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The crude oil slick oozing across the Gulf of Mexico serves as a reminder for many off-shore drilling opponents: catastrophe is around every corner.
“I can’t say I was surprised,” said Ken Rudzki of the April Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion. “There was always a fear of something like that happening, with the complexity of that kind of work. It was just a matter of when, not if.”
For the past 20 years, Rudzki, along with his brothers Steve and Kevin, have been operating Juana’s Pagodas on Navarre Beach. Steve and his wife, Janet, started out just selling Jet Skis. That business blossomed into the restaurant that stands today.
“My life depends on the beauty of that beach,” he said. “It’s the whole business, the only reason we’re there. To have it destroyed by oil...who would be crazy enough to hire me in another profession?”
Following the direction of Rudzki, Mandy Evers, events coordinator for Juana’s, is once again organizing residents and business owners to participate in the national Hands Across the Sand event on June 26. The restaurant participated in the initial demonstration Feb. 13, which was spearheaded by a Walton County man, Evers said. Thousands of Floridians representing 60 towns and cities and more than 90 beaches joined hands to protest the efforts by the Florida Legislature and the U.S. Congress to lift the ban on oil drilling in the near and off shores of Florida.
“We didn’t get much participation, about 15 people, because it coincided with the Mardis Gras parade,” she said.
This time, however, Evers is certain that the demonstration will draw a crowd of more than 100.
“I think there’s a lot more publicity to the issue now, with the oil spill in the gulf,” she said. “A lot more people have formed an opinion, rather than stand on the fence about it.”The demonstration in Navarre will take place at 11 a.m. at the Navarre Pier. At noon is when participants will join hands for about 15 to 20 minutes, Evers said. | http://navarrepress.com/news/16/2294-off-shore-drilling-opponents-to-hold-june-demonstration?font-size=smaller | 2013-05-18T10:41:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Alert Naval Personnel save 05-year-old Girl from Drowning in Sea
Alert naval personnel of the Rapid Response Rescue and Release Squadron (4RS) saved a 05-year-old girl from drowning in the sea off Panama on 22nd July 2012. She is from Batticaloa and was among the devotees who had come to attend the annual festival at Panama Okanda Kovil, for which the Navy provides assistance. The incident had happened while the little girl was having a bath in the sea.
The relieved parents expressed their gratitude to the naval personnel for saving the life of their precious daughter through their timely action. | http://navy.lk/index.php?id=3585 | 2013-05-18T10:53:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
HOUSTON - Injured Houston Texans receiver Harry Williams will have surgery Sunday to repair a neck vertebra he fractured during a preseason game Friday night.
The 26-year-old Williams was hurt early in the Texans’ 23-22 loss to the Cowboys when he collided with teammate Nick Ferguson while covering a kick return.
Williams was taken off the field on a stretcher and an ambulance took him to Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. Team doctor Walter Lowe said early Saturday morning that Williams had regained feeling in his extremities and most of his normal neurological function.. | http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/26358341/ | 2013-05-18T10:40:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr told the media Thursday night that the NHL left a voicemail message saying the union's counter wasn't acceptable.
Talks have broken off for now and the league is expected to speak on the matter soon. Fehr addressed the media shortly before saying that the offer had been rejected and said he believed there were agreements in place on total dollars. However, this sudden development has everything in a state of flux once again.
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> > Being fairly new to Linux I have some very basic questions. If this is > > not the place to ask, please point me in the proper directions. Thanks. > > This is the correct place to ask. Well, this is *one* correct place to ask... ;-) One of the things I've discovered about Linux is that the community has an extraordinarily high degree of friendliness/helpfulness. NBLUG is just one such place, but there are quite a few others! (Of course, that's not to say that linux has a 0% rate of "RTFM curmudgeons"! Just that even moderate patience should find more of the more-helpful sort than the less-helpful). I note your "motorola.com" address, and a quick Google of "motorola linux" shows that motorola has a non-trivial suite of linux offerings in the marketplace; I suspect you can find some experts closer than you think! ;-) It's always nice to have multiple resources, including one or more who are "just down the hall". - Steve S. | http://nblug.org/pipermail/talk/2004-December/008402.html | 2013-05-18T10:12:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012
RALEIGH — The N.C. Forest Service and the U.S. Forest Service will conduct a joint air operations training exercise in DuPont Recreational State Forest June 17-22.
The training is for both ground and air personnel to ensure there is a pool of qualified individuals for air operations during actual incidents.
Residents and visitors to the forest should be aware that four helicopters will be performing a variety of tasks, including hauling cargo and personnel and conducting water drops..
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Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker returns from a ride in one of Cass County’s new airboats Thursday afternoon during a practice run for the Otter Team on Cass County Road 18 east of Kindred, N.D. The airboats will be used to patrol the river and, if necessary, rescue stranded residents from floodwaters. Kristen M. Daum / The Forum
FARGO – Some government leaders in North Dakota said this afternoon that they believe the presidential disaster declaration for the state could come as early as tomorrow.
But… there’s no guarantee.
“My understanding is we may hear some news tomorrow,” Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker said this afternoon. “Now, let me qualify that a little bit – I have never in my history with the city of Fargo, never seen that we didn’t get a declaration when we got the river up this high. It’s just strictly a formality.”
Walaker has worked for the city since 1974 and has served as Fargo’s mayor since 2006.
Government leaders at all levels have been waiting anxiously – and with mounting frustration – for President Barack Obama to sign off on the declaration that North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple requested six weeks ago.
The declaration would make available federal personnel, equipment and other resources to help in the Red River Valley flood fight. Specifically, it would allow some 70 people from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Customs and Border Protection to assist Cass County Sheriff’s deputies in securing the area.
Meanwhile, North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven said he has once again urged Federal Emergency Management Administrator Craig Fugate to ensure swift approval of the state’s request for a presidential disaster declaration.
Although Fugate said he couldn’t say exactly when the request would be signed, he did say it is moving through the process, Hoeven’s office said.
Fugate apparently told Rep. Rick Berg the same today. “The request is under review and is moving through FEMA’s administrative process,” Berg’s office said in a statement.
When I spoke with FEMA spokesman Jerry DeFelice yesterday, I was given the same response: “It’s in process.”
Cass County Sheriff Paul Laney told me this morning that today’s article on the lack of federal resources did, at least, make waves to Washington, spurring further pressure on the White House and FEMA to act on the declaration.
He reiterated to me his frustration about the delayed process. Laney said officials from the city, county, various state departments, various federal agencies and members of North Dakota’s congressional delegation have all repeatedly contacted FEMA and the White House seeking an answer as to the status of the declaration.
Hopefully, we may know that answer soon – and with the crest predicted to reach Fargo in as early as three days, it can’t come soon enough.
Why does Obama hate “flyover country” so much?
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Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald in Theaters TODAY!!
Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald is in theaters across the country TODAY! This must-see inspirational film, tells the story of a group of Holocaust survivors who meet again at Buchenwald concentration camp. As teenage boys, they were kept in Kinderblock 66. The film tells the story of their survival, the conspiracy to keep them alive as young boys, and their return to Buchenwald as grown men.
To purchase tickets, please click HERE | http://nehst.com/?page=news | 2013-05-18T10:52:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
pvolcko wrote:Sorry, I'm way late on this. The edit is in progress, it will be up before I go to bed tonight.
And one more correction to the show. We stated a ton of anthracite coal has 13 million BTU in it, the actual figure is 25 million BTU.
That sounds better, works out to an avg 12,500 BTU/LB. | http://nepacrossroads.com/about11864-15.html | 2013-05-18T10:22:02 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Google To Deliver The Amazon Jungle In 3-D
So Google mounted its cameras on a special tricycle and took to Tumbira's trails and into the jungle — a place where Cleudilan Silveira goes in search of birds. An expert guide, Silveira calls out to them — catching sight of any number of species.
Google's cameras also went on the Rio Negro and its tributaries. That's where the locals fish for the monster-sized pirarucu.
Karin Tuxen-Bettman, a geostrategist for Google, oversaw the work. She says that in a few weeks, when the images are ready, they'll offer a seamless experience for computer users.
"You're walking down the forest trail and it's 360 panorama so you can look up, you can look down on the ground," she says. "In one place, you will be able to see an area where they gather Brazilian nuts and there are Brazil nuts all over the floor." is real." | http://nepr.net/news/google-deliver-amazon-jungle-3-d | 2013-05-18T10:12:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Marvel announces The Avengers vs. The X-men crossover!
This is something we will all be reading I am sure. 12 book series coming this upcoming April 2012. Press release from Marvel:
This.
AVENGERS VS X-MEN is written by a team of the top-selling authors in the comic book industry today: Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Jonathan Hickman, Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction. This unprecedented assembly of acclaimed writers is joined by a trio of the industry’s superstar artists: John Romita Jr., Olivier Coipel and Adam Kubert.
This seems to have the best writers and illustrators that Marvel has right now. Should be pretty damn epic!
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Like most families of players in the Super Bowl, the parents of Michael Oher have been down in New Orleans all week. But unlike most families of players in the Super Bowl, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy‘s story of adopting Oher was broadcast on the big screen in The Blind Side – a film adaptation of Michael Lewis‘ best-selling book.
Sean Tuohy and Lewis grew up together in New Orleans and went to high school together. Now Tuohy will get to watch Oher, the Ravens’ starting right tackle, perform on the biggest stage.
“And there are people that think that’s a coincidence,” Tuohy told The Associated Press. “How stupid is that?
“We’ve got a huge sign in our garage that says: `We believe in miracles,’” he continued. “For other people, it may be hard to understand that. For us, it’s easy.”
The Tuohys adopted Oher when he was in high school and living with a foster family. In the film, Oher is depicted as being new to the game of football after already living with the Tuohys. In truth, Oher was a star high school football player prior to being adopted, and those inaccuracies are one reason the Baltimore tackle is tired of being asked about the movie.
“I always knew how to play football growing up,” Oher said at media day. “It was different personalities, stuff like that. Playing football is what got me to this point.”
Oher has started every game of his four-year pro career. He doesn’t man “the blind side” left tackle position anymore, but his play at right tackle has been key to opening holes for Ray Rice and protecting Joe Flacco on their run to the Super Bowl.
Thumbnail photo via Facebook/TheLeighAnneTuohy
This guy is carrying around a purple ship to show his support for the Baltimore Ravens. Because, of course.
“I have no problem with anybody in New York, any fan, saying you’re overpaid. Because I am.”
– Mark Teixeira, just being honest
We’re sure they’ll be “lubed up” again, as Tom Brady would say, by 6 p.m.
Already been out at our live location for 25 minutes, and LOTS of people are still out. This is gonna be one hungover Sunday here. #AsUsual—
Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) February 03, 2013
Chandler Parsons could see this missed free throw coming from a mile away — or at least about 15 feet. | http://nesn.com/2013/02/blind-side-family-sees-michael-oher-playing-super-bowl-in-new-orleans-as-a-miracle/ | 2013-05-18T10:33:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan co-chaired the second meeting of High-Level Cooperation Council and agreed to boost bilateral relations in all sectors, particularly energy, communication, trade and culture.
The meeting at the Prime Minister House on Tuesday was joined by high-level delegations from Pakistan and Turkey who worked out details to strengthen cooperation in various fields.
Prime Minister Gilani said Pakistan considered Turkey as its brotherly country and intended to seek cooperation with it in multiple areas.
The Turkish prime minister said his country was ready to expand the scope of its ties with Pakistan.
The Turkish PM that said it respected Pakistan’s decision on the Nato supply routes and endorses its demand for an apology from the United States over the killing of its troops at Salala check-post.
PM Erdogan jointly addressing a press conference with PM Gilani after the inking of nine agreements for cooperation in diverse fields said the opening of the Nato supply route was the discretion of Pakistan. “However, as a member of the Nato, Turkey believes that such issues should be resolved through mutual dialogue,” he said.
Pakistan had halted the Nato supply passing through its territory following a decision by the Defence Committee of the Cabinet after an incursion of the NATO and ISAF troops in its territory, on November 26,2011 in which 24 troops were martyred.
Prime Minister Gilani said the final decision to open, what Pakistan now terms as the Ground Lines of Communication, and its timing, would be made in line with the recommendations of the parliamentary committee.
Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, Communications Minister Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan, Minister for National Heritage and Integration Samina Khalid Ghurki, Railways Minister Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan and Chairman Board of Investment Saleem H. Mandviwala were present at the meeting.
The first High-Level Cooperation Council meeting was held in Turkey in December 2010 in which Prime Minister Gilani represented Pakistan.
Earlier, A guard of honour was presented to the Turkish Prime Minister at the Prime Minister House.
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Here’s an example of cascading a custom message to build a sequence of actions where displaying one object selectively hides others.
Say your page displays a map showing the locations of five company offices. For each location, a button superimposes a text box on the page profiling that office’s activities. When a site visitor clicks a location, you want to hide any profile that’s currently visible, and then display the one describing the selected location.
In Page view, place the buttons and text boxes in the Layout area, arranging them however you want.
Select one of the buttons and create a custom message called HideAllProfiles, as described in Tailoring Actions with Custom Messages.
To each button, add an action, as described Adding Actions to Objects and Pages, so clicking the button cascades the HideAllProfiles message to the Layout.
In the Set Action dialog, enter Mouse, Clicked in the When field; the Layout in the Target field; and Custom, HideAllProfiles in the Message field. Also, check the Cascade message option.
Add a second action to each button so clicking it targets a Show message to the text box associated with the button.
In the Set Action dialog, enter Mouse, Clicked in the When field; the text box this button should display in the Target field; and Object, Show in the Message field.
Select each text box, and on the Actions tab of the Properties panel, clear the Object initially visible in browser option.
Add an action to each text box that’s triggered by the HideAllProfiles message and hides the text box.
In the Set Action dialog, enter Custom, HideAllProfiles in the When field; the text box itself in the Target field; and Object, Hide in the Message field.
Then preview the page. Clicking a button should send HideAllProfiles as a cascading action message to the Layout. The Layout doesn’t have any actions triggered by this message so it doesn’t respond. But it does cascade the message down to its embedded objects. As a result, every object on the page receives the message. But only those objects with actions triggered by the message—the text boxes—respond by hiding themselves. Next, the button sends a Show message to its associated text box, which makes itself visible.
Without cascading messages you’d have to add four additional actions to each button—one for hiding each text box. If you didn’t use a custom message to trigger the text boxes to hide, cascading a Hide message to the Layout would hide every object on the page. | http://netobjects.com/en/nof/12/00/docs/webhelp/Actions_rtf/Showing_One_Object_While_Hiding_Others.htm | 2013-05-18T11:02:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Ahead of Print: Thermal Damage Assessment of Novel Bipolar Forceps in a Sheep Model of Spinal Surgery
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Elliott-Lewis, Ebonia W. MS, BSEE; Jolette, Jacquelin DVM, MSc, DACVP; Ramos, Jandira MPH; Benzel, Edward C. MD
BACKGROUND: Heat transfer from bipolar tips to adjacent tissue presents a risk of thermal injury during spine surgery.
OBJECTIVE: The present study was designed to determine wither bipolar forceps using a novel heat pipe thermal regulation technology resulted in decreased collateral thermal injury of adjacent tissue compared with traditional bipolar forceps (control).
METHODS: Eight sheep underwent multilevel laminectomy and controlled bipolar coagulation of the dorsal spinal dura mater at multiple levels using forceps with or without heat pipe technology (24 spinal segments tested; heat pipe, n = 11; non-heat pipe, n = 11; sham, n = 2). The severity (range, 1-5) and size of thermal injury to the spinal cord resulting from forceps with vs without heat pipe were assessed via histological analysis at 8 days postoperatively.
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Molly Ringwald and Jon Cryer have a few laughs in directors’ chairs off set. “Pretty in Pink,” 1985
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Well, it was quite an event, as usual! Crowded, somewhat crazy and full of sparkles! Words don’t really do it justice, so here’s some photos:
Lines were 4-5 people deep and there was a lot of pushing and shoving, even amongst the normally very polite Japanese. I guess sparkles make everyone go a bit crazy!
TiNS, a cult favorite Japanese brand of polish. They were on a special sale for 700 yen (about 9USD) rather than the usual 1400 yen. I stocked up on few even though I’m supposed to be getting ready to move soon! I just can’t resist the glitter! In addition, Zoya, OPI, China Glaze, Jessica, Orly, Spa Ritual and a couple other brands were there. This year, the focus seemed to be pretty heavy on the gel nails and Minx- almost every booth was selling their own variations on those.
Nail competition. There were some gel competitions, and one thing intriguingly entitled “French Tip Relay.” I have no idea what that involves- I’m hoping one person slaps on the white, another runs over and brushes on the pink, and then still another comes by with topcoat. And I hope there’s a pit crew involved. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to check that one out.
Here’s what I painted on my nails. I went with a dragon theme, since 2012 is the year or the dragon. I think all of us in Japan are looking forward to a better year next year! I did a foil nail, some 3-D acrylic (the 2012 on the pinkie) using traditional New Years colors.
Here’s a closer look at the dragons. The base color is Zoya Ivanka, and the dragons are painted with Holbein Acryla and sealed with Seche Vite.
That’s more than enough about me, here’s some of the fabulous nails in the Nail Art Competition! The theme was “The Power of Nail.” I’m pretty sure that nobody (including the competitors) had any idea what that meant. The Power of Nail?! Luckily, the art was still exceptional, but the theme must have been tricky to work with since it doesn’t actually mean anything. The winners will be picked on 11/21. This is not my work, just to be clear. I do realize this type of art is not for everyone, but there’s no denying the talent of the artists.
I think these are Shiva…with nail supplies in hand? Sorry if this is offensive to any Hindus, it was just so odd I had to post it.
Gorgeous. Not sure how it relates to the theme, but with detail work that fine, who cares?
Bountiful acrylic flowers- these look simple but are really tricky to balance correctly. Each petal has to be identical or the whole flower is off.
Fantasy florals and butterflies with climbing vines. I love the background gradation and the monarch butterfly detail.
As usual, it’s been a pretty amazing event. The winners will be announced tomorrow, though I won’t be attending, I’ll try my best to find out which entry won. I also have quite a few more nails to show you, but all the photos need to be edited to take out the glare from their plastic boxes.
Love those nails on the bottom with the butterflies. I don’t think I could ever wear them, but still, they’re absolutely lovely!
The artistic detail is amazing, but I gotta wonder how people can do their bathroom business in these nails. I have seen people wearing them. Maybe they have a very personal butler?
I love looking at all these beautiful little works of art. Are any of them made to be worn? I was wondering if in order to be entered into the contest, are the nails meant to be worn? That was all a mouthful. Did you get away from the Expo without buying any more glitter? I would be amazed it you did! You are adorable also.
Aw, thanks Lucy!
The nails are actually modelled by ladies in equally crazy costumes (think feather masks and giant hair sculptures), so they can indeed be word. Unfortunately that wasn’t in a public area and I couldn’t get photos.
And yes, I did pick up just a teeny bit of glitter. ::hangs head in shame.:: But I was pretty good and controlled myself (mostly!)
awww! The dragon is so cute! and I love the hindu godess holding the nail supplies.
They are pretty crazy, aren’t they? I hesitated to post it, since I didn’t want to offend any Hindus, but it was too funny not to.
I think your photo of you is great! Some real creations there – my gosh – one reminds me if nail tech on today’s standard were around when Marie Antoinette lived, she would wear these nails (the ones under Shiva)!!! Hope you have had a great time. Cannot wait to see some of the ‘to come’ things you got photos of to share. Hopefully many will be available in lines sold in the US.
Thank you- I’m usually very photo shy but I do come out every now and again! Great observation about Marie A- I bet she would have loved Swarovski crystals. Probably would have bankrupted France much sooner if they’d been around in her time!
I too hope that some Japanese companies will be expanding overseas but they often aren’t interested. I’m guessing it’s at least partly because their home audience is used to paying insanely high prices (ie., TiNS polish is lovely but retails for $16USD a bottle and still sells out regularly, since that’s just the price people will pay here.
I love the Japanese nail art pictures-it’s so surreal the amount of talent and imagination that is out there. Definitely the turqouise circular pattern with the mother of pearl inlay are my absolute fav
Yeah, the talent is really amazing- the nails are like little mini canvasses. I also loved that mother of pearl one, I can’t believe the detail work on it.
Was there good shopping from a lot of Japanese sellers? Or are there also other Asian/Euro/American vendors?
Yes, a lot of Japanese and international brands are represented, but the products are still quite expensive even though they are discounted for the show. You will not generally find good bargains, more of a chance to find the latest products. It is also 3000 yen to enter, about $40USD. But it’s quite an experience! | http://nevertoomuchglitter.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/tokyo-nail-expo-2011/ | 2013-05-18T10:40:12 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Johnnies are headed to Brooklyn! Our Men's Basketball team
will be playing St. Francis College as part of the BROOKLYN HOOPS
Winter Festival, marking the Red Storm's first-ever game in the new
Barclays Center, and you're invited to a pre-game receptioni prior
to tip-off. The price includes access to the reception, a ticket
for the entire day's worth of games, beer, wine, soda and light
fare.
A special section of the pre-game reception will be dedicated to
our Lewis Avenue and Schermerhorn Street alumni, as we celebrate
Brooklyn Day. It will truly be special to have alumni from these
cherished former campuses return to Brooklyn, catch up with one
another and cheer on the Johnnies!Tickets can be picked up at the Barclays
Center EmblemHealth Atlantic Avenue Entrance (located on Atlantic
Avenue) between 1:30 and 5 p.m.
Date
Saturday, December 15, 2012Time
2:30 p.m. - Fordham University vs. Princeton University
3 p.m. - Pre-game Reception
5 p.m. - St. John's University vs. St. Francis College
7:30 p.m. - University of Michigan vs. West Virginia
UniversityLocation
Barclays Center - Games
Calvin Klein Courtside Club, Barclays Center - Pre-game
ReceptionPrice
$65 per adult
$30 per child 12 and underRSVP By
Monday, December 10, 2012Reservations
Online RegistrationMore Information
Heather Milata
Office of Alumni Relations
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For the 85th Academy Awards, the red carpet was a mix of strapless gowns, sparkly haute couture and pale colored dresses for fashion’s biggest night.
Jennifer Lawrence was one of the night’s most talked about stars. Not only for taking home Best Actress for her role in Silver Linings Playbook (and possibly her acceptance stumble), but for her white Dior gown.
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Zero Dark Thirty’s Jessica Chastain, who lost the Best Actress trophy to Lawrence, looked every bit the star with her Veronica Lake waves and sparkly blush colored custom Giorgio Armani gown.
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Fellow Best Actress nom, Naomi Watts also stuck with the sparkly trend in her well- constructed Armani Prive silver gown.
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Amy Adams went frilly with her icey blue Oscar de la Renta.
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Anne Hathaway, who took home Best Supporting Actress for Les Miserables, wore a pale pink satin Prada gown, which she said she chose only three hours before hitting the red carpet.
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Django Unchained’s Kerry Washington went bold with a coral Miu Miu dress.
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While Jennifer Aniston went bright with her red strapless Valentino ballgown.
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Reese Witherspoon stepped out in a navy blue Louis Vuitton adorned with a small black bow at the top.
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Jennifer Hudson, who performed “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from her award-winning role in Dreamgirls, looked slim in her sparkly blue Roberto Cavalli couture dress.
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Adele once again opted for black in her bejeweled Jenny Packham gown.
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And let’s not forget the night’s youngest nominee, 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis, who wore a bright blue ball gown from Armani perfectly accessorized with a puppy purse. The young actress might have went home empty handed, but announced she’ll soon be taking on the role of little orphan Annie in the movie remake.
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Who wore your favorite look at the Oscars this year?
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THE NEWBERG REPORT — MARCH 1, 2008
The Newberg Report’s number one Rangers prospect stepped up to the plate in the top of the third this afternoon, with Jason Botts measuring his lead off of third base and Jarrod Saltalamacchia off of second. As Chris Davis settled in against righthander Matt Peterson, with John Mayberry Jr. waiting on deck, maybe Jon Daniels sat in the stands imagining what things might look like in Arlington in a couple years. Maybe it crossed the minds of Eric Nadel and Victor Rojas in the booth. Or yours, as you listened at home.
Ron Washington, whose job it is to win today, tomorrow, and the next day, was probably thinking about how any number of those four guys – who together look as much like an NFL defensive line as they do four hitters who have each been considered at some point as a possible factor at first base – could help him do that in 2008, if not in one month.
When Davis turned a Peterson pitch around, going opposite field atomically and clearing the fence to open up a 5-1 Rangers lead, as he trotted home in the direction of an awaiting Botts and Saltalamacchia and Mayberry, not to mention Daniels sitting near the first base dugout, and Washington just in front of it, the look on his face was that of a man who had simply done his job. But you can bet that inside, even if disguised by his calm exterior, Chris Davis, the Longview native and childhood Rangers fan who just two years ago was hitting junior college pitching in Corsicana, was screaming “KICK ***” . . . .
And I’m guessing Daniels was too, and so was Washington, maybe even as much as a lot of us were.
(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
The future’s getting enticingly closer.
You can read more from Jamey Newberg at. | http://newberg.mlblogs.com/2008/03/01/the-newberg-report-march-1-2008/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=3fdfac1636 | 2013-05-18T10:30:50 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Positive Behavior = Positive Results
To what degree does the way you behave with another person influence how they subsequently behave towards you? Parental research would suggest that kids very often demonstrate many of the same characteristics of their parents. But even beyond this there is also an innate human behavior that will “fight fire with fire”. Another way of putting this is that perhaps you get what you deserve.
So what happens when you translate this to leadership and more specifically the behaviors of leaders? In the Read more » | http://newenglandcoaching.com/tag/behaviors/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Lebanon was once, and could be if the Americans and the West had any sense, a refuge and a redoubt for Arabic-speaking (which is not the same as being "Arab" though many have been taught to efface that distinction) Christians.
The Gemayels, the Chamouns, the great Charles Malik (officially Greek Orthodox, he thought like a Maronite -- Lebanese will understand that comment) -- that is to whom Lebanon should belong. Not to the troglodytic Nasrallah and his maddened myrmidons.
A lexical note:
The much-needed, indispensable term "dhimmitude" was first coined by the scholar Bat Ye'or. The first public use of the term, however, was by the uncle of the late Pierre Gemayel, the President-elect of Lebanon, the late Bashir Gemayel, who was assassinated by the same force of darkness, more or less, as have just murdered his nephew. He first uttered the word in a speech he delivered on September 14, 1982. He was assassinated later that day. | http://newenglishreview.org/blog_email.cfm/blog_id/3441 | 2013-05-18T11:01:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Technically, the time goes ahead at 2 am Sunday the 10th. But as I'll be sleeping at that time, I think I'll just go ahead and do it now.
I lose an hour's sleep for an extra hour of sunlight -- not a bad exchange at this time of year if you ask me!
Look what I found in my garden this morning. I got so excited!
Makes me fair want to sit on the back deck and have a cuppa! (But I'd have to dig out my snowsuit; and in spite of the sun, the deck chairs are still icy wet ..... and I don't think it would be good for my hemorrhoids!) So, all deck adventures are temporarily postponed.
It was another beautiful Saturday, so I took a short walk. And although the evidence may not be visible after our next inevitable spring snowfall (it is Nova Scotia after all), the proof was there for all Bluenosers to see today. Spring is just ahead!
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I love daylight savings time. Normally I care about how others feel about an issue, but having more daylight makes me selfish. So to all those who complain about springing forward, I say , "Deal with it".
I'm about to turn the clocks forward here right after midnight. Now if I could bring spring here asap, all would be fine with the world.
I turned the clocks ahead last night and was surprised when I woke up this morning I slept an hour later than usual. My body clock will take awhile to catch up with the time change. Hope you have a wonderful Sunday!
I found a few snowdrops, but no tulips yet!
Bulbs already!! lucky you. Our snow has receded so much we're seeing grass which was enough to get me excited. It really does feel like spring (although I'm trying not to get too excited, I hear this weekend could bring snow again)
I love that the sun goes down later but my sleep schedule is way off. I hope you are having a wonderful Tuesday! | http://newfie-girl.blogspot.com/2013/03/time-to-spring-ahead.html | 2013-05-18T11:01:41 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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I. Philosophy
The University of New Haven is an academic community based on the principles of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. Academic integrity is a core University value which ensures to adhere to, the Academic Integrity Policy.
The policy and procedures to follow apply to all University of New Haven students.
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Violations of the Academic Integrity Policy include, but are not limited to, the following examples—
A. Cheating —“Using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study
aids in any academic exercise.” i Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
1. Having unauthorized notes during an exam or quiz, or communication of information by any means concerning the content of an examination during or after the testing period to anyone who has not yet taken the examination. The only materials permitted during an exam are those that an instructor explicitly instructs students they may use.
2. Copying the work of another during a test or quiz.
3. Obtaining or providing unauthorized prior knowledge of exam or quiz content.
4. Using another student’s work for a homework or lab assignment or presenting the work of another as one’s own.
5. Using unauthorized materials or information from others for a take-home exam. It is expected that students do independent work for exams whether they are take-home or in-class. Students are expected to comply with the guidelines set by the instructor.
6. Seeking, receiving, or giving aid during examinations through electronic means (e.g., cell phone, e-mail, text messaging).
7. Purchasing papers, research, reports, etc. from commercial services or other individuals for use in any manner other than research for which the source of information is appropriately referenced in the student’s work.
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2. Study Groups and Tutoring. Academic integrity standards do not prohibit students from studying together or from tutoring each other if done in conformance with other provisions of this policy.
C. Plagiarism —“Representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any academic exercise or resubmitting one’s own work under false pretenses.”
1. Plagiarism includes but is not limited to:
a. Copying without proper citation from another student’s paper(s) partially or entirely or from any source, such as a book, article, notebook, video, or other source material, whether published or unpublished.
b. Purchasing or securing a paper from any source, to include term-paper vendors and Internet sources, and submitting that paper or specific portions of the paper as one’s own work.
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g. Any other appropriation of another’s intellectual property without proper attribution.
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i. Citing sources improperly, which includes, but is not limited to, failure to use quotation marks or other appropriate notation for direct quotes or for an author’s distinctive phrases, and following an author’s structure of writing and ideas, but rephrasing the sentences partially to give the impression that the whole passage reflects the student’s structure and ideas.
2. Guidance on proper citation may be found below or through other designated resources indicated by your academic department.
Resources on Proper Citation of Sources:
American Psychological Association. (2001) Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Author.
Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.).(2003) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gibaldi, J. (2003) MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. (6th ed.), New York: Modern Language Association.
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Strunk, W. & White, E.B. (2000). The Elements of Style (4th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Turabian, K.L. (2007) A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations (7th ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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4. Misrepresenting one’s academic accomplishments.
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new internationalist
issue 233 - July 1992
Liberation!
Can the disability movement help create a society that is more just for all of us?
Three reports from the frontline by disabled activists in Lebanon, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.
I come from Lebanon - a country which has been ravaged by wars since 1975. More than 150,000 people have been killed, 300,000 injured and tens of thousands disabled. Up to 1985 there was plenty of talk but little real peace-movement action against the war. The violence was creating a climate in which people were afraid to take any kind of action.
But it got to the point where violence reached everyone everywhere and you were as much at risk by doing nothing as by doing something. Whether at home or on the street there was a constant danger from bullets, shells or car bombs. The disability movement took the initiative and launched the first peaceful protest against the war. This galvanized the Lebanese peace movement with disabled people out in front. Non-disabled people asked themselves: 'If disabled people can do it what are we waiting for?'
We took to the streets of Beirut on 30 November 1985. The idea was to go to the demarcation line between the two fighting factions and have a 24-hour hunger strike. We started marching. Soon firing started and we were caught in the crossfire. Our 24-hour hunger strike turned into a three-day one as we were forced to take refuge in a neighbouring building until the fighting stopped! Luckily none of us was killed.
In 1986 we started a much larger campaign - a protest march stretching from the north of the country to the south. We the disabled - the living martyrs of the war - would cross all the different militia barriers to show our determination to resist. We made contact with Disabled People International (DPI) which was the first international organization to fully support us. I then realized that there was an international disability movement and that working together could create a difference. On 12 October 1987 we started marching. The march took us four days. We marched 300 kilometres - marching through cities and travelling by car between them. We set out with 100 people, half disabled - the other half young, feminist and non-violent. We did not put out much publicity to avoid militia reaction against us. But word got out anyway and by the last day thousands were cheering us on! Here were disabled people talking not about their rights, but about the rights of society. It was the first time in Lebanon, in the Arab world, and maybe in the entire world that disabled people came out to champion a social cause for which nobody else was doing anything. It was a turning point in the history of disability in Lebanon. At a stroke we moved from being a marginalized group that has to be 'looked after' to a political force to be reckoned with.
We now want to strengthen our work as a disabled group. We need to create more independent living centres under the control of disabled people to provide us with services and support that we can control ourselves. I also think it is very important that we do not focus only on disability problems. We must look at other areas of society; create coalitions of different marginalized groups, ethnic groups, feminists, environmentalists and others and champion social causes. If we want to prevent disability we must oppose wars, oppose violence as these are major causes of disability. By creating coalitions we can enter society as an empowered group with a lot to contribute.
In every one of us there is prejudice against disabled people. Even I wonder whether I have a totally open attitude towards other disabilities. Just yesterday I made a remark which could have been insulting to mentally disabled people. These are things we do because we don't think about them. We must learn to think carefully.
by Nawaf Kabbara, President of the National Association for Disabled People in Lebanon
When the Sandinistas came to power in 1979 they preached equality and freedom, giving disabled people in Nicaragua hope for their own liberation. In the words of disabled activist Patricia Sergovia:
'The Sandinistas represented a different way of treating people and this was very encouraging for us'. Soon disabled citizens were given civil rights laid down in law and a mass movement of disabled people, the Organization for Revolutionary Disabled (ORD) was born. It rapidly became a force in Nicaraguan politics as the radical representative of disabled people. The disabled revolutionaries set up their own wheelchair manufacturing co-operative and started producing the kind of wheelchair people actually wanted - light, hard wearing and suited to Managua's rutted streets. It sold for a third of the price of imported ones. Other self-help disability groups sprung up across the country to provide goods and employment for disabled people. One group, Solidez, set up a carpentry workshop.
After the Revolution the number of disabled people increased - due to the activities of US-backed Contra rebels. Meanwhile the Government was working at reducing some of the major social causes of disability by pumping energy and resources into health, nutrition and literacy programs.
When in 1989 the centre-right UNO coalition party defeated the Sandinistas and Violeta Chamorro came to power, there were mixed feelings among disabled Nicaraguans. Some felt that the fact that Chamorro is herself disabled and conducted most of the campaign from a wheelchair might help the cause of disabled people. They were wrong. Within her first year, the budget for the government department providing support and rehabilitation to ex-service women and men was decimated. Disabled people were thrust back to the pre-Revolutionary days of begging on the streets. The health of the nation has deteriorated as social programs have been slashed and inflation soared. Polio, dengue, malaria and malnutrition are all on the increase. Finally in the summer of 1990 a group of disabled people and their families vented their frustration by marching on the Presidential palace in Managua. They later took control of the country's TV station for 24 hours in order to air their grievances.
In spite of the problems now facing them the disability movement is still alive and kicking in Nicaragua - and continues to give inspiration to disability movements the world over.
by Mark Todd, journalist and disability consultant who recently visited Nicaragua to work on a TV film about disability.
At the time other Zimbabweans were fighting our war of independence there was a group of people plotting to liberate themselves from institutionalization. These were disabled people. I was one of them.
There were about 10 of us living in the Jairos Jin institution. We were there because our parents had taken us there when we were children. They didn't want us to live with our families. My father sent all my brothers and sisters to school and I stayed at home doing nothing, until I was 15 and someone told him about the Jairos Jiri.
We learned the evils of institutionalization first hand: like being told when to sleep and when to wake up, being manipulated by the charity industry, seeing the non-disabled staff using disability to enrich themselves. How could we destroy the evil system? We decided to form our own organization that we could control; an organization that would help us become full human beings with rights and interests.
Like the nationalist movement our new organization faced a lot of opposition. It came from Jairos Jiri itself and other charitable groups who felt that we were out to duplicate their activities, and that we were a bunch of ungrateful cripples. Some of them even told the white government that we were a political party in disguise and that we were receiving orders from those comrades fighting in the war of liberation. This was a big lie, of course.
When independence was won in 1980 the freedom fighters came home and many of them were disabled. These old combatants did not become part of the new leadership of Zimbabwe. Nor were there any government plans or programmes for them - to say nothing of the rest of the disabled. Eventually with international aid the Zimbabwean Government built a huge rehabilitation centre called RUWA, especially for disabled ex-combatants. It was like a prison. Love was forbidden along with visits from girlfriends or boyfriends. We in the disability movement had opposed RUWA because it segregated disabled people. Armed guards were posted at the gates for 24 hours a day monitoring the movement and behaviour of the disabled ex-freedom fighters. Finally some of the inmates rebelled, the institution was shut down and the disabled thrown out. Now most live as street beggars. They may well ask themselves: 'Why did we go there and fight? To lose legs, arms and everything at the end of it all?'
Today, almost 12 years after independence, the struggle of disabled people continues. Disabled people's affairs are ignored or come very low on the political agenda. Our problems were not solved by the war of liberation because ours is a different war altogether. It is a complicated struggle, but we understand the process. We want to be involved in the development process and not treated as charity cases. It is sad that our government and the international community continues to support charities in this country. Disabled people in Zimbabwe only want equal opportunities and full participation. We want to enjoy the same rights as those enjoyed by other citizens. We must keep working and using our organizations as vehicles of self-help, self-expression and self-representation. We need to fight for freedom, full participation, and independent living. We are not alone in this struggle. Like the war of liberation which relied heavily on international support, so does our own struggle.
by Joshua Malinga, Secretary General of the Southern African Federation of the Disabled and chair of Disabled People's International.
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Can you imagine having 300 people counting on you to keep daily operations running smoothly? Now imagine one of those people is the newly inaugurated President of the United States, and the rest are his closest advisors and staff.
If this isn’t enough to think about, remember the country and world are watching.
Here are 10 strategies I learned during my five years serving as the Operations Manager for the White House, Executive Office of the President.
1. When the Oval Office or anyone in the West Wing calls, you make things happen, quickly.
2. Treat all who need your help as if they too work in the the West Wing.
3. Get to know your customers and act as their liaison. Be the bridge between your customers and the experts who will help you solve their problems.
4. View each challenge as an opportunity to showcase your skills and learn new ones. With each challenge comes risk for great success and equal failure. Commend others who helped you be successful, and own your failures.
5. Always have a back-up plan so that any failures are quickly fixed.
6. It can be prudent to ask questions such as, “Why are we doing it this way?” If the answer is, “I can’t remember,” or, “This is just the way it has always been done,” it could be time to rethink your solution.
7. Change is constant – be able to adapt and improvise. There may be times when the best plans go south, this is when you must think on your feet, move fast or get run over.
8. There is a solution for every problem; use your imagination and creativity to find those solutions.
9. Mentor and train others – this is both challenging and rewarding. Showing someone the ropes and training them will ensure their success, while also ensuring your team’s legacy will continue.
10. Lastly, one of my favorite sayings I used while working in the White House – “The impossible is possible, it just takes a little longer.”
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Let me preface this post by saying that I am, in no way, complaining about the warm weather we've been having. In fact, I hate to mention the words warm and weather in the same sentence, for fear Mother Nature might overhear me and think she's been too generous.
Anyway.
If you read the story of Wiskers the Wonder Cat that I posted last week, you'll recall that we are now trying to keep our windows closed when we're not in a room. So, when we went to bed last night (the first night home after a week of vacation) we kept all windows, except the one in our bedroom, closed. And we have to keep the bedroom door closed, otherwise baby cats No. 1 and No. 2 lick their daddy's face so he can stay awake and play with them all night.
Anyway.
Long story short, our bedroom is a pressure cooker. It's worse than any other apartment I've ever lived in. I woke up last night at hourly intervals and stood next to the window, willing any little bit of breeze to hit my face. No dice. It was a sauna. And our little fan is basically just pushing around the warm air. So, my question is, how are we going to deal with this? The summer weather is really just ramping up and there should (knock on wood) be many more hot days and nights ahead, but we have to keep the windows closed and the bedroom door shut. And an air conditioner isn't an option with our large, old windows.
I'm sure we're not the only ones dealing with this. Come on DIYers, how do you beat the heat?
I don't have any suggestions on beating the heat, but your comments reminded me of the sleeping porch in my grandmother's house. It was a small room with windows on three sides that was on the second floor, over the side veranda. I think of the children camped out there on warm summer nights, enjoying the breezes...
I am still laughing at Baby Cats No. 1 and No. 2 licking their daddy's face!
I was at my garndparent's house during our vacation and they have a porch just like that, Debbie! What I wouldn't give to sleep there tonight instead of in our apartment ;) | http://newlyb.blogspot.com/2009/08/trying-to-beat-heat.html | 2013-05-18T10:41:06 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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By Jen Heger – Radar Legal Editor
Lindsay Lohan and her siblings are being harassed by Britney Spears‘ ex-manager, Sam Lutfi, according to a source close to the situation, radio detection and rangingOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
Lutfi was Spears’ controversial former manager at the height of her epic public meltdown when she lost custody of her children, Sean Preston and Jayden James to her ex-husband, Kevin Federline. Spears was twice committed to a hospital involuntarily while Lutfi was a major player in her life. Brit’s dad, Jamie Spears, got conservatorship of her and obtained a restraining order prohibiting Lutfi from having any contact with her.
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Numerous text messages and emails have been sent from Lutfi to LiLo and her siblings in recent weeks.
“Sam is desperate to be in Lindsay’s life and is telling anyone that will listen that he is helping with the actresses’ comeback. This is absolutely false. Lindsay has a team in place consisting of an agent, manager and publicist. She doesn’t want nor need Lutfi in any capacity. Sam has been texting and emailing Lindsay’s siblings as well. Lindsay and her sister and brothers aren’t responding to any communication from Sam,” a source close to the situation tells us.
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Lindsay’s dad, Michael Lohan, is acquaintances with Lutfi. In 2010, Papa Lohan told us that, “I don’t know what his deal is, but I told him, ‘Don’t you ever text my daughter again.” Michael also said that Sam had texted Lindsay’s older brother, Michael Jr., stating that “Dina was doing the wrong thing.”
Negotiations are in the final stages for Lindsay to star in a Lifetime television movie about the late iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor and her Playboy magazine cover earned record sales. “Lindsay is telling her siblings to just ignore the texts and emails. They are considering changing their phone numbers,” the insider says.
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Sam’s former roommate, Samuel Barth, and his family were forced to get restraining orders against him as well. Barth claimed Lutfi hacked into his Twitter and Facebook accounts, stalked and harassed him, his friends and family, and even tried to give his minor daughter a cell phone.
Lindsay’s rep Steve Honig told us, “Lindsay has never spoken to Sam Lutfi, period.”
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Calls seeking comment to Lutfi weren’t immediately returned.
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Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Captain of HMS Bounty
The HMS Bounty was recently in Newport for the Tall Ships Festival.: Coast Guard crews searched more than 90 hours, covering approximately 12,000 overlapping square nautical miles in the Atlantic Ocean since the Bounty's crew abandoned ship Monday morning.
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COLUMBUS — Voters.”
Of the 157 school operating and construction levies before voters on Tuesday, 69 were approved — for a success rate of 44 percent, said Damon Asbury, director of legislative services for the Ohio School Boards Association. Existing school taxes put before voters for renewal were largely approved while most new levies, such as the one for Cincinnati’s schools, were turned down.
New levies were a tough sell because of the economy, competition from tax requests from libraries and other entities, and “some of the discussion around the state about local taxes being too high,” Asbury said Wednesday..
A southwest Ohio district where voters rejected levies on eight previous attempts is hoping a narrow victory Tuesday will hold, so further cuts can be averted. The Little Miami schools are under state supervision and listed under fiscal emergency. Unofficial returns had the issue passing by a margin of 61 votes, or with 50.2 percent approval, though provisional and other ballots were left to be counted that could change the outcome or lead to a recount.
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In October 40 years ago as a first-year student in the University of Notre Dame Graduate School of Business, a longtime friend from Leo High School and Notre Dame law school student Don Stuckey and I decided to organize a Notre Dame Young Americans for Freedom chapter.
Law school professor Dr. Charles Rice was our faculty advisor.
New York and California had led the way to a radical liberalization of abortion laws, resulting in the deaths of millions of innocent babies. Once some states legalized abortion, the floodgates were open to all and it was only a matter of travel costs for those seeking abortions.
Fundamental rights can have some state-by-state differences (like free speech), but fundamental rights are not state issues. We fought a civil war over that very issue.
It made sense to have our first YAF meeting focus on the rapid growth of illegal abortions. Therese Willke and Chuck Donovan from Cincinnati, Ohio, both attended because they had been involved in the close fight to keep abortion illegal in Ohio. Therese’s parents, who were a doctor and a nurse, were early leaders in right to life. Therese’s mom also created a little silver pin of two tiny baby’s feet that is still used today.
Dr. Rice was already, pre-Roe v. Wade, the most feared pro-life speaker in the nation by the abortion advocates.
Our meeting had a small but respectable turnout in the late fall of 1972. Then on Jan. 22, 1973, the ground shifted.
In an incredibly poorly written political decision (not a legal one, there was no “right to privacy” on which the decision hinged), the Supreme Court banned prohibitions on abortion. Within hours, Dr. Rice met with Maryland Rep. Larry Hogan and sketched out the first Human Life Amendment, which was introduced almost immediately.
Back at Notre Dame, we formed a group called the Student Coalition for the Human Life Amendment with Therese Willke and I as co-chairmen, and Chuck as executive director. Dr. Rice was our faculty advisor.
Thirty-nine years ago on the first anniversary of the tragic Supreme Court decision defenders of the right of innocent babies to live rather than be killed began marching as a sign of commitment to continuing efforts to overturn the decision.
Obviously none of us thought it would take this long. After the first few years, organizations were created to help young mothers cope with unexpected pregnancies as well as low-income moms or those without family support for their baby.
This Saturday at noon there will be yet another March for Life in downtown Fort Wayne. Until the slaughter stops, the marchers in the streets across America will be a silent testimony to the shame of our blood-stained nation.
Our hearts are broken over the tragic deaths of the schoolchildren in Connecticut, but they should also be for the tiny ones killed before they could even get to preschool.
Stand up and be counted at noon this Saturday. We’ll take a social issues moratorium when the killing ends. | http://news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130117/EDITORIAL/130119678/1015/OPINION | 2013-05-18T11:01:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Pakistan: Dozens of Europeans Training for Terror in Tribal Areas
ISI Warns of Well-Educated Pakistanis with European Citizenship.
Yet ironically it is opposition to those drone strikes and to the US-led war in Central Asia in general which is fueling the surprising trend of educated, not-particularly-religious Western citizens seeking to carry out militant attacks across the West.
The most obvious previous example would be the Times Square bomber, who started out as a relatively anonymous financial advisor living in Connecticut before deciding to travel to Pakistan to seek training and carry out his (ultimately failed) attack. Increasing concern about people who aren’t exactly “likely suspects” is fueling a flurry of new warnings about the attacks, and a US travel advisory against the entire continent of Euro
ghouri
October 4th, 2010 at 2:08 am
ISI has to dance what the americans want. They are murderers and consiperators against Pakistan as the interion minister is a corrupt ex civil servant
Mezenc
October 4th, 2010 at 4:22 am
I don't believe any of it. Sounds more like a pretext for NATO to stay in Afghanistan. I don't believe Faisal Shahzad was "trained."
Susan
October 4th, 2010 at 4:32 am
I would not be Chan of those US CIA members with dual citizenship were part of those fueling the fight, since they enjoy violence and torture so much. Ch 9 news should a pic of bin Laden this morning & suggesting that the public needs to be careful at the airport. Amazingingly spending over $3 Trillion Dollars, Killing over 5,000 US soldiers & torturing & killing over a 1/2 million children & women & bread winners the supposed man who has never been able to be charged with anything because ?????, neverthe less he hasn't aged a day in the picture they showed this morning, even though people are hunted like trophies in AFghanistan (The US kill Team), unarmed slaughter by the 1,000's in Shebergham with the help of Gen. Dostum, millions of innocent middle class just trying to make a living have lost home, and family members, & the same is true Pakistan, Yemen and in the UK since there were a number of fathers who went to help the poorest people in the world just like Greg Mortenson of 3 Cups of Tea & ended up tortured in Guantanamo. Shaker Aamer shows on his records he was cleared in 07, but remains in solitaire though his 4 UK children & the country want his return. When I walked house to house, everyone knew we have been evily torturing in Guantanamo. The UN has stopped nothing, in fact it has supported all of this evil.
MichaelKenny
October 4th, 2010 at 6:47 am
Interestingly, none of this is being taken very seriously in Europe or more to the point, it has been taken as the security people simply puffing up their own importance and thereby, justifying their own existence (and inflating their budgets).
liveload
October 4th, 2010 at 7:06 am
How do we know the drone strikes are the reason people are seeking this so called "terrorist training"? Does it really matter why in the end? We're not leaving afpak anytime soon, they're flocking in to kill americans and destabilize the afpak governments. What is it that they really wish to accomplish in the end? Do they think things will be better for them under wahhabi rules? If our own commanders weren't so married to the incredibly inept Kabul kleptocracy, we could clean house and let the ordinary people self-determinate. The right of self-determination is important. If it is disallowed, then you haven't accomplished anything except more bloodshed and killing. It's a brutal game that isn't being played for the benefit of anyone except the war profiteers. A stupid stratgey against stupid people, carried out by morons and who pays the price? Always the poor and underpriveledged.
james
October 4th, 2010 at 9:34 am
What would prevent a proud German from training to get back at the Americans and other Europeans for destroying his country after WWII?
Why training people who want to defend their country is called terrorism while training real terrorists like the cowardly monsters in the US military not so? | http://news.antiwar.com/2010/10/03/pakistan-dozens-of-europeans-training-for-terror-in-tribal-areas/ | 2013-05-18T10:32:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Multimedia search firm Blinkx is the latest to use Really Simple Syndication (RSS) to make it easier for people to find the web video and audio they want.
Users can look for any word uttered in news videos, podcasts and video blogs.
Multimedia search is beginning increasingly important with Google and Yahoo also providing video search.
Text analysis
Blinkx's service uses smart voice recognition technology to scan video and audio it finds on the web. A searchable transcript is then automatically generated.
With RSS built into Blinkx's service, Harry Potter fans can save a Potter search and enter it into the webfeed reader.
Blinkx founder, Suranga Chandratillake, told the BBC News website said that because there was so much audio and video on the net, particularly with the advent of podcasting, it made sense to make search and delivery automated.
"What we did there was look at where search today fails," he said.
"One big area is TV and video content. There is lots of it but it is surprisingly difficult to find it."
Although video and audio on the web has been around for some time, the rise of broadband and better compression techniques have driven its popularity and quality.
Most main news websites carry video reports now. Blinkx, a year old this week, has pursued talks with the likes of the Bloomberg, BBC, CNN and Fox to index their content.
There is also a small but growing band of video bloggers now who are also threatening to take podcast-type programmes into the visual arena.
Poor descriptions
The video search services offered by Google and Yahoo do not analyse the content with voice recognition or play the programmes. They search description information from host sites, or closed caption information.
US broadcasters and the likes of the BBC are obliged to include closed caption information in broadcasts as part of a commitment to accessibility.
But, explained Mr Chandratillake, it is often missing in older, archival content.
Often publishers do not provide adequate enough descriptions of the what is in web video either, he said.
Blinkx uses voice recognition technology too, which has been around for some time but is becoming smarter and more accurate.
The speaker-independent voice recognition technology, from UK-based Autonomy, is 96-97% accurate on broadcast quality video, according to Mr Chandratillake.
The same "listening" technology is used by the Department of Homeland Security in the US as well as other security agencies.
"Our core back end server is an IBM machine which cost around $1,500. One of them can listen to four 'conversations' in parallel," he said.
"One of the content types we have added recently are podcasts. That alone is generating 500 hours a day of content to search."
My media
Blinkx monitors nearly 27,000 podcast "channels" or feeds, a jump from just over 1,200 in January.
There are other services popping up, such as Podscope, which search the content of podcasts, rather than services which list them in directories according to genre or popularity.
What Blinkx and others are doing with automated search and delivery is yet another step closer to people defining their own media channels.
"It is allowing media content to be atomised and split into smaller chunks to be passed around to different devices," he explained.
"People will expect more and have more control over when, where and what they watch." | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4699825.stm | 2013-05-18T11:05:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Jason Lewis, from Dorset, has travelled over five continents, two oceans and a sea to be the first to circle the globe on human power alone.
After dodging crocodiles and breaking both his legs, he travelled up the River Thames in his pedal-powered boat.
On Saturday, an overwhelmed Mr Lewis carried his boat over Greenwich's Meridian Line, where the quest began.
He said he thought it was "never going to happen", but was "overwhelmed to have returned in one piece".
"It feels fantastic. I came over the line and I was choked. I blubbed like a baby," Mr Lewis said.
"Everything I've been doing for the last 13 years has been in some way connected with this trip and tomorrow that will be no more."
The former cleaner, from Askerswell, received a royal welcome from the Duke of Gloucester when he finally crossed the Meridian Line from east to west at London's Royal Observatory with his trusted Devon-built 26ft (8m) Moksha.
Among the hundreds of onlookers was his father Col Sebert Lewis, who helped his son with the navigation, "sleeping with a paper and pen in case of emergencies".
He said: "It has been like one long military exercise lasting 13 years.
"I felt like I was on the expedition."
The Duke of Gloucester - who is the patron of "Expedition 360" - launched and named the craft in 1994.
Mr Lewis went on to say the "low points" had included breaking both legs in the USA and being arrested by Egyptian authorities, who thought he was a spy.
He added: "There have been many high moments. To be honest, it's always good to reach the other side of an ocean.
"But if it was just about the physical challenge I would have got bored.
"The 'why' question changed over the years.
"I started circumnavigating the world ... but it became more about using the expedition as an educational tool to enhance children's learning experience in the classroom."
Rest planned
Mr Lewis, who completed the journey in 16 legs and stayed at various points around the world in-between,.
He said he planned to rest on Sunday, before starting a career organising "mini expeditions" for young people and giving talks about climate change.
The Moshka will now be put into retirement as he takes his well earned rest.
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Want to get active, but ball games aren't for you? Fancy getting fit, but trackies aren't your style?
Well, how about strutting your stuff on the dancefloor instead then?
From ballet to ballroom, street to salsa - there's something for everyone.
And with the latest dance movie hitting the big screen soon, EVERYONE is going to be at it!
If Dirty Dancing got your feet tapping, you're sure to be hot-footing it along to the flicks to catch the sequel Havana Nights when it's released this summer.
And after you've munched your way through the popcorn, you may even fancy trying out some of the sequences for yourself!
There are dance classes going on the length and breadth of the country, so it couldn't be easier to keep step with all the latest moves.
Here at the Academy we've checked out a few styles for you to try.
And if none of them get you in the groove, remember there are dozens more to choose from.
So whether you waltz, shimmy or boogie your way to your nearest dance class, it's up to you!
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He was dismissed for breaking the team's number one rule: having a gay nickname such as "Honey Badger".
And, "Steve-O" is such a manly name? Oh, yeah...just like "Jackie-O"...Uh huh...ROFL
LSU has "standards that their players are held to..." ?!? Seriously?! He must have killed someone. Twice.
hope he pulls it together. what a waste
Probably get picked up by Bama or Penn State. To some, football is more important than anything else.
Looks like honey badger or whatever you chose to call the kid better get tough on his drug life before he becomes dead, bringing a fist to a gunfight somewhere, some night.
I'm a Crimson Tide fan first and foremost. Having said that, I am also an SEC fan. LSU and Honey Badger were always great to watch because of the synergy between the player and his teammates. I hope Tayronn can get into another program worthy of his talents and clean up his act at the same time. He is a talented young man with a lot to offer any team. Good luck, Honey Badger from a 'Bama fan.
Great way to throw away a free education. Oh, wait, sports. Right, football. Sorry, I forgot.
LSU and EDUCATION do not go together in the same paragraph.
Oh no! Not weed! Didn't this used to be America? How have we devolved into this conservative fascist police state? Forcing individuals to drug test is a worse crime than smoking weed. What a joke.
Another sports guy that thins he's special or above the rules because he's very coordinated. I am so unimpressed with the sports people unless they give back to their community in other ways. They get more attention and money then our armed forces people who even give their lives for us. What an injustice.
mushroom, mushroom...
Oh no1 he is black there must be racism involved.
You are right. It is the white man's fault for offering him a free ride toward a college diploma (even if it might be in AFRO STUDIES) and then denying him a chance at his chosen profession. This kid is obviously a slow learner with a criminal bent. Best that he realize that right now, wash out of the system and quite being frustrated with his limitations.
I hope the coaches didn't can this kid because they found pot in his system.
Word.
Why do you hooe that – especially if it was the 29th time?
It is vey hard to grow up and realize that you are expected to follow the rules.
Never underestimate a kid's ability to mess up his/her future.
@Manuel Imel,
You have no idea what you're talking about.
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New smart phones get Microsoft-savvy
CNET's William O'Neal takes a look at the latest tri-band smart phones running Microsoft's mobile OS, such as the i-Mate Jam, with its built-in 1.3-megapixel camera; 2.8-inch, 65,000-color display; Bluetooth and infrared connectivity; and a soft-touch screen in place of the dial pad.
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Businesses are adopting Web services as a way to build internal applications and exchange data with partners, according to analysts.
But management systems to ensure adequate performance of Web services are lagging. Software makers need to provide standardized management tools if Web services is to become more widespread, according to members of the OASIS technical committee..
Work on Web services standards has been steady over the past several months. Initial Web services standards, such as XML (Extensible Markup Language), Simple Object Access Protocol, and Web services Description Language, which were defined roughly four years ago, specified simple methods for building Web services.
The latest standardization efforts have focused on capabilities needed for more widespread Web services usage. OASIS said it has formed committees to shepherd the completion of standards around security, reliable messaging and structured business documents.
Besides Novell and IBM, initial members of the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee include Actional, BMC Software, Computer Associates, Confluent Software, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, OpenNetwork, SeeBeyond, Sun Microsystems, Waveset and WebMethods. | http://news.cnet.com/2100-1013-991791.html | 2013-05-18T10:12:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The good (and bad) news about electronic voting
Security researcher cites interesting research on securing electronic voting systems..
Below is a transcript of part of my interview. The entire podcast can be heard here.
To start, I asked Brian what his take is on the whole electronic voting issue.
Chess: It might actually start off sounding bad, but the news really is good on the electronic voting part. So here's what's happening. In California last year, and they've since been followed by states like Ohio, and Florida, and Colorado, have been taking a hard look at the electronic voting system that they've purchased. Usually the way this happens is the secretary of state will go to the state university and say, "Give me some electronic voting experts and I want them to examine the systems that we purchase." Those experts go and examine the systems and they say, "You know, these don't provide a level of security that we're comfortable with," and then the state begins to restrict the use of that electronic voting technology based on the vulnerabilities or the concerns that the experts have identified.
That's a really good thing and I would have thought that the business world would have caught on before the politicians would have caught on, but here we've got the politicians at least in this electronic voting realm really listening to the experts about where the risks lie in a system that's critical to the functioning of our democracy. The way we vote. They're saying, "Hey, you know, maybe we want to really consider how to deploy this technology" and that's really, really good news. It's not good news that we're finding new systems that are not adequately secured. But it's good news that we're starting to think about some of the risks that these systems pose. Some of the work that I've been proudest of coming out of Fortify now is that we've been contributing to the analysis of these voting system and allowing the people conducting the reviews to use our source code analysis technology.
Me:Are you a part of any standards group that's looking into these systems?
Chess: Well, on the one side, you've got the companies who are making the voting machine; and on the other side, you've got people who are trying to legislate what threshold for security might be. So far, we've tried to stay out of that political arena.
Me: I'm thinking of something that I heard at RSA about software dependent and software independent models that are being discussed for electronic voting machines?
Chess:: The problem we have with the electronic voting machine is that there is, at some point or another in all of these systems, there is this very complicated black box, and in order for the election to do what you want, you have to trust that black box works correctly. So there are university researchers who are talking about systems that do not depend these sort of black box with a complicated mechanism in it, functioning correctly in order for you to know that you got the right result out of the election. I think that there is some really cool research going on there. But I don't think any of that is going to help us. Well, certainly not with this next presidential election. I would be pretty amazed if it helps with the one after that. But the frontier there is full of absolutely stellar work.
Me: Most of the researchers I've talked to about electronic voting have said, "We're stuck with it, and we just have to make it work the way it exists." Do you agree with something like that?
Chess: Look at what happened in California where they checked the voting machine, the electronic voting machine, but they said, "We're going to use these machines for a much more narrow purpose than they were originally designed for. We're going to keep them around, so people with disabilities can be independent voters," and that is now this sole function of the voting machines in California. I think that is a significant reduction in risk from saying, "These are the machines that we're going to turn our elections over to." I expect we'll see more compromises along those, along those lines, and I think that's a big step up from where we were just a few years ago.
Me:Any thoughts on the use of paper trails to verify the data?
Chess: There are a lot of machines that have been retrofitted to have paper trail included as part of them, but if you look at what the system of record is, the system of record is still not the paper trail or even when the system of record is the paper trail, paper trail is created in such a way that it makes it almost impossible to perform and audit using that paper trail. So I think that paper trail is a good idea, but it's very difficult to bolt onto a system and retrofit an insecure system to be secure because you added this paper trail. | http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-9945115-57.html | 2013-05-18T10:42:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Perspectives from a Gazan Palestinian
By: Nesren Elhertani, Guest Columnist
My family and I are from Gaza, but I have lived in America all of my life. We still have family in Gaza but cannot visit them.
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Biondo-Gemmel exhibits workNovember 1, 2012
In September, Susannah Biondo-Gemmell exhibited artwork in “Earth and Alchemy,” a show surveying contemporary ceramic sculpture, at the Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.
In November, she exhibited new time-based ceramic sculpture at the “Clay Colleagues” exhibition, alongside other regional ceramic artists, at Cornell’s Peter Paul Luce Gallery. Upcoming exhibitions include “Elements” in which she will be representing the “element of fire” through ceramic materials, at the Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis.
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I avoidance, however legal. So six years of returns should be relatively painless. And yet, Romney continues to stonewall any requests for release of the documents:
campaign’s already about attacking people, on both sides. There’s a conversation to be had on jobs, the economy, the role of Big Finance, the burning of the planet, the best way to deliver health care coverage to all Americans, how to keep seniors secure in retirement, and on and on. Nobody’s going to have that conversation. This is a campaign in 140 characters, the more biting the better. All the reticence on taxes does is inflate that particular issue so that it drowns out everything else, but if it died down some other issue would drown out everything else. It’s not like we’re capable in this country, with this media, of having an issues-based campaign.
So now Romney will have to endure more calls from his allies to release the tax returns. In the past 24 hours, Rick Perry and the National Review have come out in favor of that action. It will get worse with each passing today.
Which leads to speculation over just what’s so horrible in those tax returns that the Romney campaign is completely willing to hold out. The above Obama campaign ad does the speculation for him. With Romney releasing the 2010 and 2011 forms and holding back there, one working assumption is that 2008 and 2009, when stock prices fell rapidly, would have seen him book major losses, which potentially means that he paid no tax in those years, or had a negative tax rate. That’s definitely plausible. I think the idea that Romney took the 2009 Swiss bank account amnesty is a good one:.
This is plausible precisely because either alternative would have forced disclosure on the tax form, so something either politically bad or criminally bad may sit on that 2009 form.
Either that, or he checked the “Yes I killed a hobo” box in 2006. You don’t want that getting out.
Just saying….He did not have sex with that woman….It’s all good. Then the truth will out…IMho | http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/07/18/just-whats-in-those-romney-tax-returns-anyway/ | 2013-05-18T10:41:37 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Gonzaga University’s 26th President Thayne M. McCulloh talks about his first impressions of Gonzaga as a student in the fall of 1986.
The above video is the first in a series of interviews with Dr. McCulloh designed to help all of Gonzaga’s constituents become better acquainted with the University’s new president. McCulloh will be inaugurated as Gonzaga’s 26th President on Friday (Oct. 22). | http://news.gonzaga.edu/2010/getting-to-know-gonzagas-new-president-thayne-m-mcculloh | 2013-05-18T10:21:28 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Shaw Wu, an analyst at Sterne Agee & Leach Inc., talks about Hewlett-Packard Co.'s fiscal first-quarter profit and second-quarter forecast, the performance and strategy of Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman, and the outlook for the company. Wu speaks with Emily Chang and Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg) | http://news.isc.vn/en/video/beginning-signs-of-turnaround-at-hp-wu-says-video.html | 2013-05-18T10:30:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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It is encouraging to know that almost all of you are using Antivirus Software.
Do You Use F*r*e*e or Paid Antivirus?
It's exactly 50/50. Half of our readers are using a f*r*e*e antivirus product and half are using a paid product. This is just about equal to what I have seen in other polls.
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(Note 2: If you read the small print in your f*r*e*e antivirus agreements, you should be paying for your f*r*e*e antivirus software if it is being used within your business.)
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20% are using Norton.
13% are using Microsoft Security Essentials.
12% are using Avast!
The above results are close to what I had expected. AVG is extremely popular and most people are probably using the f*r*e*e version. Personally, I would recommend Avast! which also has a f*r*e*e version. I believe that Avast! is just as good and uses fewer resources on your computer (that is, it runs faster and won't slow down your computer).
Microsoft Security Essentials is also a pretty good product and much improved over the past year (and is also a f*r*e*e product).
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What Version of Windows Are You Using On the Computer that You Use Most Often Within Your Business?
Please click on the link below and answer the question to our one question survey (results will be shared next week):
What Version of Windows Are You Using?
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The Big Flaws in Restaurant Rankings
Actually, the article cited below is specifically related to hotel restaurants and comes from an article published by The Wall Street Journal entitled, "The Big Flaws in Hotel Rankings."
TripAdvisor, cited in the article, ranks both hotels and restaurants, as well as vacation rentals.
In choosing a hotel, restaurant, computer product, telephone, vacuum cleaner or just about anything else I buy now, I check out the user reviews.
I'm finding that these user reviews are getting less helpful.
For example, I recently purchased an inkjet printer. Prior to choosing my printer, I checked the magazine reviews and read through all the user reviews. Should I get a Dell, HP, Kodak, Epson or other brand printer? I found that reading the reviews were almost useless.
I finally picked out a printer. The printer I chose had a 4 star rating (lower than some of the 5 star ratings of competitors). I actually saw the printer at BestBuy and it seemed to work fine for me. Some of the lower user review rankings talked about bad quality printing photos on standard non-photo paper, slow two-sided printing speeds, and the difficulty in setting up the printer to receive faxes.
The printer that I chose and was reviewed by users didn't have fax capability nor did I want it. Obviously, the reviewer wasn't referring to my chosen printer. I have no use for two-sided printing so I really didn't care about the speed. Actually, after purchasing the printer, I did try two-sided printing and it was amazingly fast. I rarely print photos so the quality on standard non-photo paper didn't matter to me. However, I must say, I was pretty impressed with its photo printing quality on plain paper.
You can no longer trust those user reviews. We don't know who the users are nor do we understand their biases.
That being said, I still do read user reviews. Although I am aware that they can't necessarily be trusted, I do get more insight into the product that I am buying.
Restaurant reviews are no different from printer reviews. Frequently, the negative restaurant review that you are reading may have been posted by a competitive restaurant in the same town. The really positive restaurant review may have been written by the owner's mother.
Hotel reviews are no different. According to The Wall Street Journal article:
While experts say what matters most to shoppers is the hotel's overall score, it pays to read the reviewers' comments, discounting the highs and lows. Consider focusing on those written by people most like yourself. Some sites allow you to highlight reviews from people traveling with children, couples or business travelers, for example.
Of course, trying to influence reviews and ratings is a time-honored tradition in the hotel and restaurant industries. Travel-guidebook legend Arthur Frommer said he began printing reader letters about hotels in the 1960s. After about five years, he realized that hotels were writing him letters about themselves. "I was being gamed," said Mr. Frommer. "Hotels are so dependent on reviews that of course they will generate their own. They would be crazy not to."
So, who do you believe? It's just not easy to find unbiased reviews. When writing about computer products, I have a pretty good idea about the products I am writing about. I can read reviews and read between the lines. With close to 40 years of computer experience, I've gotten pretty good at figuring out what is good and what is bad.
I do a pretty good job at picking out hotels and restaurants. I understand that some of the reviews are "legit" and some are not.
As the owner or manager of a retail store, these reviews can make or break your business.
If you get one single customer that dislikes your restaurant, he can post dozens of negative reviews and destroy your business. It happens. People read the user reviews. If your restaurant has a one star rating out of five, it is likely to fold soon. People do read those reviews.
How do you overcome it?
You can do what many other restaurants and hotels do. Pay your customers to write and post positive reviews or have all your relatives write them for you. This is unethical.
Here's a more ethical idea that many hotels and restaurants use. Encourage your customers to write and post reviews in exchange for a discount coupon. The review should be unbiased. It's likely that most people who receive some sort of discount coupon or other remuneration will probably write a positive review.
Even if your restaurant is perfect, it is likely that you are going to get negative, fake reviews from competitors or angry former employees. It can destroy you. You can search Google for reputation repair and find companies that will help you remove or counter those negative reviews.
(One important note. There is a company that advertises heavily on the radio called reputation.com. They claim that they can repair the online reputation of any business including restaurants, doctors and other businesses. I cannot recommend them nor do I have any first hand knowledge about this company. Prior to using them, you may want to search Google for reputation.com complaints and see what comes up.)
Many hotels and restaurants actually pay companies that add positive reviews to the review sites. When reading reviews, you can sometimes pick out the phony reviews. For example, when you see a Grade A review for a steak dinner in a vegetarian restaurant, it's probably a fake or placed by a company that "seeds the reviews."
To read the Wall Street Journal article about Hotel Rankings go to:
The Big Flaws in Hotel Rankings
Read more about "fake" restaurant reviews at:
With online restaurant review sites, everyone's a critic
To learn more, search Google for fake restaurant reviews.
A Few Online Computer Catalogs
It has become very hard to receive computer catalogs in the mail. It used to be that computer enthusiasts would receive a few catalogs a week in the mail. Now, you need to find them online.
Here's a few online computer catalogs that you may want to take a look at:
Micro Center has a real interesting catalog containing just about everything you can ever want including computers, software, peripherals, hard drives, books, all types of parts and more computer "stuff" than you can image.
Micro Center is one of the few remaining computer chains around. One of their stores is located in Paterson, NJ. I stop by there a few times a year. It has everything you can think of including a nifty 48 page catalog. I say nifty because it has lots of "stuff" in it of special interest to computer geeks (plus stuff for regular people, too).
You can get a paper copy of the catalog at any of their stores or request a copy on their website.
Better yet, just go to the link below where you can browse the catalog and/or download the complete catalog in .pdf format.
Micro Center Catalog
PC Connection has been around since 1982. That's almost as old as the original iteration of pcAmerica (born in 1976).
PC Connection started with an inventory worth $8,000. Now, the company has revenues in excess of $1 billion.
You can request a paper copy of the PC Connection catalog by going to pcconnection.com or you can view their catalog online by going to:
PC Connection Catalog
CDW (originally called Computer Discount Warehouse) is another company started in 1982.
It is currently Ranked No. 38 on Forbes' list of America's Largest Private Companies.
You can see CDW's product offerings including hardware, software, peripherals and services by going to:
CDW Online
CompUSA is still around. CompUSA and TigerDirect are now one single company and they still live on. CompUSA is 20+ years old. I actually attended the Grand Opening of their first store (somewhere in Texas).
CompUSA grew into the largest computer chain with over 200 stores throughout the U.S.A. They went bankrupt and the New CompUSA is owned by Systemax, Inc. who also owns Global Computers, Tiger Direct, and Global Industrial Equipment.
CompUSA has an outstanding website. You can see plenty of computer products and order a catalog by going to:
CompUSA.com
One of my favorite "computer stuff" companies is CablesToGo. If you need any type of cable, adapter, or testing tool, this is the place to go.
They have an amazing selection of cables in any size plus a wide range of adapters that will let you connect all types of different peripherals to all sorts of computer ports (USB to Serial, two monitors to a single computer, parallel or USB, and anything else you can imagine).
You can request a paper copy of their catalog or view the online catalog by going to:
Cables To Go Catalog
Can Retailers Halt Showrooming?
The Magic Number is now 8%
Currently, 8% of all U.S. retail sales occur online.
The good news for restaurants is that online sales are not such a big deal. However, more consumers are placing online orders for delivery and pickup. Others place orders online and hope to have a table waiting with their food.
Retailers like BestBuy, Target and Walmart are having big problems with online sales. They are becoming the Amazon.com Showroom. Customers enter their favorite retail store, browse the TV's, cameras, and whatever - jot down the price and item number in the store and order their desired item at Amazon.com. Some people don't even leave the store. They order their products on an iPad or cell phone (using the department store's free wireless service).
Stores like Barnes and Noble have online sites with competitive prices, but they don't offer those competitive prices in their stores. I browse the books at my local Barnes and Noble store, check out their prices online and wind up purchasing my book from Amazon. My book is delivered in a few days and shipping is free on most orders.
It's called showrooming. Customers are being trained to look at the items in the store, ask lots of questions, and purchase their items through Amazon.com and others. Most of the time, there is no shipping charge involved. Some online merchants don't even charge tax.
To make matters worse, that 8% magic number above is probably higher. The figure includes items such as gasoline and other items that are normally never purchased online.
Today half of shoppers who buy products online first checked them out in a traditional store, according to a recent study of 900 shoppers by Minneapolis-based research firm ClickIQ Inc. While the majority of survey respondents favored Target and Wal-Mart stores for researching merchandise, half of the online consumers wound up making their purchases on Amazon.
Stores are working on strategies to combat the online buying trend. Competitive pricing is becoming far more important. Many businesses now allow their customers to order online and make pickups at their local stores.
Service, installation and convenience is becoming far more important. But consumers are watching.
Amazon.com beats Walmart.com prices by about 9% and Target by 14%. ... and Amazon.com uses robots to pick out orders for shipping (and to date, none of the robots are unionized).
Smaller retailers can compete. Customers still like personalized service. Be different. You can start selling items on your website and allow customers to pick it up at your store. Work with manufacturers and distributors that will drop ship for you. Drop shipping means you can sell more items without carrying a large inventory.
You can read the entire Wall Street Journal article at:
Can Retailers Halt 'Showrooming'?
F*r*e*e Stuff for Your Computer/Tips for Restaurant Owners
To see the complete list of F*R*E*E Stuff for your Computer click on the link below:
F*R*E*E Stuff for Your Computer
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CRANSTON, R.I. - Governor Chafee said Friday that a state of emergency has been declared for Rhode Island ahead of the storm, emphasizing that "Losing power, people being without heat, is really the emergency we are going to face."
But, the governor said, "We're ready," at a noon news conference. He urged people to stay off the roads.
At this point there has been no decision whether to close Route 95 in Rhode Island, according to state officials.
Department of Transportation director Michael Lewis said that plows are out, trucks have been on the road all morning, but there conceivably could be times when snowfall will get ahead of the plows.
Officials urged people to stay off the roads.
Governor Chafee has declared a State of Emergency for the State of RI effective immediately. #NemoRI #StormRI— Governor Chafee (@LincolnChafee) February 8, 2013
-- The original version of this report was published at 12:05 p.m. | http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2013/02/governor-declares-state-of-emergency-in-ri.html | 2013-05-18T10:32:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari [ Images ] has reiterated that Islamabad [ Images ] is ready to cooperate with New Delhi [ Images ] to bring the Mumbai [ Images ] attack perpetrators to justice.
In an interview with a Pakistani English daily, Zardari said Pakistan would not allow its soil to be used against India [ Images ].
"Pakistan is ready to cooperate with India to punish the perpetrators of terror attacks in Mumbai. Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror," The Nation quoted Zardari, as saying.
He said resumption of bilateral talks was very important, as only then both countries would be able to counter problems facing the region.
"In our view, the resumption of a sustained engagement and dialogue with India could ally each other's concerns. Both Pakistan and India need to avoid hostile propaganda and confrontation against each other," Zardari said.
He said Pakistan's concerns regarding different issues were genuine and stressed that India should also reciprocate and address those.
"Dialogue is the only way forward; absence of dialogue leads to tension," Zardari added.
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An Artist's View of the Modern Music Biz 210
An anonymous reader writes "A member of the band OK Go wrote an interesting open letter giving an artist's perspective on the current state of the music business and how labels finance producing, distributing, and marketing music and music videos. A very insightful perspective of 'both sides': the argument that music and music videos are meant to be heard and, in the case of the latter, seen by a wide audience; and the argument that the money needs to come from somewhere. Unfortunately, the letter doesn't address the perspective outsiders have of outlandish salaries in the music labels, but it is interesting nonetheless." Their new video is not bad either.
Should Have Grown Organically (Score:5, Insightful)
So what’s there to do? On the macro level, well, who the hell knows? There are a lot of interesting ideas out there, but this is not the place to get into them.
So where is the place to get into that sort of brainstorming?
... the smug assholes who ran labels, who’d want a system where a handful of corporate overlords shove crap down our throats?
Ah, that's where it will be decided. I have low expectations for what comes out of that.. I personally think that Ok Go are talented enough to sit down in a barn somewhere with basic recording equipment and I'd buy it. Their music video with them on treadmills fly them to success, not EMI. The obvious answer is that's a harder route for the big acts. It takes more work, like you actually have a job forty hours a week. And the attitude toward that option is:
We're a rock band, and it’s a great gig. Not just because we get to snort drugs off the Queen of England (we do), but because the only thing we are expected to do is make cool stuff.
But in the end we all suffer from bands 'selling out' to labels. I personally think no one suffers more than the bands. Some fans can comply with the ridiculous terms but you lose a lot. I would point to this small milestone in Ok Go's career as something of note to new musicians. If you believe in yourself, don't rely on a label to grow. If it doesn't work at least you weren't artificially installed singing someone else's music putting together an executive's vision.
If only Ok Go could decide that their new video is embeddable, most would have watched it on Slashdot right now instead of the 1/2 of us that clicked on the link. Unfortunately they already sold their soul to the devil so it doesn't matter what they think is good for them now. The funny thing about this is that I'm vacationing in Grand Cayman right now and while I own every single album and EP and even vinyl records from Ok Go, I can't see this video on account of what they wrote in their post:
This video contains content from EMI. It is no longer available in your country.
Good luck guys. I think you traded early growth that would have came naturally for some control over what you love. It's sad but it's the way it is now.
Wow, Why Didn't I Think of That?!? (Score:4, Insightful)
What they 'need' is to grow organically to the point of extreme popularity
And it's Just. That. Simple!!
Re:Wow, Why Didn't I Think of That?!? (Score:4, Informative)
What can labels & conglomerates provide that can't be provided by other already-existing companies or persons?
Studio time isn't necessarily done by the labels; there's tons of independent and in-home studios out there. Ditto on mixing.
Marketing? There's tons of marketing agencies.
Advertising? See above.
Pressing CDs? Although the technology will likely be obsolete in the next 20 years, all the labels do is make the order and pay for it. I don't doubt an artist with sufficient money could make the order themselves.
Music videos? Look at the work, say, Monty Oum does by himself on his free time. Imagine what a single man employed in that field (or a small company) could do.
In short, there's nothing labels do that artist couldn't contract out themselves. Labels will collapse under their own weight soon enough, I'm sure.
Re:Wow, Why Didn't I Think of That?!? (Score:5, Insightful)
The other thing you cover - but sort of miss on - is the money. Marketing? Yes - tons of agencies. Just give them a check that won't bounce. CD's - sure, again that check that won't bounce. These things would be very expensive for me to attempt. I don't know about others. I guess you can incorporate and take out a small business loan? Maybe? Anyway, if you just want to be a band that has day jobs and puts some free stuff on the internet - sure - cheap. No problem. But "it takes money to make money" and the labels give them a way to do that (hate them or not, that's what they do).
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That's the thing: Youtube and other social networks are now _way_ more important now for promotion than classic radio, especially for a band that
Re:Wow, Why Didn't I Think of That?!? (Score:5, Informative)
As someone mentioned above, the alternative is to "grow organically" which really means grow very very slowly. In many cases, these bands have grown slowly. They have had regular jobs to pay for their equipment. They play tiny gigs at small bars in their home town, and they've probably worked really hard doing, essentially, two jobs, for a long time to get to the point of being recognized by a label. They have barely enough money to buy guitars and a car to get to the next gig, much less move their recording and promotion to the level that a label can offer.
EDIT: Re:Wow, Why Didn't I Think of That?!? (Score:2)
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Buy a mike, some foam, learn to be an sound engineer or get one to join the band, pay someone for hosting your website or pull out a 486 and learn how to host it yourself. Sell yourself to everyone you know, and give your music away for free.
OR, promise 90% of all revenue you ever generate, give up ownership of your works, sell out to a label so they can deal with all that business
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Labels write checks. That's what no one else does. They are very much like loan sharks, the interest rate on the checks they write are terrifying, but if you are a small band, or a young band, many times you can afford tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to do all those things you mentioned above.
There's one other difference. They forgive the loans if the band can't pay them back. This may seem like very thin gruel if you're working on what seems like indentured servitude for years to make your act
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If people have X disposable income that they're willing to spend on music then you'll likely not see much of a decrease in terms of the industry as a whole. But that money will be far more spread around, and more of it will be going directly to the artists.
The problem with his thinking is that the money doesn't "come from" anywhere. It's a person's, potentially a fan's, money, and as long as you don't try to sell them more music than they can reasonably listen to they will pay for it.
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That's the great thing about free market capitalism: if the better way is really just that simple, then someone will do it.
Of course, the contrapositive of this statement is that if someone hasn't done it already, then it's really not just that simple (but some people find this view a little challenging).
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One of the replies to the article sounds like a record company person, and i think part of it sums it up quit succinctly;
"Need" is obviously contingent on your band wanting to achieve certain things, none of which are *necessary*. To achieve those things, you needed some money you didn't have, and decided to sacrifice some freedom with your music, in exchange for the advance money.
Re:Should Have Grown Organically (Score:5, Insightful)
Ironically, as a musician or band, you won't get a major label offer until you are successful enough to attract the attention of a label. That means you're making enough money that they could make money off of you. So at that point, why sign? If you're not that successful yet, no one will offer you a deal anyhow, so it's not even a problem for you.
Your choices in summary:
1. sign and get slightly better promotion for a huge reduction in your personal profit
2. don't sign, get the promotion your music warrants on its own and keep all your own profits
If you're all that good, you're gonna make way more money at #2. If you're terrible and somehow you get a big advance because of #1, believe me, the label will find a way to claw that money back from you.
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When my beloved Decemberists moved from Kill Rock Stars to Capitol Records, I wondered what the reason was.
Whatever their reasons, the result was hugely more ambitious records - in terms of production values and sheer number of instruments - and more ambitious live shows. I suspect that with all the extra gear, these were expensive shows to put on. Kill Rock Stars probably couldn't have handled that much cashflow.
But, they left it late. Colin Meloy of the band said:
We felt that in some ways, if we continued putting out records on [Kill Rock Stars], we'd totally be fine. But we also felt like we needed to kind of up the ante a little bit. One should only move to a major label when one can pretty much call the shots.
It seems as if being handled by a major be
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Ironically, as a musician or band, you won't get a major label offer until you are successful enough to attract the attention of a label. That means you're making enough money that they could make money off of you. So at that point, why sign?
Well, now there is no reason any more. The reason used to be that labels owned the distribution channels, so you couldn't sound on radio or TV without them, even if you were a huge gig. Without them, you would not sound on TV or radio.
Now things are different, but labels still pretend to own the media and some bands fall for it, like OK go did.
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1. sign and get slightly better promotion for a huge reduction in your personal profit
More importantly, personal CONTROL. Reel Big Fish made some kick-ass CDs before they signed. The one with the clown on the cover sucked. It was their first major lable CD. An artist who has someone telling him how to make his art is like a scientist with a guy with an MBA telling him how to do science. The good, effective ones aren't led by the nose by someone whose only goal is to make money.
Re:Should Have Grown Organically (Score:5, Insightful)
I highly recommend the movie Anvil before you make these kind of ridiculous claims again. The problem with these claims is they assume that bands have the time and skills to be marketeers, travel and booking agents, and accountants. Oddly enough it's possible the musicians might NOT be good at one or more of these thing.
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When the music pays for 100% of your time to work on the music... what are you signing up with a label for?
I know at least one band who does everything on their own. They're happy doing what they're doing, and as long as they're happy together, make enough money to pay for their touring, their rent and their groceries, they consider themselves to have "made it".
If the "product" doesn't have that kind of demand, the only thing a record label could do would be to change your image, change your sound and
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For the same reason a politician aligns himself with a major political party. Would Obama be president right now without the backing of the Democratic party? I assure you, he would not. Likewise, no artist could possibly reach the levels of worldwide fame that people like Beyonce and Taylor Swift enjoy without the backing of a major label.
As to your argument about a "huge reduction in your personal profit," that simply isn't true. While the percentage is certainly lower, 40% of a million dollars is far
Re:Should Have Grown Organically (Score:5, Insightful).
Meanwhile, the band across the road gets a record deal, grows faster than organically, and is playing stadiums while you're still growing a fanbase into your 30s.
The difference between a bank loan and a record company advance is that the record label is taking some of the risk. They can do it because they aggregate it across many acts, most of whom will fail, a few of whom will succeed well enough to fund the rest. Unfortunately we see that bands typically build up a debt to their record company, and that's a shame.
I personally think that Ok Go are talented enough to sit down in a barn somewhere with basic recording equipment and I'd buy it. Their music video with them on treadmills fly them to success, not EMI.
But without EMI, would you even have been exposed to that video? There's hundreds of thousands of bands out there that are good enough for you buy their output. It's record companies' promotional efforts that typically make some of them more commercially successful than others.
I guess there are some organic successes out there (Jonathan Coulter?) - but they'll remain the exception rather than the rule.
Re:Should Have Grown Organically (Score:5, Insightful)
If the label is keeping most of the money to themselves via Hollywood accounting or what not then what's the benefit again? That more people will buy albums and merch that goes in to the label's coffers that you still won't get a decent piece of?
All of your 'point' seems to come down to "the label will make you a hit faster so you can retire early without needing a standard 30-40 year career like everyone else".
To an extent that's right. As much as super-rich bands like U2 etc. are the exception when it comes to major label acts, I can't think of a single indie act that's raked in megabucks.
Becoming a hit faster sounds like a facile aim - but pop music is an ephemeral thing. A certain kind of act - and acts I personally value - are all about the performers' youth and vigour. If you give them 5 years to build up a grassroots fanbase, they'll have faded out before anyone's heard of them.
Classy of you do demean my 'point' by putting quotes around it.
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In the business/tech world you can either grow organically, or accept venture capital to grow bigger, faster to try and take advantage of market opportunities.
To do so means you give up some rights, have to have some IP protection or something to help guarantee that the VC investment has a chance to pay off.
Most reasonable people don't expect everything to be free, but I think most are tired of the VC/Labels emptying your pocket for products
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I can't think of a single indie act that's raked in megabucks.
They're out there [cnn.com]. They may be in "niche" markets, but they're out there. I don't know how you define it but $14.5 million per year qualifies as "megabucks" to me.
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I can't think of a single indie act that's raked in megabucks.
They're out there [cnn.com]. Any way you cut it, $14.5 million per year qualifies as "megabucks" to me.
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But without EMI, would you even have been exposed to that video?
Yes... I've only every seen this video on YouTube and not because of any advertzing from EMI.
How did you find it on YouTube? Follow the chain of cause and effect, and I bet you find real marketing effort from EMI's promotion people is at base of it.
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if it's that easy why haven't banks pushed into lending to musicians before and instead poured money into RE? reason is that most music acts lose money and banks like stability with a lower interest rate than lending to 10 acts and losing money on 9 of them. banks also want something called collateral in a lot of cases. a lot of rich people like Annie Lebowitz who borrowed a lot of live in luxury put up a lot of their works and property as collateral. same with Michael Jackson. He signed over a lot of prope
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I personally think that Ok Go are talented enough to sit down in a barn somewhere with basic recording equipment and I'd buy it.
You say that, but you probably would never have heard of them if it weren't for marketing from a record label.
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There's an assumption implicit here that is all too common: That music needs to be a business, or even that record sales, radio play, the stuff record companies are seen to be good for, are a viable source of income for a large portion of musicians these days. Most of the bands and projects I listen to are far too obscure to make any significant cash on sales of recordings. They don't get any radio play worth mentioning. They know selling music is not, and never will be, something they can rely on as a sign
Things you might need a label for (Score:3, Insightful)
I also don't understand why he thinks that artists 'need' record labels.
You need a label to get phonorecords* of your work into stores because the labels have relationships with the stores' buyers, especially if your genre is more popular among people with no PC, people with a PC and no Internet, or people with PC and dial-up. (Country music and pop standards come to mind.) You need a label because the recognized experts in record marketing work for labels. In certain genres, you need a label to help clear the samples you may have used. You may even need a label to help make s
Get out of the damned studios (Score:2)
I have never understood why bands spend months recording 30 minutes of music when they perform the same music live ALL THE FREAKING TIME. I myself would rather hear live music than stale perfection. How many takes do you have to splice to make one single recording -- how can you even call it your music any more when it is the recording editor who does all the hard work of listening for pointless variations in takes to make a recording which is going to be heard thru earbuds anyway?
I know why. It's becaus
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I also don't understand why he thinks that artists 'need' record labels. What they 'need' is to grow organically...
Well I'm sure that at least part of the problem is that you "need" the labels because the labels exist. Ok, that's a weird way of putting it, but here's the thing: to some extent, industries also need to grow organically. They need to develop business models and trade organizations and conventional ways of doing things and bla bla bla. Right now, record labels are filling that void, and we won't develop real alternatives until there's nothing filling that void.
Imagine your a musician. You're not a busi
Other artist's insight (Score:5, Informative)
David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) did a fantastic article for Wired [wired.com] a few years ago about this. He discusses (with details!) how the music industry works, some of the "models" of releasing music, and the economics/incentives to each one. Great read.
On a semi-related note, it's also worth looking at Steve Albini's now classic essay "The Problem With Music [mercenary.com]", which showcases how horrible the modern music industry is to musicians. It was written before the whole "digital revolution", but it helps remind me why I don't feel sympathy for suits in the music business.
And Another From 2000 (Score:5, Informative)
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if Courtney Love doesn't like it she can record in her garage like David Grohl and just release to iTunes with no promotion and hope someone finds her music. then she can save up to pay the upfront costs of the tour and risk her own money and property.
cry babies have people giving them millions of dollars up front with a lot of risk of the loss of investment and they think they deserve more but they don't want to risk their own money for their ventures.
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if Courtney Love doesn't like it she can record in her garage like David Grohl and just release to iTunes with no promotion and hope someone finds her music.
Unless that "someone" happens to be an incumbent music publisher, accusing you of copying a tune written by one of the songwriters managed by the publisher.
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so then hire a lawyer and fight it out in court or don't make music that sounds too much like someone else's music.
How do I make sure I haven't plagiarized? (Score:4, Insightful)
so then hire a lawyer and fight it out in court
How can someone growing organically afford what a lawyer charges?
or don't make music that sounds too much like someone else's music.
If I've written and recorded a song, how do I check my song against the millions of songs controlled by the major performance rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC) before I publish my recording?
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Considering that Love has spent most of the last decade in legal wrangling over the very copyrights she seems to decry (copyrights she's now apparently the sole holder of thanks to a heavy dose of herion, a shotgun, and entertainment lawyers that sided with her over the guys that were you know, actually in Nirvana, not thanks to her own work), then leveraged those evil nasty copyrights into a cushy 30 million dollar deal that lets us all enjoy Kurt Cobain as part of Madden...er...guitar hero 17 while she ca
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I found this [toomuchjoy.com] an interesting look at how labels treat their bands, and it kind of straddles the 'digital revolution'. It's a blog entry about an unrecouped band trying to get digital sales credited on their statement, to hilarious effect.
Microsoft got it right with Zune (Score:2)
never had a Zune, but liked the Zune Pass idea. too much music out there to buy all the CD's i'd want to listen to. at some point it's wasted money having hundreds of CD's sitting around being listened to once a year or less often. I'd rather just pay $15 a month to rent the music. I wouldn't trust Real with it. Zune was just a crappy device compared to the iphone/touch. too much wasted potential of it being just a music player. Apple I would trust to pay for this service. Google is spyware.
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Apple I would trust to pay for this service. Google is spyware.
What? Seriously?
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I get all the free music I need from the radio. Now excuse me while I go buy some bottled water...
Promotion (Score:3, Interesting)
This used to be selling CDs. Seeing as nobody buys CDs any more, this should be music downloads or live tours/merchandise. (I'm sure someone with a bit more time on their hands can dig out a link to that graph showing which people are making money out of music now).
If your record label is spending a fortune on making your video and then not allowing certain countries to see it, then you're not going to be making money from those countries (or not as much as you could). It's not like there is an incremental cost involved in allowing it to go on other blogs/other country's youtube. It's just that the record label is being greedy because they think they can get some money out of them, at the cost of the band's image.
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However it has never been easier for musicians to go independent. It's cheaper than ever to get good recording technology. It's easier to distribute to masses
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You said "but I'm presuming the music company take an artist/band they think will make money and attempt to make them even more money whilst making themselves a bit on top"
Regarding your presumption, The industry takes a band they think will make money for them and utilize the band as one would kleenex or toilet paper. The welfare of the band is never a consideration. It's all show. Even a successful band won't see profit till the 3rd HIT album, maybe. It all goes back to
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A Better Perspective from a Real Pro (Score:2, Informative)
This article barely tells anything. You want a real close up perspective? read this : [negativland.com]
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It's a tell all by Steve Albini, producer of Nirvanas last album and member of Big Black and Rapeman
When you read this , you will see why I hate the industry soooooo much and am dedicated to its death.
So read this and get out your p2p and help kill the industry to make the world safe for music and musicians.
"the money needs to come from somwhere" (Score:3, Interesting).
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just a minor point: public libraries aren't free. they're a shared cost institution, getting their funding from numerous taxpayer sources. [ed.gov]
Question:
From what sources are state libraries funded?
Response:
Revenue
Sources of state library agency revenue are the federal government, state governments, and other sources, such as local, regional, or multi-jurisdictional sources. State library agencies may also receive income from private sources, such as foundations, corp
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just a minor point: public libraries aren't free. they're a shared cost institution, getting their funding from numerous taxpayer sources.
True, but beside the point. You're paying taxes whether or not you use the library, and checking out a book costs you nothing.
Re:"the money needs to come from somwhere" (Score:4, Insightful)
If I give my local corner shop a thousand pounds a month, and they agree to let me help myself to sweets whenever I feel like it, I don't think those sweets are costing me nothing just because I don't have to pay him cash each with each transaction...
Re:"the money needs to come from somwhere" (Score:4, Informative)
Your example is obviously flawed - libraries do not cost each person $1000 a month in taxes, besides the fact that it would be pretty difficult to eat $1000 worth of sweets in a month (by yourself), meaning the value proposition is so low that no one would take up that offer.
It's not really necessary and I doubt anyone will even read my post, but I've always wanted to do a slashdot style back-of-the-envelope calculation... so here goes.
Let's assume the previous post was correct, and libraries cost $1.1 billion a year. To keep it simple I'll use state taxes only, which is listed as $895 million. Wikipedia says total state tax revenue (in 2007) was $749,785,186,000 ($750 billion). So, 0.001% of state tax revenue was spent on libraries. Very likely there are local/city taxes that could be significant, but the previous poster showed that states provide the largest source of library funding.
In 2005, at $38,206 per capita the average state tax rate was 9.8% (source [taxfoundation.org]). So, about $3,750 in taxes was paid per person, on average, to the state(s) where they did business (these numbers include taxes from states besides those the person resides in, such as sales tax on out-of-state purchases, but doesn't include federal taxes). 0.001% of that is 4 cents, and that's for the whole year... 0.3 cents/month.
Let's assume my math and the figures I used are bad, and it's actually significantly higher. Say, one hundred times higher... $4 a year is still a heck of a good deal for everything that libraries provide to those who use them, and if you never ever use the library, you can write off the expense (pun intended), considering how small it is, as part of "buying civilization" as the well-known slashdot sig goes, just like you probably don't directly use a lot of the other things state, local, and federal taxes pay for (and you don't get to pick and choose what your money goes toward).
Your sweets example is obviously different, because sweets can't be almost endlessly re-used like books and DVDs from the library can (I suppose you could try with sweets, but...) That's why, of course, such a pre-payment scheme as you suggest wouldn't work for food (although all-you-can-eat buffets are an interesting thing to consider), but why the original point stands... you are pre-paying for the library, but it's a minuscule amount that more or less equals nothing, especially when compared to the value it potentially provides to you.
Re:"the money needs to come from somwhere" (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't think you understand how a library operates. The books don't just appear out of thin air and Librarians don't volunteer their time. It all costs money. In this case, taxpayer money.
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The established industry is going about digital data backwards. They should use MP3s like thay use radio -- a free lure to get people to shell out cash for physical items.
In an increasingly virtual world, what physical items are you going to be selling? Food and shelter?
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In an increasingly virtual world, what physical items are you going to be selling?
You could check books out from the library, why would anybody buy a copy? Because people like to OWN things. I hold no value in my digital music collection, which is far larger than my CD, record, and tape collection, but I value the physical copies. They're MINE. My digital collection is not.
Having only digital copies does make sense if you live in a dorm. Otherwise, the valuable ones are the physical. Non-physicality is wort
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Because people like to OWN things.
Yeah, people like to own things. Like a house, or a computer.
Having only digital copies does make sense if you live in a dorm. Otherwise, the valuable ones are the physical. Non-physicality is worthless.
Why? The song sounds the same whether it is being played from a physical CD or a rip stored on your hard drive. Nobody really cares that you own the CD case with its cheap artwork.
Your money would be much better put toward things that people actually care about.
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Why don't they sell CDs with proper artwork, booklets, etc. then?
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Why don't they sell CDs with proper artwork, booklets, etc. then?
Why would they? Nobody wants it.
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Why? The song sounds the same whether it is being played from a physical CD or a rip stored on your hard drive. Nobody really cares that you own the CD case with its cheap artwork.
I think this is a generational thing. People who grew up with vinyl, where some releases would come in very ornate packaging - gatefolds, embossing, inserts, tracing paper layers, etc. miss all that. Those artefacts were a complete package -- you'd listen to the music, and spend a lot of time looking at and experiencing the packaging.
Think of those fetishistic Apple unboxing videos.
Even when we were giving mixtapes to our friends, we'd make box art, to turn them into artefacts.
With CDs, some of that continu
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Meh. I'm a huge music fan, and spend a lot of money on CDs etc. I have no interest in T-shirts and rarely go to concerts (largely because most of the artists I listen to don't really play concerts). So if that model were adopted and the recordings were made free, their income from me would drop to basically zero. Of course I'm sure the income from other people would go up from zero, so maybe it'd balance out.
I really have no issue with the current model other than (a) the lawsuits are clearly over the top a
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Concert tickets and T-Shirts
A common enough suggestion. But there are genres of music that are not amenable to concert performance. And there are genres of music whose fans aren't the types to clamour after T-shirts proclaiming their musical taste.
Are we saying that those kinds of music don't deserve to get made? (Or don't deserve to be self-financing, at least).
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So, what you're saying is that you support DRM? Because that's what a library is. It's a place to temporarily get your hands on content, consume it, and then give it back. You have no rights to copy/distribute the work you BORROWED. That is what a DRM'ed DVD or MP3 is. You borrow that content. People really need to stop using libraries as some sort of "proof" that free access to content does not deprive money from the creator of the content.
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That is what a DRM'ed DVD or MP3 is. You borrow that content.
I own the physical copy of the DVD. I can resell it, loan it out, set it on fire if I want. The idea of DRM is irrelevant to the subject. DRM or no, you don't own digital data.
Even if you buy a book, you don't own the novel, you own the book. The only restrictions borrowed books have over bought books is you have to give them back.
In the essay I pointed to, Doctorow mentions that nobody ever went broke from piracy, but many artists have gone hung
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in a library you have to wait for a new book or the one you want. i want to borrow some CD's but they are in a branch that's an hour away and i don't want to spend the time going there. all the kids want what they want NOW
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That is a bizarre example to give.
At least here in the UK, libraries are funded out of taxes, they don't make a profit; and yes, you have "free" acce
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America isn't the only country with libraries, you know. And the fact that most books (and DVDs and CDs you can check out from a library) aren't nonfiction reinforces my point rather than diminishing it.
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My wife is a librarian, so I know a little about this. The reason that the proportion of non-fiction is lower is two-fold. Firstly, the demand is dropping. Libraries are paid for by the taxpayer and it's hard to justify not stocking the kinds of items they ar
Sure, what the hell (Score:4, Interesting)
In the spirit of making it without a major label and needing a little exposure for my own work, here are four free tracks off the ambient album I'm working on: [livingwithanerd.com]. These are 100% DRM and cost free. Enjoy!
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Awesome, good for you.
If you make similar posts on other websites, I offer the advice that you hyphenate your last sentence: "These are 100% DRM- and cost-free." Otherwise the sentence has nearly the opposite meaning.
Great luck!
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doy, lol.
Thanks for the advice and the good vibes:-)
Um, what was that argument again? (Score:2, Interesting) la
Re:Um, what was that argument again? (Score:4, Insightful)
After having watched the video linked to from OP, I have to ask: why did that video take a music label to finance it, film it, produce it, distribute it? label! And the band would be happy to cooperate if given credit, because they would be famous, if only for a little while.
The video is decent, but there is nothing there that requires any fancy label support or financing. I have seen more impressive shows by high school bands, and I mean that quite literally and sincerely.
Sorry, but the actual product does not back their arguments. I call bullshit.
Others are doing it successfully. If OK Go can't... well... I won't lose sleep over it.
1) Cameras, 2) Camera crews, 3) studio engineers, 4) distribution of video, 5) promotion and marketing and licensing of the video (which involves slashdot's favorite group of people: lawyers), 6) production of the song, 6a) studio engineers, 6b) hired musicians to complement some tracks, 6c) cd/vinyl pressings, 6d) distribution of album.
Do you actually need a label to do all this? No, of course not. But you need money. You need capital to invest. Where will you get it? previous comments have pointed out that banks aren't going to loan musicians money to make an album, but labels will.
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Isn't the point though that if all you end up with is a mediocre YouTube video, then a huge chunk of the cost of that video was a waste of money, and you might as well hav
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Did you actually read the article? It was the six months producing the album that the track behind the video was taken from that cost all the money.
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It was the six months producing the album that the track behind the video was taken from that cost all the money.
Basically all that money went to the label and their minions, it just had to be loaned to the band first to leave them in debt to the label. Steve Albini explained this process much better than I ever could [negativland.com].
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Cue lots of people claiming you could get the same standard of recording/production/mastering in a bedroom studio for $1000.
Let's pre-empt them. If the band thought they could do it that cheaply, they'd do it. They don't think they can.
You should read the article (Score:2)
Especially if you are going to post critically about something, it will help you if you read the article first. It specifically mentions that they do their own videos so as to keep the costs down.
One post worth a million RIAA's (Score:5, Insightful)
If the music industry had people who could write like that speaking for them, they would be a lot better off. I mean, the whole thing with the music business isn't even the idea of copyrighted content. It's that, they are such jerks. How well you interact with the plug is indescribably valuable in an age where everyone can know how you really act. If they were making the soft sell, if they were leading out with "we gave Madonna millions of dollars and she's been a total bust since she got old", rather that suing college kids or octomoms, then, people would be more receptive to their arguments. I mean, Google's "Don't be evil", is nice and all, but for a lot of businesses, its really, "don't be such a dick".
FoxxxyPregnantMILFS.com (Score:2, Offtopic)
Can't find server. wtf?
Music should be free (Score:3, Interesting)
If music is "good" (opinions will vary according to taste) people will listen to it repeatedly, word will spread, and people will become fans of the creators of that music - wanting to own something to demonstrate their fandom: A CD, an MP3, a t-shirt, a ticket to the next gig etc... This is what makes getting fans more important than "selling cds" to most artists. Fans are LOVE followed by INCOME (You're not going to stop a year old girl from buying the next Hanna Montana, for example).
Distributors (most labels), on the other hand, are only interested in those revenue streams they can tie up for shortterm income - which creates one-hit-wonders, mediocre boybands, and starves out 99% of musicians - as well as actually alienating real fans and bands - driving a wedge between them. (for example: many record companies hold the rights to most full times bands music - and can override a bands decision on how they want to get their material out to fans, as exemplified in the article above).
Now: If it's not "good" music to begin with -. people won't listen to it -despite whether it is freely available or not. People *might* check it out out of curiosity - but won't return, and certainly won't put money into it if the y have a choice. If they did already they will feel burned.
Professional distributors promote very much according to a "pay-to-try policy: they limit access to the extra songs on albums, demand roylaties from indy web radio stations..control the airwaves and promote airplay for only the (most commercial track) single across any medium (radio, itunes etc) that will take it. This is why so much "Bad music" gets aired - in case you wonder why the charts are filled with shite (But you already knew that cos its a conspiracy theory and this is Slashdot).
Anyway: The income generated from "good music" by fans is largely independent of this supersale effort by the labels.... so arguably the best model for these bands, as exemplified by bands like Radiohead and 9-inch... is to actually give the shit away for free: They can recoup the "first sale" profit by attracting more fans. Ironically most musicians have dreamed of "The record deal" since they were 5 years old... so usually they are actually the most reluctant to risk this sales model - preferring the safety of servitude to a label over the risk of pushing "valueless music" (if its free it aint worth much, right?).
Also: as this model starts to become more popular.. a lot of smaller bands will get lost in the noise. Maybe less millionaires will get made, but in the long run this is a much better world to play music in. I like it anyway.. but then I found a day job.
Shameless plug: My music (with money goes mouth) is available at Stabbing Pixies [stabbingpixies.com]/ it will never hit the Billboards
Musicians need labels to become famous (Score:4, Funny)
I completely agree that having a major record-label contract is the one and only way for a musician to achieve the highest levels of success. To that end, can anybody remind me of who the labels were for Bach, Brahms, and Beethoven? The thing is, those great musicians had it so much easier than musicians today. Back then it was just so much easier to get your music out to a wide audience. Today, that's nearly impossible.
Re:Musicians need labels to become famous (Score:5, Insightful)
Back in the day, musicians often had patrons. Bach, for example, was subsidized by his church, and Mozart got paid by various high muckety-mucks to writes pieces for them.
These days, very few people have the funds to exclusively subsidize a musician or artist. But we can all subsidize artists a little bit by purchasing their CDs— a little more if we purchase them directly. For example, we buy CDs directly from Devin Townsend, from Canada, thanks to the magic of the Internet. I don't know if he makes a complete living from his music sales but he does well enough to make it more than a hobby. (He's also decently well-known from his label days, on his own and as a member of other bands.)
Personally, I think individual sites or clearinghouse sites are the answer that will eventually come out on top, but I hope a little bit of the subsidizing sticks around.
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Didn't they have patrons instead?
I prefer non-embedded videos. (Score:4, Insightful)
In fact if I see an embedded video, I will frequently go through the gyrations to extract the link and watch it in a separate window in YouTube.
Why?
1. I get to see comments and related videos directly.
2. If I want to share the video, I have to extract the link anyway.
Don't do <embed>, do <a target=_blank
...>.
RIAA gradated response plan (Score:3, Insightful)
I concluded 7 years ago that there was really no hope for the current music industry, and that the only rational thing to do was to wait for it to crater. Nothing has changed, except the smell of desperation is ever more palpable. Yesterday, I heard Steve Marks of RIAA talked about their graduated response [arstechnica.com] plan. He denied it was a "3 strikes plan," which of course means that it is. It is no more likely to work than any of their previous plans.
Someone asked me afterwards why the industry continues to be so disastrously stupid. All I could come up with is that the people executing the stupidity are getting paid, and paid well, for continuing to hold out hope to the old men running the business that things can get put back the way that they were. As long as the people in charge have such delusions, and as long as they still have something to be in charge of, nothing will change,
Of course, bands like OK Go are basically serfs in this process. As they admit, they have no actual power whatsoever, and are just along for the ride.
In the words of the immortal Frank Zappa (Score:2)
No Paid Downloads? (Score:2, Interesting)
The article bemoans the death of CD sales, and makes some decent points, but it's got a weird blind spot around paid digital downloads. Isn't iTunes the largest music retailer in the US now? Am I the last person who's happy to pay for music in a format, and with a level of convenience, that I like? I haven't bought a new CD in years, but between iTunes and Amazon MP3, I've got vastly more at my fingertips than any CD store ever sold.
Lets check some Created On dates, and see what I've spent money on in the p
Jonathan Byrd... (Score:3, Interesting)
Independent singer/songwriter Jonathan Byrd [jonathanbyrd.com] released his own financial statement for 2008 [jonathanbyrd.com]. (You'll have to scroll down to his 3/28/2009 update for it).
I was amused by his summary:
Bigger problem (Score:3, Insightful)
1. The music industry has become a leach. They started out as doing three things - producing, marketing and distributing. Distributing was the hard work and where the customers were willing to pay big money for (transporting delicate wax tubes was very dificult, vinyl was slightly better but breakage was still a big problem. Tapes and CDs were lighter and sturdier, but still heavy.) But a better producer and marketer made more money, so they THOUGHT they were being paid for producing and marketing. No. They were being paid for distributing, and that market has vanished the way the buggy whip and the horse drawn carriage market has. They still try to charge as if they are distributing, but they are not.
2. Musicians still need Producing and Marketing, but those are worth only about 20% or MAYBE 30% of sales, not 80% that the big labels have. But the existing monoplies (that grew up charging 80% for distribution) make it hard to break in to the Producing + Marketing (no distribution). This problem will eventually go away, but it will take time.
3. The old distrubution system was so big and powerfull that it evolved into THE methods of transferring money to the musicians as well as the way to transfer music out. The ease of distrubtion has created a ton of tiny producers and removed the old 'gateways' that funnelled money and goods to the succesfull ones. We need a new SYSTEM, not of distrubtion, but of funneling money.
What we need is a breakthrough in marketing. Something that lets low level musicians earn a living wage, and gradually increases as they gain more fans. Note there may never be a band as big as the Beatles or Elvis or M. Jackson, ever again because of the greater range of music that should be available without the gateways. Also, musicians will likely never again be able to make money without performing live. People will always pay more to see live music than they will for a recording because honestly, recordings are commodities.
Perhaps music clubs could form in large cities where people pay a set fee, similar to a gym membership. Each night the club offers live music performed. Membership lets you in for free AND lets you download the music for free whenever you want from any oif the club's bands.
Or maybe somethign far better than what I can think of.
Re:A non-story. (Score:5, Insightful)
You're somewhat right - but I thought since all kinds of people are putting in their two cents, I may as well. A bit of context - my father is a professional musician, and I spend a lot of other professionals - from moderately recognizable artists on big labels to the 20 year olds working their ass off gigging in crappy bars with crappy patrons trying to do better.
There are two sides to the music business, and surprisingly most people know which direction the business is going. I've had extended conversations with managers that got this amazingly well. Oddly enough, this article doesn't get it.
The music industry is reverting to a performance-based system. You won't make money on CDs. You won't make money on music videos. The only people that don't want to admit this is the higher-ups in the labels, because that is the ONLY place where the labels make money. Artist make their money off of performance. Labels CAN still exist - in fact, they should. But they're an advertising and marketing company - and they should work for you like one. Why the hell does an advertising company want to STOP its content from being seen?
Once you admit that, then everything starts to get easier. Labels, CDs and videos exist only to promote performances - and the performances get easier. Better venues, higher cover charges, people actually there for your music instead of the beer.
Oh. And the article seems to make out that the labels are hurting. They're not, amazingly. Trying to solicit sympathy for the poor corporations that exist to exploit your creative works
... why are you doing this? In other words, my comment to OK Go, tell your label that their restrictions on embedding are costing you performance revenue. And stop defending a multi-billion dollar industry that cannot seem to adapt to change.
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Make that "spend time with a lot of other professionals". durr..
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+1. Artists ALWAYS made money through concerts only. That was so 200 years ago, that was so 30 years ago, and that is so now. Yes, there are few exceptions, like Metallica, Beatles, Madonna, Michael Jackson who made it to platinum albums. But these are few and far between.
Yes, there was a period of time when labels came into existence and enjoyed their position for nearly a century. Well, Label people. You got it good while it lasted, so don't feel bitter now. Your time is over. Go back to doing actual work
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Expect when artists lose money through concerts.
It used to be - and may still be - quite common for venues to charge acts for the opportunity to play in front of an audience.
Fine, I guess, if you're performing for the fun of it.
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quite common for venues to charge acts for the opportunity to play in front of an audience.
Of course they do. Assuming we're not talking about a hole in the wall nightclub, how else will they pay the bills? If the artist wants to be paid, they need to be able to bring customers that are willing to pay, and share some of the proceeds with the venue. If they can't, then is it unreasonable for them to pay to get themselves heard?
Of course, they can always convince some modern-day Medici to be their patron.
Not really a solution- live is a ripoff too. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Not really a solution- live is a ripoff too. (Score:4, Interesting)
Your statement, while a valid opinion, doesn't reflect the fact that the market dictates that $100 a ticket is acceptable for some bands. Just because you don't want to pay it doesn't mean other people won't.
Plus you're talking about the huge huge groups. Even moderately famous groups don't rent stadiums, they still play in clubs and theater venues.
So... I'm not quite sure what you're arguing.
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I totally agree with parent AC, GP is *NOT* offtopic, insightful even if funny, it's called a cartoon. I'll surely be modded down for this but it had to be said.
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Radiohead were an established name. A huge established name.
They'd already done the whole thing of spending 6 months in a country house studio, spending record company money on the best producer, the best session musicians, equipment, acoustics, instruments, catering, etc. OK Computer was the epitome old school music industry album production.
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The chief of the CSIRO's land and water division Dr Neil McKenzie told the congress that Australia currently feeds 60 million people but faces major challenges to increase production.
"Maintaining adequate food production levels in light of increasing population, climate change impacts, increasing costs of energy, constraints on carbon, land degradation and the finite supply of productive soils is a major challenge," he said.
"Despite great improvements in crop production, Australia faces specific issues related to soil degradation.
"As many as 25 million hectares are affected by acidity and large areas have unsustainable rates of soil erosion."
In opening the conference, Queensland Governor Penny Wensley said soil scientists must engage the public if they are to meet the demands of the planet for food and sustainability.
Ms Wensley, a former Australian ambassador for the environment, said scientists have an important public advocacy role in the face of "growing disconnect between food production and consumption on our heavily and increasingly urbanised planet".
"Soil scientists and researchers leave (public advocacy) to others at their peril," Ms Wensley said.
Keynote speaker Dr Robert Zeigler, the director general of the International Rice Research Institute, said breeding better rice varieties and developing more efficient water management systems would be critical.
"Yield growth rates for rice have stagnated due to decades of neglect in research and infrastructure, and area expansion has nearly stopped," Dr Zeigler said.
"Projected demand will outstrip supply in the near-to-medium term unless something is done to reverse current trends."
The congress will hear that Australia, with its phosphorous-deficient soils, will face particular challenges from diminishing global reserves of phosphate rock, used to make fertilisers.
Dr Eric Craswell, from the Australian National University, said mined phosphate rock was critical to food production because there was no substitute for phosphorus.
"Phosphorus cannot be synthesised or manufactured in a laboratory and without sufficient phosphorus we cannot grow crops," Dr Craswell said.
A recent estimate suggests that global production of phosphorus fertilisers will peak in 2033, and will be one third of that peak level by the end of the century.
"Irrespective of when the peak occurs, exploitation of a non-renewable resource such as phosphate rock will peak and prices will increase as it becomes more scarce," Dr Craswell says.
He said more research is needed to improve the efficiency of phosphorus fertiliser manufacturing and application, phosphorus recycling, and the efficiency with which crops utilise phosphorus from the soil.
A team of soil scientists and agronomists from the Queensland government is developing more effective diagnostic soil tests for assessing the status of available phosphorus and more efficient phosphorus fertiliser application methods.
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The Sequester: Cuts And Consequences
10:56 am
Tue February 26, 2013
Educators Brace For Sequestration
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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
And now we turn to a political stalemate that seems to be turning into a crisis. We've been talking about the across-the-board cuts to the federal budget that seem more and more likely to go into effect this Friday because Congress and the White House have not agreed on a deficit reduction plan. It's being called sequestration.
Today, we're going to ask whether and how this will affect the nation's schools. Educators at all levels are saying this could be a crisis, so we wanted to separate the myths from facts about the education cuts.
Joining us to do that is Emily Richmond. She's the public editor for the National Education Writers Association. Also with us is Kelly Field. She's a reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Welcome back to you both. Thank you both so much for joining us once again.
EMILY RICHMOND: Thanks for having us.
KELLY FIELD: Thank you, Michel.
MARTIN: So, Emily, I'm going to start with you. I think a lot of people are used to thinking about - particularly K through 12 education is something that's primarily a state and local responsibility. So how is it that these federal budget cuts - potential across-the-board budget cuts - are causing such concern among educators at the K through 12 level?
RICHMOND: Well, nationally, federal dollars account for between about 10 and 12 percent of a school district's budget, but you have to remember that that's the average, so there are going to be states where it's a lot higher and states where it's a little bit lower.
So these kinds of budget cuts are going to hurt states that are more dependent on federal dollars a lot more significantly than, for example, a state that has other sources of revenues they can depend on, like taxes or sales.
And what is most concerning, I think, to people is there's a sense of inequity here. For example, the cuts are going to hurt much more in a state like Alabama than it would in a state like Connecticut. And, in a state where you are so dependent on those federal dollars, there isn't exactly a lot of money at the state and local level to make up that deficit in the revenue.
So, if you have to cut, for example, 10 percent of your budget - well, where is that going to come from? And, in most school districts, the biggest expenditure is personnel. It's anywhere from about 65 percent to 90 percent of your money is going to pay people's salaries. So you can only cut so many programs and services before, eventually, you must start cutting jobs.
MARTIN: Is the federal imprint felt in particular programs? I know we've talked about areas that are more likely to be affected. Like you said, Alabama more likely to be affected than Connecticut, but are there particular programs within those states that are more likely to take a hit?
RICHMOND: Absolutely. The federal imprint is felt most strongly in the programs that serve the most vulnerable students. For example, what we're talking about now with sequestration with these across-the-board cuts is $725 million in Title One funds could be eliminated, which will be the equivalent of about 10,000 jobs at risk. That's what Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, said in a call with reporters last week.
And those Title One dollars are reserved for schools that serve the largest populations of students coming from low income households, students who qualify for free and reduced-price meals.
We're also talking about states losing almost $600 million in special education funding, and that's incredibly difficult for the states to make up.
MARTIN: Kelly, what about higher education? How much do state colleges and universities - or even private colleges and universities - rely on federal funding? I think, again, people have an image that the federal funding goes mainly to things like scientific research and things like that. Is that true? What is the federal imprint in higher education?
FIELD: Well, the federal level of the impact will be felt most on student aid and on federal research, as you mentioned. The Pell Grant program is exempt from sequestration, at least in the first year, but there will be significant cuts to the budgets for the NIH, the NSF and the other science agencies, all of which provide significant amounts of money to colleges and universities.
We don't have the same sort of funding as they do at K-12, at the higher education level, with money going directly to colleges, with the exception of certain types of institutions that are - some money that go to historically black colleges, universities and a few other categories of institutions, Hispanic serving institutions. But the bulk of the money goes to research and student aid.
MARTIN: So what does this mean, Kelly? I mean, the fact that students are already enrolled. Kids aren't going to go home, are they?
FIELD: Arne Duncan said in testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee that there could be 33,000 fewer work study grants administered and 71,000 fewer supplemental grants, which are generally provided as addition aid to Pell Grant recipients. So these are low income students, the same students that are going to be affected at the K-12 level.
Some schools may be able to make up some of this money through institutional aid, but less wealthy institutions, those that don't have endowments, those that, you know, don't have a lot of their own resources, probably won't be able to and these students will either have to borrow more or work more and, in some cases, they might drop out.
MARTIN: There are students who literally might not be able to finish out the school year that they've already started?
FIELD: No. This will be next year's school year. This is creating a lot of uncertainty for next year's students and students that are currently enrolled that will be, you know, moving on to the next class, next year. In some cases, financial aid officers are putting asterisks in their board letters to let students know, hey, you know, we may have to reduce your award going forward if this happens.
MARTIN: If you're just joining us, we're talking about the possible impact of those across-the-board budget cuts, known as sequestration, on education. Our guests are Kelly Field from the Chronicle of Higher Education. That's who was speaking just now. Also with us, Emily Richmond of the National Education Writers Association.
Emily, what about the same question I asked Kelly, which is, what might we see? What might students, parents, teachers in the K through 12 area, see going forward?
RICHMOND: The important thing to note is that, while the budget cuts are supposed to take effect Friday, school districts, because they have to plan their budgets, are given until the start of the new fiscal year to prepare for this.
And I think it's important to note that they have been preparing, at least a large number of them. So we're not going to see teachers sent home during this school year, could you see them sent home and not showing up for the first day of school in the fall? I think it's an absolute possibility.
MARTIN: What about the programs that you talked about? Programs like special ed or programs that serve particularly the large populations of low income students, special supports for low income students or disadvantaged students or kids with educational deficits? What might be the impact there?
RICHMOND: Well, if you're looking right here in Washington, D.C., I mean, if you eliminate the Head Start and Early Head Start preschool programs here in the District, you're going to be looking at 200 fewer seats for children that critically need those seats. These are parents who can not afford any kind of a private education program for their children. You're looking at a half a million dollars in funding straight across the board for schools. A thousand fewer students would be served and schools would have to cut back on teachers, or increase class sizes, in order to make do with the money that they have.
In a larger state like California, we're talking about possibly $90 million in funding for schools across the board, maybe 1,200 teachers and aids losing their jobs. And these numbers are all coming from the White House.
MARTIN: Well - and I'm glad you said that, you know, Emily, because there is always an argument that there's a lot of theatre involved in talking about budget cuts at whatever level. I mean, whether you're negotiating over a new kitchen, let's say, you know, at home, or whether you're talking about, sort of, a global (unintelligible), this kind of information is coming from the White House.
Is there an argument to be made that perhaps they're being a little dramatic to make a point, and that this is really part of the negotiation process and that perhaps there are ways that the cuts don't need to be as - that these populations don't need to be as severe, they don't need to be as heavily affected?
RICHMOND: A few months back, when we were looking at the first (unintelligible) for sequestration before the extension, which put it on the table for this week, I was on a phone call with some members of the National Association of School Boards. And someone on that call, one of the officials there, compared what was about to happen to an academic Pearl Harbor. And, in my mind, I think, the only thing you should really compare to Pearl Harbor is probably Pearl Harbor. And when you start to use language like that, a lot of people will say you're saying the sky is falling. It's inflammatory.
And what worries me about that is, when the sky doesn't fall when this last-minute deal is reached, people are going to pay less attention the next time these very serious and very real concerns are raised.
I think it's also fair to say that the critics believe that there is plenty of money for public schools. It's just not something spent wisely enough. It's not being spent efficiently enough, and certainly, we can point to many examples of waste in school districts where people have found it, solved it, whether it's energy efficiencies or redundancies in employment. There's certainly money that can be saved. The question is whether it can be saved to the extent to make up for these devastating cuts to very necessary programs.
MARTIN: Kelly, what about you? Same question to you.
FIELD: Yeah. Well, I would note, also, that, you know, it's somewhat difficult to calculate the precise impact that sequestration would have, because the cuts will be applied to the fiscal 2013 budget that hasn't even been passed yet. You know, Congress has been running on a continued resolution for a number of months. It expires at the end of March, so they're just funding everything at last year's levels right now. So most of these numbers that we're hearing are assuming level funding going forward, but those numbers could change.
And then, also, the agencies could have some discretion in terms of how they allocate the cuts. They might choose to cut more deeply in one area to spare another area.
MARTIN: On the one hand, we hear that the public isn't really that engaged, which is why the president's going around, you know, trying to get people interested in this. On the other hand, we hear people really upset and that it's really affecting moral, and it's really affecting productivity because the time and energy that they should spend working, they're spending on worrying about, you know, their jobs and trying to figure out how to cope with this. So, Kelly, what are you hearing?
FIELD: Well, I think, in particular, the research community is feeling pretty discouraged. I mean, over the years, first, we had a doubling of NIH budget, but since then, there's really been a declining investment in federal research at universities. You know, they still get about two-thirds of their research money from the federal government, which is why this would be so significant, but even some very deserving grants are not getting awarded, now. I think it's about only the top 12 percent are getting the grants and, under this, it would only be the top 10 percent, so we're seeing some really, really good projects not getting funded.
And there's a big concern that this could have an effect upon our competitiveness and upon the, you know - our ability to discover cures for certain diseases. And also concern that some young researchers may be discouraged from going into these fields because they think that there's so little of a chance that they're going to get funding.
MARTIN: And, Emily, a final thought from you, as well. You know, during the State of the Union address, you know, you're reminded that President Obama talked a lot about education at all levels, particularly talked up the importance of early childhood education, so that had to be exciting for people who are in that field and that you have this. So what are you hearing about the morale question out there?
RICHMOND: Well, it's interesting. I think educators feel like they've been in a holding pattern for so many years, stretching back even before the recession. The question being, what's going to replace No Child Left Behind? Where are the dollars going to come from for the massive initiatives that have been pushed, whether it's more early childhood education, college and career readiness? And I think there is a degree of frustration that, for so many years, schools are continually being asked to sort of cut their coat to fit the cloth that, at the same time, they're supposed to be giving kids better coats.
MARTIN: Emily Richmond is the public editor for the National Education Writers Association. She was here with us once again in our Washington, D.C. studios. Also with us, Kelly Field. She is a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Thank you both so much for joining us.
RICHMOND: Thank you for the opportunity.
FIELD: Thanks for having me.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
MARTIN: Coming up, sure, being bullied can make kids really unhappy, but new research suggests that the effects can last for years, even into adulthood. And that is especially true for those who were both victims and bullies themselves.
WILLIAM COPELAND: This kind of small group of bullied victims had depression, suicidality, anxiety and this is over 10 years after we first started studying them in childhood.
MARTIN: We'll talk about the bully effect. That's coming up on TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin.
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Psalm 4 Ye Psalm of Apple fan Composed in the queue on the day of release Jobs is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me queue outside his store in Regent Street he leads to crave his tablets of law, he refreshes my purchase. Even when they have been in the shops only a year Even though I walk through the darkest porn site I will fear no virus, for he is with me; his helpful staff, they comfort me. They repair things that were never broken. They pre-order thy tablets for me and tell me not of any problems my cup overflows. Surely Apple's mobile products will follow me all the days of my life Well at least until next year meanwhile I will camp outside the store of Apple forever. Psalm 4s Ye Psalm of Apple fan Composed in the queue on the night of release My Jobs , my Jobs, why hast thou forsaken me? Why are you so far from serving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My Jobs, I call thy Siri by day, but it only works in the US by night, but I find no rest for the guy in front of me snores Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one New York Times praises They place not their trust in Tim Cooke For is he not a fallen iCon And has not thine ideas and genius Did he not outsource all production even unto a Chinese sweatshop? Did he not create the iPhone 4s so that it was like Thou iPhone 4? For only thee we trust and you delivered our iPads And did kill the hated PC For I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people. All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads. “He trusts in Jobs,” they say, “let the Jobs deliver him, since he delights in him.” Yet you brought me the iPod; you made me trust in your walled garden of delights Do not be far from me, for the end of the queue is near and the fat bastard behind me pushes Many bullshit artists surround me; the scalpers of Bashan encircle me. They wish to make a fast buck From thy tablets of Joy But I wish to look upon your high res screen of Joy And read the same ebooks that I bought last year a pack of villains encircles me; They divide my credit cards among them But you, JOBS, do not be far from me. Deliver me from Windows, I will declare your name to anyone who will listen; in the comments box I will praise you. All those who do not love you I will curse. Revere him, all you children of Apple! For he has not despised or scorned even though he was dead He hath bought us his Tablets of happiness. Psalm 4SX Ye prayer of Tim Cook All mighty Jobs who art in heaven Thou has passed thy mantle on to me As thou ascended into the heavens. Grant me this day a portion of thine amazing luck So that I might selleth a gadget which is More or less The same as the toy you sold people last year To the glory of your ineffable Share Price Amen.
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In his effort to challenge President Barack Obama's attacks on his jobs record, Mitt Romney has enlisted a surprising new surrogate: that said a recent Obama ad accusing Romney of outsourcing jobs overseas while he was governor of Massachusetts was "misleading, unfair and untrue."
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A NASA space probe launched in 1977 is about to become the first manmade object to travel beyond the solar system, scientists report.
The Voyager 1 probe, a relic of the beginning of the Space Age, is still alive and kicking, and due to make history any day now. It's hard to tell exactly where the edge of the solar system lies, but scientists say Voyager 1 is measuring clues that suggest it's close.
"The latest data from Voyager 1 indicate that we are clearly in a new region where things are changing quickly," Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a statement. "This is very exciting. We are approaching the solar system's final frontier."
Voyager 1 is one of a pair of spacecraft launched in 1977. Its twin, Voyager 2, is not far behind it. Voyager 1 is roughly 11.1 billion miles (17.8 billion kilometers) from Earth, while its sibling is currently 9.1 billion miles (14.7 billion km) away from its home planet. [Photos From NASA's Voyager Probes]
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The solar system is bounded by the edge of the heliosphere, the giant magnetic bubble formed by the sun's magnetic field carried into space by charged particles called the solar wind. Outside this bubble is interstellar space.
One sign that Voyager 1 is nearing the edge of the heliosphere is that this bubble has stopped shielding the spacecraft as well as it has from cosmic rays — incoming high-energy particles accelerated through space from distant black holes and supernova explosions. The heliosphere blocks the majority of these from entering the solar system, but Voyager has been encountering more and more cosmic rays as it travels farther, suggesting it is nearing the end of the heliosphere's protection.
"From January 2009 to January 2012, there had been a gradual increase of about 25 percent in the amount of galactic cosmic rays Voyager was encountering," Stone said. "More recently, however, we have seen a very rapid escalation in that part of the energy spectrum. Beginning on May 7, 2012, the cosmic ray hits have increased five percent in a week and nine percent in a month."
This sharp increase in the number of cosmic rays hitting Voyager 1 could mean the probe is nearing the end of the solar system. However, when it does finally cross over, scientists expect a few other signals to herald the moment.
For example, Voyager 1 should notice a lack of the energetic solar particles that filled the heliosphere. The probe should also measure a change in the direction of the magnetic field around it, marking the transition from the sun-directed magnetic field to a new one permeating interstellar space.
Neither of these milestones has yet been seen, but researchers suspect they are not far off.
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By Dan Levine and Alexei Oreskovic
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acquired along with Motorola for $12.5 billion in May. Apple Inc
claimed Motorola's licensing practices were unfair.
However, late last week District Judge Barbara Crabb
questioned whether she had the legal authority to hear Apple's
claims, and on Monday she dismissed the case.
A Google spokeswoman said the company was pleased with the
order, while an Apple representative declined to comment. In a
legal brief filed after Crabb's ruling, Apple contended that the
judge does indeed have the authority to hear its claims.
Lea Shaver, an intellectual property professor at Indiana
University School of Law, said a ruling against Google would
have diminished Motorola's patents as an effective bargaining
chip in settlement negotiations.
"This puts Apple back into the position it was before,"
Shaver said.
Apple and Microsoft Corp with
similar issues as the Apple matter in Wisconsin.
Apple and Microsoft accuse Google of demanding too high a
royalty for some of its so-called standard essential patents.
Motorola promised to license those patents on fair terms, they
argue, in exchange for Motorola technology being adopted as an
industry standard.
In Wisconsin, Crabb had ruled during the run-up to trial
that she might decide what a fair royalty for Motorola's patents
should be.
However, in a court filing last week, Apple argued that it
would not consider itself bound by Crabb's rate if it exceeded
$1 per Apple phone.
Given Apple's position, Crabb questioned whether she had the
power to issue merely an advisory opinion. "It has become clear
that Apple's interest in a license is qualified," Crabb wrote on
Friday.
Microsoft, by contrast, has agreed to live with whatever
terms U.S. District Judge James Robart sets at the Seattle
trial.
In Wisconsin, the trial was scheduled to begin Monday
afternoon in Madison, but Crabb dismissed the case during a
morning hearing. If Apple cannot convince Crabb to reconsider,
then the matter could be appealed.
In its statement, Google said Motorola has long offered
licensing at reasonable rates. "We remain interested in reaching
an agreement with Apple," the company said.
The case in U.S. District Court, Western District of
Wisconsin is Apple Inc. v. Motorola Mobility Inc., No.
11-cv-178.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 17 (Reuters) - A federal.
In an order issued late on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lucy
Koh in San Jose, California, wrote that "it appears that the
parties have overdesignated confidential documents and are
seeking to seal information that is not truly sealable."
Koh gave both companies one week to refile their sealing
requests. Representatives for Apple and Samsung could not
immediately be reached for comment..
For Apple: Michael Jacobs of Morrison & Foerster.
For Samsung: Charles Verhoeven of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart
Oliver & Hedges.
(Reporting by Dan Levine)
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Starks has to wait longer for dismissal of charges
By Beth Kramer ekramer@stmedianetwork.com December 7, 2012 7:00PM
Bennie Starks (left), 53, of Racine, Wisconsin talks to reporters in the lobby of Lake County Building with attorney Ron Safer. Starks was convicted of a rape in 1968 and spent 20 years in prison when DNA evidence excluded him as the rapist. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
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Twenty-six years after he was convicted of a brutal rape that he did not commit, Bennie Starks was in court to clear the last charge pending against him.
However, a legal technicality Friday prevented prosecutors from dropping the 1985 aggravated battery charge against him.
Starks, 53, was convicted of sexual assault and aggravated battery in 1986 for the rape of a 68-year-old woman. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison.
However, DNA evidence from a vaginal swab of the victim was located in an evidence locker in 2004. The DNA test results excluded Starks as the rapist in 2005. The state appellate court released Starks from prison and ordered a new trial.
Lake County dropped sexual assault charges against Starks in May. Newly sworn in Lake County State’s Attorney Mike Nerheim announced Wednesday he wanted to drop the aggravated battery charge still pending against Starks. Attorneys came to court Friday before Lake County Circuit Court Judge Victoria Rossetti to do so.
“This court does not have jurisdiction. We will not be hearing the matter,” Rossetti said.
Lake County has not received a mandate from the Illinois Supreme Court, meaning the high court still has jurisdiction over the case.
Starks called Friday’s brief court hearing “bittersweet.”
“I’m still positive. It will be dismissed in a couple of weeks. I’ve waited all this time,” Starks said.
In 1986, the alleged rape victim testified she had been grabbed by the neck, thrown to the ground, repeatedly punched in the face and sexually assaulted by the same man, according to the appellate court’s summary in its most recent opinion. The victim, who has since died, was hospitalized for 11 days after her attack.
Prosecutors presented evidence that Starks matched the bite mark found on the victim. Authorities contended the same person who raped the woman beat her. The appellate court granted Starks a new trial in 2006 because it found the defense was not allowed to properly cross-examine the victim.
A legal technicality severed the sexual assault charge from the aggravated battery charge. Also in 2006, the appellate court held that a “new trial was required” on the sexual assault charges because of the DNA evidence.
“They (Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office) contorted evidence any way they could to desperately cling to the conviction any way they could. That brought shame and ridicule from across the country. What’s significant today is we have the state’s attorney correcting this,” defense attorney Ron Safer said.
Nerheim said he reviewed the Starks case on Monday, the same day he was sworn in to office. He personally attended Friday’s hearing to call the case.
“I just feel after reviewing the evidence and looking at the case, I don’t believe the interests of justice are served by pursuing this,” Nerheim said.
He said he has asked appellate prosecutors to “immediately issue the mandate” so they can bring this case back up next week. Rossetti set the case over until Jan. 24.
Also in court Friday was Juan Rivera to support Starks. Rivera was convicted three times for the 1992 rape and murder of Holly Staker of Waukegan. The state appellate court reversed Rivera’s conviction citing DNA evidence earlier this year. Rivera did not speak to the press.
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Apple has been hit hard by the awful reviews for Apple Maps and the unrelenting criticism of the new iPhone. The social media scene is flooded with memes and jokes highlighting the utility (or the lack of it thereof) of Apple Maps on iOS6. This has instigated CEO Tim Cook to undertake a daring project—to map Indian music director Pritam’s brain for a new music app for iPhone 5.
This revolutionary app is codenamed “The Pritamizer”. The brain-mapping technique of the app will map those portions of Pritam’s brain which allow him to plagiarize so frequently and so effortlessly.
The app named after him will be able to pick or source music from across a wide database of world music (like iTunes), and suit it to the tastes of the user—in true Pritam style. Users can also record just any live tune, and then tweak it beyond recognition, and make it their own!
After sourcing or recording the music, the user simply needs to press the “Pritamize” button and voilà! You get yourself a new tune customized according to your preset preferences like jazz, rock, pop, country, opera and whatnot. You can even write (or better yet, copy) random lyrics or poetry and feed them into the app. And “The Pritamizer” does the rest, creating ten different songs for you to choose from. The best part is you can credit all these creations to yourself and even apply for a copyright. Now that’s a coup even by Pritam’s standards!
“With advanced brain-mapping techniques and a perfect specimen (i.e. Pritam), our talented engineers have given Apple a winner here,” said Scott Forstall, Senior Vice President, iOS Software. The app will be available across iOS platforms for iPhone, iPad and iPod, and a version is also in the pipeline for Macs.
The story behind the idea: The idea behind the app stems from Cook being a big fan of Bollywood music. He has especially heard a great deal about Pritam’s (in)famous talent of lifting (some would call it plagiarizing) tunes, jingles, soundtracks, songs, carols, hymns, bhajans and kirtans from across the globe. Apple Inc. had been working on this app for over three years. After unsuccessful attempts by their engineers to create the perfect algorithm, they finally decided to go for brain-mapping.
It’s said that the app will be out in a record time of three months as the project is the brainchild of Tim Cook himself. If industry sources are to be believed, it’s said that Tim Cook thought of going ahead with this after he heard Apple engineers joking about Apple Maps in the elevator one fine morning. And to add insult to injury, the incident took place at the Apple HQ in Cupertino, California. “Such insolent talk at 1, Infinity Loop—never again!” vowed Mr. Cook.
Another Indian music director in the race?: It was too much for him to bear and he wanted to surprise the industry with a revolutionary app. And thus was born “The Pritamizer”. But the most interesting news is that another music director was in the running to bag this lucrative contract. Guess, guess? Who else could it be but the pioneer of the field, Shri Anu Malik! He was in the reckoning up to the last moment, when the selection committee decided that he was a tad “outdated”. But he is not sulking, as he has landed a contract with RIM, makers of BlackBerry, who are rumoured to be working on a similar app. Well, an outdated director landing up in an outdated company—now that’s a match made in heaven!
It is also believed that Samsung is developing an elementary, dumbed-down version of “The Pritamizer”; this may find its place in the in-built apps of future Samsung models.
Apple might have found the most apt specimen in Pritam for the job and the app could give iPhone 5 sales a major boost. Ironically, in Steve Jobs’s own Picasso-regurgitated words, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” And Pritam fits the bill perfectly. “He steals like it’s no big deal.”’!
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NHAI, UKTI sign agreement for trade, investment in 'Roads and Highways Sector'
New Delhi, Jan 18 (ANI): The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the United Kingdom Trade and Investment (UKTI) have signed an agreement on cooperation for trade and investment in the 'Roads and Highways Sector' in India.
The agreement was signed in the presence of Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath and Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, United Kingdom here today. Nath highlighted NHAI's plans to develop 55000 Km of Highways network in the country.
"A formalized detailed arrangement for such cooperation between UKTI and NHAI, the two implementing agencies of both the countries, will present opportunities for development of Trade and Investment in the roads sector to mutual benefit of both the countries," said Nath and called on the British Engineering Consultants to offer Consultancy services in India.
Speaking on the occasion, Kamal Nath also invited the British Companies to participate in the OMT projects in India, which he said will be a big market, as maintenance of large number of public funded roads would be bid out on OMT basis.
Vince Cable, who is leading a delegation of large number of British companies to India, asked the British Companies to take advantage of the good opportunity that the sector offers.
The agreement has been signed in pursuance of the MOU on cooperation in the Road Transport and Road Sector signed by India and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on September 27, 2010.
The MOU envisages both the parties to work together for acting in the spirit of partnership and cooperation on matters of mutual interest in road transport, highways and related services.
The parties will be sharing the aim of strengthening relations for developing programmes of practical cooperation on a wide range of activities through consultation and exchange of information, best practices, sharing of technical expertise and experience and providing professional training on mutual basis in the field of motor vehicle testing, driver training, delivering and maintaining highways network etc. (ANI)
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The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel is an engineering masterpiece. It is a roughly 17.5-mile span from shore to shore, with two one-mile long tunnels that seemingly dive into the middle of the Bay. It connects mainland Virginia with the Virginia Eastern Shore, a penninsula with the Bay on one side, and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. And it connects two very different economies that are just miles away but may as well be worlds away.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – In observance of Labor Day, there will be several closures or suspensions of service.
All city, state and federal offices are closed on Mon., Sept. 3.
MTA subways and buses will operate on a Sunday schedule. Due to FASTRACK, there will be no No. 4 service from 42nd St.-Grand Central to Atlantic Av.-Barclays Ctr after 10 p.m. on Labor Day.
Labor Day is also a bank holiday so all branches and U.S. financial markets are closed.
The Brooklyn Public Library, including all local branches, will be closed until Tuesday.
There will be no mail delivery and all post offices will be closed.
Alternate side parking rules will also be suspended on Labor Day.
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“highly recommend Iguana for excellent Mexican cuisine, a friendly fun and warm atmosphere and great service.”
“The drinks are good from what I hear.”
“Very strong margs + Great food”
“Very diverse crowd, Great music and to the fellas lots and lots of woman.”
“was pretty surprised, to have such a great food for a mexican restaurant.”
“we will go back- tasty food , nice service, recommended.”
“great food, service, and atmosphere”
“The portions are definitely big, but unfortunately, the flavor is not.”
“Sometimes service was a bit slow, and we had to ask for salads, water, etc a couple of times, but this was all done with good humor and no resentment.”
Crappy place & tried to stick me with another table's bill!..
I will NEVER go back. I went with a few friends, including one that was recovering from a sever ankle injury. I was staying by the bar so my friend could lean on it for support. A waitress headed to the bar told my friend to move, when my friend tried to explain that she was barely mobile and apologize for having difficulty accommodating her the waitress called the bouncers the kick out my friend. I never do reviews, but I am so angry about how my friend was treated, and the embarrassment that she went through as she was forced to limp towards the exit that I will make sure that I tell people to NEVER EVER go there. To kick out a woman when they were already so short on them makes no sense. I am make sure that I never go back there.
Watch out for your Coat. My first experience with Iguana was the worst that I ever had. I was there on the 9th of April to celebrate my Birthday. I had reserved the VIP Section downstairs and when I got there there was people in my section and was unable to get help with the situation. But what really set it off was when I got ready to leave I could not locate my COAT. Yes someone stole my Vintage Black three quarter coat.
NICE PLACE GREAT MUSIC, WONDERFUL ATMOSPHERE.
i was invited to a friends birthday party here and i must say i was pleasantly surprised. I didnt get great service at the door, there was a girl collecting a cover charge with a fro and she was beyond MEAN. jeez, what was her problem?
oh and that bartender...she knows herself...GET OUT OF THE SERVICE INDUSTRY!!! the other bartenders were great.
The bouncer i met was friendly, and facilitating, yet he was a bit brash. The service inside made up for these three idiots though. we had a blast. i love the fact the they played a nice mix of latin tunes, although some were heard more than 3 times. it wasnt too crowded , which was a surprise and my friends had lots of space to dance salsa, which is hard to say at over 80 % of nyc clubs. the place does have room for improvement with some of their staff but overall everything else was surprising pleasant. i think i will have my birthday there next year. and i definitely will return before then!
Hidden Gem in Midtown. This was my first and diffently not my last time going to Iguanas. Very diverse crowd, Great music and to the fellas lots and lots of woman. This is definitly a must go if you love to party. Highly recommended
Are you kidding me?. Anyone writing an intensely negative review is either somone's shill trying to diss the place for another club or an idiot who nobody should listen to when reading these reviews. This place isn't the best on the planet, but is far from the worst. The drinks are solid and so is the DJ. Parking is tough unless you don't mind getting nailed for 30+ dollars inside a lot.
Love it.... I love this place. It's free to go downstairs and the music is great. It tends to get a bit crowded, but other than that its a good spot.
amazing Men.
i just went to iguana las week (1/30/09) and i went downstairs and i have to tell you that the place is kinda dingy but i like it what i don't love so much is the people too much getto. but anyway what i loved was the bartender,, it was the most kind and lovely bartender i've seen in the place, i didn't ask his name but it was this tall young green eyed boy, OMG he is charming, and he made us the best drinks i even ask him for an exotic cocktail and he knew how to make it, i think i'm in love..
great music and i love the so called IGUANA WINGS that are just buffalo wings loved the sauce
Yum guac and margs. I love the food here, great fajitas, guac and waiters. However the hostess' err dress (or a shirt without pants) showed her butt cheeks- sorry no other way of saying this, lol and it was a little tacky. The other hostess seemed frazzled but I guess they are so busy there and are just short staffed.
After all these years I am not suprised!.
My first experience with Iguana was the worst and that was 10 years ago. I let me friends decide for themselves and everyone comes back with horror stories.
I agree that downstairs is the place to be but beware of the theives on the 1st floor. I took 17 of my friends to join me for a what was to be a great time on my birthday. At the end of the night we went to get our coats to leave and it was a complete nightmare. The person in coatcheck and their cronies went into our belongings and stole items from our bag. When we complained to the manager he said, " You are all a bunch of drunks and have no Idea what you are talking about".
Thanks! After running a bar tab and speaking to us kindly all night that's how he was prepared to let the night go. Then his goons proceeded to get in our faces about what we had in our bag. We know what we carried over there, even the shopping bag for my balloons were gone. Common!
They are the worst when it comes to Customer Service and Hospitality. I can't expect you to equate a free night of drinks and dinner to my IPOD but at least show us the respect of knowing what we had with us. We weren't all drinking and tipped the bartender for the bottles we bought and bought them a round. So all we wanted was respect.
This place has changed since and I believe their own cronies are writing their reviews. Its just a little to fishy to me.
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With the blogs exchanging volleys over pre-opening coverage of Michael White’s Marea (Metromix has food photos! The Feed chimes in with news about a crudo bar! The ’bag drops the renderings bomb! And then doubles back with more food photos!), Eater decides to get in on the action by throwing up one of its inscrutable construction-site shots. In this one instance, the abstract plywood art is a welcome reminder that, despite all the hoopla, the place is a ways from opening. Meanwhile, the Feed also gets in on another slow reveal (Dutch Kills, which we’ve been covering since before the Feed was born!) by photographing the doorknob and a name plate. Though we have to admit, it’s a pretty cool doorknob. | http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2009/03/the_latest_object_of_blogsessi.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Photo: Courtesy of Lexington Brass
Abe & Arthur's chef Franklin Becker is wearing an additional toque: He's heading up the kitchen at Lexington Brass, opening Thursday inside the brand-new Hyatt 48 Lex. The 100-seat "American bistro" offers many classics: tuna tartare, French onion soup, filet mignon, plus some newer faves, including macaroni and cheese and seasonal veggie sides — and of course, kombucha on tap. This being a hotel (and midtown), the spot is also open for breakfast and power lunches. Scope the menus below and see some of the dishes in our slideshow.
Breakfast Menu [PDF]
Lunch Menu [PDF]
Dinner Menu [PDF]
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Indians ready to take calculated risks
With proven relief choices, Tribe looking at rebound candidates
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- The rumors and innuendo that pervade the Winter Meetings don't allow for much clarity.But this much is certain, with regard to the Indians' situation: If general manager Mark Shapiro is going to find a closer in this market, he's going to have to take some big risks. "We're taking risks," Shapiro said Monday, in the midst of the first day of activity at Disney World's Swan and Dolphin Resort. "Whether it be medical risks, whether it be contractual risks, this is a year, because of the limited supply of talent, that we're taking a risk greater than we would normally take. We're taking risks that are in accordance with the market and our revenues." One of those risks appears to be with reliever Joe Borowski, who has a one-year deal with the club sitting on the table, if the club is content with the results of the physical he will take in Cleveland on Tuesday. Borowski missed most of 2004 with a torn rotator cuff and two months of the '05 season with a fractured right forearm. He didn't miss any time in '06, saving 36 of 43 opportunities for the Marlins, but he reportedly pitched through shoulder pain in the second half. Last week, he couldn't pass a physical that would have sealed a two-year contract with the Phillies. If signed by the Indians, the 35-year-old Borowski would be the early favorite to take over the Tribe's vacant closing duties, but he might not be the only candidate for the job. Shapiro has met with agent Danny Horwits, who represents two free-agent relievers -- right-handers Keith Foulke and Octavio Dotel -- with significant closing experience. Alas, both have pasts riddled with injuries. Foulke, 34, was the closer and a World Series hero for the Red Sox in 2004, but he lost his ninth-inning role when knee injuries besieged him. He pitched mainly in middle relief for Boston in '06, going 3-1 with a 4.35 ERA in 44 appearances, and he missed two months with elbow tendinitis. Dotel, 33, has experience closing for the Astros and A's, but he missed most of 2005 and '06 because of Tommy John ligament transplant surgery on his right elbow. He made just 14 appearances for the Yankees last season, putting up a 10.80 ERA along the way. The market for Foulke appears to be more competitive than the one for Dotel, and the Indians are hindered by the fact that Foulke would prefer to pitch closer to his family in Texas and Arizona. Another risky venture the Indians are exploring is the possibility of signing 30-year-old Eric Gagne. Once the most dominant closer in the game, Gagne, the 2003 Cy Young Award winner, is now a major question mark. Because of elbow and back problems, he has made just 16 appearances over the last two seasons. Shapiro has long been resigned to the fact that he won't be able to fix his bullpen with sure things. "As I've said all along, in light of the market that's out there, we're looking to add depth, experience and stability to our bullpen," he said. "We feel this year the best way to do that is through bulk, through numbers. Along the way, each guy we add, we'll look at the guy who has the best success and best track record possible."
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After one half in Tampa, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights trail USF, 6-3. The Bulls drove into Rutgers territory on consecutive possessions in the first quarter but came up with only three points on each trip. In the second quarter, B.J. Daniels hit Terence Mitchell wide open down the left sideline for a big 58-yard pick-up, but once again, the Rutgers defense would hold and force a turnover. Brandon Jones came up with an interception of Daniels to stall the drive at the 23-yard line. It was an incredible pick by Jones, who went down to the ground to scoop and then control it against his body as he rolled over. An animated gif of the play:
The Rutgers offense hasn't fared any better, however, as a Kyle Federico 51-yard field goal provided the only points of the night so far for the Scarlet Knights. Quarterback Gary Nova is 12 of 21 for 132 yards. On the ground, Jawan Jamison has carried the ball 18 times for 69 yards. But Rutgers could not get on the board until their final possession of the half, when the freshman kicker impressively split the uprights from 50-plus yards.
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The New York Giants got some good news on the injury front Wednesday. Defensive end Osi Umenyiora, out since preseason after athroscopic knee surgery, practiced for the first time. Wide receiver Mario Manningham, who missed Sunday’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles with a concussion, was cleared to return and practiced on a limited basis.
The Giants, however, might have lost wide receiver Brandon Stokley. The veteran left practice with a quadriceps injury, the severity of which is not yet known.
Prince Amukamara, the cornerback selected in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft by the Giants, is still “a ways away” according to coach Tom Coughlin.
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Mario Manningham (WR) Concussion
Brandon Stokley (WR) Quadricep
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Steakcraft: The Steaks at Resto and The Cannibal
>Cuts NY Strip, T-Bone, Cote de Boeuf (ribsteak)
Grade: All USDA Prime
Breed:Black Angus, Creekstone Farms
Dry Aged? NY Strip/T-Bone 28 Days, Cote de Bouef 50 days
Pre-Cooked Weight: NY Strip, 40 oz.; T-Bone, 50 oz.; Cote de Boeuf, 36 oz.
Price: NY Strip, $100; T-Bone, $150 (both served al la carte); Cote de Boeuf, $120, comes with marrow bone, Bernaise sauce, and two sides
Price per Ounce: NY Strip, $2.50; T-Bone, $3; Cote de Boeuf, $3.33
We have always been big fans of Resto here at Serious Eats: New York. From the early days in 2007 when owner Christian Pappanicholas enlisted the peripatetic Ryan Skeen to craft a menu to complement the restaurant's largely Belgian beer selection, we loved the results. Skeen took Belgium as a starting point but infused all sorts of local flavor and a ton of pork fat in to his dishes. Even his burger, which garnered critical acclaim, came larded with pig.
Later, with the ascension of Bobby Helen to head chef, we ate heartily at his large format feasts, frugally with no loss of flavor at lunch, and best of all on the Cote de Boeuf for two. And we cheered when Pappanicholas opened The Cannibal, a butcher and beer emporium, in an adjacent space to Resto last year.
Despite the early Low Country influence, Pappanicholas always maintained that Resto was principally an New York restaurant. And just as the city constantly evolves, his sister restaurants are also in a state of flux. The recent hiring of Cory Lane as manager and Preston Clark as chef mark a new chapter in the Resto / Cannibal story.
Chef Preston Clark.
Lane, who last worked in New York as beverage director of Momofuku before heading out to California to run a wine label, brought in his culinary school friend Preston Clark, and the two have set about implementing a serious steak program at the two restaurants.
Clark is well suited for the task. As the son of the late, great James Beard award-winning chef Patrick Clark (Preston himself is a JBA nominee) he practically grew up in the kitchen before being classically trained at the Culinary Institute of America and spending seven years in the kitchen of Jean Georges Vongerichten. Clark's previous job was as chef of El Paseo chophouse in San Francisco. He brings classic technique and a high-end sensibility, but also an understanding of chophouse dining.
Lane sees the new focus on steak as a logical outcome of the popularity of the restaurant's large format dining, as well as the meat-centric nature of the menu in general. Resto often ran a Cote de Boeuf for two as a special, but it is now a permanent menu item both there and next door at The Cannibal. Additionally, there is usually either a New York strip or a T-bone (or both) as blackboard specials. Only Black Angus USDA Prime beef sourced from Creekstone Farms is used, expertly aged by Pat LaFrieda and fabricated into steaks in house.
Because the kitchen lacks the industrial sized grills of a steakhouse, necessity became the mother of invention, and cast iron skillets were pressed into service. Steaks are seared in oil, then basted in butter, thyme, and garlic before being finished in the oven. The process is far more labor intensive than a simple grilling, but it achieves an equally commendable crust and succulent interior on the steaks. The basting process imbues the steaks with a wonderful flavor—redolent with garlic, the thyme adding a herbaceous punch—the perfect complement to the over-the-top flavor of the dry-aged beef.
Resto is not trying to be a steakhouse, but rather a neighborhood restaurant that serves great steak. Mission accomplished.
Take a look at the slideshow to see how these steaks get made »
Resto / The Cannibal
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Jim Leyland has said numerous times over the past two seasons that he has given more green lights for Tigers hitters to swing on 3-0 counts than he did at his previous stops in Pittsburgh, Florida and Colorado. On Thursday, Brennan Boesch was one of them.
It didn't work. Boesch flew out to center on James Shields' 3-0 pitch with runners on first and second for the second out of the second inning. The intent was to get Boesch to swing at a sure strike instead of chasing, one reason Leyland has given green lights to many slumping hitters on 3-0.
"I let Boesch hit, tried to give him a little confidence," Leyland said. "There's a lot of different schools of thought. Boeschy just missed it, too. He just didn't quite get it out far enough, but he hit it good."
Not many hitters like swinging on 3-0 counts, Leyland said, because they don't want to get caught chasing a pitch out of the strike zone and turning down a walk.
The Tigers have put just three balls in play on 3-0 counts this season, good for an RBI double and a couple of outs. The double actually came from Boesch.
Dirks not yet ready for baseball activities.
Berry using the bunt to his advantage
ST. PETERSBURG -- Quintin Berry came to the Tigers with a reputation as a decent -- but not great -- bunter. But he also didn't hesitate to try. He got his first Major League hit on a bunt attempt that he popped up so strongly that it cleared the infield in Cleveland, allowing him to leg out a double..
Quick hits
Miguel Cabrera needs four hits to become the seventh Tiger to total 100 hits, 15 home runs and 60 RBIs before the All-Star break. He also did it two years ago. Others include Hank Greenberg in 1935, Al Kaline in 1955, Norm Cash in 1961, Willie Horton in 1970 and Magglio Ordonez in 2006.
Austin Jackson's caught stealing in the fourth inning Friday marked his second in six days. He has been thrown out on consecutive steal attempts for the first time since April 2011.
Justin Verlander's eight strikeouts Friday moved him to 121, ahead of teammate Max Scherzer (114) for the American League lead, and past Washington's Stephen Strasburg (118) for tops in the Majors.
Delmon Young has multiple hits in each of his last three games, going 6-for-13 in that stretch.
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Five Tips to Brainstorm the Better Way
TORONTO, Oct. 19, 2012 /CNW/ – When we think about a brainstorming session, we often picture a group of people eating pizza and throwing out a flurry of ideas while scribbling on a whiteboard. In truth, brainstorming is a lot more scientific than that.
After all, ideas are at the root of everything we do as communicators – they make the difference between a good campaign and one that wins awards. So how do you weed out the so-so ideas from the unique ones? Consider the well-researched power of creativity when seeking ways to better enhance your brainstorming sessions to ensure they generate the desired results.
“We all work with different thought centres and it’s important to tap into as many of those thought centres as possible when facilitating any sort of creativity session,” says Marilyn Barefoot, President of Barefoot Brainstorming and leading brainstorming expert to the world’s biggest brands. “Thought centres include verbal, visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic, tactile, spatial and script.”
Here are Marilyn’s top five tips to generate brainstorming success:
1. Physical Moment
This is hugely underestimated in most brainstorming sessions. It is critical that you get people “into action.” Let them search for something, do something active – just get people out of their chairs and moving. This taps into the kinesthetic thought centre.
2. Music
Music will help stimulate creativity in a brainstorming session. Use it as often as you can. It also helps keep the energy high in the room! This taps into the auditory thought centre.
3. Fresh Faces
Always invite new people to the session. Often the best and most original ideas come from people who can see the task from an unencumbered perspective. It doesn’t matter if they have never worked on the business before – in fact, it’s better if they haven’t.
4. Fun = Success!
Bring along new toys. Children do most of their learning through playing with toys. When we become adults we often lose touch with that inner child who sees things as brand new. Fun is a critical element in the creative process. This taps into the tactile thought centre.
5. All Ideas Have Value
You must ensure that everyone shares their thoughts with the rest of the group, no matter how “crazy” they might seem. There is a reason why things pop into your brain unexpectedly! Plus, it maintains the creative momentum of the group since other guests will “piggyback” on the idea. I disagree with people who say, “There is no such thing as a bad idea in a brainstorming session.” I would rather they say, “All ideas have value.” | http://newz4u.net/archives/36222 | 2013-05-18T10:52:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
power-density antenna.
The system faces several technology challenges.
1) weight is a critical problem. The lightest space-based X-band active radar antennas weigh approximately twenty kilograms per square meter. Even if next generation space-based technology weighs in at only three kilograms per square meter, it will still be too heavy to realize the full ISIS potential.. (2 kgs per square meter or less)
2) Electrical calibration of the antenna to compensate for the inevitable flexing and distortion of the huge aperture is needed. The phased-array will consist of millions of elements. The position of each element must be known to within a millimeter.
3) Beamformer complexity is a problem. The huge antenna will be constantly reconfiguring itself (in milliseconds) to adapt to changing battlefield conditions.
4) The level of integration complexity is a problem. A single ISIS system will be both sensor and airship.
5) Once the antenna weight, size, and integration challenges are solved,. They will need technologies with ten times the specific energy density of today’s lightest batteries.
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Lovie Smith Shouldn’t Be Philadelphia Eagles Next Coach
The search is still on to find the Philadelphia Eagles next coach. Replacing Andy Reid is proving to be more difficult task than expected. On Thursday the team has one prospect in mind and set up for an interview on Thursday. Former NFL head coach Lovie Smith. The former Chicago Bears coach was let go after the 2012 season where the Bears failed to make the postseason. Lovie finished his 9 season career with the Bears just over .500 going 81-63. Smith did lead the Bears to the Super Bowl in 2008. The defensive minded coach left an impression leaving the players to vent the frustration to the press.
Lovie Smith has a reputation of being a “players coach” and more about defense than offense. The problem with that is the players today don’t need friends they need a boss. This mentality is why Lovie Smith is a terrible fit for to be the Philadelphia Eagles next coach. The Eagles have a ton of offensive and defensive talent that need a strong personality to demand respect and performance. Andy Reid was a great coach in Philadelphia he just lost his voice and his move was good for everyone. The team needs a Belichick style coach who won’t tolerate the diva qualities that the Eagles players seem to have. Michael Vick called out the players saying “I’ve never been around people who don’t show up to play”.
The locker room is a mess in Philadelphia and the team needs discipline and structure. The amount of free agents the Eagles acquired brought to many personalities and not enough leadership. The Philadelphia Eagles next coach may be Lovie Smith but that will be a recipe for disaster. The NFL is a business first and if Lovie Smith couldn’t lead the Bears to the post season in Chicago and that offense, he has no chance of cleaning up the mess in Philadelphia.
Lovie Smith will interview for the Philadelphia Eagles head coaching vacancy on Thursday. With Chip Kelly having decided to remain at Oregon, the Eagles search remains wide open as they look to replace Andy Reid….More at Eagles coaching rumors: Lovie Smith to interview Thursday …
Lovie Smith is now in the fold. Vote for who you want as the next Eagles coach here
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Rumors of who will be the Philadelphia Eagles next coach continue in the early part of 2013 and most likely will continue until the end of February. The Eagles need to pass on Lovie Smith and focus on a coach like Jay Gruden. The fan base won’t give the franchise a pass so they better choose the Philadelphia Eagles next coach carefully. | http://nflnewsdesk.com/philadelphia-eagles-next-coach-lovie-smith-bad-fit-for-nfl-franchise/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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WHAT KIND OF TEAM BONDING/TRAINING IS THIS
worst euphemisms ever.
100% too much coy laughing, hiddlesworth. dial it down!
awww this is from that video awhile back!
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This photo inspired me to do some yoga today. Not that I can do this pose or anything, but baby steps, eh? :)
If the writers stick to canon, then, using Anna Milton in episodes 4x09 and 4x10 as a guide, graceless!Cas should be able to do... | http://niannah.tumblr.com/tagged/yoga | 2013-05-18T10:52:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
My Christmas Clothes
- Post 17 December 2005
- Last Updated on 23 April 2008
- By Uche Nworah
Bring back joy to my heart this Christmas
Just like the days of old
Papa
Mama
Where are my Bata shoes
My Christmas clothes
Toys
And knockout bangers
Has Ariaria market closed
Let not the flicker of light wither
Shield please the candle light
Pain and despair engulf the season
Downed are the birds
Near misses and close shaves surround me
Hunger
And anger consume me.
Indeed a season of death
Give me back my season of joy
Play my Christmas carols
Where are my Christmas Clothes
Make me ready
The masquerades are at the market square
Make ready the Christmas goat
Throw not away the head of the chicken
The Christmas rice is cooked
This season
Celebrate life
Joy
Love
And mercy
To God be the glory
And His Son Jesus Christ
The reason for the season
Commiserating with Ossy and Ngozi Nnaji (nee Ogbu) in loving memory of their daughter Chidera Alexandria Nnaji (16/04/93 – 10/12/05) and the families of the victims of the Sosoliso crash | http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/uche-nworah/my-christmas-clothes-15.html | 2013-05-18T10:31:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Photos / Waldo Crawldo: The Well / Photo 23« Back
As if The Well wasn't packed enough on any given Saturday night, Waldo Crawldo brought a whole 'nother level of fun to The Well where DJ Ashton Martin provided the entertainment for the night.
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Research Needed on Hate Crime
An NIJ-commissioned report reviewing hate crime literature and legislation was completed in 2005. [1] The report, along with a followup meeting of experts in the field, helped identify key gaps in research. Some of these include—
- Estimating the prevalence of hate crime accurately.
- Evaluating the impact of hate crime legislation on deterrence, punishment, enforcement, training, and reporting.
- Understanding the varied motivations behind hate crimes, and developing empirically based offender typologies.
- Exploring the effects of hate group membership, affiliation with hate groups, and reading materials produced by hate groups on the commission of hate crime acts.
- Learning how hate crime incidents affect victims and their communities.
- Evaluating programs designed to prevent hate crime or assist hate crime victims..
Trends in Hate Crime Against Immigrants.
Notes
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The second day of Alex Smith’s organized workouts had wide receiver Michael Crabtree missing because of sore feet. Crabtree apparently wore new cleats yesterday and sat out Tuesday’s workout. Crabtree’s sore feet will not help his reputation. Which got me thinking is he really hurt? I think so he was wearing new cleats. Answer below:
Check out the Niner Insider blog for more details about the second day of Smith’s workouts.
Topics: 49ers Workout, Michael Crabtree, San Francisco 49ers | http://ninernoise.com/2011/06/07/second-day-of-49ers-workout/ | 2013-05-18T10:32:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Texas law provides for public education
Laws enacted in 1854 in the state legislature provided for the foundation of local school districts and made public education a reality in the state of Texas. Education in Texas suffered during the Civil War and the Reconstruction which followed. Efforts were made to improve the status of public education during the latter part of the 19th century, and the growth and development of Texas' public schools increased with the coming of the 20th century.
Local taxation for rural schools increased in the 20th century, and small rural schools began consolidating into districts. In 1915, Texas passed a compulsory attendance law, and in 1918, the legislature approved the use of free textbooks in public schools.
In the early 1900s, Bexar County was still primarily in rural area, and many of the districts in the northwest county consisted of just one school. This situation would persist, with little change, for the first half of the 20th century.
1949: The birth of Northside ISD
In 1949, 12 rural schools joined together to form Northside Consolidated School District. Those schools were Leon Springs, Los Reyes, Helotes, Locke Hill, Leon Valley, San Antonio Heights, Lockhart, Mackey, Clifton, Evers, Hoffman, and Culebra. Enrollment in that first year was 823 students. H.M. Biggers was named superintendent of the new district, and construction began on Northside High School (Northside High School was renamed John Marshall High School in 1960). In 1955, the district became Northside Independent School District.
The year 1955 is also the year in which the school board approved the integration of Northside High School, allowing African American students to attend. One year later, in 1956, Northside began a program of building which has continued to this day, with Northside Junior High (renamed Sul Ross Middle School in 1960) and Northside Elementary (now Colby Glass Elementary). | http://nisd.net/community/history?qt-district_history_2000_s=4&qt-district_history=4 | 2013-05-18T10:41:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Michoacán, Mexico is considered by some the soul of México. Home to not only the avocado capitol of the world but the home of the migrating monarch butterfly and the home of the Perepecha Indian, one of the oldest indigenous tribes of México, producing amazing and colorful arts and crafts including the guitar. Right outside of Uruapan higher up in the sierra Madres lies the city of Parachu. 7300 ft up in the mountains it is the guitar making capitol of Mexico and produces some of the world’s best handmade guitars to date. The indigenous people of Parachu have been crafting guitars since the 19th century, these signature handmade guitars have made this place world famous where visitors can see the hand made process in the homes/workshops of the traditional guitar makers. More than half of Parachus population is involved in guitar making and are amongst the most skillful guitar makers of the world with their simple and even quite primitive tools. The handmade guitars are amongst the most sought after acoustic guitars in the world and rarely is the same craftsmanship seen much more from other parts.
The magical step back in time can be seen yearly in the towns annual guitar festival which attracts people form all over the world.
Truly inspiring these people are making such beautiful instruments for others to produce such beautiful music with. | http://nissa.ger-nis.com/2010/06/01/parachu-michoacn-hand-made-guitars/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Another.
“Yes, some of them get caught at the end of the day but how come it is always happening in UBA?” a furious bank customer told Gistmaster. In a spate of few months, managers of the the bank have been charged to court for fraudulent practice by the EFCC.
In this case, the three accused persons, who were arraigned on an eight count charge, allegedly conspired with others (now at large), to obtain the sum of Fifty Nine Million, Six Thousand, Two Hundred and Fifty Naira Only from the University of Ilorin Personnel Cost Account with the bank.
One of the charges reads: “That you Sirajudeen Abdullahi, Segun Adelodun, John Afolabi, Oloruntoba Akinyele (now at large), Badmus Kabir Omojasola (now at large), and John Balogun (now at large) on or about the 14th day of September,2011 at Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this Honourable court with intent to defraud conspired to obtain Fifty Nine Million, Six Thousand ,Two Hundred and Fifty naira Only(N59,006,250) from the University of Ilorin Personnel Cost Account in possession of the United Bank of Africa Plc by false pretence contrary to Section 8(a) and 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act No 14 of 2006”.
Counsel to EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo informed the court that the prosecution had filed an amended eight count charge dated August 29, 2012 , pursuant to Section 185(A) of the Criminal Procedure Act of the State and urged the court to invite the accused persons to take their plea. The presiding judge, Justice Mahmood Gafar obliged the application and the three accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Oyedepo then asked the court to fix a date for the commencement of trial and remand the accused persons in custody.
Responding, Bashir Oladipo, counsel to the first accused, Sirajudeen Abdullahi, said he was not against the speedy commencement of trial but prayed the court to admit his client to bail as the offence for which he was docked is bailable. “We are mindful that the granting of bail is at the discretion of your Lordship. I urge your Lordship to exercise your discretion in favour of the accused person.” Oladipo submitted.
Counsel to the other accused persons, Y.A. Dikko and O. T. Olorunisola who appeared for Segun Adelodun and John Afolabi respectively, aligned themselves with the position of Oladipo.
However, Oyedepo objected to the oral application for bail. He said there are facts available to the complainant which cannot be presented except under oath. He urged the court to insist on a formal bail application from the respondents to enable the prosecution place facts against the granting of bail before the court.
After listening to the arguments of counsel, Justice Gafar ruled that the defendants file a proper bail application before the court and adjourned to September 11, 2012 for hearing of the bail application. He also ordered that the accused persons be remanded in Police custody.
i have been getting email from a man mr nelson williams managing dirctor of swift card payment center ask me too send him $195.00 dollars too him for a atm card for funds the efcc has given too this bank he will not show me a id from the bank or anything else too show me this is true and not just more fruad i have allready been rip of by uba for 109 dollars for this atm card please let me know if this is true ronald nelson and if this person is with your bank ne has email me over 10 times ask me too send money or you will keep this money ronald nelson | http://niyitabiti.net/2012/09/another-uba-bank-manager-arrestedcharged-to-court-for-fraud/ | 2013-05-18T10:41:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
User Friendly Budgets
2010
The information presented in columns 1 through 3 as well as the related descriptions of the per pupil cost calculations are contained in the 2010 Comparative Spending Guide and can be found on the Department of Education's Internet address: under Finance, when available. This publication is available in the board office and public libraries. The same calculations were performed using the 2009-10 revised appropriations and 2010. | http://nj.gov/education/finance/fp/ufb/2010/reports/05-3440.html | 2013-05-18T10:42:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
A Classic Hockey Fight that You Would Never Expect to See [VIDEO]
Dennis as you may or may not know, is a huge hockey fan. He discusses it at great length at times how much he enjoys watching the game and how happy he is that hockey has returned. Here’s a hockey video that we just had to share because it was just too funny to pass up. You’ve seen plenty of hockey fights between players, even coaches, but what happens when the referee has had enough? Well, the video below depicts just that, as a referee in Russia gets into it during a game with a player. The only question we have is did the referee get put into the penalty box as well? | http://nj1015.com/a-classic-hockey-fight-that-you-would-never-expect-to-see-video/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:46 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Doctors Bring Supplies For Homeless at Lakewood Camp
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