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Redding News Review
|Type of business
Type of site
|Aggregator, News & Commentary
|Available in
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|Redding Communications, Inc.
|Rob Redding
|Key people
|Rob Redding
|Alexa rank
|584,584 (April 2014[update])[1]
Atlanta, Georgia, United States[2]
|Current status
Redding News Review is a subscriber-supported breaking Black news web site and radio show founded by Robert Rob Redding Jr. in 1999. He started the site as X-Political.com in 1999 and relaunched it in the current form in 2002 to complement his talk radio program while at WAOK-AM in Atlanta.[3]
Radio show[edit]
"The voice of the voiceless" and "the prophet of rage" is what many listeners say about Redding News Review host "America's Independent Voice" Rob Redding.[3]
Redding News Review has been the most listened to black independent talk show host in the United States of America – heard six days a week for nearly half decade and more than 420 episodes in all 50 states via Sirius XM Satellite Radio and on numerous radio stations for more than 6 years and 3,600 hours via his former network deal with Genesis Communications Network.[3][4]
The Redding New Review radio show host Rob Redding was named one of the "100 most important radio talk show hosts in America" by industry trade Talkers magazine.[4]
He has also been called a "rising star" (Talkers magazine), "one of the most respected names in the media" (Upscale magazine), "one of the most intellectual and intriguing radio talk show hosts since Tavis Smiley" (Radio Facts) and awarded a proclamation by the Atlanta City Council for his hard hitting uniquely Independent talk radio show.[5]
On April 1, 2014, Redding's talk show morphed into "Redding News Review Unrestricted" becoming the first ever and most successful stand-alone spoken word program available exclusively on a Web site - via ReddingNewsReview.com[5]
Web site[edit]
Stories from the Redding News Review web site – the first subscriber-supported and oldest black news aggregation web site – have become a regular part of National Public Radio and Fox News Channel. Its comprehensive coverage of the black community became a resource for Fox News during the Don Imus "nappy-headed ho's" controversy. Its reports have also been used by Arutz Sheva, Israel's Channel 7 news. Its scoops have also been acknowledged or linked to by ABC News, BET, MSNBC, The Hill, Roll Call, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Times, and The National Newspaper Association.[3]
The web site, called "an Internet clearinghouse for African-American news " by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, was the first to report former Mayor and Ambassador Andrew Young's comments on Senator Barack Obama not being ready to be president. The site has also been called the "vanguard of Internet news sites" by AllAccess.com writer Perry Michael Simon.[6][7]
The web site was credited by Editor & Publisher for breaking news of the harassment of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts by a white supremacist group. The web site has been recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists for its Hurricane Katrina coverage.[8]
In December 2004, the site's breaking news coverage prompted Brian Williams, NBC News anchor and managing editor, to apologize for saying there are "bigger problems" than newsroom diversity. The web site's coverage also spurred NBC News President Neal Shapiro to vow to redouble the company's minority hiring efforts.[9]
The site has won three consecutive "Black Web Awards" for being the "Best News Distribution" site in 2008 and the "Best News Directory" site in 2009 and 1010.[10]
In May 2011, Redding attracted the attention of talk icon Rush Limbaugh when he asked Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, about a skit in which a Limbaugh staffer "reinterpreted" his criticism of Pres. Obama's immigration speech in Ebonics. "I thought it was highly inappropriate," Steele told Redding. "It is stupid. It's not something that furthers the conversation." Limbaugh responded:
In what may be a first, we have a formal complaint lodged against the Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley. Bo Snerdley was recently utilized on this program last week as the Official Obama Criticizer, and it was as though it had happened for the first time. Now, we've been featuring the Official Obama Criticizer for close to a year, if not more on this program, but something about last week's version of the Official Obama Criticizer has rubbed 'em wrong out there, particularly your translation for brothers and sisters in the hood. The complaint is that there aren't any of those listening to the program. Of course, the left and the media are on this kick now that there's racism everywhere, and really racism and race-baiting has its home on the left. But there's a show out there called Redding News Review. It's some guy named Rob Redding and his program is syndicated. Whose isn't? And Rob Redding interviewed the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele. And Redding says, "Okay, Rush Limbaugh is widely thought to be a racist. No, accused, baselessly so by members of the left when they can't come up with anything better to criticize me for. But nevertheless, "Rush Limbaugh is widely thought to be a racist. You've gotten into, as Snerdley would say, his grill several times, and you were repudiated for it within the Republican Party. Is Rush Limbaugh a racist? Is he wrong for doing this satire? Yes? No?"[11]
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- ^ a b c d "Our Story". Redding News Review. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
- ^ a b "Rob Redding Returns to WAOK in Atlanta". Radio Facts. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
- ^ a b Template:All Access
- ^ Galloway, Jim (December 10, 2007). "On how Andy Young's comments on Obama came to light". Political Insider. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
- ^ "10 questions with.... Robert "Rob" Redding Jr". Redding News Review. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
- ^ mediabistro.com
- ^ maynardije.org
- ^ reddingnewsreview.com
- ^ "WAOK's Rob Redding gets Rush Limbaugh's attention". AJC. Archived from the original on January 27, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2011.


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Why? Does your current tax residency not have a dual taxation agreement with Greece that allows, broadly speaking, that paying tax in one jurisdiction means you don't pay tax in the other?Stavros21 wrote:Transferring my tax residency to Greece would double my tax obligations. Ouch!
Stavros21 wrote:Your experience over 10 years is comforting news. I hope this 'treatment' continues,......
Kilkis wrote:I make use of Greek services and infrastructure so I think it is reasonable to pay my taxes in Greece.
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Hi fellow musicians,
although I am no pro, more of a home recording singer/songwriter, I'd love to get some advice on this:
I want to build myself a new daw for Cubase SL3 and Halion 3
(ie. VST instruments and effects + sample libraries streaming)
shall I go for
1 what's known to work both yesterday and TODAY (for example socket 478 P4 + an intel chipset based motherboard)
2 a more futureproof setup, that may work today and prolly tomorrow (for example AMD64 socket 939 + an xx chipset based motherboard)
3 shall I wait a month or two? (new AMD64 stepping, fixing the dual channel memory issue, better motherboard revisions, maybe better prices)
maybe I'm a bit too cautious, or my timing is unlucky. Last time I upgraded, I think I was one of the last ones to buy a PIII, which was a bit underpowered comparing to the first P4 or Athlon XP rigs people was getting, I consciously chose stability rather then longevity or "bang for the bucks" ratio.
This old PIII 1,13 Ghz has served me well in the last three years, eventually hitting the wall now that I started appreciating cpu-hungry VST's and the joys of sample libraries.
Before I started making some serious research I thought I'd go with route 1, p4 3,0 Ghz or so, Asus mobo, 1 GB ram, amen, then I learned that the P4 Prescotts have heat (which also can equate to noise) issues, and that this new AMD64 socket 939 is the name of the game. Dual processors are a few months ahead and Windows XP 64-bit will be released before summer
other things that confuse me:
1 the socket 478 is an end of life platform. Socket 775: not an option, tricky to mount, no AGP, don't like the idea.
2 I'm a sucker for this new 64-bit thing to come, but when will I really need it?
3 I know for sure that my soundcard, an Echo Layla24, won't work with most of the via chipsets for AMD's socket 939, which means I'd have to chose a nforce3 based solution. To complicate things further, I'd rather not discard the Echo card, as I think it can serve me well for another year or two.
4 my dream about having 2 or even 4 GB ram is incompatible with the AMD64 current stepping, as the onboard memory controller rarely grants to run 4 dimms in dual at 400 Mhz FSB. As I wrote above this appears to be a stepping issue that will be fixed with the next generation, due to be released...yeah, that's the icing on the cake, it could take 2 weeks or 4 months for these babies to be released.
What do you think?
Thank you in advance!


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PORT CHESTER, N.Y. -- Want to know what love is? (And this isn't even a Valentine's Day story.)
For Foreigner, known for its myriad rock and roll tunes including "Juke Box Hero," "Feels Like The First Time," "Urgent," and "Hot Blooded," it's all about including the community -- and its fans -- in very personal ways. And so, for the second time on the Capitol Theatre stage, the group has invited the Port Chester High School Choir to join them when they perform Feb. 19 at 8 p.m.
Linda Ventura, choral director at Port Chester High School said her Select Choir, the advanced vocal ensemble at the high school, will be onstage singing "I Want to Know What Love Is" with the band. "We will be working with Foreigner to promote The Grammy Foundation, which raises money and public awareness for music in public schools all over the country," she said.
In addition, students will help sell the band's "Greatest Hits" CD before and after the concert, with all monies going directly to the Foundation. "Foreigner is dedicated to raising funds in conjunction with the Grammy Foundation in Los Angeles to help keep music education alive in our nation's schools," explained John Lappen, Foreigner's marketing director?. "It's important to the band that kids have access to a well-rounded education which includes exposure to the arts in education."
With 10 multi-platinum albums and 16 top 30 hits, Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, now exceeding 75 million. "I Want to Know What Love Is" remains one of its number one songs.
Tickets range from $35 to $95. For more information go to www.thecapitoltheatre.com or www.ticketfly.com , or charge by phone at 877-4-FLY-TIX (435-9849).
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I also don't get why a Canadian would take pleasure in this since 45 is saying Canada has it too good in NAFTA. Then again, like Mexico turning away from the US to Argentina likewise Canada will probably turn to the EU and the US will have isolated itself from the world. Oh well rust belt...winning....
BruceP wrote:Did you not read what I wrote?
We won't turn away from our biggest foreign market and largest trading partner. Trudeau's stooges are going to get schlonged to the long-term benefit of Canada. And not sorry to disappoint you, but no, the US will not be "isolated" from Canada. It'll actually be the opposite.
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AllOfMp3 dot com sued for $1.65 Trillion!
Posted by rexdixon on December 23, 2006
That sure beats the $1.65 Billion that Google bought YouTube for. AllOfMp3 is being sued for $150,000 per song for the 11 million that were downloaded from June to October of 2006. That comes out to $1.65 TRILLION! What do I think?
This is nothing more then smoke and mirrors. Yes, just an elaborate cat and mouse game the RIAA is so good at playing. Do they really think they are going to get $1.65 Trillion or even $1.65? Come on now, readers think about this.
The RIAA is suing a company that is based in Russia. The same Russia that was the main country of the former Soviet Union. Do you really think the RIAA has any jurisdiction there? No. They are powerless, so they what did they do? They did what they always do best. Sue. That's all they really are, just a bunch of lawyers that have no clue about music. They just want to protect your rights, or the rights of the musician. That is their line and has been for years. What is it really? A LIE.
Why? Because the record labels that are suing – EMI, Sony, BMG, Universal Music – all want to make more money for themselves. It's obvious to me. How much of that $150,00 is going to trickle down to the artist? I can bet, it will be like oh let's just say $0.
I don't feel sorry for the record companies, they have raped musicians for years. The musicians are doing no worse then they did before AllOfMp3 dot com. By the way, has the RIAA read the Russian law books? Have they read how they treat online distribution of music? Basically, it's legal what they are doing.
The RIAA is not good for music or the musicians that bust their butts to record and write it. They are in it for themselves, and the record company interests only. They aren't there to give 1 cent to the artist that deserves like $149,999.99 of that $150,000. The artist and musician won't see one penny of it. Instead, the RIAA might give that 1 cent to the musician.
The smart reader will go to AllOfMp3 dot com and download all they can. The RIAA isn't about to turn over any money they will collect to the rightful owners of that money – and that to course is – the artist and musician. Interesting side note – I just saw Twisted Sister on some late show – they did a Christmas song – Come All Ye Faithful. Quite interesting. 🙂
7 Responses to "AllOfMp3 dot com sued for $1.65 Trillion!"
December 23, 2006 at 4:04 pm
What is the purpose of RIAA & record companies when internet can be the distribution medium for songs & movies directly from the artists?
March 14, 2010 at 1:41 pm
ООО..давно искал. Забрал в букмарки. Автор, пишите почаще..не забрасывайте блог…Кстати не мешало бы диз поменять.
March 26, 2010 at 12:34 am
Блин, столько написал, а не отправилось…видимо глюк вордпресса. Вообщем забукмартил ресурс 🙂
March 29, 2010 at 5:18 am
Пост супер!!! Ждём продолжения 🙂
March 31, 2010 at 7:51 am
Хороший сайт. Столько много инфы тут нарыл для себя.


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How To Root Nexus S With A Single Click Using Superboot
Famous Android hacker and developer Paul O' Brien has just released Superboot for Nexus S on Modaco Forum, which allows anyone to root their device in a single click. Superboot is a boot.img that needs to be flashed to gain full root access on your Nexus S device. The benefit of this procedure is that even novice users can root their Nexus S without having to flash the system partition, using ADB, messing up with contents of data partition, overwriting the shipped ROM on your device, and so on.
The procedure to root your Nexus S using Superboot is dead simple. The first step is to download the Superboot.zip file from the bottom of this post. Now connect your device and put it in bootloader mode. To put you device in bootloader mode, turn off the phone and then turn on by pressing and holding both 'power' and 'volume up' button.
Once done, simply extract Superboot.zip and double-click 'install-superboot-windows.bat' as shown in the above screenshot. Congratulations, you just rooted your Nexus S device. Wasn't it easy?
Important Note: If you are using retail version of Nexus S, you will need to first unlock the bootloader using './fastboot-windows-oem unlock'. If this does not unlock your bootloader, follow the guide posted here. Keep in mind that OEM unlock wipes your device (including the SD storage).
Mac users: Open a terminal window and navigate to the directory containing the extracted files, and type 'chmod +x install-superboot-mac.sh' followed by './install-superboot-mac.sh'
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A Merry-Go Round of Emotions at the Shakespeare Theater – Where Dramas Come Aliv
A Theatrical Experience of a Lifetime
Orlando is full of fun things to do and experience. If a day watching some of the greatest play's in the world sounds appealing to you, then the Orlando Shakespeare Theater is a must-go destination. Here you will experience the complete merry-go-round of emotions from grief, love, happiness and more as the crew and cast work to provide credible and professional reenactments of some of the most well-known plays in the world.
Here you will be brought right into the classic works created by William Shakespeare and have life brought to musicals, melodramas, masques, tragedies, comedies and more. In addition to watching the action, you can also become involved with professional training and workshops offered to any prospective thespian. You never know, you may be the very next star on stage.
With over 25 seasons, the Shakespeare Theater in Orlando has consistently delivered the very best theater experience that is available in all of Central Florida. The theater offers a variety of modern classics, plays, new works and plays specifically designed for children.
The theater is located in Loch Haven Park of Orlando, which is located near the intersection of Princeton Street and North Mills Avenue. Each season the Orlando Shakespeare Theater provides educational summer camps, four different theaters, workshops and over 326 performances.
History of the Theater
The theater is not a new arrival to Orlando; in fact it began in the 1970s when a University of Central Florida professor, Dr. Stuart Omans, led a bus full of experienced and hopeful theater students to various schools in the Orlando area to perform some of the most well-known Shakespeare plays. By the 1980s Professor Omans had created an extensive deal Walt Disney World and the city of Orlando in order to hold the actual performances at the Lake Eola bandshell, which was the birth of the Shakespeare Festival.
While the location holds a number of educational programs, readings, workshops and a number of other special events, there are also four different professional theaters offered by the Orlando Shakespeare Theater.
The theaters are as follows:
- Santos Dantin Studio Theater: seats a total of 75 people;
- Mandell Theater: Seats a total of 99 people;
- Goldman Theater: Seats a total of 118 people;
- Margeson Theater: Seats a total of 324 people.
Each of these individual theaters is located inside of the actual John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center that is located in the Loch Haven Park area of Orlando.
The main season for the theater takes place between the months of August and April. Every season you can expect to experience the following:
- A signature series consisting of six shows;
- A young audience three show theater;
- Harriett's play series, which consists of three shows.
The Orlando Shakespeare Theater is located at 812 East Rollins in Orlando. You can visit their site at http://www.orlandoshakes.org/ to find out more information regarding the shows that will be going on during your visit to the area.
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Bluefin Taking Over?
Lori Patella is office manager for the American Angler. She sent this photo today of Drew Grindley, a Catchy Tackle partner whos out fishing on the rig. Drew used one of his companys new jigs, a Sea Strike 33 in blue zebra paint to take a whopper bluefin of 152 pounds! The boat will be in with the fish Wednesday morning, if youd like to see it. Heres what the report from the Angler said:
Photo here...
After a long day behind the wheel the machines looked pretty blank most of the day, just about the time we were all falling asleep or right in the middle of a movie we stumbled upon a sonar mark. These particular marks did not look like small fish, they stuck with the boat for just few minutes but that was long enough for Drew Grindley to hook one of those Cow Bluefin. Once we got on the move again to look around it didn't take long before the sonar lit up again with a school of Yellowfin Tuna just wanting to get it on!
Yellowfin Count Correction
Linda Palm brought an error in the seasonal big tuna report to my attention. The total catch of 200-pound yellowfin tuna for 2004-05 was 457, not 367 as stated. The smaller number represents only those fish caught by the top three boats: Red Rooster III, Excel and Royal Polaris. The larger number of 457 adds the yellowfin caught by the rest of the fleet, and is the number that should be compared with the 200 or so that come in a wonderful year.
I apologize to all affected for the error.


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I love making these little accordian albums. They have 8 sides and fold up like an album or stand up as a display. I am making this one as a gift and I wanted to share the instructions with you. It would take the length of my blog to explain each page in as much detail as I usually do so I'm going to give you measurements and hope that the pages are fairly self explanatory. There are a couple of tips to using this type of album, one thing is that you want to make sure that all your pages are going the same way so keep checking that as you go. Make sure that your first page opens on the right. I have had friends who put it on with the opening to the left, whoops. Another tip is to use Tombow or glue dots to attach your paper, since this book gets handled a lot and doesn't have page protector. You really want the paper to be on securely. Complete the whole page before gluing it to the book. I used the retiring paper Whoops a Daisy. It's the best paper for this book because when you cut your 12 by 12 papers into fourths it has the most beautiful decorated corners. Make sure you distress all the pieces of paper in this book so that the pattern papers don't compete with each other.
For the cover I cut three papers, one pattern 6 by 6, one pattern 4 by 4 and one 3 x 3 cardstock. You can see I tipped the second paper into a diaogonal. These three papers form the background for either your title or a pretty flower.
For the flower I used hydrangea ink and my Endless Friendship stamp set. Yes, you can stamp directly on paper flowers. Stamp your image randomly around the flower, not overlapping too much, a little goes a long way. You can distress the edges of the flower with a sponge tool and the hydrangea ink.
Punch out a 1 1/2 inch and a 1 1/4 inch circle out of cardstock, layer them in the center of the flower and add a circle window charm. (The square window charms are being sold dirt cheap in the clearance sale right now). Use Tombow generously on the back of the flower and press it down dead center on your page.
For page two cut a 6 by 6 pattern paper, 5 1/2 by 5 3/4 cardstock, trim one edge with a border punch. Glue the cardstock to the left side of the pattern paper so that it will have good balance when you attach 8 to 10 brads down the right side. I put mine right in the lacy border. Stamp a nice little phrase down at the left hand corner. My theme for this book is friendship. I used our January stamp of the month (this is a sneak peek) True Friends stamp set.
For page three cut a 6 by 6 pattern paper and a 4 1/2 by 4 1/2 piece of cardstock. Notice how that Whoops a Daisy paper has the beautiful flowers perfectly lining the corner. Use a corner rounder on the cardstock and distress. Stamp a pretty complimentary design (again from Endless Friendship) along the opposite corner and attach with hydrangea ink. If you have the wiry sponge tool, make tiny hydrangea specks all over the mat. Add three sparkles to the right and bottom of the mat.
For page four cut 6 by 6 pattern paper, 4 1/4 by 4 1/4 cardstock, 4 by 4 pattern paper and a light colored cardstock 3 by 3. Stamp an image randomly over the light colored cardstock, Endless Friendship here in ocean ink.
Attach that piece 1/8 inch from both top and left hand side of your 6 by 6 paper. Add the 4 by 4 pattern paper to it's mat then attach them 3/4 inch from bottom and right hand side. Stamp a pretty flower in watermelon ink with a hydrangea ink stamped center and cut out. Attach with a pop dot to the upper right hand side of the page. Add a window charm to the middle and three waxy flax threaded buttonst to the bottom left of the page.
On page five you can use one of the pretty quotes and frames from the True Friends set (once you get it in January!!) as your title. Stamp in watermelon and hydrangea then carefully cut it out.
Cut a 6 by 6 pattern paper and two 2 3/4 by 2 3/4 pieces of light cardstock. Tilt those two pieces across the center of page as shown. Add your framed accent with pop dots to the upper left side of the page and decorate with six sparkles.
Page six requires a 6 by 6 pattern paper, three 2 1/2 by 2 1/2 cardstock squares. I textured mine with a dotted template and a Cuddlebug. You also need to cut a 4 by 2 piece of cardstock (I didn't emboss this piece). This piece is turned on it's side but basically you want to lay the strip down on one side 1/2 inch from border then layer the three squares over it, turning one diagonally, leaving room on one corner for the flowers.
Using the Endless Friendship stamp set, stamp three flowers with hydrangea and ocean, cut them out, put them on with glue dots (not pop dots) in the center of the flowers only so the petals slightly curl up. It's a very pretty 3-d look. Add circle window charms to the center. These photos don't do this page especially, justice. It's so gorgeous to layer cut out flowers like this.
On page seven cut a 6 by 6 pattern paper, a 4 1/2 by 4 1/2 pattern paper and two 6 by 1 inch strips of cardstock. Put the strips as shown, 1/4 inch from the sides of the page. Stamp another of the cute friendship phrases from True Friends with it's frame on some white paper. Use your wiry brush to add speckles, cut out and then use pop up dots to attach it to the upper left hand side of the page. Add a couple of sparkly brads to the upper right strip.
The eighth pages is very easy, cut a 6 by 6 pattern paper, 1 by 6 cardstock strip, and a 5 by 5 cardstock square. Stamp those pretty leaves from Endless Friendship on the corners in hydrangea ink. Attach strip to left hand side about a 1/4 inch from the edge. Put mat right in the center of the page and add five small sparkles at the bottom right. When you are finished you will have a beautiful book already for photos. What a great gift!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Accordian Album - Whoops A Daisy
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by Colleen Cable
"Were you aware," the doctor asked, tracing a line with his finger down an X-Ray, "that you're spine has healed incorrectly?"
The doctor stared. "This kind of malformation suggests that the spine was broken and then either healed incorrectly or that the break wasn't treated at all. You're saying you can't remember breaking your neck?"
Buster thought back, reviewing his catalogue of pain. In the hazy photograph on the doctor's desk, he could see his spine, the shadows of vertebrae twisted like the roots of an old oak tree. He pressed his fingertips into the back of his neck. It was true. He could feel the gnarled bones between his shoulders veering from center. He had never thought anything of it before.
He flicked through possibilities, discarding some and considering others.
The doctor looked at him expectantly.
"Well, in my line of work, it could really be anything," he said. "You know, I think it was on Sherlock Jr. in '24. There was a gag where I grabbed onto a water tower – the kind that cools down train engines – but the damn spout was busted and more water gushed out than I thought. It sent me eight feet down to the ground and then pummeled me with water."
"And you didn't go to the hospital?"
"I just thought I had a crick in my neck," he said.
"We'll be more careful with you at MGM, I can assure you," the doctor said.
"Care's got nothing to do with it," he said.
The doctor nodded and gave him a manila folder with a copy of the X-Ray inside.
Buster had walked to the doctor's, a small outpost on MGM's lot, only a few blocks from his bungalow. Regular physicals were required now for all artists in the MGM stable, just one more thing that made Buster feel like a product on an assembly line.
He sauntered out of the office, nodding at people passing by, but quickly retreated back to his quarters. Once inside, he collapsed on his couch.
Buster took the X-Ray out of the folder and stared at it more intently. The more he stared, the more he felt the uneven knobs at the base of his neck, almost like they were shifting under his skin. He adjusted on the couch. From time to time, he did feel pain there. Sometimes he would turn his head too quickly or let it fall awkwardly in a gag and he'd feel a flash of heat right at that spot.
He suspected this break wasn't from falling from the water tower, even though it was true the spout broke and sent him flying. But that hadn't been the kind of pain when something breaks.
The real break came in 1907 and Buster was eleven, almost twenty years before. He remembered standing in the wings of the stage with his mother, waiting for their cue. Dancers in spangled costumes and acrobats in leotards rushed by them, trying to ready themselves for showtime. Buster, eleven at the time, shifted from one foot to another, feeling the floorboards accommodate his weight, hearing them sigh. His head was hot and itchy from the bald cap he wore. The glue was starting to melt slightly from his cheeks where red whiskers had been applied.
Some comedian was on stage at the moment, but Buster wasn't paying attention to the jokes. He looked out at the audience – full that night. Laughter swelled like a hushed roar. He didn't know the punch line. Had he missed it?
He watched his mother next to him, absent-mindedly fiddling with the valves on her saxophone and staring at something he couldn't identify.
"The Three Keatons are next up," the manager hissed. "Where's the third?"
"In the bathroom," Buster answered.
"He better piss fast," said the manager before he went to wrangle another act.
Where was Pop?
Another laugh from the audience.
He and his father were about to perform their famous knockabout routine where they were both Irishmen – one a boozy strongman and the other a rough-and-tumble midget.
Mom sidled closer to him and put a hand on his shoulder. Her other hand still pressed the valves, which reminded him of someone merely mouthing the words without saying them. He looked up at Mom whose eyes were on the comedian. Worry spun her forehead into a knot.
The stage door clanged open. Even the comedian on-stage flinched and quickly glanced into the wings. Buster looked behind him and saw Pop leaning against the metal door, his shirt hanging out of his pants and buttoned haphazardly. His hair was thrown onto his forehead, which Buster saw was shiny from sweat. Pop breathed heavily for a moment or two, then lumbered forward and put an arm around each of them. He looked like he'd been forty years in the desert.
"Ready kids?" he barked, then laughed slightly.
"Joseph," Mom tried to look him full in the face.
"Can't a man have a little fun?"
"Pop," Buster said. "Can you do it?"
"'Course!" He laughed again, but not in his usual earnest way. "Your Pop's always ready."
"Thank you folks!" The comedian on stage bowed and ran off into the wings, glancing toward the three of them. Pop tried to pat him on the back as he passed, but missed.
"Sonofabitch," Pop said.
Mom wrapped her entire hand around the saxophone until her fingers turned white.
"Next up, ladies and gentlemen, is an act that has traversed the entire country from New York City to Tuscaloosa to Portland. Please welcome the inimitable, the familial, the wonderful Three Keatons!" the manager announced from the stage.
Mom walked out first and nodded to the clapping audience. They quieted and she began to play. Mom was the first ever female saxophonist to grace the stage in the US. Her fingers moved with such confidence and dexterity across the valves. The only way you could tell she was even breathing was by the way her shoulders picked up at exactly the right moment so that the music never paused. She blew life into the thing.
Buster could hear Pop's bones creaking as he swayed. Or maybe it was just the ragged breathing. It was louder than Mom's sax. Pop was drenched in a sweet and salty odor – whiskey and sweat and day-old clothes. Buster fixated on a white button that had loosed itself from Pop's shirt that swung from a thin white thread over the landscape of cloth, stained and soaked and ravaged.
There was polite applause as Mom curtsied on stage. Buster remembered looking at her face and it was like it was etched in stone, grim. She only permitted a small smile before she began to walk stoically off-stage. Buster could tell her jaw was clenched as she tried to evaluate Pop.
"Ready, old boy?" Pop snarled.
Buster nodded. They'd be fine, he told himself. Pop was playing a drunk, so what did it matter that he actually was drunk? When Pop was as blotto as he was tonight, the throws and the hits and the stunts came more quickly and more aggressively than usual. He was a bull on nights like this. But Buster thought of the routine like a dance, and he was a damn good dancer.
"Joseph, you maybe shouldn't tonight," Mom whispered as she came off stage, but it sounded like a shout. The audience's applause was waning.
He made a sound like pffffft. "Don't be ridiculous."
Before Mom could make any more protests, Pop stumbled on-stage, waving to the crowd like a hammy politician. Buster and Mom shared a glance before she gestured for him to go on, shrugging her shoulders. "Be careful," she said. "Smells like whiskey tonight." Whiskey meant he'd be in a throwing mood, which was better than vodka, which meant punching. Buster knew how to roll out of a throw, take a fall, even when they came unexpectedly.
A stage-hand had moved their set on stage – a basic living room with a kitchenette in the corner. Pop banged around the kitchen at the start of their act. He threw pots and pans, searched in drawers and cupboards. "Where's the liquor?" he said with a thick Irish accent.
A smattering of laughter.
Buster walked in the prop door.
"Where's the liquor?" he asked again. Buster shrugged and went rummaging himself. "This kitchen is such a mess! It's no wonder I can't find anything."
Pop grabbed the mop and bucket from the corner. "Guess I'll clean up."
He started mopping, but Buster "accidentally" got in his way. Pop pushed him to the ground and growled "Get out of me way!" Then he jabbed Buster in the belly with the end of the mop, harder this time than it normally was, even when he was that deep in drink. Buster gasped, but then held his breath. His hands cupped the end of the pole, so that when Pop started using him as a human mop, rubbing him around the wooden floor, the handle pressed into his hands instead of his stomach. Buster turned his face out to the audience, who by that time usually were too shocked in their horror instead of laughter. Once they caught a look of the Buster's blank, affectless face, however, they started to giggle, which snowballed through the audience until they were howling. Pop shoved him here, there, waltzing with the mop with a boy stuck at the bottom.
When the bit was through, Buster got up and begrudgingly straightened his jacket, feigning belligerence. Pop then said, "Well, where have you been? Here I've been cleaning and all you've been doing is sitting on your arse!"
The audience ate it up.
Buster got huffy, then. He stomped around and pointed to the floor and then to his chest and shook his fists up at Pop. The height difference always got 'em.
Pop started ranting and raving about how useless Buster was. Slurring. Then Pop pushed him, but Buster ran through Pop's legs and tried to dodge.
In a flash, Pop picked him up by the seat of his pants and hurled him like a shot at the painted country backdrop behind them, off-set, but still on stage. Buster braced himself, allowing his body to go slack for the impact. He tucked his head so he could roll against the backdrop, but instead of feeling the soft resistance of the cloth, something solid jammed into the top vertebrae of his spine. Pain wrenched through his neck and hammered down his back and inside his head. He slid listlessly down onto the wooden stage. Buster clenched his jaw and slid his tongue over the back of every single tooth, trying to take his mind off the deep throb. He turned over and looked at the audience trying to keep his face composed, not letting the tears drip. His lip quivered and his throat became unbearably tight. He wanted to run off stage to his mother. He wanted to cry, was about to break character and start bawling. He was about to.
Pop came over and looked at him puzzled, his red-rimmed eyes squinted slightly. He lifted up the backdrop to reveal a brick wall behind it. Understanding washed over Pop's face like a sobering cold shower. He had thought the backdrop was further downstage, the brick wall should have been yards behind it.
In that moment it was as though the entire audience shared in a communal gasp, breath held, waiting to be told that it was okay to laugh, that this was all part of the act. Buster remembered wanting to scream at them that he was just a boy. He felt as though they were asking for it to be an act, otherwise, they would be implicit in what had just happened to him, conspirators. He looked up at Mom in the wings, biting her lower lip. Then he looked at Pop again.
Pop was sweating so much that it began dripping to the stage. He looked like he was about to cry too. Buster gave him a nearly imperceptible shake of the head. Keep it together, that shake said.
Buster had fallen asleep on the couch, waking up just as the sun was setting. He felt groggy and disoriented. He had fallen into that memory so often lately, but now the memory had become something different.
Buster had always believed that the body was a physical record of a life. Pop's hands were perpetually calloused from years of hammering wooden posts into the ground for tents or nailing up two-sheets and four-sheets on vaudeville. Mom never wore lipstick because she claimed her lips were forever chapped red from her sax mouthpiece. His wife Natalie said that no matter how many creams she used or doctors she saw, she would always have unsightly stretch marks up and down her abdomen from her pregnancies. Buster had a scar across his ankle from the time his shoelace got caught in a mechanized staircase while filming The Electric House and a missing fingertip from a time as a child when he got too invested in a clothing ringer and the machine snipped it right off.
He picked up the X-Ray photograph that had fallen to the floor. That night when his Pop threw him into that wall, he had been broken. He imagined the impact again and again, the spine snapping and then lodging together like two cars colliding. Car hoods accordianing, metal shrapnel and gears littering the road. Hot smoke rising out of the engines and the burnt smell of skidded rubber.
He couldn't help but see his body as a machine, like any other. It had a design, the skeleton made of muscle and angles. He was always able to figure out machines by taking them apart and reassembling once he knew the shape, the way pieces went and worked together. Machines could be fixed, made better. Buster believed the body was just the same.
He got up and walked across the long bungalow to his office area – big desk, chair, and bookshelves – and tacked the picture to the wall.
He had been broken, yes. And if he thought about it, he still was broken, the bones having never set right. He felt that familiar unease whenever he remembered laying on that stage floor, but he was also somehow thankful that there was a physical record. He felt as though his body remembered in a more meaningful way than his mind.
On stage that night, he turned on his side, trying to keep his head and neck perfectly still, and faced the audience, all still waiting for the outcome. In this instance too, Buster's body reacted for him.
Don't cry, it said to him. Keep the face. Keep the face.
And the audience laughed. It was all part of the act. He thought he would be angry at them, but he wasn't, couldn't be. This audience, this changing room of darkened faces, those fluttering hands that clap and those gaping mouths that laugh, had raised him in some way. They taught him what was funny.
Colleen Cable is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland MFA program in fiction. She writes mainly historical fiction and is working on a novel about the life of silent film icon, Buster Keaton. She lives in Washington, D.C.


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Czech artist David Cerny has created a giant middle finger sculpture aimed right at the government buildings of Prague. Cerny's oversized purple hand sculpture floats in the Vltava River, and is a shot at President Milos Zeman for his support of the Communist party. The artist wanted to drive his point across by making his work larger than life, ensuring that everyone would be able to see the politically-driven purple hand, even from afar.
The giant hand, which is made form paper, floats in Prague's main river adjacent to the Charles Bridge, and not far from the Prague Castle where President Zeman and his cabinet serve. Cerny and his team made the sculpture in his studio nearby, then transported it to the river where it was placed on a pontoon to float.
The exaggerated middle finger of the hand extends thirty-two-feet in the air like a spindly column. The soaring finger is Cerny's message to the Czech people and government, and is a gesture opposing a plan by leftist Social Democrats that could let post-Communists take power in the country (the first time since 1989). The artist decided to take matters into his own hands by literally flipping the bird at the president through art.
This isn't the first time Cerny's innovative sculptures have gained the attention of the public and media. Last year, his retrofitted double decker bus wowed the press by doing push ups for the Olympic crowd.
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text: This is the latest thing on the internet, and it concerns a book written in the 1800's about a boy named Baron Trump", and his adventures. Apparently, there is several parts to the story. His advisor is a wise man named "Don", and Baron travels to New York City, and the address happens to be the same place where Trump Towers is now located. In the story, Baron is able to time travel into the future, and the story also describes a president who is elected with a lot of controversy. Apparently, an eclipse plays into the story somehow, too. Something called 4Chan has come up with the conspiracy that thisbook somehow predicted Baron Trump and the Trump presidency. The old book is actually for sale on Amazon, with a forward from this year about the conspiracy that the Trumps might be time travelers.


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-Maren Juliane-
15 students and logistics professor Helena are meeting at 9 o´ clock on a wonderful day at the entrance of UPF. The minibus is already waiting to take them to see something that most of us have never seen: A warehouse with all its automated systems and complex processes. And not just a warehouse, but the warehouse from MANGO. An international brand with more than 2.700 shops worldwide and a history that began in Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona´s most famous shopping street, in 1984. And we had the chance to see the warehouse that delivers all these 2.700 shops in more than 105 countries worldwide. And I can tell you it is easier said than done!
Let me share with all of you what we have seen:
After getting our safety jackets we started our tour, guided by one of the warehouse managers, at the truck docks where all the products, coming from China, Cambodia, Morocco and Turkey, are received. All the boxes, that contain only one model and one size, are scanned and carried on belts either to the silo or to the multi-operational area, where basically everything that goes needs a manual treatment because it is "out of norm". Also remote quality checks are done in this area. Our tour goes on over the multi-operational area to the silo, where all boxes are stored. Everything that comes in from suppliers is stored on one side and everything that is prepared to go out to shops is stored on the other side. There is no people other than us in this huge room. Everything is controlled by machines, you hear a constant noise of robots moving. These robots store the incoming boxes wherever they find space.
After bombing the warehouse manager with questions that had arisen, we go on to the area where the orders are prepared, for me the most impressive part. People were working on 5 different production lines, where boxes from the silo came on in the order that orders had to be processed. That is to say, the boxes, from which some clothes were required to go to the shops, were automatically sent here, so that the workers had just to take out of the box the demanded number of that model and that size and place it on the belt. Those boxes that are not emptied during this transaction are sealed again and also put on the belt so that they would go back to the silo. The belt goes along different "baskets", where the right cloth in the right size, color and model is thrown in automatically, as the belt is programmed in a way that it "knows" which exact product to join with which exact order (orders that come from the shops). Then when the order is finished, that is to say, all demanded items are in the basket, automatically a label is sent to the basket with the shop´s address and the size of the box. These boxes would fly along, again with the help of belts, so that the workers could just take off the box they needed (labeled from A to D, A being the biggest and most used and D the smallest box) and place the items in the box. Then the box would go on a belt to a station where it is sealed and then carried to the silo again where it awaits its turn to go to the shop.
Within Spain, all shops, when closing, automatically send a report of what they have sold during the day and the warehouse in Parets del Vallés has to prepare exactly that amount during the night so that they have it on the shelves again the next day. Within Europe, the delivery is not that immediate, but still very fast.
Now, stuffed with a whole bunch of impressions and facts about logistics at Mango, we are invited to the cafeteria. Here, we could digest not only some coffee and pastry but also all the information that we had been given during the tour and ask any questions that we had left.
And pssssst, just between you and me, Mango is an expanding business looking for young, international and multilingual people like us that excel in logistics 😉
A great thank you to Helena for making this visit possible.


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By Paul Nazzaro, President, Advanced Fuel Solutions, Inc.
It won't be long before municipal fleets are out hauling salt spreaders to de-ice the roads. The general principle is this: salt lowers the freezing point of water; the more salt you add, the lower the freezing point; the colder the temperature, the more salt (or salt solution) it takes.
Those behind the wheel of the vehicle often assume that the same rule applies to the low temperature operability of their fuel—the colder the temperature, the more cold flow additive it takes to lower the cold weather operability of the fuel and eradicate fuel gelling. This misconception commonly leads to a phenomenon known as reversion, wherein the performance gains achieved by the proper dose of the additive are reversed due to an overdosing of the fuel.
While it's true, in a sense, that salt is to water as cold flow additives are to fuel, the two chemical interactions are actually very different. While salt inhibits crystallization of water molecules, cold flow additives modify the size and shape of the wax crystals that precipitate in diesel fuel under cold conditions, enabling the fuel to flow freely through engine components without plugging filters.
Calibrate With Care
It's important to recognize that cold flow additives are themselves waxy materials, meaning that they actually add more wax to the system. The dosage must therefore be carefully calibrated in order to achieve the optimal response. Raising the dosage above the recommended treat rate will offer little or no additional benefit, and, in extreme cases, will cause a reversion of low-temperature properties that can leave the fuel even worse off than its pre-treated state.
Fuel can generally be over-treated with any kind of additive, in any type of application. High levels of certain lubricity improvers can react with contaminants (sodium, calcium, etc.) to form materials that cause filter plugging. Going too high with a corrosion inhibitor in the presence of the same contaminants can cause internal injector deposits. In short, every category of additive has a treat rate that is too high. Overdosing—particularly in combination with common fuel contaminants—can result in a loss of engine performance and fuel efficiency, and, worse, may damage expensive engine components.
Overdosing can happen for any number of reasons, at any point in the supply chain—at the refinery, due to (or in response to) an 'upset'; at the terminal, due to a control valve malfunction at the rack; or at the pump, where a driver adds a bottled product assuming that more is better, or accidentally treats fuel that has already been treated upstream.
Whether you're that municipal fleet manager mentioned above or anyone in the business responsible for diesel equipment functionality in cold weather, it's up to you to ensure your fuel's performance, regardless of quality assurances proclaimed by your supplier.
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Stay on Top of Things
While working with established fuel and additive suppliers is a good start, it does not eliminate the need for diligent oversight. If you're working with suppliers that pre-blend your diesel at the rack, make it a point to understand their operability expectations and declarations. If you choose to buy and treat your own fuel, be sure to randomly and periodically have your product screened by an analytical laboratory so you can predict what the performance levels will be in the field. If you have high blood pressure and take medication, you likely have periodic screenings to determine if the medication is working at the prescribed dosage; why wouldn't you do the same for your fuel?
Not all diesel fuels are created equal, nor are the additives used to enhance them. Diesel fuel comes with a wide range of cloud points and physical properties, some more suitable for cold weather treatment than others. Several years ago, you might have been able to source a single digit cloud point diesel fuel. Today, that would be like finding a needle in a haystack, not impossible but not the norm, unless of course an upstream participant modified the diesel cloud with kerosene, an expensive and unreliable option for managing a diesel fuel's tolerance to cold weather. Likewise, cold flow enhancing additive packages can have very different properties, some more advanced than others. For instance, new technology is emerging with advanced polymers and synergists that suspend wax that would otherwise precipitate out of fuel during extended equipment shutdowns. These wax anti-settling agents keep the heavy paraffin in the fuel from settling to the bottom of the tank, preserving the flow rate of fuel after a vehicle has been sitting idle. A well-rounded cold flow package will also include a component to address moisture, the most common contaminant of all.
How Do You Really Know?
If you wish to adopt a theory that an effective cold flow-enhancing additive can deliver an 8ºF to 12ºF drop below the fuel's base cloud point, then you would agree that winter operability temperatures would range between 0ºF and -10ºF. Additive providers can make misleading claims and exaggerate the performance of their products all day because the vast majority of diesel fuel buyers do not conduct their own oversight or analyze the performance of the additives they buy. With little if any knowledge of operability points and the variability associated with them, most diesel buyers can only hope that the seller has prepared them for the worst.
How these additives work is quite simple, they suspend wax that may precipitate out of the fuel during extended equipment shutdown. That municipal fleet manager we keep picking on buys a load on Thursday or Friday afternoon, heads home for the weekend, and the New England winter hits hard. Sustained single digit temperatures grip the region. The fuel now sits idle in an above ground storage tank with a fuel rated with a cloud point of +12 ºF while the weekend temperatures were +4 ºF or worse -4 ºF. Without a wax anti-settling agent, that wax in the diesel fuel becomes so prevalent that it drops to the bottom of the tank awaiting for the first truck to load Monday morning. The diesel operator begins fueling his truck at a much reduced flow rate because of the increased viscosity. What's next? A plugged dispenser filter, then the call to the supplier ranting that the fuel… "well, you know the rest of this story."
Additive components combine to provide a multifaceted prevent defense to ensure "go in the cold" performance. But remember, more is not always better. Start by working with reputable fuel and additive suppliers, know your recommended additive treat rates, and monitor your fuel—both in the field and through laboratory screenings—to ensure that proper additive levels are used. Like a well-rounded additive package, a well-rounded oversight process will help maximize "up time" for your fleet no matter how low the temperature drops.
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Browsing, DNS and duplicate IPs Oh My!
I recently upgraded to current and also more recently have built a new Windows server to use for work and development with my Slackware box being a virtual desktop running on a Windows 7 host . The last few weeks since I built my new server and upgraded my desktop to current have been a mixture of either being away for work or being without power for a little over 6 days due to massive Midwest storms. Both of these have left me without a chance to really configure everything fully to my liking.
So the last couple days I have been home and able to spend more time on my desktop and I noticed something any application which required network access was painful to work with. Everyone of them would 'sputter', sometimes work great for a few minutes and then freeze for a few then work great again etc but my host had no networking problems at all. I ran ping tests and noticed the same thing there, so I began troubleshooting and did the following
1. Check resolv.conf for valid nameservers
2. Disabled loading of IPV6 module.
3. Disabled IPV6 in Moz
4. Checked interface settings, then it hit me.
What's the interface settings look like on my new Windows Server? Whammo, duplicate IP addresses. Once I adjusted the IP address on the server everything began working perfectly. This was an easily avoidable configuration error and took a couple hours to fix because I was certain it was due to the Upgrade to current or this being a weird issue with 64b Slack and so time was wasted researching that instead which I never should have assumed.
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Enterprise Resource Planning software has been with us for more than two decades now and that's a long time in ICT.
The term was (according to Wikipedia) coined by Gartner in 1990 and derived from MRP (materials requirements planning). Basically ERP software is a suite designed to deliver integrated business functionality, as opposed to a point solution designed to deliver a specific set of functions.
Almost since the time ERP software was christened it has faced threats from what are loosely termed "best-of-breed" software providers, companies that really specialise in delivering software to distinct market and functional niches. That threat continues as ERP vendors struggle to be all things to all businesses by adding new modules and deepening the functionality of the ones they already have.
The emergence of cloud computing is a more recent threat. First, there were SaaS providers, such as RightNow, targeting the ERP space directly. Then there were SaaS CRM providers, such as Salesforce.com, sidling up to the ERP market with platform as a service offerings and developer communities offering add-ons to CRM that encroach on the traditional ERP space.
The ERP vendors fought back and most offer a SaaS alternative, but the fact remains, full blown ERP does not necessarily answer all needs.
Pharmaceutical manufacturer API Consumer Brands, which runs a plant in Manukau City, for instance, runs a legacy MRP system BPIX on IBM iSeries boxes. This delivers ERP functionality, but the company recently implemented Infor SCM Advanced Scheduler to better plan and manage its manufacturing operations and address a large backlog of orders.
General manager Peter Day says the company had been struggling for up to six months to gain visibility into capacity issues at the plant -- using Excel spreadsheets to do the analysis. API was looking at "lean manufacturing" but there was a lack of information on why the plant was running at reduced capacity.
The company wanted minute by minute reports on activity at the plant, which employs 140 on three round-the-clock shifts five days a week.
Day describes the implementation as the "start of the journey". The project is expected to increase production capacity by 20 percent when it goes live late in October 2009.
"Hopefully it will give feedback information and get the plant moving properly," he says.
So why did API opt for a best of breed solution rather than ERP? According to Day no ERP system provides the kind of information he needs, including floortime planning. He says ERP systems will flag issues, but mostly they are issues you are already aware of. What was needed was what he describes as "planning against constraints".
"The Infor SCM Advanced Scheduler will allow us to completely change our approach, freeing up resource, production lines and labour. We will now be able to focus on the job requirements rather than a daily schedule. which we just couldn't do before," he says.
So while some businesses still find value in specialised packages, others are looking at non-traditional suppliers of ERP software, many of whom are emerging from the cloud and platform as service sectors, but also from the CRM space where "application platforms" are emerging..
At this year's Microsoft Tech Ed conference in Auckland, for instance, ERMLive CEO Donald Hastie demonstrated an employee relationship management (ERM) system built on Microsoft's CRM framework, now dubbed xRM. The "x" in xRM means you, the developer, can fill in the gap. The "x" could be a team, a relationship or a process.
Christchurch-based Hastie says he truly believes Microsoft's CRM framework and Workflow Foundation is a development platform and he has been sold on it in that use since he started on it three and a half years ago.
He says any application where you can build data models inside a configurable framework would lend themselves to such uses.
Hastie says legal practice management systems are an obvious candidate for this approach, but he says he can easily see how to develop general ledger and stock control systems on the same foundation and, he suspects, in Salesforce.com as well.
ERMLive scored its first New Zealand site in 2008 and Hastie claims to have since closed another 15, beating the major ERP players in many deals. Customers include the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, Intergen, ASP Ship Management, P&O Maritime, NZ Correspondence School, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Wellington Institute of Technology, Loyalty NZ and Westland Co-operative Dairy Company.
Salesforce.com calls its platform Force.com and bills it as "The fastest way to build business apps and websites". A quick flick through the site shows Salesforce is rapidly moving away from its CRM roots, with fleet management applications, project management and a survey application.
Fujitsu, for instance, has built an application on the platform (glovia.com) that deals with the post-sales process: order management, shipping, billing and returns. Similarly, Coda 2go offers just what Hastie was talking about: accounts payable, receivable, general ledger and invoicing.
Salesforce.com's New Zealand country manager, Aden Forrest, says Coda was one of the largest ERP players in Europe, but had to replatform. The company decided to move to the Force platform to gain speed to market and access to Saleforce's user base.
Forrest says Saleforce.com is targeting the CRM market, but partners on Force.com are extending into other areas.
He says Salesforce's strategy is to build an open platform and provide connectors to many of the most popular ERP and accounting packages, to help users of such software get more out of their investment.
ERP providers deliver for shared services
The drive for shared services both within and between organisations is accelerating, with government cost-cutting forcing some agencies to rethink ICT delivery and the economic downturn hitting the private sector.
HealthAlliance provides ICT services to three District Health Boards and more could be about to join in the search for increased efficiencies in delivery. The organisation provides purchasing, inventory, logistics, self service, project accounting and many more functions using Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.9.
Formed in 2002, the three DHBs involved tried to adopt the best each had to offer in establishing the shared services organisation, says head of business solutions Kathy Frame. On the systems side, Waitemata was seen as leading with its Oracle implementation.
"It wasn't just about applications, but about converging on a single process" Frame says.
One key challenge in the organisation is managing capital spending and also reporting, she says. Project management is being targeted to alleviate this and Frame says Oracle delivers a powerful standard application with configuration option to allow different delegated authorities to be created and managed.
Another strength of the software is in enabling workflows.
Frame says release 12 of Oracle is expected to deliver huge benefits for shared services environments with an application structure built to support such users.
It is also expected to deliver a central place to manage customers and suppliers and further reduce duplication.
Neil Padley, general manager, corporate HR shared services at Air New Zealand says his company runs PeopleSoft 8.9 for human capital management and financials. He says the focus for his shared service unit is on continued automation of manual processes to eliminate activities that don't add value to the organisation.
Air New Zealand is looking at an upgrade in the next 12 months to version 9 or 9.1, which Padley says would certainly support shared services.
"Shared services are about the customer and about delivering process improvements," he says.


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We're delighted to announce that the Google Zeitgeist films we worked on with adam&eveDDB have won a people's choice Webby award for Best Editing! This a particularly great award for this project as was a major editing job, with many editors working around the clock with lots of different material for all the different country versions created.
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Enforcement is being accompanied by a statewide public awareness effort in the form of radio & internet advertising coupled with the Buckle Up Stencil Project. The Buckle Up Stencil Project is a partnership between OHS and local businesses. The stencil serves as a visual reminder to Buckle Up before leaving the participating business or organizations parking lot and is an image of two hands clicking a seat belt together with the works Buckle Up underneath. OHS has partnered with Dover Downs, Delaware Army National Guard, Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Perdue Farms Inc in Milford, Milford High School, and Pepsi Bottling Ventures in Harrington to stencil their locations.
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You Don't Need Any Other Article, This One Has The Best Dog Advice
Is your dog full of mischief? Does he chew on the furniture and hide your shoes when he is not supposed to? It's probably past time that your dog is given a lesson in how to behave properly. To learn what else your dog needs, read on.
Neuter or spay the dog. Studies show that these operations help your dog live longer and can reduce cancer risks. Not only that, but neutered and spayed dogs feel less need to wander away from home, so they are not as likely to be hit by a vehicle or become lost.
Avoid giving your pup table scraps. That encourages him to beg and makes him not want his own food. Scraps from the table obesity, digestive problems, or other health issues in dogs. Train your dog to sit far away from your dining room so that you and your family won't be tempted to feed it table scraps.
Praise your dog when he behaves or performs in the way that you have been training him to. Make your dog understand you are pleased with the behavior and expect to see it again. This also shows the dog that good behavior will earn praise.
You won't just stop your dog from shedding on your carpet if you brush him on a daily basis. Your dog's coat will be super shiny and beautiful if you brush them every day. Brushing distributes the natural oils of your dog's fur evenly and it promotes the health of his skin as well.
Make sure your dog always has trimmed nails. If they get too long and start to curl, the result could be painful injuries to the nail beds and your dog's paws. You can use store bought clippers to trim them yourself. If you don't feel comfortable doing this on your own then you can hire a groomer to do it for a little bit of money.
Adequate exercise is an important consideration for dog owners. Exercise and play are necessary for a dog. They keep the dog fit and healthy, both physically and mentally. Even the smallest amount of exercise, such as throwing a ball, will be good for your pup and you. Exercising with your dog will help you establish a bond with it.
Becoming a foster home is a good way to work with dogs without committing to one on a long term basis. Shelters are full of animals who need a loving home, and there's not room to hold all of them. You can give one a home for a while to help the cause and you can also keep it if you like it!
If your veterinarian prescribes medication or special care for your pet, make sure you follow their instructions to the letter. Your dog likely will not enjoy wearing a cone, but the vet prescribed it for good reason. If you fail to listen to your vet, your dog may end up sick or injured.
Your dog needs plenty of affection. Most of the time you are paying attention to the very bad things they do and overlooking the good. This may spell trouble in the future. Instead, make sure you pet or praise your dog five times more often than you scold him. Your dog will more likely showcase proper behavior when you do that.
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ABUJA 001688 SIPDIS DEPT FOR EB/CBA AND AF/W DEPT OF COMMERCE FOR ADVOCACY CENTER DEPT OF ENERGY FOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EINV, ENRG, PREL, ETRD, BEXP, ECON, NI SUBJECT: NIGERIA: LETTER FROM PRESIDENT OBASANJO EXPLAINS AWARD DECISION FOR DELTA II AND III POWER PLANT PROJECT REF: LAGOS 713 1. Summary. In a July 6 letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham (original forwarded to AF/W for transmittal to DOE), President Obasanjo provided the most comprehensive and clear explanation for the reasons behind the decision to award Marubeni/Hitachi the contract to rehabilitate the Delta II and III Power Plants. The office of the President asked the Embassy to forward the letter, which asserts that Marubeni/Hitachi's technical specifications and delivery time best fulfilled the project requirements desired by the GON. End Summary. 2. On July 6, President Olusegun Obasanjo presented the Embassy with a letter for Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham regarding the rehabilitation of the Delta II and III Power Plant. The six-page letter details the reasons behind the GON decision to award the contract to Marubeni/Hitachi, rather than to General Electric Energy Services or Babcock Electric Projects. 3. The letter explains that Marubeni's proposal provided for the following: full replacement of the existing 5 GE turbines with 12 brand new Hitachi H-25 gas turbines; replacement of existing Hitachi generators and generator protection panels with new ones; a maintenance package including training and deployment of an on-site technical advisor for 12 months; replacement of the existing turbine control system with the GE Mark V speedtronic; and reinstallation of the Inlet Air System. The entire proposal was scheduled for completion in 24 months with a total cost of USD 123.75 million and included a deferred and staggered payment incentive. 4. The letter says that General Electric's proposal offered three options. At the low end, GE offered to maintain the current old technology by replacing parts with identical parts. At the high end, GE proposed upgrading the technology by installing new gas turbine components, advanced seals, and the load gear box for an overall improvement in performance of 16 percent of output and 5.5 percent on heat rate over the current base load capacity of the units. The proposal also included upgrading the control and protection system of each of the units, refurbishment of plant equipment, and an Operation and Maintenance (O&M) and Long Term Service (LTSA) agreement. The time-frame given for completion was 16 months for a total cost of USD 90 million. The letter asserts that GE estimated that total replacement of existing generators, as offered by Marubeni/Hitachi would take 24-36 months (a potentially longer timeframe than the 24 months proposed by GE). 5. Babcock Electrical Projects, the letter explained, proposed a solution that was considered technically inadequate to address the identified problems with the power plants. The Babcock proposal included rebuilding the units to a condition comparable with that of a major overhaul and did not include long term maintenance. The letter also mentioned that NEPA could not establish any record of Babcock's previous performance on a similar project. 6. The letter also questions GE's ability to execute the contract on time. In the letter, President Obasanjo notes that Delrohm/General Electric failed to execute on time the 1998 contract to rehabilitate six gas turbine units in Delta IV. The letter mentions that the NEPA Technical Board also had expressed concerns over the reported lack of commitment on the part of the Delrohm/GE experts deployed on the project. Therefore, the letter infers that the decision to award the Delta II and III rehabilitation contract to Marubeni/Hitachi was based on that company's technical specifications and timeline as well as on the GON's past experience with General Electric in Nigeria. 7. The letter briefly explains why the GON decided to revise the Egbin Power Plant contract in favor of Marubeni/Hitachi and against NAIRDA. According to the letter, the original award lacked credibility and transparency. In addition, NEPA had identified NAIRDA as an air-conditioner retailer and maintenance company and, therefore, lacked experience in this area. The letter states that there was no evidence of any affiliation between this company and General Electric and that GE was not party to the tender and was to participate only as a sub-contractor to NAIRDA, if NAIRDA so chose. 8. President Obasanjo closed the letter by writing "The Government of Nigeria appreciates the concerns of the American business community in ensuring the maintenance of transparency in our bidding and tender process in order to encourage investments by American companies in Nigeria. In this regard, I assure you that my administration will continue to welcome to our country all genuine investors willing to do business with us in accordance with the level of business practices accepted internationally." 9. Comment. President Obasanjo's letter, in response to Secretary Abraham's March 2001 advocacy letter sent on behalf SIPDIS of GE, is the only written response we have received on any recent advocacy case and the most complete and comprehensive explanation we have received regarding this particular case. GE has claimed that, as the lowest bidder, it was more deserving of the contract and was convinced that the project award was influenced by the Japanese Prime Minister's visit to Nigeria, in addition to a visit by the CEO of Marubeni. Although President Obasanjo's letter admits that GE was the lowest bidder, it concludes that Marubeni was awarded the contract because it offered the best technical specifications and the fastest delivery time. Post will pouch copy of letter to Secretary Abraham. End Comment. Jeter
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Debden Barns, Elder Street, Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB11 3JY (3 miles, 5 km)
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A beautiful 17th century barn filled with antiques & for the home and garden. The Courtyard Caffe is a popular meeting place serving snacks & light lunches.
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Coming into town with a group of friends to see the radiators reunion shows at tips....late nights which will probably turn into late wake ups. Have been to Nola numerous times....Planning on eating 2 meals a day ( with a snack if I'm lucky)....Friday/Saturday.
Early meals thinking about Elizabeth's, eat, casamentos, camelia grill, coops , atchafalaya, liuzzas by the track ( snacks could be sharing a Johnny's po boy or something from butcher)
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Believe it or not but today is the 10-year anniversary of Wizards of Waverly Place and the creator of the show is spilling secrets in light of the occasion. Todd Greenwald chatted with International Business Times about that crazy hat song fans started to know and love in the first season of Wizards and how Selena Gomez and Jennifer Stone put their own spin on it. But, before we get to the good stuff, it may help if we travel back in time a bit. What actually was the hat dance? It was a little quirky song that Selena and Jennifer's character would sing every time they saw a hat. Sometimes, Selena's on-screen mom would join in too.
The song went a little something like this. "What's that? A hat? Crazy, funky, junky hat. Overslept, hair unsightly. Trying to look like Keira Knightley. We've been there, we've done that, we see right through your funky hat." Yes, bizarre but incredibly catchy and lovable all around. Todd explained that even though the writers may have come up with the words, it was Selena and Jennifer who were the masterminds behind the dance that went along with it.
He said the song was supposed to be Selena and Jennifer's characters spin on a secret handshake, "It was to highlight a Harper and Alex bonding moment, to show that they had some history together. It came out of the writers' room, but where it really came to life was when Jennifer and Selena gave it the dance."
He continued, "It was just a collaboration of a silly line of words, brought to life during run-through by Jennifer and Selena. They gave it the life...You don't write that stuff with the intent of it being taken that way. But it's always great to see that." Just so everyone knows, the writers of the show didn't sit in a room thinking of this dance themselves. LOL. Todd admitted he actually gets asked that question by fans all the time. Can you imagine?!
Now that we've got the full deets about the hat song and dance, it makes the whole thing even sweeter. Not only does it show how much fun Selena and Jennifer had on set but also what their relationship and friendship was like when the cameras stopped rolling. They really weren't just co-stars they were besties who loved to act silly and hang out together.
Selena nor Jennifer have yet to comment on the spilled secret of the hat dance and how those creative juices started flowing when the dance was in the making. So, we're kind of hoping to hear from them. Or just kind of hoping they'll do the hat dance one more time. It was iconic and it's the 10-year anniversary after all so what better time to bust out the moves.
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Wheel of Knowing: A Story of Hope
A Christian mother feels that she has her life all figured out and decides to bring her Alzheimer's inflicted father into her house. But while she tries helping her father, her family begins falling apart as she looks for any signs of help.
Genres: Sci-Fi
Actor: Melanie Baker, Frank Borgia, Lacey Nycole, Benjamen Toth, Gracie Davis, Nancy Broadhurst, Mary Beth Barber, Teri Flores, Jesse Brooks, Robin Breault, Roger Mattei, John Douglas Ayers, Argie Barber, Mark Hoffman, Robert Rougeux
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SAN FRANCISCO --A man was rescued off the coast of San Francisco after his boat overturned in the Bay this evening, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.
A tugboat operator spotted the overturned 25-foot vessel at around 7:45 p.m. near Pier 70, Petty Officer Caleb Critchfield said.
The tugboat crew alerted the Coast Guard and rescued the man who was perched atop the hull, Critchfield said.
The man was taken to emergency medical responders who were waiting at the pier, he said.
The man's condition was not immediately known.
Critchfield said they have confirmed that the man who was rescued was the only person aboard the vessel when it overturned.