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I've tried for the past two days to let MSN download 3.7 to my UTV - even got as far as block 159 of 297. I could really use a 3.7 image...
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
if anyone can help i need one too my UTV dosent evenstart to download
I've also been trying to download for about a week now. Download starts but 'connection to WebTV is interrupted' keeps popping up. Have called UltimateTV tech support, Thompsons, RCA, etc. No one has been that helpful. Thanks for your help!
3.7 was posted on alt.binaries.sat-tv on Oct 17. If you want/need it, then hurry up and grab before it's gone.
no go. I even posted in hear that I needed it but no one responded. I have a ftp site if someone can up it. You can also download whatever you want.
Give me the info so that I can upload these 2 for everyone to use. Got these 2 sometime ago never use them cause do not own any UTV therefore can't say much about them just want to contribute. Use it as your own risk.
Happing downloading. If you are wanting something I don't have I can see if I can hook you up.
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Will U/L them tonight as I get home, can't FTP from work though.
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UBS lost $356 million on Facebook, suing Nasdaq for itJuly 31, 2012: 2:16 PM ET
UBS said Tuesday that it lost $356 million on Facebook's IPO due to Nasdaq's trading glitches during the company's market debut in May -- and it plans to sue the stock exchange for every cent of it.
"UBS's loss resulted from NASDAQ's multiple failures to carry out its obligations, including both opening the Facebook (FB) stock for trading and not halting trading in the stock during the day," said UBS in its second-quarter earnings press release. "We will take appropriate legal action against NASDAQ to address its gross mishandling of the offering and its substantial failures to perform its duties."
UBS (UBS) said it plans to pursue compensation for the "full extent" of the loss.
Related: Facebook IPO: What the %$#! happened?
The bank's announcement comes just a week after Nasdaq said the $62 million accommodation fund it will use to compensate trading firms for losses incurred by Facebook's botched IPO is "definitive" and that it doesn't plan to set aside any reserves for legal expenses.
In fact, Nasdaq CEO Robert Greifeld said last week that the exchange has "substantial legal and factual defenses to any litigation that has been or could be brought in connection with this IPO."
According to experts, firms that agree to collect their compensation from Nasdaq's $62 million pool, which is still pending approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission, are also agreeing to settle their dispute outside of court and waiving their right to any further legal action. So if UBS is raising the prospects of a lawsuit against Nasdaq, it likely won't accept Nasdaq's offer.
UBS declined to comment further on the possibility it might change its mind and actually settle with Nasdaq after all. And Nasdaq declined to comment Tuesday about whether UBS would still be eligible for any compensation if it went ahead with a lawsuit.
UBS is among the four big trading firms to suffer losses because of Nasdaq's technical problems on the day Facebook made its public debut. But the Swiss bank's losses far outweigh the combined losses of its peers.
Knight Capital Group (KCG) and Citadel Securities each lost between $30 million and $35 million, while Citigroup's (C) Automated Trading Desk reportedly had a trading loses of $20 million.
UBS said that due to Nasdaq's glitches, pre-market orders for Facebook were not confirmed until several hours after Facebook started to trade. As a result, UBS said "orders were entered multiple times before the necessary confirmations from NASDAQ were received and our systems were able to process them."
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James A. Garfield Collection - Box 3
Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH:
Historic Lake View Cemetery, n.d. Gift of Russ Sibert, 10/1997.
The Lake View Cemetery Association Handbook, n.d. Gift of Russ Sibert, 11/1989.
Plan of Lake View Cemetery, n.d. 3 copies.
Miscellaneous information about Lake View Cemetery and the Garfield Monument, n.d., photocopies.
Hannibal, Joseph T. and Mark T. Schmidt. "Rock of Ages…," Earth Science, (Spring, 1988): 19-20.
Kohl, Katherine E. "Accentuate the positive…," Cemetery Management, vol. 48 #11 (November, 1988): 10-12.
Dooner, Vincetta D. and Jean M. Bossu. Seasons of Life and Learning, Lake View Cemetery, An Educator's
Handbook, 1990. 2 copies.
The Heritage, Lake View Cemetery Newsletter: vol. 1 #1 (Spring, 1986); vol. 3 #2 (Fall, 1988); vol. 5 #1
(Spring, 1990); vol. 7 #2 (Fall, 1992); vo. 12 #1 (Spring, 1997).
"Lake View Cemetery—Cleveland's Outdoor Museum," University Circle Bulletin, vol. VI #1
(Spring, 1994): 1. 2 copies. Gift of Russ Sibert, 10/1994.
Garfield Memorial, Lake View Cemetery:
Fingerhood, Bev J. "Mirror of Cleveland's History," The Western Reserve Magazine, vol. 7 #2 (Jan.-Feb.,
1980): 28-31.
Mclelland, Elizabeth. "A Time for Preservation—Restoring the Garfield Monument," Western Reserve
Magazine, vol. XII #3 (April-May, 1985): 40-44.
McClure, Susan and David Patterson. "Lake View, Cleveland's Outdoor Museum," Western Reserve
Magazine, vol. XII #3 (April-May, 1985): 34-39.
Rededication of the Garfield Memorial Monument, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, May 27, 1985. 3 copies.
"The Garfield Monument," The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, (1987): 432, photocopy.
The Centennial, 1890-1990, James A. Garfield Monument, program, 5/28/1990.
Sibert, Russell D. "Monument to a President," Hiram Magazine (Winter, 1990): 12-17. 2 copies.
Peskin, Allan. "If You Seek His Monument—Reflections on the Meaning of the Garfield Tomb," Timeline, vol. 9
#4 (Aug.-Sept., 1992): 40-51.
"The President James A. Garfield Monument, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio," souvenir pencil, n.d. Gift
of David Fratus, 11/1989.
"Garfield Monument," stationery, n.d. Gift of James R. Garfield, 3/1990.
"The Garfield Memorial, Cleveland, Ohio," paper souvenir pennants, n.d. 2 copies. Gift of Russ Sibert, 9/1990.
The James A. Garfield Monument at Lake View Cemetery, descriptive pamphlet, n.d. 2 copies.
The James A. Garfield Monument at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, including a bried outline of
Garfield's career, n.d. 3 copies.
Garfield Memorial in Lake View Cemetery—Newspaper Clippings:
One folder of original newspaper clippings and photocopies, [1881]—1990.
Garfield Monument at Bonita Canyon, [AZ?]:
Description of Garfield Monument at Bonita Canyon, [AZ?], n.d., photocopy. Gift of Edward Green, 2/1997.
Robison, Dr. John Peter (1811-1889) and Family:
Robison, John P. "News Received of President James A. Garfield's Death," eulogy, typescript, [1881].
Biographies of John P. Robison and Family:
"John P. Robison," History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1879): 378.
"John Peter Robison," History of Ohio, the Rise and Progress of an American State by Randall and Ryan, vol. VI (1912).
"The Hon. John Peter Robison," Representative Citizens of Ohio (1915): 295.
"Mrs. Robison, Who Knew Garfield Well, Passes Away," The Plain Dealer, 10/21/1895.
"James Thompson Robison," Representative Citizens of Ohio (1915): 299.
"James Thompson Robison," History of the Republican Party in Ohio, vol. II (1898): 291.
Photograph of portraits of James A. Garfield and John P. Robison as they hung in the Robison home in Mentor, OH, 1880.
Deeds and css. relating to Robison family, 1852-1885, photocopies.
Garfield Birthplace, Orange, OH:
Portrait of in [Western Reserve] Historical Society News, vol. 25 #12 (Dec., 1971): 1.
Article concerning in Chagrin Valley Times, 6/14/1990.
Article concerning in [Chagrin Falls] Herald Sun, 7/5/1990. 2 copies.
Article concerning in Euclid Sun Journal, 11/22/1990.
Garfield Home in Hiram, OH:
Zimmerman, Phebe R. "Former Home of President James A. Garfield, Hiram, Ohio," 9/27/1974.
Zimmerman, Phebe R. "The Garfield-Hinsdale-Clapp-Robbins-Zimmerman Home," Minutes in Hiram History,
Hiram Christian Church, 9/27/1985.
Photocopies of deeds pertaining to, originals in possession of Phebe R. Zimmerman: Horace Brown to James A.
Garfield, 4/15,1863; Photocopies of css. between James and Lucretia Garfield about their Hiram home,
2/1863—9/1863; James & Lucretia Garfield to Burke A. Hinsdale, 9/7/1874; Letter from Burke A.
Hinsdale to Phebe Boynton Clapp, 11/20/1882; Burke A. Hinsdale to Phebe B. Clapp, 12/1/1882; Map
showing Boynton property at SOM Center and Jackson Roads, Orange, Cuyahoga County, OH; Amos
Boynton to Henry Boynton, 4/14/1856.
Newspapers clippings pertaining to Garfield home, owned by John P. and Phebe R. Zimmerman, 3/1909; 1967—[1990].
Newspaper clippings pertaining to Hiram, OH, 1897—1992.
Williams College:
Newspaper clippings pertaining to James A. Garfield at Williams College, winter, 9181—7/1992.
Comer, Lucretia Garfield. "Lawnfield: General Garfield Makes a Home in the Ohio Countryside," Michigan
Alumnus Quarterly Review, vol. 57 #18 (May 26, 1951): 258-261.
"Lawnfield, Home of President James A. Garfield," Ohio Historical Review, vol. 2 #50: passim.
Schauer, Patricia A. "Memoirs" [Reminiscence of living in Lawnfield], 1999.
Samples of brochures and stationery available at Lawnfield.
The Garfield Gazette [Lawnfield newsletter], 8/1991.
Newspaper clippings pertaining to Lawnfield, [19-teens]—1998.
Garfield Ice Water Pitcher:
Press releases describing pitcher and donation to Hiram College.
Script of program for donation of pitcher to Hiram College at Garfield Monument, Lake View Cemetery, 5/2/1990.
Photocopy of illustration and description from: American Silverplate by Dorothy T. Rainwater and H. Ivan
Rainwater. Thomas Nelson Pr., n.d. Gift of Russell Sibert, 11/1992.
Garfield Commemoration, Hiram College, 1980-81:
Freshman Institute syllabus, 9/1980.
"Hiram College Presents A Garfield Commemoration, 1980-81," Hiram College Broadcaster (Fall, 1980): 16.
[Garfield Commemoration], Hiram College Broadcaster (Spring, 1981): passim, photocopy.
Starr, Michael. Notes regarding planning of Garfield Commemoration, typescript and manuscript.
Garfield Commemoration grant proposal to Ohio Programs in the Humanities.
General correspondence regarding Garfield Commemoration, 1978-82.
Programs and fliers for Garfield Commemoration.
Newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Garfield Commemoration, 1980-81, originals and photocopies.
Brown, Harry J. with Michael Starr. Correspondence regarding speaking engagement at Hiram College, 1980-81.
Conkin, Paul with Michael Starr. Correspondence regarding speaking engagement at Hiram College, 1980-81.
General correspondence regarding possible speaking engagement for Gerald R. Ford at Hiram College, 1979-80.
Harris, Neil with Michael Starr and John Strassburger. Correspondence regarding speaking engagement at Hiram College, 1980-81.
Hatfield. Senator Mark O. with Michael Starr, Thorn Pendleton and Richard Ekman. Correspondence regarding speaking engagement at Hiram College, 1980-81.
McPherson, James with Michael Starr. Correspondence regarding speaking engagement at Hiram College, 1980-81.
Peskin, Allan. Correspondence regarding biography of Garfield.
Peskin, Allan with Michael Starr and John Strassburger. Correspondence regarding speaking engagement at Hiram College, 1980-81.
Short, Howard E. with Michael Starr and Thorn Pendleton. Correspondence regarding speaking engagement at Hiram College, 1980-81.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram with Michael Starr. Correspondence regarding speaking engagement at Hiram College, 1980-81.
Schroeder, Oliver, Jr. "James Abram Garfield—A Century Later," n.d. [related to Garfield Commemoration at Hiram College?].
Other Garfield Commemorations:
Garfield Family Reunion, Thanksgiving, 1990: correspondence regarding, originals and photocopies.
Garfield Commemoration at Lake View Cemetery, 9/27/1991.
Garfield Memorial Service Card - Presented to William R. Schnitger, Dep. U.S. Marshall for the Wyoming Territory. Gift of the Wyoming State Archieves.
Reviews, books about Garfield, 1926-78.
Garfield correspondence in Henry Papers, Hiram College Archives.
Correspondence regarding Garfieldiana donated to Hiram College by Thorn Pendelton.
Miscellaneous correspondence regarding donations of Garfieldiana to Hiram College and requesting information
about the collection.
Inventory of Garfield-Guiteau newspapers in Hiram College Archives holdings.
Garfield holdings, [Cleveland State University?], photocopies of shelf-list cards.
Library of Congress. "List of References on James Abram Garfield," 11/10/1913.
Ohio Historical Society. James A. Garfield Papers, 1853-1913. Microfilm Edition MIC 80.
Rutherford B. Hayes Library. Garfield holdings, photocopies of guides, 1979.
"Basic Bibliographies—James Abram Garfield," Discipliana (September, 1961): 43-45.
Guiteau, Charles J. Bibliography on, n.d.
Kovel, Ralph and Terry. "Tumbler Design Honors Garfield and Lincoln," Akron Beacon Journal, 3/1986;
"Tumbler Marks Garfield's Death," The Plain Dealer, 5/10/1986; photograph of donation of Garfield
Water Pitcher to Hiram College, Chagrin Valley Times, 5/17/1990; "Antiques' Value Depends on
Proof," The Plain Dealer, 6/9/1990.
Carson, Steven L. "Collecting Presidential Autographs: Hail to the Collector!" AB Bookman's Weekly
(5/12/1986): 2188-93.
Graham, Richard B. "Pre-franked U.S. Congressional Envelopes," Linn's Stamp News (4/13, 1992): 16.
Valuations of Garfield memorabilia in Hiram College Archives.
Catalogues and pricing guides for Garfield memorabilia.
Paperweight with excerpt from Garfield speech etched on bottom in Japanese. Gift of Makoto Isagima, 5/1990.
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Bruce Rasmussen: Lawyer won big awards, high regard
When a jury awarded $20 million in 1997 to a Keswick man seriously injured by a 16-ton hunk of concrete falling off a truck and onto his vehicle, it was the largest personal injury verdict in Virginia at the time.
While the sizeable awards Bruce Rasmussen won made headlines, friends and colleagues say the 57-year-old lawyer who died July 31 truly cared for his clients.
The most valuable lesson Bryan Slaughter learned from his mentor at Michie, Hamlett, Lowry, Rasmussen & Tweel was "not to be a lawyer. Being a human being was the most important thing."
At trial, says Slaughter, "Bruce was the best. It was about the human condition and human emotion."
In 1997, Rasmussen shocked the ski industry with a $6.2 million verdict against Massanutten ski resort for Tom Hoar, who suffered permanent brain damage when he skied off an unmarked cliff.
Afterward, Rasmussen said, "You don't fight a case like this– with these odds– with your end goal of making money." The goal, he said, was to make ski areas safer.
He was working on another skiing lawsuit– this one against Wintergreen– when his lung cancer was discovered in March. Slaughter took over the case.
"I asked myself," says Slaughter, "what would Bruce do?" Their client, who had skied into a grooming vehicle, was awarded $8.3 million in damages in July.
Rasmussen was one of the top two or three trial lawyers in the state, says Slaughter, and "he was gaining a national reputation when he got sick."
Slaughter remembers Rasmussen's willingness to do whatever it took, within ethical bounds, in a case for his client.
"He was very passionate about helping people," says Judy Rasmussen, his wife of 35 years. "He would carry around mementoes from clients," in one case, a flat line EKG reading from a client who wasn't supposed to make it.
He brought in the assistance of good luck charms when he took that case before the Virginia Supreme Court: a little Pinocchio to make people tell the truth, and a little rubber ducky, both of which he set on the table.
"We got into an argument about whether they should have a tent to cover them so the justices wouldn't see them," recalls Slaughter.
Slaughter prevailed and covered the totems with a paper tent; Rasmussen prevailed for their client.
"I know Bruce was one of the most highly regarded plaintiff's attorneys in Virginia for his ethics, demeanor, and how he treated other lawyers," says Paul Fletcher, publisher of Virginia Lawyers Weekly. "He was a zealous advocate and considered a real gentleman."
Rasmussen had served as president of both the Southern Trial Lawyers and the Virginia Trial Lawyers associations.
He also had a political side: He took over as chair of the Albemarle Democratic Party in 1975, a time the party was "in the throes of realignment," says Jim Heilman, who served as Rasmussen's vice chair.
After the McGovern race in 1972, old-line Dixiecrat Dems were leaving the party in droves, explains Heilman. "Bruce picked up the reins at a difficult time, trying to keep the old members while welcoming the Humphreyites and McGovernites," he says.
Over his 10-year tenure, Rasmussen brought stability to the Democrats, says Heilman, the former county registrar. The lawyer helped build precinct organizations, and he introduced modern campaign techniques, such as phone banks and favorable lists. Rasmussen also served on the Albemarle County Electoral Board.
A lengthy obituary written by his daughter, Briley, describes over and over his joie de vivre (as well as his love of all things French).
"Working with Bruce was fun," confirms Slaughter, who relates one of Rasmussen's favorite stories about trying to depose a woman who wouldn't answer his questions in the correctional facility in Goochland. He told her she'd been subpoenaed and had to answer, and he delighted in her response: "What are you going to do, Mr. Rasmussen, put me in jail?"
Besides inspiring younger attorneys at his firm and teaching them how to put together a case, Rasmussen left them one other legacy: "He gave us all Pinocchios," says Slaughter.
Forget the lawyer jokes: Bruce Rasmussen used compassion, skill– and a rubber ducky– to win multi-million dollar personal injury cases.


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Fewer drivers will be hitting the road for July 4th, AAA says
Fewer drivers will take to the road during the Independence Day holiday in part due to a sluggish economy, but also because people will take less time off, travel group AAA said Thursday.
The group expects 40.8 million people to travel 50 miles or more from home during the July 4 break and 34.4 million of them will drive, a drop of about 0.7 percent from the estimated 34.7 million who drove last year.
"This projection is due to the calendar effect of one fewer day in the holiday period and economic growth that is not robust enough to offset the impact of the sequester, and the effect of the end of the payroll tax cut on American families," AAA President and Chief Executive Officer Robert L. Darbelnet said.
Darbelnet was referring to government spending cuts known as the sequester that were triggered on March 1 after lawmakers failed to agree on a deficit reduction package, as well as the expiry of a Social Security tax cut this year.
July 4 fell on a Wednesday last year, which led people to take a longer vacation, the AAA said.
The average gasoline price is 10 cents a gallon higher than a year ago at $3.60, but the AAA does not think it will affect driving over the holiday and notes it is lower than earlier this year.
The busiest period on the roads will be July 3 and July 7, when travelers will leave and come back.
Based on a survey of 50,000 people, the AAA says 3.07 million people will fly for the holiday, up from 3.06 million a year ago. It also said the average distance traveled is likely to fall by 110 miles to 613 miles.
Travelers will spend $747 on average during the holiday, of which just under 30 percent will be for transportation.


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Sunday, Oct. 28
o Peter S. Hopkins, 47, of Oneida, was charged with third-degree criminal mischief.
Madison County Sheriff's Department
Sunday, Oct. 28
o Courtney K. Payne, 21, of the Bronx, was charged in Morrisville, with unlawful possession of marijuana.
o Dashawn Ford, 21, of the Bronx, was charged in Morrisville, with unlawful possession of marijuana.
o Mandy L. Pope, 23, of Oneida, was charged with failure to appear in court.
o Brandon Homer, 29, of Oneida, was charged with driving while intoxicated, a speed violation, operating a motor vehicle by an unlicensed driver and operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol content .08 of one percent or more.
Saturday, Oct. 27
o Shelly Burghart, 43, of Constantia, was charged in Oneida with possession of marijuana.
Friday, Oct. 26
o Bradley T. Stefanski, 24, of Hunting Valley, Ohio, was charged in Eaton with an equipment violation, driving while intoxicated and aggravated driving while intoxicated.
o Chancey A. Marshall, 25, of Madison, was charged with two counts second-degree harassment.
o Frank Lisi, 49, of Canastota, was charged with operating a motor vehicle with .08 of one percent, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, failure to keep right and driving while intoxicated.
Wednesday, Oct. 24
o Monica M. Bouchard, 38, of Blossvale, was charged with possession of marijuana, operating a motor vehicle without stop lamps and operating a motor vehicle without an inspection.
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A couple of quick programming notes…We will be back later today for our weekly look at the 2009 roster lineup and payroll projections. After that we will be working on some changes around here. As a result, at some point this weekend, we will be offline for a few hours. Fear not. We think we know what we are doing. If not, and you never hear from us again…well, it has been a fun ride.
- The Rays avoided arbitration with Grant Balfour, agreeing on a one-year, $1.4 million deal…We had projected The Mad Australian to make $1.2 million in 2009. [Rays Report]
- Scott Kazmir and JP Howell have accepted invitations to pitch for the US team during the World Baseball Classic. Kazmir will be one of four starting pitchers and Howell is not worried about how the tournament will affect his preparation for the regular season, feeling it may actually help…Despite both players confidence, the Rays have to be concerned. Both pitchers are already dealing with a shortened off-season due to the Rays postseason run. Kazmir is coming off a season in which he battled an arm injury and never felt right with his mechanics. And Howell suffered from a tired arm down the stretch and needed to be benched for long stretches in September. [Tampa Tribune]
"I think it's good because it may be less games, but the intensity of the games will match [the regular season] more than any spring training game could," [Howell] said. "So that's a positive in that it will kind of get your brain going a little bit before April 1, maybe get a little bit of that flow going."
- Now that we know Evan Longoria will not be playing for the US in the World Baseball Classic, we have to wonder if Mexico will once again extend an invitation. Longoria made it known that he was contacted "informally" about playing for Mexico but declined the offer because his first choice was to play for the US. [St. Pete Times]
- The Padres claimed JK Ryu off of waivers feeling he is good enough to compete for a job on their 25-man roster. Ryu had been designated for assignment to make room on the 40-man roster for Gabe Kapler. [MLB Trade Rumors]
- The Examiner previews Scott Kazmir. [Examiner.com]
- The Rays gave a tour of their new Spring Training home to the media. All reserved seats for the 16 home spring training games have been sold out. [Tampa Tribune]
- Stacy Long found a video tour of the Rays new spring home. [Biscuit Crumbs]


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Each week, it seems, brings word of a new London Olympics outrage. The latest? People attending the Games could be prosecuted for posting Facebook photos of...the Games. Yeah, seriously. This absurd rule is but one of the many that Parliament has put in place to give Olympics sponsors a new level of copyright protection and crush all forms of self-expression not sanctioned by assholes in board rooms. Next thing you know, Goldman Sachs executives will be running 4x100 heats.
It's understandable that social media users are upset about just how little they'll be able to say about the Olympics. But as The Guardian reveals, it's actually much worse. Unless you're an official sponsor, writing, speaking, and possibly even thinking about anything that happens at the Olympics could be illegal. In all seriousness, here are some of the measures that are being taken:
• Branding police are going around Olympic stadia taping over or scratching out non-sponsor brands and logos on things like toilets and sinks. Enjoy that job.
• Athletes are FORBIDDEN from discussing any non-sponsor products. Want a Gatorade (made by Pepsi) after your 10k training run? Keep it to yourself. London 2012 is exclusive to Powerade (and Coca-Cola).
• Local businesses have already been threatened with legal action for using any combination of two or more of the following numbers and words: Olympic, London, 2012, summer, or games. Let's try them all in a sentence: "The people behind the London 2012 Olympic summer games are cretins."
• Poses and gestures that are even reminiscent of the Games are verboten. At Barcelona '92, British sprinter Sally Gunnell won gold in the 400m hurdles and famously draped herself in the Union Jack as she celebrated. When she attempted to strike a similar pose during a recent photo shoot for non-sponsor easyJet, she got smacked down because British Air is an official Olympic sponsor (and apparently now a co-owner of the British flag).
• Attendees aren't allowed to post videos and photos from the events to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or other social media. They can only share images from competitions for private use, seemingly to prevent any unauthorized exploitation of the world's greatest "amateur" sporting event. And "private" is to be taken in the most limited sense possible—as in just you and your closest friends, with the lights out and the blinds drawn. A strict interpretation of the rules would consider it a violation to upload, say, pictures of yourself in the stands during a basketball game to your blog. It's unclear how any of this will be enforced, but transgressors better keep a bag packed.
All sounding a bit Stalinist? It should. Taping over logos on toilets and elsewhere has happened in previous Olympics. So has the muzzling of athletes, mainly out of fear of guerrilla marketing campaigns. (Nike is a habitual offender, and Puma once got Linford Christie to wear logo-stamped contact lenses during a Reebok-sponsored Olympics.) What's new this time around is the prevalence of social media, and it seems to have thrown the London organizers into an Orwellian panic with potentially ugly ramifications for the ordinary fan.
Even the 2008 Olympics in Beijing weren't so totalitarian. That year, the Bible Society, publishers of "the world's best seller," managed to hand out bibles emblazoned with that most protected of corporate species—the Olympic rings. In 2012, however, the Almighty himself bows down to corporate intellectual property. According to spokeswoman Rachel Rounds, the Bible Society isn't even bothering with London. Too much trouble:
"We have printed Bibles…without the logo as we knew we would not get permission to use it mainly because we are not an official sponsor. Therefore we did not even ask for permission in the first place."
A similar don't-even-bother attitude is perhaps advisable for anyone spending time in London this summer. Travel light, with only unmarked attire, leave the camera at home, and let your friends and family know they probably won't be hearing much from you for a few weeks. Once you're here, look straight ahead, stay within designated areas, and ignore any suspicious activity on the periphery—it's probably just the thought police busting someone. Basically do whatever you would do if you were preparing for a brief stint in a high security prison. Better yet, maybe don't even come at all.
Stephen McGregor is our 2012 Olympics correspondent. He lives in Camberwell, South London, where he's been working on something big for a long time.


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VENUE Tues Nights – Latest Information
Unto the populace,
With pleasure I present the latest venue information for Tuesday Night activities:
Arts and Sciences, including singers, dancers and bring-a-project remain at Herb Greedy Hall, 76 Petersham Rd, Marrickville, NSW, 220.
Fighter Practice, both Heavy and Fencing, new venue location is: Addison Rd Community Centre 142 Addison Road, Marrickville NSW 2204. This is to be the new permanent venue. The time for Petersham Town Hall renovations was extended so we needed to search for a new venue and this is the one, enjoy!
P.S. As usual, venue info, links and maps are also available on the Addresses and Maps page


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The critic James Wood is part of the British literary invasion that brought us that verbal adept, the late Christopher Hitchens, and glam editors such as Tina Brown. So it seems fitting that Wood should launch his latest essay collection with a salute to a member of that other British invasion, the Who's drummer, Keith Moon.
In "The Fun Stuff," he compares Moon's playing to "an ideal sentence of prose, a sentence I have always wanted to write and never quite had the confidence to: a long passionate onrush, formally controlled and joyously messy, propulsive but digressively self-interrupted, attired but disheveled, careful and lawless, right and wrong."
Moon's serious riffing, his artistic exuberance, provides Wood with not just a title for his collection, but clues to its methodology and themes. The quote underlines his interest in paradox and obsession with language. The essays that follow, packed with erudition, allusion, and close textual analysis, provide an often brilliant, occasionally frustrating survey of Wood's views on postcolonial fiction, the art of translation, the manipulations of postmodernist narration, and other literary issues large and small.
In a culture that exalts strident amateur blogs and so-called citizen journalists — one in which professional criticism is indisputably under attack — Wood has become an iconic figure. Educated among the elites at Eton and Oxford, he sharpened his critical teeth at the Guardian, wrote for the New Republic (where I first encountered his work), and is now a staff writer at the New Yorker and a visiting lecturer at Harvard. The title of his best-known book, "How Fiction Works" (2008), suggested a certain unassailable authority (that other critics, naturally, were only too happy to assail).
The new collection brings together essays previously published in the New Yorker, New Republic, and London Review of Books. It deliberately inhabits the space between literary journalism and academic criticism, a borderland that is Wood's homeland.
The emphasis is on contemporary fiction — American, British, and European — with Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne Robinson, Ian McEwan, Alan Hollinghurst, and Ismail Kadare (among others) all given their due and occasionally chastised. But there are also forays into the past, sometimes inspired by new editions or translations.
So Wood is able to pronounce judgment on George Orwell (who "feared what he most desired: the future"), Tolstoy's "War and Peace" (a great favorite), the novels of Thomas Hardy (both "fantastical" and "grimly realistic"), Robert Alter's translation of the Pentateuch (about which he raves), and Edmund Wilson (whose "grand, all-seeing approach" to criticism he finds lacking).
Wood's reaction to Wilson is telling. Though he admires what he calls the "beautifully restrained and classically elegant expository prose" of Wilson's books, he finds the critic occasionally "reductive," misled by his radical politics, and too willing to forgo the close reading that is Wood's passion.
Wood's own ideologies are a bit tougher to tease out. But it's clear that, for him, great language — originality, wit, metaphor, the avoidance of cliché — is the first, best hope of novelists. His essays are nonlinear and not always elegant in form, but they invariably model verbal richness and showcase the depth and breadth of his reading.
No fan of Paul Auster's, Wood uses Keats to blast an Auster character for being "half in love with easeful cliché." He suggests, via Yeats, that Hardy casts a "cold eye on class and social mobility." In an homage to the somewhat obscure (but, to Wood, highly deserving) Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, he summons up Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" to describe rage that "goes on, can't go on, must go on."
When Wood steps back from his examination of voice and language, he is most likely to focus on themes such as the relationship between the colonist and the colonized. In "Beyond a Boundary: 'Netherland' as Postcolonial Novel," he praises Joseph O'Neill for his skillful symbolic deployment of the game of cricket as "an immigrant's imagined community." In "Wounder and Wounded," Wood ventures into biography to discuss V.S. Naipaul, awash in shame over his Trinidadian heritage and famously brutal to the women in his life. "In his writing, Naipaul is simultaneously the colonized and the colonist," says Wood, leaning on the sort of paradoxical formulation that he loves.
It's fair to say that the more one knows of a particular author or novel, the more rewarding are Wood's readings. So the experience of this collection will vary with one's own literary background. For me, Wood's comparison of Alter's biblical translation to the King James version and his discussion of Richard Yates's "Revolutionary Road" — as a "clever and passionate rewriting of 'Madame Bovary' " — were particular favorites.
But the final essay, "Packing My Father-in-Law's Library," resonated most strongly of all, because I had recently faced a similar task, with my late mother's books. Wood muses over the relationship between one's library and one's identity. He painstakingly catalog s a part of the collection, but also imagines the books as ruins. In the end, he finds, as I did, "that no one really wants hundreds or thousands of old books" — an ironic coda to the enterprise in which Wood and his readers have been so fruitfully engaged.
Julia M. Klein is a cultural reporter and critic in Philadelphia and a contributing editor at Columbia Journalism Review.


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Competition can help cut cable costs
Threatening to stop service often leads to better offers
Cable competition in the Kansas City area may be the key to saving money on monthly bills, experts told KMBC 9 News.
Customers said they regularly pay between $100-$200 every month for cable, Internet and phone bundles. People with premium packages pay even more money, often for channels they will never watch.
"There's just too many (channels)," said AT&T U-verse customer Tamara Ziegler. "On a regular basis, we probably watch about 20 to 25 of these channels."
She said her family often wonders why they have the service in the first place.
Last year, Ziegler said she called AT&T to cancel her cable service and wound up getting offered a deal for $60 off instead.
"They said, 'Well, we don't want you to completely give up cable, so we'd like to offer you a special discount,'" Ziegler said.
"That's what their game is right now. That's what their whole game is right now, period. They don't have much choice," said Tony Tocco, a professor at Rockhurst University.
He said Time Warner Cable had a virtual monopoly on cable and Internet service in town. Now, Kansas City-area customers can choose from AT&T U-verse, Surewest, Comcast, satellite customers and even Google Fiber.
Tocco said he knocked $63 off his AT&T bill last summer when Surewest tried to sign him up.
"Customers have a tremendous opportunity to lower their costs," he said. "They should be taking advantage of it."
"We want to keep every customer. We want to add customers," said AT&T spokesman Chris Lester. "So we'll talk to folks. Absolutely, because we would rather keep a customer as go find a new one, quite honestly."
Time Warner Cable and AT&T both said they will make deals to keep customers or steal them from the competition. However, it's usually up to the customer to ask, usually under the threat to leave. Experts said all companies want to charge as much for their product as people are willing to pay.
"Call and ask and see what kind of a deal you can get," Ziegler said.
A customer's chances of getting a discount also hinge on whether he or she is under contract with a cable provider and whether there's a second provider serving the neighborhood.
Tocco said companies won't make deals if they have a monopoly in the area.
When asked to comment on local competition, Time Warner said in a statement, "That's why we offer a variety of video and Internet services and different packages, so customers can customize their information and entertainment services to meet their needs and budgets."
Some people are taking another option and dropping cable entirely. In a post on the KMBC 9 News Facebook page, Brian Maupin said, "I get over-the-air HD (television) and use Netflix and Hulu for TV shows. Overall, I pay less than $15 a month for basically the same amount of content cable offers."


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South African doctors say Mandela 'much better'
Former South African president and anti-apartheid titan Nelson Mandela is making "steady improvement" under treatment for pneumonia and is much better now than when he was hospitalised a week ago, the government said on Wednesday.world Updated: Apr 03, 2013, 19:08 IST
Former South African president and anti-apartheid titan Nelson Mandela is making "steady improvement" under treatment for pneumonia and is much better now than when he was hospitalised a week ago, the government said on Wednesday.
The three-sentence statement from President Jacob Zuma's office was the most upbeat since the 94-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate was admitted to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection.
"His doctors say he continues to respond satisfactorily to treatment and is much better now than when he was admitted to hospital on the 27th of March 2013," the statement said. Doctors have already drained excess fluid from Mandela's lungs, allowing him to breath without difficulty, the government said in previous bulletins.
It is the third health scare in four months for Mandela, who became South Africa's first black president in 1994 and is hailed as a global symbol of tolerance and harmony.
He was in hospital briefly in early March for a check-up and was hospitalised in December for nearly three weeks with a lung infection and after surgery to remove gallstones.
That was his longest stay in hospital since his release from prison in 1990 after serving almost three decades behind bars on a conviction of conspiracy to overthrow the white-minority government.
Mandela stepped down after one term as president in 1999. He has not been politically active for a decade but is still revered worldwide for leading the struggle against apartheid and then championing racial reconciliation while in office.
Global figures such as US President Barack Obama have sent get-well messages.
During the Easter weekend South Africans who have become used to reports of his increasingly frail health over the last decade remembered him in their prayers.
"He's like a king but he is not a king. He is even bigger than that. He was our first president," said bus driver Phila Masimula. However, praise has not been universal.
Some South Africans accuse Mandela of selling out to the white minority in 1994 in his quest to forge a "Rainbow Nation" from the ashes of apartheid.
Despite strong economic growth in the two decades since white rule ended, South Africa remains one of the world's most unequal societies with white households enjoying incomes six times higher on average than black ones.
"Mandela kept on saying, 'I am here for the people, I am the servant of the nation.' What did he do? He signed papers that allowed white people to keep the mines and the farms," said 49-year-old Majozi Pilane, who runs a stall selling fruits, sweets and cigarettes in the heart of the black township of Soweto.
"He did absolutely nothing for all the poor people of this country."
Mandela's last notable public appearance was at the final of the soccer World Cup in 2010. Since then, he has stayed at his home in Johannesburg or in Qunu, the remote village where he was born in the impoverished province of Eastern Cape.
Mandela has a history of lung problems dating back to when he contracted tuberculosis as a political prisoner.
He spent 27 years in prison on Robben Island and in other jails.


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Millionaires in Ghana: Who is Who?
When I was young, I thought anyone who had one million cedis was a millionaire. Many young people thought so. Who then is a millionaire? He or she is a person whose material wealth is valued at more than one million dollars, pounds or euros, or better still, a person whose wealth is counted in millions. In much the same way, a person who is worth more than one million new Ghana cedis can be called a millionaire in Ghanaian terms. One million Ghana cedis may not be worth much but it is still a lot of money for many people in Ghana who cannot dream of ever having such money. For the purpose of this article, I will define a Ghanaian millionaire as someone whose total assets are worth at least ten million GhC. There are quite a few millionaires in Ghana by that definition. They will be called millionaires even in dollar or euro terms.
Blay Leak, who compiles lists of great achievers in Ghana, declared in his compilation in December 2011, the following Ghanaians as the top ten millionaires in the country. According to him, the majority of them, politicians, got their riches through kickbacks from military hardware procurements, wheat and rice imports, and kickbacks from other contracts to foreign companies. They declare their incomes and pay their taxes, correctly and on time.
He confirmed the following as those who gave complete access to their riches: Top on the list is Dr. Kwame Addo Kufuor who is reported to be worth $1.2 billion. This makes him the richest man in Ghana. He is the brother of the former president, Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor. Born 72 years ago, he trained as a medical doctor in the United Kingdom. He became Ghana's longest serving Defence Minister. He is followed at a distant place by Dr. Sam Jonah with a net worth of $500 million. As President of Anglogold, he shares the strategic leadership of the Company with its current CEO, Bobby Godsell. He supervised the transformation of Ashanti Goldfields into a multi-national and oversaw its listing as the first operating African Company on the New York Stock Exchange. Dr. Kwasi Nduom (59) comes third with a reported worth of $300 million. He is a business consultant and a politician. He earned a Doctorate degree in something called Service Delivery System from a US university. His business interests are concentrated in the hospitality industry. Nana Akufo-Addo is fourth with a cool $250 million. A lawyer and a politician, Nana, born in 1944, is a founding member of the NPP, and presently its flag-bearer in the 2012 general elections. He is a UK trained lawyer, called to the English and Ghanaians bars. He has a thriving law firm. Nana is closely followed by Dr. Yaw Osafo Marfo, $220 million. He is an Engineer and a project analyst by training. He is a consultant to the World Bank, African Development Bank and UNDP. A former member of parliament and NPP guru, he served many ministerial positions in the Kufuor government.
The following complete the top ten list: Kwesi Botchway (lawyer and former government official), $200million; Dr. Kwaku Afriyie (politician, former government minister in the Kufuor regime and currently board chairman of the Electricity Company of Ghana), $180 million;.former President. Rawlings, (now "only" 65 years old), $50 million. The last in the top ten is the cigar-thumping Kofi Wayo, the show-boy of Ghanaian politics. He is reputed to be worth $30 million. The source of this man's wealth is the stock of many vile rumours.
However, Prof. Nana Kofi Osei Tutu, who made his own research and compilation, placed the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, on top of the millionaires list with a whopping net worth of $1.6 billion. No Ghanaian appears on Forbes Magazine's top 40 richest people in Africa first issued last year even though the Asantehene's wealth would seem to put him there.
All the millionaires named above are over fifty years. However, in places like the USA and the UK, people can become millionaires even before they reach 30. Examples include Michael Jackson, and Taylor Lautner, and Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame. I wonder whether in the next century something like this will happen in Ghana. The fact is that the Ghanaian society seldom rewards skilled and talented people by signing contracts for advertisement of products. Our economy is simply not big enough to sustain such things at a high level. Our culture does not allow for that kind of hero worship that will transform celebrities into multi-millionaires on account of their celebrity status. Agya Koo could easily have become a millionaire if he was an American.
Apart from Sam Jonah, the top ten is made up of politicians. When Rawlings came to power in 1979 through a coup d'état, he preached against corruption. Many rich people were suspected of corruption and their properties seized. He was the man of the people and he had extreme hatred for corruption. He preached against people who became rich through corrupt means in the midst of widespread poverty and hardship. His followers did many bad things in his name. It is ironic that Rawlings, who did not reprimand his men for looting and whipping naked women in public for allegedly being corrupt because they were perceived to be rich has, today, become one of the richest men in Ghana.
Even though many pastors in Ghana are extremely rich, none of them is considered a millionaire. It is a known fact that most pastors shift the total wealth to the church, while they declare little salaries for themselves. Yet they drive fancy and luxurious cars and live worldly emperors. One wonders whether these pastors are serving God and the people or they are serving themselves.
There are some Ghanaian rich men who are actively working their way towards the top ten. One of such persons is Herman Kojo Chinery-Hesse (the Bill Gates of Ghana). As a brash, ambitious and optimistic person, Herman Chinery-Hesse had already accomplished what many thought was impossible – building a technology business in Ghana. He was a 43 year old entrepreneur whose ambition was to create a tech company with the aim of reshaping the business climate for entrepreneurs in Africa. He is a technological software entrepreneur on a technologically barren continent. Mr. Herman Chiery-Hesse, the African Dream, co-founded SOFTtribe Ltd. twenty years ago. It may not be as popular as Microsoft but its impact in Africa is very extensive and remarkable. SOFTtribe Ltd has designed a voice analysing software which detects stress levels and other metrics from a person's voice to determine whether a person is telling the truth or lying. SOFTtribe's products have been providing cost-effective and practical business solutions to both private and public sectors in Ghana and parts of West Africa.
It must be here noted that there is nothing, in principle, wrong with a few citizens being extremely rich while the majority are wallowing in abject poverty. After all, we all know that all the fingers are not the same. That is the natural way of things and everybody cannot become a millionaire. What we should be here concerned with most is how the rich in society become rich and the effects of their avarice on the rest of society. In Ghana, the worrying fact may be that too many of the rich are politicians - a line of activity that is not directly linked with the actual production of goods and services. If politicians are rich because of their political activities (or inactivity) then society's resources are not being optimally allocated to areas where they will be most beneficial to the entire society. The same effect is achieved if the non-politically rich obtain their wealth by cheating the system or exploiting the loopholes in the system. Even outside Ghana, it will be difficult to find a self-made millionaire who has not, somewhere along the line, cut a few corners. Even Bill Gates and Steve Jobs may have ridden rough-shod over some people on their path to their billions. The problem arises where such acquisition of wealth is based solely on chicanery, outright theft and bullying without a corresponding creation of anything. Enterprise, talent, hard work, daringness, all need to be amply rewarded even if the beneficiaries become stinking rich. They contribute to society through direct creation of wealth or through some form of the so-called creative destruction. Outright theft should not be rewarded.
There is so much the rich in Ghana can do to improve the lot of society. They can establish businesses that can create jobs. They can go into areas where others cannot go since they are already rich and will not be too bothered about losing a few millions. They can encourage brainy young Ghanaians to set up new businesses or start-ups by providing them with venture capital.
The rich, if they acquired their riches through clean means, can act as role models to the young in society to also strive to achieve similar feats. This role model factor is best served by the rich who use their riches well rather than those who only flaunt them because our society fawns over the well-endowed.
A very important role of the rich in Ghana will be the initiative they take in charitable acts. Those Ghanaians who have more money than they can ever make use of can set up charitable foundations to address specific issues in society. Even in the developed countries where everybody is supposed to be okay, the beneficence of the very rich is seen through their contributions to worthy causes, sometimes even anonymously. The Asantehene is providing leadership in this direction. He has set up an educational fund which provides full financial aid to the less privileged in society to have education from primary to the university level. Even though he is the Ashanti King, any orphan or less privileged from any region can apply to this fund. Other areas such as rural electrification, providing boreholes and many more could be taken up in various regions by the rich.
Are Ghana's millionaires up to the task or do they think only of themselves and their immediate family members? Your guess is as good as mine.
Written by: Stephen Atta Owusu
Author: Dark Faces at Crossroads
Email: [email protected]
The author has 138 publications published on Modern Ghana.
Disclaimer: "The views/contents expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author(s) and do not neccessarily reflect those of Modern Ghana. Modern Ghana will not be responsible or liable for any inaccurate or incorrect statements contained in this article."


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A retired civil servant living in Plymouth, England, recently decided to figure out once and for all why there was a dip in the floor underneath his sofa. After three days of work, and much to his amazement, he discovered that the house he had been living in for the past 25 years was built on top of a 33 foot medieval well dating back to the 16th century. Donna Bowater of the Telegraph reports:
Mr Steer managed to excavate it using a rope to carry out the debris with the help of a friend before discovering an old sword.
"It was hidden at a 45 degree angle and sort of just fell out. It looks like an old peasant's fighting weapon because it appears to be made up of bits of metal all knocked together," he added.
According to Mr Steer's research, the land on which his house in Mannamead Road now stands was woodland until 1895, with Drake's leat running through it.
The watercourse was built in the 16th century by Sir Francis Drake to carry water from Dartmoor to Plymouth.
He said: "I've been doing lots of research into its history but I'd like to try and find someone to date it.
"I love the well and think it's fascinating. I'd love to find out who was here before us. I've got a piece of Plymouth's history in my front room."
Looking at the inset image, I love how Steer has covered the top of the well with a glass enclosed trap door. His wife looks thrilled.
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The break-up frenzy that upended Glee earlier this month appears to be spreading to Bones.
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If you type the phrase "Facebook is evil" into Google, you get about 249 million results. Interestingly, "the devil is evil" only yields 58.7 million results. And you only wind up with 17.9 million hits for "Justin Bieber is evil." (Happy Canada Day!)
But do you know what? Wall Street doesn't care that Facebook toys with its users. In fact, a big reason why investors may love Facebook's (FB) stock so much is because it has so much information about you, me and everyone else that's using the social network.
Facebook shares finished the first half of 2014 up 23%. Only three stocks in CNNMoney's Tech 30 did better: gaming companies Electronic Arts (EA), Activision Blizzard (ATVI) and smartphone turnaround story BlackBerry (BBRY).
I seriously doubt that too many people are going to stop posting obsessively on Facebook -- despite all the outrage about the study it conducted in 2012 where it tried to manipulate the moods of a small portion of its users.
Maybe I'm wrong though. Are you fed up with Facebook? If so, share your story by clicking here. We may use it in a future story on CNNMoney.
Related: Facebook treats you like a lab rat
But as long as a billion plus individuals are updating their status and checking their News Feeds frequently, Wall Street won't care, either. That's because investors only care about two emotions: Fear and greed. The latter is currently the one most associated with Facebook.
Facebook's stock has done so well (after those awkward first few months following its 2012 IPO) because the company went from being one that was still struggling for ways to "monetize" its users effectively (especially on mobile) to a true digital advertising juggernaut like Google (GOOGL).
Just look at the numbers. That's what investors are doing. Facebook's revenue was just under $8 billion in 2013. Sales are expected to hit $11.8 billion this year and $15.6 billion in 2015, according to estimates from FactSet. That's phenomenal for a company this young.
When people talk about tech being a bubble, it's often because startups are getting gajillion-dollar valuations despite having little in the way of sales. Ahem, Uber! Ah-Airbnb-choo!
Obviously, Facebook is not in this camp.
Consider this: The $15.6 billion sales estimate for Facebook in 2015 is higher than what analysts think media titans CBS (CBS) and Viacom (VIAB) will report in annual revenue next year.
It's also more than what analysts are expecting from blue chip companies such as Dow component Visa (V) and its rival MasterCard (MA), as well as drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY).
Facebook is also obscenely profitable. Wall Street is forecasting annual earnings growth of about 35% a year for the next few years. And the company's net profit margin in 2014 is expected to be 32%. The S&P 500's projected net profit margin? Less than 10%.
It is clear that Facebook is a hit on Wall Street because advertisers want to be there. Facebook is no longer a question mark from a marketing perspective. Big companies have to have a social media presence. And Facebook, along with Twitter (TWTR), is the place to raise brand awareness socially.
Nobody likes being treated like a test subject. But Facebook users consent to this when they agree to the company's terms of service. As long as Facebook is a free site, advertising is going to be the main way the company makes money.
Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of Facebook's executives know that. So unless Facebook users vote with their fingers and decide to leave the service (as well as Facebook-owned Instagram) in droves, you can probably expect the company to experiment even more so it can find exactly the right information that it needs to boost ad revenues.
Do you plan to quit Facebook? Tell us
So does that make Facebook evil? Zuckerberg should proudly quote a line from classic heavy metal song made popular by fellow Bay Area natives Metallica. (Although that song was originally recorded by British metal group Diamond Head.) "Am I evil? I am man, yes I am!"
Rock on, everyone. Enjoy the original Diamond Head version. Warning. There are language issues. This is a heavy metal song after all.
This is the story of the road that goes to my house. Quick reader shout-out for a Twitter follower who won my "Name that Tune" challenge this morning. I tweeted about how the markets were off to a hot start on this first day of the second half of the year.
It's from a song by one of my favorite bands. And something tells me that Metallica probably wouldn't cover it. A little too folk-y.
Congrats, Kim. I'm also honored by your follow up tweet.
Being compared to The Decemberists' lead singer Colin Meloy makes me giddy. It's totally not true though. Until I start writing columns about chimney sweeps, sea shanties and Civil War battles, he'll always be more interesting than me.
But who says flattery will get you nowhere?
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