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"Are you a movie star?" he asked without waiting for an answer, "You're a star, I know it." That is the greeting I received walking into Burns Tobacconist in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. We arrived at 11AM as the store was preparing for afternoon customers. A clerk tended to some bookkeeping while another restocked inventory. In the back corner stood a large man, next to his shoe shine stand, seemingly eager for conversation.
It was a little early to shop for a cigar, but we were there to get a photographeverything else that was about to happen was a bonus round.
As we asked for permission to take photos in the store, the man in the back continued to bellow, "You're a star, I know it! Go on, get your cigar, and come see me." I was more than happy to oblige. After a quick review of the inventory, I purchased an Oliva Serie V Double Torro. Cut and torched, I took a few good draws and headed straight for the stand.
Sherman put his newspaper down and prepped the stand for service. I climbed, sat down, took a quick puff, and he immediately went to work. While he cleaned the shoes, I tried to tell the man that I was not a star, but it's not clear that he understood or cared. Though I doubt many people walk into the shop with a photographer in tow, my guess is that he treats everyone with the same positive gustoa constant salesman.
Through the shine, Sherman gave me his take on life, especially pertaining to the pursuit of dating women. "The first thing women do is look at your shoesthis is what I try to tell these men (motioning around the office buildings surrounding us)if you don't take care of your shoes; women ain't interested." He continued, "When you go to the church picnic, the first thing they look at is your shoes. And if they like your shoes, next thing they ask is what kind of car you drive. And if they like your car, next they ask what you got in your pocket. And if you say, I have money in my pocket, then they say, okay, I'll let you take me out for a chicken and steak dinner."
These tidbits of wisdom were offered several times, in different configurations. It was clear to me that three things mattered the most in Sherman's world: well-shined shoes, women, and chicken and steak dinners (in that order).
As he preached, Sherman repeated a process which included polishing, buffing with a rag, buffing with a machine, more polishing, drying with heat, and more buffing. He did these things three times. Meanwhile, Chloe took photos from every angle possible, and I enjoyed every bit of the Oliva. This scene went on for twenty minutes. I wasn't a star when I walked into the shop, but I was starting to feel like one.
Unfortunately, the shoe shine came to an end. Sherman rolled my pant cuffs down and put things away. Chloe packed her camera. My time in the smoky limelight finished. We came into the store to find a final backdrop for a photoshoot, but got a lot more. Unintentionally, my world had grown richer; I made a new acquaintance, andyegods!my loafers looked better than new. I was ready for my chicken and steak dinner.
You can see the photo, and read my interview, in the May 2015 issue (the "Money Issue") of Net magazine.
I'm often asked how I'm doing. I do my best to put on a good face, but the truth is that some days my mental state is all over the place. The hardest part of this transition is the solitude. She Who Saves the Planet from Exploding Refineries is traveling more than she's supposed to which means that more days than not the only words I hear are my own. And that's only when I start talking to the cats.
Last fall I went from years of office chatter, Slack channels (previously Campfire) full of banter and animated GIFs, lunch dates, Skype meetings, phone calls, and the occasional happy hour to a twice daily scrum with cats. On an average day, my inbox received anywhere from 150-200 messages. Now, it's quiet. God help you if we talk by phone or Skype. I'll talk your ear off like an AARP member who calls QVC to chat about air purification systems, because the kids have stopped visiting, and Matlock isn't on for another hour.
If I've learned anything about myself in the last couple of months, it's that I would make a horrible cast away. At least I've got cats.
Grandma Storey once asked me what I thought hell was. Her question was pretty deep for a twelve-year-old. I hadn't given it much thought beyond the fire and lava pits depicted in Sunday school. In response, she told me that her idea of hell was to be "truly alone." Now that I think about it, she may have been reflecting on her situation at the time. Earlier in the year she had lost her husband leaving only his grandfather clock to fill the house with sound--not nearly enough to replace his booming personality. That said, I thought my version of hell, with the fire and the lava, was much more frightening.
Back to the present time, honestly, I'm in a good place. I am grateful to have the opportunity to take time to figure out exactly what I want to do next and with whom. Each week brings new ideas, introductions, and potential. It has been great to talk to so many people about possibilities, conversations that otherwise would likely have not taken place.
I look forward to being a part of a team again, having a Slack account, Inbox 200, non-QVC phone calls, meetings, reviews, and happy hoursthough sooner than later. If this "solace" continues much longer, I might have to get a fern and that, Grandma, would be hell to me.
News of GigaOm's demise hits hard this evening.
In the search for words in response of my own, I came across Wren's, and she puts it so well, "The web I fell in love with is disappearing into Nothingness. No doubt we get the web that we deserve. Now get off my damn lawn." It's true. Slowly but surely it feels like everything we built from 2000-2010 is fading fast or already gone forever.
Back in 2005, the boys at 9rules were on fire, creating some of the hottest properties on the Internet at the time. They were one of the first groups to recognize the blog format's commercial potential. Amidst the group, Mike Rundle, helped to elevate the experience of a blog through his design. Mike's work attracted a lot of attention because of the influence 9rules had on content site design at the time.
Mike's work on the redesign of GigaOm had an impact on all digital design in the day. The site became a destination for what was considered "great design" and was referenced often by Airbag clients back then. PaidContent, in particular, wanted/needed an experience that was on par with Rundle's work on GigaOm, a direct competitor. It was a tough gig to follow because Mike's minimalist work on GigaOm left little room to differentiate visually, and I was damned if I was going to deliver a carbon copy of someone else's work. Especially that of a good friend.
I was never a big GigaOm reader, but it was always a cornerstone of the Internet that I knew and love. And now, like a handful of other pieces from another era, it is gone. I'm all for the "new" taking over the "old," but, tonight this news...well, this just sucks.
Thank you Om, Mike, Mathew, and the rest of the 9rules crew for your work. You all helped make my Internet better, more interesting place.
A few weeks ago my niece completely lost it. If there was a Richter scale for child meltdowns I would put it somewhere around 8.4. She was screaming at concert grade decibel levels and there were a few times when no sounds came out at all, but you could hear it all the same. Although she's not old enough to form sentences, she was very aware that in a short while she'd have to head home. With the van all packed her mother asked her to say goodbye. She replied with a quick and defiant, "No!"
Nobody could blame her, we didn't want to say goodbye either. Our family had just enjoyed a glorious, long weekend together for the first time in many years. It was a moment that none of us wanted to end.
When you're a part of something great, it's the last thing that you want to ever have to do, but often circumstances, whatever they may be, necessitate saying goodbye.
In the last ten years, I have been a part of something great, really great. In the early days it was called Airbag which later merged with Happy Cog. It started eleven years ago at a lunch with Jeffrey Zeldman. During a meal of Thai food, Jeffrey strongly encouraged me to leave my job and start freelancing. Eventually I did, and turned a one man operation into a ten person company. Later, I met Greg Hoy, who had partnered with Jeffrey. He had established his own office and turned Happy Cog on its head with impressive success. Later, Greg and I decided to stop competing against each other and turned our friendship into family.
I'll never forget that Friday night during 2008 SXSW Interactive when Greg and I went over to the Cedar Door after dinner. We purposefully went to a corner of downtown Austin that was opposite to all of the big parties. The large back patio was empty and easy to claim as our own for the night. Hoy launched some newly minted Twitter app and posted our location. Moments later our friends and "family" started appearing, seemingly out of the wood-work. It didn't take too long for the fifty or so seats to be completely packed and remain that way into the early morning hours.
From that night forward, The Greg's were formed and we have had amazing times ever since. In addition to his business acumen and entrepreneurial knack, Hoy has a spirit for travel and traveling well. No matter where we had to go for business, Greg made sure that we were staying, eating, and imbibing at smart, swanky, and eclectic placessometimes all three. It also helped that we both enjoy dead grapes and dead cow, especially when one is paired with the other. When Airbag merged with Happy Cog, I didn't end up with just a business partner, I gained a friend, a mentor, and a brother.
As much as Greg and the rest of Happy Cog made it a joy to come into work every day, the services business has been grinding away at me. I have found myself more and more distracted by the realities that come with the peaks and valleys of the services business model. And this stupid year certainly did nothing to help relax that anxiety. More importantly, I miss being able to stick with a project or a property to see things through. The relationship between the service provider and the client feels more and more surrogate than nurturing in nature.
Several weeks ago, Greg and I were faced with making difficult, but necessary changes to the company. We ran through several scenarios and all the while, the voice inside my head and my heart screamed, "No!" I knew there was a better option, but I did not want to say it (hell, I don't even like writing about it now). At a quiet point during the discussion, shaking and crying on the inside, I stepped forward, suggested a different future, and said goodbye to my family.
Sitting across from Zeldman on that fateful winter afternoon in 2003, I would have never imagined the future that was before me. I have had so many wonderful experiences. If not for Jeffrey I might still be stuck at that dead end job, but instead he opened a door with a lot of opportunity. Greg came along and kicked that door wide open in a way that set the bar very high. We have had an extraordinary ride and that is going to be difficult to replace, if that's even possible.
I am sincerely grateful to the people I had the opportunity to work with at Airbag and Happy Cog. I'm thankful to my clients without whom, I would never be in a position to write this post. Thank you to my family who were there to give me the push I both wanted and needed in the beginning and the support at the end.
The great thing about saying goodbye to family is that often it's relatively short lived. Soon I'll get to visit with my niece again. We'll pick back up where we left off, reading about mermaids and playing with blocks. Though it's only been a few weeks, I already miss Greg and my Happy Cog family dearly. I look forward to the time when we'll see each other again, pick up where we left off, and have many laughs.
Children are now learning how to code interactive content before they are able to read.
Coding before reading. Yep, you just read that.
What the?! In my day you didn't learn how to "code" until the 5th grade. And by coding, I mean we were taught how to create a 40x40 pixel graphic image using Apple Basic. There was no animation, photos, or story telling. The closet we got to "interactive storytelling" was this crap, and it required knowing a lot about PEEKs, POKEs, and GOSUBs. Which you didn't learn until you where in the 6th grade.
Okay, so kids aren't walking away from 30 minutes of using ScratchJr with the ability to knock out HTML or Objective C or Swift. After looking through the website this app looks like the cross between a coloring book and Flash 1.0. But, hang on, don't get me wrong, this is amazing. And I can't wait to watch my nieces (side note: yep, that's right, the #storeystyle line ends when I'm gone, get it while it lasts folks) tear this up.
For a while now I've had this assumption that soon, people will knock out websites using nothing but a tablet. And, oh look, it just so happens that that makes this possible. Well timed Cabel, well timed.
So now we live in a world where children, unable to read, are able to create robust content for the web. And people a bit older than 5 are able to interact--edit/add files--with web servers using nothing more than a tablet. If you are in the business of making websites, you need to pay attention to these developments because they are going to very likely going to have an impact on your career path.
People, we are living in science fiction times right now. Next year, it will all start to feel like a family sitcom.
Recently, two friends have lamented what Twitter has turned into, for very similar reasons. For Jason, "it takes away so much more than it gives. Like the conversations are often more impersonal and inflammatory than they used to be. Like the experience is more toxic than nourishing." Erin's experience was, perhaps, not as toxic:
The tone of these statements could be applied to blog comments from days past.
There was a time when blogs and their related discussions were engaging, sometimes enraging, but otherwise fun and interesting to take part in. These exchanges of ideas, thoughts, and their related discussions helped to create the foundation of today's web design and development community. Twitter helped to extended and then eventually replaced the platform for discussion within the community. And our discussions and connectedness has never been the as it once was.
As the World Wide Web gets wider, the quality of interaction tanks. While I am glad that more and more people have access to this digital world, the continual addition people and applications has not helped improve the quality of discourse.
Nothing I am saying is new. I'm allowing myself to reminisce and be a bit curmudgeon about what we once had, knowing that we'll never get it back.
I don't think I'm alone with my thoughts. Carole Guevin (aka Netdiver) is doing her damnedest to spark a fire on Ello right now. While Ello itself is under debate, you have to admire the time and energy that Carole is devoting to get the community back in action.
Should Ello fizzle, then I'd love to help find/create the next inspiring and supportive place for our community to exchange thoughts and ideas. If you have any ideas, leave a comment on Ello.
We need a web design museum.
We need to start collecting and gathering artifacts (physical and digital), stories, documents, whatever we can get our hands on to preserve the history of web design. From the launch of the World Wide Web to Netscape 1.1 to the adoption of web standards which enabled Web 2.0, Responsive Web Design and the multi-device world that we live in today.
For too long we have relied upon a service that "archives" other websites but it's not enough. The archives are tragically incomplete and lack the means to provide the full experience of what used to be. Archive.org does not adequately preserve enough information to serve as a lasting account of the web. We can not rely on large, multi-billion dollar companies to do this for us. Nor can we depend upon individuals to properly archive their PSDs, HTML, their work, which helped to change the world.
We have already lost too much. There are so many wonderful sites from 1994-2004 that have disappeared. All that is left are domains that have been turned into Go-Daddy-SEO-Landing-Page-clutter because the old site had a Google Page Rank higher than the pulse of a nursing home. I hate to think about how many amazing pre-Web 2.0 sites that are gone for good because a service shut down, ad revenue dwindled, or there was a lack of time or interest or both.
Somewhere in Christopher Schmitt's home is a Zip disk with a complete backup of High Five, one of the first sites dedicated to the review and critique of web design. I know he's looked up and down for that disk but it might be gone forever and with it, an important piece of our professions' history and heritage.
We need a museum! An institution that can help preserve first-hand accounts of how things were done, what went down in the past. The working files, important emails, formative essays, and forgotten blog posts. We need to preserve the story of how web design began and how it has evolved to today.
In 1996 I purchased my first web design book, Designing Web Graphics by Lynda Weinman. Since then, I have amassed a small library of web design books. Looking through the collection you can see how web design changed with larger screen resolutions, new versions of HTML, and eventually different devices.
While I love to look through that collection, it only provides glimpses of the design, not a complete representation of the experience. We shouldn't settle for this and certainly not for anything less.
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Create a box for everything of talisman
Posted 11 January 2014 - 02:01 PM
I really would appreciate it if fantasy flight could come up with a creative box to hold the game.
Posted 11 January 2014 - 05:03 PM
I use two of the big boxes to store everything. I have everything sorted into nice little ziplock baggies and in the main box and the dragon box. I still have the plastic insert from the main box in, but after the next corner expansion it will probably have to go....
Posted 13 January 2014 - 04:14 PM
Exact the same thing as jediknightamoeba wrote. I have everything stored in the boxes of base game and dragon with the plastic instert inside the base game box ^^
Posted 16 January 2014 - 09:17 AM
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Posted 16 January 2014 - 12:19 PM
I find the packaging to the expansions beautiful but wasteful.
I'd much prefer to see Fantasy Flight put out an oversized box for the Talisman game that can accomodate their major expansions, and in turn produced a more cheap and disposable packaging for their expansions.
It's not that I don't appreciate the incredible quality of the product (that's actually the problem here!) Logistically it is better to store and tote everything around in one or two boxs but that gives me a small tower of gorgeous empty boxes sitting in my basement, too nice to throw away but too cumbersome to use.
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Posted 16 January 2014 - 04:35 PM
I have seen somewhere, don't remember where, Talisman sold as 1 package with several expansions. However, buying separately, and patiently waiting has given me an awesome deal.
base set & Frostmarch used maybe only once $43
City new $31
Dungeon new $32
Reaper new but opened (Reaper card dented) free (refunded)
Bloodmoon $22
Highland $9 ($12 refund due to damage)
total: $137
RoboRally, then Talisman. That's the way it is...
Posted 22 January 2014 - 10:27 AM
I still feel like, when they release the final corner expansion, they could package it in a box that would fit everything that's been released. It would certainly be a nice way of saying thank you to the people who've bought everything that's been released!
Although, if they instead designed and released a box (and just a box) that would hold all of Talisman, I'd probably buy it... 'cause I have no shame!
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Over the course of three years, the advocates and opponents of the boycott organized themselves into more official forms of advocacy and opposition. The wannabe-boycotters aligned themselves with the international anti-Israel movement Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and established the Park Slope Food Coop Members for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (PSFC BDS for short). PSFC BDS launched a website in July 2011, offering information on Israeli human rights abuses, statements of support from like-minded organizations, and information on such events as a recent seminar entitled "Food Justice & Ecological Damage in Israel/Palestine." Their home-page declares that they "are members of the Park Slope Food Coop (PSFC) who affirm . . . that the coop as a community stands for human rights, food justice and positive global interdependence" before making the dubious assertion,"We are like you."
On the other side stands the anti-boycott group More Hummus, Please, started by longtime coop member Barbara Mazor in the spring of 2011. "We joined the coop for the food. We didn't join to have our politics decided for us," their website explains. Or, as she put it to me, "We didn't want BDS, because then we'd have to deal with reporters." (Sorry, Barbara.) Mazor is a staunch supporter of Israel and believes that simply holding a referendum on the boycott is tantamount to "endorsing the position that Jews are not a national group and are not entitled to self-determination." As she wrote in the initial blog post on the More Hummus, Please website, "BDS is Bigotry. Dishonesty. Anti-Semitism."
While these two groups have had at it, many coop members, it appears, have focused on the bigger picture: "What about the quinoa?" In a recent Linewaiters' editorial, Joe Holtz, a cofounder of the coop, urged members to return to their founding principles:
Many members oppose the referendum not necessarily out of sympathy for Israel, but out of a desire to keep the coop from tearing itself apart over the issue. And it would be a real tragedy if the coop did tear itself apart because the store is . . . well, I don't really know what it's like. They wouldn't let a nonmember like me inside. But I'm sure it's great.
None of these protestations stopped PSFC BDS from pushing forward. In July 2011, they submitted the boycott referendum as an official agenda item. After a few more months of letter writing and blogging, the March 27 vote on whether to vote was set.
The general meeting is usually held in a Park Slope synagogue, but this time the coop is expecting far more than the 300 or so members who usually show up. So the meeting has been moved to Brooklyn Tech High School in adjacent Fort Greene, and it's a good thing, too: Standing outside Brooklyn Tech about 45 minutes before the meeting, the line to get in already stretches the length of a full city block. And plenty of nonmembers are there to voice their solidarity with one side or another. The BDSers stand outside the entrance with signs and pamphlets, and right next to them is a group from Negev Nectars, an Israeli food company, handing out free samples of the wares they hope one day to sell in the coop. The three news trucks (NY1, WPIX, and FOX5), the reporters, the photographers, students shooting a film—it all seems like overkill. But then again, I'm here.
The line stretches all the way down one block, around a corner, all the way down that block, and around a corner again, with members filing in very slowly. There are a few coop volunteers in crossing-guard vests, making sure only members get in, imparting instructions on how to sign in and prove one's identity once inside. Most of the linewaiters bear the delay and the standing and the cold in good cheer. Inspired by all this cooperation, and forgetting the nature of the crowd, I light up a cigarette. Immediately a woman on line about 10 feet away begins to glare. She tells me I should go smoke "half a block down." A fellow smoker, one of the BDSers, shoots me a sympathetic look. "This is America, right?" I ask him. "Well," he shrugs, "this is New York."
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New London — Discussions in political circles here in state Rep. Ernie Hewett's hometown run the gamut from keeping an open mind to calling for a full investigation into allegations of Hewett's inappropriate behavior toward female interns.
Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio has called on the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives to investigate allegations that Hewett was "verbally sexually harassing" female interns.
State Rep. Mae Flexer, D-Danielson, said Monday that Hewett was not assigned female interns because of a "history of bad behavior" toward them.
On Tuesday, Finizio, a Democrat, called the allegations serious and said House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, needs to look into them.
"While the allegations are serious, they are only allegations and every person is entitled to due process and presumption of innocence,'' he said. He would not comment further, he said, until he's sees the results of an investigation.
Flexer's comments came days after Sharkey took away Hewett's deputy speaker duties in response to a Feb. 20 Appropriations Committee remark that some thought was fraught with sexual innuendo.
Hewett was responding to comments made by a 17-year-old girl who was asking the committee to continue funding the Connecticut Science Center's ambassador program, which she said had helped her overcome her shyness and fear of snakes.
"If you're bashful, I got a snake sitting under my desk here,'' Hewett said into the microphone when the chairman of the committee asked whether members had any questions.
City Councilor Wade Hyslop, also a Democrat, said Tuesday he supported the speaker's actions.
"I heard the tape,'' Hyslop said. "I understand the implication of what is meant by that saying. I would have to say the speaker acted in a timely and appropriate fashion."
He would not comment further.
Others in the city are viewing the allegations more skeptically.
"Anyone who has a shred of humanity in him can understand that people misspeak sometimes,'' Democratic City Council President Michael Passero said. Hewett, he said, was making a public statement and had to deliberately hold open the microphone to speak.
"There was no way in hell he meant to make that statement and deliberately put that connotation on it that people are saying," Passero said.
He said he would continue to keep an open mind and view Hewett as the strong advocate for the city that he's always been.
"I've never seen anything in his character that suggests these allegations are remotely true,'' Passero said. "I'm not going to judge the man on hearsay and innuendo. And that's all it is at this point."
Bill Satti, chairman of the Democratic Town Committee, said that the matter thus far amounts to allegations.
"I feel we need to let the process and protocol of the Connecticut House of Representatives do their due diligence,'' he said.
At least one Republican in the city, where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 5-to-1, said he'd never seen Hewett act inappropriately. He questioned how Hewett could serve in Hartford for five terms and never have such allegations surface.
"My personal relationship with Ernie has always been friendly," said Bill Vogel, chairman of the city's Republican Town Committee. "He's a gregarious type of person. I haven't seen him in an environment where he's shown any kind of sexual abuse of females ... I don't have any firsthand information on how he acts with women."
Vogel also wondered why no one has spoken up before now if Hewett has been notoriously inappropriate with women.
"If she (Flexer) can't assign a female intern to Ernie, that's incredible,'' he said. "How did they keep that quiet?"
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The Associated Press | April 11,2014MONTPELIER Efforts to develop a version of the American chestnut tree that is resistant to a blight that almost wiped out the species are making progress, yet it could be a century before the trees can offer much benefit to the Vermont economy, a scientist told a legislative committee Thursday.
Kendra Gurney, the New England regional science coordinator for The American Chestnut Foundation, told the committee that her organization has helped create a blight-resistant version of the tree that is just now ready for widespread field testing.
Over the next several years, those versions will be refined in hopes of producing a tree that could be planted throughout the former range of the American chestnut, from Maine to Georgia.
At some point we will get to the Johnny Appleseed stage where we know we have the tree, we know everything is going to do well, and we can start getting it out to landowners, because thats really what people have been waiting for, Gurney said after briefing the House Committee on Agriculture and Forest Products. They want to know that if they plant these things, they probably wont die.
She estimated they are about 15 years from that point.The American chestnut tree was once one of the dominant species in forests from Maine to Georgia.
The fast-growing tree was known for its chestnuts, and the wood is resistant to rot and can still be found in some old barns.
But the species was nearly wiped out by a blight from Asia that was first identified in 1904. Now, there are few mature trees in the forests, but immature trees continue to grow until they are killed by the blight.
The foundation, which has state chapters throughout the former range of the tree, helped develop a blight-resistant species by crossing American chestnuts with a resistant Chinese variety
Vermont is at the northern edge of the trees range, and mature trees can be found that have escaped the blight, Gurney said. The tree that is believed to be the largest American chestnut in Vermont is among a handful of the trees on private land in Berlin.
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I abhor DIRECTV. This isn't the first time I've mentioned that fact, either. Back in April of 2012 I wrote a post titled 3 Reasons DIRECTV is the Worst, Most Atrocious TV Service Ever. Given our history together, I wouldn't exactly expect DIRECTV to go to any great lengths just to make a regular customer happy, but when you've got a tech blogger upset with you writing about how poor your service is, you'd think you would want to try to rectify things in hopes that said blogger would write something nicer about you next time around. I mean, there are plenty of companies out there who are starting to really pay attention to what is said about them through social channels and respond accordingly. DIRECTV does not appear to be one of those companies… I guess they simply don't care.
Since the last time I was unhappy enough with DIRECTV to write an entire post warning the world against them, things have only gotten worse. All the same problems from my last post continue to persist, except now they happen more frequently and more severely. Lately, our DVR has gotten into the habit of not responding to the remote at all. They shouldn't even call it a "remote control" because I can't do any controlling whatsoever. This is a replacement remote that was sent to me after the last fiasco… which I have a feeling was refurbished (as it had loose parts rattling around inside when it arrived). I'm not kidding when I say that I couldn't press a single button for 5 minutes… nothing happened, until everything happened. During those 5 minutes of trying to press buttons to get things working I hit the play, fast forward, pause and power buttons multiple times which all did nothing until all those functions started happening at once 5 minutes later.
Just this morning I couldn't use the remote at all without resetting the DVR which reset the resolution and every other setting. So, instead of catching the news I got to wait while the dish and receiver rediscovered each other. This is a frequent occurrence now–for whatever reason, the "new" remote they sent doesn't work with the receiver and the receiver acts like it is low, VERY low, on ram or something.
As I wrote in my last post about DIRECTV, if I make a selection (say I push up or down a few times), the action isn't performed for 3 or 4 seconds–it's maddening trying to select a channel or show to watch. With the delay, I may think I'm selecting NBC but end up changing the channel to ABC.
As if a broken product ecosystem wasn't enough, I got an email recently saying they were going to raise prices. That crosses the line. I will be canceling DIRECTV shortly (I'll be sure to post an update on how that goes).
Here's the thing: if you sell someone a product, especially an expensive product that they must pay for monthly, it had better work and work well. With business practices this bad, DIRECTV is bordering on the unethical. This is nothing more than snake oil and guess what, I'm not buying it from here on out.
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I canceled my service this morning.
They tried to get me to stay but like you my remote did not work and they couldn't even tell me how to make the unit work from the box.
They offered me a 21 dollar/Month lower price If I stayed with them… Being I couldn't get service and don't care for square pants bob and all the other gum stuff I closed the account..
You might want that lower price and put up with the problems..
I don't tell them anything as they pay some jerk that don't seem to know his *** from a hole in the ground.. and couldn't find it with a road map and flashlight.
Please folks keep your mouth shut unless you get paid for it…
If they can't see the writing on the wall and you wanta tell them for free you are the sucker.
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The case is the latest in a long line of controversies marking the National Intelligence Service's troubled history that have triggered calls for reform, but it has been notoriously averse to change.
Park warned the service must mend its ways. "Regrettably, the National Intelligence Service's wrongful practices and a system of lax oversight were revealed and caused concern among the public, and I would like to apologise for this," Park said at a cabinet meeting.
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Say you've never had much but brains and you're finishing your sophomore year at San Diego State thinking about majoring in finance. Suddenly you get a call from a Wall Street headhunter guaranteeing you a million dollars if you leave school early. What do you do?
Your reaction is not to give this person the Heisman pose. It's more like: "Where do I sign?"
Thing is, it doesn't happen in the real world. In sports it does.
Which brings us to Kawhi Leonard, who was a star forward on SDSU's basketball team about to finish his sophomore year. He had a choice to make. He could stay in school or declare himself a candidate for the riches of the NBA draft, which can be done legitimately one year removed from high school (today is the deadline for declaring).
After due diligence and discovering he more than likely will be an NBA lottery/top 14 pick in the draft and thus guaranteed more than meal money, Leonard chose to leave early. In that so many top underclassmen eligible to declare are staying in school, Kawhi is going to go fairly high.
Leonard did not come from Beverly Hills. Other than basketball, he's never had much. Who could blame him? You can't. Blame the system, not the kid.
Is Leonard ready for the NBA?
"Nobody's ever ready for the NBA," says Bill Walton, who would be a terrific Secretary of Education.
I fear the 6-foot-7 Leonard, no giant by NBA standards and without a honed offensive game, is going to get lost in the professional trees. He will make a team, because he can rebound, handle the ball and defend. He is, however, a tweener in every respect.
But Leonard's pluses and minuses aren't the issue here. The problem is that the system stinks and it negatively affects the pro and college games.
The NBA is a bad league, with great players to be sure, but too many who are unskilled in the fundamentals and, even worse, lacking the maturity that can come from higher education. The colleges suffer because so many top preps come in for a year and leave. So the play isn't as good and coaches have to scramble to replace those departing, often finding out too late.
"It's his choice, his life, and I encourage everybody to quit their job and catch their dream and make their dream their job," Walton says. "But people who think the NBA is about a glamorous life … the NBA is Minnesota at Cleveland in January.
"I am staggered that the players union doesn't fight to protect the existing veteran players' jobs, players who built the league. The NBA is a man's league, a difficult league. You should be three years out of high school and 21 before you can make it. The union is making such a huge mistake fighting for people (college players) who aren't even in the union."
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"One question is how long it will take the banks to restore health to their balance sheets, raise capital and start lending money again," said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group. "That could take a year and credit conditions may start to improve in the second half of 2009."
After years of easy access to loans in the U.S. property boom, the credit crunch that began in August 2007 has hurt corporations and entrepreneurs alike as banks tightened lending. Combined with weak U.S. consumer spending, this year ahas not been good for a host of companies.
"Many companies are suffering from a loss of liquidity, loss of sales because of the weak economy and the consumer, plus a loss of profits," said George Cloutier, chief executive of Orlando, Florida-based small business consultant American Management Services Inc. "We talk to up to 500 small businesses a week and the great majority say things are tightening up."
With hundreds of billions of dollars in debt set to mature this year and next, larger companies will have to pay more to borrow money, as there will be fewer banks to borrow it from.
Speaking at the Reuters 2008 Restructuring Summit, Andrew Feltus, senior portfolio manager of an $8 billion high-yield fund at Pioneer Investments in Boston, said the remaining banks will dominate the market, which is "good for them, not good for the borrowers and not good for the overall economy."
It is already harder to get a loan. According to a quarterly U.S. Federal Reserve survey of senior loan officers in July, 58 percent of respondents said they had tightened lending standards to large and medium-sized businesses, up from 55 percent in April. Sixty-five percent said they had tightened standards for small firms, up from 52 percent.
According to bankruptcy data and management company AACER, in the eight months to August there were just over 40,000 U.S. commercial bankruptcy filings, compared with 43,000 for all of 2007 and 30,000 for all of 2006.
"The rest of 2008 will remain robust for bankruptcies, as will 2009," said AACER president Mike Bickford. "The generally poor availability of credit has definitely begun to have an impact on commercial borrowers."
Those hoping that the U.S. government's $700 billion bailout allow a swift injection of cash into the corporate sector to reverse that trend will likely have to wait.
"Those who believe that we've managed, in one day, to switch from a deflationary to an inflationary backdrop because of additional government debt creation are not taking into account the offsetting credit contraction in the private sector," Merrill Lynch's chief North American economist David Rosenberg wrote in a note for clients. "The Fed and Treasury are merely cushioning the massive deflationary forces in the financial system."
About $173 billion of outstanding financial debt is set to mature this year, followed by $500 billion in 2009, according to Morgan Stanley data. Those maturing bonds mean banks already suffering the worst credit conditions since the Great Depression will have to sell bonds at a steep price to roll over borrowings and raise fresh capital.
The extra yield, known as the spread, that investors demand to hold risky high-yield bonds over U.S. Treasuries, for example, widened to a record 983 basis points on September 18, a sign of rising risk for those securities.
Many small firms will find it hard to even get loans, which is bad news as they form the backbone of the U.S. job market. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in 2002 the United States had 112 million paid employees. Some 56.4 million of them worked at firms with fewer than 500 employees.
Dan Lovejoy runs PC911, a small firm that sells and services computers and computer networks on Kealakekua, Hawaii. Largely a one-man show, in years past Lovejoy earns around $75,000, but tourism here has suffered because of the weak economy and so far this year he has made $25,000.
He said friends at a local bank warned him not to even try getting a loan in the current market, while his customers have reported getting a similar response from banks.
"My customers used to be able to pay me by credit card, but they've maxed all out their cards," Lovejoy said.
"People here put on a happy face, but when you talk to them you find out they're behind on rent and barely hanging on. The next few months will be make or break for a number of companies around here."
In a survey released on Monday, but compiled in August, the U.S. National Small Business Association said 67 percent of respondents said their business had been affected by the credit crunch, up from 55 percent in February.
NSBA head Todd McCracken said the survey was particularly troubling because, unlike the February poll, it only included NSBA members "who tend to be larger and well established."
"We had expected they would have less severe problems than we saw in February," he said.
"But instead they face more difficulty getting credit. And there's no sign of a turnaround. It's rather alarming."
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Every once and a while, throughout my life, I would maybe try a trick or two on a friends skateboard but I never really grew to like the sport. Maybe I just didn't have the patience to tackle down a new trick or maybe I took a hard fall and my face became part of the sidewalk, maybe I thought the geeks at school would gang up and hurt me during recess, who knows?
This summer, during one of the photo shoots with PacSun, the team had the opportunity to stay at Windells. Every day, after snowboarding, we would head over to the BOB indoor skate park which was located out back and skate the rest of the day. Watching Brett, Broc and Molly skate everyday during the trip inspired me to finally make my first purchase on a setup as soon as I got home. I've come to realize that It takes me about 10,000 tries to finally land a new trick on a skateboard. However, skating keeps me mentally focused and is also a great way for me to train and condition my body for this upcoming season. Since the trip to Windells I have been so stoked on skating and I finally have a bag of tricks . I just spent the last three days learning a switch flip (switch kick flip) and I finally stomped the heck out of it today! You should have seen me smile.
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MANILA, Philippines — American rock band Mayday Parade is looking to brush up on their Filipino for their upcoming third performance in the country on May 25at the Makati Circuit Fest.
Derek Sanders, Mayday Parade lead vocalist, told INQUIRER.net in an exclusive phone interview, that he had learned a few Filipino words back when they performed in the country last Sept. 30, 2012.
"I have learned some words when I was there but I'm so embarrassed that I don't remember what I learned. But I promise I will brush up and I will learn a few things that I can say while I'm there and things that I can say on stage and I'll try to get better at it," he said.
Sanders said that they were now halfway through with their fourth album set to be released by October. Mayday Parade has released three studio albums — A Lesson in Romantics in 2007, Anywhere But Here in 2009, and Mayday Parade in 2011.
For their upcoming performance at the Makati Circuit Fest, Sanders said they were very excited.
"[We're] so excited about it, we've been so lucky to have been able to come over there two times already and this will be our third time," Sanders said.
"It kinda blows our mind so I really cant wait, the first few times were unbelievable, we're all definitely really excited," he said.
The Circuit Fest event will also feature skateboarding performances from famous skateboarders Willy Santos, one of the industry's first Filipino pioneers, and Riley Hawk, son of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk .
On skateboarding, Sanders said: "years and years ago I skated for just a little bit but I was never very good or very serious at it."
"But I've always loved it and I'm just excited to see some awesome skateboarding going on during the show," he said.
Sanders cited the clamor from Filipinos on social networking sites to have them come and perform in the country as a major factor for their decision to finally come and visit.
"I feel like, in the beginning, one of the big reasons we came over there is that we noticed that we got a lot of love on Twitter and on Facebook and social networks and stuff from the Philippines," he said.
"I think that has a lot to do with what brought us over there in the first place and then everyone has just been so amazing that we've kept on coming back. So thanks for the opportunity and thanks for being excited about us coming over there," Sanders added.
Despite their three performances in the country, Sanders said that they would still want to come back to the Philippines to perform again.
"Hopefully we'll just keep on coming back. We try to look at everywhere we go as an investment in a way," Sanders said.
"Because each time we go somewhere we want to make sure we come back as soon as we can … so we'll definitely be coming back," he said.
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Return, seriousness, zeal: An Overdue Art Dump
Hi all,
God, I've lurked in and out of CA for what seems like a very long time. Maybe 5 years or so. I think I may have posted art way back then but I eventually just stuck to commenting and trying to help out now and again.
There's so many great artists here that I've always felt pretty out of place putting work up but I've recently decided to try and dedicate myself to getting a position in the industry.
This is mostly work from the past 3 or 4 months and I hope I'm improving a lot... wanted to share some of my work with CA.
Just want to also say thanks to the great community here and any feedback would be helpful.
My compositions are a little on the boring/samey side but I'm working on it.
Uh yeah, a shameless L4D fan-poster.
Uh, this is more like personal rather than work work. Maybe that comes across
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Cool stuff.
You have some really interesting scenes. The alien walker piece and your creepy pink creature are two of my favorites.
Would love to see what you have in store for the next four months.
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Some nice looking stuff man! The alien craft works are really badazz and the post-apocalyptic work ..so cool!
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The Big Money
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|"Middletown Dreams" (USA)
"Territories", "Red Sector A" (live) (UK)
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|Peter Collins and Rush
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"The Big Money" is a song by progressive rock group Rush from their album Power Windows. It charted at #45 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on album-oriented rock charts, and has been featured on many "Best-Of" compilations, such as Retrospective II and The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974-1987.
The title of the song comes from John Dos Passos's novel The Big Money, part of his U.S.A. trilogy.
The lyrics, written by drummer Neil Peart, reflect on the power of "big money" and the sheer magnitude of trade in the modern global economy, particularly during the 1980s.[citation needed] Regarding the idea that the song's lyrics were inspired by a John Dos Passos book of the same name, Peart replied "I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified." - Neil Peart, "Backstage Club Newsletter", January 1988.
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The video for the track was directed by Rob Quartly, produced by Allan Weinrib, Geddy Lee's brother, and created by Green Light Productions, using state-of-the-art (at the time) computer graphics similar to those seen in the video for "Money for Nothing", performed by Dire Straits. The video also features the band performing the song on a giant Monopoly-style game board with the words "Big Money" in the middle. A full-length version of the video was included on the VHS and laserdisc releases of Rush's A Show of Hands tour concert film, while an edited version was released to MTV and other outlets, as well as on the short-lived CD Video format, directed by Allan Weinrib.
The car featured in the animated intro has a license plate that reads "Mr. Big", a reference to producer Peter Collins, who produced Power Windows.
Live performances[edit]
When performed live, many of the synths and sound effects heard in the original track are triggered through pedals and switches used by bassist Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson plus Peart's electronic drum pads. The song has been performed live during the band's Power Windows Tour and was the show opener on the Hold Your Fire Tour (the latter of which was released on the band's 1989 live album A Show of Hands). The song would be performed during most of Rush's later tours, including the Roll The Bones Tour, Leg One of the Test for Echo Tour, the Vapor Trails Tour (which was released on 2003's live Rush in Rio ), and, most recently, the Clockwork Angels Tour (documented on 2013's Clockwork Angels Tour (album) ).


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This week, I experienced what might be considered my first physical "setback" of the competition. I made it to the gym again six days this week, working with Patrick on two of those days. On Thursday, we worked on a couple of the cable machines that I had not used as of this time.
One of the machines is the same one I had joked about for the last several months, saying that it looked like something used to train people for riding on a dog sled. It turns out that it is used to provide tension on your hip flexor, and I must admit that it was very difficult, as I hadn't gone through that motion before. It certainly was uncomfortable.
When I finished that exercise, my personal trainer Patrick Carmean of NOMS had me do something that was a big challenge. On one side of the squat rack, there are four handles that those much more fit than I use for doing pull-ups. He simply wanted me to hang on them as long as possible. I told him that I wasn't sure I could get up there, as you can only get two or three sheets of paper under my "vertical." I managed to get up there and spend maybe 15-20 seconds total hanging on for dear life. I got back on there on Sunday morning with more success.
After I finished my workout with Patrick, I hopped back onto my favorite bike, planning on knocking out another 10 miles before I called it a day. Generally, when I am on the bike, I am listening to music, and have found several songs that have drumbeats that I have tried to follow with my pedaling. One song's beat (Megadeth's "Never Dead") has pushed me to over 150 RPMs on the bike, but on Thursday, after all of the lifting, my left hamstring hiccupped a bit, so I slowed things WAY down after that.
I was back at the gym Friday-Sunday, but I took it very easy on the bike, spending several extra minutes each day stretching out my hamstring. It felt better later in the week, so I think I'll be able to cut it loose when I get to the competition on Tuesday night.
This week, I also did some experimenting with trying to create my own dried fruit. I found a technique online stating that you could dehydrate it in the oven over the course of about eight hours. I will have to admit that it was only a partial success. The pineapple certainly shrunk in size, but it is currently on the dehumidifier in my basement trying to remove the last of the moisture. It tastes great, but it isn't exactly what I was hoping for when I started. We'll have to see if it works out.
As today is my day for an update in the paper, I had to do my weigh-in last Thursday. After my circuit workout with Patrick was finished, I hopped onto the scale and found myself down a total of 45.6 pounds. I know that I have had some success, but I know that I can do more. Over the next three months, I'll be redoubling my efforts to ensure that I have even more success. Again, I thank all of you that have given me your support. While in a way, this is a singular battle; I can honestly say that I couldn't be doing it without your kind words and thoughts.


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