest in the construction of communication facilities by the developer planning red line; addition, there is no acceptance criteria in the late problem of insufficient maintenance by CPN facilities exist for developers building maintenance.But it is worth mentioning is that the reporter did not see the provisions of the maintenance interface, and the responsibility for maintaining the division in the newly revised residential and residential building communication facilities engineering construction and acceptance of norms "in maintaining the standard of management," norms "not done stipulates.The access fairness "only do halfCaldecott Cheng, deputy chief engineer of the Sichuan Communication Design Institute, that the main focus of the revised norms "of new residential and park to do with fair access to hardware conditions, stressed that" operators have access capability ", but that does not mean forward "in the district or park CPN put into operation, whether truly all operators equal access".From currently the CPN open access, impact the user is free to select the practice of service providers, and its main crux of the problem often lies not in the CPN whether have the ability to access multiple service providers, nor that other carriers are willing to provide services for users , but in the CPN owners whether to allow telecom operators "equal access".For different types of construction projects, supporting communications infrastructure investment subject either party to the owners of the project can also be carriers, and even other third-party the CPN investment construction square. The current status quo is more common investment and construction by the developer or a telecom operator, CPN development in accordance with the present "who invests, who benefits" principle, developers and single operators often CPN access master key dominance, in consideration of the interests and competing demands, often unable to do the operators "equal access".For consideration of interests, "CPN" owners ", often signed and some operators" exclusive service agreement, this exclusive service agreement, other carriers "equal access" user " freedom of choice, have become empty talk. "This is like a port put in there, but you have no right to use., Caldecott Cheng, truly the "freedom of choice" and "fair access" must put an end to the CPN the "owners" and certain operators signed an "exclusive" service agreement, not only to have a mandatory requirement, but also to enforcement tools.On the other hand, analysts said, advancing CPN open, should put an end to the the CPN "owners" large opening to the operators of the lion, wild speculations, "taken by foreign government-led pricing or mandatory free access , can be regarded as an effective way. "As an important part of the national "broadband strategy", CPN can completely open radical "last mile" in the fully competitive, fully shared on the basis of chronic illness, and has become a top priority. The newly revised "norms" undoubtedly CPN open ripped a hole can be predicted as "broadband strategy" continue to promote the follow-up rules and more perfect embodiment will be launched soon, a completely open to the CPN new faces.
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NHL admits it made wrong call in disallowing Sabres' goal
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)The NHL announced it made the wrong call in disallowing what would have been the Buffalo Sabres' tying goal in the final minute of a 2-1 loss to the New York Rangers.
In a statement released by the league on Saturday, senior executive VP Colin Campbell said Victor Olofsson's goal scored with 57 seconds remaining Friday night should have stood because video replays could not "definitively determine" whether the Sabres were offside entering the zone.
Sabres coach Don Granato shrugged off the NHL's admission when speaking prior to Saturday night's game against the Washington Capitals.
"No real reaction," Granato said. "It's hard for me to comment on it. You guys asked me about it after the game, and I'm going to tell you my approach to it is, you can't play the `poor me' card. You just can't."
The goal was disallowed after a replay showed Buffalo defenseman Rasmus Dahlin crossed the Rangers blue line before the puck entered the zone. What review officials failed to take into account was whether Olofsson touched the puck before Dahlin tagged up by getting his skate on the blue line.
Because replays were inconclusive, Campbell said officials should have followed league policy in staying with the original call of a goal being scored.
Without disputing the ruling following the game, Granato said he asked officials if they could further review whether Dahlin had tagged up. He was informed the NHL had made its decision.
"I can't have emotion in it. I can't think about it," Granato said. "There's certain things that are out of your control and you just play. You just trust that the league knows what they're doing and you move on."
The loss extended Buffalo's skid to 0-5-1, and the team is 3-14-2 in its past 19.
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never really done the nitty-gritty stuff, which is not terribly mysterious once you tackle it. And if you haven't done these things the technicians can abso- lutely wrap you up in the details, and you never find your way out. There are banking firms that are so big that the staff does all these things, but at Lazard we are so smal1 that that's out of the question." In 1956, Rohatyn married Jeannette Streit, who was a daughter of the writer Clarence Streit (the author of the antiwar book "Union Now") and was an interpreter at the United Na- tions. They have three sons: Pierre, twenty-four; Nicolas, twenty-two; and Michael, nineteen. The Rohatyns were legally separated in 1972 and were subsequently divorced, and he re- married in 1979. His present wife, the former Elizabeth Fly, who is from Memphis, is president of the Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association, a set- tlement house on the East Side Like her husband, she is an ardent tennis player and skier. In 1960, Rohatyn encountered Har- old Geneen, who became the third great influence, after Wissler and Meyer, on him. From 1950 to 1956, Geneen had been the financial vice- president of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, whose board of di- rectors included a senior partner at Lazard. In 1959, Geneen became president of I. T. T., and the Lazard part- ner recommended Ro- hatyn to him as some- body who could work with I.T.T. on mergers and acquisi- tions. Almost at once, Rohatyn began what became a spectacular series of mergers and acquisitions for I.T.T. involving bil- lions of dollars. The first acquisition he ar- ranged was that of a smal1 electronics con- cern, the Jennings Ra- dio Manufacturing Corporation, in San Jose, California, which actually made not radios but vacuum interrupters and vacu- um capacitors for var- ious electronic devices. The company was in need of capital, and after what Rohatyn de- scribed as one of the most arduous negotiations he has ever been lnvolved with-it was almost turned down by Geneen's board of di- rectors-I.T.T. bought Jennings for twenty million dollars. When Rohatyn told me about the Jennings acquisition, he said that in retrospect he could hardly believe that this relatively small-scale transaction had been so difficult. "We would now do such things out of petty cash," he went on. "But that was the first deal I had done on my own for Lazard. It began a friendship with Geneen that has continued to this day. He has had an extraordinary influence on my pro- fessional life-on my view of busi- nesses and on my thinking. When I first met Hal, he had an incredibly short fuse-anger directed not at me but at people working for him. He was terribly demanding. He would get into the office at eleven and stay there until four the following morning, simply because he had no idea what time it was. I remember reading a pamphlet that he wrote in those days entitled , Facts.' He tried to explain to people who wrote reports to him how to dif- ferentiate a fact from an assumption, from hearsay, because he was frus- trated by sloppy reporting. What had a great impact on me was listening to Hal quiz people on a business-on its structure, on its operations, on its fu- ture, on what was fundamental and 59 what wasn't, and on how information flowed. Hal started out as an auditor, so he had been through all kinds of businesses. He knew businesses from the inside-he knew the fundamen- tals. Over the next ten years, we must have bought at least five billion dol- lars' worth of companies-which is not much by today's standards. Every time we got to talk to the president of one of those companies, it would turn out that Hal really knew more about the guy's business than he did. This knowledge was not used in an offen- sive way-he just really did know. What educated me the most was lis- tening to him ask people whether what they were telling him was really so; whether they had been there; whether they had touched it; what made them think it was really so; and-especially when they were projecting into the future-what the basis of their state- ments was. Did they really feel com- fortable with them? Did the statements stand up when you began to shine the light on them? i1.nd I learned from Geneen never to accept the notion that something can't be done just because someone tells you it can't. N ew York CIty would have gone bankrupt eight times over if I hadn't learned that from him. I got involved with some businesses in serious difficulties. For example, Avis was going bankrupt when Lazard bought it-and La- } """-- "What do you mean 'Your guess is as good as mine'? My guess zs a hell of a lot better than your guess!"