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Black Friday is still several days away and a line has already formed at the Best Buy in Fultondale.
The store does not open for Black Friday deals until midnight on Friday and a few people have set up tents on the sidewalk in front of the store. The group got there around 7:00 monday morning. They want to make sure they dont miss out on some really good doorbuster deals on things like laptops, tablets and gaming systems.
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Mobile ad network Adfonic said that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) accounted for 37% of all mobile ad impressions on its network in the third quarter, with Samsung the second-most popular at 24%, and the rest trailing some ways behind. Number three on Adfonics' list, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), had only an 8% share of impressions, and was on a decline, although not as much as Research In Motion (NASDAQ: BBRY), which declined by four percentage points to slip into fourth position.
It is interesting and informative to see what happened in the fourth quarter. In its AdMetrics report, Adfonic notes that Apple increased its lead over Samsung by three percentage points without much impact from the iPhone 5, which only hit the market at the end of the third quarter. So one way of measuring the popularity of iPhone 5 is to see what kind of an impact it had on Apple's ranking in the fourth quarter.
Actually, it was quite impressive for Apple in the fourth quarter. With Apple's iOS enjoying both higher click-through rates and eCPMs than Android, Apple has won the overall mobile OS popularity contest amongst both advertisers and users in the fourth quarter, at least according to mobile ad platform MoPub.
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Apple removed Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Maps from the iPhone 5. Maps are particularly crucial on mobile devices, where location-based services and ads have emerged as the pathway to making money. Location-based services are very important for Google in terms of generating ad revenues, and search is very tied to that.
Even though Android phones far outnumber iPhones -- 60% of smartphones run Android, versus 34% for iPhones, reports research firm Canalys -- iPhone users account for almost half of mobile traffic to Google Maps. For Google, iPhones without its Maps service would result in a huge revenue loss from mobile ads.
The late Steve Jobs once said that Google's search-based advertisements were not the future for mobile devices because users tended to spend their time inside "Apps" rather than browsing the web. "On a mobile device search is not where it's at on the desktop," he said. "They're using Apps to get to data on the internet, not generalized search."
"If you own a mobile ecology, as Google does, the other mobile ecology owners are not going to allow you to own tons of data in their world," said Scott Rafer, chief executive of Lumatic, which makes City Map Apps. And now that Apple has removed Google Maps as iOS's default navigation application, users are forced to use Apple Maps. Of course one can get Google Maps for iOS from the App Store, but it's not possible to set it as the default navigation application for iPhone 5, which means users will have to deal with Apple Maps on a regular basis. This means Apple's revenue from mobile ads will rise, while that of Google will fall.
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Ads that run on Apple's iPhone command significantly higher prices than those on Android, and way higher prices than any other mobile platform, according to a report from mobile browser maker Opera Software, which also operates a mobile ad network.
The iPhone leads the smartphone OS pack with an average eCPM of $2.85, though it is closely followed by Android devices (at $2.10). The rest of the mobile phone field is significantly behind these two. The iPad in particular gets the highest effective cost per 1,000 impressions (eCPM) of all devices -- $3.96 to the iPhone's $2.85 and Android's $2.10. Elain Szu, Director of Product Marketing for mobile ad platform MoPub, explains why the ad industry is warming up to the iPad. "Advertisers see the tablet and its larger screen size as nearly the same as the desktop." Essentially, advertisers can easily translate their strategies to tablets. They don't have to completely rethink their creative designs because the space they have isn't all that different than on a laptop. Smaller smartphone screens are much different and require a whole new game plan.
MoPub's data shows how iPad has become the darling of advertisers. First and foremost, iPad ads sees the highest CTR (click through rates). Over the holidays, the iPad saw a 1.7% CTR growth for December, and a 2.2% CTR growth from Jan. 1-7, this year. Meanwhile, the iPhone had 1.2% CTR growth at the beginning of the period, which moved up to 1.5% at the start of the new year, and Android smartphones saw just 1.0% and 1.1% growth in CTRs in those time periods.
Apple has really taken out a significant chunk of Google's market. It will affect the Google ecosystem, putting it back in the same game of their apps lagging behind Apple, and that's not a good position for them to be in.
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FOMC meetings are usually a strange combination of formality and easy-going familiarity but levity may be in short supply this week. The Fed's institutional credibility is on the line, and the normal decorum that characterizes relations among committee members has become increasingly strained over the summer.
Divisions between proponents and opponents of a second round of quantitative easing (QE2) have been on display as never before. It is not clear what members will say to one another to fill two days since all the arguments have already been rehearsed in detail and in public over the last six weeks.
In a thinly veiled swipe at his colleagues, Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig has stumped around his patch on the Great Plains denouncing QE as a "dangerous gamble" and "a bargain with the devil".
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher and Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser have made no secret of their skepticism or outright opposition to launching QE2 at this point. Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota has questioned whether it will work. Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker has seemed to doubt whether it is necessary.
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"Off topic? I can't imagine what that would be," cracked Gov. Pat Quinn last week during a press conference. Just hours before, his lieutenant governor had announced that she would not be Quinn's 2014 running mate.
Gov. Quinn usually does a pretty good job during his press conferences of convincing reporters to wait to ask off topic questions until all questions about the subject at hand have been asked. Last week was no exception.
Quinn was holding a presser with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to discuss her conditional approval allowing Illinois to move forward with an online health insurance exchange -- a major step toward implementing the president's national health care plan.
"You could get caught by stray bullets," Quinn jokingly warned the folks who had gathered with him to make the announcement. "You don't have to be part of the firing squad," he added with a laugh.
He knew what was coming. Earlier in the morning, the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute had released a poll showing that Quinn was badly trailing Lisa Madigan in a hypothetical primary matchup. By mid-morning, the late Sen. Simon's daughter Sheila had announced that she wouldn't be running with him again. Ms. Simon's aides say she didn't know about the poll from her late father's think tank, but the rich irony wasn't lost on those of us who watch these things.
Sheila Simon was chosen by Quinn after Democratic primary voters made the unfortunate mistake of nominating a pawn broker with a rather colorful past by the name of Scott Lee Cohen. After details of Mr. Cohen's alleged assault of a massage parlor girlfriend lover emerged, Cohen dropped out of the race.
Quinn didn't pick Simon for her political acumen. She lost a Carbondale mayor's race that pretty much everybody thought was in the bag. Instead, she was chosen mainly for her name. The governor still idolizes the late Sen. Simon and that name is still held in high esteem among older Democrats.
Ms. Simon, however, seemed to chafe at times under Quinn's leadership. Quinn demanded too much control of her budget. She had to fight for every dime, every hire, every square inch of office space. As with most of her predecessors, Simon found that the office wasn't worth much.
And it doesn't take a political scientist to see that Quinn could very well be doomed next time around. He barely won in 2010, mainly because he convinced voters that his heart was in the right place. But after four years on the job, the public still intensely dislikes him. The Simon Institute's recent poll pegged his job approval rating at just 32.8 percent. Other polls have shown even worse numbers.
Anyway, back to last week's big announcement by Simon. Usually with these sorts of announcements, some sort of groundwork is done beforehand. A newspaper is given a tip, for instance. Top insiders are told what to expect. That didn't happen this time, though.
I 'd told my subscribers several days before that Simon was planning to run for another office and that Quinn was rumored to be looking for an African-American running mate, but that didn't come directly from inside. Some top Quinn staffers were completely caught off guard by last week's announcement, which just fueled the fires.
So, the mainstream media wasn't kind, and the poll's timing didn't help matters much. The fact that Quinn didn't appear with Simon at her announcement further underscored the curiosity of the whole thing.
Word from inside is that Simon told Quinn back in December that she had set her sights on comptroller. But she reportedly assumed that Republican incumbent Judy Baar Topinka would be retiring. Not happening. So, treasurer -- which will be an open seat contest if incumbent Republican Dan Rutherford pulls the trigger on governor -- is now on the radar screen, as well as attorney general if incumbent Democrat Lisa Madigan tries to move up to governor.
For Quinn, though, last week's optics were just terrible. Three straight polls have now shown him doing poorly against Attorney General Madigan. His 2010 running mate abruptly announces that she's abandoning him without even knowing where she'll land. And he's left to face reporters alone on what should have been a major news day for him.
This was, to say the least, not an auspicious beginning for Quinn's reelection effort.
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Tony Paris is an activist and attorney with the Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice where he specializes in workers' rights regarding plant closings and mass layoffs, unemployment insurance benefits, and wage and hour actions. He currently sits on the Board of the Detriot/Michigan Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and is involved in their Citizen's Resistance Committee and street law clinics. The Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice is a national, non-profit organization, dedicated to providing legal support and advocacy for working people and their communities.


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Fulton County voters casting ballots at Crosby Spears Towers on North Avenue in Midtown had to use paper ballots temporarily after the polls opened.
County elections chief Dwight Brower told the AJC electronic voting was disrupted due to a malfunction that lasted about 40 minutes. During that time, poll workers issued paper ballots. No further problems were reported after electronic voting was restored, Brower said.
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Same thing happened more briefly at St Phillips in Buckhead. People were a little concerned about how their votes might count, but they had to get to work. The experience may changed a few votes, if the voting machines don't work; how well will they manage the eight billion dollars?


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Kirsten D'Andrea Hollander received a BFA in Painting from MICA in 1988 and an MFA in Imaging and Digital Arts from UMBC in 1997. She is a full-time professor at MICA, where she teaches Drawing and Elements of Visual Thinking in the Foundation Department. She also teaches Moving Image I, Documentary and Community Documentary in the Video & Film Arts Department. Kirsten has received numerous awards for her film work, including an Independent Filmmaker Project Lab Fellowship in 2011, and has had work seen in film festivals around the U.S. and via distribution abroad.
Us Naked, slated for release in 2012, tells the on stage and behind the scenes story of Trixie Little and The Evil HateMonkey, performance artists from Baltimore unsatisfied with their underground fame in the burlesque world. Through their journey, captured over the past five years, viewers will also get a glimpse into the neo-burlesque revival and Trixie and Monkey's utter devotion to integrating circus arts with this taboo-shattering art form.
Kirsten is also the director of Finding Our Wings, a community documentary collective that takes place in MICA's Video & Film Arts Department and at MICA Place. Wings mission is anchored in two different worlds - the world of community arts, strategizing to connect with local community, and the world of feature length documentary filmmaking, aiming for a global audience.
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The moors are remnants of wetland that occupied the floodplain of the Humberhead Levels thousands of years ago.
Where: South Yorkshire
Main habitats: Peatland
Why visit: The Humberhead Peatlands NNR comprises Thorne, Goole, and Crowle Moors, as well as Hatfield Moors and it represents the largest area of raised bog wilderness in lowland Britain at 2,887 hectares in size. The site is a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) for its habitat. and an internationally important breeding site for the nocturnal, insect-feeding nightjar which was responsible for the area being declared as a Special Protection Area (SPA) under the European Birds Directive.
Natural England's aims are to establish the Moors as centres of peatland excellence and to provide visitor facilities to match that aspiration.
Star species: A wide range of habitats supports the 5,000 species of plants and animals that have been recorded on the Reserve of which more than 4000 are insects.
There is a sizable population of adders on the Moors, best sighted at the start of the warmer Spring weather which tempts them out from their winter slumber.
More than 200 bird species have been recorded and approximately 75 have bred. Winter visitors include whooper swans, pink-footed geese and short-eared owls. From March-July a very special summer visitor is the diminutive woodlark and oystercatcher, lapwing, ringed plover and great crested grebe can be spotted around the lakes.
Leaflets are available on site at main access points along with interpretation and maps of the extensive way-marked walks available for new visitors.
The nearest toilet facilities are at Hatfield Moor (including disabled).
The site holds a number of guided walks and family events throughout the year and details can be found in the Yorkshire and the Humber events pages. Bookings should be made with the Community Support Officer on 07766 420290.
There are also opportunities to become an NNR volunteer; details are available from the Community Support Officer (see above).
Other NNRs in the area
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Three Minden Police Officers have a shot at promotions at tonight's meeting of the Minden City Council.
With recommendations from Chief Steve Cropper, council members will vote on promotions for Ofc. Tokia Whiting to the rank of sergeant and officers Chase Wimberly and Shawn Jenkins to Officers First Class.
All were required to take Fire and Police Civil Service examinations before being considered.
New church
Another item on the council agenda is a request from Minden Baptist Church to construct a new building at the corner of Industrial Drive and Ryan's Way.
According to a letter from Josh Beshea, pastor, the church is currently located at 800 Yale Street.
The members have purchased 3.29 acres for $45,000 with building contingent on the church's ability to obtain financing from a banking institution and permission to build from the council.
Other business
Other items on the agenda include the following:
A resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a cooperative endeavor agreement with the state through the office of Facility and Planning Control and execute documents pertaining to Capital Outlay funds for the planning and construction of a potable water ground storage tank; and,
Hear the monthly police report.


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text: Mother Nature rained out the opener of the U.S. Race Gear Cincinnati Modified Championship presented by Gabbard's Mt. Orab Ford Friday Night at Moler Raceway park. Even she could not stop Joey Kramer from claiming the opener at Florence Speedway on Saturday Night. Kramer would use a front row starting spot to grab the early lead and never look back. If he did look back he would of seen Jeff Babcock carving his way through the field from a 21st starting spot to finish 2nd. Kramer had his new Lightning Chassis hooked up on the very fast Florence Speedway surface. The win would be the 9th win in the CMC for Kramer and would be the 18th CMC win for Lightning Chassis. The next CMC action is scheduled for Moler Raceway Park March 23rd with a $1000 to win show. Diamond Chassis helping racer hit by tornado Modified racer Steve King of Holton Indiana lost his home in the recent tornado's that rolled through the area. Diamond Chassis has pitched in to help and have set up a fund for donations to help the King family. For more info on how you can help go to www.diamondracecars.net. Goodsleeve increases challenge Goodsleeve screen printing has upped the amount of money offered in the Goodsleeve four track challenge. The challenge now pays $300 to the first driver to win features at all 4 CMC tracks. Don't forget to pick up your official CMC shirt as well as other great racing shirts at http://www.goodsleeveaa.com/ The point fund is now over $5000 The point fund and prize pool continues to grow in the U.S Race Gear Cincinnati Modified Champiosnhip presnted by Gabbard's Mt. Orab Ford. Many things are still in the works but right now the prizes stand as follows. Champion- $500 credit from U.S. Race Gear plus $200 in cash 2nd Place- $300 credit from U.S. Race Gear plus $100 in cash 3rd Place- $200 credit from U.S. Race Gear plus $100 in cash 4th Place- $100 credit from U.S. Race Gear plus a set of heavy duty jack stands from Hurricane Motorsports Race Car Fabrication 5th Place- $100 cash Gabbard's Mt. Orab Ford Rookie of the year- $100 credit at U.S. Race Gear Lightning Chassis Bolt for the Bucks- $500 credit at Lightning Chassis for the top point finisher in a Lightning Chassis. Diamond Race Cars Driver of the Year- $500 credit at Diamond Race cars for top point finisher in a Diamond Race Car. Reaper Race Cars Driver of the Year- $500 credit at Reaper Race Cars for the top point finisher in a Reaper Race Car. Bandit Race Cars Driver of the Year- $500 credit at Bandit Race Cars for the top point finisher in a Bandit Race Car. Coyote Race Cars Driver of the Year- $500 credit towards a Coyote Race Car to the top point finisher in a Coyote Race Car. Fast Shocks Shocking Driver of the Year- $200 credit at Fast Shocks for top point finisher who is a Fast Shocks customer. (Must run Fast Shock Stickers on both sides of car). Goodsleeve screenprinting 4 track challenge-$300 cash for first driver to win at all 4 tracks in one season. Auto Glass Resources Hard Charger- $100 cash to 2012 Hard Charger To be eligible all drivers must register at cincinnatimodifiedchampionship.com. To be eligible for U.S. Race Gear prizes cars must have U.S. Race Gear stickers (provided by CMC) on both sides of car in plain site. Upcoming schedule March 23 Moler Raceway Park Spring Fling $1000 to win 30 Moler Raceway Park scouts night 31 Florence Speedway Season points Opener April 6 Moler Raceway Park 7 Florence Speedway 13 Moler Raceway Park w/ American Late Model Series 14 Florence Speedway Fire and Police Night 14 Lawrenceburg Speedway Opening nigh w/ USAC Springs 14 Brushcreek Motorsports Complex opening night 20 Moler Raceway Park Fan Appreciation Night 21 Lawrenceburg Speedway Youth Sports Night 21 Brushcreek Motorsports Complex Date Night 21 Florence Speedway 27 Moler Raceway Park 28 Lawrenceburg Speedway 28 Florence Speedway Armed Forces Night


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Fishing Living Flies
- By: Mark Sedotti
- Photography by: Ted Fauceglia
As we enter a fast, deep run, I cast to the bank above a deadfall and begin a short, quick, broken-cadenced strip retrieve. My big streamer responds by sashaying, slashing and darting with sudden side-to-side movements, just about calling to be eaten. No sooner has that dancing fly drifted under the first branch when it disappears in a golden flash. I set the hook and a jumbo, thick-bodied brown trout sporting vivid, black-and-red spots vaults two feet in the air, hanging, or so it seems, in suspended animation. This is no surprise: trout are coming to this fly with its side-swiping, strike-triggering action at every likely spot we pass.
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Finding the right amount of barb for your hooks will ensure better hookups and more fish landed.
Healing Wounds and Lifting Spirits
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"I caught my first fish ever on a Woolly Bugger and absolutely loved it," David Folkerts said. "Once I pulled that trout in and looked down and saw how beautiful it was, I knew I wanted to keep doing it." Folkerts now serves as program manager for Project Healing Waters...
Hexagenia Helpers
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Most flies for these big bonefish are a size or two larger than the rest of the bonefish world, with most flies falling between a size 2 and 1 and even size 1/0s.
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The Ausable Two-Fly Challenge will be held on May 16 on the banks of the West Branch of the Ausable River. More than 75 anglers from as far away as Texas are expected to come to Wilmington, New York, to try their skills on the trout of this storied river flowing through the Adirondack Mountains.
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This morning's big AJC headline — in the print edition, it read "Audit: MARTA spends $50 million too much" — was one of the least surprising things I've ever read in our paper.
Not because of some anti-MARTA bias on my part. Rather, it's because MARTA officials told me as much, almost 2.5 years ago.
In the first part of my special series on MARTA back in May 2010, I wrote:
As you may have heard, MARTA now faces a $120 million budget hole. Believe it or not, the agency projected as early as in 2006 that it would be short $60 million by now, even though revenues were forecast to rise for a decade. Problem was, expenses piled up even faster.
One might summarize the financial history of MARTA (and most public entities) this way:
The economy takes a turn for the worse; MARTA's budget, which already assumed some operating losses, goes from tenuous to disastrous. Officials warn of (take your pick) drastic, draconian, devastating service cuts unless someone, anyone, finds $50 million in new annual funding. Because the economy has also hit state and local governments, no new money materializes. Service is cut and employees laid off by the hundreds.
The economy takes a turn for the better; MARTA's losses don't disappear but do shrink. Still, no new $50 million. Yet the agency restores service and reinstates jobs by the hundreds. Sales tax revenues rise, but expenses rise faster.
The economy takes a turn for the worse ….
In part 3, I wrote:
[B]y mid-2008, when the fiscal 2009 budget was approved, MARTA knew things were getting bad. Its sales-tax forecasts had already been revised downward by $24 million (in reality, shoppers would deliver $54 million less than that).
So, what did the agency do? It planned to boost spending even as revenue declined — to make 2009 the third straight year in which spending growth would outpace revenue growth. And it planned to do the same in 2010.
Even before the bottom fell out, then, MARTA planned to run a $44 million deficit in 2009 and expected to lose another $49 million in 2010. That was the optimistic scenario.
Now, what do we learn from the audit by KPMG? As the AJC reports:
MARTA is spending $50 million above the national average for employee benefits, but if it revamped its health care, retirement and worker compensation plans, it could erase a projected $33 million operating deficit, an audit released Monday reveals.
The story goes on to say KPMG recommended that MARTA outsource a number of functions to private companies in order to save millions of dollars a year. My conclusion was that MARTA should privatize its entire bus operation, which is a more far-reaching proposal than KPMG made. But the principle is similar, and the reason — that persistent $50 million gap — is exactly the same.
Of course, there was nothing prescient about my writing these things back in 2010. Nor anything particularly investigative. All I had to do was ask: MARTA already knew what the problem was.
– By Kyle Wingfield
September 25th, 2012
10:36 am
Well the head of MARTA was only making $315k+bennies. If we paid more, we'd get better results!
(which must be why she's moving to Boston and taking a 30% pay cut)
September 25th, 2012
10:39 am
Congrats on your 40 under 40 recognition at Sanford, Kyle. Sic em.
September 25th, 2012
10:49 am
Why doesn't the state just take MARTA over and privatize most functions? Does the state actually want MARTA to succeed? If spending is the only issue here, I see it as easily rectified. Does MARTA need to reduce spending? Absolutely and I'm not arguing that it doesn't but I am arguing that the state has shown no inclination to allow MARTA to meet its mission statement which "is to strengthen communities, advance economic competitiveness and respect the environment by providing a safe and customer-focused regional transit system."
September 25th, 2012
10:54 am
Hardly surprising…
Privatizing MARTA would at least ensure the deadbeats are run out of there and there would at least be half a chanvce that the replacement staff would be hired based on merit. (It's funny how things suddenly run well when employees are selected based on merit.)
September 25th, 2012
10:56 am
So how much did MARTA pay to have KPMG come in and tell them what everyone already knew?
September 25th, 2012
11:10 am
Seems absenteeism is a major Marta problem. No surprise here.
September 25th, 2012
11:11 am
$50 million sounds low. I thought MARTA would do their usual trick and raise fares to make up the shortfall; that way they would attract more riders???
September 25th, 2012
11:28 am
MARTA is spending $50 million above the national average for employee benefits, but if it revamped its health care, retirement and worker compensation plans, it could erase a projected $33 million operating deficit, an audit released Monday reveals.
Always take it out on the employees, right?
Remember, benefits should be considered as salary. When you negotiate your employment, the employer is saying "we will pay you this much in wages and this much in deferred compensation/benefits."
Maybe as employees we just need to say "you promise that compensation that I will never see so i am going to promise you this level of work from me that you won't actually get."
September 25th, 2012
11:31 am
Well the head of MARTA was only making $315k+bennies
How can you people sit in judgement of what someone else earns in salary? There's your wealth envy!
How would you like for your salary to get out and people say "Dang, I've seen Mangler's work and he isn't worth that. He must have pictures of somebody"
September 25th, 2012
11:33 am
Well, Kyle, your foresight was so good that nobody paid any attention. Now it is a headline for the AJC. Only took someone else to tell AJC after three years! Yeah, they are right "on the ball". MARTA is wasting money. Big new news!!
I guess we wil have to wait three years before we get a headline announcing that an investigation has shown that Obama is raising our debt every day in the outstanding trillions. If he is re-elected it wil be in the quadrillions! Now that's a nice new number Americans can expect while they live in tent cities for the foreclosed homeless. Attention, AJC! There is a problem!!! Quadrillions!!
September 25th, 2012
11:33 am
(which must be why she's moving to Boston and taking a 30% pay cut)
That just goes to show that money isn't everything – especially when you find yourself working for a bunch of asshats.
September 25th, 2012
11:35 am
I wouldn't pay Finn a dime…
September 25th, 2012
11:47 am
Here are a few suggestions:
1. Have the south georgia/exurban politicians at the capitol get their greedy hands out of MARTA's funds. They contribute nothing to MARTA, yet control 50% of it's gross revenues.
2. The exurbanites feel they should not contribute to MARTA thru state taxes, and that's a valid point. By the same token, why should I, as a ITP resident pay for highway improvements in Duluth, Alpharetta, Mayretta, and podunk south georgia, through higher taxes on gasoline at the fed and state level. While this is a sales tax and I pay based on the miles I drive and efficiency of my vehicle, most of therevenues are spent in areas where I don't drive. Furthermore, these excise taxes are not covering the total costs to keep up the interstates the exurbanites and rural residents require for commuting, requiring me to subsidize their transportation needs. From Wikipedia:
"During 2008 the highway trust fund required support of $8 billion from general revenue funds to cover a shortage. This shortage was due to lower gas consumption as a result of the recession and higher gas prices. Further transfers of $7 billion and $19.5 billion were made in 2009 and 2010 respectively."
The state government contributes nada to MARTA's operations. MARTA should be receiving support from the state highway fund, however CW Mathews has more sway with our esteemed legislators, and cannot make money from thois proposition, so this will never happen.
September 25th, 2012
11:56 am
Companies with offices downtown need to give employees incentives to use mass transit.
September 25th, 2012
11:59 am
Kyle never misses a chances to criticize transit; its interesting that GDOT with its "ENRON-style accounting" always seems to get a pass though.
(1) KPMG is hardly a reliable source — just google its recent practices (paying $80 million in fines and giving certain funds a much higher rating in return for "consideration") hardly an example of unbiased, professional accounting; and
(2) Its interesting how privatization is always the answer to every government expenditure. Atlanta has had great success in privatizing parking enforcement. Although rewarding a private company for the number of tickets they write, regardless of whether there was a violation, isn't so good for small businesses. I've no problem with paying to park, but when you get a ticked even when you pay and then have to go to court to get it dismissed (I'm two for two on that score) over a $25 fine — I'll stop patronizing those businesses and go to Decatur or unincorporated DeKalb.
I know, y'all will say that government will have to do a better job of overseeing contractors; however after a few years of cutting employees at local governments, who is going to actually do this? I know, have a contractor oversee the contractor and then hire a contractor to oversee that contractor.
Should MARTA fire employees with absenteeism? Should it hire contractors to run certain routes, sure?
But should GRTA run a bus route that directly competes with routes by Cobb, Gwinnett and MARTA? No. But you never hear a conservative criticize that practice. That taxpayer-funded transit agencies should directly compete with each other is plain stupid, but its more fun to trash MARTA than the GOP-run GRTA.
September 25th, 2012
12:02 pm
Aunti Christ
You have made it clear that you are a city slicker and everybody outside of Atlanta is a country hick.
Until you start thinking of Georgia s a whole state instead of Atlanta as the castle and compass to direct all, you won't help solve the problem.
The MARTA "problem" has been diagnosed and designated. It is waste and poor management. Get it? WASTE & POOR MANAGEMENT within MARTA.
Dumping ciritcism on the far points of Georgia will not help MARTA. Might make you feel better but it will not help transportation one bit. We have a lovely state. Appreciate all of it!
September 25th, 2012
12:05 pm
MARTA and the airport are Atlanta's biggest slush funds for politicians to get rich and buy votes. NOTHING is going to change that.
September 25th, 2012
12:07 pm
Big companies are already using incentives to encourage the use of MARTA.
AT & T even has a parking garage near the train station in some parts of Atlanta.
September 25th, 2012
12:14 pm
it is what it is
September 25th, 2012
12:16 pm
Dumb & Dumber
GRTA is run by the GOP?? Really? Do they give discounts to Republicans? Maybe I will take a ride out that way just to see the scenery!
How about that? GOP runs GRTA while Democrats cry for trolly cars. You just never know!!
September 25th, 2012
12:16 pm
Agreed Dusty. This is the State of Georgia NOT the State of Atlanta.
September 25th, 2012
12:20 pm
"The state government contributes nada to MARTA's operations. MARTA should be receiving support from the state highway fund"
Perhaps after Marta gets their financial house in order that may be appropriate. For now…NOPE!
September 25th, 2012
12:25 pm
MARTA, like everything else connected with the City of Atlanta, is a "Jobs Program" attempting to deliver too much service to too few users. There will be no improvement in MARTA until the politicians have their hands forcibly removed from the cookie jar. Anyone care to wager when that might be?
September 25th, 2012
12:50 pm
Kyle, don't you think if this country is ready for a black President, it's also ready for a Gurley Heisman?!?! go dawgs
September 25th, 2012
12:53 pm
September 25th, 2012
12:02 pm
The MARTA "problem" has been diagnosed and designated. It is waste and poor management. Get it? WASTE & POOR MANAGEMENT within MARTA.
The waste and poor management here is the waste of your time commenting on things you know nothing about the waste of anyone's time reading it, and poor management of you intellect by letting 'sources' like wingfield and other Atlanta/MARTA bashers be your source of misinformation. Get it? WASTE & POOR MANAGEMENT is a fantasy feeding the prejudices of you, wingfield's and others who conjure images of corruption and ineptitude because they despise any hint of success by the liberals ITP. And this applies to the politicians from podunk who do their level best to see MARTA fail, so they can get their good ole boy, corrupt greedy hands into the revenue pie and divvy up the benefits to their cronies.
AJC OPINION Wednesday, June 9, 2010, By Michael W. Tyler
According to the Federal Transit Administration, MARTA spends less money per mile for bus
service than any of its peer transit agencies in the country, except for Phoenix's Valley Metro. Similarly, at the local level, MARTA's bus operating costs per trip are lower than those of Cobb
County Transit, Gwinnett County Transit and the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority. Moreover, contrary to popular belief, according to the Dash Report, an independent survey of
transit system labor rates nationwide, MARTA's unionized employees are among the lowest paid
in the nation compared to their peers at agencies of similar size. Furthermore, MARTA's 1.54
percent increase in the top wage rates for operators was the lowest in the entire country over the
past 10 years.
These statistics highlight the fallacy behind Wingfield's notion that MARTA could become more
cost-effective through privatization. Cobb County Transit, Gwinnett County Transit and GRTA all
utilize private contractors and, as noted above, have higher operating costs than MARTA.
In addition, even if MARTA did have inflated union wages, which it clearly does not, federal law
requires that any private company that took over MARTA operations would be mandated to
assume and maintain the union work force and the attendant collective bargaining agreement —
or risk losing billions in federal funding.
But don't let facts get in your and the other know-nothings' way of bashing Atlanta and MARTA, even tho you wouldn't know mass transit from Mass achusetts.
September 25th, 2012
12:55 pm
My conclusion was that MARTA should privatize its entire bus operation, which is a more far-reaching proposal than KPMG made. But the principle is similar, and the reason — that persistent $50 million gap — is exactly the same.
But that just puts a band-aid on the problem instead of fixing it.
The problem is this: is MARTA the regional transit backbone for the Atlanta area or a Fulton/Dekalb system that is only a minor part of a regional transportation solution? This isn't MARTA's fault. It's the state legislature's fault for requiring MARTA to stay locked to two counties while Atlanta long ago grew past those boundaries. If you limit MARTA to two counties, then you might as well keep shrinking it by getting rid of bus service. If you make MARTA part of a regional solution, then it's time for the legislature to create an agency that will take control of MARTA and all Atlanta regional transportation assets, and let that agency have taxing power and elected board members that are responsible to the voters from the region.
But you knew that, Kyle. We've discussed this before.
September 25th, 2012
1:09 pm
Marta is another loser debacle just as the once shining star of the South, Atlanta. Atlanta has peaked. The best times are now behind Atlanta. Its all down hill from here.
September 25th, 2012
1:10 pm
I've ridden MARTA every work day for almost five years. In that time the customer service levels has decreased by two-thirds and the fare has more than doubled. Any salaries going to those who think this is quality management are just fooling themselves.
Additionally, while reading Board minutes a while back, I learn that MARTA will be spending $17 million on some kind of trolley system to take tourists to Centennial Park and Auburn Avenue. If this was a good idea, private enterprise would be all over it. With it's financial problems, MARTA has no business spending this money.
September 25th, 2012
1:12 pm
BTW, Atlanta was just voted in as one of the dirtiest citys in the USA. No doubt the rolling outhouses, supplied by Marta, were a contributing factor.
September 25th, 2012
1:15 pm
Which cities offer examples of privatized mass transit?
September 25th, 2012
1:21 pm
Perhaps its time to privatize mass transit as it would decidedly be an improvement and assist in removing the typical "deadwood" that comes along with the public sector.
September 25th, 2012
1:29 pm
The question is will MARTA do anything with the results of the audit they paid for? I have my doubts based on their past history. Some initiative by MARTA to bring costs under control is necessary if it ever expects to receive support from the community in another T-SPLOST type vote.
September 25th, 2012
1:31 pm
Delighted, aren't you Kyle? It just goes to show anything run by a lot of black people can't be good.
Now, let's gid those black people out of the White House!
Anyhow, we'd rather all those people who ride MARTA switch to driving big, ugly, top-heavy, pollution-spewing vehicles to clog our streets and freeways and make the air we breathe dirtier.
September 25th, 2012
1:34 pm
I again ask…does this state care for MARTA to succeed or use it as a punching bag? Does this state fundamentally believe in MARTA? If spending is the PRIMARY issue, then the state could contribute funds and take it over outright and cut spending and even raise fares to attempt to make it a break-even operation. A relatively easy operation in my eyes. What are you advocating FOR in terms of making MARTA sustainable in the long-term?
September 25th, 2012
1:38 pm
Perhaps its time to privatize mass transit as it would decidedly be an improvement and assist in removing the typical "deadwood" that comes along with the public sector.
you know, like they do all over the world!
oh, wait.
September 25th, 2012
1:42 pm
The Governor should ask the current administration in Washington to send some "Obama Dollars" they spend like any other money only they come from the $16,000,000,000,000 deficit.
September 25th, 2012
1:55 pm
I have ridden Marta a number of times and have always been unimpressed. The signage is white on faded orange, and placed where you can't see the stop from the windows, the floors are invariably nasty, you generally are "held up" one or more times on the way to anywhere, there are trash talking people, and bums soliciting regularly. No surprise that Marta is used as a cash cow by the same kind of people who run city governments in many cities. It does look like it is run by blacks and for blacks.
September 25th, 2012
1:57 pm
"you know, like they do all over the world!
oh, wait."
Atlanta is such an innovative city, so cutting-edge and all that other non-sense bellowed by Mayor Yellow Teeth and his cohorts. Perhaps Atlanta could be the leader, in something other than shameful behavior and give privatization a try. No, that wouldnt work as probably would be necessary to terminate approx 30% – 40% of the lazy workers and we can have that…
September 25th, 2012
2:02 pm
we cant.
September 25th, 2012
2:03 pm
My husband went to school with a guy who worked for MARTA.
G-o-o-o-o-od lookin' but dumber than dirt. Lost three jobs before ending up at MARTA.
Last I heard, he was livin' high on the "perpetual" hog…retired on some lake property.
Our new chairman, Jeff Turner wants to bring back Clayton County's bus service but only if it's privately operated. A black conservative running below the dem's radar?
I can only hope.
September 25th, 2012
2:05 pm
Kasim Reed has yellow teeth?
I never noticed.
September 25th, 2012
2:10 pm
Kyle, notwithstanding your legitimate points, good luck to our gridlocked cons in their exurban hell holes!
I'll be thinking of you (NOT!) as you slog through yet another nightmarish commute this in a few hours and then again tomorrow morning and every weekday morning and evening for the rest of your working lives!
You are truly the good little worker ants that you've been trained to be!
Long live road rage!
September 25th, 2012
2:11 pm
"Delighted, aren't you Kyle? It just goes to show anything run by a lot of black people can't be good.
Now, let's gid those black people out of the White House!
Anyhow, we'd rather all those people who ride MARTA switch to driving big, ugly, top-heavy, pollution-spewing vehicles to clog our streets and freeways and make the air we breathe dirtier."
Congrats on attempting to play the race hard where no racism exists, and bonus points for hating on those who drive SUVs.
September 25th, 2012
2:16 pm
Hopefully they won't appoint some goony lib to solve the "problem" because then it will become a $100 million dollar mistake.
September 25th, 2012
2:17 pm
And the goony lib would have the best pension in the lot.
September 25th, 2012
2:32 pm
In a series of nine stories in 1980 on "Crucial States" — battleground states as they are known today — the New York Times repeatedly told readers then-President Carter was in a close and decidedly winnable race with the former California governor. And used polling data from the New York Times/CBS polls to back up its stories.
Don't git suckered by the clown show, this guy is toast.
September 25th, 2012
2:35 pm
"Kasim Reed has yellow teeth?
I never noticed."
Its all those yellow crayons he has been chewing.
September 25th, 2012
2:37 pm
My my — i've never seen so many cons HAPPY that people will be out of jobs before!! How very CONscientous and CONtentious of you folks! I don't understand the out and out hatred of MARTA – I mean most cons on the blog say the don't ride it, they don't spend one dime on it, and they don't care for it, so why the glee?
Its almost as if you WANT MARTA to fail, simply because it has Atlanta in its name OR because it provides transportation for poor, carless, and som3times handicapped people. Would that be the reason?
Nahhhh!!! Not these Cons!!! They are only so CONtorted with glee because they, personally, hate anything that isn't taking tax payer money and giving it away to a personal friend of the governor's to start a resort on Lake Lanier!
Where, as every con knows, not a dime of tax money will be misspent, misappropriated, OR abused!!! They're absolutely CONvinced of that!


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Films document human toll of Philly's mass school closings
Documentary filmmaker Amy Yeboah shot the last day of classes at Fairhill School in June.
"I stood there while the bell rang, while the principal gave the last announcement," Yeboah said.
"And she said goodbye and walked out the door."
The doors never reopened.
Fairhill was one of 24 Philadelphia public schools shuttered in the face of an overwhelming budgetary crisis.
Yeboah documented the human toll taken by those closings in her film, "Goodbye to City Schools," which premieres Wednesday at Scribe Video Center following the opening reception for the Philadelphia School Closings Photo Collective Exhibit.
Yeboah said the short looks at the closings from a historical perspective.
Fairhill, like many of the shut down schools, was more than 100 years old.
"You see women about 60 years old coming back to the school and saying, 'I remember this,'" Yeboah said.
"You see that whole story – then it just stops. Then you see generations of people coming together and saying, 'Is this really over?'
"To see the longevity of the humanity of a school just stop, I think that's what [the film] gets at – in voices, in pictures and in tears."
Yeboah will also air a second short documentary Wednesday.
Entitled "(Re)Inscribing Meaning," it examines how black communities have worked to supplement institutional education by fostering environments of learning at home.
"It's about parents educating their own children and giving meaning back to parental education, with the family being the core school and then schools coming second," Yeboah said, noting the strong tradition of black communities providing their own tutelage in the face of inadequate government services.
"Watching this, you understand the real complexities of government politics," Yeboah said.
"But then the question is, what do we do? Do we keep on asking? Or do we say, 'I'm not asking no more – I'm going to take control of my child's education to the best of my ability.'"
When viewed together, Yeboah hopes the two films raise serious questions about the state of public education in Philadelphia.
"When you see a city that clearly has made the value of the education of its children a monetary number – and not even a high monetary number, when we look at where the numbers are going realistically in the city with the prisons and businesses – it says something as far as the city," she said, again referencing the historic and cultural import of the shuttered schools.
"It just shows that things have gotten that bad," she continued.
"For a city that claims to be of love and affection, I'm asking where's the love and how did it get this bad?"
Philadelphia School Closings Photo Collective
A reception for the Philadelphia School Closings Photo Collective will be held Wednesday immediately before the screenings of Yeboah's films.
Collective member and exhibit curator Katrina Ohstrom said the project was launched in the spring, when local photographer Zoe Strauss through Facebook issued a call to action for fellow artists to document the city's mass school closings.
The results – haunting snapshots of deteriorating buildings, discarded materials and despondent students and teachers – are now centralized on a dedicated website, Tumblr page and a Flickr group where participants can upload additional contributions.
The Scribe exhibition will feature about 30 of the works shot by 10 photographers.
"I would hope that people come and they see that these aren't just anonymous schools in poor neighborhoods and that not only are they really important parts of these communities, but that the students who went there and the teachers who teach there really, really care about education," Ohstrom said.
"And I would hope that people start to see the connections between what's going on with the school closings and other things that are happening in the city, because there's definitely money for tax abatements and there's money for building a new juvenile detention center, but there doesn't seem to be money for schools. And I would hope that people just maybe make the connections between those things."
Opening reception for the Philadelphia School Closings Photo Collective Exhibit
6 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 16
Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut St.
Free and open to the public
Storyville: Goodbye to City Schools – includes screenings of "Goodbye to City Schools" and "(Re)Inscribing Meaning"
Yeboah will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.
7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 16
Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut St.
$5, free for Scribe members
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too big to be a 'Smart' also 'Smart' has 3 lug nuts not 5.
Looks a great deal like a Toyota Yaris, but methinks it's actually one of your shitty American toy 4x4s.
If the logo on the wheels mean anything, this is a Chrysler product. To be fair, a head-on collision with a truck that size would demolish a Hummer if any speed at all was involved. So the entire things is really silly.
Just another in the long line of attempts to bash the Smart car. Owning one has opened my eyes to a lot of it… I think the money Smart owners save on their vehicle, it's fuel, and insurance makes some people a tad bit jealous…
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Our claim to fame is letting folks know where they can go to download the best in Mac freeware, but there are already some great free applications hiding on your Mac that you might not know about. With the initial install of Mac OS X Tiger, there is a Utilities folder full of goodies. You can find it in your Applications folder or by pressing Shift-Command-U in Finder.
Once there, you'll find all kinds of goodies. I thought I'd run thru each one and let you know what it is and what you can do with it.
Activity Monitor – Activity Monitor let's you know what is going on with your computer. It can let you know where your memory and CPU is being used most.
I think this app is mostly useful when there is an app that won't quit or a document that can't be trashed because it is "in use." Fire up Activity monitor and you can kill that process.
There's another nice use for Mac users with Intel machines. You can sort all the processes by "Kind" and there you'll see any apps that are still running as a PowerPC app. The only one left on my list is that darn URLwell. What I wouldn't do for an update of that app.
More info on Activity Monitor here
Airport Admin Utility – The application will let you configure your Apple Airport products.
I know there are cheaper routers out there, but I encourage all my family members to get the the Airport products because this app makes it so easy to manage these routers. When even my mom has set up a router successfully, you know it's a good app.
Airport Setup Assistant – This app is used when you first set up your Airport product. It's an easy wizard for setup.
Audio MIDI Setup – You can use Audio MIDI Setup to configure the audio input and output devices you use with your computer, such as microphones and audio playback equipment. If you need this app, you probably already know how to use it.
Bluetooth File Exchange – If you have a cell phone or PDA with bluetooth, this application makes it very easy to send files back and forth. This is a great way to take your photos off of your phone, or to add ringtones to your phone.
Colorsync Utility – This app gives you access to to Apple's Colorsync specs. In this app you can set different profiles. There is also a nifty calculator that can convert between RGB and CMYK. This is another of those apps that isn't useful to most people.
Console – Console gives you a "behind the scenes" look at your Mac. While you see all the pretty pictures and graphics of Mac OS X, there is a ton happening in the background. Console lets you watch that. It's especially helpful to see error or status messages.
Digitalcolor Meter – If you are preparing your work for professional printing and you have an Apple monitor, you can use DigitalColor Meter to match the color on your screen against several industry standards.
Directory Access – Directory Access lists the different kinds of services that Mac OS X can access. The list includes directory services, which give Mac OS X access to user information and other administrative data stored in directory domains. The list also includes kinds of network services that Mac OS X can discover on the network.
You can enable or disable access to each kind of service. If you disable a kind of service in Directory Access, Mac OS X no longer accesses services of the disabled kind. The different services can be found here.
Disk Utility – There is all kinds of power in the Disk Utility. Here you can reformat a disk, check and fix permissions, and so many other things.
One of my favorite uses is to create encrypted disk images. That way you can keep sensitive documents on your Mac (e.g., scanned social security card, bank records) and they are safe if your Mac was ever stolen.
Grab – Grab will let you "grab" screenshots of your Mac. Of course, you can already do this with key combinations, but Grab does have one nice feature. You can do a timed grab. Start the timer and ten second later the Mac will grab a screenshot.
Grapher – Grapher lets you create 2D and 3D graphs from equations.
OS 9 came with a graphing calculator. OS X versions before Tiger had no graphing options. But, with Mac OS X Tiger, we now have Grapher.
Installer – You've probably used Installed a hundred times and didn't know it. Whenever you download a new application that comes in a package or a metapackage, Installer makes it possible to install that application.
Keychain Access – Keychain Access gives you access to the keychain. Duh.
Anytime you save a password to a site or a server or anything on the Mac, it is stored in the keychain. If you forget one of those passwords and it isn't filling in automatically, you can access keychain with this application and find your password.
Migration Assistant – This is simply one of the most amazing applications. If you've ever purchased a new Mac and migrated from your old one, this is the app you used. You can also use it to get a use from a different machine. I've used this application about 10 times and have had perfect and problem-free migrations each time.
Netinfo Manager – Netinfo is the built-in Mac OS X directory system. It stores information about users and resources and makes it available to Mac OS X processes that want to use it. This application helps you manage it. But I wouldn't "manage" it unless you know what you're doing.
Network Utility – Since I run a fairly large network of Macs this app is great. It makes it easy to ping machines, lookup name server and DNS, do traceroutes, port scans, etc. It also is a quick way to find info on your Network interfaces. (e.g., ethernet, airport, etc)
ODBC Administrtator – This will give you access to database management systems using Open Database Connectivity standards. (At least as far as I can tell. I've never used this app.)
Printer Setup Utility – When you get that new printer and hook it to your Mac, this app comes to the rescue. It will lead you along to get the printer working.
System Profiler – If you need information about your Mac, here is the place to come. It will tell you about your RAM and your drives and your processors and anything thing else you'd need.
Terminal – This is the gateway to the true power of Mac OS X. It is a terminal emulator that will let you use the Unix base of Mac OS X. I use this most often to connect via SSH and to set the crontab of my machine, but there are thousands more reason to use it.
You can learn more about how to use Terminal at our sister site, FreeMacUnix.com. Start from the earliest post and work right on thru to learn the basics.
VoiceOver Utility – Voiceover is a Mac OS X feature that lets you interact with your Mac via voice. It will read the text of websites, email, and documents. It also allows you to control your Mac using audible commands.
Voiceover Utility lets you determine how Voiceover will behave.
Well, that's all of them.
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