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This has to be one of the greatest death/grind albums of all time!!! It helped redefine the genre of grindcore itself and it gave the next generation a pretty high standard to match (or beat). Once you see the album cover depicting a house full of splattered guts including some leftover pieces on a chainsaw, you know you're in for a gory treat.
Let's start with the production. I have to admit, it's a little dry, but that's the beauty of this album. You don't need good production to make an amazing full-length. The raw production actually helps make the instruments heavier than they need to be, making the final product amazingly brutal. Speaking of heaviness, I love the sound of the guitars. It's how grindcore guitars should sound: heavily distorted, raw, and loud. Both Matt and Mike Beams do a great job on guitar. They may go slightly off-time occasionally, but overall it's a well-composed album. I find it amazing that Matt Harvey can play guitar and do those harsh screams at the same time. I also love Col Jones's drumming. With fast double bass, blast beats, and fast pounding, the sound of the drums will rip your eardrums apart!
The songs themselves are also really good. The opener, Necromaniac, is my personal favourite from this album. It has a brutally heavy opening riff that wakes you up, letting you know that this gore fest of an album has begun. Other songs I absolutely love from this album are "Postmortem Procedures", "Limb from Limb", "Casket Krusher", "In My Human Slaughterhouse", "Sepulchral Slaughter", and the 6-minute epic, "Deadest of the Dead". But I believe the entire album is great.
This album is a masterpiece, not just for goregrind, death/grind, or grindcore, but death metal in general. You MUST listen to it. If you hate it, you deserve to be torn LIMB FROM FUCKING LIMB!!!
"Gore Metal"... The album's name alone tells you what you can expect, and you can bet that it delivers, from the music to the artwork. With this album, Exhumed have managed to find middle ground between brutal and... well, brutal. If you're a fan of the death/grind sound, then you've probably heard of these guys, and if you haven't, then I recommend you leave your computer and purchase this album.
As with the first time I heard "Symphonies of Sickness", I was truly amazed at what "Gore Metal" offered. Starting with "Necromaniac" is the pounding, screaming assault that is Exhumed. The band sounds extremely tight throughout, not giving you a moment to catch your breath. The vocal trade-offs are absolutely fantastic, giving the songs a unique edge that just cuts into your head. The drums are a relentless attack that just don't quit. The guitars send riff after riff through your speakers, and the bass just may cause your home's foundation to crumble.
So, now you're probably wondering, "If the album is so good, why did you not give it 100%?" The reason is simple. By the time "Gore Metal" comes to a stop in your CD player, your ears will be deaf from its great attack. So, for those that have not heard this album, go. Go now, and buy this piece of metal greatness.
Exhumed play straight-up, unimaginative Carcass worship. "Unimaginative Carcass worship"? Imagine that! While bands like early Haemmorhage, Gruesome Stuff Relish, and Impaled could write some thrash-worthy homages to the retired gore gods, Exhumed sound so brutally uninspired I can feel my eardrums becoming vestigial as a lockdown defense mechanism.
I don't feel like expending a whole lot of time or energy on this review, considering during the writing process, this band did neither, so lets get down to business. While vocal quality has never really been a big deal for me, Exhumed sounds so unintentionally comical, I can feel my face flush whenever the half-assed patterns bust in and the band interprets what a duck full of helium would sound like if confronted by a dying rhinoceros. The drumming is equivalent in terms of stunning mediocrity, and sounds basically what you'd expect from Rick Allen on PCP - sloppy, pointless, and symptomatic of a one armed drummer playing Carl Palmer's kit.
While a few tracks display some head noddingly worthy riffs and some moshable groove, for the most part, it falls flat and the tracklisting is far more miss than hit. If you're looking for some quality Carcass worship, pick up Symphonies Of Sickness and Necroticism. You see what I did there? Good times.
Take a look at the song titles and the cd artwork. You have one guess as to what these guys are all about. Ok, offended? I hope not, as while the music is great, the whole over the top image & lyrics are more humorous than appalling. Though if you showed this to any uptight person who is afraid of metal...well they would have a multiple heart attack at this bloody, brutal and gory affair.
Regardless of the image & lyrics, this cd will destroy you. The musicianship is pretty tight and in a surprising change, the guitars are what i notice last. The drums on this cd are wicked, have a great sound and will blast beat you into submission. The bass on this cd...wow. Its not like Steve Harris noticably bass, but there is a ridiculous amount of low end on this and it will leave you shaking. The vocals are the next thing to tackle. The cool thing is, there is two guys singing here. One sings in a style thats similar to swedish metal,but still brutal, while the other is ultra low and barely understandable.
The cd opens with Necromaniac and this is an ok track, but not the best this has to offer. Open the Abcess murders its way into your stereo next and this song kills. Its got some cool hooks and has a wicked trade off on the vocals. Plus this song features a sample of a drill( i think) turning on, followed by a dripping/gushing sound. Song 4, limb from limb has one of my fave intros. It starts with a chainsaw reving up, followed by a long brutal scream. pppphhhrrrrrrrrrrrr...GGGGGUUUUUUURRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHH. Fucking brutal, and i love it.
If you've read any of my other reviews, you will know I usually will go through the first few tracks on the cd, but make mention to others. So there won't be any change with this review! Overall this cd is pretty fucking brutal. There is some really awesome moments on here, even if gore death/grind isn't your mug of beer. The vocal trades offs are great in some songs and really make the songs unique. Oh yea, they also cover Sodom, doing Sodomy and Lust.
So basically, if your into brutal death/grind, you most likely already own this album. If you are a fan of those genres and you don't have this, get it. I would highly recommend this one before the bands next cd, Slaughtercult. If you are one who is new to the brutal death/grind genre, this is a good pick. If you like this, it will get you into a lot of other bands in the genre. And if you don't like this genre at all, this cd probably won't change your mind.
best songs imo: open the abscess, limb from limb, sepulchural slaughter & deadest of the dead ( did chris barnes come up with that title?)


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You may think of mushrooms as strange and slimy objects that are neither plant nor animal. Or you may be one of the lucky hikers out after an early winter rain that can experience mushrooms in the myriad fascinating forms these fungi take. Appearing seemingly overnight, they come in a vast array of fantastic colors and shapes, from brilliant red, to purple, to golden orange, with caps ranging from the size of a pinhead, to as large as a dinner plate. A slow walk through almost any landscape in Golden Gate National Recreation Area during the rainy season can produce a world of wonder at your feet, but Muir Woods National Monument highlights some of the showiest. Over 200 different species of fungi live in the old-growth Coast Redwood forest and the surrounding hillsides.
Mushrooms are short-lived, spore-producing structures. These fruiting bodies are designed to release spores for the next generation, and then decay. The "body" or hyphae of a mushroom is actually hidden from our eyes underground. This underground matt is composed of a branching network of elongated cells that join together into threads. These hyphal threads grow through and break down dead wood, providing a vital recycling service to our forests. Fungal hyphae also live in the ground, and connect up with the rootlets of trees, shrubs and almost all other green plants, forming a symbiotic relationship. This partnership greatly increases the ability of trees and plants to take up water, and absorb essential minerals. In return, the fungus is provided with photosynthetic nutrients. Neither organism is able to function fully without the other. Mushrooms are not only vital to the health of the Muir Woods eco-system, but they also add charm and magic to the landscape.
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The Tunica County Sheriff's Office says they've nabbed Madea.
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Webb was caught in Kansas over the weekend.
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All the other frets and things work, but the 2nd fret doesn't work at all. I got the game about an hour ago, anyone know anything about this?
All the other frets and things work, but the 2nd fret doesn't work at all. I got the game about an hour ago, anyone know anything about this?
I've had similar problems, They went away when I took off the neck made sure those electric sensors were clean and made sure my cord was plugged in the wiimote right...Originally Posted by Yeungy
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Yeah after we played it for a while it just suddenly started working, weird.
i had a problem like that with my guitar too... when i first unboxed it and turned on the game, my strum up didn't function... but after a few minutes it was workin fine... pretty strange.
maybe the connection to the wiimote just needed a little current run through it or something, haha
Yeah usually when any part of the guitar doesn't work you gotta do at least one of 3 things.
1. Dis/Reconnect your Wiimote.
2. Disconnect neck of guitar and blow off the little sensors making sure they are clean.
3. Make sure the neck is pushed all the way into the guitar.
If none of these work, and you still have the receipt and you bought the game less than 60 days ago, Red Octane will give you another guitar for free.
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Use your Thanksgiving break wisely
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it's that time of year when we will be flooded with food, ads and family time. In the flurry of busyness, one might find themselves in a bit of a haze.
If during the break you forget everything else, the one thing everyone should be remember is that finals are fast approaching.
Now, I'm not saying study, study, study while you're with your friends and family. Not at all.
You have been busy all semester learning and taking in what you need to know for finals. Now, just teach someone else about it.
Everyone already knows the first thing our family asks when they see you is, "How is school?"
Rather than say a boring one-word answer, actually talk to them. You have to know this stuff anyway. You might as well tell a few people about it.
This not only will help keep family in the loop of how you're doing, but it also helps you study for your upcoming tests and papers.
But don't stop there: make connections. If you have relatives who are your age and are in school, try to connect with things that you've learned recently. More than likely they have finals coming up too.
This makes it a little harder to put off studying, since the things you need to be studying will be part of the conversation.
This being said, the second thing to remember during break is to actually look at your books, notes or future assignments. If you don't get something done during this week-long break, professors are probably going to be less lenient when it comes to grading it.
Don't let procrastination get the best of you and put it off until the weekend before classes resume. If you do so, it will lead to a stressful end of the semester.
When it comes down to crunch time, preparing will help reduce the likeliness of you forgetting something important or not doing something, as well as you could have.
Make sure you are using this time off wisely, because unlike our public school counterparts, we get a whole week. While you are reuniting with friends and family, use this time to catch up or get ahead.
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CATEGORIES MoviesThe Razzies -- the awards for the worst movies of the year -- will no longer piggy-back off Hollywood's awards season: The anti-Oscars are moving to April Fools' Day, Razzies founder John Wilson announced Sunday. Traditionally the group would have announced its nominees on Monday, on the eve of the Oscar nominations. Instead, they'll release a list of 2011's worst on February 25, the night before the Oscars are handed out. (Which is also traditionally when the Independent Spirit Awards are held.)
"Winners" will be announced April 1, although most don't usually show up to claim their Razzies, except for good sports like Halle Berry, who personally collected her 2004 Worst Actress Razzie for "Catwoman," as well as Sandra Bullock for "All About Steve" (the same year she won Best Actress for "The Blind Side").
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Do you live or work near King of Prussia? Do you want the same spiritual enlightenment that our fellow congregants get via the Lunch with the Rabbi that Chuck Forer so graciously hosts each month in Center City? Steven Handleman, will be hosting our Suburban Lunch with the Rabbi at his office in Parkview Towers - the building adjacent to the Valley Forge Radisson & Casino in King of Prussia. You provide your lunch; Rabbi Straus will provide the discussion. If you are interested, please email Steve Handleman.
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(AP)- Maryland's highest court has overturned jury verdicts that ordered Exxon Mobil Corp. to pay more than $1.5 billion in damages as a result of a 2006 gasoline station leak that polluted a community's drinking water.
In two rulings Tuesday the Court of Appeals also ordered new trials in cases related to the spill. In the larger of the two cases involving approximately 150 families and businesses, a jury in 2011 awarded $1 billion in punitive damages and $495 million in compensatory damages after a trial that lasted months.
On Tuesday, the court overturned the punitive damages, saying they could only be awarded if the plaintiffs proved that the Irving, Texas-based company had intended to act wrongfully. The judges didn't find that to be the case.
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Madden 2011 drops today.And now, brainwash your kid into eating vegetables by forcing them to watch terrible cartoons:
Popeye cartoons, tasting parties and junior cooking classes can help increase vegetable intake in kindergarten children, according to new research published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics. Researchers at Mahidol University in Bangkok found the type and amount of vegetables children ate improved after they took part in a program using multimedia and role models to promote healthy food. Twenty six kindergarten children aged four to five participated in the eight-week study. The researchers recorded the kinds and amounts of fruit and vegetables eaten by the children before and after the program.


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Greetings North Americans!! Greetings St. Louisans!! Greetings fellow Blues fans!! Europa, back in da house. And a blue house it is, my North American friends!
Gerard from Amsterdam, some (many?) of you know me. Goedenavond! Anyway, I would like to honor the start of the Blues season with a nice video I once made about a very succesfull home opener... A video some of you might remember, but it's worthwile watching.
Take a trip with me down memory lane. Or even better: back to the future, 'cause many of the stars that will lead the Blues to glory this season, were still a young bunch back then... The vids after the jump...Read on...
Although home opener? You guessed right: it was in Sweden, you remember, from 2009. I was there. Ofcourse I was there:
Germany The Netherlands and Sweden is like Missouri and Michigan...from Berlin Amsterdam to Stockholm is like travelling from St. Louis to Detroit...
To help us all getting in the mood, take a look inside the Blues trip and locker room with a couple of the vids I shot with my press card as a professional sportsjournalist who travelled to Sweden as a special St. Louis Game Time-reporter. LOL.
And where I watched the Blues have a succesfull opening of the season. Just as we will have tonight against the Preds.
AND YES: I'll watch the game live. Ofcourse I'll watch it live... (long live hockeystreams.com)... Because this Dutchie overhere is a Blues fan.
Mind you, so is Sir Stanley (word goes).
GO BLUES. And see YOU in the GDT!
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Like I said, this European fan will see you all in the GDT, on Twitter (@GerardBos) or Facebook (Gerard Bos)...
Good to be back. Let's play hockey, amigo's!
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Record interest in South Africa at Destinations Show
Several South African exhibitors said their combined presence over the four days of the Destinations show drew record interest.
Southern Africa was well represented at the latest Holiday and Travel Show at Earls Court, although the troubled South African Tourism as such did not have a stand — unlike Namibia.
Destinations – the show's brand name – closed on 3 February, and several South African exhibitors said their combined presence over the four days drew record interest.
Laurence Marks from Bushveld and Self Drive in Garsfontein said, "This has proved a very good exhibition, and we also had positive results at the Manchester counterpart a week ago. January is the one time when I can get away from Pretoria, besides which Destinations does not charge exorbitant fees like some venues that are not so well visited."
A large stand was taken by the London office of SATOA, a UK trade association that promotes travel to Africa & the Indian Ocean, where Amanda England, for example, was taking bookings for the Blue Train.
Its rival, Rovos Rail, however, had its own stand manned by Estee Badenhorst from Pretoria and Robert Schaerer from Johannesburg. He said, "We have had a lot of enquiries, and the great thing is that previous passengers on the train have obviously recommended us to friends."
Several safari operators were at Earls Court as well as Malawi Tourism and Travel Swaziland which share a promotion office in Nottingham. The latter's marketing manager, Bongani Dlami, said, "There are lots of visitors to this show, and there is strong interest in Swaziland".
Altogether, the dark continent had 39 stands at Destinations, almost as many as Asia, and far more than Latin America whose diverse political problems have been deterring visitors.
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Where were all the great SA safari lodges? Great show and attend it each year. SA come and showcase what you have to offer!


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Police said a man was assaulted in Ballwin late Thursday sometime prior to a call around 9:25 p.m. from the Phillips 66 gas station near the intersection of Woods Mill and Clayton roads.
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Some students in Ball Ground are upset after someone destroyed their "Duck Dynasty"-themed Halloween decoration.Fourth-grade students at Ball Ground Elementary made the scarecrow, based on "Uncle" Si Robertson of the hit reality TV show, as part of a contest.Students purchased the supplies for the project and spent 40 hours of labor working on the stuffed character.The scarecrow disappeared between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, according to police. On Monday, police said that the remains of the scarecrow had been found."A juvenile that took it…actually got real nervous and scared once he saw the media attention that it was gaining and he burned it because he was scared," said Ball Ground Police Chief Bryon Reeves.Police have charged a juvenile in the theft. Authorities said the accused boy was very remorseful and is coming up with a way to make up for his Halloween trickery.Authorities had offered a $1,000 reward for information about the theft. A family court will now determine how that money is dispersed.
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Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick joins Dale and Steve DeOssie to talk about cutting the roster down to 53 players. Jimmy Garoppolo is set to start and play most, if not all of the preseason contest against the Giants. Bill also expressed his thoughts about the kicking game and how some of the new rules have affected the importance of it.
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Flying Towards Fluency with Baby Hoot!
Fluency Lesson
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Reading fluency is being able to read with automatic word recognition. When readers become fluent their ability to read text quick, smooth, and with expression will increase. The strongest research evidence supports the method of repeated to gain fluency. The goal of this lesson is to improve student's fluency through repeated readings and timed reading.
Materials: Student copies of The Car Trip by Matt Sims. (High Noon Books 2001), stopwatch or timer for teacher and each student, fluency Checklist for each student (see Bottom), reading Record time sheet for each student (see Bottom), Cover up Critter for each student (a cover up created is created using a colored Popsicle stick, and two small googly eyes glued to one end!), sentence strip that reads: Lee and his team flee the bee!, pencil for each student
1. The teacher will introduce the lesson by saying "We are going to be learning how to become better fluent readers today!" Teachers should explain to students what fluent reading means by saying "Fluent reading is when students can read with expression to make the story more interesting, and fluent readers have the ability to read smooth and quick! It is very important to improve your fluency if you want to become a good reader. Fluency is being able to read smoothly without stopping between words. In addition, fluent readers can read the words with little or no effort. Once you become a fluent reader, the text you read will make more sense to you because you do not have to keep stopping while you read. Every time you read the text, you become more familiar with it, so you also read much faster!"
2. The teacher should then put the sentence strip on the board that reads: Lee and his team flee the bee. "Now we are going to work on our fluency! I will model fluency. I'm going to read a sentence to you like a beginning reader would. L-l-l-lee a-a-a-and h-h-h-his t-t-t-team f-f-f-flee t-t-t-the b-b-b-bee. Did that sound fluent to you? I did not think so either. Now, I am going to read the sentence fluently. L-l-lee a-a-and h-h-his t-t-team fl-fl-flee th-th-the b-b-bee. Do you think we can read it more fluent? Me too. Let us try it again. Lee and his team flee the bee. That sentence was a lot easier to understand. It was easier to understand because it was fluent and smooth."
3. "When you are reading and you come across a word that you do not know you can use your cover up critter to figure out the word! I will show you an example!" Teacher writes the word strand on the board. "I am going to pretend that I do not know this word! First, I am going to find the vowel and cover up all the other letters. The vowel is a, I know that short a makes the /a/ sound. Then I will uncover all the letters before the vowel, which in this case is s-t-r I will pronounce that /s/t/r/a/ then I will uncover the rest of the word and sound it out. /n/d/. If the cover up critter does not work you may try asking your partner for help!"
4. The teacher will then engage students in a book talk about the story The Car Trip. Book talk: "This story is about Dad and Roy going on a trip to the west coast! They will have to travel very long and far to get there! I wonder what they will do along the way!? We will have to read to find out!
5. The teacher should now pass out a copy of the book to each student. "I am going to read the book to you the first time! I want you to follow along and pay attention to how fluently I am reading!"
6. The teacher should now tell the students about their re-reading activity. The teacher should make sure to explain to the students that "because of repeated readings, reading gets easier, the words start jumping out at you, and it is easier for you to understand the story! When you read fluently, you can focus on the words of the story because you are reading with a lot of expression!"
7. The teacher should now pair up students and assign them different spots in the room. Make sure that each pair of students receives a fluency literacy rubric, a timer, and a copy of The Car Trip, and a reading time sheet.
8. The teacher needs to take time to explain that one student will be the reader and the other student will be the recorder. "Once you have finished reading you will switch jobs and listen to your partner read. The first person to read will open the book a wait for their partner to tell them when to start. The person that is the recorder will start the timer and let it run until their partner has finished the whole book. Be sure to stop the timer when you partner is finished. I want you to record that time on your timer Record Sheet. Then you will go through the fluency checklist after each time you partner reads. Once you have completed the fluency checklist and the Time Record sheet you will then switch jobs. The person that was recording will now be the reader!"
9. "I am going to ask a volunteer to come up and we will model the steps quickly!"
10. The teacher should float around the room making sure students are writing on their time record sheet and fluency checklist after their partner reads each time.
11. The student will assess each student by looking over both the fluency checklist and time sheet. The teacher should use the formula: Words X 60 divided by amount of time-spent reading. The teacher will get this information from the time record sheet complete by each student's partner. The teacher will also have each student write a small paragraph summary of the text after they are done working with their partner. This will allow the teacher to understand if the student is reading fluently as well as comprehending the text.
Time Record Sheet:
Name: ______________________
Date: _______________________
1st Time: ______________________
2nd Time: _____________________
3rd Time: ______________________
Fluency Literacy Rubric:
Name: ___________________________
Evaluator: _______________________
Date: ____________________________
I noticed that my partner…. Check the space
After 2nd Reading……
___ Remembered more words
___ Read Faster
___ Read Smoother
___ Read with expression
Hamann, Abby. Zoom! Let's Go Go Go!
The Car Trip. Matt Sims. High Noon Books 2001.
Murray, Bruce. The Reading Genie "Developing Reading Fluency"
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text: We should find out more about circulation of water masses on the deep-sea floor, the relative stability of the bottom, possible binding or incorporation of these wastes to organic matter, or even their direct utilization by marine bacteria or larger animals. Migrating animals on those feeding in deep water may transfer these radioactive materials into the food chain and eventually into our food. The danger of radioactive pollution to the marine environment is briefly discussed in the section "Radioactive Wastes" in chapter 18.


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UNT is in a bit of a pickle when it comes to its men's basketball schedule this year.
To review, UNT has played five games/exhibitions against teams that are not full Division I members. Buried deep within the NCAA rule book is this little gem — four non-DI games in fine. Five is a no-no.
UNT got caught up with the same problem that a few other teams and conferences across the college landscape did. There are a few teams making the move to Division I leagues that are not members of Division I in terms of counting as Division I foes for their opponents. UNT played Incarnate Word, which is one of them, pushing UNT from four such games to five.
Get that?
Yeah, it's confusing.
UNT and the Conference USA office are looking into it. There is also an appeal from the Southland before NCAA this week to waive the rule for the year.
The NCAA might just back off and let everyone skate. That would be the best scenario for UNT.
Still, it's not the best of publicity for UNT.
I asked about UNT's schedule over the summer. UNT wanted to have more home games than road games to give the team the best chance to succeed. And to be fair, UNT did go to Oklahoma and BYU.
OU and BYU are hanging around the RPI Top 50.
And two of the games in question were exhibitions. It wouldn't have mattered if UNT had played Syracuse and Duke. Those games didn't count any way.
With that being said, UNT didn't do itself any favors by running afoul of the rule, especially after there were some people who were unhappy that the school dropped its series with UTA. That was a game UNT fans cared about and could get to easily.
My guess is that if the NCAA does not rescind the rule, UNT will have to forfeit one nonconference game.
In the large scheme of things, that isn't the end of the world. UNT isn't in a spot where it is real concerned about its RPI and NCAA tournament hopes.
UNT isn't going anywhere unless it wins the C-USA tournament, no matter what its nonconference record looks like.
The school and the program can just chalk it up as a mistake — albeit one that draws attention to some of the lower level teams UNT has played.
I thought all along that UNT could use a marquee nonconference home game, but for the record, UNT does check in at No. 125 on Jerry Palm's strength of schedule rankings. That's higher than Purdue, Middle Tennessee, Texas A&M and Georgia.
UNT should find out what its fate is within the next two weeks. By then, UNT could also know if it is still has any hope of jumping into the C-USA race or is hopelessly buried at the bottom of the standings.
Either way, we should find out a lot about how the UNT hoops season will be remembered here pretty quickly.


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Rescue crew says its services are a good deal for Petersburg
PETERSBURG - Southside Virginia Emergency Crew has been providing rescue services to the city for more than 60 years and that relationship should continue, according to the rescue group.
Executive Director Edward "Bubby" Bish said Southside Virginia Emergency Crew is a good steward of the city's money. While the city annually provides $300,000 to the crew, that only represents 23 percent of its total budget of about $1.3 million. "Providing EMS would cost the city well over $300,000," Bish said.
Part of the reason Bish says that it would cost the city more than its annual contribution to the crew is the cost of equipment alone. Each ambulance costs $140,000 "without a stretcher, without any equipment." Some equipment such as cardiac monitors are approximately $30,000 each he said.
The crew gets money to pay for equipment through billing of insurance companies and Medicaid and Medicare and through grants from The Cameron Foundation and The John Randolph Foundation.
Bish recently presented a case before the Petersburg City Council last week on why the rescue crew was a needed and important part of the city's emergency services. The presentation was in response to an August meeting in which some city officials suggested that there was too much duplication of services between the Southside Virginia Emergency Crew the Petersburg Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services.
Petersburg fire officials said that in 2011 Southside Virginia Emergency Crew responded to 6,664 calls for ambulance service. The Petersburg Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services responded with the crew to about one third of those calls. The underlying question is whether the city fire department will try to better coordinate with the nonprofit ambulance service that was traditionally based on volunteers or whether the city should combine the two and take over all emergency services in Petersburg.
Bish said that better communication between the crew and the city's fire department is needed.
Another issue about Southside Virginia Emergency Crew has been response times. The crew has only one station in the city, which some city fire officials contend means response times are too long.
Bish also said that the response time for the crew is about 5.85 minutes for calls involving cardiac arrest, 6 to 8 minutes for serious emergencies. Some calls, such as when the crew is called to assist in lifting a patient, the response time may be longer, he said.
Response time was one of the reasons cited by the Petersburg Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services in a presentation more than three months ago at the City Council Advance for eliminating funding to the crew and instead potentially combining the services.
Fire department officials argued that if instead of the city providing $300,000 to the crew each year, ambulances were stationed at each fire station, most areas of the city could be reached within five minutes.
But Bish said in his presentation that another contributing factor is the amount of travel the crew sometimes must do outside the city transporting patients to a hospital, something that increases a response time.
Bish also said Southside Virginia Emergency Crew has provided citizens excellent quality by implementing innovative rescue practices. He said the nature of services may change, and that within the next few years, he expects more calls to be of a preventative nature.
Bish talked about some of the innovative practices that the crew has implemented over the past several years, including a new "hypothermic protocol" used to increase cardiac arrest patient survival. He said that the crew implemented the practice in 2009.
As another indicator of the quality of care that the crew provides, Bish cited the rate of Return of Spontaneous Circulation in patients with cardiac arrest. He said that the national average is about 3 to 10 percent of all patients have a pulse return. For the Southside Virginia Emergency Crew, the rate is 25 percent.
The relationship between Southside Virginia Emergency Crew and the city has been discussed for years. In 1992, an informal study was undertaken by interns from Virginia State University. Four years later the "Blue Ribbon Study" was done, which was made up of community leaders, SVEC representatives, business owners and fire personnel. The 1996 study led to the city initially providing $80,000 a year in support of the crew's operations. The crew hired full-time staff as a result as well.
In 2008, as part of the city's efficiency review, the issue was examined again. That study said that the city should assume full responsibility of emergency medical services. The study noted that if EMS staffing was increased along with the number of ambulances in fire stations, it could reduce the engine company response times and the city would also maintain accountability.
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National Trench Safety LLC (NTS), a Houston-based company specializing in the rental and sales of trench and traffic safety equipment, trench and traffic safety engineering, and OSHA-compliant training classes, has relocated its Fayetteville, N.C., branch operations to a new and larger location in Raleigh, N.C.
"We are excited to be operating in Raleigh today," said Ron Chilton, president of NTS. "Transitioning to our new location in Raleigh is something that has been in the works for a while now. It's a big strategic move for NTS as it puts us in a better position to serve our existing and future customers in the Triangle and eastern North Carolina markets."
The new NTS branch location is located on Bricksteel Lane, which is on the east side of Raleigh. The location is conveniently located along major highways to facilitate NTS' commitment to be able to provide quick, on-time equipment delivery to its customers. The location also will have a modern training facility to support NTS' extensive OSHA compliant training program for customers and industry professionals, including Competent Person for Trench and Excavation, Confined Space Entry and OSHA 10 hour courses.
"We feel that the Raleigh operation has a lot of growth potential in the coming years. We've invested into a first class facility in Raleigh that will allow us to provide the type of service our customers expect. We're already making an extensive investment into the fleet for the Raleigh market, and for the entire Mid- Atlantic for that matter.


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Installing Android OS to mini netbook (part 1)
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | 33 Comments
This past week, I took the time to play with my mini netbook. I was having a problem connecting to the internet with the Windows CE OS. I did a complete re-install and even installed different bug fixes, but after several hours, I still got: Page cannot be displayed.
The wireless said that it was connected, but no matter what URL I used, the "page could not be displayed."
So, I scrambled over the internet and happened upon this youtube video:
Not to mention this video as well:
And then I found
both sites suggested that I go to:
and download the android-ARM-8505-Smartbook zip file
so I did!
At first boot, my screen was dark. No sign of life. I thought…uh oh.
then I tried it again. And it worked. I was able to get webpages, cruise the internet, find stuff, it was amazing!
so then I decided that I wanted MORE! I found this other website that allows freeware of android apps:
First, I had to download the Apps Installer so that I could download other apps.
But, nothing happened.
I found out that the SD card that I downloaded the version of Android on had to be re-formatted to FAT32 and placed into the card reader of the mini notebook, reboot the computer so that it sees the card, and then download the APP Installer. The SD card must be in the notebook all the time. Now, I do get some errors when I try to download a few apps, but I guess I didn't really need those anyway!
After that—smooth sailing…I have so many apps now, I am just loving it!
totally cool!
33 Comments so far
masoud on Monday, August 25, 2014 3:43 am
hi i have notebook 10″ cpu:via wm 8850 when i turn on my notebook the logo of andoid came but after 30 sec has stoped what should i do
plz help me
and what the bottom of boot on my notebook
i press f2 and all of key but dont work ir
sagar makhija on Sunday, June 22, 2014 5:43 am
hi i am sagar makhija
i install android os on my mini lapi
after that screen goes black
can you help me to solve that problem
what i tried :-
start laptop with inserted sd card
start laptop without sd card
re install android
but still no signal (black screen)
ale on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:50 pm
Might you please tell me how to find the boot options in my notebook? with f2 and f10 does not work and try with other keys … I need help please
alex on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:39 pm
Might you please tell me how to find the boot options in my notebook? with f2 and f10 does not work and try with different keys and not need help please
alex on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:32 pm
por favor me podrias decir como hacer que salga las opciones de arranque? es urgente… no me sale con ninguna tecla
alex on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:31 pm
por favor me podrias decir como buscar las opciones de arranque en mi notebook? con f2 y f10 no funciona e intente con otras teclas y tampoco necesito la ayuda por favor
Frederick on Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:37 pm
Hello !
I have same problem, android installation doesn't start when i plug my SD card !!?
I have formatted my SD extract to SD (script…)
Then when i plug my SD card into SD netbook reader and turn on button it sill stay on a black screen with Smart Book !!?
Please help me…
samarth on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 5:20 am
what button should i press for boot menu in netbook laptop? plz tell the answer.
naresh on Friday, March 8, 2013 4:36 am
plz tell me the button which should i press for boot menu…
Shawn on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 9:35 pm
The link in the video no longer has the files needed. : (
Anonymous on Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:59 pm
Hola!!! Me gustaria saber como se formatea una SD paso a paso. Mi netbook tiene WinCE y quiero ponerle Android. Gracias anticipadas!!!
Mi email es [email protected]
Espero alguna respuesta.
rajesh on Monday, June 25, 2012 4:24 am
hi frnds,
if you r not download the file
use this link
dziugas on Sunday, August 4, 2013 8:03 am
thanks tha work fully
- dziugas on Sunday, August 4, 2013 8:03 am
Meggy on Friday, February 3, 2012 8:36 am
I've got the same problem. After removing the SD card, the screen is dark. No reaction. I tried 4-5 times, but nothing happened. What should I do?
Atul K on Saturday, October 22, 2011 12:23 pm
any fix for that I mean….
Atul K on Saturday, October 22, 2011 12:17 pm
hi I got Android to work but the touch pad doesnt work and fix for that?
vikram on Thursday, October 6, 2011 9:15 am
i have installed android
after it says remove the sd card to reboot
but it shows black screen


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14Justin Bartha is a Single Dude, Ladies
Oh this was some news waking up this morning. Heck yes. Justin Bartha and Ashley Olsen, who dated for, like, fifteen years (alright, I give: it was only two) have split, sources confirm.
I've loved Justin Bartha for a really, really long time, and I'm not going to lie – I was totally devastated when I found out that Ashley and he might be shacking up together at one of her places in New York City. I mean, do you KNOW how HARD IT IS to break people up when they LIVE together? Heavens, I'm not even gonna GO there today.
Anyway, in light of Justin's grand return to the male meat market, I've compiled a list, a similar list to the one that featured the ten hottest women in Hollywood, so cast your vote once and move it on, please.
Photo of Justin and Ashley courtesy of Just Jared
March 10, 2011 at 4:30 am by Sarah
14 Responses to "Justin Bartha is a Single Dude, Ladies"
Seriously that's your list???? Colin Firth is the only hot guy on it…I don't know who half the other guys are.
Jason Statham needs to be on here.
i mean i would say ryan gosling if i had to, but he is like #3 tops on my list.
So are we voting on Colin Firth, Ralph Fiennes and Joaquin Phoenix from oh so many years ago, or are we comparing King George VI, Voldemort, and our favorite Mountain-Top-Raindrop to the likes of day Ryan Gosling and Andrien Brody?
Wow, is Michiel Huisman known in Hollywood these days? I didn't even know he did any acting anymore!
I'm from The Netherlands and he used to play in some cheesy movies here. Is he any good?
My god, your list is atrocious. :(
But I must say you made the right choice in putting Gosling in there. :)
Yeah this is not a good list. Who the fuck is that Bartha guy anyway? Or Michael Huisman?
Yes to Colin Firth, Ryan Gosling, Ralph Fiennes, and Colin Firth.
What about Channing Tatum? Granted, GI Joe was horrible, but clearly you're not going on talent here, because Ashton Kutcher is on the list.
Bear Grylls. Awesome.
Are you kidding me? I've seen Bear, bear assed (heehee) on his show last season! I can only hope i get to see it again this season. You have got to find a man that can survive in the wild by drinking his own urine out of a snake skin extremely sexy.
Blood Sarah that list is crap. Justin Friend looks like some serious inbred, and I won't even comment on Adrien Brody. At least I know we would never argue over a man.
hahaha, exactly!
no offense, but all white guys? we see them all the time. I would appreciate a little racial diversity since the world isn't a big old bag of wonder bread. this site is getting so boring as of the last 6 months. Beet, where the hell are you? you don't even write anymore and the majority of the posts are just links from other gossip sites. AND some of the post are just grammatical slop. snooooooooooooooooooooozzzze!
um this is the shittiest list in existence.
Go drink some tiger blood.
EW ADRIAN BRODY?! ive been put off my food. thanks evil beet.


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Sounds kinda risky too me brother. Do you really want to get busted for shipping out illegal substance in the mail?? There has to be somewhere you can take it brother.
Not so long ago, someone posted a site you could send you powders or pills to that would test to see exactly what they were and would post the results online. I have searched for hours on end and finally gave up trying to find the thread. Does anyone know of the lab or a link to it?
I dont think there has ever been any such thing. I think you have to know someone who will mass spec for you
Found it.....thanks anyhow.....and I would much rather anonymously ship it out and wait to see it posted than to walk in and say can you test my steroid powder for me
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Blazers Drop To #6 In ESPN's Future Power Rankings
The Portland Trail Blazers continue to stumble in ESPN's Future Power Rankings, Chad Ford and John Hollinger's measure for which teams will own the NBA in years to come. The Blazers slot in at #6 now, behind (in order) the Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Chicago Bulls and Houston Rockets. Ford and Hollinger write... ----------------------------------- Portland's management dropped from No. 4 to No. 10 in this survey based almost entirely on its ham-handed handling of general manager Kevin Pritchard's dismissal. We may never know the real story that led to his ouster, but we do know that one of the league's best talent evaluators was bizarrely shown the door on the day of the draft, and the team allowed itself to limp through a crucial free-agency period with nobody at the tiller. The Blazers righted themselves with the hiring of Rich Cho, but the shadowy "Vulcans" working under Paul Allen in Seattle remain a concern. The other concern for the Blazers is that three key starters, Brandon Roy, Greg Oden and Nicolas Batum, all had serious injuries last season. That trio plus LaMarcus Aldridge is the core of what should be a perennial Western Conference contender. But there are enough question marks in Portland that despite the Blazers' highly rated personnel department, several clubs now outrank them. (Previous rank: 5) ----------------------------------- -- Ben Golliver | email@example.com | Twitter


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Jim Ryun:
Ryun is still running – for Congress, in Kansas' Second District. Ryun represented the district as a Republican for five terms before losing to Democrat Nancy Boyda in 2006. Ryun is attempting to regain his seat. Ryun is also the president of a public relations firm, Jim Ryun Sports, Inc., and has worked to help hearing impaired children. Jim and Anne Ryun live in Lawrence, Kansas. They have four adult children and six grandchildren.
Steve Ovett:
Living in Australia, Ovett has led a low-key retirement from athletics, generally surfacing only to do television work for broadcasters in Australia as well as the BBC and CBC.
Sebastian Coe:
A Conservative Member of Parliament from 1992-97, the now Lord Coe became a British peer in 2000. He led London's successful bid to play host to the 2012 Summer Olympics and is now the chairman of the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Coe also serves as an IAAF vice president and was the first chairman of the independent watchdog for FIFA, the world organizing body for football (soccer, in the U.S.).
Lasse Viren:
Another ex-runner-turned-politician, Viren served in the Finnish Parliament from 1999-2007 as a member of the National Coalition Party. Viren and his wife live in Myrskala, a small town northeast of Helsinki. His recent public appearances included serving as the starter of the inaugural BUPA London 10,000-meter race.
Frank Shorter:
The first chairman of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Shorter is a motivational speaker, promotes races throughout the U.S. and served as a color commentator for NBC during the Olympic Games of 1988 – 2000. He owns Frank Shorter Sports, an athletic supply company.
Joan Samuelson:
Samuelson, then known as Joan Benoit, won the first Olympic women's marathon in 1984. She held the world marathon record and won U.S. championships in 1981 (in the 10,000 meters) and 1984 (marathon). She won the 1979 and 1983 Boston marathons and earned the Sullivan Award as the nation's finest amateur athlete in 1985.
A motivational speaker, appearing often at races and running clinics, Samuelson has authored two books, "Running Tide" and "Joan Samuelson's Running for Women." To date she hasn't completely retired. She finished the 2008 U.S. Olympic marathon trial in 2:49.08, an American record for the women's 50-54-year-old age group. The Samuelsons reside in Freeport, Maine.
Brian Diemer:
The most recent American steeplechase Olympic medalist, Diemer earned a bronze at the Los Angeles Games in 1984. He also competed in the 1988 and 1992 Games was the U.S. track and field captain in '92. Diemer placed fourth at the 1987 World Championships. He earned the gold medal at the 1990 Goodwill Games and the silver at both the 1995 Pan-American Games and the U.S. Olympic Festival that same year. He was the NCAA steeplechase national champion for the University of Michigan. Diemer won the Glen Cunningham Award, presented to the top distance runner in the U.S., in 1989.
Diemer has been the men's cross country coach at Calvin College (in Grand Rapids, Mich.) since 1986 and has served as assistant men's and women's track and field coach at the school. He's been named the NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year twice.
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There are several requirements that must be fulfilled in the course of study toward a Ph.D. degree. Summarized, these are:
- 27 units of residency (three years full-time)
- 2 years minimum of full-time coursework (18 courses)
- 2 required courses in statistics (Political Theory majors exempt)
- Successful completion of a Second Year Paper
- Successful completion of departmental qualifying examinations in a major and a minor field, typically taken during the third year
- Acceptance of dissertation proposal
- Successful defense of dissertation
First and Second Year
All students ordinarily are required to enroll for a full time course load of three courses per quarter. Usually these courses will be selected from among the graduate 400 level offerings of the department. In consultation with their advisor, students may also take courses in Social Sciences and Humanities Departments or programs, the Program of African Studies, Buffett Center for Comparative and International Studies (BCICS) Ph.D. certificate courses, or relevant courses offered by the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the Law School. Students may benefit from taking a fourth course, particularly in languages or methods. Such a fourth course may often be taken Pass/No Pass. All other courses must be taken for a grade.
Generally, students will take core courses in the fields in which they intend to major and minor.
Required Statistics Courses
All students, except Political Theory majors, must take Introduction to Probability and Statistics (PS 403) and Linear Models (PS 405). These required courses are usually completed in the first year of studies. However, students may elect to take some or all during their second year, and should consult with their advisor about the best options for completion of this requirement given their overall program of studies. Students who wish to be exempted from these classes on the basis of equivalent training prior to coming to Northwestern must have written permission from the instructor of the course.
Second Year Paper
The Second Year Paper is expected to be a substantial scholarly paper demonstrating the student's ability to analyze a significant problem in the format of a journal article. It should be 30 to 60 pages in length. Frequently though not always, such papers will be an elaboration or deepening of a paper that a student has written in the context of a seminar.
Students choose a topic in consultation with two faculty members who will then serve as advisors for the paper. Under normal circumstances, the primary advisor will be a member of the Political Science faculty. In exceptional circumstances, the student may petition the chair to have a primary advisor from outside the department, but in any event one of the two advisors must be from the Political Science department.
Most of the work will be conducted independently (but in consultation with the advisors). However, during Fall or Winter of the second year, students may enroll in Practicum in Political Analysis (PS 404), which provides an opportunity to discuss the paper and its research techniques in a seminar context.
Third Year Requirements
In the third year, students generally begin to reduce their course load and concentrate on research. Students also prepare a proposal for doctoral research. Typically, students form a dissertation committee and defend the thesis proposal by the end of their third year.
During the third year, students take qualifying examinations in their major and minor fields.
The qualifying (preliminary) examinations are offered twice a year—once in the Fall (typically October) and once in the Winter (typically February).
Students must have completed all their coursework (18 courses), cleared all incompletes, and fulfilled the second year paper requirement before taking their qualifying examinations.
Students must take written examinations in their major field and in one minor field. They must qualify in a second minor field by taking a minimum of two courses in that field. The individual subfields, under the direction of the Field Chairs, will be responsible for writing the exams and for establishing the rules governing their administration. All Political Theory majors that pass the written exam will also sit for an oral exam. In the case of other fields, the committee that reads the written exam may require an oral exam as well.
Qualifying exams must be taken in the third year. If students have not passed their exams for the major and minor by the end of the third year they will be considered not making satisfactory academic progress by the department and risk ineligibility for continued financial aid.
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Share conference outlines the possibilities and pitfalls for a new economy at the crossroads
Conway speaks the language of the technology sector that he's been sponsoring with angel investments since the early days of the last technology boom, making seemingly common sense appeals that hide his conservative ideology, just as he switched his political party registration from Republican to decline-to-state when he became active in San Francisco politics (see "The Plutocrat," 11/27/12).
But for the careful listener familiar with San Francisco political history, there were some intriguing revelations in his address that were probably lost on the average techie in attendance that morning.
For example, Conway talked about his role following up his advocacy for the Twitter tax break with behind-the-scenes work helping to craft the business tax reform measure in 2012 — which the Controller's Office analysis found just happened to give the technology companies that Conway was invested in a substantial tax cut.
"Now all the companies enjoy this," Conway said in reference to Twitter's tax break, "because Prop. B was passed a year and half ago."
He also then admitted that Airbnb owes its phenomenal growth to the widespread economic desperation triggered by the financial collapse of 2008 and an economic recovery that still hasn't reached the average citizen struggling to cover their housing costs.
"Airbnb, for example, would not be here today if there wasn't an economic crisis and a recession in 2008 in New York, where people had to decide to rent out a room in their house or I get foreclosed on my mortgage. It was that basic. Airbnb wouldn't be here today if people all over New York didn't save their mortgages and start using this product. And then by word of mouth it spread around the world because it is so convenient and so practical," Conway said.
Conway is conservative on financial issues, but more moderate on social issues, and he talked about his advocacy work on gun control and immigration reform. Yet even on those issues, where it is almost exclusively Republicans who are blocking the changes Conway says he wants, he turns the gridlock into an anti-government argument.
"We need term limits in Congress," the former Republican said, citing a standard conservative trope that got a big applause from the Share conference crowd.
Finally, he elevated the current struggles in San Francisco over the sharing economy into key battles that will shape the future of the new economy.
"This [Airbnb] legislation that David Chiu has proposed, which in the next few months will go to the Board of Supervisors is crucial legislation the whole country will watch," Conway said, calling for everyone in the crowd to get involved and lobby their supervisors. "David Chiu needs help. This would not pass if it went to a vote today, it wouldn't come close to passing. So we have to change this. We want to do on the local level what we have to do on the national level: Organize and conquer!"
After Conway came an intriguing panel discussion about equity and environmental issues with Nikki Silvestri of Green for All, Vien Truong with the Greenlining Institute, and Adam Werbach, the former Sierra Club executive director who started the stuff-sharing company Yertle.
It was moderated by GreenBiz.com editor Joel Makower, who cited information from the previous day's sessions about how it's mostly middle class white people who use the sharing economy. "The reality is it's not that inclusive," he said, and all his guests agreed and talked about the need to broaden its benefits.
"How do you marry the economy with people?" Truong said as she discussed that challenge. And it's an urgent need, as Werbach said while answering a question about how the sharing economy could help bring about a new kind of environmentalism aimed at producing and consuming less stuff.
and it is sad that SFBG doesn't get behind what is essentially a grass roots movement to bypass the staid, self-serving monopolies and let people do things for themselves, cutting out the parasitic middle-men, and sharing their assets and resources directly through peer-to-peer transactions, much like when I babysit for my neighbor and he mows my lawn.
The fact that the internet help enable some of this is irrelevant. For instance, I was doing short-term lets long before AirBnb, using CraigsList to locate visitors. CL has a special category for that and I still see nobody complaining about that.
Likewise CraigsList has a rideshare section where I can ask for "gas money2 in return for a ride, pre-daytng Uber by 15 years.
What is the big fuss here?
Somebody needs to take Steven aside and tell him that NOBODY is going to suffer through 7 pages when he makes it obvious in the opening paragraphs; or actually in the headline, that this will be nothing more than another tirade/tantrum about Ron Conway.
Ironically, if Steven wasn't poisoned by hatred of Ron Conway he would probably support much of the sharing economy. A retired empty nest couple can compete with Marriott and make some extra money. Likewise a family can visit San Francisco on a budget. A parent struggling to pay the bills can make some extra money picking up passengers.
Like most new things it rises questions of fairness and new regulations, but Steven is miles beyond caring about throwing out the baby along with anything that touches Conway.
Right now, if you go to craigslist you can peruse the 'Vacation Rentals'. Pages of people renting out space to tourists. These tourists also use city services while here and the apartments are obviously taken out of the housing stock.
And nobody is saying a word about the hotel taxes that don't get paid. To say nothing of VRBO, Roomarama and the rest.
But we don't care!!! Because Ron Conway isn't connected to craigslist. It is only a problem if Ron Conway is involved.
Meanwhile, AirBnb is the only one that has stepped up and said that they will take responsibility for getting the taxes paid on behalf of the hosts. Nobody else has. Steven like to falsely imply that Roomarama does but if you go to their site you can see that they leave it up to the hosts.
There is a reason why nobody takes Steven Jones seriously. And you wonder about the long term effect on San Francisco Progressives if he stays in his job for an extended period.
Somebody needs to tell you that you have attention deficit disorder.
suffering from something a lot worse than that.
It's actually closer to 4,000 words, and if you read it all then you might learn something. Personally, I was intrigued by how many people within the sharing economy are calling out the self-serving corporate spin we hear from Airbnb and Conway.
Perhaps they believe that being the first to accuse the other side of such, they innoculate themselves from the guilt they themselves personify.
economy. Is it really that surprising that he found some? He just kept looking until he did.
That is pretty funny. Steven spoke to some people and, guess what? They said what he wanted to hear.
He may not have even met people who did not like the sharing economy.
Like the woman he interviewed who quit her job to go into it full time. But all Steven heard is that she didn't like the pictures they used.
It is sort of sad that Steven actually seems to think that people take him seriously and could learn anything from his tirades.
It's insane - it's nearly all he ever talks about or writes about. As if this company, which simply made easier what everyone did on Craigslist anyway, were entirely responsible for SF's housing crisis and not the fact that we're a geographically small city everyone wants to live in.
As usual a very complex problem is boiled down to a soundbite solution.
In SF, we are free (as we should be) to engage in gay sex, to have abortions, to smoke pot, etc. Why can't we also be free to use AirBnB, and rent a room if we want to. It's own own place. We're not interfering with anyone else. If a teacher or single mom, or Muni worker decides that they want to rent out a room through AirBnB to pick up a bit of extra money, they why should we not be able to? If someone doesn't like the service, the solution is simple: don't use it. But that should never give others the right to ban it ... no more than religious nuts can ban gay sex or abortion because they don't like it. Everyone should just mind their own business, and leave everyone else alone.
Why should hotels pay tax if other people using land as hotel don't , and AirBnb takes helps landlords circumvent rent control.
running a hotel?
If you are sharing your home with someone for money then it could be construed as a hotel, same as if you are sharing a room with the Hyatt for money..
Note as well the boldly facetious concernery.
arbitrary nature of SFBG opinions
Jason Grant Garza here ... techies are NOT part of the Status Quo Seeking Law Enforcement? Wouldn't they want the LAWS enforced that have NOT been over the last two years? What laws, what representation, what enforcement ? How does the old saying go ... first they came for ....
Shared economy ... is that like common good? Is it in the common good for LAWS to to be enforced? What about the distract of divide and conquer ??? Maybe look over here and NOT over here ? Isn't the oath to uphold the LAW? Common Good, Status Quo / Shared Economy ???? Would that be like big companies taking public research and making money? Or maybe "teaming" with city agencies to later charge or how about the favorite "too big to fail?" Am I the only one sharing the pain at the deception? Sorry, I guess that was MY status quo interest. Common good does not involve charging you for EVERYTHING .... didn't our forefathers pay anything ??? Oh that is SOCIAL CONTRACT and that involves again common good. Well I guess Snowden showed us how important social contracts. laws and enforcement were.
Then Chiu ramped up his rhetoric, equating progressive concerns about the tax breaks and special treatment that Chiu, Mayor Ed Lee, and others have extended to tech companies in San Francisco with a war on the sharing economy and the forced deportation of its workers.
"They are calling for war on you, even though they don't realize that what you are doing is helping to make sure we're addressing our income inequality, we're empowering everyday people by building community and using technology," Chiu said. "All of you need to get involved in the political debate. You're busy trying to change the world, but status quo interests are actively trying to ship you to Menlo Park, Oakland, and San Jose."
To Chiu, public service means serving up the public to whomever is going to give him money to get over the next obstacle.
unless it is one of them. They block the trades unions, small businesses, rich people- unless it is a rich 'progressive' - nothing progressive about their economic or social policies- look at SF - we spend more and get less year after year- roads are a mess - water system is falling apart- the city is run by a bunch of poodles- (sorry poodles- you are smarter)
Professional progressives BART over from Oakland to cut deals with anyone making money and then screw "the people" living in "the community"
Sounds like it was a great conference. Wish I had been there in person, but just second-hand it sounds like Chiu gave a great address. He can definitely count on my vote. Thanks for the report!
...one more thing, that was a great line: Instead of keeping up with the Joneses, we're sharing with the Joneses.
Unfortunately, Campos and his ilk live by the slogan of taking from the Joneses.
"Instead of keeping up with the Joneses, we're sharing with the Joneses." You think that's a great line? That's ad adman's wet dream for a naive little person, is what that is.
If tax fraud is the problem then go after the offenders- don't make a whole law about it. It's ALREADY against the law.
Don't add yet more bureaucracy to a city that's already a bureaucratic nightmare.
Here's an idea- how about they hire an intern to look up the listings on the websites and then look up the tax returns to see who paid taxes and who didn't. I bet that will cost less than adding another collection of functionaries.
San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu is a Harvard graduate and lawyer who knows how to wield feign, fallacy and vagary of human expression as sophistry. That said, the sharing of goods and services does not increase resources, but instead, advances the depreciation of both via over-tasking and increased consumption. Had his Share Conference remarks been, "by using computers and smartphones to facilitate the trade of goods and services, we use more stuff and consume more resources, and will consequently, not manifest a benefit to most," this would have been a valid argument. Chiu is addressing the worsening income inequality debacle by telling lies, and at best, he is a liar. At worst, he is a dangerous man. Is anyone listening?
Some of you poor saps have been taken in by this Silicon Valley idealism bullshit. Changing the world! Sharing! Bunch of horseshit. All these people are doing is crowd-sourcing you and taking a little of the top. You can't share if you don't have anything to begin with. This sharing economy is just another aspect of the race to the bottom. You kiddies are naive.
Without something to share, you would fare poorly anywhere, anytime in history. America is the land of opportunity. Go make something of yourself and stop whining.
"Without something to share, you would fare poorly anywhere, anytime in history." A student of history then, you are? Then you should know about falling wages in the United States -- something of our labor history. You should know that the "sharing economy" is just a ruse to pay people less and skim more profits off the top. I ain't whining youg'un. I'm telling you to open your beady little eyes.
what they think they are worth or would like to be worth
Supply vs demand 101.
Exceptions include enlightened employers who realize that making *some* money off someone else's labor is good enough and for long-term success, often employee retention is a more important value than avarice; also minimum wage laws which protect the economy from negative feedback shocks.
Without cheapskate leech employers you'd be unemployed. Oh wait, you are anyway.
You presume to know so much about me, yet you can't punctuate or write with the proper grammar. I've been around a long time. Got to SF when the getting was good and a hard-working fellow could own his home (and maybe other properties as well). I'm sitting pretty as a matter of fact. What worries me is you. I'm worried about the wet-behind-the-ears youngsters swallowing this libertarian claptrap. Is Uber also going to pave the roads its cars drive on tax-free? What we're talking about here is a race to the bottom. The unemployed? Why, they can put their cars to use driving sidecar taxis at minimum wage. Get a clue young'un. You're singing paeans to your enslavers as they turn your country into a third-world nation. Try to see the larger picture.
a few other guys is not going to bring down western civilization.
You protest too much.
As a sanctimonious Boomer who rode history's greatest wave of prosperity to easy wealth while shackling future generations with crippling debt and unfunded entitlements and allowing tens of millions of immigrants from third-world nations into your country, you are comfortable accusing airbnb of turning the country in a third-world nation?
".. allowing tens of millions of immigrants from third-world nations into your country...turning the country in a third-world nation?" Oh, looky here! Racism rears its ugly little head!
Since some aliens are white and some citizens are non-white.
"Sanctimonious boomer"? Hold your horses, young'un. I'm entitled to my social security. I've been paying into the system since I was eleven years old. I've worked hard all my life. We didn't have internet porn when I was a your age. We didn't waste our strength jerking off. That's what's wrong with you young'uns -- your jerk off all the time. Saps your strength. Makes you believe in internet "sharing" Shangri-las. You're the kind of guy who would invest in a 3D printer that makes women. Ha! It's your only hope.
Just wondering.
Given that he is both unemployed and unemployable
This is by far the best journalism in the Bay Area. The inverse of the San Francisco Chronicle in speaking truth to power.
From what I have seen sharing economy is just cover story for groups to get around existing laws. Groups of people with lots of money, for lobbying and pr and very un-demoratic and dishonest at the heart of what they are doing.
This is by far the best journalism in the Bay Area. The inverse of the San Francisco Chronicle in speaking truth to power.
From what I have seen sharing economy is just cover story for groups to get around existing laws. Groups of people with lots of money, for lobbying and pr and very un-demoratic and dishonest at the heart of what they are doing.
You have a shallow view of the world. It allows anyone with a car -- which is most of us -- to work for themselves. It democratizes the means of production like we haven't seen since the days of family farms. The corporate layer is very thin, compared to traditional models, just take for exampel rental car businesses.
You'd think Marx fans would love it and be thinking up ways to expand the model. But at least here at the SFBG, they are so devoted to abject failure and living of the back of the have's and blinded by jealousy and fearful of change and what's new, of course they don't.
frees individuals from restrictive self-interested monopolies and allows the workers to have far more control over their work, their lives and their finances.
But of course SFBG likes monopolies, as long as they ideologically pure monopolies.
The advocates for the sharing economy can't be blind to the stories of, say, bakers refusing to serve gay customers because such service offends their Christian beliefs. So what definite protections do the likes of Lyft, Airbnb, and other companies have in place to prevent its providers from practicing one-on-one discrimination against people of different religions or sexual orientations? And, please, spare me the boosterism happy talk.
But you seem focused on only problems rather than positives.
Vendors don't have an absolute license to be selective. That's why there are laws against race and sex discrimination.
Given the ongoing attempts by a certain notorious rideshare company to dodge liability for a 6-year-old girl's death, it is fair to ask whether the sharing economy is promoting backdoor undermining of other important legal regulations.
And as said earlier, spare me the sharing economy happy b.s.
business with you, that I cannot find some way of not doing business with you, laws or no laws?
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