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Oct 20, 2014
Mindfulness: does it really live up to the hype?
Polly Vernon, The Telegraph: Happier, healthier and better rested: that's what 20 minutes a day of meditation has done for one writer. And as a resolute sceptic, she couldn't be more surprised.
It may be a little early for bold proclamations of this nature, but still: I would bet big money on "mindfulness" being the Oxford English Dictionary's word of 2014. It was "selfie" in 2013, you'll recall, and "omnishambles" the year before that. We will have to wait a couple of weeks for the OED to make its decision final, official and public, but still… I am confident.
The Buddhist discipline – which encourages …
Oct 17, 2014
Meditation changes your brain
Maria Isabel Garcia, Rappler: 'Meditation' used to be the exclusive province of robed and hooded men enacting an ancient tradition. Now, science has joined them.
This could be one of the most powerful ways to change your brain and yet, all you have to do is be still. It will help you focus, be keenly observant but not obsessive, and essentially, be a kinder human being.
Meditation. We all have the basic equipment – the 3-pound matter inside our skulls – yet, we generally think that it is only for the religious or for our odd relatives and friends who dress funny.
Two …
Oct 16, 2014
Meditation covers Scientific American November 2014 issue
Carolyn Gregoire, Huffington Post: In 2013, the New York Times declared that mindfulness was "having a moment" (pun intended), and just a few months later, a January 2014 TIME cover story announced that a "Mindful Revolution" was underway, challenging the stressed-out, tech-addicted American status quo. This month, Scientific American has featured meditation on its November 2014 cover, representing another major step toward a meeting of the minds between ancient Eastern wisdom and Western science.
Although Western psychologists have been studying the ancient contemplative practice since the 1970s — mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn created Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in 1979 — scientific interest in mindfulness has escalated in the past decade. …
Oct 15, 2014
Five common myths about meditation debunked
Mihir Patkar, Lifehacker: You've probably heard that meditation can be beneficial, but how much do you actually know about it? Many aspects of meditation are often misunderstood or misinterpreted. Let's debunk some of these myths so you can start reaping the rewards.
Myth: Meditation is About Clearing Your Mind of All Thoughts
In its purest form, meditation is about focusing on emptiness. However, you don't have to do that. Meditation is effective as long as you merely minimize distracting thoughts.
Mindfulness meditation is perhaps the most accessible form of meditation. And as psychologist Mike Brooks puts it, with mindfulness meditation, it's not about …
Oct 14, 2014
The magic of mindfulness
Isabelle Lai, The Star Online: How many of us realize that the now is the only real moment we have? That regardless of what has happened or what will happen, the only thing that truly matters is what is happening now?
But holding on to the present is no easy feat. Our thoughts tend to slip and slide all over the place, triggered easily by the constantly changing environment around us.
This is where the magic of mindfulness comes in.
Before I continue, let's first try a quick mindfulness meditation exercise. No, you don't have to close your eyes if you don't want …
Oct 13, 2014
Man behind meditation app goes from monk to millionaire
Nilufer Atik, The Telegraph: How a meditation app brought mindfulness to the masses, and success to its creator.
"We all need to get a little head space" – it's a catchphrase that has become ingrained into the psyches of more than a million people worldwide. And it's all thanks to the quiet ambition of one man who wanted to help stressed-out executives achieve more calm. A few years on and the app to which the phrase belongs – Headspace – has not only transformed the lives of those who use it, but also that of its founder, Andy Puddicombe.
Bristol-born Andy set up …
Oct 13, 2014
Students relieve stress through meditation
Joseph Francis, The Fauman Online: Registered nurse and meditation guru Kurt Valle help students cope through academic pressure through meditation.
"Meditation is not just for the spiritual or religious being," Valle said. "Meditation is about the release of the mind from the physical world and the opening of the heart. This leads to a healthier lifestyle."
Valle suffered from a stress disorder stemming from a few traumatic incidences during grade school and college. Receiving the opportunity to travel and study abroad, Valle began to explore ways to deal with the difficult times and found a release through yoga and meditation.
"I've studied therapy …
Oct 10, 2014
The skeptic's guide to meditation (infographic)
Happify, Huffington Post: Lately, it seems that meditation has become as prominent in the workplace as weekly meetings — and there couldn't be a greater reason for it.
Research suggests the practice can help boost focus, lower stress and make us more compassionate — not to mention the calming ritual also has a myriad of physical health benefits. Yet, despite the overwhelming positives meditation has, people still have reservations about committing to it.
For the more apprehensive folks out there, Happify, a website dedicated to helping people build skills for happiness through science-based activities and games, put together an infographic to conquer that skepticism.
Read …
Oct 09, 2014
Don't believe the hype
Linda Heuman, Tricycle: Neuroscientist Catherine Kerr is concerned about how mindfulness meditation research is being portrayed in the media.
Last May, an article about mindfulness on a popular mainstream news website finally spurred neuroscientist and meditation researcher Catherine Kerr to act. The article cited 20 benefits of meditation, from "reducing loneliness" to "increasing grey matter" to "helping sleep," and painted a picture of meditation as a kind of golden elixir for modern life. Kerr posted the article on her Facebook page. "It is not like any of this is grossly inaccurate," she wrote in her post. "It is just that the studies are too …
Oct 08, 2014
Go on, laugh your heart out. It's good for you
Kristine Crane, US News: When Carla Riechman laughs, you hear it.
With her big laughter, the former District of Columbia school teacher has been compared to the laughing Buddha, and it's a comparison she welcomes. She helps people laugh, which in turn helps them meditate.
"Laughter brings one to silence," says Riechman, 63, who calls herself the professional "giggle lady." She established the "laughter revolution," a laughter meditation program based in the District of Columbia that provides people with hourlong sessions in which they laugh and then meditate. She hosts laughter sessions at people's homes and local wellness centers, as well as online at …

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Website freezes up
- Cinnabon Dec 1, 2008 11:48 PM
For the past week, my brower freezes on the chowhound site. I don't have any issues with any other website just chowhound. It seems to freeze up when I am reading some replies and attempt to scroll / page down. I have to close my browers and go back in again.
Anyone else with this issue?
I have been noticing this as well. It seems to be a sporadic rather than a consistent problem and if I wait long enough I will eventually get control back and be able to navigate the site. It is getting to be very annoying.
I am running windows xp pro sp3 - ie v7.0.
The problem was reported quite a while ago by several people and mentioned on several different posts. It seems to get better and then worse again in cycles. No idea why this is so. I still think it has something to do with the intensive advertising which increased after the changeover.
re: LNG212
This has been such a frustrating problem the last 2 days . I've been trying for the last hour to post a new report on the May COTM board without success. The board freezes and there's nothing I can do except click out. It's not worth the aggravation.
Edit: I believe it IS the ads which is causing the boards to freeze. They are just too heavy.
re: Gio
I totally agree about the ads.
Someone on another thread suggested that it's just an IE problem. But I go to a lot of other sites (incl. NY Times, WashPo, HuffPo, NYMag, etc.) and I never experience these problems anywhere else.
It has become very frustrating to go to CH. Even more frustrating trying to post. I've stopped putting up CH as one of the tabs on the window because when I have to shut it down everything else then closes too. What a pain.
re: Gio
It's the stupid chase ad. Every other ad seems to be doing fine. But when the banner and top tower ones are Chase ads, it locks up. I've had to kill the program a half dozen times in the past ten minutes.
I've been on the board for a while and never complained about the many changes. I've always just rolled with it and figured, no big deal, font, I can deal, color, I can deal. Different format, no problem. I remember the days of doing donation drives. Wendy's ads, who cares. Occasional broken links, ehh it happens.
BUT, this freezing problem is finally the one issue that has made me complain. When I can't even get on the stupid board, I think that defeats the whole purpose.
I can deal with all the other changes since it's just a matter of adjusting and most of it are personal preferences. But how do you adjust to not being able to access the board? Very frustrating.
re: Katie Nell
It's Freezing in here today. So frustrating.....
This site has major technical issues and I am not easily finding an address to send them a complaint. Considering they are owned by a large company and waste tons of money on nonsense this is pathetic. Buy some new switches, routers, clean up your code, whatever it is. I realize they are after the masses like the Food Network crowd regardless of the name of the site so they spend all their time making useless additions such as 20 ways to make a list of the same recipe for frosting or some such rubbish.
Now a mod can admonish me, I am sure. THAT they spend time doing.
No, it is not my pc(multiple), it is not my connection(multiple and runs more intense apps than this), it is this poorly executed front end.
I wish they actually took feedback seriously and that more people complained. I like some of the users on here but in this short time, I have gotten quite frustrated using this many times. Loading times, server hiccups, all about as bad as I have seen for such a well funded entity.
re: dietndesire
This is actually the best place to post your feedback on technical issues, though you can also email email@example.com.
Here's the About page (linked in the footer on every page) with the rest of the contact information: http://www.chow.com/about
re: voodoukween
FYI ... the winter green lasagna is amazing. I added mushrooms to mine but totally amazing and well worth. it. Try a few times if not I can send it to you I copied it.
Good recipe
The freezing and crashing is just getting worse and worse. Is there a solution in the offing? I note the only response on this thread from the Chow Team is to say posting here is correct. Any chance you could tell us more than that?
re: meatme
Yes, I'm quite tired of exiting CH by using ctrl, alt, delete. Enough already.
re: Chris VR
It doesn't just happen when I go back. It freezes when I click a link just as often as it doesn't. This never used to happen to me so I'm thinking not my browser. Dunno.
re: Chris VR
If it's a browser issue, it's a browser issue that occurs with no other site.
re: meatme
Correct meatme. Only happens on Chowhound for me too.
re: meatme
Wouldn't be the first one :-) This site seems to be plagued with browser-specific issues. But yeah, could be ad-related too, I use an ad-blocker so I manage to miss most of those problems.
re: JoanN
It's been freezing on me _from multiple computers_ off and on for a couple of weeks. Just now it froze on me FOUR TIMES in the last half hour! The only way out is to kill the browser.
This is the ONLY site that I have a problem with.
Chowhound owner: you have incompetent web support. You are not getting your money's worth.
re: JoanN
Do the Ctrl-Alt-Del, to get to Task Manager. If you cannot close your browser from the Programs section, go to Processes. Click on Name, to get them in alphabetical order. Look/scroll down to your browser (Iexplorer for IE, for instance), Rt-click and choose End Process. You'll get a warning, but hit OK. You browser will close, and can be reopened - where it will work fine on all other sites, except CH, where it will probably freeze up again.
You do not need to reboot, but it is still a pain.
Good luck,
re: Bill Hunt
I've been doing that for months. Won't close and freezes all programs. Always have to reboot. Same on my top end computer too. All happens with the chow site. Sometimes I run 10-12 programs with no problem. When chow is open even just that ... it freezes.
re: Bill Hunt
When it was happening to me--and I must say that although I've done absolutely no browser tweaking it hasn't been happening at all the past couple of weeks--Ctrl-Alt-Del didn't bring up Task Manager. I had no control over my mouse or my keyboard. I could do nothing other than a hard shutdown.
I use FF on XP with adblocker. Did when it was happening, and still do now that it's not. Just hope I haven't jinxed myself by writing this.
The flash ads even the "you're doing it all wrong" and that pizza guy one, there on the right, freeze my screen up, and I have to wait til they've played out to be able to scroll and such. I've had it happen on a couple of other ad heavy sites as well, normally it doesn't freeze totally though. Although this did happen to me as well this past week, had to power down with the off button.
I did have the whole freeze up, ctrl+alt+delete to shut down or power down alltogether problem when my laptop battery was starting to run out of steam and just couldn't handle the ads. I had ZERO problems with ad-free sites, and zero problems when i ran firefox with no ad ons. Problem is, that also takes away the ability to look at stuff like youtube as well.
Something i'd suggest as a "for now" thing, is to use IE with add ons, and firefox without, or something. Use the FF for sites like this, until it's fixed.
Those ads drive me bonkers.
re: Melanie Wong
This week Firefox/Mac crashed/quit unexpectedly twice. Something is really amiss with the site.
Having ctrl, alt, deleted my way out of this frozen website 6 times already this morning and feeling rather neglected by the ChowHound IT Team, I seriously doubt I can continue membership under these circumstances. Just knowing why this is happening would bring relief, but I see none forthcoming.
I thought it was me! I have to end Chowhound as "non-responsive" about every twenty miuntes. This does not happen on other sites. Can't this be fixed?!
re: MartyB
I have Flashblocker installed (Mac/Firefox), and this happens anyway, randomly.
I thought it might have been adding a new link, but no. Or maybe the mods didn't like my response while I was writing it. Still no.
re: MartyB
Thanks Marty. I've just tried this, and hope it works. Very frustrating to have your screen freeze every few minutes.
re: Bossa_Nova
Happens to me on a regular basis lately, and ONLY on THIS site!
re: Melanie Wong
Maybe try what MartyB suggests above. It seems to be working for me (fingers crossed).
re: Gio
We are aware of this problem and are working on a fix. Last week we disabled several ads that we believed were causing the issue, but as the problem is persisting we are continuing to investigate. We are not easily able to replicate the issue, so it would be very helpful if you can post the page url and if possible the ads you are seeing (or loading messages) when this happens (though we realize that sometimes the browser is freezing before the ads load). Thanks for your patience, we will resolve this as soon as possible.
re: CHOW HQ
Ok that's good.
I just had to close the site while I was clicking on one of the threads in My Chow. I had opened several threads previously and replied successfully. When I hit the back button to return to My Chow nothing happened. I was stalled.. The error I got, after I cicked on the X to click out was the ubiquitous one which says... "not responding", etc. I'm on IE7
re: CHOW HQ
I can't tell you the specific ad, but it's coming from the adlog.com.com feed and I've also seen something like i.i.com hang up in loading.
re: Melanie Wong
Quite honestly, I believe it's the flash ad banners at the top of each page that hangs up the page....
re: Melanie Wong
Since taking the above actions, I've had no crashes or freezes. And page loading has speeded up considerably those days i'm on dial-up.
re: CHOW HQ
I most often experience the freezes from the board pages. Going to an article/thread will often cause it. Using Back to get back to the board will cause it. Often using scroll, either mouse, or scroll bars will lock the browser up.
All of my lockups have been on IE7. Of the many other sites that I use, only CH does this, and these instances have been going on for about 2-3 weeks, at most. They also seem to be coming more frequently. Now, it's about every 3rd article, that causes it.
The only ad that I have noticed that was on more than one lockup was the MTV ad that is a top banner (the ugly one, but that is a design issue, not a Webmaster issue). I'll keep an eye to see if there are any other ads, that *seem* to be involved.
System: Quad Core2 2.65GHz, nVidia GeForce 8800M GTX - 512MB, 4GB RAM, IE 7, XP-SP3 (all updates/hotfixes), Norton 2008 AV and StopZilla (have the same problem with it off).
Like I said elsewhere, I spend about 5x more of my Internet time on other Web sites (mostly Adobe), and CH is the only one, with which I experience this issue. It also started fairly recently and *seems* to have gotten worse over the last few weeks.
Any other info, that you might find useful, please ask.
You know, earlier this week, I was thinking... "wow, people are still having problems, I don't think I've had any freezing problems for a while." But, I don't think that's true... I just think it's become part of my Chowhound routine now! I started counting today and I've closed out of it 3 times already this morning!
Okay I was starting to think it was just me. Glad I checked this thread. I can get into the first thread (slowly) then when try to leave it, I freeze. I have to close out of chowhound. Tried the alt ctrl delete and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I've experienced this problem for a couple of weeks now. It's time to fix this issue Chowhound. Honestly, personally I never look at the ads, I find them distracting. For whatever reason, if you must have them at least fix your site so its enjoyable. Right now its not. I don't see many familiar faces on here anymore, and that's a shame.
And to replicate my issue for you with freezing the system... it's ANY thread I click on. I can read a few responses (slowly) and then when I try to leave the thread (doesn't matter which one) the system promptly locks up. It seems silly to ask us to try to replicate and look at an ad, when it is such a rampant problem. Are you saying that YOU don't freeze up when you log onto Chowhound??? Yer kidding.
re: chef chicklet
I cant speak for them but no, I don't freeze up on this site. At all. Absolutely not kidding. Has never happened (and if that's not an invitation for it to happen right after I post this, I don't know what is!)
I have all ads blocked, and I suspect that's why.
re: Chris VR
I have all ads blocked (until recently I didn't know there were ads! I found out from reading threads complaining about them). Still, even with no ads I freeze up once or twice a day.
re: Chris VR
You are lucky then. I used to enjoy this site so much, the freezing thing has taken all of the fun away. Seems that they have had ongoing site problems for quite some time now. oh well.
re: chef chicklet
It really does take the fun away.
re: chef chicklet
I also have never experienced the freeze problem. I run both adblock plus and noscript on firefox (windows XP).
In noscript I have adlog.com, ii.com, com.com, js.revsci.net, atdmt.com, ads.pointroll.com, dw.com.com all blocked.
In Adblock I subscribe to EasyList + EasyElement (USA) for ad filtering, and have a bunch of custom filters.
If any one is interested in these filters (For Adblock Plus and Firefox), you can contact me through the email listed in my profile and I will be happy to send you the text file.
I've been trying to pay attention to when it happens - most often when I am trying to leave a thread and go back to the main topic list. Most recently it was leaving this thread! Also it seems to freeze when I have kept the site open for a while but have been in another program.
I am trying to do a simple search on places on the SF Board to give hubby a few recomendations for places in Burlingame, where he will be tonight. Site Froze on me 4(!!!!) times in 15 minutes. I am sorry, but workarounds or not, that is just simply unacceptable.
I gave up. Fortunately, I remember Minglaba offhand, so that is what I will recommend. But if these keeps up, I'd (shudder) get much better results with Yelp.
No wonder we get all these requests for help from people who should be searching first. I wonder if they are giving up also.
Maybe a temporary solution would be to have a profile item "Flash Ads" which when disabled will have the Chowhound web server display non-flash ads. This has the added benefit(?) that Firefox users will have the "pleasure" of seeing the ad vs the flash placeholder icon when they have flashblock installed :)
re: MartyB
Ads don't seem to be my problem
Mine has started freezing up on me again too, after a few days of non-freezing. It is having an obvious effect ... many fewer posts than in the past. I really hope someone is taking this problem seriously.
re: MartyB
Oh thank goodness you posted that. I was beginning to feel like the voice crying (literally) in the wilderness.....
Yes, two to three weeks, it has been the same for me. It locks up IE7, and the only way out is to kill the Process in Task Manager. Even Closing it as a Not Responding Program does not work.
I spend about 5 hrs. per day on other sites (mostly Adobe, but others as well), and none behaves the same, only Chowhound.
Even when it "seems" to be working, Scroll usually does not. I have to Click-drag on the scroll bar, and that often locks it up completely.
In general observation, it *appears* to be tied to the ads on the page. There is usually one that is not displaying properly, when this happens, though not in every instance. The MTV banner, at the top of the page seems to be involved with some of these lockups, but it is not the only one.
To others, who reply to this thread:
What browser are you using. In my case, it's IE7. Just curious if the site has been redesigned ot only work with FireFox, or similar. Maybe there is a common thread in the choice of browsers.
re: Bill Hunt
Firefox, same problem. and mine is usually not related to ads, but sometimes yes. It is on lots of areas within CHOW
This has happened 5 times today and I find that I have 2 chowhound programs running in the same window, causing my computer to lock up. I have to close the window and reopen windows again to fix the problem. Is this a server problem or a lack of bandwidth for site traffic.
Please fix the problem because it is EXTREMELY annoying.
Much much worse today. I've frozen and had to boot out 4 times this a.m. already. I was going to ditch going to CH at all today, but thought I should try to get this post in. Hopefully someone out there actually reads these threads. Seems like there's been no solution to this on-going problem.
re: LNG212
and it sort of seems like no one cares.
re: LNG212
As our product manager noted above, Engineering did try disabling the ads that they thought were behind the problem, but that doesn't seem to have resolved it. So now it's back to the drawing board on figuring out what's causing the issues. Since it's not a problem any of us are experiencing in our regular use of the site, nor something we've been able to deliberately replicate, it's very difficult to pin down the source.
The more people can mention specific pages they were on, actions they were taking, ads they were seeing, etc, when their systems froze, the better they'll be able to use that information to try to narrow down the problem.
re: Jacquilynne
I confine my use of CH to general CH topics, home cooking, cookware and the Midwestern region, and the problem seems to be the worst during high usage times of noon, and 3-5 PM eastern time.
It seems to help a little if I slow my mouse speed down but even then it will occasionally load 2 programs that fight against each other, and the only way to fix the problem is to close the window and reopen a new window. This is the only site that it ever happens to me, and it is very annoying to have to change my mouse speed.
re: Kelli2006
I agree that it seems to happen more often during high usage times.
re: Jacquilynne
Happened to me again about 10 minutes ago. I was on a Shake Shack thread (Manhattan Board), a tv.com ad running across the top of page, a college humor ad running on the right. I tried to use the Chowhound drop down menu to go to a different board (Outerboroughs) and the entire thing froze and required ctrl-alt-del to get out of it ("not responding"). Earlier this a.m. when it happened, I don't recall the ads but I was on a thread on the Manhattan Board and trying to return to that board by hitting the "return to Manhattan Board" red button on the bottom of the thread.
Hope that helps, even a little.
Oh, and as others have already noted, this never happens on other sites I visit (and I must say that I visit a lot of other sites).
re: Jacquilynne
Happened twice today already in 15 minutes. Most recent time there was a Bleep Bloop ad on top and on side of page. Was on the Mid-Atlantic board and had just selected the Pennsylvania board from the drop down menu when it froze with the menu still in place
Has the situation gotten better for anyone who hasn't used browser settings to block various potential offenders? I'm asking because as of today, google maps doesn't load on Places pages or the area hubs, and I suspect it's because I've blocked so many things to keep my browser from crashing. If performance has improved, I'll reset my browser, otherwise, i guess I'll live without Places functionality.
re: Melanie Wong
Answering my own question: i temporarily allowed scripts from revsci.net and it immediately froze my browser when I refreshed the page.
re: Melanie Wong
I have tried a few different settings. For some days/nights, things seemed to be back to normal. About the time that I was feeling good about the site, I got two major "hangs," as per my earlier complaints. However, other than those (I know i just jinxed this session), things seem to be better.
I have attempted to find some correlation between ads, or other aspects, but with the hangs coming less frequently now, have not noticed anything worth reporting.
As for the timings, most of my hangs seem to come between 6:00PM and 10:00PM AZ time. However, this does correspond to heavier activity from the PDT (West Coast) users. Might be related, especially as it would be rather late on the East Coast, and most CH's would be in bed, dreaming of the ultimate dinner.
re: Bill Hunt
Thanks, Bill. I think I'll keep my force shields up for now until someone says the coast is clear. Mysteriously, the google maps are showing up again. All I did to my browser settings was temporarily allow revsci.net and then reverse it. No idea whether there's a cause and effect or not.
Had a freeze today at another web site, lots of ads flashing at me. I promptly turned flash off and had no problems for the rest of the day. I sure wish that IE7 had an addon like Flashblock for Firefox. The one that I have for IE7 is an icon that lived on the toolbar and simply toggles flash support, problem is that it doesn't tell me if flash is on or not. The way that I usually test is to bring up, you guessed it, Chowhound and right click on one of those infernal ads and see if one of the options is flash related or not.
re: MartyB
It is sounding more like I need to finally give up on my IE. While I am less of a M$ fan, though do like my status quo, perhaps the time is coming. Seems that very many Web designers are doing things especially for FireFox, or similar. When I have designed sites, I always try to test with a half-dozen browsers, old and new, just to make sure that they work, as intended. However, I have never designed with ads in mind, so it's apples and oranges.
Still, tonight has been good. Every focus change has worked 100%.
We'll just have to see. My "jury" is still out, but things *seem* to be better.
re: Bill Hunt
Well.... it's freezing in here today.... Brrrr....
IE7 = freeze I guess.
CH Engineering, please get it together and do your job. I don't see other commercial sites asking their customers for help in tracking down their problems. Come to think of it, I've never seen a commercial site with the amount of programming issues you guys seem to have. This freeze-up issue has been going on for months now and your inability to solve the problem doesn't speak well for the competence of your team. Sorry to be so blunt.
I love CH but am pretty sick of all the problems. It's not just a few malcontents -- numerous prominent posters have complained about this site's programming issues.
BTW, how come, more often than not (like just now), after I edit a post, the page hangs on "Saving"? Another thing Engineering knows about but hasn't gotten around to fixing?
re: Steve Green
It has been much better the last 2 days for me. Maybe not as much activity, but no problems in 2 days. We will see.
re: kchurchill5
The problems do seem cyliclical. I've had a couple of days, when I was active, and nothing failed. However, the last three days, things have gone back to the worst, with every third change in pages causing a major hang.
Only constant that I can find is the College Humor ads. When the banner is up, I can expect a hang. When it's just the frame one, it could, or could not, cause a hang. That is the only commonality that I can find so far. I did notice that same series of ads a lot, when the hangs were really bad in the past. I honestly cannot recall if they were present when things were running well. They may have been there then too, so I do not want to point fingers yet. It's tough to watch all ads, when things are running well, but easy to spot them, when things hang.
re: Bill Hunt
Just trying to post to Technical Help, gave me three hangs, one of which led to a duplicate post, because the first one showed as not being posted, and the site was frozen (Not Responding) again. I could not even get back to this article after the tenth restart tonight.
On all of these freezes, the College Humor ads (banner or right frame) have been active. Right now, all Flash support is off, but it does not matter. I'd just like to view more than one page, without a hang. I now can only view CH with Task Manager open and at the ready. Right now, Feb 02, 8:35PM AZT, I cannot keep CH up and running. A dozen freezes in the last hour.
Hunt, hoping that this will post.
re: Bill Hunt
After about 3 boards and a couple dozen threads, I got my first hang of the day. Until then, all was right.
The TV.COM banner was up, and the black cursor (looks like a roach running across the top of the screen) had just moved to the logo. The thread that I was reading was pretty long with 150+ replies. When I went to exit (Back) to the main page for that board, hang. I was just about to invoke Task Manager's End Process, when the hang cleared by itself (approximately 45 sec.), and the "Survivor" banner was now up. I had launched Task Manager, but had not yet touched it. Have no idea if either banner ad had any influence on the hang, and am just trying to observe everything that is going on, when one happens.
Particularly horrendous this a.m. I've frozen up and had to ctrl-alt-del 4 times in the last hour. I'm giving up for today with CH. I just wanted to post something here to alert whatever poor soul is supposed to be working on this never-ending problem (and apparently not getting very far). Oh, and most times it was when trying to switch between boards -- various ads running at top and right side, CH dropdown menu comes down and then everything locks up "not responding".
re: LNG212
Just curious, do you have flash enabled? I always freeze (or eventually freeze) when I have flash enabled and never if it is disabled.
I will try to enable flash and see what happens. I just (yesterday) upgraded my system's CPU from a single core 3Ghz Hyperthreaded CPU to a Quad Core 2.6Ghz CPU and see if things are better since one of my problems was flash pinning one of my Hyperthreaded core.
re: MartyB
After months of suffering, I disabled Flash before going to Chowhound and the problem *completely* disappeared. I have been freeze free for four days now except for the one time I forgot to disable the Flash when it froze when I back out of the second thread I was reading. So for me disabling Flash seems to be the answer. The problem seems to hit people differently, so I am reporting my setup:
Browser IE7; OS: Windows XPHome SP3. 3.0 GHz processor; 2 gig RAM.
To disable Flash is use the freeware FlashSwitch (IE only) which puts an icon in the systray which toggles Flash on and off when clicked. Works for me. http://www.flashswitch.com/
re: bobjbkln
I am glad that I am not alone with this observation. I will be trying a product called "Foxie" which appears to be much more than I need since it is also some kind of firewall as well http://www.getfoxie.com/feature/firew... but it has one feature that I like and that is to show a placeholder where the flash ad is. In its place it displays "Ad Blocked" and when you mouse over it the placeholder changes to "Show Ad". If you click on it the ad gets displayed. Question is, did it disable the ad and its nastiness that causes us problems here at Chowhound, or is the mere fact that the addon is loaded causing problems. I will try it out and see what happens. My problem here is that my system has changed. I went from a single core hyperthreaded CPU to a quad core CPU. So I first have to see how Chowhound behaves with the availabilty of multiple cores and flash enabled.
re: MartyB
I have tried it both ways, with the same general results. Unfortunately, it's an intermittent problem for me, so hard to trace. About the time that I think I have found the right combo, or that CH tech has gotten it fixed, I then hit a patch where every page change freezes!
re: Bill Hunt
Frustrating, I had it freeze yesterday while I had flash enabled, so I will for now on make sure flash is off for my Chowhound visitations. For me I have never had a freeze while flash has been disabled. Until I see it happen while flash is disabled I will assume that is where the problem is.
I have bee freezing up for he past week, I thought it was my PC, glad to see others alos having same problem.
Been freezing for way too long now.
Just froze on "Sunset Bar and Grill on the Boston Board.
This really, really sucks.
The CH site freezes my computer pretty regularly when I'm using IE6, but so far I haven't had the same problem with FF. Unfortunately when I use FF, I cannot log on. I haven't forgotten my password ... here I am. And both browsers accept CH cookies. Very frustrating not to be able to browse and post at the same time.
You have to be a bit technical to install it, but Privoxy is very, very effective at eliminating advertising-related troubles from web pages.
re: sharonanne
Out of curiousity, did you have flash enabled or disabled. I am curious since I never had a problem with site freezing while I had flash disabled. Always have freezng problem when it is enabled.
I have looked over 2 boards(home cooking and general chowhound) while on my lunch break and my computer has locked up five times, requiring me to Alt-Crtl delete. I'm beyond the point of changing my settings of my mouse to allow me to navigate the site w/o locking up.
I'll find another food site.
re: Kelli2006
I'm amazed that this problem has been around for so long. I get locked up on any board I am on. Just now I got locked up 3 times within 30 minutes. It's becoming very annoying and just not worth the effort. I really hope the CH techies fix this problem soon.
re: Alfred G
If CH management were really watching the situation, I would think that the people responsible (Engineering?) would have been sacked by now, and replaced with people who are capable of correcting the problems. Either that, or management is making a conscious decision to run buggy software for some reason.
So many posters have complained about this problem (in its 4th month now!) and all we've heard (five weeks ago) is along the lines of "We're aware of the problem, can't repeat the problem; please help us with specifics". Once again: ENGINEERING -- DO YOUR JOB!
chow__eb stated it most succinctly back in January:
"This is the ONLY site that I have a problem with.
Chowhound owner: you have incompetent web support. You are not getting your money's worth."
re: Steve Green
There is no way they are taking a serious view of this problem. I say this because of the time it has existed and the lack of updates in this thread. I think they are content to give us a product as valuable as what we pay for it....nothing. Since it is the ads that cause the problem, they will eventually try to sell us a "membership" without the ads as a "solution" to the problem.
re: invinotheresverde
I was plagued with lock-ups all last week, literally once per ten or twenty CH screens, but yesterday and today have been problem-free.
Moderators: Did anything change? Any system changes? Any advertisers deleted? Nothing changed in my system configuration.
re: meatme
Perhaps I spoke too soon. I just got the first lockup in two days. For now I'll pretend it didn't happen.
re: MartyB
Not at all. Disabling flash solved the problem for me as well. Then after about 3 weeks the problem went away even when I didn't disable Flash. (Must of had to do with some update).
re: bobjbkln
Had Flash enabled and forgot to turn it off. Went to Chowhound, clicked on a post and guess what - saw the hourglass and had to kill IE.
re: MartyB
The problem went away for me the minute I downloaded Ad Block Plus for Firefox. Haven't had a crash in months.
re: MartyB
After many months of tinkering with AdBlock, NoScript and FlashBlock addons in Firefox, I've concluded that the chow.com site has more fundamental and unresolved problems. IMO there are serious 'long path' problems - server A receives your request, which in turn contacts server B for something, Then some serious bottleneck is encountered and the request stalls.
I now run with scripting and ads Enabled on chow.com; I don't enable Flash by default to avoid downloading piggy Flash applets.
If a page request is stalled for more than, say, five seconds I cancel and retry - usually success happens.
re: LulusMom
Agreed. It's pretty ridiculous, no?
re: invinotheresverde
Well, here we are again, or should I say, STILL. Now it's been FOUR MONTHS since this thread started, and the freeze-up problem has yet to be fixed. Just this morning I've had to close my browser three times within the last 20 minutes because the site has, once again, frozen up.
At this point I can only conclude that the site owners don't care, or aren't willing to hire capable help to fix the problems. The message I'm getting from all this inattention is "This is it, Chowhounds -- take it or leave it!"
re: Steve Green
Have you updated your Adobe Flash to Version 10.0.22.87? My problem went away *about* the time that I did the update.
re: bobjbkln
Thanks for the thought, but my Flash version is actually more recent than that. As someone mentioned above, the problems seem to be more fundamental than something an individual user's software update can solve.
IMO, either support is incapable of fixing the site and its MANY bugs, or management has decided not to spend the time/money. In either case, considering how long this has been going on, it comes down to management ignoring (i.e. blowing off) the people who contribute to this site and make it what it is.
re: Steve Green
I believe that Version 10.0.22.87 IS the current version of the Flash PLAYER http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?pro... . While I agree that the problem is an conflict caused by something on the CH side, the fact that many of us either never had, or, as in my case, no longer have, a freezing problem, indicates that there is a way of avoiding the freeze up even if CH does not fix their end.
re: bobjbkln
Thank you, bobjbkln, I updated the Flash player as you suggested, and it seems to have solved the freezeup problem (for me at least, for the time being). Much appreciate the tip!
All well and good, but shouldn't CH be "vetting" their ads to be sure they are backward-compatible with older flash player versions and other software? This has all the marks of a slacker-programmer mentality – i.e. "If readers aren't using the latest version of XX program/plugin, it's their fault if they have problems." In view of the infamous "March Madness" ad (blaring audio, and pretty much took over the page), it's pretty clear that Engineering hasn't exactly been proactive about this stuff.
More to the point, wouldn't you think that someone in Engineering would've figured out this problem by now, rather than leaving it to us users?
re: Steve Green
Glad this worked for you, as it did for me. I agree that this is really CHOW's fault. Yet we should be glad that someone is hosting our beloved Chowhound (Jim Leff could not handle it any more). So if we found a workaround to CHOW's unwillingness to invest in doing Chowhound right, I think we should just accept it.
re: bobjbkln
I am glad. And in spite of my numerous complaints, overall I'm pretty pleased with the Chow interface as compared to the original interface. That isn't saying much though, since the old interface was a dog, what with its weird hierarchal subthread behavior, all the back-clicking, and its painful slowness. YMMV.
I just feel that as a commercial site, being paid for with ads, the Chow version could be and should be done properly, and has a LONG WAY to go. I think the CHOW management owes this to the readers and particularly the posters, who make this site what it is.
the site was freezing up today. sometimes i would get an error message when trying to connect.
An error occurred while processing your request.
Reference #97.c5a71645.1238854872.f8c6dd0
i'm running safari 3.2.1 on my macbook pro. os x 10.5.6
Same problem here, thought it was my doggy old computer. Almost always it occurs when I hit the "back" button. It's already happened once this morning, hitting "back" from a post.
I also notice that when it freezes, if I open Task Manager there are two entries for the Not Responding CHowhound page. I don't remember seeing that any other time I've tried to crash an app.
My 'freezing' up problems started last week. This week EVERY trip to Chowhound has ended in a freeze.
re: invinotheresverde
You beat me to it!
- Editing Places has become far less problematic.
- Editing posts has become more reliable.
Occasionally I'll experience issues about the usual witching hour (8pm EST).
Knocking wood, stroking Old rabbits foot, .......
re: invinotheresverde
Seems I spoke too soon. Zero freezes yesterday, but three in the last five minutes.
re: invinotheresverde
re: invinotheresverde
And again.
re: invinotheresverde
And again...
re: invinotheresverde
Once again.
re: invinotheresverde
I have had freezes within two minutes of each log in today. I keep trying, it keeps freezing. A minute ago was about my 15th of the day. I am about to give up.
re: susancinsf
I think it's pretty clear by now (going into the SIXTH month of the problem, and this thread) that Engineering, for whatever reason, is not going to fix this.
That said, bobjbkln's solution, about 16 entries upthread, solved the problem for me, at least for the time being. Although it hasn't frozen up for me once since I updated my Flash player (jeez--should I really have to do that to get a working website?!) CH sure seems pretty dang slow tonight. Almost like the old days. :o)
re: Bill Hunt
No. It was better until today, April 30.
I was even able to open multiple tabs without freezing up ... until today.
re: rworange
Dang, I missed the good days! That will teach me to fly off and ignore my Chowhound.
re: Bill Hunt
I only started having major problems today (May 2nd). It's taking ages and ages for pages to load. I can practically finish a game of solitaire in the time it's taking to switch between boards.


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Surviving the typhoon: Fear, faith and miracles for 10 LDS sister missionaries trapped in the Philippines
Ravell Call, Deseret News
EDITOR'S NOTE: Deseret News journalist Jesse Hyde and photojournalist Ravell Call are in the Philippines and will file dispatches throughout the week about the recovery efforts underway following Typhoon Haiyan.
MANILA, Philippines — The water was rising fast.
In the darkness of early morning, Amanda Smith moved away from the window to shield her face from the slashing rain. She had shut it just moments before to ward off the raging storm whipping through the palm trees outside.
But now the wind had ripped it open, and the wooden shutters were slamming violently against the wall again and again. Sister Smith, an LDS missionary from Elk Ridge, Utah, couldn't see anything outside, but she could smell the sea, which seemed to be getting closer and closer. They had to get out of here.
She had heard about the storm three days before, from a driver of a pedicab. It was typhoon season, and tropical storms were common in the Philippines. Still, the last storm warning had produced nothing but blue skies. Some of the missionaries wondered if this time would be any different.
There were nine missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with her in the house, a two-story structure made of cement blocks. They were young women from Utah and Alaska and the Philippines, all about her own age, 19. They had done what they could to prepare, hastily assembling 72-hour kits, and had even bought candles and rope, just like their mission president had asked, even though no one in the house thought either would be necessary.
Now, as water roared down the streets toward them, Sister Smith realized no preparations were too small. The worst storm in generations had just hit landfall.
Bracing for the worst
More than 300 miles to the north, in an apartment in the capital of Manila, Elder Ian S. Ardern sat watching CNN. A former mission president with salt and pepper hair and an easy smile, he couldn't help but feel a looming sense of dread about what was unfolding. On the screen, the typhoon churned, a monster on a path no one could stop. Winds would eventually reach 200 miles per hour.
As first counselor in the Philippine Area Presidency, Elder Ardern worried directly about the 675,000 LDS Church members living in the Philippines, particularly the thousands living in the eye of the storm in and around a city of 235,000 called Tacloban, as well as the entire population.
A native of New Zealand, he had seen his fair share of typhoons, and knew firsthand their destructive power. He hoped the members, and the young missionaries, had heeded the call to prepare.
Days before the storm hit, his office had been sending out warnings to the 21 mission presidents in the Philippines, with maps regularly updating and charting the course of the typhoon. Prepare emergency kits, they had advised. And get to a safe place, which for many members meant a chapel.
The area presidency had asked each of the mission presidents to call in when the storm subsided to report damages and the status of their missionaries. Elder Ardern watched the news as the sun began to rise over the Philippines and waited for the first phone call to come in. He braced for the worst.
Rising panic
Sister Smith had always wanted to be a missionary, ever since she was a little girl growing up in Minnesota, toting her scriptures to Primary, learning to play hymns like "I am a Child of God" on the piano. She'd put in her mission papers as soon as she turned 19.
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So let's start with a simple question…
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Nice 3 bedroom 2 bath cabin just a half mile walk to downtown. Has a covered porch with hot tub and flat surface next to the cabin with a picnic table and grill. Has TV's in all the bedrooms and a nice TV in the living room with surround sound and blue ray DVD player. Full kitchen and 3 queen beds. Every thing you need for a nice smoky mountain vacation.
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Our family enjoys taking vacations here in the smoky mountains and were able to purchase this property which is extremely close to downtown. We hope you enjoy this property as much as we have.
William Farmer purchased this cabin in 2011
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It is close to downtown just about a 1/2 mile walk!!
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Spent our first vacation as a couple here! The cabin was so cozy made our stay very special. We made some great memories & thank you for allowing us to stay!


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Naturally, the World Cup is drawing attention to Brazil, the host nation and the tournament's leading contender. But shortly before the soccer tournament began, two studies highlighted by National Geographic also called attention to South America's biggest country.
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Typical backwoods, redneck court system. That beautiful girl can spit in my mouth anytime she wants to. ...probably gave some elders a thrill they hadn't experienced in many years.
Brianna Broitzman & Ashton Larson Sexually Abused Nursing Home Residents With Dementia
|Ashton Larson stuck her finger up a resident's ass and would laugh at dementia patients to make them angry
Brianna Broitzman admitted to police that she poked one patient in the breast. But her friends say she also spit in a resident's mouth, jabbed the boobs of other patients, and stuck her bare butt in a patient's face.
Ashton Larson confessed that she'd stuck her finger up a patient's rectum. She would also get in bed with them and make humping motions, pat them on the butt and taunt them into getting angry by laughing at them.
When the abuse first surfaced in 2008, the girls admitted they taunted and abused the residents in an attempt to make their work "fun." All told, they're believed to have abused 15 patients. But the cops didn't think abusing people with dementia was fun; they merely thought it made you a sick little fuck. So the girls were hit with a slew of charges, ranging from assault to abuse of a vulnerable adult with sexual contact.
Broitzman has taken an Alford plea, which basically means she admits she'd get drilled in court, but doesn't want to confess to being a degenerate. She'll be sentenced in October, but is expected to get less than a year in prison. Larson heads to trial next month.
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Ignite your idea: Why you are ready to launch a startup | Jen Storey
Ignite your idea: Why you are ready to launch a startup | Jen Storey
Jen is a writer, editor and her gun is for hire. Digital is her thing. She's been in digital for more years than most readers of this biography have had birthdays. Really. Her Masters Thesis was on how this World Wide Web thingy was going to change corporate communications forever. That was in 1996.
Since then, she has worked across all areas of digital, innovation and startups. She has created startups within enterprises like ACP, McKinsey & Co and Suncorp. She was a founding team member of AOL in Australia. And, she sat on the VC side of the fence before entering the world of banking.
Seven years ago, after a moment of clarity, she left the corporate world and launched into creating her own niche in innovation execution and digital marketing.
Now, the CMO and Practice Lead at boutique consultancy edgelabs, she advises businesses, from enterprises to startups, on innovation execution and digital disruption.
She has been named in the top 50 influencers in the Australian start-up scene.
Jen is the current editor of Anthill, an online business publication without the boring bits created for entrepreneurs, business builders and innovators. She is also the Australia and New Zealand writer analyst for the global online classified researcher, AIM Group.
Plus, she's an Advisory Board Member for Ice Cream Day, a non-profit organisation created by an 11 year old with a dream.
She's an avid scuba diver and, thanks to her seven year old daughter, knows quite a lot about penguins.
Think, Live, Be Positive Aggressive | Phil Soran
Think, Live, Be Positive Aggressive | Phil Soran
Phil Soran is a serial entrepreneur in the technology field, founding companies that have generated thousands of jobs. Most recently, Phil was the founder, President and CEO of Compellent Technologies which started in 2002.
Build entrepreneurial equality | Chris Rabb
Build entrepreneurial equality | Chris Rabb
When starting a business, sometimes hard work, a great idea, and a good attitude are simply not enough. Chris Rabb explores why in his book Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity, which looks at modern U.S. business in the context of structural inequality. He suggests that through developing commonwealth enterprises, our society can democratize entrepreneurial opportunity, which will lead toward greater social inclusion, economic sustainability and community wealth-building.
Chris teaches social entrepreneurship and organizational innovation at the Fox School of Business at Temple, after running a nationally recognized business incubator in West Philadelphia. A 2013 Knight Foundation BMe Leadership Award recipient, he conducts entrepreneurial literacy outreach to individuals and groups working in low-financial- wealth communities in Philadelphia, Detroit, and Baltimore. Chris is also known for his pioneering work linking genetic testing and family history.
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Fireside Chat with Steve Blank, Hosted by Prof. Len Lodish
Customer Discovery and Customer Validation: Fireside Chat with Steve Blank, Hosted by Professor Len Lodish
A retired eight-time serial entrepreneur-turned-educator and author, Steve Blank has changed how startups are built and how entrepreneurship is taught around the globe. He is author of the bestselling "The Startup Owner's Manual", and his earlier seminal work, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany," credited with launching the Lean Startup movement. During this fireside chat, Steve Blank and Professor Len Lodish discuss the Customer Discovery and Customer Validation phases of the Customer Development Model, a technique startups use to quickly iterate and test each part of their business model.
Barbara Corcoran on the Best Time to Start a Business
Barbara Corcoran on the Best Time to Start a Business
Entrepreneur, author, and Shark Tank investor Barbara Corcoran on the best time to start a business
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Tomasz Tunguz is a partner at Redpoint Ventures and the author of one of the most active and insightful blogs about startups on the internet today. Tomasz speaks to some of the more salient issues that he has written about and posted. These include trends in the early-stage financial markets; best practices when building a startup including marketing tactics, sales team construction, and unit economics; and more.
The Importance of Picking the Right Investor with Carl Showalter
The Importance of Picking the Right Investor with Carl Showalter
Philip Evans: How data will transform business
Philip Evans: How data will transform business
Start-up lessons from Patron Billionaire John Paul DeJoria
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Business Ideas – 3 Business Lessons From George Lucas
Business Ideas – 3 Business Lessons From George Lucas by Evan Carmichael
Today we're going to look at how a young man who wanted to become a professional race car driver changed his career choice after connecting with the right mentor and rose to the top of his industry. This is the story of Star Wars creator George Lucas and the top 3 lessons that you can learn from his success.
"The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. You just have to hang in through that." – George Lucas
George Lucas (born May 14, 1944) is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm and is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. Lucas' father owned a small office supply store that Lucas was destined to take over but he had other plans – he wanted to become a professional race car driver. Almost his entire childhood was dedicated to cars.
When he was in a near-fatal car accident just days before his high school graduation, Lucas gave up racing and went to college. He enrolled in the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television because he liked photography and thought "maybe that will be interesting." The program would change his life. He met Francis Ford Coppola at the film school who served as his mentor and inspired him to become a producer-director. Upon graduation he committed himself to doing films as his profession.
Today Lucas is one of the film industry's most financially successful directors/producers. His estimated 2011 net worth is $3.2 billion and he's received numerous honours such as being named among the 100 Greatest Americans by the Discovery Channel and receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Film institute.
Action Item #1: Love what you do
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Action Item #3: Keep going
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Lucas wrote the screenplay for Star Wars after being inspired by Flash Gordon and Planet of the Apes. While writing it he thought that it was "too wacky" for the general public but he insisted on finishing it. When the script was finished, only Twentieth Century Fox was willing to take a chance on the movie. In a groundbreaking move at the time, Lucas agreed to give up his director's salary in exchange for 40% of the film's box office take as well as all merchandising rights and sequel rights. Breaking all box office records and winning seven Academy Awards, Star Wars made Lucas an instant millionaire as well as a household name.
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Rap mogul Jay-Z's portfolio continues to expand as new reports claim the Brooklyn Nets minority owner will executive produce the upcoming NBA 2K13 video game.
Just over two months away from the game hitting store shelves, Hovi broke the news through a viral clip posted on his Life + Times lifestyle website.
Rapper and Brooklyn Nets part-owner Jay-Z is set to executive produce NBA 2K13, the 13th installment in 2K Sport's popular basketball game series. The news was revealed via his Life + Times website in a trailer featuring his song "Public Service Announcement" from "The Black Album." The 24-second viral video is narrated by Michael Jordan and also showcases the cover baring Jay-Z's name in the top right corner. NBA 2K13 is currently available for pre-order and is set to hit shelves on October 2. While it's unclear the type of music Jay-Z has in mind for the soundtrack, in the past, both indie rock and hip-hop music have been featured. (Billboard)
Some bloggers have questioned just how much of an impact Jigga will have as the game's executive producer.
Jay-Z's obviously not going to oversee quality assurance, run focus groups, or do anything that actually affects the game itself. Considering he's an international star and a part-owner of an NBA franchise (the Brooklyn Nets), though, he's in a good position to help 2K promote the game. I suppose signing him up isn't that much different than paying NBA players to appear on the cover: you're handing money to a celebrity in hopes that the public's affection for them will rub off on your product. (Cinema Blend)
Last month, NBA 2K13's three all-star cover athletes were revealed.
Most of the excitement in L.A. last season centered on the dunks the Clippers threw down and less on the aging Lakers. With the purple-and-gold bowing out in the Western Conference semifinals, all eyes were on LeBron James and Kevin Durant battling for league supremacy. And only three years after Bryant appeared on the cover of the NBA 2K video game, it is now embracing up-and-coming albeit less accomplished NBA stars. "NBA 2K13″ will feature the Clippers' Blake Griffin, Oklahoma City's Durant and Chicago's Derrick Rose on the cover, The Times has learned. (Los Angeles Times)
Last year's game featured three NBA legends, however, each had his own solo cover.
The game, which shipped five million units in its last incarnation, previously featured Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan in a triptych of covers individually released with one legend per cover. This year's model will feature all three stars on the cover at once. (Yahoo News)
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Apple Supply Chain Reaches New High Of 99% Compliance For 60 Hour Work Weeks
Last year, Apple launched its Labor and Human Rights page to give some transparency to the human rights controversy's it's been having with supply chain workers. Along with numerous explanations on what Apple is doing to make sure its supply chain workers are treated fairly, the company releases the percentage of supplier work-hour compliance every month.
For the first time since Apple started tracking its supplier work-hour compliance metric, they just hit 99% compliance in January 2013.


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Howdy, DFO and bloggers - I can be lifted from my self-imposed HBO hiatus now. I decided about a month ago (maybe three weeks, but it felt like a month) that if I spent too much time trying to respond to each post I wouldn't have enough time to do the door-knocking and phone calling directly to voters that I felt were important. Plus I was a little surprised at how contentious my name became here during the last few weeks - who knew?
I fully intend to stay engaged on the blog. I do have to learn a little more about the factual legalities of being involved in communications on matters that will come before the council that aren't supposed to be pre-judged before public hearings. It was a bit of an issue during the campaign, so I'm now more aware of the pitfalls.
I'm immensely supportive of the open meetings law, and I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize that by spouting off on something here or elsewhere before I've heard all sides of it in public testimony.
Regardless, a hundred thousand thanks to the bloggers I've met here on HBO who were involved with the campaign in some fashion. I told Dave O the other night that there are at least two key people that I would never have met in another fashion that met me virtually through this blog and became great supporters and friends - that's very cool.
For those who were in opposition, well, that's democracy and I hope that if I do my job right you'll come around to respecting that or even becoming supportive. If not, I'll just pump DFO for your IP address and have the city send out "denial of service" blocking attacks on your internet provider*.
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Betting with a friend that the new Kreyshwn single receives a Grammy nomination is not a prudent wager. However, if someone wants to gamble against Will Brennan's latest cut making a splash, then by all means Bet That sh*t! A few weeks removed from his last Booth feature, Pressure, Brennan keep his 2013 momentum going strong. This time around, instead of DJ Burn One, Brennan chooses the flashy, effervescent production from Keys N Krates, marking his first collaboration with the Toronto trio. The Florida native does the high-energy beat justice, serving up slick, grind-oriented bars that are delivered with a hungry, passionate flow that is so potent, it might convince you to bet all you have on Brennan's future. The song is not attached to anything larger, but as always we've got you covered when it comes to all things Brennan.
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We are seeking to appoint a qualified Chef de Partie to join our College Brigade. The ideal candidate will have NVQ level 2 and 3 in professional cookery, a good understanding of HACCP and experience in a high volume kitchen. Previous College or banqueting experience would also be an advantage. The job would suit an ambitious chef with a desire to learn and develop new skills, whilst working to very high standards of food safety. Applicants without these required skills will not be considered for this position.
Salary will be £18430 with on target earnings of circ. £20k. This is a full-time position benefiting from 33 days holiday, NOW Pension scheme which is a Defined Contribution Scheme, a gym on site and free meals whilst on duty.
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