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Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link.Trade-Ideas LLC identified Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ) as a "dead cat bounce" (down big yesterday but up big today) candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Hertz Global Holdings as such a stock due to the following factors:
- HTZ has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $304.4 million.
- HTZ has traded 11.7 million shares today.
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- HTZ was down 16.1% yesterday.
EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Get the inside scoop on opportunities in HTZ with the Ticky from Trade-Ideas. See the FREE profile for HTZ NOW at Trade-IdeasMore details on HTZ: Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the car and equipment rental businesses worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Car Rental and Equipment Rental. HTZ has a PE ratio of 33.5. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate Hertz Global Holdings a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and none rate it a hold.The average volume for Hertz Global Holdings has been 5.8 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Hertz Global has a market cap of $10.4 billion and is part of the services sector and diversified services industry. The stock has a beta of 2.46 and a short float of 4.4% with 0.91 days to cover. Shares are up 58.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday.STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12-months. Learn more.TheStreetRatings.com Analysis:TheStreet Quant Ratings rates Hertz Global Holdings as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 2.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 22.0%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
- HERTZ GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC has improved earnings per share by 28.6% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, HERTZ GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC increased its bottom line by earning $0.54 versus $0.38 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($1.90 versus $0.54).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Road & Rail industry. The net income increased by 30.7% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $92.89 million to $121.44 million.
- The gross profit margin for HERTZ GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC is rather high; currently it is at 51.50%. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Despite the strong results of the gross profit margin, HTZ's net profit margin of 4.47% significantly trails the industry average.
- Net operating cash flow has slightly increased to $715.05 million or 7.29% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite an increase in cash flow, HERTZ GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC's average is still marginally south of the industry average growth rate of 12.96%.
- You can view the full Hertz Global Holdings Ratings Report.
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Approximately 20 percent of Brown students complete their baccalaureate degrees with more than one concentration. It is also possible to graduate with two different baccalaureate degrees: the A.B. and the Sc.B. Students who follow this path organize a five-year program of study in which the work for both degrees proceeds concurrently. Students interested in pursuing this five-year option must declare their intentions by the end of their fifth semester. Exceptional students may be allowed to complete the combined degrees in nine semesters, rather than ten, with the approval of the Committee on Academic Standing.
To discuss this option, contact Dean Oludurotimi Adetunji.
Concurrent Baccalaureate/Master's Degree
This program allows exceptionally capable students to combine their last year or two of undergraduate study with graduate study, resulting in the simultaneous completion of both a Baccalaureate degree and a Masters degree. Eligible students will have achieved a record of academic excellence that demonstrates depth as well as breadth. Entrance requirements into this program are numerous and quite specific. Interested students are therefore advised to acquaint themselves with program guidelines early in their college career.
Students who meet entrance requirements for the Concurrent Degree Program apply to both the Committee on Academic Standing (CAS) and to the Graduate School in their sixth term of study. No late applications are accepted. Approved applications are then reviewed by the Graduate Council and the appropriate department, which may place additional requirements on admission to this special program.
To discuss this option, contact Dean Christopher Dennis.
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If you read yesterday's post on the little girl who accidentally spent $1,400 on her mom's iPhone, it gave pause for thought on the various ways we can better protect our phones – and our bank accounts. If an 8-year-old can do that much damage, imagine what a toddler with little inquisitive fingers and a blissful obliviousness could do.
Luckily, there are a few options available for addressing this exact quandary. First, double check the parental controls that are built-into your device's operating system. The iPhone 4 in particular has controls that let you to restrict access to certain apps, browsers, iTunes and more. A website called iPhone and Kids has a helpful guide which takes you through setting these controls.
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The best option I've found to address the dangers of toddler hands is a product called BubCap. BubCaps are sturdy sticker covers that fit directly over the home button (on Apple devices) and are rigid enough to prevent a toddler from pushing the button. With the BubCap in place, you can put an age-specific app on for your little one and have confidence that the chosen app will stay on.
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I am co-hosting a superbowl party tomorrow...a bunch of people will be there. A friend and I recently bought a deep fryer and we're hoping to deep-fry lots of stuff....we're definitely gonna do some french fries, fried yuca and maybe some sweet potato fries, and we also might experiment with crazier things like fried snickers bars, fried pickles etc.....so Part A of this post is to ask if anyone has any good, relatively easy suggestions for good fried food. I think we'll probably stick to non-meat items. We are new to deep frying, but we're willing to experiment with whatever.
Part B: I want to make some type of donut. If it's easy enough, I'd like to make some type of yeast donut since I tend to like those better....I think it would probably be okay if it were in the realm of beignet or fried dough too.....but a classic donut recipe would also be fun. Texture wise, I'm looking for soft and fluffy (so not a cake donut). If people think this is too hard or have great recipes for other things, I might do that instead. But are there any good, simple donut recipes that would fit the bill?
I found this post, and Jackie's recipe for Ole Bolen looks really good....not sure if these would be the soft texture I like, but they'd probably be delicious. http://www.chowhound.com/topics/276719
Thanks in advance for any advice, I'll definitely report back,
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I used to car pool and we would stop a few times a week at a small quik mart to get Deep fried bacon dogs . They were the best , thought you might wanna try them . All they did was split a dog enough to place cheese then wrapped slice of bacon oround the outside then deep fried for a few minutes until bacon was done . Hope they turn out for you if you try them .
Mike -
Sorry it took so long to report back, but the frying was a great success.
We started out with some hand cut chips: potato, sweet potato and taro. The sweet potato ones were my favorites by far, though it was all pretty tasty and exciting. This was our first run with this new deep fryer.
Next came some frozen, pre-made egg rolls from the Asian market. These fried really well, and they were a bit greasy, but very comparable to many restaurant egg rolls. Obviously homemade would have been way better here.
After this was through, we cleaned out the fryer and fried doughnuts with a fresh batch of oil. I had made the dough earlier, I used a basic yeast donut recipe from my friend's cookbook (forget which one), and they came out really really good. Check out the picture below. We dipped them in cinnamon and sugar. I wished that the doughnuts could have been a bit lighter and fluffier, since they were sometimes slightly dense and pretzel like. But no one was complaining, they were overall pretty awesome.
Thanks again to all for the advice, I'll report future frying adventures here as well...ciao
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Sweet potato fries are great. We fry them stovetop in a skillet or pot, but it's always just for 2 or 3 people. Anyhow, good idea.
A Greek "doughnut" (kind of a cross between a beignet & a doughnut hole) covered in powdered sugar, cinnamon & sugar, or honey is good. (I think the traditional Greek is honey, but my family has always done a variety). You'll find it spelled a variety of ways, depending on the source (loukoumades, loukomathes, etc.) You can make them with yeast (plenty of recipes online) or a box mix. The quickest, easiest (not necessarily tastiest but no one ever complains!!) louks are make from canned biscuits. If you do that, buy the non-flaky kind. Cut in quarters and drop into oil. They'll generally pop over on their own once the underside is finished cooking. Any that you plan to sugar should be dropped into a brown paper sack before they cool and shaken up with the sugar or cinnamon sugar.
Want something super easy? Buy some frozen french fries. You'll be shocked how much better they are when deep fried rather than baked. Avoid the brands with lots of extra stuff . Buy cheap ones (watch out for old bags with lots of frost inside) made with just potatoes and oil, they tend to give better results. Many are coated with dextrose to make them darken, but may cook up too dark in deep fat.
Avoid doing anything with a crumb/breading coating or else your fat will quickly become a mess.
A quick way to do a yeast doughnut is make a Zepoli kind of thing. Buy bread or pizza dough, allow it to come to room temp, cut into chunks, let it rise a bit, deep fry, and coat with powdered sugar (or cinnamon sugar).
For wings, I recommend fresh (not those chemical injected frozen party wings). The skin has the best texture (crisp) if you fry them with no coating at all. Apply seasonings afterwards (buffalo sauce (basically hot sauce and butter), or dry seasoning like Old Bay). You will get better results if you fry the drumettes in separate batches from the two bone part of the wing since the drumettes cook faster.
Make a decent simple batter (start with water, salt, flour and expand), and do all sorts of fried veg like onion rings and fried mushrooms. Zucchini is hard to do because it's so wet.


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A settlement puts an end to investor Carl Icahn's proxy fight--and puts Icahn himself onto an expanded Yahoo board. A day later, Yahoo reports a decline in earnings, but CEO Jerry Yang remains optimistic.
A new wrinkle develops as Microsoft says it sees some promise in Carl Icahn's bid to install a new board of directors at Yahoo, though maybe just to acquire the company's search operations. Yahoo rebuffs the advances.
One by one, and in quick succession, some of Yahoo's top executives have been abandoning ship. Then, toward the end of the month, the company formalizes a new executive structure with a shift to three main teams.
Redmond says "unequivocally" that it is no longer interested in Yahoo even at the $33 a share that it previously was willing to pay, and Yahoo decides that a search-only deal with Microsoft is not in its best interest.
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Founded | 1989 |
Founder(s) | Kalle Lasn; Bill Schmalz |
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The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment[1] organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. Adbusters describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."[2]
Characterized by some as anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism,[3] it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free Adbusters, an activist magazine with an international circulation of 120,000[4] devoted to challenging consumerism. Past and present contributors to the magazine include Christopher Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Bill McKibben, Jim Munroe, Douglas Rushkoff, Jonathan Barnbrook, David Graeber, Simon Critchley, Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt, David Orrell and others.
Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including Buy Nothing Day, TV Turnoff Week and Occupy Wall Street,[5] and is known for their "subvertisements" that spoof popular advertisements. In English, Adbusters has bi-monthly American, Canadian, Australian, UK and International editions of each issue. Adbusters's sister organizations include Résistance à l'Aggression Publicitaire[6] and Casseurs de Pub[7] in France, Adbusters Norge in Norway, Adbusters Sverige in Sweden and Culture Jammers in Japan.[8][9]
Adbusters was founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz, a duo of award-winning documentary filmmakers living in Vancouver. Since the early 1980s, Lasn had been making films that explored the spiritual and cultural lessons the West could learn from the Japanese experience with capitalism.
In 1988, the British Columbia Council of Forest Industries, the "voice" of the logging industry, was facing tremendous public pressure from a growing environmentalist movement. The logging industry fought back with a television ad campaign called "Forests Forever." It was an early example of greenwashing: shots of happy children, workers and animals with a kindly, trustworthy sounding narrator who assured the public that the logging industry was protecting the forest.
Lasn and Shmalz were outraged by the use of the public airwaves to deliver what they felt was deceptive anti-environmentalist propaganda. And they responded by producing the "Talking Rainforest" anti-ad in which an old-growth tree explains to a sapling that "a tree farm is not a forest." But the duo wasn't able to buy airtime on the same stations that had aired the forest-industry ad.[citation needed] According to a former Adbusters employee, "The CBC's reaction to the proposed television commercial created the real flash point for the Media Foundation. It seemed that Lasn and Schmaltz's commercial was too controversial to air on the CBC. An environmental message that challenged the large forestry companies was considered 'advocacy advertising' and was disallowed, even though the 'informational' messages that glorified clearcutting were OK."[10]
The foundation was born out of their belief that citizens do not have the same access to the information flows as corporations. One of the foundation's key campaigns continues to be the Media Carta, a "movement to enshrine The Right to Communicate in the constitutions of all free nations, and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
The foundation notes that concern over the flow of information goes beyond the desire to protect democratic transparency, freedom of speech or the public's access to the airwaves. Although it supports these causes, the foundation instead situates the battle of the mind at the center of its political agenda. Fighting to counter pro-consumerist advertising is done not as a means to an end, but as the end in itself. This shift in emphasis is a crucial element of mental environmentalism.
Mental environmentalism[edit]
The subtitle of Adbusters magazine is "The Journal of the Mental Environment."
In a 1996 interview, Kalle Lasn explained the foundation's goal:
"What we're trying to do is pioneer a new form of social activism using all the power of the mass media to sell ideas, rather than products. We're motivated by a kind of 'greenthink' that comes from the environmental movement and isn't mired in the old ideology of the left and right. Instead, we take the environmental ethic into the mental ethic, trying to clean up the toxic areas of our minds. You can't recycle and be a good environmental citizen, then watch four hours of television and get consumption messages pumped at you."[11]
Adbusters describes itself as anti-advertising: it blames advertising for playing a central role in creating, and maintaining, consumer culture. This argument is based on the belief that the advertising industry goes to great effort and expense to associate desire and identity with commodities. Adbusters believes that advertising has unjustly "colonized" public, discursive and psychic spaces, by appearing in movies, sports and even schools, so as to permeate modern culture.[12] Adbusters's stated goals include combating the negative effects of advertising and empowering its readers to regain control of culture, encouraging them to ask "Are we consumers and citizens?."[13]
Since Adbusters concludes that advertising conditions people to look to external sources, to define their own personal identities, the magazine advocates a "natural and authentic self apart from the consumer society".[14] The magazine aims to provoke anti-consumerist feelings. By juxtaposing text and images, the magazine attempts to create a means of raising awareness and getting its message out to people that is both aesthetically pleasing and entertaining.[15]
Activism also takes many other forms such as corporate boycotts and 'art as protest', often incorporating humor. This includes clever billboard modifications, google bombing, flash mobs and fake parking tickets for SUVs. A popular example of cultural jamming is the distortion of Tiger Woods' smile into the form of the Nike swoosh, calling viewers to question how they view Woods' persona as a product. Adbusters calls it "trickle up" activism, and encourages its readers to do these activities by honoring culture jamming work in the magazine. In the September/October 2001 "Graphic Anarchy" issue, Adbusters were culture jammed themselves in a manner of speaking: they hailed the work of Swiss graphic designer Ernst Bettler as "one of the greatest design interventions on record", unaware that Bettler's story was an elaborate hoax.
Media Carta[edit]
"Media Carta" is a charter challenging the corporate control of the public airwaves and means of communication. The goal is to "make the public airwaves truly public, and not just a corporate domain."[15] Over 30,000 people have signed the document[citation needed] voicing their desire to reclaim the public space. On 13 September 2004, Adbusters filed a lawsuit against six major Canadian television broadcasters (including CanWest Global, Bell Globemedia, CHUM Ltd., and the CBC) for refusing to air Adbusters videos in the television commercial spots that Adbusters attempted to purchase. Most broadcasters refused the commercials fearing the ads would upset other advertisers as well as violated business principles by "contaminating the purity of media environments designed exclusively for communicating commercial messages".[15] The lawsuit claims that Adbusters' freedom of expression was unjustly limited by the refusals.[16] Adbusters believes the public deserves a right to be presented with viewpoints that differ from the standard. Under Section 3 of the Broadcasting Act, television is a public space allowing ordinary citizens to possess the same rights as advertising agencies and corporations to purchase 30 seconds of airtime from major broadcasters.[17] There has been talk that if Adbusters wins in Canadian court, they will file similar lawsuits against major U.S. broadcasters that also refused the advertisements.[18] CNN is the only network that has allowed several of the foundation's commercials to run.[citation needed]
Legal action[edit]
On 3 April 2009, the British Columbia Court of Appeal unanimously overturned a BC Supreme Court ruling that had dismissed the case in February 2008. The court granted Adbusters the ability to sue the Canadian Broadcasting Company and CanWest Global, the corporations that originally refused to air the anti-car ad "Autosaurus". The ruling represents a victory for Adbusters, but it is the first step of their intended goal, essentially opening the door for future legal action against the media conglomerates.[citation needed] Kalle Lasn declared the ruling a success and said, "After twenty years of legal struggle, the courts have finally given us permission to take on the media corporations and hold them up to public scrutiny."[19]
Digital Detox Week[edit]
In April 2009, the foundation transformed TV Turnoff Week into Digital Detox Week, encouraging citizens to spend seven days "unplugged" without any of electronic devices such as video-game systems and computers.
One Flag[edit]
The "One Flag" competition encouraged readers to create a flag that symbolized "global citizenship", without using language or commonly known symbols.[20]
Culture jamming[edit]
Culture jamming is the primary means through which Adbusters challenges consumerism.[21] The magazine was described by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter in their book The Rebel Sell as "the flagship publication of the culture jamming movement."[22] Culture jamming is heavily influenced by the Situationist International and the tactic of détournement. The goal is to interrupt the normal consumerist experience in order to reveal the underlying ideology of an advertisement, media message, or consumer artifact. Culture jamming aims to challenge the large, influential corporations that control mainstream media and the flow of information. It is a form of protest. The term "jam" contains more than one meaning, including improvising, by re-situating an image or idea already in existence, and interrupting, by attempting to stop the workings of a machine.[23]
As already noted, the foundation's approach to culture jamming has its roots in the activities of the situationists and in particular their concept of détournement. This involves the "turning around" of received messages so that they communicate meanings at variance with their original intention. Situationists argue that consumerism creates "a limitless artificiality", blurring the lines of reality and detracting from the essence of human experience.[12] In the "culture jamming" context, détournement means taking symbols, logos and slogans that are considered to be the vehicles upon which the "dominant discourse" of "late capitalism" is communicated and changing them – frequently in significant but minor ways – to subvert the "monologue of the ruling order" [Debord].
The foundation's activism links grassroots efforts with environmental and social concerns, hoping followers will "reconstruct [their] self through nonconsumption strategies."[12] The foundation is particularly well known for its culture jamming campaigns,[24] and the magazine often features photographs of politically motivated billboard or advertisement vandalism sent in by readers. The campaigns attempt to remove people from the "isolated reality of consumer comforts".[15]
Blackspot Shoes campaign[edit]
In 2004, the foundation began selling vegan, indy shoes. The name and logo are "open-source";[25] in other words, unencumbered by private trademarks.[26] Attached to each pair was a leaflet – "Rethink the Cool" inviting wearers to join a movement, and two spots – one for drawing their own logos and another on the toe for "kicking corporate ass."[27]
There are three versions of the Blackspot Sneaker. The V1 is designed to resemble the Nike-owned Chuck Taylor All-Stars.[28] There is also a V1 in "fiery red."
The V2 is designed by Canadian shoe designer John Fluevog. It is made from organic hemp and recycled car tires.
After an extensive search for anti-sweatshop manufacturers around the world, Adbusters found a small union shop in Portugal.[29] The sale of more than twenty-five thousand pairs[30] through an alternative distribution network is an example of Western consumer activism marketing.[30]
Adbusters describes its goals vis-à-vis Blackspot as follows:
Blackspot shoes is our experiment with grassroots capitalism. After spending many years railing against the practices of megacorporations like McDonalds, Starbucks and Nike, we wanted to prove that running an ethical, environmentally responsible business is possible ... and that taking market share away from megacorporations is better than whining about them.[31]
Heath and Potter's The Rebel Sell, which is critical of Adbusters, claimed that the blackspot shoe's existence proves that "no rational person could possibly believe that there is any tension between 'mainstream' and 'alternative' culture."[22]
In the June 2008 cover story of BusinessWeek Small Business Magazine, the Blackspot campaign was among three profiled in a piece focusing on "antipreneurs." Two advertising executives were asked to review the campaign for the article's "Ask the Experts" sidebar. Brian Martin of Brand Connections and Dave Weaver of TM Advertising both gave the campaign favorable reviews.
Martin noted that Blackspot was effectively telling consumers, "We know we are marketing to you, and you are as good as we are at this, and your opinion matters," while Weaver stated that "This is not a call to sales of the shoe so much as it is a call to participate in the community of Adbusters by buying the shoe."[32]
Occupy Wall Street[edit]
In mid-2011, Adbusters Foundation proposed a peaceful occupation of Wall Street to protest corporate influence on democracy, a growing disparity in wealth, and the absence of legal repercussions behind the recent global financial crisis.[33] They sought to combine the symbolic location of the 2011 protests in Tahrir Square with the consensus decision making of the 2011 Spanish protests.[34] Adbusters' senior editor Micah White said they had suggested the protest via their email list and it "was spontaneously taken up by all the people of the world."[33] Adbusters' website said that from their "one simple demand—a presidential commission to separate money from politics" they would "start setting the agenda for a new America."[35] They promoted the protest with a poster featuring a dancer atop Wall Street's iconic Charging Bull.[36][37] On 13 July 2011 it was the staff at the magazine that created the #OCCUPYWALLSTREET hashtag on Twitter.[5]
While the movement was started by Adbusters, the group does not control the movement, and it has since grown worldwide.
Commercial style[edit]
The foundation has been criticized for having a style and form that are too similar to the media and commercial product that adbusters attack, that its high gloss design makes the magazine too expensive, and that a style over substance approach is used to mask sub-par content.[38]
Heath and Potter posit that the more alternative or subversive the foundation feels, the more appealing the Blackspot sneaker will become to the mainstream market. They believe consumers seek exclusivity and social distinction and have argued that the mainstream market seeks the very same brand of individuality that the foundation promotes; thus they see the foundation as promoting capitalist values.[22]
The Blackspot Shoes campaign has stirred heated debate, as Adbusters admits to using the same marketing techniques which it denounces other companies for using.[28]
Legal issues[edit]
Adbusters launched a legal challenge in 1995. A second in 2004 was against CBC, CTV, CanWest and CHUM, for refusing to air anti-consumerism commercials, therefore infringing on the staff's freedom of speech.[39] In one case, a CHUM representative is quoted as saying the ads "were so blatantly against television and that is our entire core business. You know we can't be selling our airtime and then telling people to turn their TVs off."[39]
In March 2004, Adbusters was accused of antisemitism after running an article titled "Why won't anyone say they are Jewish?" The article compiled a list of neoconservative supporters within the Bush Administration and marked the names of those it perceived as Jewish with a black dot. It questioned why, given Israel's role, the political implications of this Jewish neoconservative influence on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East were not a subject of debate.[40][41]
In October 2010, Shopper's Drug Mart pulled Adbusters off of its shelves after a photo montage[42] comparing the Gaza Strip to the Warsaw ghetto was featured in an article critiquing Israel's embargo of Gaza.[43] The Canadian Jewish Congress rallied to have the magazine blacklisted from bookstores, accusing Adbusters of trivializing the Holocaust and of antisemitism.[44] In response Adbusters argued that the charge of antisemitism was being used to silence what it considered legitimate criticism of Israeli policies.[45]
Ineffective activism[edit]
Some critics claim that culture jamming does little to incite real difference.[23] Others declare the movement an easy way for upper- and middle-class citizens to feel empowered by engaging in activism that bears no personal cost, such as the campaign "Buy Nothing Day".[citation needed] These critics feel a need for "resistance against the causes of capitalist exploitation, not its symptoms".[12]
In 1999 Adbusters won the award for National Magazine of the Year in Canada.[46]
See also[edit]
- ^ "About". Adbusters Media Foundation. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ "About Adbusters." Adbusters Media Foundation. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
- ^ Eric Pfanner. Fighting guerrilla graffiti, New York Times, 15 March 2004
- ^ May, Kevin (11 September 2003). "Adbusters: Tackling Globalisation with Ad Subversion". Campaign. Retrieved 29 April 2010.[dead link]
- ^ a b Yardsley, William (28 November 2011). "The Branding Of the Occupy Movement". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
- ^ Résistance à l'Aggression Publicitaire
- ^ Casseurs de Pub
- ^ bndjapan.org.
- ^ adbusters.cool.ne.jp.
- ^ "Adbusters Zine from 1993".
- ^ Motavalli, Jim (30 April 1996). "Cultural Jammin'". E - The Environmental Magazine 7 (3): 41.
- ^ a b c d Rumbo, Joseph D. (2002). "Consumer Resistance in a World of Advertising Clutter: The Case of Adbusters". Psychology and Marketing 19 (2): 127–48. doi:10.1002/mar.10006.
- ^ [Marnie W. Curry-Tash, "The Politics of Teleliteracy and Adbusting in the Classroom", English Journal 87(1), 1998]
- ^ [ Joseph D. Rumbo, "Consumer Resistance in a World of Advertising Clutter: The Case of Adbusters", Psychology and Marketing, Vol.19(2), February 2002]
- ^ a b c d "Culture Jams and Meme Warfare: Kalle Lasn, Adbusters, and media activism", Wendi Pickerel, Helena Jorgensen, and Lance Bennett, 19 April 2002
- ^ "Adbusters Takes Canadian TV Networks to Court". CBC News. 15 September 2004.[dead link]
- ^ "Adbusters Wins Legal Victory in Ongoing Case Against the CBC and CanWest", www.marketwire.com, 6 April 2009
- ^ Satya May 2005: Interview with Kalle Lasn of Adbusters
- ^ Morrow, Fiona (6 April 2009). Fiona Morrow, "Adbusters Wins Right To Sue Broadcasters over TV Ads" The Globe and Mail.
- ^ ["About Adbusters." Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment . 4 Mar. 2009 <http://www.adbusters.org/about/adbusters>.]
- ^ Lasn, Kalle (2000). Culture Jam, New York: Quill.
- ^ a b c Heath, Joseph and Potter, Andrew. The Rebel Sell. Harper Perennial, 2004.
- ^ a b Kari Pritchard, "Questioning Culture", www.cordweekly.com, 1 April 2009.
- ^ Willan, Claude (24 July 2005). "We're All Borf in the End". The Washington Post. Retrieved 20 November 2007
- ^ Blackspot – Blackspot Shoes.
- ^ Blackspot – Blackspot Shoes.
- ^ ""Rethink The Cool" blackspot leaflet transcribed by a retailer"
- ^ a b Aitch, Iain (15 December 2003). "Kicking against the system". The Independent. Archived from the original on 6 December 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
- ^ "About the shoes", Blackspot website. Retrieved June 2007.
- ^ a b Blackspot – Blackspot Shoes
- ^ "Support + Subscribe". Adbusters.org. Retrieved 20 May 2012. Text 'hidden' under the "Why do we sell?" tab.
- ^ "Meet the Antipreneurs". BusinessWeek Small Business Magazine. June/July 2008. Retrieved 31 July 2008.
- ^ a b Fleming, Andrew (27 September 2011). "Adbusters sparks Wall Street protest Vancouver-based activists behind street actions in the U.S". The Vancouver Courier. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
- ^ Sira Lazar "Occupy Wall Street: Interview With [[Micah M. White|Micah White From Adbusters", Huffington Post, 7 October 2011, at 3:40 in interview]
- ^ Adbusters, Adbusters, 13 July 2011; accessed 30 September 2011
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The performing arts in Africa are changing. We as producers and consumers of these arts also have to change with the times, as was evident at the recent Sauti za Busara festival in Zanzibar, Tanzania, which is representative enough of what's happening across Africa for us to use as a case study here.
In Africa, as in many parts of the world, culture is a big part of our daily lives, as evidenced by our fabrics, carvings, paintings, film and inevitably, our music. Speaking to the festival director and assistant director of Sauti za Busara, respectively Yusuf Mahmoud and Rosie Carter, it was evident that the music scene in Tanzania, and in Africa at large, is developing fast and positively. The challenge for artistes remains finding opportunities to build an audience for their work.
Music consumption habits are changing; tapes are becoming obsolete, CDs are no longer selling much, music is easily available on the internet, the array of artistes to choose from is much wider and the audience has much higher standards for what they consider to be quality music. Therefore new channels must be created where performing artists can flourish; both by building their skills and having access to an audience. One of the best ways to do this still remains the music festival, where little known artistes like Skuli ya Kiongoni get a chance to reach audiences that were attracted by well-established names like Nneka. Still, it is becoming increasingly hard for the festival (and other performing arts festivals) to raise the funds necessary for organizing it each year.
A sign of this at Sauti za Busara was that it had to be reduced this year from the usual five days to four. With the world's economy in a long dip, sponsors need to feel more than ever that they are getting value for their money. For Sauti za Busara, this is a problem, as a significant number of their sponsors aim to reach the local audience, yet the festival has far fewer Tanzanians attending relative to tourists. These tourists can only possibly use the goods and services of the sponsor organizations during the week they are there, and due to the challenges in relevance to local audiences mentioned in Part 1 of this article, sponsors prefer to seek out festivals and arts events that offer greater "value for money", such as 100% Zanzibari sponsored by Zantel whose customers mostly come from Zanzibar.
This presents festival organizers with a dilemma: stay true to your goals and African culture and keep inviting performers like Ogoya Nengo (below) who represent what you stand for even if they are not crowd pullers for the local audience, or go the easy route and select performers on their ability to attract massive crowds, even if said performers don't quite fit the core aims of the festival.
50% of Sauti za Busara's income comes from foreign sponsors, 30% from local sponsors – most of whom target the local crowds – and 20% from ticket sales, reflecting the potential problem of local sponsors not finding the festival relevant to them. Since this is a common problem for festivals, it's not surprising that cost cutting is always high on the task list, with the aim of becoming less dependent on sponsorship. This is just one of the challenges facing festival organizers.
Other challenges facing Africa's indigenous music makers and festival organisers:
At Sauti za Busara, festival stakeholders such as the organizers, crew, artistes and press were invited to the 3rd Movers and Shakers forum in the lifetime of the festival, and over the four days the festival took place, attendees got to meet and quiz the organizers, interact with performing artistes, explore new ways to build markets for African music and discuss how the internet can be used to level the playing field for Africa and its music.
Movers and Shakers. Photo credit: Bob Sankofa
I found it amazing that a wide array of nationalities was represented, with people coming all the way from Rwanda, Austria, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, Zimbabwe, USA and Canada, a reflection of the huge international interest in indigenous African music. The Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs had sent several members to see what they could learn from Sauti za Busara so as to improve their own cultural activities. Organizers from Roskilde, the Danish festival, were also present to assist the organizers in fine-tuning the event and offer tips on how to make it better (Roskilde is quite a success in Denmark).
The sessions provided a window into the current state and concerns of the performing art scene, its challenges as well as its opportunities.
Challenge #1: How do we make it possible for young audiences to hear new music from relatively new artistes when there are so few places for artists to perform?
The lack of spaces for new artistes, both contemporary and traditional, to actually perform, was one of the first to be mentioned. The obvious solution is more festivals, venues, stages, but who's gonna pay for that?
One popular idea was for performing arts "markets", and Faisal Kiwewa of Doadoa, spoke about a new one set to happen in Uganda in May, so that's a start.
Kheiri Jumbe and Mahsin Basalama of the Swahili Performing Arts Centre also spoke about its organization's aims, which are to restore and elevate cultural identity in Zanzibar and the Swahili coast, empower artistes and conduct various outreach programmes to this end, for example by providing venues for the artists to perform in and make it affordable for the local audiences to attend events. They brought the Mkota Spirit Dancers and Juhudi Taarab to the festival, part of an effort to promote authentic Swahili performing artistes.
This was as concrete as things got on this issue.
Challenge #2: How do we make indigenous music relevant to an audience raised on contemporary urban sounds?
One of the consequences of the scarcity of platforms for performing artists – and hence the limited opportunities for fresh new artists, especially the indigenous ones, to get some exposure – is that mainstream artistes keep getting massive amounts of airplay while little known ones only get to entertain in their villages and neighbourhoods.
The Singing Wells Project is one example of how to introduce a young audience raised on "urban" sounds to "uncool" indigenous music. While their aim is to record and archive East African tribal music, thus preserving the region's cultural heritage, they go one step further than typical preservation projects by taking steps to share the music and make it relevant to musicians today. With their mobile recording studio, they travel from one East African village to the next to record music, "field recordings", if you will. This is how young contemporary "urban" artists get to hear the music of some of the more traditional artists, and it has led to some collaborations between the "old" and the new at Ketebul Music.
This was the most interesting idea or initiative mentioned.
Challenge #3: How to get indigenous artists online
There is failure of indigenous artists to embrace the internet. It's a sorry situation for many contemporary urban musicians, as we lamented in a previous article, but it's worse for artists making indigenous/traditional music. There's no better illustration of this than the fact that until Sauti za Busara created online profiles for the artists who performed this year, few had an online presence, not even a Facebook page. This makes it difficult to find their music anywhere online, which puts them at a disadvantage to artists from other parts of the world.
Tabu Osusa (Ketebel Music, Kenya) and Faisal Kiwewa (Founder and Artistic Director of the Bayimba International Festival of the Arts, Uganda) are among the many from West, East and South Africa working together to establish an online music information platform in order to get indigenous musicians online. It's still at the conceptualization stage, but the hope is that it will become a leading source of information on African music, i.e. that alongside entertainment, it will educate people about African music – since information about African music and its various styles is scarce – "empower" artistes (though no one talked about exactly how this would be done), and help to develop the market for African music (again, the "how" is still being worked out).
The yet-to-be-named platform will pool available information in one location: African art resources, artiste information, announcements, and arts-related features and stories for fan consumption.
The question is, if indigenous artists aren't using ReverbNation or Facebook already, what's going to make them use this new platform? For these artists, there is clearly a barrier to getting online at all, and possibly a failure to understand how important it is that they be online.
But perhaps this platform will work if it is updated on behalf of the artistes. That would require a significant budget for editorial staff though. Like I said, it's at the conceptualization stage.
Challenge #4: How to encourage volunteerism in Africa where people can't afford to work for free
Festivals rely on volunteers. Most cannot afford to run otherwise. The Roskilde Festival, for instance, is arranged by 25 full-time employees and thousands of committed volunteers, rising to 25,000 during the festival itself. And those are just the ones that made the cut.
Busara Festival Team. Photo credit: Stephanie Tinga-Baron Wilson
But that's Denmark. With the cost of living in Africa being about as high as most people can bear it to be, volunteering means giving up time that could otherwise be spent earning some much needed income. Besides making volunteering attractive to youngsters from middle-class families, this isn't a problem with easy solutions.
For the organizers of Sauti za Busara, WOMEX serves as an inspiration, with the organizers hoping to achieve such sustainability, scale and repute that it would make it worthwhile for people, both local and foreign, to volunteer to organize the festival.
Challenge #5: How to digitize music archives before tapes become obsolete
When tapes become obsolete, a lot of valuable music from as early on as the 1960s will be lost. Again, there's clearly a cost issue here, as well as one of awareness.
I came across a project called the Tanzania Heritage Project. Its representative, Rebecca Corey, talked about how they intend to digitize Radio Tanzania's archives, over 100,000 hours of music on tape, in real time.
For some reason, the necessity of doing something similar all over Africa is still overlooked in many countries, thus the chance that some of our music will be lost forever is high.
Africa needs its performing artistes as much as they need her. Their work is an expression of who we are as people. They are goodwill ambassadors, showing the world our joys, hopes and dreams, as opposed to our failings. Most of us understand this at some level. The major challenge is converting this understanding into a responsibility for all, rather than leave it all to sponsor-dependent festivals. Because from the mix of semi-concrete and vague solutions on offer at the 3rd Movers and Shakers forum, those who deeply care about Africa's indigenous arts have a hell of a task on their hands.


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A rotational matrix transformation (i.e. the big brackets with a few "cos" and "sin" in them) is used in computer graphics to rotate an image. The product of the transform matrix and the argument vector (a1, a2) is a rotated version of the argument vector, which should be noted as (a1', a2').
The joke is that the author turned the image of the vector rather than writing the correct answer. Rotational matrix transformations are a special case of the general linear matrix transform, which can do other things to images, including shrinking them. In this case the matrix would rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise.
At the title text we see that the professors even shrinking at home on this joke.
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- [A square matrix next to a vertical two-by-one matrix, equated to a horizontal matrix that looks like the two-by-one matrix turned 90 degrees.]
- [Square matrix:
- cos90° sin90°
- -sin90° cos90°]
- [Two by one matrix:
- a₁
- a₂]
- [An equal sign]
- [The same two by one matrix, but rotated by 90 degrees clockwise:
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