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98.7WFMT's Candice Agree gives us 'Some Scary Celluloid Pianists for Halloween'Posted At : October 28, 2020 9:49 AM
"Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine." ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The human hand: its fingers, bones, muscles, and more give us the ability to add a pinch of salt, play any number of musical instruments, change a tire, flip a pancake, and so much else. That our hands have the capacity to perform these movements repeatedly and without thinking about them is due to muscle or motor memory. But suppose a hand were transplanted from another body. Could it-would it-retain unthinking memories created with that original body? If you were to ask Hollywood, the answer is a very blood-curdling scream of "YES!" As Halloween approaches, let's look at a few horror films in which pianists, or at least the hands they are attached to, are the stars. The relationship between science fact and science fiction has always been something of a bridge, with inspiration flowing in both directions. Whether it's Leonardo da Vinci's revolutionary plans for flying machines and concentrated solar power, Jules Verne's Extraordinary Voyages series, or Star Trek's hands-free, voice-activated communicators and phasers, it's our imagination that keeps us in fear or helps us conquer it. Just as the unimaginable becomes the near-at-hand, so too do we brush aside the veils of superstition and fear. "Through the hand, human culture waves away animal nature," reflects Raymond Tallis in The hand: a philosophical inquiry into human being. Well, mostly. The ancient and universal nightmares still persist today, even, and perhaps especially, when we should know better. READ 98.7WFMT: Chicago - Candice Agree's FULL ARTICLE
Shunia infuses a bit of sanity and peace to our turbulent times with 'Sa Re Sa Sa' / New Music AlertPosted At : October 28, 2020 7:26 AM
The joyful duo Shunia (Lisa Love and Suzanne Jackson) is back to infuse a bit of sanity and peace to our turbulent times with their new single "Sa Re Sa Sa"– a song based on the popular mantra "Sa Re Sa Sa, Sa Re Sa Sa, Sa Re Sa Sa, Sa Rung Har Re Har Har, Har Re Har Har, Har Re Har Har, Har Rung" and if you watched the video, it will simply rub off on you–the chemistry, the colors, the vibrancy that they all have brought together make you forget the dark and uncertain period of the past few months. I remember their last single "Akal," and whenever I hear it, I get goosebumps. It feels like the duo is on a crusade to drive out the negativity, the gloom, and the directionlessness that the world is engulfed with, and what could be more powerful than to do it with the power of sound–a sound replete with the power of mantras, variety of instrumentation, vocals, and vistas of hope and joy! It is a complete package! READ THE FULL New Music Alert ARTICLE & WATCH THE VIDEO
On Smaro Gregoriadou's 'A Healing Fire,' rigorous challenges, but a satisfying adventure / Performing Arts Monterey Bay WeeklyPosted At : October 27, 2020 3:42 PM
DECADES AGO at a Carmel Bach Festival solo violin recital the young man sitting next to me struck up a conversation. When he told me he had come from Fresno I asked him if it was to escape the summer heat there. "No," he said, "I wanted to hear how a fugue can be played on a solo violin." Good answer, I thought. The fugue in question is the second movement from JS Bach's Sonata in A minor, the very work that opens this new Delos recital by the extraordinary Greek guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou. She uses Bach's own transcription for harpsichord of the sonata, to D minor, and plays it on a "high-tuned pedal guitar in scalloped frets of the Kertsopoulos Aesthetics.*" For the rest of her program, titled "A Healing Fire," she uses a classical pedal guitar of the same aesthetics, a technical platform that expands the timbral colorations available to the performer. In her opening remarks, Gregoriadou writes, "The compositions in this collection offer encouragement and hope against today's dystopia and chaos; they explore spirituality, self-knowledge and transcendence, illuminating dark and ambiguous regions of the human psyche with a different kind of light, a different sort of fire. They are conduits for catharsis, an escape from conflicts, antinomy and traumas this world torments us with. From Bach's ecstatic Credo to Gubaidulina's submersion into the most transparent awareness prayer can bring; and from Hétu's suspended scream to Britten's self-absorbing surrender to Sleep and Nothingness, these towering masterpieces are, above all, essays on the mystical, reflections of the sacred!" Britten wrote his circumspect Nocturnal after John Dowland for the late Julian Bream; its eight variations, ending in a large passacaglia are based on "Come, heavy Sleep, the image of true Death, and close up these my weary weeping eyes" from Dowland's First Book of Songs (1597), cast as a journey through the night, often meditative and tranquil, sometimes restless or agitated. Sofia Gubaidulina, a Shostakovich protégée who turned 89 on Saturday, is a woefully underrepresented yet hugely prolific Tatarstani composer of deep spiritual affect and a cheeky sense of humor, witness her The Unasked Answer for three orchestras, an obvious play on Ives' The Unanswered Question. Her Serenade for guitar, at just three minutes, doesn't really rectify her status in the West. Jacques Hétu's five-movement Suite for guitar of 1986 makes plain his French aesthetic. Why Gregoriadou calls it a 'suspended scream' I cannot explain; Hétu (1938-2010) is a self-described melodist with a keen grasp of musical form, harmonic relationships and the guitar itself. Sure there are rigorous challenges for both the guitarist and the listener but ultimately a satisfying adventure. SM
Colin Stetson's 'Reborn' makes UConn Daily Campus - 'spooky tunes for a spooky week'Posted At : October 27, 2020 11:58 AM
Based on the events from the past two weeks, the word "midterm" likely provokes flashbacks of absent guidance from professors and feelings of dread while opening LockDown Browser. Hopefully, most of us have survived by now. The end of October is arguably one of the best times of the year; a time when orange, black, purple, and green seem to be the only appropriate colors and ghosts and jack o'lanterns thrive on front porches. Although there's nothing scarier than taking exams during an online semester, spookiness has only just arrived. For this week's column, I thought it'd be best to share some Hollywood-inspired sinister tunes, leaving midterms as a repressed memory and embracing the spirit of Halloween, which happens to be right around the corner. In contrast to my love for "Psycho," I think one of my biggest regrets in life is seeing "Hereditary." The fact that sleep, an activity I was quite fond of prior to watching the film, had become impossible during the full week it took me to recover only serves as a testament to Ari Aster's talent at scaring audiences out of their wits. There are many aspects of the movie that contribute to its spine-chilling abilities, but it'd be fair to give its score some credit. "Reborn" is probably the most well-known piece from the score, partly due to its loud use at the end and its popularity as a sound on TikTok. The best (or worst) part about it is its unnatural celebratory undertone, which makes sense in the context of the scene. On the other hand, objectively hearing it makes me want to rip off my toes. Despite my love-hate relationship with the film, I can't help but admit the music is a premier feature. While watching "Hereditary" on Halloween night is quite the opposite of what I endorse, I can condone listening to "Reborn." SEE UConn Daily Campus PAGE
For Halloween - SiriusXM: Symphony Hall features; 'Scary Soundtracks with Michael Shapiro'Posted At : October 27, 2020 12:00 AM
This Friday - October 30 at 9 pm ET, SiriusXM's Symphony Hall Channel will feature; 'Scary Soundtracks with Michael Shapiro, a 1hr special highlighting the Overture to the the 1931 film 'Frankenstein.' With an incredible legacy, and selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, the movie was first released, unfortunately, with no original soundtrack. That all changed in 2001, when composer Michael Shapiro was commissioned to write one. Join SiriusXM: Symphony Hall for a special Halloween "Classics On Film" when Michael joins host Vincent Caruso to speak about his own creation! You'll hear some of Michael's "Frankenstein" soundtrack as well as to hear some of Michael's picks for scariest film music!
Jeni Slotchiver - American Heritage is a homage to the legendary composers of American traditional folk music / JP's Music BlogPosted At : October 25, 2020 12:00 AM
Famed classical pianist Jeni Slotchiver recently released her ZOHO label debut album "American Heritage." It is a homage to the legendary composers of American traditional folk music. Jeni's new eighteen track release begins with the beautifully elegant delivery of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's (1875-1912) "Deep River." She performs a spiritual version of Harry Thacker Burleigh's (1866-1949) six-piece suite of "Southland," before arriving at the epic, nine-minute musical number "Union, Paraphrase de Concert Op. 48" by Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869). The melody livens-up with Florence B. Price's (1887-1953) "Nimble Feet" and "Tropical Noon." Jeni Slotchiver finishes up her new album with the more well-known sing-along "Down By The Riverside" by Frederic Rzewski (b. 1938) and the two-minute gentle masterpiece of "Swanee River" from William Grant Still (1895-1979). To find out more about Jeni Slotchiver and her latest release "American Heritage," please visit jenislotchiver.com. SEE THE JP's Music Blog PAGE
Katia and Marielle Labeque have been playing, and enlarging, the two-piano repertory for over 50 years / The New York TimesPosted At : October 25, 2020 12:00 AM
These Sisters Have Transformed the Piano Duo "Oh, look!" said the pianist Katia Labèque, pushing aside some neatly ironed clothes hanging on a rack. Behind the clothes, which were behind the boiler in the utility room of her home and studio here in French Basque Country, was a poster advertising concerts last year at the Philharmonie in Paris. It showed Katia and her sister, Marielle - both with dark hair flowing, glamorously dressed - and listed three programs: five centuries of Basque music; a Stravinsky and Debussy double bill; an evening with three art-rock auteurs, Thom Yorke, Bryce Dessner and David Chalmin. "We're ridiculous," said Katia. "This is the only poster we have, and it's hidden." The poster suggests the wildly varied musical interests of the Labèque sisters, who for over 50 years have been playing - and enlarging - the two-piano repertory. They have interpreted traditional classical and Romantic works, to brilliant effect, but have also ventured into jazz, Baroque, modernist and experimental genres - commissioning scores, inventing projects and testing their limits. Their latest recording, out this week, is a newly arranged two-piano adaptation of Philip Glass's opera "Les Enfants Terribles." "What always struck me with both of them is that, although they are very different human beings, they both have this endless curiosity about everything, not just music," said Simon Rattle, the music director of the London Symphony Orchestra and a frequent Labèques collaborator. Katia, 70, and Marielle, 68, have been inventing themselves since they were teenagers. First taught by their mother, an Italian piano teacher and pupil of the renowned pianist Marguerite Long, the sisters moved at 11 and 13 from their hometown, Hendaye (not far from here), to attend the prestigious Paris Conservatory. "They taught you the tricks, but not the love of music that we learned from our parents," Marielle said. "Maybe that helped us develop our sense of independence, the desire to move in the world on our own terms." (The sisters, interviewed mostly in French, also speak fluent English, Italian and Spanish.) The election. And its impact on you. They decided against the solo careers that their fiercely competitive training had shaped them for. "From the moment we left - and it was 1968, the year of revolution of the students - we said, 'Let's do something maybe not so conventional,'" Katia said. They decided to play together. After studying at the Paris Conservatory, the Labèques made the unconventional choice to play as a duo.Credit...Keystone/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images "They took a time-honored form, the double piano, which had become slightly less fashionable, and breathed entirely new life into it," said Deborah Borda, the president and chief executive of the New York Philharmonic. Despite their almost uncanny unity onstage - "it's a mystery beyond sisterhood," Mr. Rattle said - the Labèques have very different personalities. In the interview, Katia exuded energy and enthusiasm, while Marielle remained calm and reflective. But they agreed that they never really had a career plan. After deciding to perform together, they joined the Conservatory's chamber music graduate class to develop their dual repertory, and worked as ensemble musicians with Félix Blaska's dance company. One day, while they were working on Olivier Messiaen's "Visions de l'Amen," Messiaen, who taught composition at the Conservatory, knocked on the door. After listening for a bit, he asked if one of the sisters would record the work with his wife. Even then, they showed surprising strength of purpose. "We said, 'No, we are just starting out and we can't begin by dividing,'" Katia recalled. But eventually Messiaen asked them to record the work together, which led to encounters with the composers Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio, whom they boldly approached, asking him to compose a work for them. Berio suggested they give the French premiere of his double piano concerto, which they subsequently played all over the world. Their international breakthrough came with a 1980 recording of "Rhapsody in Blue," which was a best seller but led to some harsh criticism from parts of the classical music establishment. "The concert halls were closed to Gershwin," Katia said. "People would say, 'He is not a serious composer.' The same thing was true 30 years later, when we started to play Philip Glass." The sisters, brilliant in traditional repertory, played Mendelssohn with Bernard Labadie and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2013. The sisters, brilliant in traditional repertory, played Mendelssohn with Bernard Labadie and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2013.Credit...Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times, via Getty Images They were also sometimes ribbed for their designer outfits and glossy image. But Chad Smith, the chief executive of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, said he loved that the Labèques "have a complete vision. Lighting creates a beautiful environment; clothes, too. They come with a theatrical approach and have shown the false narrative that it's less serious if you engage in the visual." Over the years, they have pursued Baroque music, on Silbermann-model period-style pianofortes made for them and with the ensemble Il Giardino Armonico; ragtime; traditional Basque music; and jazz. Katia once lived with the jazz musician John McLaughlin and played in his band, and counts Miles Davis - who wrote two songs for her - and Billie Holiday as influences. The sisters have plunged deep into experimental terrain in "Minimalist Dream House," an ongoing series of concerts and recordings with Mr. Chalmin, who is Katia's partner, and Mr. Dessner. "They have an extremely broad vision of what they can do in a concert hall, and they treat everyone with the same respect," said Mr. Dessner, best known as a member of the indie-rock band the National. The coronavirus pandemic paused a number of their projects. A concerto by Nico Muhly, which should have premiered at the New York Philharmonic in early June, is now scheduled for the Paris Philharmonie on Nov. 12; a program with Mr. Dessner and the soprano Barbara Hannigan will probably be pushed to 2022. But one thing they could work on in quarantine was "Les Enfants Terribles," arranged by Mr. Glass's longtime collaborator, Michael Riesman. During the initial lockdown the Labèques worked separately to prepare the score - Marielle lives with her husband, the conductor Semyon Bychkov, about nine miles from the house Katia and Mr. Chalmin share - but sent recordings back and forth and spoke frequently with Mr. Riesman about changes. "We wanted more of the story and the dramatic parts," Katia said. "It was so odd that it's a story of confinement." After the lockdown restrictions were relaxed in May, they were able to practice together, and recorded the work in the state-of-the-art studio at Katia's house. "I love the way they play Philip Glass," said Mr. Riesman. "They have the right style, the right approach. They don't overly dramatize or emote." Mr. Muhly said, "They are actually much more involved in everything than most people of their stature. They email you about material; they are totally involved. The rhythms of the day are organized around an unspeakably rigorous work ethic, but there is something really elegant about the way they live their lives which flows into music and food and their extended family of artists." The sisters' trick, according to Katia, is their constant desire to change and learn. "We never want to rely on what we've done," she said. "We have always tried to be relentlessly in the present." PHOTO: Lawrence K. Ho
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Laura Karpman - Raphael Saadiq :
Lovecraft Country (HBO ORIGINAL SERIES)WaterTower Music is pleased to announce today's release of the 62-track Lovecraft Country (Soundtrack from the HBO® Original Series), featuring music from the first season of Lovecraft Country, which airs on HBO/ HBO Max, and is Based on Matt Ruff 's novel of the same name.
Christopher Hoyt Knight :
Yellow Rose OMPSSony Music Masterworks announces the release of YELLOW ROSE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK), an album of music featured in the upcoming musical drama from director Diane Paragas.
Dickon Hinchliffe :
The Third Day: Winter (From The Limited Series)Milan Records announces the release of THE THIRD DAY: WINTER (MUSIC FROM THE LIMITED SERIES) with music by award-winning composer DICKON HINCHLIFFE.
Adam Janota Bzowski :
Saint MaudMilan Records announces the release of SAINT MAUD (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by ADAM JANOTA BZOWSKI.
Vangelis :
Juno to JupiterInspired by the ground-breaking mission of NASA's Juno space probe and its ongoing exploration of Jupiter, Juno to Jupiter is a multi-dimensional musical journey through electronic, progressive, ambient, techno, orchestral, and vocal music.
Helene Grimaud :
The MessengerFor her latest studio album, pianist Hélène Grimaud travels to Salzburg where she creates a fascinating juxtaposition between the eternal Mozart and the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov (b.
Keith Jarrett :
Budapest ConcertBudapest Concert is the second complete show to be issued from Keith Jarrett's 2016 European tour, recorded two weeks earlier than the widely-acclaimed concert released as Munich 2016.
Devonte Hynes :
We Are Who We Are (Original Series Score)Milan Records today announces the release of Luca Guadagnino's WE ARE WHO WE ARE (ORIGINAL SERIES SCORE) featuring music by producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter and vocalist DEVONTÉ HYNES.
Seth MacFarlane :
Great Songs From Stage & ScreenGrammy-nominated vocalist, Seth MacFarlane, releases his 6th studio album, Great Songs From Stage & Screen (Republic/Verve).
Cristobal Tapia de Veer :
The Third Day -Summer (From The Limited Series)Milan Records announces the release of THE THIRD DAY: SUMMER (MUSIC FROM THE LIMITED SERIES) with music by award-winning composer CRISTOBAL TAPIA DE VEER.
Dave Soldier - Zajal is a lovingly compiled musical scrapbook from the Middle East and Andalusia / blogcriticsPosted: January 17, 2020 12:00 AM | By: Admin
Dave Soldier's newest release bracingly fuses originality and tradition. Zajal is a "world music" album that sounds like a lovingly compiled scrapbook of music from the Middle East and Andalusia. But it's deceptive: With one exception, all the music is by the ever-imaginative Soldier.
For this project the keyboardist and guitarist has set thousand-year-old poems in Hebrew, Arabic and the other languages of Andalusia (English translations are online) to bubbling stews of traditional instrumentation with strains of jazz and swatches of the Western avant-garde. Singer Ana Nimouz lends her starry, sweetly piercing vocals to many of the tracks, with superb contributions from other male and female voices too.
The swirling arrangements include Latin percussion; the oud (from which we derive our word "lute") and the sentur (an Iranian hammered dulcimer); and Western strings and winds. The moods vary from snappy and joyous ("The Spy," "Don't Bite Me Baby") to mystical and devotional ("My Father," "Water and Fire"), defiant ("Beautiful Boy") to contemplative ("Land of Spain"), with a taste of jazz fusion ("Without Myself"). I'm giving only the English titles; the songs are mostly sung in Arabic, Hebrew, Romance (early Spanish) and Farsi.
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Zajal, renowned Downtown composer and instrumentalist Dave Soldier explores the beginning of popular song and locates it 1000 years ago at the intersection of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian cultures in southern Spain. Zajal, along with muwashaha, were the lyrics of medieval Andalusia. While many are still sung today (notably in Lebanon), their offspring are everywhere. On a trip to Spain in 2004, Soldier read about the Andalusian caliphate, when the Muslim, Christian and Jewish com- munities not only coexisted, but co-created much of the world we inhabit today. Together, they produced the novel, cowboy culture, the guitar, the dance suite, the Kabbalah, Maimonides and ibn Arabi and the discovery of the New World. And modern song: the zajal and muwashaha introduced the verse and chorus that are the backbone of popular music. Imitation of Andalusia's singing oud players begat the troubadours and the figure of the wandering poet and singer in its myriad incarnations, from Villon to Joni Mitchell.
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Naked Revolution
Released for the one hundredth anniversary of the Soviet Revolution's toppling of the statue of Czar Alexander II at the Kremlin, this is the premiere recording of the socialist realist opera Naked Revolution by composer Dave Soldier with the Russian migr satirical artists Komar & Melamid.
The work was premiered at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis and the Kitchen in New York City in 1997. The central conceit was drawn from a series of dreams by Russian immigrants to New York (and in fact were dreams by Vitaly Komar). A collection of satirical heroic paintings in the socialist realist style, American Dreams, were created with the opera and toured museums and galleries and released as an art book: the CD cover and additional art in the CD are from this collection.


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text: US / sexual abuse Massive Sex Abuse Scandal Swirls Around Prep School 40 alumni say they were abused By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted Jan 6, 2016 4:04 PM CST Copied Harry Groome, of Arlington, Mass., third from right, a former student at St. George's School from 1978-1982, speaks to members of the media while sitting with attorneys, Carmen Durso, fifth from right,... (AP Photo/Steven Senne) View 1 more image (Newser) – A sex abuse scandal is swirling around a Rhode Island prep school. At least 40 former students of St. George's School in Middletown have said they were abused—raped, in some cases—by seven former staffers and four students between 1974 and 2004, lawyers say. The scandal came to light in December, when St. George's announced it was investigating reports of sex abuse in the '70s and '80s. The Rhode Island State Police is also investigating the accusations forwarded to the department by the school and the lawyers of the alleged victims, the New York Times reports. No one has yet been criminally charged. The school's investigation was prompted by a former student who says she was molested by the school's athletic trainer in 1977 and who finally pushed St. George's to investigate her accusations last year, the Boston Globe reports. story continues below When the school announced its investigation, other alleged victims started coming forward. Four of the accused staff members are still living, and at least two of them may still be working around young people. Lawyers and three of the victims said at a recent news conference that the school downplayed the abuse for years, and St. George's admitted that though it did fire some of the accused, it did not report suspects to the police or relay the accusations to their next employers. Some victims are calling for Eric Peterson, the head of the school, to step down, accusing him of not taking the reports from alumni seriously. "Eric Peterson has been covering this up since 2004, my issue as well as others," says one 1982 grad. The alleged victim who finally successfully demanded that the school investigate first tried to sue decades ago, but says she was pressured into dropping the case by the school. Click for more on the accusations. (Read more sexual abuse stories.) View 1 more image


text: jubby 43 #46 Posted April 20, 2010 I was wondering why I was acheing last night. All over, everywhere. I guess it must have been the Hash. Enjoyable at the time but I clearly need to do more excercise. So its excercise for me, a chat with a few people and its good for the Kids to get out of the Village and Mix too. I've been thinking about this Friends thing quite a lot the last few days. maybe its what Limbo would refer to as Mental Masturbation. I was thinking very hard yesterday, relaxing by myself with a beer whilst a group of Tourist Thais where chewing the fat on the next table. after 15 years as a tourist and semi expat I couldn't think of any flang who I had met here that I disliked , Sh*t I was trying really hard, but nope not a single one. now I know a few who dislike me but I tend to think thats there problem not mine. one of them seems to dislike almost everyone so I'm in good company. I nodded to a few people in Big C just before the Hash and they nodded back and smiled. I even said a few words to one guy. I don't have a lot to say generally in real life, but it would seem I can get on with most people and I must like people maybe. As for friends I only have perhaps one friend here; A guy I met first on ThaiVisa , seemed to hit it off straight way. It turns out he's from almost the same village back home, although from a different decade, but I guess he understands me better than most. The subtle differences in Humour and Outlook. We both left home in our teens and lived away for a few decades also which has probably broadened our outlook and our ability to mix. Everyone else seems to be an aqaintance , probably mispelled I know. Anyway, I've got wood to chop so good luck with your friendships and don't assume everyones unfriendly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Entertainment Arts Research Inc. Acquires Database Technology and a Premiere Web Design Team
Entertainment Arts Research Inc. Acquires Database Technology and a Premiere Web Design Team
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Entertainment Arts Research Inc. (EARI) continues to move forward with its master plan of being a leading high tech marketing and game development firm by adding some key foundation pieces. On December 28th they completed the acquisition of purchasing the database infrastructure from Sail Marketing and have brought in a premier world-class international web design team from India.
Joe Saulter, CEO of EARI said "With the two newest acquisitions along with purchasing Daily App Dream in November, EARI now has the capability to provide their client's web design, hosting with monitoring software, website optimization, create customer databases and feature developers apps and games in front of their 400,000 plus a month user audience through Daily App Dream. The two new acquisitions only represent two of the seven acquisitions we are looking to close by the first quarter of 2013."
If EARI closes part or all the remaining five companies they are in negotiations with now it will create between $10 to $22 million in revenue for EARI in 2013. "We are targeting companies with at least six years of history providing outstanding services that will help us and our clients maximize their customer base," said Joe Saulter.
All seven companies will have combined revenue of $22 million for 2012. EARI feels confident they will achieve their goals of creating a reacquiring revenue stream of at least $10 million with their new services in 2013. Joe Saulter added "Today with social media playing such an important role in analytical marketing you really need an innovative game development technology company such as EARI to understand and implement our game development experience to address social media marketing. Older marketing firms that are more traditional in their marketing process will look to our services to help them with their social and interactive media needs because it will be too expensive for the traditional marketing firms to offer our superior technology services themselves."
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Brecon Adventure Race
Event Details
The second one-day adventure race in the 2014 Questars adventure race series will take place on Saturday 24 May 2014 in the Brecon Becons.
In 2013 Questars took a break from the Brecon Beacons but due to popular demand, we shall return back there in 2014. As always, there'll be a brand new course to provide an exciting and different challenge for those that have done this adventure race before.
Event Base
Christ College Brecon, Bridge Street, Brecon, Powys, LD3 8AF
Facilities Available
Car parking area and indoor hall for briefing and prize giving, plus refreshments, toilets, changing rooms and showers.
Event Timings - Provisional
MASTERS (6 hrs)
0845 - Team pack collection opens
0915 - Race briefing (lasts approx. 15 mins)
1010 - Earliest start time
1630 - Latest finish time
1700 - Results and prize giving
NOVICES & DUO (5 hrs)
1000 - Team pack collection opens
1030 - Race briefing (lasts approx. 15 mins)
1115 - Earliest start time
1630 - Latest finish time
1700 - Results and prize giving
Further information on the event format is available here
Final details for this adventure race including entry lists, race numbers and other specific information will be posted on the Questars website noticeboard in the week prior to the event.
Entry Information
We're sorry, but this adventure race is now full - there are no more places available in any of the kayak timeslots. Enter a different Questars adventure race online here instead.
Entry prices are as follows...
Duo £39 / Trio £49 - until the last few kayak places are filled.
Extra Maps
Each team will receive a copy of the course map with all the checkpoints marked on, printed on waterproof paper. If your team would like extra copies of this map then these can be purchased when you enter online.
Bike Hire
Mountain bikes for this race can be hired from Drover Cycles. Their bikes are all meticulously maintained in Drover's own workshop and come with a helmet, pump, spare tube and multi-tool all included in the price. The Drover Cycles fleet consists of hard tails at two different levels - the 2014 Saracen Mantra's 650b's and the Gensis High Latitudes 29ers - and some higher end Full Suspension bikes if that's what you'd prefer!
There are many accommodation options in the Brecon area. Search for a place here, or contact the local tourist information office for more information if you are looking for local accommodation before and / or after this adventure race.


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An assessment of what can be done to fix a once-great company.
Dear Apple, In the movie Independence Day , a PowerBook saves the earth from destruction. Now it's time to return the favor. Unfortunately, even devoted Mac addicts must admit that you look a little beleaguered these days: a confusing product line, little inspiration from the top, software developers fleeing.
But who wants to live in a world without you ? Not us. So we surveyed a cross section of hardcore Mac fans and came up with 101 ways to get you back on the path to salvation. We chose not to resort to time travel or regurgitate the same old shoulda / coulda / wouldas(you shoulda licensed your OS in 1987, for instance, or coulda upped your price / performance in 1993).
We don't believe Apple is rotten to the core. Chrysler nearly went under in the late 1970 s and came back to lead its industry. Here's a fresh assessment of what can be done to fix your once-great company using the material at hand. Don't wait for a miracle. You have the power to save the world-and yourself.
Edited by James Daly
1. Admit it. You're out of the hardware game. Outsource your hardware production, or scrap it entirely, to compete more directly with Microsoft without the liability of manufacturing boxes.
2. License the Apple name / technology to appliance manufacturers and build GUIs for every possible device-from washing machines to telephones to WebTV. Have them all use the same communications protocol. Result: you monopolize the market for smart devices / homes.
3. Start pampering independent software vendors. Your future depends on strong, user-friendly software. ISVs are losing confidence and crossing over to the Dark Side to take advantage of Wintel's market share. Remember what happened to OS/2 - not enough applications, updates too late, scarce industry support. And all the marketing dollars IBM threw at it couldn't help.
4. Gil Amelio should steal a page from Lee Iacocca's book - work for one year without a salary, just to inspire the troops.
5. Straighten out the naming convention. Link model numbers to processor speed. When buying a 3400 laptop computer, what, exactly, are you getting ? Unless you study the brochures, you don't know how it compares with its competition. On the other hand, Wintel talks explicitly about processor speed. It's a Pentium 200-MHz box.
6. Apologize. You've let down many devoted users and did not deliver on the promise of the Macintosh platform.
7. Don't disappear from the retail chains. Rent space in a computer store, flood it with Apple products(especially software), staff it with Apple salespeople, and display everything like you're a living, breathing company and not a remote, dusty concept.
8. Buy a song. Last year, it would have been "Respect" by Aretha Franklin. This year, maybe it's "Ain't too Proud to Beg."
9. Fire the people who forecast product demand. In 1996, you had a million dollars in back orders for the PowerBook 1400, while the warehouses were full of unsold Performas.
10. Get a great image campaign. Let's get some branding(or rebranding) going on. Reproduce the "1984" spot with a 1997 accent.
11. Instead of trying to protect your multicolored ass all the time, try looking forward. You've gotten stale by adopting the worst aspects of your competitor's business practices.
12. Build a fire under your ad agency. People don't need warm, fuzzy infomercials about the Mac family. And who cares what's on Todd Rundgren' s PowerBook ? People want to know about power(the CPU kind, not George Clinton's), performance, and price.
13. Exploit every Wintel user's secret fear that some day they're going to be thrown into a black screen with a blinking C-prompt. Advertise the fact that Mac users never have to rewrite autoexec. bat or sys. ini files.
14. Do something creative with the design of the box and separate yourselves from the pack. The original Macs stood out because of their innovative look. Repeat that. Get the folks at Porsche to design a box. Or Giorgio Giugiaro. Or Philippe Starck. We'd all feel better about shelling out the bucks for a Power Mac 9600 if we could get a tower with leopard spots.
15. Dump(or outsource) the Newton, eMate, digital cameras, and scanners.
16. Take better care of your customers. You need every one. Make customer service a point of pride. Many Mac users feel alienated and have jumped ship.
17. Build some decent applications that the business community will care about.
18. Stop being buttoned-down corporate and appeal to the fanatic feeling that still exists for the Mac. Power Computing's "I'll give up my Mac when they pry it from my stiff, dying fingers " campaign hits the right note. In the tech world, it's still a crusade. Support the Mac community, and the Mac community will support you.
19. Get rid of the cables. Go wireless.
20. Tap the move toward push media by creating a network computer with state of -the-art technologies, e. g., videogame support for Nintendo 64, top notch graphics such as QuickDraw 3 D, and the best possible bandwidth.
21. Sell yourself to IBM or Motorola, the PowerPC makers. You can become the computer division that Motorola wants or the alternative within IBM. This would give the company volume for its PowerPC devices and leverage for other PowerPC offerings.
22. Create a new kids' computer, an upgradable Wintel-compatible machine, in bright rugged colors that can take stickers and duct tape, and that a young user can call his / her own. This machine has two killer apps: autograding of homework for the teachers; passing notes via wireless for the kids. Price: US$350 before upgrades.
23. Create a new logo. The corporate graphic of the multicolored apple was tired in the 1980 s, now it's positively obsolete. Plaster the new logo on hats and T shirts to be worn conspicuously by Andre Agassi, Nicolas Cage, and Ashley Judd.
24. Pay cartoonist Scott Adams $10 million to have Dilbert fall in love with a Performa repairwoman.
25. Portables, portables, portables. Pick the best-of -breed Wintel in each of the portable categories and then better it. Wintel has a fantastic range.
26. If you sell it, make it! Stop releasing new products if you can't fulfill the orders. Angering the few loyal customers you still have isno way to do business.
27. Relocate the company to Bangalore and make it cheap, cheap, cheap.(See Wired4.02, page 110.)
28. Don't lose your sense of humor. Build a very large life preserver and display it in front of your Cupertino, California, headquarters.
29. Work closely with Hewlett-Packard, Casio, or someone who understands power management. When was the last time anyone got more than 60 minutes out of a PowerBook battery ?
30. Reach forward by reaching back. Secure the hearts and wallets of college students through a highly targeted AppleLoan program.
31. Build a PDA for less than $250 that actually does something : a) cellular email b) 56 - channel TV c) Internet phone.
32. Advice to Gil Amelio: shorter speeches, tighter pants.
33. Change the visual presentation of marketing / advertising to signal that real change is under way. Focus attention(operationally and in marketing terms) on Apple's concrete growth. Boldly setting the milestones along the path to rebirth and hitting them is the only way to evolve the marketing message that so far has focused on undelivered promises.
34. Port the OS to the Intel platform, with its huge amount of investment in hardware, software, training, and experience. Don't ignore it; co-opt it. Operating systems are dependent on installed base; that is your biggest hurdle now. It is not the head-to-head, feature-set comparison between Windows and Mac OS.
35. Get MkLinux and BeOS to run on PowerBooks.
36. Clone the PowerBook. When the shabbily made 5300 s started to fall apart, catch on fire, and explode, a lot of Apple customers were forced to turn to Wintel for laptops. There was no place else to go. If clones had been available, the users might have stayed in the family.
37. Take advantage of NeXT's easy and powerful OpenStep programming tools to entice a new generation of Mac software developers.
38. Make it easier for ISVs to make applicationsfor both Apple and Wintel environments-if not at the desktop, then certainly at the server. Without these innovations, the only hope is to keep what is left of the installed base.
39. Build a laptop that weighs 2 pounds.
40. Cash in on millennium fever with an ad campaign that portrays Apple as a return to basics, a rediscovery of simplicity and purity, a rejection of complexity.
41. Arrange venture fundingfor new, cutting-edge multimedia publishers-this is where you shine and where the public will become interested again.
42. Organize a telethon. Hire Jerry Lewis to get dewy-eyed over the new line of Mac products.
43. Remain committed to the openDVD Consortium, addressing the issues of implementing digital versatile-disc technology. You've always been a bridge between the entertainment and high tech industries. Maintain it.
44. Continue your research in voice recognition. It's the only way you're going to compete in videoconferencing and remote access.
45. Don't raise the Mac OS licensing fee. Cloners have helped stabilize and even increase market share for the Mac OS; this keeps software developers happy.
46. Stop wasting time on frivolities like Spartacus, the 20th-anniversary Mac. Get over yourself... at least for a while.
47. Work on ways to make your lower-end models truly upgradable. Giving customers a definite, manageable upgrade path will attract and hold customers. People need to be able to upgrade and expand, so they don't feel dead-ended every time Apple changes its mind. Upgrading a IIvx to a Power Mac is theoretically possible, but there are so many hardware and software problems that the experience is enough to turn a nun into a crack-smoking serial killer.
48. Get Ben & Jerry's to name a flavor after you. Suggestion: Apple Silicon Chip Supreme.
49. Bring back Andy Hertzfeld and the other original Mac folks to explain to the executive team that simplicity and design elegance are what made the Mac attractive to developers in the first place and what still makes the Mac unique: automounting diskettes, self-configuration of hardware, direct manipulation of files, free-form filenames with spaces and no three-dot suffixes, uniform user interface across applications.
50. Give Steve Jobs as much authority as he wants in new product development. Let Gil Amelio stick to operations. There's no excitement at the top, and Apple's customers want to feel like they've joined a computer revolution*.* Even if Jobs fails, he'll do it with guns a-blazin', and we'll be spared this slow water torture that Amelio has subjected us to.
51. Speak to the consumer. Not to the press, not to the competition, but to the people who grew up with the Mac.
52. Return to the heady days of yore by insisting that Steve Jobs regrow his beard.
53. Recharge your strategy for Europe, where the PC market penetration is lower than in the US and the population is educated and interested in high tech. There's an opening there that doesn't exist here.
54. Sell off the laser printer business. Create an auction between HP and Lexmark International. Get Japanese companies into the act. Sell to one that's already making money in the printer business or to one that makes related products. That way, the buyer is getting increased market share.
55. Give the company that buys the printer business a contract to manufacture printers with the Apple trademark and then put it in your existing distribution system. Selling off the manufacturing assets for printers provides a one-shot infusion of cash that reduces the drain on the balance sheet. You also make a distribution margin on the printers and associated supplies.
56. Stick to your schedule. After canceling the long awaited Copland, you can't afford to miss even one of your OS deadlines.
57. Bring back John Sculley. He would provide a convenient whipping boy.
58. Create dollar incentives to attract software vendors to write for the upcoming Rhapsody platform. You have cash in the bank-use it.
59. Invest heavily in Newton technology, which is one area where Microsoft can't touch you. Build voice recognition and better gesture recognition into Newton, making a new environment for desktop, laptop, and palmtop Macs. Newton can also be the basis of a new generation of embedded systems, from cash registers to kiosks.
60. Abandon the Mach operating system you just acquiredand run Windows NT kernel instead. This would let Mac run existing PC programs.(Microsoft actually has Windows NT working on Mac hardware. It also has emulation of Mac programs with NT running on both Power PC and x86.)
61. Ink a promotion / development deal with Shaquille O'Neal; introduce designer Shaqintosh model.
62. Build a computer that doesn't crash.
63. Make Java work on your OS. Then develop an enterprise computing strategy in partnership with Sun. Java is not a magic bullet, but supporting it will keep Mac owners happy and prevent them from looking elsewhere.
64. Team up with Sony, which wants to get into the computer business in a big way-think Sony MacMan.
65. Roll out the Mac Plus again as a hip retro machine. Make it really, really uncool to use whizzy, leading-edge PCs.
66. Get the top systems integrators to push NeXT's WebObjects as the ultimate intranet / Internet development environment. You cornered desktop publishing. What do you think the Web is becoming ? ! Besides, there's plenty of room in this area for new tools.
67. Tighten the focus on your publishing niche - both print and electronic-and seek to dominate it in every way.
68. Retain your Apple Fellows at all costs. With Don Norman and Alan Kay recently leaving, there is a serious drain in the Big Think department.
69. Change your name to Snapple and see if you can dupe Quaker Oats into buying you.
70. Simplify your PC product line. Reduce the number of Apple motherboards and the number of distinct Apple system models.
71. Become a graphic design company and dominate your niche the way Sun and Silicon Graphics do .
72. Try the industry-standard serial port plug. RS - 422 should be a last resort.
73. Rename the company Papaya and begin an aggressive South Pacific marketing campaign.
74. Solidify the management team. Pushing people out or allowing them to leave does not inspire the remaining troops.
75. Speed sells. Push your advantage on the speed of the processor. This summer, you'll release Macs using 450- and 533-MHz processors. Your lead over Intel will be remarkable. Brag about this. Once the operating system shifts toward the end of this year, the PowerPC will really kick some ass(the OS is a major drag on the processor). Intel is forever marketing the speed of its chips. Make it clear that yours are much faster.
76. Make damn sure that Rhapsody runs on an Intel chip. Write a Windows NT emulator for Rhapsody's Intel version.
77. Lose the cybercafés idea. Geez, what were you thinking ?
78. Turn Claris loose so it can do some real damage.
79. Exploit your advantage in the K - 12 education market. That's the future. Most students use the computer as a true multimedia tool, and their technological expertise is very sophisticated, especially when compared to the typical business user.
80. Maintain existing loyalty at all costs. Use incentives like free upgrades and stock certificates. Gimmicky ? Sure. But it helps create a bond and a religious following.
81. Merge with Sega and become a game company.
82. Give the first Apple made exclusively for Windows a cheeky name(like The Big Apple) and an irresistible industrial design like the 20 th-anniversary Macintosh. Introduce it with a mammoth ad campaign that shows the makers of other Windows PCs running for cover, as if they've been fearing Apple's monstrous entry into their market for decades.
83. Develop proprietary programs that run only on Macs. Crow about them.
84. Effectively communicate your game plan to employees, customers, and developers. People need a strong presentation of what's going to happen.
85. Quit making each Mac in a platform-specific case, with platform-specific parts. Make one case for desktop systems and another for laptops. The case, chassis, and all that stuff needs to be as upgradable as the system software used to be.
86. Organize a very large bake sale - look what cookie sales have done for the Girl Scouts.
87. Price the CPUs to sell. Offer novice users the ability to enter the Mac market at a competitive price point and move up the power curve as their level of sophistication increases. The initial price keeps new buyers away.
88. Acknowledge that there are people with repetitive stress injuries. Why do loyal customers have to go to a weird third-party vendor to get a split keyboard ?
89. Create a chemical that cleans the Mac's pale gray plastic - they look cruddy after a year, and normal solutions either don't work or seem like they'll corrode the machine.
90. Design a desktop model-call it La Dolce Vita-with a built-in cappuccino maker(featuring anything but Starbuck's-Washington's other great homogenizer).
91. Start a new special projects group led by either Jobs or another passionate and creative designer to create the next "insanely great" technology. This time, focus on rolling the technology into the existing Mac line; make sure developers are inspired and in the loop.
92. With each new Mac, include a CD-ROM that explains the Apple family tree and future plans.
93. Develop a way to program that requires no scripting or coding.
94. Maintain differentiation between Wintel and Apple. Cross-platform means Apple OS on Intel boxes, not just add-ins to Windows. Making the Mac more like Windows, or making all technologies "cross-platform," is a going-out-of business strategy. Extend and improve the Mac's capabilities to handle Wintel data and emulate Wintel for those applications that require it.
95. Fight back. Stand up for yourself with ads that respond to the negative press. Dispute, in particular, reports that Apple's PC market share has fallen. While this is true, overall Mac OS sales have risen.
96. Partner with Oracle, using its technology for a backend database with your friendly face.
__97. Have Pixar make 3001, A Space Odyssey __, with HAL replaced by a Mac.
98. Testimonials. Create commercials featuring real-life people in situations where buying a Mac(or switching to a Mac) saved the day.
99. Reincorporate as a nonprofit research foundation. Instead of buying computers, customers would buy memberships, just as they do inthe National Geographic Society. They'd receive an Apple computer as part of their membership perks. Dues would be tax-deductible. Your(eventual) profits would also be tax-exempt, and the foundation could continue its noble battle to keep Microsoft on its toes.
100. Build a second graphics / video product based on the connection with Pixar(and therefore with Disney). Steve Jobs and Michael Eisner should define it.
101. Don't worry. You'll survive. It's Netscape we should really worry about.
The company gets sued by Xerox, which challenges the validity of Apple's graph-ical user interface copyrights. Apple introduces its first portable Mac. At more than 15 pounds, it's instantly dubbed a "luggable." US District Court dismisses most of Xerox's lawsuit against Apple.
Michael Spindler becomes presi-dent of Apple. Spindler, a straight-ahead businessman nicknamed "The Diesel," provides an uninspiring figurehead. Microsoft rolls out Windows 3.0. Apple lays off 400 employees.
PowerBook introduced; Apple, IBM, and Motorola team up to make PowerPC RISC chips. IBM and Apple combine to create Taligent, an ill-conceived and poorly executed attempt to write a new object-oriented operating system.
__Wired: __ Launches consumer-oriented Performa line.
__Tired: __ Initiates trend toward Macintoshbrand confusion.
Apple ships the 10 millionth Mac.
Apple releases the Newton personal digital assistant: great idea, poor execution. Sculley is relieved of hisposition as CEO, leaving Spindler in charge.
The firm introduces the Power Mac family, the first Macs to be based on the PowerPC chip. Mac OS is licensed to Power Computing, now the most successful Mac clone maker.
The company has $1 billion in back orders-and not enough parts to fill them. Microsoft releases Windows 95, which mimics the Mac GUI better than ever.
Mac market share bounces back, thanks to success of clones.
Spindler is replaced by Gil Amelio, another bland corporate suit. Apple posts staggering $740 million Q2 loss.
Jobs is brought back on board as a consultant.
__Wired: __ While working as programmers at Atari, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs create a blueprint for an easy-to-use personal computer. They offer the idea to their boss, founder Nolan Bushnell.
__Tired: __ Bushnell turns them down.
Wozniak and Jobs finish work on the Apple I-a preassembled computer circuit board that has no keyboard, case, sound, or graphics-and launch Apple Computer Company.
No one notices.
The Apple II is introduced at the first West Coast Computer Faire. It is the first personal computer to generate color graphics and includes a built-in keyboard and power supply.
The media pays more attention to other, earlier PC makers, such as Kaypro and Osborne.
Apple Disk II-an inexpensive, user-friendly, and fast floppy drive-débuts, making possible the development of serious software.
Hardly anyone makes applications for it.
Company's first printer, the Silentype, is introduced. Jobs visits Xerox PARC, realizes future is in graphical computing, and grabs it for Apple. Macintosh project begins.
Xerox doesn't have a clue.
Apple goes public.
The company launches Apple III, its first turkey.
Jobs becomes Apple chair.
IBM releases its first PC; the safe brand name will ultimately allow an inferior technology to dominate the market.
Apple becomes the first PC company to reach US$1 billion in annual sales.
The company doesn't clone its machines. Meanwhile, more than 100 computer manufacturers churn out IBM PC knockoffs.
__Wired: __ John Sculley is wooed away from Pepsi to become president / CEO.
__Tired: __ Lisa computer is introduced. The $9,995 machine proves to be an overpriced flop.
Apple unveils the Macintosh and airs the now-legendary "1984" commercial, directed by Ridley Scott, during the third quarter of the Super Bowl. The Orwellian scene depicts the IBM world being shattered by a new machine.
The commercial is never shown again. Apple fails to successfully push Macintosh to the business market.
The company rolls out the LaserWriter, the original affordable PostScript laser printer, and Aldus releases PageMaker, one of the first desktop publishing programs.
Wozniak resigns. Jobs resigns after failing to oust Sculley in an attempted boardroom coup. Apple lays off 1,200 employees, one-fifth of its workforce, and posts its first quarterly loss. Microsoft introduces Windows 1.0.
Apple débuts the Mac SE and Mac II, which make the Macintosh line a viable, powerful family of computers. The company announces plans to create an independent software company, later known as Claris.
The company ignores suggestions to license its OS.
MacWorld Expo begins. Apple posts its first billion-dollar quarter.
The company gets sued by Xerox, which challenges the validity of Apple's graphical user interface copyrights. Apple introduces its first portable Mac. At more than 15 pounds, it's instantly dubbed a "luggable." US District Court dismisses most of Xerox's lawsuit against Apple.
Michael Spindler becomes president of Apple. Spindler, a straight-ahead businessman nicknamed "The Diesel," provides an uninspiring figurehead. Microsoft rolls out Windows 3.0. Apple lays off 400 employees.
PowerBook introduced; Apple, IBM, and Motorola team up to make PowerPC RISC chips. IBM and Apple combine to create Taligent, an ill-conceived and poorly executed attempt to write a new object-oriented operating system.
__Wired: __ Launches consumer-oriented Performa line.
__Tired: __ Initiates trend toward Macintoshbrand confusion.
Apple ships the 10 millionth Mac.
Apple releases the Newton personal digital assistant: great idea, poor execution. Sculley is relieved of hisposition as CEO, leaving Spindler in charge.
The firm introduces the Power Mac family, the first Macs to be based on the PowerPC chip. Mac OS is licensed to Power Computing, now the most successful Mac clone maker.
The company has $1 billion in back orders and not enough parts to fill them. Microsoft releases Windows 95, which mimics the Mac GUI better than ever.
Mac market share bounces back, thanks to success of clones.
Spindler is replaced by Gil Amelio, another bland corporate suit. Apple posts staggering $740 million Q2 loss.
Jobs is brought back on board as a consultant.
Apple considers increasing licensing fees. Company lays off 4,100 workers.
Technologists get so caught up in the bits and bytes that they forget why people use computers at all. Apple has been a victim of the success of the Macintosh. It made an overcommitment to across-the-board backward compatibility and is suffering from a severe lack of vision. Success has blinded management to more radical alternatives. It never rethinks the whole proposition. Throw out the old and clumsy desktop, along with its operating-system-and-applications paradigm, and go for true task centered design. Hanging on to the decades-old "look and feel" will keep the old customer base while sacrificing the future. The new software should be platform-independent, making Apple primarily a software supplier and giving the world a superior alternative to Microsoft's Windows.
\ - Jef Raskin, creator of the Mac
Drop that wimpy ad campaign with its effete typeface. Come out slugging with hard-nosed product comparisons. Possible ad lines: "Pentium-for the rest of them." "The fastest laptop in the world!" "I'm in a great big hurry - give me the Mac."
\ - Roger Ebert, film critic
Apple should: 1. Merge with Nintendo - this moves the brand into the consumer space and under one management team . 2. Buy Gateway\ - out with the cow spots and in with the Apple logo . 3. License Windows 95 and NT - keep the guts of the OS and work exclusively on making the Windows GUI just like the Mac.
\ - Ann Winblad, principal at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Adopt, acquire, and create new technologies that can give Apple yet another technological edge. Such technologies include integrated full-text search in the OS(Apple does have V-Twin), remote diagnostics by phone, Net-oriented automatic software upgrades(like Castanet), and a better / faster / more robust file system.
\ - Bruce Horn, member of original Macintosh development team
Listen to the great cry that has gone up from the software development and end-user community. Online VRML, MIDI development, and 3 - D graphics acceleration all rocketed past Apple; many of the most innovative advancements on the Web need to be experienced on a Windows machine to be fully appreciated. As a longtime user of the Mac and an early and vocal fan of its simplicity and power, I find it all a bit sad.
\ - Jim Ludtke, graphic artist
__Key question: Why save Apple ? __ It isn't entirely obvious why a company whose management has done as much destruction to shareholders, employees, vendors, and customers ought to be saved. More to the point, what does save really mean ? Besides why, we need to consider who and what, in addition to the implied how. Having been flamed - mindlessly and sometimes venomously - by Guy Kawasaki's Mac-addict brownshirts, I hesitate to make any formal recommendation. However, emboldened perhaps by a glass of adequate merlot, I will offer this utterly hypothetical speculation as grist for lateral thinking : maybe Apple's shareholders should sell what is left of Apple to Steve Jobs's Pixar for, say, $400 million.
\ - Lewis J. Perelman, president of Kanbrain Institute
Apple has always been too proud of its marketing - since 1984 the company has been a vertically integrated advertising agency. So get rid of all the well-dressed charismatic engineers and keep the ones who'll fix the simple things wrong in the Mac OS, like getting quickly and reliably on the Internet. My wife and I think Apple will pull through. We are raising our children on Macintoshes. We just bought them each a new Performa. Of course, we are the lucky ones. We can afford to buy Wintel clunkers-holding our noses-if Apple goes under.
\ - Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3 Com
I'm a Mac lover, but last year I switched over completely to Windoze because Apple couldn't build a reasonable laptop. I really want it to succeed, but I think the company's finished. Software vendors aren't turning out enough code to keep the Mac as a really good platform, even for family and school stuff. This whole NeXT decision seems to be a waste of time. It should have been sold to HP for $35 per share a year and a half ago. Maybe if Apple caves in , Windows will get so much market share that the Department of Justice will intervene and break up Microsoft. I think Window's competition is really the NC-and WebTV-type box. Which is truly sad.
\ - Milo Medin, president of @Home
Repurpose entirely and sell actual apples - the fruit, that is. It could hybridize in special orchards south of Santa Clara, California, and release Apple 1.0 in time for the fall pie season.
\ - Jon Carroll, newspaper columnist
At a certain critical point -perhaps five years ago- Apple stopped investing time, effort, brainpower, and money in continuing to make a better product. Instead, it dissipated its energy on everything but the Macintosh - on Newton, Sweet Pea, Kaleida, Taligent. Meanwhile, the rest of the world caught up. The last great engineering task accomplished on the Mac was the switch to PowerPC. However, no new features went in . The company that had been the leader in operating systems found that it could no longer write an operating system - Copland was a disaster that never shipped. It had to suffer the ultimate ignominy of buying one outside. The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware technology together to redefine the way people experienced computing. That Apple is already dead. Very adroit moves might be able to save the brand name. A company with the letters A - P - P - L - E in its name might survive, but it won't be the Apple of yore.
\ - Nathan Myhrvold, chief technology officer at Microsoft
Make a lightweight, portable, palmtop Mac. Ideally, it should be a wearable, with a private eye screen and some sort of half-keyboard. If Apple can't manufacture this, it could make a deal with another hardware maker. Wearables are the future.
\ - Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer


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A week in which two slave-owners were jailed and two leading anti-slavery activists were released from prison in Mauritania could mark a turning point in the West African nation's fight to eliminate the practice, campaigners said on Wednesday.
Two men were last week handed five-year prison sentences - one year to be served, four years suspended - and ordered to pay compensation to two victims in only the country's second ever prosecution for slavery since it was criminalised in 2007.
Prominent activists Biram Dah Abeid and Brahim Bilal, who had been in prison for 18 months after taking part in an anti-slavery march, were freed two days later by the Supreme Court.
The court reversed an appeals court judgement made in August which had upheld a two-year sentence for the two Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) leaders.
The two court judgements could signal the beginning of the end of slavery in Mauritania, according to Sarah Mathewson, Africa programme co-ordinator at Anti-Slavery International.
"This should empower people to come forward, access justice and seek compensation," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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'Long D Slide Valve, Double Short D Valve', one of a boxed set of 8 engine slide valve models, printed on card, designed by T and TG Jones, each 10.5x13cm, with box 12x18cm. With letter press instruction booklet 'Notes on slide valve models' [4th edition, John Heywood Ltd, Manchester 1905].
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10/12/2010 // US // TiffNews10 // News Desk
U.S. – A new study shows that news shared through social media may have some benefit in advertising. As reported by CNN, the study findings reveal that many consumers were more engaged with shared news and advertising content shared therein, than that which they consumed on a random basis.
Didier Mormesse, Senior Vice President, Ad Sales Research, Development & Audience Insight at CNN International, is quoted in the report as stating of the findings, "The commerciality of the social media space is fast becoming apparent and this study means that for the first time, we are able to substantiate the value of shared news from an advertising perspective."
Mormesse is further quoted as stating, "Knowing the typology of shared content is significant as the information could be used by agencies as a guideline to mould creative and therefore make their advertising more effective to consumers."
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Group exercise classes can add fun and variety to an otherwise boring exercise routine! Take an opportunity to meet new people, challenge yourself and elevate your goals by trying any of the many classes we offer, including Les Mills classes – FREE WITH MEMBERSHIP! Our talented instructors are certified trainers and can help you every step of the way.
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Wellness Center
Our brand new equipment in our Wellness Center includes:
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- Private, spacious fitness classrooms
- Qualified staff members on-site
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- New Member Orientation free with your membership
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Annual Fun Run/Walk
Partnered with the Gulf Coast Running Club, come out and join the fun! Started in 1988, the Winter Classic, 10K and 1Mile Fun Run is in January each year.
Wesson Memorial Run
2 Mile and 1/4Mile Fun Run in July. (1st race started in 1980) is accurately marked, beautiful with a scenic course. The run begins and ends at the Blossman Family YMCA, with the highlight being a beautiful running route that flanks the Gulf Coast.
The only open water swim race in the tri-state area, the OSPREY features a 2 mile swim race, an Aquathlon (1 mile swim and 10k run) and a 10k run. Held in the beautiful downtown Ocean Springs at Fort Maurepas Park. Visit www.ososprey.com for more information.
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Joël Taluau is a fabulous grower in St. Nicolas de Bourgueil known for making some of the purest expressions of Cabernet Franc in the Loire, which are unmarred by the intrusion of oak. He was also the first producer in the appellation to begin domaine bottling. These days, Joel makes wines with the help of his son-in-law, Thierry Foltzenlogel. Their "Expression" comes from vines up to 37 years old, planted on a hillside with clay and limestone. The terroir is perfect for a youthful expression of Cabernet Franc that's immediately drinkable and fresh, with vibrant violet and white pepper notes to complement the red fruit.
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The term "Employee Relationship Management" (acronym ERM), translate as "management of the relationship with the employees" refers to the use of technologies in the management of human resources. This concept is based on client relationship management, with the employee at its center.
This involves implementing a dedicated information system for the management of human resources (generally referred to as HRIS), which makes it possible to cover all problems that are related with the relationship between a company and its employees, in particular:


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Session 6c Business strategy
Wednesday August 08 at 2:00 pm
As Program Director of the Rabobank Executive Development Program and Farm Managers Program, Robin plays a fundamental role in the success of the Programs and ensuring that participants get the most out of the week.
Robin is the Dean of the School of Business and Tourism and Head of the Gold Coast campus at Southern Cross University. Southern Cross University is a strong regional university that has strong interests in plant science and agriculture, as well as the business of agriculture.
Robin has worked on various aspects of Agribusiness from the application of technology to the impact of changes to water rights. She is passionate about helping farmers improve their businesses and about increasing awareness of the importance of the sector to our communities and our economy.
Robin's area of expertise are leadership, strategy development and negotiation. She was trained as an economist, focusing on the exercise of market power, outsourcing and macroeconomics.


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Should Bloggers Trust This Service More Than Their Own Intuition?
InboundWriter helps editors find clickable story ideas
Usually writers and editors depend on their wealth of knowledge and instincts when it comes to picking what to write about. InboundWriter, however, believes that the fine art of story selection can be made more accurate with its special algorithms that mine online search and user data behavior.
InboundWriter's paid platform, which launched this month after 18 months of development, allows journalists to input topics. Then its proprietary formulas figure out which topics would drive the most traffic, assigning each term a green, yellow or red score depending on how successful it thinks it would be in getting people to click on the story. Theoretically, this would cut down the time writers spend on stories no one cares about, allowing them to focus on topics that people want to read.
"What we find is that most content doesn't perform," InboundWriter CEO Skip Besthoff explained. "For every 10 pieces of content that [are] published online, maybe one or two will break out. That means eight out of 10 [are] going to disappoint."
Publishers like Time Warner Cable, The Enthusiast Network (which includes Motor Trend and Hot Rod), Skilled Up, TheUnlockr.com and GottaBeMobile jumped on board during the beta testing period. According to InboundWriter's trial with 20 pilot programs, its predictive formulas were able to garner between two to four times more traffic for stories it denoted with a green label than an overall comparison group. One case study based on a medium-sized blog that publishes 300 articles a month found that green topics performed two times better than InboundWriter's control group, and they were upward of three times more successful than topics in the yellow and red groups.
"We've seeing a significant increase in traffic, and it's helping us develop the headline and the supporting keywords that go into that," GottaBeMobile managing editor Josh Smith confirmed.
Admittedly, it's not a perfect system. Besthoff pointed out that the algorithms reflect traffic derived from online searches more than from social media, although the company hopes to fine-tune its platform to predict those factors. In addition, the company is working on a way to extend its platform to video content.
Also, while the algorithms use real-time data, they're only customized for "evergreen" subjects, or topics that don't revolve around breaking or timely news. For example, InboundWriter would be able to predict whether a story about student loan costs for a personal finance blog would do wƒell, but it wouldn't be able to tell whether or not it's too late to write about today's interest rate change.
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If you have a family member who is not expected to live much longer, it is obvious that the family is going to have to pull together and take charge. Many people will testify to the fact that planning a funeral for someone that they adore can be the most difficult thing but life will give us. However, it is something that is going to need to be done. Because of this, there is honestly no other option except to set up an appointment with Funeral Directors in Forest Hill as soon as possible. Take the opportunity to visit the website for Evans Funeral Chapel and Cremation Services today. This will help the family to understand more about what needs to happen during this difficult time.
Someone from the funeral home will be happy to help the family to get started with pre-planning their funeral. This way, when the time comes, nearly everything will be ready to go. This will be helpful for the family because they will have less things to worry about. Even though saying goodbye to a loved one can be very difficult, it is important to make sure that it is done in style. Give them the funeral that they have always wanted. Check with the funeral home to learn more about whether or not they have already made their funeral arrangements. If this is the case, it may be a little easier to complete the planning for the funeral.
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One of the most important components of a fertilizer program is the four-step program, which combines fertilizers with weed, crabgrass and insect control during the spring to give your lawn a healthy start in the growing season. A fall application of fertilizer helps put back nutrients into the lawn that were lost during the summer heat and prepares it for its winter dormant period. Some lawn care services use six or even eight-step programs that are designed to control weeds with late fall applications to keep the grass as healthy as possible until it's ready to rest during the cold months.
Most homeowners understand that irrigation is necessary during long hot spells and dry periods, but if you want your grass to thrive during difficult summer conditions you'll need to give it plenty of water throughout the growing season. Different grasses need varying amounts of water, but generally your lawn requires at least one inch of water per week to keep it green and growing. You can't always count on that coming naturally from rain, so an irrigation system is an excellent backup plan. A lawn care company can install an irrigation system that will meet your home's landscape needs.
Aeration is an often overlooked lawn care job that gives the grass roots room to move and expand. A compacted lawn, especially in high-traffic areas, won't thrive no matter how much water and fertilizer you give it. Core aeration, the recommended method, pulls plugs of soil out of the lawn which then allow air, water and fertilizer to penetrate the area. Aeration also give valuable earthworms a place to live and help your lawn thrive. A lawn service that offers fertilizer can assess the needs of your lawn and provide the required care.


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Businessweek has an interesting video (see above) about the bridge in my hometown of Minneapolis that was built to replace the one that collapsed in 2007. The new St. Anthony Falls Bridge was designed using a completely paperless system that made use of laser topography scanners, on-site tablet PCs with 3D renderings.
There are 400 sensors embedded into the bridge's concrete, relaying statistical data to safety analysts in the hopes of keeping everything in smooth working order for at least 100 years.
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State Bank of India SBI www.sbi.co.in Probationary Officers 2015 Main Exam re-Examination is going to be held on 9 August 2015. The call letters for SBI PO 2015 Main Re Examination is available for the download.
SBI has now cleared the doubts of aspirants and it is only for few orthopaedically handicapped candidates.
Update : only for few orthopaedically handicapped candidates.
Mistake from SBI website :
The link inside red color is the link posted by sbi earlier which has now been replaced
Official Website : www.sbi.co.in
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Main Exam Objective Paper consists of 200 questions and contains 200 marks
- Reasoning : It will be of very high level consists of data sufficiency questions , time consuming big puzzles , statements and conclusions. Most of the questions will be from logical reasoning. In this paper , non verbal reasoning would be asked. Questions based on the sequences followed by the figures given. This is going to be very hard and attempt of correct 20-25 questions would be a good choice. Do not waste too much time on any question.
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End As It Began
[Utena-centric, last episode spoilerish-ness, super light Utena/Anthy, angst]
What is ending? What is beginning?
All that is here is the space between my outstretched hand and your battered body, all that is here is the air forced into my lungs by a dead ideal and the scent of your dying roses...
Philosophy falls away like the stones of this arena. Reason means very little here.
Things like 'normality' and 'right and wrong' mean nothing. They never did... not here.
Here, with the world forgetting what it lived for. Here, with just sweat and tears and blood and other things. Here... I am here, do you hear me? I am here.
What is ending?
Everything. Me, you, him, them...
What is beginning?
Everything. Me, you, him, them...
Close. Yet, closer still. Edging forward, knees scraped and ribs broken.
A child torn from the womb, again and again.
I see you. You see me. I'll be your mother, your lover, your savior, your friend. Bring you to life again. Bear you and bless you.
What is ending? Just another moment, let it go.
What is beginning? Just another second, let it all go.
I came all this way... just to meet you...


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MA in Applied Legal Studies Program
The Master of Arts in Applied Legal Studies program is primarily for students intending to practice as Notaries Public in the Province of British Columbia. It may also be of interest to existing Notaries who wish to obtain a graduate degree focused upon their area of professional practice. Completion of the degree is a prerequisite for membership in the Society of Notaries Public. At this time, the program is of limited value to those who do not want, or do not already have, a career as a Notary.
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The degree - a Master of Arts (MA) - is granted upon the successful completion of the required number of courses and a final examination. In the case of aspiring Notaries, the degree will prepare students for admission to practice, subject to further requirements prescribed by the Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia, and by provincial legislation.
The number of individuals entering practice in British Columbia is ultimately governed by the Society of Notaries Public. Conferral of the degree is no guarantee of a position in the Society's post degree professional training programs or in professional practice.
If you are interested in becoming a Notary Public the starting point is with the Society of Notaries Public, not with Simon Fraser University.
The Society has a website (www.notaries.bc.ca) that sets out everything you would ever want to know about becoming a Notary, as well as being a Notary, and includes the steps to follow if you wish to pursue a career in the profession. Once you have applied to become a Notary, and you have completed the rigorous screening process, you will be invited to apply for admission to the Applied Legal Studies Program.