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This cotton crew neck jumper by Superdry is the perfect lightweight throw on piece this season. Layer it up on extra cool days.
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Superdry Luxe Breton Sweater
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Superdry Breton Jumper with Metallic Knit
Adding interest to your everyday casual separates collection, this luxe Breton sweater by Superdry is perfect for a get up and go look this season.
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Superdry Croyde Cable Crew Stripe
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Superdry Croyde Cable Crew Neck Striped Jumper
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Superdry Knitted Jumper - Pink
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"Roman Candle" turns 20: Secrets of Elliott Smith's accidental masterpiece (slideshow)
Elliott and the friends with whom he recorded in middle school in Texas (photo courtesy of Dan Pickering)
Topics: Going Viral, Occupy Wall Street, Entertainment News
Greed, for lack of a better word, is apparently no longer good.
A deadpan new PSA for the FBI replays an iconic, oft-quoted '80s movie scene before trotting out none other than Michael Douglas himself to rail against it. "In the movie 'Wall Street,' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings," he says. "The movie was fiction, but the problem is real."
Douglas goes on to explain that "Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and the integrity of the financial markets," and, "If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is," before directing the viewer to contact the FBI for information on securities fraud.
Speaking in BusinessWeek this week, FBI Special Agent David Chaves revealed that the spot grew out of the FBI's desire to call attention to their Martha Stewart-sounding "Perfect Hedge" initiative, and to make clear that they still wear the pants, enforcement-wise. "At one point it was reported that the SEC was arresting people," Chaves said. "That's when I took the position that we need to be clear on what's going on." And who could the FBI recruit to hammer home the message? "I thought there was only one person to do it," said Chaves: the guy who played ultimate insider douchebag himself.
It's a noble effort — and a well-timed attempt at public relations — in a recessionary year, one in which the words "Wall Street" have become synonymous with "occupy." It's a chance for the U.S. government to look like the good guys, as opposed to just those corporate butt-kissers. But it's also amusing to see an actor explain that one of his old movies is in fact fiction. I'd like to see Al Pacino working for the Drug Enforcement Authority, explaining that he isn't a Cuban coke lord. Or Harrison Ford saying that he isn't really a replicant – OR IS HE?
Douglas, for his part, says the subtleties of the original film seem to have been lost on the cineastes of the financial world. The Times reports that "Mr. Douglas would receive high-fives and handshakes from real-life traders and bankers when he walked the streets of Manhattan." And now Douglas would like to remind them that just like their hero, they can go to jail.
Mary Elizabeth Williams is a staff writer for Salon and the author of "Gimme Shelter: My Three Years Searching for the American Dream." Follow her on Twitter: @embeedub.More Mary Elizabeth Williams.
Elliott and the friends with whom he recorded in middle school in Texas (photo courtesy of Dan Pickering)
Heatmiser publicity shot (L-R: Tony Lash, Brandt Peterson, Neil Gust, Elliott Smith) (photo courtesy of JJ Gonson photography)
Elliott and JJ Gonson (photo courtesy of JJ Gonson photography)
"Stray" 7-inch, Cavity Search Records (photo courtesy of JJ Gonson photography)
Elliott's Hampshire College ID photo, 1987
Elliott with "Le Domino," the guitar he used on "Roman Candle" (courtesy of JJ Gonson photography)
Full "Roman Candle" record cover (courtesy of JJ Gonson photography)
Elliott goofing off in Portland (courtesy of JJ Gonson photography)
Heatmiser (L-R: Elliott Smith, Neil Gust, Tony Lash, Brandt Peterson)(courtesy of JJ Gonson photography)
The Greenhouse Sleeve -- Cassette sleeve from Murder of Crows release, 1988, with first appearance of Condor Avenue (photo courtesy of Glynnis Fawkes)

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Hey guy's, i just heard about Zend again for about the 50th time and thought I would take a look into it, well, now i'm hooked on trying to make a CMS with it. Has anyone here made a CMS with zend before or do you know of any good tutorials on how to use the ZendFramework and server?
Hello mate,
Starting with a framework like Zend takes some time. You need to accommodate with it. After you learned the beginner stuff, take the leap to that kind of project: a CMS .
I suggest you 2 books for that matter:
1) Apress – Beginning Zend Framework 2) Pro Zend Framework Techniques: Build a Full CMS Project
I did some projects with CodeIgniter framework (first time I worked with a MVC framework). This summer I hope I'll have time for those 2 books.
Good luck!
Thanks alot! I will read these two books and hopefully achieve my goal of making a CMS in the future.
Thanks for your help


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Yo' mah Brutha…
"Such a deal I got fo' you!"
Man left with brain damage after 'being attacked by gang of 20 black men'
"Waffle House isn't safe fo' no white people after Ferguson'"
West Point man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after he and a friend were attacked by a group of around 20 people in a Huddle House parking lot, police said, potentially as retaliation for Michael Brown's killing.
Ralph Weems IV, who is white, was injured early Saturday but is now in fair condition at North Mississippi Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Genie Causey said.
A relative, Bradley Barnes of Madison, told The Associated Press by telephone on Sunday that his brother-in-law was in a medically induced coma following brain surgery.
Where the hell is the outrage now, Mr. Holder???
Alred: The governance of urban schools
White Mountains Lecture #12
One of the reasons I have criticized Jewish management of our national politics and their control of the local media of big cities is that out of instinctive, historically determined fear they have made politics uninteresting. Politics stopped being tragic and comedic soon after the resignation of Richard Nixon. I would not be surprised if Jews manufactured he whole Oprah industry because Oprah is SAFE and PHONY, two things that erase anxiety for middle-class people and make them contented with boring, unexamined lives. Thus, the connection between moderate Clinton liberals and tolerance of illegal immigration from inferior cultures. Continue reading
Porous American Borders Too Tempting for Terrorists to Ignore
A troubling storyline is developing along the U.S. southern border—more high-powered weaponry. Law enforcement agencies on America's southern border have also confiscated a variety of military explosive devices– including sub-munitions.
Entering or exiting the United States, Juliette and Noe Ramirez were apprehended at the Texas/Mexico border on August 2, 2014 carrying sub-munitions, more commonly known as bomblets used in cluster bombs. "Juliette Ramirez was detained late Saturday night near the toll booth plaza north of the Del Rio International Bridge after a small explosive device was found hidden in a backpack," the Del Rio News Herald reported. Continue reading
Caruba: Freedom OF Religion, Not Freedom FROM Religion
The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution do not abandon religion, they embrace it. They do not, however, require that Americans believe in God, nor punish them for failing to do so.
Central to the liberties enshrined in these documents is the belief that they come from a higher power and America exists because of that belief. Without it there would have been no America. There are those among us who insist that, as a nation, we abandon faith in God and, if we do, America will cease to be a power for good in the world. Continue reading
Smith: In the Name of Humanity
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, under the command of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is evil incarnate, and, more than a threat to Christians and America, it represents a new global threat, which was a foreseeable consequence of arming the "rebels", Al Qaeda, in Syria. Having burst forth as a product of the Syrian civil war and the U.S. premature withdrawal from Iraq on Obama's orders, ISIS now seeks to expand the area it already controls, approximately an area the size of Great Britain, through violence and terror, beheading all unlike them – liberal Muslims, Christians, and Yazidis – raping the women and murdering entire families; they are destroying all who do not accept their vision of an Islamic state, their declared Caliphate, as they give them the ultimatum of "convert or die." And now, this genocide of historic proportions demands that the U.S. and the free world exterminate the dire threat from ISIS through all the military might they can muster.
Obama, ever sympathetic to Sunni Muslims, more than likely illegally and surreptitiously armed the so-called "rebels" in Syria by late 2011 from Libya, as strong evidence suggests. Conclusive evidence from U.S. officials and Syrian figures reveals the CIA and U.S. Special Forces delivered weapons to the rebels, mostly Al Qaeda affiliates, around September 1, 2013, according to the Washington Post (9/11/13). Continue reading
Hultberg: Why the Libertarian Party Fails
Many in America's freedom movement still hope that the Libertarian Party will one day become a power on the political scene to challenge the Democrat-Republican monolith. But in 42 years it hasn't happened, and it probably won't happen. There are some very distinct reasons why the LP and all other alternative / independent parties fail. This essay will examine them.
Let's take, for example, the top independent parties out there: the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party. Even though each of them have appeared at times to be a start toward genuine political reform, they repeatedly fail because they have structured themselves upon the mistake of instant idealism, which leads to their marginalization. Continue reading
SARTRE: Forbidden History the Ultimate Taboo
People are dumb because they do not know and refuse to learn the real history behind world events. Educational institutions do not function as seekers of truth, but as gatekeepers for narratives that defy common sense and defame historical facts. Society fosters the ultimate taboo against chronicles that differ with the established story of distortions and misdirection. Anyone who dares waver from accepted limits and suppositions immediately is a quack or an extremist. The dreaded label of being a conspiracy theorist, used to smear and marginalize researchers and pundits, is the height of anti-intellectualism and character assassination.
The dim-witted public, told to shun contradictory accounts, interpretations and disturbing explanations accepts sham history. The accurate course of events must remain hidden from the masses. The subject of a New World Order is not newfound. The process of world domination is as old as the formation of the first empire. Despite the annals of war and governments, the actual power that enslaves civilizations and humanity, is evil itself, in its purist form and manifestation. Continue reading
Out of the Mouths of Babes & Communists: Fundamentally Changing America…
From an article in the Times Record, 8/11/14, "Immigrant-Rights Nonprofit learns from Arizona Organizations" we are told "Change agents with Arkansas United Community Coalition returned Sunday after a five-day trip to the heart of the border crisis in Arizona with ideas on how to inspire change in their communities. (Emphasis mine)
This is straight out of Saul Alinsky's method for change (always meaning the destruction of Western values, e.g. liberty, private property, personal responsibility, rule of law, etc.) as outlined in his book "Rules for Radicals".
Community organizing is the background of Barack Hussein Obama and radically changing what America used to be is the goal. It is obviously working since there is little recognizable that is left. Continue reading
The Dollar's 70-year Dominance is Coming to an End!
Within a decade, greenback's could be replaced as the world's reserve currency
In early July 1944, delegates from 44 countries gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. A three-week summit took place, at which a new system was agreed to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the Second World War.
The US was already the world's commercial powerhouse, having eclipsed the British Empire several decades earlier. America was also on course to be among the victors of "Europe's conflict", even though its economy was largely unscathed by war. As such, Bretton Woods was US-dominated and produced a settlement largely on US terms.
Seventy years ago, that fateful summit ended. Its close marked the moment the dollar's unquestionable supremacy was secured. Since then, global commerce has been conducted largely in dollars and leading economies have held the greenback as their primary reserve currency. Continue reading
Baroud: Gaza Changed Everything
Things Cannot Stay the Same after Israeli Genocide in Gaza
After every bloody episode of violence perpetrated by Israel, media spin doctors are often deployed with one grand mission: to absolve Israel of any responsibility in their acts of carnage.
Not only do these apologists demonize Palestinians, but anyone who dares to take a stand on their behalf. The main staple of this Israeli strategy has been blaming the victim. Such a tactic is nothing new in the way the so-called "Arab-Israeli conflict" has been presented in Western media, whose narrative has been much closer to that of Israeli official and media discourses than that of Palestinians. This continued despite the decades-long military occupation, successive wars, and countless massacres. Continue reading
The Drake Equation and the Fraud of Climate Modeling
Oh no, not another global warming article? Yep! It's true, but this one takes a little different tack to make a point about the folly of climate modeling. Hopefully, the reader will forgive this author's brief foray into the world of simple mathematics and logic.
Back in the early 60′s when scientists started "dreaming" of how they could determine if there was life elsewhere in the universe, a radio astronomer by the name of Frank Drake came up with an equation (the infamous Drake Equation) to estimate the possibility of intelligent life on other extra solar planets in the Milky Way galaxy. He came up with the equation to help stimulate scientific dialogue at the up coming, first ever, Search For Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) conference in Green Bank, West Virginia. Continue reading
Alred: The One Lesson of Fascism
White Mountains Lecture # 11: Engaging the New Working Class
My final act of resistance to the community democracy approach to managing schools adopted by urban liberals in the Houston Independent School District was taking photographs of students mobbing the hallways of the school where I taught for sixteen years.
The photos surprised many people who read my blog, which for once received plenty of attention.
For years under that school's administration, students had the freedom to spend class time in the hallways in spite of state and local regulations. I used that reality to suggest the larger problem: that adult professionals were not serious enough about educating minority kids. Continue reading
Hanson : Our 'Face in the Crowd'
Elia Kazan's classic A Face in the Crowd is a good primer on Barack Obama's rise and fall. Lonesome Rhodes arises out of nowhere in the 1957 film, romancing the nation as a phony populist who serially spins yarns in the most folksy ways — confident that he should never be held to account. Kazan's point (in the film Rhodes is a patsy for conservative business interests) is that the "folks" are fickle and prefer to be charmed rather than informed and told the truth. Rhodes's new first name, Lonesome, resonates in the film in a way that Barack does now. Finally, an open mic captures Rhodes's true disdain for the people he champions, and his career crashes. Continue reading
The Keystone Pipeline, Eminent Domain and Government Duplicity
There is a great deal of confusion, mis-information, propaganda and outright lies flooding the Internet and the airways about the Keystone XL pipeline. Most people aren't aware that three phases of the pipeline are already built and operating. It is the fourth phase that is creating all of the hot air and acrid smoke among the competing parties and the mostly uninformed public. There are many competing parties, most at odds with each other. Continue reading
Caruba: Genocide! A Christian Holocaust
In the last century and now this one, I have lived long enough to have been alive when the Nazis killed six million European Jews and another five million other "enemies of the state" that included unionists, homosexuals, Seventh Day Adventists, and any others that ran afoul of that hateful and hate-filled regime.
There were genocides in the last and this century. The killing of Kurds by Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator who used poison gas — a weapon of mass destruction—against them is largely forgotten by everyone but the Kurds. Continue reading
Removing the Liberal Happy Face from Urban Communities
White Mountains Lecture #9: Creating seriousness and mercy in the American playground
This article suggests we do not have political models which can lead us to improvements in our urban public schools and we have to look outside our traditions for new ways of engaging working-class, minority communities.
I try to write less about public schools these days for several reasons. One, my own experience standing up to the ethnic bureaucrats and union officials ended badly, and the end was too painful and costly. Two, I am interested in the big picture: trends (such as the lack of immigration enforcement and the permissive philosophies taught in university education schools) which made success impossible for more than a small percentage of students each year. Three, it makes my own thinking small and increasingly that's less interesting to me. Four, I cannot do anything practical about problem, and in my final year I was ready for experimenting and in spite of all the money flowing in the Houston Independent School District, there was not room for real change, there was only room for talk of change. Continue reading
McCutchen: Citizen Taxpayers vs. Library tax or Property Rights vs. Forced Redistribution
Background: The concept of private individual property rights is a recent arrival in the timetables of human history, much less its official enactment in various degrees by governments around the world—specifically Western Civilization.
The concept finally caught fire in intellectual philosophers' minds, mainly by the 16th century, to the extent that by the time our Founders were young pupils studying classical literature, languages & philosophies, the rarified ideas of individual rights were honored and struggling to be achieved in reality. The overwhelming significance was for the masses of people who had suffered nearly forever under the heavy hand of tyranny. Up until then it was unheard of that an individual had the right to keep the fruits of his labor and that no one had the right to take them by force of any means. Continue reading
Gaddy: Swearing an Oath to the Constitution and How It Works
"Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, but the plain single vow that is vow'd true." ~ William Shakespeare, All'sWell That Ends Well
Without a doubt, the most overlooked and abused object during an election season is the Oath of Office. When was the last time you heard the Oath to uphold and defend our Constitution and Bill of Rights mentioned in a political debate; on the evening news or by any of the so-called pundits in the media?
In today's world, one must exhibit their ability to perform the job they have applied for, usually in the form of a test or examination; a driver's license; a teaching certification; license to practice medicine; contractor's license; POST certification; a concealed carry permit and many more. All these require a working knowledge of the job they have applied for or are being employed to do and some form of examination or test to demonstrate knowledge and application of the principals involved. Yet, for the literally hundreds of thousands of politicians, public officials, law enforcement personnel and government bureaucrats, there is no examination given on what is the most important and sometimes the only requirements of their jobs. Continue reading
Smith: A Moral Distinction
To hear Obama, his administration and Secretary of State John Kerry say that they were "appalled" by the "disgraceful act" of the United Nations School in Gaza being bombed on August 3rd by Israeli Defense Forces, after the IDF warned residents in advance of this attack, shows Obama's and Kerry's willingness to distort and misrepresent the facts and the reality of the situation, as they exploit the peace process through their thinly veiled anti-Semitic positions, in a vile, dishonest and stupid manner. They are so anxious to achieve peace at any cost, that they make no moral distinction between Hamas and Israel, which, in and of itself, is unconscionable and shameful. Continue reading
Huntwork: H.A.M.A.S. (Hides Amongst Mosques And Schools), Self-Loathing Jews, And The Only Hope For Peace
In 2005 Gaza was unconditionally given to the Palestinians. They quickly handed it over to Hamas, made it a terror fortress, and smuggled in all the weapons of war that they could (which brought about a blockade). All efforts of peace since then have been met with "Massacre all the Jews!"
There is one very vital thing that must be said to all the Arabs of Palestine, as well as their supporters and defenders around the world. If you want to have peace and co-exist with Israel without war, violence, and death then stop voting in and supporting fundamentalists and extremists whose pastime is strapping bombs onto innocent women and children and launching rockets at Israel. And stop excusing such bloody actions when they occur. Leave Israel alone and you will soon have both peace and harmony with the Jew. If you are a peaceful Muslim then you must reject murder and terrorism in the name of Allah. If you are rational Westerner, you must do the same. It's that simple. Continue reading
On Heroes and Preachers: Gaza's New Resistance Paradigm
"Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? In Israeli prison, of course!," was the title of an article by Jo Ehrlich published in Modoweiss.net on Dec 21, 2009. That was almost exactly one year after Israel's concluded a major war against Gaza. The so-called Operation Cast Lead (December 27, 2008 – January 18, 2009) was, till then, the deadliest Israeli attack against the impoverished strip for many years.
Ehrlich was not in the least being belittling by raising the question about the 'Palestinian Gandhi' but responding to the patronization of others. Right from the onset, he remarked: "Not that I'm in any way playing into the Palestinian Gandhi dialogue, I think it's actually pretty diversionary/racist. But sometimes you have to laugh in order not to cry.." Continue reading
Gaddy: "Delegata Potestas Non Potest Delegari"
"A delegated power cannot itself be delegated" ~ Anglo-Saxon legal maxim.
How did we get to this point in history; our country is hopelessly in debt and that debt is getting larger every day; more and more laws and regulations are passed, not to protect our rights, but to take them away; we spend more and more money on education, yet, our children are less and less prepared to make a living and most are driven by emotions instead of intellect; we are engaged in multiple wars against multiple inanimate objects (terror, poverty, drugs, crime etc.) requiring more and more money, but the enemies the wars are fought to eradicate continue to increase exponentially; the wars that are allegedly fought to secure our freedom requires more and more draconian laws that take our freedoms instead of protecting them; our country's true history is forgotten or intentionally distorted to support a purely socialist agenda; we have thousands and thousands more "law enforcement" officers now than we had "peace officers" when I was young, yet, we have more laws, more crime and less peace. Continue reading
Baroud: Recruiting to kill – it is not just an Israeli war on Gaza
To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between Israel and resisting Palestinian fighters in Gaza. But behind his measured diplomatic language, there is a truth not even America's top diplomat can easily hide. His country is very much involved in fighting this dirty war on Gaza that has killed over 1,050, injured thousands more, and destroyed much of an already poor, dilapidated space that is barely inhabitable to begin with.
US economic and military aid to Israel is measured annually in the billions, and the US government continues to be Israel's strongest and most ardent ally and political benefactor. In fact, the US-Israel "special relationship" is getting more "special" by the day even though Israel is sinking further into the abyss of a well-deserved isolation. Continue reading
Smith: A Citizen Legislator/ or More Than a Republican
Last week (of July 14th) State Representative Joe Carr (R) brought his bid for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Senator Lamar Alexander (R) to the national spotlight. On July 14th, nationally recognized radio and television political analyst, Laura Ingraham endorsed Joe Carr and backed her endorsement with a rousing rally for Carr on July 22nd, in front of approximately 600 people at the Millenium Maxwell Hotel in Nashville, TN. And the very next day, Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska, also offered her strong support and endorsement of Mr. Joe Carr. Continue reading
Alred: Something to get excited about?
White Mountains Lecture #8: The Failure of Reaganism and the need for a nationalist party with Protestant and Catholic approaches to self-presentation.
My mother until her death remained perhaps the only post-presidential Jimmy Carter acolyte in this country besides President Carter's remarkably attractive wife (have we ever had a sexier or more lovely first Lady?), and I could not share her enthusiasm.
My conservative roomates at Ole Miss convinced me of only one idea: "Carterism" was laughable. Carter's presidency personified weakness. It had embarrassed the country. And the mention of his name wounded the spirit of any true patriot. When we went to the polls together, they voted for Reagan and I cast a protest vote for Anderson.
The following speaks to the manipulative power of national media marketing: the inwardly driven, contemplative, patient and stubborn Protestant Jimmy Carter cast as weak and vascillating and the half-assed dough-boy, policy chameleon Bill Clinton is sold to us as the greatest political artist of our generation. Continue reading
Gaddy: "Tax Farmers"
(Or how the government sponsored hate and hysteria directed at any substance or cause that is not approved and promoted by the government itself is the root of all evil and should be exterminated along with anyone foolish enough to use them.)
Author's disclaimer: I am not now, nor have been, the user of drugs, legal or illegal, with the exception of Acetaminophen, over-the-counter allergy relief and the occasional ingestion of caffeine or an adult beverage.
Author's note: I am also fully cognizant that I live in Bizarro World. Please take that into consideration as I cite as a recent example the claim by a proxy leader of a local group that claims fealty and allegiance to all things constitutional, that a candidate for Sheriff, recently vetted by that group, is "weak" on constitutional issues. This from the same man who recently publicly endorsed a candidate for that same office who has inundated this county with multiple lawsuits alleging repeated violations of the constitutional rights of local citizens and who knowingly hired and promoted a man who had been terminated in another state for violating the constitutional rights of citizens in that state, only to have him perpetrate these same unconstitutional acts on citizens here; So much for being "weak" on the Constitution. Continue reading
Huntwork: Why Does Anyone Defend Hamas And The Palestinian Culture Of Death?
"Why in God's name does anyone show sympathy, and support for a terrorist organization?" ~ Former Congressman Allen West
And that is the question that should be asked. It boggles the mind and offends the senses that there is EVEN ONE MEMBER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION who is upset that Israel is pummeling the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. Under Ariel Sharon, Israel forcibly removed its citizens from Gaza and turned the land over to the Arabs. Israel has been rewarded for that gesture of conciliation with the abduction and killing of its citizens and the launching of hundreds of rockets into its territory.
Such provocations have finally goaded the state of Israel into launching a ground invasion of Gaza to take on the infamous Hamas, a terrorist group famous for hiding behind women and children even as they target the same. Death and destruction is a deserving end to all those who purposefully target, kidnap, and murder young, innocent civilians. That's the tragic event that triggered this latest round of the current conflict. May all those in Gaza who support such practices pay a very severe price for doing so. Continue reading
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Death rates for the most lethal cancers have dropped across the region by almost a third in the last 20 years, according to new figures.
Free prostate, colorectal cancer screenings
One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime and the disease is treatable if diagnosed early.
Denbrock recovering from prostate cancer
Denbrock said he learned he had cancer while undergoing blood tests in June while applying for life insurance.
Denbrock recovering from prostate cancer
Denbrock said he learned he had cancer while undergoing blood tests in June while applying for life insurance.
UT Medical Center holding 7th annual Man Run for prostate cancer research
Bob Spining is getting his laps in, ready to take part in the Man Run. He's a prostate cancer survivor.
Scots to receive robot-assisted surgery by 2015
SCOTTISH PATIENTS are to start receiving hi-tech robot-assisted surgery from the start of next year, it was announced yesterday.
Connolly 'doing incredibly well'
Billy Connolly could have had Parkinson's disease for around 10 years before it was diagnosed, his wife has revealed.
Cancer screenings common among older, sick Americans
Despite potential risks and limited benefits, many Americans are still screened for cancers toward the end of their lives, according to a new study.
ALBION Park's Amanda Halls is putting her hair where her heart is when she shaves her head in aid of the Prostate Cancer Foundation Australia on Saturday.
Golf legend Arnold Palmer has successful pacemaker surgery
Golf legend Arnold Palmer had a pacemaker implanted on Monday to correct an abnormal heartbeat, according to his website.
Too Many Cancer Screening Wasted on Those Facing Death
Older patients who aren't expected to live more than another decade are still being screened too often for cancers, causing more harm than good, a study found.
BRCA2 mutations herald poor prognosis in screen-detected prostate cancer
Among men with prostate cancer detected on screening, survival among those with a mutation in the BRCA2 gene is much poorer than in those without such a mutation, researchers report.
Study reveals treatment trends for prostate cancer in Japan
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Why didn't anyone tell us that Thursday was Kiefer Sutherland News Day? We would've dressed up or something. Following the cancellation of Sutherland's two-season drama Touch, Fox has allegedly set the wheels in motion for a limited return of his other former Fox show, 24. That's right, the acclaimed series — home to the second-best president on television — may just get a few more hours of life to live, a report from Deadline states. The network seems to have a hard time trying to quit dear Kiefs here: but do we really blame them?
Now, Sutherland may just be in the early talks of reprising his Emmy-winning role of super-cool, badass, takes-no-s**t Agent Jack Bauer, but there's a chance that this idea has potential. We haven't been shy around here about our staunch supporter of the "sometimes you have to let cancelled shows lie" line of thought, but it's the idea of the show's run being a limited series that makes this a bit more appealing. The idea of shorter, miniseries-styled shows is a welcome one that, so far, has done quite well with audiences looking for high-concept drama that is fully-realized by its end — just look at Fox's sister station FX's success with the three very differet seasons of American Horror Story it has produced. In fact, it's probably a better alternative for the oft-maligned TV movie as it allows for a far greater evolution of story and character without the loss of intricacies that inevitably happens when you have a two hour cinematic time limit suggestion.
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September 23, 2006
im about to undertake the task of organising my mp3 collection and would like to ask for advice / suggestions on what is the best approach to adopt with regards to organisation within harddisk / itunes / ipod
i want to set off on the right foot so im prepared to ditch the system i have so far which, at the minute all my music collection is within 2 folders on my win xp HD 'albums' and 'singles' and being played using winamp
all the albums are mp3 format and are labelled correctly, as are most of the singles.
so my question is what is the best way to get these tracks onto my ipod in an organised and usable way.i am new to itunes so im not sure if i shouldenable itunes to manage all music files by copying to the itunes folder ? should i bypass itunes and cust copy all the files as is onto the ipod ala an external hard disk ?
suggestions much appreciated
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iTunes, and indeed the iPod, ignores any folder structure that your music may be sorted by. Both iTunes and the iPod simply present you with a list of Genres, Artists, and Albums taken from the ID3 tags of your music.
The easiest solution is to turn on "Keep iTunes music folder organised" and "Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" before telling iTunes to import all your files. It will then use an Artist - Album - Song structure on your disk.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
I second Mwongozi on making it as automatic as possible. Itunes does a reasonable job of keeping everything in order -
if only it wasn't for that goddamn "Compilations" folder, that eats whole albums at random... arghhh.
oh, and while we're at it, does anyone know if Itunes 7 is any better than previous versions at handling (extremely) large numbers of songs, or does it still begin to choke upwards of 60 gigs or so?
posted by
on September 23, 2006
A hierarchy of directories ("folders") organized this way:
Artist (or Composer for classical music)
Then the tracks with the albums, named TrackNumber - TrackName
posted by
on September 23, 2006
/pub/music/Artist/Artist - Album/Album - Tracknumber - Artist - Title
I use this scheme because I sometimes browse the filesystem to select music, and because it lets me run torrents directly out of my repository (certain high-end music torrent trackers require that the files be in an "Artist - Album/" directory).
My experiences with iTunes on Windows were not very good to say the least. Several other versions have come out since I tried it, but if it were me in your shoes, I would avoid it and use other tools for file transfers to your MP3 player.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
I have all my albums in the My Music folder with one album per folder simply labeled as follows:
Artist - Album Title
All folders have cover art and are grouped by letter (My Music folder does that) so I can scan and choose my albums just like I would choose physical albums.
I prefer it this way in case I want to use another player other than iTunes. And the newest version of seems to eat up so much memory that I'll probably just use iTunes for iPod tranfering at this point rather than playing.
My suggestion is to not let iTunes sort your music unless you're sure you always want to use iTunes to play it.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
I hate iTunes.
If you like winamp you can use the
iPod plug in
. It works great.
Ripping music:
Exact Audio Copy
Storing music: I have separate folders for each CD in the "Artist - Album Title" format. It's a flat tier file system. In windows explorer I can "sort into groups" and "arrange by date modified" if I want a view of recent additions to my MP3 folder. (I have a dedicated server with one terabyte of RAID 5 storage, btw... ;-) )
Tagging, cleaning up tags & maintenance:
Tag & Rename
Listening: Winamp. Winamp's Media Library just works... it gives me everything I need, a gazillon different way to sort and filter and it doesn't mess up my music.
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ab3 - there's a checkbox in the Info dialog to toggle compilations, right? Select a track or a group of tracks and Get Info. The checkbox is on the Info tab of the resulting dialog box.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
I second
orthogonality's scheme
. iTunes' habit of either blowing apart compilation albums (if they aren't correctly marked as compilations), or dumping them in a Compilations directory (even if the compilation is by a single artist—a "best of" album, for instance) is aggravating. In my own collection, for instance, I have a fair number of soundtracks in a Soundtracks directory. Most of the albums are then grouped by film title, with a few directories for individual artists (Mancini, Morriconi, etc). I'm pretty sure iTunes' automatic organization feature would not allow this.
Within other genre directories, I include a Various Artists directory for stuff like Sounds of the 70s, Cafe del Mar, and the like.
When creating artist directories, you may want to name them with any article at the end (e.g. Ramones, The). Personally, I also prefer to use Last, First format (Bowie, David), although this can sometimes get tricky (Who gets listed first on an album by more than one artist? Are all names reversed, or just the first one? Is it Cat Power, or Power, Cat?). Last, First format also means some extra work tagging stuff in iTunes, if you choose to do it there as well.
Don't worry about organizing your iPod. If you've tagged your music such that it is organized the way you like it in iTunes, the iPod will take care of itself... it'll just reflect whatever structure you have in iTunes.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
I was going to say a few things, but
said it all first. There is absolutely no need to use iTunes.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
Artist / (Year) Album Title / Track No. Title of Song
That's it.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
Actually, that's not it.
All "styles" of music are handled in playlists, because frankly the mood of a song can depend a lot on the mood of the listener at the time. Playlists are in the top-level directory along with artists, prefixed with a hyphen so the playlists directory is always on top.
Also, live shows are handled as a "- Live" directory (again with a hyphen, so it's always on top) in the same directory as the albums. These are subdivided as follows:
Artist / - Live / Year / Year-Month-Day - Location of Show / Set.Track. Title of Song
posted by
on September 23, 2006
Several other versions have come out since I tried it, but if it were me in your shoes, I would avoid it and use other tools for file transfers to your MP3 player.
"I don't use product X, but you should avoid it." Specious.
I don't give a single shit if my music is organized by /artist/album/song or /genre/album/song or X or Y or Z, at the file system level. As long as there is a clearly visible scheme--no matter what it is--and files aren't just dumped into one folder, it's completely irrelevant to me. iTunes uses its own flexible database, and that lets me search instantly, create Smart Playlists, and browse by genre, album, artist, or song.
Fuck the file system.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
Fuck the file system until you want to give a copy to a friend. Or listen to it on a non-Apple mp3 player.
Then the lack-of-file-system fucks you.
posted by
on September 23, 2006 [
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Or I could, press command-r (or control-r in WinXP) in my music software and the file for whatever song I want will be shown to me in the file system instantly. I have never, ever had a problem here, and I never put any effort at all into how the files are organized inside my Music folder. I let iTunes do it. There's just no reason to get OCD about it.
Also, note that I said that the file system organization scheme can be anything, as long as it's clear. If I ever really needed to dig around in there--say, if you want to make sure you have something backed up--as long as it's easy to take a glance and see how it's organized, it doesn't matter to me.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
Unless you have specific reasons/needs I suggest letting iTunes take care of it for you, as Mikey-San suggests. I've tried my hand at organizing/sorting/transferring songs myself, but it was never worth the trouble. Apple really excels at making systems that are very elegant and very simple for the average user. If you are above average in your needs, you may be better off with some more customized solution, but it doesn't sound like you are. Go with iTunes, and spend your time thinking about something else.
posted by
Rock Steady
on September 23, 2006
iTunes' habit of either blowing apart compilation albums (if they aren't correctly marked as compilations), or dumping them in a Compilations directory (even if the compilation is by a single artist—a "best of" album, for instance) is aggravating.
Fixing a blown apart compilation album is easy to do and means that it can be correctly accessed under the "Compilations" option on the iPod.
To resolve your "best of" issue, simply don't tag those kind of albums in this way as iTunes considers a compilation to be an album by more than one artist, which in this case is wrong and why you're having problems.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
If every single mp3 you own is correctly tagged, you're unlikely to use other programs to play your music, you don't have many compilations or classical music for iTunes to fuck up, and you are unlikely to share your music with other people [which would neccessitate a carefully thought-through directory structure], you'll be able to get by with iTunes, which, as
says, cares
about the id3 tags. You can load everything into the iTunes library as-is, or let it rearrange your music.
Like iTunes, the iPod ignores directory structure and filename and uses id3 tags to do the organizing. It deals badly with mistagged or untagged mp3s for this reason. Note that you do
need to use iTunes to get music on or off your iPod. Other programs [the Winamp iPod plugin, Sharepod, etc.] will do this for you. You will still have to vet id3 tags before you upload things to the iPod, but doing this may be easier than fixing your whole collection at once, depending on the size of your collection.
If you're in the habit of acquiring music from other people [p2p programs, your friend's FTP server, etc.] that may be incorrectly tagged or you're likely to be sharing with others, having a directory structure is a great thing. iTunes is a really, really bad choice for people who've built their collection around directories & asciibetically-ordered filenames or who need others to be able to access their music. I'm one of those people, although I've tried iTunes several times, and so I prefer to use WinAmp. My files are arranged in a simple /mp3s/artist/album structure, with a few exceptions: all music penned by a composer gets put into an initial composer, rather than artist directory, there's a directory for compilations, and there's a directory for singles by bands who I have no other music by.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
mr_silver, I don't know whether it is easy to fix horked compilations now, or not. Used to be a big pain. If saying otherwise was inaccurate, sorry to the OPP. Nevertheless, your suggestions don't address the problem of iTunes lumping all compilations together, when the user prefers some other more meaningful taxonomy.
I like iTunes. Just not the way it wants to organize my music on the drive.
(And who says I'm having problems? I've got tens of thousands of tracks, well-organized and tagged, synched on drives in two locations. It is just how I like it, and easy to maintain at this point.)
posted by
on September 23, 2006
...er. Make that OP.
posted by
on September 23, 2006
and you are unlikely to share your music with other people [which would neccessitate a carefully thought-through directory structure]
I share stuff all the time, and I don't organize the Music folder by hand at all. I have zero trouble jumping in there and finding something[1] or revealing it in the file system with iTunes's "reveal" command.[2] Therefore, it does not
a carefully thought-through directory structure. Some people need to get Slashdotty with music file organization, I don't.
1. When I look in ~/Music and I see a bunch of folders that are all named after bands, it takes half a second to figure out what's going on.
2. If I want to zip up a copy of that live Calexico show I've been digging lately, I can select a song from the set and hit command-r. Bang, there's the record in the file system, ready to be zipped.
The point is that with the flexibility in iTunes, obsessive file system organization is not NECESSARY, though some people certainly PREFER doing it. There's a big difference here.
posted by
on September 24, 2006
(And neither is wrong. The OP was simply looking for people's practices. I ignore the file system and I couldn't be happier. I have an iPod, like the OP, which is dirt-easy to use inside iTunes while ignoring the file system, and couldn't tell you what's easiest for non-iPod players when used with iTunes.)
posted by
on September 24, 2006
Like yourself, when I first got an ipod and started looking at using iTunes to manage my music, I was really nervous about giving up control of my carefully managed structure. I have about 11,000 mp3s and about 90 gig of music, any kind of disaster would be a MAJOR one. So I tested it all out for myself,
What I found was that you
don't have to allow iTunes to manage your files for you
. You can work with your music within iTunes without having to allow it to completely control everything. If you want, you can work your way up to consolidating everything together.
The fundamental difference with iTunes is that it's not just a music player. It's more analogous to a catalogue at a library. iTunes is a database containing all the metadata about your music. It gathers this music from the id3 tags, so when you're importing from a folder full of mp3 files, you must ensure that your id3 tags at least reflect the correct information about the music file.
When you install itunes, don't allow it to import any mp3s or wma files, do that yourself later. Also, when it asks you whether you want iTunes to organise your files for you, tick no.
If it's already installed and you haven't added any music, from the preferences menu, on the advanced tab, untick the options "Keep iTunes music folder organised" and "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library".
With those options turned off, you're now in charge of where your files are stored.
Using the "add folder to library" functions on the file menu, you can then import the music files to iTunes. This will not move your files, iTunes will read the id3 information from each tag and create a record in the database for the location of the file. You can edit or change id3 information within iTunes and it will not rename the file or move it. A word of caution, if there are playlist files (.m3u and .pls) in those folders, they will also be imported and you'll end up with duplicates.
If you ever move files on your hard disk, iTunes will not know where you have moved it to. This is the main disadvantage. Over time, I started to get frustrated that moving files around would break itunes and so I ticked on the options for having itunes managing my files and haven't worried about it since. When I bought a new hard drive I was able to use the "consolidate library" feature to move all the files to a new location so i didn't end up with duplicates.
However, all this being said. I still use winamp for my windows assigned default player. If you leave iTunes as your default player, double clicking the file will cause iTunes to import it to the library. This is pretty annoying if you just want to play that mp3 file your friend emailed you and not keep it in your library.
I hope some of this is helpful to you.
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My ideal structure is also flat:
/mp3/Artist - Year - Album/## - Artist - Song.mp3
The song naming is not really important, so long as the track number is first. I find the year very important as it lets me listen to things from the same artist as they progressed (or not) over time. So you get something like:
Pink Floyd - 1967 - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd - 1968 - A Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd - 1969 - Ummagumma
Pink Floyd - 1970 - Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd - 1971 - Meddle
I couldn't figure out how to get iTunes to let me see the albums in this way. The nested structure of iTunes (/mp3/artist/album/song) seems like just another level of folder clicking to me as it doesn't really facilitate browsing everything at once (looking at the filesystem, if you're not using itunes). Also you end up with a lot of artist folders with a single subfolder, which is dumb.
posted by
on September 24, 2006
, reread what I said. I'm talking FTP or p2p sharing, not sending a single song to a friend as an attachment. The former are situations where other people need to be able to browse your files without the aid of the iTunes "reveal" command or command-r. In those cases, they do have to rely on your directory structure [rather than iTunes-mediated id3 tag browsing.] If you've let iTunes do all of the organizing for you, the problems mentioned above [regarding compilations, classical music, and singles] can all make it more of a pain in the ass for the person who's trying to access your music. So can ill-named files [even if they have correct id3 tags], etc. We're talking about two very different kinds of file sharing, and if the original poster deals with FTP or p2p sharing, he or she may need to be concerned about how easy it is for someone else to browse their directories, in which case iTunes would not be the best solution.
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on Jan 26, 2012 at 2:11 pm
Sorry, don't raise my taxes. Don't raise San Mateo's either.
Let the people who use this service pay what it costs.
When will these agencies learn that the government handouts aren't going to always be there?
You better learn how to live on what you bring in on your own.
on Jan 26, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Here's an idea to help out a bit - make sure people actually paid to ride. While I always pay, I know a lot of people that don't, and hear people on the train talking about it all the time. They used to have conductors walking around checking people's tickets - in the past three years I've only been asked to show my ticket once.
on Jan 26, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Since I don't drive, I don't want my taxes subsidizing people with cars.