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One of the great annoyances and confusions of flying is the ban on use of any and all portable electronic devices below 10,000 feet. While we're honestly perfectly fine with the use of cell phones being banned in such extended-period close quarters, devices like tablets, ereaders, and the like aren't really of great concern. I'll admit to having left my tablet and cell phone turned on (in airplane mode) during takeoff and landing, and the plane did not come crashing out of the sky, and there's little doubt that at least a few of your fellow passengers are doing the same on every flight.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski is now urging the Federal Aviaition Administration (FAA) to "enable greater use of tablets, e-readers, and other portable devices" during all phases of flight, according to a report by The Hill. Genachowski's letter to acting FAA director Michael Huerta noted the economic benefits of these gadgets we use, though one has to question how much additional utility can be gained from working in the ~30 minutes between the gate and 10,000 feet (and in reverse when returning to the ground). Then again, extra time on the tablet is extra time on the tablet.
Genachowski pledged in the letter to work with the FAA, airlines, and device manufacturers on completing a review of the safety of these devices during the take-off and landing phases of flight. The FAA has been studying the question of gadgets during these phases for some time, stating in March that they were reconsidering the policy and forming a committee in August to study their current policies, though no recommendations have yet been made.
While we're all for extended gadget time during flights, we also want this to be done right. There are legitimate reasons behind the not-below-10,000-feet rule, and if the studies and committees determine that there's even a small chance that turning on that iPad could knock your plane out of the sky, then we'd rather people not be doing that. Airplanes are overengineered for a reason - just one mistake, one error, one failure can be seriously when you're with a hundred other people in a pressurized metal tube hurtling through the sky at five hundred miles per hour and thirty thousand feet over the ground. We'd all prefer that playing X-Plane on our iPad not be the cause of that failure.
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The tablets themselves aren't connected to any wireless networks and the ones that are being used have been thoroughly tested by the FAA. Interferences with instruments and other safety devices is rare but does happen. I fly for a regional airline and we had a few incidents where the baggage smoke warning light would flicker but not stay illuminated and where there was no fire or smoke. . The company investigated the cause and there were a couple of seats on the airplane, where a cell phone, particular a GSM(AT&T, T-Mobile, etc) was causing the erroneous illuminations.
Another reason is like tomhoward said, so people will pay attention in case of an emergency. Who would you want in the emergency exit row? Somebody who paid attention to the briefing and read their briefing card or somebody who was reading or playing on their tablet the whole time?
I flew for a commuter and am now corporate. I have notices the buzzing in the headsets with GSM, or at the commuter days TDMA phones. We had baggage smoke warnings, the company determined were cell phones left on in the baggage compartment. I have never personally experienced this. We are now using iPads as essential flight equipment in the cockpit. Our charts, flight manuals, and Opperations manuals are all on the iPads and are readily available. This, ironically, makes for a safer, more organized cockpit. Ther is no longer a concern of missing approach plates from doing the wrong revision. I do turn off the cellular feature, but get real time weather via onboard wifi access to the Internet. The aircraft uses a cellphone (AirCell or GoGo Inflight) to get that data.
The baggage compartment issue sounds like one that needs to be looked into but none of the FAA rules and regulations would have any impact of this. Additionally, the baggage compartment doesn't have nearly the shielding that the passenger compartment has so that's a different argument all together.
My issue with the radio argument is that while you may have noticed some interference in your radios it sounds like it was simply because someone decided to just stow their device without bothering to do *any* of the options they had to make them safer. Most, if not all, smartphones have an airplane mode. This would eliminate that static but still allow me the ability to use my device. And let's be serious now, who hasn't heard the safety speech a few thousand times and could probably recite it themselves? I agree with the emergency exit row comment but then again I also know the flight crew makes sure to talk to those people individually and face to face which guarantees you they are listening and know their responsibilities.
Is that a picture of a SAFE landing?
That plane has a gangsta lean!
As a pilot who uses Foreflight on an iPad, in the cockpit, I can say without doubt that using such devices on a plane causes zero interference. Its about time the FAA came around. We are not in the 50s anymore.
Take off and landing are the most critical moments of a flight, therefore:
1. It is important that people are not distracted and able to react to staff instructions should an emergency occur. You don't want people lost in their games or movies, or even worse wearing headsets, that are unresponsive to instructions.
2. It is the worst possible time for interference to occur. Even if let's say the iPads have been tested not to cause interference, it's practically impossible to test all existing devices. If let's say some devices would be tested and allowed, it would still be impossible for the flight crew to quickly determine whether someone is using an allowed or not device.
3. Even if some people leave their devices turned on in their pockets, devices are more likely to cause interference when used rather than when idle - trying to connect to GSM or WiFi due to your using apps. Making sure that all people use airplane mode is even less practical than the previous point.
So, such a measure would create a risk with seriously, no reward - well, other than small entertainment value.
Why is that plane only on one wheal? I hope someone playing AngryBirds didn't cause that?


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The man accused of convincing his brother to eat a fatal dose of cocaine rejected a plea deal on Thursday morning that would have put him in jail for 15 years. Now Deangelo Rashard Mitchell, 24, of Clements Avenue could face a minimum of 25 years if he's convicted in trial, according to a judge.
Mitchell is charged with drug possession, trafficking and involuntary manslaughter for the death of his brother, 20-year-old Wayne Joshua Mitchell, of Ducs Court in Charleston.
In court, Circuit Judge Markley Dennis went over the possible sentence that Mitchell faces if he rejects the offer, which is on the table until tomorrow.
"If they prove it, you're going to jail for a minimum of 25 years," Dennis told Mitchell. "I'm not trying to frighten you. I'm just trying to tell you straight up."
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Because Mitchell rejected the plea offer, the case will be placed on the docket for trial. There's no indication yet when it may go before a jury.
Deangelo Mitchell and his brother were arrested on the night of Nov. 30, 2011 on cocaine trafficking charges. On a video made of the two brothers handcuffed sitting in the back seat of a North Charleston police cruiser, they can be seen and heard discussing their arrests.
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Wayne Mitchell suffered a seizure after ingesting the cocaine in order to destroy evidence, according to authorities. He died less than an hour later.
After his arrest, Mitchell had been out on bail but was rearrested on July 26, 2012 for violating the conditions of his bail.
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On Flash Crash and Sublime HTML5 Video Clash
We all know by now there's no Flash on the iPhone or iPod touch, and it doesn't look like there'll be Flash on the iPad, which is probably why Adobe's Chief Technology Officer fired off an impassioned defense of the plugin, while a software engineer shows how a still-unfixed bug crashes it, and the first full on HTML5 video player concept makes its debut.
First up, Adobe CTO, Kevin Lynch has posted a full throated defense of Flash on his Adobe Blog and in a follow up comment notes:
Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don't ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today.
How does this reconcile with Apple CEO, Steve Jobs saying something along the lines of "Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it's because of Flash"? TUAW draws our attention to Matthew Dempsky who found a bug that causes Flash to crash in Safari and Chrome, and Firefox to crash completely. And Adobe hasn't fixed it some 16 months later... Dempsky has created http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/ to demonstrate (remember, it will crash Firefox completely!), and says:
This page exploits a bug that I reported to Adobe in September 2008, and has affected every release of Flash on every platform since then. Despite numerous email exchanges with the Flash product manager about the bug, the bug report being hidden from the public for "security" reasons, and [although] Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch's claims otherwise, it continues to be an issue. [...] I'm just a software engineer who at one time had to deal with Adobe's sorry excuse for a development platform and made an earnest effort on several occasions at helping them improve it for everyone. (This issue is merely the tip of the iceberg of ridiculous bugs and random backwards and forwards incompatibilities known as Adobe's Flash Player plug-in.)
TUAW makes the case that Adobe's been resting on their de facto-standard laurels.
Daring Fireball, meanwhile links to SublimeVideo, the first (to our knowledge) full on HTML5 and JavaScript alternative video player. It's still early days, of course, but it works without a plugin, doesn't buffer until you tell it to, and lets you jump to any point in the video with fairly robust controls -- and more to come.
(And Gruber also notes that MPEG LA, owners of H.264, the proprietary codec used by Apple's gear and online in Safari, Chrome, and Flash -- but not in Firefox -- have announced it will remain without charge for free-to-end-user video through 2016)
Lynch, and former Macromedia Flash MX co-creator, Jeremy Allaire on TechCrunch, make valid points that HTML5 can't replace Flash and that Adobe works really hard on both.
In an ideal world, however, perhaps HTML5 can relieve Flash of some of the duties for which it's unsuited, give us back a lighter, cleaner, faster web overall, and let Flash and Adobe concentrate on those tasks for which there is no Flash alternative -- complex data visualizations, for example.
(And we'd also appreciate it if Flash stopped allowing websites to abuse local settings by storing "cookies" on our system -- okay Adobe?)
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I could be the only person in the world who was happy that the iPad doesn't have Flash. I realize that Flash won't be going away for a long time, but I'm hoping this makes more websites stop using it, or at least provide usable alternatives. In general, the more Flash-heavy a site is, the less time I spend there.
Updated to include MPEG LA announcement that H.264 will remain fee-less for free-to-end-user use through 2016, and with the link Fassy shared about why Mozilla is philosophically opposed to using H.264 in Firefox.
I doubt that will (or should) change Mozilla's mind. If you read the agreement, it applies only those those who serve internet video for free -- in other words, h264 will be free for you serving your own videos on the internet, but not if you distribute DVDs. Even on the internet, Major League Baseball has to purchase a license to encode, as will broadcasters, wedding video producers, and everybody else who charges for video. Ads are not mentioned one way or another, but it is hard to see content providers eager to jump on board that, especially if the fee structure may change in 2016.
More specifically from Mozilla's point of view, the original h264 license terms also held downstream viewers liable; if a provider encoded something without a license, and you viewed it, you could be required to purchase a license, as a viewer. That point was not addressed in the recent MPEG-LA license change at all, and I suspect that part is as big, if not bigger, a sticking point to the Mozilla foundation.
Just wanted to give an update on this to make sure your readers have the latest. The Flash Player team describes this bug situation, with a kudos call-out Matthew Dempsky: http://blogs.adobe.com/emmy/archives/2010/02/flash_bug_repor.html.
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Link didn't appear correctly - should be:http://blogs.adobe.com/emmy/archives/2010/02/flashbugrepor.html
@Matt R:
Much appreciated! I fixed the link in your original comment.
@Fassy, understood, that's why I included the link on why Firefox feels the way they do, which is a perfectly reasonable point of view to me.
Flash isnt going anywhere anytime soon.
I remember when Pocket PC (currently known as Windows Mobile) users started making noise about Flash back around 2003 before we even had smartphones and I couldn't understand why then. I personally don't care about Flash and only this past year or so is Flash even beginning to appear on mobile devices because it doesn't work right on them in the first place.
Flash is not the "real internet", it's just a vehicle for content delivery on the internet that uses to much CPU cycles, allows unauthorized cookies to be installed on a PC (any OS), is abused by web designers and takes to long to load in some cases. For those who want Flash on their mobile devices, understand that just because it will run Flash doesn't mean it will display the page. To this day there is still not a single smartphone that will display every web page properly. Anyway it seems that since many who don't know any better want Flash will get it and eventually find out that outside of being able to play a Flash-based games, seeing a few pretty animations and play some videos that they are not missing anything else or getting anything more worthwhile except for shortened battery like that those who don't use Flash won't get.
In any case Flash will be around for the foreseeable future as Adobe is not going to let it go lightly; but some of those ignorant statements by the CEO needs to stop along with the lashing out at Apple. If Adobe truly had a good product and everyone knew it, it would speak for itself but obviously Adobe feels threatened and rightfully so. The iPhone is the most popular phone since the Motorola RAZR, because people are willingly paying for it without it going on a buy 1 get 1 free sale like other phones do. Adobe sees this and realizes that the only way they can strengthen their hold in the internet space is to get on all Apple's iPhone OS-based devices. Since that appears to not be happening in the foreseeable future Adobe has chosen to simply make a lot of noise in hopes of scaring Apple into doing so. If Flash was actually an internet standard and worked really well and not just standard practice it might have made it onto the iPhone but since it's not Adobe should just take their loses and move along quietly. They have other products that that are truly important and necessary for many people.
Just on a factual basis , there is an alternative to Flash for complex visualization. It isn't widely used and the startup time is a killer, but JavaFX does work on lots of machines with no install and produces some pretty cool results.
Is flash really that prone to crashing and viruses? Just wish flash could be viewed on iPhone someday...
Adobe has ARM versions of flash in the works, and actually ARM is helping them with it. ( http://tinyurl.com/6ysv63 ) I would expect a decent ARM beta early to mid this year. Of course, not an iPhone one, but Adobe cannot (officially) move that way without Apple's blessing, which Apple will not give.
h264 has one undeniable advantage over theora -- h264 hardware decoders already exist in mobile devices, mainly the iPod/iPhone line. Apple is never going to change there.
Theora (the codec Mozilla currently favors) has one undeniable advantage for producers -- its license just says "use it, wherever you want, however you want, for free." In contrast, the h264 license is confusing, risky, costly, and totally at odds with web standards. Mozilla is never going to change there.
Interestingly, Apple's statement on those same principles is ( http://www.apple.com/about/w3c/ ):
"After careful consideration of the draft patent policy, Apple believes that it is essential to continued interoperability and development of the Web that fundamental W3C standards be available on a royalty-free basis. In line with the W3C's mission to "lead the Web to its full potential," Apple supports a W3C patent policy with an immutable commitment to royalty-free licensing for fundamental Web standards. Apple offers this statement in support of its position."
However, later in the same document they state that companies need exclusions for their own IP, which seems like Apple is trying to have it both ways. The solution is at the end of Apple's statement:
"While the current draft patent policy does state a "preference" for royalty-free standards, the ready availability of a RAND option presents too easy an alternative for owners of intellectual property who may seek to use the standardization process to control access to fundamental Web standards. A mandatory royalty-free requirement for all adopted standards will avoid this result."
The problem is that Apple, and the W3C, have punted on the issue of video codecs being a fundamental standard, which seems illogical -- without at least a codec is nonfunctional, so a fundamental baseline codec should be part of the standard. Without one, you can have W3C-standard browsers that cannot serve content in W3C-standard compliant pages -- a situation with black boxes that is little better than ActiveX or Flash. In other words, you have a worthless standard.
Apple holds all the cards here. They have the cash on hand, they have the clout both within MPEG-LA and within the W3C, and they have the investment in hardware to protect. With one stroke of the pen, they could start the process that would entrench h264 as the preferred video format for the internet for at least the next decade. Killing flash would be little more than a happy side effect for Apple.
Hi Rene, there's some more info the "crash" citation, posted late Saturday:http://blogs.adobe.com/emmy/archives/2010/02/flashbugrepor.html
If you're interested in the use of local storage (whether by sites you visit or the third-party content they host), then Adobe just filed a statement with the FTC on that, and there's also been progress on browser integration for privacy settings:http://www.brafton.com/industry-news/adobe-slams-use-flash-cookies-seo-t...$1357341.htmhttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/privacymodefp10.1.html
I use HTML5 version of YOUTUBE .. and it has a hard time going to the exact spot on the video... at its current state HTML5 sucks..
but I"m sure in 3 years or so .. it'll be ready for prime time.. and probably taking over in 5 years..
the problem is in the meantime .. Apple Iphone and Ipad owners will have a horrible browsing experience..
@ Jerry
maybe it's just me but my iPhone browsing experience has been nothing near horrible. I guess I don't miss all the intrusive ads that bring the browser to a grinding halt......
Yes advertisers use different methods...so far though none of them get in my way as much as the flash variety.....you are right though....flash is easily blocked, which is a good thing
The problem I have with no flash on the iphone is there are certain websites you cannot visit because the main page is completely flash. No way around it unless you know its link address and then you have to hopw its not all flash too.
I dont need flash ads or games, but I do need to have access to any website on the net now, not later.
@Scott J: What websites in this day and age are nearly 100% flash on the front page? What is the site specifically?


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UTC began the morning with three duos vying for doubles titles. Senior Jenna Nurik (Roswell, Ga.) and sophomore Kaylene Chadwell (Franklin, Tenn.) came into the weekend ranked No. 58 in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). They lived up to their billing by winning the No. 1 Flight with an 8-6 victory over Kennesaw State's Apostu & Stein.
Freshmen Katie Polk (Woodstock, Ga.) and Kelsey Coots (Huntsville, Ala.) teamed up to win the No. 3 Flight. They defeated Lowther and Simon from UAB 8-4 in today's finals. Junior Alexa Flynn (Memphis, Tenn.) and freshman Kayla Jones (Memphis, Tenn.) lost their finals match in the No. 2 draw to Samford's Lewis and Lochner 8-6.
Sophomore Claire Mulyadi (Semarang, Indonesia) and freshman Jovana Pecovski (Apitan, Serbia) won their third-place match against Samford's Lyon and Mallory 8-3 at No. 3.
"It was a good weekend for the Lady Mocs," stated head coach Jeff Clark. "We start off strong with wins in two of the three doubles finals and carried that momentum through the rest of the day."
Two freshmen, Polk and Jones, took home the two singles trophies for UTC. Polk defeated teammate Coots in a hard fought final in the No. 4 draw. Polk won in three sets (3-6, 7-6 (8), 6-4). Jones took home the No. 5 draw with a quick (6-2, 6-1) win over Jacksonville State's Kerindi.
Nurik defeated Chadwell in the third place match of the top draw (7-6 (6), 6-3) while Mulyadi also posted a third place showing at No. 3. Flynn finished fourth in the No. 2 Flight while Pecovski and fellow freshman Alison Storie (Johnson City, Tenn.) finished fifth in Flight 5 and 6, respectively.
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Chelsea are now 14 points points behind leaders Manchester United, albeit with a game in hand, but Benitez insists his side will stay focused hauling in their rivals.
"I didn't like to talk about (the title) before and I don't like to talk about it now," ths Spaniard said.
"Obviously you can't make mistakes when you have this gap. We have to approach one game at a time and see what happens. Every game is important."
Benitez started with Ramires, Juan Mata and Eden Hazard on the bench but insisted his rotation policy was justified given the club's heavy workload.
"We were tired and weren't precise. We made a mistake and gave them their chance," he added.
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The unit explores internet technologies for esystems software development such as, the use of XML schemas including DTD and XSD in creating XML documents, models of distributed computing in the high-level design of esystems, XML web services which is a significant paradigm in distributed computing and the role of open standards, such as SOAP and WSDL, for the development of web services. Methods for the publishing and consuming of web services in B2B systems. In addition, there will be a major focus on server-side technologies for esystems such as PHP, J2EE and .net with an emphasis on components development. Security issues in esystems will also be identified.
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Mallaebility, Amiability, subservience, group dynamics and leadership
I'd like to start an open discussion on these 5 things as I've had some difficulties working with other people over the last couple of years and want to "man up" a bit now because my communication difficulties are making certain collaborations impossible. Not only that, i'd like to be a bit more professional in my approach to music.
I consider myself to be a competent drummer (although there's always room for improvement) and have had a lot of people wanting me to work in their bands over the last couple of years.
However I have a problem with feeling 'subservient' in a band. It seems like i quickly creep into this role. its almost like as a drummer i'm noty expected to have much influence over the musical direction - that i'm there to be malleable. I am quite an amiable person and i think people want me onboard because they like me as a person but also see "amiability" as an easy trait to deal with. I quickly get fed up of those in more of a leadership/ directive role. Maybe because i've been very patient with these characters in the past and my patience maybe beginning to dwindle..
As a side project i sing/play folk songs on guitar and banjo - traditional/original/contemporary and get more satisfaction from this because it allows me to make decisions, to explore my musical interests more freely and not to have to deal with the complications of group dynamics - it gives me the creative space i crave and somehow feels more spiritually fulfilling. But i can't help thinking i should be drumming because im good at it!
This outlook may be childish or naive. I may be letting my ego get the best of me and I'm aware that there's room for improving my attitude. I don't understand what's going on to be frank! But have posted this to see if there are other folk who've had similar experiences.
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Sounds to me like you are feeling frustration from the nature of the drums within a band context. I'm guessing the reason that many have asked you to drum for them is because of all the words you used in the thread title.
Do you realize how secure you need to be to be all the above? You may be feeling stupid because no one else has to be like that, right? Why should you be the only one, right?
You have a skill set that is hard to come by. Take comfort in knowing that most pitched instrument players can never do what you do. Drumming needs someone with those skills.
Perhaps the group of people you are with aren't the best for you. In my one band, they value, ask for and listen to my opinions. All I have to do is make a sour face, and they will say...OK Lar, whats wrong...and I will tell them. Sometimes it's listened to, sometimes, I'm off, but I don't feel invisible.
Perhaps gently asserting yourself in situations that you feel strongly about is a way to ease into the role you crave. This may alter perceptions about yourself, meaning it may threaten the insecure ones. Being subserviant to the music is one thing, being subserviant to the musicians is bad for your soul. Strike a balance, and if some get upset, don't you get upset too. You don't own their problems, it's not your issue.
As long as you speak the truth....people know the truth when they hear it. This doesn't take into account the bruised egos that result from hearing the truth. That's where they need to man up. Call them on it. Time to gently go on the offensive, only when it is warranted though.
If you assert yourself, and meet resistance that is born from insecurity or a need to feel superior, call it out, and term it unacceptable. Call a spade a spade. As long as the truth is on your side. Make no apologies. Call them like you see them. That's what everyone loves about me. Anyone who knows me knows that whatever happens...they will get a straight answer from me, even if it is unpalatable. Which it usually is. Not my problem, I didn't make it unpalatable, I am just reporting on the unpalatability of it all. I'm just the messenger.
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YES, Larry, you've taken the words out of mouth, with a difference though, I would never been able to write it down as well as you did.
Your reply is the very essence of what a drummer, or any other musicians for that matter, should be or aspire to be in a true democratic band, where all involved are on same level of interactions, participations and opinions towards each others, and of course, towards the music.
Still, I can relate to Ryan frustation, in the sense, that unfortunately, there's still some bands or musicians who are "looking down" on drummers, especially if he's/she's only good at the drums, no other instruments, regardless that they could not play our instrument to save their lives, and while I can admire a brilliant saxophone player, he's only playing one instrument, as we, drummers are playing several instruments together.
Another approach Ryan, which could be more satisfying as a drummer, is to start a band in which you'll be the leader, bringing your own music to the band and be the "lead" instrument within your project, at least you should feel less frustrated, but it could also help the "I may be letting my ego get the best of me and I'm aware that there's room for improving my attitude" syndrome.
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I've spent four years trying to find the best people for a band I'm in. And it wasn't even really my band to start with! It's by far the most important factor in whether a band will function, having the right people, both musically and personally (these two are inextricably linked, I suspect). Only when you've got a good team can you really get things done.
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I think as drummers we are expected to just "sit back and take note". You will find many here that are satisfied in doing just that. You will read many posts on here that say things that go along the lines of "If they write the check, then play it as such". Which is fine and appropriate for those situations, but if you are in a band that creative ideas are flowing, then I would say step up and state your ideas! If they are not valued by your bandmates, then maybe it's not the right group for you.
As larry stated, they can't do what you do. Understand that and that you do have a place.
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Ryan, I don't think much is to be gained by thinking about the role in the band pecking order. If you have some thoughts on the arrangements I suggest you share them with the band - as though you're a proper musician :) Seriously, our approach to drums has a massive effect on arrangements, especially the dynamic shape of a song.
The worst that can happen is you'll be dissed. The best response to a dissed suggestion is not to worry about it but to work out why they preferred a different approach. If you come up with an idea that requires the bassist or guitarist to play a simple ostinato, be ready for a rejection :)
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Re: Mallaebility, Amiability, subservience, group dynamics and leadership
Hello all - Thanks for you're postive replies. Especially Larry ace , that was very well put.
I would argue, however, that there is a lot to be gained from thinking about ones role in a band pecking order - especially if we were talking about someone who often finds themselves at the bottom of one. To me, if they passively go along with this role they could be depriving themselves of the opportunity of thinking critically about their own ideas and their creative processes. Admittedly this could slow down the whole process of 'getting things done' and 'getting results.' But ultimately, if a project is people centred - if it faces up to the invevitability of tension within a group dynamic, i'd suggest that this is going to help the final recording/gig, making for a more energetic performance.
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May 7, 2010
First Day Results - Men's Decathlon
First Day Results - Women's Heptathlon
Northridge, Calif. - Under very warm conditions on Friday afternoon at CSUN's Matador Track, Robert Robinson of Cal State Northridge has taken the first day lead in the decathlon at the Big West Decathlon/Heptathlon Championships.
Robinson collected 4,070 points to take a 330-point lead over second place Nicholas Armstrong (3,740 points) of Long Beach State.
CSUN's Lance Gonzales, who was the conference season leader with 7,170 points, resides in third place after five events with 3,728 points.
A third Matador athlete, Owen Morse, sits in seventh place with 3,468 points. The final events of the two-day competition take place on Saturday (5/8/10) starting at 11:00 a.m. with the 110 meter hurdles. The day's events will include the discus, pole vault, javelin and the 1,500 meters.
Admission is free during Saturday's competition.
Robinson, who finished third at last years' Big West Championships, got off to a great start with a time of 10.83 in the 100 meters. That was the best time in the 13-member field and produced 899 points.
Robinson's best event of the day was the next event following the opening 100 meters. Robinson leaped 24-5 ½ (7.44m) in the long jump to earn 922 points. That again was the best mark in the field.
Robinson finished the day with a throw of 37-5 ¾ (11.42m) in the shot put (571 points), a leap of 6-6 ¼ (1.99) in the high jump (794 points) and a time of 48.53 (884 points) in the 400 meters (the best time in the field).
In the women's heptathlon championships, UCSB's Barbara Nwaba has the first day lead after three events with 3,420 points. Desirae Gonder of Cal State Northridge is second with 3,329 points followed by Anikia Jackson of UC Davis with 2,986 points. CSUN's Shelese Ruffin is fourth with 2,981 points while Matador teammate Ese Ntekume has 2,606 points for eleventh place.
Gonder's best event of the day was the first event of the day, the 100-meter hurdles. Gonder ran a 14.39, the best time in the 15-woman field, good enough for 959 points. Gonder's second-best event of the day was the 200 meters with a time of 24.32. That time produced 950 points. CSUN's Shelese Ruffin had the best time in the 200 meters at 24.08, good enough for 973 points.
The final three events of the heptathlon will take place on Saturday (5/8/10) with the long jump at 1:00 p.m. followed by the javelin and the 200 meters.
Big West Decathlon Championships at Cal State Northridge (3/7/10) - First Day Results
1. Robert Robinson - Cal State Northridge (4,070 points)
2. Nicholas Armstrong - Long Beach State (3,740 points)
3. Mike Powers - UC Santa Barbara (3,728 points)
4. Lance Gonzales - Cal State Northridge (3,716 points)
5. Dominic Byrne - Cal Poly (3,522 points)
6. Corbin Duer - Cal Poly (3,501 points)
7. Owen Morse - Cal State Northridge (3,468 points)
8. Will Guthrie - UC Davis (3,452 points)
9. Jordan Goffens - Cal Poly (3,444 points)
10. Josh Codding - UC Santa Barbara (3,304 points)
Big West Heptathlon Championships at Cal State Northridge (3/7/10) - First Day Results
1. Barbara Nwaba - UC Santa Barbara (3,420 points)
2. Desirae Gonder - Cal State Northridge (3,329 points)
3. Anikia Jackson - UC Davis (2,986 points)
4. Shelese Ruffin - Cal State Northridge (2,981 points)
5. Sara Macey - Long Beach State (2.811 points)
6. Maureen Ajoku - UC Santa Barbara (2,807 points)
7. Sara Klein - Cal Poly (2,796 points)
8. Turuoise Williams - Cal Poly (2,777 points)
9. Christina Nowak - UC Santa Barbara (2,771 points)
10. Grace Esslinger - UC Santa Barbara (2,649 points)
11. Ese Ntekume - Cal State Northridge (2,606 points)
12. Jessica Bragg - UC Santa Barbara (2,577 points)
13. Jazmine Lewis - UC Riverside (2,574 points)
14. Rebecca Hamilton - Long Beach State (2,435 points)
15. Chelsea Pham - UC Irvine (2,329 points)
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The first place winner receives ten team points, followed by eight points for second place, six points for third place, five points for fourth place, four points for fifth place, three points for sixth place, two points for seventh place, and one point for eighth place ... The Big West Conference decathlon record is 8,007 set by Mauricio Bardales of UC Irvine in 1978 ... The decathlon meet record is 7,631 set by Pete Mansur of Fresno State in 1984 ... The Big West Conference heptathlon meet record is 5,642 set by Sharon Day of Cal Poly in 2008 ... The conference record is held by Sheila Tarr of UNLV with 5,856 points set in 1984 ... The main portion of the Big West Championships will take place May 14-15 at Cal State Northridge ... The Matador women have won the league crown four straight seasons, while the CSUN men have captured the league title three of the last five years.


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Why Dark Souls fans shouldn't worry about the sequel until we have more information.
This is the internet and one thing you must remember about the internet is that the denizens of this digital empire are prone to worry and outrage in direct proportion to the lack of solid information on any given topic.
So the less we know about something we care deeply about, the more likely we are to freak out about it. Enter Dark Souls 2 and its scraps of images and information, and watch as the internet does its thing.
Edge has recently given us a glimpse of Dark Souls 2 (for subscribers only at this point) and the details in the piece paint a somewhat foreboding portrait of the next fantasy RPG from the team at From Software and Namco Bandai.
Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura are heading up the project. Both are FromSoft veterans, but neither are former lead designer Hidetaka Miyazaki, the series' creator, and players are justifiably worried that new leadership means new direction and that change could destroy many things they love about the game. Change isn't always good, but it's not always a bad thing, either—for instance, the Souls games are spiritual successors to the King's Field franchise, but I'm glad they made the drastic leap from first-person to third-person in the more recent games.
Still, change is always cause for concern.
Also cause for concern is the suggestion in the article that Namco Bandai and From Software made the decision to move Miyazaki off the project in order to bring fresh perspective to the sequel and make it more accessible to a broader audience. I'll temper that concern just a bit: Miyazaki is working on another secret project while Dark Souls 2 is being developed, and is hush-hush on whether it's a new IP.
Could there be a Demon's Souls 2 in the works? Or perhaps a revival of Shadow Tower or King's Field? Or is this an all-new IP?
We don't know, and we also don't know how much his involvement in this enigmatic has figured into the decision to place him outside the day-to-day operations on Dark Souls 2.
Fans of the series will also worry about statements made by Shibuya who has said that he wants to make the game more accessible and straightforward by "limiting players options for the early portion of the game, making it simpler to understand new concepts. Then, after a certain amount of time has elapsed, they will suddenly experience the true Dark Souls experience".
This actually doesn't bother me at all, as an extended introductory tutorial section of the game would certainly be helpful to many players and would not diminish the game for veterans of the series.
Demon's Souls had a better intro than Dark Souls and made it much easier to grasp the mechanics early on. Indeed, other than World Tendency, I think Demon's Souls did a better job communicating information to players than Dark Souls, and I wouldn't mind seeing more of that in Dark Souls 2.
You could also limit invasions for the very first portion of the game, and give players a bit more context about what they were getting into.
"I intend to make it more accessible to players," Shibuya also said. "And that's not just with the Covenant system, but with a lot of other aspects that I feel were difficult to adapt to. I will follow the same concept as Dark Souls, but there were a lot of hidden story elements that some players may not have caught before, and I'm hoping to make some of that a little bit more clear or directly expressed."
Plenty of players will freak out over this, but I'm still feeling pretty okay with everything Shibuya has said so far, which really isn't very much. For instance, he says he will follow the same concept as Dark Souls, but make some of the hidden parts more obvious. I imagine he wants to make the primary narrative more obvious, but he also says that there will be other elements to the story that are more inscrutable and secret.
A Dark Souls game with a more coherent main story wouldn't break the game so long as a great deal of mystery and hidden lore remained and so long as much of the backstory and world-building was still conveyed through item descriptions, brief NPC conversations, and so forth. There can be more of a balance here, and I think Demon's Souls proves this assertion, as its main story was much more straightforward than that of Dark Souls (in my opinion, anyways.)
Meanwhile, better graphics and server hosted (rather than P2P) multiplayer are both exciting tidbits, and the Edge piece doesn't hold back at all when gushing about the game's graphical fidelity. They witnessed ten minutes of the game played on a high-end gaming laptop and said it looked very next-gen, though there's no word on whether the game will be out on next generation hardware or not. The concept art they include with the article is also top notch, and looks very, very much like a Souls game.
Shibuya also mentions bringing his history with other From action titles to the game. While I would be happy if they didn't change the combat formula at all (and I sincerely doubt they change it much, as Shibuya says he won't change the controls) I could see much better boss fights being an important change, as well as smarter AI. As hard as the game can be, the AI isn't the brightest out there.
There's even more room for improvement in the boss fights since slashing at a Golem's feet is pretty uninspiring if you ask me. The improvements to boss fights in the DLC was pretty drastic, I'd argue, and I hope they continue making those improvements in Dark Souls 2.
Other interesting tidbits from the article: it's a direct sequel to Dark Souls but there's no details on whether that simply means that it takes place in the same broad mythology or whether it means it takes place directly after the other game. It won't take place in Lordran, though I'm still not sure whether that means the above screenshot is a glimpse at Anor Londo from a distance or not. And they'll be making use of the ocean and the seaside and are considering vehicles such as chariots.
To make a long story short, I remain pretty sanguine about what little information we have so far.
That the most controversial quotations and information have drifted to the surface of discussion is neither surprising nor necessarily a particularly sturdy case against the sequel. We're very quick to judge a game based on its announcement trailer alone, and quicker still to latch on to every quotation and assume the worst. Many gamers have been badly burned by sequels in the past, but for my part I really do have a lot of faith in From Software. They've given me two of my favorite games of all time and I want to see them continue to innovate and tinker with the formula.
I'm glad they made many of the changes they did between Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, and I suspect many of the changes coming in the sequel will also be very welcome.
Some may not agree, and I could very easily be wrong, but I prefer to go forward with hope and optimism. This is a developer who has not let me down. At least not yet. If I am wrong, I'll be sure to say as much. This is a great game, and I truly do hope the people making its sequel realize why. I can only imagine the hue and cry from the game's fans if the sequel is broken, and from reviewers like your humble narrator.
Finally, the game has been in the works since the team began work on the DLC, and at the current development pace will likely not be released until 2014. That From is not rushing out a sequel should be comforting news, even if other information so far has put a damper on spirits—no more so than the departure of Miyazaki.
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Three months ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Heisman Trophy at the local Douglass Nissan dealership. It was the Friday before the Florida game, our first appearance in the SEC. If you had told me that Johnny Manziel would soon be the owner of that trophy, I would have laughed.
Although Johnny's win was phenomenal, we have made so much history aside from sports. As the fall semester comes to a close, Aggies can reminisce over a prosperous few months. A&M has made tremendous strides to enhance this campus. From acquiring a law school to putting up a billboard in Times Square, A&M has never been more prevalent. It is truly an honor to call myself an Aggie and claim that I was a student while all these amazing steps have been taken.
As much as I love everything else about Texas A&M, I have to talk about the Heisman. Johnny Football has put A&M on the map like never before. It just wasn't enough for him to be known after we BTHO Bama…Johnny deserved more. Texas A&M was represented with the respect and dignity it deserves when Johnny took the stage at the Heisman presentation. His poise and speaking skills were some people work on for years. He showed the nation what the 12th man was all about. If you didn't know how remarkable A&M is, you do now.
The motto "It's time for Texas A&M University" has never rang more true. Congratulations to all the Aggies out there, especially Johnny Football.
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Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to QuestLove
Author: Ahmir Questlove Thompson
He is the drummer for Hip-Hops legendary band The Roots and the band leader for "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" which leaves no questions about Questlove's relevance and talent. This book brings you stories about the music the way he sees it as a producer, DJ, and continuous contributor in the music industry. The perfect read for any Hip-Hop head providing insights about his music, life growing up in Philly and his journey in the music industry.
How to Rap 2: Advance Flow and Delivery Techniques
Author: Paul Edwards
30 years into the Hip-Hop Era and by now, everyone knows someone who raps. Whether they are good or bad, a little help never hurt anyone when it comes to rhyming. Like its predecessor, (How to Rap: The Art and Science of The Hip-Hop MC – $12.95)
it is a worthy and valuable read with interviews and advice from some of the genre's greats. I would go as far as to suggest you buy both for your budding lyrical genius because the first book has great tips from artists like A Tribe Called Quest, Clipse, Public Enemy and a forward by the legendary Kool G Rap. In the second book, the author concentrates on perfecting and refining aspiring rappers' flow by examining techniques from different regions.
Cool Socks by coolsocksbruh.com
These are sure to make the guy in your life smile. Cool socks are custom Nike Dri fit socks featuring the faces of Hip Hop artists and movie icons. Well-known faces featured are Aaliyah, Drake, Nino Brown (New Jack City), The Notorious B.I.G. and more. Get your man a pair and all he will hear is "Cool Socks!" whenever he dons his pair.
Pokket Mixer
It is more than a cool conversation piece; it is a pocket-sized mobile DJ mixer. This item is also available in 6 assorted colors. It doesn't need a power supply, and it works with any device with a headset output. Pull this party out of your pocket while hanging with a group of friends, and you will be greatly appreciated.
V-Tech KiddiJamz Studio
Voted and rated one of the best toy picks this year, KiddiJamz is not your average toy instrument. V-Tech allows kids the opportunity to branch out from the basic analog instruments to digital production they hear used in music every day. It includes a microphone, digital vocal effects, a DJ scratching disc and a light-up keyboard. It also allows kids to record and playback their own original songs. If your kid is showing musical promise or loves to mess around in your expensive home studio, why not get them their own?
FitBit Flex Wireless Activity + Sleep Wristband
Around town there is a boom in the gym industry, and this is the perfect gift for the health motivated. Stylish and comfortable this top-rated choice in gifts has huge upgrades from the basic FitBit ($29.99). Sync online or with selected fitness apps using Android or iPhone and track your goals and progress throughout the day. The sleep- tracker can assess how long and how well you sleep. Wear it to bed and there is a gentle alarm that vibrates and wakes you and not your partner. Bonus: You can wear it in the shower.
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I've added several various scans of Rooney Mara poses as Lisabeth Salander for 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' feautred in 'Grazia' France & 'Cinemags' magazine to the gallery.
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HEWETT, W.Va. — Donald Dean "Rail" Burgess, 56, of Hewett, formerly of Blair, went home to be with the Lord Wednesday, December 5, 2012, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Huntington.
Born August 7, 1956, in Logan, he was a son of the late Carl and Maudie Burgess. Also preceding him in death was one brother, Ronald Dale Burgess, and one sister, Janet Sue Brown.
Rail was a member of the Ball Chapel Community Church and loved riding his motorcycle.
Those left to cherish his memory include his wife, Tammy Burgess; one daughter, Felicia Burgess of Hewett; three sons, Johnny (Kimberly) Burgess of Chapmanville, Brent Burgess of Columbus, Ohio, and Ronnie Burgess of Madison; one brother, Paul (Linda) Burgess of Blair; nine grandchildren, Jada, Dakota, Anna, Zoey, Zanden and Hayden Burgess, Kyleigh Beckner, Adam Zickafoose and Christopher Jennings; one brother-in-law, Rodney (Tammy) Kulchuck; grandmother-in-law, Tamzy "Mamaw Cow" Wooten, and a host of much loved nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, December 9, at Freeman Funeral Home with Edsel Aleshire officiating. Burial will follow at White Oak Cemetery at Blair.
Visitation will be from 6-9 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Pallbearers will be Johnny Burgess, Brent Burgess, Ronnie Burgess, Jody Wooten, Rodney Kulchuk, Don Wooten and Joey Grimes.
Freeman Funeral Home of Chapmanville is in charge of the arrangements.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. --- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's and women's indoor track and field team trekked to Nashville Sunday morning for the Ed Temple Classic hosted by Tennessee State at the Gentry Center in Nashville, Tenn.
"Our primary focus today was to run well in the DMR," UTC Head Coach Bill Gautier said. "We won, so I'm very happy about that. This was also a good meet to give the younger kids an opportunity to see what it was like to run indoors since some have never done that before."
The Mocs' Distance Medley Relay team, anchored by senior Mark Cole (McKenzie, Tenn.) took first in the event with a time of 10:34.66. Junior Trevor Janssen (Jordan Station, Ontario) led off with the 1200 meter run with senior Geoff Nelson () maintaining the pace in the 400 meter. Sophomore Marquis Cater () legged out the 800 meter run with Cole running the mile and legging it out against the Sun Belt Champion for the win.
"Mark is a great team leader," Gautier said. "He outkicked his guy and ran a 4:20 leg. He did a great job."
The men's team of Austin Ethridge (), Tosin (), DeQuantez Sandifer () and Zack Darby (), placed fourth overall with a time of 11:00.48.
The women's DMR teams placed second and third. Sophomore Rebecca Greenwall (Bogart, Ga.) led off the women's second place team followed by senior Gabby Cader (Cleveland, Tenn.) in the 400m. Junior Kiaana Howard () ran the 800m portion of the race with junior Keeley Stewart (Winchester, Tenn.) anchoring the team in the mile for an overall time of 12:52.45. The women's third place DMR team finished with a time of 13:12.20 and was led off by junior Jessica Philpott (). Freshman Rogers (), Hannah Chamblin () and Jessica York () completed the team.
Freshmen Katie Ray () and Madalyn Garland () placed sixth and seventh respectively in the women's 3000 meter Run. Ray finished with a time of 11:1829 with Garland just behind with a time of 11:31.44. Kis finished seventh in the women's 800 meter run with a time of 2:32.15 and freshman Joanna Elmore posted a time of 2:40.49.
Reese and freshman Jasmine Snell competed in the 400 meter dash while sophomore Iman Isang () ran both the men's 200 meter and 55 meter Hurdles.
"This was a good time to get experience for the younger runners," Gautier said. "We'll get some veterans into the mix and be ready when it comes time for conference [championships]."
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Monday, July 15, 2013
The outreach ministry at Sandridge First Baptist Church in rural Berkeley County came up with a unique way of connecting with kids this summer: Combine a weeklong sports and activities camp with Vacation Bible School.
Sandridge interim pastor Woodrow Busch said, "We've had good success doing sports camps and thought this would be a great opportunity to bring a sports camp and vacation Bible school to the community center since there are already kids there."
Sandridge teamed with the local outreach organization M-Fuge Mission to hold the camp and VBS.
According to its website at www.lifeway.com, the FUGE mission camps have been providing outreach programs to America's youth for more than 30 years, reaching more than 1 million young adults.
"M-Fuge Mission teams from the Southeast U.S. came and stayed at Charleston Southern University for a week, engaging in mission projects throughout the Lowcountry," Busch said. "They came in and painted the building and did some repairs that will allow us to continue to use the facility for future camps, plus it allows the building to become more of a community center."
The camp was held at the Tri-Community Center, the old Poplar Hill Elementary School on Poplar Hill Drive.
"This is an outreach program within the community and we've been very pleased with the results," Busch said of the sports camp/VBS attended by 45-to-50 community youth for the weeklong camp.
Activities provided were cheerleading, T-ball, soccer and basketball.
"This is our first year of the camp," Busch said. "We had various coaches on hand to teach the kids the fundamentals of the different sports."
After lunch, kids were invited to stay the afternoon for Vacation Bible School. "We had an excellent turnout of kids who decided to stay and spend the afternoon at Bible School," Busch said.
Activities provided included music, Bible stories and crafts.
Volunteers from Sandridge First Baptist and from Ebenezer Zion AME Church in Cross, assisted in serving lunch and providing chaperones for the camp and VBS.
Camp coordinator Linda Harkins called the week a success.
"We were really pleased with the turnout and the volunteers and the cooperation with folks doing the federal feeding program," she said. "We wanted this to be a community event, not just a Sandridge function.
"We've been very pleased with the camp. It's worked out well.
The camp/VBS was the product of the Screven Baptist Association, which consists of more than 60 Baptist churches in the Lowcountry area, from Charleston, to Dorchester and Berkeley counties. Mission work included the upgrading and refurbishing of the old Poplar Hill Elementary School to make it a more usable and functional facility for the community. Efforts included painting, minor repair, maintenance upkeep and landscaping.
"I think it was a wonderful project," she said. "We decided our mission project for this year was to improve the facility and help conduct this camp. We feel the camp was a real good success for the kids and not only that a great success for the community.
"We feel this is the first of many such projects down the road. We're already talking about doing this again next year."
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Columbia City High School was on lock down for Monday morning after a gun magazine was found on the street in front of the school.
A K-9 unit from Allen County was brought to the school to search the building, but during the search it was determined that the magazine belonged to a Columbia City Police Officer.
Columbia City Police Chief Tim Longenbaugh said there was no safety issue with the students, and they were put on lock down as a precaution.
"It was an accident," Columbia City Police Chief Tim Longenbaugh said. "It was just a coincidence that it happened in front of the high school."
Longenbaugh said he is working on a plan to keep this from happening again.
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North Charleston police officers responded Thursday afternoon to a fatal three-vehicle accident on University Boulevard near Charleston Southern University, according to North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor.
One person was pronounced dead at the scene and another person was transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition from the accident, which happened just after 12:30 p.m. as storms moved across the Lowcountry. Traffic in the area was backed up for several hours as officers investigated the cause of the accident.
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Suarez simply not the best
It is well known that footballers do not put a great deal of thought into their PFA Player, Young Player and Team of the Year votes.
Players will pick their friends, decide with team-mates on who to vote for, and generally choose whichever player happens to be in best form at that moment as their Player of the Year.
For that reason, there's a very good chance Gareth Bale will win this season's top award. Luis Suarez, unfortunately for him, is unlikely to receive too many votes outside of Melwood because he simply isn't liked enough.
Despite what players say about the honour of being voted for by their fellow professionals, the Football Writers' Association award is a far more meaningful award, voted for by writers and journalists who are more likely to take the time to study the candidates' form more closely over the whole season.
Upon doing that, it is difficult to make a case for Suarez at this moment in time. He is one of three outstanding candidates alongside Bale and Robin van Persie, but Liverpool's position in the Premier League, their record against the top teams and Suarez's contribution in those games all stand against the Uruguayan.
Although he is the Premier League's leading goalscorer, Suarez has scored just three goals against the top five teams, with 15 of his 21 goals coming against sides currently in the bottom eight.
Bale has scored three goals against the other four teams in the top five, plus one against Liverpool, while van Persie has scored four against Manchester United's top-five rivals plus a further two against Liverpool to highlight his reliability in the biggest games.
Of the three candidates, Suarez has also gone the longest without scoring - four games, between November 25 and December 15.
Bale did not score in the opening three games of the season but has not gone more than two games without scoring since then, while van Persie's longest barren spell was also three games.
There is much more to Suarez's game than goals, of course, but even his tally of four assists is only half of van Persie's total. Bale, meanwhile, has set up only one goal in the Premier League so far this season.
For all of those reasons, if I had to give my vote today it would be to van Persie. He has scored consistently throughout the season, stepped up to the plate in the big games, and has effectively been the difference between United in first and Manchester City in second.
So, Liverpool fans, if Suarez does not win a Player of the Season award it might just be for reasons other than his likeability.
Chelsea show lack of support for Benitez
If Rafa Benitez leads Chelsea to a top-four spot and/or the FA Cup this season, it's fair to say he'll have done it in spite of the support he has received.
The title of 'interim manager' certainly gave the impression that the club only ever saw him as a stop-gap, regardless of what he achieved, while the barracking he has received from the Blues' fans has been well documented.
After pointing out in midweek that such a lack of support could not possibly help the team - irrespective of your opinions of Benitez, it is hard to argue with that point - you might have expected Chelsea to take a hard-line approach to those fans intent on expressing their displeasure towards Benitez at Saturday's home game against West Brom.
Instead, the club took the rather unusual approach of making it clear that anti-Benitez banners and placards would not be confiscated providing they were not 'obscene' or 'discriminatory'.
Banners and placards are easy for Benitez to ignore, of course, and in truth it is a tad petty that supporters (at all clubs, not just Chelsea) are usually banned from displaying negative messages towards the club.
However, the fact is that such bans are usually in place at stadiums, and Chelsea's decision to lift that ban on Saturday showed a complete lack of support for their manager.
For a football club to be successful, everyone from the owner to the fans need to be pulling in the same direction. Unfortunately, that is rarely the case at Stamford Bridge.
Jose Mourinho left the club after losing the support of Roman Abramovich, Avram Grant and Andre Villas-Boas left after failing to win the support of the players, who have more power than arguably any other set of players in the world, and now Benitez is fighting against the fans, seemingly the club, and quite possibly the players too.
It was a clear mistake of Chelsea to appoint him, but he is there to win games and the best chance he has of doing that is with the support of everyone associated with the club.
QPR players just being human
The truth of what happened during QPR's recent trip to Dubai probably lies somewhere in between the Daily Mirror's reporting of events, and Harry Redknapp's subsequent denial.
It seems a little far-fetched to believe any players drunk to the extent that they could not even make it to training, but it is equally unlikely that the entire squad did not touch a drop of alcohol apart from on the one night out Redknapp allowed them to have.
No, with time to kill, money to spend and friends to do it with, it is almost certain that QPR's players enjoyed their trip to the Gulf.
So what? A mid-season break is designed to encourage team bonding, to take players' minds off whatever pressure they are under, and to provide something different to a normal, repetitive, training week.
If Redknapp had wanted his players to act as they would during a normal training week, he would not have taken them to Dubai in the first place.
As shocking as it may be to some people, many footballers enjoy a drink, and they are rarely prohibited from doing so by their clubs until three or four days before a game.
That wasn't the case whilst QPR were out in Dubai, and their win at Southampton on Saturday just shows their mid-season break may just have given them the boost they needed to get out of trouble this season.
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Hotel Palomar named one of America's hot hotels
The new Hotel Palomar at Cityscape in downtown Phoenix is hot, but it's not just because the city's been experiencing warmer than normal temperatures.
The Hotel Palomar has been named one of the hot new hotels in the world by TripAdvisor.com.
"We put together list of hotels that opened in 2012 and have gotten rave reviews from travelers on TripAdvisor.com," said Leslie Carlin, company spokeswoman. "They've been doing a great job since it opened," said Leslie Carlin, company spokeswoman.
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One of Tasmania's most significant colonial-era historic sites is embracing the latest web technology to reach out to potential visitors.
The World Heritage listed Cascades Female Factory Historic Site has launched a new website that uses 'responsive design' technology so that the website works well on a wide range of technologies and screen types, from widescreen desktops to tablets and mobile phones.
Cascades Female Factory Historic Site Manager Greta McDonald said the technology offered app-like convenience to users of mobile phones.
"On a desktop computer, it looks like a normal website," said Ms McDonald. "But the site automatically detects the screen size being used and adjusts its display and functionality to suit the context."
"For example, on a desktop, the 'contact us' button will lead to a page with various options for getting in touch with us here at the Female Factory. But view the same page on a mobile phone and that button changes to one that says 'call now', and pushing it immediately phones our number."
With tablet computers and mobile phones accounting for almost a quarter of website visits, the responsive design technology removes the need to offer separate websites optimised for mobile devices.
The Female Factory website is just the first of a range of new technology applications that the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority (PAHSMA, which manages the Cascades Female Factory along with the Port Arthur and Coal Mines Historic Sites), intends to roll out across its sites.
Design work for the new website was completed by Tasmania-based company Future Medium. Development and implementation was undertaken by the Information Management team at the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment, with content and project management by PAHSMA's marketing unit.
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