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One minute you are listening to Madonnas Dont Tell Me and the next minute you are hearing which neighborhoods will be impacted by fire hydrant testing in the City of Georgetown.
Then you may hear the theme to Monday Night Football, some beach music, a couple of country tunes and a Motown classic.
Then Smoky Bear is reminding listeners only you can prevent forest fires.
Such is the programming on WGEO-LP, 105.7 FM, the low-powered radio station owned and operated by the City of Georgetowns Fire Department.
The station, which can be heard in the city and some adjacent areas, was the brainchild of former Assistant Fire Chief Bill Johnson, who retired last year.
At first it was an AM station but in 2002 the switch was made to FM.
Fire Chief Joey Tanner said the city began trying to figure out how to better communicate with citizens after Hurricane Hugo in 1989. After the storm knocked out electricity, there was no way to disseminate information, so, Tanner said, pamphlets were made and workers went door to door distributing them.
We quickly realized that would not really work, Tanner said.
A meeting was held with Boyd Johnson the city administrator at the time who agreed something had to be done to help solve the information dissemination problem during emergency situations.
This, of course, was in the days before cell phones were popular and the Internet was still in the development stage.
So, after two close calls with tropical systems in 1996, the city applied for, and was granted, a radio license by the FCC.
From the time it signed on, the station played mainly classical and instrumental music between the information segments. That was something Bill Johnson was planning to update when he retired, Tanner said.
On a recent afternoon, the playlist included Jennifer Lopez, Doug Stone, The Drifters, Dionne Warwick and Tim McGraw. The unmanned station runs itself through a computer program.
The format of the station has changed, but the purpose remains the same.
Right now we have more music and PSAs but one day I want there to be less music and more about what is going on in the city, Tanner said.
In emergency situations, Tanner said information will still be disseminated the way it always has been through newspapers and newspapers websites and social pages, on TV and on the fire departments Facebook page. But, the radio station is also used knowing not everyone has access to the Internet or is in a place where they can connect.
Georgetown is not the first city to have its own station. North Myrtle Beach operated an FM station for several years, but earlier this month that city pulled the plug on its signal and returned the license to the FCC.
In a statement issued about that decision, North Myrtle Beach officials said in recent years the Citys use of its websites, social media, e-mail and e-mail news groups and other forms of communication has evolved to the point where they serve as our primary means of communicating news and information to the public. The time and expense involved in managing and programming WNMI 98.7 is no longer necessary or effective.
Tanner said he feels the citys station is still a benefit to Georgetowns residents and visitors.
The benefit is we can talk about the city. We have PSAs and other information about Georgetown, he said, adding that some of his employee and other volunteers have offered to help fill the void that was created with Bill Johnsons retirement.
He said he hopes to add additional features such as routine city updates and weather reports to the programming.
About the expense, Tanner said it costs nearly nothing to operate and maintain. He said about $1,500 was spent recently upgrading the system and enhancing the signal.
A total of $575 was spent last year on fees to ASCAP and BMI for rights to broadcast music.
As for the music that is being played most of those decisions are being made by Mayor Jack Scoville.
I added about a hundred songs. A mixture of things, Scoville said. Duke Ellington said there are only two kinds of music: good and bad. I want to play only good music, but different types, so we catch the casual searchers ear.
He said one of the things he added this week, speaking of variety, was the soundtrack from the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Tanner said he hopes to one day add a live streaming feature which would allow anyone to hear the station anywhere over the Internet.
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|this place is decent. nice place. a tad fancy but it feels overrated considering their food isn't that great. for italian and mediterranean food, the menu didn't really tickle my fancy. i didn't feel like there was a decent variety to choose from. their pastas were all right but i've had better. their veggies looked worn out and old (smaller dishes). their hummus tastes like something you could buy yourself from trader joe's. get yourself a peroni (good, light italian beer) and just head here for crappy appetizers.
Cuisine: Mediterranean
|Palo Alto
|cute spot in the haight . i like ordering my food and sitting by the window to people watch. never a dull moment in SF! okay back to food - praram (peanut sauce flavored chicken or tofu over spinach) is good. pad thai could use some work where it lacked tofu, sprouts, and other toppings. not the best thai food but one of the better thai spots to eat in the haight. eat here to get your fix of food. then, cross the street to get your music fix at amoeba. :)
Ploy II Thai Cuisine
Cuisine: Thai
|Haight-Ashbury/Cole Valley
|the food could be better. small portions. i ordered these 'triangles' which were really yellow curry filled samosas (they were okay) and peanut sauce (mediocre but edible). i had this mango chicken dish (nuts, peppers, onions, and yes- mango, chicken. haha) - and it was cooked rather fast but good. although, i feel like i got jipped for $8 for this (lunch)considering how small the dish was. food is good but not worth the money. haha sorry i tend to be really hungry during lunch and figured i could eat a mountain of food elsewhere.
Banana House
Cuisine: Thai
|dee-lish mochas with chocolate whip cream that is just damn yummy. the mango cake is quite exquisite which i purchased for a birthday that was raved over. and some of their pastries (such as these flaky twist things where its name has unfortunately slipped my mind) go so good with coffee in the morn. get a mocha and enjoy your day walking around the financial district.
Cafe Madeleine
Cuisine: Bakeries Coffee Shop
|tarts are rather tasty - i'd recommend the fruit one or pecan. their muffins aren't all that buti come for the tarts! wireless internet if you need it. great late night coffee spot to talk and catch up with folks.
Tart to Tart
Cuisine: Bakeries dessert coffee
|Inner Sunset
|"when i walked in, i thought this place would be some ordinary restaurant/bar with okay food. didn't think too much of it at first but my mind changed later. what did get me was the staff was extremely nice and accomodating. awesome folks. free dinner courtesy of sfsurvey.com (hurrah! thank you!!). which is why i checked out perry's in the first place (i never really bothered to explore union st./marina area until lately). the crab cakes were pretty good for starters, ahi tuna sandwhich was excellent!, and the ginger cake with ice cream was pretty yummy too. definitely going to make a trip back there."
Cuisine: American (Traditional) Comfort Food
|Cow Hollow
|the fries (has some kind of chili sauce on it) are amazing. spicy but sweet. the tofu with peanut sauce is good too. they have samosas with yellow curry are okay. my favorite thing being these pancake type things that comes with a batter. they have a lot dishes that come with peanut sauce so don't miss out on that. they have these noodles that reminded me of pad thai but were definitely something else. i felt like their food was a mix of filipino, chinese, thai, vietnamese, and indian food. i've never had indonesian food before so i'm not sure really what it is authentic. yet i dig the mix of food here.
Java Restaurant
Cuisine: Indonesian
|Inner Richmond
|This is by far one of my favorite veggie places in SF. And yes, you have to try the neatloaf sandwhiches as mentioned in some of the other reviews. Neatloaf is like meatloaf but no meat and a mash of things. Their cherry blossom tea is amazing. Very refreshing. Falafels are very good and comes with salad or veggies. Portions are pretty big and the prices are cheap. The walls are painted with some kind of cloud like design. Even if you're not a vegetarian, try it out. The main downside is that they're not always open on sundays.
Ananda Fuara
Cuisine: Vegetarian
|Civic Center
|Santorini is in a nice little location by Union Square. It was a Saturday afternoon when I went and it wasn't crowded or dead. Clean place and the prices were reasonable. For two people, I had lunch for about $30. I don't know of too many Mediterranean restaurants (yet) but this place was good. The falafels are delicious and not dry like some other places I've been to. The baklava is okay but was a bit too drowned in syrup and not crisp. There's this one dish (can't remember the entire name).. I believe it's pomegranate chicken or something. Nice, moist, and very tasty. Good for folks who haven't eaten a lot of this cuisine before.
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Cuisine: Mediterranean
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Letters to the Editor: 09.30.09
Shameful relic
The horrific trials about systemic organized abuse at the Corpus Christi State School are insidious. What is worse is the fact that the strategic approach towards fixing it is not effective. State schools cannot be fixed by changing their names or installing Web cams. It is as though we are smothering our conscience.
I used to try to fix the problems at facilities. Now, I realize that one of the only ways to improve them is to consolidate and right-size them. Institutions are a shameful relic of failed public policy and a misuse of government spending. They are storage facilities that segregate individuals with disabilities from the rest of society. Community and home-based services are a more efficient, cost effective and moral solution, offering independence for individuals with disabilities.
For over 20 years, I have been developing employment and housing supports for individuals with disabilities and I have witnessed firsthand people who have thrived after leaving an institution. They become active members of their community who are gainfully employed. We must learn from past tragedies and the violations of human rights and recognize the potential of each individual to live and thrive in the community.
Robert Stack
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Re: The Caller-Times editorial ("Texas justice system has major flaws," Sept. 13). I know this all too well. I was wrongfully convicted in 1983 for a murder I did not commit. What's rather remarkable about my case is that the former prosecuting attorney has publicly proclaimed that he convicted an innocent man. Dennis Cadra wrote an eight-page letter in 1991 to then-Gov. Ann Richards saying, "Despite my 16 years as a prosecutor, I came to the firm conclusion that it was physically impossible for Mr. Reyos to have committed the crime ..."
Prosecutor Cadra was telling the truth when he publicly asserted that he convicted an innocent man. It's very rare for a prosecuting attorney to try to see that justice is served. Having ascertained, after trial, that he convicted an innocent man, Mr. Cadra wanted to right a miscarriage of justice. He is to be commended for stepping forward and advocating justice for a truly innocent man.
The editorial stated that, "At least 38 men in Texas spent decades in prison based on wrongful convictions . . ." I must say that there are more than 38 people in Texas prisons who are truly innocent of their crimes. You are reading a letter from another innocent man — the 39th — even though I have not been officially exonerated.
James Harry Reyos, Gatesville
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It's not racism
Enough is enough. Every time any criticism is made of Obama, his supporters claim his race, his color, is the reason people are against him. Well, all the people I know do not care if he's black, purple, green or red. It's his proposals, ideas, and agendas that bring thousands of people who oppose his plans to the "tea parties" and town hall meetings.
For example, it's his implication that citizens with no health insurance do not get health care. Another is his argument that lawsuit abuse has no bearing on the cost of medical care. He also would have us believe all this spending and expanded government giveaways won't increase our national debt or raise our taxes.
Really, Mr. President, our citizens are not dumb. Stop your allies from using racism as an excuse and come up with a practical and believable solution to our problems.
Mary Taylor, Rockport
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Scare tactic
Proportionally fewer people will likely become demented. The headlines are just a political scare tactic to get people to want Obamacare and other disasters now that human-caused climate change is seen for the fraud it is. It'll be something else in a few months.
John W. Dean
Five-percent law
It's amazing that there has been no reaction to the Caller-Times article on the new law passed but the Legislature in May which guarantees a five percent return for members of the Texas Municipal Retirement System. I would like a five percent return on my retirement investments and would appreciate the taxpayer for kicking in an amount to cover the difference when there is a shortfall.
In addition, city employees probably will not see any cut in the city two-for-one match of their retirement contributions as long as the city taxpayers remain silent and continue to go along with it. Joe McComb raised this issue back a few years ago, but it went nowhere when city employees complained and senior staff buried it.
David C. Morrow
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Handling Administrative Pay
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Few things cause more angst for EM groups than settling on appropriate levels of administrative compensation
No question generates more angst or consumes more discussion for a democratic emergency medicine (EM) group than how much to pay for practice leadership and administration. In the typical democratic EM group, every dollar of proposed leadership or practice management expenditure is challenged and every dollar of approved expenditure is resented to one degree or another. Even when the issue seems to be settled, everyone knows that it's only a matter of time until a new need will arise or the underlying resentment will bubble up again to rekindle the debate.
In most multi-million dollar service businesses the owners of the business are distinct from the providers of the services. The value of the service providers is set by the marketplace and there is a reasonably clear demarcation between the work of providing the services and the work of leading and managing the business. Owners are contingently compensated in proportion to the time and capital they risk, and how well the business is managed. The dollars that are left after all service provider compensation and benefits are paid represents the gross margin of the business and must cover the cost of capital, and leadership and management as well as provide for a profit to the shareholders.
In the democratic EM group practice, however, those delivering the services are also the owners. This circumstance blurs the lines of distinction between provider, leader, manager and ownership work, and the relative value of each. This conflation of issues tends to produce a bias in favor of overvaluing provider work (as in the case of GM with UAW majority ownership) and undervaluing leadership, management and re-investment in the future of the practice. Over time ownership work compensation comes to be thought of as an earned part of provider compensation when in fact ownership work is a completely different activity. Caught between these two sets of provider entitlements adequate funding of group leadership, management and reinvestment in the practice tends to get squeezed out in favor of maximizing provider compensation.
To further complicate matters, most democratic EM practices function as IRS Subchapter S corporations and as such pay out all practice revenue on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis according to the formula: revenue net of expenses = provider take home pay + owner distribution. Accounting the practice in this way creates the problematic impression that all of the practice money belongs first to the providers/owners (for the most part the same cohort in a democratic group) and that all leadership and administrative expense is necessarily in direct competition with each owner/provider's individual compensation. In this circumstance it is easy to see how the provider/owner might say, "that is my dollar you are proposing to take from me to fund an administrative activity that I may not agree is necessary for my (as opposed to my practice's) welfare." This point of view tends to be disproportionately held by those relatively uninvolved owners who aren't able to appreciate the leadership and managerial challenges confronting the practice by sitting in an owner's meeting a couple of hours a month. And in a democratic EM group, where all owners are equally powerful regardless of their level of understanding of the needs of the practice, all it takes is one individual to keep the debate going or even paralyze the group's ability to make decisions.
The critical flaw in many democratic EM group practices is that the owner/providers assume that the gross margin belongs proportionately to each of them instead of belonging to the practice! The only part of the gross margin that should be considered as belonging to the owner/providers is the contingent profit margin. The rest is reserved to the practice to be apportioned as leadership sees fit.
It is leadership's job to manage the gross margin dollars in such a way that both practice performance and profit are maximized. In order to do this they must have the authority to use their deeper understanding of the needs of the practice to decide such things as how much money should go to recruiting versus the Christmas party and how much should be reinvested in the practice to enable it to meet future challenges. If they do this well the contract is retained and the owners receive a profit distribution, and if they don't, perhaps a leadership change is needed. Tracking the size of the owner distributions is one of a number of useful objective measures of leadership performance. Leaving these kinds of decisions to a Committee of the Whole, where uninformed owners see leadership and administration as directly competing with their compensation, almost always results in starving the practice of leadership, management and reinvestment resources.
In the next installment we'll discuss the factors that cause the amount of leadership and administrative pay to vary from EM group to another.
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In grad school in the late 70's we only had one car and so the bike became my major transportation. I rode a Vicount Lambert, purchased about the time Yamaha bought them out. Lugless 'aerospace' frame and a solid aluminum fork. Eventually I traded out the Campy hubs and dérailleurs from my wife's bike and installed Gran Compe brakes. I think I rode sew-ups at first... I barely remember this now.
What I do remember is that in addition to riding to school every day down Wilshire Blvd (much faster than the traffic because I could go to the head of the line at intersections) on the weekends I would ride up Western Ave. to Griffith Park, then up to the observatory. I even did this with a 3 year old on the back in a heavy bike seat. Back then I took pride in long trips, racing traffic, passing other riders and never being passed and especially racing up hills.
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Then I got into motorcycling and made several trips to Mexico and bicycling receded into the past.
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Bought a Dahon Cadenza and am in the midst of seeing what works from the old Lambert.
But the real shock is not the bike, but me. I'm no longer the guy who thought nothing of riding to the top of Griffith Park. The additional 30 lbs is only part of it. My back complains if I run, so the couch has become my major piece of exercise gear.
10 minutes on the relative flat and I'm tired, actually a little light headed. Pathetic. But maybe this is the long overdue impetus to avoid the decline to complete fossilization.
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Actress Lisa Bonet was spotted yesterday evening in Santa Monica while picking up lunch from a restaurant that displayed the sign, "Conscious Food for Conscious People." .
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We have been over intellectual property topics of all shapes and sizes in the history of LGJ, and the one universal truth is that intellectual property rights exist for one reason: to balance the rights needed by IP producers to be able to profit from their work with the rights needed by IP consumers to be able to enjoy those works. The concept of intellectual property has never been about granting unlimited power to rights holders, nor unrestricted access to consumers. However, since the advent of the Internet, we have been in the middle of a digital arms race between pirates and various parts of the entertainment industry, which we have seen to have substantial resources and connections given some of the legal changes like the UK law cited above or the infamous Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Both sides have, at times, taken unsustainable or unrealistic positions, be that utopian unrestricted access to all intellectual property or draconian restrictions to simple use, like the position that ripping a CD you purchased to your iPod is copyright infringement.
The simple reality is that current law doesn't adapt particularly well to the reality of the digital world, and neither does all forms of enforcement. Perhaps someday the laws will be revised to more adequately address the realities of 21st century technology and society, like my past suggestions that file sharing of protected material become the digital equivalent of the speeding ticket in certain contexts. But in the interim, it is likely that we will see more of this kind of escalation in enforcement, which returns me to my original question: just how far can things go in the US? While the land of the free and the home of the brave is known for many freedoms, the reality is that there are already broad rights to destroy counterfeit goods on the books, and it's entirely possible that an expansion of those kinds of rights may lead to greater enforcement terms against digital piracy in the US.
Of course, what we're discussing here is government action. We've already seen that groups like the RIAA can be successful in taking on pirates individually. However, the reality of that approach is that it is costly and time consuming, between tracking down these individuals and taking them to court if they are even in a jurisdiction where you can exert some reasonable amount of authority. When the government gets involved, however, it is just another piece of the enforcement puzzle.
The reality is that the government already does seize and destroy a lot of pirated and counterfeit goods. In fact, it seized over $260 million of those goods in 2009 alone. I'm sure many of you remember the mod chip raids not too long ago. This is all legally authorized as part of the powers of US Customs and Border Protection, and for good reason. If someone is importing a container of fake Xbox 360s, Customs needs to be able to stop those goods from entering the marketplace and harming not only the consumer, but also the reputation of Microsoft. Before the advent of the Internet, this was the best way to stop traffic in pirated goods, and while it's certainly not 100% effective, it is still an effective means at controlling the flow of illegal physical goods.
Accordingly, it only seems like a matter of time before someone in the US government decides that this needs to be extended to digital goods in full force, and the ACTA may be just what bridges that gap. While US regulations make it improbable, if not impossible, to see the kind of arbitrary rulemaking that the Pirate Finder General is purported to have, it's entirely reasonable that Customs might be granted additional authority over digital goods and the ability to, through the normal rule making process, create new fines and penalties for digital piracy. The worse news is that fines and penalties for trade violations can be substantial, often $10,000 per violation (with a violation imputed to be on good) and/or a prison sentence depending on the violation. Applying the same to digital goods, imagine $10,000 and/or 5 years per file. It's the same level of absurdity we've seen before. More importantly, it's not productive for producers or consumers.
Given the substantial portion of the US economy currently in the entertainment sector, I can't imagine that this issue will be taken lightly. But the reality is that a moderate approach is the only one that will work on the long term, and it's the only approach that stays true to the purpose of intellectual property. Piracy is always going to happen; the idea should not be to brute force it out of existence. The idea should be to minimize it through practical measures, that is, reasonable DRM solutions, minimal reasons to pirate out of frustration, reasonable means to sample intellectual property products before purchasing them, and reasonable penalties for infringers coupled with simple enforcement for rights holders. The idea of extreme punishments in terms of dollars (which would likely never be collected) or loss of the right to access the internet is simply not a productive use of time, nor is the idea that rights holder should simply give up protecting their products and expect that things will all work out in the end.
Time will tell how well or poorly these ideas play out in the UK, and time will tell what new mechanisms may appear in the US related to intellectual property. The simple fact is that the system as a whole needs to evolve to better address digital IP rather than continuing to attempt to shoehorn the digital world into laws that best contemplate the technical revolution that accompanied the printing press. However, given the general pace of change in the government, I can't say I have high hopes for laws that contemplate the reality of 2009 before the reality of the next great technological leap has already occurred.
Mark Methenitis is the Editor in Chief of the Law of the Game blog, which discusses legal issues in video games. Mr. Methenitis is also a licensed attorney in the state of Texas with The Vernon Law Group, PLLC and a member of the Texas Bar Assoc., American Bar Assoc., and the International Game Developers Assoc., where he is a board member of the Dallas chapter. Opinions expressed in this column are his own. Reach him at: lawofthegame [AAT] gmail [DAWT] com.
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• "The aim of poetry," H.L. Mencken once claimed, "is to give a high and voluptuous plausibility to what is palpably not true." It would be hard to come up with a less apt explanation of Shakespeare's eternal appeal. We read him for many reasons, but surely the most basic one is that he tells us—beautifully—what we know is so, in the process strengthening our sense of reality. That such a man must have been by definition intelligent would seem self-evident, but in the never-never land of contemporary academic criticism, nothing is self-evident, and so A.D. Nuttall, lately of Oxford, has written Shakespeare the Thinker (Yale, 428 pp., $30), a book dedicated to the proposition that the Bard was smart.
Nuttall starts off with a bang:
We know what Milton thought about many things. He didn't believe in the doctrine of the Trinity; he thought the execution of Charles I was morally right; he believed that married couples who didn't get on should be allowed to divorce. But we have no idea what Shakespeare thought, finally, about any major question. The man is elusive—one might almost say, systematically elusive. There is something eerie about a figure that can write so much and give so little away.
The point, of course, is that Shakespeare's plays exist in a realm beyond ideology, and that his intelligence consists in his extreme responsiveness to the essential, transhistorical facts of human nature:
Has no one noticed how, while the scholars increasingly seek to confine the meaning of a play to its immediate historical context, directors and actors are playing Shakespeare in 17th-, 18th-, 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century dress, and even, on occasion, in "mixed period" settings? . . . Such productions seem not to destroy or even diminish the force of the plays presented.
Why not? Because Shakespeare is preoccupied with human action and its motivations—and because he is smart about them, very possibly smarter than any other artist who has ever lived:
He thinks about causes and motives, identity and relation, about how pretence can convey truth, or language (by becoming conscious of its own formal character) can actually impede communication. . . . His thought is never still. No sooner has one identified a philosophical "position" than one is forced, by the succeeding play, to modify or extend one's account.
Having staked his claim, Nuttall bears it out by serving up a series of close, richly idiosyncratic readings of virtually all of Shakespeare's plays (he skips over King John and The Merry Wives of Windsor). These are not for novices—Shakespeare the Thinker was written for readers already familiar with the plays—but if you know the territory, you will find them immensely illuminating.
I have quoted at length from Shakespeare the Thinker because its quality is not readily communicable in snippets. Nuttall writes in periods, not epigrams. Here is one of his best, a reflection on Hal's curt dismissal of Falstaff at the end of Henry IV:
The King slaps down Falstaff, but at the same time he is slapping down something in himself. When at the end of the speech the King rules that Falstaff is not to come within ten miles of his person, we sense that he fears the attraction of Falstaff; a truly cold manipulator would not need to make any such provision, would simply forget Falstaff at this point. Despite these moments, the speech of rejection rolls forward unstoppably. It breaks Falstaff's heart and does the trick, politically. We hate Henry as we watch, but then we have to think, if we are English, "He is doing this for us."
The whole book is like that, sometimes dense with allusion but always—like Shakespeare himself—bristlingly, stimulatingly intelligent. It is the best book about Shakespeare to cross my desk since I began covering theater for the Wall Street Journal four years ago. I expect to read it more than once, each time with increasing profit. So will you.


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"I drive truck, break arms, and arm wrestle. It's what I love to do, it's what I do best."
The above quote could be considered very polarizing. Half of your will read it and think it is a tad silly and perhaps unrealistic. The rest of us, however, will think it's totally bad-ass, a testament to how we live our lives and perhaps an epitaph me may have carved on our tombstone.
If you are like us and those statements ring true, then we have the event for you!
This Saturday, Illegal Pete's bring your the first ever "Band vs Band Arm Slam" which is pretty much exactly as it sounds.
The biggest, strongest and meanest competitors from your favorite local bands (Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, A. Tom Collins, The Epilogues, and more) will be squaring off against each other, as well as the general public, in the ultimate arm wrestling showdown.
The proceeds from this event will go to our 2nd Annual Starving Artists Party we are throwing at this year's SXSW. The updated lineup from the party can be found at www.starvingartistparty.com
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Bring a strong heart, a strong arm and a number for your mommy because you're gonna need all three!
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Heart attack symptoms come in a large variety and sometimes a person may suffer a heart attack that shows no signs of discomfort at all and yet end up damaging the heart drastically. The web defines a heart attack as 'a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function'. In most cases a heart attack occurs when the supply of oxygen is cut off due to lowered blood supply to any part of the heart. If the problem is not rectified immediately this situation can turn fatal. Heart attacks are identified according to the area of blockage of the heart and while attacks like the sudden cardiac arrest are 95% of the time fatal other may have a higher rate of survival.
The heart attack warning signals can show up hours before an attack comes on. Patients may feel dizzy and fatigued or even suffer from nausea. During the attack, it is common to break out into a sweat, faint and experience intense pain in the chest along with pain going down the left arm. In case of certain heart attacks a person may faint and the pulse rate may drop down to a negligible number. Those who suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes, lack of sleep, congenital heart problems and even high cholesterol are very likely to undergo a heart attack.
Heart attack signs women do sometimes vary from the signs of heart attacks in men. Most women are under the false impression that they are not at risk of facing a heart attack, however this is not true. Women account for half the deaths caused due to a heart attack. Women who suffer from problems like congestive heart failure and high blood pressure should not ignore heart attack signs like chest pain and shortness of breath.
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PDQ to open Sunday
PDQ opening: A new PDQ restaurant in Durham is targeted to open on Sunday in the new development off U.S. 15-501 called Gateway Terrace.
The restaurant, whose name stands for "People Dedicated to Quality," serves chicken tenders, sandwiches, fries, milkshakes, and salads.
Starting Sunday, it will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. In addition to sit-down dining, the restaurant also offers food to-go, a drive-through option, and catering.
The chain was started in Florida by a partnership that included the co-founder of Outback Steakhouse. The restaurants are modeled after a restaurant called Tenders in Cornelius in Mecklenburg County that was acquired in 2010.
The first restaurant under the name PDQ opened in October 2011 in Florida.
The Gateway Terrace development is also slated to include a Chipotle, a Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, a Jimmy John's and a Mattress Firm.
New Garden Ridge store?: In the space vacated last year by Kmart, there are indications that a new home and garden store Garden Ridge is opening up.
The space is being remodeled now, and the building permit for the project said there is an "At Home" store going into the space previously occupied by Kmart.
The Texas-based company Garden Ridge has job postings for a Durham store on its website.
First founded in 1979 as Garden Ridge Pottery, the company sells art and decorations, furniture, home textiles, house wares, patio and garden goods, rugs and seasonal items.
Attempts to reach the property owner and company officials were not successful by Tuesday morning.
Billiards & Bocce downtown: At long last, West End Billiards & Bocce has opened downtown at West Village.
In addition to a central bar offering cocktails, wine and beer, the business has six full-size pool tables, two indoor bocce ball courts, two shuffleboard tables, dart boards and an indoor regulation basketball hoop.
The bar and pool hall has opened in the Walker Warehouse of West Village. At 605 W. Main St., the building is also the home of the West End Wine Bar, clothing boutique Magpie and the Amtrak station.
The pool hall has been envisioned since at least 2010. Kevin Eastin, an owner of the wine bar, said in a previous interview that the project was stalled due to issues between the former West Village owners and their investors.
West End Billiards & Bocce shares ownership with the wine bar, which also has a location on West Franklin Street in Chapel Hill.
A grand opening celebration for the business will be Thursday with drink specials, free games and the NCAA tournament on the TVs. Typically, all of the games at the bar are charged by the hour and are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.
The business is open 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday and Monday, and from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. For more information go to the website www.westendbilliards.com.
Durham liqueur in S.C.: Mystic Bourbon Liqueur, a liqueur made from bourbon whiskey, honey, and spices, will be distributed in South Carolina, the company announced. The liqueur company was launched last year.
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Tatar Pasundan (The Sundanesse Land) really deserves to be called the land of Parahyangan (The Land of God), because of its natural beauty. Piece of its natural beauty can be viewed in Ciater, Subang, West Java which presents incredible mountain scenery. The magnificent scenery of Ciater would be perfect if we enjoy it in the early morning. The beauty of the sunrise with a spectacular landscape will make you very amazed. You don't need to bring a backpack filled...
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If you've always wanted to know how to draw Mr Bump with all those bandages, Mr Tall with his extraodinarily long legs or a worm wearing a bowler hat then this book is for you! With step-by-step instructions, stensils, stickers, helpful and not-so-helpful tips, the only thing you'll need to worry about is whether you can make Mr Tickle's long arms fit on the page!


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NBC Learns the Pros and Cons of Social Media
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A Guide for Guys: What Women Want for Valentine's Day
Date: February 1, 2011
Red roses? Check. Romantic dinner? Check. Jewelry, candy and mushy greeting card? Check, check and check. That's what Valentine's Day looks like for many women — a combination of stuff husbands rush out and buy because the calendar says so.
Once a woman becomes a mom, though, those trophies don't seem nearly as important. We're too busy trying to find a matching pair of socks, a pacifier, or a new and exciting way to make chicken, again. We also realize roses are a waste of money, candy has to be shared with the kids, and a fancy dinner out requires a baby-sitter who charges a small fortune.
So what's a husband to do for Valentine's Day? Cancel the obligatory trip to Victoria's Secret? Forgo the heart-shaped box of chocolate? Guys, you can buy that stuff if you like, but that's not what we really want.
What do women want, exactly? This age-old question has puzzled men since the beginning of time. Movies have been made about it, books have been written and still the question remains. Well, here's the answer: Women want a nap and a clean house.
Seriously. It's that simple. You think we're complicated creatures, but often our happiness boils down to those very two things.
We'd also settle for a flat stomach, some bathroom privacy to shave both legs and a full night's sleep.
But let's start with the nap and the housework. If you want to put a woman in the mood, tell her — in great detail — how you cleaned out the fridge. Tell her about all the moldy fruit you threw out, the brown gunk under the butter dish and the mystery leftovers. Tell her that you took care of it. That's better than lingerie or jewelry any day.
As for a sappy card, nothing Hallmark could write is sexier than a note that reads, "Don't worry. The laundry is already folded and put away." Those 10 words will elicit a contented sigh and major bonus points.
In other words, the best gifts of all won't cost you a penny. What's more valuable than free time? Dads, take the kids out of the house for two hours so your wife can have an uninterrupted nap. Even if she doesn't sleep, she'll still enjoy the time alone to read an entire magazine article, watch a chick flick in peace or take a bubble bath — where she can shave, yep, not just one but two legs.
What else? Every woman dreams of coming home from work, putting her feet up and admiring a dining room table that's free of backpacks, bills and science projects. Trust me. A clean dining room table is a status symbol among moms.
What's our idea of steamy? A dishwasher full of clean glasses. That way, she can fix herself something to drink and get back to admiring that dining room table. That's what women want.
Anna Seip is an editor, writer, mom and wife.


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Kimi Selfridge's beautiful images take instant photography to a whole new level
There's a universal truth that beautiful adolescents in vintage clothing make for excellent photographs. It's a tried and tested recipe for success. So what makes Kimi Selfridge's shots stand out from her peers and their equally gorgeous friends? Well for one thing her personal preference is for instant photography, in particular Fuji Instax, which means every one of her photographs is one of a kind. It's a difficult job to make instant film yield consistently strong results but Kimi rises to the challenge admirably. She's also got a natural eye for composition, framing her leggy subjects in their surroundings with genuine flair.
And it doesn't stop there. Kimi's also pretty fond of working into her original photographs with paint, found imagery and hand-scrawled text to create witty and engaging collages. We're particularly fond of her declaration of love for ex-president Abraham Lincoln. Who can resist a man with a full Amish beard?


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European Commission investing $65 million in 5G research, would like to see it by 2020
If you thought that you dream of getting 4G was getting close, well those bandwidth goal posts just moved, a lot. While the Mobile World Congress festivities are still bubbling along, the European Commission have just announced research grants for 5G mobile technology.
The news comes from the European Commission VP Neelie Kroes, who said that they're pumping approximately $65.4 million into research grants for 5G mobile technology, where they hope to have it online by 2020. Kroes said "I want 5G to be pioneered by European industry, based on European research and creating jobs in Europe - and we will put our money where our mouth is."
FCC broadband monitoring data shows half of ISPs fall short of advertised speed
It's long been a contention that the advertised speeds are an "up to" rating meaning that the ISP doesn't actually have to provide that speed. Consumers generally expect that the advertised speed is the speed that they will be receiving at their house. The FCC monitors the actual versus advertised speed and has reported some data for September of last year.
According to the FCC's data, more than half of the major ISPs failed to meet the advertised download speed. An additional three meet the advertised speed when averaged over 24 hours, but fell short of the advertised speed during the peak hours of 7-11p.m. The chart of data can be seen above. Upload speeds can be seen below.
When it comes to upload, the companies performed better. Only four of the 15 companies didn't provide advertised upload speeds. It just goes to show that not all ISPs are created equal.
Sprint starts LTE rollout in New York, San Francisco, Washington DC
Users of Sprint with 4G LTE devices in Washington DC, San Francisco, and New York City should be able to pick up spotty LTE coverage. It appears that Sprint has started flipping the switch on towers in those cities without making an official announcement. It's likely they're testing the towers ahead of an official launch.
Coverage has been spotty meaning that not all towers have been turned on. Once the coverage is officially announced and made live, users should expect a blanket of LTE goodness. Sprint has confirmed that the cell towers were turned on for testing and that the company decided to leave them on until the official announcement so that users could continue using LTE.
Microsoft to force all Windows Live / MSN Messenger users over to Skype starting April 8th
We have been hearing rumors of Microsoft's plans to transition users of its MSN / Live Messenger service over to Skype for a while now, and today it appears that we have an official date. The transition will begin taking place on April 8th of this year.
The upgrade will target English users first and then trickle down to the rest of the world, over the rest of the month. This news comes shortly after a confusing email which alluded to all Live Messenger services shutting down on April 15th, which is not true.
"The upgrade process itself has been going really well, we've had millions of customers move over", said Skype's Parri Munsell. The transition process begins when existing Live Messenger users are greeted with an upgrade notification. The upgrade will prevent users from signing in to the messaging service using the existing Live Messenger application. Microsoft is pre-caching existing machines with the Skype installer so that the upgrade will appear seamless.
OpenSignal data says Sweden has fastest 4G LTE, US comes in 8th
While some people are still stuck using 3G, including most Sprint users, many countries around the world have been upgraded to 4G LTE. OpenSignal, a company that crowdsources signal maps for different carriers around the world, is reporting that Sweden's LTE is the fastest in the world.
Unfortunately for users in the United States, our LTE speeds come in at eighth overall. Above us is Sweden, Hong Kong, Denmark, Canada, Australia, South Korea, and Germany. After Germany, the speed really drops off from 14 Mbps to 9.6 Mbps in the United States. Japan follows behind us with 7.1 Mbps.
Part of the reason for this could be due to carriers in the United States only having access to 20MHz of spectrum for their network. In Sweden, and most other countries, carriers have double that amount available, which gives them more bandwidth. If you're on 4G LTE, what's the fastest speed you've seen?
AT&T acquiring 700MHz mobile spectrum from Verizon for $1.9 billion, will use it to boost US LTE
AT&T has acquired part of the 700MHz B band spectrum from Verizon for $1.9 billion in cash. This spectrum acquisition by AT&T will allow the company to boost its US LTE rollout. According to AT&T, the new 700MHz license will allow AT&T to rollout LTE to more than 42 million people across 18 US states, including California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.
AT&T says this spectrum purchase will "complement [its] existing holdings in the 700 MHz B band and will allow AT&T to continue to deploy 4G LTE services to meet demand for mobile Internet services on a wide array of smartphones, tablets and other devices."
AT&T has been in an acquisition mode as of late. Just a few days ago, AT&T paid $780 million to acquire Alltel's US wireless business. It plans to use this acquisition to expand rural coverage. The spectrum acquisition is subject to regulatory approval, so it hasn't closed yet. Once the transaction is approved, AT&T believes the deal will close "in the second half of 2013."
Google looking to acquire wireless spectrum, asks FCC for approval
Google, according to CNET, is looking to acquire wireless spectrum. Before you get all excited about a Google wireless carrier or Google wireless broadband, you should know that Google is reportedly not after the spectrum for a new service. Instead, they are looking to acquire the spectrum to conduct testing.
An application by Google was filed last week and asks permission to test frequencies in the 2524 to 2546 MHz range and the 2567 to 2625MHz range. Clearwire currently uses these spectrum ranges for its 4G WiMax wireless broadband service. Google had previously owned a stake in the company up until last year.
One of CNET's sources has said that Google is only interested in using the spectrum for testing and nothing else. Google has declined to comment on the request. If Google were to create a wireless broadband company or wireless carrier service, would you be inclined to switch? What would it take?
FCC chairman wants one gigabit Internet community per state by 2015
At the US Conference of Mayors' Winter Meeting, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has voiced opinion for at least one "gigabit community" in all 50 states by 2015. The FCC Chairman wants a Google Fiber-like gigabit network across the US and believes that "establishing gigabit communities nationwide will accelerate the creation of a critical mass of markets and innovation hubs" enabled by the gigabit Internet connectivity.
At the moment, 42 communities in 14 states feature fiber optic Internet providers, but most of those installations aren't pushing gigabit speeds. In order to help out with the gigabit rollout, the FCC chairman has announced plans to create a new online and publicly accessable clearinghouse to collect and disseminate information about how to get the costs down, as well as increase the speed of broadband deployment across the United States.
We now have the problem of who would pay for it, as the current worldwide economy isn't strong to have the US government wholly fund the project. Could we see a telco or two step in, or Google possibly half finance the project? It looks like Internet access in the US is about to get interesting.
USB 3.0 about to get an injection of speed, will offer 10Gbps transfers and backwards compatibility, arrives in mid-2013
Currently USB 3.0 offers 5Gbps and with even cheap $150 SSDs offering read speeds of close to, or exceeding 500MB/sec, USB 3.0 is now... old. Well, the USB 3.0 Promoter Group has announced that an upcoming enhancement for USB 3.0 is on its way and will:
Add a much higher data rate, delivering up to twice the data through-put performance of existing SuperSpeed USB over enhanced, fully backward compatible USB connectors and cables.
We should expect this new injection of speed to hit USB 3.0 in the middle of the year, and will also include improved data encoding for more efficient data transfer as well as backward compatibility for current 5Gbps USB 3.0 hubs and devices, including USB 2.0-based hardware. We should hear more during CES, but it's great to see USB 3.0 being pumped up to 10Gbps, the future is looking mighty fast!
Time Warner Cable increases 'Standard' service speeds by 50%
Time Warner Cable has announced that they are increasing the speed of their "Standard" service by 50 percent. This means the new "Standard" speed will be 15mbps, as opposed to the current 10mbps. There is no mention of an increase in price. To get the increased speed, you can reset your modem by unplugging it for 10 seconds.
Alternatively, you can wait for it to automatically be rolled out to your division.