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Sarasota PD: Puppy recovering after hot sauce poured on it
SARASOTA, Fla. (970 WFLA) – Police said a Sarasota man is behind bars after they say his girlfriend told officers he poured hot sauce all over a 3-month old puppy.
When officers arrived to the scene early Sunday morning, police said they met with the homeowner who told them her boyfriend, Ephrian Myles, 47, poured hot sauce all over her 3-month old Dachshund/Chihuahua mix, named Gizmo.
Police said the homeowner told officers the puppy has a medical history of seizures. The puppy suffered another seizure, police said, and started making a yelping noise. According to the homeowner, police said Myles became annoyed with the yelping, grabbed Gizmo and opened a bottle of hot sauce and began to pour it all over the puppy. Police said the hot sauce covered the puppy's whole body, got into his eyes and down his throat.
Police said the homeowner took the puppy and went to a nearby fire department to get help. Sarasota PD said two officers saw the puppy's eyes swollen shut and having difficulty breathing, so they washed Gizmo off with water and a towel and turned him over to animal services where he is expected to make a full recovery.
Police said Myles has been charged with felony aggravated animal cruelty.
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How did Gelfand come up with this radical new maneuver? "Our skate parks were so horrible back then, so kinky and oververtical, that I kind of did an ollie by accident," Gelfand says. "That's how we learned to do it, here in the skate parks of Florida." At the Skateboard U.S.A. skate park, which was once located north of Sheridan Street near I-95, Gelfand discovered that the kinks in the ramps forced him to pop the board, suck his legs in a little, then pump them back out. This caused the board to float parallel to the ground. A physics professor would likely have an explanation for why, but skater Weir simply says, "It's like magic."
More than just magic, it's the trick upon which all other skateboard tricks are now based -- the arithmetic of the skating world. Young skaters "ollie-up" to more advanced techniques. "The ollie changed skateboarding, and still every trick starts out as an ollie," says Grant Brittain, photo editor and senior photographer for Transworld Skateboarding magazine. "[Gelfand] changed the direction of skateboarding. But young kids now think an ollie-pop is a bubble gum."
By the time he first witnessed the ollie, Peralta had mostly bowed out of skateboarding himself, preferring the business side of the sport. He teamed up with George Powell, creating Powell Peralta, which would become the largest and most successful skateboard company of the era. Powell Peralta also boasted the hottest skateboard team around; teenagers everywhere dreamed of joining this crew. After seeing Gelfand execute the ollie, Peralta offered him a position on the team.
Soon Gelfand was making regular trips to California and performing at and winning skateboarding contests all over the world. "In 1978, I went to California and it took months before anybody even figured out how to do an ollie," Gelfand says. "I used to get my shoes stolen all the time at contests. They'd take them to look for hooks or magnets or Velcro. They couldn't figure out how I stayed with the board." On that California trip, Gelfand took 14-year-old McGill along, after the two lied to McGill's parents, saying they'd be staying with Gelfand's uncle. "We actually just stayed with people we met when we were out there. But we got my brother to pretend to be my uncle and call Mike's parents," Gelfand recalls. By 1979, Powell Peralta had its core riders in place, forming an unparalleled, star-studded skate team that included Ray "Bones" Rodriguez, Steve Caballero, Alan Gelfand, and Mike McGill. The team became known as the Bones Brigade. Meanwhile, back at home, Gelfand and McGill had inspired a generation of Florida skaters to hone their skills.
"A lot of guys on the East Coast never got recognized," says McGill, who went on to invent "the McTwist," a 540-degree aerial spin. "People in California were always blown away when they'd see guys like us skate. In Florida, we'd travel hundreds of miles just to skate a ramp. We were just hungrier."
Because of the attitude and abilities of Florida skaters, Peralta was soon making regular recruiting trips here. "I was out back riding my ramp one day, and my mother -- she's Scottish -- she comes out with her Scottish accent, and she's like, 'Robbie, there's a phone call for you from California,'" Weir says. "So I go, 'Who is it?' and she goes, 'Some guy by the name of Stacy Peralta.' I almost had a heart attack." Weir says he listened as Peralta told him that Gelfand and McGill had suggested that he would be a good addition to the team. "He said, 'So whaddaya think?'" But Weir was already riding for Bruce Walker, so he told Peralta that he couldn't give him an answer right away.
It was a scenario that would repeat itself as the years passed. Walker would spot and sign talent and fly them out to competitions in California. Then, as their popularity increased, Peralta would sign them away. "You could be a rare talent here," Walker says, "but if you stayed in Florida, you'd be the rare talent that no one ever heard of." The industry, the magazines, and the contests were all in California, and scouts were reluctant to look for rising stars on the East Coast. "Guys that didn't leave Florida just evaporated," says Transworld's Brittain. "To stay in the industry, go to the contests, be in the magazines, you had to be in California."
At the same time, Walker's riders found their loyalties torn. On Walker's team, many of them had found a family, and in Walker they found, depending upon their age, either a father or a big brother. "I had a lot more team loyalty than other companies did," Walker says. "A lot of those teams had people constantly coming and going. I retained most of my team." Walker is now legendary in the industry for the extra attention he paid to his riders. Unlike members of other teams, Walker's riders could count on him to be present at all of their contests, coaching. They also knew that if they found themselves trapped in a losing streak, Walker wasn't likely to dump them. Robbie Weir was eventually taken back onto Walker's team after he was dropped from Powell Peralta.

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This week Tequila Don Julio hosted a delightful dinner party at the new Malmasion Restaurant, right at the waterfront in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC. We enjoyed an outstanding dinner presented by Chef Malcolm Mitchel, who incorporated Tequila Don Julio as an ingredient in the 3-course meal, while the Mixologist Andy Saymour prepared some spectacular drinks using Tequila DON JULIO as the main ingredient.
Tequila is famously made in the Mexican town of Tequila, in the State of Jalisco. The only alcoholic beverages than can be named "Tequila" are the ones made out of the Blue Agave (or, "Agave Azul") grown in the states of Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Guanajuato and Tamaulipas. Tequila's popularity is rapidly growing among connoisseurs from all over the world, and is becoming a favorite mixer drink in parties and social events in the United States.
As a conservative cook, sometimes I always go for the traditional foods and drinks. And with drinks using Tequila, I usually settle for a "Margarita" or "Tequila Sunrise", but after tasting these delicious cocktails, I'm changing my mind.
Created by Mixologist Andy Seymour
- 1 ounce Tequila Don Julio Reposado
- 2 ounces Malbec Wine
- 3/4 ounce Pomegranate Juice
- 1 ounce Simple Syrup
- Orange Wheel for Garnish
1. Combine Tequila Don Julio Reposado, Malbec wine, pomegranate juice and simple syrup into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
2. Shake vigorously and strain into a wine glass.
3. Garnish with an orange wheel.
Ideal Serving Glass:
Wine Glass
1 drink, no drink contains more than .6 fluid ounces of alcohol.
- 3 1/3 bottles Tequila Don Julio 70 Añejo
- 1/3 liter Mezcal (Del Maguey Santo Domingo or Vida recommended)
- 3 cups Strong Black Tea
- 1 1/2 liters Water
- 12 dashes Aromatic Bitters (Angostura Bitters recommended)
- 5 cups Fresh Grapefruit Juice
- 3 cups Clementine or Tangerine Juice
- 2 cups Fresh Lemon Juice
- 8 ounces Agave Nectar (or to taste)
*Peels of 4 lemons, 4 grapefruits muddled with 2 cups of sugar
1. Combine all ingredients in a large punch bowl over a large block of ice.
2. Stir ingredients and serve.
Ideal Serving Glass:
Rocks Glass
60 servings, no individual drink contains more than .6 fluid ounces of alcohol
Do you know that the Distilled Spirits Council of The United States (DISCUS) has declared that the following Wednesday after Thanksgiving is the "National Tequila Day" in the USA? and that 80% of the Export Production of Tequila is consumed in USA and the 20% left is for the rest of the world. So America likes some Tequila!
Enjoy, and drink responsibly!


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Montana Nightlife
105 West Main Street
Suite 1a
Bozeman , Montana
Tel: 406 522 0079
Housed in Bozeman's historic Baxter Hotel, The Bacchus Pub has been a gathering place for thirsty locals since 1929. Though it's been through several renovations, the pub continues to have an old world, and inexplicably European, charm. Painted monk heads, wooden arches, and low-hanging medieval-style chandeliers adorn the ceiling, giving a warm, cavernous feel, made all the warmer by the pub's working fireplace. For a classic Montanan zing, try a Moscow Mule, a mix of vodka, ginger beer, and lime served in a copper mug. If ginger's not your thing, opt for one of the many huckleberry-infused vodka cocktails. From rowdy college students to retired ski bums, everyone is welcomed and well cared for, attended to by a refill-happy wait staff and heavy-handed bartenders.— Isabel Sterne
Open daily 11 am to 1 am.
5417 Trumpeter Way
Missoula , Montana
Tel: 800 559 2774
Sit down in any bar in western Montana, and pretty soon you'll hear someone order a Moose Drool. A strange-sounding order, but a great beer from this brewery five minutes outside Missoula. The taproom is open until early evening Monday to Saturday. (Brewery tours are available on Fridays.) Besides the Moose Drool, a best-selling brown ale, try the award-winning Scape Goat Pale Ale.
504 N. Broadway
Bozeman , Montana
Tel: 406 585 9142
You're not going to find the Bozeman Brewing Company's taproom by accident, which is fine with the regulars who pack the place most weeknights. The bar is five blocks off Bozeman's main strip, next to a lumberyard, and has no real sign, except for a neon light and a few bumper stickers on the gray metal front door. For the last two years, Todd Scott has been brewing in this north-side neighborhood, with a small bar that's open until eight and often has at least five beers on tap, like its signature Bozone Select Amber Ale or summertime Belgium Wit, an oat-and-wheat beer with hints of coriander and orange.
337 N. Higgins Avenue
Missoula , Montana
Tel: 406 546 0117
Try closing down this bar, and you'll be here a while. According to myth, the Oxford Saloon hasn't closed in the last 100 years. No one's really sure about that date, but you'll notice some of the doors don't even have locks. The bar is on the corner of Higgins and Pine and draws a mixed Missoula crowd who amuse themselves by playing poker, shooting pool, and bolting down inexpensive hamburgers from the adjoining café.


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In this Feb. 13, 2013 file photo, Boston Celtics forward Jared Sullinger speaks to reporters about his season-ending back surgery before an NBA basketball game against the Chicago Bulls in Boston. Prosecutors say Sullinger has been arrested on domestic violence-related charges. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Prosecutors say Boston Celtics forward Jared Sullinger has been arrested on domestic violence-related charges.A spokeswoman for the Middlesex district attorney's office says Sullinger is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Waltham District Court.Police did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press. They tell the Boston Herald that officers were called to Sullinger's residence over the weekend for a domestic assault call. He was gone by the time they arrived and a warrant was issued for his arrest.Sullinger then turned himself in at about 6 a.m. Tuesday.It was not immediately clear who is lawyer is.Sullinger averaged six points and almost six rebounds per game in 45 games as a rookie last season.


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Our school is looking at adopting the Spalding program for grades K-8. We have received curriculum samples for up to grade 5. I will be teaching a 6-8 reading class for struggling students. Would Spalding be a good fit for this type of class? Is there a different placement test for middle school students? What is the success rate for middle school students that are behind to get up to grade level by using this program?
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Wifredo A Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Anthony V. Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Miami Field Office, and John Khin, Department of Defense, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), announce that defendants Felipe Echeverry, age unknown, of Bogota, Colombia, Diego Echeverri, 42, of Elmhurst, New York, Amparo Echeverri Valdes, 53, of Bogota, Colombia, and Carlos Alfredo Pantoja-Coral, 57, of Bogota, Colombia, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami on various counts of illegally attempting to export twenty-two F-5 jet fighter engines to Iran, in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Title 50, United States Code, Section 1701, et. seq., and Executive Orders banning exports to Iran.
The U.S. Iran Embargo (the Embargo) prohibits the exportation from the U.S. to Iran of any goods, technology, or services, with limited exceptions, unless authorized by the Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The Embargo is enforced through the IEEPA. Count 1charges the defendants with conspiracy to export fighter jet engines from the U.S. to Iran, in violation of the Embargo and the IEEPA. Count 2 charges the defendants with attempting to export fighter jet engines to Iran. Count 3 charges the defendants with attempting to conduct the sale and exportation of fighter jet engines by evading OFAC regulations. Count 4 charges the defendants with conspiracy to attempt to export fighter jet engines to Iran. Lastly, Count 5 charges the defendants with the attempted export of fighter jet engines. The indictment also seeks the forfeiture of the twenty-two jet engines.
According to the allegations in the indictment and the previously filed complaint affidavit, Felipe Echeverry and three of his relatives conspired to sell twenty-two aircraft engines for $320,000 to an undercover agent and agreed to help the undercover to export the engines from Miami to Iran through Panama. From January through March, 2011, in a series of meetings and conversations, the defendants negotiated the terms of the purported sale, knowing that the ultimate destination of the fighter jet engines was purportedly Iran. According to the complaint affidavit, Iran produces an aircraft named "Saegeh," which is compatible with the F-5 fighter engines.
If convicted, the defendants face a statutory maximum penalty per count of 20 years on Counts 1-3, 5 years on Count 4, and 10 years on Count 5.
United States Attorney Wifredo Ferrer stated, "The sales of arms and other commodities to Iran is illegal. When unscrupulous dealers look the other way and knowingly agree to sell military- use items knowing they are destined for Iran, they not only break our nation's laws, but also endanger our national security."
"It is critical to the national security of the United States that sensitive technology be kept from falling into dangerous hands," said Anthony V. Mangione, Special Agent in Charge of ICE HSI in Miami. "The investigations conducted by ICE HSI play a key role in keeping that technology away from those who intent on doing us harm."
John F. Khin, Special Agent in Charge, Southeast Field Office, Defense Criminal Investigative Service commented, "Defending America's national security interests by preventing the illegal transfer of our critical defense technologies remains a top priority for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service. It is vitally important that the United States maintains its military advantage against our adversaries to protect the lives of America's Warfighters now and in the future."
Mr. Ferrer commended the investigative efforts of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations and DCIS. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Walleisa.
A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls. Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.


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I will be the first to admit that I like shiny new gadgets. From technology like the first iPod to household items like the Black & Decker laser-level, I've always been fascinated by new gadgets. And to be honest, my main reason for being one of the first to acquire new gadgets are driven by the need to be first. Of course, basic curiosity and being a "brand fan" has contributed to my gadget acquisition strategy as well.
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My first major departmental buy for the iPod, about 3 months after it had launched, came from the Graphics Design department inside the School of Liberal Arts. They didn't buy iPods, and require them to everyone in coming freshman, because they liked music. No. They LOVED the 10GB firewire portable storage drive that sold for under $500. Imagine that. A device that has revolutionized the music industry and propelled Apple to another level, and my first sale had nothing to do with its ability to play music.
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The idea of using Facebook or Twitter to pitch journalists is busted from the start. As media monkeys, those who pitch media, it's our goal to understand journalists better than anyone else. Understand which story appeals to who, how they like to engage, what their interview preferences are, etc.
As a young Account Coordinator my then office president, now CEO of GCI Group, Jeff Hunt, had a brownbag lunch with junior staff to impose wisdom, advice, etc, and he likened media relations to hunting. His position was that we need to know what our animal ate, where that food was, what path did the animal take to get there, how long they stayed a watering hole. Never got the analogy until later in my career.
The beautiful thing about social media tools is it provides PR professionals insight into the lives of the media they pitch, the employees they communicate to and the perceptions of the brands they manage. While many have had successful pitches via twitter, facebook, myspace, I've enjoyed getting to know the preferences media like to get pitched in, what areas really excite them and who they are personally.
Think this is weird? We'll we're in Public Relations not Public Transactions. We build relationships, not issue transactions. Use social media tools to learn and observe and then when appropriate, engage.
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Samsung Galaxy S Captivate Available from Rogers Mid October
The Samsung Galaxy S Captivate from Rogers will be available in-store and from Rogers.com mid October for as low as $149.99 with a three year term plan. As we mentioned in our update, we anticipated an earlier launch but there has been a manufacturing delay.
However, starting today, new customers will be able to preorder the device here. With your preorder, you're also automatically entered into a draw to win an ultimate Samsung entertainment package including a:
- 55" LED TV Series 9
- Blu-ray Home Theatre System
- Samsung NX10 Digital Camera
Existing customers can check their hardware upgrade eligibility and pricing in store as soon as the Captivate is available in mid-October.
And in case you missed it, you can find in depth device information, on our microsite here: www.rogers.com/captivate
UPDATE (October 14, 2010, 3:44 PM): Hi everyone. Just an update that we're working towards launching the Samsung Captivate next week. We'll update you on the date the Captivate is available.
Miranda MacDonald is a regular contributor to RedBoard.
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No iPhone 4 in stock. No options to order a Galaxy S for existing customers.
This sure leaves us loyal customers with a bad taste…
I guess I will have to become a new customer elsewhere to get a flashy new device… grrr.
Same here…
I'll pay the cancellation fee and join Bell. Can't be much worse than my last 10 years with Rogers..
Yeah, definitely a shame that we can't order it as existing Rogers customers. I've been waiting for this one for awhile and I had my plan renewed too.
Still looking forward to its release.
Everything seems to be a fail as of late
iphone 4 no stock… now it launches in China over 50,000 pre orders… good luck getting one here.
BB Torch- delayed until next week now
Captivate– no pre order hup for us suckers on rogers, took over a month to tell us why it was delayed and the best we get now is some time in Oct.
Great day for cell news
I was thinking the same thing!
soon as i found out that pre-orders are not an option for existing customers i started looking at Bell's site.
might talk to them today -
@Sylvain, @Mark, @BitDisturber @Aaron @Rich, @George, and others,
I posted this below as a general comment in this thread but wanted to post again in reply here as well. Many of you have asked about why existing customers are unable to upgrade via the preorder page. It's a different process to upgrade and isn't incorporated in the same online form, which is not capable of calculating your HUP eligibility in advance of launch.
I do appreciate your comments and feedback and want you to know I'm passing it along to the appropriate internal team.
…use any choice of words to reply to a valid complaint..but the fact remains however you spin it….that 'New' Customers are treated better than existing?
what am i? new or existing? just joined at end of july and got a lemon sony x10 that crashed constantly and when as a new customer i wanted to know my other android options…they were nothing….nothing on the quality level of the top tier androids…but i was dangled if i took a poor quality loaner…that likely by end of sept i would get a captivate…now this.
so what am i? because i am in waiting position and still have not had a working (fully functioning featured) phone from rogers for three mths…am i new? existing?
sounds like i wait longer…..unacceptable.
I have been eagerly awaiting the chance to pre-order since I've been using a Blackberry with a broken trackball for 4 weeks, only to find out I can't because I've been a faithful Rogers Wireless customer for years. New customers only.
What a kick in the pants that was! We wait so long, only to find that Pre-Orders are for new activations only. Existing customers have to get from a store, and we're not eligible for the samsung prize pack.
Rogers, stop grinding my gears!
Existing customers are actually eligible to enter the Samsung prize pack contest.
Go to the preorder page (http://www.rogers.com/web/content/samsung-galaxy-preorder) and click on "Learn More" under the contest description on the bottom right of the page. Download the Contest Rules and see the second point under "How to Enter" for instructions on how to enter without purchase.
youve got to be joking me right? for new customers, to enter the contest, all you got to go preorder a phone, and ur good.
for existing customers, who are probably gonna get the phone on launch day anyways, you gotta click on a tiny link on the bottom of the page, then download a pdf file,
THEN write a 100 word HANDWRITTEN essay about the most captivating tv moment of my life? AND then post it to rogers with all the money paid?
srsly, rogers is continously shafting older longterm clients for newer actvations. good luck with that….rogers, u guys are making 1 fiasco after another.
i completely agree with you. It's like Rogers is conducting a giant experiment to see how much garbage we can handle and put up with. With that information they'll change their policy to shaft us even more.
Actually the 100 word essay is a bypass through a loophole to make this a legal process. Have you noticed that you lottery tickets have "skill testing question" its there for a reason to make it a "skill testing competition" and therefore legal. Same goes for US contests here in Canada, they will usually ask you for an essay of sort to use the loophole.
If you don't believe me you can look it up.
But the delay with Galaxy S is a bummer.
I'd appreciate some insight as to why existing Rogers customers are being left out.
"No iPhone 4 in stock. No options to order a Galaxy S for existing customers.
This sure leaves us loyal customers with a bad taste…"
I so agree. At least we got to know when it's coming out. Next Rogers must tell us the exact date and the inventory for each store. Hope this won't be in limited quantities likes the iP4.
On the iP4, why launching the phone in China when they can't have enough for the countries it's launched yet?
Great news for all anticipating this phone. Thanks for the update. I'm getting one for the other half. I have iphone 4 for myself.
You're welcome Amir. Hope your "other half" enjoys the phone!
Another delay? No preorders for existing customers? No iphone 4 stock to replace my 3G?
I have 9 months left with Rogers. I may just wait it out and go elsewhere.
Pathetic. Unacceptable.
Thanks for the update Miranda.
Is it save to say, that if you qualified for a iPhone 4 upgrade, you would qualify for a upgrade to a Captivate?
Yes. I beleive HUP eligible customers are entitled to new customer pricing but best to call Care to confirm your eligibility.
I agree with you Sylvain Carle. Existing/loyal Rogers customers seem to be screwed. I've been with Rogers for almost 11 years and because of that loyalty, I can't pre-order? I guess I;ll just have to make up a fake name and start a new account.
Miranda/Rob – really? Why are you screwing your existing customers
This is way too frustrating. I can't believe existing customers have to wait almost another month. Buh bye rogers.
finally! better late than ever, i guess. do we get a discount on the phone price if we are eligble for a hardware upgrade?
HUP eligible customers should be entitled to new customer pricing. However, I'd recommend calling Care or going in-store on launch day to confirm your eligibility.
So much for retention. So is getting new customers more profitable then keeping the long loyal subscribers? We've now been waiting for a long delayed release and now there is risk of waiting even longer for being a existing customer because of possible supply and demand. Good catering to the people who are already paying your bills Rogers!
Hi Joel,
Understand your frustration. I want to let you know that I'm reading every comment on this post and I'm passing your (and others) feedback onto our internal team.
In that case, can you answer the following:
1. Will the units be shipped with the GPS fixed?
2. What is the targeted date for Android 2.2 update.?
3. Will there be sufficient stock to satisfy expected need for HUP?
Thanks -
The internal team is putting all of Miranda's feedback under one of the legs of the table to stop it from rocking.
Wow. They broke the silence for this? And the plans being offered to pre-orders: 1 gig and 500 minutes… But I need to sign up for another 3 years of this "service".
No thanks. I won't be getting strung along by Rogers any more.
Okay so I went to the pre-order page to take advantage of this deal and it is only for new customers. Is there a number for loyal/existing customers to call or are we expected to quit our contract, go to another phone company and then come back to get a good deal?
Seriously, this has been going on for too long. Why doesn't Rogers just send me a letter saying that because we are an existing customer, we don't really matter but in order to make it seem like they do care, we get a free one year magazine subscription (worth $15) or a few free ringtones.
Here is some feedback for your company. If they want people to stop laughing when customer loyalty and Rogers comes up in the same sentence, they would start offering existing customers the ability to pre-order a decent phone. If Rogers wanted to differentiate themselves in this all too small Canadian wireless market, they would do some small things like that. I know they make a heck of a lot more money off new customers but I will tell you this.
Someday, when Canadians are offered a real choice in terms of companies to choose from, Rogers will be at the bottom of my list. I really can't stand this anymore
And yet again, current customers are screwed by Rogers. Epic FAIL. The same thing happened with iPhone 3G.
Want new customers Rogers? Want to keep current customers? Figure out the obvious!
Worst business practices ever.
No love for existing customers… anyways at least we have the ball rolling.
I have a question when you go to the preorder page and select a plan you can select one of the free options, it takes you to the pricing page. What if i want Call Display Voicemail and texting??? You can try and add an add on but there is no VALUE PACK for this?? All there is is just a Value pack for call display and voicmail, what about the one the texting package.
Hi Mike,
If you want to add texting to your preorder, you can log in to My Rogers and add it there, or call Care and make the request. They'll be able to add it to your plan.
I pre-ordered but My Rogers doesn't show any details or says no accounts are registered.
Hi Kevin,
You should have been given an order number when you preordered. If you have that, your good. The device will be shipped to you. You will be assigned an account number once the device ships.
So much for the $30/6gb plan.
If you're interested in the 6GB/$30 plan, I'd suggest migrating to the plan now to ensure you get it before it expires on Sept. 30.
and what if you dont have a data phone because you were waiting for the captivate to come out? What kind of crap is that? If we sign up for it and it ends up being pushed back another few months, then what? Were out how much from the data plan when we cant even use it! Im Sorry but rogers has thee WORST customer service EVER. why not extend it or allow pple who dont have a data to put it on their plan and then activate it when they actually get a data phone?
I have to agree Miranda – this is a slap in the face to existing *loyal* customers who have been waiting – patiently for the most part. We get shunted to the back of the line and will likely find we either have to camp out at a Rogers store for the 5 phones that get to each store, or come back each day asking "Do you have any today? No? See you tomorrow…"
Not a nice thing to do to your customer base folks. Let us get a spot for the launch stock in advance like the new customers.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your feedback. As I've mentioned to a few others here, I'm passing this feedback onto the internal team.
Stock levels are dependent on inventory provided by the manufacturer, but we anticipate inventory levels to be normal for this launch. It is our goal to ensure that a device will get into the hands of all customers who want one.
Hee hee – this exactly what I said you'd say: http://redboard.rogers.com/2010/samsung-galaxy-s-captivate-available-from-rogers-mid-october/comment-page-1/#comment-12405
On the 31th August, I've waited for a while (4 hours) in front of an Apple Store in Mtl to buy an iPhone4 and I got an upgrade from them with Rogers. Why did I made this move… because I was discouraged with the Captivate delay. Well Now… I am quite satisfied with my new phone and I'm, by the way, not sure that the Captivate surpass the iPhone…
This is only for new customers, what about the exsisting ones?!?! I'm sad that I can't pre-order.
I've waiting since since Aug 4 to preorder this phone, and I can't because I'm already a customer?!?
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To earn praise today, antique bellows must have their original paint in good condition, and original nozzle. Beyond that, it's a matter of rarity. Thus, turtlebacked and turned top boards are more valued than flat ones; decorated borders more coveted than plain; painted scenes--of houses, sailing ships, or cornucopia--more desirable than florals.
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Judge Dredd is a fascist. From jack-booted foot to helmeted head, he is the embodiment of paternalist oppression, an enforcer of the letter of the law at the expense of its spirit, an unthinking, unblinking, unflinching automaton programmed to intimidate and eradicate.
And, as a rule, we never see his face.
Of course, all rules have exceptions, and as long-time readers of weekly British science-fiction comic 2000 AD will note, Dredd does occasionally remove his helmet, if only when one storyline or another has horribly disfigured him to facilitate the event. However, the purpose of writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra's authoritarian creation is to skewer far-right lunacy, a satirical symbol of knee-jerk reactions to current trends extrapolated and exaggerated into a future setting. Dredd is supposed to be unsympathetic. The fact that the character is such a hard-nosed, narrow-minded bastard that he would likely arrest his real-world fans is part of the joke.
How then was Hollywood to approach such an intentionally combustible property? Well, the setting is movie-friendly, the Blade Runner-like towers of Mega City One metallic mesas in the post-apocalyptic desert of the Cursed Earth, the planet scorched by climate change and political upheaval as per the opening crawl (with narration by James Earl Jones, perhaps for the benefit of child viewers too young for admission, or the illiterate). There is an abundance of gorgeous visuals, including an ABC War Robot inspired by the comics, a gloriously ugly Mean Machine Angel, and even a Judges' uniform designed by Gianni Versace(!)
The visual effects, favouring practical miniatures over CGI models, have a clunky charm. The action scenes are consistently entertaining, incorporating guns, fists and flying motorcycles. Even the premise is crowd-pleasing in its poetic justice, with the mightiest of the Judges, Joseph Dredd (Sylvester Stallone) himself rendered a fugitive after he is framed for murder, but with the help of allies Judge Hershey (Diane Lane) and Herman Ferguson (Rob Schneider), he attempts to avert the dastardly plans of Judge Griffin (Jurgen Prochnow) who is aided by Dredd's nemesis Rico (Armand Assante).
On paper, the film could not fail. Hell, on film, it seems a success from its opening scenes, which include a block war (an insane turf war fought by citizens from rival city blocks, per a storyline from the comics), black comedy (a server droid exclaims ,'Eat recycled food – it's good for the environment and okay for you') and vicious Judge action (a brilliantly-introduced Dredd summarily executes criminals with his voice-activated, grenade-spewing, armour-piercing-round-throwing Lawgiver handgun).
We laugh as Dredd berates Ferguson for breaking the law to save his own life when there existed the perfectly legal option of jumping out of a window; we are absorbed as Griffin and Chief Justice Fargo (Max Von Sydow) debate the merits of order over justice; we smile as Dredd yells, 'I am the law!'
And yet, as soon as Dredd removes his helmet, many of these qualities vanish with it.
Sure, there are still moments of pure Dredd – 'Happy motoring,' he says after obliterating an obnoxious yuppie's futuristic Ferrari – but these are few and far between because of the severity of the filmmakers' sin: they tried to make Judge Dredd likeable. Look at him beam proudly at his comedy sidekick's handiwork! Listen to his adorable catchphrase, 'I knew you'd say that'! He even gets the girl – what a guy!
Strangely, these incongruences do not stem from a misunderstanding of the character by the filmmakers – British director Danny Cannon is a lifelong Dredd fan, and as surprisingly candid interviews in official materials reveal, producer Charles Lippincott understood full well the truth of the character, but felt that American audiences would not respond positively to the shades of dark, postmodern humour required to faithfully portray him. Or, to put it more bluntly, Paul Verhoeven's ultraviolent satire RoboCop had beaten them to the punch, due in no small part to the fact that screenwriter (and Dredd fan) Ed Neumeier had previously worked on a draft of Judge Dredd.
It is unfortunate that the filmmakers, in understandably attempting to distance themselves from RoboCop, squandered the potential of Judge Dredd, partly through the misguided decision to tamper with screenwriter William Wisher's draft of the film (which would have involved Dredd in an ideological tug-of-war between Fargo and Griffin) by enlisting Die Hard scribe Steven E. de Souza to grease the script's wheels. The end result feels like a bland tick-box exercise designed to superficially include elements and characters from the comics without really exploring them, a generic 90s action movie with science fiction styling. Certain scenes almost portray Dredd as the protagonist of a fish-out-of-water comedy, bearing more resemblance to Stallone's other science fiction action film, Demolition Man, than the pages of the source material.
Nonetheless, there is genuine enjoyment to be had – even if some of that enjoyment derives from the absurdity of Armand Assante's performance – and Cannon and his team were clearly passionate about the material. For instance, Fargo's dignified decision to take the death sentence that is the Long Walk into the Cursed Earth, juxtaposed with Dredd's fall from grace and incarceration, is poetic in the flow of its dialogue and editing, complete with striking imagery like the archway formed by dozens of saluting Judges on either side of the frame. Similarly, the architecture, vehicles, robots and weapons featured throughout the film are all lovingly detailed, from their grungy, weathered look to their pleasing sound effects.
Stallone is a surprisingly good Dredd, deadpan wit snarling from his scowling jaw. It's just a shame that the movie requires him to transition into his all-screaming, all-killing Rambo-Mode without allowing him to have any real fun with his portrayal. Von Sydow, Prochnow and Lane perform decently under the circumstances, with Lane in particular admirably imbuing her character with a heart and soul, despite the at times threadbare screenplay working against her. Even the infamous Rob Schneider is at least tolerable, his brief Stallone impersonation eliciting genuine laughter.
Unfortunately, despite the occasional inspired touch, the film is ultimately less than the sum of its parts. Most of the time, proceedings feels so generic it needn't be Judge Dredd running from the law he served – it may as well be John McClane, Martin Riggs, or Rambo. The material cries out to be treated with more class and sophistication but must settle for less, like a gourmet hamburger hamstrung by the house-style of McDonald's. There is a time and place for cinematic junk food, but it is a shame that the filmmakers decided to approach the film from such an obvious angle as to render the whole thing banal. A kinder, gentler Judge Dredd isn't Judge Dredd at all.
All these years after the original release, it seems as if the court of public opinion delivered the correct verdict. The movie is guilty of the crime of mediocrity. The sentence? Death by reboot.


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The Dark Side of Technology
May 5, 2013
Good Morning Greg,
Although I am not another Robert Oppenheimer I am a product designer and have been so for 20+ years. My products are simple, sedate even, they appeal to your basic consumer and usually offer solutions to visual problems.I started my first business after being fired from one company for having a stupid idea and quitting another due to immoral management business practices (I have paraphrased both). Not a good way to be thrown into the work pool. I started my first business on the basis of the idea that I was fired for, this business was in something new called the personal computer industry (a stupid idea). Back then the only way you could buy a computer was in pieces hung from hooks in plastic bags at Radio Shack. This little sales business was semi successful until I crushed 2 discs in my back playing volleyball. My partner couldn't keep it going without me while I recovered. I lost my house and business that year.
So I took a job with a quasi-government agency which was funded by the DED in Washington DC. I was hired as a "Director of Monitoring" which later included Business Development. We were funded by the government to create jobs in an economically depressed region. In this job I evaluated new products and ideas and I interfaced with a variety of financial institutions to assist entrepreneurs with funding their new businesses. Prior to my leaving the company I was asked to do a feasibility study on a 12,000 acre cattle ranch. After 4 months of research and 300 pages of analysis I proved that it was not feasible. I was asked to re write the study to show that it was feasible. I was personally and professionally shocked that management asked me to do this. I resigned after being offered the assistant directorship of the agency as a reward for doing the new study.
During the years that followed I had the luck to identify numerous products which solved major problems or created innovative products representing marketing industry solutions. I am proud to look back and say "I did that". Some of these have faded into obscurity due to lack of funding or unfortunately 100% of the benefit from these inventions went to big businesses.
I am 69 years old and still active in new product design and development. For the most part my previous inventions depended on heavy equipment manufacturing and slim margins – meaning you have to make thousands of them to make money even if they were intended for a mass market. Today I sit here holding in my hand a new rather mundane toy I designed for dogs. Why do I describe it as being mundane? Because it isn't an Atom bomb, it isn't a new iris scanning technology nor does it analyze your personality…it just makes a dog and his owner happy. The founder of 2 large pet retail chains, called them: "innovative and a new category of toys for dogs." In fact every dog and industry pet professional I have shown them to loves them.
The only people that do not understand them or love them are funding sources. Banks, VC groups and private investors. Is the reason for this that they are not profitable? Because consumers do not like them? Because dogs do not like them? That they are not frilly enough or are the wrong color? Possibly because they cannot be mass produced or that retailers will not buy them? Maybe they do not like me as the founder?
The answer to these questions is quite the reverse. The answer is complicated and simple at the same time …it has to do with psychology and of course experience. In my search for funding I have reached out to a vast assortment of investment groups and individuals and they all have said the same thing: It doesn't fit in our wheel house or doesn't fit our investment profile (or portfolio). Some have been more specific but all have said no because they have no interest/experience in the pet industry.
Today's investor has made their money historically or recently in four fields; Computers, Real Estate, Medical and Gas & Oil, but mostly in Computers and Software. They seem to think that unless it is High Tech it isn't worthy of their consideration. Am I being harsh or am I inflicted with tunnel vision…I think not. What really bothers me is the apparent lack of funding available for product development in the entire consumer products category outside of electronics.
When investors turn down ventures with products earning 70 to 90% net and gross margins with a mass market demand I can only wonder what mythic project they are waiting for? This kind of margin means my products costs about $1..00 and sells for $7.00 (wholesale) to $15.00 (retail). Have I missed something in my years in the computer industry, do they now actually make those levels of profits and are there a lot of them that are doing so?
As a writer you have performed business industry research and I was wondering if you have noticed the same "trend".
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May 5th, 2013 at 4:54 pmRichard,
Investors, just like most people, follow trends. It just may be that a pet product is not on their radar (most funds have specific areas in which they are allowed to invest).
Have you tried a crowdfunding approach like Kickstarter or Indiegogo? There are also service bureaus that can manufacture in any quantity. This post might help: http://www.digitaltonto.com/2012/the-new-industrial-revolution/ (look at the bottom of the "maker" section.
Hope that helps. Good luck!
– Greg
May 15, 2013
Brilliant article. Really loved the way it was presented. Reminds us of why our great great ancestors would have sharpened the stones to make weapons for finding food. And the same used later to kill each other. It depends on how we use it. However it is good for us to realise the bad side of technology.
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May 15th, 2013 at 10:09 amThanks Sanjay.
I'm not sure which came first, the hunting or the killing, but I do think that one unfortunate, but salient aspect of modern technology is that much of it (i.e. computers, GPS, etc.) came from military spending. It would be nice if we could muster the enthusiasm for investment in technology when the primary objective is something other than killing each other.
Maybe not absolutely necessary, but it would be nice:-)
– Greg
February 3, 2014
They do not need technology to know that I detest incompetence and have no stomach for trying to talk sense into what one of my IBM customers calls a "no-help desk". As more and more databases are merged and facial recognition cameras proliferate, we are less free than at any time in the history of the world. While they may seem innocuous now, power corrupts – ultimate power corrupts ultimately – and whatever exists WILL be used against us.
I wonder how many realize what is already recorded about them can cause them to be denied employment, make them unable to rent housing, or to be refused health coverage or even treatment. How many who have their DNA on file have considered that corruption and a medical need could lead to organ harvesting.
The corruption at every level is astounding – yet most do not see it and should they get a glimmer they quickly slam their minds shut because they do not want to know. I have a page where I collect 'causes' – all the evil perpetrated on many that no one wants to see. Unless we do, as Joan Baez sings…."there, but for fortune, go you…or I".
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Lavender Sachet Hanger
Leave your clothes smelling nice and refreshing with this Lavender Sachet Hanger from Savannah Starr. Since it's made from a clothes hanger, this project will hang easily in your closet and will leave your clothes and bedroom smelling nice and refreshing!
- Plastic hanger
- Aleene's Tacky Double Stick Sheets
- Aleene's Original Tacky Glue
- Scissors
- Fabric – organdy and black lace
- Dried lavender – approximately ½ cup per hanger
- Non-stick crafting surface
- Ribbon – sheer to complement lace and organdy.
- Optional: Perfect Crafting Powder
Cut two pieces of organdy to roughly 1" larger than hanger.
Cut Tacky sheets into strips and apply to both sides of hanger.
Place organdy on non-stick work surface.
Remove the paper backing from one side of hanger and place adhesive onto organdy.
Use scissors to cut organdy even with edge of hanger.
Place hanger on work surface organdy side down.
Sprinkle ½ cup lavender on organdy.
Remove the paper backing from remaining side of hanger and press second piece of organdy onto adhesive on hanger. Use scissors to cut organdy even with edge of hanger.
Cut lace design from lace fabric. Determine desired placement. (I like to hang my lace pieces over the edge of the hanger.)
Apply Tacky glue to back of lace wherever it touches the hanger. Let dry. Repeat on other side if desired.
Note: because you are using the Tacky Double Stick Sheets with the organdy, you may still feel some stickiness through the thin fabric. If you do, you can use Perfect Crafting Powder and dab it over the sticky areas.
- Tie bow to neck of hanger.
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Microcontroller development is a complex process. Each individual model is different, with its own set of interfaces and control registers. Low-energy MCUs extend the range of options with a variety of power-down modes and in some cases intelligent I/O engines to offload some of the processing burden from the processor core.
The reason for the increase in intelligent peripherals lies in their ability to reduce overall system power. The duty cycle of a low-energy MCU is key to its battery autonomy. In a low duty-cycle system, the MCU sleeps for much of the time. It wakes only to collect data from sensor inputs, normally at a scheduled time or to respond to rare, unscheduled interrupts. This approach has proved highly effective in the design of utility meters where the processor core may sleep for 99 percent of its overall life cycle.
To try to reduce the duty cycle further, MCU vendors such as Energy Micro have added intelligent peripherals that offload complex sensor interfacing functions to programmable hardware. This approach works because of the lower energy overhead of dedicated and programmable hardware over a microprocessor core.
Fig 1 a & b: Using a high-speed 32-bit CPU processing time is reduced. In addition new peripherals are designed to perform complex routines without involving the CPU at all, enabling system energy consumption to be further reduced. The CPU only needs to wake up when a peripheral flags the need for further processing.
Instruction supply to a microprocessor core, even from on-chip memory, can account for more than 40 per cent of total processor power consumption. The energy demand of moving variable contents from data memory to registers and on into the processing data path incurs a further overhead. This level of data movement, which generally involves higher-capacitance – and therefore higher energy – bus connections, is not needed in hardware implementations.
Many sensor operations can be controlled by a state machine, which, if made programmable, can be configured to handle a wide range of sensor-processing functions without waking the processor core. This philosophy lies behind the approach that Energy Micro took in implementing the Lesense peripheral block that has been added to the EFM32 Gecko series of MCUs.
In Lesense, states and the conditions used to select them are programmed through descriptors that can be chained together to form relatively complex operations where needed, or restricted to simple outputs if that is all that is required. In this way, it is possible to build quite complex logic before intervention need be sought from the processor core.
Fig 2: Lesense is a low energy peripheral capable of monitoring up to 16 sensors autonomously. Designers can setup the sensor interface to monitor inductive, resistive or capacitive sensors, and then on a specified event invoke the central processing unit or other peripherals.
In using functional blocks such as Lesense, as well as more conventional peripherals such as serial ports, there are a number of trade-offs and system-level decisions that the developer will need to make – and many of them will not become fully apparent until the engineers are some way into the project.
For example, a priori analysis of an application may lead the team to conclude that the initial architecture will meet its power budget. However, it can become apparent in later stages that interactions between code modules and functions are leading to excessive power consumption because the processor core is awake for longer periods than expected, possibly running an idle loop waiting for input instead of going to sleep and waiting on a hardware-generated interrupt. By profiling the application during development and altering the balance of hardware versus software implementation it becomes much more straightforward to hit energy-consumption targets, particularly if the development environment is designed with this in mind. This was the philosophy that lay behind the development of Simplicity Studio.
Having the right information to hand is the first step in achieving success in MCU application development. When the user starts on a project, the Simplicity Studio console auto-configures in response to user selection of a target MCU from a drop-down menu. The console then provides the user only with the development support options applicable to that particular MCU and can be further customized by adding and removing components at the click of a button.
The auto-configuration ensures that the developer has the relevant information about the MCU to hand. For example, a user of a particular EFM32 Tiny Gecko, such as the EFM32ZG222F32, will not only see in the documentation set the manuals and applications notes for peripherals, but the instruction set manual for the Cortex M0 processor rather than the M3 used by other members of the EFM32 Gecko family.
Time saving through automatic updates
A key time-saving role of Simplicity Studio is to ensure users stay automatically up-to-date with all of the changes affecting their own development environment. One problem that many MCU users face when working on projects supported by conventional data books, whether printed or in PDF format, is that they may not be aware of errata or changes until they encounter a problem with their code that uncovers the altered functionality. Simplicity Studio avoids this problem by continually updating itself with new information from Energy Micro.
Fig 3: Simplicity Studio can be thought of as a tool box that always carries the latest available firmware and software updates. Simplicity Studio only shows the tools relevant to a specified MCU, and with automatic updates there is no need to have to search for new firmware, software or documentation.
Users receive alerts for example concerning new software releases, documentation and firmware updates and can access a change-log identifying exactly what has been updated and when.
For users getting started with a new MCU, downloadable code examples that integrate with the documentation and the target provide a quick and powerful way of learning about the functionality of a peripheral or a set of processor core instructions and testing various power reduction and control strategies.
Active feedback on energy consumption is a major feature of the Simplicity Studio that is realized in the energyAware Profiler. This tool takes the embedded development suite beyond its conventional use as a code-writing and debugging environment. In energy-sensitive applications, you can conceivably remove all the bugs from a design and still have a system that does not meet its most crucial target: its energy performance.
The Profiler makes it possible to analyze the code in a system not just for its functionality but its energy consumption – providing engineers with a tool to help determine which functions are consuming the most power and so guide whether some functions should be devolved to hardware, for implementation in a peripheral such as Lesense, or restructured to allow the processor core to sleep for longer periods of time.
The Simplicity Studio environment provides a dynamic view of how the target consumes power. The information is not just available as an aggregate current value, but using code-level instrumentation on a fine-grained function-by-function basis.
Fig 4: Embedded designers only need to connect the starter kit to their computer via USB to perform advanced power profiling. The energyAware Profiler software shows the associated code and energy consumption, which speeds up debugging and reduces the need for oscilloscopes or multimeters.
Take, for example, a system that monitors the health of an industrial motor. The MCU needs to monitor the input from a set of four inductive sensors that detect the rotation of the shaft being driven by the motor. At regular intervals, the MCU takes information from an accelerometer that is used to analyze vibration - excessive vibration indicates a potential problem with the motor.
In the initial implementation, the MCU is programmed to sleep after every set of vibration analysis calculations. However, power analysis shows that the system is exceeding its power target significantly. By drilling down into the function-call list, the engineer can determine which parts of the code seem to be responsible for most of the power consumption.
In this case, the problem turns out to be a while-loop that is being used to poll the sensor that is expected to be triggered next by the rotation of the driveshaft. On each successful read, the next sensor is 'activated' and polling continues there or, if a number of rotations have occurred, the function to perform vibration analysis is called. The result is that the MCU does not go into sleep mode until after vibration analysis, where it will be woken up by a clock timer set at a rate that is higher than the shaft's rotation rate.
The programmer alters the code such that the MCU can go to sleep after a successful read. But the MCU still shows higher than desired power consumption tied to the sensor interfacing code. The problem is that the MCU has to be awake in anticipation of an event from the driveshaft sensors. It would be better if the MCU could sleep until the analog comparator registers a positive reading, but without leaving the analog comparator continuously on. This can be done, the engineer finds, by looking at the embedded documentation by programming the state machine of the Lesense peripheral.
Using a code example associated with the online application note, the engineer tests the strategy -- which would allow the MCU to sleep until a sensor records a positive signal. Realizing that, for this application, it is possible to program the state machine to not wake the MCU until for example 100 complete revolutions has been made -- the engineer then edits the code to fit the target application. At this point, the Profiler shows that the application is now within the power budget.
By pulling together documentation, online updates and feedback on application performance, it is possible to streamline the development of low-energy embedded systems, as Simplicity Studio demonstrates.
About the author:
Rasmus Christian Larsen is Support & Training Manager at Energy Micro. He is responsible for support and training of Energy Micro's customers and world wide sales force. Previously he worked on the design of the EFM32, and also was a digital design engineer at Atmel Norway. He has a masters in electronics from the Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU).


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A content analysis of rap music videos taken from the end of year countdowns aired on U.S. cable outlets (i.e. BET, MTV, and VH1) was undertaken. The analysis examined the body images of 258 female characters (87.6% Black, 5.8% White, 6.6% other) as a function of the thematic content in the videos (e.g., violence, sex). It was found that, overall, "thin" females were overrepresented in the videos. More interestingly, the body sizes of the female characters varied by three of the four video themes. When the music videos were high in sex, or high in materialism, women were more likely to have smaller body sizes. In contrast, when the videos were high in political awareness, women were more likely to have larger body sizes.
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- Title
- Female Body Image as a Function of Themes in Rap Music Videos: A Content Analysis
- Journal
Sex Roles
Volume 62, Issue 11-12 , pp 787-797
- Cover Date
- 2010-06-01
- 10.1007/s11199-009-9656-y
- Print ISSN
- 0360-0025
- Online ISSN
- 1573-2762
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Body image
- Rap music videos
- African Americans
- Theme
- Content analysis
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Yuanyuan Zhang (1) (2)
- Travis L. Dixon (1)
- Kate Conrad (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA
- 2. Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 244 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL, 61801, USA


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