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Externalizing BLOB Storage in SharePoint 2010
These are some notes from a helpful session today at the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas delivered by Srini and Burzhin (I typed too slowly to get their last names), product engineers from Microsoft. The notes are as organized as I can make them while I'm sitting here in the room, but they will of course not be as polished as I'd like them to be. I've decided to err on the side of more information – less polish. In the interest of full-disclosure, this is a pretty new topic for me personally. Therefore, it is possible that some of these notes represent things a bit differently than how the presenters intended. The RBS team blog is available here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlrbs to find things in their own words.
BLOBs are Binary Large OBjects – a container of unstructured bytes of data. SharePoint data that is not meta-data (documents – most other list items are completely meta-data) is stored in BLOBs in SQL databases. BLOBs typically account for 60-70% of all content storage. Most SharePoint operations act against the meta-data, not the BLOB data – until you go to click on the link and open the document. By default, BLOB data is stored in the content database with the meta-data.
This model works well, but it does have some pain points. SQL storage is inherently expensive, especially if it's on a SAN. The more data existing in SQL, the more performance load there to retrieve it. Large data sets are slow to backup and recover. SQL data is difficult to guarantee retention and deletion for compliance. So…, Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) will solve all of our problems and bring about world peace by allowing us to store BLOB data outside of our content databases.
Previously with 2007, EBS (External BLOB Storage) meant that third-party providers were responsible for both managing external BLOB storage and creating the API libraries to interface with SharePoint. The objective now is for SharePoint, itself to provide a common set of API libraries to do so. The result is a downloadable add-in component that can be registered for a SharePoint farm via the SQL 2008 R2 Feature Pack (see below). EBS is supported in 2010, but is deprecated. Migration from EBS to RBS can be performed via PowerShell commands.
RBS is fully managed code, can be scoped to individual content databases (instead of at the farm level), can be configured and managed via PowerShell, supports many providers (including third-party), and supports migration both ways. It ships with a native RBS FileStream store provider.
From the user's perspective, SharePoint 2010 does all of the dancing transparently. They'll never know something is different.
From the administrator's perspective, there are new PowerShell cmdlets that talk to the relevant SQL stored procedures for installing, configuring, provisioning, and maintaining RBS.
From the third-party provider view ,there is now no need to write the BLOB store libraries.
The RBS add-in must be installed first in SQL (the SQL RBS 2008 R2 with FILESTREAM Provider)
RBS and Provider DLLs must be installed on all WFEs
RBS must be enabled and configured using PowerShell:
- site.contentdatabases.rbssettings.enabled
- GetProviderNames
- SetActiveProvider (1 BLOB store to many content database)
- Migrate (copy entire BLOBs in or out of the db with no downtime)
Backup and Restore
This will by necessity be more complicated with multiple stores for SharePoint. However, it is workable by following some simple restores.
- Always start SQL backups first (the windows can overlap)
- Always start BLOB restores first (the windows can overlap)
A longer BLOB retention policy can make it realistic to back it up less frequently than your SQL backups. The RBS Maintainer keeps track of deletions and propagates them to the BLOB store. Deletions don't have to be concurrent from SharePoint to BLOB. You should retain BLOBs long enough to allow you to restore the previous version of the content database without also restoring the BLOB store.
RBS seems to add little to no performance overhead in internal Microsoft testing with 128 users. In fact, with larger files – it may have a slight advantage. Third party providers may vary a bit, but are expected to cause no more than a 5 – 10% degradation and less for larger files.


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Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays from Sloane Crosley is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory.
From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of intentions -- or perhaps because of them. Together, these essays create a startlingly funny and revealing portrait of a complex and utterly recognizable character who aims for the stars but hits the ceiling, and the inimitable city that has helped shape who she is. I Was Told There'd Be Cake introduces a strikingly original voice, chronicling the struggles and unexpected beauty of modern urban life.
Sloane Crosley is also the author of How Did You Get This Number.
Sloane Crosley is the author of the bestsellers How Did You Get This Number and I Was Told There'd Be Cake, which was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, New York Observer, the Village Voice, Playboy, Teen Vogue, Salon, Black Book, Radar, Maxim, and The Believer. She lives in New York City.
"Whether you're involved in a love/hate relationship with just yourself or with the entire world, these essays will charm the pants off you—but not so as you'll feel violated. Sloane Crosley is bright and funny and enchanting. This is a sparkling debut."
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"Hilarious and affecting and only occasionally scatological, I Was Told There'd Be Cake is lively reminiscence about growing up strange. Sardonic without being cruel, tender without being sentimental, Sloane Crosley will win you over with this delightful debut."
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"I love Sloane Crosley. In I Was Told There'd Be Cake, she navigates the social, the moral, the romantic experiences that prompt her to create her own voice and freshly define the world around her. Crosley is a post-modern Mary Tyler Moore, and this book is wry, generous, knowing—a perfect document of what it is to be young in today's world."
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"Sloane Crosley is another mordant and mercurial wit from the realm of Sedaris and Vowell. What makes her so funny is that she seems to be telling the truth, helplessly."
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As if more proof were needed that using replacement referees for the NFL's regular-season games is an idea that should be rethunk, the preseason game between the New England Patriots and New York Giants offered a moment that, upon further review, removes the last residue of doubt.
In the Giants' 6-3 victory Wednesday night in MetLife Stadium, both Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick — with their dials set to "2" for the fourth preseason game — were baffled to the point of gobsmackery at the display of uncertainty over a penalty on a punt by Steve Weatherford in the second quarter. (WCBS's Ernie Palladino has the Keystone Kops play-by-play as officials struggle to get the call right. You can watch after the jump or here.)
Coughlin offered only a tepid comment about the officiating afterward. "I don't have any control over [the lockout of game officials]. For me to say there is or isn't concern, you do the very best you can with them. You just hope these officials know the rules and can keep the game under control and keep order. Hopefully they'll be able to do that."
Easy to say on Preseason Game No. 4. In the regular season, there's likely to be more than just funny faces from the likes of Coughlin and Belichick with so much more (and so much money) riding on every single game, on every single play.
Still, there's no end to the lockout of regular game officials. "I think it's going to take a debacle for the real officials to come back," Peter King told Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon on "Pardon the Interruption" on Wednesday.
Great. Just wait 'til these games are in prime time when, you know, the NFL is the No. 1-rated show every week. Nothing against the replacement refs, who are doing the best they can, but this is like Ralph Lauren going with a fall line designed by Emmett Kelly or a Mercedes owner taking his car to Jiffy Lube.
It's a bad idea.
the kids call it an "epic fail". it's the only way to describe the replacement refs handling of a penalty on a punt in Pats/Giants game
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Watching Patriots Giants and starting to feel bad for these replacement refs. They are struggling and slowing game down
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Replacement fans booing the replacement refs who are calling penalties on the replacement players.
— Tom Rock (@TomRock_Newsday) August 30, 2012
The replacement refs seem particularly ... um ... confused tonight. And the crowd is really letting them have it.
— Ralph Vacchiano (@RVacchianoNYDN) August 30, 2012#NYG
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Northeast arm of Lake Michigan, indenting northwestern Michigan, U.S. Located off the coast of the Lower Peninsula, the head of the bay is 32 mi (52 km) long and 12 mi (19 km) wide. It is divided into the east and west arms by Old Mission Peninsula, with Traverse City at its base. The Leelanau Peninsula lies west of the bay, which is noted for its year-round fishing. The area is an important summer resort region.
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Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox browser and operating system, is organizing a contest for creating games. They have teamed up with Goo Technologies for Mozilla and Goo's Game Creator Challenge to engage 'budding' game creators.
Mozilla says that it has "…helped pioneer technology that has set the Web up as a serious platform for distributing and developing games. WebGL, Emscripten, asm.js and Web Audio API are just a few of these technologies that now ensure that the Web offers the best and most complete platform for gaming possible."
The game contest is aimed at showcasing these powerful technologies at the same time building a loyal gaming community around these technologies.
A participant doesn't have to be a seasoned game developer, anyone can participate. There are three categories a contestant can choose from:
- Best Amateur Interactive Game Scene and prize for the top 5 contributions is $1,000 in cash and 5 year access to Goo Create Pro ($2900 value)
- Best Desktop Game and the prize is a trip for two people to the GDC Conference in San Francisco, scheduled for March 17 – 21, 2014 or to GamesCom in Cologne, August 13-17 (maximum value $10,000) or $5,000 cash, at the winner's option. 5 year access to Goo Create Pro ($2900 value) along with a guest post on the Mozilla Apps blog.
- Best Mobile Game and the prize is same as that for the 'Best Desktop Game'
These contestants will be using Goo platform consisting of Goo Engine – a 3D JavaScript gaming engine entirely built on WebGL/HTML5 – and Goo Create – a visual editing tool running on top of the engine.
The entries will be judged by folks from Angry Birds(Rovio), Mozilla and Goo Technologies and the winners will be announced by January 17th.
Contestants can sign up for the contest here and Mozilla will send them instructions on how to take it from there. Deadline for submitting entries is Tuesday, January 14 at midnight PT.


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PHOENIX -- A storm system that continues to slowly track across Arizona will kick up winds and drop temperatures through Wednesday.
Wind Advisories and High Wind Warnings were issued by the National Weather Service on Monday, continuing into Tuesday, for gusty winds across the high country, especially along the Eastern Mogollon Rim and the Little Colorado River valley. Gusts of up to 55 miles per hour were expected through Monday evening, increasing to 65 miles per hour Tuesday. In the Valley, gusts of 25 mph are in the forecast. Winds are expected to subside by Wednesday.
Under clear skies tonight, Phoenix should dip to a low of 61 degrees. Tuesday, the Valley should top out at 81. A normal high temperature for this time of year in Phoenix is 85.
Temperatures are expected to tumble even more as the jet stream takes a dive, and the storm system's associated cold front ushers in the cooler air. By Tuesday night, Phoenix is expected to see a low temperature of 56 degrees with a high on Wednesday afternoon of only 75.
This cold front looks pretty dry, so the only chance of precipitation is north of Flagstaff Tuesday night through Wednesday morning, where there's a 20 percent chance of a wintry mix or light snow.
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McLaren MP4-20 - strengthened barge boards 19 March 2005
In Australia Kimi Raikkonen lost his right-hand barge board through contact with a kerb. So, for Sepang onwards, the mounting of this element on the front bottom edge of the sidepod has been strengthened, by increasing its width and adding layers of carbon fibre around it. Note also how the chimneys on the sidepod are increased in section due to the increased cooling needs at this track.


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Rick Ross Officially Recognized as "Bawse of the Year 2012"
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To Crossfade, it's always been Rick Ross (government name William Leonard Roberts II), the 300-pound football-lineman-turned-corrections-officer-turned-street-rapper-turned-Maybach-mogul.
He taught us to play 4-3 formation. He always emphasized the importance of hustlin', even while earning $22,913.54 per year from the Florida Department of Corrections. And he showed us how to make it rain money (literally), each and every day.
Finally, though, big homie's getting official recognition for his undeniable Bawse-iness.
See also:
-Becoming the Bawse: Eight-Part History of Rick Ross
-Rick Ross Made It Rain Money (Literally) at His New Year's Eve Party on South Beach
-Rick Ross, Big-Booty Strippers, and 3,000 Ballers in Miami (NSFW)
-Rick Ross on Maybach Music Group: "We the Miami Heat of Hip-Hop"
In GQ Magazine's new Men of the Year issue, the title "Bawse of the Year 2012" has been ceremoniously bestowed upon Ross.
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Like a Bawse, Rozay say, "Fuck you." |
Acknowledging the honor, Rozay tells GQ in his deep, thick caramel croon: "It's been a power-player year," adding, "The moves I make, I ain't never in no rush."
And like any true Bawse, he's got a couple chunks of advice for all y'all wannabe Bawses:
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There are three main groups of meteorite. They differ in the amount of iron-nickel metal they contain.
Each group of meteorites is split into many more classes and types depending on the minerals they contain, their chemistry and their structure.
Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of asteroids that melted early in their history. They consist mainly of iron-nickel metal with small amounts of sulphide and carbide minerals.
Stony-iron meteorites consist of almost equal amounts of iron-nickel metal and silicate minerals and are amongst the most beautiful of meteorites.
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Asali means sweet honey in Somali. Erica Robinson, the founder of Asali Yoga, had a friend create her logo of a bee resting on a lotus leaf before she knew she had a space to open her new yoga studio on 135th Street and Frederick Douglas Boulevard.
"I don't believe you have to get all your ducks in a row," she said. "I think you should work with whatever you have."
"This yoga studio is a good example of speaking something into being," she said. "I had a client who was a realtor and I said to him, 'One day I'm going to open a yoga studio in Harlem.' He showed me several spaces and offered me this one at a very affordable rate."
"After this experience," Erica said, "I believe that the universe sees that you're trying so then it gives you something."
The Asali studio is in the process of being renovated but already has an aura of tranquility. The open stone walls are alternately lacquered and painted gold. There is a soft wood floor and the window frames are a cool blue. Outside the frosted front windows, cheerful yellow flowers peek through.
"The thing about Erica," said a client who found her through a Living Social deal, "is that she says hello to everyone. She's involved in the community." Another client told me she loves Erica's "good energy."
Because of Erica's relaxed nature during our conversation, I imagined that her yoga class would be on the easy side. During her Saturday noon class, I discovered that her style of Vinyasa yoga keeps things moving for the full hour and a half.
Erica's Saturday class had an equal mix of men and women and she gave individualized attention to each person at their level. Although, certain poses felt difficult, I remembered Erica's advice to breathe through the movements. By the time she turned the lights down at the end, I felt a sense of accomplishment and even peace.
Asali Yoga also houses an acupuncture clinic on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Erica has a variety of ideas for the future of Asali Yoga including Friday night yoga with live acoustic accompaniment, thai yoga massage classes, and a yoga/culinary retreat in Jamaica. She plans to renovate her back room to use as a private massage area. And the backyard will become a tea garden.
This August, Asali is studio of the month at Lululemon Lincoln Center. On August 14th at 10am Erica will be teaching a free yoga class at Lululemon Bryant Park. Asali Yoga's schedule is available online at asaliyoga.com.
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It has been a wonderful near decade of SvenOnTech. Birthing from a personal b2 blog as far back as 1999 and evolving into SvenOnTech that took me to meetings with amazing people with incredible product. I even was able to watch a private concert for thirty meet a childhood guitar hero of mine. I have had a wonderful time here on the World Wide Web and my little Web Log.
Sadly, time and funding I just no longer have, and so on the even of SvenOnTech's 8th anniversary, it is goodbye. The site may remain here – or not – for purposes of history. Maybe it will come back alive. Either way, I loved reporting on tech and loved all those I interacted with. I made many good friends and hope to make many more through other "lives" here on the Internet.
Thank you, and goodbye.
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This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes…again
So Apple flaunted it's Playskool iOS 7 interface to the world at WWDC along with the a slew of new features to the silence of most who cared. Yes, the first few rows applauded and cheered but those were Apple employees and board members. They're delusional. While I have already discussed the problems with the update that really isn't more than a slap in the face to those that love a good and useful user interface as well as desire envelope pushing from Cupertino, I neglected to touch on two important items. The Big Missing Features. Did you read all the Tweets about the lack of Widgets? Or the Facebook posts that there is no Active Icons? There's a reason for that and I'll tell you what that is.
First, I do have to touch on the irony about the icons. For years, Apple plastered a 73 on its Weather icon which was meaningless. Then it finally updates its old and tired looking home screen with kids Crayola art and even gives us a ticking clock icon…but yanks the number from the Weather icon instead of actually adding the current locations temperature! What immense irony that is. Ya, I know, Android has been doing this for years but Apple doesn't care what user want. Have you seen iOS 7?
So what is an Active Icon you ask? This is where the icon actually takes on some life, such as the weather example. In a sense, Apple does have some activity on icons such as Message, Mail, and Phone with the number badge. However, being able to simply look at the Weather icon and immediately see some clouds over the sun and 78 for the temperature beats tapping the icon and waiting for the app to refresh for the same bit of information. For some reason, Apple doesn't get that.
The most blatant omission from iOS 7 are Widgets. Widgets are objects found on the home or lock screen that give you access to an application; however, these widgets also tap into the app with information such as a blip of emails, some posts in Facebook, or trending tweet,s and oh yes, some weather, too. Widgets basically make your smartphone, well, smarter. If you're curious what your missing, take a look at TechRepublic's 15 Android widgets that will make iPhone users jealous. Again, Apple doesn't get it.
Why? The home screen is the first thing a person sees of a phone. With the two-to-one margins of Android to iPhones in the wild, most are familiar with the Android screen. So, imagine – even with the hideous child's play art – Apple placing widgets in iOS 7. What would be the first response from users? "Oh, it looks just like the Androids screen." Can you envision what that would do to Apple's pride? Sure, 99% of iOS 7 is already Android features but the average user doesn't know that but the Widgets are immediately identifiable to Android even to the casual user. If customers uttered the comparison to Apple's mobile rival, I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs would jump out of the grave and strangle that person!
Sadly, Apple has built this self-loving empire of pride, just look how long CEO Cook spent on the stupid pie chart of how many Android users were still using an operating system from 2010. Apple is repeating the same ills it did with the original Macintosh and it is headed down the same road of bad fate. While the rivals have taken Apple's incredible idea and pushed it to its limits, Apple simply keeps telling the world, "Look how cool we are!" Eventually, even the clueless consumer grows tired of this and sees that competition really does have more to offer. Apple has decided for the third straight year to offer the public nothing substantial in the next iPhone operating system and this long-time Apple fan is already looking to move from iTunes Match to Google Play. I'm tired of living in Androids past. Good luck, Apple. You'll need it with your current corporate strategy.
It took a horrible user interface and ripped-off features to draw me back to my technology blog. Yes, Apple's update to the iPhone's operating system is such an irritation that I just couldn't keep silent. Unlike a spec of sand inside a clam, this irritation sadly will not produce a pearl.
Bowing to pressure on an old a tired interface, Apple finally previewed its first significant update to the mobile phone that changed the smartphone world at its developer conference WWDC last Monday. No one was surprised by the announcement but the lack of excitement was obvious when it was unveiled. Aside from the first few rows of Apple employees and friends of the company, such as Board Member Vice President Al Gore, smiles were far and few in between. Shock was a more common expression. Ironically enough, the acclaimed designer Sir Johnny Ives seemed to have let some elementary children create the icons for iOS 7 as simplistic was used to the extreme. Like a sixth-grader confined to his or her world, one finds the need to inquire with the little chap to solicit what the four bubbles icon represent. Oh, that's for Game Center? Yes, bubbles totally convey that message. The petaled color wheel for Photos is not much better. This is from a company that prides itself on the principle that anyone can pick up its product and start using it. I'm not sure how many people are going to tap a compass icon expecting Safari or that other compass icon expecting Safari. What a mess.
Gone is any depth, though Ives is quoted as saying iOS 7 has more of it. The shadows and texture are all gone – characteristics of depth – leaving flat bland colors. There is more blinding white backgrounds than ever and baby blue all over the place. Tappable items such as "buttons" are simply now just text and one just has to assume tapping the word will execute the command. Again, not a feature any computer illiterate could figure out on their own.
Speaking of features, where were the new ones? I mean the real new ones and not the stolen ones! Every feature Apple mainstreamed on the big screen at the Moscone Center could be found on an Android device, today. Not this fall. Today. SVP Schiller came out introducing the newly radically designed Mac Pro shooting off a comment about not innovating any more, "My ass!" Granted, the new cylinder super Mac is pretty amazing, but were was that same type of attitude with iOS 7? It's lacking was because of the clear absence of Apple innovation.
Control Center, the ability to do things like disable Bluetooth, adjust brightness, and select Wi-Fi, is nothing new but something iPhone users have begged for ever since seeing it in Android's Notification Center. In fact, when Apple announced its Notification feature last year, many thought this ability would be found in it. Nope, users will end up waiting another 18 months from that release for it. Almost two years! That's crazy.
True multitasking comes to iOS 7 and the ability to see running applications looks just like it does on an HTC device. An Android. If you'd like, you can go back even further to 2009 when Palm first introduced the "card" concept with webOS. It's nice to have real multitasking on iOS – in the Fall – but again, this is far from a new feature.
I found the new simple lock screen somewhat comical since Apple has made such a big deal of "Swipe to Unlock" in the Samsung lawsuit. Now iOS 7 will have a very simple lock screen with a large display of the time…just like Android's Ice Cream Sandwich.
The update to the music player with iTunes Radio looked so much like Google Music it was comical. The concept of streaming music isn't new and in fact the market is crowded with choices. After Steve Jobs bemoaned the idea of steaming music because, "people want to own their music", Apple finally enters the game (with four bubbles?) after the dirt finally hardened on Jobs' grave.
Not even that tricky looking 3-D background is new. Nope, the feature known as Parallax has been available for Android for sometime in the form of a third-party application called 3D Image Live Wallpaper. Heck, take a look at it in action from SlashGear's videon on YouTube. Yes, fully disappointing that something so cool STILL isn't an Apple innovation.
I'm sure like the makers of 3D Image Live Wallpaper, other vendors were not happy seeing their hard work and ideas up on the Keynote presentation branded Apple, either. Mailbox campaigned brilliantly for its simple and powerful application with its easy to use swipes that – gasp! – are coming to iOS 7 Mail as well. Go figure! Oh, there's more swipes – pun intended – buried in iOS 7 including one that draws from one the companies Apple has nearly put out of business, BlackBerry. Like BB10, if you swipe to the left, you'll be taken back to the previous page. Amazing.
Now all these features taken from others that are available today on a competing hardware won't even grace an iPhone until this "Fall", whenever that is! That's three months at best, SIX at worse! By that time, I guess there will be a slew of new features for Apple to pick off the tree from Android for iOS 8.
Tim Cook told Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco that, "Innovation is strong as ever and in the DNA of the company." This from a company that has been playing catch-up and suing it's competitors for the past two years other than really innovating. Noting that the smartphones and tablets are the backbone of Apple's cash cow Cook underlined its "experience" is the true force of Apple's innovation. "Apple has skills in software, hardware and services. The model that grew the PC industry where companies specialized. That model is not working for what consumers want today," said Cook. "Consumers want this elegant experience." Why service definitely helps pack Apple Stores and customers snap up shiny new products, it's not the only thing that keeps them buying. No, true innovation keeps them coming.
Apple brought itself into a new era, and market, with the iPod. It innovated a product that the founder of the MP3 player, Rio, couldn't manage. Then again Apple innovated a product that was birthed elsewhere and took away the smartphone market from Palm. Lastly, it showed Microsoft, the company that first brought the tablet to us in 2001, how to really innovate.
So now Apple has over $100 billion in the bank, packed stores, and enjoys the majority market share for tablets, smartphones (hardware), and even still for audio players. But all those numbers are slipping and show little sign of reversing. Sure, Cook can tell worried investors that the market is just increasing in size and it still has a larger chunk than it originally had, but those are excuses, not innovation. Instead of showing the world anything of great significance in the last three years, we simply hear how great Apple is and nothing more. No talk of the future. No talk of pushing the envelope. No talk other than a nice shined marketing speech.
Apple's last true innovation was the release of the iPad in 2010. That's three years ago and in that time, the Android Army has been hard at work chipping away at Apple's market dominance and even forcing Apple into a product it bad-mouthed later that year. Steve Jobs famously told investors, "7-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with the iPad. ….7-Inch tablets are dead on arrival." Dead, huh? As not to further damn his himself, Jobs went on to state, "While one could increase the resolution to make up some of the difference, it is meaningless unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one-quarter of their present size. Apple has done expensive user testing on touch interfaces over many years, and we really understand this stuff." Last I saw in the Apple Store, the iPad mini does not come with sandpaper. No, Jobs didn't understand that the market actually DOES know what it wants sometimes – another famous saying Jobs liked to quip – and Apple's own Eddie Cue urged Jobs to his death bed to let Apple make a 7″-ish tablet. Clearly, innovation was ignored, bad-mouthed, and fought before it was it acknowledged. Of course, in classic Apple style, it was quick to point out that the iPad mini isn't really a 7″ tablet and it has "features" that improve the experience of an Android tablet. Please…
Moving on, let's look at the iPhone now. Again, a truly innovative product when introduced, Apple seemed to slow down the gears of innovation and trickled out features year by year. Even though 3G was active in nearly half of AT&T's network, Apple waited until the second generation to release a phone that supported the faster data speeds. Outside of that, the iPhone 3G had little more to offer than a new look. The camera still sucked, battery life was still dismal, and the OS had little advancement.
Apple continued this little-by-little strategy with each release all the way to the iPhone 5. Instead of caving into the larger screen that has pushed sales of the Samsung Galaxy S III to a market leader and the talk of the town, Apple stretched the screen and chimed about how it was still easily used one-handily. That, was its innovation. Apple's previous yearly trickle of innovation was Siri. Siri, the voice-to-text software, was an application in the App Store for about a year that gained much attention when it first was released. Quickly scooped up by Apple and re-established as an integrated aspect of the operating system, Siri was reborn an Apple innovation. No, excuse me, as a beta. Now as we near two years – in beta – Siri is nothing more than a feature to ask it silly questions and become extremely irritated at its inability to send a text message that is even 40% accurate or – heck – even finish your sentence as it often just gives up leaving a partial text output. In the meantime, Google released it's Google Now app for the iPhone with stunningly quick and accurate speech-to-text. No, it's not beta, either.
I could go on about how iLife, once considered a stunning collection of multimedia applications for the Mac, hasn't even been touched in over three years and languishes away or how its extremely expensive Thunderbolt technology two years later lacks a plethora of accessories. Financial analysts bonked Apple over the head on the market a few weeks ago after Apple produced its best quarter ever. Why? Analysts see little in the future to hold Apple up and the numbers are indicating this. Apple continues to be mute on future product and shows little innovation in the last three years. Sure, the Retina display has dawned screens across the board, Bluetooth 4 graced wireless devices, and a great camera in the phones. But it's not enough when compared to the competitors. Instead of really kicking its competitors butt, Apple sues them. Real innovators respond with, "Top this!"
History shows that Apple is on a four-year cycle of innovation. The iPod, iPhone, and then iPad. That gives us about a year before the next big thing. Many think it's a TV and I can see that. Apple's true innovation is taking something that already exists and making it better. TV sales have declined and consumers aren't fooled by bells-and-whistles such as 3-D. The networks are the issue for release just like the labels were for the iTunes Music Store. I feel Apple can overcome that opposition but without Jobs, it will be tougher.
What after the Apple TV television? I can't imagine that the road map goes dry after that. I'm sure what ever it is, it's already on the books and is being ironed out. But will anyone care by then? While the four years worked in the last decade, competitors and patent trolls have changed the landscape accelerating change. Apple has already shown with the last two iOS updates, iPad mini, and the iPhone 5 – to a point – that it does better at catching up than pushing the competition. If it doesn't wish to become the next Sony – one of Steve Jobs' biggest fears – then it needs to stop this madness of its delusional outlook on innovation and actually innovate again. Stop riding the gravy train and trickling out features. Apple had the money to demand LTE chips that are low power consuming a year before it finally hit the iPhone. Apple had the money to make Siri actually work…upon initial release. Apple has the money to force new technologies to market quicker than the other guy. Jobs pushed Corning for a glass iPhone when its own CEO said it couldn't be done. Apple shoved a desktop operating system into a handheld device while others said it couldn't be done. Apple can do it. If it wants. Right now, it looks like it just wants to pats its own back. Ask Sony how that's working, Tim.
So here we are, post-iPhone 5 announcement and guess what? Nothing envelope pushing. In fact, nothing even surprising. Every leak was true. Every one! While Jony Ives called the iPhone 5 a "complete redesign" (I'm sorry, did his head get stretched, too?), on the contrary, it's mostly catch-up with whom Apple just sued (hint, hint, Samsung). In perfect Apple style, with Steve Jobs Smoke and Mirrors, Tim Cook and crew made yesterdays technology look freaking amazingly new!
"The biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone."
So states Apple's web site when you go looking for the details on the 6th iPhone called the iPhone 5. Shaving off some body fat to give it a leaner and lighter feel, the diamond cut shell consists of the two-tone color scheme seen in early prototype images dating years back from the Apple vs. Samsung case as well as reminding one of the first the iPhone. The screen is stretched up – not out – to add an extra row of icons and to give you a true 16×9 image for movies. Storage hasn't changed in years but the price remains the same. Nice. Oh yes, the camera has a new cover. Oooh! Ya, it's still the same otherwise. The front camera is at least 1.2 megapixels and can capture 720p video. So last years Android.
Ya, so let's talk about the Android factor. So while Cupertino's tech magicians attempt to use their slight of hand to pawn off the iPhone 5 has "the most amazing thing" they've ever done, how does it compare to let's say Samsung Galaxy S III? That front camera? Well, double Apple's and you'll then pass its court rival. The screen? The Galaxy S III has 1,280 x 720 versus Apple's amazing 1,136 x 640. Yes, Apple's is smaller and it's 20 ppi better Retina display isn't that big of a deal. The Galaxy is a wee bit heavier but it's not even by an ounce. Tell me you can feel that? Earlier benchmarks show the iPhone barely running faster than the months old Galaxy. NFC? Are you kidding? Phil Schiller says Passbook is way better! Screw NFC!
The iPhone 5 does not even support simultaneous voice and data on Verizon and Sprint networks that AT&T has been doing for four generations now. Don't worry, though, the Samsung Galaxy S III does support this feature on LTE networks such as Verizon's due to some true engineering know-how. But don't sweat it people, remember, this is "The biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone." Now that I think of it, wasn't there a handful of 3G phones available when the original iPhone with EDGE (2.5G) released? Sorry, got distracted.
The truth is, the iPhone 5 is all catch-up and nothing revolutionary. I wouldn't even call it evolutionary. This is the exact issue Apple had with the Macintosh back in the 80s when it rocked the computer world with a truly stunning computer. Apple seriously put personal into the personal computer. But like Apple letting Microsoft along with IBM steal its thunder and push the envelope with Windows and the PC while it kept trying to tell the world, "Hey, look at how cool we are!", Apple once again is repeating history with doing nothing and calling it something. Last weeks keynote was the first in over a decade that had no surprises and was – if you're honest with yourself – a let down. Everything the iPhone 5 is the Android market has had in Motorola, HTC, and Samsung for months if not over a year in the case of LTE. Even when Ford put on a new skin to the Fox body Mustang in the 80s, everyone in the automotive world still knew it was still the crapy old 70s car with some new hardware. That's what this is iPhone is, a third re-iteration of a tired design with a new engine under the hood.
So how do you sell 2 million iPhone 5s in just one day of pre-orders? And that's the million dollar question. One thing Apple does still have down is sex appeal and that's what its products produce. Even though there's only a new coat of paint on a stretched out canvas, it's still cool looking and all the hip people will have one. Additionally, to give credit to Apple, it's operating system is still more refined, stable, and polished than the fragmented and heavily customized interface per vendor offering from Google. Buyers also know that all iPhones from the last few years will get a brand new update all on the same day unlike the guessing game over in the Android camp. But note my words, this will be the last time Apple will enjoy such sales as it will the iPhone 5. Google is snapping up companies left and right to tighten the noose on Apple and as soon Android is able to get sway over iPhone users over with some migration plan away from the Apple halo as well as tighten up the Android operating system, we will be calling Google the new Microsoft and Apple the, well, the same Apple of the 90s once again. Learn from your past Apple and push the envelope all the time or be doomed to repeat it.
As we inch just hours toward the next iPhone announcement, we now have a few more leaks that may point us to five new products to be announced. Here's the list:
- iPhone "5″
- iTunes 11
- iPod touch
- 9-pin Dock Connector called "Lightning" internally OR iPod nano
- "Earpod" earphones
The Dock Connector could be stretching the five products, but why can't I if Apple is stretching the next iPhone screen?
My final prediction before the Apple's announcement Wednesday is that it will not be called the iPhone 5, iPhone 4SS, or any other varient other than the new iPhone. Simply, it will be called, iPhone. Now before you label me insane and an idiot, just take a read of what I have to write about this name and why Apple is slowly changing the smartphone market once again like it did when it entered the phone industry.
If you read my article "Why The iPhone 5 Won't Be the Last One to Look Like the iPhone 4″ (read it!), then you'll understand the first part of this equation of bringing the PC era into the smartphone era. Slowing down the form factor change to a more reasonable time table as seen in the computer industry, Apple is not content with just changing the look of its phones every four years or so like it does with its current line of desktop and laptops. No, it desires a uniform convention for all of its products. Look closely and you'll only find the iPhone with a model number. iMacs? Nope. MacBook Airs? Not there. MacBook Pros? Negative. Mac minis? Uh-uh. Well what about the Apple TV? Not on your life. What about all the iPods and its variants? Ixnay on the model-say. Oh wait, the iPad!! Aaah, now we're getting closer but Apple axed the model name with the most current release; hence, the altered graphic here.
Folks, along with the iPad ditching the number 3 for it's third release, I see Apple executing the same with the iPhone. Many were a bit perplexed - even stunned for some – that Apple was not going to call its newest tablet the iPad 3. Sure, everyone still calls the new iPad the iPad 3 (I've even overheard Apple Store employees in Sacramento refer to it as such,) but that will be long forgotten in a couple of years when the fifth-generation iPad is released. It will simply be the iPad with fifth-generation only stated for differentiation and only then by geeks.
"But the iPhone is different. It's a phone," may be the next rebuttal. Yes, it is a phone but who cares? This is Apple. Apple does what Apple wants not what the market enjoys. Again, just look back to the iPad as proof that it doesn't have to follow what Samsung, ASUS, or Motorola does. This is Apple.
For those that think the Cupertino company that once had Computers in its name isn't big on change in the way it does things, may I remember you that the iPhone for its first three generations released in late June or Early July. The iPhone 4 was bumped a few months later to September all while the press said no it wouldn't do it early on because of the iPod announcements and such during the same season. Whelp, guess Apple did.
No, as my final forecast for the next iPhone, I am pretty certain it will be the new iPhone. Too many indications point to it with the leaks of the same body design being the strongest evidence along side the iPad just being the iPad today. Sure, I could be wrong and completely be reading way too much into the subtleties of the last six months, I won't deny that; however, my gut and years of observing Apple says that the biggest surprise Wednesday will be the name, not the product.
There has been much talk about how the leaked next iPhone stretched screen isn't good enough. Proportionally larger is what the public wants and demands based on what I've read in comments to my other posts and from what I hear in conversation with others. But this is Apple whom boasts about how it does not care what the customer wants but gives them what they need. This would be such a moment.
Android has done an interesting job of expanding the original 3.5 inch screen of the iPhone to points of wondering if you're placing a small paperback on your ear rather than a phone like seen with the Galaxy Note and Dell's ill-fated stab with the Streak. Motorola, HTC, and Samsung seem to have a following with its larger phones where the screen grew both in length and width gaining kudos mostly from those using GPS and video apps. Bigger is better, right? Well, not in Steve Jobs eyes. He had discounted the larger screen in previous iPhone events calling them clunky and difficult to use with a single hand which I agree with in my experience of such phones. But longer. Mmm, Steve never bad mouthed longer.
Many sites have shown off what possibilities of a longer screen would be like most notably the extra row of icons. Interestingly enough, however, the bulk have neglected to show off movies. You know, true HD moves that are in the 16:9 ratio. Apple moved to this very ratio with its Cinema Displays years ago and wedged them into some of its laptops. Moving the iPhone into the same Hollywood neighborhood makes sense. So much so, one has to even question if the iPad mini will be a 16:9 ratio device. But let's not get off topic with the iPad mini rumor and stick to the iPhone 4SS (second S for stretched) we have all come to love to hate in the last few months.
Investigating deeper, we have witnessed that Apple has proven content is king with iTunes and the App Store. Jobs was fierce in his pursuit to bring all of the major studios to then iTunes Music Store and broden Apple's appeal. It has done so very well, and now that its hobby, in the form of a black hockey puck, is doing impressively wonderful, it makes absolute sense for Apple to press on with true HD presentation. Watching a movie or TV show or even a YouTube video for that matter without black bars but rather with a filled screen is what perfects the package. When the laptops and home displays were "stretched", very little notice was made of this and life went on. In fact, the change was so benign that it has been forgotten by the majority of the tech press and thus why the parallel to the iPhone is missed.
Apple loves all things perfect. It ignores market requests for this reason and instead gives the world a no exceptions product. This doesn't excuse Apple for making the next iPhone taller if the leaks are true or am I stating I like it. Apple through its fiber as knitted by Steve Jobs does things very differently than the rest of the tech world and this is merely another example of that. This iPhone most likely was the last phone Jobs had direct influence on and stretching it to improve the video experience from his point of view would make absolute sense. If all the early analysts predictions are correct that this will be the best selling iPhone ever, then this may be Steve Jobs' swan song.
Leaks, leaks, and more leaks abound to what the next-generation iPhone will look and basically it looks like last years iPhone and the iPhone before that. Yes, essentially, the iPhone "5″ looks just like the iPhone 4 released in 2010 with a few minor changes. That will make it three full years with the same body design before another opportunity for a new look to appear in Apple Stores across the world. But the question is, will there be a completely redesigned phone by then at all?
Remember when Steve Jobs famously spoke of the end of the PC era in the last years of his life and yet? Well, we see many of the PC practices finding its way into the iPhone. I've already touched on how the last operating system, iOS 5, and this years pending iOS 6 has had little change in a my "Android Phones Blast Past iPhone But Still Lag in OS Updates" post other than catching up with the competition which is a tell-tale sign for what's to come in the future. Apple historically loves to innovate with amazing new products such the Apple I and II, Macintosh, iPod, and iTunes, but then it leaves them to languish and ignores the great leap of advancement that the competition applies to its own copy of Apple's original. Why do you think Apple went after Samsung so forcefully? Apple needs to protect it's original concept since it gives the general consumer no other reason to ignore the competition.
Let's look deeper at Apple's adoption of PC, or Mac in its case, era cycles. When it released the Apple II, no one was up in arms when the II+ was released and looked identical to the original. Likewise when the IIe hit the streets nearly seven years after the first II, again, no outcry how the case still looked the same. The Macintosh that appeared on Super Bowl Sunday in 1984 looked the same as the Macintosh SE/30 six years later. The rest of the Classic Macintosh line continued along this way.
Remember when the iMac hit Macworld's stage with Steve Jobs keynote in 1998? Now that was a change for the Macintosh. Heck, even it's name was changed. But again, it wasn't until January of 2002 did we see a fully newly dressed iMac and it would be another two-and-half years before the iMac G5 in its white shell and flatscreen coolness premiered.
I could recount the same slow process of change for the Mac Pro (which still has yet to even be updated with a single Thunderbolt port let alone get a true remake) that is so long in tooth that many believe it will simply just be discontinued. The Mac mini has also changed little since its introduction in 2005. Same story can be made for the laptop line as well.
Do you see a pattern here? It's not in the manufacturing blood of the PC industry to make an entirely new fresh design every year – even for Apple. The iPhone was an entry into a completely new industry for the Cupertino computer company. It was forced to play the rapid design cycle of the phone industry in order to stay noticed. Now that Apple has established itself as the essential phone to have, it no longer feels to the need to radically change its image every two years. Indeed, it now is comfortable with transitioning the PC era to the smartphone era. Yes, I mean keeping the same "tired" look for years to come with only minor facial changes with most of the oomph coming from the engine bay like the auto industry has done for nearly a century. This is why the iPhone 4S was exactly the like the 4 sans the antenna band fix. This is why the iPhone 5 will be just like the 4S but just stretched out and some modifications to a port here and there. This is why the iPhone 6 will be just like its predecessor with changes to the CPU, memory, radio, battery, and other internal pieces. It most likely will not be until the iPhone 7 will we find any dramatics applied to the iPhones exterior.
Okay, so there's the reason for Apple's thinking, that is if I'm right about all this. Let's just say I am for the sake of argument… and making me look good. Is there anything wrong with this approach? Well, no… I guess. Think about it. I've already pointed out that we've been more than happy with our desktops and laptops changing little year to year so why would we care about what goes in our pocket? Seriously, how much can you differ a rectangle? I can remember all the Nokia case replacements I had for my 3650 and 8260 that ranged from translucent to various shades of the rainbow to even built-in LEDs that would flash when the phone rang. But the case was still the same case in shape. While I could venture to my local mall and view the hundreds of variations of cases at one of the pads in the middle of the walk way between Rogers Jewelers and the Gap, I still had the same phone. Sure, I strived to change it in some way, but it is no more different than slapping a case on the iPhone today.
Let's look at the reverse notion. During the turn of the century, we did indeed find companies such as Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, and Samsung looking to differentiate one model from the next year after year. It encouraged consumers to ditch their current phone for an entire new one putting money into the coffers of the company with the best design. Apple certainly responded to this pony race in the beginning with fashioned elegance. Today, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, and new comers like HTC continue to change the landscape often while frustrating iPhone users with the same old tired look of the iPhone 4 base. Chances are, these companies will continue pushing the design to new dimensions no matter what Apple ends up doing and that may pry money away from Apple. Maybe.
So, Apple looks to have taking the baton from the PC era and ran with the "keep it (the) same stupid" for design and work on the interads. Now as to iOS 5 and iOS 6 playing catch-up to Android, that's a different story (see that link above), but Apple is in fact swimming upstream like a salmon ready to spawn when it comes to sticking with what "works". And while I find it humorous to have one of the most incredible designers in the world on your payroll such as Jony Ives, I guess even he can't come up with something cutting-edge every 24 moths. The question is, will this backfire or will it become the new standard in phone hardware design?


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Riven main here, just would like to say her early/mid game has been severely decimated by the new Warmogs meta and by her recent nerfs. There's pretty much no way to build her at the current moment without getting dumped on by any other bruiser that rushes a Warmogs, her base values are pretty weak and she relies on AD to fuel her damage, so that's a no go. So right now her early game is weak and her late game is mediocre at best, which is near impossible to reach with a very weak early game. Right now her win rate is 46.8 % and I believe it will drop down to as low as 40-45 % Win Rate as more and more people catch on to the Warmogs. Not sure if it's just me or if any other Riven players are encountering the same problem, we have no itemization towards having a fighting chance against the Warmogs meta. You can't even use BotRK either primarily due to the fact the % damage is physical and it scales off the opponent's current HP. There's nothing Riven can do unless she gets up 3 kills from your jungler camping, but that can easily be reverted from 1 gank that gets you killed. TL;DR: Warmogs counters every aspect of Riven and works for basically every top laner except for herself due to her abilities having low bases with high AD ratios. Players with Warmogs won't notice a Riven doing any damage to them until about 45 minutes in the game if the lane was equal.
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Have you considered building ad on her?
Health > AD, kind of the point here. No items for Riven to utilize since lifesteal has been nerfed and you can't outsustain someone with all that hp now.
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I countered the nerf to her hp regen by starting with the two beads from the tiamat build-into, and 3 health potions. This gives her as much sustain as it did in season 2, and with the new items and masteries, placing 25 points in defense and 5 in attack gives her enough output to be a threat. I got a quad by doing this and walked away with half health at 25 minutes in the game.
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The other option is to target the said item that is causing problems. Warmogs needs to be a stacking item again.


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Paul Edward Bell, 30, of Lynwood pleaded guilty in January to sex trafficking charges in connection with the sex-for-money operation busted by local, state and federal law enforcement officials in July 2012. In exchange for his plea, the U.S. Attorney's Office dropped charges of illegal possession of a firearm and conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips today certified the plea agreement and imposed the terms stipulated by the prosecution and defense. Bell was among eight people convicted in the case, all but one of them affiliated with a Los Angeles-based Crips gang faction. He has two prior felony convictions in state court for sex trafficking. The defendant was indicted alongside Kimberly Alberti, 21, of Riverside; Javiya Brooks, 21, of Lynwood; Kristy Harrell, 22, of Riverside; brothers Gary Rogers, 25, and Samuel Rogers, 24, both of Moreno Valley; Christopher Weldon, 24, of Compton; and Su Yan, 32, of Rosemead. Yan, a Chinese national, was not a gang member but assisted with transporting girls across state lines, according to prosecutors. He, Alberti and Weldon have all been sentenced to terms ranging from 18 months to six years Advertisement All of the conspirators pleaded guilty before their scheduled trial dates. According to prosecutors, seven girls between 15 and 17 years old were recruited into a street-level operation centered on Long Beach Boulevard in Compton. In several instances, victims were approached at their schools and enticed into working as prostitutes with the lure of basic amenities, including hairdos, nail jobs and free meals. Bell acknowledged keeping four girls under his personal control. "Bell admitted physically abusing one victim 'for not performing as a prostitute and for acting up,"' according to a U.S. Attorney's Office sentencing memorandum. "(Bell) not only used his fists, a cane, a shoe and other objects against the females; he pepper-sprayed one of the victims in her face. He also ... put a gun to the head of one of the victims and locked at least two in his apartment." According to prosecutors, Alberti and Brooks were the ring's "lead" prostitutes. Alberti enrolled at a Riverside high school with the specific intent to initiate contact with prospects, authorities said. The investigation was conducted by the Inland Empire Child Exploitation- Prostitution Task Force, comprised of personnel from the FBI, Riverside Police Department, Riverside County Sheriff's Department, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department and other agencies. 0 comments Be the first to share your opinion on this article!
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Those wanting to watch the annual spring play at Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior-Senior High School in Hays will have more choices of days this year.
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Those wanting to watch the annual spring play at Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior-Senior High School in Hays will have more choices of days this year.
TMP will feature four performances of "The Crucible" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and May 11, as well as a 2 p.m. matinee May 12, at the TMP Auditorium. Tickets are $7 per person and can be purchased either at the door or by calling the school beforehand at (785) 625-6577.
The play director, Travis Grizzell, decided to add another performance from the usual three-day event because of a large amount of students who tried out for female parts.
"So I decided to try to do something different," Grizzell said, explaining, "we double cast them, with Cast A going two nights and Cast B, 2 nights."
Grizzell often has used younger actors or actresses to fill in for him in plays and musicals.
This year's three non-high school students are official members of the school, as students in the newly formed junior high school at TMP.
"They were in the fall musical, and I look forward to having them for several years; they're good," Grizzell said of eight-graders Matthew Moeder and Mark Loftus and seventh-grader Trae Megaffin.
The two main male and female parts are played by sophomore Matt Mindrup and senior Emily Leiker, respectively, as husband and wife John and Elizabeth Proctor.
"The Crucible" is a serious play from the 1950s, a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the late 1600s.
"We do so many comedies," Grizzell said, "so I wanted to do something a little different this year -- something more well known with a little depth to it.
"The students like comedies," he added, "and this was a little daunting at first. But I think they are really getting to like this. They're looking forward to it."


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Emily the Strange Sues Possible Inspiration Source
- Posted by Johanna on May 21, 2009 at 8:42 am
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Emily the Strange has a movie in development for 2010. Often, when that happens, filmmakers want to be sure that the property ownership is clear. (No one wants another Watchmen situation.)
So, in an example of how twisted our legal system can be, Cosmic Debris (owners of the Emily the Strange property) has sued Marjorie Sharmat and Marc Simont. Who are they? The writer and illustrator of the Nate the Great series of children's books (news via Robot6). One particular book from 1978, Nate the Great Goes Undercover, features a character named Rosamond who had long black hair and was kinda creepy.
No big deal, there are plenty of "goth girls" in literature, right? (And in fact, that's Cosmic Debris' argument.) However, as discussed here, one of Emily's very first appearances features her in the same pose as Rosamond, with very similar looking (mirror image) cats surrounding her, and accompanied by the very same text, "She looked like she always looks. Strange."
Most observers find the two images too close together to be a coincidence — same hair, same dress, same shoes. Rob Reger, Cosmic Debris owner, says, "Nathan Carrico first conceived of and used Emily as a character for a skateboard design in 1991… Although the designs and worlds of Rosamond and Emily are different and readily distinguishable, … we phased out the original skateboard design upon learning of the Rosamond character." To me, that seems an interesting decision if Rosamond truly had no influence on Emily's creation.
Here are more comparison pictures showing more similarities. This all hit the blogverse in December of last year. You would expect those who appear to be the ones infringed upon to be the ones suing, in the normal course of things (as many comments suggested), but now, Cosmic Debris wants a judge to prevent the authors from claiming infringement or collecting any damages. Whether or not that's their motive, such a ruling will allow their movie to proceed.
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- Manuel Says:
May 21, 2009 at 3:14 PMOh, there are a lot of similarities to believe Emily is a copy of Rosamond, the original gothic girl. Even both have four strange black cats. Just pay attention to the 'comparison pictures' and realize by yourselves.
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May 21, 2009 at 5:18 PMThey may wish they had just not bothered. This has the potetnial to do just the opposite of the intent. They are now going to cost the original "Nate the Great" creators some considerable legal fees to defend an obvious earlier and original creation. If they had no intentions of defending the work before, they certainly have cause now. It smacks of aggresive and mean spirited litigation and I hope Cosmic Debris ends up regreting this action in severe monetary ways.
- Joe S. Walker Says:
May 22, 2009 at 12:24 PMCosmic Debris swiped their name from a song by Frank Zappa, too…
- mahendra singh Says:
May 22, 2009 at 2:13 PMThis smacks of delicious hubris … if they retain a good lawyer, Sharmant & Simont will eventually earn more money in damages from this bizarre and utterly brazen lawsuit than they ever did from the book's royalties.
Huzzah for the mind-numblingly destructive and insatiably rapacious greed of so many American businessmen!
- Jeremy L. (aka Phlegon) Says:
May 22, 2009 at 7:12 PMThis sort of case should be completely dismissed without being heard. Why should any of us create anything if we forever thereafter must fear that someone else will come along, copy it, and sue for the rights? Better to just not create anything at all, or else keep it to ourselves, and spare ourselves the headache of being sued.
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May 23, 2009 at 10:02 AMI'd like to add another comment and point out to all artists that this case shows the need for you to defend your copyright as soon as you have a problem and not adopt a laissez-faire attitude, leaving it for later or assuming that the offenders will go away.
Cosmic Debris's lawyers will base their case on the point that since Sharmant & Simont never told them (CD) to desist, the copyright is either not theirs or they have not bothered to enforce it, almost the same thing.
Sharmant & Simont can clean up but only if they hire a good attorney. This should be an interesting case study for all those advocates of a brave new copyright-free world to contemplate.
- Johanna Says:
May 23, 2009 at 10:21 AMEarly on, there was a comment that the authors had passed information along to their publisher. I'm not sure they completely own their copyright, which might make all this more complicated.
- thekamisama Says:
May 23, 2009 at 12:18 PMNate the Great was published by one of Random House's companies…
Ouch. I thought Cosmic Debris had the potential to screw up with this case. Now it looks like they walked into a land mine, on purpose!
- David Oakes Says:
May 23, 2009 at 10:18 PMI find it hilarious that the Google ad for this thread – and the site in general – comes up "Emily the Strange Soda".
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May 24, 2009 at 8:35 AM[…] taken from comicsworthreading.com Emily the Strange has a movie in development for 2010. Often, when that happens, filmmakers want […]
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May 26, 2009 at 10:40 AM[…] Comics Worth Reading has the follow up. […]
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June 4, 2009 at 12:01 PM[…] on the copyright from the Nate books published in the 70s and 80s (School Library Journal & Comics worth Reading). Cosmic Debris is asking a judge to declare that the goth girl doesn't infringe on the […]
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June 5, 2009 at 11:59 AMi dont care emily rocks…
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June 10, 2009 at 8:50 PM[…] response to a lawsuit from the owners of Emily the Strange, Nate the Great creators Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and Marc Simont have sued Cosmic Debris (Emily […]
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In the Class A Girls semi-final matchup at Hudson Valley Community College, the Maine-Endwell Spartans lost to Sutherland from Section VI 43-39. The Spartans led throughout most of the game, until a back-and-forth 4th quarter. Sutherland center Santita Ebangwese, a 6'1" junior netted the final bucket with 1:14 remaining before clinching it with a lay-up with 3.5 seconds remaining. Ebangwese finished with 17 points, 12 rebounds, and 3 blocks.The Spartans were led by Julie Yacovoni's 11 points and 10 rebounds with sophomore Daniella Dean adding 10 points. M-E falls just short of a back-to-back state finals berths and sees its season end with an 18-3 record.
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Coach handbag sales take hit, stock slumps (Reuters)
"Coach Inc on Wednesday reported weak holiday-quarter results and unveiled a new strategy for shoes and clothing, spooking investors with the notion that the days of strong demand for its premium leather handbags may be numbered."
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Italy's shoemaker Tod's 2012 sales meet expectations (Reuters)
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"A contrarian like Ms. Kawakubo isn't likely to share the same values and objectives of a designer at a big brand — again, that's a virtue of the Paris shows. There is freedom of expression, as well as a growing concern to make sure there is no disconnect between the image of a company and the integrity of the products it sells."
Vogue Retains Top Spot in March (Adweek)
"Among the highly scrutinized March fashion magazines, Condé Nast's Vogue is holding on to its usual first place, with 457 ad pages, up 4.5 percent from 2012. Archrival Time Inc.'s InStyle weighed in with 361 pages, a 4 percent increase over last year. At Hearst, Elle, as previously reported, came in third at 338 pages, up 6 percent."


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