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Swisher International Group Inc. Switches Gears
With three factories in two countries and a growing roster of brands, Swisher's investment in handmade cigars definitely isn't too little. But is it too late?
Brendan Vaughan
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Gina Gershon, Sep/Oct 98
On August 27, 1996, Manuel Quesada, owner of the Dominican cigar company MATASA, visited the headquarters of Swisher International Group Inc. in Jacksonville, Florida. Quesada, the highly regarded maker of Romeo y Julieta, Fonseca and other cigar brands, had come to discuss a partnership with Swisher: a jointly financed, state-of-the-art cigar making factory in the Dominican Republic, to be run by Quesada. This, after all, was the height of the cigar boom and Swisher, America's dominant machine-made cigar company, had yet to make a single premium smoke. It owned and distributed several brands, including flagship Bering, but was at the mercy of its suppliers. Cigars were scarce. The Swisher executives in the room--Tim Mann, president; Tom Ryan, executive vice president of sales and marketing; and Nick Cevera, executive vice president of operations--were eager for more control of their company's destiny.
About two hours into the meeting, Mann's secretary delivered a fax. In New York, General Cigar Holdings Inc., the maker of Macanudo and Partagas, had just announced plans to acquire Villazon & Co., owner of the non-Cuban Punch and Hoyo de Monterrey brands. General, already a powerhouse, would now boast a dazzling roster of premium brands. At a moment in industry history that didn't want for signs of the times, this news resonated. General paid an estimated $70 million in cash and stock.
Though Mann and Ryan say the announcement didn't affect their plans, it must have been a bittersweet reminder of just how hot the premium market was--and that they hadn't taken full advantage. "We already had a pretty strong sense of urgency about getting into the premium market," Ryan recalls. "Like everyone at the time, we were struggling to get more cigars. The Villazon deal was just another indication of the size and strength of the market."
A few months after the talks began, Quesada and a Swisher contingent flew to the Canary Islands for a meeting with representatives of Central Industrial de Tabaqueros Associados Tabacos de Canarios S.A. (CITA), the manufacturer of Casa Buena, which Swisher distributes, and Swisher's machine-made King Edward brand for Europe. Would CITA be interested in becoming a third partner in the joint venture? It would. Construction of the factory, called Compañia Tabacos de Exportación S.A. (COTABEX), began in February 1997. The first cigar was rolled there in October.
For Swisher, Cotabex was just one element of a three-part campaign to become a major premium cigarmaker. At about the same time that Cotabex started rolling cigars, Swisher cut the ribbon on a wholly owned, 78,000-square-foot factory in El Paraiso, Honduras. A few months later, it purchased 50 percent of Puros de Villa González, a tobacco processing and cigar-rolling plant in Villa González, Dominican Republic. As of September 1997, Swisher had zero capacity for premium cigar making. Today, with all three factories combined, it can make as many as 50 million premium cigars a year.
That's a lot of hand-rolled smokes for a 137-year-old company whose name conjures up images of mass-produced Swisher Sweets, not of verdant tobacco fields and bustling rolling rooms. Led by its Swisher Sweets and King Edward brands, Swisher has a 26 percent share of America's "large" (premium-sized) machine-made cigar market and a 46 percent share of the "little" (cigarette-sized) machine-made segment. A public company since December 1996, it earned $39.3 million on sales of $275.6 million in 1997. Though cigars represented 74 percent of total sales--the rest came from smokeless tobacco brands such as Silver Creek and Chattanooga Chew--premium cigars represented just 13 percent of total cigar sales. The meat of Swisher's business comes out of its Jacksonville factory, the largest in the world. It churns out about 7.6 million machine-made cigars a day.
With its emphasis on machine production and mass marketing, Swisher had been ill-positioned for the premium cigar boom--and slow to respond. Even now, though its commitment can't be questioned, some in the industry still believe Swisher just doesn't "get" the premium side of the business.
Swisher executives hear the whispers. "We're viewed as an old-line cigar company, if you will," concedes Mann, a blunt, affable 56 year old who favors Swisher Sweets little cigars. "In a lot of ways a 'fine old company.' But what we want to be known as is the most innovative cigar company in the United States."
T he gold rush atmosphere that infused the grimy Dominican city of Santiago and its environs in 1996 and 1997 is fading, but signs linger. Driving down Salvador Estrella Sahdalla, a major thoroughfare, we pass a used car lot. No one's shopping for wheels, but a group of men appear to be haggling over something. "Look closely," urges the driver, Marco José Antuña, general manager of Puros de Villa González. "That's tobacco." Sure enough, large green tobacco leaves hang from the rafters of an empty pavilion near the back of the lot.
It's a few minutes past 8 on a balmy Thursday morning in late March, and Antuña is taking the 20-minute drive from Santiago proper to Villa González, an adjacent town of about 36,000. Like virtually all Dominican cigarmakers, Antuña owns a four-wheel drive, in this case a brown-and-white 1998 Mitsubishi Montero. After a few miles of dense traffic on Salvador Estrella Sahdalla, he veers to the north onto a small road that winds through lush Caribbean countryside and tiny villages of abject poverty. This is the heart of the Cibao Valley, Dominican tobacco country. The Septemtrional Mountains rise up softly to the immediate north; the Central Mountains are distant but visible to the south. Tobacco plants are ubiquitous, but the harvest is nearly over. A few sorry little leaves remain on some plants, but most are picked clean and the curing barns that dot the fields are abundant with filler leaves just beginning to dry and brown.
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The effects of aging dark chocolate is not a particularly well-researched subject, but its effects are dramatic enough that it is a regular practice of our chocolate production. Considering the way we roast, mill and conche our chocolate, it tends to have an unbalanced flavor when it is emptied from the conche. We have found that the first three weeks is the most essential period for flavor development during the aging process, but some chocolate may need more time.
Like the skin of a grape used to make wine, the cotyledon (nib) of a cacao bean is rich with polyphenols known as tannins. The tannin content of a dried cocoa bean can range from 6-9% of the total weight of the bean. A high concentration of tannins will have an astringent, drying effect in your mouth (think walnut and grape skin). As tannins age, their effect is reduced. However, tannins are not necessarily a bad thing for flavor; in fact they are a very good thing, they just need to be balanced. With just the right amount of tannin, the tasting experience can be greatly improved, as it encourages your taste buds to explore the layers of embedded flavor. And as a bonus, the high tannin concentration of chocolate is the source of all of the healthy polyphenols, epicatechins, catechins, anthocyanins and leucoanthocyanins.
When we empty a batch of liquid chocolate from the conche we pour it into several square containers where it will eventually solidify. The solid blocks of chocolate are then placed on a shelf, where they rest until we think they're ready. There really isn't much to it.
Additional notes on aging:
Not all chocolate ages alike as different cacao has varying tannin concentrations and processing requirements. Our Madagascar chocolate, for example, needs much less time than our Costa Rica chocolate.
Let us do the aging. The problem with aging one of our chocolate bars at home is that you risk losing the temper of the chocolate and/or absorbing odors from the environment in which it is stored (the kitchen, laundry room, or that tasty yet stinky cheese in your fridge). We age our chocolate in an out-of-temper state where it is also safe from odor contaminants. After aging is complete, we temper and mold the chocolate. At that point, the clock for the life of the tempered cocoa butter structure begins ticking. If stored in a cool, dry place, the chocolate should keep well for approximately 12-24 months.


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I need information on how to take the spindle out of the fan hub on my Farmall A. I have it off the braket that secures it to the tractor but am unsure how to get the rest apart.All and any suggestions are needed. Thanks, Randy
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you have to take the blade off, under there is a nut that has to be removed. keep a mental note of the oil slinger direction, that is the only difficulty in there.
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Thanks Phillip, I had planed on replacing the assembly but after I took it apart I found I did not need to. It was full of grease and there was a little end movement, but otherwise seemed tight. Thanks again, Randy
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Clean the grease out and oil it per the Owner's Manual. I don't think that grease in there will ever get to where it needs to be.
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Hi Jim, Thanks for responding. There is a grease fitting opposite of the oil fill plug. When that compartment gets full of grease it forces itself down the length of the shaft and comes out the other end. I think it may work this way. Thanks for your suggestion. Randy
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Fitting probably installed by a previous owner.
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One of my most anticipated films of 2012, Xavier Dolan's third feature "Laurence Anyways" has dropped a gorgeous first trailer - a 3 minute, French language offering set to Moderat's hypnotic "A New Error":
Set in 1989 (yes, the year Dolan was born), it looks like the filmmaker characteristically had a lot of fun stylizing the film, which tells the story of a man who decides on his 30th birthday that he wants to become a woman. But it also looks like quite the emotional epic, and potentially a considerable step for Dolan in the maturation of his filmmaking and storytelling (this coming from someone who had little issue with his first two films). It hits theaters in Quebec this summer, with a Cannes debut suspected to precede that...
jingmei | March 17, 2012 8:09 AM
Awesome c'est juste formidable for Melvil Poupaud this hot french guy to portrait a transit-gender human, maybe reflects Xavier Dolan the Quebecois' vulnerable sense of himself.
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Wow, thanks so much for posting this. Dolan's "Heartbeats" was my favorite film of 2012 and Melvil Poupaud is one of my favorite actors in any year. Can't wait to see this!
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Take the story of Jamie Quinn. When she was 14 years old, she was imprisoned for almost a year. Jamie, now 18, described the incident that led to her incarceration:
"I got into an argument with one of my friends. And all that happened was just a basic fight. She slapped me in the face, and I did the same thing back. There [were] no marks, no witnesses, nothing. It was just her word against my word."
Jamie was placed in one of the two controversial facilities, PA Child Care, then bounced around to several other locations. The 11-month imprisonment had a devastating impact on her. She told me: "People looked at me different when I came out, thought I was a bad person, because I was gone for so long. My family started splitting up … because I was away and got locked up. I'm still struggling in school, because the schooling system in facilities like these places [are] just horrible."
She began cutting herself, blaming medication that she was forced to take: "I was never depressed, I was never put on meds before. I went there, and they just started putting meds on me, and I didn't even know what they were. They said if I didn't take them, I wasn't following my program." She was hospitalized three times.
Jamie Quinn is just one of thousands that these two corrupt judges locked up. The Philadelphia-based
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They are expected to serve seven years in federal prison. Two separate class-action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of the imprisoned children.
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Our children need education and opportunity, not incarceration. Let the kids of
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There is extensive interaction between religion and culture: religion influences culture while culture influences religion. Most religious believers acknowledge and emphasize the former, but don't recognize the extent of the latter, assuming that their religion is based on revelations from an unchanging divinity about absolute standards of conduct. This prevents them from seeing how their religion is culturally conditioned and thus how they attribute political or economic opinions to their god.
Believers may assume that the Bible is a common touchstone which never changes no matter what the culture, but this is a false sense of security. Christianity is different from one era to the next, from one culture to the next. Christianity as Americans today practice it is different form the Christianity practiced in colonial America and both are different from the Christianity practiced in present-day South Africa, 19th century Japan, and medieval France.
Inconsistent Originalism
Few Christians understand or even notice the culturally conditioned ways in which they read and interpret their Bibles. As far as most people are concerned, they are simply reading the Bible the way it was meant to be read and are interpreting it in the manner which the original authors intended it to be interpreted. Steven L. McKenzie writes in How to Read the Bible: History, Prophecy, Literature:
The recognition of the interpreter's situation as a factor in appropriating text is nothing new. Christians of all stripes have long recognized it. That is why the few churches today practice foot washing or exchange the "holy kiss," despite direct commands to do so in the New Testament. Nor is the question of eating meat sacrificed to idols an issue in modem Western churches. These practices are all recognized as cultural, and modern culture has changed. ...
Still, the extent to which the New Testament letters are permeated by the culture that produced them does not always received full consideration by modern interpreters trying to appropriate them. Thus, the text about head covering in I Corinthians 11 has a history of (ab)use and is still used today in some circles to argue for the subordination of women; yet the idea of the female body as an imperfect edition of the male body, upon which the text is based, was a product of an ancient culture and strikes a modern reader as ridiculous.
Paul himself admits in the passage that he is dealing with a "custom," even though he presses theology into service for the sake of his rhetorical argument. This raises the question as to whether Paul's discussions of other issues (e.g., marriage, women's roles, homosexuality) also reflect his rhetoric and the culture surrounding him and may no longer be tenable for the modem understandings of such matters as gender roles, sexual orientation, and the like.
These are examples of how the New Testament texts are not only products of a specific culture which is not ours, but also how the text is interpreted based upon the reader's culture. This isn't necessarily a problem; the real problem lies is in how few Christians recognize, understand, and acknowledge that this occurs.
Instead, Christians tend to pretend that their readings of the text stand outside of their culture and that the parts of the text which they emphasize most are also independent of the culture in which they were written. Thus, the pretend to be locking on to eternal truths revealed by God and external to mere cultural habits.
Christians, whether liberal or conservative, progressive or fundamentalist, don't have consistent, coherent standards for judging certain passages as still applicable to them and others as cultural products which might be interesting for historical reasons, but not binding anymore. All of these categories have shifted over time in every denomination and church. Christians "wing it" and divide up the text according to political and social preconceptions — in other words, they use thinking which is the product of their own culture in order to decide what is "really" a product of another culture and what isn't.
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Refusing to acknowledge the cultural influences operating both on reader and author impoverishes any reading created. Cultural influences — the political, historical, social, and economic context — do not invalidate an interpretation because they are part of what makes one's interpretation their own. The ways people read the Bible in 5th century Rome, 10th century France, or 18th century China would not speak to contemporary Americans as well as modern American interpretations. And that's fine.
What is invalidated are attempts to impose those interpretations on others and use those interpretations to impose their own cultural views on others via the political process. This makes the Bible a political and cultural weapon. Insisting that one culturally influenced interpretation be adopted by everyone as the only valid one, thus determining others' behavior, outlook, and beliefs, is an attempt to end political debate about how people should behave. It's no coincidence that passages which demand the subordination of certain segments of the population have been read by those who aren't subordinated as being "eternal truths" rather than cultural products.
This is how America's Christian Right fights its culture war in America: demanding that others accept their views — especially views on who should and should not have power, who should and should not dominate — because it's what the Bible requires. For example, instead of serious debates about whether abortion or capital punishment are appropriate, people trot out the Bible, declare their interpretation as the only valid one, and then insist that all society adhere to what they have proclaimed God's Will to be.
There is no debating God's Will, we can only follow it. Thus there is no substantive political debate, just attempts to cow others into a particular course of action.


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Matt Kemp told USA Today on Wednesday that he would not select Bryce Harper for his National League Home Run Derby team, despite the fact that selecting Harper might have goosed TV ratings.
Kemp has now made his first selection, and it's someone who can hit baseballs a long, long way. Maybe the TV ratings are saved! Clark Spencer:
Giancarlo Stanton landed a ball in the center-field, upper-deck seats at Marlins Park during batting practice Wednesday, leaving his disbelieving teammates shaking their heads. The Marlins' 22-year-old slugger will be putting his power on display for an entire country to see on July 9 when he takes part in the Home Run Derby in Kansas City.
Stanton confirmed that he was chosen to participate.
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SHADOW welsh secretary Owen Smith visited Milford Haven's PATCH food bank on Friday, as part of a Labour campaign to highlight how government cuts are affecting local communities.
Preseli Pembrokeshire Labour candidate Paul Miller and European elections hopeful Jayne Bryant joined Mr Smith. PATCH co-ordinator Tracy Olin explained how the number of people accessing the organisation, which also provides clothes and other household items, keeps on growing.
"In the beginning, we fed around 18 people a week," said Tracy. "Now it's more like 50. In the week before Christmas, 213 people came to us. We've also seen a steep rise in people needing clothes. Sometimes we get children with no shoes turning up."
PATCH does not receive any grants, relying instead on volunteers and the goodwill of local people and businesses.
Mr Smith said he was 'astounded' by the degree of poverty in Wales.
"One of the ways you can count the cost of the Tory government is the 1400% rise in people accessing food banks over the last three years," he told the Western Telegraph.
"It's not just the unemployed that are struggling - the working poor are really suffering too. Living costs are constantly rising, but wages aren't."
Jayne Bryant said visiting PATCH resonated for her as a European candidate.
"I'm interested because the government is refusing to access £22 million in funds from the European Union," she said. "That money would have been particularly useful for Wales."
The £2.5 billion 'European Aid to the Most Deprived' fund was created to subsidise food banks. The government turned down all but £2.9 million of its share, stating that 'individual member states are best placed to take charge of such funding'. It is thought the money will be spent on helping people in to work, rather than on food aid.
Mr Miller said: "Yes, there's a recovery, but many people are still in a very difficult situation," he said. "When there's money on offer that can help, you're mad not to take it."
Responding, Preseli Pembrokeshire MP Stephen Crabb, said: "It is just not correct to suggest that the UK will be losing any additional money. The grant would come out of our pot of European funds anyway which we will receive in full. But we are opposed to Europe having a greater say over how the money is spent."
"UK Governments, including under Labour, have used this European money for training and employment skills to help tackle long-term worklessness. The key to tackling poverty is to bring down unemployment.
"I am afraid Labour is trying to distort the picture and create an argument over foodbanks which is just not necessary."
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Cymru bach says...
The Conservatives seem to be rejoicing in this fact with South Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen West MP Simon Hart having his picture taken at the opening of yet another foodbank in Narberth recently.
As a correspondent in the Tenby Observer said , - this is nothing to be proud of.
9:30am Fri 17 Jan 14
teifion says...
Now that these organisations are having to have severe cuts we suddenly find that pupils, patients and the general public will have to suffer the cuts, we also find that what we thought Councils were supposed to do not actually withinn their remit or statutory duties.
the over paid managers? still at the trough, mucking things up!
11:17am Fri 17 Jan 14
malcolm calver says...
The sad thing is that Pembrokeshire County Coucil is allocating finance for luncheon clubs, whicth comes out of the community charge paid for by the people of Pembrokeshire. Many of those attending the clubs do not need a subsidised meal and surely this is one area that county councillors need to look at urgently. If there is a need for anyone to recceive a subsidised meal in Pembrokeshire it should be means tested
1:21pm Fri 17 Jan 14
teifion says...
malcolm calver wrote:Lets not forget that interesting fact that came out when Pembs CC were taken to the High Court recently (and lost - another HUGE expense) - Councillors get a higher allowance for ONE meal than they budget for all the food and drink for one senior citizen for the whole day in a coincil paid home and the councillors are surprised we detest their smug self satisfied little faces ?
i am sure many people are finding it difficult to make ends meet, but surely we have to stop saying "people are in poverty" Many have made lifestyle decisions that have left them short of money but I would suggest nobody is in poverty.
The sad thing is that Pembrokeshire County Coucil is allocating finance for luncheon clubs, whicth comes out of the community charge paid for by the people of Pembrokeshire. Many of those attending the clubs do not need a subsidised meal and surely this is one area that county councillors need to look at urgently. If there is a need for anyone to recceive a subsidised meal in Pembrokeshire it should be means tested
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ReviewNowadays developers hear every day in articles about miracles that Agile methodologies do in development teams. Seasoned developers sometimes find those practices a little bit naïve, while junior kids spend hours asking themselves when they can start to write code, instead of playing with post-it or boards.
But I think there's no one that meets Continuous Integration (CI) and doesn't understand its value, instantly.
I'm one of these people, so when I started to change my mind about development by looking for better ways to release working code, I began to read here and there over the Internet about tools that would help me to do it right in a .NET manner; but I didn't find a good enough resource to accomplish my requirements - no way to get all I need, and all together.
Fortunately today this is only a bad old story: now we can buy a copy of "Continuous Integration in .NET", by Marcin Kawalerowicz and Craig Berntson, and start to enjoy CI in matter of hours!
If Manning decides to publish a book, it's unlikely that their shelves would host a useless book. I'm a fan of this editor, for no other reason than this publication's quality. My enthusiasm for this book was at the same level as when I read a new edition of "C# in Depth", by my hero, Jon Skeet. :-)
This book is well written, well organized, full enough about stuff to become operative even if you are just a solo developer, without the help of a sysadmin or a skilled CI coach. It is organized in three parts: "Make it happen", from chapter 1 to 6, put readers in the proper condition to start doing; part two, "Extend it", helps us to refine some roughs edges; while part three, "Smooth and polish it", gives us some inspiration about extending concepts, for example in databases.
The first chapter pushes the reader inside CI, starting with an introduction to what CI stands for; after that we find a bird's eye overview about tools and methods we have to use to do it right, making clear concepts like versioning systems, unit testing and build automation, with a particular focus on reducing project risks and team member drawbacks during adoption.
The second chapter helps readers to setup a Control Versioning System (VCS); this kind of tool is quite popular, but if you don't use it (or if you use is it in the wrong way) this chapter will tell you all the things you have to know, from theory to working environment; the protagonists are Subversion and Team Foundation Server. I'm sad not to see almost one DVCS (Distributed VCS), like Mercurial or Git, but this is only a little flaw.
Chapter 3 is about build automation, an essential part of CI. MSBuild is the tool of choice, just for his great background in the whole Visual Studio guided development, but even NAnt finds space here.
Well, we are now at a crossroads: what is the right CI server for our needs? Chapter 4 tries to help us make the best choice. In these pages we will learn to setup CruiseControl.NET, TeamCity and Team Foundation Server Team Build (this one only for the bravest…); personally I think TeamCity is the most interesting solution, even CC.NET is a solid and effective alternative (if you are ready to pay the angle-bracket tax:-)).
We have a code blender now, finally! :-)
Now we have only to commit code, and wait… Oh no, my build is broken!
Chapter 5 helps readers to get notifications and feedback from their CI server, learning basic tasks to operate when things go wrong. Furthermore, we can get informed when code quality decreases, and if you like fireworks, there's a paragraph that will teach you how to integrate a LED message board. :-)
In chapter 6 we will learn the fine art of testing, in all its tones, making use of NUnit or MSTest; the chapter is good enough to start, but if you want to get more from your testing experience, the authors and I will recommend the great "Art of Unit Testing", by Roy Osherove, another Manning best seller.
Part one finishes here, and I can assure you that if you get these things working you have made the most of your CI process already.
Chapter 7 starts part 2; we find here some advanced topics, like acceptance testing, UI testing, mocking and integration testing. Things become more difficult here, but Marcin and Craig find a way to explain it in the easiest manner. Topics are not analyzed in depth, but as a starting point I can say this chapter is a good one. FitNesse, Rhino Mocks, Selenium are some of the tools discussed.
Chapter 8 makes the rules. Did you ever smell your code? Have you ever found it just stinky? Well, eau de cologne is not the solution. :-)
When you feel you can write better code, but you cannot remember all the "best practices" you have ever read, some tools like StyleCop or FxCop come in handy: we find here a way to set them up. NDepend and TeamCity's tool for duplicated code searching have their mention of honor, too.
Part three is not strictly related to CI, but gives us some interesting advice.
Chapter 9 helps us generate better XML documentation with SandCastle; chapter 10 talks about deployment and delivery with WiX and MS Deploy and Chapter 11 tries to explain a thorny argument like CI in databases, using RoundHousE. Chapter 12 points the readers to the next horizon, where simple CI users can become masters.
At the end, I can only confirm the great value of this work, not only for the variety of tools discussed, but mainly for the super fast effectiveness of setup procedures, that give us the opportunity to make things work during the reading.
If you wanna do CI in .NET, don't look further: this is "The Book".
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What a year for Cold this will turn out to be. Following the success of Cold's preceding 2003 album, "Year of The Spider", Scooter Ward and the band (with a few new members) have decided to make their triumphant return to our eardrums. And we can only sit, smile, and thank them for this act of kindness.
Cold have come back with their 2005 release "A Different Kind of Pain", for the Cold Army to enjoy. And a very "different" kind of pain, this is. While yes, the lyrics are still as angsty as ever, the message within the album seems to kind of veer into a sense of hopefulness, if you look deep down enough into it.
Practically all of the given song titles, are hard-hitting melodic songs, with strong messages. So in MANY ways, "A Different Kind of Pain", can compare itself to "Year of The Spider." There's a little bit of everything on here for the Cold Army to enjoy. Ballads, rock songs, slow moving songs, etc. The only thing that differs from "Year of The Spider", is that "A Different Kind of Pain" contains absolutely no "angry" songs. And by "angry" I mean hardcore "cuss you out and scream my lungs out" songs like "Kill The Music Industry."
But who says there should be any songs like that on this album? This is a very personal album that comes from within Scooter himself about his battle with addiction and an awry relationship, and sometimes expressing deep things like this shouldn't be, "hardcore" at all.
So if you're looking for songs to get angry to, walk away. This isn't the Cold album for you.
But the rest of you whom aren't making expectations for Colds new release, are in for a real treat. This album is by far Colds most emotional and real down to earth one, to date. While "Year of The Spider" finds itself digging a little deeper, "A Different Kind of Pain" still doesn't disappoint. It's almost a sister-album, or an exact followup concept "Spider" album. So I can already tell you, that fans of "Year of The Spider", will defanantly without a doubt in the world, enjoy this.
What is "A Different Kind of Pain", to me? It's an an eleven chapter story of addiction, heartbreak, recovery, and hope. Told by the band Cold, from the mind of frontman, Scooter Ward. Each song in itself, being more meaningful than the last. Absolutely no song on this new release, doesn't belong on this album. And all songs are absolutely tollerable, and will probably leave any avid Cold fan, coming back for listen after listen.
Subjectwise, "A Different Kind of Pain" follows along the subject lines of Scooter's hardships over his addiction to alcohol and drugs, and his most recent breakup. Yet in a way, gives one a sense of hopefulness. It's an album with a strong message that shouldn't be taken lightly, nor ignored.
The CD's single "Happens All The Time", is catchy, and straight to the point. And is well deserving to be the first single of the album. The other 10 tracks, are great as well. The track "A Different Kind of Pain", is a moving ballad that will probably become a favorite for anyone who liked the slower stuff Cold put out, in the past such as "Confession" (from 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage) and "Gone Away" (from Year of The Spider).
Again, ADKOP is a very moving album, and to date, I am very prepared to say, is one of Cold's BEST releases. Or quite possibly, best release, period. The original cd title for ADKOP was, "The Calm That Killed The Storm", which sounds alot better, if you ask me. But it's not the title of the cd that makes the music good, it's the music itself, and this cd does not fail.
It's actually a pretty inspiring album with a positive message in it, despite the fact it sounds like one big midlife-crisis. It kind of leaves the listener with a feeling of not wanting to give up on the good things he and or she holds dear, in life. And that if he and or she ever wants something in life, to just not give up, and it will eventually come to them, and be theirs. It's an album of complete inspiration and hope.
In the end, after listening to ADKOP you may feel a bit let down, thinking that Scooter and co. could've beefed up their act, and gone a bit more "heavy", but…this isn't the place, time, or album, to even complain about that. This album is very personal, and for a fan to complain about it not being heavy enough, when Scooter is pouring his honest heart out here, is disrespectful to not only his efforts, but him as a person.
This is HONESTLY a great album, and one of Cold's best to date. There's really no song on this, that I don't like. I enjoy the whole cd, and that's something I RARELY say about any cd, nowdays.
I highly suggest this, for old and new fans alike. It's guarinteed to be just as moving and emotional as Cold have ever been. Just don't expect anything heavy.
So in closing, this album not only meets expectations, but actually captivates me to a point in which I feel the inner drive to replay the album over and over, it's just that good and meaningful to me. Nothing falls short of perfection here. It can quite literally be, "the soundtrack of your life" if you let it be. This is…if you haven't given that title, to "Year of The Spider", already. And if you have, this could very well be, part 2 of that soundtrack.
Cold are back and have done it again.
They've put out yet another meaningful album for you to sit back, turn on, crank up, and relate to in almost every single way. It's too bad the album is so short. But don't let that fact stop you.
Some track highlights include:
-Tell Me Why
-A Different Kind of Pain
-Feel It In Your Heart
All of which (to me) showcase the best of the best, that ADKOP has to offer.
Bottom line:
Purchase this. You will not be disappointed.


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Coverage of the EKU win (I've never seen Huggs so despondent after a win), more Pinstripe fallout, Big 12 roundup & more
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Windows 8 can go diskless
Subject: General Tech | September 13, 2012 - 01:53 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: win8, cloud, microsoft, Windows to Go, kingston, super talent
Installing Windows from a USB drive is old hat to many, both consumers and professionals, but booting to Windows from an external drive would be a new trick. Windows 8 has been designed with this type of usage in mind, which is unsurprising considering how much talk there is about the cloud. A proper implementation of this would mean that low cost computers, shipped without a hard drive, could be readily sold. Both Kingston and Super Talent have designed USB 3.0 devices which will have "Windows to Go" on them; fully able to boot to a full installation of Win8 on Intel powered machines. Unfortunately there is a problem with WinPE installations on ARM based devices, as that method requires a wired network connection which may mean ARM devices would have to be sold with a USB to ethernet dongle in order to allow for booting. Once the machine is booted and the wireless drivers load then the ARM devices could be unplugged. Check out the hurdles Microsoft had to pass in order to make this work at The Register.
"Such devices, Niehaus said, will have to be certified to run Windows to Go for two reasons, one of which is that in Microsoft's tests external storage ran dangerously hot.
The second reason is that external drives can't be partitioned in the ways Windows 8 requires, thanks to its use of BIOS-replacement Unified Extensible Firmware Interface(UEFI) that is an important contributor to the new OS' faster boot times. Niehaus explained that UEFI means Windows 8 needs four partitions in a disk. One is for recovery purposes, a second for the system, while UEFI uses a third invisible partition of 128MB to help it go about its work. The fourth partition holds the OS and user data."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- NVIDIA Performance: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux 12.10 @ Phoronix
- 4th Generation of Core Microarchitecture: Intel Haswell @ X-bit Labs
- AMD aims at big data crunchers with SeaMicro SM15000 @ The Register
- Intel shows off Seacliff Trail SDN-enabled switch @ The Register
- Canadian Scientists Bind High-Temp Superconductor Components With Scotch Tape @ Slashdot
- HGST's helium filled hard drive launch is just hot air @ The Inquirer
TET, ePO and SSO... McAfee and Intel's Cloud
Subject: General Tech | May 24, 2012 - 12:19 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: mcafee, Intel, cloud
Intel's purchase of AntiVirus vendor McAfee has been feeding rumours and speculation for about 10 months now and while we have plenty of buzzwords and a feeling that they are looking at securing Cloud Computing only recently have we seen anything concrete. The first product to give us insight into their actual plans has arrived on the market bearing an awkward name, McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments AntiVirus. This is essentially antivirus and antimalware specifically designed to be used in virtualized server environments which are connected to and providing services to a large amount of geographically separate devices ... aka 'The Cloud". It is possible that they have a product which will be able to prevent the spread of an infection by leveraging the strictly partitioned nature of virtual servers and data stores, something that will be very important for anyone providing SaaS (Software as a Service) to clients.
The Register also points out that in order to fully benefit from this AV product you will need a relatively new Xeon for your servers to support Trusted Execution Technology and a Sandy/Ivy Bridge processor for client side machines. That means hardware upgrades which Intel's sales team would be more than happy to talk to you about.
"What Intel is planning is a cloud-to-desktop security strategy, mixing hardware and software features in a federated framework designed to make cloud computing safer, locking down the desktop and, coincidentally, giving IT managers another reason to specify Intel's systems during the next upgrade cycle."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Google 7-inch tablet PC to ship in June with initial volume of 600,000 units @ DigiTimes
- Building an x-ray machine and letting everything go to your head @ Hack a Day
- Boffins develop nanoscale vacuum tube running at .46 THz @ The Register
- Extreme Overclocking Session III ( EOS ) Event 2012 @ Madshrimps
- Win a Unique Custom Modified PC from Sapphire @ TechwareLabs
- Win a ZOTAC Z68-ITX WiFi Supreme motherboard @ Hardware.Info
AMD will not chase Intel making "needlessly powerful" CPUs
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Graphics Cards, Processors | May 19, 2012 - 04:52 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: ultrabook, trinity, cloud computing, cloud, amd
Bloomberg Businessweek reports AMD CEO Rory Read claims that his company will produce chips which are suited for consumer needs and not to crunch larger and larger bundles of information. They also like eating Intel's bacon -- the question: is it from a pig or a turkey?
Read believes there is "enough processing power on every laptop on the planet today".
I disagree.
The argument revolves around the shift to the cloud, as usual. It is very alluring to shift focus from the instrument to the data itself. More enticing: discussing how the instruments change to suit that need; this is especially true if you develop instruments and yearn to shift anyway.
Don't question the bacon…
AMD has been trusting that their processors will be good enough and their products will differentiate in other ways such as with graphics capabilities which they claim will be more important for cloud services. AMD hopes that their newer laptops will steal some bacon from Intel and their ultrabook initiative.
The main problem with the cloud is that it is mostly something that people feel that they want rather than actually do. They believe they want their content controlled by a company for them until it becomes inaccessible temporarily or permanently. They believe they want their information accessible in online services but then freak out about the privacy implications of it.
The public appeal of the cloud is that it lets you feel as though you can focus on the content rather than the medium. The problem is that you do not have fewer distractions from your content -- just different ones -- and they rear their head once or twice in isolation of each other. You experience a privacy concern here and an incompatibility or licensing issue there. For some problems and for some people it makes more sense to control your own data. It will continue to be important to serve that market.
And if crunching ends up being necessary for the future it looks like Intel will be a little lonely at the top.
Intel wants to be the colloidal silver lining in the cloud
Subject: General Tech | May 7, 2012 - 12:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Intel, mcafee, cloud
It really has been almost a year and a half since Intel bought McAfee and we started speculating on what this would mean. It was a common hypothesis that Intel wanted to leverage the Trusted Execution Technology that exists in Xeon processors as well as a belief that there would be instruction sets in the Core architecture that could be used to make your machine more secure without sacrificing performance. That theory has proven true as Jason Waxman who is in charge of Intel's Cloud initiative spoke about the current and planned implementations of their hardware assisted antivirus. A new tool called McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments AntiVirus will handle scans and updates for the server and service side and new additions to McAfee's ePO agent which expand its ability to secure networks and servers. The Register put together a generalized look at what we know so far and while we are still hoping to see more specifics from Intel soon it is certainly more interesting than the other McAfee story currently circulating.
"Jason Waxman, general manager of Intel's Cloud Infrastructure Group, said that over the last year or so he'd been inundated with questions about what Intel was going to do with McAfee since it lashed out $7.68bn for the security firm, during an industry-wide buying spree on cyber-security companies. Chipzilla's been intentionally quiet on the subject, but was now ready to talk he said."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Microsoft Creates Kinect-Like System Using Laptop Speaker & Microphone @ Slashdot
- The TR Podcast 111: Spandex, SLI, and a snap-together tablet
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARMv7 Linux Performance Gains @ Phoronix
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Review @ Techgage
- Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX20 Review @ TechReviewSource
- Kingston HyperX Event Antwerp @ Madshrimps
- Tones OC Academy IV @ Madshrimps
Box.com Offering 50GB of Free Cloud Storage For Life To Users of Android App
Subject: General Tech | February 24, 2012 - 02:48 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: storage, media, Internet, free, cloud, box, backup
The online storage space is really starting to heat up as companies start getting competitive to grab their share of the 'cloud storage user base' pie. Dropbox is a popular file syncing and online storage space solution offering 2GB free and routinely offering extra free space to those that want it though promotions and referrals. On the other side of things, Microsoft offers 25GB of online storage space with SkyDrive minus the computer syncing (currently) for free to those with a Windows Live (or Hotmail) account and they are in the process of overhauling the service to make it easier to use. Besides those two juggernauts, there are several alternative solutions that offer extra space or cheaper paid storage in order to remain competitive with the larger services. One such service that has not gotten the same amount of public recognition is a site called Box.com. They primarily provide Internet based (paid) storage for businesses; however, it seems that they are starting to make a big push to get deeper into the consumer market.
The company is currently offering 50 GB (yes, you read that right) of free online storage space for life (or at least the life of the company) if you install their recently updated Android application and sign up for an account (or sign into an existing account) within the next 30 days (as of writing, that would mean 3/24/2012).
Further, if you download the Android Box application before March 23, 2012 at 11:59 they will up the individual file size limit from 25 MB per file to 100 mb per file. Although that is still not big enough for movies, the increased per file limit makes it easy to backup your photos even in RAW.
Once you download the Box android application from the Android Market, and sign up (or sign into an existing account) a message will pop up indicating that you have been given 50 GB of free storage and it is immediately accessible. There are a few caveats; however. The Box.com service has mobile applications that are free; however, they do not provide a free application for Windows or Mac. To get the desktop/laptop syncing service, you will need to upgrade to a paid Business or Enterprise account. Also, the Android application itself may concern some users as one of the application permissions during installation includes access to your contact list. The company has stated that this is necessary to make the sharing and collaboration process easy for the user. It certainly would not be the first application to ask for (to the user) strange permissions, however. You could always install the app on an Android VM or another phone if you're that paranoid (heh).
While you do not get a desktop application for free, you can still access your files (and the increased 50 GB of storage) from the website, and they do allow bulk uploads that can include multiple sub-folders. One snag that I ran into was that if the uploader identified any file in a folder as being over 100 MB, it would refuse to upload the entire folder. This may be a bug or an issue on my end; however, I was not able to figure out a way to just skip that one file and upload the rest of the files in the folder.
The batch uploader allows uploading multiple subfolders via drag and drop.
One thing that I enjoyed about the process (aside from the plentiful storage) was that they made it easy to sign up, all they ask for is an email (which doesn't need to be verified to get access to storage) and password. It's kind of nice to not have to slog through the process of handing out a bunch of personal information just for an online account!
I'm currently uploading my photos to the site to back them up (I learned two years ago that it can never hurt to have too many backups!) and the upload is going smoothly. The website batch uploader is Flash based and does not require IE like SkyDrive does, so that's a positive thing in my book. Let us know in the comments if you've tried Box out before, and how you're going to use the 50 GB of cloud storage. It really seems like the cloud / Internet based storage market is heating up, and this is a good thing for end users as it means more options, more innovation, and cheaper prices! If Box.com isn't for you, Dropbox and SkyDrive are also offering plenty of free storage space.
Lucid Cloud Gaming (VGWare) and XLR8 on Tablets Demo
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards, Shows and Expos | January 18, 2012 - 03:29 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: CES, lucid, xlr8, vgware, cloud
Even though CES 2012 is behind us, there are still some things we took photos or video of that we wanted to show you. First up, Lucid had a suite off the strip to demonstrate a couple of new technologies coming from the company in 2012. VGWare is the current name for the cloud-based gaming technology based on the Lucid GPU virtualization technology that allows for games to be rendered on a server and played on a remote machine with only minimal hardware.
In the video above you see two integrated-GPU based notebooks playing Modern Warfare 2 (two instances) and Madagascar being rendered on a machine running an NVIDIA GTX 480 GPU.
Lucid intends to offer this technology to larger-scale companies that would want to compete with someone like OnLive or maybe even software developers directly. While that is what we expected, I told them that I would like to see a consumer version of this application - have a single high-powered gaming PC in your home and play games on multiple "thin client" PCs for LAN parties, etc. What do you all think - is that something you see as useful?
The second demo was for Lucid's XLR8 software that promises to improve performance of gaming on PCs, phones and tablets by intelligently managing display synchronization and GPU performance.
The really interesting part about XLR8 is the flexibility it offers - in our video you see it running on an ASUS Transformer tablet via the NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC. Frame rates jumped about 40% but we didn't get enough hands on time with the configuration to truly make a decision on whether or not it was an improved gaming experience. Hopefully Lucid will get this technology to us soon for some hands-on time.
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Acer Launches New "AcerCloud" Cloud Service
Subject: General Tech | January 8, 2012 - 09:42 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: sync, streaming, cloud, CES, acer
Last summer Acer purchased a cloud-service company for $325 million, and now that we are at CES the reason for the acquisition is apparent. According to Cnet, Acer is launching a new cloud service. Dubbed the "AcerCloud," the new service allows users to stream and sync files between Windows computers and Android mobile devices. Acer Chairman J. T. Wang stated that the company is "determined to make it very successful and sustainable."
The new cloud service will launch with three applications to facilitate streaming and syncing photos, music, videos, and documents. These apps are named Clear.fi Photo, Clear.fi Media, and AcerCloud Docs. The company is going to integrate the cloud streaming service with their ultrabook lineup. AcerCloud is only the first of many cloud streaming services to emerge recently. Amazon Cloud Drive Service, Google Music, and Apple's iCloud are just a few of the popular streaming services that Acer has to compete with. That's before taking into account syncing services like Dropbox, Sugar Sync, and SpiderOak among others. Needless to say, the AcerCloud is going to have quite a bit of competition to contend with. Whether their proprietary cloud can carve a niche into the market filled with platform agnostic alternatives remains to be seen; however, competition is a good thing and Acer is likely not (going to be) the last company to launch a cloud service of its own this year.
Do you use any of the streaming and/or syncing services? What would it take to give Acer's solution a try?
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Apple May Build New Data Center In Oregon
Subject: General Tech | December 4, 2011 - 10:28 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: server farm, Internet, data center, cloud, apple
CNet is reporting that Apple is currently considering constructing a new data center outside of Prineville, Oregon. The 31 Megawatt facility would be built on 160 acres outside of the small Oregon town and would join other prominent tech companies' data centers including those of Facebook, Amazon, and Google.
According to Oregon Live, it is the area's mild climate (meaning lower cooling costs compared to naturally warmer climates in addition to all the heat from servers), low electricity costs, and certain "rural enterprise zones" that exempt computers and equipment from normal business property taxes. They state that such exemptions could save Apple several million dollars.
Although Apple has so far declined to comment, city officials have commented that the company looking to purchase the land for the data center codenamed "Maverick" appears to be serious about going through with the purchase. Two major issues stand in the way of Apple building a large data center in the area, however. The company is concerned about tax issues against their intangible assets. Due to Apple putting a great deal of stock (er, the other kind :P) in their brand name, trademarks, and patents, they could face further taxes in the way Oregon's State Department of Revenue taxes data centers. The largest issue; however, lies in power concerns. In order to supply enough electricity to the various data centers in the area (including Apples should they indeed be building one), Bonneville Power Administration would need to upgrade the Ponderosa Substation, construct an additional substation, and add further transmission lines. This is because the utility company's transmission capacity to the area is currently nearly maxed out. A 31 Megawatt data center would consume enough electricity to power approximately 22,000 homes and that kind of capacity is not available in an area where towns are a fifth of that size.
The upgrade to the areas electrical subsystems would cost nearly $26.5 million and would take almost three years. Member Services Director for the Central Electric Cooperative, Jeff Beaman, believes that after the appropriate upgrades, a new data center "seems doable."
Whether this elusive "Maverick" is indeed Apple, and whether the company decides to build a data center remains to be seen; however, it is certainly plausible. Now that Apple is moving more services to the Internet, and the increased adoption of IOS devices thanks to the iPhone being available on all the major US carriers, the company would definitely benefit from having another facility on the other side of the country as their current North Carolina based data center for performance as well as redundancy and stability reasons. What are your thoughts on the reports, is Apple looking to put more cloud (server horsepower) in your icloud?
News from the honeycomb hideout, Google's I/O
Subject: General Tech | May 11, 2011 - 01:42 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: youtube, sandwich, music, ice cream, honeycomb, google, cloud, Android
The fourth Google I/O took place over the past two days and AnandTech was there to bear witness on the keynote speech and other presentations. As you might well expect Android was the most talked about, the new Honeycomb update was discussed in great detail and with good reason. The update allows Android powered devices to use USB peripherals in the same way as a PC, powering mice, keyboards and even XBox controllers which is a big change from only being able to be used as a USB device and offers even more for those interested in the Open Accessory Library.
Others will be more interested in Google's Music Beta which will let you upload your music collection to the web and includes the ability to make playlists and albums as well as gatherig meta artist information. You can think of it like Amazon's Cloud service, though hopefully more reliable, but as Google seems not to have got the permission of the record companies it may not be.
"Google's I/O 2011 keynote may have suffered from a few choice leaks, namely the new Music service and Ice Cream Sandwich announcement, but Google still managed to include some surprises. Android 3.1, the update to Honeycomb, was announced along with a slew of development platforms, including one committed to bringing better introduction of accessories to Android devices of all types, and a home integration platform based on Android."
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Al Sharpton Continues Politically Motivated Campaign to Censor Rush Limbaugh
Al Sharpton appeared on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" Monday night to once again demand that the federal government censor Rush Limbaugh. As he always does, Sharpton couched his clear political agenda in the language of racial righteousness. He cited Rush Limbaugh's satirical mocking of Chinese president Hu Jintao as evidence of "why we must have standards" for radio and television broadcasters.
Of course Sharpton isn't actually concerned about "civility" or "standards" for broadcasters. But this is a golden opportunity for him to advance his "silence Rush Limbaugh" campaign (video below the fold).
If Sharpton were actually concerned with radio hosts making incendiary remarks, he might have started by castigating the man interviewing him. Ed Shultz has, after all, wished for Dick Cheney's death and claimed conservatives want to kill Barack Obama, all on his nationally-syndicated radio talk show (these and other examples throughout this post drawn from the Media Research Center's special report on the "Real Radio Hatemongers").
Certainly if mocking the Chinese language is forbidden under Sharpton's new rules for radio broadcasters, wishing for the death of an American vice president would also be forbidden. But then Sharpton is only interested in silencing popular conservative talkers, not in beneficently - and non-ideologically - policing the airwaves.
If Sharpton were actually concerned about the tone of political radio talkers, he might've mentioned the psychotic Mike Malloy, who often calls for the deaths of people he doesn't like, such as Limbaugh himself:
I'm waiting for the day when I pick up the newspaper or click on the Internet and find that he's choked to death on his own throat fat, or a great big wad of saliva or something, whatever. Go away, Limbaugh, you make me sick.
Malloy really does not like Rush Limbaugh. Here he is again wishing death on Rush:
I hope he keeps going, because that means he will soon croak. You know, like I've said, he will eventually choke to death on his own throat fat.
Did I mention Malloy wants Limbaugh dead?
I hope I'm alive when this, when this guy dies. I really do. He is so morbidly overweight. He smokes. He eats his Viagra and goes down to the Dominican Republic to bugger little boys. I just hope that I'm around when he croaks. I don't know why, but I do.
And here's Malloy wishing Glenn Beck would kill himself:
I have a good news to report: Glenn Beck appears ever closer to suicide. I'm hoping that he does it on camera. Suicide is rampant in his family, and given his alcoholism and his tendencies towards self-destruction, I am only hoping that when Glenn Beck does put a gun to his head and pulls the trigger, that it's on television, because somebody will capture it on YouTube and it will be the most popular little piece of video for months.
Or how about libtalker Montel Williams? He's also fond of wishing death on conservatives. His rhetorical targets have included Michele Bachmann:
So, Michele, slit your wrist! Go ahead! I mean, you know, why not? I mean, if you want to — or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone.
And these are just the examples of radio hosts wishing death on others. The full extent of the vitriol these talkers spew over the broadcast airwaves is far deeper than just these morbid excerpts - Republicans are responsible for 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing, they want all poor people and minorities to die, they enjoy eating babies, etc.
So why hasn't Sharpton gone after these talkers? Because doing so would not advance his leftist political agenda. He is far less interested in "civil" airwaves than he is in liberal (or at least less conservative) ones. If that means censorship on the bogus grounds that Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or any other commentator is uniquely "uncivil," than so be it. Truth must be subordinated to the agenda.
I know that will seem obvious to most people who read this, but it's worth reiterating, just in case some nutty regulator decides to co-opt Sharpton's plan.
- Lachlan Markay's blog
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Special Ed Sucks
Submitted by SnapTie on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:52am.
Just happened to catch Fat Ed's Monday rerun and he was trying to get some unknown State Representative from Ohio to say that Governor John Kasich was a racist. multiple times he asked is he a racist? She wouldn't answer.These people make me sick pushing the racist card.
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Go away, Al. You can go away
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:53am.
Go away, Al. You can go away mad if you want to.
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Good ol racist Al
Submitted by JIMGAVIGS on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:57am.
Al Sharpton: Con man, racist, liar,embezzler, unidicted criminal,extortionist, fool, and now head censor for the Bojangles regime. Why anybody listens to this idiot, much less puts any credence in anything he says is beyond me. This guy should be traveling with a carnival, shilling for the bearded lady exhibit.
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Sharpton on the Schultz show
Submitted by KC Mulville on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:01am.
What could go wrong?
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Defies mathmatics....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:16am.
The only place where two negatives to not make a positive.
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In addition, two negatives
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:38pm.
In addition, two negatives increases the negativity. Same with politics.
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I remember when Al went after
Submitted by WarEagle66 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:03am.
I remember when Al went after Rosie O'Donnell when she did her Chinese language impersination. Ha!
He's a dope, and inarticulate dope. He is growing increasingly irrelevant so he is grasping at anything to remain part of teh discussion.
I don't think it's working.
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Has the Godd Rev.-
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:06am.
cleared up his tax evasion issues yet?
If not shut up-
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I'm sure Special Ed gave Al his 30 seconds
Submitted by Texndoc on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:09am.
I've quit watching but saw enough segments with the Rev to know he gets 30-40 seconds and then a "Thanks for coming". Who the hell cares.
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John Stewart had a bit about
Submitted by Hunter12 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:28am.
John Stewart had a bit about one of his black (can I say black?) commentators trying to play the race card and realizing it was nullified during the term of a black president. Al must realize the most potent weapon in his shakedown arsenal has been nullified and he's trying to use his yellow card to make money now. Can a black play a yellow card? Magaret Cho, can I get a ruling? Who cares who says what about the Chinese. I can bet that they don't. All they care about is we get to fixing this economy and give them their money back. The opinion of a Westener is like water off a Peking duck's back.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
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One of Sharpton's mottos?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:43am.
One of Sharpton's mottos? Standards for thee and not for me.
Sorry, Al, but I refuse to lower my standards to your level and I'm sure Rush Limbaugh refuses to lower his standards to your level, too.
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Sorry, it's a racially
Submitted by johnsonl on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:44am.
Sorry, it's a racially motivated campaign. If Al could only get Rangel to retire, THEN it would be political!
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Tilting at windmills
Submitted by The Vet on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:45am.
That is still legal, and apparently still a money maker for Mr. Sharpton. Gets you lots of publicity gigs at liberal talk shows.
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Fat Albert is and was and always will be a racist
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:58am.
and further, he has killed his own and walked. These libs love to kill their women and then take the "high" ground on morals.
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When the great
Submitted by sam12663 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:59am.
'Reverend' Al asks the for the same type of censorship of comedians, musicians, artists, Hollywood, and anyone else who has THE RIGHT TO SPEAK FREELY, as granted by the Constitution, his words are useless.
Redundant I know.
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'Man of the Cloth'?
Submitted by Slyrr on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:06am.
Sharpton and Jackson put themselves forth as 'reverends'. Which means they are billing themselves as men of the cloth - holy men who preach the gospel of Christ and are supposed to be saving souls. Yet Christ himself warned us about people like Sharpton and Jackson. 'Wolves in sheep's clothing'.
Do therefore everything they say - but do not after their actions, for they say and do not.
Sharpton's anger and outrage are extremely misguided. His anger would be far better directed at the abortion doctors, who it has been proven are targeting black people. Sharpton wastes his anger and energy against Limbaugh, while liberal 'doctors' are slaughtering the babies of his flock by the hundreds of thousands.
He would be far better served to tell his followers to live chaste lives of Christian virtue instead of whining about radio programs. He should be saying to the people at his speeches - 'You men - keep your hoo-has in your britches until after you're married. And you women - tell the men slobbering after you for sex that they don't get none until they agree to marry you and get jobs and provide for you and any kids that are born.'
If he would do this, the lot of 'his people' would improve vastly. Instead, he stands by and does nothing while black babies are being butchered in countless numbers. By not speaking out against abortion, Sharpton is giving abortion his tacit support. Which means he is standing by and holding the coats of the doctors who are carrying out this slaughter.
Shaprton and Jackson therefore are not men of God. If they were, they would preach his gospel and improve the lives of their followers. Instead, they are rabble rouses and huckers. They go around the country and the world whipping up mobs and scaring people into giving them money. What they preach is not the gospel of Christ. What they are doing is called 'priestcraft'.
Thy money perish with thee Sharpton - because thou hast tought the gift of God could be purchased with money.
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Agreed, Slyrr
Submitted by gfrrman on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 12:25am.
My Grandfather(God rest his soul!!) was a Reverend/Preacher and when growing up our family went to churches ALL over. Grandfather Cain preached and lived the word as an example. He was married to the same woman for over 50 years, never drank, cussed(except for an occasional dadgummit on the golf course...lol), owned only ONE car and lived in a very modest shotgun style home. No fancy tailored suits, no high styling lifestyle. He never hated nor preached hatred, nor was he rabble rouser. Therefore I KNOW what a Reverend/Preacher is and(self proclaimed) Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson YOU BOTH ARE A FRAUD AND a PHONEY and you are definitely NOT REVERENDS in ANY shape or form. I know right now where my Grandfather is, looking down on Gods' creation and Al and Jesse you will NEVER see him(if ya get my drift).
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Hmmm...following the liberal
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:07am.Hmmm...following the liberal line of reasoning, it was Sharpton's hateful rhetoric of Jews which caused the deaths during the Crown Heights riots so Sharpton should be censored.
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Two self-serving bastards...
Submitted by notinstl on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:14am.
Sharpton is the king of race baiting...does anyone actually fall for this guy's BS?
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Rev Al
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:17am.
Rev. Sharpton voices concern in the aftermath of New York City blizzard: disproportionate amount of city snowmen are white
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The title of "Reverend" for
Submitted by ant on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:30am.
The title of "Reverend" for the likes of this man and Jesse Jackson are about as apt as "Rhodes Scholar Rachel Maddow" and "Journalist Katie Couric".
A sage man once talked about the dangers of a man of God getting involved in politics wherein there are just too many devils to pay. Al seems to be serving two masters, if in fact, he ever considers the former at all.
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come on folks, if not for the
Submitted by beachgirl on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:32am.
come on folks, if not for the race card, what could Uncle Al possibly have to contribute to a conversation!
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Hip Hop standards
Submitted by MCLANTIERE on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:36am.
If Al Sharpton wants to: (a) represent the Black Community, and (b) see standards on Federally owned airwaves ... why doesn't he start with something with which he's familiar ... BLACK HIP HOP lyrics ... about glorifying drug use, sex, and violence.
Physician, heal thyself.
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Anyone ever notice how
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:36am.
Anyone ever notice how Sharpton always has that sour look on his face? The guy always looks angry and miserable, but I guess that's what happens to a person after living for decades as a hate filled bigot. It's very funny how this hate-filled bigot has positioned himself to be the antidote to Rush Limbaugh's so-called hate filled racist rhetoric. This ranks up there with Al Gore blaming our endless series of blizzards on Global Warming (so much for heat and widespread droughts!).
Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
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It's not just Rush Limbaugh.
Submitted by jdawg2009 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:06pm.
It's not just Rush Limbaugh. They want to silence everyone on the right.
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Submitted by Patriot II on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:12pm.
Is another LEACH, just like Jackson and numerous others....I can't believe blacks not only believe in these vermin but send them money!!! "stupid is, as stupid does"!!!!
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He gets them stuff
Submitted by sam12663 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:38pm.
His believers, which are fewer now than ever before, love him because he still preaches reparations and the like. He peddles victimization, which is a tenet of liberalism, and some in the black community feel that they are owed something for the wrongs committed 300 years ago.
He is a race merchant, pure and simple.
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Well, if 'fox news' would
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:44pm.
Well, if 'fox news' would stop inviting that racist, tax evading, useless piece of trash onto their shows, FAT AL would fade away into nothingness.
He has nothing of value to offer other than his racism, and THAT is certainly no 'plus' on his resume.
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
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ol Fat Al Sharpton is getting
Submitted by jkwtrading on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:08pm.
ol Fat Al Sharpton is getting skinnier.maybe he will just slim down and slither away away.
right now his neck is so small reminds me of the ABC nightly guy with no neck and a big head, cannot think of his name.. ran the pompous nightly talk line for years..
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Poor Al
Submitted by donabernathy on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:26pm.
got a Rush Man Crush
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Because it's arrogant to let
Submitted by jdawg2009 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:42pm.
Because it's arrogant to let people say what they want, in Sharptons view.
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Keep speaking about crushing free speach, Al
Submitted by Ashrak on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:46pm.
Al lost his race card, upon Obama's taking power, and he knows it. Al is married to the shakedown industry and has been for so long that he knows no other trade. He is just trying to remain relevant and he is failing badly.
He has relegated himself to arguing against Individual rights and he is so blinded by his own hate that he fails to see it. The great thing is, though, that others see it for what it is more and more every day.
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Sharpton Needs to Shut Up
Submitted by DaMama on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:57pm.
Why does this man even have any kind of credibility? He was behind the Tawana Brawley scandal of the late 1980's and people still look to him as some kind of authority figure. The guy is a liar, a fraud and DON'T call him Reverend. He is an embarrassment to the Church.
Sharpton is a racist and he especially hates white conservatives. Why doesn't anyone call him on his hate speech? Are African American's exempt from being guilty of hate speech?
Political correctness has got to go, and so does Sharpton. The man is an imbecile.
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Rev'm Al
Submitted by markprice1983 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 2:13pm.
But wasn't Al right about the Duke lacrosse case? What? He wasn't? Never mind,
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Lorne Michaels wouldn't like the Fairness Doctrine
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 3:05pm.
For every SNL skit satirizing a Democrat, he would have to have on satirizing a Republican.
Snarky comments on sitcoms would have to be toned down, too.
The broadcast industry does not want a return of the Fairness Doctrine. It would cost them too much $$$.
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Galvanic, Did you get those
Submitted by Hunter12 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 3:55pm.
Galvanic, Did you get those backwards? When it gets so blatant, they do satirize a Dim, but the bulk of their skits attack the GOP. Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann are Republicans.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
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Submitted by JPP on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 3:14pm.
AL doesn't give a rats a$$ about anyone other than Al Sharpton.
No one should give this creton air time.
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Who made Sharpton an expert?
Submitted by telecaster on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 3:39pm.
Somebody oughta stuff a cauliflower in Sharpton's mouth. He is by far the biggest most ignorant schnook shilling for black victimization there is. What exactly are his credentials besides fraud and con? And why is he propped up by moronic media as some kind of authority? He's bad for rational discourse and he's bad for black people. Go away Al....go sell your woe is the black man, gimmee some money, white people owe me snake oil somewhere else.
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Does anyone have audio of the Shultz "bugger" comment?
Submitted by gopcongress on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:31pm.
Specifically, the one where he tells everyone that Rush "buggers little boys." Thanks
"The news and truth are not the same thing." -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
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Chicken George
Submitted by yorgo1960 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:49pm.
I haven't seen Roots since the first time it aired but if I remember the character names, Al Sharpton is the Chicken George of the civil rights movement. He does what is best for him, he does what allows him to keep his position and get rich at the expense of everyone else.
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Given not-so Sharpton's
Submitted by theduck6 on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 9:25am.
legendary misstatements, malaprops, foibles and outright lies,
Isn't that a lot like the pot calling the kettle ebony?
Unbiased media my hindquarters. hmmmm
Does Special Ed qualify as media...or a sitcom?
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Why Should We Care what.....
Submitted by M.Maurer73 on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 1:54pm.
A pair of Hutts say on a TV broadcast that 4 people were watching? If talk radio any better "standards" neither of these gas bags would have a show.
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Why Should We Care what.....
Submitted by M.Maurer73 on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 1:54pm.
A pair of Hutts say on a TV broadcast that 4 people were watching? If talk radio any better "standards" neither of these gas bags would have a show.
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Al and Ed are Frauds
Submitted by chipramsey on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 2:05pm.
The dangerous part of Al's little scam is that he wants not only the networks, but the local affiliates fo be responsible for Rush's opinions. Rush's opinions are what they are and his popularity speaks volumes for the fact that people enjoy those opinions.
Al is trying to legislate censorship by playing the race card. Ed is enabling him, not realizing that if Al is successful, Ed will pay a heavy price.
Sharpton is the ultimate squeaky whell that deserves absolutely no grease.
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