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January 2008
Scripps partners on new how-to video Web site
News Sentinel corporate parent E.W. Scripps Co. is partnering with a former News Corp. executive on a new Web site, WonderHowTo.com.
The site, an aggregator of how-to videos, looks pretty cool for those who want to know how to throw a right cross, solve a Rubik's Cube in five steps or roll a coin across their fingers. Scripps is contributing instructional videos and handling ad sales, according to the New York Times.
But what really caught my eye was the background of the former News Corp. exec, Stephen Chao, and in particular his behavior toward News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch.
In 1992, Mr. Murdoch fired Mr. Chao, considered a gifted but quirky executive, after he engaged a man to remove all of his clothes during a speech being delivered at a company management retreat. The purpose was to drive home a point about decency, but Mr. Murdoch, seated in the audience next to Dick Cheney (then the secretary of defense), was not amused.
According to the article, Chao also once tossed Murdoch's puppy into a swimming pool to see if it could swim -- then jumped in to save it in his business suit.
UPDATE: Scripps Networks called to point out that Scripps is not a "partner" since the company is not investing in the Web site. Click through for a press release on WonderHowTo.com.
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MPAA corrects a teensy error on college piracy
The Motion Picture Association of America issued a remarkable press release last week in which it announced that a widely trumpeted study just slightly overstated the effect of Internet piracy by college students. The group blamed college kids for 44 percent of the movie industry's domestic losses to piracy; the real number was closer to 15 percent.
Kenneth C. Green has an interesting essay for Insidehighered.com in which he discusses the MPAA's "300 percent error." Ignoring the fuzzy math (shouldn't it be the 200 percent error?), it's worth a read for those interested in piracy issues.
Next steps? Perhaps the MPAA's press release acknowledging its "300 percent error" will set the stage for new, less rancorous private and public discussions about P2P piracy. Colleges and universities respect copyright; colleges and universities are engaged in serious efforts to inform and educate students about the importance of copyright. And MPAA and RIAA officials, beginning with MPAA President Dan Glickman and RIAA President Cary Sherman, should acknowledge, respect and strongly support the continuing efforts of campus officials to address copyright issues, in part by ending the public posturing that portrays colleges and universities as dens of digital piracy.
How fast is your broadband connection?
Connected Tennessee, the new broadband advocacy group, has released maps showing average download and upload speeds in counties across the state.
The group reports that average statewide speeds are 3.4 megabits per second downstream and 575 kilobits per second upstream. Test your own connection here.
Here at work, I've done a few speed tests, and my download speeds have varied from 2.5 to 6 megabits per second, while upload speeds have been from 155 kilobits per second to 1.4 megabits per second.
State senator barks up the wrong tree
In a story that ran today about a local company's dog DNA test, I spoke with the executive director of the American Dog Owners Association, who worried that such DNA tests may be used to promote legislation against breeds like pit bulls, or even mixed-breed dogs with some pit bull in their backgrounds.
It was a timely comment. State Sen. Tommy Kilby has introduced Senate Bill 2738 which would ban ownership of pit bulls -- even a half-pit bull.
Cue the blogger outrage here, here, here, and here.
Pit bull owner Aunt B. offers a personal plea.
I'll give him a kidney if he lets me keep my dog. That's a more than fair trade as far as I'm concerned.
Abunga users block "The Golden Compass"
When I reported last year on Abunga.com -- a local online bookstore that lets its users block titles -- the story sparked an interesting discussion in the comments about market forces and the wisdom of Abunga's business model.
The company isn't shying away from the discussion. Abunga issued a press release today announcing that "The Golden Compass" -- a source of controversy among some Christian groups -- was the site's most frequently blocked book in December. As such, Abunga has banned the book from its site entirely, regardless of the fact that it's a top-seller on Amazon.com. The company says it blocks more than 60,000 titles.
Click through for the press release from Abunga.
Scientologists try to take down creepy Tom Cruise video
Gawker, the snarky New York-based gossip blog, is hosting a truly creepy video of Tom Cruise expressing his zeal for Scientology with lines like, "When you're a Scientologist, and you drive by an accident, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you're the only one who can really help." The video credits Tom Cruise with having "introduced LRH Technology to over 1 billion people."
The famously combative Church of Scientology has gotten the video removed from the big video-hosting sites, but Gawker is holding firm in the face of a takedown notice from a Scientology lawyer.
"We are using this video in the context of news reporting and critical commentary, which are uses that may not be authorized by your client, but which serve the public interest," Gawker's lawyer wrote in reply. "For this, and other reasons, we believe our use is fair."
It will be interesting to see if this fair-use fight makes it to a courtroom.
The Gawker entry with the Tom Cruise video, by the way, has been viewed more than 1 million times.
Library of Congress teams with Flickr on photo project
This is an extremely cool initiative. The Library of Congress -- as detailed on its blog -- has launched a Flickr page to provide access to part of its photo collection. It's also looking for Flickr users to provide more information on the photographs.
The project is beginning somewhat modestly, but we hope to learn a lot from it. Out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist.
The real magic comes when the power of the Flickr community takes over. We want people to tag, comment and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo, which will benefit not only the community but also the collections themselves. For instance, many photos are missing key caption information such as where the photo was taken and who is pictured. If such information is collected via Flickr members, it can potentially enhance the quality of the bibliographic records for the images.
The above photo, by Alfred T. Palmer, shows construction at TVA's Douglas Dam in June 1942. See more TVA photos from the Library of Congress here.
Tennessee sex offenders to register e-mails, screen names?
Under a bill proposed by state Sen. Jamie Woodson, convicted sex offenders would have to register their e-mail addresses, instant-messaging chat names and any other screen names to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Local IT company RM Technologies has been lobbying for the bill and working with Woodson's office on it. Supporters hope the legislation would help avoid incidents like this one.
Click through to read RM Technologies' press release on the bill.
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ORNL scientists on climate change
"This is a serious situation," said Tom Wilbanks, a corporate fellow and distinguished scientist at ORNL. He was among the researchers who worked on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore.
"I've been one of the conservatives on this," Wilbanks said after the ORNL meeting. "I've said, let's don't rush to the conclusion that the impacts are going to be so bad … that we can't live with them. (But) if you look at the current emission trends and the drivers, which are mainly energy use in the large Asian developing countries, you say, it looks worse than we thought."
More here from Frank Munger.
Macworld features thin laptop, iTunes movie rentals
The hotly anticipated Macworld "Stevenote," in which Apple CEO Steve Jobs reveals the company's new products and services, featured a new ultra-thin laptop, movie rentals on iTunes, a wireless backup device for Macs and new software for the iPhone.
Wall Street appears less than impressed, with Apple's stock down more than 7 percent at 2 p.m.
UPDATE: Watch the keynote here.
Tennessee Tech student data goes missing
In the latest Tennessee data dump, a Tennessee Tech employee lost a flash drive containing personal information of 990 students. Knoxnews commenter Cracker makes a good point:
This article and all the others like it from around the world make it sound like there's just this one occasion when Employee A loaded sensitive data onto insecure media and then, woopsy, it goes missing, possibly to be found by someone who will abuse it. But we all know what's going on, despite the buttock-screening: EVERY DAY Employee A is dumping sensitive information onto a flash drive or unsecured laptop and schlepping the thing around with him or her until one day it goes missing. In the process this employee ignores common sense notions of security AND likely ignores workplace guidelines. Yet it happens again and again, putting unwitting people at risk for various forms of expensive fraud.
Knoxnews.com traffic ranked by browser, operating system
KNS online guru Jack Lail sent out lists of knoxnews.com traffic from mid-October to last Friday, ranked by visitors' browsers and operating systems.
A few observations: Vista accounts for only 8.6 percent of knoxnews traffic. Most users are still using Windows XP. Macintosh users make up only 5.4 percent of knoxnews visitors. And the iPhone makes the list at No. 11 for operating system and browser, with about 12,000 early adopters using their iPhones to check out knoxnews.
To the 811 visitors still using Windows 95: I feel sorry for you.
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A nuclear revival...in the UK
Just like in the U.S., the United Kingdom government is throwing its support behind a new wave of nuclear power plants. There's just one little difference:
(Business Secretary John) Hutton conceded that no nuclear plant had been built anywhere in the world without public money - but he insisted there would be no subsidies from the UK government.
"It is a matter for the power companies to bring forward proposals on the basis that there will be no public subsidies," he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One.
According to the BBC, the French firm EDF has already said it will build four plants in the UK without government subsidies. If it can happen there, why not here?
The CD lives!
Three months after offering its new album as a digital download for whatever fans wanted to pay, Radiohead has released "In Rainbows" as a physical album. And surprise, surprise, it's the top-selling album in the country.
Some retailers viewed the Radiohead figures as a sign of the continuing market for so-called physical products in the music business, where the popularity of iTunes, music blogs and other sites have made the digital file appear to be the coin of the realm. In particular they said even fans who received the digital files distributed by Radiohead may have decided to pay for the better audio quality versions on CD or LP.
"Having a physical, archival high-fidelity master recording that you can side-load into your MP3 player of choice for a similar price is significantly better than just purchasing zeros and ones," said Eric Levin, owner of the independent record shop Criminal Records in Atlanta and founder of an 18-member alliance of independent retailers. "I feel like that's what 75 percent of the people are saying."
Cellulosic ethanol looks good in new study
As Tennessee falls head over heels for switchgrass, local researchers should get a boost from a new study published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, found that switchgrass produced 540 percent more energy than it consumed. In addition, greenhouse gas emissions from ethanol made from switchgrass were 94 percent lower than emissions from gasoline.
Congress to probe NRC
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has been sniffing around at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a while. Now, following the broadcast of a video of security guards sleeping on the job at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant, plans to launch a "comprehensive review" of the NRC's operations.
"The NRC's stunning failure to act on credible allegations of sleeping security guards, coupled with its unwillingness to protect the whistleblower who uncovered the problem, raises troubling questions," said Rep. John D. Dingell, Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. "It appears that there has been a systematic failure, by both NRC officials and the nuclear plant licensee, to ensure that these high-risk facilities are secure and employees are not discouraged from expressing concerns about safety."
Brit commentator scoffs at identity theft, has identity stolen
Jeremy Clarkson, a British TV host for the program "Top Gear," thought the recent loss of personal records for 25 million people was no big deal. So he published details of his own bank account in a British newspaper to prove his point.
The result?
"I opened my bank statement this morning to find out that someone has set up a direct debit which automatically takes £500 from my account," he said.
"The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again.
"I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake."
Meanwhile, on this side of the pond, the Government Accountability Office has found that the IRS needs to address "pervasive weaknesses" in information security, which only potentially affects every taxpayer in the country.
Web shows to watch during the writers' strike
For those of you jonesing for a TV fix -- and unimpressed with Clash of the Choirs, Duel or any of the other reality pap being shoveled out by the networks -- check out NewTeeVee's list of what to watch while the writers strike.
The alleged red-light camera shooter speaks
Speaking of red-light cameras, astute commenter "surprized" points us to an interesting Web site. Clifford Clark, the man accused of pumping three rounds from a high-powered rifle into a red-light camera, has spoken out at cliffspeaks.com.
It's an entertaining read. You can find Clark's take on the alleged target of his bullets ("Red light tickets are about as useful as ticketing flatulence."), local media (kudos to the KNS, not so much to WBIR), his three days of incarceration ("I laid on the floor and shook the whole time from hypothermia."), his dancing skills ("While on the dance floor, stay back from my gyrating hips.") and his own supposed skake-up of "the establishment ("Some men are born to greatness. Other men have greatness thrust firmly up their rectums.")
While stressing that he's innocent until proven guilty, Clark also addresses the argument that, hey, you could actually hurt someone by firing a high-powered rifle with people around. Police heard four shots, but only three bullets hit the camera.
Anyone operating an automobile is about 5000 times more likely to kill someone than an accidental shooting. Anyone operating an automobile is about 30,000 times more likely to injure someone than an accidental shooting. - However, the whole stray bullet
So I'm more of a danger when I get behind the wheel at lunchtime than if I stood in the parking lot randomly firing a thirty-aught-six? Sorry, Cliff, I'm not buying it.
Will Knoxville take the red-light camera challenge?
The National Motorists Association believes that red-light cameras -- like the ones installed in Knoxville -- do nothing to improve safety. Instead, the association recommends common-sense engineering solutions: increasing yellow-light time, adding a brief clearance interval when all lights are red, making traffic lights more visible, improving intersections and retiming traffic signals.
The problem, according to the NMA, is that the revenue stream from the ticket cameras offers an incentive for cities to ignore the above solutions and keep the tickets coming. So the group is putting its money where its mouth is.
Here's the challenge issued by the motorists association:
Show us any camera-equipped intersection that still has high numbers of red-light violations and we will guarantee a minimum 50-percent reduction in red-light violations through the application of engineering solutions.
If our recommendations fail to meet our minimum goal, we will pay the community $10,000 to be used on any traffic safety program or project it chooses.
However, if we succeed, the community must employ our engineering-based recommendations at other troublesome intersections and scrap its ticket-camera program.
What do you have to lose, other than your ticket-camera revenue?
How about it, Knoxville?
(Photo by Amy Smotherman-Burgess, Knoxville News Sentinel.)
Knoxville Netflix service gets speedier
Mark Steel at blogitude.com reports that his Netflix service was lightning quick over the weekend, thanks to a new distribution center in Knoxville.
Looks like the Hacking Netflix blog had the news back in December. I'm still a brick-and-mortar Blockbuster guy myself, but this could encourage me to try Netflix.
UPDATE: It's actually a drop point, not a distribution center. Local service will still be faster.
Edison electrocutes an elephant 105 years ago
Wired notes the anniversary of one of the stranger moments in American science. In order to prove the "dangers" of alternating current -- a competitor to his own direct current -- Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant named Topsy in front of a crowd of 1,500.
When the day came, Topsy was restrained using a ship's hawser fastened on one end to a donkey engine and on the other to a post. Wooden sandals with copper electrodes were attached to her feet and a copper wire run to Edison's electric light plant, where his technicians awaited the go-ahead.
In order to make sure that Topsy emerged from this spectacle more than just singed and angry, she was fed cyanide-laced carrots moments before a 6,600-volt AC charge slammed through her body. Officials needn't have worried. Topsy was killed instantly and Edison, in his mind anyway, had proved his point.
Edison referred to this method of execution as being "Westinghoused," after George Westinghouse, who popularized alternating current with Nicola Tesla. Remind me again, which current won, AC or DC?
The death of DRM?
BusinessWeek, citing "people familiar with the matter," is reporting that Sony BMG is preparing the drop the copyright-protection software known as digital rights management from the songs it sells online. Sony BMG would be the last of the Big Four record labels to do so.
Ars Technica suggests that online music fans wait to pop the champagne in celebration.
Given Sony BMG's miserable track record with DRMed formats, the fact that it has become the music industry's last holdout isn't surprising. This is, after all, the company that brought us CD rootkits and the proprietary ATRAC DRM format. Sony euthanized Sony Connect last summer and is no longer supporting ATRAC on its new devices, telling listeners who want to listen to their old ATRAC songs on new Sony hardware to burn it to CD and re-rip it.
At this point, it seems a bit premature to conclude that Sony has decided to break the DRM shackles on its catalog. All we know for sure is that some songs will be given away on Amazon around the time of the Super Bowl. But there appears to be a certain inevitability about DRM at this point, especially since Sony is now the lone DRM holdout among the Big Four labels.
Verizon suing Alltel for false advertising
Alltel Corp. has had a clever little ad campaign where it mocks the big cell-phone companies by comparing Alltel's super-cool sales rep to the lame guys from Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile.
Well Verizon has apparently had enough. The carrier has filed a false-advertising suit against Alltel, alleging that a commercial wrongly claims Verizon customers must extend their contracts when changing plans. Verizon's complaint calls the claim "pure fiction."
Only, as Techdirt points out, it was pure reality until a few months ago.
Verizon Wireless did, in fact, force people to extend contracts, and only stopped the practice back in October when Sprint got sued over doing the same thing. And, of course, the Alltel ads began running well before Verizon was pressured into making this change. So, while it's technically accurate that these ads are false advertising now, it seems a bit excessive to describe them as "pure fiction," when they were absolutely true until just a few months ago.
Fox Business Network off to slow start
After a wave of pre-launch hype, the early returns are in for the new Fox Business Network, and they're, well, modest.
How many people are watching the new Fox Business Network?
About 6,300, on average, on any given weekday, according to early estimates compiled by Nielsen Media Research. By contrast, Fox Business's chief competitor, CNBC, attracted about 283,000 viewers each weekday from Oct. 15 through Dec. 14, the first two months that Fox Business was on the air, according to Nielsen's calculations.
Fox is downplaying the numbers, saying it takes time to establish an audience. But as Washington Post press critic Howard Kurtz notes, "The figures reinforce the perception that Rupert Murdoch's newest television operation faces a very steep climb."
Top 10 "Connected" posts of 2006
Actually, it's the top "Connected" posts of all time, since I launched the blog last June. Each of the posts below was linked to by InstaPundit (thanks!), and the top five drew more pageviews than the "Connected" home page (3,494 views). In all, the blog has attracted 66,806 pageviews since its launch. Thanks to all who have visited.
1.) Putting Colbert and Stewart on the witness stand (7,382 views)
Radio station puts real fake number on billboard
Merle 96.7, a local country radio station, had a clever idea for a billboard -- a bathroom wall decorated with the phrase "For a good time, call (phone number)," only the phone number was crossed out and "96.7 FM" was written in red ink.
The only problem: The billboard features the phone number of a real person, whose outgoing message sounded none too pleased when a YouTuber called the number.
(Via Knoxville Trivia Blog)
Did the RIAA really say ripping CDs is illegal?
The Washington Post ran a story on Sunday that ran with the contention that the recording industry, in one of its lawsuits against online music pirates, argued that it's illegal to "rip" a CD -- copy it onto your hard drive. Several online news sites -- including some that are none too sympathetic to the Recording Industry Assocation of America -- have ripped the WP article, arguing that the legal brief in question doesn't say what the Post and others say it does.
Here's the passage in question: Once (Howell) converted plaintiff's recording into the compressed MP3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer the authorized copies distributed by Plaintiff.
I tend to agree this doesn't argue that the act of ripping a CD is illegal, but rather ripping a CD and making the files available on a peer-to-peer file-sharing program. Decide for yourself: here's the full brief.
Meanwhile, investment site The Motley Fool cautions investors about record company stocks.
As I've said before, a good sign of a dying industry that investors might want to avoid is when it would rather litigate than innovate, signaling a potential destroyer of value. If it starts to pursue paying customers -- which doesn't seem that outlandish at this point -- then I guess we'll all know the extent of the desperation.
Global clean energy investments up in 2007
According to research group New Energy Finance, worldwide investments in clean energy broke the $100 billion mark last year, reaching $117.2 billion. That was up from $86.5 billion in 2006, $54.6 billion in 2005, and $28.6 billion in 2004.
The sector had performed well because important factors that drive investment in clean energy, like fears about dwindling supplies of traditional sources of energy, remained strong even as financial markets plunged into turmoil amid the crisis over subprime mortgages in the United States in the second half of the year.
The death of privacy
Exhibit A: The number of publicly reported data breaches in the U.S. rose by more than 40% in 2007, compared to the previous year, according to statistics compiled by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a consumer rights advocacy group.
In its December 24 report, the ITRC said that there were publicly reported 443 breaches in the U.S. in 2007. In 2006, the ITRC identified 315 publicized breaches.
Some 127 million data records were exposed during 2007. In 2006, nearly 20 million records were exposed. In 2005, there were 158 breaches reported involving about 65 million records.
Exhibit B: The U.S. has one of the worst privacy records in the world, and is an "endemic surveillance society," along with such countries as China and Russia, according to the group Privacy International. And things are only getting worse.
The group recently released its annual International Privacy Ranking, and the results aren't pretty. Only a handful of countries were given the worst ranking possible, "endemic surveillance societies." In the U.S. privacy deteriorated over the last year; in 2006, we were an "extensive surveillance society."
Presidential candidates on video games, technology
I'm back after a break for the holidays. Hope everyone has had a great holiday season.
We're getting into crunch time for the presidential primaries, so it's worth taking a look at the candidates on some tech issues. First, video games. Mitt Romney was the only GOP candidate to respond to a questionnaire, but the Dems all seem to embrace the idea of legislating sex and violence out of video games.
Obama: "But if the industry fails to act, then my administration would."
For general tech issues, check out CNET's 2008 Technology Voters' Guide. U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd has the money quote on the Internet:
It is time that we approach the Internet the same way we approach water, electricity, and highways--as critical infrastructure our citizens require to participate fully in American society.
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We are proud of the caliber of student that Muskogee Public Schools produces each year.
This year is no exception.
MPS held its annual Academic Awards Banquet recently and honored 93 students.
The school district recognized the students with the highest grade-point average at each school in grades four through seven.
Students in grades eight through 12 were honored for cumulative grade-point average.
These students represent the brightest of the many bright students in the district.
These students deserve their day in the sun.
They have shown the dedication necessary to excel in school and in the workplace in later years.
In a society that casts hero worship on celebrities and athletes, it is important to remember there are many others who have earned their share of praise.
These students represent the future of our community, state, country and the world.
They should be proud of their work.
Muskogee Public Schools' academic honorees
Jose Arguijo, Hunter Avers, Caroline Barton, Kaleb Biglow, Jordan Bradley, Curtisiana Brown, Terah Bryson, Kalen Castor, Katelynn Catron, Andrew Chapuis, Matthew Chapuis, Gabriella Chitwood, Molly Cooper, Tye Covey, Caydon Crain, Kendra Dennis, Mattlyn Dragoo, Jocelyn Drywater, James Eaton, Emma Eaton, Stephanie Edwards,Keelie Englebrecht, Olivia Ericson, Joy Evans, Cloe Evidson, Ellen Fain, Tanner Felts, Kendall Few, Ashlee Fletcher, Imari Freeman, Hadley Garrett, Aniyah Gibbs, Braelyn Hale, Phillip Hamm, Millisa Henderson, Malindi Holder, Zuri Holder, Logan Howard, Makenna Hukill, Laura Jardine, Laysa Jimenez, Georgiann Johnson, Olivia Kinsey, Carson Lamont, Chloe Lamont, Gage Lee-WorthyHarris, Kate Lester, Noah Lester, Tori Liles, Isabella Locke, Jayccye Mariano, Brenden Martin, Katie Matthews, Bella McWilliams, Jaden McWilliams, Siearah Milton, Abby Mix , Anna Mix, Hollie Moore, Loren Moore, Karoline Newell, David Nunez, Braden O'Dell, Morgan Olmstead, Dylan Oney, Jasmin Pacheco, Zachary Page, Michelle Perkins, Angel Puckett, Maria Puckett, Madison Reavis, Makalynn Richardson, Mayci Roberts, Caitlyn Robinson, Maxwell Rosson, Camryn Runyan, Arrianna Salisbury, Sierra Sanders, Samantha Shafer, Sarah Space, Michael Thompson, Daliyah Tolefree, Bailey Tull, Malachi Walker, Caitlin Wardour, Abby Wayman, Hannah Webster, Laura Webster, Irene Weng, Jacob Wilbourn, Kyle Wilbourn, Luke Wilbourn, Jayden Williams.

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Best Way to Rekindle Your Love Affair With San Francisco San Francisco 2001 - Take a Trip to New York
The Big Apple has a lot to offer, no doubt about it. The nightlife never ends, you can get quality meals after 10 p.m., the arts are world class. And an East Coaster in both birthright and heart is warmed at the sight of brick and stone buildings again. But the unending concrete has a way of suffocating a converted Californian. Returning to San Francisco, you'll be reminded how beautiful and airy the city is, with its finely landscaped, green-all-year-round parks (Central Park seemed dreary next to Golden Gate Park), and those spectacular views -- as close as the nearest hill -- of the famous bridges, or the Pacific and the bay twinkling in the sunlight. Sure, the Empire State Building has a breathtaking view of New York City, but it ain't free now is it?


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The American soldier Pinkerton wants to 'marry' the geisha Butterfly (i.e. leave her again after his tour of duty). Butterfly, on the other hand, wants to become an American citizen. Problem: they fall in love for real. In the second act, Pinkerton has disappeared; Butterfly does not want to believe that he is not coming back. But he does come back – with his American wife, so that they can bring Butterfly's child (who he has fathered) to America. Butterfly kills herself.
Japanese tragedy in three acts by Giacomo Puccini
Running time 2 hours 45 minutes
Premiere 19 Jul 2003
Musical Director: Pier Giorgio Morandi
Staging: Annette Jahns
Set Design: Hartmut Schörghofer
Costume Design: Frauke Schernau
Choreography: Carla Börner
Choir: Wolfram Tetzner
Dramaturguie: Ilsedore Reinsberg
Cio-Cio-San: Kyung-Hae Kang
Suzuki: Christa Mayer
Pinkerton: Stefano Secco
Kate: Sabine Brohm
Sharpless: Markus Butter
Goro: Tom Martinsen
Fürst Yamadori: Ilhun Jung
Onkel Bonze: Peter Lobert
Kommissar: Michael Kranebitter
Yakusidé: Matthias Beutlich
Mutter: Kathrin Seidl
Tante: Anke Althoff
Kusine: Gundula Rosenkranz
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The Shore Prepares for Spring and Summer Visitors
As the quiet winter months draw to a close, towns along the shore prepare for Summer travelers.
In Barnegat Light, where storm damage was minimal, dock tours give travelers a behind-the-scenes look at the commercial fishing at Viking Village. Plans are underway for their Jazzy Scallop & Seafood Festival in June. Luxury bed and breakfast The Sand Castle reopens for the season in mid-April.
Though the hurricane disrupted some fall performances, the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch is back with a crowd-pleasing lineup. Many shops and accommodations, including Pier Village and Cedars and Beeches Bed and Breakfast, are open year-round in Long Branch and are ready to serve you during your next visit. At Seven President's Oceanfront Park, the dunes and seawall were damaged but the park is prepping for a busy season of splashing. Woodrow Wilson Hall, a National Historic Landmark at Monmouth University, has repaired minor damages and continues offering daily tours.
Red Bank business owners, like so many others, agree that the economic repercussions of the storm have been more difficult to overcome than any property damages. But businesses continue to deliver quality services and experiences. At Chetkin Gallery, a special spring showcase will feature new paintings from their artists. Basil T's will roll back their prices in March in honor of their 27th anniversary, and the Oyster Point Hotel is again welcoming guests after being closed for months.
In Belmar, a new boardwalk is under construction and should be completed by Memorial Day. Klein's Fish Market took in three feet of water, but was back up and running by mid-November. Klein's dining operations sustained little damage. The Belmar Arts Council building was flooded too, but it has reopened and is hosting exhibits and live entertainment. Arts Council members also made a big difference in beautifying Belmar after the storm by painting murals on concrete barriers along the shore.
Ocean Grove's boardwalk and pier were destroyed and efforts are being made to rebuild, however, it's business as usual at Bath Ave. House, Comfort Zone and The Starving Artist at Day's. The Historical Society of Ocean Grove Museum and the Historic Centennial Summer Cottage will open for the normal season in May. The historical society is gearing up for its 45th annual House Tour and a new Ocean Grove Tent Tour, both in July.
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11:00am Friday 7th December 2012 in News
A GROUP of artistic musicians from Wellington School have performed in aid of children's charity Brainwave.
The concert featured a wide range of ages and stages, from Year 7 to Upper Sixth and a very varied palette of instrumental colour and musical styles.
Among the performers were two of our Year 9s, both recent winners at the Taunton Festival - saxophonist Nazariy Aleksandryants, who won the junior class of Taunton Young Musician, and singer Jessica Handley, who gained four distinctions at the festival.
Paul Smith, Brainwave's South-West community manager, said: "When you witness highly talented young musicians performing it is certainly very inspiring.
"When they are doing it to help raise funds for other young people who have a wide range of disabilities it is humbling too."
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But with construction essentially halted, and some $75,000 in additional work needed, Gloucester Fishermen's Athletic Association fund-raiser supreme Dick Wilson and City Councilor Bruce Tobey deserve credit for stepping up to help shepherd the project through to completion. And Tobey, along with Dog Park Committee members who have backed the idea, also deserves credit for suggesting that the park be named for City Council President Jackie Hardy, who has supported it from the start and been a major booster of Cape Ann Animal Aid as well.
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A family of virtuoso violinists blends several music genres.
DePue Brothers Band will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 19 at Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center in Richland Township.
The musical family of Bowling Green, Ohio, features four brothers – Alex, Jason, Wallace and Zach. Their music encompasses a blend of bluegrass, classical and rock genres.
Each brother is a classical virtuoso and brings rich and diverse talents.
For the Johnstown concert, only Alex and Jason will perform with the band.
"We often are mixing and matching who will perform any given concert due to varying schedules," said Don Liuzzi, percussionist and band manager. "We're normally a sextet with two violins fronting the band."
Alex DePue has been described as one of the leading improv violinists of his generation, with legendary prowess in bluegrass, rock, classical and jazz/blues.
He began studying classical violin at age 5 and won his first university-level competition at age 10.
At 14, he won a competition that entitled him to perform at Carnegie Hall as concertmaster for the National Guild Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Despite his classical training, he became interested in fiddling when he was 7 and began competing in and winning fiddle competitions.
"Alex will improvise a sample of what it's like at a fiddle competition," Liuzzi said. "It takes specific timing and has to be under five minutes."
Alex DePue also will lead the band and perform his arrangements of "Hoedown" by Aaron Copeland and "Sweet Georgia Brown."
Jason DePue is a member of the first violin section of the Philadelphia Orchestra and was a former concertmaster of the New York Seminar.
He will perform his version of "Beautiful Evening."
In addition to Liuzzi, who is principal timpanist for the Philadelphia Orchestra and teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music, other band members will be Mark Cosgrove on guitar, Kevin MacConnell on upright bass and Mike Munford on banjo.
Cosgrove will perform his compositions, which have been classified as new grass.
The concert also will feature the brothers' arrangement of a Civil War ballad and "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Bach and end with the brothers' arrangement of the bluegrass classic "Orange Blossom Special."
"We're not pure bluegrass," Liuzzi said. "It's a mix of classical, folk and rock. It's another kind of music, four or five kinds of music."
The band's CD is titled "Weapons of Grass Construction."
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Where: Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, Richland Township.
When: 7:30 p.m. April 19.
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The incident was originally reported to State Police shortly after midnight on Aug. 4, according to the blotter entry.
The boy was released on a court appearance ticket.
— By Staff Writer Felicia Krieg and Contributing Writer Chris Fasolino


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Those who served in the Great War 1914-1918
In the Church are two framed documents, one telling of the erection of the memorial, signed by the dignitaries involved, the other listing the villagers who served in the 1914-18 War, with names of those who died in action written in red and gold.
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William E. Grewcock*Private
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology senior Allison Faber
(St. Louis, Mo./Cor Jesu Academy) set single-season and
career softball home run records to lead Saturday's split with
Faber also tied a single-game school record with two home runs
to lead the Engineers past Hanover 8-0 in the doubleheader
opener. Her single-season home run total reached six with a
career total of eight to rewrite the Fightin' Engineer history book
in both categories.
Hanover rebounded to capture the nightcap by a 10-5 margin.
Faber finished game one at 3-3 with two home runs, three
runs scored and three RBIs. Freshman Jenna Martinek
(Troy, Mo./Buchanan) also contributed three singles and
scored one run in the effort, and freshman Allison Bowman
(Fort Wayne/Snider) added two singles, one run and one
Senior Kyla Lutz (Tennyson/Boonville) picked up
the pitching shutout with a complete-game three-hitter.
Lutz allowed three singles and two walks with two strikeouts to
improve to 6-7 on the season.
In the nightcap, Hanover scored twice in the fifth inning and
five times in the sixth to turn a 3-3 tie into a 10-5
victory. Lauren Kreinest and Shelby Overton led the Panthers
with home runs and three RBIs each.
Lutz and sophomore Brianne Widmoyer
(Elkhart/Central) led Rose-Hulman's game two offense with
three hits each. Lutz had one RBI, while Widmoyer recorded
one run and one RBI.
Senior Kayla Yano (Ontario,
Ore.) also contributed two hits, including a
double, with two runs scored in the nightcap.
Rose-Hulman stands 13-19 on the season and 6-8 in
conference play, while Hanover improved to 6-18 and 2-8 in league
games. The Engineers host Defiance on Saturday at 1 p.m. for
Senior Day, and could have a schedule addition with a home matchup
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text: Is a Google Android tablet imminent? Technology 13 April 10 by Charlie Sorrel Tweet Glen Murphy/Google Google is almost ready to start selling its own tablet. The device, according to the New York Times, will be "an e-reader that would function like a computer". So close is it that Eric Schmidt, CEO at Google, was describing it to friends at "a recent party in Los Angeles".The slate-like computer will run Android, and anonymous sources say that Google has already been working with publishers to put books and magazines on it.The choice of Android seems odd, given that Google is committed to the Chrome OS on the netbook platform. But Chrome will be an almost non-existent operating system, offering just enough software to load a browser and access Google's online services. Android, on the other hand, is already well-developed and full-featured enough to offer all that you get from Apple's iPad. It is also designed to be used on a touchscreen device, something that can't be said for a skinned desktop OS like Windows 7.A Google tablet could be the only tablet capable of actually challenging the iPad, avoiding the iPod whitewash in which Apple thrashed everyone, even Sony. It would also have some advantages. Google's services, for one. Apple still doesn't get the cloud, and getting data on and off the iPad is still largely done over a USB cable. Android is also the only other real player in apps with the Android Marketplace. It is way behind the iTunes App Store in numbers, but is at least in second place.And don't forget Google books, the Google Reader and Google Voice (soon to feature desktop VoIP, thanks to the recent purchase of Skype-rival Gizmo). Add in the fact that Google is committed to an open platform for which anyone can develop software (unlike Apple's closed ecosystem), and you have a tablet that could be the perfect opposite of Apple's. Will Google march ahead and beat Apple like Microsoft did with Windows in the 1990s? We doubt it: We have a feeling that Microsoft is the one in trouble this time, at least in the mobile industry. One thing is for sure, though. Even if you're a huge fan of the iPad, having Google nipping at its heels will keep Apple focused and everyone will benefit. At least the free market is good for something. Edited by George Barrow Comments Read more on Apple Maker of the iPhone, Mac, iPad, iPod and birthplace of everything iTunes and iCloud Technology Plug-in iPhone sensor turns any surface into an instrument Technology Encrypted phonecalls come to iPhone Technology Smartphones to replace hotel room keys Business Apple buys Swell to up its audio streaming power Technology Here's how to get OS X Yosemite today Technology Apple iTime smartwatch detailed in patent Latest on wired.co.uk


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2013 Aerospace/Defense Webcast DVD. Read/print contents. (Use back key to return here.) Collect our most popular webcasts covering trends, measurement fundamentals and design challenges for communication, satellite, radar and electronic warfare applications. Topics span MIMO, POI, IQ Modulation, Phase Noise, MMWave, Wideband, Power, Spurs, Interference, and more. The DVD includes a bonus selection of app notes.
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This one's is coming up quickly - Friday, August 8th
to be exact - and it's nearly sold out!
Wine World's first ever Comedy Night will be held at
the Vandiver Inn in Havre de Grace featuring our very special
guest, "The Stand-Up Sommelier" herself, Laurie Forster!
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Remember that every Wednesday from 5-7 PM, the good
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this so that everyone can have access to their farm fresh produce and
other items - CSA member or not!
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since they already visit us to drop off the current week's portion of
the garden goodies for their CSA members on Wednesdays anyway.
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chicken, and just laid eggs.
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Oakley X Wrap-Up
Oakley raked in 7 gold medals and 13 medals overall at the premiere winter action sports event in the world. With Gretchen Bleiler taking gold in Snowboarding SuperPipe, Tanner Hall winning Skiing Superpipe, Torstein Horgmo scoring gold in Snowboarding Big Air and Jon Olsson winning Skiing Big Air, Oakley swept the most popular and competitive events of the Games.
The 12th annual Winter X Games in Aspen, CO were televised live and covered by ESPN's flagship news program, Sports Center. Viewership across the three networks that carried coverage of the event – ABC Sports, ESPN and ESPN2 – exceeded last year's household average by 30% according to Nielsen Media Research. Fifteen hours of live high-definition programming and 19 hours of original HD programming was televised on international networks to 122 counties. Oakley commercials had 32 spots with re-airs.
Oakley X Games Scoreboard:
- 13 X Games Medals
- 7 Golds, 3 Silvers, 3 Bronzes
- Tanner, Shaun each won their 7th gold medal, setting records for most Golds for any X Games athlete
- Gretchen won her 3rd X Games gold medal
- Torstein landed the first switch 1260 in Big Air
- Sponsored X Center
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HOUSTON – Mark Augustin Castellano, the Houston man who police said confessed to killing his girlfriend and burying her body in an Odessa-area oilfield, appeared in a probable cause court overnight. The details released in court early Tuesday were disturbing.
Castellano initially told investigators that 31-year-old Michelle Warner stormed out of the house after the two argued at their home in the 7200 block of Bellerive in southwest Houston on Saturday, September 22. He said he took his 3-year-old son to his family's home in Odessa the next day and did not know where Warner was, but that explanation left many suspicious. Family and friends said the mother would never go days without contacting anyone.
After a few days, a missing person's report was filed.
Loved ones searched desperately for any signs of Warner and Castellano even went to the "Dr. Phil" show to tape an interview about the case. But two days after that interview, Castellano finally confessed and told investigators what he had done.
Those details were read aloud in a Harris County courthouse on October 2.
"He was on video when he demonstrated how he killed her, and said he heard her neck snap," an official read in court. "He also said he put a plastic bag on her head and tied it off."
Castellano told investigators after killing Warner, he stuffed her body in a closet while he drove their son to his parent's home. After leaving the boy with the grandparents, he drove back to take care of her remains.
Court records say Castellano loaded the body into a plastic container, then drove back to Odessa. He left the corpse in the backseat of the car parked outside his parent's home for more than a day before driving out to Midland County and dumping it in a ditch. He told investigators where to look for her.
Authorities searched by foot, mounted patrols and helicopter before finding Warner's body partially buried on private property.
"It's still heartbreaking, but I'm happy her family has closure and that we have closure and hopefully there will be answers," said family friend Becky Barclay. "I think she was a very special girl, and there are a lot of people that are going to miss her—especially her kids."
Castellano was charged with murder and his bond was set at $150,000.
Warner's little boy is safe with family in Houston.


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By Jay Skurski
That hole at guard along the Buffalo Bills' offensive line is getting deeper by the day.
A day after the Bills lost left guard Andy Levitre, a player thought to be a candidate to replace him is following him out the door.
A league source confirmed to The Buffalo News this afternoon that Chad Rinehart will sign with the San Diego Chargers. Rinehart, 27, played in 27 games over the past three years as a key reserve along the line, making 17 starts. He played in just seven games and made two starts in 2012 before going on injured reserve because of an ankle injury he suffered in a Week Seven loss to Tennessee.
Rinehart, 6-foot-5 and 321 pounds, will be reunited with offensive line coach Joe D'Alessandris -- who held the same job with the Bills last season -- in San Diego. Rinehart originally joined the Bills' practice squad in 2010, before being promoted to the active roster later in the season.
He was a third-round draft pick of the Washington Redskins in 2008.
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Sanford Burnham's Innovative Approach to Drug Discovery Could Benefit Florida Research
There is a shift underway in the field of drug discovery. Big Pharma is stepping away from early clinical studies and that's leaving a lot of promising research with no clear forward path. But research entities in Central Florida are among those finding innovative ways to traverse what's known as the Valley of Death.
[One of three robots running experiments at Sanford Burnham at Lake Nona]
A robot whizzes as its giant arm pivots at the Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona. It's nearly 6-feet tall, painted caution yellow and is imposing with its size, speed and finesse. It takes a little tray- maybe 3 by 4 inches and a quarter inch thick, and moves it from one location to another. The tray is divided into 1536 tiny wells, each well is its own experiment or petri dish.
"You're now, instead of reading one dish of cells, you're reading 1536 dishes at the same time," she says.
For researchers like Mayo Clinic of Florida Associate Professor Pam McLean, that's huge. McLean is investigating Parkinson's disease and how it's affected by changes in a protein called alpha synuclein. She's hoping to hit on a drug therapy to prevent those changes. Her own lab's capacity for running experiments has limits. But a new collaborative effort called the Florida Translational Research Program at Sanford Burnham gives researchers like McLean access to Sanford Burnham high through-put screens.
Sanford Burnham has a library of hundreds of thousands of chemical compounds and three robots that can run up to a million experiments per day. By running her experiments at Sanford Burnham, Mclean will learn fairly quickly whether she's on the path to a drug therapy for Parkinson's. In fact, preliminary results are expected this spring.
"In this kind of research you want to fail fast," says Layton Smith, Sanford Burnham Florida's Drug Discovery Director. He says once Sanford Burnham was established in Florida, it became clear the lab had enough capacity to share its research space.
"Once we realized we could leverage this excess capacity, we began formulating an idea and asking ourselves how could we get more scientists involved in therapeutic discovery. And that's what led us to the Florida legislature to talk about funding the Florida Translational Research Program," he says.
Traditionally, scientists would need funding to take their lab research to a facility like Sanford Burnham, where there's a chance to get a hit on a promising drug compound. If that happens- the potential therapy would go through animal testing and then human clinical trials. The process of advancing discoveries from the laboratory to drug development- which can cost more than a billion dollars- is called the Valley of Death- the risk of failure is huge- big enough that pharmaceutical companies are becoming less and less interested in early stage drug discovery. But collaborations like the Florida Translational Research Program are changing things. Pam McLean says access to Sanford Burnham is speeding her research and helping her budget.
"There is a cost-saving for me because we have been able to secure funds from the state of Florida which is actually paying to have the screens done at Sanford Burnham," she says.
Florida Department of Health Public Health Research Unit Manager Robert Hood says the state's interest in supporting collaborative research, particularly cancer research, will ultimately have an impact on healthcare in Florida.
"I'm excited about the initiatives that I'm able to support here, the grants that we make to individual researchers are based on rigorous peer review with the highest standards," he says.
Biotech research can mean more clinical trials, which Dr. Hood says is sometimes the only hope for cancer patients. Collaborative cancer research in Florida is funded with tobacco settlement money- but for other diseases, non-profits are now stepping up with funding for collaborative research that leads to drug discovery. The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation are two examples. But the path being followed by Florida and Sanford Burnham is a little different. Sanford Burnham- a non-profit- isn't providing funding- it's giving Florida researchers access to its state of the art labs.
"You know, one of the things that's unique about this program is allows us to partner not only with universities and research institutes, but to serve as the unifier or a node in the network of science, in which we can connect our clinical partners with our basic science research partners with our corporate partners," says Smith.
And that might help Florida researchers make it through the Valley of Death.


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