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A man from Acrefair had a lucky escape after sleeping through a fire caused by a discarded cigarette.
Two crews from Wrexham were called to Bran, Acrefair just after 9pm yesterday after neighbours heard a smoke alarm going off in the next door property.
On arrival at the scene firefighters led the middle aged male occupant, who had slept through the alarms, from the property to safety.
A hose reel and two sets of breathing apparatus were used to extinguish the fire.
North Wales Fire and Rescue Service have said that the fire was caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette and that it caused light smoke damage to both floors of the property.
The man was checked over by paramedics at the scene as a precaution.
Tony Jones from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said: "Had the alarms not alerted the neighbours we could very easily be dealing with another fire death here in North Wales.
"The fire appears to have been caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette in the kitchen.
"Our advice is to use a proper, heavy ashtray that can't tip over easily and is made of a material that won't burn and make sure your cigarette is not still burning when you are finished put it out."
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DULUTH- The bad conditions are having an effect on meal delivery in the Twin Ports.
Senior Connections in Superior wasn't able to deliver hot meals today because of the weather.But leaders at Duluth's Union Gospel Mission want to make sure people know they'll be serving this weekend regardless of the weather.
Client service manager, Kerri Hauser said, "maybe some neighbors that can help get them down here and we would be more than happy to serve them a meal."
Union Gospel will serve three meals throughout the day this weekend starting at 7:30 in the morning.


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|Jennifer Jones
in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
|Phylis Lee Isley[1]
March 2, 1919
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
|December 17, 2009 (aged 90)
Malibu, California, U.S.
|Alma mater
|Northwestern University
|Years active
|Roman Catholic
|Robert Walker
(m. 1939–45; divorced)
David O. Selznick
(m. 1949–65; his death)
Norton Simon
(m. 1971–1993; his death)
|Robert Walker, Jr. (born 1940),
Michael Walker (1941–2007),
Mary Jennifer Selznick (1954–1976)
|Jennifer Jones
in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
|Phylis Lee Isley[1]
March 2, 1919
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
|December 17, 2009 (aged 90)
Malibu, California, U.S.
|Alma mater
|Northwestern University
|Years active
|Roman Catholic
|Robert Walker
(m. 1939–45; divorced)
David O. Selznick
(m. 1949–65; his death)
Norton Simon
(m. 1971–1993; his death)
|Robert Walker, Jr. (born 1940),
Michael Walker (1941–2007),
Mary Jennifer Selznick (1954–1976)
Jennifer Jones (March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American Oscar-winning actress during the Hollywood golden years. Jones, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Song of Bernadette (1943), was also Academy Award-nominated for her performances in four other films. She married three times, most notably to film producer David O. Selznick.
Jones starred in more than twenty films over a thirty-year career, going into semi-retirement following Selznick's death in 1965. In 1980, she founded the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation For Mental Health And Education after her daughter's suicide. In later life, Jones withdrew from public life to live in quiet retirement with her son and his family in Malibu, California.
Jones was born Phylis Lee Isley[1] in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Flora Mae (née Suber) and Phillip Ross Isley.[2] An only child, she was raised Roman Catholic.[3] Her parents toured the Midwest in a traveling tent show that they owned and operated. She attended Monte Cassino, a girls' school and junior college in Tulsa and then Northwestern University in Illinois, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, before transferring to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1938. It was there that she met and fell in love with fellow acting student Robert Walker. The couple married on January 2, 1939.[4]
Isley and Walker returned to Tulsa for a 13-week radio program, arranged by her father, and then made their way to Hollywood. Isley landed two small roles, first in a 1939 John Wayne western titled New Frontier, followed by a serial entitled Dick Tracy's G-Men. In these two films, she was billed as "Phyllis Isley" (with two Ls in her first name), but she failed a screen test for Paramount Pictures and decided to return to New York City.
While Walker found steady work in radio programs, Isley worked part-time modeling hats for the Powers Agency while looking for possible acting jobs. When she learned of auditions for the lead role in Claudia, Rose Franken's hit play, she presented herself to David O. Selznick's New York office but fled in tears after what she thought was a bad reading. Selznick, however, overheard her audition and was impressed enough to have his secretary call her back. Following an interview, she was signed to a seven-year contract.
She was carefully groomed for stardom and given a new name: Jennifer Jones. Director Henry King was impressed by her screen test as Bernadette Soubirous for The Song of Bernadette (1943) and she won the coveted role over hundreds of applicants. In 1944, on her 25th birthday, Jones won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Bernadette Soubirous, beating out her friend, Ingrid Bergman, who was the Best Actress nominee for her work in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Jones apologized to Bergman, who replied, "No, Jennifer, your Bernadette was better than my Maria." Jones presented the Best Actress Oscar the following year to Bergman for Gaslight.[5]
Over the next two decades, Jones appeared in a wide range of roles selected by Selznick. Her dark beauty and sensitive nature appealed to audiences and she projected a variable range. Her initial saintly image — as shown in her first starring role — was a stark contrast three years later when she was cast as a provocative bi-racial woman in Selznick's controversial film Duel in the Sun (1946). Other notable films included Since You Went Away (1944), Love Letters (1945), Cluny Brown (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948), Madame Bovary (1949), We Were Strangers (1949), Gone to Earth (1950), Carrie (1952), Ruby Gentry (also 1952), Terminal Station (1953; later released as Indiscretion of an American Wife), Beat the Devil (1953), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), Good Morning, Miss Dove (also 1955), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) starring opposite Gregory Peck and A Farewell to Arms (1957). The portrait of Jones for the film Portrait of Jennie was painted by Robert Brackman. She inspired the character Dolores González in Raymond Chandler's novel The Little Sister (1949).[citation needed]
Her last big-screen appearance came in the spectacular disaster film The Towering Inferno (1974), in which she danced with Fred Astaire before a fire threatened partygoers in a new San Francisco skyscraper who were celebrating its official opening as tallest building in the world. After helping to assist two children to escape the disaster, her character fell 110 stories to her death from a scenic elevator on the outside of the building which was derailed following an explosion. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Scenes from early on in the movie showed paintings lent to the production from the Norton Simon art gallery. Simon was her husband at the time the movie was produced.[citation needed]
Jones's first marriage had two sons, Robert Walker, Jr. (born April 15, 1940; the only one of Jones's children who would not predecease her), and Michael Walker (March 13, 1941 – December 27, 2007). Both later became actors. Jones had an affair with film producer David O. Selznick, and she separated from Walker in November 1943 and divorced him in June 1945.[6]
Jones married Selznick on July 13, 1949, a union which lasted until his death on June 22, 1965. After his death, she semi-retired from acting. According to media reports, Jones attempted suicide in November 1967 after hearing of the death of close friend Charles Bickford. She was found unconscious at the base of a cliff overlooking Malibu Beach; she was hospitalized in a coma before eventually recovering.[7][8] Her daughter, Mary Jennifer Selznick (1954–1976), committed suicide by jumping from a 20th-floor window in Los Angeles on May 11, 1976. This led to Jones's interest in mental health issues. In 1980, she founded the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation For Mental Health And Education. The Foundation pledged $400,000 to be used exclusively for the world renowned Mary Jennifer Selznick Workshop Program, named in honor of Jones's late daughter.
On May 29, 1971, Jones married multi-millionaire industrialist, art collector and philanthropist Norton Simon, whose son Robert had committed suicide in 1969. The marriage took place aboard a tug 5 miles off the English coast, and was conducted by Unitarian minister Eirion Phillips.[4] Years before, Simon had attempted to buy the portrait of her used in the film Portrait of Jennie. Simon later met Jones at a party hosted by fellow industrialist and art collector Walter Annenberg. Norton Simon died in June 1993. Four years before his death, Simon resigned as President of Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena and Jennifer Jones-Simon was appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees, President and Executive Officer. In 1996, she began working with architect Frank Gehry and landscape designer Nancy Goslee Power on renovating the museum and gardens. She remained active as the director of the Norton Simon Museum until 2003, when she was given emeritus status.[citation needed]
Jones was a breast cancer survivor. Actress Susan Strasberg, who would die of the disease in 1999 and was then married to actor Christopher Jones, named her own daughter Jennifer Robin Jones in the older actress's honor.[citation needed]
Jones enjoyed a quiet retirement, living with her son Robert Walker, Jr. and his family in Malibu, for the last six years of her life. She granted no interviews and rarely appeared in public. Jones participated in Gregory Peck's AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony in 1989 and appeared at the 70th (1998) and 75th (2003) Academy Awards as part of the shows' tributes to past Oscar winners. She died of natural causes on Thursday, December 17, 2009, aged 90.[1] She was cremated at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale.[9]
|New Frontier
|Celia Braddock
|as Phyllis Isley
|Dick Tracy's G-Men
|Gwen Andrews
|as Phyllis Isley; 15-chapter serial
|Song of Bernadette, TheThe Song of Bernadette
|Bernadette Soubirous
|Academy Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
|Since You Went Away
|Jane Deborah Hilton
|Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
|Love Letters
|Singleton/Victoria Morland
|Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
|Cluny Brown
|Cluny Brown
|Duel in the Sun
|Pearl Chavez
|Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
|Portrait of Jennie
|Jennie Appleton
|We Were Strangers
|China Valdés
|Madame Bovary
|Emma Bovary
|Gone to Earth
|Hazel Woodus
|Carrie Meeber
|Ruby Gentry
|Ruby Gentry
|Beat the Devil
|Mrs. Gwendolen Chelm
|Terminal Station
|Mary Forbes
|Re-released as Indiscretion of an American Wife
|Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
|Dr. Han Suyin
|New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (3rd place)
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
|Good Morning, Miss Dove
|Miss Dove
|Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, TheThe Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
|Betsy Rath
|Barretts of Wimpole Street, TheThe Barretts of Wimpole Street
|Elizabeth Barrett
|Farewell to Arms, AA Farewell to Arms
|Catherine Barkley
|Tender Is the Night
|Nicole Diver
|Idol, TheThe Idol
|Angel, Angel, Down We Go
|Astrid Steele
|a.k.a. Cult of the Damned
|Towering Inferno, TheThe Towering Inferno
|Lisolette Mueller
|Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jennifer Jones.


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First-Person Shooter and Third-Person Shooter games, as well as certain other genres, the player is the only person in the world who is capable of running/walking and attacking at the same time. Everyone else, friends and allies, need to stop moving if they want to attack. One specific variant rarely found in newer games also prevents enemies from performing any actions at all while being attacked (because their "flinch" animations interfered with their "firing" animations) or knocked off ledges, which allowed one to run up and whale on them using a melee weapon with impunity. Another variation is where the enemy will have flinch animations, but continue firing anyway. This is even more jarring than the previous variation, what with soldiers having their guns pointed at the ground and you still taking shot damage. One area in which this is typically applies to the player character to an extent is with scoped sniper weapons, in which one's aim will go all over the place if you move very much. Also applies to several 2D games, stopping the player in their tracks when they take a shot (or swing a sword, whatever). The most common way around this is to attack while jumping. Partly Truth in Television, as in real life, firing while on the move does limit the accuracy with which one can fire, particularly if that motion is faster than a slow walk. And it's indeed quite difficult to attack when you're being hit in the face. A well-trained soldier or law enforcement professional can maintain reasonable accuracy while moving at a brisk shuffle, but most people aren't trained like that. Many newer games will simulate this with accuracy factors for weapons, where the shots travel somewhere within a cone that gets wider as the player moves faster (first popularized in Tom Clancy licensed game, but now common). This has created a minor genre split between "tactical" shooters where players will slow down, crouch, or even go prone to increase accuracy, and "classic" shooters that concentrate on high mobility and fast aiming. Not really the same as I Just Shot Marvin in the Face.
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Unlike most scientists, Demetrios Matsakis happily admits he has a "crackpot theory." In fact, he's eager to test it on me. I'm standing in a hallway near his office, facing a large window and looking into a room filled with multiple towers of electronics. Each device helps keep precise time, but out of all the dials, displays, and wires snaking about, I'm concentrating on a tiny screen that flashes once a second. Blip . . . blip. Meanwhile, I'm pressing a telephone to my ear, waiting for a beep. On the phone, an actor—Fred Covington, whose photograph hangs nearby—reads off the time. "At the tone . . . 16 hours, 12 minutes, five seconds"—beep. Matsakis smiles and asks me to judge which comes first, the blip or the beep.
Matsakis has a sly sense of humor: Jokes bubble up unexpectedly, and I can't always tell when he's making one—including now. He runs the Time Service Department at the US Naval Observatory, which keeps official time for the country. Without his department's ultra-precise clocks, the Global Positioning System (GPS), cell phones, and the Internet would flounder, but few people even know the department exists.
Most visitors here are either fellow time geeks or officers interested in military applications. And after years of informally testing visitors, Matsakis theorizes that each camp has its brains wired differently. Military people generally see the blip first, he suggests, because they need to scan quickly for danger. Scientists, working in less perilous situations, hear the beep first. Now Matsakis wants to classify me.
I concentrate, but the beeps and blips seem to alternate, one arriving first, then another. Because that sort of averages out, I tell Matsakis they seem simultaneous. He appears satisfied with this, but I feel I've proved myself unfit for both science and soldiering. Or maybe Matsakis is messing with me. (Months later he informs me that, having gathered additional data, he's rejected his theory about military people and scientists.)
Regardless, there's a serious lesson behind the exercise. The beep and the blip are both wired into the US Master Clock, so they really are simultaneous. But many people have trouble sensing that. In fact, humans stink at keeping time on their own. We've all had days when the hours flit along like thoughts and others when time drags like an anchor. That's why we've always used celestial bodies or mechanical clocks to track time.
But the clocks Matsakis works with vastly exceed the precision that any human could detect. Official US time usually drifts less than 0.0000000001 second (one-tenth of a nanosecond) per day. Satellites and computers need to track time on that scale, and they're constantly bugging the Time Service Department for updates. Indeed, the department probably intersects with more people's lives each day than any other government agency. Yet the only time the public notices is when something goes wrong.
Most Washingtonians probably think of official US time, if they think of it at all, as that clock with red numbers outside the Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest. You might have adjusted your dashboard clock to it at a stoplight. But that's one of the least precise pieces of equipment the Time Service Department runs. The real time-geek goodies sit behind the guard depot and wrought-iron fence.
The security checkpoints protect not the Time Service Department—though it does house classified military equipment—but the Vice President, who also resides on the USNO campus. (Al Gore often dropped by the observatory to peer through telescopes.) Beyond the security, the campus is bucolic—full of trees, meandering roads, and occasional deer. The low buildings would look almost like an old-fashioned town but for the gargantuan satellite dishes out front that push time signals into space.
The devices that keep official US time sit in environmentally controlled chambers down the hall from Matsakis's office. They look nothing like typical wall clocks with gears and springs. Some of the devices are hydrogen masers, which are similar to lasers. They look like an airplane drink cart might if it were designed by Brink's—thick, black, imposing, and on wheels. They weigh more than 500 pounds, and only a time display in front betrays them as clocks.
The other main type of timepieces, cesium clocks, are stacked in a separate room in what look like refrigerators with glass doors. Both devices keep time essentially by counting. In cesium clocks, a beam of light strums a certain electron inside some cesium atoms, causing the electron to oscillate back and forth unthinkably quickly—9,192,631,770 times a second. Scientists know it takes 9,192,631,770 flip-flops because they've defined one second as that many flip-flops—which explains why Matsakis can rattle that number off in roughly a nanosecond himself.
Masers are sprinters, best at keeping time over the short term—a few days—while cesium clocks keep better time over weeks and months. Official US time incorporates readings from both—around a dozen masers and a few dozen cesiums. But because each clock ticks ever so slightly differently, the Time Service Department has picked one maser as the clock and uses other devices to tweak its output every hour.
This ensemble of devices, collectively called Master Clock 2, keeps official US time, and it has ticked continuously, every second of every minute of every hour, since 1995. (There used to be a Master Clock 1 as well, and the Time Service Department alternated between the two. When the decision was made to stop doing that, Master Clock 2 happened to be running things, so it stayed on as the official clock.) Backup master clocks sit in other buildings around campus, Matsakis says, "so if one building burns down, another keeps ticking."
Defining time with MC2 is only half the job. The department also pushes time out to the public so the rest of us can at least approximate its precision. The least precise method of disseminating time is the telephone. If you dial 202-762-1401, Fred Covington will read the time to you. He's best known as the auctioneer in Roots, but the movie website IMDb does credit him with reading USNO time. Reciting the entire 24-hour day in five-second intervals took Covington multiple days of taping in 1978; his voice does sound smoother than typical call-in services. Dialing in and listening for beeps might seem archaic—too imprecise for a digital age—but Americans still ring Fred up 4 million times every year. It might be the most repeated performance in history.
For higher precision, USNO disseminates time over the Internet. If left unchecked, internal computer and server clocks can drift by several minutes a month, which could lead to quarrels over, say, when stock trades went through or whether someone submitted his taxes on time. For that reason, most computers and servers synchronize with official US time every hour or so.
Even more sophisticated is the equipment that helps set time for GPS. (The GPS Master Control Station—located on Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado—keeps its own clock, but USNO corrects and updates it.) GPS devices detect signals from multiple satellites and use the time differences among those signals to calculate position. For every nanosecond of uncertainty in when the signals arrive, that accuracy drops. USNO also provides time information for military satellites that need even higher resolution, but Matsakis declines to elaborate.
The various clocks that define US time mostly tick along without intervention. They certainly don't need winding. Still, there's a chronic, smoldering fear that something will go awry—that time will be lost.


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|2011-09-23 02:30:58
|Ranchland - Chapter 2
|I am thoroughly enjoying it. Thanks for a great tale!
|2011-09-24 18:26:02
|Ranchland - Chapter 4
|I'm new to this site and don't wish to make an enemy here, but I have to point out a glaring inaccuracy. In this Chapter you state that the Uncle was thirty years old. However, in Chapter One you noted that he had last seen his younger sister when he was nineteen years old, indicating also that twenty years had passed since he last saw her. I think that would make him nearly forty rather than thirty.
|2011-09-25 01:49:51
|Ranchland - Chapter 7
|I know you are just trying to confuse us. Chapter 1 says his sister was three years younger than him. Chapter 7 says she left home when he was ten or eleven. Wouldn't she have only been 7 or 8 years old? Isn't that a bit young to be leaving home, even in B.C.????
|2011-09-25 02:21:58
|Ranchland - Chapter 8
|Good tale. I enjoyed reading it.
|2011-09-26 00:43:23
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Nice to see you use my config (or parts with the bloom in the scope etc.) :)
God rays, dynamic depth of field, night vision scopes & binoc, thermal/infrared scopes, rainbows, dynamic wet surfaces with reflections, and many other effects. SECOND PATCH RELEASED.
Nice to see you use my config (or parts with the bloom in the scope etc.) :)
you mean the glowing scope lens? Yes, that's your config :-) However, TBH I find it a little over the top, I maybe will decrease the effect a bit.
Another short NV scopes preview video. This time in action, and with alternative (larger) scope textures. First you see a scope without night vision, then with the default green residual light amplifier.
Especially you can see the heavy light amplification effect of the adaptive night vision engine - without, the night's nearly pitch black, but with it, you see the boars pretty well.


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The space attracts all people with its mystery. And Russians are not an exception. During weekends some of them construct little aircrafts and launch them into the cosmos instead of ordinary walking or going to cinemas.
First of all, for the launching you need a weather balloon, or its analog – an old American military ball that was easier to get than a Russian balloon. During the ascent the balloon is constantly widening because of the decrease of atmospheric pressure, and at a certain height it will inevitably burst. The balloon may be filled with helium or hydrogen. Inert helium, unlike hydrogen, is safer, but hydrogen has to be used for record launchings because of its greater lifting capacity. The 40 liter container under pressure of 150 atmospheres contains 6 cubic meters of helium. One cubic meter has a lifting capacity of about 1.1kg. The more cubic meters of gas a balloon contains the more it can raise and the lower it bursts. By the way, it is important not to forget that the balloon weighs about 2 kg and this weight has also to be lifted.
A globe may be chosen as a container for a payload. It has excellent aerodynamics. The balloon was covered by pieces of foam plastic with two holes for lenses of two cameras. In addition, there were two GPS/GSM trackers and three GoPro cameras fixed outside.
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MEMSIC Announces Third-Quarter 2010 Results
"The transition to China of manufacturing operations for the sensor system product lines we acquired is progressing as planned. Manufacturing for all of the wireless sensing products has been transferred, and we will finish transferring our inertial navigation system and solution products by Q1 next year except for our FAA-certified product line, which takes longer due to the nature of FAA regulations. We continue to expect cost savings through the transfer process and increased product performance and functionality through redesigning most of the product lines."
The company's third-quarter 2010 results include revenue from the products MEMSIC acquired from Crossbow Technology, Inc. in January 2010 and costs related to the addition of Crossbow engineering and sales staff. The 2010 and the 2009 results include $0.4 million and $0.3 million, respectively, in stock-based compensation.
For the fourth quarter of 2010, MEMSIC anticipates revenue in the range of $10.0 to $11.0 million. Net loss, including stock-based compensation of $0.4 million, is expected to be in the range of ($0.08) to ($0.11) per share. Average diluted share count for the fourth quarter is estimated to be 24 million.Conference Call Management will hold a conference call and webcast at 10:00 a.m. EST on November 8, 2010 to review and discuss the Company's results.
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W7 Pro 64Bit MSDN - Making Disc Bootable
I've read through the FAQs for this section and the first couple of pages, but to be honest I'm too eager to spend too much time ensuring this is not a common problem which has already been answered multiple times, so sorry if it is.
I've finished building my new computer - 3570K CPU, Asus Geforce GTX 660TI graphics card, 120GB SSD, 8GB 1600MHZ Vengeance RAM, Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo, Coolermaster 650W PSU, etc., etc. and I'm eager to get playing with it.
The thing is, to save some money I downloaded a 64bit W7 Pro .iso from my MSDN subcription and - I'm going to be honest here - I'm useless when it comes to things like this. At first I simply burned the ISO to a disc and hoped it'd boot. It didn't. After some rooting around in teh interwebz, I downloaded 7Zip and extracted the ISO before burning those files - still not bootable. I also found something to do with a oscdimg file, but to be honest I don't have a clue what I'm doing with that.
My question: how do I make my disc bootable? When putting the disc in the computer and choosing boot from disc on boot-up, it tells me to enter a correct bootable media and press any key to retry.
As it's the weekend I can't quite express my anticipation to get this baby to breathe its first signs of life and get gaming, so any help would be much appreciated.
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I downloaded a 64bit Windows 7 Pro .iso from my MSDN subscription
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How did you burn the ISO? Just burn it with imgburn or win7 built-in dvd burning
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Hi Typical Nerd
If you want to burn the ISO that you downloaded from your MSDN subscription use the link below to show you how and do Part 1 of the tutorial
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
Download the tool below ( Windows7 USB DVD Tool )
If you want to create a bootable USB flash drive use the link below you could also do this with the tool from the above tool ( do part 2 )
USB Windows 7 Installation Key Drive - Create
Oscdimg is a command line tool to create an ISO.
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Matt Forneys Podcast Extravaganza, Episode 33: In Defense of Mutants
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In this episode, Matt talks to author and publisher Trevor Blake about his new book Confessions of a Failed Egoist and Other Essays, Islam, natural rights, Objectivism, egoism, writing and a whole lot more.
On translation and small presses….
You may have read my post "On typos and small presses…". In it I respond to a critical amazon.com review regarding a book I've published containing a typo. I took a day or so before I wrote it, because I didn't want to be defensive in my response. Another critical review for a different book has been posted, and I would like to respond.
(three stars)
No translations, April 27, 2014
By Brandon S. Frazer
This review is from: The Philosophical Writings of Edgar Saltus: The Philosophy of Disenchantment & The Anatomy of Negation (Paperback)
The content of this book deserves five stars. Saltus' presentation of Schopenhauer makes it worth buying alone. The publishers spared no expense in a nice cover, thick pages, and large print but for some reason neglected to translate the many quotes Saltus makes in French, Italian, German, and Latin. It's a shame and there is no excuse for it no matter what twisted rationalization they obviously made in order to not do it. Shame on them.
I appreciate reviews on amazon, and seeing that it's a "verified purchase" assures me Mr. Frazer bought the book, and so I thank him for that as well. We agree that the content of the book deserves five stars, and the reviewers appreciation of the design and typesetting of the book is appreciated. I love books and book design.
Though I could do without the "public shaming" aspect, I will eschew discussing his hyperbole to address his actual objection without my taking offense at his taking offense. He may or may not see it as an excuse, and he may or may not accept it. I'm writing not for him per se, but for anyone interested.
The original editions of the two works combined into one did not contain translations. I believe it may be that Saltus' audience at the time was assumed not to have needed them, that they were literate enough to either understand or diligent enough to translate them on their own. But Saltus' presumed intended audience is probably not mine. I, personally, would like my book to have translations of all non-English text, and it was a topic I discussed with a number of people, and specifically a few fellow publishers.
It could also be that the same considerations that led Saltus' publishers to leave passages untranslated were those of mine as well. As someone who spent over a year managing a large translation project, to say I have gained a sense of respect for translation is to put it mildly. Translation is a difficult, tedious task, and it will be criticized. I have, indeed, received a private "shaming" e-mail because one reader disagreed with the translation of a few lines of text in that book. I understand he, like the reviewer above, have a great deal of appreciation for the work, and therefore any problem they see is magnified by that attachment.
One consideration, and an important one, is that a mis-translation of any sort would certainly draw greater criticism than non at all. This is similar to the typo problem, if there was just one unit of noise among the 1.4 million units of information in this book (letters, numbers, spaces, punctuation, etc.), some people would be absolutely furious. Not necessarily the reviewer here, but certainly MANY readers would "take offense". Translation is no mere task of switching out a foreign word for an English one, especially when you're dealing with more literary sources as Saltus is. Certainly any translations done during Saltus' time would also probably differ greatly than translation work done today.
So, if a translation of sections of a half-dozen languages were to be mounted, how would that be done? Professional translation, and proofreading by competent editors of the respective foreign languages. This means either connections to (for low or no paid work) or hiring one or many professionals. I do not have connections to people who do professional translating of all the languages needed. A few, certainly…. and if there were any Japanese or Spanish I could have covered those easily enough. So there would have to be a budget for translation. There is none. No rationalization needed.
There was only one decision that needed to be made once it was decided that translations were not feasible, was simple: "Is the book worth reprinting as the original, adding a new introduction by Chip Smith, but without adding translations?"
My answer should be obvious.
That said, I'm willing to make a proposal to get this reviewer and any future possible readers translations of the foreign language passages:
1. Anyone who can prove they have experience and capability to produce the necessary translations, is offered 15% commission on sales of any edition that contains their work. Once the job has been completed, we would produce a revised edition of the book. Translator would need to agree to allow the translations to be hosted online by us as a free service to anyone who purchased the current version. They must either do the work or hire out the work at their expense so the copyright on the translation can be transferred to Underworld Amusements.
2. Anyone can organize a "crowdsourced" translation project and the results would be hosted on our website or any other reliable site for reference by anyone. A note will be placed on the copyright page with a URL where readers can find the translations for their own referencing, with a caveat emptor that they may contain errors.
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Start The World Podcast Episode #4 If A Tree Falls In The Forest, Does it Have Natural Rights? with Trevor Blake
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Jack Donovan invited Trevor Blake onto his new podcast to discuss Natural Rights and his new book "Confessions of a Failed Egoist". GO LISTEN.
Dirty Reader….
Extracted the segment on the book Dirty Reader from the now dormant Stay Down Here series:
Ardent Press titles back in stock, for the last time…
Ardent Press titles restocked at Underworld Amusements Direct, probably for the last time. Three of the books arrived with damage that could NOT have happened during shipping, even though the books were shipped poorly packed in boxes. They intentionally packed damaged books and sold them to me as new (no note, no partial refund, nothin'), but I cannot do that to you, so those three copies are marked down for sale.
If you must read your sermons…
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Confessions of a Failed Egoist
It's no joke that April 1st we're releasing Portland author and artist Trevor Blake's Confessions of a Failed Egoist. Visit the book page to find out more or buy it.
Explication, rumination and fulmination from Portland author Trevor Blake. Sixteen selections range from a critique of Objectivism to the career of filmmaker Nabil Shaban (focusing on The Skin Horse, a documentary on the sex lives of cripples). In addition there is a history and usage of Multiple Names (popular from obscure art movements like Neoism to common folk mythologies), a biographical sketch of Baltimore native and mutant tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, among other topics. Putting the I in history, the author touches on a cultural history of Egoism, a personal trajectorythrough Anarchism, and his personal shift on 9/11 are also detailed herein.
Confessions of a Failed Egoist is somewhere at the crossroads between The Satanic Bible and Prometheus Rising. Everything you know is wrong, but dont worry: Its just the punchline to the great epistemic joke. Blakes book is a throwback to the days of H.L. Mencken mercilessly skewering sacred cows on the left and right, while firmly rooted in our present day victimology industry conundrums. Blakes book provides inspiration for thought. Bring it up at your next boring work party and scare your colleagues.
- Nicholas Pell
Trevor Blake hails and assails the ism closest to His heart in a Mencken-like step-right-up, soapbox style that is smart, dense and fun to read. Blake is a meticulous thinker, and this book is bound to delight and challenge individualists, egoists, and people who would dramatically object to the idea of egoismbut then do and say exactly what they want to anyway.
-Jack Donovan, author of Androphilia and The Way of Men
LibraryThing, Shelfari, Goodreads links…
I've made a major update to the single page book catalog. Though most people will just go to a specific title in the drop-down menu, the parent page has a chronological listing of every Underworld Amusement title since we started publishing.
Recently we added links to places where you can buy our titles, but also to a few of the popular library cataloging sites, such as LibraryThing, GoodReads, and Shelfari. These links should help you add the titles to your library, or mark them as things you'd like to read in the future.
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Cowboys checking out Carlton Perkins
Louisiana senior Carlton Perkins could be the biggest secret in the south.
|Perkins Takes In Cajun's Game
After rushing for over 1,955 yards and 26 touchdowns in 2011, Walker HS RB Carlton Perkins (6'0,188) is one of state's top uncommitted college prospects. The senior athlete tripped down to Lafayette to watch the Ragin' Cajuns become bowl eligible.
Walker HS RB/CB/WR Carlton Perkins is one of Louisiana's most coveted uncommitted athletes remaining in the 2013 Class. The (6'0,188) senior found his way to Lafayette Saturday night to watch the Ragin' Cajuns battle Western Kentucky for bowl eligibility. Perkins left a very emotional locker room after the game and came away impressed with what he witnessed at Cajun Field.
"I was really impressed with how close the team is inside the locker room," Perkins stated. After the game I went into the locker room with the team and listened to Coach Hudpseth speak to the team. As a team, they are very close inside the locker room and that is what I'm looking for in a program."
Carlton Perkins also came away impressed with UL athletes Harry Peoples and Terrance Broadway.
"Harry Peoples is a player," said Carlton. "Coach Rebowe told me they are recruiting me to play his position, the x-receiver since he is a senior. Coach Hudspeth told me I could come in and play that position early and with Terrance Broadway having two more years, I could see myself playing in that offense."
Walker, Louisiana is not to far from Baton Rouge and Perkins had heard of Broadway's play at Capitol High growing up.
"Coming up, I heard about him while he was playing at Capitol High," Perkins stated. "I knew he went on to sign with Houston out of high school, but I had never seen him play. Terrance Broadway is the real deal, he is legit. I would love to play with him over the next two years."
Perkins is currently holding offers from UL, Memphis, North Texas and Minnesota but may return to Lafayette this weekend.
"I'm not sure, but I may go back to ULL this weekend," said Carlton. "I don't have any other plans at this time, so I will see what happens this weekend. I thought about going to Ole Miss this weekend, but I haven't spoken to anyone from up there about attending the game."
Carlton Perkins stated that he currently holds a 3.2 GPA and an ACT score of 17. He plans on taking the ACT test one more time after completing a prep course on preparing for the test.
For the latest on Ragin' Cajuns recruiting and Carlton Perkins, you can follow us on twitter.https://twitter.com/LouisianaScout
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EA's nailed down the UK and Europe release date for FIFA 12, which will be hitting retailers on September 30.
Oddly, those chaps across the pond who care bugger all about Nottingham Forest, Wigan et al, will be getting FIFA 12 a few days earlier on September 27. Gits.
The PC versions of FIFA will also be releasing alongside its PS3 and Xbox 360 counterparts, and for the first time EA's promised it will match up technically.
"This is the moment all PC gamers have been waiting for, as they are finally going to fully experience the award-winning FIFA gameplay on their preferred platform," stated FIFA 12's executive producer Kaz Makita.
"PC fans are going to enjoy the highest quality gameplay, deepest game modes and truest graphics ever developed for the platform, including our new live service EA Sports Football Club."
According to reports, FIFA 12 will carry a recommended retail price of £54.99, while the 'Ultimate Edition' will include access to 24 game downloads spread throughout the year that will update teams, squads and fitness.
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According to Michael Bane's blog says that:NEW YORK Magazine publisher Primedia Inc. is selling its hunting, fishing and outdoor titles, including Guns & Ammo and Game & Fish, to private equity firm InterMedia Partners LP for $170 million in cash.
The deal announced Thursday includes 17 publications and related Web sites, TV and radio programming and events.
Primedia has sold off a number of its other magazines in recent years, including New York, American Baby, Chicago and Modern Bride.
The investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. owns about 60 percent of Primedia. Leo Hindery Jr., a former senior executive in the cable industry, is co-managing partner of InterMedia.
Shares in New York-based Primedia ended unchanged at $1.52 on the New York Stock Exchange.I guess I've got letters to write because we don't get the Sportsman's channel and I get some good info from some of guns and ammo tv programing.Well, what's really interesting is InterMedia is a part-owner of The Sportsmen's Channel, a competitor to The Outdoor Channel, where most of Primedia's television product resides.


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Corinthian Colleges Reports Fourth Quarter And Fiscal Year 2013 Results
SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug. 29, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (Nasdaq:COCO) reported financial results today for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2013. The results for the fourth quarter were within the Company's previous guidance range for diluted earnings per share and below guidance ranges for new student enrollment and revenue. (Guidance excludes all one-time charges; the Company recorded a $1.5 million impairment, facility closing and severance charge in the fourth quarter.)
"In fiscal 2013 we continued to make operational improvements while managing through the loss of Ability-to-Benefit students," said Jack Massimino, Corinthian chairman and chief executive officer. "We continued to focus on student completion and achieved a slight increase in our graduate placement rate despite a weak labor market. We reduced operating expenses to align with our lower student population and closed or sold underperforming campuses. We continued to increase the efficiency of our operations through increased automation and standardization in a number of areas, including online service center technology, faculty hiring and on-boarding, career services and compliance. On the regulatory front, we maintained our strong culture of compliance and continued to cooperate with regulators on several inquiries."
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1990 24 Years Old After a brief stint hosting Awake on the Wild Side for MTV in 1990, she spent the early 1990s appearing in guest roles on several popular comedies, including Mad About You, Wings, The Larry Sanders Show, Sports Night and Seinfeld, where she played George Costanza's frustrated girlfriend, the "Risotto Girl" (the only girlfriend of George's to appear in multiple episodes other than Susan Ross). … Read More
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Reading Sovichs memoir is like sitting down for coffee to hear about a friends life-changing experience and drinking the whole pot, along with a bottle or two of wine, and then ordering takeout because you got so engrossed you forgot dinner. Its an epic journey. I was thrilled to tag along.Melissa Taylor, San Diego
Sovich has led a life of adventure as a reporter around the world with a focus on politically unstable environments. As she contemplates the next step in her life as a newlywed living in a new city with a new job that she despises, she makes the jump to follow in the footsteps of idols like Mary Kingsley and explore Saharan Africa on her own. While she occasionally seems to relish the role of the martyr (though she does purposefully seek out this unorthodox experience), the hardships she faces are real and trying.Becky Goodman, Houston
Sovich is a gifted writer, and her unobtrusive narrative style gently guides us through her adventures in West Africa, sharing important historical information about the region without making it feel like a textbook. Her experiences of finding women in Africa to nurture her were particularly moving.Joy Kinlaw Brady, Abbeville, SC
Not every woman will go to Africa to overcome her inner demons, but every woman will have moments in life when they feel as though someone else is living it. Framed within the context of the heavy burden so many women carrydo I have children? Am I a good wife?Sovich shows a path to answering yes to both without feeling as though she has let down the Rosie-the-Riveters who came before her.Clara Ritger, Genoa, NV
When restlessness called, Sovich hopped on a planeto Africa. To the Moon and Timbuktu chronicles her trek to one of the most remote places on Earth. Faced with scalding temperatures, dangerous companions, and the stigma of being a woman traveling alone, Sovich shows incredible resolve, enriching her journey by building relationships wherever she stays.Maggie Malach, New York City


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Good Eats Near Sugarbush/Bristol After Skiing
Thanks so much - Bobcat looks like just the ticket after a long drive up from NYC! We're staying in Bristol and will be skiing in Sugarbush, which is why I mentioned both places.
Dec 23, 2014RussianGirl in Northern New England
Good Eats Near Sugarbush/Bristol After Skiing
Hi all, I've tried perusing the board, but can't seem to find anything current. Going to be in Bristol in a few weeks (Mon - Fri) for some skiing and looking for good eats nearby - nothing too fancy, any cuisine. Thanks.
Dec 22, 2014RussianGirl in Northern New England
What's great for dining with an old friend -- West-ish Side btwn Soho and Flatiron?
Nov 10, 2014RussianGirl in Manhattan
Private room rec - near 42 & 9, Italian, for 60th anniv. party
Not when I was there which, admittedly, was in 2007.
Jul 22, 2014RussianGirl in Manhattan
Private room rec - near 42 & 9, Italian, for 60th anniv. party
No, there's an alcove inside the restaurant - about midway, on the right (as you're walking from the front). I had a nice family dinner there and there were about 10 of us.
Jul 21, 2014RussianGirl in Manhattan
Private room rec - near 42 & 9, Italian, for 60th anniv. party
Check out Crispo. They don't have a private room, but they have a nice alcove that could probably fit 11.
Jul 17, 2014RussianGirl in Manhattan
Chelsea dinner tonight, entrees in the $20's
Porteno. Argentinian - great space, tasty food (and cocktails) and lovely service.
Jul 16, 2014RussianGirl in Manhattan
Midtown Group Dinner - Where should we go??
Toloache is good for Mexican.
Apr 01, 2014RussianGirl in Manhattan
How is Colicchio's Tap Room in terms of noise level?
Planning on bringing a friend there next Saturday. Managed to get a 7pm reservation, but afraid it might be too loud/bustling My friend is a bit hard of hearing, so wanted to get some thoughts about the noise level. Thanks.
Mar 17, 2014RussianGirl in Manhattan
I got married last winter at Bayards and it was wonderful. We had a pretty booze-centric wedding also, but I was surprised by their reasonable prices, so I think they can work with your budget (especially on a Sunday, especially if it's during the day). The other benefit is that the space is gorgeous (especially in December) and I barely decorated - just some candles and photographs.
Jan 10, 2014RussianGirl in Manhattan
Longest brunch line/wait in NYC?
It's still like that and every time I walk by, I have to stop myself from asking those people why in the h*ll they're standing outside in the freezing cold. I've only been there once for lunch and paid $35 for a decent salad and pretty crappy glass of wine.
Jan 10, 2014RussianGirl in Manhattan
snacks and drinks for a group on a Saturday night?
Try Pierre Loti. I did this recently with about 6 people at the Chelsea location and it was great. We made a reservation and sat at a table, which may work for you (if there's a table/space in the back). There's also a location on Irving Place, which, if I recall correctly, is somewhat more loungy (with couches), so that might work also.
Ilili is also a good idea - I've done the same thing there.
Nov 22, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
Where's your fav Italian in the east and west village or downtown on the moderate side $36/ person
This is true. I spend 25 minutes trying to get through to them the other day. That must be a least $36 of my time! The OP said appetizer and entree for $36, so i assumed that didn't include drinks, tax, tip, etc. May have been too literal of a reading...
Oct 28, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
Where's your fav Italian in the east and west village or downtown on the moderate side $36/ person
I like the Dell'anima/L'Artusi/L'Apicio restaurants. And there's always Babbo.
Oct 25, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
This sounds like a plan - thanks!
Oct 24, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
Great suggestions - thank you!
Yes, I thought about those places, but I'm afraid they won't work for 5 people. Doesn't have to be within a block or two - a 10-15 minute walk would be ok (any further would limit what shoes I can wear :)
Hello, looking for a place to get a nice cocktail before dinner at Babbo. Saturday night in November, there will be 5 of us, dinner is at 9. Ideally a place where we can sit, talk, and have a quality drink or two.
looking for casual midtown 45th-59th-- pastas, small plates...
I was just there this past Saturday night (the one on 15th and 8th) and had a lovely time. There were 4 of us (we vary in age from 30 - 65) - we shared a bottle of Turkish red wine and ordered a bunch of small plates - hummus, grilled octopus, shrimp, tuna tartare, houlomi (sp?) cheese, some other dip, and it came out to $35 a person!! Everything was delicious, the service was great, and you can't beat that price!
Oct 04, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
Looking for downtown winebar with delicious bites
I don't remember much (must have been a good birthday!), but perusing the menu right now reminds me that we had lamb sliders and a bunch of the crostini (the ricotta and honey one was amazing).
Sep 12, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
Looking for downtown winebar with delicious bites
I did this a couple of years back at Anfora and it was great - got there at 5pm when they opened and commandeered a few booths, which allowed everyone to sit, drink, and snack. Service was excellent also. I know they recently changed management, so hopefully this will not change.
Sep 11, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
My now-husband took me to L'artusi last winter for my birthday and I thought it was fantastic - we had a small table upstairs, delicious food, and an amazing bottle of wine, making it pretty romantic in my opinion. I also really enjoyed dell 'anima - we ate at the bar, which is romantic to me, but maybe not to others. Peasant is also very romantic (probably the most out of those three).
Sep 03, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
girls night 40th birthday for 15-18 ladies
illili in gramercy - i was there with about 12 ladies for my bachelorette party and we had a really good time - shared numerous small plates and several bottles of wine. and i was definitely less than $100 per person.
Sep 02, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
Cheap family/group dinner for a Saturday night?
Aug 21, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
ITHACA - John Thomas Steakhouse still good?
I have very fond memories of my graduation dinner at John Thomas 15 years ago. I don't know if it was because of the special occasion, my youth, the ambiance, or if it was also because the food was really good. My husband and I are coming up to the Finger Lakes (from NYC) at the end of the month for a week of camping. We will mostly be cooking by the campfire, but I want to make time for a few meals out (Dano's, Stonecat, Just a Taste) and wanted to know if John Thomas is (still) good. If not, I would rather not ruin my sweet, youthful memories...
Aug 15, 2013RussianGirl in New York State (exc. NYC)
Dinner for a friend's birthday this Friday - 5 people, 7pm, below 42nd street on the West side, entrees under $25 and, as my friend explained, must be "clean" (ie - they must have some vegan and gluten-free options). And also something to us (meat lovers) to eat. Thanks.
Jul 17, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
Cocktail Party for 60-70 People in Manhattan - suggestions?
3West is a club in that area that has a really nice terrace (i think it's enclosed) that could work for that size. i looked to have my wedding there - we had a similar-sized guest list, and were planning to have cocktail hour on that terrace, but the rest of the space was just too "big" for us (which is why i'm thinking just cocktails could work).
a few other places to check out: the yale club (i've never been, but i know they accomodate all party sizes), the bar downstairs at the andaz hotel on 40th and 5th (gorgeous bar).
Jul 09, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
Rehearsal dinner for 40 ppl in manhattan in August?
BLT has a private room on the second floor.
Jun 04, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
Laid Back/Quiet(ish) Bar for 30th Birthday
I did this 2 years ago at Anfora. Got there early (6ish) with a friend and commandeered a couch area - friends came and went and were able to order drinks and snacks. Staff was very friendly and accomodating.
Mar 26, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan
Girls reunion wknd - need resto & nightlife recd'ns pls!
Abe and Arthur is trendy and good for spotting celebs (or at least it was a few years ago), but the food is nothing special and it's rather pricey.
Mar 13, 2013RussianGirl in Manhattan


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Barry Diller, a Wallflower at the Media Merger Party?
The USA Network CEO says he's not rushing to find a partner -- but the possibilities are dwindling
He has always been one of the media industry's big idea guys. As programming chief for the ABC network, Barry Diller invented the miniseries in the 70s. A decade later, he gave America the Fox network, the first net to break the stranglehold of broadcast's Big Three. But these days, the 57-year old mogul faces the prospect of getting left in the dust of a fast-consolidating industry. With the merger of CBS and Viacom, Paramount Pictures' parent company, Diller is suddenly down to precious few potential partners to give his USA Networks the national platform it needs to compete against the big boys of the media business.
Diller acknowledged as much on Sept. 30 at USA Networks' annual meeting in New York. "We're a middle-tier player in a much larger world," he told the handful of USA investors who had gathered in the penthouse of the Parker Meridien Hotel. In fact, his company this year will have sales of more than $4 billion -- not bad, but hardly in the company of such giants as Disney, which will likely approach $30 billion this year. Does he want to be in Disney's league? You bet. "He wants to be a national media company," says one power broker who knows Diller well. "So far, he's a very large retailer."
NOT BIG ENOUGH. That's not what Diller had in mind in mid-1995, when he joined USA, at the time a string of low-powered TV stations associated with the struggling Home Shopping Network. Since then, he has gone on a buying spree, snapping up such well-known companies as Ticketmaster and the USA and Sci-Fi cable channels. All told, today Diller can reach more than 70% of America's households with his cable channels, shopping network, or broadcast channels.
The problem is not many of them are turned in at any one time. His largest TV company, the USA cable network, is seen nightly by an estimated 2 million households. Not bad, but nowhere near the 20 million who tune in nightly to NBC's ER or Friends, or even the 3 million who recently tuned into UPN's comedy Moesha. For Diller, who sees the key to the success for tomorrow's media company as its ability to sell folks merchandise along with advertising to offset the ever-increasing costs of programming, those kind of numbers aren't likely to cut it. As Diller knows, the media game depends on how many eyeballs you can collect at any one time.
To his credit, Diller has assembled a massive company. Last year, more than 16 million people ordered 40 million packages, with 8 million more logging on monthly to visit USA's Ticketmaster Citysearch or one of its other 15 Web sites. But his reach is limited. His USA and Sci-Fi Channels are constrained by their carriage on cable TV and on satellites, which reach about 70% of the country and are usually a single stop on a dial that has 60 or more channels at a time.
EVERYBODY'S TALKING. Diller says he's not worried. He told his shareholders that his company intends to be opportunist and sees no need to rush into the arms of a large media partner. "I'm not going to say it isn't going to happen," he says, "but I don't see the need right now." Still, in recent months, he has held conversations with Disney over allying with its ABC unit, with NBC executives, and even with Fox chief Rupert Murdoch, with whom he openly disagreed prior to his 1992 departure from that company. "Everyone is talking to everyone," he says. "Except, I guess, CBS and Viacom."
Diller himself once chased CBS back in 1994, when he headed QVC. He left the shopping network when QVC's investors objected to his talks with CBS. And since joning USA, he admits that he talked about a deal with NBC, pulling out only when USA major investor Seagram Co. objected because the liquor company would see its USA stake diluted. In August, he talked with ABC, sources say, although that deal seems to have fallen apart over which of the two companies would control the combined companies.
Where does that leave Diller? The 13 stations he owns have immense value. Even with limited audiences at the present, they have licenses to serve eight of the nation's top 10 cities, including two that can reach the New York City area. He has plans to put local programming on each, and he has signed on such high-priced programs as the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawk basketball games in those cities. Moreover, federal requirements that stations offer digital signals within the next few years give USA as many as six channels for each one it now operates in those cities.
Moreover, USA's TV stations are now a hot commodity. Recently passed rules by the Federal Communications Commission lifted restrictions on companies owning more than one TV station in a single market. ABC and NBC, both of which want to own more channels in the major markets, would love to get their hands on the added USA channels over which they could air more of their programs or reruns of shows aired earlier in the week. "We have to restring our needle," says Diller. "We have some tough decisions. Are you a buyer or a seller?"
WIDER REACH. The betting is that Diller will be a little of both. One top Diller hand says the company is still likely to strike a joint venture with a large media company, probably one with a broadcast network. That would give Diller the ability to get a national audience for some of the shows produced by his USA studio -- shows that currently include Xena: Warrior Princess for syndication and Sliders for its Sci-Fi Channel. It also has a large library of older shows, including Hercules and Weird Science. Moreover, as more and more consumers sign up to buy digital services from their cable companies, Diller's company would have a larger number of customers for the jewelry and porcelain plates that the Home Shopping Network sells.
The key to any deal will be the level of control that Diller retains over his media properties. So far, he has resisted anything that would take away his ability to call the shots. Last year, Diller wouldn't merge his USA Studio operations with NBC because it would have spun off the new assets into a new company and taken control from him. But the diminishing number of potential partners makes it less likely that he can continue to hold fast. NBC, for one, doesn't seem to need him. It recently struck a deal to invest in Paxson Communications' group of 77 TV stations and has assembled its own shopping properties by buying a piece of the much smaller ValueVision shopping service.
For Barry Diller, creating a giant media company would be the culmination of a brilliant 35-year career in the business. He says he's in no hurry, and he has a unique contract with his shareholders that allows him to lead USA well into the future. But those investors signed on to help Diller create the media company of the future. And to do that, he has to find a partner soon before there aren't any left for him.
Grover is Los Angeles bureau chief for Business Week
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