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The event will feature five food trucks, live music and wine tastings. Admission is free, but there is a cost for food and wine.
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Over the last half a century, the system based on sharing revenues has made it possible for teams from smaller cities, far away from Wall Street, to have a fair and fighting chance.
It has catapulted the NFL from a popular sports league to a sought-after entertainment property to a full-fledged cultural phenomenon. More people watch the NFL than any other sport. More people watch the NFL than any other anything.
The NFL, heading into today's game between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints, is the most successful sports league in this country's history, at its most successful point.
This past season raked in record ratings and roughly $8 billion in revenue — all in spite of the biggest recession since the Great Depression.
Here is the NFL in 2010: millionaire players and billionaire owners who financially never have had it better watched by millions of people who statistically seldom have had it worse.
Tense, looming labor issues, though, could lead to a mess next fall, and potentially no football at all the fall after that.
People who are already rich want to be even richer.
The Super Bowl has been played here more than anywhere else. Fitting. Because it's here, in a sense, where the sharing started, almost exactly 50 years ago, when the league's owners picked Pete Rozelle as the new commissioner in the winter of 1960 in a hotel on Miami Beach.
Rozelle, acknowledged by now as a visionary and perhaps the most important commissioner in the history of sports, saw the coming importance of TV. He wanted a national contract for the league, and he wanted all of its teams, 12 at the time, to split the profits.
The richest owner, of course, had the most to lose in that deal, at least in the short term, and so he was the one who had to be convinced. Wellington Mara owned the New York Giants.
By 1961, he agreed.
"We should all share, I guess," he said at the annual league meeting that year.
This makes the NFL, Chuck Klosterman wrote in his most recent book of essays, "arguably the most successful form of socialism in U.S. history." The Chicago Tribune once called the NFL "socialism with cheerleaders." Added the league's chief marketing officer in a story last month on the BBC: "We have a sort of socialist capitalism."
Socialism, Michael MacCambridge wrote in his history of the NFL, America's Game, "was how the sport ensured it was closer to operating as a pure meritocracy than any other realm in American society."
It's not really socialism, but its revenue sharing is more extensive and more egalitarian than any of the country's other sports, and is loyal to the heart of the ideology.
It's a model where those with more share with those with less for the sake of a greater good, and where the rich don't keep getting richer and the poor don't keep getting poorer.
Sports talk uses buzzwords to describe the results — "parity," "competitive balance" — but what it is, really, is this:
Everybody has a chance.
Including even Saints from a city that not that long ago was underwater and half-abandoned, where people stood on the tops of their homes, waving signs that said HELP.
• • •
The sharing of revenue isn't the only reason for the league's immense appeal. The sport is great on TV. The breaks in play are perfect for ads. Games happen just once a week. People like violence. Still, though, on the contribution of the somewhat socialist setup there is consensus.
"Instrumental," said Andrew Zimbalist, a sports economist from Smith College in Massachusetts.
The harvest of that level playing field looks like this:
Overall TV ratings for the league this season were higher than they've been in 20 years.
This past fall, TV deals with CBS, Fox, NBC and ESPN paid each team almost $100 million. Fourteen of the 15 most-watched shows on network TV were NFL games. Fourteen of the 15 most-watched shows on cable TV were NFL games. Only nine shows on TV were watched by 25 million or more people. They were all NFL games. The game in October between the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers was the most-watched show on cable TV ever.
Forbes magazine says 25 sports franchises on the planet are worth $1 billion or more — the New York Yankees, five European soccer clubs, and 19 NFL franchises.
Even the lowest-valued of the 32 NFL teams, the Oakland Raiders, worth approximately $800 million, is worth more than all but three Major League Baseball teams and all the teams in the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League.
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Who loves the NFL? People with white skin, black skin, brown skin. People who buy jerseys. People who play fantasy. The young and old, the rich and poor, the gamers and gamblers.
"America's Choice," the league called itself in a pamphlet distributed in the drumbeat buildup to the Super Bowl.
The pamphlet even listed reasons for such success. One of them: "extensive revenue sharing."
And yet both sides of the labor negotiations over exactly how to share all that money — the league and the players union — seem to be preparing for a football-less 2011 as if it's inevitable.
In the last generation or so, as the NFL with its wealth spreading has done nothing but get richer and richer, the discrepancy in the incomes between the rich and poor has done nothing but get more and more wide. That was true before the recession. The recession only made it worse.
The NFL has flourished using one philosophy. The nation has atrophied using another.
"You'd think the NFL owners would take a look around and see what's happened to our economic system," said Brian Moore, the Socialist Party's 2008 presidential candidate, who lives in Hernando County.
"Ultimately capitalism fails," he said, "because ultimately a small group of people get too greedy."
• • •
The director of the players union was asked here on Thursday to gauge the seriousness of the possibility of no football come 2011.
"On a scale of 1 to 10," said DeMaurice Smith, "it's a 14."
The commissioner of the league was asked here on Friday to respond to that.
"I sure hope he's wrong," Roger Goodell said. "And I sure hope it doesn't become a self-fulfilling prophecy."
The crux of this struggle can get lost in testy words, Monopoly-money numbers and the complex specifics of labor negotiations involving a multibillion-dollar corporation.
The union says the league wants the players to take an 18 percent pay cut. The league says that too high a percentage of the soaring revenues goes to the players and that some of that money is necessary to do things like build new stadiums.
Basically, though, some of the richer owners have come to think that they're sharing too much with the slightly less rich owners, so all the owners have turned to the players to get back some of the money, and the players have looked at all the money the league is making and have told the owners: You're crazy.
If the two sides don't reach an agreement by next month, next season won't have a salary cap, which means the owners can spend as much on players, or as little, as they want.
And if the two sides don't reach an agreement by March 2011? No more football.
Worst-case scenario?
"Potential devastation brought about by a lockout," said David Carter, a sports business expert at the University of Southern California.
NationalFootballPost.com is doing a webinar this month on the league's labor issues. The title: "The end of the NFL as we know it."
"It's a complicated question," veteran Pro Football Weekly editor Hub Arkush wrote in last week's issue, "no different from whether the wealthy should pay a higher percentage of tax on their incomes than the poor, which is at the heart of concerns over the future of America."
• • •
On South Beach's Ocean Drive on Friday night, across from the $19 mojitos and the techno beat and the pastel glitz, an uncle and a nephew stood on the sidewalk by the start of the sand, wearing their black and gold Saints jerseys and their Mardi Gras beads, celebrating the party for now.
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But, I find that whiskey does not often agree with the warmer months. It can seem very much to me like drinking eggnog around the barbecue in July. It's very seasonal. So, in the summer months, I switch to Rum, which can probably be blamed on a few years of sailing and some desire to act like the pirate I have wished I could have been. And rum lover that I am, I have watched for threads and rarely seen rum discussed on these boards.
So, what rums are your favorite rums and how do you like to drink them?
I find few rums worthy of being sipped slowly like a fine whiskey, and that is probably for lack of availablity. The best rums should be placed into a glass with little if anything else. the ones I have that get treated this way, usually get a very small amount of ice, and include: Barbancourt, Ron Zacapa Centario, Ron Barrelito, some bottles of Mount Gay, and maybe a few others. I might drink some, such as Appletons, Cockspur, Mount Gay Eclipse, and others, with either a bunch of ice or mixed with either ginger ale or tonic and a squeeze or lime or lemon. I am not a rum and coke drinker, and if you ask for one in my place, there is an unopened jug of some no-name there for your consumption. To me the idea of drowning the flavors of Barbancourt or others in coke is like smothering a good steak in ketchup.
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Quinn had dated Klass for eleven years before they decided to tie the knot, but he subsequently walked out on her after just six months of marriage.
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|6th June 2011, 07:25 PM
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Interesting finding: Driver orientation effects T/S parameters.
I suppose many of you knew this already, but it's not something I see written about a lot in these forums. The last mention of this was in May 2008, and the thread has only 3 posts with one person writing that driver orientation "makes no difference". So I hope that other novice subwoofer designers will benefit from my experiments.
The Audio Concepts DV-12 was used. This is a 12" paper cone, dual voice coil (8ohm + 8ohm) woofer designed for sealed cabinets. I believe the Audio Concepts kits (Orion and Saturn?) used it in a downward-firing position. SpeakerWorkshop by Audata was used for data collection, T/S parameter estimation, and box simulation. A ChipAmp.com LM3886 kit was used for power at ~0.5VAC. A Wallin Jig and Behringer UCA-222 was used to interface with the software.
Two identical drivers were tested using the free-air and added-mass methods in three orientations: facing up, facing down, and sideways. Each voice coil of each driver was tested separately, as well as both coils in parallel. The first photo shows the test setup with driver facing upward, mass-loaded. Second photo shows sideways, unloaded testing.
The bottom graph in the third figure shows the unloaded impedance curves of one of the drivers (using both coils in parallel), facing up, down, and sideways. The top left graph shows simulated frequency-response curves of the same driver (again, both coils in parallel) keeping the box volume constant at 150 liters, undamped. Speaker workshop does not allow easy calculation of Qtc for a given Vb, so Qtc values are not shown. The top right graph shows simulated frequency-response curves of the same driver (again, both coils in parallel) keeping the Qtc constant at Qtc=1.0 liters. The color-coded Vb values are undamped volumes necessary to achieve a Qtc of 1.0.
The fourth figure is a chart showing all T/S parameters calculated by SpeakerWorkshop for most conditions tested. Data for only one of the two voice coils is shown because parameters for the two coils are similar. The 5th figure is simply a graph of selected data in said chart. It cant be seen, but Fs is plotted on a log scale. Data for Qes is included (lower right) to show that it correlates closely with Qts. Qms, conversely, did not vary with driver position (data in chart, but not graphed). Note that Qts is derived from Qes and Qms, so would seem that the effect of driver orientation on Qts is due to its effect on electrical, rather than mechanical Q.
Driver orientation affected driver T/S parameters whether using one, or both, voice coils. In addition, all three orientations differed from the other two. Changing driver orientation from sideways to facing up more than halved the box volume necessary to achieve a given Qtc when both coils were used in parallel. The magnitude of the effect of driver orientation on behavior suggests that subwoofer designers would do well to consider all orientations of drivers, and that T/S parameters should be measured and used for the orientation in which the woofer will be used.
Note that the Audio Concepts DV-12 has an especially heavy cone designed for low Fs. It would be interesting to know if a driver with a lighter cone, designed for a vented/PR enclosure, shows the same dependence on orientation. This will probably be discovered in an additional, similar post!
|6th June 2011, 08:30 PM
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Nice work. A few comments on your methodology and findings though:
Looking at the pictures I'm not sure that you have the driver far enough away from nearby boundaries for the size of woofer to guarentee that you aren't getting some boundary effects, such as mass loading from the floor, which will be present when the driver is horizontal not far above the floor, but absent when the driver is vertical.
This effect alone could cause a signficant lowering of the Fs when the driver is horizontal, especially when it's facing downwards with the cone closer to the floor. From that, it's likely that the reading taken when vertical is closest to the correct value, although it may still be influenced by the proximity of the bricks as well.
My favoured method of measuring T/S parameters of a large woofer is to hang the woofer from a strong rope or steel chain through one of it's mounting holes so that it's a metre away from the nearest boundary, thus avoiding any proximity effects. Even mounting the driver on a large test baffle is going to affect the measured T/S parameters.
The other thing is that what you've probably stumbled across is the non-linear effects of the suspension which can have a significant effect on compliance (and therefore Fs and Qms) depending on excursion of the driver, as well as short term "memory effect" of the suspension material.
It's not generally known but suspension compliance of a driver varies considerably depending on excursion, from micro-movements through visible movement up to Xmax, so depending on what drive level you test at you'll get a completely different Cms value, and therefore different Fs and Qms which are both related to Cms. In that sense, there is no one "correct" set of T/S parameters for a driver, because they change with excursion down to very tiny excursions.
Counter intuitively the suspension is stiffest for extremely miniscule movements and gets progressively softer and more compliant as excursion is increased, (causing Fs to drop with increased excursion) up until the point where you start reaching Xmax where it will get stiffer again.
It's not a small change either, on some drivers the difference can be dramatic. This was discussed and debated in great detail in the following thread where I presented some experimental measurements of two different drivers, one a 12" woofer, (with rubber surround) and the other an 8" full range driver with cloth surround: (starting at post 13)
Help understanding the physics of Vas
The summary is that the 12" woofer's Fs measured with very low drive levels was 29.5Hz, but dropped down to 24Hz by the time half Xmax was reached. In the case of the full range driver the Fs at very low drive levels was 48Hz, dropping progressively down to 34.5Hz by the time half Xmax was reached - almost a 2 to 1 change in Cms.
Furthermore, in the case of the 12" woofer (I didn't test this with the other driver) there is a memory effect with the suspension - if I tested it at the very low drive level which normally gave an Fs of 29.5Hz, but manually moved the cone back and forth through it's full excursion then let go and immediately measured the Fs, it was down around 24Hz, and gradually crept back up to 29.5Hz over about 10-15 seconds. With a real time impedance curve measuring system (I used noise mode in LIMP in the ARTA package) you can see the impedance curve morph before your eyes.
In your case when you place the driver horizontally the weight of the cone will be enough to stretch the suspension slightly due to the suspension sagging, and this slight stretch will be enough to lower the Fs.
Does it all really matter ? Not much, I think - but it is good to be aware of the fact that although T/S parameters are supposed to be "small signal" parameters, there is a potentially large shift in Cms between a truely small signal and a moderate one, so it's useful to measure it both at a small and larger signal level, and model these two sets of T/S parameters as two opposite extremes, to make sure that an acceptable response rolloff occurs for both
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|6th June 2011, 09:25 PM
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Thank you, Simon, for the comments. The learning curve is, indeed, steep!
I have a question about your preferred measurement method. Everything I've read on measurement says to tightly constrain the driver during testing, including Vance Dickason's book. But you do the opposite. How do the results differ between hanging a driver from a chain vs. clamping to a test jig? And why do you prefer the hanging method?
Reflections from the floor are something I hadn't seriously considered. I have a test jig which can hold a driver far from reflected surfaces, but chose the method I did because I plan to have the driver similarly close to the floor in the subwoofer I plan to build. So I guess my results still would have applied to my specific application, but can not be generalized to this driver over a variety of applications. After seeing the box volume I would need to get a Qtc of 0.707, I changed my mind and decided to put both drivers in one cabinet in a compound, face-to-face arrangement. I think that's how they were used in the Saturn. So would you recommend testing the face-to-face drivers horizontally, close to the floor, like I plan to use them?
Also, I've played with test voltages with other drivers with lighter cones (Vifa P17WJ-00-04 and some tweeters) with the drivers only vertical, and seen no effect of test voltage over a very broad range. So I just made the assumption that the same would hold for this woofer. What you say about surround compliance makes sense, and I was, indeed, surprised when I did not find an effect of the driver I tested. I'll re-test my AC woofers with a variety of different voltages and post again!
After getting such helpful advice, I plan to post any new data before cutting any boards!
Thanks again,
Last edited by ByronInPortland; 6th June 2011 at 09:32 PM. Reason: first post just didn't make sense.
|6th June 2011, 10:41 PM
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One other thing you might consider, the VC temp. I run ~20 min. of music through my drivers before testing so they warm up.
Suspension temperatures matter as well (rubber more-so than foam), if a driver is going to be used in a room that is 72deg.F test the driver at 72deg.F
I use a laser thermometer to check for consistancy.
If this is going to be in a car... all bets are off. good luck.
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|7th June 2011, 07:24 PM
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The ideal method would probably be to use a giant clamp around the magnet structure coming from well behind the driver using a long but very solid arm, such that other than this clamp there are no nearby objects (such as a bench top or floor) within at least half a metre of the cone. Good idea in theory but difficult to realise in practice unless you have a special test jig devoted to this sort of thing.
You can't clamp directly on the ceramic of the magnet as it's brittle and will crack, so you'd need a specially shaped clamp that clamps on the steel part of the magnet structure.
If you clamp the driver by the front baffle as you've done and is often recommended that's fine for securing the driver but now you have nearby objects in close proximity to the cone which will affect the measured results. (Fs will be different measured on a baffle than free air, and nearby objects around the cone like your bricks will give some intermediate result between the two, and after all, Fs is supposed to be "free air" resonance, eg with no nearby objects or baffles)
The reason for people saying the driver should be securely clamped is because if you had it poorly clamped the moving mass of the cone could cause the frame of the speaker to buzz and vibrate against the mounting, which would give spurious results.
This is different to hanging the driver from a cord in free space - in that case there's nothing for it to buzz against and it's the drivers own mass inertia that holds it in place.
When suspended the frame will move very slightly in the opposite direction to the cone in proportion to their relative masses, but given how inaccurate T/S measurements generally are (a few percent at best) I don't think it's much of a problem. On a 12" woofer where the cone moving mass is 50 grams and the rest of the speaker weighs nearly 5Kg, you have a 100/1 mass ratio.
Therefore a 1mm excursion of the cone when the frame is securely clamped would instead be a 0.99mm excursion with the frame moving 0.01mm in the opposite direction. This won't have any direct effect on the resonance of the driver though, as the motion of the cone is relative to the frame, so there is still 1mm of excursion.
The only thing I can see this might affect is the mass loading from the air. A small percentage of the moving mass is actually the air immediately on either side of the cone, which depends on the cone area - for a 12" driver it's about 5 grams.
So you might have a 50 gram cone + 5 grams of air load mass giving you an Mms of 55 grams. When you suspend the driver by a long cord the cone excursion relative to stationary air is slightly reduced by 1%, which means the added mass from air loading would be 4.95 grams instead of 5 grams, so total mass changes from 55g to 54.95g - an insignificant change.
On the other hand, apart from a cord you have no nearby objects or baffles to affect the airflow around the cone. Ideally you'd want the cord to be at least 0.5 - 1m long, for example hanging from the rafters in a garage. Although I never bothered with it, if you want to get the driver exactly vertical you could use a second parallel cord that has a loop that goes around the magnet.
Besides, if the driver is vertical there will be little or no difference in it's in-cabinet response due to being close to the floor, because the loading of the box will dominate the response.
Yes the response at the listening position will change with the woofer closer to the floor, but that's because of different boundary cancellation / room mode effects, if you were to measure the near-field response of the woofer (microphone 0.5cm from the middle of the cone) with the finished speaker up in the air and close to the floor there would be almost no measurable difference.
The time when it does matter is if the driver is facing INTO the floor, for example a sub-woofer where the driver is facing down at the floor and there is only a couple of inches gap between the bottom of the box and the floor. In that case yes the floor will affect the tuning of the cabinet, but not in a way that you can derive from attempting to measure the T/S parameters with the woofer facing down into the floor.
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However, he writes "As the drive level increases, especially when measuring small diameter drivers, the resonance frequency also moves upward. The measurements being made are for use the small-signal mathematical models, so the measurement voltage should be "small"." This is the opposite of what you found, right? Your Fs moved down until you started approaching Xmax.
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Just a couple of quick comments. Signal magnitude and even the type of signal (Sine vs. MLS, etc.) may yield slightly different results. Indeed, boundary effects may also impact the results. I did several experiments comparing different methods including a clamp holding the magnet structure (it was a non metallic clamp) as well as the suspension technique and the sit the driver on the ground technique. The warm up period was held constant by timing of the warm up signal and cool down period. I no longer have the data but I can tell you when the enclosure size was calculated, there was less than a 3% variance in size. This variance becomes somewhat inconsequential once you start looking at carpentry dimensions (they always vary slightly from plan), stuffing, wall bracing, and other wall materials that you might opt to use to absorb sound energy inside the box. Just my two cents,
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In the case of the 12" woofer it was a Visaton W300S, at very low drive Fs was 29.5Hz, as the drive level increased it stayed constant up to a point, and then started to drop with increasing drive, reaching 24Hz at 1/2 Xmax. (Which you can see plotted in the graph in the other thread I linked to)
Interestingly Visaton's claimed Fs is 22Hz, so the smallest drive level was actually furtherest away from the claimed figure, with the largest drive level being closer. I have to wonder if the manufacturer is measuring it at a relatively high drive level, on an infinite baffle, or whether there is just a large tolerance in T/S parameters in production - although both drivers I have measure nearly identically.
Fs is dictated by effective moving mass and suspension compliance - mass can't be changing with drive level so it can only be changes in compliance at work here.
Another interesting fact I dug up on wikipedia and posted in that other thread is that any mass/compliance resonant system (such as a weight suspended by a spring) only has a single resonant frequency if the spring is perfectly linear. As soon as a spring has some form of non-linearity, (in force vs displacement) the resonant frequency becomes dependent on amplitude. Since suspensions on drivers are very non-linear compared to a coil spring it's not a big surprise that the resonant frequency is then dependent on excursion.
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It's quite common for Fs, Qms and Vas to all be a long way from the manufacturers claimed figures due to production line variations of Cms and the general instability of Cms as a mechanical parameter.
In most alignments it doesn't really matter though, because depending on the tuning ratio the box has a far greater effect on the response than the compliance of the suspension - and this applies to bass reflex as well as closed.
Some alignments are more sensitive to variations in Cms than others though, and I would consider an alignment where small variations of Cms have a large effect on the response - such as the onset of peaking in the response, to be a poor choice of alignments, and I would rather go with "safer" alignments which are "less sensitive" to variations in Cms. (This usually means tuning slightly in the overdamped direction so that you'll still get an acceptable response within the range of expected T/S tolerances)
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AFL launches quick link to IC news (ic08.com.au)
As we've mentioned previously, the Australian Football League is developing its news page for the 2008 Australian Football International Cup. They've now registered a new domain that will redirect to that page. Hopefully users will find it a convenient shortcut. The page also has photos and video from the 2005 event, and we're told that "the site will be updated with lots of stories about the history of the Cup as well as up-to-date news on all the competing countries".
Let's hope that as the Cup draws nearer (just six months to go) the AFL can find space for the Cup logo on the front page, directing general readers to the tournament.
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The Fair Haven tradition known as Transition Day celebrates the progress of Sickles School third graders toward fourth grade at Knollwood School — and highlights the fact that a majority of students bicycle to school in Fair Haven.
Press release from Fair Haven School District
Amid shouts of "Knollwood, Knollwood!", a red trolley full of third graders left Viola L. Sickles School on Willow Street, and headed toward Knollwood School. The trolley, festooned with white bows and ribbons, was followed by the rest of the third grade class who were chaperoned by local law enforcement officers, administrators and teachers from both schools, and eighth graders from Knollwood School — all of them on bicycles.
Rounding the corner of Fair Haven Road and Third Street, they all headed uphill to begin the last leg of the journey. They were greeted along the route by supporters holding signs of encouragement and congratulations, and messages such as "Goodbye Sickles, Hello Knollwood" written in chalk on the pavement.
Welcome to Fair Haven, where Transition Day — the ceremonial progression of third grade Sickles School students to the fourth grade at Knollwood School — is a highly anticipated and celebrated event.
This year's Transition Day was held on June 3 and began, as always, at 12:30. The bright red trolley was a new addition to this year's festivities, but many aspects of the tradition — such as the participation of eighth grade Knollwood School Peer Leaders — have remained the same for many years.
In addition to celebrating the progression of the Sickles third graders, Transition Day also highlights the fact that a majority of Fair Haven students bicycle to school. This makes the district a standout in the state of New Jersey.
Upon arriving at Knollwood School, located on Hance Avenue in Fair Haven less than a mile from Sickles School, the incoming fourth grade students attended a brief assembly hosted by Principal Kevin Davis. After the assembly, they were given a tour of the school they will begin attending in September 2014 by eighth grade Peer Leaders.
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Google's announcement this week of a new behaviorally targeted ad program and accompanying privacy policies seemed to follow themes raised at the OMMA Behavioral event in late February. In ads it serves on third-party sites, the company says it will offer consumers links to explanations for why they are seeing these particular ads and how Google is tracking their behavior.
opt-out/opt-in model Google is offering consumers resembles some of the models OMMA Behavioral keynoter and Forrester analyst Emily Riley addressed. (Riley's presentation slides are now online here -- scroll down to the 2 p.m. slot -- with the video here.)
The basic idea, which has been abroad for a while, is that behavioral targeting needs to package its technologies as an "opt-in," or managed "opt-out," that can help pull the most relevant offers and content to the user. As I discussed in last week's column, almost everyone in the industry agrees that changing the conversation with consumers over BT is as critical as it is hard. Finding ways (and places) to explain these technologies clearly and efficiently is going to be a very tough nut to crack.
To that end,
however, a couple of companies are trying to start that conversation and experimenting with the languages and interfaces. Both BlueKai and Google are initiating ways in which users can more
selectively opt out of the tracking of their habits. At the same time, these companies are trying to persuade the consumer of the benefits of opting into the systems by declaring specific preferences.
This week, let's take the first of these, BlueKai, for an opt-in/opt-out test drive. The company tells me that this system has gone through a couple of reiterations already. Next time we will look at
Google's new Ad Preferences interface.
At the BlueKai data exchange, the company initiated a transparency policy for the consumers it tags. A "Consumers" tab on the site opens a page of explanation about "an anonymous registry of online preferences" and how you can control those preferences. BlueKai also incentivizes the opt-in process by letting users apply credits for donation to the charity of their choice. In other words, when marketers pay for the data collected from that user, part of the revenue can go to a worthy cause. Generally, the tactic follows Riley's suggestion to position the benefits of opting into tracking as an opportunity to get more relevant advertising. The privacy policy is addressed on the page, but only after the value-add is made clear. The one element missing here is the explanation of what exactly is going on in the background as the user browses.
BlueKai calls itself a "registry of online preferences" without answering the natural consumer question: How do you know my preferences already? As the user drills a bit further into "Manage Preferences," one answer comes up: "Preferences are noted based on collective activities from your computer." One of the basic issues networks will have to grapple with concerning consumer-facing interface is how much to explain about the technology, and in what kind of language. Is "cookie" or "tracking" too evocative of the BT creepiness? Google is avoiding the "behavioral targeting" terminology altogether by calling its targeting method "interest-based advertising" -- but is that an obvious dodge?
Back to a bit of the old opt-in-and-out. After a visit to an auto site and some other BlueKai partner, the system was profiling me as someone in the "Lifestyles and Interest" bucket of "Online Consumer Privacy" and in the shopping buckets of "Books and Magazines" and "Autos." There are handy "Remove" buttons next to every item in my preferences list so I can selectively opt out, or just leave myself unopted-in.
Then it gets more granular. After a visit to specific car pages on an auto site,
the registry also tags me as someone interested in sports cars and specific models. Again, I get to opt out of specific models. BlueKai doesn't specify in this interface how long it retains past
behaviors in the profile, but this could also be a way for users to excise themselves from outdated shopping habits.
BlueKai lets you choose a charity that will receive a share of the ad dollars gained from your preferences. The charity element is a nice touch, and not only because of the halo effect. It offers the user an alternative incentive or value-add to being tracked -- even if receiving more relevant ads is, well, irrelevant to a user.
There are some global questions that also need to be addressed. First, there is the issue of opting into specific categories. BlueKai does not allow that here, but Google does. I imagine that the opting-in process will introduce a whole new tier of complexity to segmentation. Is a preference opt-in more valuable and indicative of intent than a visit to a car configurator, for instance? And how granular should an opt-in get? The interface, as we will see at Google, can get very thick with options very quickly when you are letting consumers into the full catalog of segmentation options.
As we will see next week when tackling Google's Ad Preferences page, a critical decision point for consumer-facing opt-in/opt-out pages will be brevity. BlueKai's goal here is to translate an inherently complex, sometime creepy, technological process into an efficient console that insulates the user from the sometimes ugly details. Is this a bit too slick to address the underlying privacy concerns, or does it strike the right tone and language to fit the real-world consumer's perspective?
We don't know yet, but the BlueKai console is in stark contrast to the Google more-is-more approach. One of the interesting things about the BlueKai approach is that the
language around it resembles the descriptions of social network profiles. Appropriating the model of consumer profiling from social networks might be an interesting path to take. It gives the
user true ownership of the process rather than management of the process, which is where we are now. Imagine a system in which consumers decide how to present themselves to the
universe of marketers, much as they do on Facebook. This is what I need you, the marketer, to know. This is what I want. Make it worth my while, and you can follow me!
Just a quick reminder to folks -- any one company that is providing information about what is stored in the cookie is ONLY providing information related to their cookie. Therefore, to manage your "preferences" across the web, you would need to manage preferences for each company offering this capability.
Closer to a winning revenue generation model, but still short. There is a much simpler "Opt-In" approach that is truly collaborative matching Web 2.0 intentions. A model that matches buyers and sellers to equal and rewarding benefit to both sides. "Opt-In" ... coming soon ...
"Imagine a system in which consumers decide how to present themselves to the universe of marketers, much as they do on Facebook."
Thanks, good article. Two things:
1. These dreams of consumers managing their 'ad' profiles is absurd - will NEVER happen en masse. people just want to ignore ads.
2. You left out a really important part about cookie-based opt-out: Cookies get cleared often so you can't really opt out of BlueKai or Google. once cookie is gone, you are opted back in since no cookie to tell them otherwise.
@ Scott. If the marketers somehow can manage to make a unified structure (OpenID?) that also gave consumers rela dn demonstrable value, the I don't know if it is far-fetched that they will manage profiles? It seems to me this is about the incentive. Reducing clutter is not reason enough for someone to do this, but just like carrying and using a loyalty card in-store, it is worht the bother to many if there is real benefit.
The perfect theme music: "Buy In Buy Out" by Matt Powers. www.myspace.com/mattpowers2 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZcY2UUyLPc Somebody needs to get google and powers connected.
I will take a contrarian view to my distaste for BT tracking because, what is missing is "my share" of the economic value of "exposing" an ad while visiting a website.
If BluKai can reward a charity of my choice by using their BT opt-in tracking system, why not go one step further?
I suggest that you monetize my relationship and accrue some form of value as my BT profile gets richer.
For example, during one month of Web usage I could be exposed to 1000 display ads that take advantage of my behavior profile. Let's say each ad is worth .05 cents to me.
That translates to $5 of value the advertiser needs to pay me for that "BT contract". Now you're talking!
Opt out of cookies.
Keep in mind that browsers are designed to manage text cookies. Flash cookies survive, for now. You have to go to the Adobe website to clear them off your computer.
Most video websites use flash cookies. Most flash ads use flash cookies.
Someone needs to provide a plug in to Firefox to kill flash cookies. Probably exists already.
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Chuck Leavell will be included in the Lifetime Achievement Award during a Special Awards event on February 11th. Upon hearing the news, he said:
"I am honored beyond words to be included in receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed upon The Allman Brothers Band at the 2012 Grammys in LA. My years with the ABB were golden ones, and I still consider myself a Brother. I look forward to standing on the podium with Gregg, Dickey, Butch, Jaimo and the others to accept this prestigious recognition. ABB forever!"
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Australian Open 2013: Previewing Most Exciting Men's Matches on Day 6January 18, 2013
It may be only the third round of the 2013 Australian Open, but that doesn't mean there isn't a plethora of pulse-pounding tennis on tap for Day 6 in Melbourne Park.
Saturday has the promise to be a thrilling day, filled with high-profile players and several unseeded upstarts that have immense potential to cause some intense drama even at this early stage in the tournament.
Here is a breakdown of the most exciting matches in the men's draw.
Roger Federer (2) vs. Bernard Tomic
As the top-ranked Australian men's player, Tomic is undoubtedly going to have the home crowd supporting him as a heavy underdog to the 17-time Grand Slam champion.
Former No. 1 player and three-time Australian Open winner Mats Wilander is buying into the hype surrounding Tomic, who has an incredible level of talent but has failed to harness it due primarily to work ethic (h/t Al Jazeera):
You have to be willing to go to the gym and do pushups and thousands of hours and it hurts every second.
Somebody needs to get that message across (to Tomic) very clearly. This is what it takes. Why would you be in the game if you don't want to be your best? And with his talent, that could probably mean being number one in the world.
But he needs somebody to explain it to him.
Tomic was kicked off the Davis Cup team, which caused him to fall out of favor with the fans in Melbourne despite his fourth-round showing at last year's Australian Open. In this match, though, he is sure to be cheered on heavily.
At just 20 years old, it is clear that Tomic has the talent and overall skills to be one of the sport's elite players. The question remains whether he wants to make the commitment to reaching those heights.
Will this be a massive breakthrough for the talented Aussie, or will the Fed lay the law down and silence the hometown kid?
Milos Raonic (13) vs. Philipp Kohlschreiber (17)
The big-serving Canadian Raonic is one of the hottest emerging names on the ATP circuit. His game is suited for the hard courts, which makes him an ideal dark-horse candidate to make some serious noise in Melbourne.
Raonic won more first-serve points than any other player in 2012. One notable, blistering shot clocked at 150 miles per hour came in Memphis last February against fellow heavy hitter Andy Roddick. and after dropping his very first set at this event, he has roared back and hasn't dropped one since.
Meanwhile, Kohlschreiber is a cagey veteran at age 29 with plenty of positive experience under his belt—especially in the past few months.
He beat Rafael Nadal last season at the Gerry Weber Open (h/t SFGate.com via AP), proving he can get it done against the very best in the world.
The momentum Kohlschreiber generated by reaching the finals of the Heineken Open to begin his 2013 campaign has definitely carried over into the year's first Grand Slam. Should he beat Raonic, it would be the fourth time in the German's career that he has advanced to the fourth round at the Australian Open.
Despite the fact that Kohlschreiber doesn't possess the power of his younger counterpart, he has had plenty of success at this venue in years past. It will be an intriguing clash of contrasting skill sets, and don't be surprised if this one goes five sets.
Gilles Simon (14) vs. Gael Monfils
This battle of Frenchmen pits two players who have seen better days.
Don't be fooled by Monfils' unseeded status and No. 86 ranking. He has reached as high as No. 7 in the world in singles and dropped his coach at the end of 2012 after slumping significantly and battling injuries.
But Monfils has proven that he has elite-level talent in the past and has an unrelenting, aggressive style that features explosive first serves and the ability to pull off risky shots that few others are capable of.
That nearly cost him in the second round, as Monfils racked up 23 double faults. He explained his strategy by stating that he was extremely fatigued during the five-set match and simply was going for broke to keep points short.
Heat was a factor, as temperatures reached approximately 106 degrees Fahrenheit (h/t USA TODAY).
Such tactics may cause Monfils to crash and burn moving forward. Whatever happens, though, it's sure to be very interesting to watch.
Not to be undone, though, Simon has ascended as high as No. 6 in the world and hasn't experienced as drastic of a drop as Monfils has in recent years. His best finish in a Grand Slam was a quarterfinals appearance in the 2009 Australian Open.
Simon's finesse-based game doesn't make this a particularly good matchup, which means an upset could be brewing here.


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BILLERICAY have switched their RFU Junior Vase clash against Old Gravesendians to Saracens' Allianz Park home on Saturday.
The clash has been postponed two weeks running because of a waterlogged pitch at their Stock Road base.
But, with the team now just three wins away from a Twickenham final, Billericay's first team coach Andy Goldsmith is delighted to have been able to move the match to a Premiership venue.
"To play at a ground like the one Saracens have is going to be fantastic and everybody is really excited about getting this opportunity," said Goldsmith.
"We're playing at 10am before Saracens Academy have a game to play, so the lads are not quite so keen at having to meet up at 7.30am but it's a big game wherever it's played so we're all really fired up to do well and get the win."
Billericay are currently enjoying a season to remember as they also top the Essex One table by four points.
However, their sights are also set on playing at the world famous home of English rugby for the third time in recent succession.
And they are particularly keen to see off Old Gravesendians after they refused to play last weekend.
"I had been working on the pitch for three days, rolling it and spiking it, so when their players turned up and said it was unplayable I wasn't best pleased," said Goldsmith.
"We were actually quite annoyed with how they behaved so we're even more fired up than before to beat them now."
The winners of the clash will travel to Seaford next weekend in the area semi-final and Goldsmith is just relieved to know that the game will definitely be going ahead, due to Saracens' 3G pitch.
"We were worried that the fixture might have to be forfeited, especially as all the local 3G pitches are booked up for about three weeks now so we're very grateful to be playing," said Goldsmith.
"We were able to organise it via the county team and it will be a great day for everyone at the club.
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The National organizations who were represented at this meeting were: the National Council of Jewish Women, by Mrs. Joseph E. Friend of New Orleans and Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger. The National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, by Mrs. Maurice Steinfeld of St. Louis and Miss Jeanette Miriam Goldberg of Philadelphia; The Hadasah, by Mrs. Robert Szold of New York City, and Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn of New York City; The Women's Branch of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, by Mrs. Herbert S. Goldstein of New York City, and Mrs. Alice Taub of Atlantic City; The Women's League of the United Synagogue of America, by Mrs. Samuel Spiegel of New York City, and Mrs. Chas. I. Hoffman of Newark, N. J.
The Conference decided to summon a meeting of the Cultural Activities Chairmen of the several national organizations, represented in the Conference Committee, to discuss their respective cultural programs, to insure cooperation in their work and the avoidance of duplication.
It was resolved to bring to the attention of the public a resolution that had been adopted by the Conference Committee, which provided that the Jewish dietary laws be observed at all dinners and public functions under Jewish auspices, which make their appeal to Jews of all varieties of religious opinion, in order to insure full cooperation and unity of action among all Jewish groups.
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The Elk River-Zimmerman-Rogers gymnasts posted their 23rd straight dual meet win, over Park Center 135.10 to 110.45, at home Thursday evening.
Their top gymnast Sabrina Hoover missed the meet due to illness but the Elks (6-0) got three other girls back in the lineup.
Leah Perrault, who had missed some action with mono, returned to win three events. She took floor with 9.40, beam with 9.10 and bars with 8.25.
Courtney Bursch, who also had mono, took third on vault. Alex Felt, who missed a meet after minor injuries in a car accident, took third on beam and fifth on vault. Felt had a fall on vault but executed a switch kip nicely.
Perrault did not do vault, so Alana Embury was all-around leader with 33.75 points, followed by Alyssa Walton with 33.30. Embury won vault with 8.95 and took second on bars, showing off some new moves.
On beam, Perrault was the only Elk with no falls.
"But the girls still had great routines," said coach Jenn Bartlette. "We are working on polishing up the beam skills for sectionals."
Floor ex was the Elks last and best event.
"The girls really stepped up on floor!" said Bartlett. "They were fun to watch as they really sold their routines to the judge and fans."
Next for the Elks is Centennial at home Thursday.
Elks 135.10, Park Center 111.45
1. Alana Embury, Elks, 33.75
2. Alyssa Walton, Elks, 33.30
3. Sam Swanson, Park Center, 28.60
1. Embury 8.95
2. Walton 8.8
Jessica Sadlowski, Elks, 8.8
4. Courtney Bursch, Elks, 8.4
5. Alex Felt, Elks, 8.30
Uneven bars
1. Leah Perrault, Elks, 8.95
2. Embury 8.10
3. Walton 7.55
Felt 7.55
5. Sadlowsky 7.50
Balance beam
1. Perrault 9.10
2. Embury 8.05
3. Felt 8.0
4. Walton 7.85
5. Swanson 7.80
6. Corryn Stelflug, Elks, 7.30
Floor exercise
1. Perrault 9.40
2. Walton 9.10
3. Embury 8.65
4. Sadlowsky 8.55
5. Stelflug 8.50


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It's hard being a wizard ... at physiology.
That's one of the lessons Harvard Medical School student Carey Trotter (played by Derek Stenquist) learns while trying to navigate his first year at the School, alongside newfound friends Schmermione Langer (Nicole de Paz) and John Keasley (Daniel Brein) in the 2013 performance of the Second-Year Show, entitled "HMS and the Tie-Breaker Tournament."
Now in its 107th year, the show, put on by students in their second year at HMS and Harvard School of Dental Medicine, parodies faculty members, the School and the medical education community through song, dance and popular culture references.
In this year's show, loosely based on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, one HMS student must compete against students from Stanford and Johns Hopkins to prove that HMS deserves to remain the #1-ranked medical school in the U.S.
The news that HMS might lose its "10,000-year-old" first-place standing due to an anonymous whistleblower breaks on the first day of classes, causing HMS Dean Jeffrey Flier, played by Chijioke Nze, to cut short a song-and-dance introduction and convene an emergency staff meeting.
Humorous squabbling ensues amongst the faculty about whether one of their own betrayed them, before they get down to debating the best ways to train their student champion.
All the familiar faculty characters were once again subject to the students' comic interpretations this year, including Kate Treadway, the Gerald S. Foster Academy Associate Professor of Medicine; Dean for Students Nancy Oriol; Richard Schwartzstein, the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medical Education; and Randy King, the Harry C. McKenzie Professor of Cell Biology.
Overall, the production, co-directed and co-written by Flier's daughter Lydia, toned down some of the edginess that piqued critics of past shows.
"I think we did a good job of making things funny without being malicious," said Ariana Metchik-Gaddis, another of the show's four head writers. "In general, we really like our professors and our community, and we tried to poke fun at things that are universally ridiculous."
One standout routine in the first act, for example, didn't lampoon HMS faculty but transformed "The Cell Block Tango" from the Broadway musical Chicago into "The Longwood Tango." The song featured pathologically overachieving students calling themselves "gunners" who confess, without much remorse, to the crimes they committed to get ahead of their classmates, from booby-trapping a cadaver to blackmailing Paul Farmer, the well-known Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine.
Dressed in provocative red and black cabaret outfits and dancing around folding chairs, they sang:
You call it gunning
You call it gunning
You say ambition is to blame
But if you'd been here
With all these GUNNERS
I betcha you would have done the same!
Lighthearted caricatures included Professor of Genetics David Altshuler (Chris Henderson) and Concordia Professor of Pediatrics Joel Hirschhorn (Scott Elman), performing a scant minute of The Who's "See Me, Feel Me" in falsetto before a disturbed Dean Flier puts a stop to it. In a running gag, Altshuler constantly interrupts Hirshhorn.
Meanwhile, Oriol's character (Margaret Soroka) wields a pistol, and Scholars in Medicine administrators Kari Hannibal (Ariana Metchik-Gaddis) and Patricia Johnson (Eddie Grom) deliver "News You Can Use" in an irreverent video "newscast."
The other highlight of the first act was a montage of actual video clips of Lecturer on Cell Biology Cindi McDermott and Clinical Instructor in Radiology Tracy Van Houten lecturing, with the video played at half-speed to simulate what happens after one of the play's characters slips them peyote. The audience, including a contingent of first- and second-year HMS students, laughed loudly enough to drown out many of the lines.
"This was one of the funniest shows I've ever seen, and I've been coming for a long time," said the real McDermott, who could be seen wiping away tears of laughter after the video ended.
"There were excellent jokes, and they didn't rely on shock value. I don't remember the last time I've laughed that hard," she said.
"This year's show was one of the best because it's good-humored," agreed Schwartzstein, director of the HMS Academy, who attended the first night's performance. He said he participated in a Second-Year Show himself as a student in 1976.
Schwartzstein's magnanimity was all the more noteworthy given that his onstage counterpart, played by an excellent Ben Brush, seemed to be as much of a villain as the play was going to deliver.
After the class survives a semester of fascia-filled anatomy lab, disastrous patient interviews, dental school parties and endless petitions, the big day arrives when the HMS champion will be selected to defend the School's honor in the Tie-Breaker Tournament. When the Dean announces that he will choose by picking a name at random from the Goblet of Flier, however, the students erupt in protest. Oriol draws her gun to quiet the crowd, and Carey jumps in front of it—thus becoming the champion for his display of bravery.
A stressed-out Carey soon finds himself caught between the teaching philosophies of Schwartzstein, who swears by concept maps and dedicated effort ("If you don't want to die, you're not working hard enough," he advises Carey), and Randy King (Will Lewis), who extols the virtues of shortcuts.
"Bullet points are where it's at! You've got to skip a concept or two," the King character sings in a parody of "(You've Got To) Pick a Pocket or Two" from the musical Oliver!
Getting into the spirit, Carey replies, "Human hearts go thump, thump, thump—I can skip a concept or two."
That might not be the best method, though. The night before the Tie-breaker Tournament, Schmermione and John discover that by following King's advice, Carey has learned almost nothing about physiology.
Carey demonstrates what he knows by playing a music video "cheat sheet" that King made him called "What Does The Spleen Do?" In this uproarious tribute to Ylvis' "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)," students sing about vestigial organs in Auto-Tune. Richard Ngo, who choreographed the dances in the video, steals the show in a spleen costume.
"You might as well be studying from a coloring book," says John when it's over.
"A coloring book would be more accurate," moans Schmermione.
Using free food as bait, the friends convince HMS, HST and HSDM students to join forces to help Carey cram for the tournament.
The next day, the tournament host (Brandon Kappy) introduces the champions from Hopkins (Marguerite Basilico playing an overachieving Type-A) and Stanford (Chris Kearney as a laconic surfer dude)—Yale (Gigi Gomez) was not invited—and announces the challenge: Each student must conduct a patient interview, arriving at a correct diagnosis while expressing empathy.
The twist? They're forbidden from saying, "That must be hard for you."
Underdog Carey is the only one to correctly diagnose his patient, thanks to his friends' tutoring and his natural talent for human connection. But wait—a drug test disqualifies him.
It turns out that Atrium Café barista Franceny Bedoya (Kai Qui), with administrator permission, has been feeding HMS students and faculty cookies laced with Adderall.
Oriol quickly brandishes her gun and claims she prescribed it to Carey, and HMS wrenches its title back.
On his way off the stage, the tournament host thanks none other than Randy King for having sent in the tip about why the School should lose its status. The faculty reacts with shock, and King delivers a speech about how he hates teaching and deliberately tried to undermine Carey. When the dean of Stanford, where King was planning to transfer, appears to say that the offer has been rescinded, King comes crawling back to Dean Flier, but the dean will have none of it.
King is carried off in the Family Van, and a dour Schwartzstein, whom the dean fired earlier for not going easy on Carey, is welcomed back into the fold. Schmermione and John find love through dental research to the tune of "Secretly Geeky" (a riff on "Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors), and all is well in Longwood.
The show ended with a reprise of an original song, "Greatest School in the Country," concluding with the line, "We're all gonna fail the boards!"
The show ran nearly three hours, and included 13 songs and several videos.
"It's easy to get overwhelmed here when you see people already studying hard-core for an exam in April. This show provides a perfect opportunity for people to stay sane in the medical school environment and express ourselves creatively," said executive producer Justin Partridge.
"It's very easy to get caught up in things right now and say if we don't get every single thing down 100 percent we're failures," added Lydia Flier. "But two, three, five, 20 years from now, people won't remember their board scores. They won't remember what they went through studying-wise. They'll remember being part of the second-year show. It's Ben Brush as Richard Schwartzstein, Will Lewis as Randy King, Nicole de Paz as Schmermione Langer that people will be talking about."
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This in from Kate Ball, Communications Manager, on behalf of Hampshire County Council. In their own words. Ed
The outline terms for proposals that could lead to a groundbreaking strategic partnership between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to deliver Children's Services on the Island were approved yesterday. 25 March 2013.
The decision by Hampshire County Council's Executive Member for Children's Services, Councillor Roy Perry provides a formal basis for the proposals, which are designed to strengthen child protection and education services on the Island.
Substantial further work is now required before an agreement can be finalised and the Councils are engaged on a steady and considered approach to ensure all challenges, risks and solutions are identified, in what could be a significant opportunity for both local authorities.
Perry: "An opportunity for us to offer assistance to our neighbour"
Cllr Perry said: "It is a credit that Hampshire County Council with its reputation for strongly performing Children's Services should be approached by the Isle of Wight Council, with the support of the Department for Education, with a view to establishing such a partnership. It is an opportunity for us to offer assistance to our neighbour and an opportunity for us to develop an area of work as an extension of our capacity – the prospect of this type of partnership is something that's beenunder informal consideration nationally for some time in view of general financial and performance concerns."
"While it does represent a significant opportunity for both councils, uppermost in my mind is that I have a first and unequivocal responsibility to the children of Hampshire. I will be seeking full assurance that these proposals are subject to very careful assessment and that there can be no question of Hampshire's Children's Services budgets being utilised."
Possibly commencing in June 2013
Broadly, the outline proposals for a strategic partnership, which would be unlikely to start before end of May 2013, would mean that Hampshire County Council's Director of Children's Services and Children's Services Departmental Management Team would take full operational responsibility for Isle of Wight Children's Services, including education and social care, as per the terms of Children Act 2004 as part of an improvement programme under the auspices of Government.
The Isle of Wight Council would retain political authority and accountability. Line management and operational responsibility would rest entirely with Hampshire County Council. The Isle of Wight Council would remain financially accountable and fund all relevant costs of the arrangement.
Pugh: "Ensure the arrangement is the very best one for Island residents"
Isle of Wight Council Leader Cllr David Pugh said: "It is imperative that these arrangements to improve our child protection services are put in place swiftly and also that they are effective. We also look forward to the potential of working with our colleagues in Hampshire to drive forward continued improvement in our schools.
"We welcome this step forward and will continue our discussions with Hampshire to ensure the arrangement is the very best one for Island residents and, most importantly, the children and families who deserve the very best support."
Tuesday, 26th March, 2013 12:40pm
By Kate Ball
ShortURL: http://wig.ht/2aD3
Filed under: Education, Island-wide, Isle of Wight Council, Isle of Wight News, Top story


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NFL fantasy: Falcons hope Tony Gonzalez returns
NFL.com Staff | Tags: Three and out,
Smith trying to coax Gonzalez back: Recently, Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez said he was "95 percent" sure he was going to retire. The Falcons are hoping to tap into that five percent uncertainty. Head coach Mike Smith says he plans to talk with the future Hall of Famer in the near future and try to convince him to return for at least one more season. With Gonzalez winning the first playoff game of his career and coming up just short of his first career Super Bowl berth, there is speculation that he could be hungry enough to give it another try. The veteran tight end had one of his best seasons in recent memories, catching 93 balls for 930 yards and eight touchdowns. If he does decide to come back for another season, he will certainly be a top five tight end in most drafts and would boost the fantasy value of Matt Ryan.
Johnson wants Bills QB competition: Buffalo Bills receiver Stevie Johnson says he'd like to see quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick engage in a quarterback competition next season. In fairness, Johnson said he wouldn't object to going to a position battle himself, saying "competition brings out the best in us." But we suspect that if Fitzpatrick were producing at Aaron Rodgers-type levels, the receiver wouldn't have even dreamed of such a comment. So it does say something about Johnson's level of confidence in his signal-caller. Fitzpatrick's touchdown numbers were equal to his production in 2011 while his interception numbers went down. However, he threw for more than 400 fewer yards in 2012 and had seven games with less than 200 yards passing. Having someone on the roster that can push Fitzpatrick might not be a bad thing, though the options in the free agent market and draft will be limited this season.
Garcon considering rest over surgery: Washington Redskins receiver Pierre Garcon will reportedly opt for rest over surgery to heal his injured toe this offseason. Garcon suffered the injury in the regular season opener and missed six games, though he still finished the season as Washington's leading receiver. A toe injury is never a good thing for an athlete, but it's particularly worrisome when that athlete's game is heavily based on his speed and explosion. Since there's no guarantee that surgery will have Garcon ready for the start of the season, the decision to rest isn't necessarily a bad one. A healthy Garcon, mixed with a healthy Robert Griffin III, would make the receiver a quality No. 2 option in most leagues.
— Marcas Grant
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Cutting off unemployment benefits may lead to employment
ordinaryfolks seattle, WAMay 25, 2014 5:42 p.m.
There is no good result in blaming immigrants, or past government policies for the current unemployment rates. Our economy has changed from the old industrial model to a consumer spending based society. Unfortunately, this new consumer based economy places low price points for both goods and labor. We shop for the cheapest price for our groceries and (if you are an employer) the least possible rate of pay for an employee. Nothing proposed so far by commenters here or elsewhere is going to change that dynamic.
It is inevitable that higher rates of unemployment will follow this economic model, particularly among the older and the less skilled in the labor pool. And sadly, these are amongst the most economically vulnerable.
To call for an end to unemployment compensation for this cadre of people is callous. While there are exceptions to be sure, most people want to work for their money. A decent job gives people dignity. Blaming people for not finding that work or that decent job does nothing to lift people up.
aceroinox Farmington, UTMay 25, 2014 1:42 p.m.
Small business is the engine of our economy. It think it's a huge mistake that the government not only does not provide incentives for the unemployed to launch their own business, but cuts off unemployment payments as soon as someone creates a business. Why not maintain eligibility during the planning and launch phase of a small business, which may provide income for the business owner but also may very well provide jobs for others?
worf Mcallen, TXMay 25, 2014 1:31 p.m.
Cut unemployment totally!
All it does is punish the working people.
DVD Taylorsville, 00May 25, 2014 1:10 p.m.
When your safety net is gone, and you are homeless, the chances of being hired go way down compared to those that can remain acceptably put together because they still have a safety net of financial aid to do it.
micki Sebastopol, CAMay 25, 2014 12:56 p.m.
I can't believe the callousness of this article! It is like saying that cutting off FOOD will get people to be better cooks! I have personally known too many people in the last few years who have struggled and struggled to find a job, any job! Even a job at a fast food franchise, but then they'd have to get two or even three jobs, forget about sleeping! so they can support their families...to live in a country where hard working people are homeless, living in their cars, even giving up their children to the authorities because wages are so low that no one can live on them, and this is just for those who HAVE jobs. This is an outrage. It is only adding salt to the gaping wound of hopelessness, food insecurity, and desperation, to imply that cutting off the only difference between eating or starving will "motivate" these people to get jobs...jobs that do not exist!
Willem Los Angeles, CAMay 25, 2014 12:53 p.m.
But they and their kids could also starve to death from hunger.
The Real Maverick Orem, UTMay 25, 2014 8:36 a.m.
The GOP, mostly funded by the Koch bros, wants Americans to live like slaves. If they can get them to give up the hope to ever obtain a good job again and to work at a min wage job, then their mission is accomplished!
ElmoBaggins Escalante, UTMay 25, 2014 7:37 a.m.
Where are the "job creators"?republicans yap about how they need special concessions for business so they can create jobs...so where are they?Fact is,there's. Even endless talk and tax breaks but no jobs...how long do they think this subterfuge will work?
Eliyahu Pleasant Grove, UTMay 25, 2014 7:01 a.m.
Before we insist that everyone can get a job if they try hard enough, keep in mind that full employment is neither possible nor desirable. A zero rate of unemployment would result in economic stagnation as employers would be unable to expand due to a total lack of workers. Similarly, no one could create new jobs because there wouldn't be any labor pool from which to draw workers. (On the other hand, it would tend to create a worker's paradise as wages would have to be extremely competitive to retain employees because if someone quits, the company can't find a replacement.)
For those who think unemployment lets people live in comfort without working, remember that it's only a fraction of what they'd been paid in their last job. Few people will willingly take a major pay cut to avoid working, especially those who'd been living from paycheck to paycheck already.
Shaun Sandy, UTMay 24, 2014 11:13 p.m.
@Dnsubscriber. I go to work for money, period. If you were making six figures, what pride is there in working for minimum wage or ten dollars a hour? I would rather let the state have their unemployment and just stay home.
Brer Rabbit Spanish Fork, UTMay 24, 2014 8:24 p.m.
As some of the comments have said, there aren't enough jobs. That means that there is a large labor surplus. This labor surplus causes unemployment and depressed wages. The laws of supply and demand apply to labor the same as anything else.
Since there is a labor surplus why are many of the politicians supporting a continued flood of legal and illegal labor? The answer can't be that they are supporting the American workers. The president and many politicians are even calling for a 100% increase in the minimum wage even in the face of a large labor surplus.
The law of supply and demand cannot be repealed. A high minimum wage is very similar to the rent and price controls back in the late 1970s that didn't work. The best thing that the government could do to reduce unemployment and increase wages would be to stop the flood of cheap legal and illegal immigrant labor that is in competition with the American workers.
A large reduction in cheap immigrant labor would cause the job market to tighten and wages increase. Both political parties and presidents of the last three decades have sold out the American Workers.
gmlewis Houston, TXMay 24, 2014 8:21 p.m.
@vern001 - I agree with you. I was 52 the last time I was laid off work, and it took four months of very active searching (and much prayer) before I was able to find a job in my professional field. It would have been much, much longer if that professional field were dwindling.
However, I did not get any unemployment because I misunderstood how to apply for them. For months they kept telling me to wait, and finally told me that I had forgotten one item on my application form that was required. By then, I had already been accepted in my new job.
It is not true that your former employer pays for your individual unemployment checks. These checks come from a general state fund, and the former employer's unemployment insurance rate is raised for years to come. The former employer ends up paying far more into the general fund than you received from your unemployment benefits.
Schnee Salt Lake City, UTMay 24, 2014 7:48 p.m.
@DN Subscriber
"Hunger is a powerful motivator"
That's kinda morbid.
@Rosa Maria
"logic tells me that if I receive free things I will become lazy. "
Depends on how much free stuff you receive vs how much stuff you need. Typically it's not a sustainable long term strategy.
"The big giant Obama care is one of that big program that would put Americans in deep poverty. "
The same Obamacare that conservatives frequently say is just a handout to people (via the subsidies and Medicaid expansion)? Either it's helping the poor in a way you don't like, or it doesn't, you all can't claim both.
RosaMaria Laie, HIMay 24, 2014 5:12 p.m.
What argument is that? I don't hold a PhD, but logic tells me that if I receive free things I will become lazy. There are hundreds of money that politicians miss used. There are so many red tape stopping the creation of jobs. The big giant Obama care is one of that big program that would put Americans in deep poverty. We need to FIRE the politicians and the studious who write these papers. Bogus! Bogus! Bogus studies! Give the American people jobs instead of easy money and they will work. I hope Americans realized there are another country that will accept them as illegals when they travel to another country looking for a job. We better fix our problem now. No easy money to any one, let's star with the politicians.
GaryO Virginia Beach, VAMay 24, 2014 5:05 p.m.
Of course, cutting unemployment benefits will cause people to accept ANY job, even if it's a horrible job, just to pay some bills. But they might not then have the time to seek out a job they want and for which they are qualified.
And others who can't find a job will literally beg, borrow, or steal to make ends meet.
I'm not suggesting that people receive perennial unemployment benefits, but they should receive benefits long enough so they can look for a decent job.
It would be wrong to eliminate unemployment benefits.
prelax Murray, UTMay 24, 2014 3:16 p.m.
Cutting off benefits didn't help 76% find work. The problem is lack of jobs available to citizens. We have flooded our labor market, and no one wants to admit it.
Cincinnatus Kearns, UTMay 24, 2014 1:57 p.m.
I lost my job last year.
I got a small severance and my accrued vacation that allowed me a buffer period to look for work before I was even eligible to apply for unemployment.
Though I applied to a lot of employers that were looking for experience similar to mine, where I was overqualified, or where I barely qualified, I didn't get interviews. I took a seasonal job (Christmastime) that paid roughly half of what I'd made previously- problem was, the hours it required in November and December, I couldn't apply for jobs because I wouldn't have been able to make it to interviews. I was making too much to receive unemployment, but even with some overtime, not making nearly what I'd made previously.
When the seasonal job ended, I started applying again (while receiving unemployment). I finally got ONE interview. ONE in almost 8 months. I was offered a job, and took it, even though I would be making less than my pervious job.
For those being judgemental, like DN Subscriber, this "recovery" isn't the same as previous ones. Jobs that pay the bills are hard to come by and interviews hard to get.
vern001 Castle Rock, COMay 24, 2014 12:17 p.m.
There are now roughly between 3 and 5 unemployed people applying for every one job opening. This one data point proves that people aren't sitting around scratching their bellies at taxpayer expense. This has been called a "jobless recovery" for a reason. There just aren't enough jobs for everyone, and the jobs that have been gained are largely low skill, low wage jobs.
So let's stop demonizing the unemployed and depicting them as lazy moochers. Try losing your job at 52 and see what kind of opportunities come your way. Automotive workers, textile workers, programmers, lawyers, and customers service reps are among the people whose jobs have left the shores of this country and will probably never come back.
I've met so many complacent, judgmental individuals--until they lose their jobs, their healthcare, and their homes. Then they're all in favor of social programs. Why not be charitable before that happens to you?
Henry Drummond San Jose, CAMay 24, 2014 11:39 a.m.
I've got some good news and some bad news. Cutting off unemployment benefits for the chronically employed lowers the unemployment rate. To be eligible for benefits you have to be actively looking and apply for jobs. If you cut off those benefits, they drop out of the labor force and go onto some other kind of welfare.
Oh Really? HERRIMAN, UTMay 24, 2014 9:38 a.m.
Cutting off unemployment benefits has several positive effects:
- Since the unemployment benefits are paid by the previous employer, it frees up funds for that employer to hire someone else.
- While many receiving benefits legitimately need them and qualify for them, others do not. Many unemployed people apply for jobs they aren't qualified for in order to meet the "application" requirement so they can continue to receive benefits. When those people stop receiving benefits, they get serious about finding a job.
DN Subscriber Cottonwood Heights, UTMay 24, 2014 9:23 a.m.
"Unemployment insurance" is welfare with a less judgmental sounding name.
Intended as a life net, it has become a hammock for a large portion of our population who find it preferable to simply collect welfare (in all of its varied forms) than to find a job and actually earn a living.
One of the biggest problems is that people refuse to work at any job they do not like, and continue to get paid for doing nothing.
Hunger is a powerful motivator, and perhaps if welfare were cut, some of the unemployed would decide that "menial" jobs, or ones requiring physical effort were acceptable after all. Such jobs exist and are largely filled by foreign workers today, who are glad to be earning a wage doing any job because it supports their families. There is cause for pride in doing a job, any job, well. And, dong one job well opens opportunities for better paying jobs- if people actually want to work.