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Just like the McDonald's All-American Game, six future Kentucky Wildcats will be participating in the Jordan Brand Classic this weekend.
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Kentucky Basketball Recruiting: 2013 Big Board (July 2012 update). A Sea of Blue looks at Jabari Parker, Julius Randle, Andrew Harrison, Aaron Gordon, James Young, and more.
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FULTON, Ill. — A Clinton restaurant will be moving into the old Corner Treasures & Treats building at 1016 Fourth St. in Fulton.
Charles Dykstra, of the Fulton Retail Development Group, made the announcement during the Fulton City Council meeting this week. Owner Renee Holmes confirmed the announcement Tuesday morning.
The retail development group purchased the Fulton property in December. Dykstra said the 50 members wanted to add a good restaurant into the Fulton area. He said the group plans to give her a generous rent agreement that includes a seven-year lease without any increases.
"We're real quite excited about her and I think it's a good thing economically," Dykstra said. He added that Holmes is one of the finest restauranteurs in the area.
Fulton Mayor Larry Russell thanked Dykstra and the group for all of the work done to improve the downtown area. He added the city has a great partnership with the group. The council agreed it was excited about the announcement.
"You can do things that we in the city government can't do," Russell said. "So we appreciate the partnership."
Russell added there will be infrastructure concerns to deal with. Dykstra told the council Krumpets has to vacate its current location by June 30. He said they are working to get the building ready in time.


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O.J. Simpson appears at an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court on May 14, 2013 in Las Vegas.
The South Florida home of imprisoned former NFL star O.J. Simpson was sold Tuesday for $655,000 during an online auction, according to Realauction, the company in charge of the sale.
The property was sold to a third party bidder as part of a bank foreclosure proceeding issued by a judge in August for JPMorgan Chase Bank.
The 4,233-square-foot home near Miami had been in foreclosure proceedings for about two years.
Simpson was convicted in 2008 in Nevada of the kidnapping and armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas. Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of killing his ex-wife and her friend.
Court documents show Simpson owed more than $796,000 in principal and interest on the Florida property. There's also nearly $42,000 in unpaid property taxes and insurance premiums of about $43,000.
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Commissioned by the de Young Museum's Cultural Encounters Program during Todd Brown's July 2009 tenure as Artist-in-Residence, Invisible Passage is now back on display in the Kimball Education Gallery as part of his current Artist Fellows project. The painting, measuring 33 feet by 9.5 feet, is Brown's largest work to date.
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At a gas station just outside of East Grand Forks, a truck with Nebraska plates is parked at the pump next to me. I have a hunch its owner didn't haul a boat and trailer 450 miles to fish for walleye, but I ask anyway: "You here for the channel catfish?"
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"Uh, yeah," Doug Redding, of Lyons, Neb., responds with hesitation, as if he's waiting for a punch line.
His wife is casually resting an arm on the boat's gunwale. The smirk evident below her dark sunglasses suggests the joke is on me.
"That's right, you people think catfish are bottom-feeding trash fish, don't you?" she asks playfully.
"No, I'm here to fish for them," I say, and they let down their guard.
I learn the Reddings have been making the trip to northwestern Minnesota for seven years. As they share some of their experiences on the river, the motivation behind their annual sojourn comes to the surface. They are chasing the fish of a lifetime -- a channel catfish over 20 pounds.
"Those aren't uncommon at all in the Red River," says DNR assistant area fisheries manager Dennis Topp. "It is the premier trophy channel cat fishery in North America. People come from all over the world to fish the Red."
From Fargo to Manitoba, the north-flowing Red River began luring nonresident anglers in the late 1980s when its monstrous cats started getting ink and airtime from national outdoors media. But local residents largely ignored or avoided the increasingly famous fishery. Communities from Breckenridge to Pembina, N.D., have an uneasy relationship with the flood-prone Red River. Lowhead dams, built in the 1930s, were the sites of many drowning deaths -- further entrenching local public perception of the river as a dangerous place.
Since the 1990s, the DNR has removed or converted five of the eight lowhead dams on the Red River's main stem into sloping rapids to eliminate deadly hydraulics and allow fish passage. In 2001 the DNR designated the river as a state water trail, and now kayakers play in the turbulent water that cascades over the retrofitted dams. This work has been part of concerted efforts by the DNR, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, the Fargo-based nonprofit River Keepers, and local chambers of commerce to reintroduce residents of the Red River valley to the area's dominant geographical feature. And, as I was about to discover, the river's trophy channel catfish are worthy ambassadors.
On this sunny Friday afternoon in September, there are only two boat trailers at the LaFave Park boat landing in East Grand Forks. One belongs to Brad Nelson, a local farmer who admits that he should be harvesting pinto beans. But Brad and his brother Bruce have agreed to spend a few days showing me the river. Bruce, an assistant principal at East Grand Forks Senior High School, arrives at the dock looking eager to get on the river after weathering the first week of school. The brothers greet one another with a volley of coltish insults. Where catfishing is concerned, they don't seem to agree on much or to take anything too seriously, except bait.
"Did you get frogs?" Bruce asks.
Brad opens lids of bait buckets to reveal frogs, salamanders, and sucker minnows.
"Did you remember the cut bait?" Brad asks.
"What do you think, genius?" Bruce retorts as he opens the lid on his cooler so Brad can see bags of goldeye, an oily native fish that is abundant in the river and a prime source of forage for large channel catfish.
"These fish are carnivores," Bruce says, as we back out into the main channel and motor downstream.
Perhaps Mark Twain's tales of life along the Mississippi are responsible for weaving common notions of catfish into the tapestry of the American imagination: Whiskered fish, especially large ones, ply muddy waters below the Mason-Dixon Line. But the idea that catfish thrive down South isn't necessarily based on fiction, according to Topp. "Channel catfish in the Red River are at the northern edge of their range," he says. "They do prefer warm water."
So why does the nation's best fishery for trophy channel catfish exist so far north?
The catfish of the Red River have evolved to grow more slowly than their southern relatives do, but they have the potential to live much longer. Whereas a channel catfish in warmer climates can grow to weigh 20 pounds in as few as eight years, a Red River catfish might take more than twice as long to reach that size. In more southern climates, however, the typical lifespan of a channel catfish doesn't extend much beyond a decade. Some of the Red River's large channel catfish have been aged at over 20 years old.
Because it takes so long for Red River channel catfish to attain their large size, the fishery is extremely vulnerable to overharvest. "It doesn't take long for anglers who really know how to catch big catfish to harvest most of those big fish from a river," Topp says.
When the popularity of Red River channel catfish began to grow in the late 1980s, Topp says DNR fisheries managers were concerned that liberal bag limits and a lack of length restrictions for catfish posed a threat to this unique trophy fishery. Other Red River neighbors agreed, and in 1989 fisheries professionals from Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Manitoba formed the Red River Fisheries Technical Committee. By 1991 Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota had established an identical five fish possession limit for channel catfish on the Red River and its tributaries: Only one fish may be over 24 inches. Manitoba does not allow any harvest of trophy channel catfish, but anglers may keep four fish less than 60 centimeters (about 24 inches).
Today, the river gauge reads 16 feet, a healthy flow for September and within the optimal range for fishing the river. When the river is higher than 20 feet, the current makes anchoring difficult.
As we pass beneath the Sorlie Memorial Bridge, which connects Grand Forks and East Grand Forks, I find it hard to imagine water washing over the bridge deck as it did when the river crested at a record 54 feet in 1997. On the banks above us, people stroll and bike along the Greenway -- a 2,200-acre open space created after that monumental flood. (The Greenway, part of the neighboring cities' flood control system, helped prevent property damage when the river crested at nearly 50 feet this past spring.)
A half-mile downstream, Brad brings the boat off plane. Here, stout cottonwood trees bear deep scars. The notches, cut by north-flowing slabs of ice, distinguish these trees as sturdy survivors of dramatic spring breakups.
"Now!" Brad hollers as he braces the tiller handle of the idling outboard with his knee to keep the boat in place. The brothers drop heavy anchors, fabricated from worn-out chisel-plow shovels. The anchor ropes go taut, and the silt-laden water gurgles as it drags across the hull of the boat, now securely anchored crosscurrent.
We bait our hooks, two lines each -- legal on Minnesota-North Dakota border waters -- cast downstream, and place our rods in holders. We are just upstream from a gentle outside bend that has gathered an impressive jumble of woody debris. The goal is to tempt catfish out of this snag-filled cover with our fresh frogs, salamanders, sucker minnows, and chunks of goldeye.
"Some days it's frogs," Bruce says. "Next day, you can't buy a fish on a frog; all they want is a goldeye."
The brisk rhythm of the current washing over our bait is telegraphed as a flutter to our rod tips, but this cadence is quickly broken.
"Looks like this one wants the salamander," Brad calls out, our attention now riveted on the rod in the back of the boat. It is bent halfway to the water, bowing slowly at the whim of something powerful.
"Pick it up," Bruce hollers as the rod bends violently, its tip nearly touching the river.
"Fish on!" Brad says, straining to change the direction of this fish, which seems intent on heading back to the safety of its timber-strewn abode.
The drag on the heavy baitcasting reel is tight, but it appears to slip effortlessly several times before the odds start to move in Brad's favor. At the end of his line, the battleship-gray brute comes frustratingly close to the surface twice, but each time it surges powerfully back to the muddy depths. The next time it surfaces, Bruce slides the net under what turns out to be a respectable 10-pound channel catfish.
"Now imagine adding 10 pounds to that," Brad says.
A few hundred yards downstream, we hear the sound of water rushing over the terraced ledges of what was once Riverside Dam.
"That dam was a real killer," Bruce says, recalling the names of several drowning victims. "It's a lot safer now, and upstream everyone has definitely seen more fish and bigger fish since they fixed it."
More anglers are recognizing the benefits of dam removal or modification on the Red River and its tributaries, according to Luther Aadland, a DNR river ecologist and longtime advocate for improving fish passage. The reintroduction of lake sturgeon to the Red River has been a catalyst for dam removal or modification projects, but Aadland says the benefits extend to all fish communities, including channel catfish.
The Nelsons, like other devoted catfish anglers along the Red River, are anxious to see the Drayton Dam, 90 river miles north of Grand Forks, removed or modified to allow fish passage. North Dakota's former state-record channel catfish -- 33-pounds, 4-ounces -- was caught downstream of Drayton.
"If they can get rid of that dam, we'll be catching 30 pounders here," Bruce says.
The Drayton Dam and the Lockport Dam in Manitoba are the two remaining downstream barriers between Fargo and Lake Winnipeg. South of Fargo, two other lowhead dams sever the Red River's connection to the Otter Tail River, its primary tributary in Minnesota. While seasonal high-water events allow some fish passage over these dams and through a fish ladder at Lockport, most seasons the window of opportunity arrives too early for the large, sexually mature catfish of the Red River, Aadland says.
Channel catfish begin their upstream migration when water temperature rises above 60 degrees and spawn when it reaches the low 70s. By that time, the river level is typically too low to allow passage at any of the river's remaining barriers.
"Depending on water levels, good spawning habitat might be in a different place from one season to the next," Aadland says. "If allowed to, I believe both catfish and sturgeon would travel hundreds of miles seasonally from Lake Winnipeg to as far as Fergus Falls."
With access to the vast waters of Lake Winnipeg, channel catfish that reside downstream of the Lockport Dam in Manitoba are some of the river's largest. Channel catfish over 30 pounds are common north of the Lockport Dam, but these behemoths are effectively blocked from moving upstream into U.S. waters for most of the year. Odds are slim this large dam will ever be removed, but Aadland said discussions for improving the fish ladder at Lockport Dam continue.
The Nelson brothers were both adults before they discovered this incredible fishing opportunity in their back yard.
"The river used to be a place you shouldn't go," Brad says, gazing downstream. "People have a hard time appreciating this river until they've been on it."
It's the morning of our second day on the Red, and we are fishing downstream of the Riverside Dam in a cold, intermittent drizzle. The evening before, the largest fish we boated was 12 pounds. The brothers have assured me that the area where we are anchored holds plenty of 20-pound fish.
As if on cue, the tip of the rod in front of Brad bends hard toward the water without hesitation.
"I've got a real one here boys," he says, picking up the rod, groaning as he works to lead the fish off the bottom.
The fish moves out into the heavy current of the main channel like a bulldozer. Muskies may be sleek sprinters and smallmouth bass scrappy acrobats, but the graceful, unyielding strength of a big channel catfish is something to behold. Despite the stout tackle the brothers use, which allows them to play these big fish quickly, five tense minutes pass before the fish is in the boat. It tips the scales at just over 20 pounds, but we don't have much time to celebrate: Moments after this trophy cat is returned to the water, the rod in front of me is rattling in its holder.
"Pick it up!" Bruce calls out.
Having missed two fish the day before, I'm relieved to feel something on the other end. Three minutes later, my forearm is burning from the strain. What progress I make winding line back onto the spool, the fish erases with startling speed. This is the most relentlessly powerful fish I've ever been connected to. My anticipation to see it mingles with the legitimate fear that it might not give me an opportunity.
When Bruce finally gets the net under this 15-pound beauty and lifts it into the boat, I can feel the pounding of my heart in my eardrums. Seeing my astonishment, Bruce asks, "Kind of makes you wonder why people still fish for walleye, doesn't it?"
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A man has been arrested and bailed over a cyber attack on the websites of the Home Office and the Home Secretary, Scotland Yard said.
The 41-year-old was held at his home in Stoke-on-Trent on suspicion of encouraging a distributed denial of service attack on the sites.
He allegedly targeted the Home Office and Theresa May's constituency websites and urged others to take part in the attack online.
Distributed denial of service attacks are designed to overwhelm websites so they crash.
The man was arrested on suspicion of assisting or encouraging crime contrary to the Serious Crime Act 2007 and later bailed until mid-December.
Scotland Yard said material including computers, telephones and media storage devices were seized from his home.
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The first and most practical thing to do in this situation is to reflect on your time-management skills, which honestly aren't that great even for me.
Starting your business at 10 p.m. isn't the best of habits, though I myself understand the desire to kick back a bit when arriving home from school. A good compromise that I can personally attest to from my far-apart sparks of personal responsibility is about 5 p.m., varying a bit depending on when your household dinner is. Having a nice, comfy cozy flat surface to work on, like a desk with a chair, really, really makes a difference. Sitting on something like a floor for hours doing homework is extremely uncomfortable and really slows down your work process from all of the rolling around and repositioning you'll be doing to be in a workable state of comfort.
Occasionally the worst happens, and despite all of your time management, your teachers have managed to concoct an evil conspiracy to create a cocktail of assignments so large late-night working is inevitable. This is OK, as there are several anti-sleep aids readily available to most. First off are your staple, conventional things. Your coffee, your energy drinks, your soda. Any of these will work, and are quite tasty treats to go with your work to boot. However, some of us may not have caffeine privilege.
All hope is not lost. I've found taking a potent hot sauce and consuming it liberally can help you stay awake, though if too overwhelming can be painful and distracting from work. Some more radical ideas can include rubbing ice cubes on your bare flesh and taking either hot or cold showers, though nothing too hot or too cold. Jumping jacks and other aerobic exercises can also keep blood flowing, though overdoing it will just tire you out further.
An important thing to keep in mind when planning your night of work is that you'll probably do work slower as you get more tired as the night goes on, so it's probably a good idea to get the big things out of the way first, so you can get all sleepy when you start doing the small stuff.
After getting minimal sleep, you're going to have to deal with fighting off the sleepies in school. This can be even more troublesome, given your limited resources within the school. I typically pack a few things when I come to school sleepy. I bring a small, tightly sealed container of coffee, though many schools may not allow that, and a small spray bottle. When I start to get tired, I take the spray bottle, and spray my face with it. This gives an invigorating rush of water to your face and eyes and also has the dual purpose of cooling you off from the hot weather often found here this time of year. Others will appreciate your spray bottle as well, if they ask to borrow it for a spray.
While important to manage time and such, it's often not realized by many adults that sometimes the workload of a studious teenager in high school goes beyond that of which would allow us reasonable time to sleep. Especially at the end of the year, this is a big problem. Though it is a big problem indeed, people should keep in mind that hard work always pays off. Studying, homework, all go toward helping us hit homers at the big game, the Regents, which, like it or not, return to haunt us when we go to apply for college and such. So don't get discouraged, sip some coffee, cover yourself in ice, and spray on!
Austin Czechowski is a sophomore at Cobleskill-Richmondville High School. Would you like A Word of Advice from him? Send him an email at email@example.com, or send him a letter to "Teen Talk: A Word of Advice," C/O The Daily Star, P.O. Box 250, Oneonta, NY 13820. 'Teen Talk' columns can be found at www.thedailystar.com/teentalk.


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A Tuesday headline in The State read, "Congress' angry showdown ends in a federal shutdown."
Congress has names and faces. These individuals harassed us with their phone calls to get elected. They bombarded our mailboxes, explaining why they were the best fit for the job. They butted in on our favorite programs. Many of the same people and businesses that contributed to their campaigns will now suffer from this shutdown.
We waited long hours and took off personal time to stand in line to vote for them. The person you voted for is drawing a salary during this shutdown while our economy and retirement hangs in the balance. Although I am and forever will be a patriot, I am having serious doubts about the people that we have elected to be our "public servants".
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NASA predicts total blackout on 23-25 Dec 2012 during alignment of Universe.
US scientists predict Universe change, total blackout of planet for 3 days from Dec 23 2012.
It is not the end of the world, it is an alignment of the Universe, where the Sun and the earth will align for the first time. The earth will shift from the current third dimension to zero dimension, then shift to the forth dimension. During this transition, the entire Universe will face a big change, and we will see a entire brand new world.
The 3 days blackout is predicted to happen on Dec 23, 24, 25....during this time, staying calm is most important, hug each other, pray pray pray, sleep for 3 nights...and those who survive will face a brand new world....for those not prepared, many will die because of fear. Be happy, enjoy every moment now. Don't worry, pray to God everyday. There is a lot of talk about what will happen in 2012, but many people don't believe it, and don't want to talk about it for fear of creating fear and panic.
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NASA America predicts total blackout on Earth from 22-25 Dec 2012 during alignment of Universe.
If possible, please avoid traveling during the third week of December 2012 as all modes of communication may fail.
US scientists predict total darkness on planet earth for 3 days from Dec 22 2012. It is NOT the end of the world, it is just an alignment of the Universe, where the Sun and the earth will align for the first time. All planets are expected to align in a straight line as a result of which there could be some natural calamities on Earth. The earth will shift from the current third dimension to zero dimension, then shift to the 4th dimension. During this transition, the entire Universe will face a big change, and we will see an entire brand new world. The 3 days blackout is predicted to happen on Dec 22, 23, 24, 2012.... So do good be good live for the present enjoy life.
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On 21 December the Earth will enter a still ring called the Photonic belt at 1:00 AM. Colombian time. Where our planet will go off completely, and will last 3 days of darkness. NASA confirmed it December 5th 2012. It is said that when it is completely dark you will feel cold and there will be flashes of lights, "nothing is going to happen, is just an extraordinary phenomenon that happens every 11 million years." It is recommended to remain in your houses as power fails or electronic devices. 3 Days of darkness will pass. This is what the Mayan calendar was referring. A planetary alignment. NOT the end of the world. You have to be prepared!
Analysis: False. NASA has predicted no such thing. There will be no three-day blackout in December 2012. Indeed, the phrases used above "total blackout of planet," "alignment of the universe," "shift from the current third dimension to zero dimension," etc. are not only undefined, but meaningless. It's pseudo-scientific nonsense.
The "alignment" to which our unknown authors apparently refer is the passing of the sun, as seen from earth, across the approximate center of our galaxy on December 21, 2012 (the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere). This happens every year at about the same time and portends nothing in terms of earthly events, good or ill, given that the galactic center is some 28,000 light years (165,000 trillion miles) away. It's a cosmic non-event.
It so happens there's a super-massive black hole at the center of the galaxy, and black holes are mysterious and scary, as everyone knows, so purveyors of 2012 doomsday scenarios have used this as an excuse to spread fears that the aforementioned "alignment" will wreak havoc here on earth, somehow. But again, we're talking about a cosmic entity unimaginably far away from our planet and a galactic alignment that occurs every year like clockwork, and has throughout all human existence.
What's so special about 2012?
Answer: nothing.
About the NASA video: Most versions of the text include a link to a two-and-a-half-minute YouTube video showing NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. recommending to employees and contractors of the space agency that they develop family preparedness plans in case of unforeseen emergencies. It was recorded in June 2011. Its message is routine, generic, and has nothing to do with "dimensional shifts," "alignments of the universe," or a "total blackout of the planet." View the video in its original context here.
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I cover marketing, technology strategy and organizational problems
There is a theory in evolutionary biology that reciprocal altruism and cooperation first appeared as a solution to the food storage problem. If you were an early hominid and you killed a large mammoth, you could not possibly eat it all before it rotted. So you shared it. The best bank for your excess capital was your friend's stomach. That way, you could play banker when your friend killed the next mammoth.
I was thinking of this little idea recently in the context of human wealth. Unless you are a professional investor (and probably even then), places to store surplus capital today where it will even be safe and/or not depreciate too fast (let alone generate a return) are getting incredibly hard to find. The stock market seems to be a secular, bearish bloodbath. Volatility and unexpected temporary rallies are making short games dangerous. Even staying liquid in dollars seems to have its dangers, due to threats of devaluation and unfamiliar new terms like "quantitative easing" which us average investors are starting to hear for the first time. The Euro isn't exactly a great alternative at the moment. Investing in gold and similar commodities seems to require a somewhat apocalyptic mindset and decisions about whether or not you want access to the actual metal if things go to hell (which isn't to say such a mindset isn't justified at the moment).
But there is one safe haven, if you know how to invest in it: software developers.
The Right Investment for Pre-Apocalyptic Times
The one absolutely solid place to store your capital today — if you know how to do it – is in software developers' wallets. If the world survives looming financial apocalypse dangers at all, this is the one investment that will weather the storms. It doesn't matter whether you are an individual or a corporation, or what corner of the world you inhabit. You need to find a way to invest in software developers.
In what follows, I am deliberately going to talk about the developers like they are products in a meat market. For practical purposes, they are, since the vast majority of them haven't found a way to use their own scarcity to their advantage. Which means others find a way to do so. In capitalism, every human is either a capitalist, somebody else's capital, or economically worthless. Today, this abstract point specifically translates to: people who can invest in developers, developers, and everybody else. This means that if you are in apparently more fundamental professions — perhaps you are a baker with a small business — you are effectively useless, not because bread isn't important, but because surviving in the bread business is now a matter of having developers on your side who can help you win in a game that Yelp, Groupon and other software companies are running to their advantage. If your bakery doesn't have an iPhone app, it will soon be at the mercy of outfits like Yelp.
And god forbid, if you don't have a skill, like baking, which the developer-centric economy can actually use, you are in deep trouble. One reason the Occupy Wall Street movement is not having the impact it seems like it should, based on sheer numbers of people involved, is that many participants simply have no cards left to play in this national game of economic poker.
We'll switch from this meat-market perspective to the humanist developer point of view at the end of the post.
Investing in good developers is such a good bet at the moment, that if you have money and you happen to find a talented developer who seems to like you and wants to work with you, you should give him/her your money to build something, anything, even if you have no really good product ideas (those are cheap; I'll sell you a dozen for a dollar). If you don't have money, you should offer up whatever other kind of surplus you do have. The NPV on a strong and positive relationship with a talented developer today is ridiculously high. If you gain the trust of a talented developer to the point that they are likely to drop any active gig in the future in favor of joining one of your projects, the value is through the roof. The world is your oyster, which you with your developer will open.
I warned you I was going to objectify and dehumanize programmers.
On the flip side of the coin, I've known people with complementary talents (such as raising money or marketing products) who return the loyalty in extreme ways — insisting on working with their trusted developers even if that means walking away from million dollar deals.
"In what follows, I am deliberately going to talk about the developers like they are products in a meat market. For practical purposes, they are, since the vast majority of them haven't found a way to use their own scarcity to their advantage."
Perhaps. But we've got a hell of a lot more clue than any hack journalist I ever met!
This article is a pretty interesting case study in rose colored glassess. Focusing on several winners among a veritable sea of losers. One of the things to bear in mind while we sing the praises of developers was the unmitigated disaster that was the greater majority of internet ipos in the late 90s. Check your enthusiasm.
More like battered wife syndrome.
The way this is written it makes me feel as if it promotes project managers and business owners to give us junk work and treat us like crap, we like it that way.
Software is a tool, and tools are a means to an end. As a result, the value of tool-making can never exceed the value of tool usage. We will indeed be replacing and expanding a lot of our physical tools with software (though, of course, software always needs hardware on which to run and with which to ultimately interact with the world), but I am really struggling to see how this will be a fundamental shift. BI and AI will be quite like BE and AE (electricity) with software specialists mirroring the rise and maturation of electricians and electrical engineers.
Software is much more than a tool. It can also be entertainment as well as a conduit for information exchange. The assertion that software usage trumps software creation is false. Actually, software usage and creation are symbiotic and both contribute to the evolution of systems and networks. This article is spot on and developers have grown weary of relying on business "leaders" to make things happen. I think we are going to see a lot more developer driven progress in the future.
It's interesting stuff, but I fear there is a real danger in objectifying developers to such an extent. Getting the best out of people isn't a matter of just "compensating" them for the inconvenience of working – as writers such as Dan Pink and Stephen Denning have been articulating in recent work.
What motivates developers ("the getting the right fit" within any particular organisation) seems to me to be more important for the investment in developers to work than the fiscal amounts (to a point) – something I've written a bit more about here: http://mmitii.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/what-motivates-developers/ It's about the nature of the work, the working environment, team mates and working structures… and that will be the stuff that makes people both hang around and also be *really* productive.
I Agree with Venkatesh, Investing into software/ game developers is a safe bet right now. I'm going to even elaborate on that further by stating that "indie developers- ( highly skilled and passionate teams of 2-10) people who are embarking on the mobile and tablet/ platforms are poised for rapid growth. I am an indie developer who is moving forward and gaining while the rest of the markets are economically restricted. We (a 2 man team) came out with 2 hit games on IOS devices and now were making more. But we need capital to expand because the current resources (myself and my partner) are not enough and the demand exceeds the supply.
Equating the coming of Christ, the Maker of the universe, with a technological milestone is a flight of insulting irrationality, but overall it's an interesting article. Some stats to quantify the situation described would have been nice.
Also discussion of portability from the standpoint of global labor would be helpful. Developing countries could train many more software engineers than their economy needs, and export that talent through the web, creating an effective glut. Foreign IT talent has been a reality for some time but, assuming the author is discussing domestic developers and represents widely held views, is not expected to create this effect.
If the author's valuing of developer talent is accurate, perhaps software engineering academies in poorest communities around the world could be the cornerstone of development economics and the eradication of poverty.
We have already started a new epoch based on technology and not a religious belief. Although the article is off by a few months for the start. The epoch started Midnight January 1, 1970 UTC.
This is the time system now used by the internet and most computer operating systems.


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Have you ever considered writing your autobiography?
No, I haven't, really. Because, I mean, I've only got to, like, chapter 3, you know? I wouldn't know how to tie it all up. I gotta know the ending first - or at least be pretty close to it - before I can get a handle on what's gone down. Right now, I'm more interested in knowin' what the next half of the book is gonna be. Or the last third, or whatever.
Have you arrived at any spiritual conclusions after forty-four years?
No. I'm just more and more convinced that I'll find out when I'm supposed to find out. I mean, I've been closer to death a few more times than a lot of people. And what I've found out is that whatever it is, it's worth waiting for, you know?
Do you think you've mellowed over the years?
I guess everybody does, in a way, yeah. I mean, I enjoy doing things now that I would never have had the patience for twenty years ago. Like kids – I actually enjoy bouncing babies on my knee and shit, you know? And I enjoy goin' to see, like, me dad. We got together again in 1982, after twenty years of trepidation. 'Cause when the Stones started, it had been, like, him or me: "I'm leavin'! I gotta go!" And I moved to London. So after twenty years, we finally got it back together: me dad's comin' down to see me, and I'm sort of waitin' to get "Hi, son" – bop! But then this little guy came out, real sweet and . . . aw, shit, you know? Now we sit around and play dominoes. And he can still drink more 'n me.
Back in the Seventies, the Stones seemed in danger of splitting along the lines of your down-to-earth rock & roll instincts and Mick's jet-set lifestyle. What was really going on there?
Well, I would say that there you've got the seeds of why we're not together right now. I mean, Mick and I have different attitudes, and throughout most of the Seventies, I was living in another world from him. I didn't blame him – he'd earned the right to do what he wanted. It was just that I couldn't relate to that. And even if I could've related to it, I was too busy bein' busted – which, I mean, is equally as dumb, you know? Mick and I are incredibly diverse people. We've known each other forty years – ever since we were three or four years old. But while a certain part of our personalities is incredibly close, there's an awful lot which is very, very different. And so, yeah, it kind of got up my nose a bit, that jet-set shit and, like, the flaunting of it. But he's a lonely guy, too. He's got his own problems, you know?
If you weren't so different in some ways, the musical chemistry probably wouldn't be the same.
No, precisely. So it doesn't rankle me. I'm his friend, and he knows it. It's just, like, "I love you, darling, but I can't live with you."
What is the Stones' future, then?
Everybody likes things cut and dried, and with the Stones, it never will be. Whether it's all over or not is really up to how everybody in the band feels. This particular period is basically, I think, a reaction to twenty-five years of being forced to work together whether we liked it or not. Luckily, we liked it. But, I mean, eventually, it's gotta get to a point where you say, "Hey, it's always been fun to work together, but now it's gettin' a little bitter here and there, and lines are bein' drawn." And you don't really know how to get out of it, or who's drawin' the lines, and there's a lot of interference from people who think they've gotta put themselves in one camp or another. So, better off, let's just give it a breather, and then we'll see how ridiculous it all is and work it out. I mean, I love working with those boys, and I don't see us not pullin' it back together. Just give us a break, and we'll come back for part two, you know? "We'll be right with you after these messages." [Laughs.] More to come, you know?
Whatever the group's future, the Stones have succeeded in removing age as an issue from the making of rock & roll.
Maybe that's because of what I was saying – that rock became a global thing just at that point where we started, and that enlarged all of the possibilities. That's really what rock & roll did, bless its old heart. It was – and still is, in a way – at the forefront of turning this little planet of ours on to the idea that it is a planet. It's managed to cross right through opposing countries and ideologies. I mean, you'll never get rid of nationalism and so-called patriotism and all that. But the important thing is to spread the idea that there's really this one planet – that's really what we've got to worry about. And all these little lines that were drawn by guys hundreds of years ago are really obsolete. And if we don't realize that, there won't be anything much in the world, you know? There's 5 billion of us now, man – in the Fifties there was only 2 1/2 billion. We managed to double it in thirty-some years. So in the long term, maybe that's the most important thing that rock & roll's done – it's opened up people's minds about these things.
Even if it hasn't taught us all how to love one another.
Yeah. Like "Now we're gonna give all 5 billion of you your daily drop of acid, and the maharishi's gonna come down and tell you how to deal with it." [Laughs.]
Maybe the true essence of rock & roll is simply that it was always great fun.
Oh, it still is great fun. You can take everything else, but don't take the fun out of it, man. I mean, if they take the fun out of this life – I'll leave.
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TO THE EDITOR: Please endorse the New York State Public Assistance Integrity Act.
This proposed legislation would prohibit welfare recipients from using cash assistance to purchase items, such as tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, lottery tickets and to gamble. I have long been aware that some people were purchasing these types of items, but always thought that they were doing it underhandedly rather than legally.
I am not sure which disgusts me more? The fact that this has been allowed to take place to begin with or the fact that last year the legislation that was proposed to end it was permitted to die a legislative death.
As a person who has worked hard my entire life and has served my country, let me say this: This is the biggest bunch of "expletive, expletive bull expletive" I have ever heard. Need I say more? Not to other hard-working, taxpaying individuals because I already know how you feel.
But please publicly express your own outrage. Don't allow this issue to remain quiet. Demand that your local representatives pass a resolution. Why should they be quiet about this?
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Since releasing information Wednesday about a taxi driver who was arrested on Nov. 21 on suspicion of sexually assaulting female passengers, Manhattan Beach police have taken one report about an incident that happened in the city "back in June or July," said MBPD Detective Mike Rosenberger on Friday morning.
Police have fielded additional calls but are not sure if the incidents are related, he told Patch. The investigation is ongoing and arises from two situations that happened in August—one in MB, the other in Redondo Beach.
The modus operandi of the taxi driver—who has only been publicly identified as a male resident of Torrance—is to offer solo girls a ride late at night, Rosenberger said. The driver reportedly opens the front side passenger door of the cab while offering them a ride, and the woman who gets into the front passenger seat is then in a position to be touched by the driver, said Rosenberger.
"It (taking a seat in the front passenger side of the vehicle) kind of facilitates the groping," said Rosenberger. "That's kind of key to this whole thing."
In an interview with KTLA, Heidi Dittmer said she was walking down the street when the taxi driver offered her a ride.
"He (turns) his body towards me," she recounted. "He reaches over and he pulls my green top down and he puts his face in my chest."
Rosenberger said police expect to release the man's photo next week, but have not done so yet so that potential victims and witnesses can provide objective information. He said they have held two photo lineups without releasing the man's photo or name to the public to avoid "undue influence."
The man posted bond when arrested and is due in court "sometime in January," said Rosenberger.
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Despite his theatrical background, Richard Armitage has now become associated with TV tough guy roles or for popping up as the dashing leading man. His first major parts cropped up in 2006, when he appeared as the shady Guy Of Gisborne in BBC series Robin Hood, before showing his softer side as Dawn French's lover in the final episodes of The Vicar Of Dibley. In 2008 he became the lead in spy thriller Spooks and two years later starred as SAS soldier Chris Ryan in Sky's Strike Back. Armitage will soon be seen in upcoming Hollywood blockbusters Captain America and The Hobbit.


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By Joy Hampton
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NORMAN — City council to weigh property right issues
Concerned residents packed Norman city hall Tuesday night to protest a proposed apartment complex at 36th Avenue Northwest and Tecumseh Road. Protesters had gathered 835 signatures on a petition opposing the adjustment of the 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan and the accompanying zoning change required for the development to move forward.
Despite that, the Norman City Council was expected to approve the zoning change.
With the council meeting moving beyond 11 p.m., no decision had been made as of press time, but residents of nearby Cascade Estates and Castlerock who mounted an organized protest against the zoning change were hopeful.
The land was designated as C-1 commercial, and many residents said commercial is badly needed in that area.
"We've debated this project for quite a long time now," said attorney Sean Rieger, who represented the applicant. "We have gone above and beyond in protecting this neighborhood."
But opponents were not moved by changes and concessions made by the developer in order to accommodate the concerns voiced throughout the planning and zoning process which started with the predevelopment meeting between neighbors and the development team.
Rieger said the number of rooftops will not support commercial there, but the protesters disagree.
Protesters said many of their sales tax dollars get spent in Moore because there is no placed to stop for basic needs on the way home from work.
Engineer Tom McCaleb said the multifamily zoning will result in a 79 percent reduction in traffic from C-1 use.
"There is one driveway on 36th and there is one driveway on Tecumseh. The previous plat had three driveways, one has been eliminated," McCaleb said. "An updated traffic impact analysis was done."
Traffic projections during peak times are lower with the site developed as multifamily versus commercial.
"We've moved buildings away from the western property line neighborhood," McCaleb said.
In addition, those buildings will have no windows facing the residential neighborhood and the height of those buildings will be two stories, not three.
"The closest windows that actually face the neighborhood are over 300 feet away," McCaleb said.
The project proposed "tuck under" garages, a characteristic of higher-end apartments, he said.
Other high-end elements include 70 percent or more masonry and high-quality materials.
"I can't think of another facility that has integrated garages like this," Rieger said.
He said the $103,000 per unit cost is unusual for Norman. The area has changed because the HealthPlex was built in the area.
Rieger said 25 acres of high-density residential was planned for across the street, but the high-density residential was lost in the shuffle when the hospital came along, leaving a shortage of high density, which is needed, Rieger said.
The complex would target young professionals and will have 65 percent one bedroom units.
Protester Heath Hans said the funding from Housing and Urban Development is making the project possible.
He said with interest costs so low, he questions why HUD financing is needed.
"In 2008 when the market dropped, things changed at that corner," Hans said.
He urged the city council to hold on and believe that commercial growth will come to that corner.
Hans said available funding right now for multifamily is what is pushing that development, but multifamily does not meet the area's needs.
"I think the HUD financing was mischaracterized," former council member Hal Ezzell said. He spoke in favor of the project.
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