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Young Millionaires: Class of 2004
This story appears in the November 2004 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Company description: Manufacturer of specialty makeup and body creams
Founders: Christina Bartolucci, 39, and Laura DeLuisa, 37
Location: Glendale, California
Projected 2004 sales: $5 million
Behind the Scenes: Cristina Bartolucci and Laura DeLuisa met and found their inspiration in the trenches, doing makeup and hair on movie sets. "An actress would come in [with puffy eyes] in the morning and have to look perfect at 7 a.m.," says Bartolucci. "We would pack [her] eyes with gauze soaked with ice water, which was uncomfortable and messy." To solve the problem, the pair invented their first product, I gels, in 1999. Today, signature products like Lip Venom lip gloss and Revolotion body makeup are popular with fans including Jennifer Aniston and Kelly Ripa.
Loose Lips: "When [we] first started the company, I was doing graphics in a copy store, and this kid came up to me and said, 'DuWop? What a great name. Is it registered?' I said, 'I don't think so,' and he said, 'Let me register it for you,'" says Bartolucci. "In front of me, in the store, he went online and registered, and stole our name. It took us three years and a lawsuit to get it back. So now, no matter how excited I am, I take a deep breath and think 'Is silence the best response here?'"
Rein It In: After distribution of DuWop products exploded thanks to a zealous sales rep, Bartolucci and DeLuisa realized they didn't want to be a mass-market brand. They scaled back distribution and now offer their products in specialty boutiques, such as Henri Bendel and Fred Segal, as well as upscale retailers Nordstrom and Sephora. The pair hopes the new strategy, combined with a full line of products now in development, will take DuWop to more than $10 million in sales in the next three years. -Nichole L. Torres
Company description: Internet-based adventure travel company specializing in expedition travel
Founders: Ashton Palmer, 32, and Kristy Royce, 35
Location: Seattle
Projected 2004 sales: $6 million
No Fear: Driving snowmobiles in Antarctica, working at jungle camps in the Amazon, camping in the Australian Outback-as former expedition leaders on cruise ships, Ashton Palmer and Kristy Royce had done it all. But in 1999, this husband-and-wife team set out on a new adventure: starting their own travel agency. With no previous business experience, the couple, who first met at a youth hostel in Australia, faced the challenge head on. "Our whole lives up until that point had been filled with risk," says Royce. "So for us, this wasn't too risky."
Perfect Niche: Palmer and Royce stand out from other travel companies by specializing in trips on small cruise ships to remote locations where the highlight is the destination, not the amenities onboard.
Teamwork: A $200,000 investment from a family member more than covered the couple's $100,000 startup costs. However, because the money was doled out in increments, they were forced to work nights at restaurants and forgo salaries for the first year and a half. The rough roads have only strengthened the pair. Says Palmer, "Together, we were able to create something that neither one of us could have done individually."
All Work and Some Play: Once or twice a year, Palmer, Royce and their staff of six get out and experience the trips themselves. "It's important to remember how amazing these trips are," says Royce. "You forget after a year or so, so you've got to go out in the field." -Sara Wilson
Company description: Interactive promotion agency
Founder: Josh Linkner, 34
Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan
Projected 2004 sales: $15.5 million plus
Get Up and Go: From an initially self-funded startup in 1999, ePrize has blossomed into the world's top interactive promotion agency. The company helps bridge the gap between the offline and online worlds by turning anonymous consumers into permission-based customers, with the lure of fun, interactive web promotions.
Dotcom Crash Course: Whenever you come across a company so strongly connected to the internet, you have to ask how they survived the dark days of the dotcom crash. Josh Linkner saw it coming in mid-2000 and began to shift away from serving the venture-backed (and soon to be extinct) dotcoms that made up most of ePrize's client list. "We had to adapt our complete strategy and company to service the large brands that would be around to pay the bills," explains Linkner.
The Campaign Trail: With more than 900 completed advertising campaigns and a client list that reads like a who's who of large U.S. corporations, ePrize is miles beyond its nearest competitor. The company signed on 17 new major brand accounts, including Circuit City and FedEx, in the first quarter of 2004 alone.
All That Jazz: One word you'll hear a lot from Linkner is creativity. His background as a jazz guitarist, pianist and singer has helped him bring an artistic attitude to his business. "Jazz is [about] a very improvisational, creative-type of environment," he says. "I look at what we're doing as a company much the same way. Instead of notes, you're working with people and technology."
The Future's So Bright: A spirit of innovation and evolution is driving ePrize toward its next goal: $30 million in sales by 2007. But it's not all about the bottom line at this company. Top-notch customer service and quality employees are two principal areas that spark ePrize's engine. Says Linkner, "Some day, a company will come along and put us out of business, so it might as well be us." -Amanda C. Kooser
Online Soccer Emporium, Web Infrastructure & Medical College
365 Inc.
Company description: Online sales of licensed soccer and rugby apparel, and a soccer and rugby news outlet and database
Founder: Bernard Frei, 39
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Projected 2004 sales: $6 million
The Globe-Trotter: Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Bernard Frei wanted a new start in the States and surprised many in the sporting world by choosing Birmingham for his online rugby and soccer emporium. "[There's] this absolute astonishment that this range of product is available not only in the U.S., but [also] out of Alabama," Frei says.
By the Book: With no background in website design or e-commerce, Frei needed more than just his passion for rugby and soccer to build his internet presence. He spent 1998, his business's first year, with an internet guidebook on his lap, learning as he went. "My business basically kicked off in a spare bedroom with a ton of advice from friends and an HTML code book."
Just Do It: At age 18, Frei received an unforgettable piece of advice from a prominent Australian businessman. "It was basically to get on and do it now, and not to hang around," says Frei. "I think so many business plans end up sitting around and never get used, and that's a shame."
The Almighty Dollar: "The worst mistake [I made] was never having the time to get around to getting serious financing," says Frei. "Because of that, we've missed major opportunities."
Mr. Big Stuff: Over the years, Frei has built business relationships with sportswear giants such as Adidas and Reebok. And it was the partnership with Adidas that secured 365 Inc. its biggest coup to date: having soccer superstar David Beckham sport the company's gear in TV ads. Says Frei, "His name and brand recognition in the U.S. is just driving our sales beyond our wildest dreams." -N.L.T.
CI Host
Company description: Web-hosting and data center infrastructure provider
Founder: Christopher Faulkner, 27
Location: Bedford, Texas
Projected 2004 sales: $45 million plus
What's the Score? C I Host commands some impressive figures: 210,000 customers, as many as 5,000 new customers every month, 8,000 resellers around the world, a 37,000-square-foot data center and 9,000 servers. Another interesting number: 15. That's the age at which Christopher Faulkner started his first business selling baseball cards and sports memorabilia out of a small storefront in Bedford, Texas. Now he helps businesses like that one get online.
From Fanzine to Business: There have been a few stops along the way. "I've started 201 corporations, and 197 of them failed miserably, which is a life lesson that I learned. To be successful, you have to fail along the way," says Faulkner. He built his first website as a fanzine for the band Pearl Jam in 1995, and by the end of the year, he was running a fledgling version of C I Host out of his apartment.
Growth Spurt: C I Host soon outgrew Faulkner's apartment and today has offices and data centers in Bedford, Texas, as well as Chicago and Los Angeles-and soon, London. And Faulkner has done it all without the help of VC financing or loans. "We're debt-free," he says. Bootstrapping and growing at a breakneck pace aren't the easiest things to reconcile.
The Host With the Most: Faulkner keeps the ship sailing smoothly by maintaining 15-hour workdays. Busy as he is, he always has time for his customers. How many CEOs do you know who conduct their own weekly internet chat for all comers? Faulkner's experience and business savvy belie his age. Fortunately for C I Host, he could be at the helm for a long time to come. -A.C.K.
Antelope Valley Medical College
Company description: Accredited medical college that provides EMT, medical assistant and paramedic training, as well as training in other areas
Founders: Marco Johnson, 38, and Sandra Johnson, 39
Location: Lancaster, California
Projected 2004 sales: $7.5 million
Good Medicine: As a firefighter, Marco Johnson too often witnessed deaths that could have been prevented-if someone at the scene had taken immediate action. So in 1997, he began offering medical training classes in his community. His wife, Sandra, arranged for the place and time, and secured students, while Marco taught classes in CPR and first aid. "[Sandra] got tired of me coming home and complaining, 'I wish someone would've started CPR or first aid before we got on the scene,'" Marco recalls. "I thought maybe a few more lives could've been saved."
Growing Up: Since those early days, demand has grown: The college now employs 42 staff members and certifies nearly 8,000 people per year in CPR and first aid. At the behest of students, Antelope Valley started EMT, licensed vocational nurse, medical assistant, medical billing and paramedic certification programs. Their biggest mistake early on, says Marco, was not thinking in big enough terms about the business or seeing its full potential.
Playing Catch-Up: In the beginning, the couple had to use their day-job salaries to keep the fledgling school afloat-while rent payments sometimes fell behind. "It was always a repetitive circle," remembers Sandra. "We would be behind on our home expenses, and then some money would come through the business and we were able to catch up again, until we got to where we are today."
Active Duty: Still an active firefighter, Marco plans to retire within the next year to focus on building the school with Sandra, who recently quit her paralegal job. "When I go to the fire station, the last thing on my mind is this operation, because I know Sandra has the same thoughts and same attitudes I do about the business," says Marco. "Being best [friends] and business [partners has] helped the balancing act." -N.L.T.
Modular Furniture, Ad Agency & Serial Entrepreneurship
LoveSac Corp.
Company description: Chain of stores (about half are franchised) specializing in modular furniture
Founder: Shawn Nelson, 28
Location: Salt Lake City
Projected 2004 sales: $30 million plus
A Bag Is Born: At age 18, Shawn Nelson was watching TV on the couch when he decided "a huge beanbag thing" might be more comfortable. He bought 14 yards of vinyl, cut it into a baseball shape, and spent three weeks filling it with anything soft he could find. The finished LoveSac was 7 feet wide, and everyone who saw it tried it out-and loved it.
Pocket Power: When neighbors started placing orders, Nelson decided to start his company almost as a joke. With free help from his friends, he made the LoveSacs in his parents' basement and sold them at trade shows, events and even the drive-in. Business was moderate at best, until he got a call on his cell phone that changed his life: a quarter-million-dollar order from Too Inc., which was looking for a back-to-school offering for its Limited Too stores. "I answered the phone and said, 'Twelve thousand LoveSacs? Sure, no problem. That's what we do; we're the best in the world at it,'" remembers Nelson.
Hard Road: Undaunted, Nelson amassed $50,000 in credit card debt building a factory. He worked 19-hour days and slept at the factory. "It nearly broke me emotionally, physically, mentally," Nelson says. "My hands were cracked and bleeding. We finished the order [for Too Inc.] but ate up all our profits." Just when things seemed darkest, a deceptively simple idea presented itself: Open a mall store. Not just any store, but one designed from the beginning to look like an upscale chain-even before it was a chain. It paid off: With some 55 stores, about half of them franchised, LoveSac is looking at sales topping $30 million this year.
Looking Forward: "We're headed toward owning [the market for] oversized living," says Nelson, who dispenses with all modesty where his business is concerned. "We're going to have a catalog that'll be three inches thick, selling everything that's over-the-top, bling-bling, LoveSac-get-out-of-our-freaking-way."
Unstoppable: No one fully expected LoveSac's success-not even Nelson himself. He says being committed to solving any problem is vital to his-and any entrepreneur's-success. "Decide that there is always a way," he says, "and you'll find that there is." -Jonathan Riggs
CCM Marketing Inc.
Company description: Media buying advertising agency specializing in the direct-response market
Founders: Suzy da Silva, 33, and Nicole Licata, 35
Location: San Luis Obisbo, California
Projected 2004 sales: $30 million
Directly Speaking: Suzy da Silva and Nicole Licata met in 1998 while working at a direct-response advertising agency, and the lack of ethics they sometimes witnessed inspired the pair to branch out on their own in 2001. "We wanted to do something that would treat the clients better," says Licata, "because direct response in general is a not-so-upfront industry. A lot of people take your money and don't tell you why they're taking it."
Timing Troubles: After the partners started their business in July 2001, the 9/11 terrorist attacks nearly put a quick stop to their venture because nobody was watching or buying from infomercials-it was all news all the time. To get through it, the pair went to TV stations directly to look for compromises and ad rate reduction deals that would help everybody-their clients, the stations and themselves-to survive. "Everyone had to be a team at that point," says da Silva.
Know Thyself: Says Licata, "We're both salespeople, so we have a lot of people watching over what is not our strong point-accounting. If you see a weakness in your business and you don't [understand] it, don't pretend you do. Hire somebody."
One Big Family: During the lean times after 9/11, da Silva and Licata vowed they wouldn't lay off a single employee. Though they had to forgo their own paychecks for a time, and each gained 25 pounds from the stress of it all, they kept their promise. Says da Silva, "We didn't want people out in that kind of environment. It's like a family here." The result: incredibly loyal employees and a knowledge that the duo can get through anything-including successfully losing their stress-related pounds. -N.L.T.
Company description: Clothing stores, a private nightclub and a real estate company, respectively, focusing on upscale, modern style
Founder: James P. Funderburk Jr., 39
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Projected 2004 sales: $3.3 million plus
Southern Revolution: Since 1994, James P. Funderburk Jr. has injected Charlotte, North Carolina-known as a conservative banker's town-with his vision of modern chic, starting with clothing store Urban Evolution and continuing most recently with J-Squared LLC, his newest foray into real estate development with architecturally modern housing. The common thread with these diverse businesses is offering "a unique product, service or hospitality the Charlotte region is missing but anticipating," says Funderburk. Doing so in exciting and innovative ways has drawn a loyal customer base that has allowed him to continue to expand his scope of style.
Worldly Charm: Funderburk competes with major metropolitan ventures by bringing the best concepts from his travels back to Charlotte. Private lounge Tonic melds Zen and modern elements, with many décor items designed and built by Funderburk, who has earned local and national recognition for his enterprises. "I've never let being undercapitalized stop me from doing something," he philosophizes. "I always thought 'Worst-case scenario, I can always use lines of credit.' And if something gets really bad, I can always get a job again."
Special Treatment: From including his retail managers on buying trips and paying for gym memberships to instilling a sense of ownership, Funderburk stresses appreciation for all his employees. "It's not easy to retain employees in retail, but I have very little turnover, and that's because I demonstrate to them [that] I always want them to be a bigger part of things," says Funderburk, who partnered with one employee to start Tonic and two others for his second Civilian store.
New Beginnings: Inspiration is key for Funderburk, who remodels his businesses every 18 months. "I look for something new; that's where the excitement comes from," he says. "It's easy to lose the excitement-that's why I like moving into other businesses as well." -April Y. Pennington
Lifestyle Marketing, Online Fashion Consulting & Wine Shop
Cornerstone Promotion, The Fader magazine
Company description: Lifestyle marketing company, culture magazine
Founders: Jon Cohen, 36, and Rob Stone, 36
Location: New York City
Projected 2004 sales: Approaching $20 million
Fresh Alternative: Music industry veterans Jon Cohen and Rob Stone launched Cornerstone Promotion in 1996 to help music companies promote artists to niche audiences-but they quickly realized the same nontraditional, grass-roots approach could be applied elsewhere. Now Coca-Cola, Disney, Microsoft and Sony-Ericsson are among the roster of corporations seeking out Cornerstone's cultural and marketing know-how.
Immersed: With 25 being the average age of Cornerstone's staff, they can speak with great authority on youth culture. "This company was built by people who live, eat and breathe what they do here," Cohen attests. "They love music, film, the lifestyle of what this place is all about, and that's the important thing we look for in a new hire."
Youth Brigade:The Fader magazine was born in 1999 to promote Cornerstone's website and soon took on a life of its own. "With Cornerstone being so service-oriented," says Stone, "we wanted to build something that represented our taste and our values, how we saw culture at the time." The magazine's initial lack of distribution and Cornerstone's preference for alternative marketing methods set the foundation for their FARM (Field Activation Research Marketing) Team. Paid team members ranging from ages 18 to 25 (many were loyal readers) first spread the word about The Fader by acting as "ambassadors" and meeting with influential people-such as college radio station programmers, talent bookers, and young photographers and writers-to introduce the magazine. Today, The Fader is a subscription-based magazine with eight issues per year, while the FARM team creates word-of-mouth for Cornerstone projects and keeps Cornerstone in the know on the latest buzz.
Broadened Horizons: The magazine's new division, Fader Films, has released its first project, and two more films may appear at Sundance 2005. With offices in Chicago and New York, the co-founders hope to spread their marketing genius to Europe and Japan. -A.Y.P.
eFashion Solutions LLC
Company description: Operations management for fashion manufacturers' e-commerce sites
Founders: Edward Foy, 33, and Jennifer Foy, 32
Location: Secaucus, New Jersey
Projected 2004 sales: $25 million to $30 million
ePioneers: In the dotcom heyday, Edward Foy and fellow Calvin Klein Jeanswear sales account executive Jennifer Silano thought more clothing manufacturers should use the internet as an added revenue stream. Launching eFashion Solutions in 2000, they took their business model to fashion trade shows, where they touted their turnkey package: eFashion Solutions would design the signature website, manage the customer call center, handle fulfillment, and even provide reverse logistics. The couple, who also married that year, kept working toward their dream, even while credit card debt mounted.
Full-Service Appeal: "We focus on what we call the 'wow factor'-constantly wowing our first client and our second client so the industry would talk about us," says Jennifer. After landing the trendy juniors line XOXO as their first client, word-of-mouth quickly drew other pop culture brands seeking an online flagship store, such as urban apparel giants Baby Phat, JLo and Rocawear. In September, the Foys added international websites to the mix.
Focal Point: In the beginning, Edward remembers trying to offer their services to just about everyone. "We weren't focused enough on our industry, where our knowledge was." When they did land fashion-minded clients, they tried too hard to do everything for them. Appreciative for the business, the Foys would do extra work gratis. When certain clients started regarding this as a right, policy changed. "Now we service to the letter of the contract," says Jennifer.
Branded: The Foys take great care to build the eFashion Solutions brand. "We don't have the money Coca-Cola has to build this brand around our name," says Edward, "so it's the experiences people have with us." -A.Y.P.
All Star Wines & Spirits
Company description: Upscale wine and spirits shop
Founder: Craig Allen, 35
Location: Latham, New York
Projected 2004 sales: Approaching $5 million
Worms to Wine: At age 6, Craig Allen launched his first business-selling worms. His friend dug them up, his mom sold them, and Allen oversaw the operation. Years later, armed with a marketing degree, Allen turned down a career at Procter & Gamble to stay at the liquor store where he worked and learn more about wine. "Wine is something that's recession proof," says Allen. "It's a product that lends [itself] to a very social atmosphere."
Strong Spirits: Compiling the best ideas from hundreds of stores, Allen designed his from the ground up, showcasing tens of thousands of bottles. But before he could even open his doors, he was caught in a series of battles against the state of New York. Most significant was a six-month struggle that finally won New York alcohol retailers the right to be open for business on Sundays.
Doing Overtime: Despite the legal battles, Allen has grown the business by double digits almost every month for the past six years. His current project: launching a wine bar and tapas restaurant next to his store. To top it all off, he uses his business to give back to the community, having founded or co-founded three annual charity wine-tasting events that net $150,000 a year. What's his secret? Says Allen, "My slogan from Day One has been: We're not smarter than anyone else, but we're willing to work a little bit harder." -S.W.
Online Referrals, Cell Phone Sales & Multimedia Publishing
Company description: Online referral source for automobiles, real estate, home improvement and financing
Founders: Behnam Behrouzi, 23, John Truchard, 32, and Payam Zamani, 33
Location: Walnut Creek, California
Projected 2004 sales: $20 million
Coming to America: The story of how Reply.com was founded has more twists and turns than a Hollywood movie. It begins with how Payam Zamani got from his home country of Iran to the United States. At age 16, Zamani was smuggled out of Iran to escape the extreme religious persecution that members of the Bahai Faith were subjected to. He came to America in 1988 with $75 and no knowledge of English.
Paint the Town: The entrepreneurial bug first bit Zamani during a summer as general manager of Student Works Program, a student-run painting franchise at the University of California, Davis, where he met fellow student (and future vice president of sales) John Truchard in 1992. "Since Payam and I both enjoyed the experience, it was natural for us to talk about future opportunities," says Truchard.
A Portal Is Born: Remember AutoWeb.com? A co-founder, Zamani left AutoWeb six months after taking it public in 1999. "I always felt that there was a lot left undone," he says. "I wanted to get back in there and rebuild that concept." And that's just what Zamani and his team did.
Next Step: In 2001, Next Phase Media was launched and later became Reply.com. Besides automobiles, Reply.com is a gateway for real estate, home improvement and financing. All the content is free to the consumer. Since Zamani's nephew, Behnam Behrouzi, had been an entrepreneur since high school, Zamani pulled him in. As CTO, Behrouzi played a pivotal role in building up the technology to power the new venture. "Our vision was to eventually do with services what Amazon did with products," says Behrouzi.
Going Public: The co-founders made the decision to not touch any VC financing, instead opting to bootstrap the business. That has paid off. Behrouzi, Truchard and Zamani have big plans for Reply.com. An IPO could be in the works early next year. "Five years from now, Reply.com [will] be a household name," says Truchard. At the rate they're growing, you can expect it to be even sooner. -A.C.K.
Progressive Telecom
Company description: Wholesaler and distribution of cell phones and accessories
Founder: Art Alaniz, 33
Location: Edinburg, Texas
Projected 2004 sales: $60 million plus
Mother Knows Best: Many successful businesses have been started in a spare room. Art Alaniz launched Progressive Telecom from a room in his mother's house in 1997, even while he was living in another city and working a full-time job. "She was fine with it," says Alaniz. "She knows I've always had an entrepreneurial spirit." The room was home to shelves full of used cell phones, a desk, a phone and a fax machine.
Quit Your Day Job: "When I opened the company, it was just a way to make a little extra money," Alaniz explains. Business in reselling used mobile phones, particularly in the underserved Mexican market, was booming. And Alaniz was soon faced with taking the next leap of quitting his well-paying day job and becoming a dedicated entrepreneur. He took a 50 percent pay cut and moved in with his mother to get the business going-quite a change for the young bachelor. But it paid off. Progressive Telecom now thrives in larger digs with 140 employees and five locations-two in the United States and another three in Mexico. And, of course, Alaniz has his own place these days.
You Say You Want an Evolution? What began as a newspaper ad offering to buy used cell phones has evolved into a business that specializes in new phones and refurbished mobiles. Though the Latin American market was key in getting Progressive Telecom off the ground, the company now does about half of its business in the United States and half in Latin America. But Alaniz isn't stopping there: He has his eye on the Asian market. "We're not even at the tip of the iceberg," says Alaniz. "This could be a billion-dollar company." -A.C.K.
Tokyopop Inc.
Company description: Multimedia publishing company specializing in English-language "manga"-Japanese comic books
Founder: Stuart Levy, 37
Location: Los Angeles
Projected 2004 sales: $60 million plus
Well-Read: While working in Japan, Stuart Levy-fluent in Japanese-initially rebuffed friends there who urged him to read manga. Once he relented, he was bowled over by the movielike experience. He thought, "There are tons of people back at home who would dig this if they could read it in English." He was right: Today, in addition to Tokyopop's 40 manga titles, there's Cine-Manga, Tokyopop's line of books based on movies, TV shows or sports; anime TV shows; DVDs; and other books supporting products. Titles on Star Trek and the NBA are in the works.
The Producer: Levy doesn't relegate himself to just one aspect of the business-he enjoys both the business and creative sides, writing stories and composing music for some projects. Ultimately, he considers himself a producer. "A producer gets the team together, handles the finances, but is also totally involved in the creative [process]."
Pay Up: "I don't mean to sound too old school or anything, but in my opinion, you've got to pay dues," says Levy. He scoffs at the notion that starting a business is as simple as deciding on a concept and easily raising millions. Instead, he urges a realistic approach to what entrepreneurs must go through to achieve their dreams. "You can't go out and buy a home, have a kid, and do all those things and start a business. You should do it and understand you have to sacrifice everything of your own private life-[you have to] live, sleep, eat, breathe it. You're not going to have a life."
Firmly Rooted: Regarded as everything from foolish in the beginning to a genius now, Levy remains grounded-even though his company comprises a sizable chunk of the U.S. manga industry, estimated at $90 million to $110 million last year: "You should try to stay focused on your goal and not be swayed either way by people giving you too much props or too many insults." -A.Y.P.


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Scott Walker Recall Is Referendum On Democracy
The effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker in today's Wisconsin election will undoubtedly have repercussions far beyond the boundaries of the state.
Walker has come to be seen as the point man in the GOP's concerted assault on the American middle class. All across the country GOP governors and Republican-controlled legislatures have launched aggressive campaigns to obstruct voting, bust unions, make draconian cuts to the police, fire departments, education, and social programs, all in the name of deficit reduction, only to use the resulting revenue to give huge tax cuts to large corporations and the top 1% of the population.
In August of 2011 ThinkProgress.org reported that Walker turned away more than $9 million in grants from the Affordable Care Act. The funds were intend to address the state's problems with drug and alcohol abuse, assessing the impact of public policies on the health of its citizens, and for signing up residents who qualify for state health programs. According to the article, health commissioners were "outraged."
Reportedly, Walker indicated that the funds "duplicated existing efforts." This, in spite of the fact that Walker had "slashed $500 million from Department of Health Services and instituted a $1.6 billion reduction in public school funding." In addition, "Wisconsin is also near the very bottom of states for public health funding, ranking 49th in the nation for state funding of prevention services per capita."
And according to an article in "Labor Notes," written by Eleni Schirmer and Lenora Hanson,"When Walker entered office in January 2011, the state had a budget surplus of more than $120 million. Walker made quick work of creating a budget crisis, allocating $140 million in corporate tax write-offs and giveaways during his first weeks in office." Thus, the GOP's ostensible concern for the deficit appears to be nothing more than a pretext to redirect funds to corporations, the top 1% of the population, and to make absolutely certain that the poor and middle class remain miserable, angry, and divided until after the next election.
Did I say this is a concerted effort on the part of the GOP? Absolutely.
The Republican Party has done everything in their power to ensure that the American people remain miserable, divided, and angry until the 2012 election every since Rush Limbaugh gave them their marching orders early in Obama's presidency. Limbaugh said, "I don't want this to work . . . I hope he [Obama] fails." And the Republicans have been on a single-minded mission to ensure Obama's failure every since - which also means America's failure. Thus, the GOP has, literally, been on a mission to sabotage America.
From the moment Rush Limbaugh gave the Republican Party their marching orders, every initiative that President Obama has put forward to improve the economy and create new jobs has been met with fierce Republican opposition. They could care less that America is suffering. In fact, they want America to suffer - the more the better. All the GOP cares about is making absolutely sure that President Obama doesn't succeed in bringing relief to the misery they caused the American people under eight years of George W. Bush.
To that end, the Republicans in congress have engaged in a record number of filibusters in an attempt to block every initiative that Obama has put forward to rescue the American people. Their determination is so fierce in that regard that any Republican who fails to go along with their strategy is in dire jeopardy of being banished from congress. The attack on Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, who has spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate, is clear warning to all others who fail to fall in line.
And even those initiatives that did manage to miraculously survive were being blocked from implementation by Republican Governors across the country, under the pretense that rescuing America constituted "wasteful spending." But their concern over the budget deficit didn't prevent Republicans for a minute from holding the unemployed hostage to extend the Bush tax cut for the rich which, to a large extent, is what brought us to this point in the first place.
The Houston Chronicle reported Texas governor, Rick Perry, as saying the following regarding federal money allocated for Texas to assist the unemployed:
"The money would come with too many strings attached. Taking the half billion would require the state to assist qualified out-of-work residents seeking part-time jobs, an idea that Perry said the state has rejected before, partly because it could discourage them from seeking full-time employment. The federal money injection would also make Texas extend benefits to more low-paid workers, and Perry said the overall expansion would force business to make higher unemployment insurance payments."
Perry neglected to point out that the money would also be used by the unemployed to purchase goods and services. That would stimulate the economy, and the Republicans can't have that. Yet, after initially turning down federal money targeted at creating jobs, Perry eventually took the stimulus money. But instead of using it to create jobs and bring relief to the poor and middle class, he used it to plug his budget shortfalls and save his "rainy day fund." CNN Money reports the following:
"Texas, which crafts a budget every two years, was facing a $6.6 billion shortfall for its 2010-2011 fiscal years. It plugged nearly all of that deficit with $6.4 billion in Recovery Act money, allowing it to leave its $9.1 billion rainy day fund untouched . . . Now that the stimulus money has dried up, state lawmakers last week unveiled an austere budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal years that cuts $31 billion in spending. Schools, colleges, Medicaid and social services for the needy will be hit especially hard."
So while Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has undoubtedly done his part to promote the GOP obstructionist agenda, in terms of symbolism he pales in comparison to Scott Walker.
Walker's shamelessly blatant assault on the rights and livelihood of the poor and middle class makes him the walking, breathing, embodiment of the Republican effort to lower the standard of living of working-class America. That's what makes it essential that he's recalled in tomorrow's election. He represents the GOP's trial balloon. If Walker survives, the Republican assault on the rights and livelihood of the working class will go into high gear all across America.
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Discussion in 'Tejas and the Gulf States' started by mouthfulloflake, Aug 3, 2010.
August 4,
where do yall want to meet up?
Grubs? Foghorns? JJ's?
no matta to me..not sure if I can make it yet or not..but keep me advised just incase I can
I vote Grubs or Rogue as I've been to JJs the last 2 nights.
lets do Grubs.
Ill be there at 4:30
grubs it is then
Each of you drink one for me. Just drove in from Chicago. Off to Bolder, CO tomorrow at 5am. Long drive, but I gotta chase bugs on the front range before it gets too cold there. Keep warm boys.
Fawkers! I gottsta go to my kids school from 5 to 6. I guess im out.
I hear there are a lot of strip joints in Boulder...
we will likely still be there at 6 Ted.
Kids eat cheap ( or free) at Grubs remember!
Mmmmm Beeeerrrrr.
There a chance I'll make it up there again tonight.
It'll be a little after 5 before I get there.
thanks for the warning!
I think we shall sit INSIDE this time..
80% chance that I WILL NOT make it..
I can hear the sweet barley calling my name already, is it 4:30 yet?
yep..you better head on out now and beat the rush!
T minus 1800 seconds ...
best turnout ever!
thanks for coming out guys!
I hope everyone got home safe, and enjoyed the food.
Lets do it again!
Don't know if I will make next week. But I suggest JJs off weddington for Wed the 18th.
I concur,
Grubs is a bit lax if we are sitting inside ( and ordering food)
was wondering how the turnout was...tnx!
Sorry I couldn't make it. The wife turned green and.....
I had done the same last week. I think it's the heat.
I had to entertain the kiddo.


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January 4, 2010
Former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said on December 8 that "cooperation" between European socialists and the Democratic Party has "intensified significantly" over the last several years and involves "regular contact" at "Congress, Senate, party and foundation levels." He added that "efforts have been remarkable from both sides."
But at a "Global Progress Conference" in October, President Barack Obama's pollster, Joel Benenson, acknowledged that socialized medicine in the U.S. faces a serious obstacle. He said that while Europeans are receptive to the expansion of government in their lives, in America there is an anti-government culture which prevents people from "expecting the State to solve their problems."
"This explains why Obama will find it difficult to implement the social coverage plans such as a broader health service," Benenson reportedly said.
The conference was held in Madrid, Spain under the patronage of Spain 's socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whose pro-homosexual and pro-abortion policies have led to street protests by thousands of supporters of traditional values. Zapatero is also under fire for a jobless rate of nearly 18 percent.
Dean's comments came in a video address in which he joked that his failure to personally attend the Party of European Socialists (PES) convention, which was advertised as a "carbon neutral congress," was actually a smart move because he avoided flying and contributing to global warming. "We've saved a lot of carbon," Dean said.
In his comments, Dean called for a "long-term global vision" for the transformation of the global economy and mentioned that disgraced Democratic President Bill Clinton had previously spoken at a meeting of the PES-sponsored Global Progressive Forum. The April 2-3 Global Progressive Forum also featured Robert Borosage of the left-wing group that calls itself the Campaign for America 's Future.
The Global Progressive Forum is also sponsored by the Socialist International, whose U.S. affiliate, the Democratic Socialists of America, includes long-time backers of Barack Obama.
"Free-market globalization alone cannot achieve social justice," Dean told the PES convention. "What the world needs is a global New Deal."
He defined this as a "transition to a low-carbon economy" involving "a major transformation in the patterns of production and consumption." This will include "large-scale investments and mechanisms" to share the costs and the policies, he said. His remarks came on the eve of the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen.
Dean never used the words "world government," but did declare that "We need a new institutional framework to govern, manage and monitor implementation."
In order to bring this about, the PES Congress issued a "Call to Action" urging the imposition of a "global financial transaction tax" that would generate hundreds of billions of dollars and "provide funding for long-term public investments, to finance global development and climate change."
As AIM has disclosed, there is a secret plan by left-wing non-governmental organizations to bring about this global tax over the next several months.
In another PES document, "A New Direction for Progressive Societies," the group urged a "progressive peace policy" that says "…we fully support the initiative of the US administration in favor of global disarmament" and urges the "deepening [of] transatlantic cooperation with the new US administration."
"It is our profound conviction that we must secure a Global New Deal for a new global order of social justice, equality, sustainable development and democracy," the document concludes.
Howard Dean's involvement with the PES is actually an old story. In our February 14, 2008, column, "Obama's International Socialist Connections," we noted that:
"Another group associated with the SI [Socialist International] is the Party of European Socialists (PES), which heard from Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, back in 2006. Dean's speech is posted on the official Democratic Party website, although the European socialist parties are referred to as 'progressive.' Democrats, Dean said, want to be 'good citizens of the world community.' He spoke at a session on 'Global Challenges for Progressive Politics.'"
Following up, in April 2007, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen reported that European socialists held a meeting "in the Democrats HQ in Washington," met with officials of the party and Democratic members of Congress, and agreed that "PES activist groups" in various U.S. cities would start working together.
Photos of the trip showed Rasmussen meeting with such figures as Senator Ben Cardin, Senator Bernie Sanders, officials of the Brookings Institution, Howard Dean, and AFL-CIO President John W. Sweeney, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. The Brookings Institution is headed by former Clinton State Department official Strobe Talbott, a proponent of world government who was identified in the book Comrade J as having been a pawn of the Russian intelligence service.
The "Global New Deal" was also the theme of the October "Global Progress Conference" in Madrid, Spain , sponsored by the Center for American Progress, the IDEAS Foundation, and the Heinrich Boell Foundation, an affiliate of the German Green Party. A summary of remarks said that the conference was perceived to be the "starting point for a new global progressive alliance."
The Center for American Progress is a George Soros-funded entity run by former Clinton official John Podesta, who co-chaired the Obama-Biden Transition Project.
Obama pollster Benenson has a website which says that he "was the lead pollster and a senior strategist for President Barack Obama during the 2008 election, and he continues in that role today."
In addition to Obama and various Democratic Party candidates, elected officials, and campaign organizations, his clients have included the AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Brookings Institution, the Soros Foundation, and the Working Families Party, an ACORN front.
The Benenson Strategy Group has represented several foreign governments and currently represents British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a prominent advocate of a global tax who is facing re-election in June 2010. Brown's socialist Labor Party is a member of the PES.
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Brian Bonsall
Brian Bonsall is a former child star born in 1981 and best known for his roles as "Andy Keaton" on the mid-1980s TV show Family Ties and as "Preston Waters" in the 1994 Disney movie Blank Check. I've never seen Blank Check, but I looked it up and discovered that it actually performed fairly well, taking in $30 million in theatre ticket sales. What I remember Bonsall from was his role on Family Ties:
Family Ties was originally on the air from 1982-1989. It was a big hit up through the mid-1980s until its viewership started to fall off near the late 1980s as the show lost its edge. In an effort to shake things up, the producers added Bonsall to play Andy, the child in the Keaton family. As I recall, Andy was born in one episode in 1987 and then magically morphed into a 5-year-old during the subsequent episode. Unfortunately, Andy was an annoying little brat and his addition basically killed Family Ties, leading it to its cancellation in 1989.
Bonsall later achieved success with Blank Check and had bit roles in other TV shows and movies up until 1994 at which point he and his parents moved away from the Los Angeles area and his acting career ended. Bonsall has recently attempted to break back into the entertainment industry, this time as a musician. Bonsall joined a band called Late Bloomers in 1998 and is currently in a punk band called Thruster. There is a MySpace page for Thruster and as far as I can tell, the band has adopted a gay theme, as shown in the pictures below (Bonsall is the guy in the middle):
Bonsall has also gotten a several piercing and tattoos in an apparent effort to achieve a "punk look." There are rumors of some turmoil in Bonsall's life – according to the Internet Movie Database message board threads, Bonsall is addicted to crack cocaine. Bonsall was also arrested for drunk driving in 2004. All of this makes Brian Bonsall one washed-up celebrity!
UPDATE - April 1, 2007
Bonsall was arrested on March 28, 2007 on charges of assaulting his girlfriend. According to authorities, his girlfriend told police he poured an alcoholic drink on her face while she slept, put her in a choke hold and threw her onto a bed when she tried to leave. Bonsall told investigators he pushed the woman down in self-defense after she cut his arm and face with a steak knife, but she denied that, police said.
I also discovered a very unusual Brian Bonsall MySpace page that refers to Bonsall as "The Bonz." I initally thought that this must be a fake or parody MySpace page because it seems pretty odd and the login name is surprisingly "imthegayestmale," but as far as I can tell it is legit.
UPDATE - April 3, 2007
TMZ.com posted the 911 call from Bonsall's girlfriend.
UPDATE - September 1, 2007
According to TMZ.com, Brian Bonsall was sentenced to two years of probation on August 31, 2007 for his role in the alleged March 2007 assualt on his girlfriend. Bonsall has gone through a 30-day rehab program and claims to have been sober for five months. He and his girlfriend are back together and are currently in couples counseling.
UPDATE - December 8, 2009
Brian Bonsall was arrested on Monday, December 7, 2009 for an incident that supposedly took place during the previous Saturday. Bonsall is accused of hitting his best friend in the face with a broken stool. Bonsall claims that he had been drinking and didn't remember what happened. Bonsall has been charged with third-degree assault in connection with the Saturday incident and has also been charged for previously failing to appear in court in connection with his 2007 assault on his girlfriend as discussed above. Bonsall's newest mugshot is shown below.
Bonsall may not be the most washed-up former child star of his era (Dustin Diamond has laid claim to that title), but he may be the most "white trash" former child star of the past 25 years or so. I noticed that he has gotten a huge new tattoo on his neck since the last time he had a mugshot taken in 2007. He also looks like he could pass for someone in his late 30s. It's hard to believe that people used to think he was a cute kid!
Here are some additional photos of Bonsall that were linked in the comments below. Bonsall apparently enjoys wearing makeup/war paint on his face for some unknown reason. Also, it appears as though Bonsall may have a curly mullet in the photo on the right-hand side below.


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The move could see HTC dipping its toe firmly into the gaming waters, with handsets like the Sony Eriscson Xperia Play hoping to explode the mobile gaming market this year.
Excitement abounds
HTC told us that it's very excited about the investment, and that "more news will follow next week."
Could we be in line for an exciting gaming announcement from the company at Mobile World Congress?
According to HTC spokesperson Maggie Cheng, the company's investment will "strengthen its gaming capabilities and help HTC tap into increasing demand for games on smartphones."
Good plan
We've already seen HTC move in the direction of the cloud with its HTCSense.com Mobile-Me-alike service.
Given the company's investment in its on-handset software, it would make sense for HTC to get involved in mobile gaming which is already a huge market; plus it could help the company differentiate itself in the very-samey Windows Phone 7 market.
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A bill tabled by the center-left Democratic Party (PD) aims to raise at least 1 billion euros through a law, dubbed the "Google Tax", obliging companies that advertise and sell online in Italy to do so only through agencies with a tax presence in the country.
While its proponents see the measure as a popular way to raise revenues on profitable foreign companies, detractors say it is based on wishful thinking rather than a sound knowledge of how Internet commerce and advertising work.
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The man who drafted the bill, lower house budget committee Chairman Francesco Boccia, said it was unacceptable that online companies paid taxes abroad on revenue from sales in Italy, taking advantage of lower fiscal levies elsewhere.
"We shouldn't be trying to raise resources by hiking taxes on fuel, cigarettes or small retailers while our online purchases are raising the profits of companies that have no interest in developing our economy," Boccia said on his website.
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Critics say the latest idea has also not been thought through and would be difficult to apply.
"This is just a Freudian expression of a subconscious desire (to tax online multinationals) rather than a real proposal with a solid basis," said Internet expert Giacomo Dotta on Webnews.it, an Italian online magazine.
No comment on the proposal was immediately available from Google Italia, Yahoo Italia or Amazon Italia.
The PD plans to turn the proposal into an amendment to the government's 2014 budget currently before parliament, Boccia said on his website, a move publicly backed on Monday by PD Leader Guglielmo Epifani.
"I am in favor of the so-called Google Tax," Epifani told La Stampa daily, when asked how the PD hoped to fund around 2.5 billion euros it says must be found next year to help pensioners and workers.
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The good people from the Cristal Festival (held in Crans, Switzerland.. not a bad place to be at this time of year) got in touch a few months ago, asking me to join a panel today with two very smart ladies, Fernanda Romano (Euro RSCG's Global CD for Digital & Experiential Advertising) and Patou Nuytemans (Chief Digital Officer, Ogilvy EMEA).
We were each asked to come with an answer to the question that's the title of this post. My response – a super short presentation and what was said to accompany it – below.
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When I first heard the question, the answer felt pretty obvious. An immediate YES. Let's kill it stone dead, with fire, right here, right now. Both Fernanda and Patou argued with absolute certainty that this should be the case, letting a series of integrated award entries from a single telco in Bahrain (yes, that was the point…) do the talking.
Personally, my response was driven by the fact the word feels both outmoded AND it suggests unnecessary complexity; a separation between "digital" and "analogue" that's vaporising before our eyes. Even before analogue TV channels are switched off forever (in the UK in 2012), we all know audiences flow freely between on and offline and expect to see coherency from brands, wherever they find them. This blurring is only going to get more extreme, until we don't even notice the difference. In fact, I'm fairly convinced we're the last generation to even care.
Continuing in this vein, I borrowed the oft-quoted Charlene Li's statement at SXSW in 2009 that "[digital] social networks will be like air". Businesses need to prepare themselves for a future where open, hyper-connected networks are the norm. Talking about "digital" vs everything else out there is arguably unhelpful, reminiscent of a past when digital was an after thought and treated as a channel ("okay, we've got our big idea, now let's do some of that digital stuff!"). Now that digital underpins much of what we do, it becomes next to meaningless as a descriptor.
Or does it? Before we draw the knife to kill the word, let's just hold on a minute. If we stop using the word digital, what would replace it? How would we describe the creative canvas and media environment in which we operate? Note: 'post-digital' is not an option.
Taking a step back, there's nearly always an answer somewhere in history – as Russell Davies' reference to post-war England in his Post Digital apology perfectly encapsulates – or better still, given I was asked to talk about killing something, let's learn from Mother Nature.
There's a natural rhyme and reason to the flow of things in nature. Put incredibly simply, all living things experience at least two of the following during their lifetime: birth, sex, death.
Where are we *really* in the cycle of digital's life? Actually, I'd argue we're somewhere just after birth.
We're certainly no-where near approaching maturity. Like virgins discussing sex, we've boasted about nearly doing it, thought we may have done it (not entirely sure) and excitedly talk about what it'll be like when we've done it, you know, A LOT. There are people who are legitimately experienced, but most of us aren't. Not in the "10,000 hours logged coding" sense of the word.
Sure, we don't all need to know how to code brilliantly in order to qualify. Although I'd like to suggest we might want to learn a little. Ad agency creatives ten years ago didn't need to be directors, editors or lighting cameramen to write great TV scripts. However, they'd lived with telly and newspapers their whole lives and learned the craft of writing, design and art direction before they ever dared set foot inside an agency. Likewise the UK's IPA has stacks of papers which prove the effectiveness of advertising, yet would be the first to admit the real ROI of digital activity is still in its infancy.
Until the industry at large has a universal understanding of what it takes in terms of craft and intelligence to deliver *outstanding* digital work, suggesting we should 'kill digital' feels grossly premature.
In writing this, I'm reminded of Iain Tait's last column for NMA just last month, in which he protested with good reason:
"Digital may be everyday, but it's not effortless… It's time to stop all the nonsense about trying to call this stuff this or that. Only thing that matters is whether it's good or not. The only thing more stupid than all the word-monkeying is denying that technology, code and making things out of bits and bytes is important." I've got a lot of sympathy with this for a bunch of reasons (as I've said before here, a favourite post of mine is The Tragic Death of Practically Everything), but in the main I'd like us to show digital some respect. Yes, it informs everything like air, but that doesn't make it easy to breathe.
In short, I'd like our industry to be allowed to reach its potential in terms of digital skill. Not recognising the particular craft skills and necessary time on the clock runs the risk of arresting our collective development. Let's not let that happen.


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However, skepticalOne was behaving in a very similar way which is why everyone got suspicious.
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I love digg, I browse it several times a day, mostly there aren't any major changes during the course of the day, but still I get most of my daily dose of what's going on in the world of stuff that interests me on there and it suits me fine. (and Diggnation FTW!!)
Sometimes I feel motivated to comment on a story, or simply browse what others are saying, sometimes even comment on a comment, within this, I've been dugg, buried and ignored.
This is where digg starts to slip into the hate side of things, and I guess it's not really digg itself, more 'people' and their differing viewpoints, the ones that get dugg down generally retailiate, blaming all the world's problems on digg itself, there are also a fuckload of idiots on there, not just people who's opinion differs from mine (as would be the internet accepted definition of idiot), but genuine stupid people. People who have trouble forming a sentence, who can barely spell (I know I'm nowhere near English literacy professor standards but I'd like to think I'm not a complete loss), who's basic general knowledge is way out and seem to have no want to improve themselves in anyway.
More often than not, these people (diggers) find themselves the victims of mass burying and flaming comments all round, some of them retaliate with some fire of their own, others simply skulk away to lick their wounds and find something else to comment on.
Increasingly there are the rationalists cropping up, the ones who part way through what genuinely is a futile argument (such as this one) simply chime in with the "Get over it" or "FFS..etc", they usually get dugg then ignored.
This sort of futile warring is mostly tiresome, and grinds me down, however occasionally something brightens things up...
ASBO shmasbo0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 8:14 am
Just read an article in Metro about 10 year old Lewis Green, who's committee a string of drugs and violence offences.
He's been given a wide reaching ASBO, fair enough.
District judge Nalla Lawrence said the purpose of the order was 'not necessarily' to punish Lewis.
And there lies one of the major problems with England today.
Couple that with some charity calling for early release of youth prisoners to ease over crowding.
It seems crime doesn't pay, but it's not that bad either.
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um....0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 10:14 pm
you mean I've gotta wait like a MONTH before the next episode of Heroes?!?!?! There's little else that has sucked more!
fucking brilliant!0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 2:22 pm
Via Digg
Oh dear God no....0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 5:11 pm
And another...0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 4:26 pm
slow motion is supposed to be cool0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 4:04 pm
But not on a new 1.83GHz Core2Duo Macbook :/
SO, if anyone wants to kindly donate 2Gb of RAM (under £120 from Crucial), that I currently cannot afford to buy, please feel free...please. :/
buerrrrr..ngggg..glglglgl0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 3:14 pm
After just browsing Mike's blog (sorry.. Slog), i realised that I hadn't taken the opportunity to post some PhotoBooth pics, as every other new Intel-Mac owner does ;)...
A cool one to start ;) The rest will be the "hilarious" ugly ones..
This one askes "Where's Dec?"
Not currently liking Safari's refusal to deal with Java based WYSIWYG blog editing :/
I was hoping for Batman, but still...0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 2:59 pm
A philosophy for life...0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 11:29 am
I just found this, from the Mayor of Yokohama City...
"Letfs start saving the environment from every dayfs activities by switching off unused power and not wearing neckties to work!"


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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first of a new class of medicines to treat diabetes.
The drug, Invokana, will be sold by Johnson & Johnson and treats patients with type 2 diabetes in a new way, by causing blood sugar to be excreted in the urine. Many existing drugs work by affecting the supply or use of insulin.
"We continue to advance innovation with the approval of new drug classes that provide additional treatment options for chronic conditions," Dr. Mary Parks, who oversees drugs for metabolic diseases at the F.D.A., said in a statement.
Invokana will have a wholesale price of $8.77 per tablet, with one tablet taken daily. Johnson & Johnson said the price was competitive with that of some other diabetes drugs.
Clinical trials of more than 10,000 patients showed that Invokana improved patients' blood-sugar levels and also led to weight loss and reductions in blood pressure. But the drug, whose generic name is canagliflozin, also has potentially serious side effects. The clinical trials revealed some signs of elevated stroke risk and a small increase in patients' experiencing heart attacks within the first 30 days of taking the medicine. The drug also was shown to raise LDL, or "bad" cholesterol levels, although it also raised the level of HDL, or "good" cholesterol.
However, an F.D.A. spokeswoman said Friday that the significance of those findings was unclear, and the label of the drug includes no warnings about heart attacks or strokes. The F.D.A. is requiring Johnson & Johnson to conduct five post-marketing studies, including a clinical trial to determine more definitively if the drug increases those risks.
The F.D.A. said the drug's most common side effects were vaginal yeast infections and urinary tract infections.
In January, an F.D.A. advisory panel voted 10 to 5 in favor of approval. But panel members called on Johnson & Johnson to closely monitor patients enrolled in long-term safety studies. Some of the members said they did not think the drug should be prescribed to people with moderate kidney disease.
The drug wasn't as effective in such patients, and they were at a higher risk for the negative side effects, compared to people with normal kidney function. Invokana is not recommended for patients with severe kidney disease.
An estimated 26 million Americans have type 2 diabetes, and many of the medications on the market come with side effects like weight gain and hypoglycemia, or a dangerous drop in blood sugar. Patients taking Invokana experienced fewer episodes of hypoglycemia than those taking another diabetes drug, glimepiride, or Amaryl, but a similar number as patients taking the drug sitagliptin, or Januvia.
Invokana is in a class of drugs called SGLT2 inhibitors. They block the action of the sodium-glucose co-transporter 2, which puts sugar removed from the blood by the kidneys back into the bloodstream.
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration rejected another drug in that class, dapagliflozin from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca, because of safety concerns, including a possible increased risk of breast and bladder cancers. But it was approved in Europe in November under the name Forxiga.
Johnson & Johnson is also seeking approval in Europe for Invokana, which it licensed from Japan's Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma.
Wall Street analysts have predicted that Invokana could be a good seller for Johnson & Johnson. Lawrence Biegelsen, of Wells Fargo, estimated early this year that the drug could bring in $111 million in 2013, with sales increasing to $667 million by 2016.


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Will You Help Legalize Urban Beekeeping in Mar Vista?
"As the national interest in urban beekeeping grows, cities like Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Seattle have joined the movement and legalized the practice. These cities recognize just how important bees are to the future of our way of life.
Yet, as bees are quickly vanishing due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), some cities like Los Angeles have yet to legalize urban beekeeping. In the Mar Vista community of L.A., a group of activists is ready to change that. Chelsea and Rob McFarland recently started a petition on Change.org asking the Mar Vista Community Council to support beekeeping in the region and work to repeal Los Angeles Municipal Code 50.03, which makes beekeeping illegal.
Working in collaboration with the Mar Vista Community Council Green Committee and Backwards Beekeepers, the McFarlands started honeylove.org to raise awareness and gain support for the legalization of urban beekeeping in Mar Vista and Los Angeles as a whole. After speaking in front of the Mar Vista Community Council, Chelsea and Rob gained unanimous approval of a feasibility study on legalizing beekeeping.
Their work is certainly important — bees are responsible for pollinating about one-third of America's food supply. Without bees, we wouldn't be able to enjoy staples of our diets like apples, nuts, soybeans, broccoli, and cucumbers, as well as some of the tastiest flowering crops out there, such as peaches, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, citrus fruits, and melons. Even our cattle, which feed primarily on alfalfa, rely on bees to pollinate their food. Even President Obama supports urban beekeeping — he keeps two beehives on the White House lawn.
While the Mar Vista Community Council approved the feasibility study, they've yet to fully legalize beekeeping in the community. That's where the McFarlands' petition comes in. You can help the couple push for legal beekeeping in Mar Vista. Add your signature to the petition, and enable the citizens of Mar Vista to play their part in saving our food system through urban beekeeping."
Change.org – by Meredith Slater · June 28, 2011


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If you want to hear a scientist groan, ask about the grant applications he or she is writing. You are likely to hear a rant about the tight federal science budget or the belief that government grants more often fund incremental research than bold ideas. Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University decided to apply scientific analysis to examine how science is funded, and discover what trends lie beneath anecdotal experience.
In an analysis published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Ioannidis and Joshua M. Nicholson of Virginia Tech found that the majority of researchers who led the most influential studies — papers from the past decade that received more than 1,000 citations by other scientists — did not have current funding from the National Institutes of Health, the predominant funder of biomedical research in the United States.
That could be for a variety of reasons, but the finding that so many leading-edge scientists are not funded by the NIH raises the question, Ioannidis argues, whether the NIH encourages conformity, or even mediocrity.
For another perspective, I spoke with a scientist who is soon going to have to start thinking deeply about how life sciences research is funded: Erin K. O'Shea, a Harvard professor of molecular and cellular biology, who in January will begin a new job as chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which provides open-ended funding to researchers, a philosophy often summed up as "people, not projects."
Do you think there is too much conformity in how grants are awarded?
I do. . . . Consider the positive first: It works well for people who have established a track record, even as a graduate student or post-doc, and who are continuing on an expansion of the problem or something very closely related to that upon which they previously worked.
It works badly if someone tries to do something that they haven't done before. . . . When you try to step out of the field in which you work, it is very, very difficult to get money, and I speak with firsthand experience. For 20 years I had NIH grants. I do not now and it's in part because I changed fields.
Has the problem gotten better or worse?
My sense is this kind of conformity problem has gotten worse over the years as money gets more and more restricted and science gets bigger and bigger.
I've heard scientists say that the grants that do get funded are incremental. What do you think?
I absolutely think that's right, and it's a consequence of the way grants are judged. A large part of the judgment is whether the panel members believe the work is likely to succeed . . . where one can lay out a neatly described set of experiments and possible outcomes and a sort of flow chart of what one would do. Given this result, one would do this next. Many things in science don't lend themselves to that type of flow chart, and in fact, some of the most interesting things do not, and the flow chart looks like a hair ball. . . .
To be fair, [the NIH] has created new models for funding, based in part on [Howard Hughes Medical Institute's model], of funding the investigator. The NIH has several programs in that vein where they're funding the person, in large part.
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Boat-shy dolphins could soon be located via software that identifies what the species is by listening to the individual whistles the marine mammals make.
According to a new study by the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), identifying different types of dolphins could help observers monitor any fall in the number of sightings of the mammal.
Traditionally, surveys are performed by monitoring dolphins for possible harm from fishing fleets by observing the animals from a boat.
However, as many dolphins spend a lot of time underwater – what with them being animals of the sea and all – visual sightings can be difficult to accurately measure; there is also the further complication for observers that some species are shy of boats.
The ASA said it has turned to acoustics in the hope of providing more accurate data on dolphin activity in heavily fished areas where the mammals are at greater risk of being harmed.
It found in tests that dolphins make a variety of sounds that include species-specific whistles made up of frequencies between two and 30 kilohertz, reports the New Scientist.
The marine-life research group trailed a microphone from a survey boat and then fed the sound they picked up from dolphins to an on-board computer.
It said that specially developed software was then able to identify eight types of dolphin with up to 80 per cent accuracy.
More from the ASA here. ®


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Friday, December 2, 2011
The 5th Sister's Holiday Giveaway!
15 comments:
- Brian Miller said...
yo i follow
and those would go great with my...
so put me in
- December 2, 2011 at 7:37 AM
- Susan Anderson said...
I am a happy follower, and I LOVE those earrings. Count me in!
- December 2, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- Joanna Jenkins said...
Yep, I'm a follower and would love to wear those beautiful earrings! Please count me in.
And stop by-- I'm having a giveaway too.
xo jj
- December 3, 2011 at 12:48 AM
- Jackie said...
Ok I entered so make sure I win ...jj
- December 3, 2011 at 8:26 PM
- Cheryl said...
You know I follow you around like a little puppy. Well, if not little, at least like a puppy.
Love these for my sister.
- December 3, 2011 at 9:09 PM
- ballast photography said...
Hey--I'm a follower! And I'd love to be included--AND I already "like" you on fb :)
Thanks for doing this, Polly :)
- December 4, 2011 at 8:05 PM
- Jenny said...
Hi. I have no idea who you are, but I just stumbled across your blog and...
Is it you?
Is it really, really you?
Just kiddin'.
You need to keep these earrings girl. You could totally rock this look.
- December 6, 2011 at 8:07 AM
- Katie said...
I'm a follower and would love to win these beauts! Thanks for the opportunity Polly!!
- December 6, 2011 at 11:40 AM
- SunniAngel said...
Hey Polly,
You know purple is my color right?
Following your blog and already like you
On Facebook hundreds of times over!
Those earrings would look great with my new haircut.
Thanks for always being generous and loving you!
- December 6, 2011 at 2:37 PM
- Katie said...
I love reading your blog (faithfully through google reader) ... I so enjoy the light it is for me :)
I would love to be entered into the giveaway!
- December 6, 2011 at 5:07 PM
- G-Man said...
They are beautiful Pollyanna...
Just like your heels...:P
- December 6, 2011 at 8:35 PM
- S. Susan Deborah said...
Me Me. Am already your follower.
Joy always,
- December 7, 2011 at 12:45 AM
- LoveBreezy said...
Just wanted to tell you how nice this is of you to do. I don't think I have any use for the earrings though. However, when you're giving away the Le Creuset be sure to let me know!
- December 7, 2011 at 2:04 AM
- BECKY said...
Ooh, ooh...I am a follower and I would love to win those beautiful earrings...either for myself or my son's girlfriend. We both love purple/lilac things!
- December 7, 2011 at 7:50 AM
- Elisabeth said...
Hi! I'm now following you!
Thanks so much for giving these away, I love purple! :)
- December 8, 2011 at 12:51 PM


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The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup on Wednesday night. And for all the hand-wringing over the NHL's woes over the past few years, it may shock you to learn that the final game between the Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers was the most-watched program in America two nights ago, and scored the NHL's best ratings in 36 years. Not bad for a league many were ready to pronounce as good as dead after its endless 2004-2005 lockout. From Deadline:
With the Nielsen nationals in, The Stanley Cup Final Game 6 is officially the most-watched and highest-rated NHL Game in 36 years. It was watched by 8.3 million viewers and drew a 3.2/10 in adults 18-49. The four final games broadcast by NBC this year averaged 6.1 million viewers, the best network-TV series average in 13 years. The hockey game was the highest-rated program last night, edging out Fox's So You Think You Can Dance (3.0/9).
There are a couple of obvious reasons the ratings for this game were so high. First off, it was played between Philly and Chicago, two huge American media markets. Also, the Blackhawks are one of the NHL's original six teams, and hadn't won a title in 40 years. Also, the recent sea change to HDTVs has allowed the game to flourish on television. The wide screen allows you to see more of the rink, and the definition allows you to easily locate the puck (no FoxTrax necessary). The NHL also benefited from a brilliant Olympic final between the USA and Canada (won in overtime by Canada, but thrilling for American audiences nonetheless), and the advent of the Winter Classic, the annual outdoor game that garners great ratings for the league every New Year's Day.
But there's one overriding reason this year's Stanley Cup soared, and that is the games were brilliant. This was unreasonably entertaining hockey. Virtually every game had that unmistakable quality of great NHL play: the idea that if you look away for just an instant, you'll miss something fantastic. That's what exciting hockey is all about, and this series had it in spades.
The NHL has suffered terribly in recent years from not having a home on ESPN. The league went to Versus, a cable channel that isn't available on many systems (and was taken off of DirecTV altogether). Ratings on Versus for the league have increased during their three year contract. But that contract is up in 2011, and you can bet the league will make every effort to make their product available on a more prominent platform. A return to ESPN makes sense for everyone involved. Should that happen, the league instantly gets its high profile from the mid-1990's back. Combine that with an improved on-ice product, and suddenly the future of the NHL looks very, very bright.


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eBay, via seller Premium Direct, is selling factory refurbished and then factory re-sealed GoPro Hero3 Black Edition Adventure 1080P HD Camcorders w/ Wi-Fi CHDHX-302 for $279.99. That's the lowest price we could find by $70. The Hero3+ features a removable microSD Card, 12.0MP HD camera, and weighs just 17.63 Oz.


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Our main bedroom is finally starting to come together - we have had it painted and wallpapered (the ceiling was a fetching combination of pastel purple, orange, yellow, blue and mint!), new carpet laid over the old mint green floorboards, we've had a new mattress for a while and on Friday our bed was delivered. Here it is!
Now we can move in - yay!! All we need now are a few more bits of furniture, like a wardrobe, and we'll have one refurbished and complete room, which will be a lovely feeling. 1 down, only 7 more to go haha!
I've been on a weekend away with some of my very best school friends - we went up to the Yorkshire Moors where it was very very misty, but we had a lovely time. Photos to come soon.


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The increasingly prevalent use of retired players in the media reached flashpoint on Sunday when Triple M's Gorden Tallis backed up his claim that Wests Tigers captain Robbie Farah was undermining coach Michael Potter by telling the hooker's agent, on air, "he told me to my face Michael Potter can't coach". Players aren't trained in the protection of sources and other esoteric journalistic concerns. They don't need to be as long as they side with their own all the time. But when you introduce a Raging Bull, there are no rules. Yesterday was what every media organisation employing a former player has dreamed of across all sports for decades: no prisoners taken.
We're tight, says Toovey
Manly coach Geoff Toovey says the club is tight "in the sense of the playing group" and has addressed five-eighth Kieran Foran's mid-week comments about the drama arising from Glenn Stewart's departure. "Kieran is entitled to his opinion – he's feeling pressure, I suppose, from the media," Toovey said after the 22-12 win over the Warriors. "I'm sure the media are beating it up more than it is. Every club deals with certain issues. Ours seem to be out there more than others. We're a tight club in the sense of the playing group and we showed that today." Foran said: "I suppose you could use it as a siege mentality there but ... it shows we're a happy bunch when we cross that line."
Just tell everybody
At first glance, the NRL's edict to players and officials about sharing privileged information with bookmakers and punters seems eminently sensible. But as reader Alan Katzmann pointed out, should we be really be legislating against telling the truth? Shouldn't the NRL be working towards the NFL scenario with daily injury updates and fines for telling lies, rather than for telling the truth? Katzmann made the suggestion in a lengthy letter to the NRL chief operating officer Jim Doyle, who was guest of honour in Peter "The Mad Butcher" Leitch's corporate lounge for the Warriors-Manly game. Leitch told spectators Doyle would take the Warriors to "the next level" when he becomes chief executive next year.
Nowhere to hide
Linked to the Wests Tigers imbroglio is the role of an unnamed source in breaking stories. Sources give the public access to information they would not otherwise have and should be valued as such. But they rarely provide information without a motive. The reporter's job is to counteract the motive, sifting out and presenting the raw facts. Michael Potter has been treated poorly by his club – about that there is no argument. But to who extent should one media outlet try to expose the sources of another? Doesn't that just make everyone wary next time of providing information that is in the public interest?
Talking in code
Remember ''How's Trent"? It was the referees' secret code to check with the video officials on the penalty count. "Trent" was Trent Elkin, their trainer at the time, and more recently someone you've heard of in relation to the ASADA investigation. Well, it appears Trent is back. On Friday night at Suncorp Stadium, referee Jared Maxwell was heard to say "Five-nil? No, we got Thaiday." Referees had a rather verbose weekend, with Jarryd Hayne's conversation with Shayne Hayne – no relation – broadcast in full over SportsEars at half-time the next night. Jarryd said he thought the whistlers performed well and accepted Shayne's contention that "I've got to learn to control my frustration".
Hayne knows life's short
Jarryd Hayne says he's had some good reaction to ideas about players developing their own brands through extended IP rights. The Parramatta superstar would certainly attract a few sponsors with his amazing individual try in the 24-18 win over Gold Coast on Saturday. "There's been a few talks with the manager and that," he said. "For me, it's upon to the NRL to see whether or not they want to take that avenue and take the game to the next level from an exposure point of view. I'm sure you blokes would like us big-name players speaking a lot more and obviously getting more out of it. An NRL player gets an average of four years, a good NRL player gets 10. It's a very limited time to do something with your whole life. From the age of four or five, this is all we know. From my point of view, it's let's try and get as much out of it as we can."


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Choosing what to eat and when to eat and what to eat it with are questions that everyone faces daily. Most of us are calorie counters following mainstream diet trends that we pick up from beauty magazines, friends or hear that our favorite celebs are following. But few of us have been educated on the importance of food sequence or food combining. For me, it was a revelation that took pounds off, increased my energy and made my skin glow! I credit the books of Natalia Rose (guru and goddess) and the incredible Kimberly Snyder. Chapeau ladies! I wish someone had taught me these practices as a child. My daughter is reaping the benefits!
The trick is to maximize the benefits of the foods that we consume in order to gain crucial vitamins, minerals and enzymes. Proper sequential food ordering and pairing enable us to avoid diets and achieve glowing skin because this practice optimizes digestion. A glorious side effect will be greater energy and deeper sleep. The more effectively you can master this practice the less you will have to work at exercising to lose weight. Optimal digestion leads to natural skin toning!


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Destiny has gone through so much and she doesn't know...
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Destiny,Jamie and Sam are normal teenage girls.Or so you may think they are but Destiny and Sam have brothers who are really famous.But at school they are all treated the same which is fine by them. During her journey in London with her friends, they meet the famous British Boy Band. What will happen next?♥
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