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Yesterday (and today) AME brought you a list of local artists playing at SXSW 2012. Now it's time for the really big names as we list our recommendations for national acts coming through town during this exciting week.
The Belle Brigade
Not sure if you're aware, but The Belle Brigade's self-titled debut was one of the best records of 2011. The L.A.-based, brother/sister duo are coming to SXSW 2012 to build off of last year's momentum. They are playing Mike Galaxy's 13th Annual Day Party on Thursday, March 15th at 4 PM. See the rest of the lineup here.
Friday, March 16th, 8:20 PM, Home Slice Pizza - A special secret show!
Saturday, March 17th, 10 PM, Clive Bar – The Belle Brigade performs in a lineup that includes Greylag, Kids These Days, Lissy Trullie and Graffiti6.
Of Montreal
Kevin Barnes' prolific, eclectic, ambitious indie rock institution will also be at Emo's East for the Polyvinyl Records Party on Thursday, March 15th. They are headlining a line-up that includes Deerhoof, Japandroids with Owen, Les Bonhommes and Dusted. That starts at 8 PM.
Saturday, March 17th, 6 PM, Clive Bar – The band is on at 6 PM as part of S.O.Terik Now.Art! Showcase. You can RSVP here, but beware: RSVP does not guarantee admission. Show up early.
If I may be terribly pretentious, I knew New York symphonic pop trio fun. was special nearly three years ago when their debut album, Aim and Ignite, contained some of the best music of 2009. Now the band is back with their second record, Some Nights, and a big hit in "We Are Young." That single signals the sophomore effort's more electronic, synth-based approach. Looks like fun. is well on its way to stardom, so expect their Friday, March 16 set at Stubb's (11:00 PM) for the Paradigm Showcase to be pretty packed. They'll play with a packed lineup: Ed Sheeran, Of Monsters and Men, Avalanche City, Delta Spirit, Elle King, Devin, The Drums, The Pierces and The Ting Tings.
There are a lot of other chances to see fun. Here's the full line-up:
Wednesday March 14th, 2:50 – 3:20 PM, Warner Sound @ La Zona Rosa (More Info: http://thewarnersound.com/sxsw)
5PM – 5:30 PM, Acoustic Set at Waterloo Records (More Info: http://www.facebook.com/events/327113777326232/)
10PM – 10:40 PM, KROX Showcase at 1100 Warehouse (More Info: http://www.krox.com/Concerts/Details.aspx?ConcertID=160674)
Thursday March 15th, 4PM, Woodies Festival @ Red River & 1st Street (More Info / Stream Online: http://www.mtv.com/ontv/woodieawards/2012/)
M. Ward and The Shins
This one's easy. The annual free shows at Auditorium Shores are always a treat, and this year there are notable guests on each night. However, the Thursday, March 15th lineup is this editor's personal favorite. Dirty blues duo Little Hurricane will open the show at 5:45 PM, then it's on to one of America's greatest modern singers, songwriters and guitarists. M. Ward has been busy with She & Him and Monsters of Folk for the past few years, but he'll be playing tracks from his forthcoming, new solo release A Wasteland Companion at the Shores.
And if we're talking about forthcoming, anticipated releases, The Shins' long-awaited fourth album Port of Morrow will drop on March 20th. That means James Mercer (speaking of great modern singer/songwriters) has an opportunity five days prior on Thursday to show the new songs. And the new band, as Mercer has effectively re-built The Shins since 2007′s great Wincing The Night Away.
The Beatles Complete on Ukelele
Appropriately, this one's open for everyone. From noon to 6 PM at Hickory Street on Thursday, March 15th, Ukelele master and record producer Roger Greenawalt is going to play all 185 songs in The Beatles catalog. Holy crap. A backing band/rotating cast of guest musicians (including Kat Edmonson, Suzanna Choffel, Nakia, Lovely Liar, Leah Siegel, Gary Marcus, Lovely Liar and more) will back him up. The public is invited to join (if they can uke it up) for the Uke Mob on the first three songs. Free, no RSVP required.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
This goes out to Badge and Wristband holders only. And, honestly, even if you have one of those it's gonna be hard to get in. It is the opinion of your editor that other than Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen is the best rock musician America has ever produced. He's going to be the keynote speaker for 2012 on March 15th, and that's going on at the Austin Convention Center. But that night he'll play one of his legendary, probably 3-hour concerts. The chance to see an "intimate" concert with the E Street Band is not to be missed. Especially as they're going to be playing material from the recently-released Wrecking Ball, the best album Springsteen has released in a decade. The venue is still being kept under wraps, and tickets must be obtained via entrance into a special raffle drawing. You can read the rules here. Good luck.
But if you don't get into see Springsteen, don't fret. Obviously, there's a plethora of great things to pick from here. Chart your course and rock on.
Stay tuned to AME for more SXSW details.


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The august Roseland Ballroom had Lady Gaga get all wistful over the impending closure, it was quite a moment for the music fans who have drunk on the music that was born within its walls, it was quite a moment. In that sense, the "Poker Face" musician is in for a residency program. When she ends it, Roseland would call it a day too.

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The term "dream" is not easy to use, particularly when discussing business. Some could say it's clearly a cliché, both difficult to define and too vague to clearly express a business concept. Often people resent being associated with such an ethereal term, feeling that it belittles the seriousness of their business activities. Yet a dream is a catchy image that best describes what ignites our imagination and desires.
A company's creativity can transform common products into dreams. For example, today Levi's jeans are about as far from the coal miners' trousers as you can get, Nike sneakers are a lifestyle statement more than exercise shoes, the movie "Titanic" is far more than a well-documented story on the ship's tragic sinking, and Viagra represents much more than just an anti-impotence pill.
Connecting with the customer's imagination has become an obligatory path to business success. They are no longer content just satisfying their needs-they want to fulfill their dreams.
When attempting to create a product that you hope will fulfill your customers' dreams, keep the following points in mind:
- Interpret the spirit of time to understand which dreams will
capture the customer. Dreams are shaped by culture. It was the
"flower-power" generation's love for the underdog
that created a cultlike emotional following for the Volkswagen
Beetle. The baby boomers' desire for independence and freedom
cinched success for the Sony Walkman and Nike sneakers.
Artists, people of culture, scientists and thinkers foresee and often provoke the changes that shape a culture. By integrating their intuition into an organization, a company can better tune into the times. Just as artists search endlessly and randomly for inspiration, a company should constantly explore unrelated fields and approach business eclectically in order to create dreams. It's hardly surprising that the companies with the most eclectic approach to business are ground-breakers when it comes to initiating trends and tastes.
- Create products and services designed and engineered to
convey intense emotions. Companies cannot survive merely
satisfying consumer needs. Today, most companies can provide
zero-defect products that perfectly perform their function. This is
no longer a differentiating quality that, on its own, can sway the
customer. Companies that rely strictly on marketing and discounts
to promote otherwise common products will never win any emotional
hold on their customers' minds. To achieve the type of
commercial success that establishes a brand for years to come, a
company has to infuse emotional qualities that connect with
customers' strongest desires into its products and
- Practice "dreamketing." No matter how
fantastic a product is, it cannot stand alone to represent a dream.
A Ferrari in the potholed hell of a city traffic jam is anything
but a dream. A dream is not a product, it is an experience.
Reaching the market is no longer enough: We have to touch (in an emotional sense) our customers' imagination. The first concern of the "dreamketer" should be to create an evocative and seductive brand, one that can spark desire and set the customer's mood. Since customers should never be awakened from their dreams, the dreamketer should ensure that the company's communication, distribution, special events and any type of customer relations consistently support the brand's mission to build that dream in customers' minds.
- Choose the customer. There is a fundamental difference
between a customer and a consumer. The consumer is a statistic, a
hypothetical figure symbolizing millions of indistinct people who
mechanically buy goods for their functional and utilitarian worth.
A customer, on the other hand, is an identifiable individual, with
a specific personality and highly selective and distinct tastes,
who is emotionally bound to the company's creations. Being a
consumer or a customer is a question of purchasing attitude. The
same person could be both a customer and a consumer. After all, a
company is only as worthy as its customers are.
- Choose a creator. To surprise customers'
imaginations, you must prophesy what they will want tomorrow. The
inspiration must come from within the company. A company must
develop, at all levels of the organization, a culture that actively
promotes original experimentation and aesthetic research. For this
to happen, it must hire creators who can lead the organization
toward an original and recognizable company taste. Products and
services cannot be revolutionary: Customers have to be ready for
them. It's up to the creators to heed their aesthetic
sensitivity in determining which dreams can become commercial
- Support creators with a creative organization. Creators
alone cannot create dreams. They can provide the vision and the
inspiration, but dreams are not made by a single person. Dreams are
emotional experiences that require many ancillary activities
performed by many gifted people. To create dreams, creators must be
supported by a group of individuals with profound product knowledge
who can crystallize the vision and the ideas into products and
services that exalt the customers' desires. Creativity is the
most important quality for achieving business success (or any type
of success, for that matter), and companies selling dreams are key
examples to which any type of industry should turn to learn how to
enhance this most precious and scarce resource.
- Seize any possible chance to magnify the customer's
perceived added value. Art, which appeals mostly to our
emotions, is the foremost example of the maximization of added
value: Consider the astronomical prices paid for some colors on a
cheap canvas painted by a famous artist. Since a company that sells
a dream is actually selling an experience rather that simply a
product, it has several chances to influence its customers'
perception of added value.
Chateau Rothschild is a perfect example of this concept. It is one of the best wines in the world, and its beautiful labels are nearly as prized as the outstanding contents of its bottles. To achieve long-lasting financial well-being, companies must welcome impulse and steer clear of typical short-term pressures form shareholders and analysts. A company must build a financial structure that allows risk-taking. The role of the financial manager should not be to help a company avoid risks, but rather to enable it to take the risks. With no risks, there are no dreams, since dreams, by definition, are never born of the norm.
Excerpt from: Selling Dreams How To Make Any Product Irresistible by Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni (Simon & Schuster)
Geoff Williams has written for numerous publications, including Entrepreneur, Consumer Reports, LIFE and Entertainment Weekly. He also is the author of Living Well with Bad Credit.
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New rules for the de-accessioning of objects from New York collecting institutions and regulation of the use of the funds from disposed items are the highlights of legislation being sponsored by Assemblyman Steve Englebright. The bill would require collecting institutions to adopt and publish a binding collection management policy and mission statement. Nothing in the bill would prevent institutions from changing or amending their policies, which they currently have the ability to do.
"Each collecting institution shall accession all items in its possession that are consistent with its mission statement and collection management policy. This bill emphasizes the fact that institutions are required to accession only those items that are consistent with their mission," said Englebright.
The legislation would require collecting institutions to publish a register of all items in their collection. They would have three years to place items already in their collection on the register, and all items acquired after the effective date of this bill would be placed on the register immediately.
The legislation states that items may be deaccessioned only if certain criteria have been met: the item is inconsistent with the mission of the collecting institution; the item has failed to retain its identity; the item is redundant; the item's preservation and conservation needs are beyond the capacity of the collecting institution to provide; the deaccession of the item refines the collection management policy; or it has been established that the item is inauthentic.
This bill directs the Board of Regents to create a Web site on which institutions would be required to post items they are deaccessioning. "Creating a Web site in which the institutions are required to post items they are deaccessioning appears in the legislation as a good move. The idea of the Web site is that when you do the deaccessioning, it should be a very self-conscious and transparent process," said Englebright.
"Proceeds from the disposal of deaccessioned items may be used for the acquisition of another item for the collecting institution's collection and/or for the preservation and protection of an item in the collection. Proceeds may never be used for customary operating expenses," said Englebright.
While the bill bans the use of an item for future collateral agreement, it does not interfere with collateral agreements already in effect.
The Board of Regents will have the authority to enforce the provisions of this law. Additionally, the Board of Regents is authorized to study and report to the governor whether collecting institutions should include buildings in their collection.
"I think the bill, when it becomes law, will establish a structure for decision making that is more formalized and will enable a greater sense of self-consciousness on the part of boards of trustees of these institutions. I think that this will tend to have a stabilizing effect upon the great cultural pressures of the estate that are in the care of the institutions, and I think the trustees and the curators will take their responsibilities seriously, and the presence of the law will basically be an assistance to them," explained Englebright.
"The state of New York has the finest collecting institutions in the world, giving the people of the state and visitors an unequaled opportunity to experience the world's cultural, artistic, historical, natural history, and scientific heritage. These collecting institutions exist across the state, range in size from the smallest to the largest institutions in the world, and are all creatures of state government," said Englebright, in justifying his legislation.
"Some are directly chartered by the legislature, and some by the Board of Regents, but all are subject to the public interest as set forth in law, regulation, charter requirements, and sound collecting institution practice as set forth by collecting institution associations and accreditation organizations. This legislation is intended to assure and enhance the continuing interest of collecting institutions in abiding by and protecting the public interest. It should be noted that just because an institution owns items does not mean those items are part of a collection that would be covered by this legislation. Items only become part of a collection when they are accessioned by an institution. And they are only required to be accessioned when they fulfill the mission of the institution as laid out in its mission statement."
He continued, "There is a need for clarification and standards with respect to the ways collecting institutions acquire, hold, and dispose of property, especially property that is part of their collections. The need for such improvement in state policy and practices is of longstanding concern but has been highlighted by the recent and widely discussed increase in financial pressure on cultural institutions.
"The requirements of this bill are necessary to protect the cultural, artistic, historical, and scientific heritage of the state, and the public interest; are consistent with longstanding professional standards set forth by the collecting institution community; and are consistent with the statutory and constitutional responsibilities of the legislature and the Board of Regents.
"My bill provides a general framework of understanding that would be helpful in that those curators would know that any proceeds from sales would have to be put back into the collection rather than used for general operating support.
"What happened very often in the past, there would be some surplus activity and then the money is used up. It isn't used to replace in a thematic way something that built the institutional purpose or the collections theme. So they would have to do that if this becomes law. I think that strengthens the hands of those who are on the curatorial side of this institution, be they trustees or be they curators. The idea of this legislation is basically saying if you have a collection, try to maintain that collection. If you refine the collection through a process of deaccessioning, the proceeds have to go back into the collection," said Assemblyman Englebright.


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Trucking Gets Serious About Social Media
by Chris Bahn
Posted 3/25/2013 12:00 am
Updated 2 years ago
P.A.M. Transport Inc. of Tontitown had about 20 positions featured in its most updated online jobs postings for non-drivers.
Scan the alphabetized listing and you'll see pretty much what you would expect from a company that provides nationwide trucking and transportation services for the manufacturing, retail and automotive industries. Help wanted included accounts payable/receivable positions, a dispatcher, HR help, lead inspectors, maintenance coordinators and all the usual jobs you'd associate with a company of this scope and size.
Get down into the "S" category, though, and you might be surprised at what you find. Here's a sampling of the 208-word job description for the newly created social media specialist:
"The right candidate must possess a solid understanding of the social media universe including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, MySpace, and blogs … ."
Pinterest? Isn't that where sorority girls and moms post shopping wish lists and recipes?
YouTube? That's the place people go for videos of keyboard-playing cats, right?
Well, yes.
But Pinterest, YouTube and those other social media spaces are also great marketing and communication tools. And as anybody who has ever worked to recruit and retain drivers will tell you, marketing and communication are critical to success. (Side note: You won't always read about driver recruiting and retention in this column, but finding and keeping qualified employees is something that comes up a lot in conversations with folks in this industry.)
Finding new and creative ways to reach current and future employees is the ultimate goal here. Like any other company, P.A.M. sees the value in delivering a message where its employees are spending their time and getting their information.
The frequency of drivers picking up printed industry materials in a truck stop is declining. But Facebook use? That's on the rise for truckers as it is for people all over the world.
Consider that Facebook announced earlier this year its mobile audience had eclipsed desktop users for the first time in its history. A record 680 million users log on via smartphone or tablet each month and those numbers will continue to climb.
No driver-specific totals are available for Facebook or mobile use, but you'd have to think in an industry where many employees are on the road for sometimes weeks at a time, there's an audience there.
Dan Kee, assistant vice president of driver resources for P.A.M., points to a statistic he picked up at a recent seminar in Nashville, Tenn. Kee said participants were told that about "650,000 people on Twitter identify as truck drivers or truckers."
"That's a pretty big audience right there," Kee said.
P.A.M. isn't alone in working to establish an online community for its employees. Noticing peers use these tools successfully and seeing the success a third-party recruiting firm has had with social media convinced P.A.M. leadership a social media position was a must.
Maverick Transportation, which is headquartered in North Little Rock, has 2,430 "likes" on its Facebook page. Content featured is a mix of driver-submitted photos from the road, company videos, kudos to the company's top drivers and even a happy birthday post for CEO Steve Williams.
Distributing information is only part of what an online presence means. Perhaps most importantly, it provides an avenue to listen to employees.
These are great tools for conversation, something that is needed with so many employees working outside of P.A.M.'s corporate headquarters.
"Social media sometimes gets thought of as only the way to blast a message. That's half of it," HR manager Tyler Majors said. "One of the biggest things for us in driver recruitment and retention is listening. What this does, it gives people an opportunity to post their concerns, pros, cons, and it allows us as an organization to listen and respond. It's a two-way street."
(In case you are wondering, no salary range has been set for P.A.M.'s social media specialist. The company promises it will be "competitive.")


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The Daily Gift: Camo-Soled Sneakers for the Urban Jungle
Each day until Christmas, the editors of T share a new holiday gift idea.
November 13, 2014, Thursday
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Elite Runners Serve as Muses for Shoe Design
At a laboratory near Boston, top athletes are tested and observed as part of the shoe design process.
November 3, 2014, Monday
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Adidas Can't Afford to Be Sentimental About Reebok
Adidas overpaid for Reebok in 2006, making it tempting for it to try to hang onto the brand. But if a good offer materialized, it would be hard to resist on financial grounds, writes Olaf Storbeck in Reuters Breakingviews.
October 20, 2014, Monday
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Pick a Color, Any Color, and Step One Is Done
Smart pairings make fall dressing easy; A new Ronnie Fieg sneaker salutes 9/11 heroes and more shopping news.
October 16, 2014, Thursday
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Converse Sues to Protect Its Chuck Taylor All Stars
The footwear maker is filing trademark infringement lawsuits against 31 retailers, including Walmart, Kmart and Skechers, to protect core design elements.
October 15, 2014, Wednesday
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What to Wear This Week: Sept. 29
This week it will be warm enough for ankle-barring slacks that make slip-on sneakers the focus, yet cool enough to appreciate the closed toe.
September 29, 2014, Monday
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Espadrille-Style Sneakers at Marni
The fashion label's sporty shoes made noise on today's runway.
September 21, 2014, Sunday
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Lil Buck
A jook dancer on the philosophy of being formless, eating vegan in Memphis and wearing out his dancing sneakers in two and a half weeks.
September 14, 2014, Sunday
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No Canvas, No Leather: A Reboot for the Sneaker
Unconventional footwear materials, like Tyvek, are offering a new take on the minimalist shoe trend.
August 31, 2014, Sunday
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To commemorate the new digs, the Valentino creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccoli are debuting a limited edition pair of Rockrunner sneakers inspired by the "I Love New York" emblem.
August 27, 2014, Wednesday
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July 11, 2013
RENO, Nev. - Recently announced University of Nevada head baseball coach Jay Johnson named Dave Lawn and Mark Kertenian to his coaching staff on Thursday. Lawn is the Pack's new pitching coach and Kertenian will work with the position players.
" I am very excited about the coaching staff we were able to put in place," Johnson said. "Both of them have a great ability to recruit and develop players at a very high level. Our current players, recruits, and entire program will benefit from having Dave and Mark, here. They have an excellent baseball pedigree and are great people. Having coach Lawn as our pitching coach is a huge deal for our program. For our pitchers to have the opportunity to work with someone who has had so much success in developing future major league pitchers is a great opportunity for them. Mark has a great knack for recruiting and developing a great rapport with players. I have no doubt that they will gravitate towards his great personality and teaching style and make huge strides in their development because of him."
Lawn returns to Nevada where he began his coaching career as the Pack's pitching coach. From 1988-90 as a graduate assistant he worked with the Wolf Pack hurlers.
"I'm excited to return to the University of Nevada where I began my coaching career," Lawn said. "I'm looking forward to the opportunity to work with coach Johnson."
After his time at Nevada he worked at Cal for 10 seasons, five as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator and five as associate head coach for the Golden Bears. He helped Cal reach the 1992 College World Series and make three regional appearances. During his time at Cal he coached 11 players who went on to play Major League Baseball.
In 2000 he was named the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Southern California and spent eight seasons working with the Trojan baseball program. While at USC the Trojans reached the 2001 College World Series and played in three Super Regionals. The 2001 and 2002 USC teams captured Pac-10 titles. He coached pitcher Mark Prior who won the 2001 Golden Spikes Award, Alberto Concepcion, the 2002 Pac-10 Player of the Year and Ian Kennedy, the 2005 Pac-10 Pitcher of the Year.
Lawn spent this past season as the Director of Player Development at Cal State Fullerton prior to that was the Director of Athletics at JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. He spent four seasons at the head baseball coach at Servite High School in Anaheim, Calif. from 2007-11 and 12 of his players earned division one scholarships.
Lawn received his bachelor of arts degree in political science from San Francisco State in 1987. Dave and his wife Stacey have three children Mackenzie (23), Michael (18) and Matthew (16).
Most recently Kertenian coached the East Texas Pump Jacks of the Texas Collegiate League in Kilgore, Texas. He spent 10 seasons coaching at Cal State Northridge from 2001-10 where part of his duties were as recruiting coordinator. While at CSN two of the Matadors recruiting classes ranked in the top 40. He also was the head coach of the Oahu Paddlers of the Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League and led them to the 2005 championship.
"I am very proud to be a new part of the Wolf Pack family," Kertenian said. "The University of Nevada is a first class destination for all types of students and a perfect destination for an aspiring winning baseball player."
Kertenian earned his bachelor of arts degree from Cal State Northridge and a masters of science at Azusa Pacific.
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The demise of Borders and Angus & Robertson highlights just how competitive the book retailing industry is, largely due to the growing popularity of online retailers. To see what the average Australian consumer can expect, CHOICE put a selection of book retailers to the test. We purchased three titles from the following:
We bought the same three books from each: bestseller The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson; the older, more obscure The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin; and Australian hit The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. We compared them for price (including shipping and in Australian dollars), speed of delivery and product range. We also assessed service by attempting to cancel one item eight hours after placing an online order.
Read what we found. See also the results of our 2009 survey on members' favourite online book retailers.
Readers are increasingly interested in eBooks (see our test of eBook readers). Electronic versions often cost less than their paper equivalents, but the range isn't great for Australian consumers. Of the books on our list, CHOICE was able to pay less for The Slap and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest in electronic form, but we couldn't find The Nine in our region.
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There's also the ethical advantages of shopping locally and encouraging employment at home. But online stores are catching up. Many analyse browsing or purchasing history to make personalised recommendations, circulate e-newsletters with views and reviews, encourage loyalty through online book clubs, and offer pre-orders of upcoming releases, which can be delivered to your door the day they go on sale.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
A day away from the rewrite yesterday to catch up with the journalism side.
Back to it today. Have reached the mushy middle. The bit I sneakily avoided last draft round when I decided it'd be a good idea to get the final chapters fine-tuned. I've also had to incorporate all those scenes I wrote by hand, so big chunks of dialogue have been clumsily dropped in and it's a right mess.
I did a scene summary in the newly-discovered Word Notebook Layout (great for novel notes - it's under View), then scribbled over that with the Word Scribble tool (not that I've been procrastinating or anything like that). Then I lowered the text font to save paper, tried for ages to find out how to get it into book page layout, gave up on that, printed out 40 pages and scribbled all over those. Now I'm back to cut and paste to my scribbled design. It will still read in the rubbish state but at least it'll be in order, or roughly in order. So much for my finish by the end of the week brags. A couple of weeks at least methinks. And why should agent be prioritising me when she knows it's not finished, when I told her it was a few weeks off yet. So at least I've stopped waiting on that one & am just going to get the thing done.
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
Bought some new trainers last weekend, went for a run in the park and ended up limping around for the rest of the week. After nags from a girlfriend about how bad it is for ancient people like me to run, esp on hard ground, I have gone back to walking. Thoreau used to walk for 4 hours a day, or saunter, as he preferred to call it, taking (famously exquisite) detailed notes on nature as he went. When I first heard that I took myself off on a 4-hour saunt to see what I could see. After 2 hours I found myself inside 1 London. Had driven past I don't know how many times without knowing it was there. It was virtually empty and a cheering little discovery. The day meant something and I still remember it more than 20 years later.
Living with a depressed person means I have no social life at the moment. I am going to try and get a few saunts in every week, 4 2 hour ones would be 8 hours walking a week. Flab needs fighting, can't be at computer 24/7 & I might make some discoveries I wouldn't if I was huffing and puffing around the park.
Yesterday daughter had friend staying so off I went on Saunt 1:
Plan: Walk to Harvey Nicks last day of sale, 90% off temptations.
Supplies: Moneybelt with Oyster card, Mastercard, two pound coins and a tissue.
Through back streets, outside Horrids in half an hour, onwards to Harvey Nicks. Shunning speedlift, climbed up to the Fifth Floor restaurant and food emporium via the stairs. Empty and isolated stairwell, wondered if anybody had ever been there before. Staggered into uber cool restaurant Father-Ted-like, red-faced and gasping for air. Sitting on stools at the bar, 2 ice-smart blonde women in white shirts and waistcoats having a chatty breakfast. Was going to make my way down the escalators slowly, seeing if anything with 90% off was of any interest. A non-Primark-like T-shirt perhaps for £20 instead of £200 or something. That the only ones left at this time would be bright orange with gold lettering etc was certain, but this was just a walk, it didn't matter, & a bit of stroking of non-sale Westwood, Miyake would cheer the soul (why is it non-sale stuff always looks so exquisite at this time of year?). But the escalators were all caged off, and the foodie bit too. Though the caff was open, the rest of the shop didn't open till noon. So back down I went, in the speed lift this time.
Took a no. 9 home & popped into lovely Luscious for a loaf of bread. Overheard a man ordering wheatgrass. My cousin was raving about this recently & I've looked for it but wasn't sure what I was looking for, like in a bottle? or grass in a bag? Or in a smoothie? Nothing about it on their blackboard. Could have asked, but it was more a back of mind thing. Anyhow, daughter (a Best of Both type at the best of times) raved about the oat bread & later in the day I took family back there for soup and wheatgrass shots. The shots comes in little cups, like a green espresso & taste of grasscuttings. An espresso-like buzz & very healthy-feeling.
Saunt No. 1 Results:
Wheatgrass shots
Oat Bread
Getting family out of house, I mean flat.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Thanks to Elizabeth Cook on Woman's Hour this morning.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
CONF 518: MY FUTURE IS REVEALED or WHY ASTROLOGY IS A LOAD OF ****
What this week has consisted of so far: sick hamster, tax returns, dentists, exchange of insults with white van man, orthodontist, inability to park at orthodontist's, dog poo, high tides, British Gas, very sick hamster, inability to write much.. inabilty to write anything..... hamster probably dead by now.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Have successfully managed to be out of wait mode recently but this morning, sitting in traffic jam on the A316, dropped right back into it. Ten days now, at least. Moments in agent-time but decades in waiting-author-time. I'm used to it and know all the default thoughts, it's pointless to speculate on either good or bad. This feeling never changes. It doesn't stop when you get an agent to take you on. It doesn't stop when you get a publisher to take you on. It doesn't stop when the book appears in the shops. It doesn't stop with book 2. Or book 3 or book 4. There are always going to be agonising waits be it for agent, editor, reviewer or reader. The reward has got to come from doing it no matter where you are in the food chain. To have the thing completed will be a great feeling in itself. And I know that if, for some reason, the response isn't good, I can go to a new agent. But I've found the agent I want and really hate all this having to think the worst.
Several more chapters have been added to the Novel Completed file and am on Chapter 21. With a little luck and some serious internet avoidance tactics (have you seen Property Snake?)I could be looking at the final chapters by the end of this week.
Daughter has mastered the bus/tube/bus combo and can now make her own way home. My days cruising the caffs and friends' kitchens are numbered. This is just as well as I will have to get back to work work soon. I'm writing this in the car (hotspot savvy laptopper that I am these days). I will continue taking daughter to school because I can't begin to imagine her getting herself together on her own and at least she gets breakfast in the car. The plan is to write here for an hour or so until the traffic back home into London has thinned out. Journey takes half an hour then instead of an hour. When the new novel starts it'll be 1,000 words in the driving seat (in my dreams speed-writing first draft in that half an hour slot) and then home for the rest of the day and work work - well that's the plan anyhow.
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Very many thanks for your good wishes, Anne, Liz and Anon, much appreciated. We've decided to keep on trying without the chemicals (xoDeb), having gotten so far. Thanks to Bach's flower remedies, Waitrose dim sum and white chocolate ice cream, poetry, hyacinths, alcohol & occasional good telly, the evenings are fine. The mornings are the worst. So much has been going on, other majorly things as well, it seems best to try and give nature a bit more time to correct itself. It's so obviously chemicals in the brain not working as they should.
I finally bought myself a 2gb memory stick yesterday & am lurking here at the computer whilst all my files transfer. Woops, just realised it will take 6 hours. Will continue to back the novel up with e-mail in case the stick breaks (happened to a friend's daughter only last week, she lost her essay).
This afternoon we're going to see Anthony McCall at the Serpentine Gallery. Just a short drive away and parking outside so hopefully a do-able outing.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
I expect 99% of Londoners are feeling glum today. It's one of those low-skied rainy days here without any light in it whatsoever. This, after yesterday evening's electric blue skies and lightening streaks. No news from agent, but that's really very low down the priority list. The writing is all I talk about here. I prefer to keep the goings on of my own life away from the internet, mainly for the benefit of others who are involved in it who don't wish to see themselves written up in a public diary. But the events of the past few months are catching up with me. You know those charts that list the moments in life when you're most susceptible to stress? In my house we've had them all: partner's serious illness - cancer and chemotherapy meant no work and threat of bankruptcy. The prognosis was initially very bad (liver) but this turned out to be a mistake (!) - handy hint - if ever diagnosed with liver cancer, have a separate scan in a different hospital. (In our case this was done by accident as, under the medical insurance, a choice of treatment centres were offered and we decided to switch to make the journeys for chemo easier). This all led to post-chemo clinical depression, sprinkled with scary moments where I was paying the rent and rates by Mastercard, to moving from house to one bed flat and getting rid of most of my possessions (Buddhist religion recommended) and the death of my mother (Christian religion ditto). I'm one of those survivor types and have many blessings, fantastic family and unbelievably wonderful friends, my own health, etc etc but coping with someone else's depression is the pits. The post-chemo scan showed the treatment had been successful, the financial problems have miraculously disappeared thanks to a very unexpected injection of cash, and the one bedroom flat is big and gorgeous and in one of the most beautiful parts of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. But coping with someone else's depression - whoooo arrr. Thing is, it's starting to affect me now, so to stop us all going under, it's time to obey the doctors and take the chemical cure. Let's hope it works.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
There are approximately 10,000 trillion ants in the world. One ant weighs 1 millionth of 1 human. There are approximately 6.6 billion humans in the world. The total weight of ants is therefore quite a lot more than the total weight of humans.
Edward O Wilson
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Final bits of fine-tuning now complete and the early chapters are ready to send again. I think I'll print and post rather than e-mail, with an e-mail note to say they're on their way.
One thing that bothered me. Do I have too many sentences starting with she? When I get to this final draft stage I sometimes find myself picking up books at home and opening them at a random page just to look at the 'he said,' 'she said' options. Last night I went for Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage (I love her style) and opened randomly at p187/8: She rose early... She changed into... She combed her hair... She headed down the hall... She went through the dining room foyer... She picked it up.... Another I've been looking at is Graham Greene short stories, he does it too. So it doesn't matter, hn. Time to Send.
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Monday, January 07, 2008
'Getting published is like farting at a party.'
Philip Larkin
'I try to preserve in myself a feeling as a writer that I had when I started writing; that is, anonymity, obscurity and a feeling of newness about what you're doing. Before I ever wrote a book no one was waiting for me to write a book, no one cared if I wrote a book; I was just interested in doing it. And that's how I always want to feel when I write. After you publish you're supposedly a professional, you have an editor who's waiting for your next book, an audience - all these things attach themselves, too, and if you're going to be professional you have to deal with that, but it's not what you want to think about when you're writing, and it's easier to do that outside New York.'Jeffrey Eugenides (on leaving New York in 1999 to live in Berlin)
talking to Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 5.1.07
Oh for the luxury, but I do know what he means. When I got an agent, and an editor and all the rest, it was a fantastic boost. Seeing my books in the shops obviously made me feel more like a writer than I did before. I had more confidence in myself and belief that I could get down to and complete the second novel. But there was also a time limit, and the sorry fact that my (very bright and experienced) agent didn't like it. Writing in the knowledge that it's going to be out there and read does give a more self-conscious edge to things. I don't publish under my own name, I don't write here under my own name, I'm a bit of an anonymity freak. I think writing novels has something to do with telling the truth through lying, as much as making TV docs was full of tricks and literal (film-making) untruths in order to convey the truth. If I'm not being myself I find that easier to do. Somehow I manage to kid myself I'm someone else telling the story, which gives me more freedom.
These days there's only one day of the year when I feel like a professional writer, and that's PLR day. The day the Public Lending Right people let you know how many times your books have been borrowed from public libraries and how much you are to be paid. It's truly astonishing to discover that my novels still have some kind of life out there.
Novel 1 (pub. mass market paperback 2003, current Amazon ranking 125,307)
3430 loans £205.11
Novel 2 (pub. mass market paperback 2004, current Amazon ranking 420,328)
4221 loans £252.42
Non-fiction 1 (plugged in newspaper several times a month, no royalties commission, current Amazon, 211,696)
844 loans £50.47
Non-fiction 2 (stupendously obscure, no royalties commission, current Amazon 1,638,146)
1770 loans £105.85
That'll buy me a few weeks rewrite time.
I have always loved libraries and librarians (esp when a BBC researcher) & have been really happy to rediscover my new local Kensington & Chelsea branch is as I left it a decade or so ago. We are lucky, other parts of the country aren't so. See Susan Hill's blog, January 2nd.
Now must get back to novel 3 rewrite, overdue. I don't have a contract, just interested parties, so it's better to get it absolutely right now. Hah. It's the third day of the post-Christmas rewrite and I am not getting very far. There's still the novelty of being online, re-joining Facebook, catching up on this blog, emails etc. Am also back at the beginning again. I went there to insert the new thoughts I'd had whilst doing all the 'by hand' writing when the laptop was being fixed. Chapter 1 was OK but I found Chapter 2 needed lots of fixing....
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Hey ho and Happy New Year to all fellow struggling writers everywhere.
Didn't make the rewrite completion deadline, needless to say. Should have saved text on memory stick. Should have downloaded to an online savings bank. It's there, the Final Version so far. I haven't lost it, but it's as an e-mail attachment and on a CD, neither of which I can see, textwise, or hold in my hand, paperwise. Am scared of opening the email attachment until I'm ready to save it somewhere in case I blow it.
My broadband connection finally goes on at midnight tonight. Tomorrow evening will be spent in a frazzle trying to get wireless to work. My last attempt (with partner's BT) was briefly distracted by neighbouring (seeringly successful) author's name next to mine in my Apple Airport settings. 'Look,' I squealed to family, 'She's here in my computer, Her name next to mine!' And they rushed over and we all stared at it in awe for a few seconds.
I'd still like to completely finish my own little book before sending the opening chapters again, even though they're now rewritten, but I'll see how I go. I need to go back to work work properly very soon as the coffers are low. Am still driving to school & roving the streets & my friends' toast and marmite supplies till it's time to come home again. Which means I can't. But soon will have to put daughter on the bus/train/bus regime in the mornings and it'll be Back to Work for real. Unless I get a deal. It seems so unlikely, even though I've now got a brilliant agent showing interest... Too much time from then has passed & for all I know... no NO negatives. It's just you get so used to expecting the worst.
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Got my Sorylians wrapped up finally. Overall I am pretty pleased with the models. I have to say I think I did not give the battleship justice though. It really is a lovely model.
It's been a learning experience with vallejo acrylics. I've gotten down maintaining a good consistency for base coats. However, I'm still not working out the washes quite the way I like. Bit too much pigment adhering to the elevated parts of the model and a tad too much pooling. Trying to get the excess off just right. However the highlights from drybrushing manage to make for a good touch up.
I'm excited to get this on the table. Will have to try and get a game in sometime, but my regular wargame partner is off for a long holiday in the next few weeks. Till then, I'll likely have to sit down and get around to writing up my thoughts on Firestorm Armada (short version, some kinks in the game but a lot to like). Looks like a second edition will be out soon, so I'll have to make that a priority.


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ROME, Italy - Rashawn Thomas had 17 points and 11 rebounds for his third straight double-double to lead the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team to an 80-50 win over Stella Azzurra on Thursday, Aug. 29. The Islanders wrap up their four games in Italy with a 3-1 record.
Fellow freshman Jeff Beverly posted 13 points for the Islanders, as all 12 players who saw the floor recorded baskets in the contest. Cole Martinez and Joy Williamson each had eight points for A&M-Corpus Christi, which shot 31-for-58 (.534) in the victory. The Islanders outrebounded Azzurra 44-23 as well.
Thomas added four blocks and four steals in the victory for the Islanders, while Zane Knowles had six points and eight rebounds. Jelani Currie added six points and Jake Kocher scored five.
The Islanders started the game on a roll, scoring the first 12 points of the contest to jump out to a double-digit lead in the opening minutes. Currie delivered a three-point play and Martinez knocked down a triple in the rally. Azzurra was able to battle back to bring it as close as seven, but back-to-back baskets by Williamson got it back to double figures, and the Islanders held a 24-16 lead at the end of the first, as Azzurra hit a layup at the buzzer to get it back to eight.
In the second quarter, it started all Islanders once again, as the visitors scored the first 13 points of the frame to balloon the lead to 37-16. A three-point play by Beverly and triples by James King and Brandon Pye were key in the rally. But Stella Azzurra got off the schneid with six straight points, and rallied to trim the deficit to just 13 with a minute left. The Islanders closed the half with the last three points, though, as a Williamson putback sent them to the locker room up 44-28.
The teams came out even in the third, with the Azzurra trimming the lead to 49-37. But the Islanders put together yet another massive run, this one for 13 consecutive points to head into the final quarter ahead by 25, 62-37. Beverly started the rally with a layup and scored six of the team's points in the run. A layup by Williamson capped off the rally in the quarter's final minute.
The Islanders were able to continue the momentum into the fourth, with Thomas leading the way. The freshman had the first basket of the quarter, and went on to score 11 of the Islanders' 18 points in the stanza. Stella Azzurra got no closer than 22 the rest of the way, and A&M-Corpus Christi scored the final eight points to result in a 30-point win.
This concludes the Islanders' four-game, 10-day trip to Rome, as the team will return to the United States on Friday, Aug. 30. The Islanders will begin classes next week and return to the practice court in the coming weeks, leading up to the season-opening Holiday Inn Downtown Marina Islanders Classic against Huston-Tillotson on Nov. 8.
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The independent Providence Day School (PDS) in Charlotte, North Carolina, enrolls more than 1500 students from transitional kindergarten through the 12 th grade. A faculty of 166 full-time teachers helps ensure that class size remains small. The school infuses global studies throughout the curriculum, including exchange programs with schools in Asia, Central and South America, and Europe; study trips and projects abroad; a Global Speaker Series, and more.
As at many schools, public and private, the adoption of information technology at PDS started modestly and accelerated rapidly.
"In the beginning, we had two labs with a total of 40 computers and dial-in access to the Internet," says William Stockdale, assistant director of technology at the school. "Then we started a pilot program, issuing laptops to a small group of teachers. Some people got email."
It grew quickly from there. PCs and laptops came to virtually every classroom, along with SMART Board interactive whiteboards, and email became a fact of life in schools as in all organizations. When the administration decided to issue laptops to every teacher as an everyday educational tool, the school's IT staff scrambled to set up a broadband, wireless infrastructure.
"We started with a very simple wireless network, with access points in hallways and whatnot," says Stockdale. "Service was spotty, and there was no security."
Soon came laptops on carts for student use, as well as more and more access points. As the network expanded, so too did the issues around security and reliability.
"We had people taking laptops home, bringing them back infected, and logging on," says Stockdale. "So, of course, we had virus breakouts. Luckily, we were able to detect them because we could see right away how they slowed down network performance."
Still, the mandate was to keep expanding the network.
"My boss was preaching access, and I was preaching security," says Stockdale. "Clearly, it was time to step back, look at what we were doing, and think about where we wanted to go with the network."
Network Solution
Those deliberations led Stockdale to the Cisco ® Technology Center at the nearby Research Triangle. Providence Day School was already invested in Cisco technology, including its network backbone, switches, and wireless access points, as well as Cisco 7900 Series Unified IP phones and the Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
"It just made sense to see what Cisco offered for network access control and security," says Stockdale. "If Cisco had a solution, I figured it would make for a simpler implementation and a shorter learning curve."
So he attended a conference at the Cisco center in Raleigh, where he learned about the Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) appliance.
"Once I understood what NAC could do and make possible," he says, "I thought, `This will make my boss happy from the access point of view, and me happy from the security point of view.'"
In private schools, no less than public, IT managers must always keep an eye on the budget. For Stockdale and his colleagues, that was actually a good thing, because it forced them to think through their plan for deploying Cisco NAC across their network. As he describes it, the crucial step in their NAC implementation was the planning.
"The engineers from Cisco and our reseller sat down with us and took us through all the decisions we needed to make," he says. "How many users, hours of access, what resources need to be available to students versus teachers, filters, wired versus wireless access points, and all the rest."
"After that, the implementation itself took less than a week, and we were testing by Wednesday of that week."
With Cisco NAC in place, both Stockdale and his boss are happy: PDS's network is both easy to access for students, teachers, and visitors and secure. Every student and teacher has a personal account, easily set up through a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, with access to all the resources that are appropriate to their user profiles. Each student has a secure folder with virtually unlimited storage. Everyone has email.
Applications are not hosted on the network, and students use the school's computers (every department has a "technology cart" with 22 laptops) rather than their own. But when students, teachers, and visitors use any device to log on, Stockdale and his colleagues have nothing to worry about. Cisco NAC checks every device for the proper virus protection, the latest service pack, and everything else required to keep the network healthy.
"The real onslaught came shortly after the NAC solution was put in place," says Stockdale, "as more and more students started carrying iPhones and other smart devices. Now those kinds of devices are everywhere on our network. And they are welcome."
Business Results
The secure, orderly network "presided over" by Cisco NAC has allowed Providence Day School's IT staff to continue to extend access to more and more points across the school's 45-acre campus, and has allowed teachers and students to extend the educational uses of the network as well.
"We've got Cisco WebEx ® in our classrooms now, so people in different classes can compare papers and notes in real time," says Stockdale. "The kids are using some of Google's online tools. And, of course, they're using blogs and other social media in all kinds of ways."
It's not unusual, he says, for students to continue classroom discussions beyond the classroom, to compare notes, to dialogue with their teachers, all online.
Meanwhile, life is good for the IT staff as well. Integrated with Cisco NAC, a Cisco 4400 Series Wireless Controller enables the IT staff to manage the network from a single point, instead of having to manage disparate access points.
"In a school," says Stockdale, "money is always an issue, which means staff time is an issue. A secure network that more or less manages itself is a tremendous time-saver."
Next Steps
Looking ahead, PDS's network is ready for just about anything.
"It may not be in the immediate future, but I believe we'll become a `one-to-one' campus," says the assistant director of technology, "meaning that all students will have laptops, and when they bring them to class, naturally, they'll have network access."
Especially if textbooks come to be published digitally, as many observers expect, a network-based model for teaching and learning is inevitable, Stockdale believes. And, as a former teacher himself, he believes that such a model can serve more students, better, than traditional models.
"Kids have different learning styles," he says. "Unlike simply being `talked at," network-based learning is multimedia, and I think that's much more effective for a lot of students."
"Across the board, education is becoming more digital all the time," he says. "Just like the young people we're here to serve."


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Pentagon Wants $450m For Guantanamo
The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. For more detail here: ****carbonated.tv/news/pentagon-wants-450m-for-guantanamo
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Posted 574 days ago.
SO! What would be new with that status?
Posted 574 days ago.
But, we could give them to Munster. I think that is what he is saying he would do with them too. That would be a bad death... Confused all to heck and then curtains..
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Kunect. I think Israel would LOVE to get them.!! They would not be putting up with them for very long. They would be history and everyone would then be mad at the US and Israel.
Posted 574 days ago.
Hoping to use economic promise as a bridge to a peace deal between Palestinians and Israel, Secretary of State John F. Kerry announced an estimated $4 billion economic development proposal for the West Bank yesterday that he said could cut the 21 percent unemployment rate by two-thirds.
Do we have that much extra cash laying around for terrorists? Are we really going to start rewarding bad behavior? Didn't we learn our lesson with North Korea?
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I understand that of the total number of prisoners at Gitmo, there are thirty-two that are considered "Hard-core" and will likely take up arms against the US and Israel again, if released.
If we're proposing the closing of Gitmo, let's declare a "Going Out of Business Sale" on those 'slightly used" Jihadists and just ask Israel if they'd like to take custody of them.
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Go ahead and just turn them all loose. And then they will go get a suicide vest and strap it on and come back to the US for revenge !!!! Visiting every mall and celebration here in the Homeland. THAT IS WHY BUSH AND CHENEY AND THE PENTAGON AND CONGRESS PUT THEM THERE TO BEGIN WITH..AND Munster, YOUR beloved president knows that and he is an obstructor now. Cannot blame him, it is a real pickle with no good answer. We would certainly have lost more American GI's if we hadn't done that.
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I thought BO was closing Gitmo?
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Thursday, December 18, 2014
iPhone-ography exibit at the Stanley
By WKTV News
- A very different kind of art exhibit debuted at the Stanley Thursday. All of the photographs were taken with an iPhone.
It's part of the Stanley's Regional Artists Series highlighting the photography of John Matthews. His mobile photography has been featured on Fox News and the New York Times.
"Now that cell phones have gotten so good you can really take pictures that are similar in quality to DSLR the big real digital cameras," said Matthews. And that's what this meant tonight to show how close those technologies have come."
His work will be on display at the Stanley's Upper South Wing until January 28th.
It is free and open to the public Monday to Friday from 10 am. to 3:30 pm.


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HANOVER – A Littlestown, Pa. man was arrested on Friday morning after attempting to bring a loaded gun on a flight from BWI-Marshall Airport to Tennessee, according to authorities.
The man was stopped by Transportation Security Administration employees after they spotted the weapon in the man's carry-on via the airport's X-ray machine.
Maryland Transportation Authority Police were called to the scene and officers quickly confiscated the loaded 380-caliber Ruger and arrested the man weapons charges.
The man, whose identity has not yet been released, had a ticket to fly to Nashville.
Security workers at BWI screen about 32,000 passengers per day, according to the TSA.
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International Savings Groups NGOs Aim For 50 Million Members By 2020
SG2013 conference aims to build support for global savings groups growth
BOSTON, March 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last week, international relief and development organization Oxfam America, along with the Aga Khan Foundation, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, CGAP, Freedom from Hunger, Plan International, the SEEP Network and USAID launched "50 by 2020," an initiative seeking to expand savings groups to 50 million members globally by 2020. The announcement was made at a 2-day conference sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The MasterCard Foundation in Arlington, VA held March 4-5, 2013.
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"Savings groups are an integral part of the financial landscape of the poor," said Raymond C. Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America. "Already, there are 7.5 million people around the world reaping the benefits of savings groups through financial inclusion and social interaction. We hope to grow this number significantly in the coming years."Savings groups (SGs) provide access to basic financial services to 7.5 million rural poor people, mostly women, worldwide. These self-selected and self-managed groups provide their members with a secure place to save and easy access to loans. SGs stabilize income, increase household financial assets and decrease vulnerability to financial and other shocks. They are a simple, transparent, cost-effective and sustainable means of providing basic financial services to the poor and a great platform that can be leveraged to deliver the additional products, services and trainings the groups regularly request. "Savings groups have quietly but surely become a force to be reckoned with when it comes to financial inclusion," said Sophie Romana, deputy director for community finance at Oxfam America. "Thousands of groups bring crucial financial services to the poorest of the poor, allowing them to save in a safe place, borrow with confidence from their own group, and create social capital they can draw upon in times of crisis." The conference brought together foundations, financial service providers, bilateral and multilateral agencies, microfinance institutions, international and local nongovernment organizations, and practitioners to highlight the success of savings groups in expanding financial inclusion and creating social cohesion. In addition to partners and sponsors, experts from Aga Khan Foundation, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, Freedom from Hunger, Oxfam America, Plan International, and USAID participated in the discussion.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Maker of the F-35 insults Korea's intelligence
In any event, take a read of this and look for the typical spin.
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LM continues to use the $65M figure in 2010 dollars - including the engine, radar, and mission systems. I thought the program office asked them to stop using that figure. Go figure.
- October 25, 2011 at 2:09 AM
$65M. no engine.
soon, it will be no wing, no avionic, heck..there is nothing left.
- October 25, 2011 at 4:43 AM
$65M for the Marketing Brochure.
Actual Aircraft at IOC to be delivered in "due course"...
- October 25, 2011 at 8:11 AM
"Given what we know, it comes with a guarantee of the radar cross section at the end of 8,000 flight hours. It's essentially guaranteed to be a VLO for the life of the aircraft."
I am not a pure F35 hater but I think I would keep that quote which seems problematic on a couple of levels. Have they really tested it under operational conditions for 8000 hours? Also, isn't he suggesting that the quality of VLO will be good enough to last 30 years and still "defeat" radars in 30 years? Seems a bit bold!
- October 25, 2011 at 10:55 AM
O'Bryan noted that though it does not account for annual inflation projections, the $65M price tag includes much more than some media often speculate.
"It includes the engine and all mission systems such as the APG-81 AESA radar, internally mounted targeting system, electronic attack and warfare systems, self-protection systems, infra-red missile warning system, communication and navigation equipment, and the helmet mounted display that is also used as a night vision system."
Wow, what a deal! Just curious to know what total production run he is still using. Is that the price with the new helmet or still using the old helmet? LOL!
- October 25, 2011 at 11:02 AM
I'm fairly certain that O'bryan needs to recheck his quote as claimed, to include 'the engine'? That would apparently be the first official recent statement to advertise the engine as being part of the REC flyaway price quote.
Everything implied as of late, has been that this represented $65m per unit in 2002 USD or 2008 USD whichever it is, does NOT include the engine - as LM does not manufacture the engine, etc.
If I were the US Senate, I'd want an immediate confirmation and verification on this detail. (for sake of transparency and in the interests of trust, with respect to partner states). Unfortunately, the US has a recent track record of shooting itself in the foot with regards to 'trust', with respect to allies. Absolutely, this needs to be clarified. (Who knows, maybe we'll find out that sources the editor used was a hired misinformation agent by a foreign service... go figure).
But with regard to the actual story itself, this is arguably the most interesting quote:
"According to a calculation by a senior EADS radar expert, the Captor-E, which will use 1,426 T/R modules and is scheduled to be integrated onto the Eurofighter Typhoon in 2015, is capable of recognizing the F-35 at around 59 kilometers away.
He acknowledged that the chance is high for the F-35 to detect and fire missiles first against fourth-generation jets, such as the Eurofighter or Boeing's F-15, but claimed that the latter are capable of dodging missiles and successfully counterattacking at such a long range."
Given that info, one can ponder at which range an F-15E w/ APG-82 radar can first detect the F-35 at various triangulated offsets, in addition to a next-gen large aperture, his resolution QWIP IRST employed by the F-15 class?
What, a high-performance supersonic aircraft can dodge and fool RF missiles at longer ranges, especially when kinematics die off??
Give me a next-gen F-15E with just 50% of F-35A's portion of the R&D budget between now and 2015, and the block III F-35A will not want to show up for a 4v4 Red Flag 2017 contest.
- October 25, 2011 at 2:39 PM
- NICO said...
I find it interesting to note that EADS believes they can spot a F35 at about 60km. Makes you wonder how well F35 stacks up to a brand new SH with frontal LO or proposed F15SE for starters? Let alone PAKFA? Wonder what range the Russians think they can spot an F35?
OK, so F35 will fire first but at such long range AMRAAM potentially could be evaded by a few fighters in a formation of EFs which means survivors will fire Meteors at closer range which will be harder for F35 to evade because kinematics are supposed to be better than AMRAAM,right?
Let's try this, so F35 again fires first, now EFs know something is up and fire Meteors at long range anyways, F35s have to evade because well, you aren't just going to sit there thinking, oh, they haven't tracked me?!? I am not a fighter pilot but read enough to know that pilots are human and will take evasive action, now range has closed and you are in a dogfight.
If you can spot an F35 in 2015 at 60km, wonder how far away you can spot at F35 with used VLO?
What about in 2020 or 2025 by PAKAF or J20 with more powerful radars?
I forget, exterior VLO is good for 30 years with a LMT guarantee, no worries there.
- October 25, 2011 at 3:49 PM
- Atticus said...
You hit in on the head nico, apparently according to those who "know", technology stands still for LM, Bonza and the ADF.
NBN, we will spend billions and, no technolgy will be a competitior for the cable?
4g today, who knws next year?
- October 25, 2011 at 3:57 PM
- Atticus said...
- October 25, 2011 at 3:57 PM
Oh, now I know why it is better and cheaper than anthing else:
"F-35s make their way along a moving assembly line at the F-35 production facility at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, Texas. The continuously moving line is designed to improve production quality and speed, and is the first ever for a combat fighter jet.
/ Courtesy of Lockheed Martin
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Listen up Seattle! You are now ON NOTICE!
Listen up Seattle! You are now ON NOTICE!
Friends, Huddlers, Carolinians, lend me your beers.
This week begins anew the NFL Season. A time in which our hearts and minds turn from beaches and bikinis to large sweaty men hitting one another on a field of plastic grass. A time when Sundays no longer mean mowing the lawn just to escape the horrors of our pathetic domesticated existence, if only for a moment.
I submit to you on this day that football is our liberation. This week, we take back our balls.
First up on our schedule and inevitable road to glory is the provincial town of Seattle. This suburb of Vancouver is best known for its god awful weather, foul coffee, and a music genre named after the stuff you clean out from betwixt your toes. While not discussing the intricacies of Twilight, Seattle residents are known to try their best to acclimate to American culture by watching our national past time, football.
This Sunday, the Seattle Seahawks fall victim to the Carolina Panthers and serve as a sacrifice to the gods of football. Their inferior cast of players, while heralded in the media, are nothing more than paper puppets pathetically perpetuating the practice of pomposity.
Men, look at their shiny unblemished exterior. I say beneath that vomit green veneer is weakness. Weakness is meant to be exploited.
And exploit it... we shall.
This season the Panthers have put together a group of individuals whose skills mesh into what will be known as the greatest team of all time.
The leader is a wise statesman who formulated the plan. Once a great player himself, he now provides the wisdom necessary to guide his team to victory.
On offense is a smooth talking snappy dresser whose grace on the field makes winning seem effortless. A man the ladies want and the men want to be. One might say he is the face of the franchise
On defense a leader has emerged whose gameplay seems both amazing and insane all at once. The way he throws himself at defenders forces some to wonder if he may be a slight bit crazy.
The muscle is provided by a man so angry and feared that he has become legend. Cross him, and your foolishness will be pitied.
Ladies and gentleman, while the Seahawks can be considered a B team, the Panthers are the A-Team.
I love it when a plan comes together.
Panthers 24 - Seahawks 17
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PIE DAY IF WE WIN NEXT MONDAY. CAM YOU BEAUTIFUL MUTHA fugER GET THIS DONE.
Got Dammit I love this time of the year. Luke you sexy ass fuger get it done as well!
paper puppets pathetically perpetuating the practice of pomposity.
The Regular Season has OFFICIALLY begun!!!!
maybe one of the best "on notice" threads yet...
Thanks for making this week seem even longer Zod.
We do not sow!
WOW!!! I haven't seen one of these in a LONG time!!!
Why couldn't it start today?!?!?!?!? Why?!?!?!?
The Radar.
We are flying under it.
And next Sunday, the football world will know us.
They will know us as a team that lost all the close games LAST year.
They will know us as a team that learned from that, and got better, both mentally and with improved players.
They will know us as the team that beat the sportswriters darling, the Seahawks, and did not surprise themselves.
They will know as the team that caused wailing and gnashing of teeth in all of Washington state, Bristol Ct, and most certainly in Buffalo.
And how will they know us?
with fear.
As the great actor who played B..A, Barachus said (in another role)..."my prediction?
it's going to be a pretty close game. The Panthers defense keeps them in the game but the offense still has a bunch of kinks to work out, much like the opening bucs game last year.
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It Would Be Nice If You Did This For All The Games.
Im more excited now than the carolina huddle before the season opener... seriously
it's going to be a pretty close game. The Panthers defense keeps them in the game but the offense still has a bunch of kinks to work out, much like the opening bucs game last year.
I can guarantee you pilares won't lead us in rushing
I can't wait for the day this fanbase quits talking about some under the radar...
On Notice!
Thank you Based Zod.
it's going to be a pretty close game. The Panthers defense keeps them in the game but the offense still has a bunch of kinks to work out, much like the opening bucs game last year.
I saw kinks yesterday watching a college football game I will not name. There will be no kinks on my football teams after that. Cams going to iron these out himself.
ON NOTICE.................On NOTICE................Was it on notice when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Nawwwwwwww!!!!!!and its On Notice NOW...................................Lets get them..............................YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH