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Rockwell Knuckles
Topping his outstanding 2007 debut album, Northside Phenomenon, was a tall order, but Rockwell Knuckles may have done it with a mixtape called The Glow. Rocky's rhymes were already packed with more movie references than a Tarantino script, and so he made a quasi-concept album peppered with lines from the '80s cult classic Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon. And like Bruce Leroy, the film's kind young kung fu master, Knuckles ended up kicking some righteous ass with "See N Say," a self-described "Mayor Slay diss." Now, thanks to an impressive performance at SXSW and support from influential hip-hop blog the Smoking Section, Rockwell Knuckles' gospel is starting to spread to area codes other than 314. (KH)
Tef Poe
You may have heard about Tef Poe and his "mooning the Nazis" incident earlier this year. But that's nothing new; Tef's been "showing his ass" on the microphone for years. He's one of the area's scrappiest emcees, and when he starts letting the punch lines fly, you'd better get out of the way. His Glory 2 God mixtape is a good example of what he's capable of, and it features production by his brother Black Spade. (CC)
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With his reputation as a talented producer, emcee and performer preceding him, it comes as no surprise to see Vandalyzm back on the ballot this year. His delivery changes as often as his subject matter does — which is definitely a good thing. On one track Van may take the slow, staccato approach, and on the next he's likely to assault the beat with the precision of a sniper. His Bitch, Cause I Felt Like It mixtape is due out this year. (CC)
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Best Hip-Hop/Rap Artist (Duo or Group)
An urban funk-and-underground hip-hop collective, Earthworms crosses the club-conscious cuddle-thuggery of Nelly with the easy-going spirit of De La Soul to create a distinctively St. Louis style of dance music. With emcees Mathias, Kama and Black Patrick riffing on simple pleasures such as girls on ten-speeds, John Cusack flicks and pot luck (yeah, that kind of pot), and with DJ Mahf on the tables and beat circuits, its charismatic live performances have recently earned the group slots at SXSW and a well-received European tour. (RK)
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Family Affair
Two catchy songs with grammatically sketchy hooks blew up over the past year: Yung L.A.'s ubiquitous hit, "Ain't I," and the equally addictive single from Family Affair, "Here I Is." It's no surprise, considering that twin brothers Q.B. and Rep are among the most charismatic and consistent hip-hop artists in the city. Whether the pair is breathing fire while helping out close friend Rockwell Knuckles or rocking its own standout material (like the new The Family Blessing EP), it all goes back to what the Walnut Park natives proclaim in the chorus of their hit: "You said you lookin' fo' the best? I'm like, here I is." (KH)
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Jason and the Beast
Few would have predicted Jason Braun's evolution from ne'er-do-well barfly and open-mic hipster into a full-blown spoken-word beat maestro. As leader of Jason and the Beast, he more than dabbles in hyper-literary, name-check science, declaiming his rhymes over heady hip-hop arrangements, courtesy of Jerry Hill and Mic Boshans (among others), who proudly claim to use "no stolen samples." Braun's heroes remain the Beats, Bukowski and the Bard; his own voice is getting tougher and more musical with every performance. (RK)
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Scripts N Screwz isn't your average East St. Louis rap group. In fact, there's nothing average about the pair, period. For starters SnS produces and acts in films, including The Color of Justice (a documentary about a death-row inmate who may have been wrongfully imprisoned) and The Hunger, a hip-hop musical in the vein of Purple Rain due out later this year. Then there's its music, which runs the gamut from UGK- and Outkast-inspired bangers to downtempo, Joy Division-influenced raps about heroin addiction. Words like "unique" and "eclectic" only begin to describe the duo, which single-handedly shatters any preconceptions about hip-hop from the Ill(inois) side of St. Louis. (KH)
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Splitface and June 16th
Producers Nate Womack and Chris Krug operate under the aegis of Splitface and June 16th — and in the process, remind hip-hop listeners that a song's production and construction are at least as important as the words that go over them. By digging up dusty soul and jazz sides and infusing them with lightning-quick scratches and analog drum-machine beats, the duo creates a modern marriage of the old and the new. Last year's Raydeeohh featured guest rappers from the Frozen Food Section and the Deadly Alliance, but the lyricists were just icing on the dense layer cake that Womack and Krug had baked to perfection. (CS)
Best Hip-Hop DJ
The Beat Street Crew
Anyone who thinks that St. Louis hip-hop started with Nelly needs to go directly to Vintage Vinyl on certain summer Saturdays, when the Beat Street Crew is outside spinning old-school jams and break-danceable beats. The collective — which features DJ Needles, G-Wiz, Fly DX, DJ Alejan and occasionally other luminaries such as B-Money — contributes years of experience to its craft, as evidenced by seamless scratching and mixing of tunes and deck acrobatics. (AZ)
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BOSTON — Third-grader Martin Richard had just gotten ice cream and was near the Boston Marathon finish line, eagerly watching for friends to run by. Krystle Campbell was enjoying the race with her best friend, hoping to get a photo of the other woman's boyfriend after he conquered the last mile.
Then the unthinkable struck. The spirited 8-year-old, pictured on Facebook in his classroom holding a sign that read "No more hurting people," was dead, along with the outgoing 29-year-old woman and a graduate student from China — victims of twin bombs that turned a scene of celebration into chaos.
More than 170 others suffered injuries that included severed limbs, shrapnel wounds, broken bones and head trauma.
While mourning the dead Tuesday, friends and neighbors tried to focus on positive memories of cherished ones whose deaths still seemed unreal to them.
Martin's father, Bill Richard, released a statement thanking friends, family and strangers for their support following his son's death.
Richard's wife, Denise, and the couple's 6-year-old daughter, Jane, suffered serious injuries in the blasts. Their older son, Henry, wasn't hurt. Two neighbors said Jane lost one of her legs in the attack.
"My dear son, Martin, has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Boston," Richard said. "My wife and daughter are both recovering from serious injuries. We thank our family and friends, those we know and those we have never met, for their thoughts and prayers. I ask that you continue to pray for my family as we remember Martin."
In nearby Medford, William Campbell, described his daughter, Krystle, as the light of his life, "a very caring, very loving person."
"Daddy's little girl," the 56-year-old said.
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"A warming, savory stew that makes use of the rich flavors and vegetables of the Caribbean."
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1 cup
uncooked brown rice
1/2 pound
collard greens, chopped
2 cloves
garlic, peeled
1 (10 ounce) package
frozen okra
1 (28 ounce) can
whole peeled tomatoes, chopped, with liquid
chayote squash, diced
2 cloves
garlic, crushed
1/4 teaspoon
ground ginger, or more to taste
1/4 teaspoon
dried dill weed, or more to taste
1/4 teaspoon
ground cumin, or to taste
1 tablespoon
chopped fresh cilantro, or to taste
1 (16 ounce) can
kidney beans, rinsed and drained
1 (6 ounce) can
tomato paste
all-purpose flour, or as needed
This was a great dish and I'll make this again! Here are the particualars of what happened in my kitchen. I used Jasmine brown rice. I cut the thick white stems out of the collard greens before I chopped the greens. Never having eaten okra I was a little scared so I threw in about a dozen fresh okra (cut into bite size pieces) and to make up for the difference I threw in about 6 fresh asparagus (cut into bite size pieces). I added about 2-3 cups of water at this point because the stew had very little liquid to simmer for an hour. I waited to add the cilantro until the kidney bean/tomato paste went in. I did not need to use flour because the stew was plenty thick. I said I addded 2-3 cups of water but it may have been 3-4 cups water. This was pretty thick and had NO broth at all. We were able to serve it on our plate instead of a bowl inspite of adding water- of course it didn't matter 'cuz the flavor was so good. One last note, this recipe doesn't call for salt. I added salt and more dill and ginger for more flavor. Great recipe, super healthy and easy to make. I served it with grilled tilapia and steamed broccoli.
I used Kale versus collards
5 Ratings
If you do not drain the completely in step 3 it will benefit the consistency of the stew later on. Overall, I did not enjoy this even as a side dish. It still felt incomplete even as a side and was more like a tomato or pasta sauce than a stew. If you leave out (or include) okra and chayote, the rest of the ingredients worked as a good addition to a Sloppy Joe (or pasta) sauce. Whether to use the beans or not is a matter of opinion.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Vegan Caribbean Stew
Serving Size: 1/6 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 6
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Calories: 235
Calories from Fat: 14
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WASHINGTON, May 19, 2006 Coalition forces destroyed an abandoned hotel yesterday in Haqlaniyah, Iraq, using precision munitions to deny its use as an insurgent support base, military officials in Baghdad reported today.
Officials said the hotel was a known location of insurgent activity, and that coalition forces have targeted it multiple times since May 7 in response to repeated insurgent activity.
In other Iraq news, coalition forces responded yesterday to multiple insurgent attacks in central Ramadi.
Insurgents attacked Marines from 2/28 Brigade Combat Team multiple times with homemade bombs, medium and heavy machine-gun fire, and small-arms fire from several locations near the Ramadi government center, officials said. They responded with small-arms fire, medium and heavy machine-gun fire, grenades, mortars, shoulder-fired rockets, and precision munitions.
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This means if anyone wants to suggest I check out a 2D game for inclusion to this list, just provide a link in the comments and I'll check it out. Odds are if it's got something comely about it, I'll add it.
I'll try to limit these to games that have a cool artistic vision, neat effects, great music, that sort of thing, rather than every damned 2D platformer there is. I already got my XP for having a huge list, so that's not an issue anymore :)
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Department of the Interior halts new mining claims for 20 years in its Solar Energy Zones. Almost 304,000 acres across 17 sites in six western U.S. states will come under the 20-year mining ban.
The U.S. Department of the Interior has put a stop to new mining claims in the 17 Solar Energy Zones established in October.
The 17 sites, spread across the western states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah were highlighted as areas of public land most suitable for solar developments thanks to high irradiation, access to planned and existing transmission lines and low biological, cultural and historical value.
The 303,900 acres of U.S. public land encompassed by the Solar Energy Zones had a block on new mining claims under temporary measures and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management has approved a public land order which means new mining claims cannot be filed on the areas for 20 years.
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Posted By Corey Krakower On Oct 6 2010 @ 1:05 am In Around The Rinks | No Comments
NHL rosters are due on Wednesday, and the 2010-11 season will get underway on Thursday night. Players are ready to go, coaches are prepared and fans are excited to finally see their favorite teams get back on the ice. Naturally, people can sometimes be overly optimistic about what to expect from their favorite teams, so here is a breakdown of what to anticipate from your favorite team this year.
Anaheim Ducks: In cost cutting measures, rather than have the coaches drawing up set plays on tablet computers (like the Leafs), they are expected to use Ryan Getzlaf's head.
Atlanta Thrashers: Jeremy Roenick criticized Dustin Byfuglien as a defenseman, saying he could skate circles around him. Byfuglien took offense to that, and made Roenick cry by sending him a picture of his Stanley Cup ring.
Boston Bruins: Boston has hired a full time masseuse in anticipation of expected neck problems incurred by their scouting staff having to look far down the standings to see how the Toronto Maple Leafs are doing.
Buffalo Sabres: Management had a mix-up with their calendars and are probably unaware that the season is even starting. In fact, Darcy Regier is still waiting for July 1/free agency to start.
Calgary Flames: It's not clear how the Flames will do this year, mainly because Darryl Sutter is waiting to hear back on various trade proposals offered around the league, including Robyn Regehr and Miikka Kirpussof for Sheldon Souray and Nikolai Khabibulin; Jarome Iginla for Brian Rolston and Bryce Salvador; and Jay Bouwmeester and Mikael Backlund for Michal Roszival and Todd White.
Carolina Hurricanes: Canes fans can expect to generate a lot more offense due to the expected emergence of some good young players, and Rod Brind'Amour retiring will result in fewer scoring chances being called offside due to his nose being over the blue line.
Chicago Blackhawks: Patrick Kane was asked for his opinion on the upcoming season; he didn't answer other than angrily saying "I'm not giving you my 2 cents".
Colorado Avalanche: The Avalanche have vowed to be better defensively which will hopefully reduce Craig Anderson's workload to a more respectable average of 45 shots against per game.
Columbus Blue Jackets: The excitement is back in Columbus as prized young goaltender Steve Mason should be well rested after taking last year off.
Dallas Stars: There was an awkward moment between GM Joe Nieuwendyk and owner Tom Hicks which almost resulted in Nieuwendyk getting fired. Hicks thought he was being mocked when Nieuwendyk told him "we are going to make the playoffs Tom, you can take that to the bank."
Detroit Red Wings: Fan support and attendance is supposed to be much better in Detroit this year due to the majority of their players buying tickets regularly for their wives, children and grand children.
Edmonton Oilers: Sheldon Souray is the consensus public enemy number one among the people of Edmonton. It could be worse for Souray; he could still be expected to play in Edmonton.
Florida Panthers: Win or lose, the Panthers will be loved in Miami by their loyal fan base, or as they're more commonly known, "people who couldn't get Miami Heat tickets".
Los Angeles Kings: Dean Lombardi is lucky that no one in LA cares about hockey, otherwise some fans may notice that the guy with the #17 Kovalchuk jersey shoots left and looks strangely like Alexei Ponikarovsky.
Minnesota Wild: What's the difference between Pat Burns and Minnesota's playoff hopes? One was pronounced dead prematurely even though it is inevitable; the other was an NHL coach.
Montreal Canadiens: Apparently, the real reason Halak was traded is because the Habs wanted to increase scoring this year, and what better way to do that than to have the players shooting against Carey Price in practice.
Nashville Predators: Lots of optimism in Nashville. In 2007, they weren't even close to getting out of the first round. In 2008 and 2010, they were kind of close to getting out of the first round. This year, the Preds are expected to take that next leap forward by pushing a first round series to a full 7 games before they lose.
New Jersey Devils: GM Lou Lamoriello always appears serious but he does have a sense of humor. This year, instead of the PA announcer announcing that fans should remove their hats for the national anthems, he will now say "please circumvent your caps".
New York Islanders: Expectations are through the roof for this elite team, as Garth Snow enters year 5 of his 5-year rebuilding plan for the Islanders.
New York Rangers: A new NHL rule stating that goaltenders are not allowed to shoot in shootouts assures fans that at the very least Marian Gaborik will be shooting ahead of Henrik Lundqvist.
Ottawa Senators: In honor of the Save Spezza Rally over the summer, Jason Spezza will contemplate changing his number to 8, in order to commemorate the number of fans that showed up.
Philadelphia Flyers: I had a good joke, but Chris Pronger stole it.
Phoenix Coyotes: The bad news: Kyle Wellwood was released, depriving bloggers of jokes this year. The good news: by releasing him, the Coyotes will be able to sell tickets at a higher price and not have to discount seats in the lower bowl for having an obstructed view.
Pittsburgh Penguins: The Penguins were relieved when the NHL and the Officials came to terms on a 4-year agreement. Just imagine how confused everyone in Pittsburgh would have been if unbiased replacement officials came in and started calling penalties on Sidney Crosby.
San Jose Sharks: On a team full of passengers, it was encouraging to see guys like Thornton, Marleau and Pavelski step up in the playoffs and drive the bus for San Jose. Fortunately, Dany Heatley was not the one doing any of this so called driving.
St. Louis Blues: The Blues are still laughing at the fact that Pierre Gauthier doesn't understand the acronym LOL; for example – "Hey Pierre, I'll trade you Eller and Schultz for Jaroslav Halak, LOL."
Tampa Bay Lightning: In an effort to build community relations, some teams send their players to deliver tickets to fans. The Lightning players don't do that with the exception of Dan Ellis, who is a courier by day to earn extra cash.
Toronto Maple Leafs: Looking to raise the bar for the players; Brian Burke has established a team goal for the season – the number of Leafs wins in 2010-11 should be greater than or equal to the number of assistant general managers.
Vancouver Canucks: The Canucks expected big things from themselves, figuring they would win their division and be a Stanley Cup favorite this season. They immediately started to question that when Eklund projected the same thing.
Washington Capitals: Washington has proposed a rule change that would see a playoff series being decided by the first team to win 3 games, not 4.
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Troyes, a city of art and history in the heart of the Champagne region 90 minutes from Paris, boasts a distinguished past combining a manufacturing and trade tradition. This is where major brands such as Petit Bateau and Lacoste were founded. Marques Avenue Troyes, which lies at the crossroads of the A5 and A26 motorways, is an integral part of the historic capital of shopping tourism and a huge customer catchment area. Marques Avenue is one of the three large outlet centres located in Troyes reflecting the town's history as one of the major clothing and textile manufacturing areas in France and its status as the factory outlet centre of France. Marques Avenue is about five minutes to the south east of the town and consists of two malls about six hundred yards apart - Marques Avenue Mode (Fashion) and Marques Avenue Maison et Decoration (Home & Decoration). Marques Avenue Mode hosts over 240 iconic French and international brands, such as Hugo Boss, Le Temps des Cerises, Levi's, Seb, Princesse Tam-Tam, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Teddy Smith, Lee, Chantelle, Rip Curl, Oxbow, Villeroy & Boch, Descamps, Dim…
With almost 2000 parking spaces the Marques Avenue stores offer a typical out of town outlet shopping mall experience, with the advantage of having fashion and home brands nearby. Men's, women's and children's fashion boutiques with brands such as Ikks, le Temps des Cerises, Hugo Boss and le Comptoir des Cotonniers are joined by a wide range of sports, lingerie, shoes, accessories and leather goods in the main store.
In a strong position due to its distinguished commercial past, Troyes has kept its status as Europe's 13th-century trade fair capital to become its 20th-century factory outlet capital.
Each year over five million people from France and abroad travel an average of 220 km to shop at Europe's biggest concentration of famous-name shops looking for the best brands at bargain prices.
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LAUREL, Md. - Howard County Police are investigating the stabbing death of a 46-year-old man in Laurel.
Police say they found Robert Foster of Savage lying at the entrance of the Midway Mobile Home Park shortly after 7 p.m. on Thursday.
Medics took Foster to Laurel Regional Hospital, where he died.
Police arrested 20-year-old Robert Tasker and charged him in connection with Foster's death.
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"No, Mom, seriously, you don't have to."
"Sweetie, you know I am whether you like it or not."
I sighed. Well, ever since Mom returned to her sane self, she was all about my life. She decided to become principal, 'cause you know, it's so easy to become a principal when you have no college experience or anything. Not. Then she was insisting on becoming the cheer leading coach.
"But we don't need a cheer leading coach," I told her.
She turned to me. "You're going to deal with me, Sweetheart, whether you like it or not."
I frowned and sat on the couch. "Fine."
"That's better." She went into the kitchen and started to cook up supper.
It was only a matter of time until she told me I couldn't be a stripper. I loved being a stripper. It was fun and I loved my friends. I made lots of money. I could dance. What more could I want (other than Caesar)? I went into the kitchen and watched her cook. Don't get me wrong. I love seeing my mother be a mother.
"Mom?" I asked, as I sat at the table while she cooked something weird.
"Yes?" she replied, not turning around.
"Well...I really enjoy being a stripper."
She didn't turn around or say anything.
"I mean, I don't actually strip - like, at all really. I enjoy dancing and I have a lot of friends, too. It's not as skeezy as you might think it is. It's actually pretty high class. So, you know...don't make me quit doing it. Please?"
She sighed. "Fine. Even if I told you 'no,' you'd probably keep doing it."
I smiled. "Thanks Mommy."
We had a game the next day. Despite how annoying my mother was, she knew what she was doing when she coached us. Everyone was pretty excited to see Mom back in action. She looked fucking amazing. I take after her a lot, with the pale skin and black hair, but her hair is always perfect. It's simple, short, and wavy and she never does anything with it, which makes me jealous. She has very dark eyes, and they're not brown-that-looks-black but they actually look like a dark grey. She's short, too, and since my dad was super tall, they were so creepily adorable when they went on their raids together.
Anyway, I'd occasionally go slightly mad and see things that weren't there at games. It was mostly with people. Dad would be there. Caesar would be there. Then random people I've never seen would be there, and I'd know that they weren't actually there though because I'd point them out and no one else would see them. They were quite bizarre looking. I'd see three boys and three girls typically. They wouldn't look the same, and yet they each had something peculiar about them that made them similar. One boy was tall and pale with this very bizarre grey-black colored hair, but he'd be my age and so the hair was off-setting. He had pale skin and green eyes that were very similar to Caesar. In fact, he kind of looked a lot like Caesar. There was also a girl who was quite petite and she had this incredibly long, long black hair. Her eyes were an ice blue and she looked like a little minx. They all looked a like, either very short or very tall with black hair, pale skin, and either blue or green eyes.
"I think I see my children," I said to Mom after the game.
"Yeah, I saw you a few times before I had you," she said. "I only ever saw you, and I only ever had you."
"I see six of them."
She snorted a laugh as she sped down the street. It was a 20mph road, but we were going forty in our black station wagon (but it had been turned into a car meant to be used after the Apocalypse, meaning you could stand in the back and shoot away). "Good luck with that," she said to me.


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Conroe playground relocated to remote town in Bolivia
By Erin Mulvaney : March 21, 2013 : Updated: March 21, 2013 9:01pm
Photo By Conroe Parks and Recreation Dpt.Instead of discarding an old playground, the city of Conroe and a local nonprofit worked together to dismantle it, ship it to a poor village in San Buenaventura, Bolivia, and reconstruct it for the town's children.
Photo By Conroe Parks and Recreation Dpt.Instead of discarding a used playground, the city of Conroe and a local non-profit group worked together to send the entire playground structure to a small town in Bolivia, where hundreds of children now use it.
Photo By Conroe Parks and Recreation Dpt.The children of San Buenaventura were thrilled by the tunnel slide, which they had never seen before the Conroe team set one up demonstrated it.
The colorful playground structure in a remote town in the middle of the Bolivian jungle has the works - a tunnel slide, a climbing wall and monkey bars - for the hundreds of children in the impoverished community to enjoy.
That same structure, on a green piece of land next to a church in San Buenaventura, underwent a year and a half process, a 3-month journey that included dangerous roadways to travel thousands of miles from a Conroe park, where it was scheduled to be discarded.
"These playgrounds are perfectly solid and will last. There is nothing like it in the developing world, and you can't purchase a semi-thousand-dollar playground out there," said Matt Clayton, founder of Maximizing Missionaries, which relocated the playground to Bolivia.
City joins nonprofit
The city of Conroe worked with Maximizing Children's Ministries International, a nonprofit affiliated with The Ark Church, to bring the structure to the community. It arrived in Bolivia in September.
Mike Riggens, director of the Conroe Parks and Recreation Department, said the staff realized that a playground would be replaced at Kasmiersky Park about two years ago. The city worked out a deal with the nonprofit and sold it to them for $10.
Riggens said playground structures typically are used for about 10 years, then usually are bulldozed with the parts recycled.
"It's their goal to refurbish playground equipment around the world for those who don't get the same experience we have in the States," he said.
The playground structure shipped in two 20-foot containers through the Panama Canal. The shipment should have only taken about a month and a half, but was stalled for about six weeks during a strike near the Panama Canal, said Don Schock, the project's head of construction.
Once on the road again, it traveled over tight, winding cliffs called "Death Road" in Bolivia to make it to the town.
Shipment and installation for the project came to about $50,000.
A team of 10 from Conroe spent three days setting it up in San Buenaventura, Bolivia. The first day, 350 children and 150 parents came to watch.
"It's the love, the joy that was amazing," said Schock, telling how the town's reaction brought tears to the team's eyes.
Schock said the children had never seen a tunnel slide. He said he was standing above the slide, waved to them and disappeared into the slide.
"Their eyes went open and their jaws dropped," Schock said. "I popped out down at the bottom and they clapped."
Small idea, 'big hit'
Clayton, also associate pastor for children at The Ark Church, and his wife, Kelly, had served as missionaries in impoverished countries for the last several years, but have now returned to live in Conroe.
When the couple were in El Alto, Bolivia, Clayton noticed the community had no playground. He helped build one - consisting of a little slide, a tiny swing and a few merry-go-rounds.
That small playground "was a huge hit," Clayton said, and helped spark the Conroe project several years later.
In San Buenaventura, he said, children swarmed the playground like "ants on jelly in the summertime. It was awesome and totally worth it."
The city and the nonprofit are now planning similar projects, possibly taking playgrounds to Colombia or Africa.


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I was dissapointed. Nothing special at all about it. I am a great dumpling lover, and their dumplings were nothing close to special. Just your run of the mill Chinese Restaurant. I still stand by Joe's Shanhai as havingthe best pork dumplings in the city. You know a Chinese restaurant is good when Chinese people in China Town prefer to eat there. Nice family style eating atmosphere and amazing food.
Posted by bailey on 12/11/2005
After reading the other reviews here, we decided that this would be a convenient to the theatre kind of place... The upstairs dining room very tight seating. Music blaring, service slow. Dumplings and steamed buns were cold... The food was ok...maybe they were having an off day.
Posted by ex-Shanghai person on 12/07/2005
The best dumplings I've ever had--even when compared to the authentic soup dumplings from the dumpling house in Shanghai! I grew up in Shanghai and have gone back a couple times, and the dumplings here are just as good, if not even better, than the ones I've had there. Make sure you eat your dumplings correctly: with chopsticks and a spoon to catch all the soup. I winced when I saw novices around who ate it with a fork and knife, because they're missing the best part of the dumplings (the soup!) Other recommendations: scallion pancakes, crispy beef. Don't listen to the people who say that they don't do authentic Chinese food right because they don't do General Tsao's chicken correctly--anyone who actually eats "authentic" Chinese food knows that General Tsao's is NOT real Chinese food anyways. When you come here, order the REAL dishes (soup dumplings, of course), not the Americanized knock-offs. The service isn't the best, but the dumplings are cheap. The rest of the menu prices are just okay, and maybe even a little more than the average Chinatown menu. But the dumplings should be what you would come for.
Posted by Native NYer on 12/07/2005
As a chinese american, I think the food here is excellent. It is hard to get quality chinese food around midtown and I would compare this food to Chinatown! I highly recommend the juicy buns. Good stuff!
Posted by NY Foodie on 12/07/2005
If you're looking for good chinese food in Times Square, then you should try this place. The dumplings were excellent, so tasty! And the price is not that expensive. Would recommend to others!
Posted by Dumplings ok on 12/06/2005
I went there with a co-worker for lunch and found prompt seating and yummy crunchy sesame snacks at our table. Food was good. Went for the dumplings, they were OK. I like Dumpling Man's better though. Great service.
Posted by NY diner on 09/19/2005
Not recommended. food tastes over-sprayed with MSG. Service was poor as well.


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Conor Dwyer clinches title with 200m IM win in Santa Clara
Olympic medallist Conor Dwyer (Winnetka, Ill.) closed strong over the final 50 meters to earn the win in the men's 200m individual medley and lock up the men's Arena Grand Prix Series overall title Sunday June 22, 2014 at the Arena Grand Prix at Santa Clara at the Georg F. Hains International Swim Center.
Swimming side by side with North Baltimore Aquatic Club teammates Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.) and Chase Kalisz (Bel Air, Md.), Dwyer inched ahead over the freestyle leg of the 200m IM to touch first in 1 minute, 59.49 seconds.
Kalisz took second in 1:59.53 with Phelps third in 1:59.76. Locked in a duel with Russian Olympian Arkady Vyatchanin for the Arena Grand Prix Series title, Dwyer needed to win the 200m IM to secure the series title.
"That was a tight race... It was nice to touch the wall and win that prize," Dwyer said. "It was go out at the 100 and see how fast I could be, then really nail the breast leg. I saw we came off even at breast-to-free wall, and I thought I had a good shot at winning after that touch."
With 53 and 57 points, respectively, Dwyer and Hungary's Katinka Hosszu secured 2013-14 Arena Grand Prix Series titles, each earning a $10,000 series championship bonus from USA Swimming.
Dwyer won six events and added six runner-up finishes, while Hosszu won a total of 10 races over the course of the series. Leverenz won five events en route to a total of 35 points.
Leverenz wrapped up the top finish for an American woman in the series (second overall) with a victory Sunday in the women's 200m IM in 2:12.61. Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson of Canada took second in 2:13.79, and Theresa Michalik of Germany touched third in 2:14.03.
Olympic gold medallist Missy Franklin (Centennial, Colo.) captured her second win of the meet in the women's 100m back in 1:00.99. Amy Bilquist (Carmel, Ind.) took second in 1:01.44, and Franklin's Cal teammate Elizabeth Pelton (Baltimore, Md.) earned third in 1:01.48.
Laura Sogar (Exeter, R.I.) earned the women's title in the 100m breast with a time of 1:09.15. Canada's Tera Van Beilen earned the second place spot in 1:09.59, and Fiona Doyle of Ireland took third in 1:09.61.
Kevin Cordes (Naperville, Ill.) completed a sweep of the men's breaststroke events in Santa Clara with a time of 1:00.91 in the men's 100m breast, ahead of Mike Alexandrov (Champaign, Ill.), who took second in 1:01.65. Felipe Lima of Brazil rounded out the top three with a third place swim of 1:01.78.
Cierra Runge (Cochranville, Pa.) posted a time of 8:26.71 to win the women's 800m free. Denmark's Lotte Friis was second in 8:27.26, and Canada's Brittany MacLean was third in 8:29.51.
Connor Jaeger (Fair Haven, N.J.) put up a first-place time of 15:00.97 earlier in the day to take the men's 1500m free ahead of Michael McBroom (The Woodlands, Texas) and Sean Ryan (Chattanooga, Tenn.). In the evening session's 1500m free heat, McBroom earned second overall in 15:04.41, and Ryan took third overall in 15:07.82.
Vyatchanin briefly grabbed the overall series lead from Dwyer with a win in the men's 100m free in 54.34. Olympic gold medallist Matt Grevers (Lake Forest, Ill.) was second in 54.95, followed by Eugene Godsoe (Greensboro, N.C.) in 55.41 for third.
In the first race of the session, Andreina Pinto of Venezuela took home the women's 200m fly in 2:10.59 followed by Becca Mann (Homer Glen, Ill.) in 2:12.24 and Lauren Harrington (Memphis, Tenn.) in 2:12.68.
The subsequent men's 200m fly went to South Africa's Sebastien Rosseau in 1:58.50. Bobby Bollier (Mission Hills, Kan.) was second in 1:58.65 with Kalisz taking third in 1:59.76.
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Michael Phelps, Tom Shields Swim to 100m Butterfly Tie in Santa Clara
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Twenty-two time Olympic medallist Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.) and Tom Shields (Huntington Beach, Calif.) raced to a tie in the 100m butterfly, and Olympic gold medallist Nathan Adrian (Bremerton, Wash.) topped Phelps in the 100m freestyle to highlight Friday's action at the Arena Grand Prix at Santa Clara at the George F. Haines International Swim Center.
In his second swim of the session, Phelps surged over the final 50 meters to share the 100m fly first-place finish with Shields in 52.11 seconds. Eugene Godsoe (Greensboro, N.C.) was third in 53.11.
Earlier in the night, Adrian continued his strong season with a victory in a star-studded 100m free in 48.17, clear of Phelps in 48.80 and Conor Dwyer (Winnetka, Ill.), who was third in 49.76.
In the first final of the evening, Simone Manuel (Sugar Land, Texas) touched first in 54.44 in the 100m free, clear of Olympic gold medallists Missy Franklin (Centennial, Colo.), who was second in 54.51, and Allison Schmitt (Canton, Mich.), who took third in 55.08.
Felicia Lee (Wayne, N.J.) of Stanford was victorious in the women's 100m fly with a time of 59.62, followed by Kelly Naze (Englewood, Colo.) in 1:00.22 and Noelle Tarazona (Claremont, Calif.) in 1:00.38.
In the 200m men's breast, Kevin Cordes (Naperville, Ill.) earned the win in 2:11.82 as Chase Kalisz (Bel Air, Md.) touched second in 2:12.43 and BJ Johnson (Seattle, Wash.) finished third in 2:12.55.
Olympian Micah Lawrence (Pflugerville, Texas) earned the women's 200m breast victory in 2:26.53. Laura Sogar (Exeter, R.I.) took second in 2:29.57, and Annie Zhu (Brooklyn, N.Y.) placed third in 2:30.02.
After taking second Thursday in the 800m free, Connor Jaeger (Fair Haven, N.J.) won the 400m free in 3:47.98. Michael McBroom (The Woodlands, Texas) was second in 3:49.26, and Canada's Ryan Cochrane took third in 3:50.84.
Denmark's Lotte Friis picked up her second win in as many nights, touching first in the women's 400m free with a time of 4:06.83. Canada's Brittany McLean was second in 4:07.23 with Andreina Pinto of Venezuela taking third in 4:07.25.
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THIS GUIDE for setting it up. Use wii backup manager to transfer your games too. If you have questions about it.,ask there. This thread is for the soft mod guide and I think you did that correctly already.
hi, firstly please forgive me as i may appear a little stupid. i have been through the guide and i think i successfully modded my wi previously on a 3.1e. now states 4.1. im having trouble loading any game. still plays originals etc but when i try to load through the usb from a hard drive formatted on fat 32 and nt it does not reconise it. also from disc as an iso shows the game title in top left but on trying to load says loading, checking wii system memory then comes up disc error. i really hope im doing something stupid and somebody could point me in the right direction please. thanks in advance
THIS GUIDE for setting it up. Use wii backup manager to transfer your games too. If you have questions about it.,ask there. This thread is for the soft mod guide and I think you did that correctly already.
yes oprea error nightstah, it asks if i need help with opera. Problem is read as this:
nice guide and easy to follow,
but there is something bothering me:
It's been about 1 1/2 half year since I used my Wii,
Of course now I would like to play
back then I used the "New 3.1-4.1 Sofmod for ANY Wii" : http://www.wiihacks.com/tutorial-arc...d-any-wii.html; which in return recommends this Tutorial now: http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...d-any-wii.html
So my Wii IS currently on 4.1E and still works without any problems (that I could find right now);
The last time I started HBC, I used the Update function (HBC only! nothing else was changed)
My SD-card still has its old settings and files (root unchanged)
Is there anything I need to update/change/do which relates to this Guide?
Would you recommend a "Do over"? Step1-"warning: It is illegal to obtain...."
I only need certain parts (which seems unlikely as it might be too risky for me too just install this or that )
Or can I leave everything as it is?
AND play New"Original" games without problems?? (Disabled the Disk-Update function in my Priiloader settings)
my old games and "backups" work of course still fine too (just worried about new games)
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Aleks' grandfather's house is going to be torn down probably tomorrow. This is a job that will cost probably around $10,000. That house didn't have insurance and FEMA isn't giving a dime for it. We do need help paying for this as we don't have the money for it.
If the town were to take it down though it would cost probably $50,000. Which would be very bad.
I must continue my plea for help in terms of donations to help tear it down. If you can't donate, please spread the word about this.
In terms of how donations are being used:
1. Donations will only be used to replace essential items lost by the hurricane, they will be used for repairs and for in some cases demolition. All donations will be receipted.
2. Not only will there be a receipt, but each one will be put into a receipt book and logged with the information on each donation.
3. Any donations that are left over will be used to help neighbors in the area.
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JM Architects, has won the international design competition for the new building of the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) on the site opposite Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Masterwork.
According to a statement from the Glasgow School of Art: "The Selection Committee considered that Steven Holl Architects' work showed a poetic use of light and their submission demonstrated a singular creative vision, scale of ambition, profound clarity and a respectful rivalry for the Mackintosh Building. The Committee believed that Holl's approach to the craft of building, his understanding of the opportunities of new technology and an enjoyment of the challenges of sustainable design, promised a great step forward in the development of architecture in an urban setting."
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Thank you, General [Gordon] Sullivan [United States Army, Ret., Association President]. Thank you very much for inviting me. I'm delighted to be here. In all candor, it's not because of you, it's because Bill Campbell asked me if I would come. On five or six occasions last year, I had to set up an emergency meeting where we had a crisis and needed to turn to Bill and say, "Bill, we've got to get something going here," and he's done a terrific job and I wanted to publicly thank you for it. We've had some real battles and everything that I asked you to do, you did. So all you asked me to do was come out here and put all of you to sleep and I said, "Well, I can do that." [Laughter]
Gordon was right. It is somewhat of an awkward time with everything that's going on in the Department to be breaking away to come out and talk to an information symposium. For all practical purposes, we are fighting the first cyber-war. I don't how many of you were aware of this, but while we have the kinetic operation underway, we are also being hit -- I think in a very incoherent and rather amateurish manner, probably not by the Serbian government – but we're being Yugo-spammed, as it was described in The Wall Street Journal.
Hackers have found a way to get past security to the NATO home page and send a lot of simplistic email. It's all directly tied to this war. And so, I think for the first time in history, we are in a cyber-war. Actually, there are a lot more events underway which we can't talk about here that make that statement true.
It was only two years ago that we had the first cyber terrorist attack in this country. It was very simple-minded and incoherent. But it was unequivocal that someone was using cyberspace to advance a political agenda through disruptive techniques. That was only two years ago. In two short years, we've found ourselves in full-scale combat. Bill knows this. A lot of folks in this room have been working this. I think there are some very important messages here.
Cyberspace isn't just for geeks. It's for warriors now. There is a bit of a cultural bias that we have in DoD where [information specialists] are signal guys, not warriors. I hope those days are over. You are in the thick of it and if there's any warrior who's out in combat who doesn't realize his weakest link is his electronic link, he isn't going to be in that command billet very long. That's just the way it is.
It's not just the case of some Serbian hackers being able to fool around. We now have information on satellite structure routinely available on web sites. We're providing this kind of order of battle information routinely to potential adversaries on the Internet. There once was a time when we put up billion-dollar satellites so we'd know what the weather coverage was like. Now you can get real-time radar feeds on the Weather Channel.
We have to have a whole new way of thinking about force protection, [as a result of] this world that we have created over the last five, eight, ten years. Information that we routinely make available or that others make available about us is now in a public media that is accessible virtually to any Third World country. This is a very different world. We don't have the freedom to maneuver the way we thought about that in the past. That is going to take quite different thinking compared to what we've been doing so far.
Bill Campbell and I were at a hearing about a month ago and we discussed some of the things the Department was confronting right now. We said that the most important thing to give members of Congress, is the initial [ability to] unplug yourself from the network. You can't do that.
We are now far, far, far too connected in our business practices to just unplug ourselves. I don't think we would even know how to do it. We found that out when we tried to get our arms around the web site problem. I don't know how many of you are aware of the web site issue. We took a couple of shots from cyber-libertarians corps out there saying that we shouldn't be regulating this industry. Well, I don't want to regulate the industry, but I sure don't want to make ourselves vulnerable through inattention through this industry. We turned over our web pages to the public affairs crowd.
[I was once shown] a briefing that [had just been] shown to Hugh Shelton [Chairman of the Join Chiefs of Staff]. [The briefer had] shown Hugh Shelton a homepage for his [Shelton's] house. Here was a homepage that had pictures of every angle of his house, where the shrubs were, where the doors were, what the attic was like, how the rooms were oriented. This was on his web site because we have turned over this media to the public relations guys without any idea about what this means to the warfighter.
We have the same problem right now. We have a public web site right now that provides orbital mechanics data on U.S. satellites; when they are going to fly over Sarajevo. Does that sound right? There's a commercial web site right now that will provide you every airplane that's going to land at National Airport in the next 20 minutes by tail number. Is that a good idea?
I don't know that we can stop it. We can't stop this engine that's going on and we can't unplug ourselves, so we have to become a lot more thoughtful about what we are doing. That isn't just computer [professionals]. It [involves] computer [professionals] and warriors sitting right beside their commanding officers and saying, "What are we trying to do and how are we going to support it and what do we have to do to protect ourselves as we do it?" I don't think we have those questions wired in our heads yet.
I think we made enormous progress during the last year. A year ago, we had Solar Sunrise. We went for a period of two to three weeks without [really knowing] what was happening. We didn't know who it was after the first week. We watched it for another week, pretty sure by the second week that it was not malicious although it was worrisome. It took the third week before we could figure out where this was coming from. That was back then.
About two weeks ago, we had the Melissa virus. We stopped it almost overnight in our network. That was because of the enormous progress that has been accomplished through General Campbell's efforts and others. Through all of these efforts, it's been remarkable during the last year. Two years ago, we didn't have any idea even what the map was of our own networks or who was operating them. Today we do. Two years ago, we didn't even know where all the web sites were for our own operation. Today we do. Two years ago, we had an incoherent configuration over our network. Now, it's still evolving and it will for some time because this has been growing up for the last ten years. It's going to take a little while for us to get our arms around it, but we now have control over it. Two years ago, we didn't know all the fire walls we were using, where they [were or] who [was] responsible for them. Today we do. A year ago, we didn't have real-time network monitoring centers across the networks. Today we do. We didn't have real-time intrusion detection capability a year ago. Today we do.
It has been astounding how much work has [been] accomplished during the last year. Unfortunately, it's just a foundation. It's the foundation of what we now have to build on. This is somewhat like going back to a basic discipline, signal discipline that we routinely exercised at the height of the Cold War and bringing it to the computer world, a world far more dangerous, it strikes me, to which we haven't had enough added attention to. These people are doing a great job.
Where do we have to go from here? I think the foundation is in place. And where a year ago, I think the computer folks were fighting for nickels and dimes to buy encryption software and fire-walls, I don't sense that problem now. So I think we've made a major change in how people think about this problem. This is a priority, but it is a dramatically more complicated problem than we all thought.
Where I think we probably have one of the biggest challenges is people power. I tell you, we are hemorrhaging. It's very hard to hold on to people that have expertise. And all of you [in the private sector] are out there offering salaries two and three times what an E-5 or E-6 is making. They walk out the door. How are we going to hold people? We're doing a very good job, holding onto those we can. But we know that we can't bribe people to stay in this type of environment. So we're going to have to find a much more sophisticated way of dealing with the people side of this problem.
I think the Reserves have become an enormously important dimension to this. We're going to have a lot of folks that leave, but who still like the sense of importance and excitement that comes with being in the armed forces. We've have to hold onto that. I don't think we have that in place yet. Right now, the private sector has found a way that within two months of the separation date, they start sending letters directly to the homes of people before they retire. And yet, we don't have a comparable tracking system in DoD for people we want to hold onto. Maybe we ought to contract out. [Laughter.]
So we have to do something about this. We also have to offer them meaningful things to do, [as opposed to] just signing [them] up for the Reserves and we'll figure it out later. We have to find meaningful things to do and we've had several conversations about that.
As I said to Gordon on the way in, I don't think there's any area that's more important for us to get right over the next year and a half than this. We are going to hit on a lot of things. It's going to take visionary leadership and people like you who are willing to spend some time and effort getting on top of this problem and helping us stay in front of it. And we're only doing this now for DoD.
I have to tell you that the private sector is highly vulnerable. We're way, way out in front of the private sector. The Melissa experience was the first time a lot of them [had to consider] how soon you can get fouled up and the fact that we have a larger national security responsibility now. This is one of the things that General Campbell is working on with the NIPC [National Infrastructure Protection Center]; how we, DoD, can exercise a national security responsibility over an infrastructure that doesn't belong to DoD but is likely to get attacked. That's a hard problem. But I think, again, the infrastructure is in place for us to start working for us to start working on that problem.
We're going to have a battle again this year on encryption and I need to say something about this. There are already forces coming up in Congress that want to drive all restrictions on the strongest encryption for purposes of export. I think we, DoD, have thought about this more than probably anybody, because we have both sides of this problem that we have to come to grips with. We operate in a non-regulated commercial cyberspace now for 95% of our communications. So we're very keen on encryption. We have to be. There's nothing more unnerving than to get a potentially "spoof" message on your own hardware. Can you think of anything that would throw you off more than that?
There also isn't a person in the Department, or any businessman who's thought about it more than ten minutes, who would ever want to have encryption without some form of key recovery. You are surely not going to give your employees the ability to send your proprietary data or your cash or your contracts anyplace they want and not have electronic fingerprints on it. This is just a basic of internal control. So we have to get past this false debate that's been created by the cyber-libertarians that somehow their personal liberties are at stake because I want encryption and key recovery. I'm not trying to say that you have to have it. But I want it. I want it for the Department. And I think every businessman that I've talked to has said he's going to want it for himself as well.
Instead, we have this fraudulent debate that's been created by the cyber-libertarians that somehow, America's liberties are at stake because we won't let them have the strongest encryption, free to send anyplace in the world. I'm telling you, we can't do that. You are still going to count on us, the federal government, to be able to provide as much advance warning as possible that there's a terrorist attack about to happen the United States. And what excuse are we going to give when we say, "Well, we couldn't do it because we couldn't break the code fast enough?"
We know how to protect civil liberties in this country. We are far more worried about the government violating civil liberties than we are about private citizens doing it to other people. Do you know right now that there's a commercial company that's selling your personal telephone records of every phone call you've made in the last three months and they'll sell it to anybody that asks? There's only one party in America that can't buy it: the federal government. But anybody else can buy your private information. We can't. We know how to protect civil liberties in this country.
I'm not at all saying, "Throw away the 4th Amendment." [It is a] false debate to say that America is at risk because America's national security infrastructure wants to protect America against unregulated encryption. That's a false debate. And I'd be glad to debate anybody on that subject. I've asked for your help on this. You have to help us make this an educated discussion, not just a symbolic, rhetorical exercise of throwing barbs at each other. This is complex area. It's very important. It's where our personal rights and freedoms and liberties as citizens bounce up against our responsibility as a government to protect our citizens. It is a very important debate and we ought to have it, but we shouldn't just go ram-rodding through with false rhetoric that somehow America is at risk because the federal government wants to protect its own citizens. I need your help to work that out.


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DOJ vs. FTC: Apple knows when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em
Earlier today the FTC announced a $32.5 million decree against Apple over the way it handles in-app purchases. The FTC says that Apple failed to inform parents when their kids might run up huge bills in in-app purchases, and needs to do a better job. The FTC also wants Apple to pay out claims for those in-app purchases to the tune of (at least) $32.5 million.
Quite frankly, that's chump change for Apple.
Apple's revenue for its fiscal 2013 was $37.5 billion. That means that in 2013, Apple made more than $102 million per day. At that rate, Apple can afford to settle with the FTC three times a day and still come out ahead.
Obviously no company wants to be put under federal scrutiny - it's a public relations minefield and Apple doesn't want to be in the crosshairs of regulators any more than is absolutely necessary. But in the context of Apple's earnings and even its revenue from the App Store, $32.5 million still isn't a lot of money.
Last year Apple settled a class action lawsuit over the same thing; in June customers received notifications by e-mail that they were entitled to refunds. 37,000 customers have already stepped up for refunds that way, and I don't expect that they're entitled to double-dip. But it sounds like Apple may be worried about that very thing.
Tim Cook got a bit snarky in an e-mail he sent to employees immediately before the FTC announcement was made. Quoting Tim from the letter via Re/code:
It doesn't feel right for the FTC to sue over a case that had already been settled. To us, it smacked of double jeopardy. However, the consent decree the FTC proposed does not require us to do anything we weren't already going to do, so we decided to accept it rather than take on a long and distracting legal fight.
In other words, Apple doesn't like the principle of the thing. They've already atoned for this past sin, but this is little more than a nuisance claim. Apple wants it out of its hair so it can focus on more important stuff. And everything the FTC wants Apple to do, Apple was going to do anyway, so there!
Success breeds scrutiny
Whether the stakes are wrist-slaps or fundamental changes to the way Apple does business, the company is having an increasingly hard time maneuvering around federal regulators.
Compare and contrast the situation Apple's in with federal appeals court judge Denise Cote over its iBooks licensing deal. Part of Cook's snarky attitude may stem from the skirmishes between the judge and the company.
In June Cote ruled that Apple conspired to raise e-book pricing with different publishers, a charge Apple vehemently denies. Cote then turned down Apple's request to suspend her own ruling pending appeal.
More recently, Apple's been upset with the bills they've been getting from the overseer appointed by Cote, former inspector general Michael Bromwich.
It's ironic and, at least to an outsider, appears a bit hypocritical. A company that can brush off a $32.5 million settlement as a nuisance claim loses its mind over a $138,000 legal bill. But that's just a sideshow.
Apple's publishing model for iBooks has entirely different stakes: For Apple, it's about business in the future. The iPad is a huge seller. iBooks represents a huge market opportunity for Apple.
Apple has a tough competitor in Amazon's Kindle, and it's the death of a thousand cuts by cheap Android tablets that can read e-books too. Like any business in the same position, Apple wants as much of that revenue as it can get.
E-books: a business that Apple isn't ready to concede any ground on, at least not yet. Ultimately it's not about what Apple pays today. It's about how much revenue they'll make tomorrow.
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DOJ vs. FTC: Apple knows when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em
Great piece. FTC does smell of double jeopardy, but like you said, it's not a lot of money to Apple, and the conditions are pretty much what they're doing already.
DOJ is different. It's onerous to Apple. They're just picking their fights.
It is not double jeopardy at all. The earlier settlement imposed a cap on damages recoverable by parents, and did not require any changes to store policies. Cook said today they were "already going to do" these things, but somehow in two years never managed to communicate publicly or to the FTC what those changes were going to be. The FTC saw the caps and the lack of behavioral change as inadequate consumer protection, and so pursued further actions -- like they are supposed to do.
As for the DoJ, the ebook suit is an odd one for Apple to stand their ground. Inducing competitors to cooperate, and leveraging your position in one market to demand terms in another are 2 of the big 5 things you simply cannot do in US law, and Apple did both, leaving a gleeful, brazen paper trail. Moreover, the ebook market is small potatoes; the only reason for Apple to continue to battle for pennies is if they feel they should be allowed to do the same illegal things in other, bigger contexts.
I'm not sure you understand what "Double Jeopardy" is. Just because Apple settled a class action lawsuit does not mean they are immune to the FTC (all it means is that class of participants cannot sure them over the same matter). I also find it convenient that Apple had plans to fix this problem just as the FTC files the lawsuit. typical apple.
just because you tell the police you plan on reducing your speeding doesn't mean they should not ticket you for continuing to speed.
Double Jeopardy applies only to criminal cases, not civil cases.
If you don't deal with your speeding ticket by the court deadline, you will be paying more.
This whole attitude of "big deal, we make plenty of profit, this doesn't hurt us" is counter productive for Apple. Crowing that, and thumbing your nose at civil authorities will not bode well for Apple in the long run.
Btw, I also own Apple products. And Android. And Windows.
When he spoke about double jeopardy, he wasn't speaking in literal terms. He was speaking in metaphorical terms. Wow, give him a break! There is no criminal anything related to this case. There are other things that double jeopardy means.
It's not a matter of paying by a deadline, I said that it looks as if Apple is paying a fine then having more tacked on to it every hour just because they haven't paid it ((yet)), before this mystical conjured up deadline that you have defined. It's not a matter of planning on reducing your speed or touting out that plan either. They have already made corrections within IOS and the App Store to fix this. IOS (Settings - General - Restrictions) there are a lot of things that you can affect in the OS right in there. More changes are coming though, so they are NOT continuing to "speed". "Last year Apple settled a class action lawsuit over the same thing; in June customers received notifications by e-mail that they were entitled to refunds. 37,000 customers have already stepped up for refunds."
Apple doesn't have a demeanor towards civil authority like you believe. Apple doesn't believe that they have plenty of money and it is a big deal, or rather a screw you attitude. That's not what Apple stands for. Apple has cooperated well with the authorities and they wanted to focus more on important things. Tim didn't stray away from that in his internal memo. They paid it so they wouldn't have to fight this off for years. There last case regarding this type of issue was really just settled as they were working on the iOS 7 betas. However they worked on better restrictions and other policies in the App Store and so forth back when iOS 6 was still kicking.
While I seem to defend Apple, believe me that is not the case. I believe in what is true. Apple has said that it wasn't perfect and since they know that and believe it, people should respect it or at least acknowledge it and move forward.
Btw, I love all tech. Not just apple android and windows. Shh.... Don't tell anyone.
Interesting story. Glad to see this is settled!
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Apple has done more than just planned to do some of these things, they have instituted changes to lock out unwanted purchases. Look at how the in-app framework has evolved since they launched back in 2010. At launch there was no security for in-app purchases. Any kid could take the ipad/iphone/ipod touch to mom or dad and have them enter in the password to download a freemium app, like Smurfs Village, and then the password was in there. There was no mention of In-app purchases on the App store back then either to alert parents.
The kid could go off to play the game and just click away and make purchases without ever being asked for a password. Apple quickly took steps to change this. All apps show that they offer in-app purchases on their download screens in the app store. In app purchases can be locked out completely on any device, or set so the require a password every time. Last but not least, Apple has been aggressively evangelizing about how in-app purchases work and how to prevent unauthorized purchases. Tim Cook shouldn't have said "we plan on doing this" he should have pointed out that they have done it, without being told to, because it was good business. $10 billion dollars good business.
The FTC is being a bit overzealous. I could see expecting a full refund versus the $5.00 limit the civil suit set, to those aggrieved in the early days of the in-app purchases, but to extend it to all purchases till March 2014 is a bit extreme. Apple is choosing their battles wisely though, because the ebook case is complete BS and has higher & longer range stakes. In the end most of the money they refund will probably end up getting spent back in the app store.
No they didn't make that much money every day, revenue, yes, actual money that they can hold in there hands and pay bills with, no. Revenue is different; they made an average of 102 million per day in revenue.
I agree that Apple should do something about IAPs. But they do think devs should define there own pricing and experiment with that.


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