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Utility Room: 1.25m x 3.04m (4'11" x 10'0") Housing boiler (2010) with plumbing for washing machine.
Rear Garden: 35.96m x 20.11m (118'0" x 66'0") - tapers to 16.45m (54'0") at very bottom of garden.
Laid in lawn to front and rear, with paved area to rear.
Entrance Hall: with telephone point and hotpress.
Lounge: 5.18m x 3.81m (17'0" x 12'5") Feature tiled fireplace with mahogany mantle. Bay window overlooking front garden.
Kitchen: 4.26m x 2.74m (14'0" x 9'0") Newly fitted eye and low level units in shaker style with steel rod handles, stainless steel sink. Tiled walls and stainless steel extractor fan. Hob & oven, integrated fridge freezer.
Kitchen Dinning Area: 3.04m x 2.74m (10'0" x 9'0")
Comprising breakfast bar and dinning/lounge area.
Bathroom: 2.74m x 2.43m (9'0" x 8'0") Features seperate shower.
Bedroom 1: 4.14m x 3.84m (13'6" x 12'6")
Bedroom 2: 3.65m x 3.23m (12'0" x 10'6")
Bedroom 3: 3.84m x 3.35m (12'6" x 11'0") Multifaceted utilitarian room.


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Coming Soon: Google Analytics on Google Plus
Google Analytics and Google Plus will be integrated soon, reported by Marketing Land, following an official Google presentation that leaked to two Dutch websites: Dutch Cowboys and WebSonic.
According to the slides with the watermark "Google Confidential", Google Plus users will be able to add an analytic code to their profile page and follow the traffic sources, number of visitors, average time on page, etc. The social network statistic data will be measured separately unconnected from other websites attached to the profile owner.
Currently, Google Plus users cannot track the activity of their Google Plus business pages or profiles, except for following the number of shares and counting the "pluses" added to each status.
Recently Google Analytics have announced adding social media reports that will provide statistical data about a website social activity on and off-site. Google are most likely not to receive Facebook and Twitter cooperation.
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Serafin: Come on pard'ners, lets ride in there, guns a blazing, and round-up them outlaws!
Dreamer: He's watched a lot of Earth Westerns.
Synopsis "Disordered"
Previously in "Failsafe": The Martian Manhunter had linked the Team's minds together telepathically to create an artificial reality (AR), a shared dream, where the Earth was under attack. The Team were asked to fill the void left after the AR Justice League were killed. However, they were unaware that it was a no-win scenario constructed to test their performance against an impossible enemy. The AR turned into a nightmare after Artemis was "killed". Miss Martian's subconscious could not differentiate between the AR and reality and her untrained telepathic mind convinced everybody else that the events they were experiencing were real. Each of the Team "died" in turn as the no-win scenario degenerated towards destruction. It was only at the end, when only Miss Martian was left, that the Manhunter was able to wrestle control of the AR back from her subconscious and shut it down. The Team were left them shaken and disturbed at the choices and sacrifices they had made whilst under extreme duress.
October 23rd — A week has passed since the AR scenario was shut down, but it is clear that the Team are still traumatised. Their mentors are concerned for them so Black Canary begins a series of counselling sessions to help them process their experiences. As usual Superboy (Conner) is the toughest of them to reach. Canary tries talking to him, but he just proclaims "you don't know what I feel!" and walks out of the session.
Conner is looking for some fresh air and is about to take his motorbike out when the Sphere (the intelligent machine they rescued from the deserts of Bialya in "Bereft") blocks his path. The Sphere surprises him by transforming into a high-tech trike. A smiling Conner then takes the Sphere out for a test flight with Wolf tagging along in the passenger seat. Batman runs into the hanger just as Superboy leaves, but his calls for him to come back remain unanswered.
The Forever People
The peace and quiet of Metropolis is shattered by the opening of a Boom Tube, a teleportation gateway, through which flies a car carrying five super-powered teenagers. These are the Forever people. Their leader Vykin consults "Mother Box" (a box-shaped living alien computer) which informs him via its pinging sounds that what they seek is on world. Superboy is flying down the coast when the Forever People block his path and demand the return of the "New Genesisphere" (Superboy's Sphere) and other technology stolen from them. However, before the confrontation turns violent Mother Box pings to tells Vykin that Superboy actually saved the New Genesisphere from the real thieves. The Forever People's attitude suddenly softens and their biggest member Bear, who had just threatened Superboy, enthusiastically proclaims "Apologies! The Forever People embrace you as an ally and worthy warrior!"
The Forever People introduce themselves to Superboy as "new gods" and give their names as Serafin (a gun toting teen obsessed with Earth's Wild West), Dreamer (their telepath), Moonrider (who remains silent), Vykin (their leader with magnetic powers), and the bombastic strongman Bear. Mother Box has tracked technology stolen from their home world of New Genesis to Earth. The Sphere was the first piece, but they are now zeroing in on the second item, the Rescue Drill. They find the tunnelling machine being used by criminals from Intergang to tunnel into the Metropolis Federal Reserve ("a heist!" explains Serafin). Superboy leads the Forever People underground where they find Ugly Mannheim and Whisper A'Daire directing the Intergang operation.
Vykin naively demands the return of their technology, but Intergang respond with powerful weaponry – discs which cause intense pain, gravity traps which entomb the target, and energy whips. Dreamer is shocked and tells Superboy that the weapons are those of the "Gods of Anti-Life" from the planet of Apokolips. Those weapons give Intergang a distinct advantage in the confined tunnel created by the Rescue Drill so the heroes fall back to the surface, to the construction site Intergang had used as a cover for their drilling operations. The Sphere joins the battle by firing at Intergang. The Forever People gather around their Mother Box and shout "Tarru". The five teens dissolve in a burst of light and merge into a single giant armoured form called Infinity Man. Its power turns the tide of the battle and forces Mannheim and his men to escape via another Boom Tube.
Infinity Man finally dissolves back into the individual Forever People, but they are concerned about Intergang's source. Whisper had been captured by Infinity Man and Dreamer uses her telepathic power to project images from Whisper's memories. A vile hooded figure appears before them and Dreamer exclaims "Desaad!" Superboy has finally had enough of his enigmatic new friends and demands to know what is going on. Dreamer explains that they come from the twin worlds of New Genesis and Apokolips. Bright New Genesis is home to the Gods of Life, Freedom and "The Source" while the brutal world of Apokolips is home to the Gods of Slavery and Degradation. Intergang are using weapons from each faction. The figure Whisper remembers is Desaad, "god scientist and chief torturer" of Apokolips — although the name of Desaad's "unspeakable" master remains unspoken.
Mother Box tracks the Apokoliptian technology back to a hanger on an airfield, but Superboy's infra-red vision shows no heat signatures. They sneak inside, but discover that Intergang have been masking their heat patterns and that it's a trap. The Forever People are too distracted preparing to merge into Infinity Man again to notice that Desaad is disguised as one of Intergang's foot soldiers. He hands Mannheim a "Father Box" which Mannheim throws at Infinity Man before he's fully formed. Father Box places Infinity Man fully under Desaad's control. It batters Superboy around the air-field, but Father Box knows Desaads "predilections" and is more interesting in hurting Superboy that killing him. Infinity Man/Father Box's focus on Superboy blinds it to the Sphere which attacks the Infinity Man's head and plugs into its armour. The Sphere can't free Infinity Man, but it can control him and creates a set of controls that lets Superboy ride Infinity Man like a machine.
Infinity Man, with Superboy at the Sphere's controls, blocks Intergang's attacks and fights back. Superboy and Infinity Man disarm Mannheim and his thugs with ease. Mannheim pleads to Desaad for assistance, but the god scientist calls a Boom Tube and makes his own escape. As he goes Desaad shouts "All will suffer!" and throws a bomb back at Infinity Man/Superboy. They destroy it with Infinity Man's optic blast, but the backwash from the explosion causes Infinity Man to separate back into the Forever People. Wolf destroyed Father Box, but the Sphere has been heavily damaged/wounded. Superboy is concerned for his friend, but Vykin's Mother Box starts a healing process. The teen gods still intend to take the Sphere back to New Genesis, but Superboy reacts angrily to them taking his friend. His emotional connection to the Sphere reassures them that he won't just treat "her" as a machine and they agree to him keeping her.
The Counselling Sessions
Canary continues her counselling session while Superboy is away from the Cave. Artemis is terrified when Canary suggests she could tell her team-mates about her real parentage and cites how Kid Flash would react (a choice Canary notes with interest). By comparison Kid Flash is much more relaxed during his session, but he also over reacts that when Canary bring up his reaction to Artemis's "death" in the AR and tries to change the subject.
Aqualad offers his resignation as leader to Canary during their session and says that he behaved more like a soldier than a general during the AR. Canary then makes him realize that none of the others are ready to assume that mantle and he reluctantly takes back his offer to resign. The AR had also made Robin question whether really wants to be the leader. He had always expected to grow up to become the next Batman, but the AR made him realize that he does not have the same "thing" inside of him which makes Batman able and willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of the mission. He confides in Canary that "I don't want to be THE Batman any more."
Miss Martian blames herself for the AR collapse. While talking to Canary her green skin turns human-coloured without her thinking about it. She reacts with shock then Canary calls her "white" until she realises that she meant Caucasian. Martian M'gann thinks that being plain-human Megan without any powers will solve her problems, but Canary tells her that not being herself is never the answer. However, she seems to accept Canary's advise to keep practising until she finally has control.
Superboy eventually returns to the Cave after his adventure. His report concerns Batman who believes that further investigation is required. Superboy also returns to his session with Black Canary. He admits to her that he was not traumatised by the AR and was actually "at peace". The one things he has wanted to know / wanted to be since Cadmus created him is what it would be like to be Superman. The AR gave him that chance and that made him relaxed, even happy, there. However, he now feels guilty for feeling happy when the same events so traumatised his friends. Canary admits that there is no easy answers, but that admitting how he felt is the first step in dealing with it.
- Black Canary refused to speak for a while after her first Canary Cry almost deafened her first grade class.
New Genesis and Apokolips
Every DC Cartoon series has to at some time or another introduce Jack Kirby's New Gods. Jack Kirby was a legendary comic book creator who worked predominantly for Marvel Comics in the 1960s. He co-created the Fantastic Four, Hulk, and numerous other characters as an artist working alongside writer/editor Stan Lee. By the end of the decade Kirby was looking for new opportunities and crossed town to work with Marvel's chief rivals at DC Comics. His work for DC comprised four interlocking comic books – the New Gods, Mister Miracle, Jimmy Olsen, and the Forever People – which explored the war fought on Earth by alien gods – the evil gods of Apokolips and the new gods of New Genesis.
The "Fourth World", as it became known, was a vast almost Tolkien-level milieu that is now widely celebrated, but it almost ended up still-born as DC management, citing poor sales figures, cancelled the titles prematurely. Despite their initial lack of foresight, DC have continually minded Kirby's concepts for characters and settings. The biggest of these draws is the central villain of the entire saga, a secular Satan figure called Darkseid. He has proven to be one of the few cosmic villains in the DC Universe will any great traction. The appeal of the figure to writers is so strong that he ended up being the principal enemy in the DCAU Superman and Justice League Unlimited cartoons. He is also the villain that Geoff Johns and Jim Lee chose to use in the New 52 refoundation of the Justice League.
The Forever People
The Forever People first appeared in Forever People #1 (Feb 1971) in a story that actually reads more like a Superman story. It's written almost like an issue of a Superman comic that is guest-starring the Forever People. He is in Metropolis and helps the kids and Infinity Man battle Darkseid. It's not really until the second issue that they take over their own title properly. This episode keeps the connection with Superman by having Superboy be the one to meet them first.
Within the Fourth World saga the Forever People represent the next generation of gods. As they were created at the end of the 1960s they display a strong flower-children / counter-cultural inspiration. However, they each also have a resonance with a different period of Earth's history (something played up by later writers). They are in effect flower-child equivalents of a Norse warrior (Big Bear), a Wild West rogue (Serafin), a Victorian gentleman (Mark Moonrider)… okay, the analogy breaks down, but the point is that Kirby never uses just one or two ideas when he could mash a dozen of them together. The names Kirby used have been shortened for this episode so Big Bear and Beautiful Dreamer become Bear and Dreamer. Also, thankfully, Vykin the Black is just Vykin.
The Forever People are the original archetypes of the group of characters who merge into one single character, another pick-up from the communal ideas of the hippies. When they all touched their Mother Box – a living computer – and shouted the world "Tarru" the Forever People are replaced by an adult super-god called the Infinity Man. This pre-dates everything like Captain Planet and the Transformer combiners.
Vykin and Serafin are voiced by regulars Dee Bradley Baker (Wolf) and Kevin Michael Richardson (Martian Manhunter). Dreamer was voiced by Grey Delisle who has also voiced Barbara Gordon in Batman: Year One, Fire in Batman The Brave and the Bold, Black Canary in the Green Arrow short. She may presently be better known as the sultry voice of Catwoman in Batman: Arkham City and as the modern voice of Scooby Doo's Daphne. Bear was voiced by Bill Fagerbakke who has also voiced Ronnie Raymond (Firestorm's alter ego) in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Broadway in Greg Weisman's Gargoyles. However, Bill will probably be most widely known as Patrick from SpongeBob SquarePants. Mark Moonrider does not speak.
The Super-Cycle
As well as creating great characters Jack Kirby was also brilliant at designing their devices and vehicles. In the comic books the Forever People travelled in a large 5-person flying-cycle called the Super-Cycle — this is the Sphere or New Genesisphere that Superboy liberated in "Bereft". The Super-Cycle was picked up by Young Justice creator Peter David as his team's transportation in the original comic book series that this cartoon is based upon. The flying car that the Forever People use in this episode is called a Whiz Wagon and was originally used by the Newsboy Legion, a group of clones created by the Cadmus Project (another Kirby production).
Intergang was created by Jack Kirby as a criminal organization run and supplied by Desaad on Darkseid's behalf. Although any given one of their activities were more likely than not to be a result of Desaad operating on his own. Originally Intergang was run by a seedy executive called Morgan Edge, the CEO of Galaxy Broadcasting – the "GBS" station fronted by Cat Grant which is used for all the TV slots in this show. Edge was later replaced by a second generation gangster called Ugly Mannheim. He alludes to his father, Boss Moxie, during dialogue in this episode.
Later writers, including Greg Rucka, explored the religious/cult concepts of a criminal organization sponsored by a god and turned Intergang into a cult who worshipped Darkseid and his "Crime Bible." One of the new characters they introduced during this time was Whisper A'Daire whom first appeared in Detective Comics #743 (April 2000) as a follower of Ra's Al Ghul she resurfaces later on working with Ugly Mannheim in the 52 weekly series.
- Miss Martian is baking again as shown in "Welcome to Happy Harbor" and in "Downtime". The Superboy was shown watching the same TV programme, i.e. static, in "Downtime".
- Kid Flash's arm is still in plaster – it was broken in "Revelations".
- Martian Manhunter: "Trauma tends to linger, as I know you know. " — this is an allusion to Batman's origin and how the trauma of seeing his parents killed before him caused Bruce Wayne to dedicate his life to become the Batman.
- Wally diet: pop-corn while talking to Black Canary.
- Full Credits: Ask Greg
- A Superboy and his Wolf out for a joyride.
- Mark Moonrider isn't very talkative is he.
Unanswered Questions
- What is Intergang's relation to the Light? What is Apokolips' relation to the Light?
My Thoughts
As the team cope with the trauma from "Failsafe" the secret of the (New Geni)Sphere is revealed and the Forever People come to Earth. This episode is a breath of fresh air after after the darkness and trauma of last episode. Indeed this episode opens with, and is interspersed by, the team's counselling seasons with Black Canary. These give an insight into the characters and vocalizes the Artemis and Wally tension that has been running since she appeared. I thought the admissions from Robin and Superboy were interesting. The former was horrified at where being his mentor took him while the later found peace in his mentor's role. Robin doesn't want to be Batman, but Superboy wants – needs – to be Superman.
The Forever People are an interesting counterpoint to Young Justice. Each of them can be seen as a close, but far more self-assured parallel of a YJ member – Dreamer is Miss Martian, Bear is Superboy, Serafin is Kid Flash, Vykin as Aqualad, and Moonrider as Robin. They are relaxed in their own identities and the merger into Infinity Man gives them an openness and intimacy that YJ do not have. Their use here is to give Superboy a juxtaposition of how a more harmonious team could operate. As we saw in "Terrors", he's quite a different character when he's out from under the pressure of YJ and his own need to be protective towards Megan. He relaxes and becomes a far more engaging character. The scene with Black Canary at the end of this episode shows Superboy dealing with his own emotional baggage about being Superman's clone, but I wonder how much longer that this can run before they have to actually have the confrontation between him and Superman.
The Verdict
|Grand Average
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Miss Elly's Antiques &
" Don't Miss.....Miss Elly's "
One of Hawley, PA's not to be missed antique shops, the blue clapboard style Victorian at 518 Church Street boasts rooms filled with displays and vignettes that show first-hand how to mix styles together. Stepping into Miss Elly's Antiques & Such is like being invited into a private home filled with interesting and treasured heirlooms.
By integrating solid, old, quality pieces together with "lighter" things such as painted furniture, glass, or even mid-century materials like lucite, the offerings at Miss Elly's appeal to both purists as well as contemporary collectors. Today the function of many old standbys has changed, with people using antiques in creative and decorative ways. Examples include making use of sideboards as bars or television stands in family rooms or as storage in a hallway.
Antiques lend a sense of permanence and history to a home, and have the advantage of being repurposed and green. A table made of wood from a tree harvested 200 years ago, for example, has survived ten generations and will probably carry on for another ten, offering lasting beauty, quality, and value.
Located just 4 doors off scenic Route 6 (Main Avenue) in the historic downtown, Miss Elly's Antiques & Such is a diversified shop where antiques are more than a past-time, here they are a passion.
We have: Furniture, paintings and prints, glass, pottery, jewelry, porcelain, primitives, vintage linens and textiles, books and paper items, sterling silver, and more. There is also a small hand-selected offering of old fashioned style contemporary sterling lockets plus heirloom flavored jams like strawberry rhubarb and boysenberry, apple- and pumpkin butter, and flavored honey (delicious over ice cream). Please see our "& Such" link for more details.
A friendly multi-dealer shop, Miss Elly's Antiques is owner-operated and managed to insure personal attention to your collecting wants and needs, from the functional to the whimsical and everything in between. We currently have an abundance of new "old" items just in from several local estates and always feature an eclectic mix. Please bring your friends and family along when you come to see us. We look forward to your visit.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
New Releases, Reader's Choice, & Jewelry!
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this week i would like Last rites ( or a book of this serie)
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My pick this week is Endure by Carrie JonesReplyDelete
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I will need a book when I finish reading Royal Street. How about Railsea by China Mieville?ReplyDelete
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Until I Die!! I've been so patiently waiting. I'd love to have this if I win. The first book made me want to go to Paris just like your book made me want to go to New Orleans ;) Thank you as always.ReplyDelete
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The new one from Garth Nix sounds like an interesting read.ReplyDelete
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Underworld by Meg Cabot!!ReplyDelete
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I am in love with the cover of Until I Die! Very pretty.ReplyDelete
Is last week's winner up. I just can't see it and i feel like i must be blind or something :)
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LOL--nope, you're not blind, Jennifer. I was so late getting in on Sunday I didn't pull the weekly winners for last week until this morning. They'll be announced on tomorrow's blog!ReplyDelete
Playing for Enchanted please. Thanks.ReplyDelete
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I'd like to win Enchanted. Thanks :)ReplyDelete
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Wow, it's hard to choose. A lot of good YA books came out today. I'd love to win Until I Die or Underworld.ReplyDelete
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I would love UnderWorld or First Rite. Can't make up my mind right now, too hard to choose :)ReplyDelete
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My choice is Until I Die. I like the book setting :)ReplyDelete
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Would love to win Immortal Hearts please. I've got to keep up with my girl Raven. Love these books because they are a short quick read. Plus, I've been to an Ellen Schreiber signing and she said she liked my skeleton earrings. Thanks for the giveaway.ReplyDelete
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Media banking and advisory firm AdMedia Partners released their thirteenth annual survey of 1,700 media executives that compiles M&A expectations for the year ahead. Findings indicate that, like the bankers themselves, media executives are urging immediate action on prospective transactions with the vast majority (82 percent) believing the economy will be the same or stronger in 2007. However, for a third year in a row, a significant number (59 percent) of those same surveyed executives note that there will be a shortage of quality available properties. Also of note is the paradox of the online imperative tempered by a general lack of confidence in how Web-based companies are valued. Mark Edmiston, a managing director with AdMedia, explains the issues behind some of the survey's key findings.
How does the survey characterize the executive mindset toward transactions in 2007?
I think this is sort of like the dog that didn't bark. The most notable thing is that 2007 is looking pretty much like 2006 and there's not really a lot of changes in the atmosphere so the macro is pretty stable. Within that, however, there are some interesting changes. One of them being the collapse of newspaper valuations - at least in how [the respondents] are projecting it. Less surprising is the increase in the Internet businesses.
The interesting thing is the historical numbers are pretty accurate. People are pretty close to the market and they know what is going on. So I'm reassured on the one side that in 2007 it doesn't look like there's going to be anything different in terms of the environment that we're all working in. So you can make some plans without contingencies.
Why the imperative to act now?
I think it's more that we don't know what 2008 is going to look like. The big thing about 2008 is that it's an election year. And so it always has been a period of uncertainty, and it's no different this time. Also the economic expansion that we've been on for five years now - everybody is saying it's going to run out of steam sooner or later. That's another factor in there. And basically I think business people can deal with good news and they can deal with bad news, it's no news that is the problem. When you don't know what's going to happen everybody withdraws. If somebody were to ask me for advice, yeah, it's in my own interest to do something, but you really can make plans. This is what the market is, it's going to be this way for the next six or seven months and so if you were thinking of selling or buying, you can work within this environment. Wait till next year? It could be the same, but it becomes more difficult to project.
Why the pessimism on the availability of quality properties in 2007? The volume has been up in the last two years.
There's a lot more on the market but a lot of it has not sold. It's the stuff you don't hear about. They're not terrible companies, they're just not that good or deserving of the kind of prices people are doing. Things are going into the market and then being withdrawn. That's definitely happening - and probably more so than a year ago. And another part of it is the consolidation going on in all these media groups for some time now, with the exception of newspapers which seem to be going in the other way. So the cream of the crop in many cases has come off the table. And it takes a while for new things to mature, so some of the businesses that were launched two years ago it's too soon for them to be in the market.
The executives in your survey understand the importance of Online, but they seem to have trouble with valuations. Why?
Talk about not enough good things around. There's a lot of really interesting Internet businesses out there. But most of them are really small. We're representing a couple of content companies right now and their expectations on price are really quite high. But you can understand it because their growth trajectory is so high. But trying to find a way of actually presenting this to your board of directors is kind of hard.
I think unique users is tending to be, in terms of the asset value, the metric. When you're trying to measure relative asset values the unique users is it because you can't really look at revenue and most of [these companies] don't have any profits. And pages views can be manipulated more.
We're still trying to understand it. We know we have to do something, but we're not sure what that is. And as I say, a lot of these businesses are so small, that [a large publisher], for example, going after a company that has $250,000 in revenue and a great idea, it's hard for them to do because it doesn't move the needle very much. So people are struggling. But there's no question that more of these deals are going to be made in 2007.
Content is going to be acquired by the bigger companies, not only for the businesses themselves, but for the talent. The people who really understand this world are in demand by everybody, and therefore it's hard to hire them. But if you buy their business then you get them. So there's going to be some of that done, too.


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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland voters returned to the polls Wednesday after early voting was canceled the previous two days due to superstorm Sandy.
For some voters, it was their second or third trip, because they decided to skip long lines on Saturday and Sunday as voters filled up polling places to cast their ballots ahead of the storm.
Sandy has forced a number of changes to election plans this week. Rallies related to ballot questions such as expanded gambling were cancelled, and two planned U.S. Senate debates were scrapped, meaning candidates will not have a televised debate this year because of the storm.
Many voters have faced long lines on each of the three early-voting days held so far. In the Washington, D.C., suburb of Bowie, the line wound around a library and streamed out into a parking lot filled with cars. Joseph Green, a 56-year-old Bowie resident, said the line reminded him of a long wait to get on a popular ride at an amusement park.
Green, who said he had tried to vote on Saturday and Sunday but couldn't find a parking spot, said politics in general motivated him to wait more than an hour on Wednesday to vote for President Barack Obama.
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"Thanks to a lot of really Herculean work all across our state, we have reopened all of the 46 early voting places," said the Democratic governor, who is not on the ballot this year. "And in some places, that required a lot of snow plowing and a lot of emergency generators."
As of 4 p.m., 192,721 Maryland residents had voted early, according to the Maryland State Board of Elections. That's more than double the 95,225 people who voted in the first three days of early voting in the 2010 general election, which was not a presidential election year.
Early voting also resumed in the District of Columbia on Wednesday after being shut down for two days. Voters said they weren't especially inconvenienced by the storm. Robin Armstrong, 52, and her daughter Ivy, 26, said they had planned to vote Monday, but it wasn't a problem to go Wednesday instead.
"We were definitely going to vote early anyway," Ivy Armstrong said. "I'm going to be out of town. Mom just avoids the lines."
In Maryland's Senate race, two debates were canceled this week, and there are no plans to reschedule them. Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin greeted voters in a long line at the Bowie Library. Republican challenger Dan Bongino planned to greet voters at the New Carrollton Metro stop in Prince George's County. Independent candidate Rob Sobhani said he will hold a news conference in front of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to make a closing statement in his campaign. The candidates held a radio debate last week on Larry Young's WOLB-AM radio show.
U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, the 10-term Republican facing a tough reelection race against Democrat John Delaney in a district redrawn by the Democratic- controlled Legislature, announced he was canceling political events through Wednesday due to the storm.
Associated Press Writers Jessica Gresko in Salisbury, Md. and Ben Nuckols in Washington contributed to this report.
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The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News—and Divided a Country
President Obama thumped Mitt Romney in the 2012 election by excelling with the voters who are most likely to influence future American elections. Obama won 55 percent of votes by women, who go to the polls in larger numbers than men. The president attracted 71 percent of Hispanic voters and 73 percent of Asians, groups that are growing as a share of the population. Among voters under thirty, Obama won 60 percent. Romney, on the other hand, did very well with older white men. The 2012 race looked winnable for Romney at times because of persistent high joblessness. Yet not only did he lose, he delivered to the Republican Party a bleak forecast of its prospects.
A month after Election Day, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus commissioned a report about what had gone wrong. The study's authors did not cite Fox News by name, but they made clear that they thought the network's polemical programming aimed at the Republican base was a major part of the problem. "The Republican Party needs to stop talking to itself," they wrote. "We have become expert in how to provide ideological reinforcement to like-minded people, but devastatingly we have lost the ability to be persuasive with, or welcoming to, those who do not agree with us."
Since its creation in 1996, as an arm of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, News Corporation, Fox News has made a killing by providing ideological reinforcement to like-minded conservatives. Although the audience for Fox News is aging and leveling off in size, it remains the largest of any cable news network in America by far. The network's profits in 2012 were just under $1 billion, according to the Pew Research Center. Its profit margin has been above 50 percent in recent years, a rate almost unheard of in mainstream business. Fox's success has been due in no small part to the insights of Roger Ailes, a former Republican media and campaign consultant and the network's first and only president, who is the subject of the journalist Gabriel Sherman's thoroughly reported biography, The Loudest Voice in the Room.
Particularly during the George W. Bush administration, Democrats loathed Ailes because they feared he had devised a propaganda-inspired communications strategy at Fox News that might assure long-term Republican hegemony. There was some basis for this anxiety. By Sherman's telling, for example, Ailes had a significant and self-conscious part in publicizing the "Swift Boat" smear ad against then Senator John Kerry during the late stages of the 2004 presidential campaign, an ad that purported (through falsehoods) to challenge the senator's account of his wartime service in Vietnam. More recently, however, following two consecutive presidential defeats, at least some Republican elders have apparently come to view Ailes as a kind of Frankenstein monster that must be subdued and reprogrammed.
Sherman endorses the view that Ailes and Fox News helped to blow the 2012 election for Republicans. Fox News employs plenty of solid, enterprising reporters who play it straight, but Ailes's overall formula relies heavily on opinion-talk shows in prime time, which are polemical by design. The network's most popular evening hosts, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, celebrated Tea Party radicalism. Another highly popular host, Glenn Beck, who left the network in 2011, promoted conspiracy theories about creeping world government. Even the news coverage gave heavy airtime to disquieting Republican figures such as Sarah Palin and former pizza executive Herman Cain.
In Sherman's account, Ailes was personally responsible for this ill-conceived strategy. At seventy-two years old, wealthy and isolated, the Fox chief had apparently reached the conclusion that President Obama was driving the United States to ruin. Ailes therefore insisted that Fox News promote an idiosyncratic narrative of America-in-danger. In this story, the country was beset by runaway government power, rising racial conflict, hostility toward Christianity, and out-of-control immigration. But the voters, it turned out, were more concerned with job creation, levelheaded governance, and some measure of accountability and equity after the worst recession in seventy years.
Ailes understood that if the GOP wished to win the White House in 2012, the party should nominate a moderate-sounding candidate. He tried privately to recruit New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and General David Petraeus. Yet these pragmatic instincts proved to be "at odds with the vivid political comedy Fox often programmed," as Sherman puts it. In the end, the 2012 election was a case of "Ailes being unable to put his party's goal of winning independents ahead of his personal views."
Is this really the best way to understand the relationship among Ailes, Fox, and the Republican Party, looking toward 2016 and beyond? It is certainly true that Fox News's aging and heavily white audience—and the relentless attacks on President Obama that seem to most excite that audience's emotions—have contributed to the electoral isolation of the Republican Party. Sherman describes Karl Rove, who masterminded George W. Bush's campaigns in 2000 and 2004, barking at Ailes:
Why are you letting Palin have the profile? Why are you letting her go on your network and say the things she's saying? And Glenn Beck? These are alternative people who will never be elected, and they'll kill us.
Yet Rove surely knew the answers to his own questions. Fox is first and foremost a media business. The network has become enamored of "vivid political comedy" while building its formidable profit machine. To map Fox News's power in American media and politics, it is essential not only to understand Ailes's role, but also to follow the money.
Roger Ailes was born in 1940 and grew up in a small Ohio town. When he was a boy, his father beat him viciously with a belt to discipline him, even though Ailes suffered from hemophilia and could conceivably have died from any bleeding wound. Sherman quotes Ailes's brother Robert about their father: "He did like to beat the shit out of you with that belt. He continued to beat you, and he continued to beat you…. It was a pretty routine fixture of childhood." As an adult, perhaps unsurprisingly, Ailes has exuded a portentous, Dreiserian air. By Sherman's account, he displays a fierce temper around the office, holds grudges, and regularly vows vengeance against his enemies.
Ailes began his career in television at The Mike Douglas Show and later worked as a Broadway producer. (He flopped with Mother Earth, which Sherman describes as a "trippy, environmental-themed rock musical," but later succeeded with a production of Lanford Wilson's play The Hot L Baltimore.) Ailes's greatest talent, however, proved to be for providing advice to older, Luddite Republicans about how to use television to influence voters. He exercised this ability first on behalf of Richard Nixon in 1968. Ailes sold himself with a memo to Nixon's aides. "Television is a 'hit and run' medium," he advised. During political debates and talk shows, "the general public is just not sophisticated enough to wade through answers." Nixon should therefore use "more descriptive visual phrases" and end his statements with "kickers."
With some trepidation, Nixon's team gave Ailes a job. He was then only twenty-eight. After Nixon's televised debate calamity during the 1960 campaign, television understandably intimidated him; a young adviser brimming with confidence and full of piquant instructions might, so the thinking went, help the candidate decode the medium's mysteries. Ailes may have helped Nixon perform better before the cameras but he did not play a decisive role in the campaign. His shrewdest move was to cooperate quietly with the journalist Joe McGinnis on what became the best-selling book The Selling of the President 1968. McGinnis's portrait of Ailes as a manipulator of public opinion aroused that age's anxieties about television's potential for subliminal suggestion.
After Nixon's victory, Ailes leveraged the reputation McGinnis's book gave him to win political consulting contracts. He never entered Nixon's innermost circle but he became successful advising and creating attack ads for other Republicans. The talent Ailes showed at the time was similar to the talent he later displayed at Fox News. He was willing to go to extremes when others might hesitate, yet he also had a sense of humor and an intuitive ability to meld political messaging with popular entertainment.
Briefly, during the 1970s, Ailes ran a nascent television network funded by the ultraconservative brewer Joseph Coors. The plan was to target Americans who distrusted the news broadcasts on the three major networks. The enterprise failed because in that era, before cable television's spread, Coors and his partners could not figure out how to reach enough American TV sets to make money.
That frustration forecast the importance a multichannel TV world would hold for conservative media. Some Republican strategists understood that when cable technology arrived eventually and delivered many more options to American households, it would finally provide their ideological camp a chance to control and distribute their own news broadcasts. But at the time of the aborted Coors network, this was still a futurist's vision. Sherman quotes a "prescient" memo prepared in 1973 for White House chief of staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman. It predicted that it would take "ten years or so" for cable technology to have "significant impact" on the number of television channels available in American homes. That forecast proved to be about right.
A limitation of Sherman's biography is that he makes too many breezy claims about Ailes's singular importance—that Ailes became "effectively the most powerful opposition figure in the country" during the Obama administration, or that "more than anyone of his generation, he helped transform politics into mass entertainment." Such hype isn't necessary; Ailes is a fascinating subject, and plenty important. It does not detract from the relevance of Sherman's work to acknowledge that Fox News's rise to power was ultimately due less to Ailes's genius as a programmer than to the wider success of cable television.
During cable's formative, analog years, most providers could deliver only about thirty channels to a home. (The digital cable era of five hundred channels that we know today arrived after 2000.) Ted Turner grabbed the first cable news franchise and named it Cable News Network. ESPN and MTV were other big early successes. As cable reshaped the economics of television, Ailes signed on at NBC, to help guide that network's investments. But he soon lost a byzantine power struggle. One factor was NBC's decision to back an upstart network, MSNBC, that Ailes would not control. Ailes departed with a $1 million severance payment. Two weeks later, early in 1996, he joined Rupert Murdoch at a press conference to announce the launch of Fox News. It was a moment of revenge for Ailes, a motivation on which he plainly thrived.
The big question facing Fox News at its launch was whether it could win access to enough American TV sets to be workable—whether, that is, it could overcome the problem that had doomed the Coors channel earlier. Murdoch had to negotiate for access with monopolistic cable owners. A popular programmer such as ESPN had leverage in such talks. But an unproven network such as Fox was in a weak position. This proved to be a dilemma made for Murdoch's audacity. Normally, cable companies paid programmers for the right to carry their content. Murdoch upended that arrangement and offered to pay cable operators if they would help him launch Fox News. In late 1996, Murdoch paid an unknown amount, rumored to be about $200 million, to cable mogul John Malone to launch Fox News on Malone's cable systems—at MSNBC's expense, as it turned out. At the time, the deal seemed like it might be a crazy waste of Murdoch's money. In retrospect, it looks like a steal. As Sherman writes with some understatement, "Murdoch's distribution coup put wind at Ailes's back."


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As in my last blog post I said that I am going to start studying Bhagvad Gita, the holy book of Hindus. I have read the first chapter of the holy book and in this post I am writing the summary of the first chapter that can be marked as "The Lamentations of Arjuna."
The chapter begins with Dhritrashtra, the King of Bharata (historical name of country India) asking Sanjay, king's associate, about what is going on in the battlefield of Kurukshetra where a huge battle is about to begin. The battle of Kurukshetra is between Kauravas (sons of Dhritrashtra) and the Pandavas (sons of Pandu). Sanjay, who has been blessed with foresightedness, gives the king the description of all that is happening in the battlefield. Below is the description of the events by Sanjay to the King.
In the battlefield Duryodhan, son of Dhritrashtra inspects the enemy phalanx formation by Pandavas in the battlefield. He looks at the enemies and tells his master, Dronacharya how well the formations are made by the enemies and praises Arjuna, Bhima and all other great warriors ready to fight by side of the Pandavas. Then he tells his master how the commanders by his side are specifically able to lead the troops. He refers to his master Dronacharya, Bheeshm, Karna, Kripacharya and other commanders who have never lost any battle. He says that the commanders by his side are well qualified with all the weaponry and the presence of Bheeshm Pitamah, the eldest and grand-uncle of both Kauravas and Pandavas, by his side will have them well-protected.
Then Bhishma Pitamah blows his Conch that has the sound like a roaring Lion which makes Duryodhan proud and delighted. Then followed the beating of Drums, blowing of Conchs, Bugles and Trumpets altogether making a clamor. Then comes the chariot drawn by white horses on which Lord Krishna and Arjuna are seated, they blow their divine Conchs followed by Bhima's blowing of his horrendous Conch followed by Conch blowing by Yudishthir, Nakul, Sehdev and other commander. All these sounds of the Conchs together torn the hearts of Kauravas and made them afraid.
Then Sanjay with his foresightedness sees the chariot on which Lord Krishna and Arjuna are seated. Arjuna lifts his bow and requests Lord Krishna who is Arjuna's Charioteer in the battle, to take the chariot in to the middle from where he can examine the formations of Kauravas' armies. He wanted to see those who are here to make Dhritrashtra's foolish son happy. Lord Krishna takes the chariot in the middle of the battlefield taking it in front of Bhishma, Dronacharya and other kings who came to fight by the side of Kauravas.
Among the enemies Arjuna looks upon his uncles, grand-uncles, masters, brothers, grand-sons and many of his relatives. Looking upon them he speaks to Lord Krishna and tells him that seeing friends and relative as enemies to fight is making his body shiver, his tongue parched, he can no longer hold firm his bow, his skin is burning, he is unable to stand his ground and foresees something unfortunate.
He tells Lord Krishna that killing his dear ones will do no good to him, nor does he want to claim victory, empire or happiness with this. He says that there is no good in winning the empire and happiness when the dear ones are not there to enjoy these. He questions Lord Krishna why he should kill his uncles, masters, grand-uncles, brothers, grandsons and other relatives who are in front of him ready to die regardless of their will to kill him. He says that he will not fight them even if he is given everything, what good he will get killing Kauravas, his brothers. It would be a sin to kill his kinsmen, he asks Lord Krishna what good is there in it and what kind of happiness he will have with this.
Arjuna says that may the others do not see anything wrong in killing their friends and relatives, but he sees it as a sin then why should he do such a crime, why should he be a part of this sin. Doing such thing destroy the generation and iniquity gets enforced. In such enforced iniquity the descendants also get plagiarized. Such iniquity in the descendants destroys the values of tradition in them and therefore the roots of ancestry weakens. The existence of the destroyers of ancestry makes social and familial welfare difficult. Arjuna says that he heard from his masters that those who destroys the ancestry go forever to hell.
He laments that everyone is curious to commit this sinful deed, everyone is ready to kill their kinsmen so as to win the empire. He says it would be delightful for him to be killed by sons of Dhritrashtra while he would be without defense and resistance. Saying all this Arjuna places his bow aside and sits on his chariot left bereaved.
And thus ends the Chapter 1 of the Bhagvad Gita. The next Chapter will have the teachings of Lord Krishna to Arjuna after he is left dejected.


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Here is a look at the high and low temperatures from a few locations across the area over the last week. I'm sure a lot of us have forgotten that temperatures were that warm this past Saturday. The numbers you see for Friday is our current forecast.
Computer forecasting models have been going back and forth on the track of our next storm, which is possible by Sunday, with some saying it will move through our southeast, while others show the storm staying well to our south. This makes it extremely difficult to predict where its going to go. Below are images taken from two different computer-forecasting models that show a pretty different forecast for precipitation Sunday afternoon.
The first image shows the precipitation rolling through parts of the southeast. Granted, it wouldn't be heavy if this is exactly what occurs, but with the potential for a wintry mix, it wouldn't take much to make travel pretty treacherous. The second image though keeps the entire storm well to our south giving our area no precipitation at all. This has been happening for the last couple of days where some models bring it through South Dakota and some don't, so we will have to watch this closely. But we may need to watch this even closer than we typically do because of the type of precipitation that could come along with this storm. With warmer air moving northward along with this storm, there could be some rain and freezing rain that comes along with it, and in some cases, quite a bit. Take a look at the forecast from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) that starts off by showing the probability of receiving at least one hundredth of an inch of freezing rain through the day Sunday followed by the probability of receiving at least a tenth of an inch of freezing rain.
At the moment, it looks like the chances for at least a small amount of freezing rain are pretty good… at the very least, some freezing drizzle. Doesn't sound like a big deal, but any amount of freezing rain is not good for travel, no matter how small. Stay tuned to KDLT and KDLT.com and we will keep you updated with the latest. For now though, just stay warm!


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Tag: Lacrosse
Cararro Blazes Trail for KY Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a sport that continues to grow nationwide, and Louisville is no exception to that. St. X grad Chase Carraro has made a name for himself nationally.
Wam-Bam Hopes To Lead KCD To Lacrosse Title
For the past year Kentucky Country Day's Andrea Wambaugh has tried hard to put the memories of last season's lacrosse state championship game behind her.
Lacrosse Goalie Lauded On, Off Field
At the conclusion of every game, win or lose, all players on the Ballard High School lacrosse team line up and file past goalie Cooper Fogle.
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I'm still patiently awaiting the arrival of an NBA team at the KFC Yum! Center, but until then, I've found another pro sport to keep me entertained.
CAL coach Phil Brock credits Shutt for lacrosse success
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When the Kentucky Lacrosse Association held the first state championship for high school boys in 2001, the scene was far from inspiring – a mere four teams competing on a makeshift field at Tom Sawyer Park with a smattering of fans along the sidelines.


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The leader of Somalia's main armed group al-Shabab has threatened to attack the United States if Barack Obama, the US president, does not embrace Islam.
The group has not launched an attack outside Africa but western intelligence agencies have long been concerned about the group targetting young Somali-Americans for recruitment.
"We tell the American President Barack Obama to embrace Islam before we come to his country," Fuad Mohamed "Shongole" Qalaf, one of the rebel leaders, said in a radio broadcast on Monday.
The message was recorded in the town of Afgoye, near the Somali capital of Mogadishu during a meeting of Qalaf and Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, the former leader of the Islamic Party, another armed group.
The two movements had clashed several times previously but announced a merger last week.
On Sunday Aweys, who founded the more political Islamic Party in 2007, said his group will fight under al-Shabab's command to help oust "infidel" invaders from Somalia.
"We have united for the sake of our ideology and we are going to redouble our efforts to remove the government and the African Union from the country.
"We have been waiting [for] this unity for so long and thanks to Allah for finally helping us succeed to be a unified mujahideen force," added Aweys.
Al-Shabab holds most of southern and central Somalia and has the support of hundreds of foreign fighters, mostly radicalised East Africans.
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The al-Shabab launched co-ordinated suicide attacks in Uganda in July that killed 76 people. It has also announced its allegiance to al-Qaeda and is believed to be harbouring a mastermind of the twin 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
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"Touch Tunnel"
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A new version of the museum's labyrinthine Touch Tunnel is back due to popular demand. Now visitors can once again crawl through the pitch-black maze, finding their way using only their sense of touch. (No need to worry: Infrared cameras allow museum staff to see and talk to little ones if they get stuck.) Kids are bound to appreciate their eyesight as never before once they emerge. Ages 7 and up.
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Liberty Science Center 222 Jersey City Blvd
Jersey City
Jersey City
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Tue–Fri 9am–4pm; Sat, Sun 9am–5pm.
- Transport:
Subway: Travel: PATH to Exchange Pl or Pavonia/Newport, then transfer to the Hudson-Bergen light rail to Liberty State Park
- Price:
$15.75, seniors and children ages 2–12 $11.50, children under 2 free. See the center's website for IMAX and combination tickets.
Liberty Science Center
- 222 Jersey City Blvd
Jersey City
Jersey City
- 201-200-1000
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