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- Psalm 39:1, English Standard Version
"There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long. long ago."
Loren Eaton hosts another round of ghost stories centered on Christmastime. There are many here, and Loren has a couple himself. Note this on called "Elizabeth." Enjoy and post your comments.
Matthew Ingram argues that media companies, particularly content creators like Reuters, should allow their readers to comment on articles. If they don't, they are shutting out potential fan support.
Reuters recently removed its comment section, saying self-policing social networks were already handling lively discussion well so they didn't need to duplicate the effort. Ingram says by doing this, Reuters is handing a large slice of market value to Facebook and Twitter (among other networks) as well as move any arguments over an article onto other venues where Reuters' writers will have to decide how to respond on their own. He explains:
Is moderation a pain, and an expensive proposition? Sure it is. Lots of things that matter to your business are expensive. And if you have an engaged community, they can become your moderators, as successful online communities like Slashdot and Metafilter have shown — which in turn helps strengthen your community. Ending comments means removing any chance that this will ever happen.A news service probably needs all the love it can get. Does Reuters really want their writers to tweet their defense of contentious reports or take the debate to Medium?
Loren Eaton has written a short story for a collective Halloween storytelling event. It's a story of a young girl who discovers she hears and experiences things when she touches the bones of deceased animals. It's a bone-chilling (heh, heh) idea which rings true in sad way. If we didn't have a culture of death in this world, this kind of story would feel completely fantastic.
Bones spoke to Jenny.Read the rest on his blog, I Saw Lightning Fall.
She discovered the gift -- if gift it was -- at the age of five. Her brother, Samuel, had been excavating in the backyard with a red-bladed Ames True Temper shovel. A foot down, he accidentally disturbed the grave of one Fluffymump, a former favorite feline. Some surreptitious digging, a quick bend and snatch, and he whirled, shouting, "Hey, Germy, catch."
Fluffymump's sepia skull landed in Jenny's outstretched hands.
Naturally, she screamed and ran upstairs to her room. Naturally, Jenny's father bent Samuel over his knee and given him three sharp whacks. Naturally, Jenny's mother followed close after to offer consolation and chocolate chip cookies only just taken from the oven. But that was where expectation ended.
Our friend Prof. Gene Edward Veith of Patrick Henry College gives my latest novel the thumbs up:
But although there are a lot of big ideas in this book and a lot of rich theologizing, Death's Doors is just fun to read. It's suspenseful, exciting, and wildly imaginative, both in the author's story telling and in the way it stimulates the reader's imagination. And I'm realizing that all good novels–including Christian novels, classics, and other works that are Good for You–need to have those qualities. And this one does.
Read it all here.
A French woman blogs her bad experience at an Italian restaurant in an up-scale French tourist town on the Atlantic, and her review eventually ranks fourth in all Google searches for that restaurant. That was too high and hurt the establishment's reputation, lawyers argued, so a French court has ordered her to change the post's title (she retracted it entirely) and pay $2,000 in damages.
French lawyers say this won't become a precedent at all. Sure.
I won't name the restaurant, in case it adds to the blogger's grief, but the CS Monitor says that while the bad review is offline (though archived by Internet gnomes), many comments are being posted about how this restaurant can't take criticism.
Also in this report: "German politicians are considering a return to using manual typewriters for sensitive documents in the wake of the US surveillance scandal." This is probably a smart move.
Just in time for Friday the 13th, your new, favorite website has launched. ClickHole, from the makers of The Onion, "is the latest and greatest online social experience filled with the most clickable, irresistibly shareable content anywhere on the internet." It says so right on the About page. It has "only one core belief: All web content deserves to go viral."
It's spontaneously generated (not written by any actual humans) appears on the site, just begging to be clicked and shared. If anyone needs help on just how this "clicking" process works, scroll the About page for a helpful illustration.
Share your results for great quizzes like "How Many Of These 'Friends' Episodes Have You Seen?" I got "Nice! 'You know math?!' Yep, looks like you're a borderline 'Friends' genius! Wish you were around when Joey posed as a combat medic in Iraq during season 8!"
Read George R.R. Martin's confession: "When I Started Writing 'Game Of Thrones,' I Didn't Know What Horses Looked Like."
Watch and share this touching video: "What This Adorable Little Girl Says Will Melt Your Heart"
And best of all: "8 Touching Pics Of Celebrities And Their Dads."
(via 10,000 Words)
Bart Gingerich writes that young people are being led by untrained writers who claim to understand the deep wisdom of God better than anyone who came before them:
[W]e are starting to observe firsthand that the radical democratization of knowledge has led to what John Luckacs calls "an inflation of ideas." Everyone has been given just enough knowledge and literacy to get them into trouble and yet none of the patience or discipline to get them out of it. Everyone with a blog or Twitter account can shoot out lots of small ideas that lack depth, grounding, and merit. Thus, American Christians are confronted with more and more theological ideas that have less and less worth.Seminaries are both suffering from this and contributing to this problem. (via Anthony Bradley)
My favorite Christmas gift this year may have come from a total stranger. Digital artist Jeremiah Humphries produced the above drawing of Erling Skjalgsson, apparently, on a whim.
I like the use of light to suggest the hearth fire in the hall.
These are the moments that suggest to a writer that he hasn't entirely wasted his time.
For more information on Mr. Humphries' art, check out his blog.
First off, I have to apologize and say that you'll be seeing slow posting from me this week, or none at all. I have a major paper to write for my Library Science class, requiring my undivided attention.
Meanwhile, I direct you to our friend Hunter Baker, who posted a very thoughtful piece today on the minimum wage controversy, and Christian compassion in general.
During a recent visit to twitter, I happened across a post from a noted Christian academic. He had composed the kind of pithy remark which is tailor-made to launch a hundred admiring retweets. Paraphrasing slightly, it was something like this: "Conservatives, don't talk to me about family values if you doesn't endorse a minimum wage increase." I am sure that he thought it was a pretty high-powered zinger.
The problem is that there is no necessary connection between family values and increasing the minimum wage....
What a strange day. I was very low and very high within a few hours, and all through the mediation of the Internet. This whole thing would have been inconceivable just 20 years ago.
First, though, the weekend report. My big project was my annual ceremony of seeking out and repairing cracks in the retaining wall on the west side of my property, so it doesn't rain chips down onto my neighbor's driveway, or give way altogether in small landslide. The neighbor and I have discussed replacing the whole thing, but that awaits the Day When My Ship Comes In. A movie deal would do it.
I knew ahead of time that the work would leave me walking like Walter Brennan on the old Real McCoys TV series, which most of you are too young to remember. Which is just the sort of thing Grandpa McCoy would have said himself, except that he would have said it about Vaudeville or nickelodeon shows.
The other big accomplishment of the weekend was submitting my first research paper for my grad school class. Worked hard trying to master the APA style, and had to cut out half my text after I realized I'd forgotten to make it double spaced. I've often had people (some of them with doctorates) tell me they can't imagine writing a novel. I for my part have a hard time imagining writing a doctoral thesis.
So I hobble into work today and check the grad school web access page, and find that my instructor has critiqued my paper, but not given me any grade points. I took that to mean I'd failed the assignment, and so plunged into Stygian depression. I have to maintain a B average to stay in school. All that was over now, I thought. I was done. Bound for unemployment and life on the street.
Then I e-mailed the instructor, asking her to explain. She e-mailed back that she just hadn't assigned grades yet.
OK. Never mind, then.
And then I get a plug from John Wilson at Christianity Today's Books & Culture podcast (see below). That's like a bucket list thing for me. All my life, Christianity Today has been the standard of intellectual respectability in the evangelical world. And I made it! In a way.
My grandmother would have been so proud. Though I'd have to explain to her what the Internet and podcasts are.
Then we could commiserate about our stiff joints.
In his podcast today, John Wilson of Books and Culture talks about how much he enjoyed Lars' latest !!spell-binding!! novel, Hailstone Mountain, and a bit about how he was provoked to read it. The world feels smaller somehow.
If you too are brand new to Lars Walker's novels, learn more by following this wonderful, insightful, and humility-inspiring blog or through the links below:
- Twice the Critical Goodness!
- Phil's Review of Troll Valley
- Eleventh Century Vox
- I Did Not See That Coming
- My Review of Hailstone Mountain
- By the Dawn's Erling Light, Part 1
- By the Dawn's Erling Light, Part 2
- My Review of West Oversea
(via Kevin Holtsberry)
Our friend Gene Edward Veith, of Cranach blog, linked today to Joel Heck's Lewis Site, where the author, who teaches at Concordia University, Austin, Texas has done a lot of work compiling a chronology of C. S. Lewis's life.
He's now produced a perpetual desk calendar with an event for every day of the year. The perfect gift for... well, for me. And for those Lewis fanatics on your list, whose name is surely Legion.
Joe Carter, formerly of The Evangelical Outpost, is wicking out the nostalgia in me by profiling three God-bloggers who started blogging in 2003, a year before I started this lit-blog. Like Joe, I have admired these men for a long time. They helped shaped the blogosphere, or it feels like they did for me.
Of Tim Challies, Jared Wilson, and Justin Taylor, he asks these questions:
- What was your motivation for starting a blog?
- How has blogging changed your life over the past decade?
- What is one lesson you've learned from blogging about writing, communicating, etc.?
- How has blogging itself or the blogosphere changed in these ten years?
Tim says: "I learned that I think best when I write. I don't really know what I believe until I write it down and work it through in my word processor, and in that way writing has been a critical part of my spiritual development. For some reason it took me beginning a blog to figure this out."
Jared says: "Then one of our guys said, "Why don't we stop the clunky email chains and do this on a weblog?" I had no idea what that was, but we all kinda said, 'Okay.'"
Justin: "Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I think we are more bored with blogs than we were ten years ago. Our attention spans are even shorter as we want to hear from and interact with more people but with fewer characters — hence the rise of Twitter. What was a short piece ten years ago is now almost considered 'long form.'"
Today I got an e-mail from super-author Andrew Klavan, directing me to this column on his blog, in which he gives me a nice plug.
Novelist Lars Walker — a friend of this blog and an insightful reviewer of some of my own novels — makes a trenchant comment in the Elizabeth Smart post below. I know it's trenchant because I was about to make basically the same comment but Lars beat me to it! In the comment, he makes a delightfully concise reference to "the Osteenian view that suffering is always a sign of God's displeasure." This, of course, refers to popular preacher Joel Osteen, who has been promoting his new book at the Blaze and other places. He basically preaches that God wants wonderful things for your life and you only have to open yourself to God's will in order to receive those blessings.
He was particularly pleased, he said, by my use of the adjective "Osteenian," meaning theological ideas in line with Joel Osteen's preaching. He seems to think I may have coined it, though I find it hard to believe nobody's used it before.
In any case, this counts as a good day.
Popsci.com, the site of Popular Science magazine, is shutting off comments, because "even a fractious minority wields enough power to skew a reader's perception of a story, recent research suggests."
Though most Popsci.com commenters were great, the salt of the earth, spambots and trolls were present as well, and, darn it, this Interweb thing is too unruly to govern with, like, technology.
The Popsci.com editors grieve, "A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again."
A war on expertise is being waged by spambots?
Pastor and writer Frank Luke gives my Hailstone Mountain a very nice review today:
The strongest theme I saw was honor and duty in a person's life. Duty means doing what needs to be done whether you like it or not. Especially if you like it not. The book revolves around honor. Men go to great lengths to gain or keep honor. Things they will not do for themselves, they do to help others. Men they would otherwise befriend they may not because of differences in spirit or blood. When people do their duty to God, the right things happen. When they forget, they and all those who serve under them suffer.
Our friend Hunter Baker praises Dean Koontz' Odd Thomas books over at Touchstone Magazine:
Years of major market success gain an author freedom to do what he wants. In the last decade, Koontz has invested his considerable artistic capital in becoming a more intentional instructor of the soul. His device for moral and spiritual teaching is a young man named Odd. Odd, like Koontz, is a Catholic. He is bright, handsome, and athletic. His parents are divorced and both highly dysfunctional. Odd's inattentive, playboy father comes from a family with a lot of money. His mother doesn't deserve the name. Given his upbringing, Odd is a miracle. He is God's child more than he is the child of two people who refuse to grow up.
I have a column called "The Book We Still Can't Spare" at The American Spectator today. It's about the Bible and democracy.
Our friend Anthony Sacramone sends a link to a snarky column at Intercollegiate Review: "How to Be a Really Lousy Journalist for Fun and Profit":
Start with the assumption that your own views are moderate. Within your newsroom, they probably are, even if last night at a colleague's dinner party you argued for single-payer health care and mandatory re-education camps for homeschoolers. Then, instead of describing the views of people outside your newsroom, just label them "right-wing," "anti-abortion," or "extremely conservative." You might be wondering if, finding rational argument too burdensome, you can just resort to calling the people you disagree with bigots and dismiss them. Turns out you can!
If you need to beef up your word count, throw in a few stereotypes and clichés about backwoods believers. Be careful even here, though, as you don't want to showcase views that might catch on.
Read the whole thing here.
John Sigismund of Hungary with Suleiman the Magnificent in 1556.
Today, Grim of Grim's Hall cited Hailstone Mountain again, pointing out that one of the issues I dramatized in the book has shown up in the New York Times.
I'm getting really sick of being a prophet.
"It is my understanding that the prophet Jeremiah frequently expressed a similar sentiment, sir," said Jeeves.
Over at National Review's The Corner, Andrew C. McCarthy links to an article about the Islamic institution of the Jizya tax. Jizya is part of the process of submission in a sharia state. The kuffar (infidel) pays the jizya and suffers various social indignities, in order to be permitted to go on living and to practice his religion (this is the much-vaunted freedom of religion of which Islamic apologists boast).
The argument is that the Egyptian government openly considers U.S. foreign aid to be a payment of jizya. In their view, they are in the process of conquering us, and this is the beginning of our submission.
Will this information cause liberals, most of whom are adamant that our government should pay for nothing that can possibly be regarded as religious, to call for an end to our aid to Egypt?
No, no of course not. When they say "religion" they mean "Christianity."
It's snowing again. Coming down pretty heavy. The weather man says five to eight inches this time.
I was going to call it an insult, but no. The last one was an insult. This is the one there's no alternative to laughing over. Even if it puts down a foot, I declare here and now I won't shovel it. It'll be gone in a couple days anyhow.
I'm beginning to think we need to draw lots to figure out who offended the Almighty.
Only I'm afraid it's me.
Anyway, our friend Grim at Grim's Hall has posted a review of Hailstone Mountain, with a call for discussion on a theological point which I, frankly, had never actually connected to the scene in the book he's talking about. But now that he mentions it, I guess he's right.
I'm happy to report that our free book day (not over yet, you can still get it here until midnight, I think) seems to have been a success. We've given away more than 750 downloads, last time I checked, and one may hope that this might attract a few readers and referrals. Hailstone Mountain reached #2 on a couple of free Christian fantasy books lists today as well.
To put the cherry on the sundae, Loren Eaton posted a review at I Saw Lightning Fall. And we got a link from Vox Day of Vox Popoli.
Now I shall lean back and let all this adulation go to my head.
Thanks to everyone who helped promote it.
In yet another response to my Intercollegiate Review article, Speculative Faith asked me to answer a few questions over at their site. Thanks to those folks.
Visitors to the Evangelical Outpost website experienced, today, the horror of being greeted by my face. David Nilsen, who reviewed Troll Valley yesterday, followed up with an interview, which you can read here.
And in all our excitement over Hailstone Mountain, let's not forget Troll Valley. David Nilsen posted a flattering review today at Evangelical Outpost.
Part of that is due to Walker's writing ability. He spends a good chunk of the first third of the book describing life and work on a farm in Minnesota, including extended passages just describing food, without ever losing the reader's interest. Walker also has the fascinating ability to be witty, even humorous, while dealing with the darker aspects of life and the human condition.
Much appreciated.
I don't think it would be right to say that my column on Christian Fantasy for The Intercollegiate Review, posted yesterday, has gone viral. But it seems to be approaching the communicable disease level anyway. Editor Anthony Sacramone tells me it's rapidly approaching their record for hits. There've been several links, including...
Our friend Gene Edward Veith over at Cranach calls it "beyond excellent."
David Mills at First Things speaks of "good advice" and "interesting insights."
And, most amazing of all, Jeffrey Overstreet himself devotes quite a long post to it, calling me a "formidable storyteller," which is kind of like having your singing praised by Placido Domingo. Although he's visited our blog in the past and responded to some of my comments on his works, I'm surprised that a guy with so much more important things to think about was even aware of my work. He disagrees with my use of the term "Christian fantasy," a point I appreciate, but I don't think there's much to be done about it.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who's spread the word. I did not expect a response of this kind. Frankly (as I confessed to Anthony) I was a little embarrassed to submit the thing, because it seemed to me a lot of conventional wisdom that had been dispensed just as well by better writers.
But sometimes you're in the right place at the right time, like the merchant in Hailstone Mountain who brought a cat to a country full of mice.
Under protest, it goes without saying, because I'm afraid of the power of the Irish Lobby, I offer the following clip of the redoubtable Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem. It's a song I'm particularly fond of -- the kind that might not impress you on first acquaintance, but sticks in your mind after a couple repeats. I particularly like the line, "Castles are sacked in war, chieftains are scattered far -- truth is a fix-ed star...."
Now an Anthony Sacramone update: He sneaked back into his blog last week, tiptoeing with his shoes off, and did a post. Then he did another yesterday. So we've got that. He also links to the web page of the Intercollegiate Review, where he's got a very amusing cover story right now:
Empire builders and revolutionaries, reformers and moral scolds, civil libertarians and uncivil prohibitionists—all believe History is on their side. Beware anyone who imputes to History an inevitable, self-directed, Forward march, as if it were as fixed as a bar code, as predetermined as male-pattern baldness, as sovereign as any voluntaristic deity. Most risible are atheists, old or new, who act as if the expanding energies of a supposedly random and causeless Big Bang could even possess an ultimate purpose....
Today somebody on Facebook referred me to a new blog which will have, I expect, a selective appeal – Sveyn Forkblog. The author, an Englishman named Chris Tuckley, has decided to start a blog to celebrate the millennium of one of England's most obscure kings – Sveyn (or Svein, or Sven, or Svend – the options are many) Forkbeard, the Viking Dane who conquered England, then promptly died, leaving the whole thing for his son Canute the Great to conquer over again.
This interests me, of course, because it's in my line and precisely in my period. Svein was an ally of King Olaf Tryggveson of Norway, whom you'll remember from The Year of the Warrior, but turned against him (actually it was more the other way around; Olaf switched sides on Svein) and led the coalition that defeated and killed Olaf at the Battle of Svold.
If you read West Oversea, you'll recall how news came of the massacre of the Danes in England by King Aethelred the Unrede. One of the victims was said to be Svein's own sister, which gave him both a personal reason and a political excuse for returning to England with fire and sword, and subduing the whole place.
He also appears in the classic novel The Long Ships (not the movie), but does not come off very well there.
Joel Friedlander shares some thoughts on the problems and benefits of blogging for fiction authors, particularly unpublished ones.
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I'll fess up. I check our blog statistics now and then. Mostly not just to check the total clicks (though visit totals have been gratifying, thank you) but to back-track visitors and find what posts brought in the most Googlers. And this time of year an odd pattern appears. By far the most common search to wash up on these shores involves the words "Christmas crib." And the searches, oddly, generally come from places in the Middle East. If I'm reading it right (always a questionable thesis), they generally land on this post, which says nothing at all about Christmas cribs, causing me to figure that the draw must actually be the picture of the crèche I used to illustrate it.
The term "Christmas crib" sounds strange to me. It's not an English idiom, as far as I know. Nobody in these parts talks about Nativity Scenes that way. We call then Nativity Scenes or manger scenes, or if we're feeling pedantic (and heaven knows I often do) we say "crèche." But perhaps Christians in the Middle East do call them Christmas cribs. No reason why they shouldn't. It's a perfectly good name.
I might note (to continue in my pedantic voice, now that I've got it warmed up) that the Norwegian word for "manger" is in fact "krybbe." There must be a history there, and I wouldn't be surprised if it had something to do with manger scenes. But I don't have any facts on that.
From what I've read, the traditional inverted A-frame wooden manger we see in Nativity Scenes is nothing at all like anything used in First Century Israel. Many scholars think Christ was born in one of the caves near Bethlehem, where sheep were stabled in those days. The mangers in those structures were made of stone masonry and were built into a corner of the wall. Which is bad for crèches, as it would badly mess up the composition.
However, another theory, which I've grown to favor, says that many Jewish houses of that day had an attached all-purpose room, which could be used for livestock when necessary, or could be cleaned out and turned into a guest room when the in-laws showed up. Such a room would have had a built-in manger as well, and that could explain the reference to the baby in the manger in Luke (where the word "stable" does not actually appear).
The problem with this theory is that it renders the traditional mean old innkeeper unnecessary. Which is OK with me, frankly, because he also appears nowhere in the text. And I've always identified with him.


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When I started rubber stamping a million years ago, the only thing I stamped was envelopes, mostly to my sister-in-law, Sheri. Sheri and I sent letters back and forth regularly for quite a few years. It didn't much matter what the letters had in them, it was all about the envelopes. No envelope should go into the mail naked.
Lately there has been a discussion on Facebook among some of my friends about mail art. There are formal definitions of what constitutes "real" mail art, but for me it is just decorating envelopes. Today I actually went into my art room and played with scissors and glue. I haven't done that since before the holidays, so it is a start.
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In the early 1980s I attended a BASIC programming contest in Philadelphia with some fellow "whiz kid" friends. For those of you who came up after that era, it was a colloquial term for computer geeks in the '80s. Our coding for the contest was on Apple IIe machines, which I remember fondly.
At the end of the contest, we gathered in the lecture hall auditorium for the awards ceremony. In the forefront, set out on display podiums like queen's jewels were something we had never seen before: Macintosh computers.
Unlike today, there had been no websites with leaked photos and we had only vague news of what this was from the magazines of the period. One thing was certain, we were in awe. Three of these "gems" (Mac 128s, pictured above) were for us to try, at the end of the awards presentation we were each allowed to briefly give one of them a test drive.
I opened up Mac Paint, I dragged and dropped, and I clicked on things for the very first time. I was in love.
The Whiz Kid Grows Up
After that, I went off to college and retired my beloved Mac 512. I have been working for over twenty years in IT, almost exclusively on PC-based platforms. I remember most of my personal work computers, in fact: from my first IBM clone 80286-16 MHz desktop computer running DOS 3.3 that I built myself to the Dell laptop I'm writing this article on. Both can trace their ancestry back to the IBM PC-type architecture. In the 1990s, Macs seemed to be relegated to artists who preferred the superior graphics abilities or young kids. So I barely saw them.
I've been lucky enough to work with some powerful and innovative systems over my career. I worked on NCR UNIX towers at several clients' sites, a powerful Dec-Alpha workstation at an electric utility in the mid-1990s, mainframes in banks and with SPARC stations and Solaris Sun servers in Fortune 50 manufacturing companies.
None of these have had the same special impact on me as a technology person than that first Mac delivered. Yet, even as Apple's platform matured alongside its PC counterparts, I still looked at Apple as "not for business." Not because the hardware or operating systems weren't good or as powerful, but because it seemed that there was less Apple software available. Also, at the time, there was a lack of Apple hardware in the business environments I worked with. I knew some tech-savvy friends who swore by them and others who shunned them. I guess you could say I had a respect at a distance, but that's it.
Apple After The Mac
The emergence of the iPod brought new focus on Apple products, even to those who previously shunned them. Still, the early iTunes software was a little flaky to me, and, in my experience, it didn't run as smoothly on a PC/Windows platform. As a technology-focused person I resented it, and it gave me another reason not to take it seriously. I also didn't like Apple's proprietary music format that you could only copy over a limited number of times.
When Apple released the first Nano, my wife told me that she really wanted one. After giving her several other brands of MP3 player over the years, I finally relented and bought her a Nano. Of course, she still shook her head at my stubbornness. Conversely, I shook my head at her as she downloaded iTunes.
I had been a Blackberry user since 2001, so when the iPhone emerged, I saw it as a really neat toy, but again, not for business. After all, it didn't even have a real keyboard or the encryption that the Blackberry had.
When the iPad was first released, same thing: I saw it as little more than an iPhone with more screen real-estate. I was ready to dismiss it. Then, a co-worker showed up with one at work and let me try it. It started up fast, had a super slick interface, and browsed the Web with the finesse of a PC without the overhead. I used his Bluetooth keyboard with it, and found it to be more than serviceable for extended typing.
I told my wife about it. She smiled in a smug kind of way and asked me if I wanted one. I had just purchased a Dell netbook and told her that I felt guilty about a "toy" I really didn't "need."
Courting The iPad
A month later, a friend brought his over to our house and really let me play with it. We used an astronomy app which showed the positions of the constellations in real time to the movement of the device, above or below the horizon. I even tried the touchscreen keyboard and found it was not too bad — not as nice as the Bluetooth one, but more than usable.
The whole device had a form factor I was beginning to like; my shell was cracking. Those of you who read my previous article on the generic Android tablet PC I had purchased will understand my attempt to quell this craving.
The iPad 2's release was shortly before my birthday this year and my wife said, in a skeptical tone, "Do you want one?"
I shocked her with a very quick, "I think I do," but I insisted on having the full Apple experience. I wanted to go to the Apple store — not to camp out in line, but I wanted to try one first.
It was so light compared to its predecessor, and the resolution was incredible. I had found love again.
My wife insists she is now an "iPad Widow." I'm still not crazy about iTunes, but the iPad itself is a real pleasure. The iPad 2 is probably enough computer for most people to use on a daily basis. The interface seems snappy and reliable. I purchased an Office clone, Office 2 HD, which serves well enough for my Word and Excel needs and for just $6. It has a decent version of the Safari browser (no Flash content yet, of course), email, movies and music.
Apple has once again leveled the playing field with a completely new and innovative computer platform that is as revolutionary as the first Mac. Like the original Mac, there have been many "clones," but, for me, Apple has broken new ground in computing once again.
One More Thing
One side note I think some you will find interesting:
I still have my 512kb Mac and also a Compaq "Portable" (running CP/M) from the same era. I fired both up. This actually says something: I doubt my Dell laptop will boot right up in 30 years.
I asked my wife (who is not in IT) to try both computers. She was able to use the Mac,
open a Document, etc. Forget the Compaq, which had Word Star. It stared at her with a green phosphorous prompt. She had no idea where to begin.
In retrospect, in my opinion Apple is clearly responsible for the basic design of the modern computing interface, then and now.


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Long-term suite leases and reserve seating agreements that helped fund the debt-free construction of Verizon Arena are now line items in the facility's annual income statement.
(To view a seating chart of the arena's luxury suites and who leases them, click here.)
Renewing those contracts at the North Little Rock entertainment venue has produced mixed results. The arena recorded total revenue of $6.6 million during 2009, its second-biggest year since opening in 1999.
But that sales performance didn't generate a handsome profit as management invested in capital improvements to keep the project updated and competitive while laboring in a challenging business climate.
"Current economic conditions make it difficult for many sponsors to continue to renew their advertising contracts and suite leases with the arena," the 2009 annual report notes. "A significant decline in advertising/lease revenue or ticket sales could have an adverse impact on the arena's future operating results."
Michael Marion, general manager of Verizon Arena, expects 2010 results will be comparable to 2008, which produced a $27,854 loss.
"I would be shocked if we didn't show a loss this year, but we have money socked away," Marion said of the arena's enviable financial position. "The fall is promising, but I don't think we will end up finishing the year in the black."
The most current numbers compiled for arena operations this year show a $19,661 loss on revenue of nearly $2.1 million through April 30.
Along with the decline in long-term suite leases is the "Save Your Seat" program, launched with an original count of 980 that has fallen to 411.
That 58 percent drop represents more than $142,000 in lost annual revenue for the arena. The SYS program is priced at $1,250 for a five-year term and reserves a participant first crack to buy an event ticket with a guaranteed seat location.
The precipitous decline accompanied the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Trojans moving its home court from the arena in 2005 to its new on-campus facility, the Jack Stephens Center.
Adding to the lost allure of SYS was the demise of the RiverBlades (2003) hockey franchises followed by the exodus of the RimRockers basketball team.
Marion said the biggest impact was felt when the Trojans left, taking many UALR season ticket-holders in the move.
"It didn't surprise me," Marion said of the SYS slide. "Plus the economy turning south."
Even with the whammy of financial cutbacks by SYS patrons that hit renewals, the priority seating arrangement continues to boost the arena bottom line.
Renewed seat licenses through the SYS program will add $102,750 yearly for the next four years. Seat licensing guarantees now booked drop to $77,063 in 2014, according to the arena's 2009 annual report.
Suite Leases
Renewed suite leases will contribute $192,500 annually during 2010-14. But that line item once carried more heft as well.
A decade ago, 27 of the 32 arena suites were leased. Budget cutbacks and financial casualties among the initial tenant roster pared today's count to 21 out of 32 leased.
Little Rock's One Bank & Trust remains the biggest player among the arena suite holders, renewing eight-year agreements for three slots in addition to its 20-year, premium spot.
When One Bank isn't using its suites to entertain clients or reward staffers and their families, the space is marketed.
"There is a big demand to sublease the suites for events," said Layton "Scooter" Stuart, CEO of One Bank. "The arena staff coordinates that and takes us out of the middle of it.
"All in all, it's been a great experience for us. From a marketing standpoint, it's the footing of our marketing program in Arkansas."
One Bank's deal includes handling the arena's bank business and ATM operations, banner advertising at the facility and name branding on the back of all arena tickets.
"Our experience with the arena has been nothing but positive and pleasurable," Stuart said. "It's in the long-term marketing program of this bank."
'Watching Our Expenses'
Gone from the business scene through bankruptcy and the Verizon Arena rent roll are two Little Rock ventures, Forza Marketing Group and J.M. Products.
Suite agreements weren't renewed by U.S. Bank of Minneapolis, which inherited the lease originated by its predecessor, Mercantile Bank of Arkansas; VCC of Little Rock, the local partner in the construction management team that built the arena; and Beach Enterprises of Little Rock, parent company for a family of Arkansas real estate title companies.
Gus Vratsinas, chairman of VCC, said fiscal stewardship during uncertain economic times prompted the tough decision to forgo renewing the firm's suite agreement.
"We thought it was great," Vratsinas said of the firm's involvement with the suites program. "I supported the idea of an arena for years, and we were proud to be part of the project.
"When the renewal time came up, we were like a lot of companies. We're watching our expenses. We did continue doing the Save Your Seats program" with eight seats.
Gone from the suites picture are teams that once called the arena home: Trojans basketball, RiverBlades hockey and Twisters arena football. The arena staff retains hope of someday landing a professional franchise as a drawing card once again.
Even the suites without long-term leases provide revenue for operations on a one-time event basis. The cost ranges from $250 for a high school or college graduation ceremony to $750 for a concert that bears the added cost of tickets and any food ordered.
"We make money by leasing the vacant suites to the public for events as well," said Jared Lillard, director of sales and finance. "For the Eagles [concert on July 1], we had every suite in the building full except for the six suites behind the stage."
Awaiting an Upturn
The arena staff considered mounting a marketing push to replace exiting suite tenants. However, Marion said the decision was made to wait for more favorable conditions.
"We thought about a more significant marketing campaign," Marion said. "It just seemed like it was a bad time to do that.
"We didn't go into any heavy marketing during the last 18 months because of the economy. Hopefully, the economy will turn around, and we can beat the bushes a little harder."


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With Leadership Like This, Microsoft Is Doomed
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- I've been serious as cardiac arrest (not even a heart attack!) for more than a year now: Apple (AAPL) is poised to destroy Microsoft (MSFT) much the same way it did BlackBerry (BBRY).
If you scroll through the comments' section of the above-linked article, your eyes will glaze over. It's stunning really to see people defend Microsoft like they did the artist formerly known as RIM on the way down.
Apple couldn't beat RIM because IT departments would never let iPhones and iPads permeate the workplace. Now, folks with a similar lack of foresight tell us Apple can't knock Microsoft off in the enterprise and "work-sumer" (I just made that up) markets because it's too costly and/or time-consuming for companies to switch out hardware and train employees on new software (as if it's really that difficult to figure out how to use Pages).
However, it shouldn't surprise us that the peanut gallery thinks such misguided and repressive thoughts when we consider the way Microsoft's brass conducts itself.Of course, there's this painful blast from the past ... You would think with Steve Ballmer's history of gaffes as Microsoft CEO and the inane commentary we've seen over the years from former RIM co-CEO James Balsillie, Microsoft would put a moratorium on its employees talking about Apple. And there should be a special you can't speak publicly about anything addendum for Frank Shaw, the company's Corporate Vice President of Communications, who riffed at The Official Microsoft Blog Wednesday morning:
I'm still over in Abu Dhabi, where the only thing hotter than the weather are the new Windows devices unveiled by Nokia (NOK) this week.From there, Shaw continues to follow in Ballmer's footsteps, touting a Windows-based product he knows full well will fail, even if not as miserably as the Surface tablet has. But it gets better -- not better meaning better, but better meaning worse:
Seems like the RDF (Reality Distortion Field) typically generated by an Apple event has extended beyond Cupertino.
So let me try to clear some things up.But all Shaw does is proceed to insult our collective intelligence while proving he's delusional. And, if humanly and cognitively possible, more delusional than Ballmer:
(The Surface tablets) both include Office, the world's most popular, most powerful productivity software for free and are priced below both the iPad 2 and iPad Air respectively. Making Apple's decision to build the price of their less popular and less powerful iWork into their tablets not a very big (or very good) deal.He got the most "popular" part right, but most powerful -- that's subjective. Consumers have spoken. They're not buying tablets, at least in a comparison between Microsoft and Apple, on the basis of price or a "deal." After talking up a tablet his company had to take a $1 billion write down on, Shaw displays the sort of logic, in a run-on sentence that makes me look like Murakami, which illustrates why Apple has -- in hardware -- and will -- with software -- destroy Microsoft:
So, when I see Apple drop the price of their struggling, lightweight productivity apps, I don't see a shot across our bow, I see an attempt to play catch up.If anybody can tell me exactly what Apple is catching up to, I would appreciate it. Like Tim Cook said earlier this week, these guys are confused.
The competition is different...they are confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they are trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they will do next?Follow @rocco_thestreet -- Written by Rocco Pendola in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Dear World Pulsians,
It is with great respect that I write to you all requesting for anyone who could help me edit my 82,000 word novel titled "Moments of Pain, Moments of truth."
I started writing this novel in 2008 in China, and completed it in 2009 when I came back to Cameroon.
"Moments of Pain, Moments of Truth" is a semi autobiographical novel that contains about 80% of my real life experiences in China, and 20% of other people's experiences adapted to fit into the context of the novel.
I will remain indebted to anyone (editor) who will make my dream of publishing this novel to become a reality.
I trust in all my sisters of this forum, while hoping to hear from you,
In sisterhood,
You can contact me through this address
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Here is a synopsis of my novel
Have you ever lost a relationship that you were committed to after eight years? With a child to show for it? Did you ever think traveling abroad was going to be a timely solution to this traumatizing loss? Moments of pain is an eventful novel that seeks to tell the story of Anthonia as she flew into china in search of greener pastures and a better future filled with true love. If you understand what it takes to live with an expired visa in a foreign country, then you'll understand the hurdles that stood in Anthonia's path. No visa in china meant no job. And the love search? Interesting! The struggle for survival converted the original version of Anthonia's 'love search' to a 'must love.' Four love relationships characterized Anthonia's 2 years stay in China. These four guys were from two different continents and three different countries in the world; Cameroon, Nigeria and USA. The most cherished relationship with the USA guy lasted for a day...you will find out why in this novel. These relationships are filled with shocking revelations from the part of these guys; revelations that stood against Anthonia's religion and upbringing. The power of love and the need to survive made these revelations to mean almost nothing as time went on. Drug peddlers, fey men (popularly called 419), were just some of the revelations Anthonia got from those guys. She experienced these painfully but unavoidably. Such criminal activities were just the order of the day in the God – forsaken city of Guangzhou. Anthonia gets two employments as an ESL teacher in a college, and in a kindergarten. The former lasted for one month while the later for two days. Mysterious! Anthonia faces two deportations from china, with the last being the last nail on her coffin. Anthonia's friends also passed through these traumatizing experiences.
Moments of pain is a novel that tells 80% of the author's true life experiences in China, and 20% of other peoples experiences and stories adapted to be the experiences of Anthonia.
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June 3, 2013 | Media Week
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), 89, died this morning of viral pneumonia. The news was first reported by The Bergen Record , citing the Senator's office. Lautenberg, 89, was the oldest member of the Senate and the last to have served in World War II. He announced in February that he would not seek reelection in 2014.


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What is your definition of misery?
Sorrow without hope for resolution.
What is your greatest fear?
Losing my daughter.
What was your first "real" job working in theatre?
Valentine in Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Are you a good at waiting tables?
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
William Blake
Who are your favorite heroes of theatre?
Hamlet, Septimus Hodge, Edmund (Long Day's Journey)
Who are your favorite heroes in real life?
Dr. King, Henry David Thoreau, Ghandi
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Personal loyalty
What do you consider the most underrated virtue?
Personal integrity
Your favorite painter?
Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?
Your favorite playwright?
William Shakespeare
When and where were you happiest?
Birth of my daughter
What do you most value in colleagues?
Intellectual curiosity/spirit of collaboration
Is there a class in which you wish you had paid more attention?
If you didn't work in theatre, what would you do?
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Instilling a sense of global responsibility in others
What you'd like to be the world's best at?
What book would you read more than once?
Shakespeare's First Folio
Who would play you in a movie of your life? Why
Philip Seymour Hoffman. We look similar, and he combines a sense of thoughtfulness with a sense of integrity.
What sports teams do you follow?
Red Sox
Where would you like to spend a vacation?
Florence, Italy/ Maui
What car would you like to be seen driving around in?
A hybrid/electric
What book is currently on your nightstand?
Mansfield Park
If you could see a great production of a classic play, what would it be?
If you could travel back in time to visit or live in any time in history, when would it be?
1610, London
What actor will you see in any project they do?
George Clooney/Matt Damon
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Woman uses Bible as a weapon
Published On: May 15 2013 04:10:29 PM EDT
Updated On: May 16 2013 10:32:33 AM EDT
Updated On: May 16 2013 10:32:33 AM EDT
A 57-year-old woman allegedly beat another woman with a Bible.
North Carolina native Evelyn Mills Moore was arrested and charged with beating another woman and inflicting serious injury when she allegedly used her fists and a Bible to assault the woman, The Associated Press reports.
The victim suffered bruises on her head, face and arms.
Moore also was charged with assault after she allegedly struck a man with her fist, causing numerous bruises.
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Hawks and Lady Hawks pick up huge district wins
RED OAK - The last time the Lady Hawks played Corsicana, they were 5-0 then the Lady Hawks showed up and went 12 innings and handed the Lady Tigers their first loss of the season.
Would the second game be any different? Not really.
The game started out with both pitchers forcing batters to hit ground balls right at the infielders or striking them out.
The Lady Hawks kept hitting the ball and bunting when needed and were slowing dialing in on the Corsicana pitcher.
The turning point in the game seemed to come in the fourth when Katy Boyce (#22) had a 12 pitch at bat to earn a walk.
The Lady Tigers pitcher was clearly getting tired and the next several Lady Hawk batters went deep into counts too and the Lady Hawks were finally able to get a run across on nice hard hit shots to the outfield.
It was different story for Lady Hawks' pitcher Marley Dickert (#16).
She was simply in a zone and often only need three or four pitches per batter to get each out.
The Lady Hawks defense seemed to be in the right place at the right time on every hit.
The Lady Hawks one run lead held up until the top of the seventh until the Lady Tiger's got a rally going and actually had bases loaded with 1 out.
However, a bunt down the 1st base line to Jaimi Munoz (#7) allowed Munoz to not only tag the runner out, but also keep the runner on third base.
The game came down to a 3-2 count, two outs and bases loaded for the Lady Tigers and after two foul balls the Lady Tigers' batter hit a deep shot to left field and as it traveled everyone held their collective breath until Lauren Tamez (#17) chased the fly ball down and snared it in her glove to win the game for the Lady Hawks 1-0.
The Lady Hawks are now in the play-offs, but have one more home game against Lancaster on Thursday, April 21 which is also Senior Night.
The JV Lady Hawks also hosted Corsicana in the early game and basically used Corsicana as batting and base running practice.
The Corsicana JV pitcher struggled to get the ball over the plate, but when she did the Lady Hawks made her pay.
The JV Lady Hawks eventually run ruled Corsicana in four innings 15-0.


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Report illustrates the behavior of exports, imports and production sold of Cheese fondues and other food preparations n.e.c. for Romania. It shows fluctuations of value, volume and average prices for these categories during the last five years 2003 - 2007 together with the forecasts of them for the next two consecutive years 2008 - 2009. The material contains in-depth analysis of exports and imports across top ten trading partner countries and top three sub products as well as a ranking of current and future attractiveness of production, exports and imports.
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.....If people know two things about Easter Island, it is that at some point before the arrival of Europeans, in the process of making and transporting those heads, someone cut down the last tree. Whoever it was could have looked around the island, half the size of the Isle of Wight, and seen it was the last tree. They could have gazed out on an horizon unbroken on all sides, on which no ship had passed in centuries, and known there were no trees to be found elsewhere. But they cut it down anyway.
And then, the island's ecology collapsed. Food ran out. The stone heads still in the quarry were left, unfinished. The stone heads en route to the coast were abandoned, like our moai, mid-transit. Eventually, the Rapa Nui — the indigenous Polynesian population — turned to the only food source left, and a great cannibal war transformed this island paradise into a living hell. Still to this day, their obsidian arrowheads line the ground, so numerous they crunch underfoot.
Environmentalists have a name for what happened here: ecocide. A process that was the subject of Collapse, a 2005 book by the bestselling author Jared Diamond, its message is inescapable — and has been reiterated at environmental conferences the world over. Like us, the Easter Islanders became obsessed with producing ornaments and fripperies. Like us, they used scarce resources to make them. Like us, they knew they were causing irreparable environmental damage. But they did it anyway — and then died.
It is a dark parable for our times. And it makes archaeologists angry. ....
Colin Richards, an ordinarily placid professor of archaeology, looks angry. "All this talk of catastrophe is nonsense," he says. "We've had this one assumption, and built upon it and built upon it. That's the history of work on Easter Island." He rises to a satisfying crescendo. Behind him a South Pacific storm builds to its own crescendo. "It is falseness and idiocy upon idiocy." He gesticulates, sadly not quite in time with the distant thunder....
...But if we still insist on turning a single event on a complicated island into a simplistic parable, then this new parable of Easter Island becomes one less conducive to the environmental movement. In Hamilton's interpretation it is, instead, a story of human ingenuity overcoming apparently insurmountable ecological challenges. If applied to the current climate-change debate, it might well be better used by those who oppose the environmentalists, who argue we shouldn't worry about emissions, that we should trust in humanity's ability to adapt.


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a huge collection of music, poetry, spoken word, comedy and ambient sounds recorded at dozens of rainbow gatherings . many are recorded by tenali hedgehog and can also be found at www.rainbowtribe.net
others were gifted to me through other collections
tip: if you have quicktime plugin, just click to play you can right click and save link as to download.
although most sound like high quality recordings these were not produced in a studio, but recorded in the woods, and edited in a solar powered studio on a veggie oil powered schoolbus. they retain that raw live soul. these field recordings also may reflect the personalities of the recorders, since these represent a collection of several collections, like the "stick a mic in a bucket of dirty dishwater and see what it sounds like" recordings most is music, however some are just the sounds of being there which give you a greatter sense of what its like being at the rainbow gatherings in the woods.
simple fireside jam arizona gathering
squeeky water wheel (conected to the water filtration system i believe) cranks on a never ending song all its own just some random sounds of the rainbow new zealand gathering
allways does a spoken word peice called all we's about the interconectivity of all things ..brilliant arizona gathering
kinda a silly lil dity raunchy fun and goofy new zealand gathering
really wonderful song
the life of a free thinking hitchiking american hippiearkansas gathering
random sounds and conversations recorded behind the ovens in the main kitchen new zealand rainbow gathering --was that a goat?
spoken word
fantuzzi kicks out another classic with this lil song ..montana gathering
a beautiful song/chant in celebration of momma moon
kinda funny spoken word from the new zealand rainbow gathering
this song i love alot the writings on the walls babylon falls- wyoming 94
spoken word about what it means to walk the red road.. in harmony
more from the rusty water wheel
will O belts out this energetic song accompanied by stand up acoustic bass and drums pennsylvania gathering
just some more amazing talent from the rainbow family
just a couple jokes
very mellow song from the wyoming gathering
recording of chanting round the main fire new zealand rainbow gathering make a joyful noise ommmmmm
another great song from the talented rainbow family unknown gathering
fantuzzi entertaining hungry hippies waiting for food missouri gathering
a amazingly beautiful song always makes me think f how it feels to be at a gathering
more silliness from thoisee silly rainbows in new zealland
comedy montana gathering granola funk theater greg copies glowing feathers a-z powem style and then does a z-a one as well
title says it all
again visiting the squeeky water wheel ..
umm.. description not possible??
yea we already know what to expect out of new zealand by now heres more of it..haha a whole 10 minutes more
spoken word
gypsy camp never fails to entertain
banjo picken unknown gathering
human brings us this awesome song unknown gathering
another version by the gypsie caravan band
another amazingly beautiful song from these beautiful souls
spoken word
and 1 more
i cant get enough ofthe gypsies haha (these have diferenttract numbers so assume they arent all the same copies)
spoken word
yea..its that song..but with just a lil more soul
very talented violinist
unknown artist this songs just beautiuful out iof the arkansas gathering
mello tune out of the mellow wyoming mountains
spoken word-sensual
robbie gordons a true genius wether its metaphysics, quantum mechanics, or music on mandolin he can play probably over 4000 russian folk tunes, from memory, and thats less then 1% of the songs hes got memorized
peaceful mellow ethereal
funky freestyle poetry
mellow lil trailside jam
after the leos fired pepper spray bullets in kid villiage one victim speaks out with this spoken word peice about how they cannot distinguish a love as strong as family
reggae fans might be familiar with rocker t's studio work but theres nothing like rocker t unplugged in the woods
another lovely song by erica unknown gathering
fireside jam
another positive uplifting song by steve unknown gathering
fireside joyfullnessand celebration
more spoken word
just an example of the vast variety of spiritual chants
yet another bedoin chant
a lil chant with the fabulouse fantuzzi
gypsy chant with drums
beautiful violin jam
cherokee song/chant from the pennsylvania gathering
more random trailside tunes
the twins known as double dose do it again
fantuzzi honours the crazy lovers of krishna with this fun lil tune
what the gypsy life is all about!
close your eyes, visualize the moonlight the firelight illuminating the bare skin ogf the sacred sisters dancing in delight
feel the beauty of the sacred sisters mesmerizing dance
another by the master perfornmer fantuzzi
proves you dont ned a studio to sound good :)
awesome jam with drums and bass
rainbow version of a clasic reggae tune
doesnt sound like the main drum circle which has hundreds even thoussands of drummers sounds like a smaller drum circle arizona gathering
unknown a reminder that we are the keepers of the earth
i'm guessing this was from dun dun villiage african dance workshop? maybe?
har i sings emancipate yourself accompanied by standup bass (or is that a thump/tub bass?)
sweet song unknown artist
take a walk through a universe made of love
just a reminder extinction is forever remember that and you will do more to care for our mother earth
another beautiful uplifting song from that family that loves to sing
gentle peaceful flowing song by har i let it wash you away
unknown artist song about freedom
celebrating nature in song
ya just never know when or where rainbows will spontaniusly start singing for peace
felicias hauntingly sweet voice entices you to follow your heart and be free
your never lost when you accept guidance
guess this isnt those gypsies its the other gypsies?
happiness comes from serving one another and loving eachother
fun song bout havin fun
tribal reggae vibes
revolutionary freestyle
oregon gathering says "hey!" spacy drum circle chant/jam..somethingorother
the double dose twins doin it again and again the only way that they can
gotta love the dedication of people who haul a huge stand up acoustic bass all the way up the mountain 10-15 miles from the nearest roads ..but then again pianos make the trip too
title says it all
another fantastic song from fantuzzi
awesome reggae vibe
more reggae vibrations
lovin jah
same song..diferent woods
sweet jam
i was lying in my tent, falling asleep when all of the sudden anangel sanfg out loud and powerful from an unseen dark camp far off in the distance but the voice caqried on the wind with a power that silenced all around who stopped to listen..amazed..this was that song
mellow bass/flute /spoken word
another powerful song by this amazing musical family
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The New York Times Company Reports 2012 Fourth-Quarter And Full-Year Results
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) announced today fourth-quarter 2012 diluted earnings per share from continuing operations increased to $.76 from $.34 in the same period of 2011, largely due to the special items discussed below. Excluding severance and special items, diluted earnings per share from continuing operations decreased to $.32 in the fourth quarter of 2012 from $.39 in the fourth quarter of 2011. The decrease was due principally to a higher effective tax rate applicable in the fourth quarter of 2012 after the exclusion of severance and special items.
The Company had operating profit of $44.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with $90.8 million in the same period of 2011. Excluding depreciation, amortization, severance and the special items discussed below, operating profit was $124.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with $126.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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