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The Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit in April after a lengthy investigation of the publishing industry, saying that the five publishers had colluded with Apple to limit price competition and caused consumers to pay tens of millions more for e-books than they would have otherwise.
Five of the six major publishers in the industry moved from a wholesale pricing model to a system known as the agency model in 2010, a move that allowed publishers to begin setting their own e-book prices.
The court filings this week laid out the initial defense of Penguin and Macmillan against the lawsuit, rebutting the government’s charges that publishers had conspired in e-mails, telephone conversations and over lavish dinners in Manhattan restaurants.
Penguin and Macmillan declined to comment on Wednesday.
The response from Macmillan addresses one of the more colorful charges by the government: that the publishers met privately over dinner in upscale restaurants to discuss their conspiracy.
Addressing the charge that Macmillan conspired with other publishers in late 2009 and early 2010, the filing from Macmillan said that no telephone conversation between Mr. Sargent and other publishers had involved collusion. “Indeed, more than half of these telephone ‘conversations’ lasted no more than a few seconds and were nothing more than missed calls,” the filing said.
A systems management company which was recently acquired by PC box builder Dell reckons companies are falling over themselves to upgrade to Windows 7.
A global survey of 923 people [Global? Is that it? Ed.] conducted by Dell KACE discovered that 87 per cent of IT professionals were planning to deploy Windows 7.
Surprisingly, almost half of the respondents said that they wouldn't wait for the release of the first Service Pack (SP1) which is due for release this summer.
The success of Microsoft's latest operating system would also seem to be bad news for the open source community as the number of firms considering alternatives to the Windows monopoly fell from 50 per cent in a 2009 survey to 32 per cent.
Positive feedback from early adopters of Windows 7 also seems to have allayed fears about the operating system's stability with 41 per cent of those polled worried about crashing issues compared to 62 per cent in the same poll from 2009.
Stone fabrication can be as simple as cutting tile for a backsplash or as complex as creating an entire new granite kitchen countertop. Either way, the proper tools are required to make the process less of a headache and more of a fun project. Island Stone Center carries a large variety of stone fabrication products to get the job done correctly from start to finish.
Tools are always an important key in any home improvement project. Island Stone Center has several tools beneficial in the stone fabrication process. Variable speed angle grinders are a must-have for fabricators — used for cutting sink holes, backsplashes and notches. Wet polishers are necessary when polishing a granite edge. Island Stone Center carries both pneumatic and electric wet polishers, which also can be used for drilling faucet holes with diamond core bits. Small wet tile saws, also available, are helpful when cutting longer straight cuts, such as seams on a counter-top.
Diamond tools are necessary when fabricating natural stone. Quality diamond blades help reduce chipping on the surface of the stone when cutting. Diamond blades come in a variety of styles and sizes. Diamond blades are used for cutting any type of hard surface such as granite, marble, concrete or quartz. Multi-Cutter blades can grind and shape stone, in addition to cutting. Concave blades are designed for cutting inside circles and ovals, like bowl holes.
Diamond Polishing Pads are for polishing the edges of granite, concrete or engineered stone surfaces. Once a surface is cut, the edge needs to be polished to match the top of the stone if it is going to be visible. They are available in a variety of sizes and can be used either wet or dry, although wet polishing produces a superior polish and offers longer life of the polishing pad. Other diamond tools available at Island Stone Center include sink truing wheels, cup wheels, core bits, sink-polishing drums and router bits.
Stone adhesives are an integral part of fabrication. There are two types of adhesives: polyester and epoxy. Polyester adhesives are used for patching travertine “pukas,” countertop seams and rodding on a dry surface. Epoxy adhesives have a much stronger bond, do not shrink and can be used on wet surfaces. When gluing a “lamination,” which is the process of making the edge of the stone thicker and more substantial, epoxy should be used. Stone Weld is an ultra-clear epoxy that dries in less than three hours. It offers a bond stronger than the stone itself, in a flowing consistency so that the glue line will not look too thick from the front. Colorants can be added to any adhesive to match the stone to make any glue line less noticeable.
Island Stone Center’s epoxy supplier, American Synthetics Co., was established in 1962 in Detroit, Mich. Brian Zelek and an associate formed the company to specifically manufacture special epoxy adhesives for the bowling ball industry. Over time, Brian bought out his partner and decided to move to Arizona. Thereafter, he committed himself to creating a superior epoxy line for the natural stone industry, in particular Stone Weld, Super Gel and Knife Weld. These adhesives are very clear in color and have a very low level of shrinkage, making fabrication easier for our local tradesmen. Island Stone Center proudly stocks these adhesives at affordable prices.
Always be sure to take safety into consideration when fabricating natural stone, as it is very heavy, weighing around 15 pounds per square foot on standard 3/4-inch thick slabs. Cutting natural stone and concrete creates a lot of dust and particles, so be sure to wear a dust mask and eye protection. Disposable gloves are recommended when working with any stone adhesive. Heavy-duty aprons, first-aid kits and hearing protection are all available at Island Stone Center, making it a one-stop shop for Hawaii’s local fabricators.
For any type of stone fabrication, maintenance or repair project, visit Island Stone Center, where Cathy Uda and Selena Willard offer years of experience in the trade and can assist you with your stone fabrication needs. The company is located at 1111 Dillingham Blvd. #E1-B at the Kokea Center near Subway and Yohei Restaurant, and it can be reached by calling 848-0989.
The San Angelo City council approved with the rezoning of land at 4001 S. Chadbourne St. making way for an apartment complex.
It looks like San Angelo could be getting a new apartment complex.
The City Council gave a first reading and unanimously approved the rezoning of land at 4001 S. Chadbourne St., just south of Goodfellow Air Force Base, from "industrial" to "neighboring center" during its meeting Tuesday, July 16, 2018.
Glen Park Apartments, the company developing the complex, requested rezoning of the land from the Light Manufacturing zoning district to the Low Rise Multifamily Residential zoning district April 16, 2018.
On May 15, the Council began considering the application, comments, reports and recommendations of the Planning Commission and staff, public testimony and other relevant support materials.
Councilwoman Lucy Gonzales said the next step in the process will be a second reading and approval during the next City Council meeting. The next meeting is slated for Aug. 7 according to the city's website.
The apartment complex would include four two-story buildings with a combined 60 units.Thirty-six of those units would have two bedrooms and 24 would have three bedrooms. There also would be outside amenities including a playground, barbecue facilities and clubhouse with a meeting room, management office and fitness center.
Once approved, the project would take about two years to complete.
APPROVED 5-1: Second reading and adoption of an ordinance that would reduce the speed limit on a portion of Camper Road around Spring Creek Marina from 20 mph to 10 mph. Gonzales voted against.
APPROVED 6-0: Rental agreement for the Vessel Church for six months use of rental spaces at Santa Fe Crossing Senior. Monthly rate will be $1,150, which is discounted from $1,680 per month, due to multiple use.
#FakeTradie takes over the internet, as Australians see past the ruse of an actor allegedly posing as a tradesman.
UPDATE: June 20, 2016, 3:58 p.m. AEST A Liberal party spokesperson told the Daily Mail that the tradesman in the advertisement is not an actor but indeed a real tradesman: "The claims are wrong. The name of the person who appears in the ad is A. MacRae and he is a tradie." On Tuesday, the publication said it had found the man featured in the ad and he is a tradesman named Andrew MacRae.
The looming federal election means peak political advertising season in Australia, where hastily put together attack campaigns become the unfortunate norm.
This includes a cringeworthy ad from the ruling Liberal party, featuring a tradie (translation: tradesman) taking aim at opposing Labor leader Bill Shorten on the issue of big banks. Thing is, a hilariously wooden performance had people thinking this tradesman might be little more than *gasp* — an actor.
"Mr Shorten wants to go to war with my bank? He wants to go to war with our miners? Bill Shorten wants to go war with someone like me," the alleged tradesman said. "So I reckon we should just see it through and stick with the current mob for awhile."
Yes, despite the ruse of a hi-vis vest and baby blue coffee mug, the public was quick to accuse that this tradesman was little more than an actor posing as a #FakeTradie. The hashtag trended on Sunday night, shortly after the ad aired.
I like how they made the #FakeTradie not seem too pro-government, so we'd be lulled into believing he's a neutral concerned citizen.
The ad's attributed to the spoken part to an "A. MacRae," who many mistook for voiceover artist Andrew MacRae. MacRae was quick to dispel claims of his involvement in the advertisement on Twitter on Monday.
"Dear all, It's not me. I'm not in the ad. I didn't voice the ad. I had nothing to do with the ad," he wrote.
The actual tradesman in the ad, actor or otherwise, is yet to speak out.
Correction: The original article stated the man in the ad was an actor. The Daily Mail has discovered he is an actual tradesman.
Police investigate after body found near walking trail in Thunder Bay, Ont.
Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., say they are investigating after a body was found near a walking trail by a golf course in the city's north side on Wednesday afternoon.
According to a written release from the Thunder Bay Police Service, at around 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7, a passerby saw what they believed to be a body near a walking trail close to Strathchona Golf Course and called 911.
Police were holding the scene on Wednesday afternoon as officers investigated the death.
Police said the investigation is still in its early stages, and no other details were provided.
From Shammi Kapoor's first hit to the character roles in his autumn years, Arthur J Pais has hoarded many memories of the actor. He shares some of them.
One of Shammi Kapoor's favourite stories was about how his older brother conned him in their school days.
Shammi, an endlessly amusing raconteur who was in awe of Raj Kapoor even after the latter's death two decades ago, remembered going to Kolkata's Metro theatre in 1937 to see Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. Their mother had given them Re 1, he recalled. Half of that was for two tickets. The rest was money for snacks and tram. Their servant was to wait outside the theatre to bring the boys back home.
There was a huge line for the tickets. So, Raj told the servant and Shammi to wait on a bench, while he stood in the line. He came back an-hour-and-a-half later, saying he just could not get the tickets. Later, Raj confessed that he had bought the ticket in black and seen the movie alone.
I did not know anything about black market tickets till I saw the first major Shammi Kapoor hit Tumsa Nahin Dekha in 1957 in a small town called Coondapur in Karnataka.
He had also insisted that I would not even whisper to anyone about buying the ticket in the black. It was going to be my first white lie.
There was far less melodrama in Tumsa Nahin Dekha compared to other Hindi films I had seen the past year, and it had an awesome score. Later I would realise that like his brother Raj, Shammi took enormous interest in the score for his films, and would insist on being present at recordings. And that is why even when a Shammi film turned out to be rotten, one could always count on two or three superb songs, mostly rendered by Mohammad Rafi.
Rafi was famous for adapting his voice to suit the actors. I think he learnt it from Shammi, for the actor would often tell him how he was going to enact the song, and Rafi, who was Shammi's voice in most films, knew how to make a Shammi song distinctly different, especially in films like Junglee, Professor, Kashmir Ki Kali, Teesri Manzil and Brahmachari.
Nayyar reluctantly agreed, but it was only after he saw the pictured version of the song did he compliment Shammi. 'I received one of the warmest hugs in my life,' Shammi later said.
As a college student in Chennai in the 1970s, I had not only bunked classes to see a Shammi films, but had also accompanied a friend to the studios to watch the shoot of many films, including Rajkumar.
Shammi welcomed visitors to the sets, regaling them with movie stories, discussing actors, directors and composers.
He always spoke with warmth and there was never any malice or envy or anger when he talked about a bigger star or a producer quietly dumping him for another star, say Dev Anand who was signed for Jab Pyar Kisise Hota Hain in a role that was meant for Shammi. The film was made by his friend Nasir Hussain. Shammi did not take it to heart that Hussain did not inform him directly that he wanted to work with Dev.
A few years later, Dev and Hussain had a spat and the latter walked out, leaving the just launched Teesri Manzil without a hero. Hussain called Shammi. Not a person to hold a grudge, Shammi agreed to do the film, but only after he heard from Dev that he had indeed walked out of the project.
The film, directed by Dev's brother Vijay Anand, became not only one of the biggest hits of the 1960s, but also catapulted its composer R D Burman (whose innovative score Shammi loved) into the A-grade list.
The Shammi Kapoor formula -- a rebellious young man who was boisterous and who would often woo newcomers like Asha Parekh. Sharmila Tagore and Saira Banu -- worked very well through the 1960s, but his films began to flop in the 1970s.
I remember buying tickets in black for the film Pagla Kahin Ka at the Liberty in Mumbai on the opening day, only to discover less than a week later that the film had collapsed after the weekend. One reason that Shammi was going fast out favour was that he had put on too of much weight. Some producers like Shakti Samanta had warned him about his girth, yet they signed him on.
Raj, who was in New York to lead the India Day Parade over two decades ago, had bemoaned how obesity was hurting the Kapoor family. 'God willing, I will get rid of asthma and tons of weight,' he had said. 'We are all paying the price because we are overweight. Look at Shammi and Shashi. Their career too would improve if they shed some weight.' He also said that his daughter-in-law Neetu (Rishi's wife) has been telling her husband and other Kapoor men that being overweight was not genetic.
He was going to reduce a great deal so that he could play the lead in a film that Vijay Tendulkar was writing for him, he had said. Raj did not live long enough to make that dream come true.
Shammi's critics also say (and not without merit) that he became too mannered and the body language remained the same film after film. The blame maybe lies with the writers and directors who wanted to play it safe. And like many other stars, Shammi too did not try hard to change his image, though it must be noted that he turned himself into a fine character artists with films like Prem Rog, Vidhaata and Hero in the 1980s.
When his career as a leading man began to nosedive, he sought out directing assignments. But the two films he directed, Manoranjan and Bundal Baaz, did not do well.
Unlike some stars who had fallen out of top place, Shammi never wallowed in self pity. In fact, till the very end -- and many people including Aamir Khan and Sharmila Tagore will endorse this -- he remained upbeat. There was never a mean bone in him, no rancor, no bitterness.
One of his greatest joys in recent years came from talking to the younger generation -- be it with his nephew Ranbir or with the actor Imran Khan.
He made new artists feel comfortable by playing pranks. Some times the producers would worry that if his acts could intimidate some new artists, but Sharmila, who made her Hindi film debut opposite Shammi Kapoor in Kashmir Ki Kali, has said she became less tense because of the atmosphere he created.
More good news for the country's affluent: It literally pays to be rich.
The wealthy make more money on their investments than the less affluent, according to data from Openfolio, an app that helps people track their investment portfolios and performance.
An analysis of the app's users found those with larger portfolios have higher returns. The top 1% averaged 3.73% gains over the past 12 months, while the bottom 1% saw their assets drop 3.32%.
The gap boils down to a key difference in how people invest. The rich are much less likely to put their money in single stocks like Ford (F) or Bank of America (BAC). That makes their portfolios less dependent on a handful of stocks, which might go up or down a lot.
The top 5% of investors have less than 40% of their holdings in single stocks. The volatility of their portfolios is almost 15%. The bottom 5% of investors allocate over 70% of their portfolios to single stocks, leading to 33% volatility, meaning the value of their portfolios swings up or down at more than double the pace of their more affluent counterparts.
Put simply, the wealthy limit risk by ensuring they don't put all their eggs in one basket. It's an investment strategy that's surprisingly simple to emulate.
"There is nothing that the rich are doing that you can't be doing as well," said Maxwell Lane, the head of business development for Openfolio, which has 70,000 users with brokerage or retirement accounts in the U.S., and lets them see how their investment choices and portfolio performance stack up against each other.
Single-stock investments can pay off, especially when the stock skyrockets on some major news. However, wealth advisers typically recommend keeping it as a moderate percentage of an overall portfolio to reduce exposure.
"If you're wrong on any of your stock picks, it will have a dramatic effect on your net worth," Lane said.
We need to sit down and have a talk. We need to tell you that creating a piece that looks like a pipe bomb is not cool, so stop doing it. First, back in 2007, we had the art student Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson at the Ontario College of Art and Design who thought it would make a great statement to fool everyone into thinking the Royal Ontario Museum was going to blow up. And now we have Swedish artist Conny Blom who created The Bunny Project: Bombs, which were sets of carrots tied together with small alarm clocks that were placed, en masse, around a small town. This, of course, freaked people out. To which the artist said (we’re guessing smugly) “After all, it is just carrots with an alarm clock and nothing else…this is just a caricature of a bomb.” It’s bad enough that he was of the mindset that he needed to frighten people with fake bombs, no matter how believable they were, but all the worse that it had already been done before, almost two years past no less. So, again, we say to you artists out there who are looking for your next big project to shake we feeble minded drones out of our complacency: quit it. Not only are you going to look like a total jerk with your faux-bomb project, you’re also going to look like an unoriginal total jerk.
Vladimir Guerrero may not debut Tuesday against Giants, Scott Mitchell reports.Mitchell reports that there is only a "one percent chance" of Guerrero getting called up that day unless the Toronto Blue Jays suffer an injury over the weekend. That contradicts reports from earlier in the day, which suggested that Tuesday would be Guerrero's debut. Speculation about the young third baseman's arrival will continue until his debut date is confirmed by the Blue Jays.
Vladimir Guerrero will be called up to make his MLB debut Tuesday at home against the Giants, Hector Gomez of Deportivo Z 101 reports.This had long seemed like the most likely day for Guerrero to make his debut, as it afforded him a little over a week's worth of games at Triple-A while ensuring he debuted at home. He will slot in as the Toronto Blue Jays' everyday third baseman and will likely get a spot in the heart of the order from Day 1.
Vladimir Guerrero will remain at Triple-A Buffalo at least through the weekend, Gregor Chisholm of MLB.com reports."Whenever [Buffalo manager] Bobby Meacham and [director of player development] Gil Kim say he's ready, he'll be here," Toronto Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo said Thursday. "I just don't know when that's going to happen. It could be any day. It could be a month." That may sound discouraging for fantasy GMs anxiously awaiting Guerrero's arrival, but the issue primarily seems to be one of workload -- the Bisons' schedule has been interrupted by rain, and the 20-year-old has yet to suit up on three consecutive days. Assuming the weather clears enough for Guerrero to prove he's over his oblique strain and can play every day, the earliest target date for his big-league debut now appears to be April 26, when the Jays begin a home series against the A's.
Vladimir Guerrero went 2-for-4 with a walk, a solo home run and a second run scored for Triple-A Buffalo on Wednesday.The blast actually left the ballpark completely, landing in a parking lot beyond the left-field bleachers of Pawtucket's McCoy Stadium with an exit velocity of 107 mph, according to Jessica Camerato of MLB.com. Guerrero is slashing .412/.500/.824 through 20 plate appearances for Buffalo with a double, two homers and a 3:0 BB:K, and at least at the plate he clearly has nothing left to learn in the minors.
Vladimir Guerrero went 3-for-5 with a run scored and an RBI for Triple-A Buffalo on Sunday.The 20-year-old is doing his best to prove to the Jays front office that he deserves to be in the majors already, slashing .500/.583/.900 through three games at the highest level of the minors with a 2:0 BB:K. Toronto called up Eric Sogard to replace Lourdes Gurriel over the weekend, but the next time they dip into the Triple-A ranks for reinforcements, it will almost certainly be to begin Guerrero's big-league career.
While Vladimir Guerrero may not debut this weekend, he will be up "sooner than later," according to general manager Ross Atkins, Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet.ca reports. "It's about getting built up and getting into really just regular-season form and being hopefully ready to make a debut at some point soon," Atkins said.The Toronto Blue Jays have now waited long enough that they have Guerrero under team control for this year and the following six MLB seasons. It seems likely that Guerrero will be up for the team's next homestand, which begins April 23 against the Giants. He has only played in two games with Triple-A Buffalo, going 2-for-5 with a home run, two walks and zero strikeouts. Guerrero has apparently slimmed down since spring training and now weighs closer to 240 pounds than the 250 pounds at which he is listed.
Vladimir Guerrero's arrival in the big leagues may not be only days away, Mike Wilner of Sportsnet 590 The Fan reports.Guerrero has recovered from his oblique strain and is hitting well in the minors. He could have been called up Friday, as the Toronto Blue Jays have already secured an extra year of team control, and GM Ross Atkins reiterated that the prospect's promotion would come "sooner than later", but the club doesn't seem to be in any hurry to get the 20-year-old to the majors. It's possible that in a season in which the Blue Jays are not expected to compete for a playoff spot, the team will elect to maximize the believability that Guerrero is truly "working on his defense" rather than maximizing his number of big-league at-bats.
Vladimir Guerrero (oblique) went 2-for-4 with a walk, a double, a home run, two runs scored, four RBI and a stolen base for Triple-A Buffalo on Thursday.Baseball's top prospect could hardly have done more to convince the Jays that he's fully recovered from the oblique strain that cut short his spring. Guerrero's big-league debut seems like it will happen in a matter of days.
Vladimir Guerrero (oblique) will report to Triple-A Buffalo, according to Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com.Guerrero is ready to join Buffalo after completing a four-game rehab stint with High-A Dunedin, going 4-for-15 with a double in those appearances. The tentative plan is for the 20-year-old to get his timing down with the Bisons before earning a promotion to the majors.
Vladimir Guerrero (oblique) went 1-for-3 and was hit by a pitch for High-A Dunedin on Tuesday.It's not an impressive line in the box score, but it did represent a big step in Guerrero's recovery, as he was playing back-to-back games for the first time on his rehab stint. The 20-year-old is 4-for-15 with a double through four contests for Dunedin, and he may not be far away from a promotion to Triple-A Buffalo -- the final stop before his big-league debut.
The original '60s Trek crew stars in a surf-music-powered parody video that goes where no pulp film has gone before.
"You're out of your [bleeping] Vulcan mind, Spock."
Ever since news emerged that Quentin Tarantino, famous for films like "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill," had pitched a great idea for a Star Trek movie to film studio Paramount, we've been wondering what Tarantino Trek might look like.
We now have one possible answer in the form of "Star Trek: Voyage to Vengeance," a fake trailer made up of moments from the original series.
The video comes from Nerdist and features a laundry list of some of the original series' most cringe-worthy moments, including the space hippies and almost everyone Captain Kirk ever kissed.
"Their mission: To boldly go where no man has gone before," an overly serious narrator intones. "But outer space has other plans. And now their mission has changed." Then the surf music kicks in.
The trailer manages to reference Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and "Inglourious Basterds" simply through the choice of clips used in the edit. There's lots of brawling and gunfire and '70s-style trailer graphics.
Though Paramount is staying pretty quiet about the potential Trek film, Vanity Fair reported in late December that "The Revenant" screenwriter Mark L. Smith had joined the development team.
If this strange confluence of Hollywood film royalty manages to bring a new Star Trek vision to the screen, it could be the franchise's first R-rated entry. At least Nerdist is on the right track with bleeping out Doctor McCoy.
A massive accumulation of Facebook user data has been exposed on Amazon servers, further cementing reports the social media giant is struggling to protect data.
Researchers from UpGuard have discovered two third-party Facebook app developers had stored hundreds of millions of Facebook records on publicly accessible Amazon servers.
Mexico-based media company Cultura Colectiva stored 146 gigabytes of user data for more than 540 million records including comments, likes, reactions, account names, FB IDs and more.