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Getting to Tam Dao from Hanoi
At 80 kilometres northwest of Hanoi, Tam Dao hill station makes for a good overnight or one-day respite from the chaos of the Vietnamese capital. You can get to the cooler area, where there are plenty of hiking trails and pretty scenery, by bus, motorbike, taxi or private car; here's a little about how to do each.
Usually the cheapest option for getting to Tam Dao is to go by public bus, from Gia Lam bus station, but they only run as far as Vinh Yen, from where you'll need to take a taxi or motorbike taxi the last 24-kilometre stretch.
If you want total flexibility, at relatively low cost, then go by motorbike (but remember you need a license to be legal and insured). Unfortunately, as is always the way when getting out of Hanoi, you have to battle through the pollution and crazy traffic before you reach any notable scenery or signs of serenity, but once you get off the highway it's an enjoyable enough ride. Expect to be on the road for around three hours.
First head out of town on the dyke road — this is the main road that runs to the east of Old Quarter and keeps on going… Eventually you will reach the Thanh Long Bridge, which traverses the Red River. The route to get onto the bridge is a bit convoluted but follow motorbike (xe may) signs and you'll be fine.
From the other side of the bridge, the most direct, but less pretty, route takes you almost all the way to Noi Bai International Airport on the main highway, then turns left onto another large road towards Vinh Yen. Turn right at the big roundabout as you enter Vinh Yen then continue onto the next large roundabout where you turn right again onto a peaceful yet wide road called Duong Tam Dao. From there you can see Tam Dao hill station and it's an easy, signposted route.
For a more scenic ride, and if you're feeling brave or have GPS, take the first turning that's signposted Phuc Yen, shortly after Thang Long Bridge. From there, explore the back roads to make your way to Tam Dao. The last 10 kilometres or so of the journey is particularly scenic, although steep. If you're heading up with a passenger, make sure your bike's got a decent engine — or take good walking shoes. And expect it to take a while as you'll want to stop for photos.
If motorbikes aren't your thing, how about cycling? A good degree of fitness is essential, particularly for the last climb, but you'll certainly deserve the cold beer at the end.
Given the distance from Hanoi, it's also feasible to take a taxi without breaking the bank. A small Mai Linh will cost around 800,000 VND (US$40) each way — it's not bad if there are a few of you, although a bigger taxi will hike the price up to over 1 million VND. If you've been practising your Vietnamese you might even be able to negotiate a stop off en route for a coffee or lunch.
If you want more flexibility and have a bigger budget, then consider hiring a car. A day trip will run to around US$60 and overnight US$80. Or organise a tour through an agent. Group tours aren't common so you'll need to arrange a private tour, but it's a hassle-free alternative. Most travel agents and hotels will be able to help, although True Colour Tour comes recommended and I've successfully organised car hire with Golden Package Tour (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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The publisher of Texas Monthly filed a lawsuit on Friday against The New York Times Company related to the Times' hiring of the magazine's departing editor-in-chief, Jake Silverstein. FishbowlNY Emmis Publishing is claiming that the Times influenced Silverstein into breaching his contract. The lawsuit states that Silverstein's contract expires in February of next year. NY Post The six-page Texas state court action alleges that Times executive editor Jill Abramson started recruiting Silverstein in December 2012 — a full year before then-magazine editor Hugo Lindgren was ousted. Greg Loewen, president of Emmis, said the company has been "damaged by the Times and expects to be compensated." Capital New York The suit, which seeks damages between $200,000 and $1 million, names only the Times, not Silverstein, as previously reported. Loewen said the company never intended to stand in the way of Silverstein's pursuit of the Times Magazine editorship. Loewen said that after Silverstein told his employer last month that he was being considered for the job, Emmis notified the Times that they would have to reach a settlement on the termination of his contract with Emmis to account for the costs associated with finding Silverstein's replacement, as well as the damage of losing a star editor. New York Magazine / Daily Intelligencer In a statement, Emmis said, "No such agreement was reached and, to date, the Times has refused to even participate in settlement discussions despite numerous attempts" by Emmis to do so.

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Loveland Library and Chilson close early Thursday
Loveland Public Library will close two hours early at 6 p.m., Thurs., May 26 to accommodate some electrical work as part of the major expansion project currently under way. The library should reopen at its regular time, 9 a.m., Fri., May 27. Next door to the library, the Chilson Recreation Center will also need to close early that day, at 5:45 p.m. due to the power shutoff. It will reopen at its regular time the next day, 5:30 a.m. Also, the library ... Full Story
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"Healthy Rivers Alternative" better for economy and environment than NISP Fort Collins, CO -- Today, Save the Poudre: Poudre Waterkeeper outlined many of the economic benefits that the "Healthy Rivers Alternative" would provide to northern Colorado cities. The Healthy Rivers Alternative offers a plan for a water supply alternative for subscribers to the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP) that better protects farms, minimizes public debt, and better protects the Cache la Poudre ... Full Story
State Chamber of Commerce Endorses NISP
The Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry (CACI), the state chamber of commerce, today announced its endorsement of the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP) as an essential project for the economy of the Northern Front Range. CACI President Chuck Berry said that the CACI Executive Committee agreed to support the building of NISP at its April meeting. "An adequate, reliable supply of water is essential for economic development and quality of life of residents of Northern ... Full Story
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Denver Channel 7 is honoring World War II veteran Bill Dye as an "Every Day Hero" Dye is being recognized for: His service aboard the aircraft carrier Lexington in the Battle of the Coral Sea. His dedication to the memory of Pearl Harbor and all who serve our country in WW II. His ongoing care of the Police Officers Flood Memorial in the Big Thompson Canyon and his care of South Highway 7 for the Adopt a Highway. At 86 years of age, Dye keeps a busy schedule. The ... Full Story
Evening with Arts at Berthoud High School
Friday evening was full of activity at Berthoud High School. It was an evening of art and entertainment with something for everyone. Some of the students were also very busy with several appearing in more than one show. The gymnasium was the showcase for visual arts while both stages were in use for the music and dramatic arts. The visual arts included all types of two and three-dimensional exhibits covering the walls and floor of the gymnasium. Note: Many of the photos can ... Full Story
Spotlight on bullying in Berthoud
Following the suicide of a Turner Middle School eighth-grader in March there has been a great deal of talk about bullying in the Berthoud Schools. Tuesday saw two separate events about bullying. Many definitions of bullying were expressed at these meetings, but the basic tenets were the same. Bullying is repetitive, persistent abusive behavior with the purpose of causing physical or mental harm. It revolves around an imbalance of power and may involve verbal harassment or physical ... Full Story
The Pulliam Building
White Elephant or Diamond in the Rough Once the crown jewel of downtown Loveland, this magnificent structure has fallen on hard times. When the community center was built during the depression years, its magnificent maple floors, a stage for productions and seating for over 500 people in a town with a population of less than 6,000 made Loveland the envy of the country. The project was built as a Works Progress Administration project on land donated by D.T. and Lillian Pulliam, who also ... Full Story
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Production historySpring Awakening had a number of workshops, concerts and rewrites over a seven-year period, including workshops at La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego, California, and the Roundabout Theatre Company, and a concert at Lincoln Center in February 2005, under the auspices of actor/producer Tom Hulce.[1] It finally premiered Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company on May 19, 2006 and ran through August 5, 2006. The musical then opened on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on December 10, 2006 and closed on January 18, 2009, after 888 performances and 29 previews. Directed by Michael Mayer with choreography by Bill T. Jones, the costume designer is Susan Hilferty, set designer Christine Jones and lighting designer Kevin Adams. It received nearly unanimous favorable reviews.[2][3]Decca Broadway released the original cast recording on December 12, 2006, which won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2008.[4] The guitar Sheik used to compose songs for Spring Awakening is on display at the New York Library For The Performing Arts.[5]
SynopsisAct IWendla Bergmann, an adolescent in late-nineteenth century Germany, laments that her mother gave her "no way to handle things" and has not taught her the lessons she needs to learn ("Mama Who Bore Me"). She tells her mother that it is time she learned from where babies come, considering that she is about to be an aunt for the second time, but her mother cannot bring herself to explain the facts about conception clearly to Wendla. Instead, she simply tells Wendla that to conceive a child a woman must love her husband with all of her heart. The other young girls in town appear to be similarly innocent and are upset about the lack of knowledge presented to them ("Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)").At school, some teenage boys are studying Virgil in Latin class. When Moritz Stiefel, a very nervous and intense young man, sleepily misquotes a line, the teacher chastises him harshly. Moritz's classmate, the rebellious and highly intelligent Melchior Gabor, tries to defend him, but the teacher will have none of it, and hits Melchior with a stick. Melchior reflects on the shallow narrow-mindedness of school and society and expresses his intent to change things ("All That's Known").Moritz describes a dream that has been keeping him up at night, and Melchior realizes that Moritz has been having dreams of an erotic nature. To comfort the panicked Moritz, Melchior, who has learned sexual information from books, tells Moritz that all of the boys at their age get the dreams. The burned-out boys tell about their own frustrating thoughts and desires ("The Bitch of Living"). Moritz, who is not comfortable talking about the subject with Melchior, insists that he give him the information in the form of an essay, complete with illustrations.
Some girls are gathered together after school and tease each other as they fantasize about marrying the boys in the town. At the top of the list is the radical, intelligent, and good-looking Melchior. Meanwhile, Hanschen masturbates as he looks at an erotic postcard, and the piano student Georg indulges in some lively fantasies about his well-endowed female piano teacher ("My Junk"). Moritz has eagerly digested the essay that Melchior prepared for him, but complains that his new knowledge has only made his dreams even more vivid and torturous. Melchior tries to calm and comfort his friend, but Moritz runs off in frustration. All of the boys and girls express their desires for physical intimacy ("Touch Me").Searching for flowers for her mother, Wendla stumbles upon Melchior, who is reflecting on "the origin of shame" in his journal. The two share a moment while sitting together in front of a tree (they were childhood friends, but grew apart as they got older). Each of them considers what it would be like to give in to their physical desires, but they do not do so ("The Word of Your Body"). Meanwhile, at school, Moritz is thrilled to learn that he has passed his midterm examinations, but the teacher and schoolmaster cannot pass everyone, so they decide to fail Moritz.
Martha, one of the teenage girls, accidentally admits to her friends that her father abuses her physically (including sexual abuse) and that her mother is either oblivious or uncaring. The other girls are horrified to hear this, but Martha makes them promise not to tell anyone, lest she end up like Ilse, a friend from childhood who now wanders homeless and aimless because her parents kicked her out of the house. ("The Dark I Know Well"). Later, Wendla finds Melchior again at his spot in the woods and tells him that a Martha's father regularly abuses his daughter. Melchior is appalled to hear this, but Wendla convinces him to hit her with a switch, so that she can understand her friend's pain. Melchior, at first, is determined to do nothing of the sort, but reluctantly complies. He gets carried away in the beating and throws her to the ground. He then runs off, disgusted with himself, as she weeps curled up on the ground. Alone, Wendla finds that Melchior has left his journal on the ground. She picks it up and takes it with her.
Moritz has failed his final examination, and his father reacts with disdain and contempt when Moritz tells him that he will not progress in school. Moritz writes to Melchior's mother, his only adult friend, for money to flee to America; she tenderly but firmly denies his request and promises to write his parents to discourage them from being too hard on him ("And Then There Were None").
In a stuffy hayloft during a storm, Melchior cries out in his frustration at being caught between childhood and adulthood ("The Mirror-Blue Night"). Wendla finds him once again, telling him she wants to return his journal, and each awkwardly apologizes for what happened the last time they met. Before long, they begin to kiss; Wendla resists his advances at first. Although she doesn't really understand what's going between them, Wendla is reluctant, sensing that what they are doing is something very powerful, and very unlike anything that she has known before. They begin to have sex as the lights go down. ("I Believe").
Act IIWendla and Melchior are finishing their moment of intimacy in the hayloft; they reflect on and discuss what has just happened ("The Guilty Ones"). Moritz, having been thrown out of his home, wanders the town at dusk, carrying a pistol ("Don't Do Sadness"). He happens upon free-spirited Ilse, who has found refuge at an Artists' colony, she invites him to join her in sharing some childhood memories, and perhaps something more, but Moritz refuses ("Blue Wind"). Upset at his refusal, she leaves very hurt. She leaves. Changing his mind, he calls after her, but it is too late; she is gone. Moritz feels that he has lost everything. The world he sees is so very dark and cold. Believing that he has nowhere to turn, Moritz shoots himself.At Moritz's funeral, each of his friends drops a flower into his grave, and Melchior chastises Moritz's father for being so cruel to his friend, as the other students look at Moritz's father with disgust for pushing Moritz too hard when he was alive ("Left Behind"). Back at school, the schoolmaster and teacher feel the need to call attention away from Moritz whose death was a direct result of their actions. They search through Moritz's belongings and find the Essay on Sex which Melchior wrote for him (complete with detailed illustrations remember). They lay the blame of Moritz's death on Melchior, and although Melchior knows that he is not to blame, he knows there is nothing he can do to fight them, and he is expelled ("Totally Fucked"). Elsewhere that night, Hanschen meets up with his shy and delicate classmate Ernst. In a comedy-relief scene, Hanschen shares his pragmatic outlook on life with his classmate before seducing him. "Me? I'm like a pussycat. I just skim off the cream," is Hanschen's way of telling Ernst that he is special because he knows how to work the system of the world to his advantage. It is Ernst's first sexual experience, and he tells Hanschen that he loves him as the two share a passionate kiss ("The Word of Your Body (Reprise)").Wendla has become ill, and her mother takes her to visit a doctor. He gives her some medication and assures them both that Wendla is suffering from anemia and will be fine, but he takes Wendla's mother aside and tells her that Wendla is pregnant. When her mother confronts her with this information, Wendla is completely shocked, not understanding how this could have happened. She realizes that her mother lied to her about how babies are made. Although she berates her mother for leaving her ignorant, her mother rejects the guilt and insists Wendla tell her who the father is. Wendla reluctantly surrenders a passionate note Melchior sent her after they consummated their relationship. Wendla reflects somberly on her current condition and the circumstances that led her to this difficult position but ends with optimism about her future child ("Whispering"). Meanwhile, Melchior's parents argue about their son's fate; his mother does not believe that the essay he wrote for Moritz is sufficient reason to send him away to reform school. When Melchior's father tells his wife about Wendla's pregnancy, however, she agrees that they must send Melchior away, which they do without telling him that Wendla is pregnant.At the reform school, Melchior gets into a fight with some boys who grab a letter he has just received from Wendla and use it in a masturbation game. As one of the boys reads from the letter, Melchior finally learns about Wendla and their child, and he escapes from the institution to find her. He does not know that Wendla's mother has already taken her to an underground practitioner to have an abortion. When Melchior reaches town, he sends a message to Wendla's friends to have her meet him at the cemetery at midnight. There, he stumbles across Moritz's grave, and swears to himself that he and Wendla will raise their child in a compassionate and open environment. When Wendla is late to the meeting Melchior begins to feel a little uneasy. Looking around, Melchior, sees a grave he hadn't noticed before. He reads the name and sees that its Wendla. He realizes that she died from the abortion attempt. Overwhelmed by shock and grief, he takes out a razor with the intention of killing himself. Moritz's and Wendla's spirits rise from their graves to offer him their strength. They persuade him to journey on, and he resolves to live and to carry their memories with him forever. "Not gone, not gone," Wendla assures him in song. ("Those You've Known").Led by Ilse, everyone assembles onstage to sing "The Song of Purple Summer" about life and hope.


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Three-Legged Dog
The Three-Legged Dog exercise tones your butt, quads, hamstrings, and calves.
-This next move in your bikini workout is the Three-Legged Dog. Start in a classic down dog in inverted V, hands about shoulder width, and your feet about hip width distance apart. Good. She's gonna take the back leg up and then press to the ball with standing legs. The heel comes off the floor as she lowers it back down. She lifts straight up. It's like half raised while you're in a Three-Legged Dog. She comes up, good, presses the heel down. Last one, leg goes up high, she sweeps that foot through between the hands. Hands come right up so that her shoulders are way over her hips, and then her knee is right over her ankle. And she lowers the hands back down, steps it back to that classic down dog. Good! Opposite leg comes up. Press down to the ball of the foot, heel comes off, and press it down. Good! Core is engaged, a lot of action there, good. Press the heel down. Lift up, this back leg stays high, she gives it one more, heel comes off the floor, sweeps the foot through between the hands, hands come high in a classic lunge, squeezing the [unk] thigh, shoulders over the hips. Good! Hands to the mat, step back, and regular down dog. Take it to the first leg, all the way up, pass the heel, and lower. Good! Press, a lot of core, belly button into the spine, lifting up with the heel. Good! Keep that back leg high. One more time, sweep it through, foot comes right between the hands, bring the arms up overhead, hands back down to the mat, take it back to that regular down dog. Have your hands really even. Take the opposite leg up, press down to the ball, and press. Good! Up, head is relaxed. Nice! Keep the belly button in, lift the heel up. One more time, heel goes up, calf raised up, sweep that foot through, bring it right between the hands, right up, shoulders over hips, knee over ankle, hands back down to the mat, downward facing dog. That's your Three-Legged Dog series.


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notice that my email inbox has filled up lately with messages from
organizations outraged by the Ninth Circuit Court decision (as if
it were a surprise!) that "under God" in the Pledge of
Allegiance" is unconstitutional. The same messages usually
ask for money to do battle against the wicked forces in America
who are arranging for such horrid outcomes in our courts and culture.
President Bush has leaped on the bandwagon. CNS News reports that,
"Speaking to a veterans group [at Ripley, West Virginia on
July 4] Bush said, u2018no authority in America' could prevent people
from u2018pledging allegiance to one nation under God.'"
course the fix was already in, and Bush is just coat-tailing on
this hot-button issue. The judge who wrote the opinion had already
ordered a stay of its implementation, and I'll bet we'll hear rather
little about enforcement from now on. Bush & Co. are at least
as realistic as Stalin, who made some peace with the Orthodox Church
when he was faced with making war against an exterior enemy. So
Bush will certainly pour on the rhetoric to placate his "right-wing
Christian" support. It costs nothing, and it calms the folks
out in the boonies. And, of course, on this one he is in fact on
the side of the angels; the court's decision was just another instance
of the continuing, concerted, and loony effort to tear down traditional
American society.
that effort is winning in the large, even if now and then some small
aspect of it, like this one about "under God," has to
be withdrawn as a result of a great public uproar.
is, however, no sign of overall withdrawal of the campaign mandated
and financed by our controlling elites to demoralize and marginalize
all religious groups, so that there will be no real countervailing
force to oppose the monolithic statism that is our future.
noticed the extraordinary elegiac tone Joseph Sobran achieved in
his July 4th post on LRC, "How America Has Changed."
He writes a virtual obituary for the Republic and the free society
the American Founders designed and gave us, and which we have permitted
to be betrayed.
4th of July remarks to America were the usual boilerplate
about "preserving our precious freedoms." Bush talks in
basic Orwellian; such that you can translate without a dictionary
– just reverse meanings: "Enduring freedom" means
"Increasing bondage," etc.
are odd little leaks in high places that put you on notice as to
the realities. Lynn Cheney popped off the other day about "the
little engine that could" of American life and politics. What
is it? Why, it's the "separation of Church and State"
There's another one that needs a quick Orwellian translation (still
using just the basic vocabulary): "Separation of Church and
State" means the State tells the Church what it can and cannot
do. Neat and simple, you have to admit. Basic.
had to go out this morning to get some bananas at the local supermarket.
We have lately moved house in the same town, and I am still assessing
my new neighborhood. After September 11, flags sprouted all over
the place in the old location. A real estate broker had gone through
the area planting little flags in front lawns. Nearly everybody
left them in place for months until they were ruined by the weather.
But this morning, July 4, I noticed there were no flags at all flying
along the five or six long residential blocks between us and the
appears the whole super-patriotic shtick has gotten a little tired.
What to do to whomp it up again? I notice in the back of my mind
as I write this that I am wondering if the warnings about terrorism
on the 4th will issue in anything. I hope to God not.
It would only encourage the present regime.
are rumblings about a possible return of the draft. Get young men
off the (depressed) job market and improve the services' pool of
talent. On this I think the regime will confront a buzz saw. Radical
Islam seems to be able to recruit a lot of suicide bombers. I think
placid America will balk at furnishing only sons or daughters to
the military for assorted overseas adventurings in search of universal
peace through perpetual war.
5, 2002
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Fishing for Assets
Financial advisers at the Merrill Lynch office in San Jose, Calif., cringe just before 1 p.m. local time, and it has nothing to do with trying to snag profits before the stock market closes.
If there's a crash, not only will Merrill's financial advisers miss out on whatever stock or mutual fund idea is discussed during the feedthey will be crippled if a client calls. A crash will prevent them from accessing client accounts until the information technology department reboots the system.
"It got so bad that they were sending out e-mails telling us what we should avoid having open at one time so that we didn't crash the system," says a Merrill Lynch adviser in San Jose.
Enter Byron Vielehr, chief technology officer for Merrill Lynch's private client group, which the firm established last year. He is gambling on a massive projectestimated to cost up to $1 billion over five yearsto hand off to Thomson Financial the creation and maintenance of applications used by 14,000 Merrill advisers to interact with their big-dollar clientsthose with assets of more than $1 million.
What makes this project unique? For starters, Merrill Lynch wants its financial advisers to more easily collect and share data on these key clients. The system, which uses customer-relationship management software from Siebel Systems, is designed, for example, to send an alert to a financial adviser when a client's bond matures or if the percentage of equity investment in an account exceeds a certain level.
Eventually, Merrill Lynch hopes to add more personal information, such as when a client expects a child or grandchild, or is closing in on retirement. The goal then would be to enable advisers to promote targeted products and services to each client.
Merrill Lynch "wants to have the tools to effectively target these clients and have a database of personal information that will help increase their total assets under management," says Rakesh Shetty, director of Siebel Finance. "They need to be able to make a certain number of calls to clients each year. They also want to be able to do a certain number of portfolio reviews every quarter and, most important, set up a number of in-person meetings with these clients every year."
Another plus: End (hopefully) the system meltdowns.
The new Wealth Management Technology Platform will replace the $1.5 billion, seven-year-old Trusted Global Advisor (TGA) system, which uses real-time market data from Thomson Financial and applications developed in-house.
Merrill Lynch executives say the new system, which some company insiders are calling "NextGen," began testing this month at several locations and should be completely installed and live in the U.S. by next summer. An international rollout is planned for late 2004.
Selena Morris, vice president of media relations at Merrill Lynch, says the TGA system is "starting to show its age because it's all proprietary and slower than we'd like it to be." Industry analysts say Merrill expects to save about $70 million a year on maintenance of the antiquated system, an expense that represented about 7% of its private client group technology budget in 2002.
Creating and integrating applications and information delivery systems used by financial advisers to manage customer accounts has long been considered something best managed by in-house information systems staff. These systems allow advisers to create accounts, place stock orders and build investment portfolios for its clients, especially the wealthy ones.
So Merrill Lynch's commitment to an outsourcing project of this size marks a dramatic about-face, says Susan Cournoyer, a Gartner Inc. analyst.-Face">
"Merrill Lynch has a new approach to external vendors now," she says. "We've seen that shift from them partly because they were spooked by e-business and they were comparatively slow in setting up their online system. It seems that now they're more open to using external providers and freeing up their own I.T. staff to focus on strategic initiatives."
The rest of the financial-services industry will have more than a passing interest in how this project unfolds. If Merrill Lynch can pull this off, competitors on Wall Street will be forced to take a serious look at how they finance and support the backbone of their front-office information systems.
"Merrill Lynch is really saying that the technology isn't their competitive differentiator. It's their services and the knowledge that their financial advisers can provide," says Jamie Punishill, an analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass.
In December, Merrill Lynch awarded its new Wealth Management Technology Platform contract to Thomson Financial, which provides real-time market data and investment management tools to brokerage firms. Though both Merrill Lynch and Thomson executives declined to comment, analysts familiar with the deal say Thomson will get between $800 million and $1 billion over the next five years to install the system.
Thomson Financial outbid competitors such as Reuters and Bloomberg for the contract that, if successful, could position it as the general contractor of choice for large-scale financial services projects. One industry analyst familiar with the deal says Thomson "will lose a lot of money over the next five years just to have the privilege of landing this contract."
The new platform is based on Thomson's Thomson ONE open application framework, a suite of tools for Wall Street customers. According to Thomson, the ONE system can deliver tailored features in modules such as portfolio management, investment selection and client presentations, allowing customers to pick and choose features. The system is designed to cater to various audiences in the Wall Street food chain such as corporate finance, institutional brokerage and fixed-income-market professionals.
In Merrill's case, the ONE system will combine Thomson content with Merrill Lynch's proprietary content, data and applications, along with third-party applications including Siebel Systems' customer relationship management (CRM) software for 25,000 usersthe 14,000 financial advisers and 11,000 or more sales assistants, research analysts and others.
Why the change? Merrill Lynch's financial advisers work much differently today than they did in 1996, or even 1999. Years before then, each Merrill Lynch adviser was individually responsible for interacting with his or her clients. In contrast, some 40% of all Merrill Lynch advisers today work in groups. Two, three, or maybe even four advisers and planners assist the same client. Preparing reviews, suggesting new investment strategies or simply creating a wealth-management schedule involves sharing and exchanging data between multiple parties, a process that was never accounted for when the Trusted Global Advisor system was developed.
Dell desktop computers running Windows XP will power the new Wealth Management Technology Platform. A key feature: Financial advisers will get dual 17-inch flat-panel monitorsreplacing the single one they now have. One monitor will display client and Merrill account information; the other will show real-time market data and video feeds. (The current system has a single screen crowded with data fields, real-time ticker quotes, Merrill Lynch product catalogs, and video feeds, making it all but impossible for advisers to quickly access and enter data while on the phone with clients.)
Shetty, Siebel Finance's director, says Thomson Financial, along with integrators from Siebel and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, is using Siebel's basic software but tweaking configurations for Merrill's user interface. In theory, these refinements will allow advisers to efficiently search both the customer and Merrill databases to quickly gather and dispense information to these high-net-worth clients. And Merrill Lynch will direct clients with less than $1 million in assets to call centers or the company's Web site so that financial advisers can spend more time working with the wealthier clients.
This new systemif it works as promisedcannot come soon enough for Merrill Lynch, the nation's leading asset-management firm. It has seen assets under management decline to $462 billion in 2002, down by 22% from its 1999 peak, according to SNL Financial. (See chart)
To rebuild its business, Merrill Lynch is clearly going after the wealthy set. According to the World Wealth Report 2003a study by Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini Ernst & Youngthe number of high-net-worth individuals increased 2.1% in 2002 to more than 7.3 million people worldwide. Their total assets under management grew 3.6% to $27.2 trillion last yearexplaining why Merrill Lynch is so eager to target these individuals. An estimate of how many are currently under Merrill Lynch's management was not available.
Vielehr, CTO for the private-client group, was not available to discuss the project, which, according to analysts, is understandable. "This is the biggest outsourcing project in all of financial services," says Punishill of Forrester Research.
Through a spokeswoman, Vielehr acknowledges, "It's a complicated integration, but so far we've hit our marks."
Just because Merrill Lynch builds a new system doesn't mean its employees will use it.
Indeed, the San Jose, Calif.-based financial adviser says rather than depend on Merrill's sluggish system, he and other colleagues have been using alternate customer-contact and management-software such as Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Best Software's ACT! customer-management software to track clients.
"Unless the [financial advisers] are trained properly and actually use the new system, assuming it provides the functionality that's promised, it's not going to be any better than the system they already have," warns Punishill.
Gartner's Cournoyer concurs. The project's viability and success will largely be measured by how Merrill Lynch manages Thomson Financial and Siebel, as well as how the firm ensures that all its financial advisers accept this as the new way of doing business, she says.
"Time and time again we see that CRM implementations fail because the end-users either resist or aren't properly trained to use the new system," she says. "In the end, that might be the biggest challenge of all."
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The incidence of multiple gestation has risen significantly over several decades, primarily due to increased use of fertility drugs for ovulation induction, superovulation, and assisted reproductive technologies (ART), such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) [1]. In 1960, before the commercial availability of drugs for treatment of infertility, there were approximately 4.3 million births in the United States, with 1244 triplets and higher order multiples [2]. In 2011, the total number of births was slightly lower (3.9 million), but there were 5417 triplet and higher order multiples; these numbers do not include those high order multiple gestations (ie, pregnancies with at least three fetuses) reduced naturally or iatrogenically [3]. Approximately 20 percent of high order multiple births are naturally conceived, 39 to 67 percent are related to ovulation induction/superovulation, and 13 to 44 percent are associated with ART [4].
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has experienced a series of remarkable changes
over the past few years as it has evolved from
being a Hindu Kingdom with a Maoist insurgency
to a secular Republic with a Maoist-led
The people's movement of April 2006, the
November 2006 Comprehensive Peace Agreement to
end the armed conflict, and the April 2008
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critical steps towards the establishment of a
peaceful and democratic Nepal. Yet, significant
challenges remain ahead including addressing the
exclusion of Minority and Indigenous Peoples
The country is a mosaic of communities: there
are 22 Dalits groups, more than 59 Madheshi
groups, around 60 Indigenous nationalities, 102
caste and ethnic groups, 11 religious groups and
more than 92 linguistic groups in Nepal.
Exclusion, marginalization and exploitation of
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the 10 years armed conflict that affected the
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1. Women
is a multiethnic and multicultural country with
more than 50 spoken languages and cultural
traditions. For analytical purposes they have
often been classified into two broad groups, the
Burman, populating mostly the mid-hills and
mountains, and the Indo-Aryan, living in the
Terai Genetic plains and the midhills. Women
from the Tibeto-Burman communities are socially
less constrained than their Indo-Aryan sisters
in terms of mobility, marriage/remarriage
options, and, most importantly, income earning
opportunities. In the Indo-Aryan groups,
traditionally, women have fewer social and
economic options. Social discrimination against
women is felt to be more severe in the Terai
communities and in the Mid- and Far-Western
Development regions in general.
Nevertheless, in both
these groups land and property inheritance has
been patrilineal, the residence
pattern patrifocal, and early marriage the rule
rather than an exception. Culturally, marriage
is seen as
the best socially acceptable option for women
for gaining access to property and land.
Therefore, once
women are out of marriage, such as divorce or
widowhood, they become more vulnerable to
However, once women marry, legal provisions deny
them inheritance rights to parental property.
Women in both cultural groups lag far behind men
in access to property, credit, and modern
avenues of education, skills development,
technology, and knowledge.
Discrimination against
women by way of religious principles was
historically supported through provisions in the
law of the country. The 1854 Civil Code did not
provide any protection for women concerning
their property rights. Furthermore, it required
purity of their body and endorsed a lower ritual
status for the upper-caste widows, if they
remarried. Prior to the Rana regime being
overthrown in 1950, no other laws were
formulated to amend those provisions. However,
the government of post-Rana period replaced the
1864 Civil Code with a new one in place, in
The patriarchal values
established by the prevailing ideologies of
society have received legal support
through the above mentioned discriminatory
provisions. As a result, the legal system of
Nepal has
relegated women to such a position that they are
unable to fight for their rightful claim of
equality to
rights. The impact of these forms of
discrimination resonates in all spheres of their
social, political, and economic life, including
access to resources such as ownership of land,
educational attainment,
employment status, and participation in decision
making activities in both public and domestic
of their life.
Though women comprise
50.05% (CBS 2001) percent of the total
population, gender discrimination
prevails in the society from the family to the
national level. Status of women in Nepal with
regards to
their access to knowledge, economic resources,
political power, and personal autonomy in
making is generally desolate. Owing to gender
based discriminations that have restricted their
access to the state's resources (such as
markets, productive services, education
facilities and health care) and
decision making structures, they face multiple
discrimination and human rights violations.
2. Dalits
discrimination derives its legitimacy from the
ancient scriptures of the Hindu religion. These
scriptures believed that the God produced people
from four separate parts of its body and
attributed them with different types of
character assigning four different roles and
responsibilities. The four different social
groups were identified as Brahmans, Chhetris,
Vaishyas and Sudras respectively, otherwise
known as 'Four Varnas' in Hindu social
structure. These legendary ideas about
differences in the origin, differences in roles
and responsibilities of people are the basis for
institutionalization of Varna, a model of social
organization as well as caste-based division and
discrimination in the society. In the last 14th
century, caste-based discrimination was a direct
consequence of the prevailing traditions.
The formation of Muslim
hegemony in Mogul India and the expansion of
Christian faith in this region,
after it came to be a part of the British
Empire, motivated the then Hindu rulers of Nepal
to provide
state level protection for this religion and the
practices based on the religious definition.
During that
process, Jayasthiti Malla (1382-1395) divided
the Newars of Kathmandu valley into 64 castes.
Later, Ram Shah of Gorkha implemented some
strict regulations, prescribing different
qualities of garments for different castes,
prohibiting low caste people from living in
Pakka (concrete) houses, and requiring them to
settle in areas close to riverbanks or in rural
areas. During the Malla period and, consequently
the Sen rulers of Palpa provided their support
to the caste-based organization of the society.
The Nepali state attempted to universalize these
regulations for all categories of people living
in all parts of the nation through the
introduction of the Muluki Ain (Civil Code) in
The Civil Code redefined
the Varna model in order to comply with Nepal's
social environment. It
classified the caste groups into 'pure' and
'impure'. The fourth and fifth categories were
considered as
containing 'impure' population. People were
divided into two groups; touchable and
untouchable. The
Civil Code also approved some differences in the
privileges provided by the law to people
belonging to these different caste categories.
The code governed the pattern of social relation
until its provisions
were amended and replaced by the New Civil Code
(Naya Muluki Ain) in 1963.
National Dalit Commission
(NDC) defines Dalit community and cast based
untouchability as "community who have been left
behind in social, economic, educational,
political and religious
sphere and deprived of human dignity and social
justice due to the cast based discrimination and
untouchability." "Cast based untouchability'
refers to those community, who have been
discriminated against as water polluting or
touching whom requires purification,
untouchables or any community that was
identified as untouchable before the
promulgation of the new Civic Code, 1963." Based
on these definitions, NDC tentatively identified
22 Dalit castes, including 5 from the Hill and
17 from the Terai.
Dalit communities have
scattered all over Nepal. However, the Central
and the Western Development Regions, which
comprise 27% and 24% of the total Dalit
population, have more Dalit
population than other development regions.
Likewise, Dalit population is denser in the
Terai region than the hill and mountain regions.
The population density of Brahmin and Chhetri,
who are spread in the mountain and hill regions
in all the development regions, is more
pronounced in the mid and far western
development regions. They comprise more than
27.8 percent and 39.2% of the population in Mid
Western and Far Western Development regions
Dalit communities have
scattered all over Nepal. However, the Central
and the Western Development Regions, which
comprise 27% and 24% of the total Dalit
population, have more Dalit population than
other development regions. Likewise, Dalit
population is denser in the Terai region than
the hill and mountain regions. The population
density of Brahmin and Chhetri, who are spread
in the mountain and hill regions in all the
development regions, is more pronounced in the
mid and far western development regions. They
comprise more than 27.8 percent and 39.2% of the
population in Mid Western and Far Western
Development regions respectively.
3. Madheshi
are two geographical definitions in Nepal; one
that extends to a trans-national region, the
other specifically limited to Nepal. The first
and more general definition includes the long
and narrow strip of plains abutting the
Himalayan foothills at the way from Uttar
Pradesh through Nepal. The second definition
includes only the plains region adjacent to the
foothills within Nepal's national boundaries.
This foothill is called the Siwalik or sometimes
Churia range.
In 1963, the government
established 75 districts in the country and the
previously 17 districts in Terai
were restructured into 20 districts which also
included part of Siwalik/ Churia range and
hills. All the
Terai districts have varying proportion of
Siwalik and mid-mountain areas, the highest
being 77.5% in
Nawalparasi district, 51.5% in Chitwan district,
50.8% in Banke district and 41% in Kailali
district to the lowest 8.9% in Sunsari district
and about 7% in Jhapa district; the average
being 32.4% for the 20 Terai districts.
Madheshi experts claim
that the word Terai has been a symbol of
colonial mindset of some dominant
groups in Nepal resulting from what Dr. Fredrick
Gaige referred as a process of "Nepalization" of
Madhesh. From the time of formation of New Nepal
there have been literally uncountable usages of
word "Madhesh", both authoritative and general.
Prithvi Narayan Shah's letter to Bhagavanta Nath
mentioned, "..boundaries have been extended to
the Kankai river in the Madhesh and.." or the
administrative establishments such as "Madhesh
Bandebast Adda" or "Madhesh Report Niksari" or
"Kumarichok Madhesh Pahila Phant", or "Bhot,
Parbat and Madhesh" in Birta Confiscation Act.
In pre-1950 era, word Madhesh was always
preferred in authoritative and legal documents.
The Madheshis are the
indigenous "non-hill origin" inhabitants of the
Tarai. Madheshi includes indigenous ethnic
nationalities as the Tharus, Rajbanshis, Meches,
Koches, Dhimals and other tribes as well as
peoples of different Hindu caste groups whose
religious traditions, languages, social
lifestyle and customs, food and clothes are
similar to those of the people living in the
Indo-Gangetic plains of India. Madheshis are
residents of Madhesh sharing the correlated
regional, cultural and lingual space of Madhesh.
The Madheshi community is
composed of the traditional Hindu caste
hierarchy such as Brahmin,
Kshatriya, Baisya and Dalits, and indigenous
Janjati ethnic groups, other native tribes and
Gaige (1975) used the terms 'hill people' and
'plains people' living in Tarai districts, and
defined a)
"plains people are those who speak plains
languages as their mother tongues or first
language, whether
they were born or live in the plains or hills";
the plains languages being Maithili, Bhojpuri,
Awadhi, Urdu, Hindi and Bengali, and dialects of
these languages used by Janjati groups, and b)
"hill people whose mother tongue or first
language is one that predominates in the hill
region of Nepal such as Nepali, Newari, Magar,
Gurung, Rai and others.
The Madheshi community is
composed of the traditional Hindu caste
hierarchy such as Brahmin, Kshatriya, Baisya and
Dalits, indigenous Janjati ethnic groups, and
other native tribes and Muslims. According to
the National Census of 2001, 59 castes and
ethnic groups are identified in Madhesh. Baisya,
Yadav and other Hindu caste group share 44.3% of
the total Madheshi population followed by
Indigenous (27.5%), Muslims (13.2%) and Dalits
4. Religious
is a country cradled in the southern slopes of
the Himalayas with an enchanting variety of
topographical features which are responsible for
its unique culture and religious environments.
Terai region of Nepal is a strip which merges
into the plains of the India. The Terai is
bounded on the
north by the gentle ridges of the Siwaliks or
Churia ranges followed by the higher Mahabharat
All along the north side
of the Kathmandu valley the vast panorama of
snow-covered Himalayan ranges
stands in full view. Nepal is thus nestled in
the lap of the Himalayas between India on the
south and China on the north. This geographical
and geo-physical environment resulted in turning
Nepal into a variety of reservoir of cultural
currents that flowing from both groups of people
who migrated from India and China. Nepal,
however, assimilated the cultural crosscurrents
and transformed them into something original
which getting blended with its own cultural
tradition and heritage became distinctly
indigenous to Nepal. Thus, a cultural synthesis
took place which is evident in all spheres of
Nepalese life including religion.
Religion occupies an
integral position in Nepalese life and society.
In the early 1990s, Nepal was the only
constitutionally declared Hindu state in the
world; there was, however, a great deal of
intermingling of Hindu and Buddhist beliefs.
Many of the people regarded as Hindus in the
1981 census could, with as much justification,
be called Buddhists. The fact that Hindus
worshipped at Buddhist temples and Buddhists
worshipped at Hindu temples has been one of the
principal reasons
adherents of the two dominant groups in Nepal
have never engaged in any overt religious
Because of such dual faith
practices (or mutual respect), the differences
between Hindus and Buddhists have been in
general very subtle and academic in nature.
However, in 2001, approximately 80.62 percent of
the Nepalese people identified themselves as
Hindus. Buddhists and Muslims comprised only
10.74 and 4.20 percent, respectively.
The geographical
distribution of religious groups revealed a
preponderance of Hindus, accounting for
at least 87 percent of the population in every
region. The largest concentrations of Buddhists
found in the eastern hills, the Kathmandu
Valley, and the central Tarai; in each area
about 10 percent of the people were Buddhist.
Buddhism was relatively more common among the
Newar and Tibeto-Nepalese groups.
Among the Tibeto-Nepalese,
those most influenced by Hinduism were the Magar,
Sunwar, and Rai peoples. Hindu influence was
less prominent among the Gurung, Limbu, Bhote,
and Thakali groups, who continued to employ
Buddhist monks for their religious ceremonies.
Linguistic minorities
is home to four language families (Indo-Aryan,
Tibeto-Burman, Austro-Asiatic and Dravidian),
although the latter two families are spoken by
numerically insignificant populations. It is a
popular and widespread misconception that a
one-to-one parity between ethnicity and language
exists. Reliable nation-wide linguistic data
does not exist, but published surveys focusing
on specific regions give scholars reason to
trust the higher estimates.
The National Census of
2001 reports 92 known languages and a handful
unidentified ones, while the experts offers a
total figure of 120 languages in Nepal. Aside
from Nepali, the 'language of the nation' and
the only 'official language', which is
reportedly spoken as a mother tongue by 48.61%
of the total population (CBS 2001), and Maithili
(another Indo-Aryan language) spoken as a mother
tongue by 12.3% of Nepal's citizens, Nepal's
'national languages' all have speakers numbering
under 10% of the total population. The most
numerous mother tongue languages spoken by
indigenous peoples are Tamang (5.19%), Newar
(3.63%) and Magar (3.39%), as reported in the
2001 census.
According to census data collected in 2001,
Nepal's 92 languages belong to four language
families; Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan,
Austro-Asiatic and Dravidian. Kusunda is a
language isolate and its
genetic affiliation is yet to be determined. The
Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-European language
family is the largest group in terms of speaker
numbers in Nepal, at around 80%. The genetic
affiliation of some Indo-Aryan languages such as
Tharu, Bote, Majhi, Kumal, Darai, and Danuwar
are yet to be identified. The Tibeto-Burman
group within the Sino-Tibetan family of
languages is represented by more than 57
languages in Nepal, the largest number of
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She'd been knocked around for weeks by Simon Cowell, but Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber turned that all around, insisting the Irish songbird switch from what he described as the ''girly'' ballad ''All I Ask of You'' to the raucous, rousing title track from Jesus Christ Superstar. ''You've got to go for a song you can inhabit!'' the guest mentor exclaimed, and indeed, Carly did exactly that, detonating her nerves and delivering a blistering vocal that had Simon smiling, Paula on her feet, and Carly's fan base finally getting the performance they'd been expecting all season long.
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On May 18, Crimean Tatars will mark the 70th anniversary of Surgun - the day of mourning commemorating Joseph Stalin's deportation of more than 230,000 Crimean Tatars to Siberia and Uzbekistan as punishment for their alleged collaboration with the Nazi occupation. More than 100,000 of the deportees perished in the process.
Today, two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the peninsula's indigenous people are once again faced with the same dilemma.
First, a few facts about the current predicament of Crimean Tatars, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group whose historic homeland has suddenly been annexed by Russia.
On March 15, a day before the so-called referendum on the status of Crimea, a 39-year-old Tatar named Reshat Ametov was found dead after missing for several days. His body carried clear signs of torture: His head was wrapped with Scotch tape, and his legs were shackled.
His family said he had participated in protests against the seizure of the regional parliament by an unknown armed group, which Russian President Vladimir Putin later admitted was a Russian special forces unit. Police loyal to Moscow registered his cause of death as a traffic accident, but almost all Crimean Tatars heard the signal: Disloyalty to Russia would come at a price.
On March 31, a 14-year-old Tatar boy was beaten up by two Russian passers-by for speaking on the phone in the Tatar language. The incident occurred in the wake of calls by some Russians to discourage the use of the Tatar language and deport them again.
On May 6, a member of the Crimean Tatars' self-governing body was beaten by Russian "samooborona" militants in Simferopol after they stopped his car and demanded to see his documents. He refused to follow their orders, arguing that they were an illegal armed group, acting on behalf of Crimea's new rulers and using intimidation tactics to frighten and subdue their opponents.
More recently, veteran Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzemilev, a Soviet-era dissident who spent 15 years in prison and survived several hunger strikes, was twice denied entry to Crimea. Again, Russian "self-defence groups" prevented him from returning home.
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Those incidents caused Dzemilev to describe the situation in Crimea as a "Russian-style democracy" characterised by total arbitrariness.
But now, as the world has seemingly accepted - if not recognised - the annexation of Crimea, Moscow enters a new phase in pursuing its Crimean policy. Now, its aim is to shatter the Tatars - especially their main political body, the Mejlis. The Russian political system is moving now in the direction of ruling out any dissent countrywide, but in Crimea especially.
Crimean Tatars, though largely neglected by Ukrainian authorities in the past 20 years, nevertheless enjoyed a relatively wide range of freedoms in dealing with Kiev. They were allowed to pursue their own goals within Ukraine's political system without being subordinated to it. But in Putin's Russia, they simply have to forget it - the question isn't whether they will become obedient, but when.
Moscow has already shown it will take a tougher stance on Crimean Tatars unless they start collaborating with the new authorities. Rustam Minnikhanov, the Putin-friendly president of Tatarstan - another Tatar enclave in Russia's Volga region - has said the time for negotiations is coming to an end, and that the Mejlis would lose the opportunity to resolve Crimean Tatars' problems with the Russian government.
Psychological pressure is also on the rise. Several reports have claimed that if Tatarstan fails to influence Crimean Tatars in favour of Russia, Moscow will turn to another loyal Muslim leader, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, and engage his devoted armed guards to "change" Tatar minds in Crimea. Although those reports are rather speculative and may have been leaked with the purpose of frightening people, Kadyrov's rhetoric on Crimea remains quite militant and aggressive.
All this is a harsh reality for Crimean Tatars, especially for the younger generation, who were raised in a different environment. Many of them now refuse to accept Russian rule, think about emigration, or issue calls to resist the oppression.
So in the run-up to the 70th anniversary of their deportation by Stalin, Crimean Tatars now confront a new dilemma - whether to accept absolute Russian dominance or leave their homeland - to which they fought for so many years to return.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- That's a clever response by the folks at musicFIRST.
. @Rocco_TheStreet @ascap @bmi memo to Rocco's boss: he feels there is too much emphasis on paychecks #justFYI— musicFIRST (@musicFIRST) June 24, 2013
I took it like the good sport I am; however the message compelled me to make an attempt to boil down the war between Pandora (P) and the music industry. This, of course, is an evolving process with Things Keep Getting Worse For Pandora the latest installment. That piece offers context for the specific things I think Pandora must do better now.
The Twitter exchange with musicFIRST provides an excellent opportunity to highlight one of the music industry's biggest shortcomings as well as an area where Pandora has failed to properly execute.Absolutely, there's too much emphasis on the paycheck, at least paychecks from royalties. That's not where most individual acts and bands make their money. Never have, never will. For them and their advocates to focus almost exclusively on royalties is shortsighted. And it shortchanges musicians who could more effectively work with platforms such as Pandora to cultivate additional lines of revenue. An analogy to illustrate this bigger picture thinking: I work for TheStreet. Would I like to make more money? Why not? Do I think I should make more money? I guess, but I don't think about it much. Stepping back and looking at what it means to be part of TheStreet, I choose to look beyond the salary the company pays me. Working for TheStreet opens up so many other avenues of opportunity. I recognize this. I take advantage of them as best as I can. You have to realize the power of what you're part of. When I started working for TheStreet the number of people paying attention to what I write skyrocketed. This elevated exposure, without doubt, prompted CNBC to call me. The somewhat frequent CNBC appearances led to a call from CNN, where I now appear frequently. This all circles back to more exposure not only for me, but TheStreet and loads of surreal experiences that, knock on wood, continue unabated and become even more dreamlike (thanks to the Pages thesaurus there). That's not a perfect analogy, but it works to articulate the notion that musicFIRST and the other folks who obsess over Pandora vis-à-vis royalties need to ratchet down the rhetoric as much as Pandora does. Look past your nose. Look at the reality of the situation. Royalties serve a select few; they're not going to do a whole lot to improve the quality of life or further the career of your local indie artist. Also see Pandora in Talks With Music Industry Over Royalties for an update.
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Introducing our children to other cultures is something that my husband and I wanted to prioritize from the very beginning. Whether it be dolls, art, books, toys or even room decor, I am always looking for ways to bring 'the world' into our home.
Oopsy Daisy's Fine Art for Kids has always been a favorite of mine. Their canvas wall art is unlike the 'typical' children's art out there. It's unique, bright, colorful and appealing to all ages.
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Parisian Facade
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"Le Woof!" Paris wouldn't be Paris without a pretty Purple Poodle now would it?
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Another: continuing to start Sapperson with their league-leading bad interior D, when a stud defender like Favors is available. (But, but, but, those guys helped the Jazz outscore the Spurs in the 3q the other night donchya know (after allowing a 19 point lead)).
And it is silly for some people here to say that Kanter is 100X better then Koufos when it is absolutely not true. He may have better potential but at this point of their career Kosta is better and it is not even arguable. Stats, head to head meetings, whatever you look at - so far everything supports that.
"The Jazz treat defence like most 2-year-olds treat nap time, which is to say they would rather it not exist" - Toronto Sun after Jazz lost to Raptors 104-123.
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Koufos is a borderline starter (and definitely a rotation big), but he's making only $3mm per over the next 3 seasons (the 3rd season is only guaranteed for $500k). That's an absolute steal for Denver.
And getting a player with a good NBA body, has a good head on his shoulders, works hard, and has shown touch at the, what, 22nd pick in a draft is a steal, too (even if Batum and Ibaka were bigger steals).
I would love to know the negotiating point where Koufos came up and who asserted that he should go to Minnesota. I thought it was dumb then, and it looks a lot dumber now (not taking into consideration the existing logjam). Also, remember how shallow the big rotation was after the Jazz got Jefferson and before they traded D Will. It's no coincidence that Francisco Elson and Kyrylo Fesenko haven't been able to really find any teams.