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- Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Format: Paperback | 288 pages
- Dimensions: 130mm x 192mm x 24mm | 340g
- Publication date: 31 March 2009
- Publication City/Country: New York
- Edition: Revised
- Edition statement: Revised edition
- Illustrations note: 4-5 charts
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In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros, the legendary financier and philanthropist, writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to confront it. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the crisis in the context of his decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity. In a concise essay that combines practical insight with philosophical depth, Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.
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George Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and is the founder of a global network of foundations dedicated to supporting open societies. He is the author of several best-selling books including The Bubble of American Supremacy, Underwriting Democracy, and The Age of Fallibility. He was born in Budapest and lives in New York City.
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"Totally compelling." BBC Business editor Robert Peston "They're wrong about oil, by George. In short, the standard economic assumption that supply and demand drive prices is only a starting point for understanding financial markets. In boom-bust cycles, the textbook theory is not just slightly inaccurate but totally wrong. This is the main argument made by George Soros in his fascinating book on the credit crunch, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, launched at an LSE lecture last night." The Times "The next generation of economists will have to understand financial bubbles rather than ignore them, as Greenspan and his fellow central bankers have done. They would be well advised to give Soros's theory of reflexivity serious consideration." Sunday Times "(Soros) present(s) a very interesting and disturbing view of how free markets behave, and the nature and extent of the crisis we're in." Sunday Business Post "This was a book that George Soros badly wanted to write. It is probably not what many of its readers expect to read. But it shows that in his deeper thinking about the way markets operate, Soros was several decades ahead of his time... His insights are clear and concisely expressed. They are worth reading for anyone interested in the topic." Financial Times "The runners in the race for the White House should stop and listen to Soros." Independent on Sunday"


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A wide variety of delicious food, excellent salad bar! Staff friendly, well clean and safe restaurant. Not overpriced Family friendly.
A wide variety of delicious food, excellent salad bar! Staff friendly, well clean and safe restaurant. Not overpriced Family friendly.
Fair variety of food. Can be a little bland and not always replenished when needed. $65 for two adults, two young teenagers (who would normally eat off the children's menu) and one 6 year old. Staff courteous and helpful. Not exactly the place to excite you for a meal out.
Nice spread of various American dishes and ethnic food items on buffet style serving line. Depleted food items were replenished promptly. The fresh fruits, and steam cooked fishes and meats were good. I didn't eat the fried foods but they did have fried chicken and other fried meat dishes. The price is reasonable and yet they allowed senior discounts as... More
Wide variety of foods to chose from. Always well prepared and replenished as necessary. Wait staff courteous and attentive to customer's needs.
For the price this is not a bad place to eat. It's a buffet. There is a respectable salad / fruit bar and some good steamed vegetables. However, when we arrived about 7 p.m., the food seemed a little "tired". Also, the floors needed a good clean! If you want a quick meal with no surprises, then this the place.
The food was run-of-the-mill. The steaks overcooked and gristley. Fried chicken was tasty, but fairly greasy. The staff - every one that I encountered were not friendly and most of them carried a frown. Never again....
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We simply couldn't get enough of the chicken from this place. A huge selection of food that was great
The variety of food is always great and we had the pleasure of choosing what we wanted. Golden Corral has a great staff and if you go into one, you have gone into everyone.
Having attended a wedding the day before and our hotel being right next door, our breakfast was more like a brunch. The selections were endless, including the made to order omelet station. Have you ever had "deep fried, crispy bacon" or "bacon candy"? They have it there, as well as just about every other kind of breakfast food known to... More
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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- Pace University swimmer Kaitlyn Lynch has been selected as Northeast-10 Female Swimmer of the Year.
Lynch was named the NE-10 Female Swimmer of the Meet at this year's NE-10 championships. She was the top female swimmer at last month's NE-10 Conference Championships and she was named the NE-10 Swimmer of the Meet. In addition, she earned the collegeswimming.com Women's Division II Swimmer of the Week award.
Lynch won three gold medals at the meet, and set a record in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24.17. She also won the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke with times of 56.82 and 57.06. Her 100 fly time was an NCAA provisional qualifying mark.
For more information on Lynch's accomplishments, click here.
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Nick Reynolds and Chris Dobens, two students from Emerson College in Boston, contacted Milwaukee-based Ink to the People, which specialized in custom T-shirts and selling T-shirts online through social media. »Read Full Article(1)
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"I think that how we actually pay for it and what the form of the financing is and kind of all the technical nuances at some point will be very important," Edens said in an interview with the Journal Sentinel. "To me it's less important today than just the notion that, let's just agree what's on the table with the benefit of the team being in town. Once we have done that, we've got a really useful place to start the dialogue." »Read Full Article(45)
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The Rev. Michael Crosby, a Capuchin friar who has been involved in corporate-responsibility campaigns for 40 years, views the huge pay gap between top executives and ordinary workers as a moral issue. But he's trying to make an economic case that retailers actually stand to benefit if that gap is narrowed. »Read Full Article(69)


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Houzz is the new way to design your home.
27,122 old door headboards Home Design Photos
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variety of sizes and finishes. This one looks like the size large with the old bronze finish. Here's a link to the listing: ... Best of luck with your
" "the old bronze finish. Here's a link to the listing: ...
pantry to then go to left or right- put a pocket door in doorway so can close off pantry
Drop down door could be garage so toaster could be
Lights — Nelda Tomlinson
Castro Design Studio
EW Renovation
Where did you get the front door?
looks like our old burton street house
Front door...Landscaping and front door...Front door...Wood Door...stone around front door...door and window...Stone work around front door...Off white windows, wood door
beige windows — salvitale
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elegant bedroom with mirrored closet doors
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Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2013
|Julie Bush made innovative use of a salvaged armoire she
found while antiquing, using a portion for a fireplace mantle
(top) and the drawers as the foundation for a new coffee table.
Julie Bush is innovative. She knows how to make much use of an item in the most unexpected ways. When it came time to find repurposed pieces, she proved that necessity is the mother of invention.
It all started with one small problem — "I couldn't find the right mantle."
When she and husband, Robbie, found themselves in need of a mantle for their new fireplace, Julie got creative.
"We were antiquing in Lake Charles and I found this walnut armoire in bad shape," she recalls.
The front doors were gone, but she saw potential.
"It was exactly the right size," she says of the crown that now sits in a living area of her home on their fireplace.
"I love walnut," she says. "It wasn't pretty. But, we stained it. It had some imperfections. But, that's what I like."
After the top was removed, Bush's mind went quickly with what to do with the drawers of the armoire.
"They were the perfect size for a coffee table," she says pointing to the, indeed, perfeclty proportioned piece in front of her couch.
She later took portions of a Victorian headboard and finished off the missing spots for the new coffee table. And in true fashion, the innovative Bush used another portion of that headboard for a bar outside by the pool. Proof that with enough determination much can be done with even the most unlikely pieces.
"My husband didn't think it would even fit in my small SUV. We brought it home in pieces. I had a vision."
NOV 21 Bobby Jindal is headed to Iowa again, the Des Moines Register reports here. The paper outlines what's going on with Bobby's non-campaign for president, and there's a lot of stuff here -- too bad none of it sounds like somebody running Louisiana. Hey, wasn't that the job he wanted?
NOV 21 The end of the term has come for the grand jury investigating a lucrative Medicaid contract and a former state health official's ties to the company that won it, the Advocate reports here, but that doesn't mean the investigation into this stinkiness is over. There are still some things to look into, the lead prosecutor says.
NOV 21 With the passage of two amendments to Louisiana's much-amended constitution (it has been amended almost 200 times now) higher education has an even bigger target on its collective back, columnist Jim Beam opines in this post. Higher ed used to share the spotlight with health care, but that has changed, he says.
NOV 21 Here's a weird one: The Louisiana Cannabis Industry Association has endorsed Bill Cassidy for the U.S. Senate. Apparently, Mary Landrieu said she wouldn't consider support of medical marijuana but Cassidy said he would, WWL reports here.
NOV 21 Solange Knowles, possibly best-known for assaulting her brother-in-law in an elevator while wearing an ugly dress after the Met Ball, got married in the Marigny Opera House this past weekend, the New York Times reports here. Knowles, who has a house in the Faubourg Marigny district and owns a boutique in the Quarter, married Alan Ferguson.
NOV 21 This post on the Fuel Fix blog outlines a $1.4 billion move announced this week by the Apache Corp. that includes the sale of assets in south Louisiana. The company's interests in more than 90,000 acres in south Louisiana are some of the assets being sold, the post reports.
NOV 21 One (possible) positive from Hurricane Katrina is a comprehensive zoning ordinance for New Orleans. Nine years later, we're getting closer to that being finalized, but the current version has some problems. Here's the latest in a series of posts on The Lens in which residents give their views of the draft; this one is more amusing than most.
NOV 21 The new NOLA smoking ordinance is going to harsh your (nicotine) buzz, man. This post on Gambit outlines the high (or low, as the case may be) points: it includes electronic cigarettes and hookahs in its bans; eliminates smoking within 25 feet of any building's public entrance and in any public space - or near any public space - operated by the city.
NOV 20 Here's an interesting article in the New York Times. The authors have picked one dish to represent each state in a Thanksgiving meal. Louisiana's dish? Shrimp stuffed mirlitons.
NOV 20 Politico reports here that Bobby Jindal won't be kept out of the presidential race by anyone else's candidacy. (If he's running, which he's not, 'cause he's not done prayin' on it) So he's not interested in who is running, or what the polls say, or how much money he's got? K.
NOV 20 NOLA Defender's Tiny Daiquiri has a little fun with Bobby Jindal's Meet the Press appearance in this post. Bobby is still prayin' on whether or not he'll run for the job he's been running for over the past three years, Tiny says.


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Yes, Dan, they contacted me each year for the voting reminder. Perhaps you have to own a certain amount of shares before you get the call? Outlaw, you must own a bunch more for them to ask your opinion on splitting the last Divergent book into two films!
Thanks for the head up on watching Houdini. I plan to see #2 tonight. I enjoyed it! Entertainment Weekly says it is the most watched "cable" miniseries of the year. You can't have every series become a blockbuster like Hatfield or The Bible:
Part one of Houdini garnered 3.7 million viewers last night, making it the most-viewed cable miniseries of this year. History Channel's take on the storied magician chronicles his life of fame, espionage, and infamous stunts, and is based on the book Houdini: A Mind in Chains: A Psychoanalytic Portrait by Bernard C. Meyer.
Houdini's premiere is a soft opening in comparison to the History Channel's previous slate of miniseries, which have reached ratings peaks. In 2012, Hatfields & McCoys garnered 13.9 million viewers over a Memorial Day weekend, drawing one of the largest ratings in cable television, and in 2013, The Bible attracted 10.8 million viewers.
ok...signs of life in trading. didn't see anything post until 9:35
why hasn't IDRA opened yet? No trades coming through but it is not on the halted list.
Biospeculator, Thanks for your observations on options activities and posting them.
Outlaw, thanks for posting...I am going to copy this to the Alibaba thread, too. Let's hope this quoted statement does not change in China:
Gong noted that the Chinese quota system limiting the number of foreign films coming into the country applies to theatrical releases but not to online distribution.
Restaurants now want to capitalize on this gaming sensation:
Buffalo Wild Wings® Launches GameBreak™, Feature-Rich Multi-Platform Fantasy Sports and Competitive Gaming ExperienceGameBreak is available at all U.S. Buffalo Wild Wings locations, on the web and via an app for Android and Apple iOS devices
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Buffalo Wild Wings®, Inc. announced it is launching GameBreak™, a single sign-on, multi-platform gaming experience allowing consumers to play a wide range of fantasy-style and competitive sports games in restaurant (via tablet), online and on a mobile app for Android and iOS devices. The company is offering weekly prizes and season-long prize packs to winners, in addition to a $10,000 "Ultimate VIP Ticket Experience" for one winner.
GameBreak allows guests to compete when and where they want, through daily and season-long games, special event competitions and exclusive games that interact with live sporting events. At launch, GameBreak offers three games, with additional games tied to different sports and sporting events slated to be rolled out in the coming months.
"Launching GameBreak is another way Buffalo Wild Wings(BWLD) is creating the ultimate social experience for our sports fans," said Sally Smith, CEO and president, Buffalo Wild Wings(BWLD). "GameBreak elevates the sports experience, making it more interactive and immersing guests into the action. It also supports our strategy and helps extend the Buffalo Wild Wings(BWLD) experience beyond the restaurant to further differentiate ourselves in the marketplace and strengthen guest loyalty."
Users can earn points each time they play to win weekly and season-long prizes based on their performance against an ongoing leaderboard. In addition, GameBreak serves as a destination for guests to access sports content, track their performance, share game play information through social media and create leagues to challenge their friends.
"Buffalo Wild Wings is known for providing the ultimate sports-viewing atmosphere, and we believe with this new gaming platform we can extend the experience beyond the restaurant and reach our guests wherever they want to compete," stated Ben Nelsen, vice president of guest experience and innovation, Buffalo Wild Wings(BWLD). "Guests can play in the restaurant, but can also access our games via the web and through the GameBreak app on their smart phones."
The three featured launch games are:
GameBreak Live – an exclusive in-restaurant game testing sports knowledge by offering up questions on live sporting events in real-time;
Pro-Football Salary Cap Challenge – a fantasy football-style weekly game where users are challenged to create a roster of eight pro-football players within a predetermined virtual budget, and;
Pro-Football Pick'em Challenge – a traditional pick'em game designed to test a user's skill in correctly selecting the winner of each pro-football weekly match-up.
Guests are playing for a chance to win weekly prizes including Buffalo Wild Wings(BWLD) gift cards for the top scorers (up to $50 in value), with thousands of prizes awarded throughout the football season. In addition, two season-long prize packs valued at $2,000 will be awarded to players who stay on top of the leader board. For the GameBreak Live game, at the end of the season, one guest could win the "Ultimate VIP Season Ticket Experience" for the football team of their choice. The $10,000 prize pack includes two premium seats to every home game, B-Dubs® gift cards and perks for pre-game tablegating, game day swag or an in-stadium experience or other exclusive perks depending on the team.
RAJ...for companies paying 30% + in Federal taxes, LGF's 15.5% tax rate would be an instant gain of 15%+ annually. Not too hard to sell to any business IMO.
Outlaw, I am not sure if EPIX is available outside of the U.S to my knowledge, but perhaps it is via Xbox subscriptions. They have greatly expanded their reach here with the recent TWC deal. Blockbuster movies like transformers will keep subscribers happy so it is good to know that Paramount is doing well in the Box office.
Domestic Total Gross: $101,200,044
Distributor: Paramount Release Date: March 28, 2014
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $101,200,044 28.2%
+ Foreign: $258,000,000 71.8%
= Worldwide: $359,200,044
I didn't realize that Noah did so well overseas. I am not sure if it the Bible Story that is sticky with overseas or more because of the action component of the movie. What every happened to LGF's movie Mary??? Last I read, there were some legal issues that were being disputed and that it was slated for early 2015/
This is also Paramount:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Domestic Total as of Aug. 28, 2014: $150,655,980
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $150,655,980 61.8%
+ Foreign: $93,200,000 38.2%
= Worldwide: $243,855,980
Hopefully, the current market holds and we get the same reception for Power Rangers.
Wow..look at these stats:
Age of Extinction
Domestic Total as of Aug. 28, 2014: $243,950,966
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $243,950,966 22.9%
+ Foreign: $821,300,000 77.1%
= Worldwide: $1,065,250,966
China is $301M of the Foreign total. Glad to know that LGF shares a little bit in this via our EPIX partnership
I guess Alibaba has to be skeptical when acquiring other Chinese companies:
One of Alibaba's recent acquisitions, film producer Alibaba Pictures Group Ltd., said this month its new management uncovered accounting flaws and won't be able to publish results on time. Alibaba acquired 60 percent of the company for about $800 million in June.
In the earnings filing, Alibaba said it has made provisions to the value of the assets, noting that the issues at Alibaba Pictures won't materially affect its overall financial position.
Dan, LOL....I was going to respond the same, but decided it wasn't worth a response post. Glad to see posters like us and others continue to post valuable Due Diligence and ignore the riff raff.
Dan, thanks for sharing. I also tried to post it several times from several different sites at various times and Yahoo deleted all of my posts as well. Makes you wonder what kind of filter Yahoo uses to delete.
By Telis Demos, Matt Jarzemsky and Michael Calia
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported a surge in revenue and earnings for its latest quarter, driven in part by increased activity on mobile devices, though its profit margin narrowed.
The results were included in an updated regulatory filing as the company is gearing up to launch its U.S. IPO next month, which could set records by raising more than $20 billion, according to people familiar with the company's plans.
Alibaba's mobile user base--a key point of emphasis in the ever-evolving e-commerce industry--continued to grow, with mobile monthly active users rising to 188 million for the quarter ended June 30, an increase of 25 million from the prior quarter.
Mobile volume accounted for 32.8% of total gross merchandise volume in the period, up from 27.4% at the end of the prior period and 12% at the end of the year-earlier quarter, a key statistic the company will likely aim to tout to investors when it begins shopping the deal to them.
Mobile merchandise sales nearly quadrupled to CNY164 billion.
"They are highlighting their strong mobile results and dominating...market share as smart phones play a bigger role in e-commerce in China than the U.S.," said Brendan Ahern, managing director at KraneShares, which sponsors exchange- traded funds focused on China, including the $108 million KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF.
Total revenue jumped 46% to CNY15.77 billion ($2.54 billion) in the fiscal first quarter ended June 30 versus the same period a year ago.
Its gross merchandise volume, or total sales across its online and mobile platforms, jumped to CNY501 billion ($81 billion) in the quarter, up 16% from the previous quarter, and 45% from the same period a year earlier.
By contrast, Amazon Inc., the U.S. online retailer, generated about $100 billion in total sales last year, according to Forrester Research. Alibaba generates its sales only by matching buyers and sellers, unlike Amazon, which also owns warehwarehouses of goods and sells directly to customers.
The company will be wary of any investor doubts about mobile growth after what happened when Facebook Inc.(FB) went public in a $16 billion IPO in May 2012. The company warned about potentially slowing growth due to a shift from web browsing to mobile devices, and the stock tumbled after the IPO. The stock recovered, however, as the company reported strong mobile results in subsequent quarters.
"I believe Alibaba's management saw the results of Facebook's(FB) IPO and the questions raised due to the perception they lacked a mobile strategy, " Mr. Ahern said.
Analysts will also be keeping a close eye on Alibaba's spending as it aims to boost its mobile penetration and fend off competitors such as Tencent.
Though earnings surged to CNY12.34 billion ($1.99 billion) from CNY4.38 billion a year earlier, the company's costs also rose sharply in the quarter, up 68% to CNY4.59 billion ($739 million) from a year earlier.
The result was an operating profit margin drop to 43.4% from 50.3% a year earlier.
Despite its looming IPO, Alibaba has made a string of acquisitions and other investments to bolster its mobile presence, including acquiring Chinese mobile web browser UCWeb. Alibaba even considered an investment in Snapchat Inc., the U.S. chat mobile app, but ultimately passed on it, a person familiar with the talks said.
The company said in its filing that "we expect to continue to make strategic investments and acquisitions" related to mobile, digital media, and other services, which "may affect our future financial results, including by decreasing our margins and net income."
One acquisition this year, of a Hong Kong-listed film-production company, raised questions about the pace of dealmaking when Alibaba disclosed that it discovered accounting irregularities at Alibaba Pictures after the deal.
A decline in a measure of profitability may add doubts about how Alibaba's efforts to grow will affect its bottom line, said Grace Su, a senior research analyst at ClearBridge Investments. She said she hopes to learn more about Alibaba's expectations for profit margins during the company's IPO road show.
But, she added, investors will be "encouraged that basically a third of their users are on mobile. That's phenomenal." She said investors may give Alibaba "the benefit of the doubt" that increased mobile activity will generate more advertising revenue, given the experience of U.S. firms making the same transition.
The road show process could begin after the U.S. Sept . 1 Labor Day holiday, the people familiar with the plans said. The company will first set a valuation range on the company and then begin a two-week process of holding meetings with investors in Asia, Europe and the U.S. The stock, listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol " BABA," would begin trading in mid-September under that timeline.
Things are getting heated globally:
(From Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper, Aug. 27 edition.)
By James Bradshaw and Christine Dobby
Of THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Two of the most powerful distributors in Canadian television have joined forces to launch a video-streaming platform, hoping to gain a foothold in the same online TV market that's threatening their business models.
The long-rumoured streaming service for television shows and movies, dubbed Shomi, was unveiled Tuesday by Rogers Communications Inc.(RCIAF) and Shaw Communications Inc.(SJRWF), which jointly built the new venture to take on competitors like U.S.- based Netflix Inc.(NFLX)
When it launches in November, Shomi will cost C$8.99 a month -- the same price Netflix(NFLX) charges new customers -- and will include 11,000 hours of television from 340 series, as well as 1,200 movies.
For now, it will be available only to Rogers and Shaw Internet or television customers for use on tablets, smartphones, Web browsers, Xbox consoles and cable boxes. But the friendly rivals are in talks with other distributors to make the service more widely available.
Television distributors and cable broadcasters have faced intense pressure from new competitors, with Netflix(NFLX) and its massive content catalogue attracting an estimated four million-plus subscribers in Canada since launching in 2010. Another major Canadian player, BCE Inc., wrote in a recent regulatory submission: "The system is threatened like never before."
But Shomi executives are pitching the service less as a Netflix(NFLX) killer than as a parallel service that leverages the companies' large combined stable of television rights to give viewers the more personalized experience they increasingly crave.
"We knew that we had to get [a streaming] offering out there that was an option for people," said Barbara Williams, senior vice-president of content at Shaw Media. "And I think we will see lots of different people use this in lots of different ways."
At launch, Shomi will feature back catalogues of popular shows such as Modern Family, New Girl and American Horror Story. Rogers and Shaw will continue to offer new episodes of current seasons through their existing on-demand services. Thirty per cent of the content will be Canadian, and creating original programming is also "definitely on our road map," Rogers Media president Keith Pelley said.
Even so, observers on social media were quick to say the service appeared to offer little that would lead them to abandon Netflix(NFLX). Mr. Pelley countered that Shomi will give users curated, expert recommendations with a human touch and a dash of "attitude," and expects many households will add the service alongside other streaming subscriptions.
"Our research show that, undeniably, consumers can support two, three, even four [subscription video-on-demand] services," Mr. Pelley said.
Even as many Canadians complain about the high cost of traditional TV service, Kaan Yigit, president of Solutions Research Group, says there is ample room in Canada's streaming marketplace.
"As much as there's some element of competition with Netflix(NFLX), I think broadly speaking we're seeing a multiple- subscription world evolving here," Mr. Yigit said.
BCE's Bell Media participated in initial discussions about joining the Shomi project but elected not to. A Bell spokesman declined to comment on rumours that the company will launch its own streaming service in the coming months. (BCE owns 15 per cent of The Globe and Mail).
Shomi is also an attempt to stem the growing rate of cord cutting -- cancelling television subscriptions, often in favour of online alternatives -- in Canada. According to regulatory figures, total cable and satellite subscribers declined for the first time in the year ending Aug. 31, 2013.
Toronto-based Rogers and Western cable giant Shaw have both been steadily losing television subscribers in recent quarters while making modest gains on the Internet front.
The American broadcasting landscape is also under pressure, owing to falling ratings and advertising revenues. On Tuesday, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., which owns U.S. television networks such as CNN, announced it is offering buyouts to some 600 employees, with layoffs and other cost cutting to follow.
In the face of such challenges, observers have questioned why a Canadian-made competitor to Netflix(NFLX) didn't emerge sooner and why, even after more than a year in development, Shomi is launching in a "beta" test phase expected to last six to 12 months.
Both companies said they felt they had to get into the streaming game before it was too late: "There comes a point where you just have to get at it," Ms. Williams said
SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Amazon Inc(AMZN) tracked Twitch's evolution from scrappy guerrilla startup to one of the Internet's hottest media properties. On Monday, it announced a near-$1 billion acquisition to get into one of the fastest-growing online arenas: live-streaming.
Amazon's (AMZN) $970 million bet - its largest ever - underscores how a loyal and fast-growing following for live-streaming has grabbed the attention of big brands. Some believe live and interactive streaming, in which Twitch is a pioneer, is the new frontier in online video.
Bessemer Ventures' Ethan Kurzweil admitted on Monday he got blank stares from people he described Twitch to initially. The San Francisco-based startup lets gamers livecast their play while responding to cheers, tips and random musings from online viewers in real time.
In three years, Twitch has become the fourth largest U.S. producer of peak Internet traffic, ahead of Facebook and Hulu, according to Bessemer, a backer.
"It's a captive audience and one that is loyal," said Adam Shlachter, head of media activation at marketing agency DigitasLBi. "Where you have like-minded people..all aggregated in one place, kind of holed up around the same thing and participating in the same experiences, that offers a really unique environment to target (ads) against."
Live-streaming draws a following partly because of its immediacy: fans message their favorite personalities and can evoke a response during livecasts. Twitch and other live-stream networks like Livestream also cater to niches, featuring content such as offbeat sports to videogames that mainstream outlets eschew.
Twitch had 55 million monthly viewers in July, up about 45 percent from a year earlier. That growth caught the attention of advertisers, who spotted the chance to reach younger viewers who watch less television.
Brands will spend $6 billion this year on digital video advertising in the United States, according to research firm eMarketer.
Thanks for the links Outlaw...good reading and very relevant to LGF. The analysts made a very clear point on the last conference call to understand that their 15.5% effective tax rate is transferable to acquirers OR would still be in effect if LGF makes any acquisitions.
By Grant Brunner on August 25, 2014 at 3:44 pm0 Comments
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After weeks of uncertainty and user revolt, the story surrounding Twitch just got more bizarre. Reports are coming in today claiming that Amazon will be acquiring the popular video streaming service, and that only adds to the confusion of the last month or so. This is an unexpected development, but considering other recent acquisitions, buying Twitch makes a lot of sense for Amazon.
Last month, it was widely reported that Google had purchased Twitch for upwards of one billion dollars. Not long after, Twitch began rolling out a number of unpopular changes including the introduction of an automated audio matching algorithm intended to silence copyrighted music on archived videos. In the wake of these sweeping changes, some people started questioning whether or not the Google acquisition actually happened.
Amazon Fire TV Now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon — not Google — will be acquiring Twitch Interactive for more than one billion dollars. The WSJ's source claims that the Google deal went sideways over the last few weeks, so the original reports weren't entirely unfounded. It seems that Google did plan on buying Twitch, but negotiations soured before contracts were signed.
So, why would this online retailer want to get into the video game live-streaming business? Simply put, it thrusts Amazon's gaming products into the spotlight. Twitch is wildly popular among the gaming community, and controlling Twitch gives Amazon the legitimacy it seems to so desperately want.
Not only does Amazon sell a (half-hearted) game console, but it's made a number of strategic gaming acquisitions over the last few months as well. Double Helix, the studio best-known for the 2013 Killer Instinct reboot on the Xbox One, was snatched up in February. Kim Swift (Portal) and Clint Hocking (Far Cry 2, Splinter Cell) quickly joined Amazon Game Studios as well.


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Effective drugs for carriers of hepatitis C not included in health basket
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Jerusalem will be celebrating 3,000 years of its ancient muse with the Jerusalem Season of Culture, a series of ongoing artistic events, which began in May and will carry on through September. In its third year, the Jerusalem Season of Culture is being billed as "a summer showcase of the city's contemporary cultural treasures."The happenings, which take place at various venues throughout the city, include dance, music, poetry, philosophy, visual arts and new media."We are celebrating Jerusalem, the capital of culture and art," says the event's executive director Naomi Bloch Fortis and former co-artistic director at the Batsheva Dance Company. "We think it has a rich and diverse cultural theme, and we are trying to contribute to the international cultural scene of Jerusalem."The desire to enrich the city's cultural theme was one of the motivating factors behind the establishment of the program, now officially recognized as a nonprofit organization. One of its main backers and original founders is the Schusterman Foundation Israel.According to Karen Brunwasser, a former employee of the Schusterman Foundation and now the event's deputy director, "The foundation was concerned with the fact that Jerusalem was losing its relevance to the residents. It wanted to take part in the process of renewal of the city that had been going on over the last few years."After researching urban renewal cases from all over the world and commissioning studies focusing on Jerusalem, two main conclusions were reached: culture serves as a catalyst for urban renewal; and Jerusalem has tremendous potential because of its vast cultural resources.In addition to the Schusterman Foundation Israel, other sponsors of the Jerusalem Season of Culture include the Jerusalem Municipality, the Jerusalem Development Authority and the Jerusalem Foundation.First having taken place as a series of pilot events in 2010, the Jerusalem Season of Culture has grown steadily, today including 11 separate happenings held throughout the summer. The following are some of the highlights of the season: The In-House Festival – Houses, a synagogue and other intimate surroundings will come to life on July 3 – 5 as theater, individual night tours and dance ensembles take to the "stage" in this unique version of performance art.Contact Point – The Israel Museum will be the setting for this one-time event, scheduled for July 12. Leading Israeli artists such as Rona Kenan, Itzik Weingarten and Noam Enbar will perform in a series of installations on the museum campus. The performances are billed as late-night encounters between artworks, the museum landscape and the artists themselves.Balabasta: Culture in the Market – Singers, dancers, actors and poets will converge in Jerusalem's Mahaneh Yehuda market on August 6-20 for afternoon and evening performances within the shuk setting. The idea, according to Bloch Fortis, is not to use the market as a backdrop but to actually "weave the culture into the shuk."Ron Arad: 720 Degrees – The installation by designer, artist and architect Ron Arad will be on display from August 16 – September 9 in the Israel Museum's Art Garden. The work was much touted at its London debut and is expected to be a big draw of the season, according to Bloch Fortis.The exhibition will be intertwined with music, dance, poetry and theater performances, which will be announced in advance. Ron Arad: 720 Degrees will be open for viewing Saturdays – Thursdays from 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival – A 24-hour international celebration of music, this first-time event will take place on September 6-7 throughout the capital. Musicians from Israel and abroad will perform at various locations, celebrating the concepts of sanctity, sensitivity, compassion and interfaith unity.Complete information on all the events and the Jerusalem Season of Culture in general can be found at their website: http://www.jerusalemseason.com/en orby calling (02) 653-5880.
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Bath desperate to salvage something at the last after season of disappointment
Bath 27 Leicester 26: Final game at Saracens crucial to chances of a top-six finish and place in the Heineken Cup
Hugh Godwin
Hugh Godwin is the rugby union correspondent of the Independent on Sunday who also writes for The Independent
Sunday 21 April 2013
Mike Catt, England's attacking skills coach, was asked at a supporters' event at the Rec shortly before the kick-off of this entertaining Premiership match what had changed from the days a decade and more ago when he would turn out for Bath against Leicester. "We used to beat 'em," said Catt, pithily. Bath's ensuing win by 27-26 and four tries to two could not have erased the hurt of the last few years the former champions have spent in the doldrums but it was clear from the cheers that most of the locals saw it as a big step in the right direction.
"It showed our game plan does work and that when we perform we can pull it off," said Francois Louw, the Bath captain for the day whose exultant try seven minutes from the end wrenched the lead from Leicester for a third and decisive time.
"It hasn't quite been the season we'd hoped for but there's one match to go and it's a big one." Away to Saracens on Saturday week, to be precise, when Bath are likely to need a win to stay in the top six and qualify for the Heineken Cup. Seventh place might be good enough, but only if Saracens win this season's Heineken Cup, and as the final of that competition is not until 18 May, Bath will not be able to rely on that outcome.
As the words of the 42-year-old Catt indicated before he watched Bath's Rob Webber and Dave Attwood make forceful claims to be recalled by England for the three-match tour to South America this summer, scrabbling around in mid-table was not his old club's bag when they won six league titles from 1989 to 1996.
This was only Leicester's fifth loss in the last 20 meetings with Bath in all competitions, but considering the home team missed five kicks at goal while Toby Flood landed all six of his for Leicester, the margin might have been greater. And it was a notable improvement on the away losses to London Welsh, Sale and London Irish that epitomise Bath's fitful season.
"There was huge pressure on us for this game," said Louw, standing in at skipper for Stuart Hooper.
"We've really been unlucky as a side, just not really tying it together as we'd hoped to."
The most hopeful signs for Bath, who will have seen 10 players leave and 12 arrive between the start of this season and the beginning of the next one, were their scrum and line-out going well against opponents with formidable reputations in both.
They also had some luck when the referee allowed Louw to hack the ball out of Ben Youngs's hands at Leicester's last attacking ruck, and Stephen Donald helped take play to safety up field. It was the All Black's final act on this ground before he departs for Japan. The incoming replacement, though not yet announced, is believed by everyone from the Avon to Welford Road to be Leicester's George Ford.
"Possibly more than the result, it was about showing we could live with these top-four teams," said Webber, the 26-year-old hooker with three England caps who was waylaid for 10 months with a muscle tear picked up in the 2012 Six Nations Championship. "We did that massively and apart from a few errors it could have been more convincing." Webber has an overtly aggressive style, summing up Bath's approach under a coaching panel still getting its feet under the table, but during his frustrating lay-off he saw Youngs's brother Tom wearing and excelling in the national No 2 jersey. "I got injured wearing an England shirt and I want it back," said Webber. "If I get another go I'll bite their hand off."
You suspect the key for Bath's head coach, Gary Gold, amid the heavy turnover of personnel will be the need for the club's owner Bruce Craig to stay patient during the rebuilding.
"We spoke about the need to match, if not better, Leicester's intensity," said Gold. "That's what makes Leicester unbelievable. They think they've won before they start – and most of the time they do."
Even so, Gold's Leicester counterpart Richard Cockerill did not appear too distraught at the loss; the Premiership's leading try scorers took their total to 51 with coruscating scores from two men nailed on for the British and Irish Lions: the scrum-half Youngs – who embarrassed Bath with an 80-metre run from a tapped penalty – and flanker Tom Croft, whose galloping relish for the hard ground will surely be seen again in Australia in June.
Leicester's players will be given a week off before returning to training next Monday knowing a win or draw at home to London Irish in the final regular-season match will secure a home tie in the play-offs for the fifth year running as they aim to reach a ninth successive final.
Would there be any chance of the Tigers taking a refreshing jaunt to Verbier or La Manga, in the manner of Saracens and Harlequins? "We'll stick with [the training ground in] Oadby," said Cockerill.
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A world first, the exclusively solar-powered mobile and completely independent classroom is designed particularly for use in remote rural areas with limited or no access to electricity.
The Solar Powered Internet School model tackles one of Africa's biggest economic challenges, namely electricity supply. On average, less than 25% of rural areas on the continent benefit from electricity, resulting in isolated communities with limited access to education and connectivity – both of which are key to fast-tracking a nation's development.
The initiative is an example of Samsung's corporate social responsibility (CSR) investment on the continent, and its keen focus on education and harnessing the company's legacy of innovation to respond to the needs of people on the continent. The launch follows the roll-out of Samsung Africa's 'Built for Africa' product range and the Samsung Electronics Engineering Academy earlier this year.
"We have set an ambitious goal for ourselves in Africa: to positively affect five-million lives by 2015. We believe that this can most effectively be achieved if we connect our CSR initiatives with our history and core business. With the goal to grow our business on the continent, we also know that we have to sustain our level of innova- tion. This can only be achieved if we invest in education to facilitate African thought leader- ship and to ensure we have access to a large workforce of skilled engineers in the future. The Solar Powered Internet School is a great example of this strategy at play," says Samsung Electronics Africa president and CEO KK Park.
A 12-m-long shipping container is used to build a Solar Powered Internet School, making the schools easily transportable by truck to remote areas. The schools are built for energy- scarce environments, harsh weather conditions and for transportation over long distances. Fold-away solar panels provide enough energy to power the classroom's equipment for up to nine hours a day and for one-and-a-half days without any sunlight at all. The solar panels are made from rubber instead of glass to ensure they are hardy and durable enough to survive long journeys across the continent.
The classroom can comfortably accommodate 21 learners, and includes several layers of insulation and a ventilation system to ensure that a temperate environment is maintained. Each classroom is fitted with a 127 cm electronic e-board and different Samsung notebooks and netbooks, including the world-first solar-powered netbooks and Galaxy tablets for student and teacher interface, all of which have been engineered for use in a solar-powered environment.
"The amount of power generated by the schools each day means these schools can be used beyond the traditional school day as an adult education centre in the afternoons or a community centre over weekends.
Our goal is to create an environment that would facilitate learning for whole communities in remote areas that otherwise don't have access to educational tools or Internet connectivity," Park adds.
The school is also equipped with an energy efficient refrigerator, a file server, a router, uninterruptible power supply, a video camera and a world-first WiFi camera, all of which are designed to communicate through 3G. This allows a central location, such as the Depart- ment of Education, to monitor classes and deliver curriculum-based content directly to both the learners' and educators' notebooks.
The server contains the complete South African school curriculum, from grade 0 to grade 12, allowing the school to teach any school subject or grade.
In the unlikely event of a complete power outage, teachers can continue their lessons using a regular built-in whiteboard and chalkboard. Samsung LED lighting ensures reduced power consumption, while remote solar power diagnostics are in place in the event of a power supply complication.
With 21 students and one teacher, as well as other members of the community, making use of the classroom daily, Samsung has installed its environment-friendly Virus Doctor air-purification system to ward off the spread of germs within the classroom.
The Samsung Super Plasma ion technology emits active hydro- gen and oxygen ions into the air, inhibiting infection by airborne viruses and destroying airborne bacteria, fungi and allergens.
The Solar Powered Internet School prototype is currently being piloted at the Samsung Electronics Engineering Academy, in Boksburg. It has also been sent to Qunu, in the Eastern Cape, to undergo further testing as a functioning learning and teaching environment, with the aim to scale up production of the container schools in future.
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The ship will be idle through April. Two other cruises were called off shortly after Sunday's fire.
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Tibetans inherited 'super athlete' gene that lets them live at high altitude from mating with extinct species of human
- Mutation is similar to a 'super athlete' gene believed to give improved athletic performance
- Gene came from Denisovans, a human relative that became extinct 40,000-50,000 years ago
- Ethnic Tibetans split off from the Chinese Han less than 3,000 years ago
Tibetans were able to adapt to high altitudes thanks to a gene picked up when their ancestors mated with a now extinct early species of human.
It is the first time a gene from another species of human has been shown unequivocally to have helped modern humans adapt to their environment, researchers said.
They found the gene came from Denisovans a human relative that became extinct 40,000-50,000 years ago, around the same time as the more well-known Neanderthals.
Tibetan nomads play billiards on an open grassland near Namtso Lake: Researchers have revealed the population evolved to thrive at high altitudes in just 3,000 years.
The gene has been referred to as the 'superathlete' gene because at low elevations, some variants of it help athletes quickly boost hemoglobin and thus the oxygen-carrying capacity of their blood, upping endurance.
At high altitudes, however, the common variants of the gene boost hemoglobin and its carrier, red blood cells, too much, increasing the thickness of the blood and leading to hypertension and heart attacks as well as low birth weight babies and increased infant mortality.
The variant, or allele, found in Tibetans raises hemoglobin and red blood cell levels only slightly at high elevations, avoiding the side effects seen in most people who relocate to elevations above 13,000 feet.
The unusual variant of a gene involved in regulating the body's production of hemoglobin – the molecule that carries oxygen in the blood – became widespread in Tibetans after they moved onto the high-altitude plateau several thousand years ago.
This variant allowed them to survive despite low oxygen levels at elevations of 15,000 feet or more, whereas most people develop thick blood at high altitudes, leading to cardiovascular problems.
'We have very clear evidence that this version of the gene came from Denisovans,' said principal author Rasmus Nielsen, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology.
'This shows very clearly and directly that humans evolved and adapted to new environments by getting their genes from another species.'
Nielsen and his colleagues at BGI-Shenzhen in China, the world's largest genome sequencing center, published their research in Nature.
The gene, called EPAS1, is activated when oxygen levels in the blood drop, triggering production of more hemoglobin.
'We found that part of the EPAS1 gene in Tibetans is almost identical to the gene in Denisovans and very different from all other humans,' Nielsen said.
'We can do a statistical analysis to show that this must have come from Denisovans. There is no other way of explaining the data.'
Nielsen sketched out a possible scenario leading to this result: modern humans coming out of Africa interbred with Denisovan populations in Eurasia as they passed through that area into China, and their descendants still retain a small percentage – perhaps 0.1 percent – of Denisovan DNA.
The tiny fragment of finger bone has enabled scientists to map out the entire genetic code of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient cousin of modern humans
The group that invaded China eventually split, with one population moving into Tibet and the other, now known as Han Chinese, dominating the lower elevations.
Nielsen and his colleagues are analyzing other genomes to pin down the time of Denisovan interbreeding, which they said probably happened over a rather short period of time.
'There might be many other species from which we also got DNA, but we don't know because we don't have the genomes,' Nielsen said.
'The only reason we can say that this bit of DNA is Denisovan is because of this lucky accident of sequencing DNA from a little bone found in a cave in Siberia.
'We found the Denisovan species at the DNA level, but how many other species are out there that we haven't sequenced?'
Earth's highest peak, Mount Everest, in the Tibet Autonomous Region, the People's Republic of China. Researchers have now revealed how the locals have adapted to the high altitudes
Adaptation to low oxygen levels has allowed many peoples, from Andeans to Tibetans, to live at high altitude.
When people from lower elevations move above about 13,000 feet, where oxygen levels are about 40 percent lower than at sea level, they typically tire easily, develop headaches, produce babies with lower birth weights and have a higher infant mortality rate.
Tibetans have none of these problems, despite lower oxygen saturation in the blood and lower hemoglobin levels.
Hemoglobin, which gives blood its red color, binds and transports oxygen to the body's tissues.
Previous research of the comparison of the genomes of 50 Tibetans and 40 Han Chinese shows that ethnic Tibetans split off from the Han less than 3,000 years ago and since then rapidly evolved a unique ability to thrive at high altitudes and low oxygen levels.
The genome-wide comparison, performed by evolutionary biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, uncovered more than 30 genes with DNA mutations that have become more prevalent in Tibetans than Han Chinese, nearly half of which are related to how the body uses oxygen.
One mutation in particular spread from fewer than 10 percent of the Han Chinese to nearly 90 percent of all Tibetans.
The new findings could steer scientists to till-now unknown genes that play a role in how the body deals with decreased oxygen, and perhaps explain some diseases, including schizophrenia and epilepsy, associated with oxygen deprivation in the womb, he said.
The widespread mutation in Tibetans is near a gene called EPAS1, a so-called 'super athlete gene' identified several years ago and named because some variants of the gene are associated with improved athletic performance.
Researchers obtained DNA from 50 Tibetans living in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and 40 Han Chinese from Beijing.
The Tibetans lived in two villages located at elevations of 4,300 meters (14,100 feet) and 4,600 meters (15,100 feet).
Chinese researchers took blood samples from the participants and measured oxygen saturation, red blood cell concentration and hemoglobin content in their blood.
The analysis revealed that the common ancestors of Tibetans and Han Chinese split into two populations about 2,750 years ago, with the larger group moving to the Tibetan plateau.
That group eventually shrank, while the low-elevation Han population expanded dramatically. Today, the Han Chinese are the dominant ethnic group in mainland China.
The Tibetan branch either merged with the people's already occupying the Tibetan plateau, or replaced them.
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