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SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 7, 2005–Nortel* (NYSE:NT)(TSX:NT) and SIPquest, a leading developer of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based IP Telephony software applications and technology, are working together to enable service providers to deliver advanced SIP-based multimedia services to residential and corporate customers over wireless handheld devices.
The companies will initially focus on delivering advanced capabilities such as Presence and IM for services delivered to handhelds such as the RIM's Blackberry, Sony-Ericcson P900, and other smartphones. Using SIPquest's IMS cellular client, a soft client residing on the handheld device, and Nortel's Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) 5200, service providers will be able to deliver value-added services and productivity-enhancing tools to cellular users.
SIPquest and Nortel are demonstrating these capabilities at Spring VON in San Jose this week (Nortel booth #809, SIPquest booth #527).
This relationship builds on the strength of both companies. SIPquest is known as a pioneer in SIP-based technologies for corporate users. The company has already developed software dubbed 'disruptive' by analysts in the area of WiFi networks. Nortel is a global leader in enabling service providers to deliver a rich suite of multimedia and collaboration services that can be seamlessly integrated with existing telephone services. Moreover, both companies believe in open solutions based on industry standards.
"Service Providers will be able to take advantage of network convergence and deliver, under their own brand, new and innovative multimedia services to their customers," said Alain Mouttham, SIPquest CEO. "This is an initial step in enhancing the user experience. As the market evolves, we anticipate bringing cellular and WiFi client solutions together to provide dual-mode functionality and a seamless end-user experience."
"Both companies share a vision of transforming networks, enhancing the human experience, igniting global commerce and improving security," said Jim Dondero, vice president of Carrier Packet Networks marketing, Nortel. "Today's announcement is an important first step in delivering profoundly powerful communications to end-users, providing a level of control and personalization from a handheld device not yet experienced. We will work with SIPquest to evolve these capabilities even further."
Nortel's MCS 5200 seamlessly integrates voice with video, collaboration, and presence services and enables service providers to deliver hosted multimedia communications services to create new revenue-generating opportunities. These SIP-based next generation, multimedia services enhance the ability for both enterprise and consumer end-users to communicate and collaborate more effectively and efficiently.
SIPquest's Wireless Collaboration Client is an intuitive application that allows the end-user to quickly access capabilities such as Presence, Instant Messaging and advanced call routing capabilities. It can be rebranded and customized to allow service providers to deliver services valued by the end-user.
About SIPquest
SIPquest (www.sipquest.com) is a technology pioneer with specific expertise in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). By embedding or bundling SIPquest SIP-based software products with their own products, telecom and datacom equipment vendors are able to take advantage of the growing demand for IP Telephony services and capabilities. SIPquest's application and component suite includes IP-based audio conferencing, video conferencing, data conferencing, application sharing, instant messaging, presence, a multimedia collaboration agent, voice mail, auto attendant, a SIP to H.323 signaling converter, an extensible SIP server and mobile WiFi roaming and collaboration capabilities. SIPquest is committed to expanding the use of SIP technologies through an exclusive licensing agreement with Columbia University's Internet Real-Time Lab and Professor Henning Schulzrinne, Chief Scientific Advisor to SIPquest and co-author of SIP. Located in Ottawa, Canada, SIPquest has the most complete and advanced suite of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) software modules and components on the market.
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Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical information. Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world's greatest challenges. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.
Certain information included in this press release is forward-looking and is subject to important risks and uncertainties. The results or events predicted in these statements may differ materially from actual results or events.
Factors which could cause results or events to differ from current expectations include, among other things: the outcome of regulatory and criminal investigations and civil litigation actions related to Nortel's restatements and the impact any resulting legal judgments, settlements, penalties and expenses could have on Nortel's results of operations, financial condition and liquidity; the findings of Nortel's independent review and implementation of recommended remedial measures; the outcome of the independent review with respect to revenues for specific identified transactions, which review will have a particular emphasis on the underlying conduct that led to the initial recognition of these revenues; the restatement or revisions of Nortel's previously announced or filed financial results and resulting negative publicity; the existence of material weaknesses in Nortel's internal controls over financial reporting; the impact of Nortel's and NNL's failure to timely file their financial statements and related periodic reports, including breach of its support facility and public debt obligations and Nortel's inability to access its shelf registration statement filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"); ongoing SEC reviews, which may result in changes to our public filings; the potential delisting or suspension of Nortel's and NNL's publicly traded securities; the impact of management changes, including the termination for cause of Nortel's former CEO, CFO and Controller in April 2004; the sufficiency of Nortel's restructuring activities, including the work plan announced on August 19, 2004 as updated on September 30, 2004, including the potential for higher actual costs to be incurred in connection with restructuring actions compared to the estimated costs of such actions;
cautious or reduced spending by Nortel's customers; fluctuations in Nortel's operating results and general industry, economic and market conditions and growth rates; fluctuations in Nortel's cash flow, level of outstanding debt and current debt ratings; Nortel's ability to recruit and retain qualified employees; the use of cash collateral to support Nortel's normal course business activities; the dependence on Nortel's subsidiaries for funding; the impact of Nortel's defined benefit plans and deferred tax assets on results of operations and Nortel's cash flow; the adverse resolution of class actions, litigation in the ordinary course of business, intellectual property disputes and similar matters; Nortel's dependence on new product development and its ability to predict market demand for particular products; Nortel's ability to integrate the operations and technologies of acquired businesses in an effective manner; the impact of rapid technological and market change; the impact of price and product competition; barriers to international growth and global economic conditions, particularly in emerging markets and including interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations; the impact of rationalization in the telecommunications industry; changes in regulation of the Internet; the impact of the credit risks of Nortel's customers and the impact of customer financing and commitments; stock market volatility generally and as a result of acceleration of the settlement date or early settlement, which is currently not available, of Nortel's forward purchase contracts; the impact of Nortel's supply and outsourcing contracts that contain delivery and installation provisions, which, if not met, could result in the payment of substantial penalties or liquidated damages; and the future success of Nortel's strategic alliances.
For additional information with respect to certain of these and other factors, see the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed by Nortel with the SEC. Unless otherwise required by applicable securities laws, Nortel disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Political science professor Sheri Berman helps explain why the gold standard is destined for failure. An excerpt:
"A fixed exchange rate – such as the gold standard – is incompatible with democracy. It assumes that money is too important to be left in the hands of the people, so monetary policy should be removed from the hands of the electorate altogether.
It is completely wrong to view the gold standard as a purely economic – or worse, purely technocratic – issue. There are profound political implications to how we think of government and democracy."
See below for an infographic that Prof. Berman helped develop, which describes the implications of a return to the gold standard.
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Basketball Wives: Love Means Throwing Water in a Bitch's Face
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But like all great romances, we must start from the beginning... of the episode. Where boring ol' Gloria and Matt Barnes have a picture-perfect boring union in appropriately boring Orlando, where they say boring things about Evelyn and how it might be best for Gloria to stay away from her. Because Evelyn, well she's a lot of things, but she's not boring, and she might taint boring Gloria with this exciting new concept of non-boringness. Gloria, though, decides she should stand as a role model, a paragon of boringness before all the other wives and teach them the pleasure of simple domestic bornigness. She also calls them "old dogs," which is the single least boring thing that's come out of her mouth all season, and even then... pretty boring.
Then it's off to the VIP room at Proof on Ocean Drive, where the girls have convened a summit on important scientific matters such as "Who has slept with Shaquille O'Neal" and "NBA dancers: On a scale of one to ten, how slutty exactly are they?" The answers: Gloria's sister and 11. Later, Gloria and Royce meet at Philippe at the Gansevoort (apparently, reality TV's favorite South Beach restaurant) to delve further into the topic of dancer slutiness, asking the questions "So, you think dancers are sluts, but is it the bad thing?" While some sort of purple silk monster devours Gloria's neck, she holds firm to the fact that, yes, yes, all of this slutiness is a bad thing. Royce, the former dancer and Dwight Howard's baby mama, isn't really able to do anything close to "formulating thoughts" in her head, but we think she doesn't seem to think it's so bad.
Anyway, back to the saga of Jennifer and Eric Williams.
We're not sure Eric is much of a thinking man. I mean, he knows his wife is on a reality-TV show, right? And he knows the show is, at the core, about the lives, relationships, and marriages of his wife and her friends? And he is, we think, somewhat aware that his marriage isn't exactly on solid footing? Right? And he knows that a major plot point so far is the idea, whether true or not, that he slept with some horrible Frankenstein's monster of a woman named Sandra? But has it ever occurred to him that every word he says on camera shouldn't demonstrate he is a pretty lousy husband? Apparently not.
The couple goes house-hunting and comes across a property with two houses on one lot. The idea comes up that they could live in each house separately and meet, occasionally, by the shared pool. Which is kind of terribly sad when you think about it. Eric isn't even sure how long the marriage will last, saying he'll take it day by day.
Later, Jennifer is out with Soozi having drinks, trying to drown the sorrows of the early house-hunting failure, when who walks by but plastic-faced Sandra from last episode. Words heat up, and Soozi throws a glass of water in her face. Amazingly, Sandra's face does not melt, which really is a testament to the Dr. Frankenstein of a man who created her in some horrible Hialeah lab all those years ago.


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Fire Erupts at Zaha Hadid's Opera House in China
Correction appended May 13, 2009
A fire has charred part of an opera house designed by Zaha Hadid currently under construction in Guangzhou, China. It is the second major building blaze in the country this year.
While the fire appears to have caused minimal structural damage, investigators are still trying to determine the extent of damage to the 753,000-square-foot, steel-and-concrete complex. There were no injuries or casualties, according to a spokesman for Zaha Hadid.
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Based on accounts from people at the scene, the fire began around 7:30 a.m. on Saturday and may have been ignited by welding operations, reports Sina, a Chinese Internet news portal. Firefighters and five fire engines arrived at approximately 7.50 a.m. and extinguished the blaze twenty minutes later, at 8:10 a.m.
In a statement released on Sunday, the construction company indicated that the fire originated on scaffolding outside the larger of the complex's two theater buildings, and said an investigation into the cause of the blaze was under way.
"We must wait for these investigations to be completed before we know if the opening date will need to be altered," said a statement from Hadid's firm.
The opera house, which was scheduled to open in late 2009, sits on the banks of the Pearl River in a new business and cultural district for Guangzhou, the relatively affluent capital of the province of Guangdong, or Canton. Composed of two central buildings that resemble water-carved stones—an 1,800 seat opera house and a 400-seat theater—the $200 million complex would be Zaha Hadid's largest project to date.
The building was seen partly as vindication for the British Pritzker winner, after one of her first projects, the Welsh National Opera house in Cardiff Bay, was nixed in 1994 amid political and economic concerns. More recently, an opera house that Hadid designed for Dubai and a theater for Abu Dhabi have been put on hold due to the global credit crisis.
The fire in Guangzhou is the second this year to afflict a foreign-designed building under construction in China. In February, on the final day of China's New Year's festival, a blaze ignited by fireworks engulfed Beijing's Television Cultural Center (TVCC), a building containing a hotel and theater designed by Rem Koolhaas's OMA as part of its headquarters for China Central Television.
Although the TVCC building was near completion, fire suppression systems were not enabled at the time of the fire. An investigation determined that the building did not suffer heavy structural damage.
On Internet message boards, citizens have pondered the ominous symbolism of the fire, and raised questions about building safety in China. To add to the debate, the government recently confirmed that the collapse of school buildings last year during the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan province resulted in the deaths of more than 5,300 children.
Correction: The complex is 753,000 square feet, not 750,000 square meters as originally stated.
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When Beverly Connelly D03 first stepped into New Orleans Phillips United Methodist Church in early December, she thought flames, rather than flood, had ravaged it.
Soot-like black mold covered the sanctuary walls, pews, hymnals, choir robes, Bibles, even her husbands preaching robes.
"The doors got so wet that they had burstjust split wide open," says Connelly. Waterlogged pews lay upside down or on end, as if thrown like sticks from above.
It was, says Connelly, a "very sad sight."
The Connelly familyBeverly, her husband, Joe, who pastored Phillips and another New Orleans church, and their daughterhad evacuated well ahead of Katrina. Following a morning meeting with Louisiana Bishop William W. Hutchinson on Saturday, Aug. 27, in Baton Rouge, the Connellys returned to their rental home in Kenner, 10 miles from downtown New Orleans and home of the citys international airport. They and a group of church members and friends had decided to caravan to Wylie, Texas, where Beverly has family.
Beverlys sister quickly secured as many hotel rooms as she could find for her brother-in-laws parishioners. With their group safe in Wylie, the Connellys hosted a barbeque on Sunday evening. Katrina seemed very far away.
But on Monday, as the media reported Katrinas trail of devastation and death, "We were all in shock," says Beverly. The following day, a relative of one of their parishioners had a fatal heart attack. "There was a sense of panic," says Beverly. "We had nowhere to send his body. Finally, one of his children living in another state had his body flown there."
Her sisters church provided an evening meal for evacuees at the hotel every day for two weeks. "We fed up to 60 people each night, although only 22 were with our group," says Beverly.
Beverly, who has served as a hospital chaplain at East Jefferson General Hospital, and then at Lindy Boggs Medical Center, had just begun a new position in an elder care center with Catholic Charities. She was in the middle of staff orientation when the Katrina evacuation was ordered.
Once she realized that they would not be able to return home, Beverly worried about finding a new school for their daughter, who had been an honor roll student and dance team member at her junior high in Kenner, La.
"But she has adjusted much better than we have in many ways," says Beverly. "I grew up in Texas, so it is not like a foreign land to me. I just hate the fact that we were not able to say a proper and prepared good-bye to our lives in Louisiana. I still find myself grieving for the lives that we lost so abruptly."
One of her former co-workers from Lindy Boggs is still listed as missing, and the Connellys have lost contact with many people they love.
While at times the grief has felt overwhelming, there have been miraculous stories as well.
"One of our church members, who stayed in New Orleans with three grandchildren ages 2 months, 4 and 7, waited days to be rescued. She had no lights or other power; but her home phone worked. No other phones with (504) area code worked.
"But my husband's phone could get through to her and she could get through to him. This was true until the day she was rescued. I was sharing this testimony with a Sunday School group at Wylie UMC, when Peggy herself walked through the doors of the church. Joe was preaching there that Sunday and she came to hear him. So, she was able to tell her testimony for herself."
She has learned that one can lose a lot, perhaps everything, and still gain so much else, says Beverly. "In fact, one gains the things that count ... friendships, faith and a sense that We are all in this together! People helping people is the greatest example of Christ's love that I know."


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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sailing Into 2010 with Some Pulp Covers
I'm planning on 2010 to be a fantastic year, starting out with a trip to England in the next couple of months. I may be buying my ticket today. And to celebrate, I'm posting some pulp covers of one of my favorite symbols of travel: ships. I don't know if all of you know this, but I used to scuba dive quite a bit - was a instructor for a while - but that's another post. So ships, boats, catamarans, cruisers, sailboats, even six-packs and Zodiacs all bring back fond memories.
Now let's push off the dock and sail into 2010.
All Story, December 1905
Adventure, April 18, 1918
Argosy All Story Weekly, May 6, 1922
Sea Stories, November 20, 1922
Sea Stories, September 1924
Argosy All Story Weekly, November 8, 1924
Adventure, August 23, 1926.
Sea Stories, November 1926
Sea Stories, June 1929
Science Wonder Stories, July 1929
Argosy, September 20, 1930
Blue Book, March 1933
Blue Book, April 1936
Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1945
Railroad, September 1945
Dime Detective, April 1950
10 comments:
- ARCHAVIST said...
You're coming to the UK, I'm going to the States - we'll cross in the air.
- December 31, 2009 at 7:48 AM
- Walker Martin said...
I just finished watching Billy Budd, the 1962 film starring Robert Ryan and Terrence Stamp. Then a couple minutes later I see you have several nice covers showing ships and the sea. I'm glad you picked 4 covers from Sea Stories, an unjustly forgotten pulp which lasted 118 issues during the 1922-1930 period. Somehow over an almost 40 year period, I've managed to get 112 of the issues.
The interesting thing about Sea Stories is that it was obviously aimed at the adult male and sailor. The covers are always well done and the long letter column is full of letters from sailors and officers who sailed under both steam and sail.
An optimistic start for 2010. Happy New Year. - December 31, 2009 at 7:53 AM
- Laurie said...
Archavist, with any luck we'll miss each other. Just kidding.
Walker, I'm glad you wrote about Sea Stories. I was wondering how popular it was and the quality of the stories. I wouldn't mind getting a few of these - how hard are they to acquire I wonder. - December 31, 2009 at 8:01 AM
- Walker Martin said...
Laurie, Sea Stories are not easy to find since all the 1920's magazines are getting rarer and rarer. Not many people collect it but you usually can spot a few issues at Windy City or PulpFest.
- December 31, 2009 at 9:18 AM
- Melissa Marsh said...
Oooh, I'm so excited for you! I went to England by myself in October 2008 and had a BLAST. Enjoy!!! (if you need any pointers, let me know...)
- December 31, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- Charles Gramlich said...
I love sailing ships. I don't know why, since I have no experience with them at all, but something about it fires my imagination. Maybe in a past life I was a sailor!
- December 31, 2009 at 10:46 AM
- Laurie said...
Walker, hopefully I'll pick up a few when I get to PulpFest. Maybe I should start my wish list now..
Melissa - let's see...how fast can I email you?! Woops, I just did. Too bad we couldn't go together - what fun we would have.
Charles, me too. There's just something that's very calming about being out on the sea (and under it, too.) - December 31, 2009 at 10:57 AM
- Barry Traylor said...
I see you included an Argosy All Story Weekly with A. Merritt's The Ship of Ishtar. I loved this yarn when first I read it. Great story!
- December 31, 2009 at 4:52 PM
- Evan Lewis said...
Nice. I have that Dime Detective and I want those Sea Stories.
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Indoor Hot Tub
What are your thoughts on purchasing a pre-existing home with a room containing an indoor hot tub. What do I need to look for--amount and type of ventilation, etc....to ensure that this is not just a room that has filled the house with mold. Thanks for any feedback!
I owned a house with an indoor hot tub. It was built into a slate floor of a room that was about 13 x 13, off the master bath/closet area. It then opened onto a back screened-in porch. This was in Florida. The room could be completely closed off through a pocket door, and the hot tub had a cover that was always on unless we were in it/servicing it or unless it was empty. You could access the belly (bottom) of the tub through a utility/storage room underneath.
There was no mold problem at all. We just kept up with the chemicals. There *was* a chemical/pool smell if we were using it a lot and not keeping the pocket door closed, but only in the master bath (not even into the bedroom itself really). No special ventilation.
The best and only thing to do, in my mind, is to have a mold inspection clause in your contingencies...and hire a mold inspection company to come in and take a few air samples and test it. It isn't done on a normal home inspection. But, you can add it to your contingencies and hire it separate. It takes a few days to get results back.
My sister bought a house with a hot tub room and they had to tear out the floor and ceilings because of mold. So, I second the advice to get it checked out before purchase. Also, take a hard look at the windows in that room, because the extra humid air would probably lead to condensation on the glass which could rot out the frames.
Thanks for responses, I would be inclined to gut the room after purchase but I'm scared at what I would find....the mold contingency is a great idea--if they do find mold do any of you have any idea--is it something that would affect the whole house air quality or just that room/damaged areas. I'm thinking if one room in the house is infested with mold that those spores are in the whole house right?
"There was no mold problem at all. We just kept up with the chemicals."
The chemicals in the pool do not help with mold growth from the high moisture content produced in the structure around the pool.
For the most part the the water that evaporates and then deposits has been 'distilled' and is pretty clean, it just makes things wet.
Like I said - no mold problem at all. None. Whatsoever. I will say there is condition loosely known as hot tub lung that can cause respiratory problems for people who have had prolonged exposure to hot tubs. That did not happen to us, but I was aware of it and we were very careful to only run the tub when we were using it or to circulate things. When we found ourselves not using it for an extended period, we drained it and cleaned it out. If it just sits there as a tub of water and is not leaking/left bubbling away all the time, hot and open/what have you, it's not going to cause a mold problem. The house it was in was a complete custom build by the developer of the neighborhood, and there really were no problems other than when we had a pipe leak in the hot tub equipment room (for lack of a better term) underneath. Once that happened, we had a plumber create a custom containment system for any pipes that might leak in the future, with a vent to the outside to prevent disaster in case we weren't home or didn't notice what was going on. I think there is a potential for problems, but if you do the things you are supposed to do and don't do the things you're not supposed to do, you'll be fine, providing the room is well designed for the hot tub. This house was in Central Florida, so humidity and bathroom mold were issues if not dealt with, obviously.
I'm sure there are lots of scenarios that could cause disaster, but it's not like an indoor hot tub = automatic mold problem. I lived it for 5+ years and the house was 15 years old when we bought it. I would encourage you to look into the hot tub lung -- that is something that concerned us and we were very careful as a result.
To answer the question about mold remediation--
Yes, if there are spores in one room, it affects the whole house. The whole house must be thoroughly cleaned (after the mold/source is torn out). A mold remediation company will do this professionally, then take air samples for testing again, etc, until the samples came back clear. For a friend of mine (who did not have a hot tub in the house, just a small water leak in a wall), that took 3 rounds of "clean up" once the source was found, resolved, and repaired, before her air quality was fine.
Has anyone ever had an indoor hot tub and gutted the room? How much of a nightmare would it be to tear out? This particular home has tiled walls with a wood deck around the hot tub. I'm guessing like anything it could go ok or it could go terribly wrong.
"Like I said - no mold problem at all. None. Whatsoever."
You have no ideas unless you opened walls and sealed areas and looked in them, looked on the back of the ceiling from an attic or other access, pulled any access panels on the tub and looked in the concealed areas, etc.
You are just guessing.
Nope, I really actually do know--it's one of the things that was thoroughly checked both when we moved in and when we left (we also did some minor reno in there), plus the access panel thing is moot because there were literally no concealed areas. It's so funny to me how people on the internet are experts on other people's houses and circumstances, even though they have never seen them.
At any rate, it sounds like the hot tub would be potentially torn out from what the original poster is planning/contemplating. That's probably not the worst idea in the world. We enjoyed the hot tub room but honestly it was more of a waste of a good space than it was a positive feature after the novelty wore off. I would think gutting the room would not be too terribly different from any room gut except that if the tub is sunk into the floor you will have to deal with floor joist issues. At one point we were going to remove ours and there was a lot of talk of "sistering the joists," but we ultimately sold it with the hot tub intact (and it is still there to this day because the house was for sale again recently).
If you don't see/smell mold on the walls/ceilings, there's a decent chance there isn't any, but if you are going to gut the room down to the studs then I guess you will know for sure. I wouldn't do that just based on fear of mold, though. You can also do moisture tests or just test a small interior area rather than looking for an elusive, possibly not present, mold spore.


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So think about that while you criticize our policy here in the US. Does Japan have a right to enforce their policy? Yes, of course they do!
What's your point? Japan's task of enforcing their immigration laws is about a million times easier than ours. In case you hadn't noticed, Japan shares no land borders with any other country. Japan also has much less open/developable space than we do. Finally, Japan lacks a sizable minority population that, as a voting bloc, is pretty much able to keep politicians from passing draconian immigration laws due to fear of a backlash at the polls.
PR, you, too, can have the same type of thing right here in the USA...all you have to do is change our current system of governing to a Parliamentary government with a constitutional monarch. You know the kind - a government in which members of an executive branch (the cabinet and its leader - a prime minister, premier, or chancellor) are nominated to their positions by a legislature or parliament, and are directly responsible to it; this type of government can be dissolved at will by the parliament (legislature) by means of a no confidence vote or the leader of the cabinet may dissolve the parliament if it can no longer function. Just what you're looking for, right? Instead of a president we elect, we get a king - and not much say so in any of it. Oh - and by the way, Japan also has socialized medicine - and participation is compulsory. Japan Government type - Government
That entire post had nothing to do with anything he posted...nice try at dodging the discussion though
People forget that immigration is what made this country great. Our scientists, workers, business owners ... foreigners who had a dream. yes ... we import some deadwood but we also import greatness. for better or worse we are a country of immigrants and we always will be. We have no defining culture or religion. Being American means many things to many different people based on where they came from ... or ancestors came from. We don't have a dominant people or a dominant religion ... and look at the problems of the countries that do. We must continue to be America ... the land of everyone. We are weathering the world's problems as well or better than others ... immigration is not a problem for us ... illegal immigration needs to get controlled but that's a divergent topic.
Italy would beg to differ about land borders and illegal immigration. Simply put, run a welfare state, and a coddling structure, and you'll get a massive invasion of illegal aliens.
Are we Japan??? If Japan jumps off a bridge are you going too? LEAD BY EXAMPLE Who cares what others do.........
The topic of this thread is "Immigration policy"...nothing else. So in keeping with the topic, the United States has LAWS regarding immigration. We do not have (nor will we ever in our lifetime) have an open-border policy. So THE question is, why don't we enforce our laws? It is unconstitutional NOT to enforce them. Should we enforce them is another important question. Look, I do not support a zero immigration policy...I do support enforcement of our current laws.
No, I agree that we are a country of immigrants. But this thread IS in fact about controlling ILLEGAL immigration. I never stated that I'm against immigration...I fully support LEGAL immigration.
EXACTLY BOISE....and the example we should be setting is that we have a very generous immigration policy, AND we enforce our immigration laws.


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- Posted by Johanna on April 2, 2011 at 5:45 pm
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My buddy Jane Irwin, best-known for the two Vogelein graphic novels about a mechanical fairy, launched Clockwork Game: The Illustrious Career of a Chess-Playing Automaton in March 2008. It's really a graphic novel, serialized online with a page every Thursday.
However, a year later, she reconsidered, first announcing the strip's ending, then making it a hiatus. Now, the wait is over! The strip is back.
Jane will be posting multiple pages until she's caught back up to when the comic went on break, at which point she'll return to a page-a-week update schedule. (She estimates that'll be about three months from now.) If you read it before, you may want to reread, because she's made some edits and additions, including the new six-page prologue that she's started with.
I've taken this nifty elephant from page 2, setting the stage for the story, since it turns out to be a clever mechanical clock.
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5 years experience with audits. Tax
experience a plus. Benefits."
It's amazing how much recruiting advertising is as sparse as that, seeking accounting professionals with the same limited imagination that a storekeeper might use to hire someone to sweep the floor.
No wonder recruiting is such a problem for accounting firms and finance departments.
In these days of acute shortages of trained and experienced professional personnel, in an era of intensive competition between firms for superior personnel, it's startling to see recruiting techniques that may have worked in the depression years, but are certainly not up to the needs of today's accounting firms.
Of all the competitive points faced today by accounting firms, perhaps the most urgent is recruiting. With the explosion of work caused by new regulation, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, with the shortage of much needed skilled professionals, especially those versed in new regulations and technologies, with the competition for this kind of talent most urgently needed in smaller communities and particularly in smaller firms, with greater demands from an increasingly sophisticated clientele, new views of recruiting become a major concern.
"CPA wanted…" just won't cut it anymore.
The root of the difficulty in recruiting competitively may well lie not just in traditional recruiting advertising, but in the nature of the traditional accounting firm itself. In all of advertising, the best advertising and promotion won't long sell the second-rate product, nor will the poorly run accounting firm be sold by the best recruiting advertising.
Maybe, then, the structure and management of the smaller and mid-sized firms themselves must be reexamined. Maybe the nature of the profession today should be looked at in the light of the traditional accounting firm structure. And maybe, the structure of the contemporary accounting firm, and the way in which it's managed, must change.
The evidence that leads to this postulate is abundantly clear. Much of it may be seen from a view of a series of surveys taken recently by Bay Street Group LLC. These surveys give us a goldmine of answers, and a strong hint of how to use the information.
For example, a survey on what people like or dislike about their jobs shows that of 461 respondents (49% from public accounting and 36% from business or industry), 53% complain of work overload. Another 36% complain about pay, and 34% feel they don't get sufficient recognition for their efforts.
In another survey, with 378 respondents, 40% report that they could be persuaded to consider a new job, and only 11% said"…they love it here".
A survey with 587 respondents, asked if they were excited about going to work in the morning, reported that 56% said yes, but 44% said no. Asked if they clearly understood what their bosses or clients expected of them, 68% said yes, but a remarkable 32% said no. Less than half -– 45% -- reported a proper work/personal balance in their lives, and 55% said no.
In the face of these responses, there is a paradox in that job benefits, which can be generous, seem not to cancel out the discontents reported in the other surveys.
In a survey of 1,921 accountants and staff about what job benefits matter most, 96% reported that paid vacations were among the most important – but 97% reported they already have them. 96% reported that health insurance was important – and 94% already have it. (95% said that pension plans (401k) mattered – but 91% already have them. Asked how they feel about changing jobs, only 29% were not interested, with the remainder seriously looking or could be persuaded.
The discontent, then, doesn't come from job benefits. Nor are job benefits, apparently, a significant recruiting tool.
Where, then, lies the problem? Based upon the survey information, it seems to stem from three problems –
the nature of the accountant's working conditions,
the failure to recognize and accommodate to the changing nature of the clientele and its changing needs, and perhaps
the nature of accounting itself.
Nor is the problem just in the recruiting advertising, but in the firm seeking the recruits.
While the nature of a vast amount of work done by public accountants can appear to outsiders to be dull and mundane, the work itself attracts people who are fascinated by it. Even in an era of high tech, there are aspects of accounting that can't be mechanized. Certain audit procedures, for example, may be enhanced by computers, but decisions must still be made by the meticulous efforts of the trained accountant. Computers and outsourcing may mechanize tax returns, but not all tax returns can be done without some expertise and decision making by a tax professional.
Not every aspect of the accountant's job is so routine that it isn't offset by other aspects that require skills, expertise, and experience. The problem doesn't lie here.
On the other hand, the environment and structure of the traditional accounting firm (and perhaps the traditional accounting department in a corporation) not only breeds discontent in a vast number of accounting firm personnel, but certainly paints no attractive picture to prospective recruits. Nor can advertising (or any other cosmetic change) overcome the reality.
Look at the surveys. They show that discontent lies in these areas…
Work overload
Exciting work
Internal communications
…all of which are functions of management skills.
Part of the problem may reside in the traditional entrepreneurial approach to running a business, exacerbated by the partnership structure. "I own the company and we'll do it my way." Or, "I'm a partner, which gives me the authority to exert my will and whim." What accountant in his or her early years hasn't heard that?
The problem is that in today's economic environment, in which better people, to do more complex tasks, are sorely needed, the old paradigm of small or medium firm authoritarian management doesn't work well anymore.
Consider this. In a well-run corporation, the likelihood is that senior management is well trained in management skills. Today's leaders, furthermore, have usually worked their ways up the management ladder, learning and practicing different management skills along the way. Those that usually reach the pinnacle of management have all this, and something more – an instinct and intuition about people, about corporate vision, about the marketplace – none of which would be useful without a basic training in management and communications skills. Where are those skills in even the entrepreneurial firm owner or managing partner?
Can management skills be learned? Yes, says no less authority than Peter Drucker. And to be successful in today's competitive environment, they must be learned. There are book and courses and seminars readily available for every firm manager, and they should be sought after and used.
A trained manager of even the smallest firm can make the firm attractive to prospective recruits.
Looking at the points raised by the respondents to the surveys, we see some great possibilities….
1. Work overload
This is a function of two factors – lack of organization of projects, and insensitivity on the part of managers who may themselves be workaholics, but don't see the disastrous results of demanding that malady of others. Organization of work flow, however, is a learnable management skill. Learn it. There are good consultants to help with organizations, if that's what's needed.
2. Compensation
A great deal is known today about compensation plans for professional employees. Obviously, this is an important factor in recruiting. It behooves managers to examine the growing number of alternative compensation plans with an open mind, and to be prepared to depart from traditional methods in order to entice the better employees.
3. Recognition
This is a problem for the old-fashioned CPA who grew up in a firm that considered decent wages and benefits recognition enough. No more. Professionals take pride in their work, and want to be recognized for it. In fact, it would seem from surveys that recognition is at least as important as compensation, and perhaps more so.
Two things make it easier to recognize professional staff today – giving good people more responsibility, and citing them in promotional material, such as advertising, brochures, and web sites.
4. Exciting work
Let's face it – a great deal of accounting is not, of itself, exciting. But it can be made more so by giving people opportunity to expand responsibilities. The growing trend towards service teams allows people of different experience and expertise to work together, to learn from one another, and to share responsibilities. It gives professionals an opportunity to expand their horizons, and to be innovative. It's certainly worth doing, and it certainly makes working for your firm most attractive.
5. Balance
In a buyer's market for accounting positions, the firm that can offer better balance between work and family will win out every time. How? One way, of course, is by improving organization of work. Second is by looking at alternative work plans, such as flex time and off-site opportunities. In today's technological world, much of accounting can be done at home. The good manager today recognizes the value of the balanced life for employees.
6. Internal communications
If there is one last great lesson that many entrepreneurial managers, and managers of all size firms, must learn, it is that employees who know only part of the firm's work plan cease to be participants in the firm's growth. They become isolated, and even drones. Who would want to work for a firm like that? What kind of talented professional would long accept that?
Today, there are a vast number of internal communications techniques that not only work well, but have a great return on investment, measured in enthusiastic and innovative employees, loyalty, and a spirit of support for the firm's own business objectives. You give up nothing by sharing information, and you gain a great deal. You can start by asking your partners and staff to tell you the kinds of things they need to know in order to function better.
7. Expectations
The old-fashioned employer expected employees only to do as they were told. Try that today, and watch your staff fade off into the distance, and prospective recruits to fade into the sunset. And clients soon follow.
Every employee, on every level, both professional and staff, is entitled to know the firm's objectives, the client's objectives, and the quality of work expected of him or her. Nobody wants to work for a firm in which each day and each task is part of a guessing game, or holds hidden surprises.
8. Technology
Technology became a major factor in doing business in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At first, many accounting firms resisted, seeing computers and the like as frivolous and expensive. But then the technology revolution exploded. If the clients had computers and word processing, then the firm, however reluctantly, had to have it as well. As the technology proliferated, it became a necessity, and a significant contributor to a firm's daily business. Still, there are smaller firms who lag.
But can you imagine recruiting for a firm that doesn't have its own web site? That's the first place that recruits go to for information on a prospective employer.
Can you imagine a firm that doesn't send its staff out to clients without a cell phone? Or a Bluetooth PDA? How does a firm like that expect to get and keep employees, much less clients?
9. Relevance to changing client needs
There are two kinds of accounting firms today – those that see themselves as serving their own professionalism, and those that see the client – not the profession – as being at the core of the practice. It is the latter that succeeds as a firm, and succeeds in attracting the best talent.
Employee satisfaction, as the modern professional firm manager well knows, is not a fringe benefit – it's an investment.
It pays off in terms of increased innovation and contribution by employees. In recruiting, the firm with satisfied employees is a honey pot to recruits. And a lesson to be learned is that the acoustics of the profession are magnificent. Everybody in every firm knows the working conditions of every other firm.
Given a firm structured for recruiting, and beyond the word of mouth that invariably exits in every profession. How is recruiting enhanced?
First, in recruiting, see the process as functioning in a buyer's market for the best talent. The best firms attract the best people – not by benefits, nor salary alone, but in terms of a well-managed firm, recognition, opportunity to do interesting and innovative work, and a chance for the individual to excel in a well-balanced life.
Second, the firm should be marketed to the prospect. As in all marketing, this means …
1. Understanding your market
Know what the talent is out there. Understand what today's recruit wants. It's rarely a secret. Read and listen. Look at the surveys cited earlier. Ultimately, in recruiting, you're going to sell to your market's needs.
2. Understand your firm
See your firm as a recruit will see it. Think of not what you do – that's no mystery – but how you do it. Are you a well-managed firm? Is there a benefit (not just benefits) to being part of your firm? Is there opportunity for leadership? Are your goals and expectations clear and realistic? Have you really created a positive work place?
3. Know your marketing tools
There are a finite number of marketing tools. Learn them, and understand how each is used. The classic help wanted ad is only marginally useful in today's competitive talent pool. Think in terms of display advertising. Primary today is the web site, without which you have virtually no chance to attract the best candidates.
See your other marketing tools – your brochures, your individual practice blogs, your seminars, and so forth – as recruiting tools. They demonstrate to the profession, as well as to prospective clients, that you are a good, progressive, modern, and caring firm. That's the bait to catch the good ones.
And a good recruiting campaign speaks to the clients and prospective clients, as well. It does double duty.
4. Manage the tools
Think of your recruiting campaign as a marketing effort. Write your recruiting message in terms of the recruit, and not the firm's needs. "If you want to grow as a professional, see us. We're a growing firm, and you can grow as you help us grow."
Use individuals in your firm in your advertising and promotion as spokespeople who might say, "In just the two years I've been with Smith & Dale my skills – including client relations – have doubled. I appreciate that opportunity, my firm appreciates what I've learned, and you can do that too. Come talk to us, if you want to grow." That gets 'em every time. (By the way, statements like this had better be true. If they're not, the word about you will spread like wildfire – and there goes your recruiting effort.)
Learn to improve your interviewing skills. A good interview is not an inquisition, it's a controlled conversation to asses the measure of a person, and for the interviewee to measure you and your firm as well. The résumé tells the bare bones of experience and training, but it's just a starting point of an understanding. Learn how to do it. There are books and articles and courses.
The profession is changing rapidly. Competition is keener than ever before, and the profession is growing faster than the talent pool. "CPA wanted. At least 5 years experience with audits. Tax experience a plus. Benefits." won't work anymore.
Being a firm that's well-managed, and relevant to the needs of its clientele – and offering the opportunity to participate and grow with that kind of firm, will attract the best of the profession.
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My hubby is is a farmer, so I think I can help you out. The combine has an auger on it so that when its hopper is full, it can be swung out over the truck and the grain auger into the truck. Then the truck is taken to a silo or to a plant where it is dumped out a trap door in the back and lifted into a huge wash tub kind of thing, but I don't know the name.
The auger is down in the washtub thingy and carries the grain up the auger into the silo or bin. The auger has to carry it up to the top to dump it in. because if you were trying to get it in any other way, grain would come out as you opened any other door.
There is a hatch at the top of the silo that the farmer climb up and opens to accept grain. Why don't you look at some pictures on the internet? Look for farm magazines online, etc. It would show you pictures of the different steps, I'm sure.


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By: RyanMiano on May 5, 2005 - 2:30pm - Add new comment
What a week it's been here in happy, and sometimes not-so-happy, Bluffton Blogland.
Anyone who is new to this community could read a days worth of Bluffton's community blogs and have a good idea about the character and personality of this town.
We've experienced everything from a tremendous outpouring of community support for the families and friends who lost their loved one's in that horrible car wreck, to folks bickering about the girls lacrosse team.
The spectrum of community interest and participation has been nothing short of spectacular.
Sometimes I get complaints from people
By: RyanMiano on May 9, 2005 - 4:14pm - Add new comment
There is nothing more irritating than people using blogs as a means of attacking others.
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Our education reporter, Sara Wright, asked me to post these questions she came up with for our Bluffton high school kids. Hopefully, this will give ya'll something else to think about other than girls lacrosse.
Class of 2005 – Are you ready for fame and fortune?
Bluffton Today wants to know what you think of high school and how you plan to conquer the future. Send us up to 150 words and we'll print your stories in our graduation issue.
By: RyanMiano on May 12, 2005 - 12:48pm - Add new comment
Today in USA Today there was an interesting article about our troops doing remote blogs from Iraq and other parts of the world.
Do we have any local folks who have military friends or family overseas who could contribute to a daily/weekly/monthly blog here at Bluffton Today.
I would love to see this community rally around our local troops overseas, and likewise, get a first hand account of what our local military men and women are doing on a daily basis.
If someone overseas has Internet access and could blog with us here in Bluffton, I'm sure it would be beneficial to all involved.
By: RyanMiano on May 17, 2005 - 10:46am - Add new comment
Does anyone know of a good product for fixing a small crack in the windshield? I caught a pebble on I-95 this morning and wanted to fix the chip before it spreads.
Thanks- Ryan
By: RyanMiano on May 23, 2005 - 7:19pm - Add new comment
This site blends blogs and news, but not really...
Blogs are blogs and news is news, but sometimes the two overlap. Blogs have become a "non-traditional" means of generating leads, gathering news and disseminating information.
From a news standpoint, Blufftontoday.com is dedicated to lending credibility to newsworthy items that appear on our blogs.
By: RyanMiano on June 1, 2005 - 2:56pm - Add new comment
Here's a quick overview of what's happening online at Bluffton Today:
1. Reverse publishing... This is at the heart of 'community journalism' and basically means that the topics you discuss online (either anonymously or as yourself) can find their way into the printed paper. No training necessary, just speak your mind and let us do the follow-up reporting...
2. Spotted.
By: RyanMiano on June 2, 2005 - 2:18pm - Add new comment
We had a great string of blogs going about the "outing" of Deep Throat and politics in general, and the originator of the blog, David, deleted the entire string.
Luckily I was able to read Wiley's post before it was deleted, and it jarred an oft forgotten fact about our form of government. We indeed live in a Constitutional Republic and not a true Democracy.
As Wiley, and many of our founding father's pointed out, a true democracy is a form of tyranny because the 51% in essence could "bully" the other 49%.
By: RyanMiano on June 3, 2005 - 2:58pm - Add new comment
I just wanted to give a quick thank you to the regular bloggers here at Blufftontoday.com, your input and information has been top notch, and always seasoned with salt:)
Growinggrass has shared some great lawncare knowledge (you've got some great pics in your gallery as well). Franktalk is a local professional counselor and has offered some wondeful and unbiased advice in our forums (free of charge). WileyCoyote offers a wealth of information on many topics and I love the candid nature of your posts. Threenotrump is our local insider into the happenings at USCB among other things. Katie
By: RyanMiano on June 6, 2005 - 2:59pm - Add new comment
Is anyone familiar with "jowling"? This new phenomenon is sweeping the country:)


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Ingenuity has always been an important commodity in North and South Dakota. Harold Gleason of Tolna, ND, and Ray Janisch of Lake City, SD, used their design and welding skills to develop unique rakes that meet their individual haying needs.
"I usually put up about 800 round bales each year," Janisch says. "I used two Vicon rakes, one behind the other, to make the work go faster. I decided it would be even better to put four rakes together."
Janisch owns 900 acres and raises 70 stock cows. Because he puts up ditch hay, he needs a flexible rake that works quickly in smooth hayfields and effectively in ditches. His 44'-wide wheel rake folds down hydraulically to 18'. A cart welded in the middle pulls the two back rakes. Original wheels with worn-out bearings were replaced with car wheels. He invested approximately $2,000 in the rake.
"I can rake about 35 acres in 90 minutes," Janisch says.
Gleason, who produces hay and several other crops on more than 1,000 acres, was primarily interested in bringing windrows together to make baling more efficient. His 42' bar rake, made with four 9'6" New Holland Rolabar rakes, combines the baskets and wheels from two model 260 right-hand rakes and two 258 left-hand models. Initially, he retained the ground drives but has since installed hydraulic motors on the two front rakes so he can turn tighter corners.
"I can turn on a dime now. I never figured out the cost, but it was probably between $8,500 and $9,000."
Axles on Gleason's rakes were shortened to approximately 2' and then attached, along with the baskets, to two new 3 × 6" rectangular tube frames. Each frame carries two of the rake baskets. The two arms meet in the center at the point where the 32.5' × 5"-square tube tongue and transit wheels from an old John Deere disk are mounted.
The center frame doesn't bear any weight but stabilizes the 5 × 5" tube and keeps it from twisting on turns. A 3"-wide steel strap that runs the length of the underside of the tube adds to the rake's stability. Truss blocks and kinks in the strap to make it lay flat also strengthened it.
A 6' hydraulic cylinder controls the rake as it works with scissor-like motion and closes it down to 13.5' for transport.
"You might expect problems if you come to a heavy patch of hay," Gleason says, "but you can narrow the width pretty quickly so you can handle it."
Gleason and his brother, Robert, also combined two 9' sicklebar mowers to reduce the amount of time spent cutting hay. While there is at least one similar commercial model available, Harold was never satisfied with the gear assembly on the one he bought.
"For three years I used one that came from a Nebraska manufacturer, but the gear boxes were kind of clumsy and I kept having trouble with them," he says. "That's why I figured out how to take two 9' New Holland mowers and make one that has an 18' cut. I eliminated one of the drive shafts and this one runs on a V-belt drive. For all the equipment we've developed, I usually come up with the ideas and Robert does the modifying and welding."


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Let me say I had never experienced in real life any form of BDSM, other than self bondage and dressing in my lingerie, behind closed doors of my home.
So, you can imagine how nervous I was on arrival.
The establishment was a hive of activity, with the sounds of Mistress inflicting various forms of punishment and torture to the slaves.
Slave M, assisted me to dress in my stockings, corset, g-string and mini skirt, then took my hand to introduce me to Mistress Tara and the other Mistresses.
Well, in the dungeon there was this poor slave on his hands and knees in some discomfort and pain, as Mistress Tara and attached her 'Humbler' to his balls, this continually inflected a painful reminder to him each time he moved as to whom he belonged to.
In the other side of the dungeon another Mistress was 'exploring' a slave's anal passage, much delight to the Mistress and moans on the slave.
I knelt before Mistress Tara, and she spoke of me enjoying my 'virgin day' and to give myself to her, as I will be in 'good hands', if you know what I mean.
I firstly felt the 'pain and pleasure' of nipple clamps with Mistress torturing my now painful nipples.
However, the best as Mistress Tara was to say was to come, as Mistress went about applying cock and ball torture to me in a most skilful manner.
I felt periods of pain and pleasure, demonstrated to me how skilful Mistress Tara was.
After a period, Mistress decided to display me with my torture device attached to the other Mistresses and slaves whom were present. This was very exciting. With a Mistress saying 'Oh, another play thing for me'.
I was then delivered to another Mistress, for the pleasure of the Mistress.
Here I was placed in different positions of bondage, where depending on the bondage position, I was punished by means of a whip and hand spanking, this was for me both painful and pleasurable as the Mistress knew how to take me across the fine line of pleasure and pain and back again.
At one stage I was blindfolded and all sound denied to me, I could feel the hands of another Mistress as it now seemed another Mistress was having her pleasure with me. Was I now that Mistress 'play thing' I will never know but I did thank Mistress?
I was a slave for two hours and I mentioned to Mistress Tara on leaving, that my fantasies were fulfilled. I will be making an appointment for a 'one-on-one' session with Mistress Tara, for her to take me well beyond what I feel is my limits.
Mistress Tara skills and slave day are NOT to be missed.
Thank you Mistress Tara, other Mistresses and Slave M for now I am not a BDSM virgin.
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Listen To Lana Del Rey's Unreleased Tracks 'Lift Your Eyes' & 'Ride Or Die' [AUDIO]
Lana Del Rey's lovelife has been on the radar more than her music lately, but today's scoop included demos of her unreleased tracks "Lift Your Eyes" and "Ride or Die." It is unsaid to whether or not these tunes were ever meant to see the light of day.
Feast your ears on "Lift Your Eyes," a tune that resembles work of Britney Spears and Madonna with its eerie dubstep background mixed with electro. "[You] should have let me know I would lose you to the drink." Did we mention it contains a ton of synthesizer?
Lana Del Rey Poses As A Sexy Pin-Up Girl For Vogue UK [PHOTOS]
"Ride or Die," however, captures a Ke$ha au Paris Hilton essence with a bit of scattered vocals and we can't help but look for more levels in Lana's voice. This song features more lyrics on drinking alcohol than her last demo. "I have left my mark on you / There's nothing you can do." Sounding a bit territorial there, Lana!
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i made the decision to transition to male.
but i can't tell my dad yet because i'm pretty sure it would destroy him...
I dunno whether I'm supposed to say good for you or that sucks here... cuz both make sense. :P
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Good for you! But that sucks about your dad. :/
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No really though, I mean both. ^^
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This scholarship is for students who have full-time enrollment status in a Illinois college or university. Applicants must be in at least their first year of undergraduate studies or graduate program. To qualify for this scholarship, applicants must be pursuing a degree in one of the following areas or related fields: music, music education, African-American studies, folklore, performing arts, arts management, journalism, or radio/TV/film music composers/songwriters, artist legal rights, or studio recording engineers. The scholarship award will be made on a competitive basis with consideration given to scholastic achievement, concentration of studies, and financial need. Special consideration will be given to applicants demonstrating need for financial assistance.
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Dr. Seuss' Lorax may "speak for the trees," but there are plenty of other environmental issues with authors and literary characters on their side, as well.
The world's top authors and illustrators who emphasize environmental stewardship in books for children and young adults recently gathered at Salisbury University during the Newton Marasco Foundation's Green Earth Book Awards ceremony, held in connection with SU's annual Children's Literature Festival. The authors and illustrators, including 2008 winners Jean Davies Okimoto, Jeremiah Trammell, O.R. Melling, Laurie David and Cambria Gordon, signed books for SU students, faculty and local children during a festive environmental community fair leading up to the awards presentation.
Authors and illustrators received their awards before a full house which included keynote speaker Phillip Hoose, author of the acclaimed children's book Hey, Little Ant. Award winners receive $2,500 plus $500 for the environmental organization of their choice. This year's recipients included Polar Bears International, Ireland's Golden Eagle Reintroduction Project and stopglobalwarming.org.
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Since 2005, the Newton Marasco Foundation has honored nine "Green Earth" books, awarding $22,500 to 29 authors and contributing $4,500 to environmental charities in the authors' names.


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