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Nerdist Podcast #132: BEN FOLDS
By Chris Hardwick on October 11, 2011
The superbly awesometastic Ben Folds joins us at Swinghouse Studios in LA to chat about song writing, the sexual exploits of Superman, William Shatner and helicopter rides. PLUS details on the upcoming Ben Folds 5 reunion. ALSO an A.MA.ZING live performance! On PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT. It's almost like we're a real show or something.
You can follow @BenFolds and/or catch his show The Sing-Off on NBC.
I love how that photo kinda makes it look like Jonah is Ben Folds (if you didn't know what anybody looked like).
I am so excited that this finally happened. When they announced it on one of the other podcasts I nearly drove off the road.
Also, Chris clearly didn't get the plaid-shirt memo.
Slightly irrelevant fact: I have a friend from high school whose band (Jukebox the Ghost) opened for Ben Folds on a recent tour.
Nice to know Ben Folds is such a cool dude – you always wonder with musicians, actors, etc. if they're secretly massive douchenozzles.
The picture for this podcast is how I know I'm at home with fellow nerds. The three guys that know each other well are the focus of the picture while the celebrity guess is almost an after thought. #StaringAtFeet
Well duh. I made the plaid-shirt-memo comment before actually listening to the 'cast. I'm not going to comment anymore.
YES! I cannot wait to get off work to listen. I am actually looking forward to going to the gym now! I literally clapped my hands and jumped up and down in delight when it was mentioned on an earlier episode.
How the heck has Portland not sold out yet? What is wrong with the Portlandians? Ah well, more non-creepy Nerdist hugs for me then.
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GORGeous podcast! Amazing to "sit in" with Ben Folds. I appreciate his humility at taking someone else's stories and just kind of bearing witness and honoring them. I am blown away by the final song"… Im sorry Mr. Jones, its time…". So glad that he decided to go ahead and sing too! His voice is in my head and I am glad to have there among the others. ;-P
I'll be at the Portland show Heather and I'll hug you!
Sorry to be a big nerd, but is it possible to get the performance part of the podcast in like a V0 or even 320kbps?
Thanks for the great podcast guys!
Holy shit, that was beautiful. One of the greats in Nerdist podcast history.
So, is anybody else thinking that a Ben Folds, The Nerdist sessions album would be a fantastic idea?
Long show! I like when things I like are long. It's better than when things that are short are that, still. Or however grammar works.
I love what ever length of sound you gentlemen (and occasional lady) put out into the world. Great team-up for the length with song finale's. Wow, I do that whole psychological routine of writing about mundane or stupid things just to let it out in some form but suddenly refreshing the page or erasing everything. I just need that crap on the screen or something…
I'll leave you guys with; great podcast as always, great mysterious guest (I don't know this fellow but I loved his chat roulette thingy), awesome song stylings from Folds and Thanks nerdcast.
~~~because, his wife died
I own one Ben Folds Five CD, now I must purchase all Ben Fold's works. Great podcast, I loved the songs at the end too. Mr. Folds seems like a really genuine nice guy, and glad that he was able to join into the conversations as he did.
Nice work.
This was one of my favorite episodes!
Phillip Glass is INSANELY AMAZING! You need to check his shit out. Brubaker put out an awesome album called Glass Cage, http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Cage-Brubaker-Philip/dp/B00004X0MF
I just want you guys to know that I have been having a pretty shitty month and Ben Folds Music has been a crutch I have used. This Podcast has made my month!
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Will Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Breanna Stewart lead UConn to a third straight national title?
It's March, which means the madness is right around the corner, as the nation's best teams will do battle to earn a berth in Tampa for the Final Four on April 5 and 7.
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If you were at Yellow Cab in Dayton, O. on Saturday night, you witnessed something very special. Motel Beds and Misra unleashed 500 hand-painted LPs upon the world. The wonderful Smug Brothers and Good English opened the evening. It was a pre-release show for Beds' forthcoming album These are the Days Gone By—out later this year.
Motel Beds and Misra teamed up with We Care Arts — a Dayton, Ohio-based non-profit dedicated to "changing disabilities into possibilities." WCA hand-painted 500 album covers for Motel Beds' These are the Days Gone By — a collection of hits, rarities, live favorites, and never-before-heard Beds tracks, all (re)mastered by Carl Saff (Dinosaur Jr, Guided By Voices, etc).
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Christopher Raeburn is well known for his transformative approach to fashion – re-inventing textiles is the basis for his work. And, to showcase his S/S collection, he's now going to reinvent a museum and transform it into a fashion venue for one night.
Raeburn is not new to a presence in a museum. In 2008, pieces from his first collection, built out of re-appropriated military fabrics, were included in Camouflage, an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. He was then chosen for his sustainable aesthetics, to be featured in 2010 in Design Museum's Sustainable Futures exhibition, with a trio of his upcycled parachute silk jackets
This time, he also found a deep connection with the venue: Raeburn's historical enthusiasm has inspired the relationship. "The Museum of London is an incredible venue" comments the designer, "their archives hold an outstanding wealth of fashion and social history".
And so it is that the Sackler Hall and Linbury Gallery have become the setting of choice to unveil Raeburn's Spring Summer 2012 collections, with the installation set to be as forward thinking as the designs.
Featuring the complete colour spectrum, the event will include an innovative interactive light show, experimentations with sound and dramatic figurative installations, making this a unique experience for guests. In Raeburn's own words: "Tactile textiles and tactual tones".
S/S also marks another development for the designer, with the introduction of a ready-to-wear collection (for both men and women) alongside the signature outerwear styles.
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Camilo Ernesto Mejía was born on August 28, 1975, in Managua, Nicaragua. He was named for Camilo Torres, a Colombian priest who died in combat, and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the iconoclastic Argentine revolutionary. Four years before the Sandinistas overthrew Nicaragua's military dictatorship, Camilo's father, Carlos Mejía Godoy, was a celebrity of the left; his revolutionary songs and radio satire condemning President Anastasio Somoza Debayle's feared military police captured the zeitgeist of the Nicaraguan people. His music was played throughout Latin America.
But five months after Camilo's birth, his parents separated. His mother, Costa Rican-born Maritza Castillo, took the youngster and his older brother Carlos to New York, and then to her native country, for two years, before returning to Nicaragua. Back home she began a love affair with Camilo Ortega, one of three brothers leading the Sandinistas. (Daniel Ortega served as president from 1979 to 1989 and recently reassumed the role.)
Camilo Ortega died in battle that same year. "We watched the revolution unfurl," Castillo recalled during a recent conversation outside a Starbucks in Sunny Isles Beach. Despite her Costa Rican birthright, Castillo is a pure Nicoya, even dropping "que barbaridad" into every other sentence a common thing among her countrymen. The 52-year-old wears eyeglasses and has brown eyes, dark tan skin, and curly hair down to her chin.
In 1979, following the Sandinista victory, Castillo and her sons moved into a five-bedroom house in a posh Managua neighborhood. The family had a maid and a gardener. Mejía Godoy, who by then had remarried, lived a few blocks away and was a deputy in the Nicaraguan National Assembly. Camilo and his brother soon began attending a school reserved for the children of government officials, including those of Daniel Ortega.
"Since Camilo was a baby he was very sure of himself," Castillo says affectionately. "When he was about eleven or twelve, Camilo decided he was going to visit his grandfather in Costa Rica without my permission." He took off alone on a bus, and it wasn't until he reached the Nicaragua-Costa Rica border that he called his mom. "I ordered him to come home right away, but he wouldn't listen," she says. "I had to call the border authorities to send him back to Managua."
Contacted by telephone in the Nicaraguan capital, Mejía Godoy explains, "We raised [Carlos and Camilo] to be independent. Camilo was very mature for his age. And he always talked about having a career in literature or the arts."
In 1991, after the fall of the Sandinistas, Castillo and her boys moved again to Costa Rica. Three years later they headed for Miami, where Camilo attended night school at American Senior High in Miami Lakes. Castillo landed a job as a Publix cashier; Camilo worked at a local Burger King, where he swept the parking lot, cleaned bathrooms, and broiled burgers. He had a two-hour break before school, so his days would usually start at 5:30 a.m. and finish at 10:00 p.m.
Camilo didn't attend prom or graduation. He received his high school diploma in the principal's office. When he was nineteen years old, the armed forces beckoned him with the promise of financial stability and college tuition. His parents were dead-set against it. "I thought it was a terrible idea," Mejía Godoy recalls. "I asked him, 'What are you going to do if you have to go to war?' But he insisted he needed to do it in order to pay for his school."
Adds Castillo, "The recruiter filled his head with pajaritos that he would see the world and make a lot of friends."
Camilo says he joined the army to become independent of his parents. "My father was the official singer for the Sandinista Revolution," Camilo says. "I guess I wanted to escape it, find my own way, do my own things, and I found the military. I never really thought I would end up in a real war."
So in 1995 the nineteen-year-old joined the Army and left for Fort Benning, Georgia.
Following basic training, Camilo spent three years of active duty in Fort Hood, Texas. "I was a mechanized infantryman," Camilo relays. "So I was assigned to a Bradley personnel carrier. My unit used to test all the new weapons systems that the army was buying from government contractors."
When he wasn't playing war with the Bradley, Camilo participated in light infantry drills. One of Camilo's exercises was to help carry and load an M60 machine gun. "The M60 is very heavy," Camilo says. "It has an extra spare barrel, a mounting system, and you carry a lot of ammo."
Then a private, Camilo recalls lugging about 100-plus pounds of gear up a hill, then passing through an obstacle course simulating a minefield. Though a three-man team was supposed to carry the M60, he and his partner were required to move it. But he took the tough assignment with humor. "After each exercise we would have this review session where the people involved gave their opinion on what went well and what went bad," Camilo recalls. "When it was my turn, my reply was, öI don't know, because there is no team here, I am the team.' Everyone laughed because I was the lowest-ranking private in the room."


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Treating Gunshot Wounds In The Lower Extremity
Jacketing a missile is a process in which the manufacturer will cover the lead missile in copper. This allows for an increase in accuracy and velocity of the missile. Often, these rounds are referred to as a "full metal jacket." Hollow-point rounds are manufactured with a hollow or depression at their tip. These rounds can be devastating to tissue because upon striking the target, the tip of the bullet expands. This allows the missile to lose less velocity traveling from the muzzle to the target while creating a greater surface area upon striking the target. This increase in surface area slows the missile down, making it less likely to exit the target and allowing for maximum energy transfer.
Shotgun missiles have unique characteristics. They fire a large single projectile known as a slug or a significantly large mass of pellets referred to as shot.12 At close range, the wadding from the shotgun acts as a single projectile.9,15 However, as the range increases, the wad expands and the velocity of the pellets decreases substantially. Even with this decrease in velocity, these pellets still may cause great damage to the target because they rarely exit the casualty. Slugs are more accurate and do not lose as much velocity at range. Their soft lead composition allows for easy deformation and it is not uncommon for them to break into large pieces within the body. This is known as a lead snowstorm.12
After leaving the barrel, the missile's motion occurs in three dimensions. The yaw of a missile greatly affects the amount of damage it causes. (Yaw is the angle that the long axis of the missile deviates during travel.)3 When the yaw becomes so severe that the missile begins to move end over end, it is known as tumbling. When a bullet has severe yaw or starts to tumble, the profile of the missile increases, causing greater energy transfer to the casualty.7
A Closer Look At Tissue Damage In Gunshot Wounds
Due to substantial variables involved in missiles, the designation of a high-energy wound remains subjective and ultimately depends on the physical examination.9 If this designation depends on velocity alone, it only recognizes potential injury and not actual tissue damage.9,14 There is little ability to clinically estimate the amount of energy transferred.9,14
As missiles travel through a target, they produce two types of cavity. The permanent cavity results from direct crushing of tissue by the missile. The diameter of this cavity equates the diameter of the projectile. Tissue within the permanent cavity is destroyed and devitalized. Along with the permanent cavity, a temporary cavity occurs as well.3,7 The temporary cavity results from a momentary acceleration of the surrounding tissue in all directions away from the permanent cavity.7 The temporary cavity occurs by the permanent cavity pushing the surrounding tissue outward.13
Once the missile passes through the tissue, a vacuum forms behind it. The vacuum often pulls foreign debris such as dirt, clothing particles and bacteria into the wound.3 The size of the cavity depends on the missile's kinetic energy that transfers to the tissue.9 Larger missiles that shatter, deform or tumble tend to have slower exit velocity, resulting in a larger cavity.16 The temporary cavity collapses due to the vacuum effect. Then it reforms and collapses repeatedly with decreased amplitude until all motion ceases. The cells within this temporary cavity are damaged due to the stretching and tearing of the surrounding tissue.
In uncomplicated, low-velocity gunshot wounds, the amount of tissue damage may only be a few cells deep outside of the permanent cavity.9 Lower kinetic energy wounds usually have similarly sized entry and exit wounds. On the other hand, in more complicated or high-velocity wounds, tissue damage can be extensive and the exit wound is typically larger than the corresponding entrance wound.


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sandman_6472 Coral Springs, FLPosts: 2,959Saw one in white today and it looks good...something that would work for me also! Just afraid of VW reliability especially with a used one. At least with new, one has the full warranty in place just in case something happens. It looks like they did a slight refresh for the 2013 model which looks nice. A perfect sized vehicle and I'd bet the mileage figures ain't that bad either. A good choice for ya...and maybe for me, eventually!
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corvette United StatesPosts: 4,281We know what OTD means, it just doesn't mean anything because it's impossible to tell what kind of deal you're getting with an OTD price. Taxes and registration fees depend on your locality. The important numbers are the selling price, including all dealer fees such as doc fees, add-ons, warranties, etc. If you've already done the deal, then there's not much anyone can do to help at this point.
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nicheel Posts: 2My wife would like to trade-in her 07 Subaru for a Honda/Toyota minivan. Can I get some help with trade-in value.
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Engine: 2.5i liter, 4 cyl, auto
Driveline: AWD
Mileage: 86,000
Color: Blue/Tan Leather Interior
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6422130 Posts: 41I am looking to trade in my 2012 Passat SE, black 18k, roof, very clean, no issues at all...in suburban Philly. I am seeing trade values from a low of 16k up to 18k. Is 18k realistic? The figures are surprisingly low (to me) and have dropped a lot in the past couple of months. Any thoughts?
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ohenryx Posts: 285msg #44078 by 6422130:
I am seeing trade values from a low of 16k up to 18k. Is 18k realistic?
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Sorry to be unclear. The 18k at the beginning of the post is the miles. I have not gotten any figures yet.
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isellhondas Issaquah WashingtonPosts: 18,178" We don't need it in Seattle proper"
Well, as a recent arrival you better know that once in awhile we REALLY get dumped on and we get ICE too sometimes. This past winter was downright balmy.
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To me, a good set of all season/snow tires and a competent driver will go a lot further than a vehicle with 4WD and someone who thinks they are invincible. But what do I know -- coming from Pittsburgh and Cleveland, we only saw something like 10 feet of snow a season...:-) -
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I'll be back for the first time in just about a year next weekend for a friend's wedding. We'll spend a few days in Cleveland seeing family then head down to Pittsburgh (only about a 2 hour drive) for the wedding itself.
To keep this car related, we'll be borrowing my mother-in-law's Audi Q5 2.0T to make the drive from Cleveland to Pittsburgh for the wedding.


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Yesterday, we blogged about a Redfin screenshot that appeared on PhotoshopDisasters, showing a gigantic dog peering through the sliding glass doors of a Shoreline listing. The screenshot was at the top of Reddit all night, and even though PhotoshopDisasters didn't link to our site, the listing drew 52,036 views on Redfin. The average number of views for other listings in Washington State was 2.19.
The photographer, Dan Achatz, explains on Flickr that the real estate agent who commissioned the shot had asked him to exclude a dog that appeared in the background of the original photo. "So of course," he writes, "when she said that she didn't want to see that damn dog in the shot, I had to not only put it in, but it was also absolutely imperative to embellish it."
Hats off to the agent for going with it and posting the embellished pic. Hopefully the house sells straight-away. In real estate more than any other industry, everyone tries to act all grown up and boring, but nothing is more essential in marketing, or in life generally, than to make someone smile.


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The Woodley Park station opened in 1981 as part of a 2.1-mile extension of the red line to the northwest of Dupont Circle.
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A 1966 sketch by Harry Weese, showing design concepts for the Washington, D.C. Metro system.
The Farragut North Metro station in Washington, D.C., opened in 1976, and was one of the first stations completed in Weese's plan.
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The elevated platform at Rhode Island Avenue was the the eastern terminus of the first stretch of the Red Line when it opened in 1976. It was the only open-air platform in the system until the Brookland-CUA station opened in 1978.
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A small 2005 study, published in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention, that involved 22 women, half of whom had participated in child beauty pageants, concluded that there were "no significant differences" between the two groups on measures of bulimia, body perception, depression, and self-esteem. But it did find that the former pageant girls scored significantly higher on "body dissatisfaction, interpersonal distrust, and impulse dysregulation [an inability to resist performing actions that would be harmful to themselves or others]."
It is difficult to ignore the link between the flirtatious behavior exhibited by pint-size contestants in heavy makeup (it's not uncommon for toddlers to be encouraged to wink or blow kisses at the judges) and the naive sexuality that is becoming increasingly blatant among elementary school girls. Author and journalist Peggy Orenstein, who wrote about child beauty pageants in her latest book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, believes that pageant girls are being taught to see themselves as objects of others' pleasure. "I'm not saying that when they wiggle their hips and wink at judges at the age of 4 or 5, they have any idea that what they're doing is a highly eroticized, seductive gesture," she says. "But pageant girls are definitely learning that if they act in a very sexualized way, they will get attention. The risk is that as they become adult women, they will continue to see their sexuality as a performance and not something connected to their own true feelings."
Whether it's a 5-year-old strutting down the pageant runway in lipstick and false eyelashes or the 7-year-olds who became a YouTube sensation for a sexy Beyoncé "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" dance routine, the fact that these young girls don't mean to be sexual is actually part of the problem. When very young girls learn to disconnect sexy motions from the thoughts and feelings behind them, it's hard for them to integrate all of those elements as they get older. Deborah Tolman, Ed.D., a professor at Hunter College and author of Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk About Sexuality, says, "From Toddlers & Tiaras to America's Next Top Model, reality TV takes away a lot of what we know is good for girls. Focusing so much on how you look is problematic. Instead of focusing on how she feels which is an important skill growing up a girl learns to sexualize herself. Your body is a compass, and premature sexuality takes the arrow out of the compass."
"In 1996, when JonBenet was murdered, it was shocking for us to see a 6-year-old wearing lipstick and eye shadow," says Orenstein. "Now, market research studies have found nearly half of today's 6- to 9-year-olds are already using lipstick or lip gloss. Walmart launched a makeup line just for girls 8 to 12. Abercrombie & Fitch marketed a padded push-up bikini top for 8-year-olds. It's easy to slam pageants, but maybe that's because no one wants to deal with the bigger picture, which is the day‑to‑day sexualization of all our daughters."
Perhaps it's precisely because sexy dress-up has gone mainstream that Toddlers & Tiaras, the TLC network's hit reality show about child pageants, draws 1.4 million viewers per week. Toddlers & Tiaras made Eden Wood a star. The chubby-cheeked 6-year-old has more than 15,000 fans on her Facebook page, and there are nearly 700 YouTube videos of her posing, prancing, or performing one of her talent routines: a song-and-dance act in which she struts and swaggers, swings her hips, flips her hair, coyly sticks her fingers in her dimpled cheeks, and belts out lyrics in her untrained but very enthusiastic voice.
The demands of pageant life can be relentless. Many of the girls start competing as babies; some, like Eden, are homeschooled and spend Fridays making all-day trips to pageants. The time devoted to pageants is a developmental concern, says Northwestern's Doheny: "On the most benign level, the girls who participate in pageants truly limit the time they get to engage in playtime and other creative endeavors, or to learn and practice other competencies, like sports or personal relationships with peers." The top girls on the pageant circuit not only have hair and makeup stylists; they also have "beauty walk" consultants and "talent" coaches.
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Biographical and Playing Info
Given Name: James Edward Britt
Born: Brooklyn, NY, USA, in 1856
School: Did not attend college.
Primary Position: Pitcher
Batted: Right Threw: Right
Major League Games: 91
Primary Team: Brooklyn Atlantics
Played For
Brooklyn Atlantics (1872-1873)
First major league game: 5/2/1872
Final major league game: 11/1/1873
Hall of Fame Voting
No Hall of Fame elections.
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Optimizing Textual Entailment Recognition Using Particle Swarm Optimization AbstractThis paper introduces a new method to im- prove tree edit distance approach to tex- tual entailment recognition, using particle swarm optimization. Currently, one of the main constraints of recognizing textual en- tailment using tree edit distance is to tune the cost of edit operations, which is a dif- ficult and challenging task in dealing with the entailment problem and datasets. We tried to estimate the cost of edit operations in tree edit distance algorithm automati- cally, in order to improve the results for textual entailment. Automatically estimat- ing the optimal values of the cost opera- tions over all RTE development datasets, we proved a significant enhancement in accuracy obtained on the test sets.
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Along with two new stable mates (E-P3, E-PL3) the Olympus PEN E-PM1 (PM1) is the latest addition to the Olympus mirrorless fleet, targeting "first-time interchangeable lens digital camera users." The PM1 is the smallest, lightest, and most portable PEN camera to date - and has been dubbed the "PEN mini" by Olympus.
"Mini" also applies to the MSRP of $500, making the PM1 the lowest priced of the current PEN offerings (although Olympus has recently established a $500 "sale" price for their E-PL1 model). The three new cameras share image capture hardware basics: a new 12.3 megapixel CMOS sensor, the latest generation TruePic VI image processor, high ISO settings of 12800, full 1080i HD video with Dolby Digital sound recording and reengineered autofocus systems. The camera has a RAW shooting capability. Feature sets (and in the case of the EP-3 body shape) are the major points to differentiate the models with the PM1 being the least feature-rich of the three.
Olympus claims the new FAST (frequency acceleration sensor technology) autofocus (AF) system provides a "speed rivaling that of the professional Olympus E-5 DSLR" - the system features 35 separate focus points spread over nearly the entire sensor, "enabling pinpoint focusing accuracy on small subjects wherever they appear in the frame." Additionally, selectable 3 x 3 groups within the 35 point area are reported to be especially effective when shooting active subjects.
Elsewhere, the camera features in-body sensor-shift stabilization; a 3.0-inch LCD monitor; automatic, scene, full manual, and 3D shooting options as well as an accessory port that can accommodate a number of optional devices including an electronic viewfinder. High speed continuous shooting is at 5.5 frames per second (fps) at full resolution. The camera utilizes SDHC, SDXC or UHS-1 memory media, and comes packaged in kit form along with the M.ZUIKO Digital 14-42mm zoom lens. With the PM1's 2x crop factor that translates to a 28-84mm focal range (35mm equivalent) - here's a look from both ends of the zoom.
Olympus includes a strap, USB and A/V cables, lithium-ion battery and charger, flash and flash case, basic printed instruction manual and CD-ROM software with each camera. A complete camera manual is available on the CD-ROM.
While the PM1 may have the most basic feature set of the three new Olympus mirrorless models, the image capture stream is composed of the same parts as the flagship E-P3. Let's see how this junior member of the new PEN offerings does in the field.
Absent a lens and any attachments in the accessory port, the PM1 body is basically rectangular with rounded edges measuring approximately 4.31 x 2.5 x 1.33 inches. The 14-42 zoom adds about 3.0-inches to that 1.33-inch figure with the lens fully extended, but the overall package is still quite compact, and weighs in at about 9.34 ounces with battery, lens and memory card on board.
The body is metal and available in six colors: purple, pink, brown, black, silver and white - designed to appeal to the "fashion-sensitive younger generation." Our review model was the black variation and its lightly textured black matte paint was nicely offset by brushed silver accents along the camera top and lens mount. Build quality, fit and finish looked good, and appropriate for the price point.
Ergonomics and Controls
While that matte black paint was attractive it also offered nothing to help improve the grip on the body. The PM1 has a thin strip of rubberized material along the right edge of the camera back, but it's fairly slick and too small to be of help. The right front of the camera body is an empty expanse of paint that would benefit from a patch of tacky rubberized stuff.
The Olympus website trumpets ease-of-use as a major PM1 feature, and in keeping with this philosophy external controls are at an absolute minimum: on/off and shutter buttons on the camera top; on the back dedicated movie capture, info, menu and playback buttons along with a an arrow pad/control dial incorporating exposure compensation, flash, sequential shooting/self-timer and AF target buttons.
All three of the new PEN cameras offer "live guide," but the target audience of the PM1 is apt to benefit most from its use: "Designed for users who do not have expert knowledge of photography but want to have creative control over their pictures, live guide lets users shoot the pictures they want by selecting an icon and operating a slide bar to control the major factors for the SLR photography including color vividness, color balance, image brightness, depth of field (blur background) and subject in motion." Live guide is available in iAuto mode and can preview the changes created by the inputs prior to image capture. Here's a quick tour of the live guide interface, starting with the iAuto shooting screen:
Pushing the "OK" in the arrow pad/control dial gives us the live guide menu, which in this case happens to be set on "change brightness."
Users can scroll to the icon of their choice (top to bottom: color saturation, color image, change brightness, blur background, express motions, shooting tips), but we'll stay with brightness and push "OK" again.
Live guide has given us a slider on screen that we can scroll up or down to lighten or darken the image. We choose to scroll to the brightest setting and can see the results.
Going the other way darkens the image.
Automatic shooting modes typically allow little in the way of user inputs, but live guide pushes that generally narrow performance envelope quite a bit further.
Folks shooting in P, A, S, M or movie mode have access to "live control" to adjust settings and preview the effect of the changes as well. Pushing the "OK" button in the manual or movie modes brings up a number of shooting setting icons on the screen and you can then scroll to items like stabilization mode, picture mode, white balance, single or continuous shooting, image aspect ratio, image size, movie capture mode, flash setting and compensation, exposure metering mode, autofocus mode, ISO and face/eye priority AF.
That image aspect ratio setting is pretty cool - the PM1 can capture still images in the following aspect ratios: 4:3 (default), 3:4, 6:6, 3:2 or 16:9. Here's a look at those choices, which can come in handy trying to capture subjects of unusual shape or size.
Menus and Modes
"Ease of use," "simplified control," "excellent shots - effortlessly"- anyone see a pattern developing here? Despite sharing the basic sensor, processor, lens, and many of the features of its higher-priced siblings, Olympus has chosen to emphasize the easy factor with the PM1. Go to the Olympus website and bring up the E-PL3 and "professional image quality" is the headline for that camera (with "ease-of-use" relegated to fourth place behind "blazing speed" and "creative freedom"). I haven't been hands-on with the E-PL3 or E-P3, but since all three of the newly introduced PEN cameras feature redesigned user interfaces it's probably safe to assume that the menu structure of the PM1 will not be totally alien to folks shooting a PL3 or P3. Here's a quick look at portions of the new menu interface.
Push the menu button on the PM1 and you're taken to this screen, which shows the camera happens to be set in aperture priority shooting mode. The user can then scroll to the other shooting modes or the setup menu as needed.
Scrolling to "set up" and pushing the OK button in the control dial brings up this screen which provides access to shooting, playback, custom, accessory port and setup menus. The custom and accessory port menus may be disabled so they do not appear.
From the original screen, let's say we scroll to the scene menu.
Pushing the okay button produces our scene shooting options and shows in this case the camera happens to be set in portrait mode.
The PM1 menus are relatively simple and intuitive, and probably my chief complaint would center on the size of the typeface used in the setup menu - in bright light the relatively fine print can be difficult to see on the monitor. The other menus offer icons and explanations of the various settings and these are a little easier to see.
Shooting modes are typical for cameras in this class: automatic and scene shooting options along with full manual controls and HD video. Olympus divides these options into two groups - easy shooting consisting of the automatic, scene, and art filter modes and advanced shooting which incorporates the manual exposure modes.
Here's a peek at the six art filter shooting options:
Pop Art |
Soft Focus |
Grainy Film |
Pinhole |
Diorama |
Dramatic Tone |
The 3.0-inch LCD monitor has an antireflective coating and 460,000 dot composition. Area of coverage looks to be approximately 100% for image capture and 100% for playback. The monitor is adjustable for 15 levels of brightness. In our studio measurements the monitor recorded a 508 nit peak brightness level and a 1016:1 contrast ratio. The 508 peak brightness level is above the 500 nit threshold that we like to see for this value, and the contrast ratio is well above the 500 to 800:1 optimal range for contrast.
In practice, the PM1 monitor proved fairly useful in bright outdoor conditions although there were still occasions when Mother Nature was able to overwhelm the monitor and make image capture or review a difficult prospect. Since we started including peak brightness and contrast ratios in our camera reviews it seems the better performing monitors have a few things in common, notably a 3.0-inch size threshold and high dot composition - particularly 900,000 dots and up. High contrast ratios also seem to squeak better performance out of monitors that register relatively low in peak brightness. So while the PM1 comes up a bit short on monitor resolution, it size and high contrast seem to be helping out.
There is an electronic viewfinder available from Olympus that can be mounted on the camera's accessory port and would probably be my first add-on were I to purchase a PM1. The downside is by installing an EVF you lose the ability to mount the flash - but unless you're shooting the flash as fill light, you're probably not going to miss it in the bright outdoor conditions that make the EVF so nice to have.
As a third generation PEN digital, the PM1 stands to inherit all that Olympus has learned through refinements to the earlier cameras as well as the inexorable march forward of technology. Let's see what the PEN offers in its third time at bat.
Shooting Performance
One thing the PM1 has not inherited is a DSLR-class start up time. The camera takes about 2.25 seconds to display the shooting screen, with a first shot coming around 2.6 seconds. Single shot to shot times with a 95 MB/second SDHC memory card ran about 1 second, chiefly because the PM1 monitor has a short blackout period after each shot.
The PM1 captured 11 fine quality, large JPEG files in 2 seconds at its continuous high-speed shooting mode of 5.5 fps before the buffer slowed. Write time for those 11 shots with the 95 MB/sec card was about 3.5 seconds. Make image quality a RAW/JPEG combo and you get 8 shots in continuous high-speed with about a 9 second write time.
Swap the 95 MB card for a 45MB/sec model and the camera manages 10 JPEG shots before things slow. Write time for the 10 shots is also about 3.5 seconds. Finally, a class 10 30MB/sec card produced eight JPEG shots before the buffer slowed, and also took about 3.5 seconds to write. Clearly, the PM1 benefits from faster memory media to a degree, but individual users will have to determine if the incremental gains are worth the added expense for that fast card. If you don't habitually shoot continuous high-speed captures, you might be perfectly happy with the money saving class 10 or slower card. The 5.5 fps continuous shooting rate is predicated upon image stabilization being switched off. With stabilization enabled the camera manages about 4 fps.
When to stabilize? Before the advent of stabilization the rough rule of thumb for hand holding a camera was to set a shutter speed that was the inverse of the camera lens's focal length - a 50mm lens would be 1/50th of a second, for example. With the field of view provided by the 50mm lens, the 1/50th of a second shutter would be quick enough to cancel camera shake induced by the user, assuming the user had a reasonably stable hold. In the case of the PM1 with its 14-42 zoom lens and 2x crop factor, we are looking at a focal range from 28-84 mm and so with a reasonably steady hold should be able to produce an image free from camera shake by pairing the actual focal length with a shutter speed in the 1/30th to 1/90th of a second range. If you're unable to generate a shutter speed to complement the focal length you're shooting at then it might be time to enable stabilization.
Shutter Lag (press-to-capture, pre-focused)
Time (seconds)
Nikon 1 J1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3
Olympus E-PM1
Sony alpha NEX-5
AF Acquisition (press-to-capture, no pre-focus)
Time (seconds)
Olympus E-PM1
Nikon 1 J1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3
Sony alpha NEX-5
Continuous Shooting
Olympus E-PM1
Nikon 1 J1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3
Sony alpha NEX-5
*Note: Continuous shooting framerates are based on the camera's fastest full-resolution JPEG continuous shooting mode, using the fastest media type available (300x CF, SDHC, etc.). "Frames" notes the number of captures recorded per burst before the camera stops/slows to clear the buffer.
Shutter lag on the PM1 is a quick 0.01 seconds and AF acquisition time was nicely speedy 0.19 seconds. AF acquisition predictably slowed up a bit in dimmer light. There is a focus assist lamp.
The external flash provided with the PM1 has a guide number of 10 meters (32.8 feet) at 200 ISO, which translates into a flash range of about 9.3 feet at wide-angle and about 5.85 feet at telephoto with the 14-42mm lens used for this review. The guide number is about average for this class of camera, and not overly powerful, but the flash range increases as ISO levels rise and as we'll see later the PM1 can tolerate higher ISO levels without extracting too harsh a penalty in terms of noise. Flash recycle times ran anywhere from about 3.5 seconds to almost 7 seconds depending on the nature of the flash discharge.
As this review is being written the Olympus website has still not published a battery life expectancy for the PM1. The E-PL3 is listed with a 300 shot life expectancy and the PM1 uses the identical battery, so one would expect a similar performance. Carry at least one spare for all day shooting sessions just to be safe.
Lens Performance
The M.Zuiko Digital zoom that came with the PM1 turned in a pretty good performance optically - there was just the faintest hint of barrel distortion at wide-angle and an even slighter amount of pincushion distortion at telephoto. The lens was quite uniformly sharp at both wide-angle and telephoto with perhaps just a hint of softness in the corners. There was chromic aberration (purple fringing) present in some shots with high contrast boundary areas at wide-angle and in the worst cases the effect was noticeable at 200% enlargement. The telephoto end of the lens demonstrated little if any problems in this regard.
Video Quality
Full HD video quality was quite good in the PM1 and the camera features a handy one push video capture capability with the dedicated video button. The camera will record the noise of the zoom being manually operated, but Olympus offers Micro Four Thirds lenses that feature nearly silent autofocus for video capture - such lenses are designated as "MSC" (movie and still compatible). The camera's CMOS sensor showed a tiny bit of rolling shutter effect on some exaggeratedly fast pans, but in normal usage the camera does quite well with this aberration.
Image Quality
With Olympus marketing the PM1 towards an entry-level user base, I opted to shoot many of the still captures used for this review in the iAuto mode. Default images out of the camera were quite good as to color rendition and sharpness - photos produced by the iAuto setting seldom left me wishing for more sharpness or contrast.
I also grabbed a couple shots of the fireworks display at Disneyland using the fireworks scene mode.
The Olympus picture mode offers manual shooters five color options along with monochrome and custom settings. Here are the iEnhance, vivid, natural, muted, portrait, and monotone variations.
iEnhance |
Vivid |
Natural |
Muted |
Portrait |
Monochrome |
Auto white balance was used for all the images captured for this review and did a good job across the wide variety of light, including incandescent. Our studio shot with 5500K fluorescent lighting looks a little warm to me, but when I shot some subjects under fluorescent light at home the color balance looked good so I'm going to give the PM1 the benefit of the doubt. In addition to auto there are sunny, shadow, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent, underwater, flash, two custom white balance settings and a Kelvin temperature setting.
Auto White Balance, 5500k fluorescent light
Digital ESP metering is the default in the PM1 and was used for virtually all the images in this review, with the exception of some manual exposures after dark. The system meters exposure in 324 areas of the frame and optimizes exposure for the current scene. There are center weighted and spot options available, along with spot options for highlight or shadow control.
ISO performance with the PM1 was good, up to a point - the difference between 200 and 400 was virtually undetectable and manifested itself primarily in minutely sharper fine details in some areas of the frame. ISO 400 to 800 offers a bit more dissimilarity, with the threads in the bear's nose just about lost as a brown blob. ISO 800 to 1600 is more of the same, colors overall remain bright and vibrant with fine details becoming just a bit softer but still fairly good overall.
ISO 200, 100% crop |
ISO 400, 100% crop |
ISO 800, 100% crop |
ISO 1600, 100% crop |
ISO 3200, 100% crop |
ISO 3200 looks to be the tipping point on the PM1 sensor - noise is visibly up all across the frame and fine details are more compromised than in any previous step. The jump to 6400 sees overall colors becoming somewhat faded and in the case of the deck of cards shifting almost from a dark blue towards black. ISO 12800 is clearly suitable only for occasions when nothing else will work - noise ramps up significantly over 6400, fine details are largely a memory, and the blue deck of cards is definitely looking black to me now. The PM1 does pretty well through 1600, so-so at 3200, with 6400 and especially 12800 best left in the camera unless there's absolutely, positively no other way to get the shot.
Additional Sample Images
Olympus started the mirrorless interchangeable lens digital movement and with three new entries into this market niche shows no sign of wishing to cede this territory to more recent arrivals. While the PM1 is nominally the entry-level model in this newly introduced triumvirate, a lot of the performance hardware and features of its higher-priced siblings are present in the PM1 as well.
There's a fairly quick autofocus system, good shutter lag time and full manual controls to go with the requisite automatic and scene shooting options. Still image quality is good and video performance is very good. Menus and controls are simple and intuitive, and the live guide feature allows users a degree of input into automatic captures not usually found in most digitals.
The finish on the camera body has a somewhat slick feel to it and does not inspire confidence in one's grip - the PM1 is a definite candidate to always wear its camera strap. ISO performance, while good in the lower sensitivities was a bit disappointing at 3200. It's also a bit slow to power up and get off a first shot, and single shot to shot times are slowed by a brief monitor blackout after each capture.
If you're already shooting a PEN camera you'll be the best judge of whether the latest generation brings enough to the table to get you to move into a new body. If you're looking to acquire your first mirrorless interchangeable lens model the field is getting more crowded with brands and models, but the PM1 offers some fairly impressive performance at a fairly bargain price.


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Daredevil: End of Days #2 (Variant) by David Mack
This is, without a doubt, an absolutely beautiful variant cover. This is art, and as I?ve said of Mack?s work multiple times before, ?it belongs in a museum!? The devil of dare slowly emerging from the murky darkness, with an almost glowing aura about him sends slight shivers down my spine. More variant covers need to be like this; illustrated with paints instead of inks. Perhaps for the variant of this variant, Mack uses glow-in-the-dark paints to make things even more interesting.
Fairest #9 by Adam Hughes
In the wise words of George Takei, ?Oh my!? Honestly, this has to be one of the more titillating covers of this series from Mr. Hughes. I think it might be the foxy lady?s look of pure ecstasy that really revs my engine, followed by the traditional Japanese kimono and nothing but Rapunzel?s long flowing hair. This cover embodies the word ?sexy,? and probably is the sexiest cover of the year so far. My pants are haunted!
The Shadow #7 (Cover B) by Darwyn Cooke
With a creator like Cooke, I always have fun imagining how the conversation goes down between him and whatever company he?s doing a cover for;?Hey Darwyn? It?s Dynamite.??Hey Dynamite, what?s shakin????Well, we know you?re probably extremely busy with Before Watchmen and Parker, but we were wondering, if you had just a few hours, if you could do us a favor and produce a variant cover for The Shadow???I don?t know, I have a little free time, but the cover would probably just be inks and water colors.??We?ll give you a crap-ton of money.??Sold.?And the result is what you see before you. He makes it seem so easy while keeping it relatively simple. There?s a reason he?s considered a modern day master in this industry.
Avengers Academy #39 by Giuseppe Camuncoli
This cover made me sad. It?s the final issue of this wonderful series (that originally started as Avengers: The Initiative), and to come to grips that all good things must come to an end, this is the most appropriate of coves to go out with. They?re no more. They have ceased to be. They?re pining for the fjords. Maybe someday Christos Gage will come back with Avengers Community College and once again steal my heart.
The Manhattan Projects #7 by Jonathan Hickman
This is my favorite cover of the week, hands down. Hickman?s instantly recognizable circles work wonderfully with this cover, since the subject matter in this case is space (the final frontier). Trajectories have never looked so beautiful, and everything from the starry night to the color wheel-esque center screams ?Sci-Fi magnificence? to me. I can definitely see this as the cover to the second volume.
Cameron Hatheway is the host of Cammy?s Comic Corner, an audio podcast. You can observe how angry he gets at his Fantasy Football players on Twitter @CamComicCorner.
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Oracle Has Ported and Extended Yast
Database manufactuer Oracle has released various software projects under the GPL, including ports of Yast and the Btrfs filesystem.
Oracle's Open Source website has downloads of Yast both for Oracle's own Linux distribution, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and for Red Hat
SLES9 users will receive an additional, scriptable Yast extension, dubbed Yast-EM, for remote access. The RPM includes a colleciton of scripts for various Yast modules that give administrators the ability to configure DNS, host, network, NFS, routing and other services.
The developer version of the Btrfs filesystem which has also been published, is available for benchmarks and testing. It supports a variety of functions, such as automatic online repair, checksums, integrated (writeable) snapshots and compression.
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Old Vulnerabilities Are Kept Alive Through Bad Configuration
HP's annual Cyber Risk report offers a bleak look at the state of IT.
Linus Torvalds Announces Linux 4.0
But what do the big numbers really mean?
Microsoft Frees CoreCLR
.NET Core execution engine is the basis for cross-platform .NET implementations.
New Trojan Attacks Linux Servers
The Xnote trojan hides itself on the target system and will launch a variety of attacks on command.
Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
Zero Day Exploits Target Flash
Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.


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POSTED: Friday, August 9, 2013 - 1:02pm
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Tyler, Texas (KETK) — Tyler Investigators have secured an arrest warrant for Rakheem Goldstein, 20, of Tyler, for Murder.
Goldstein was involved in the shooting death of Briana Raquel Young who was shot in PT Cole Park on Tuesday, July 30th. Judge Jack Skeen set his bond at $1,000,000.
Investigators have not been able to locate Goldstein and need the public's assistance in locating him.
Anyone with information about Goldstein or any other further details related to this case is urged to contact the Tyler Police Department, at 903-531-1000, or Crimestoppers at 903-597-CUFF (903-597-2833). Crimestoppers will pay up to $1,000 for information that leads to the arrest and charges filed against the suspects in this case.
The incident is an on-going investigation being conducted by Tyler Police Investigators, along with the Smith County District Attorney's Office and U.S. Marshal's Office.
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Don't be on the look-out for a black male wearing a hoodie -it's called profiling and it's racist.


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Best 5 Chicken Salad Recipes
by Maria Russo in Recipes, June 27th, 2013When you think of chicken salad, do you imagine a cool, creamy combination of shredded chicken with mayonnaise, or is a mixture of fresh greens with perhaps grilled, sliced boneless breasts more your style? Both variations are easy to make and endlessly versatile, as they can be prepared with almost any ingredients you happen to have on hand and can be customized to your tastes. Check out Food Network's top-five chicken salads below to find a roundup of recipes from Sunny, Bobby, Ina and more Food Network chefs that features five-star inspiration for these two styles of simple salads.
5. Picnic Potato and Chicken Salad — Served on eat-with-your-hands lettuce cups, Sunny's bacon-studded chicken salad features tender roasted potatoes, poached chicken and a creamy herb topping.
4. Chinese Chicken Salad with Red Chile Peanut Dressing — In only 20 quick minutes, Bobby tosses a salad of crisp cabbage, lettuce and colorful vegetables with a honey-laced mixture of peanut butter and soy sauce before topping the dish with shredded chicken and chopped peanuts.
3. Curried Chicken Salad — After combining juicy roasted chicken with a smooth dressing of white wine, chutney and curry powder, it's best to let the salad chill in the refrigerator so the flavors can marry; just be sure to let the dish come to room temperature before serving. Click the play button on the video below to watch Ina make it.
2. Grilled Chicken Salad with Gazpacho Dressing — The key to making this hearty entree salad is building flavors and textures throughout; start with grilled seasoned chicken and garlic-rubbed bread, then toss with arugula, crunchy almonds and chickpeas, and finish with a dressing of pureed tomatoes, cucumber and vinegar.
1. Chicken Salad — Create the ultimate chicken club sandwich (pictured above) by adding fresh celery and scallions, plus a mayonnaise-mustard mixture, to poached chicken, then layering it between bread with bacon, lettuce and tomato.
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Shame on you for taking Paula Deen off the Food Network. She made one mistake years ago, admitted to it,
apologized for it and is now being destroyed by companies like yours who are so afraid to stand up for what is right. How about saying I accept your apology and move on. To take a good person like Paula Deen off the air because you're afraid of what everyone will say is an awful thing to do to her. By the way, she happened to have the best show on your network. Until you bring back Paula Deen, with an apology for getting rid of her, I will not watch the Food Network. -
I think you just cut off your nose in spite of your face. Has anyone at your network ever made a mistake ?? probably not !!! To remove her program because she made a mistake is inexcuseable . She has apoligized . Do you realize our public officals do much worse and nothing happens to them. Guess what we won't be watching the food network, buying magazines or any books. You've harmed not only a terrific woman and her family BUT all of your other chefs as well.
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Who is Lisa Jackson?
The Food Network is a bunch of hypocrites. They'd rather cater to the PC town criers that can't even prove Paula Deen said anything racist other than her testimony under oath than worry about what military veterans think about Stolen Valor thief Robert Irvine. How convenient that you let *him* keep his job after he lied about a non-existent military career when he should have been prosecuted for lying about military service and using it for financial gain? Especially after you pressured Josh Garcia to back out of "The Next Food Network Star" when it was uncovered about his inflated military career! But no, the Food Network CEOs are too worried about losing overweight lonely houswives viewers that fawn over greasy haired knuckle-dragging liars. Good job, Food Network. I hope you're proud yourself. *slow claps*
It is too bad that you, Food Network – can't start a thread and simply ask the viewers what they think of Paula Deen. No? Oh that's right, you don't care what the viewers think, you only care what corporate sponsors think. Got it. Well here is a hint, all your threads are being hijacked so that viewers have a place on your website to speak of their distaste for your actions. Now, run off and look at the other cheflebrities and see how much heat they are taking for taking no stance at all. I am sure they see their heads under that guillotine as well. If it can happen to Paula Deen, it could happen to any of them. The only salvation in the end is that Paula Deen doesn't need you or the rest of us. I haven't had on the Food Network or the Cooking Channel for almost a week. I intend to keep it that way, Top Chef is starting over on BRAVO in July, can't wait.
We love Paula, and have watched your channel for years learning how to cook. People make fun of me for how much I've always watched Food Network. You guys have really let me down. It's God's job to judge, not yours. I will have to start watching something else. The saddest part is, if you fired EVERY one of your employees that had ever made a racial remark in their life, you'd have to fire everyone, and you KNOW it. There would be no one left to cook dinner. You've made your bed…
Shame on you for not supporting Paula. If the tables were turned she would stand by you. Fire Gida she is your big boob queen, sick of her. No longer watching you.
So it's ok to be racist, but it's not ok to be well endowed. Anyone else you don't like for no good reason? I'm sure the higher ups are watching and ready to wield he axe at your whim.
What cloud are you living in?………really, Paula Deen would stand by you?
To fire Paula Deen from The Food Network is truly going too far!!! I am an African American Female and I know for a fact that many celebrities of my own race make some of the same or similar statements without being chastised for it!!! What they get is a black pass simply because they feel that they've earned the right due to EVENTS that occurred in our history!!! What I'm saying is…..why is it that our black celebrities get away with it and Paula Deen is left out to dry?!?! SHAME ON ALL OF YOU THAT ARE PARTAKERS IN THIS WOMAN'S FATE!!!
She made her own fate. Look at any comments on and news site and you will see that racism is prevalent and it is horrible. It also will not be tolerated!
no longer watching this channel. we all make mistakes.
Racism is no mistake.
If Paula was a racist we would have seen more evidence of it over the years. When she made the slur it was under duress from having a gun to her head. She has had black women on her show sharing a recipe for crying out loud.. If she was really a racist she would have walked away years ago rather than conceal the hate for money.


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Exchange mergers won't stop: ASX CFO
PUBLISHED: 01 May 2012 13:49:00 | UPDATED: 03 May 2012 10:51:04PRINT EDITION: 30 Apr 2012Shaun Drummond
ASX CFO, Ramy Aziz
Global consolidation of stock exchanges will continue despite a spate of failed attempts over the past year, says the CFO of the ASX, Ramy Aziz, but the reasons that might prompt the stock exchange to merge are more complicated compared with many of its competitors.
A merger for the ASX is not urgent, given the exchange is among the few vertically integrated exchanges globally including still having a monopoly over clearing and settlement here, Mr Aziz told CFO in an interview. But despite the Treasurer scuttling the proposed merger between ASX and Singapore Exchange (SGX) early last year, Mr Aziz said the ASX was still examining the possibility of another deal in the future.
"We still believe in it and are still active in talking to other exchanges and seeing what is happening out there," he said. "But we still have a very good business model and a reasonably good economy compared to lots of parts of the world. We don't feel the need to have to do something quickly."
There have been several failures of global tie-ups of exchanges either due to regulatory intervention or shareholders voting them down. A major reason for some mergers is to own both trading and clearing and settlement, in the face of low or volatile levels of market activity post-GFC.
For instance, acquiring clearing and settlement functions was a key reason for the London Stock Exchange's failed bid for the Toronto Stock Exchange, which was knocked back by shareholders of the Canadian exchange last year. The LSE last month got enough shareholder approvals for a controlling stake in LCH.Clearnet.
A merger of the NYSE Euronext and the Deutsche Borse was thwarted by the European competition regulators due to fears the NYSE was too dominant in derivatives trading.
But Mr Aziz said: "We think [mergers] will all be revisited at some point – we don't think global consolidation will stop because there's been some failures".
One of the problems for regulators of the merger of the ASX Ltd and the Singapore Exchange, he said, was that the SGX would have not only have been the dominant partner, but the potential control it would have over critical market infrastructure that the ASX owns.
"It is clear if we were on top of a transaction there is really nothing to stop it," he said. "One of the issues with the Singapore deal was essentially Singapore was going to be the holding company. If it was reversed, there wouldn't be issues here – but there would be issues in Singapore."
And for ASX shareholders, it didn't make sense to pay "a big premium to take them over". They would have had to do this due to SGX's larger market capitalisation and price to earnings multiples.
A major factor in the government's ban on the merger was who would have control of their clearing business. But he said the concerns about this could diminish if recommendations from the market regulatory review conducted by the Council of Financial Regulators released in March are implemented.
"Some of the recommendations in [that review] are all around giving the regulator the power to step in to take control of these critical pieces of infrastructure in times of extreme stress," he said.
Despite the challenges in determining the appropriate structure, Mr Aziz said a merger with an Asian exchange was logical.
"It ties you into some of that Asian growth which just makes sense given where we are," he said. "It is a lot easier to merge with someone who is three hours away as opposed to nine to 10 in terms of time zones."
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Religious groups are known for championing an abstinence-only approach to pre-marital life, and groups both national and local have been set up to promote and support this lifestyle. Sociologist Sarah Diefendorf spent a year with one – a small support group for young Christian men – and in a recent interview with the New Republic she explains how the abstinence-only approach did not necessarily make for a healthy sex life after marriage. This was in large part due to the severely gendered environment that Diefendorf encountered in which masculinity was equated with sexual restraint and femininity was equated with sexual disinterest – beliefs that led to long-term struggles even after marriage. Diefendorf told the New Republic:
For these men, to be a good man and a man of God meant saving themselves for the wedding bed. Amy Wilkins, a sociologist at the University of Colorado-Boulder, also interviewed men who pledged abstinence before marriage, and she argued that these men are asserting their masculinity in different ways. Rather than saying, "I'm a man because I engage in a variety of sexual activity," they're saying, "I'm a man because I can avoid that temptation; I can control these things."
When it came to abstinence-only support for women, Diefendorf found that there was none. The men she talked to believed that women do not "naturally" have the sexual urges that men do, thus eliminating a need for female support groups in the church. She said:
The church, and the men that I interviewed, don't believe that women would need a space to talk through these issues. They believe that men are highly sexual beings and they have "natural urges" that need to be controlled, but they don't believe that women have that natural desire to be sexually active. Women are the providers of sexual activity for their husbands.
These notions of purity and masculinity, however, made for a difficult transition into married life for most of the men. Diefendorf followed up five years later and found that the men from the group who were married were still struggling with sexual urges that they felt were "beastly" and, without a support group to talk through these issues, they often turned inward and stopped talking about, and in many cases enjoying, sex altogether. Diefendorf explains:
When you spend the first twenty-plus years of your life thinking of sex as something beastly that needs to be controlled, it's very difficult to make that transition to married life and viewing sex as sacred…The idea is that once you're married, it's all good— you're supposed to be enjoying sex with your wife…But as one of the guys said, once you get married, the "beastly" doesn't disappear. They still struggle with issues like excessive pornography viewing, masturbation. A few of them were worried that they might want to have an affair. They're still struggling with these things, but they no longer have an outlet to work through them. They didn't have the tools to engage in a healthy sex life.
For a great read on how abstinence-only groups target women by making abstinence "sexy", check out this post by Soc Images.


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The final installment, but not the enz of my current Split Enz obsession. I leave you with a short documentary on the band's calling it a day in 1984 (boo!), followed by a clip of The Enz performing "History Never Repeats" during a reunion show in 2007 (yay!). I'm now realizing how many music videos these guys made—Split Enz were prolific, weird, and fantastic popsters (and still somewhat underrated in America). Dig in and dig it.
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Happy Valentines Day, the day I celebrate my love for my wife … and also Neil Finn. Released as a single in 1978, and later added to 1979′s Frenzy LP, "I See Red" is The Enz's punk rock song. It also seems kind of fitting for today. Frenzy was the first record to feature Tim's younger bro Neil, and it continued the band's progression into simpler pop.
TDoL has Split Enz
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I'm on a Split Enz kick … now, so are you. For the rest of the week I'll be posting video earworms from my time down in the YouTube wormhole (not such a bad place if you can avoid the comments section).
I start with this one—one of the great pop songs … well, ever. And, of course, the video for "I Got You" shows why these kids from New Zealand were ready-made for MTV. It also gives me an intense flashback of eating Cap'n Crunch and playing drums along to it with markers on the arm of the couch.
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- • The Skull Defekts – Dances In the Dreams of the Known Unknown
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