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As Democrats and Republicans wrangle over the details of a fiscal cliff deal, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke again warned leaders in both parties that going over the cliff, or just postponing scheduled tax increases and budget cuts should not be an option in Washington, D.C.
"There's a problem with just kicking the can down the road," Bernanke told a news conference on Wednesday.
Bernanke was asked a number of questions about the fiscal cliff, after the Fed Chairman announced that the Central Bank would not consider raising interest rates until the nation's jobless rate hit 6.5%, which he doesn't expect until at least mid 2015.
"If the economy actually went off the fiscal cliff," Bernanke said, "that would have very significant adverse effects on the economy and on the unemployment rate."
So, the answer is doing nothing on the budget deficit? No.
Bernanke again made clear that is not the answer either, arguing that lawmakers must show some kind of committment to a plan that actually lowers the budget deficit long term, without doing anything to harm economic growth now.
"The most helpful thing that the Congress and Administration could do right now is find a resolution that on the one hand achieves long range fiscal sustainability, which is critical," said Bernanke, "but also avoids derailing the recovery which is currently in process."
But finding that kind of Goldilocks Budget Deal isn't proving to be easy, as both sides say the other is at fault for the lack of an agreement.
"The President has made clear his willingness to negotiate and compromise," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who repeatedly pointed the finger of blame at Republicans for the lack of a deal.
"We've got some serious differences," said Speaker John Boehner, who again called out the White House for not getting specific enough on budget cuts, while the White House says Boehner hasn't been specific on how he would save money by closing tax loopholes.
"It's now up to the President," one Republican Senator told me on Wednesday night, saying that he knew of "no progress," and adding that the outlook for a deal "does not look good."
Is it just the political noise we should expect before there is a final deal?
Or are we really going off the rails here?
Boehner has told his House Republican troops to be ready to stay through the holidays.
The clock is ticking, and there's still no deal.
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Andrew Wiggins scored 41 points in a furious comeback for Kansas that came up just short. He also had eight rebounds, five steals, four blocks and two assists. The Jayhawks freshman was pretty much unstoppable against the Mountaineers, who watched a 25 point lead dissolve into a 92-86 nailbiter win at home.
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This is a bizarre scene from the Ireland-Italy match in the Six Nations Championship. Ireland's inside centre, Gordon D'Arcy, went down with an apparent leg injury and play continued around him as he remained on the ground. Eventually medics showed up to tend to him, but the action never really left the area so play…
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Yesterday's surprise announcement that AOL is buying The Huffington Post for $315m sent shockwaves through the blogosphere.
The deal is not only one of the biggest in the consumer internet space in the past several years, it's one of the biggest online publishing acquisitions ever involving a 'blog'.
The HuffPo isn't just any blog: it's an opinionated online property political in nature. And AOL isn't just any company: it's a former behemoth trying to succeed once again, largely by acquiring other properties. That's usually a tough strategy even for companies at the top of their game.
Calling the HuffPo "one of the Web's most popular and innovative sources of online news, commentary, and information", AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told AOL employees that "By combining The Huffington Post with AOL's network of sites, thriving video offerings, local expertise and enormous reach, we will create a company that is laser-focused on serving our audiences across every platform imaginable – social, local, video, mobile and tablet."
But will it work? Ridiculous claims like "The Huffington Post is the platform for influential people" aside, there's one big problem with AOL's acquisition of the HuffPo: the site's history.
The HuffPo was founded to promote progressive political interests. Sure, it has expanded the breadth of its content beyond politics, but its raison d'être is to promote a political agenda.
To that end, the HuffPo's brand is still 'progressive politics', with aggressive content aggregation and SEO bait thrown in for revenue. Armstrong ignoring the site's political nature while claiming that it has "great focus on women's content" pushes the limits of credulity.
In short, the HuffPo and its new corporate overlord have a huge challenge: maintaining the credibility that the HuffPo has established with its core audience of politically-minded readers, but at the same time ensuring that AOL itself doesn't simply become a larger megaphone for Huffington's politics, which would be entirely incompatible with the company's content strategy.
Unfortunately, it's not clear that there's a real plan for accomplishing this. In announcing the acquisition to HuffPo readers, Arianna Huffington wrote:
Far from changing our editorial approach, our culture, or our mission, this moment will be for HuffPost like stepping off a fast-moving train and onto a supersonic jet. We're still traveling toward the same destination, with the same people at the wheel, and with the same goals, but we're now going to get there much, much faster.
Translation: we're not changing anything, including our "mission" and "goals." Yet she also wrote of "our commitment to innovative original reporting and beyond-left-and-right commentary." Given that the HuffPo's founding mission was to create a platform for the distribution of left-leaning political messaging, one has to ask the question: which one is it? You can't have your cake and eat it too. Armstrong appointing Huffington to be the head of editorial at AOL is sort of like Carol Bartz appointing Glenn Beck to head up Yahoo's editorial. Sure, Huffington and Beck have built successful media 'empires', and there is a lot other publishers and media companies can learn from both. But they're not the kind of people you want running a media empire outside of the world of politics.
This said, even if we dismiss the challenges created by the HuffPo's political focus, Huffington's apparent interest in real journalism is fundamentally at odds with AOL's desire to mass-produce profitable content. The only way to reconcile these apparent conflicts is with the understanding that most of what Armstrong and Huffington have stated publicly and to their respective constituencies is just fluff.
The reality: AOL desperately needed to take a punt on a prominent content property with a lot of eyeballs, and Huffington was offered a sum of money she couldn't refuse. Nothing more, nothing less.
It's unclear how exactly this will all play out. Judging from the responses to Huffington's announcement on the HuffPo, there are a lot of HuffPo readers who aren't exactly thrilled. But that doesn't exactly indicate that there's going to be a significant backlash, or large attrition.
What is abundantly clear: with such an un-strategic acquisition, Tim Armstrong isn't likely to get the 1+1 = 11 he thinks he will. He may even want to consider another equation: 1-1. I'm not sure what this equation equals at AOL, but in the real world, it's 0.


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AT&T (NYSE: T) is the latest service provider to join the home automation movement. The company has acquired Xanboo, one of the original platform developers for remote home management.
The acquisition follows a flurry of M&A activity in the smart-home industry.
Last week, Motorola announced it would acquire 4Home, presumably to bring energy management, security and other home control capabilities to cable customers by way of modems and settop boxes.
That deal followed continued investment by Verizon in the 4Home business.
Two similar home automation platform providers, iControl and uControl, announced a merger last month. We surmised that the move was required to nab Comcast's new Home Security business.
And in 2008, Sigma Designs, which provides audio/video chipsets to most of the leading cable providers, bought Zensys, provider of Z-Wave wireless technology for home control.
As with all of these deals, AT&T probably hopes to hold onto its TV, Internet and mobile phone subscribers by offering new services for their existing products—and charge some extra fees to boot.
Xanboo technology enables users to remotely monitor and manage their home's security, lighting, thermostats and other devices via the Internet, cellphone and other communications devices. Like iControl, uControl and 4Home, Xanboo has developed its own products in the past, but always intended to market its platform to third-party service providers.
Nothing official about the Xanboo acquisition has been released, and AT&T officials have not yet been available for comment.
McCall Butler, a spokesperson from AT&T's PR company, does confirm the acquisition to Electronic House. His formal statement to us is this:
AT&T sees synergies between Xanboo's technology and our offerings for consumers and small businesses. Xanboo's monitoring services are a natural extension of our high speed Internet, video and voice offerings and a good fit for our wireless services.
This statement echoes the same sentiment of AT&T's 2006 press release, announcing its adoption of Xanboo technology for a "new generation of converged, IP-based services.":
[2006] Ultimately, AT&T will use this unified network to enable virtually seamless connectivity anywhere, anytime, on almost any device, giving consumers what they want, when they want it, wherever they are. Increasingly, services will be accessible from any of the "three screens" that many consumers value most: the TV, PC and cell phone.
AT&T offered basic Xanboo service to Cingular customers back then. The products included Xanboo's Internet gateway and proprietary RF wireless devices – primarily cameras and security sensors, with a handful of other devices such as lamp modules and environmental sensors.
The interface was fairly rudimentary, allowing access via the PC, a Cingular wireless phone or an Internet-enabled PDA with Java.
At the time, AT&T offered a very basic package for $199 plus $9.95 per month.
The program was short-lived and Electronic House never encountered any success stories with the offering.
In fact, in our 16 years of covering the home automation industry, we have never encountered any success stories of remote home management systems that require a monthly fee – unless that fee is an add-on to a security service a la ADT Pulse.
When Xanboo hit the scene in the early 2000s (the company was founded in 1999) there were already several established home-control vendors and many promising startups.
But Xanboo had one particular claim to fame: its cloud-based home automation architecture.
Xanboo was a pioneer of the lightweight Internet Gateway for home control, eventually utilizing the Java-centric Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) platform.
Other providers generally required PCs or relatively pricey controllers to deliver the type of rich, interactive communications that Xanboo offered.
Xanboo, on the other hand, sold very inexpensive gateways to the consumer, offloading the heavy processing to the company's own servers.
The downside to the architecture is that it requires a monthly fee to maintain the servers, and history shows that mainstream consumers are not willing to pay monthly fees for home control alone (which is why Xanboo and others have not succeeded at retail).
The new Xanboo is much different today. While it had one of the weaker home control interfaces in the early days, today's UI is elegant and the platform is much more flexible – right on par with its competitors at iControl, uControl and 4Home
Motorola, AT&T and Lantronix are among Xanboo's early investors. In fact, Motorola has marketed retailer-oriented Xanboo systems for several years. The product, called HomeSight, is still available online. A Xanboo-based solution from Shell, the ill-fated HomeGenie, also was marketed for a brief time.
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portland is really a neat place! nice people, great food, fantastic old buildings ,and the bridges are really cool.treelovers, this is your heaven. really wonderful fresh air quality! no sale tax , and the rose capital of the world. as for the grey days, the sun usually peaks out of the most wonderful clouds ,you will ever see. places are what you make of it yourself. people adapt,life goes on ...get over the grey and enjoy the comfortable weather. it`s a lot more easy, to warm up,than to cool off. the views are to dye for.close to the sea,not to far from the mountains. it`s just a little too crowed for me. i live in salem ,more laid back,a little more comfortable,less people,and more to my style. portland is less than 40 minutes away...............nice.
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re: portland,cool place to live................... - 8/30/2009 I am 23 years old and currently live in Chicago.I graduated form college about a year ago and am looking to move to Portland. I enjoy outdoor activities, going out, art, music, and eating great healthy food :) I was hoping someone could give me some feedback on a neighborhood that would be good place to move to in Portland. I would love some advice. Thank you!
Keep Portland Weird - 1/12/2014 Portland is filled with weird people looking for a good time. Oregon is one of the best places for customer service because youll find people here actually care about other people. We look out for eachother whether you moved here 40 years ago or 6 months ago. We dont care. Dont try to change Portland. We are weird and we are proud. But we also accept everyone. <3 welcome to oregon![read more...]
Listen to the masses - 1/12/2014 Would be appreciative if 1,000 more people would add to this thread about how horrible Portland is. People who are thinking of moving, or have recently moved, or contemplating moving, need that extra push to decide. Yes, people think Portland is expensive, uneducated, fake polite, boring, hate the rain, no one will make friends with them, taxrs too high, nothing to do, can't make a profitable living,, were duped by the hype to move here, have home marrow ice cream, be transported to the ozarks but it's really Portland, pushy small Christian business owners will try to convert you, Buddhists will try to convert you, takes 16 years to make a friend,, trains only drive a straight line-north to south and easy to west,ridiculous traffic, and let's not foreget....Portland is white, oh so very white. ( I always thought it was gray and gray blue.... So in a nutshell, there you have it. Portland is the worst....the absolute WORST place to move because it will not meet your expectations and it definitely is not a "lovely" place to be spend hell in. Please, for the love of God and all that is organic DO NOT MOVE HERE.[read more...]
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Portland is great - 9/26/2013 I really like Portland and I even like Seattle a lot too both cities looks alike. It's beautiful in Portland and the smaller towns around Portland is very nice. Weather is nice all the time never too cold or too hot it's can be a little too warm in summer sometimes and a little humid but it's not bad at all because it's only a week or two in summer. In winter it's rainy a lot sometimes and some years will be different it's will be rainy too much in winter and some years will get less rain than some other years but it's just light rain most of the time and it's can be a little heavy sometimes. Not very cold in winter it's very mild compare to Denver, and Chicago. Denver gets bitter cold in winter and Portland is no where nearly that cold. Spring, summer and early fall is awesome weather here some summer can be sunny everyday for three months and not see a cloud and some summer can have a few more cloudy days than other summers. But it's beautiful in those three seasons. There is some sunny days in winter but it's mostly cloudy days with rain. The job market is great in portland area and economy is doing better and doing good I hope it's stays good because three or four years ago it's was doing a little bad but better than rest of country. Tons of things to do in the state of Oregon and in Portland too. Lots of bike and walking trails. A lot of clean safe campgrounds and mostly along the coast of Oregon. There are campgrounds close to Portland that are great to camp. A lot of sight seeing all over town and leaving town on way to ocean or to the cascade mountains. The people there are very nice and not everyone is nice but a lot nicer than most cities in this country I guess it's has something to do with people liking it in Oregon a lot and that what makes people happy and friendly there. I love the pacific northwest united state it's my favorite part of the country, because of good weather nice folks and very good foods like seafoods and beautiful there. Thank you for reading my comment.[read more...]
A town where people don't shower and are incredibl - 9/15/2013 I've finally left Portland after being seduced by the NY Times articles and short visits to check it out. Boy was I duped. I quickly grew tired of the phony shop keepers asking me about my weekend plans--you don't know me and why would you care? Tired of the icy coldness of the general public--unless your a "Proud Oregionian" they would much prefer you not move to their state. I grew tired of being asked why I moved there and fear that I might be taking a job away from one of their own. Guess what? I wasn't taking your job. I brought my own. I ate in your restaurants and hired your people. I paid property taxes and contributed to your overall economy. I'm educated with a post-graduate degree. I shower and I have all of my teeth (meth addicts everywhere). I qyuickly grew weary of the holier than though Christian fundamentalists. I've never seen so many businesses advertise the scriptures on their websites. The incidence of DUIs was appalling. I felt like I was in the Ozarks for much of the time. Portland thinks they are a big city with world class restaurants. That is laffable. No, I dont like bone marrow ice cream. Good riddance Portland. I'm heading home where the people have brain cells, shower and smile and mean it. Oh, and the majority have their teeth.[read more...]
Outstanding music scene - 7/2/2013 Portland has a great music scene. The Waterfront Blues Festival is the crown jewel.[read more...]
Hyped, White and Classist - 5/12/2013 I've lived in several cities in the U.S. large and small; Philadelphia, Denver, L.A., Pittsburgh, Chicago and now Portland. I am a nearly middle-aged caucasian male with a doctoral degree. I am employed and make a reasonable wage for a single person. While these comments are inherently unfair because of they are opinions and full of blanket statements, I hope that people would think twice about moving to Portland after reading mine. Portland is easily one of the most frustrating places I have ever lived. The lack of diversity here is appauling. The northwest in general is extremely "white". Institutional racism and classist socioeconomic policies have continued the 20th century trends into the 21st. The few "black" areas of Portland have become increasingly white sociall and culturally over the past decade. While this has been positive economically for the ruling real-estate owning class, and a few others, it has made Portland even more unaffordable for middle and low income people and has helped to promote Portland's singular cultural agenda of priveledged, self-aggrandizing, "white" 20-40 somethings. Property taxes are high and the real-estate market is very tight at the moment. This makes it ripe for people who already have money being able to control land ownership. Renting here is therefore a nightmare. There are few rules protecting renters i.e. no fair, plain-language lease agreement, no rules about security deposits or cleaning fees, and no rules about property upkeep and maintenance. Be prepared to pay way too much for way too little if you are a renter. Also, be prepared to deal with landlords that have no motivation to work with tennants. Most landlords raise your rent here on a yearly if 1/2 yearly basis. Many younger people here rent homes with a large group of friends to make renting more affordable, which is OK if you want to continue to live in a college-type dorm situation well into your 20's and 30's. 1BRs on the edge of the nicer areas of town are at least $700/mo. If you want to be in the middle of town expect to nearly double that. imo there is a tradition here of treating renters as an underclass. i.e. renters are poor people or criminals and there must be something wrong with them if they can not afford a home. There is an anti-business and development stance here. Portland wants to promote small businesses and there is a small businees mind set amongst the populous because the people are, in-general, anti-corporate. People like to be "crafty" and start businesses or etsy accounts selling handmade soaps and candles that they sell at 500% mark-up. The people here seem to believe that just because something is local it is better (food or otherwise). The infrastructure here is crumbling. The interstates and highways are rutted. Literally, troughs on major freeways which drain water poorly in a place with a significant number of rain days during the winter months. The state / city spends its money on bike lanes and allows drivers to have chains and studded tires on their vehicles and time of year regardless of the weather. It almost never snows in the valley where Portland sits but people in outlying areas legitimately need chains or studs because the roads are not salted. That being said, many many people in the city use these anti-slip tools on their cars and have no need for them. Further, the roads are almost all made of basalt which is a highy weatherable porous rock, ergo the roads stink. The driving also is dangerous because the drivers ride in the left lane without passing and are indecisive and tentative in their decision making. I've also never seen so many people using their cell phones. The rude jerks in Philadelphia weren't even this bad with their phones. Also, student driving is not taught in Oregon high-schools. Public transportation is pretty good in the city. The train lines move very slowly on the east side of town and in the downtown area; like some European cities. Busses go most everywhere and stop too often, imo. People don't seem to think they should have to walk at all if they are taking public trans. Only about 1/2 of the busses are air-conditioned but this is rarely an issue. Although, it might help with the overwhelming smell of marijuana and hobo that permeates many a buss ride here. People here have a limited work ethic. They seem to not take their work seriously. Customer service is very poor, particularly in restaurants. The people are generally friendly, compared to the east coast cities, but they are also incredibly passive aggresive. They are afraid to be direct and honest. Many people here work part-time. I believe this accounts for the positive recent employment numbers here. Without full-time work or the desire to obtain full time work the average person here remains relatively poor and the city and state continue to collect less and less taxes despite high indiviual income tax rates. I saw another comment about the spending on schools here. I can only say that regardless of the dollars spent only certain schools are taken care-of. Not surprisingly the schools in the affluent neighborhoods look very differnt on the outside and have very different achievement records on the inside, than schools in poorer formerly black neighborhoods. If Portland spent equally on all of its schools and if it cared about improving the situation of its lower-income students Jefferson high school would not resemble an urban county jail. This gets at the crux of the situation in Portland. The people here care about their community, the environment and the world at large only as long as it fits into their white, privledged, elitist narrative. You are expected to eat organic, work as little as possible, be anti-government and/or a conspiracy theorist, who ride a bike to work and uses marijuana, as a Portland resident. As someone who grew up in the midwest many of these ideals are offensive and just plain stupid to me. The weather here isn't very hard to deal with. It rarely gets below freezing in the winter and the summers are dry and warm, although they are a bit short. There are many cloudy days in the winter and many days with rain, but the rain is very inconsistent and the rain amounts are rarely significant. Downpours and thinderstorms are rare. Overall it is very comfortable. Which is good for Portlanders because they are very concerned about personal comfort. If you are a white 20 something, whose parents pay their rent, who wants to be in an average band or make craft products then you might like it here otherwise you'll want to move to a place with a much higher average I.Q. with more employment opportunities.[read more...]
Beer & Board games - 4/23/2013 I've never lived somewhere with some many bars that welcome board gamers like my partner and me. [read more...]
Totally wrong information..... - 3/19/2013 This site states that Portland OR $5,493 per student. That's factually incorrect. Not sure where you're getting your data but the actual figure is almost $16,000 per student. Take the ALL FUNDS budget divided my the ACTUAL number of students. That's how much per student is spent. This year they have 43,408 students. The budget is $687 MILLION dollars. Do the math. [read more...]
Cloudy - 3/7/2013 There are many things to like about Portland. It's a very walkable city, with lots of eateries, bars, and nightlife. And the people here are incredibly nice. The big challenge is weather-related. Not rain, really, as it doesn't flat out rain as much as you might expect. But the percentage of cloudy/overcast days is really quite sizable, except during the summer months. The rest of the year there are an awful lot of cloudy days. Having just recently relocated from Singapore, where it's sunny almost nonstop, I've found that transition to be quite challenging.[read more...]
uninteresting and unpleasant - 3/3/2013 Unlike many people who hate Portland, I am politically quite liberal and do not mind rainy weather. In fact, rain in Portland is a plus because it keeps the annoying population indoors rather than wandering around being loud and horrible. I thought I would enjoy this city: I moved here five years ago, a new young professional with some free time and a good attitude toward the place. I have always made friends pretty easily and have lived in some large cities in Europe as well as Seattle, San Francisco and some smaller Oregon towns. I like a rich grassroots culture (not when it's overly contrived though). I am curious and energetic and just fine with being a stranger in town. I love places with a sense of history and I like to be among educated and creative people. I thought Portland would be the place for me in Oregon, but it is far worse than some other Oregon cities and towns in my opinion. It feels uneducated here and mind-bogglingly, fist-eatingly boring. The "fun" people have is a kind of hick, screaming-drunk fun that I call uptight leisure time. Lots of douchebag yupsters displaying what good and edgy consumers they are by showing off what cool places they go to eat Lots of mediocre innovation and DIY hobbies meant to show off how very Portland a person is. Far too many person crimes, far too rude a public. The city is big enough to be crowded, but one gets the impression that the people in crowds and traffic aren't used to having to share their space. The soulless "me-first" behavior becomes wearing. And there is this contingent of 35-year-olds trying way too hard to still be 23 and to be super off-beat cool, that creeps me out. Art and culture here are unimpressive and not very accessible. There are some colleges, but none that radiates any academic vibe in the city. I know a lot of people who love it here. In my experience, those people are often beer enthusiasts, lots of recently divorced men (it seems to be very well liked by recently-divorced men, so if you are one, you might give Portland a try I guess), people who like live music almost to the exclusion of any other activity (there is plenty of that), young graphic designers who love putting pictures of Portland on Tumblr, and people who grew up unexposed to anything very liberal and so they believe they are in some kind of liberal haven (I don't think it is, but it satisfies some people as such), and people who have this idea in their minds that Portland is THE cool place to be and they want to advertise that they're in Portland. (These people usually live in Tigard or Beaverton.) There are also some young families who like it here, maybe because the parents grew up here and remember when it was fun. But I find Portland so over-hyped-- everything is overblown, overpriced, under-serviced and neglected. I should try to be fair and put in a plug. It might be fun to be in the restaurant business here: the restaurant scene does seem innovative, and Portland, though a city, is small enough so you could meet some regulars who are community people and could get some good community ties and interests, which always makes a place more livable. And again, if you are 22 and from pudunk-town-Oregon and you love beer but don't want to be too far from your parents in Podunk-town, you'll likely enjoy living here. I'm afraid my overall impression of Portland is that it is needlessly inconvenient, uninspiring, cheesy and kind of dumb. But it is not an impossibly bad city, and if you really have good friends here, you can likely be pretty happy-- though it will be a bit inconvenient to get together with your friends unless you live or work in the same portion of the city. It is not a great place to come and be inspired and try to build a life. Maybe it used to be.[read more...]
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Portland is Not a Decent City - 11/26/2012 I'd like to start by qualifying my opinion of Portland. I grew up in Austin, went to school in West Texas, lived in Summit County, CO for 5 years, lived in denver for 5 years, and lived in Japan for a year and spent a season in Antarctica. I've traveled all over the world and have seen some really unique and "weird" places. Trust me, Portland is nowhere nearly as "hip" as I was lead to believe. The only thing "weird" about Portland is its complete lack of character. Just because you recycle and have a "Free Tibet" sticker on your dirty car doesn't make you a hippy. It makes you annoying. The in-your-face political correctness is nauseating. Everyone spouts about "diversity acceptance", but what they really mean is - We accept you if you're a caucasian, secular, gender-bending jobless freak. Portland sucks. Can't wait to leave.[read more...]
The Hotbabeville of the Northwest - 11/20/2012 I lived here for about 6 weeks in summer 2011, and this city has more sexy chicks than, I think any other city of comparable size. It also has a very high number of breweries and strip clubs. Bottom line is if you love hot babes and beer, you'll love Portland. Can't wait to go back one day.[read more...]
Have loved it and hated it - 10/28/2012 Why live here? Well, because there are many good things. Downtown is small, but it is probably the safest of the many, many cities I've seen in the U.S. The urban decay of the rust belt where I grew up is absent. I love the outdoors. I camp, hike and ski a lot. Had only one weekend at home this summer. We have an enormous back yard in the endless national and state forests (about 1/3 of this state is public land including the beaches - they belong to the people). No one will try to convert you to their way of thinking (though this is good - it's because they're completely disinterested). Our son has grown up here. He is in love and will probably marry his long time girlfriend and have children in the near future. I will stay here to be near he and his family. Why not live here? My story isn't the whole story, but that's all I've got. I moved here 16 years ago. I expected an adjustment period; that's normal. What I didn't expect was that all the surface niceties displayed while vacationing here did not speak to the challenges of acceptance here. Being a well-rounded open-minded person hinders this. Though I have friends, it took years to develop them. Having lived in south Florida where everyone is from somewhere else, the diversity was accepted by most of us and was pretty cool. It was fun exploring our differences. In Portland, most everyone is from somewhere else, but the cliquishness is nearly impenetrable. Well-rounded does not fit a specific enough demographic. Your choices to fit in here are: Latte sucking yuppie; hippie; earth child; sports loving Mormon; Christian hip; 4-wheeling redneck; or atheist intellectual. Being anything else or some a la carte combination of these standards presents an enigma to Portlanders. If they can't figure you out within narrowly pegged confines, you're just too perplexing. The lack of curiosity as concerns diversity is perplexing to me. Maybe it shouldn't be - it is soooo white here. There is little racial or ethnic diversity. I'm a dark complected Irish-German-Native American hybrid. I'm oddly exotic to the white people here (and most are oh so white). Countless times, I've encountered strangers at the hair salon or the grocery store who want to play 'let me guess your ancestry'. The political demographic is very liberal and that suits me. It's socially liberal, too - and that's acceptable - though I've been sometimes amazed at the assumption that everyone is promiscuous - I'm not (married for many years). The workplace is passive-aggressively competitive. You will be talked about, but you will rarely have a chance to communicate because no one is assertive enough to talk to you. I can only guess that life on the historic end of the trail was ridiculously individualistic and competitive. I don't know. Most people earn very low wages and the housing costs are high. That doesn't stop $15/hr earners from going to the spa at least once a month or sucking down $5 lattes every day. Keeping up with the Joneses is alive and well here. The traffic is ridiculous and it's foolhardy not to widen the interstates and improve the infrastructure. Public transportation is heralded as some great accomplishment, but the folks I work with who ride the trains have some pretty gnarly tales to tell about disgusting, violent and extremely nasty behavior on their daily commute. Most of them have to drive and take the trains. They don't do it for clean air. They do it because parking downtown runs $12 a day. The trains go only straight lines: one east and west and one north and south. Those who don't have a car usually can't afford one because wages are so low. It rains from the end of October until typically the 4th of July - nearly every day - usually a slow all day drizzle. But when the sun shines, it's a joyous place to be; the beauty is astounding. And you can see the mountain - Mt. Hood. Well, that's how I see it. But everyone's experience is their own. Live your life. If nothing else - I've experienced it and have had an adventure. I've learned and grown. And I have a lot of fun playing in the woods. I think I'll like it better when I retire - a little place near Mt. Hood maybe and Portland when I need to shop. [read more...]
Glad I'm out of that town - 10/7/2012 I was so glad when it was time to leave this place. I was so glad that is my review on Portland, Nothing more needs to be said. [read more...]
This place is painful. - 9/29/2012 Painfully stupid. Let me tell ya about Portland. You know about the incessant rain. Yes it really is that bad. And yes it really does make you depressed. It lasts forever. Drabby drizzles all day long every single day for 10 months. Probably why the people here are so rude. When they're not being phony nice that is. The culture is very insular. Church people abound. If you don't believe in "their" God, you're either out or a prospect for conversion. Uh, I got my own philosophy on life thank ya very much. Which brings me to the lack of intelligence. It's mind-boggling! They think they're sooo sophisticated but it's more like the backwoods of Arkansas than not.You cannot get proper service here to save your life. I'm not talking about the restaurants. Other than their sad habit of aping the French, restaurants here are good. That much is true. I hate the roadkill and pets on the menus though. It's like backwoods hillbilly meets European wannabe. Boom! They open a restaurant. The organic local produce is phenomenal. I'm waiting for a truly forward-thinking chef to work with that and that only. Leave the poor battered backyard bunnies alone. There's a restaurant I wanna be a regular at. But this isn't what I meant about service. Unless you plan on building your own house and everything, you cannot find an intelligent human being to service your property to save your life. We have had a parade of boneheads traipse through our home on a nearly daily basis because it's a given that whoever we hire to do a particular job will no doubt screw it up and need another vendor to fix it! We wait FOREVER for these flakes. Half the time they don't show up! Or if they do it's on a schedule convenient to them. As in an hour earlier than agreed or later. Or they'll come in all gangbusters until they realize you are not going to buy anything from them, no "upgrades" until you service the current grade properly. Service? What's that? It's like a cesspool of adult children with very low IQs. DO NOT buy a house here. They cram 6 houses to every acre. Huge blobs of concrete where forest once was. And if you think you're getting a view, just wait. They'll come and fill in the land in front of you and put up a bazillion ugly houses and your pretty view is gone. The traffic is just as bad as Los Angeles too. I regret the day I decided to move up here. I need intelligence. I need people who care about the job they do. People of integrity. I need open-minded people. And I don't mean tats and bones in your ears. And most of all, I need just a little bit of space. GREED has completely overtaken the government. And INCOMPETENCE rules. In other words, if you're at all intelligent, with standards, you will be in pain trying to have a life here. Portland is for potheads and yuppies. Let those two factions duke it out. I'm bigger than that. Time to go![read more...]
Keep Portland Weird - 9/14/2012 I lived in Everett, Washington for two years and would visit a friend in Portland any chance I had. At first Portland seemed really romantic. Everything was beautiful; the weather, the shops, the food and especially the people. We ate healthy food, biked or walked anywhere that we went, and listened to live music until it was time to sleep. Everyone had dreadlocks and wore secondhand clothes. We went to Voodoo Donuts and Saturday Market. We hung out at The Deli (which isn't there anymore, I don't think) and visited the Rose Garden. It was unique and definitely captured my attention. Folks were very kind and used words like "lovely" and "spiritual" and bragged about how open minded their city was. They would say things like "Portland is a place for anyone. We accept anyone. We love anyone." As if discrimination of any sort was out of the question. That made it all the more surprising when they found out that I was a Christian that grew up in Texas. I was the exact same person they had been so sweet to before, and now they were insulting me. Now I was "hateful" and "narrow minded" and they couldn't understand how I could thrive in a state that "suffocated my soul." I am not racist. I do not hate anyone that is different than me. I feel like I am called to love everyone, and so I try to do that. They didn't believe me. Because I wore the title "Christian" I missed out on being their friends. From that point things were different. They tried to convert me to Buddhism, they would make negative comments about my being on Facebook or my phone, and scolded me for "doing that to my body" when I ate a powdered donut. They even tried to steal my clothes and called me materialistic when I said something about it. Isn't Portland's motto "Keep Portland Weird"? Well they do that by making anyone who isn't their "kind" feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. I suppose that since I was what the world deemed "normal" I didn't fit in there. As long as you meet the right people, Portland is absolutely wonderful. I can't believe how beautiful and peaceful it is in the summer. It is definitely a place to visit, and maybe move, depending on the neighborhood. I can't really tell you that you'd have a terrible experience; I didn't. I still have incredibly fond memories of my visits there. I do love Portland, however, due to the overwhelming amount of negative judgment I received, I won't be returning. [read more...]


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Ghostbusters is back in the form of Beeline Interactive's new iOS game, which launched on iTunes this morning. Publisher Capcom kept this one relatively quiet, but as it happens the game draws influence from XCOM. Players must recruit new Ghostbusters, research weaponry, manage resources and perform experiments on ghosts to earn new upgrades. Check out […]
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Ghostbusters going mobile thanks to Beeline
Ghostbusters is on its way to a smartphone near you, thanks to the team behind popular Snoopy and Smurfs mobile games.
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Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime characters profiled
Atari has released new details today regarding the rookie team of Ghostbusters featured in Sanctum of Slime.
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Quick Shots - Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime screens cross the beams
Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime is bucking the big-budget licensed tie-in trend by actually looking quite fun; come through and admire this small collection of new screens.
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Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime set for March release
Atari has tweeted the release date for Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime.
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Atari has released new screenshots of its digital download title, Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime.
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Ghostbusters on PSP and PSPgo getting a November release
Ghostbusters: The Video Game has been given a November 3 release for PSP and PSPgo. Atari, the US publisher, says it will contain "features unique to the platform", including the ability to "switch between four equipment sets to access eight unique proton pack functions and use gadgets like the PKE Meter and Parapgoggles to scan […]
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Ghostbusters release moved to November in Europe
Atari has moved the release date for Ghostbusters on DS, PC, Wii and Xbox 360 from October 23 to November 6. Currently available on PS2 and PS3, the PSP version is still on track for an October 30 release. Great. Another delay. Sorry kiddos. Thanks, Eurogamer.
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Ghostbusters PS3 patch increases res "to match that of Xbox 360" [Update]
Atari's released a patch for the PS3 version of Ghostbusters which it claims provides "an increase in resolution to match that of Xbox 360 and some freeze issues, along with numerous other localization fixes." The 360 version runs at 720p, for the record. Does the update do what it's supposed to do? We have a […]
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Atari first quarter revenues rise, but future success still uncertain
Gamasutra has the full scoop on Atari's first quarter earnings, and things are looking pretty good. Boosted by the strong sales of games like Chronicles of Riddick and Ghostbusters, revenues soared 30% up to €54.5 million ($77.78 million). However, Atari isn't popping the champagne and threatening to stop supporting the PS3 just yet. The future, […]
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Ghostbusters arrive for LittleBigPlanet July 16
Loads of Ghostbusters costumes are coming to LittleBigPlanet on July 16. You will be able to dress your little guy as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, give him a Slimer hat, run around as one of the Ghostbusters, or put him in a ghostly hoodie. Tentatively, the items are priced $2.15/£1.32 each or you can […]
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Ghostbusters demo hits US Live
Nelson's just confirmed a Ghostbusters demo's gone up on the US Live. Euros can't have it, obviously, as Sony's got a timed exclusive in the region. Blurb: Who Ya Gonna Call? The Ghostbusters are back for an all new adventure! The year is now 1991: Who haunts Library? What happened to the Grey Lady? Try […]
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Media Molecule teases Ghostbusters content for LittleBigPlanet
Media Molecule has hinted on its blog that Ghostbusters content is headed LittleBigPlanet's way. The tease, basically just says "Who Ya Gonna Call" like the picture above. So much for subtly. Thanks, D'toid.
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Prototype tops UK chart
Radical Entertainment's action open-worlder Prototype has knocked Sim 3 off top spot in the latest UK Charts from GfK Chart-Track. Sim 3 is still sitting pretty at number two closely followed by the evergreen Wii Fit in third. Ghostbusters PS3 débuted in fourth. Full thing below:
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DF's Richard Leadbetter has called out Terminal Reality on the PS3 version of Ghostbuster's saying the greatly reduced resolution over the 360 game "simply isn't good enough". The game's PS3 version runs at 960×540, while the 360 SKU hits 1280×720. From Eurogamer's latest face-off: My response to that is pretty straightforward. First of all, PS3 […]
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Ghostbusters and SOCOM getting Home space today
Ghostbusters and SOCOM are to get their own Home spaces today, as you can see on the US BS Blog. EA Sports is getting one too. Everyone's doing it. Hit the links for more details than you'll ever need.
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Ghostbusters PS3 Vs 360 difference shown in screens [Update]
Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter's put the "rumours" to rest regarding the differences between the PS3 and 360 versions of Ghostbusters. The PS3 version's resolution is far smaller, basically. Here's the PS3 game, and this one's from the 360 version. The difference is a tad obvious. Rich tells us the PS3 version runs at 960×540, while […]
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Ghostbusters: PC multiplayer was sacrificed for console versions
A statement has been issued regarding the lack of multiplayer in the PC version of Ghostbusters. According to the game's multiplayer developer, the multiplayer was cut so that the console versions could be "the best that they could be." "Multiplayer for the PC version of Ghostbusters is something that Threewave and Terminal Reality always wanted […]
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Ghostbusting: Making a game funny like "writing three hit movies"
Ghostbusters writer and general superstar Harold Ramis has told explained to GamesRadar why writing funny games is so difficult. Basically, it's a stupid amount of work. "To make a game so funny with so many comic alternatives, that would be like writing three hit movies," he said. "The scripts are impossibly long. That would be […]
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According to this Ecto-Web post, the PC version of Ghostbusters doesn't have any kind of multiplayer feature, despite online play being present in both the PS3 and 360 versions. The PC version doesn't have any DLC listed as a feature, either. Why? Unknown. We can ask, though. It's out on Friday for PS3 and PSP […]
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"Prom Nights from Hell" is a short-story anthology with stories from popular young adult authors Meg Cabot, Lauren Myracle, Kim Harrison, Michelle Jaffe and Stephenie Meyer. All of the works are about prom....gone seriously wrong.
"The Exterminator's Daughter" by Meg Cabot is the opening story. Characteristic of the "Princess Diaries" author, this short story is humorous and easy to get sucked into. The protagonist is Mary, whose mother taught her how to "exterminate" all kinds of supernatural beings. When a vampire (specifically, the son of Dracula) shows up to sweep her best friend off her feet and ruin Mary's prom, she steps in to save both.
Cabot's contribution is fairly predictable and very unresolved. I wasn't satisfied with the ending. However, it is truly funny, fresh and cute, with a quirky twist on the traditional vampire hunter.
The second story is "The Corsage" by Lauren Myracle. This one is about a girl who, while trying to clue her crush in and make him ask her to prom, goes with him and another friend to a psychic. While there, the psychic reluctantly gives her an old corsage that supposedly grants the owner three wishes -- but the psychic warns her that its consequences are not worth the wishes.
In typical teenage form (and I can say that, since I am a teenager!), Frankie, the lovesick protagonist, doesn't listen and wishes for her crush, Will, to ask her to prom. I won't ruin the story, but let' s just say that it's the embodiment of "be careful what you wish for."
Of the five stories, "The Corsage" definitely has the best sense of resolution. Its storyline actually sticks within the pages allotted. Although not my favorite (I prefer the stories that are lighter in tone), it is well written, intriguing and complete.
The third story, "Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper" by Kim Harrison, was my favorite. It's the longest, and I felt it is the most original. Madison Avery, sent to live with her father, is killed on prom night after taking a ride with a mysterious stranger. One might think the story morbid or depressing, but it isn't. The tone is still light, with occasional humor.
The best part is the mythology Harrison delves into. She writes a unique take on the "grim reaper" tale, evolving it into a battle between forces of light and dark over humanity. The one issue I had with this interesting, wonderful contribution was that it ended at the beginning of Madison's story (which is actually after her death). But luckily for me, Harrison expanded the short story into "Once Dead, Twice Shy," a full novel -- and one I intend to read as soon as possible.
"Kiss and Tell" by Michelle Jaffe is a cute story about a teenage girl named Miranda with superpowers. It is funny and sweet, although there isn't much that's too special about it. The relationship between Miranda and Sibby, a younger girl Miranda meets, grows nicely, and I came to care about both of them. I also enjoyed that, as a reader, I could see Miranda becoming more comfortable with her skin and learning to live in the moment.
The last of the five short stories is written by Stephenie Meyer, the goddess of the "Twilight" world. The fact that I'm a Meyer fan notwithstanding, "Hell on Earth" is a very good addition to the anthology. It's pretty creative, about a demon of misery who comes to a prom in order to cause chaos and mayhem. Of all the stories, this one sticks the closest to the prom theme. While I thought Harrison's story edged it out a bit overall, I still really liked "Hell on Earth." It is another plot that I think would make good novel material.
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Title | Induced coherence with and without induced emission |
Author | Wiseman, Howard Mark; Molmer, K. |
Year Published | 2000 |
Publisher | North-Holland |
Citation | Physics Letters A, Vol. 270, pp. 245-248 |
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Sushi and hibachi have been mainstays of Western dining for decades, but the genre is experiencing a resurgence. Calhoun County is now home to half a dozen Japanese restaurants.
Tokyo Express in Anniston opened its doors in July, a few weeks after Yume Japanese and Asian Cuisine opened in Oxford — across the street from longtime favorite Fuji Japanese Cuisine.
Those followed the January opening of Pacific Spice in Oxford, the area's first Thai restaurant and performance-free hibachi grill.
Meanwhile in Jacksonville, Yamato Steakhouse of Japan — which will celebrate its first anniversary in September — opened a second location in Talladega.
So why does northeast Alabama suddenly have more choices for Japanese food than they can shake a chopstick at?
"Japanese food is popular in all the major cities, and that is starting to trickle down to smaller areas," said William Price, general manager of Fuji.
The trend may actually be typical of the industry as a whole, said Larry Fidel, president of the Alabama Restaurant Association. "When the economy goes down, the food service industry is the first to take the hit."
But it's also the first to see even slight signs of recovery.
"The National Restaurant Association predicted there would be a rebound in the food service industry this year," he said. "As the economy rebounds, so does the industry."
John Hayward, editor of Southeast Food Service News, said the southeastern corner of the country has seen its share of this growth for the most part in corporate and franchise restaurants. But there is one exception. "The only growth we're seeing in non-chain restaurants is in ethnic food, and one of the things we've been pointing to is the popping up of all kinds of Asian restaurants."
In addition, Fidel said, diners who have spent the last few years sitting on the couch counting their pennies over frozen dinners are now looking for more than just a good meal. They want a night on the town.
"People go to Japanese restaurants because there is an element of fun to them," he said. "People want to have a good time when they go out. They want to be entertained."
By a flaming onion volcano, perhaps.
The new emphasis on eating healthy may also be a contributing factor in the growing popularity of sushi.
"Sushi is extremely healthy," said Price. "People are starting to trend toward healthier eating, and sushi is definitely the way to go."
In Jacksonville, Yamato manager Jessica Linn attributed the restaurant's success in part to health-conscious patrons. "There is nothing but fast food around us, and there are a lot of people trying to eat healthy," she said. "People get tired of hamburgers. A lot of people here like Japanese food, and some towns don't have any place to get it."
Once their first location was off the ground, according to Linn, the owners began to look around for other neighborhoods hungry for Japanese fare. They opened Tokyo Express in Anniston first, followed by the Yamato in Talladega.
According to Amber Lin, manager of Yume, the same family that has owned and operated China Luck in Oxford for the last 27 years opened Yume with a similar thought in mind.
"We wanted to do something different in this town," Lin said, referencing Oxford's endless chain parade. "Oxford needs different types of foods."
Besides its Japanese and Thai selections, Lin pointed out that Yume is the area's first Korean restaurant. Although right now the most popular menu items are hibachi and sushi, she predicted the Korean cuisine would soon take off.
"We built a Korean barbecue table in the restaurant so we can cook it at the table," Lin said. "This is something usually only seen in big cities, not in towns like this. We think it is going to be very popular."
Across the street, however, Price said Fuji isn't sweating the competition.
"We were the first one here," he said. "A lot of our customers have tried the other places. They're not Fuji."
Hankering for hibachi?
• Fuji Japanese Cuisine
Hibachi, sushi
218 Davis Loop Drive, Oxford, 256-835-8788
11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday and Tuesday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
• Yume Japanese and Asian Cuisine
Hibachi, sushi, Thai, Korean barbecue
301 Colonial Drive, Oxford, 256-241-0142
11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
• Pacific Spice
Thai, sushi, performance-free hibachi
1225 Snow St., Oxford, 256-831-9981
11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday.
• Tokyo Express Japanese Steakhouse
Hibachi, sushi
1801 Quintard Ave. Anniston, 256-238-7688
11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-9 p.m. Sunday.
• Ono Grill Japanese Steak House
Hibachi, sushi
2900 McClellan Blvd., Anniston, 256-237-5859
11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
• Yamato Steakhouse of Japan
Hibachi, sushi
105 Mountain St. N.W., Jacksonville, 256-782-0588
11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday.