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Mumbai, India
#49245 Feb 13, 2013
Going with a friend to the Golden Dragon in the Taj for some food. Bye.
#49246 Feb 13, 2013
rabbee: well first of all, i would not call TheG-D of my visitations a liar. so i believe G-D, is right about this world all being severely looney. so given the choice, of trusting G-D, or insane religion of social science of the subtle beasts of the fields. i believe that one, is a gimmie at least for me.
as i believe this world making you their better animal, shall never make you a better person. which is also obvious, due to the obvious present condition of this errantly biased world. this whole world is so far from what is true to G-D, it isn't even funny. and what is really true to G-D, shall determine our outcome. so the less true to G-D, the worse this world gets. so the more you talk, like critters. the more your subject to, the rules of critters. and the animal world, is an extreemly violent world.
"Legumes of the World Unite "
Since: Sep 11
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#49247 Feb 13, 2013
Invalid foundation. Show proof that your method works first, and then we can look at other traditions.
"Legumes of the World Unite "
Since: Sep 11
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#49248 Feb 13, 2013
again, I am not saying your experience is wrong. But why cant there be the potential for multiple types of experiences, tailored to the recipients?
Jubail, Saudi Arabia
#49249 Feb 13, 2013
Which �Sword� the Prophet Used against his enemies: Part-60
Our prophet was not only a preacher. He was also an able administrator and a just ruler.
Those who have experience of administration know when to act tough and when to act with leniency. A King, Ruler and President knows which criminal to pardon and which to get executed. Those who do not have this experience may only speak in idealistic terms. Such idealistic persons are never able to administer any country or state with efficiency.
Beside so many �Swords� which we have mentioned earlier on this thread. He also had a sword of steel. When no other sword worked and the only solution was to wield the sword of steel, he used that also.
Any one who has read his biography knows that how reluctantly he had to use it. We present below, some of these cases, where prophet had to use the sword of steel.
The Case of ABU AAMIR,�THE REBELLIOUS� FROM JEWS OF MADINA
ABU AAMIR was one of the learned men of the Jews of Madina who was well renowned for his religious knowledge and his hermit way of life, as having renounced the world. He was nicknamed as �The Learned One� by Jews and general people of Madina.
His fame of learning and renouncing the world was shattered when the Prophet migrated to Madina. If he had real learning (As ABDULLAH BIN SALLAM, or other Jewish scholars), he would have recognized the personality and mission of prophet and would have become his follower.
But his racial prejudice and his false arrogance of knowledge came in his way and he became one of the bitterest enemy of prophet. Prophet changed his nickname from �Learned one� to �FASIQ which means Rebellious.
When Muslim armies were victorious in the Battle of Badr. His heart was broken, and he left Madina, with the aim of wandering around Arabia and stoking in their heart enmity of Islam and Prophet.
Accordingly he went to Makkah, stoked the flame of hatred in their hearts, and was with their armies when they came to fight Prophet and Muslims in the battle of UHUD. Before the hostilities were to begin, he told ABU SUFYAN, the Makkan Commander, let me speak to my people in Madina, may be they will remember me and hearken to my words and turn their back on Mohammad.
He came forward, and cried in a loud voice �O people of AUS and KHAZRAJ (the two major tribes of Madina)! It is me, ABU AAMIR, One whom you used to love and respect. Listen to me and do not chose the path of destruction��
The people of Madina relied in one voice �O FASIQ! We are fully aware of your ways and your path�
ABU AAMIR turned back to Makkah people saying in a dejected voice �My people have changed completely since I left!!�
ABU AAMIR had earlier advised Makkan army to dig some deep holes in battle ground and cover it with leaves and branches, so that Muslim army and their cavalry or camels may be entrapped in them. Some holes were dug and covered and some Muslims were also trapped in them�..but it so happened that ABU AAMIR while running away from battle field, had his leg on these holes, he fell into it and was killed by a Muslim soldier.
Thus started )or was proven correct) the popular saying �One who digs the trenches for others, falls into it first�!!
Such was the sad story and sad end of ABU AAMIR the FASIQ, who misused his knowledge and deeds by picking the �Sword of Hatred� from the collections of Sword which prophet had.
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#49250 Feb 13, 2013
Calcium in Plants
Calcium in fertilizers
#49251 Feb 13, 2013
rabbee: sorry but G-D'S eternal commands given to Moshe, do not change with the times. what G-D loved or hated then, is still loved or hated by G-D forever and always. and if you want something different, then the diverse devils is more than willing to give the illusion of help to you. generally worse, than no help at all. but it is still, going to be hated by G-D. and all religions today, are worse than being agnostic.
even the secong visit of TheMale Child adam, did not happen. untill after adam, realized his error. as the bad feeling just got, so much worse, when TheAngel Meechaeel came to take him to see the actual woman chaooah at G-D'S dating service. and his fear, got even worse when TheAngel Gabriel, came to tell him G-D is coming to see you.
resulting in adam, fleeing from his hiding places. looking for, a much better place to hide. cause i just know these Angels, are going to snitch on my location. so we are talking about total, panickville here. flight, fight, or freeze, and never occured to me that according to scripture adam always chooses to flee in this instance. apparently G-D knows me, better than i shall ever know myself then.
so in sumarization, you talking critters. need to realize your error first, in the first stage of repentance. otherwise G-D does not even want, to hear from you. and all your prayers, are in vain. they ain't going, to do any good.
G-D does not listen to, the unholy or unrighteous. G-D only listens to those, actually in TheTorah. you reject TheTorah in any way, and you reject G-D WHO is still giving it now. THEY ain't even going to want to, listen to any one who only think we are not all here in TheOnly Story THEY ever physically give. if you do not believe you are not here in TheTorah Happening today. you might as well pray, to a brick wall. since you are not seeking answers from G-D, actually here in TheStory of ThePhysical Creation anyway.
Mumbai, India
#49252 Feb 13, 2013
You'll have to personally enter the supramental yoga (that has recently entered the earth's consciousness for the first time ever in billions of years) to discover the hard proof firsthand through trances, stationing the disembodied consciousness in the superior planes that lie above the head, ascents into the supramental via the overmental and descents of the supramental principle into the lower planes of being. The manifested light and power are visible to everyone in the immediate vicinity.
I can't reveal the supramental mantra...it will damage my nervous system if the veiled supramental mantra is revealed to the uninitiated. It works beautifully in the ascending as well as descending modes.
Even if the supramental mantra is given to you, who will activate it for you in your consciousness? That can only be done by a master who has himself experienced the supramental plane.
Now, even if the activated supramental mantra is given to you, you lack the inner fitness to employ it fruitfully and as such it will blind or paralyze you or damage your organs systems.
To begin with, you may try deep and sustained aspiration on some higher living truth 24x7 to cause the reversal of your exteriorized consciousness....
Mumbai, India
#49253 Feb 13, 2013
He's a pervert, not a master.
To conquer the sex urge and to dissolve it can only be done via the supramental descent into the sex center at the base of the spine.
Mumbai, India
#49254 Feb 13, 2013
pH & pOH:
pH 7 is neutral; pH 8 is weakly alkaline.
Actually, any value above 7 should be written as pOH. So, pOH 8 is mildly alkaline.
pH + pOH = 14
In an electrolytic cell, if OH^-1 and SO4^-2 ions migrate to the anode, which will get discharged first? Why? What will be the products evolved at this electrode?
#49255 Feb 13, 2013
rabbee: oh come on! this whole world put together, don't really know what is right or wrong. this is why i have accepted, everthing G-D, came and said to me. and this whole world is in trouble against G-D, and refuses to admit this here in TheTorah Happening again. and not a single one of you, are willing to admit this. and every religion or alleged as a non-religion on earth, is ever so unG-Dly 100% wrong. so in essence, its jews 100% wrong, against the christians 100% wrong, against the athiest 100% wrong against the muslems 100% wrong etc...
G-D has already 100% verified, THEMSELVE'S as true to me. my life and this world, and what the woman chaooah did has happened, exactly as G-D said. even if my mental attitude, refused to acknowledge this for a while. and G-D even knew, when and where i would beguin to acknowledge this. and i have had to totally turn my way of thinking around. totally opposite, of any of you claiming to not be here, in TheStory of ThePhysical Creation again. and know that your all going to lie to me, in every way not true to G-D.
Mumbai, India
#49256 Feb 13, 2013
RABBEE: "You definitely will not find calcium in acid loving plants."
In plants or rather in the soil surounding plants, the acid radicle is H^+1 ions or more precisely the hydronium ions, H3O^+1, which get absorbed osmotically via the root hairs and are pumped to the aerial parts of the plants through the xylem vascular tissue due to the suction pressure generated in the leaves.
I guess Ca^+2 ions will be found in plants if they're absorbed from the surrounding soil provided the surrounding soil has calcium salts in it or calcium ions present in aqueous medium in soil.
Assuming Ca^+2 and H^+1 (or H3O^+1) ions enter the plant, the compound formed will be the hydride of calcium - CaH2 or Ca(H3O)2.
#49257 Feb 13, 2013
rabbee: i know they exist, but i do not believe in them. G-D even told me, THEY made other g-ds. i even know why G-D, did it. since all of you, would not even exist today at all. in the interim, to give you all time to repent. and they are under the control, of one of the three angels G-D unleashed upon this world. so essencially those angels, are their g-ds also. some have even made offers to me, that i totally rejected.
Mumbai, India
#49258 Feb 13, 2013
G-d or God is a being of any of the inferior ranges of the Manifestation. There are many such beings. The Absolute is their origin.
Mumbai, India
#49259 Feb 13, 2013
"Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life."
J Krishnamurti
Mumbai, India
#49260 Feb 13, 2013
"Truth is more in the process than in the result."
J Krishnamurt
#49261 Feb 13, 2013
rabbee: well if you want more selection, then say with the devil or jump over to a new one. by all means, become muslem or other idolator. but i personally, do not recommend it.
for i am telling you, G-D is not wrong. so why should i lie to please, any of your diverse devil g-ds? if you do not want to please G-D, that is your errant choice.
but don't try to convince me, your being with the devil is better than being with G-D. constantly calling G-D a liar, shall not get anyone into TheBook of Life.
if your not worried about, any of your names not being in TheBook of Life. then neither, am i.
Mumbai, India
#49262 Feb 13, 2013
"From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values."
J Krishnamurti, 1933-09-12 4th Public Talk, Frognerseteren, Norway
Mumbai, India
#49263 Feb 13, 2013
"So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the present conflict to enter a condition in which there shall be no conflict; or whether you are unaware, unconscious of this conflict in which you exist. If you are unconscious of the conflict, that is, the battle that is taking place between that self and the environment, if you are unconscious of that battle, then why do you seek further remedies? Remain unconscious."
J Krishnamurti, 1934 3rd Public Talk, Ojai, California
Mumbai, India
#49264 Feb 13, 2013
"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."
J Krishnamurti
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THE MORNING BUZZ: Welcome to the Party
The fourth-quarter selling season has officially begun, and yet the barrage of press releases that greeted each "milestone" DVD release last year at this time is conspicuously absent.
One supplier who has already scored a big success says he considered issuing a press release boasting of his title's strong first-week sales, but thought better of it because he didn't want journalists to start drawing comparisons with last year.
"It's a completely different market," he said.
It certainly is — which is why I'm going to make a conscious effort to stay away from comparing initial sales of this quarter's big hits with the fourth quarter of 2001's big hits.
Case in point: Much has already been written about how Monsters, Inc. handily outsold Shrek its first week in stores. But that's like comparing apples and oranges; the DVD market is a lot bigger than it was last year at this time (about 35 percent household penetration, as opposed to 23 percent), and study after study has shown us that DVD households have a voracious appetite not just to rent, but also (and especially) to own.
So of course the Monsters, Inc. DVD outsold the Shrek DVD. The market has expanded. Shrek still did incredibly well last year, considering the size of the potential market, and I'm sure if it had come out this quarter instead sales would have been significantly higher.
I think the real phenomenon we're seeing is that the consumer's appetite for home entertainment is increasing and that our ingrained habit of collecting entertainment is truly shifting from music to movies. I just completed the arduous task of alphabetizing all 1,400 or so of my DVDs — something I never did with VHS. In fact, I never accumulated that many videocassettes — they just weren't something I wanted to hold onto.
Smart rentailers are recognizing this major shift in the public's attitude toward collecting movies and are using their rental prowess as an incentive to get consumers to purchase. Blockbuster is giving away free rentals to anyone who buys a DVD, among several incentives; other savvy rentailers are using similar tactics.
Total Movies & Entertainment magazine includes an MGM feature film disc in every issue – about $7 on the newsstands – and is working on deals with other studios. Columbia Tristar has a deal with General Mills that will soon have kids getting a free DVD in boxes of Cheerios and Lucky Charms. DVD has become a party favor.
The future of this business is clearly in sales. Rentals are becoming a loss leader. "Try before you buy" has become the mantra of the DVD retail industry.
And to lift a quote from those great pop culture philosophers Bachman-Turner Overdrive, "you ain't seen nothing yet."
Once the household penetration rate for DVD players reaches 40 percent, the doors to the studio vaults will fall open. If you think you've seen a lot of catalog product debut on DVD these past five years, just wait until you see what's coming down the pike.
I see a banner couple of years ahead for DVD sales. Eventually, of course, the bubble will burst — there are only so many collectable movies consumers will buy. After that sales will shift to new releases, simply because everything worth releasing has already been released.
But in the meantime, it is incumbent upon retailers and rentailers alike to capitalize on the DVD purchase boom—however and whenever they can.
BUZZ: So Much for Branding
Blockbuster Video is aggressively pursuing its competitors in busy markets like mine. The chain is opening stores across the street from its competitors, like the one that opened across the street from my neighborhood Wherehouse a couple of months ago.
So I didn't know whether to be surprised or amused over the weekend when I was in the Wherehouse and a guy went up to the counter to return a rental DVD.
Trouble was, the counter clerk pointed out, the disc was rented across the street and Blockbuster tends to frown on customers returning its discs to competing chains. They're funny that way.
What I got out of this is that no matter how much Blockbuster spends on CGI rodents and sponsoring Christmas parades, this guy was still taking his return where? The Wherehouse. The question is, why?
I can't pin it directly on advertising, having no idea of this man's media consumption habits. But I suspect that straightforward "get it here" advertising does more than warm, fuzzy characters and yippee-skippy event promotion.
I'm sort of assuming another family member checked the disc out and sent Pop to return it. No doubt that led to some confusion. The two stores are directly across the street -- you can look through one's windows and see across the boulevard into the other. He was embarrassed about the mistake.
Another thing I noticed was that the rental box was nondescript. It was generic black and had a computer-generated label that could have been for an Army training video. (Maybe it was a Warner title and had to be put in a plastic case because the Snappers don't hold up).
Somehow, this store was closer to the top of this fellow's mind than the one the rental actually came from. You can get DVD on every corner now -- and that's just the legal outlets. This guy is proof it's getting increasingly difficult to tell the chains apart.
I guess I'm just sharing a reality check, I'm not entirely sure what it means. Except maybe that rentailers should take a step back and ask themselves, "What sets my store apart?"
Better yet, ask your customers and give them what they want.
THE MORNING BUZZ: DVD's Value Pricing a Particular Plus This Holiday Season
With the holidays bearing down on us, the experts are telling us American consumers are tapped out, having carried the struggling economy as far as their wallets would allow. Entering the important fourth quarter with a spent consumer is a disaster for many businesses, but history tells us home entertainment holds up fairly well in difficult economic times. So far, indications are good. Monsters, Inc., an early entry in the season, scored record sales for Buena Vista. But it wouldn't hurt to remind consumers the value DVD offers, particularly as a gift.
As the mother of a 4-year-old with social schedule that includes at least one birthday party every month, I can testify that gift-giving can really add up. Compared to the $30 pieces of plastic I've purchased for little birthday girls and boys, DVDs — with prices ranging from $15 to $20 — are a great value. I've seen many a feted youngster toss aside the plastic toy in favor of the prized disc.
One of DVD's greatest strengths is its value. Audio market observers have noted as much, saying DVD offers picture, sound and extras for about the same price as (or less than) a CD. Also, unlike other children's gifts, a DVD is a present the whole family can probably enjoy.
As the holidays approach, retailers should encourage shoppers to economize by buying DVDs. Why be coy about it? Acknowledge to consumers that they're tapped out and remind them they get a lot more for their money when they buy a DVD. Since not every child will need another copy of the hits, encourage gift givers to buy niche and classic catalog titles.
While no retailer relishes entering a holiday season in bad economic times, the video business is better off than most. With aggressive marketing, the industry can attract cost-conscious consumers and survive what looks like a lean fourth quarter.
By: Stephanie Prange
THE MORNING BUZZ: New Business Development More Important Than Ever
At this week's East Coast Video Show in Atlantic City, the focus will be on managing the core video retailing business efficiently and expanding into new ancillary business as a hedge against the uncertain rental future in a growing sellthrough world.
The Delaware Valley Chapter of the VSDA will host a half-day seminar titled "More Than Just Video." Attendees will explore a full range of possibilities to add a significant second line of business to their core video rental business.
Interestingly enough, one of the featured presenters at the seminar is eBay, which has a very high profile at this year's show. In a nutshell, eBay is offering its significant e-commerce platform as a way to help specialty retailers participate more fully in the sellthrough business (both with used and new video). At first blush it seems an elegant idea. Rentailers can use the Web to compete in the sellthrough arena, I would guess most effectively in the previously viewed market. It's a great way to extend their businesses in a real transactional Web environment at little cost.
Another ancillary business is the newer iterations of video vending machines being exhibited at this show. With DVD sellthrough pricing (and even lower used pricing), rentailers could use these machines to extend their sellthrough businesses to local colleges and other sensible locations for some revenue-sharing or a fee-based deal with the host location.
Yours truly is moderating a panel on video games as a growth business. It's long been a moderate staple of many speciality retailers -- Video Store Magazine market research puts the percentage of speciality retailers participating in video game rentals and sales at between 65 percent and 70 percent. The VSM Top 100 average pegs video game revenue as accounting for about 7 percent of total rentailer revenue. And it's a business that's on the rise, as more than 50 percent of the Top 100 said they plan on increasing their purchases of video games to rent in 2002. Add to this the growing realization by video game companies that rentals drive sales (Ziff Davis research noted 86 percent of those who consider themselves to be "core gamers" say they have purchased a game after renting it), and the growing prospects for possible revenue-sharing deals for games with suppliers -- a plan Rentrak has promised for the near future -- makes this a potentially very viable and significant business model for speciality retailers.
Rentailers must maximize margins on DVD rentals (even as VHS continues to plummet), extend their sellthrough business and aggressively develop another complementary business to thrive in this changing industry.
By: Kurt Indvik
THE MORNING BUZZ: Who-a Culpa?
I'm glad to see that the record companies and big music chains settled the price-fixing suit against them, but I really wish there had been at least some whispers of "mea culpa."
Instead, the parties deny there was anything fishy about what they did — a denial no one believes because what happened here is as obvious as can be.
Sometime around the late 1990s, people stopped buying CDs. The record companies had foolishly propelled album prices to higher and higher levels; killed the single, also through inane pricing; and then, when digital downloading arrived on the scene, they tried to kill it and raised CD prices even higher.
So what's a poor record company to do? Get in bed with the music retailers — the specialists who were already losing business to the mass merchants — and implement strict policies designed to curtail their deep-discounting.
No matter that retail analysts pretty much agree that big-box discounters are the future and high-priced specialists are the past. No matter that the video industry, with DVD, embraced the mass merchants and realized soaring sales while the music industry decided to fight them and is limping along.
I'm all for a competitive retail environment, but I'm dead-set against propping things up unnaturally. I don't like farm subsidies, I don't like tariffs, I don't like pouring tons of money into Amtrak just because some bureaucrat thinks the notion of trains is romantic.
I don't really have any strong feelings about Wal-Mart or Target or Kmart or any of the other discount houses. But if they can sell me something for less than someone else charges, I'm going to buy there.
I'm not the only one who feels that way. And by getting mass merchants firmly behind DVD, the video industry has broadened distribution and seen revenues surge.
The music industry has gone the opposite route. And we all know how well they're doing, don't we?
THE MORNING BUZZ: In and Out the Window
The digital age has been generating some interesting debates in our industry recently. One I find most interesting right now is the filmmaking community vs. the movie maskers -- folks who offer various home video editing services on Hollywood movies.
Most of these services sprung from the Mormon community. The edits often reflect those values, but some of the services offer tiers of editing (censor nudity, allow swearing) with controls in the consumer's hands. That, I believe, gives their product much more appeal.
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has responded to this new type of service with a lawsuit claiming they are illegally corrupting the directors' creative vision in violation of copyrights. Actually one of the services, Clean Flicks, first sought a court order declaring its activities legal. Then DGA countersued and named all the similar services it could find.
Which I think is a huge gamble for the DGA. I think Solomon is going to have to split the baby in two on this one because the editing services are in two distinct categories: those that slice and dice existing product and those like ClearPlay that merely offer a digital fig leaf.
One kind of service buys Hollywood VHS and DVD product, physically alters it to remove or block certain images or sounds, then lets members check out edited copies. The legal issues would be substantially different for a company like ClearPlay, which offers an external home editing system that filters content somewhere between the player and the monitor. The consumer buys or rents any legal studio product and chooses which content the ClearPlay box should nix. That's no different from a V-chip or AOL's Parental Controls on the Internet.
As I watched a debate between ClearPlay CEO Bill Aho and a DGA attorney on CNN the other day, the real issue suddenly became clear to me. Aho pointed out that the industry controls similar edits for broadcast television without complaint, so the creative vision can't be that big of an issue. The DGA attorney countered that sensitive consumers could wait for the broadcast TV version.
And there it is. Hollywood is organized around release windows. It counts on a certain amount of revenue from each window. One of those windows is broadcast television, which carries the bulk of paid advertising. So the guilds are ticked off because these devices reduce the incentive to watch broadcast television. It moves the abridged cut back to the rental window and potentially diluting the TV broadcast audience a few months down the road, when sponsors will pay for it.
Hollywood is all about personal advancement and where you are on the food chain. It's no secret that climbing is about money, fame and juice. Every waiter with a screenplay in Los Angeles wants to be able to fax advice to Dick Gephart like Barbra Streisand does and live in her fancy house.
The food chain is built around windows and the digital age is rearranging them faster than Hollywood can keep up. The system is springing leaks all over the place -- from movies on the Internet before theatrical release to editing services that leapfrog a title and audience back months.
It's causing chaos in a panic-stricken executive network that depends on consistency and can no longer predict consumer behavior. One CEO even made the desperate statement that viewers are stealing if they run to the bathroom or refrigerator during commercials.
It gets more complicated because home video rental is already a thorn in the studios' side. Studios would love to eliminate any middlemen and deal directly with consumers. The home editing devices in particular threaten to shift even more power to home video, which is already 60 percent of most films' income, by drawing in a new audience that formerly waited for commercial TV.
The entertainment industry is on the verge of a critical mass that will change the way business is done. Technology will force it. It's just going to take longer because the people resisting technology in Hollywood aren't doing it because of the technology itself, but because that technology threatens their personal niches on the food chain.
THE MORNING BUZZ: Is the VOD Threat Another Case of Crying Wolf or Is the Wolf Finally at the Door?
Yet another VOD provider took a potshot at the rentailer yesterday. This time it was Starz Encore chairman and CEO John J. Sie, who called VOD the "killer app to repatriate the $8-plus-billion-per-year that consumers still spend renting videos and DVDs."
"SVOD will break through the clutter, reach consumers, and give them the power to select movies and other programming on demand with DVD-like control with no per-transaction fees and no trips to the video store," he said.
The VOD proponents' new scheme is the subscription model, rather than pay-per-view. "People will pay the cost of having broadband at their home if broadband offers rich entertainment content they control and enhances their television enjoyment," he said.
Ah, but how much would that subscription cost? Between my cable bill (which costs a pretty penny even at the semi-basic level), the cable broadband bill for quick Internet access (on top of that cable bill), magazine and newspaper subscriptions and Web site hosting costs from Earthlink (for our family Web site), that subscription bill is getting pretty darn big. I'd much prefer a $3 to $4 cash "on demand" transaction at my video store to paying oodles for access to movies I might not even have time to watch.
On the other hand, my husband might be a good target, Unlike me, he loves new technology. He falls into that "early adopter" group we often talk about in relation to DVD. But even for him, the devil is in the details. If that VOD service had great movies and TiVo-like functionality at a decent price — say at most $50 a month — he might be interested. But $50 is about as much as even he's willing to pay.
Are the studios willing to give away their first-run films at that subscription price?
An ace in the hole rentailers have is the roughly $10 billion (by Video Store Magazine estimates) consumers spend on renting videos every year. It's a powerful market, although not all of that money goes back to the studios; it's split with retailers. Sie makes it clear he would like to take those billions away.
If the rental market weakens, as recent numbers indicate it might, it will be a much easier target. Studios might choose to gamble on VOD once again. But now, it's probably still a case of crying wolf. My first week at the magazine in 1993, Bell Atlantic chairman and CEO and VOD proponent Raymond Smith said in our pages that the video store model was "no longer viable." In 2002, his multibillion-dollar merger with TCI is dead, and the video rental market is still here.
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THE MORNING BUZZ: Poll Shows Retailers Grabbing Hold of Used DVD Opportunity
In our current online poll (off to the right of this very column), it seems that a fair number of retailers are definitely grabbing hold of the brass ring (or maybe it's a life raft for some) of selling off their used DVDs.
The poll may have changed since I posted this column, but as of last Friday the results showed almost 90 percent of the respondents are generating revenue from the sale of previously viewed DVDs. While the majority of retailers say that they generate between 1 and 10 percent of their revenues in this category, I was also heartened to see about 20 percent of the respondents reporting between 11 and 25 percent of their revenues are coming from used DVD sales.
If any of you have been reading these columns and the columns in Video Store Magazine, you are no doubt aware that rental revenues have been dropping by double digits in the past several months, even as DVD rentals grow by triple digits, and our market research group predicts a drop of some 7 percent in rental revenues this year from last when it's all said and done.
Certainly one way to regain some of those lost revenues, if you happen to be experiencing this very same trend, is to find a way to join the sellthrough business that is transforming home video as a result of DVD. Our 2001 Top 100 research showed that retailers were selling off nearly one quarter of their new release inventory (both DVD and VHS) after two months, and I'll bet that when the next Top 100 rolls around that time span will have shortened.
Anecdotally we hear that some retailers are aggressively buying deeper in certain hit titles, getting several turns out of each DVD copy and then selling off significant portions of those titles after several weeks, not months. The fact is, the shelf life of home video may well be squeezed with an ever-larger wave of releases hitting the streets and you have to be there with the product (and even earlier with the message of its availability) when your customer is thinking about buying it.
It's all about "training" your customers to think about you when they think about buying home video. The major specialty chains are taking sellthrough seriously. The smaller operators must find their niche in this evolving marketplace by looking for models that allow them to capture their share of the sellthrough dollar.
By: Kurt Indvik
THE MORNING BUZZ: VHS Is Going the Way of the Dinosaurs
Despite studio protests that it's still a "viable format," and despite IRMA's pathetic attempts to revive the VHS market through an awareness campaign and grandiose statements about how great tape is, the videocassette is dying -- fast.
Let's just compare sales for two "monster" hits, less than a year ago. Last November, DreamWorks reported sales of 7 million units of Shrek in the title's first three days of release. Of that total, the majority (4.5 million) was VHS.
Last week, Disney reported first-week sales of 11 million units of Monsters, Inc. The breakdown: 7 million DVDs, only 4 million cassettes.
The balance of power has shifted dramatically this year, and it's going to continue until VHS sales are polarized far in the minority. The studios are more than happy to accommodate this transition, with Disney offering consumers $5 rebates if they buy a film on DVD that they already own on cassette.
DVDs are cheaper for the studios to produce, and cooler for the consumer to own, thanks to a variety of factors -- not the least of which are all the special features and kid-oriented games and other "interactive play" elements suppliers are incorporating on discs to get people hooked on the DVD experience at a very early age.
Already, as Video Store Magazine has reported, several anime suppliers have given up completely on VHS. And while studio executives still go out of their way to stress the continued importance of VHS, wait until the DVD penetration rate passes 50 percent (it's now around 30 percent) and I bet you're going to see an abrupt change in their rhetoric.
The fact is, the VHS cassette is antiquated, a flawed technology that has no place in today's digital world. I understand Hollywood's reluctance to drive in the stake, just yet -- but it has less to do with genuine belief in VHS' durability than it has to do with avoiding the fate that befell the humble 8-track what now appears to be ages ago.
The market for 8-tracks fell so swiftly that K-Tel, one of the largest suppliers, unceremoniously dumped millions of new cartridges in landfill.
Video suppliers clearly realize VHS' days are numbered, but they don't want to be stuck holding the proverbial bag. Even though cassette sales are spiraling downward, they haven't bottomed out just yet.
It'll be a few more months, but quite honestly, I don't see VHS lasting more than a year.
Then again, Sony only now pulled the plug on Beta.
THE MORNING BUZZ: Get Ready for the Media Mafia
Most of the big media mergers haven't lived up to the sales pitch, which was "synergy across the enterprise." That was supposed to deliver multidimensional exposure to advertisers, who could one-stop shop for all their media buys.
I instinctively distrust catch-all babble like "synergy". It's one of those words that means anything the salesperson wants it to mean. Which, I think, is why the mergers have been dismal failures. Disney and AOL Time Warner stocks are down and Vivendi Universal is going supernova, not just because of 9/11 or the tech crash or the advertising slump. The companies just haven't been able to synergize. The way the Wall Street Journal tells it, that means the various units can't play nice together, especially in a tight advertising market. It's arguable that the plans were too ambitious to start with.
The decline led AOL Time Warner to clean house in recent months, unseating the AOL Internet oligarchy and replacing the bigwigs with executives from the media side. I don't really know how that's working out for the advertising side, but I find the effect on the news publishing organizations quite disturbing.
Of course, there are no better marketers than those at media companies. Their living is getting people to suspend their disbelief in entertainment content, so it's not much of a stretch to get them to do it with the truth as well. The New & Improved AOL Time Warner is an example. While there's no movement in the market, the entertainment tentacles have started to poke through the news delivery like never before. I think it could lead the news arms to a crisis of trust.
A couple of weeks ago the conglomerate's Sports Illustrated published a story on how women's tennis is as much a fashion show as a sport. The article focused on a blonde player named Simona who seeemed more fluff than player. Readers had to get to the very last sentence of the article to learn that "Simona" wasn't real; the photos were computer generated.
And they looked suspiciously like Simone, the virtual media darling in New Line Cinema's eponymous film about a guy (Al Pacino) who computer generates a woman and makes her a media star without her ever doing the impossible personal appearance.
Now, it's one thing to use one of your properties to advertise and market another. Even product placement in shows is a sort of benign force. But I think it's quite another to start weaving those free entertainment plugs into supposedly factual news items. The only company getting any advertising synergy out of this as far as I can tell is AOL Time Warner.
But I wouldn't be ranting to you folks if this was just a one-time event. I'm starting to see it as a trend. Because just this week -- not coincidentally right after The Sopranos opened the season with mob wife Carmela fretting about estate planning with mattress money (in case capo Tony gets whacked or sent to the slammer) -- AOL Time Warner's CNN Web site and its financial news channel on satellite and cable had a "news" story using Carmela as an example. It was an advice piece about what someone in financial circumstances that are similarly unpredictable might do to maximize financial resources in this crummy market.
The channel also made big hay yesterday of a news story; apparently the HBO series is a victim of its own success. According to that story, HBO is taking legal action against primarily Italian restaurants, most of them in New York, that host Soprano nights. They pipe in the show and no doubt serve tons of pasta. HBO says that's an unfair use of its programming and they should fuhgeddaboudit.
They don't say the company's marketing executives have so generously created a line of Sopranos pasta and sauces, which they told wire services is just because they thought it would be fun for fans. They said they'll never make any money off the stuff, it's just a gimmick.
But now with this going on, I smell another trade interference angle for the lawsuit: marinara piracy. Those pesky restaurants are out there doing peer-to-peer pasta trading and now we'll never get people to buy the sauce and stay home to watch.
Never mind that the show's audience is wider than ever and a few freeloaded episodes this season probably generates major sales for HBO subscriptions and past season Sopranos boxed sets.
It's interesting to note that the early Sicilian Mafiosi became powerful by controlling the olive oil and semolina trade to the U.S. (it's true, you can look it up); while AOL became the dominant ISP by giving away free hours by the hundreds of thousands. (Betcha can get 1,000 or more free hours right now on a shareware disc at your neighborhood electronics store.) Maybe the people running HBO should review what one might call an interesting choice of business models.
I guess pasta and synergy have a couple of things in common: they're both cheesy and maybe too much of either isn't such a good thing.


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Consider the following code...
double total = Int32.MaxValue;
int previousX = 0;
for (var x = 0; x <= total; x++)
if (x == Int32.MaxValue)
Console.WriteLine("Int32 max reached.");
if (x < 0)
Console.WriteLine("Counter now < 0.");
previousX = x;
It would appear that, if you use var with a for loop the default type inference is of an int.
Is this correct because if the counter goes past the maximum for an int 32, instead of overflowing the stack it resets itself back to zero and then counts down from zero.
Note: previousX allows you to set breakpoints and see what the previous value of the counter "x" was.
Does anyone know why this happens?
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The apartment at Space By The Beach has recently been refurbished to a very high standard it has one double bedroom featuring a flat-screen TV with Free view. The lounge has a sofa bed and a wall-mounted, flat-screen TV also with Free view. The kitchen features a seating area and a microwave, the bathroom has a walk-in shower.
The Oystermouth Castle ruins are less than a mile from the apartment and Langland Bay Golf Club is less than 600 meters away. Swansea city centre and Swansea Rail Station are just 6 miles away. The bays of Caswell and Pwildu can be reached in less than 20 minutes by car.
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Langa and Manganiar folk musicians in Rajasthan fear their art might get lost in the face of poverty and illiteracy
They are the voice of Rajasthan; they adorn all major cultural fiestas in India and abroad and their lilting melodies leave the audiences spellbound. Be it Kesaria Balam or Nimbuda or Manganiar Seduction, their performances are simply unforgettable.
But away from the limelight, majority of the Langas and the Manganiars, the folk musicians from western Rajasthan, do not have such a rosy background. The gifted singers, who have carried forward the oral tradition of music for several generations, yearn for ways to secure their future. Mostly poor, uneducated and devoid of any substantial organized means of sustenance, their progeny may soon have to leave music aside to tread a different path to earn a livelihood.
Belonging to the Muslim community, the Langas and the Manganiars mostly live in border districts of Barmer and Jaisalmer. Interestingly, their folk music flourished under the patronage of their Hindu yajmans (patrons) over the years. While the Manganiars are patronised by the Bhati Rajputs, the Langas have the Sindhi Sipahis as yajman. They still sing for their Hindu yajmans on Holi, Diwali and other auspicious occasions like weddings. They can invoke Lord Krishna with the same intensity as they would render a mystical number. They have a matchless ingenuity, too. They can compose numbers to suit the occasion, be it a wedding or sending best wishes to our cricket team for the World Cup.
They would have remained inconspicuous to the outside world had not Komal Kothari, a great connoisseur of folk arts, discovered their talent. Realising that this oral tradition might go extinct if no steps were taken to preserve it, he documented the art and the artists and thanks to his efforts, a group of artists rose to fame and the melodious voices of the Thar began to enthral audiences far and wide. For the first time, the Langas and the Manganiars stepped out of the boundaries of their villages to sail across the globe.
"We are grateful to Komal Kothariji who introduced us to the world of name and fame," Padma Shri Sakir Khan of Hamira village said. At 75, Sakir Khan is a highly unassuming personality. He has an equally gifted successor in his 31-year-old son Darre Khan. Both of them play kamaicha — a string instrument and Javed, the toddler in the family, is already getting the taste of music sitting on the lap of his grandfather.
The village is full of artists — vocalists as well as instrumentalists — who master the art of playing shehnai, khadtal, sindhi sarangi or dholak. But most of them are uneducated. How do they then manage to interact with the western audience? Sakir Khan replied: "Surile log to har jagah hote hain aur sur to har jagah sur hi hota hai." (Music-lovers are spread across the globe and understand the language of music)
Veteran musicians like Sakir Khan and other fellow artists like Pepe Khan, Imamuddin Akbar Khan and Bhungar Khan lament the fact that some of their folk instruments might become extinct since there are few makers available. Kamaicha is a difficult instrument to play on since it does not have any scale. That is also the reason for many youngsters to feel attracted to the harmonium, an upset Sakir Khan added.
They are grateful to their yajmans and would not think twice rejecting a concert contract to attend an invitation of their yajman, according to young Darre Khan who recently underwent a kidney transplant surgery. He was lucky to receive financial support but not everyone in their community would have the same luck.
Other than Komal Kothari, some organisations like Marudhar Lok Kala Mandal and individuals like Magraj Jain have been making efforts to help the folk musicians preserve their rich tradition. The efforts can get further boost with government intervention. In this regard, the musicians await the implementation of the Barmer Charter, prepared after a conference held to study the plight of the Langas and the Manganiars in 2008.
Congress MP from Barmer, Harish Choudhury, recently met the Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot asking him to look into the speedy implementation of the charter. "We have great hopes from the Chief Minister who hails from western Rajasthan," said Bhuwanesh Jain, who is supporting the claim of the folk artists. He was appreciative of the initiative of current Chief Secretary C.K. Matthew, who during his posting as Barmer's Collector in 1982, had included folk music training under TRYSEM (Training of Rural Youth for Self-Employment).
The success of Roysten Abel's Manganiar Seduction has further popularised the Langas and Manganiars, who have carved out a niche for themselves as the quintessential icons of Rajasthani folk music. Alas, it is not true of the whole community which still dwells in rudimentary dwellings and yearns for access to good education, health and social security.
In addition, a greater threat hangs over their head. When the song Nimbuda, composed and set to tune by Gazi Khan Manganiar, was used in a Bollywood film, allegedly without acknowledging the source, Komal Kothari had felt the urge for copyright of folk and indigenous art forms. "Since they come from illiterate and mostly socially backward groups, they will lose their right to various traditional creations before they even become aware of it," he had cautioned.
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