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The saga continues�
2005, 2 hours and 34 minutes
Directed by Van Styles
Starring Jasmine Byrne, Nyomi Marcela, Aiden Layne, Dolce, Kami Andrews & Gen Padova
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|After a brief period of renegotiation (but fortunately not inactivity) it seems that the rumors of the demise of Van Styles� business relationship with Hustler have been greatly exaggerated. Bobby Manila filled in briefly, helming Barely Legal: Corrupted 5 in Styles� absence but Van returns to his Video Team-like roots here, directing white-hot interracial action for the series he debuted for Hustler with, one that has yet to falter or misstep. It has never been hard for Styles to acquire the services of one Jasmine Byrne and before she headed off into the sunset, it seemed Aidan Layne was rather fond of being in front of his camera, too. The gorgeous Nyomi Marcela is on hand, we get a fresh new face in Dolce and the refreshingly wacky and uber-intense Kami Andrews steps in front of Van�s lens for the first time. Let�s see how it all pans out.
|Scene One: Jasmine Byrne with Rico Strong
�I care about you. You�re not just another porn girl to me,� Van Styles says as he loads Jasmine Byrne into his Navigator. He promises to take her on a trip to give her something special. Once inside the vehicle, Jasmine begins playing with herself, hardening her nipples and letting Van thumb her clit. Jasmine plays Van out when she runs back inside to grab something she forgot: Rico Strong. Apparently this guy is indispensable to Byrne and suddenly her trip with Styles is forgotten in favor of blowing Strong near a winding staircase. After some lengthy and frankly PSYCHOTIC oral, Jasmine lets Rico wriggle her tight black booty shorts down around her hips (Jasmine fans will note she�s very thick and curvy here, not so much as of late) and off before sitting on his dick cowgirl at the foot of the staircase. Jasmine then stands on one side of the railing and let�s Rico pound her through the bars while she reaches back to hold the railing. Styles gets this action from every angle: wide, closeup, overhead and beneath. And it looks magnificent no matter which direction you see it from. Rico and Jasmine move to a white sofa where Strong sinks his stick into Byrne�s brown eye spoon which morphs into missionary. Some ATM here and quite a few moments where all Jasmine can do is hold on and do her best to catch her breath�but in a good way. She�s definitely enjoying every second of this anal drilling, especially in reverse cowgirl and doggie. Jasmine practically pleads for his load and Rico accommodates her, jerking his cockpaste out onto her uppper lip. Byrne couldn�t be happier.
|Scene Two: Nyomi Marcela with Rico Strong
Rico�s back, this time with Nyomi Marcela. No doubt, Nyomi�s an absolutely gorgeous girl but the sadist in me wants to see Rico tear her prissy, too-pretty-for-porn ass apart. If for just once, Strong would fuck her like Erik Everhard, I could die a happy man. Regardless of Rico�s personal style, I know Nyomi will probably never get the screwing her prissy and petite ass truly deserves. Rico�ll do his job and she�ll just lie there and look good. Fuck that shit. I wish Jade was still working. If that were the case I�d be writing an entirely different intro; one that focused on how Strong didn�t live up to his last name and got turned out by the elder Marcela. Nyomi, sporting the camouflage and hot pink miniskirt Chanel Chavez wore in Barely Legal: Corrupted 2, starts the festivities by sitting on Rico�s face as he runs his tongue up and down her gash until Marcela comes down to slurp on his pole. Nyomi rocks her pussy back and forth on Rico�s prick mish and doggie. They kick it in to high gear somewhat in reverse cowgirl and cowgirl, Nyomi taking the time to stroke Strong up to his maximum length with her hands before sitting on it. That�s considerate. After a nice ride, Strong strokes off into Marcela�s mouth. To her credit, she takes the facial like a champ, sucking and stroking his shaft to make sure he�s emptied completely.
|Scene Three: Aidan Layne with Mandingo
Van�s shot Aidan before (Barely Legal: Corrupted 2, Ass Appeal 2) but never in an IR scene so Styles called on the biggest dog of them all to break the super-cute and always willing Layne in right: Mandingo. The last time we saw Mandingo in Take It Black 2, he and Tiffany Mynx were making adult movie history, meeting for the first time ever. Aiden isn�t quite the legend that Mynx is but this is a pairing that should produce some fireworks, nonetheless. After sufficiently lubing �Dingo�s cock with her own saliva via her kissable little mouth, Aidan slides him inside herself reverse cowgirl, barely able to take even half of his length. They rev up slowly, gradually picking up the pace until Aidan�s bouncing on most of it rapidly with no problems (but lots of wincing and noisy moans). That is, until she turns around for doggie. Mandingo wields his cock like a nightstick, beating Layne�s with it like he was the LAPD and her tattooed pussy was Rodney King in mish. He goes plenty deep, but never all the way; I fear that might actually dislodge something vital and kill her. The pussy pillaging proceedings continue in cowgirl, where Manny grabs handfuls of Aidan�s round butt cheeks and maneuvers her down onto his lap. After a good long ride, Layne hops down and squeezes Mandingo�s load out with her hands, letting the jizz run down over her knuckles and managing to get some up onto her chin.
|Scene Four: Dolce with Mandingo
Previously unknown latina newbie Dolce sashays down the stairwell in Van�s pad and gets on all fours on his sofa. She�s a slim girl, not particularly busty but she�s got a GREAT ass, Styles shows us. I hope she�s ready for the task at hand because I doubt anyone bothered to warn her about Mandingo�s size. She doesn�t appear intimidated by it on first sight but once it�s actually in her mouth you can tell she�s a little lost on exactly what to do with it. I actually feel for the poor guy; not being able to get deep-throated regularly by anyone short of a trained sword swallower. Dolce, for her part, eventually grows accustomed to having this lamppost in her mouth and then in her snatch cowgirl. A genuine smile of deep satisfaction spreads across her face when Mandingo first thrusts upwards inside her. Not only is she taking him with ease, she�s taking control and bouncing her ass up and down on him like a stripper and talking (�Come on, fuck that pussy!�) Damn. Go �head, girl. They position themselves for doggie next and this is a smart move: undoubtedly, Dolce�s best asset is her big, round ass. It�s wise to keep the attention there. Reverse cowgirl shows off Dolce�s somewhat hirsute pussy as Mandingo lets her grind as much of his cock up into her as she can handle. They finish up with some red-hot missionary and Mandingo pinches his ejaculation off just long enough for Dolce to get to her knees and collect it as he unleashes all over her mouth. She plays with the cum until the scene fades out.
|Scene Five: Kami Andrews with Rico Strong
A natural ham, Kami Andrews LIVES for fun setups like this one. Playing a cop, Andrews, from Pittsburgh PA, says she�s gotten reports of �black cock� coming in and out of Styles� place. She�s not going to buy the excuse that he�s �holding it for a friend� so she needs to see the black cock in question. Van apparently has never heard the �hood motto �stop snitchin�; he dimes his boy out and gives him up to Officer Kami. Kami lectures Rico on the dangers of him bringing black cock to the neighborhood and all the marriages he�s likely to break up if the white wives get a gander at his lengthy appendage. Kami, however, must inspect it herself. Once it hit�s the air, you can see Andrews physically change. She can�t help it. She drops to her knees. She MUST have it in her mouth. She puts one end of the �cuffs around his shaft and the other one on her own wrist, literally cuffing herself to his cock before she goes to work bobbing on it. �You�re not going anywhere, mister!� she says before wrapping her tits around his tool. Kami grunts and growls dirty demands and naughty non-sequiturs at Rico while he gives her all he�s got in doggie and mish on a nearby barstool. �That�s my dick, my dick�it�s all mine. Every fuckin� inch of it! Yeah, yeah, yeah�get it, get it, get it! Yeah, my pussy looooves that dick�� Kami snarls.
When she gets on all fours and bends over to let Rico into her rectum doggie she tells him, �My ass is here for your enjoyment. Look at you working hard for me. That�s a big ass for a white chick, isn�t it? It deserves a dick like that. I don�t fuck around, I want the BIG ones!� As she says it, she starts bucking back against Rico�s cock, impaling herself at her own pace, arching her back and undulating that gorgeous ass. ATM, of course, (�I have no problem licking shit off your dick�if that's what I have to do to get it.�) precedes the transition to reverse cowgirl anal and missionary. (�Oh baby I like that. That�s right, you�re making that pussy dripping wet. Oh, you�re getting� it, baby�Oh God, you�re getting it nice and deep! Oh, holy shit�thank you, thank you, thank you! Holy cow, oh goodness gracious!�) This girl really likes anal sex and Rico�s cock in there. I hate to quote Kami so much but she�s so funny it�s hard not to include her random gems like, �I want a Rico car seat so I can always sit on it!� Rico finally explodes right on the bridge of her nose and her forehead to end a really intense scene. These two had great chemistry. Either that or Kami was just dying for a good fuck and Rico came through in providing it for her. Either way, really good shit.
Jasmine Byrne and Kami Andrews were, as a lot of you probably guessed before even reading the review, the pick of the litter here. Both were on fire all of 2005 and I don�t see that changing in the coming year. Nyomi was Nyomi, Aidan remains as cute as a button (it�s a shame she�s gone) and Dolce was a nice surprise. I�d have no issues with her returning in an Ass Appeal scene somewhere down the line. The only thing that truly blew me away was Kami Andrews and how much she truly enjoyed having Rico Strong in her ass. All in all, another satisfying installment and par for the course for Styles. Fans of the first two will pleased with this latest.
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Service Oriented Architecture has been around for more than a decade and has steadily matured over the years with increasing levels of adoption. Cloud computing, a paradigm that is founded upon the fundamental service oriented principles, has fueled SOA's adoption in recent years. ZDNet blogger Joe McKendrick calls out a survey by Companies and Markets in one of his blog posts – SOA market grew faster than expected.
Some of the statistics from this survey as referenced by McKendrick include:
- SOA represents a total global market value of $5.518 billion, up from $3.987 billion in 2010 – or a 38% growth.
- The SOA market in North America is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.5% through 2014.
So, what are the secrets of the success that SOA seems to be enjoying? During the past decade, I can recall a few skeptics who were not so sure about SOA's adoption and growth. But I believe there are 5 "secrets" behind the success story of SOA that should put such skepticism to rest:
1. Architecture. Service oriented architectures have greatly facilitated a structured approach to enterprise architecture (EA) at large. Despite debates over the scope of EA and SOA, the fact remains that service orientation is an integral part of the foundational factors considered by the enterprise architect. If anything, it has also acted as a catalyst for giving more visibility to the need for well-defined enterprise architecture to be in place for the current and desired states.
2. Application. Service orientation has promoted standardized interfaces that have enabled the continued existence of multiple applications in an integrated, cohesive manner. Thanks to a SOA-based approach, integration mechanisms are no longer held hostage to proprietary formats and legacy platforms.
3. Availability. Software Vendors have taken the initiative to make their functionality available through services. Think about the number of times you have heard a software vendor suggest Web services as their de-facto method for integrating to other systems? Single-click generation of a Web service is a very common feature across most of the software tools used for application development.
4. Alignment. SOA has greatly facilitated and realized increased alignment from multiple fronts including the following:
- Business to IT. The definition of application and technology services is really driven by the business need in the form of business services.
- Application to Infrastructure. SOA strategies for the enterprise have gone beyond the application layer to the infrastructure, resulting in greater alignment between the application being deployed and the supporting infrastructure. Infrastructure services are an integral part of the comprehensive set of services landscape for an enterprise.
- Platforms and technology. Interfaces between applications are much less dependent on the underlying technologies or platforms, resulting in increased alignment between various platforms and technologies. Interoperability has been taken to new levels across the extended enterprise.
5. Adoption. SOA has served as the cornerstone for new paradigms like cloud computing. Increased adoption of SOA has also resulted in the evolution of multiple industry standards for SOA and has also led to the evolution of standards for infrastructure services to be provisioned in the cloud. Standards do take time to evolve, but when they do, it is a tacit endorsement by the IT industry of the maturity of the underlying phenomenon — in this case, SOA.
Thus, the application of service oriented principles across the enterprise has increased SOA's adoption spurred by the availability of readily exposed services across all architectural layers resulting in increased alignment between business and IT.
What about you? What factors come to your mind as SOA success secrets? Is your SOA experience in alignment with the statistics from the report McKendrick referenced? I would be interested to know.
To read more about SOA, visit these resources:
- Nadhan's Top 5 tell-tale signs of SOA evolving to the Cloud
- Can a SOA Platform-as-a-Service benefit airlines?
- HP SOA and Integration Services
- HP Airline Service Oriented Architecture Platform
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Freesound 2.0
Freesound is a repository of CC-licensed audio samples … nearly 50,000 sounds.
In December Freesound received a Google Research Award which they're using to create "Freesound 2.0".
You can follow progress on their development blog and discuss on their forum.
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Diesel Sweeties Archive Released Under CC License
rstevens (the r is for Richard), creator of popular webcomic Diesel Sweeties, announced on his blog that starting today he will be releasing the entire Diesel Sweeties archive for free under a CC BY-NC license. The archive contains close to 2,000 web comics, offering massive potential for to interesting reuses (via Boing Boing):
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By my calculations, DS is going to hit 2000 comics in a little under two months. April is Clango's 8th birthday. I'd like to celebrate by releasing the entire webcomic archive for free in ten volumes. It worked for Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead- not bad company to try and keep!
These files will be in PDF form, available one per week for ten weeks. You can donate if so inclined, or take advantage of ten classic shirt designs @$10.99. At the end of ten weeks, I plan to release a special anniversary art book.
All eBooks will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license. You're free to reformat them into .CBR, Word docs, XML, whatever you like. You're also free to archive and share them with others for free. They're even small enough to email. Just don't use them commercially.
2nd COMMUNIA Workshop: Ethical Public Domain
The second COMMUNIA workshop, Ethical Public Domain: Debate of Questionable Practices, will take place on Monday, March 31 in the geographic center of Europe: Vilnius, Lithuania.
The workshop will host ten rounds of debates on issues concerning to the public domain and related policies and practices, followed by a press conference inviting the media and public to join the discussion.
The workshop in Lithuania is organized by Minciu Sodas, an online laboratory experimenting with humanitarian efforts such as Pyramid of Peace, an innovative project helping Kenyans during political unrest by enabling the donation of mobile phone airtime, which can be shared or traded in the Kenyan mobile phone network for food and medicine.
Also, the First COMMUNIA International Conference will be held in Leuven-La-Neuve (Belgium) from June 30 – July 1, 2008. There is currently a Call for papers for the conference. The deadline for submissions is March 30th, and abstracts addressing one of the following topics are very welcome: Libraries and archives, Public sector Information, Creative works, Scientific research, Publishing intermediaries or Emerging Issues.
COMMUNIA is a project funded by the European Commission and coordinated by Politecnico di Torino. It consists of over 35 members from 21 countries dedicated to developing "the single European point of reference for high-level policy discussion and strategic action on all issues related to the public domain in the digital environment" and related topics, including Creative Commons licensing.
In January the first COMMUNIA workshop was held in Turin, Italy, whose highlights included, among many, a discussion of the latest developments in CC metadata.Comments Off on 2nd COMMUNIA Workshop: Ethical Public Domain
Monopoly Shuffle: A Remix Contest
On May 28-30, The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College will be hosting a symposium focused on U.S. copyright monopoly, technological innovation and higher education institutions titled "Monopoly: Playing the Innovation Game". The symposium will take place at the UMUC Inn and Conference Center in metro Washington D.C.
Tied into the lengthly and impressive speaker list is a competition encouraging legal reuse of public domain and CC-licensed works with a nice prize pot in which you can choose free admission to two (2) Fall 2008 or Spring 2009 workshops of your choice, a $200 cash prize, or a secret prize (TBA). Entries must be CC-licensed and in by May 1, 2008. From CIP:
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Pull clips, text, and images from the CIP's website or from the public domain and use them to create a new work of art in any medium. You can add your own content or mix it up with some Creative Commons (CC) licensed art. All submissions should be CC-Licensed.
We encourage you to make use of at least one item created by the CIP. In the end, your message should tie in with the 2008 Symposium theme: (c) Monopoly: Playing the innovation game. Whoever gives us the most creative and coherent content remix will be awarded a prize valued at up to $300.
The 1st International Creative Commons Korea Conference and Naver CC Integration
CEO of Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig along with VP of Science Commons, John Wilbanks, and myself, Jon Phillips holder of the title of the "human inbox" of Creative Commons [1] will all be participating at the 1st International Creative Commons Korea conference, "Open Culture in CC" on Friday, March 14 in Seoul, Korea. Lessig will go big with his keynote, Wilbanks will be presenting "Information Sharing: A Universal Solvent for Life Sciences" and I will round up the CC pack with my new presentation: Share or Die: Collaborative Media Projects from Art to Business. Yes, that's right! I will be wearing more of my art hat at this one, but will round it up by discussing how individual practice must be sustainable all the way up the ladder to a large scale web company.
These presentations are the tip of the iceberg as brilliant Korean colleagues will cover many topics as they relate to Korean society in the large global context and Chiaki Hayashi from Loftwork in Japan will discuss running a business where Creative Commons licensing is core to its daily function.
I'm quite eager though to interact with our Korean colleagues on the recently announced Creative Commons licensing integration into Naver. And, I should note that by looking at the web traffic at http://creativecommons.org, there is a massive surge from Korea since the Naver announcement. The CC Korea blog states:
On 26 February, Naver, one of the major portal service providers in Korea, announced that it officially introduces Creative Commons License to its blog and café services and began a grand campaign for promoting CCL with cartoons, videos, etc. As for the largest portal service provider in user size at home, Naver has been struggling with copyright infringements, content and blog posting piracy activities of users. In a hope to find a reliable solution against them, Naver has chosen to introduce the CC license scheme. And it is very welcomed.
Relatively belated, but thanks to their introduction, most of the Korean portal sites take part in CC licensing. With this announcement, Naver becomes the third next to Daum , which has already adopted CCL to its blog service in 2005, and Paran in 2007. These portal sites are known to grab more than 90% of Korea's portal market.
The key thing to note with Naver's CC licensing integration and as a service that effectively everyone with a net connection uses, is that Koreans now have CC licensing front-and-center. Many know that Korea takes the crown as the most wired nation with 95% broadband penetration inside the home [2]. Korea, is a hyper-connected homogenous society that now has CC licensing on the most used service in the country. How long will it take for Korea to take the title of the country with the highest level of Creative Commons license adoption per individual?
UPDATE: Michelle already wrote a stellar blog post about the conference btw.
[1] Ok, ok, my long form title is Community and Business Development Manager.
[2] Trust me. From living in Korea, I've seen four year olds with cellphones on the Internet! What? And, now that I'm living 50% of my time in Guangzhou, China (the other 50 'cent in San Francisco), I'm feeling the burn without that 100 megabit in the home. Try 1 megabit for me…if I'm lucky!
OpenMoko CC Licenses CAD Files for Neo1973
OpenMoko, makers of the first true open source phone (previously blogged here), have recently expanded the meaning of 'open source design' by licensing the CAD (computer-aided design) files for their flagship model, the Neo1973, under a CC BY-SA license. In doing so, OpenMoko not only allow industrial designers a peek inside the Neo1973 to see how it works, but also show a keen understanding of the power community efforts can have in creating a better end-user experience.
Day in and day out, people will be using the Neo1973 for their phoning/PDA needs while simultaneously discovering which design aspects they like and which aspects could be improved upon. Traditionally, these improvements would be stunted at the conceptual stage ("Ah, I wish the backlighting was a bit brighter…", "These keys could be bigger…") – in choosing to license the CAD files under a CC license, OpenMoko allows industrial designers to take these gripes and make active improvements upon them, greatly enhancing the Neo1973's longterm worth by turning frustration into ingenuity. More from Business Wire:
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Openmoko posted the Neo CAD files on its site without fanfare. Within days, Guillermo Sureda-Burgos (www.sureda.org.), visiting instructor of Industrial Design at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, said: "I am amazed at the depth of your commitment to open design. This must be the first time in history that a company has opened its intellectual property to this extent. Openmoko's revolutionary posting of the CAD files gives a whole new generation of Industrial Design students incredible insight into how it's done as well as an opportunity to contribute with new concepts."
Openmoko posted the CAD files at http://downloads.openmoko.org/CAD/ under a ShareAlike Creative Commons license, thereby establishing a community where designers and developers can share concepts about the next generation of Open Source mobile computing devices. Openmoko encourages developers and designers to build their businesses by leveraging the Openmoko FOSS and CAD resources to speed development of new mobile products.
Because of the overwhelming response by developers and industrial designers to the initial posting of the Neo 1973 CAD files, Openmoko has committed to opening the CAD files for the design of the upcoming Neo Freerunner mobile phone before the phone even hits the market.
"Openmoko provides one more key to anyone who wants to unlock the mobile phone. With these drawings, developers and designers will be able to create their own open phone from the inside out," said Lawrence Lessig, Founder and CEO of Creative Commons. "By releasing the CAD files for the exterior of the phone under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license, Openmoko is unlocking what is a typically closely guarded secret in consumer electronics companies and putting it under a free license so others can build upon their work legally."
Orange Music, Austrian CC Music Platform
Austria now has a music platform, Orange Music, featuring exclusively CC licensed music with over 88 bands on board for launch day. Orange Music seems to accept submissions rather readily, and while the platform focuses primarily on Austrian groups, international contributions seem welcome as well.2 Comments »
Creative Commons releases LiveContent 2.0
Creative Commons is pleased to announce the release of LiveContent 2.0, a LiveDVD of Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content and free and open source software. LiveContent allows users to explore open content such as music, video, photography, books, and educational materials that can be freely used, copied, and built upon. From the press release:
The LiveContent project draws CC-licensed multimedia content from a variety of diverse projects aiming to share creativity and culture more openly. Included are photographs from Flickr.com and Wikimedia Commons, music from Jamendo.com and Simuze.nl, videos from Make Magazine, Boing Boing TV and others, books from Manybooks.net, and open educational resources from MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative.
LiveContent 2.0 builds upon the previous release by demonstrating a unique content "autocuration" process with Flickr.com, and calls for the further development of technologies that make it easier to spread and reuse CC-licensed content.
LiveContent is a product of collaboration across a number of organizations including Red Hat, Worldlabel.com and various CC content providers. LiveContent 2.0 is now available for free download at the Fedora Project Spins Tracker, and a pre-burned disc may be purchased at On-Disk.com.
Learn more about the LiveContent project and read the full press release.Comments Off on Creative Commons releases LiveContent 2.0
CC Licensed Test for African Sleeping Sickness
This came through our RSS readers this week via Boing Boing and is really quite amazing, showing the power CC licenses can have in advancing positive results outside of culture and technology (the findings are released online, along with detailed instructions, under a CC BY license):
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Australian scientists have developed a blood test for African sleeping sickness that does not require the fancy equipment found in upscale medical labs. Even better, they made the details of their work available for free by publishing a paper in the Feb. 6 issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, which operates under a Creative Commons license.
Zablon Njiru and Andrew Thompson of Murdoch University led a team that developed the elegantly simple way to check for trypanosomes — protozoan parasites that are sometimes carried by tsetse flies.
To catch an infection in the earliest stages, when it is most treatable, technicians must look for a very small number of parasites in a sea of body fluids. That is not an easy thing to do, but there is a trick to make it easier: By mixing the liquid sample with a cocktail of molecules that can copy trypanosome DNA, they can make the serum resistance associated gene, a signpost of the disease, stand out — transforming each test into a manageable task.
Instead of using the polymerase chain reaction, which amplifies the microbe DNA with the aid of an expensive instrument called a thermocycler, the researchers employed another gene multiplying technique called loop-mediated isothermal amplification. It requires little more than a warm water bath and a few chemicals. After that procedure, which takes less than a half hour, the scientists can simply add some SYBR green dye and watch the brew change color if it contains a boatload of duplicated genetic material from the pathogen.
2008 Summer Internships – Deadline Extension
In case you missed it, we have extended our deadline for 2008 Summer Intern Applications to March 21, meaning that you have two more weeks to get all the necessary materials submitted! The CC internships are a great opportunity to engage with the CC-community as a whole and actively experience the amazing opportunities the bay area has to offer. There are four different intern positions available – Community Development, Business Development, Technology, and Development/Fundraising – presenting a variety of avenues for potential interns to explore.
As a former intern, I feel comfortable saying that while these positions are not for the faint of heart ("full time means full time!", "why isn't this wiki formating working?") they are incredibly rewarding in terms of a give/get ratio. You have the opportunity to work on some amazing projects with some equally (if not more) amazing people and ultimately walk away with a ton of real experience under your belt. Anyone who is interested in the issues that face the CC-community and is looking for a valuable way to spend their summer should apply for one of these positions without hesitation.Comments Off on 2008 Summer Internships – Deadline Extension
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New ebook about the life of a chalet host
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Wow! It's friendly round here!
Apologies if I offended anyone by posting it here but, as a long term boarder who gets a kick out of the chilled, supportive nature of those who enjoy the sport, I was just hoping to use forums like this to put the word out about something I'm very proud to have written.
If you're not interested in reading or purchasing the book then that is obviously no worries but I've had some really good feedback on it. I'm not a professional writer and just did this as a bit of fun whilst I was in the Alps and to keep a memory of my time there. A few people read it and said I should make it available so that's what I did.
Happy holidays everyone!
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Not at all - the feedback has been from people on other forums who have purchased and read it, I can post links but I don't want to spam lol.
How is posting about my book any ruder than calling it SH*TTY???
In terms of the writing style - I'm not claiming to be a professional writer and it's meant to have a conversational feel, which is something people have said comes across. As you rightly mention, it's self-published so I didn't have the luxury of a ghost writer or a publishing house to pay for several runs of proofreading.
I'm sorry that reading and replying to my post took up precious moments of your time but lets be honest, surely there are worse things in the world to get so irate over?!
Let me point something out here for you about proper Forum etiquette. If you're an already existing member we would welcome you with open arms. You are not! Instead you thought to yourself, hey I'm fucking awesome I turned 30 moved to the mountains for 4 months and got to live the typical douche bag snow carnie lifestyle.
In the process of 4 months of inebriation I somehow managed to document my random misadventures which are nothing special. Now after 4 months of sucking at life and being poor due to making piss poor life decisions I thought I could write a book and sell it to recoup some of my losses.
As a thirty something successful snowboard bum and writer. Your style is horrible, I read the introductory paragraph and subsequent other pages. It's pure trash. Oh look at me I was going into my 30's and had wasted my youth, I needed a change, blah blah blah I'm going to run away and find myself. News flash if you haven't found yourself in the first 25 years of your life you won't find it later on you're a lost cause and should suck on the end of a shotgun. Although in the UK that's probably a bit harder than here in the states so maybe fall off the roof of your flat onto a pile of broken glass.
Whoever said it was worth reading should join you in jumping off their roof. Stupidity encouraging stupidity should be forced to deal with Darwinism.
Oh and yes I'm a dick and it's not nice to say how crappy your book is. But I don't care if you cry out your ass cause it hurts.
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GREENSBORO - Kolby Garrison, a Greensboro native, will be in Charlotte Saturday, May 25th to perform the Star Spangled Banner before the History Channel 300, but she isn't your typical performer.
Kolby is blind and a graduate from the Guide Dog Foundation. She won the opportunity to sing at the Speedway Superstar Contest after auditioning. Fans were allowed to determine the winner.
Garrison raked in more that 4,000 votes, beating the running up by more than 500 votes.


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Take advantage of recreation opportunities including an outdoor pool and bicycles to rent. Additional features include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and a television in the lobby.
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Hotel Amenities
The hotel offers a restaurant. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This Playa del Carmen hotel also offers an outdoor pool, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff.
Hacienda Paradise Boutique Hotel has designated areas for smoking.
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 33
- Multilingual staff
- Concierge services
- Free WiFi
- Pool umbrellas
- Luggage storage
- Express check-in
- Number of floors - 2
- ATM/banking
- Restaurant
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Television in common areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Designated smoking areas
- Garden
- Outdoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Room Amenities
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Balcony
- Ceiling fan
- Climate control
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Shower only
- Rainfall showerhead
- Desk
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Down comforter
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Flat-panel TV
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
Where to Eat
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Nuestra Casa - This poolside restaurant serves breakfast only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals on site
Spa Services
- Body scrubs
- Massages
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Pets allowed, Only dogs and cats are allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 1, Pet maximum weight in kg is 10
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
No rollaway/extra beds available
No elevators
- Pet deposit: MXN 200 per night
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- The exhibition
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- Objects
- Products
- Supporters
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The exhibition is now closed
In partnership with
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The exhibition
One of the five pillars of Islam central to Muslim belief, Hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim must make at least once in their lifetime if they are able. This major exhibition charts the history of this deeply personal journey.
Examining the extraordinary travel logistics involved and how the wider operation of the event has changed over time, the exhibition compares how pilgrims over the centuries negotiated this often monumental undertaking and how it continues to be experienced by people from all corners of the globe today.
Beautiful objects, including historical and contemporary art, textiles and manuscripts, bring to life the profound spiritual significance of the sacred rituals that have remained unchanged since the Prophet Muhammad's time in the 7th century AD.
'This exhibition will enable a global audience to deepen
their understanding of the significance and history of the Hajj. In
particular, it will allow non-Muslims to explore the one aspect of
Islamic practice and faith which they are not able to witness, but
which plays such a major part in forming a worldwide Islamic
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Press reviews
Almeena Ahmed, BBC, 24 January 2012
Jonathan Jones, Guardian, 25 January 2012
Maev Kennedy, Guardian, 25 January 2012
Guardian in pictures, 25 January 2012
Mark Hudson, Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2012
David Baker, Daily Mail, 26 January 2012
Catriona Davies, CNN, 26 January 2012
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This French film is the first feature directed by longtime Godard actress Anna Karina. The stodgy life that schoolteacher Alain (Michel Lancelot) led before he met Julie (Anna Karina) was all that kept him together. When they become lovers, she induces him to loosen up and introduces him to her drug-taking, hippie friends. At first he cannot get along with them, but eventually he loses his job and gives himself over to drugs and drink. She tries increasingly frantically to keep him with her, but he finally walks out on her. By that time, they have had a baby. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi


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Monday is here again, and with it comes our weekly blog round-up. Here's what's been happening on some of our favourite property blogs.
There's an eclectic mix of musings over on the Rat and Mouse right now. Our favourites include the effects of the recession on the UK's dog population, and how Jennifer Aniston thinks buying a house is like falling in love. As Jen has a reputation for being unlucky in love, we're not sure what that says about her property portfolio.
Checking out the Real Estalker to see how the other half live is a favourite pastime of ours. This week, they're snooping around the very modest (by celeb standards) New Jersey home of tennis ace Kim Clijsters and lamenting the woes of Nicholas Cage, whose Bel Air mansion has been sitting on the market gathering dust and price reductions for so long, the Oscar-winner has been forced to put it up for auction.
A Slice of the Property Cake's Mr Jackson is advising how to sell your house in a buyers' market. Perhaps Mr Cage should get in touch for a few tips.
Over on Winging It, Mike's graph of the week looks at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' latest lettings market survey. Meanwhile Joss shares her pick of the farms currently on the market in this week's five to view.
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Design Review doubleheader, #2: 4505 42nd SW passes Early Design Guidance on second tryApril 18, 2014 at 11:13 am | In Development, West Seattle news | 3 Comments
(Option 3 from design packet for 4505 42nd SW)
By Tracy Record
West Seattle Blog editor
The second project seen by the Southwest Design Review Board in their 3 1/2-hour-plus Thursday night meeting was, like the first one, coming back for a second round of Early Design Guidance – that's the stage in which the proposal is seen for general properties such as size and shape. Unlike the first one (3824 California SW, covered here), this one – 4505 42nd SW – got the go-ahead to move to the second stage of Design Review.
For this project, Steve Fischer of NK Architects presented the revised design proposal. The site, 6,900 square feet, is across an alley from the Senior Center of West Seattle, where the meeting was held.
It currently holds a single-family home but would be replaced with about 45 apartments over a floor of retail and about 17 parking spaces. It would still be about 70 feet tall, though it's now six floors, because the top floor is expected to include a "loft"-style residential area, Fischer explained.
They are now planning to underground the electricity no matter what, he added.
The three options they're bringing forward now all turn out to be something of a "box" because of requirements such as floor-area ratio (FAR), he said. But there are touches such as terraces on the upper-floor residential for some, weather-protection canopies all along the street-side retail, and in one, a raised-tower sort of treatment at the 42nd/Oregon corner. The orange shown in the design packet is not necessarily the color it would be, by the way – that's why they call this stage "Early Design Guidance."
The preferred option, #3, included units set back on the top floor, except for the tower element at the corner. Elements shown included what would face the Junction "free parking" lot adjacent to the south side of the building, taking into account that it would be very visible now, and maybe many years down the line, covered up by some kind of development there (not that any is proposed, but eventually it's considered a possibility).
Fischer noted, they have not yet started "semantic design" – these are just concepts pending the board's guidance.
BOARD QUESTIONS: Chair Laird Bennion wondered if the options were a "kit of parts" – interchangeable with each other, once the official designing begins. Fischer replied, "I was hoping (you) would favor one and let us lean into that." Member Daniel Skaggs said there were some elements of 1 and 3 that he liked, and he identified this corner as a bit of a mini-gateway for cars coming up toward The Junction headed westward on Oregon.
Member T. Frick McNamara had concerns about how the retail entries might work, since they were not proposed at grade (street level). She also noted that the renderings weren't showing the way things currently are along the site's SW Oregon side, and said they should have.
New member Matt Zinski wanted to be sure the bright colors shown in the packet weren't set in stone because they seemed more Miami than Seattle, to him. Fischer countered that since we live in such a gray area, he's partial to "a little splash of color."
PUBLIC COMMENT: "Below-grade commercial is not acceptable," said Deb Barker, opening up the public-comment section. "Once below grade, always below grade, and I believe this board has an obligation to provide at-grade entries for this project up front, at least on 42nd." She was interested in some of the elements of versions 2 and 3, and "I really hope this applicant can make their way to get over 70 feet, make a project with a tower that's distinctive, because it's going to be seen from a long, long way away." Her advice, she said, was: "Work it!" She also wanted to make sure the south, parking-lot-facing wall is not ignored just because of the expectation that the parking lot will eventually be built over. "Do more than just throw different sorts of materials at that wall."
No one else chose to speak.
BOARD DELIBERATIONS: The big point of discussion and disagreement right off the top – McNamara reiterated that the topography of the site could be better addressed – insisting that 42nd's retail entrance(s) should be at grade. The primary disagreement about the space's future is whether the 4,000 square feet of retail space is likely to be occupied by one tenant or more. McNamara, who is a retail entrepreneur as well as landscape architect, pointed out that stores in this area aren't looking for that much space. Bennion contended having it set up as one space offered more flexibility. "Different tenants will make that decision in the future, not us." McNamara was adamant that if 42nd was not addressed at grade, "it's a dead street." She added, "I'd rather see (the retail entry) above grade on Oregon than below grade on 42nd." Zinski suggested that while it wasn't up to them to make the decision, it was up to them to offer strong guidance. In the end, city planner Beth Hartwick said they didn't need to settle the issue immediately.
As for which of the options were preferred in general, 3 seemed to win the most support, with "elements of option 1″ – tower a little bit higher; "we are not yet of one mind on what to do about the overhang," Bennion summarized. "Glass canopies get ugly quick," Zinski warned.
And as for the south side of the building, Bennion wanted to be sure there's a stair tower and some windows, the latter especially so that some light gets through when the parking lot gets developed someday. So #3′s south side was preferred. Another question – would the top floor be designed with the thought that it would be seen from elsewhere?
Ultimately, key points of the guidance offered toward the end:
*Massing mix of 1 and 3 – particularly interested in articulated corner
*Still mixed on overhang along Oregon
*Still mixed on whether the retail entries could be sunken or not
There will be at least one more meeting about the project, once its design details are worked out; we'll publish an update when that date is set. Any comments, meantime, about design or other aspects of the project, can be sent to Hartwick – firstname.lastname@example.com.
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People around here must have have gotten the idea that public comments are no longer welcome. I live very near the proposed location, and folks in my building, although unhappy, are keeping their lips shut about this one. Maybe that's also the message those attending the meeting received…?
Comment by Luke B. — 8:58 pm April 18, 2014 #
Unless you're a developer it's clear that the City of Seattle could care less about citizen input. Having been through the hoops for building a house it's clear that developers rule.
Comment by Alkiboy — 7:49 am April 19, 2014 #
I that the south facing wall? If so what there saying doesn't make sense. The drawing shows a door that's "access from parking". Yet "someday" the lot may be developed. Then you have a door to nothing. Maybe call it a sleeping alcove. Looks like there planning for tenants to use the free lot.
What's the demand for retail in w sea? Maybe they could just put parking for the building underground with no retail?
Comment by Jon — 11:25 am April 19, 2014 #
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In the racing class, Disco Inferno sailed exceptionally well taking first place in both races thus easily being awarded top honours for the day. Tied for the day in points, both finishing with a second and a third, Enzyme took second place and With Alacrity third. In the Cruising class, Jomani and Rasmus traded a first and second place with the first place awarded to Jomani. Antares placed third for the day with two third place finishes. Inspiration and Longhorn held true to form which Inspiration taking two firsts and Longhorn two seconds.
In the overall LaSource Grenada Sailing Festival there were very few surprises. Enzyme swept the racing class with five first place finishes, one second, one third and a DSQ. Whistler took second place, with Disco Inferno third. Jomami was the big winner in the Cruising class, placing first in five out of eight races and second in three. Rasmus finished the series in second place, with Talaichean II in third. Inspiration had seven first place finishes in the Charter class and ended the series with nine points, seven ahead of Longhorn.
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Qatar 2022: Fifa set to probe officials over World Cup claims
Qatari officials will be questioned by Fifa investigator Michael Garcia on Wednesday in the wake of damaging claims about the legality of the bidding process for the 2022 World Cup.
The Sunday Times alleges Mohamed bin Hammam, a former vice-president of football's world governing body, paid US$5m (£3m) in total to football officials in return for support of Qatar's winning bid.
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Bin Hammam was initially banned from football for life in July 2011 after being found guilty of attempted bribery.
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Bin Hammam then quit the sport saying he had seen the "very ugly face of football".
Fifa issued him with a second life ban in December 2012 for "conflicts of interest" while he was president of the Asian Football Confederation.
In March 2014, the Daily Telegraph reported a company owned by Bin Hammam had paid former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner and his family more than £1m. Payments were claimed to have been made shortly after Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup.
The Qatari bid committee "vehemently" denies the claims and insist Bin Hammam never actively lobbied on its behalf.
Garcia, an American lawyer, announced earlier this week that his investigation into the bidding process for both the 2018 and 2022 World Cup would conclude on 9 June.
He said he would file his final report to Fifa's independent adjudicatory committee six weeks later.
Russia won the right to stage the 2018 World Cup, while Qatar saw off Australia, Japan, South Korea and the United States to win the vote for the 2022 tournament.
The Sunday Times claims Bin Hammam, who is from Qatar, controlled a $5m slush fund that he used to buy the support of key officials for his country's World Cup bid.
Fifa sources insist Garcia was already aware of the allegations following a previous investigation into Bin Hammam's tenure as head of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
Qatar's bid committee said it was co-operating with Garcia's inquiry, adding: "We will take whatever steps are necessary to defend the integrity of Qatar's bid and our lawyers are looking into this matter.
"The right to host the tournament was won because it was the best bid and because it is time for the Middle East to host its first Fifa World Cup."
As Garcia prepares to meet members of Qatar's bid committee, The Sunday Times has published a report by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) that centres on Bin Hammam's conduct during his failed bid for the Fifa presidency in 2011.
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- $250,000 to former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner in March 2008
- $303,000 to AFC delegates between June and October 2008
- Another $380,561 to African football officials to cover the cost of a visit to Kuala Lumpur, where the AFC was based
- 14 shirts worth $1,983 for the Fifa president Sepp Blatter from a shop called the Lord's Tailor
- Suits worth $4,950 for the African Football president Issa Hayatou from the same shop
- Flights and accommodation worth $4,268 for Sri Lanka's former Fifa executive committee member Manilal Fernando
In total, PwC found that $2m was paid out of AFC accounts for the benefit of third parties.
"It is also a matter of concern that payments have been made, apparently in Mr Hammam's personal capacity, to a number of AFC member associations and associated individuals," the report concluded.
"We do not know the reasons for these payments."
Bin Hammam denied allegations of wrongdoing at the time and appealed successfully against Fifa's original decision to ban him from football for life in 2011 after he was found to have breached their ethics code for apparently bribing Caribbean football officials during his presidential bid.
But Fifa used the evidence from the PwC report to reinstate his lifetime ban in 2012.
Garcia is known to have considered the PwC report as part of his long-running inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.
But because Bin Hammam has already been banned from football, it is understood Garcia has not spent too much time looking into his activities or links to the Qatar campaign.
BBC Sport has learned that Garcia has written to the Sunday Times requesting any material which may help his inquiries.
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Each week, the Times Recorder will feature a historical photo from its archives or from the public. If you have a photo or a suggestion for
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NEW YORK -- NBA players sued the league alleging antitrust violations Tuesday, in part using commissioner David Stern's own words against him in making their case that the lockout is illegal.
With two antitrust actions -- one in California naming superstars Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant among five plaintiffs, and another in Minnesota naming four plaintiffs -- the players are seeking summary judgment and treble damages totaling three times the players' lost wages due to what lead attorney David Boies referred to as an illegal group boycott.
"There's one reason and one reason only that the season is in jeopardy," Boies told reporters at the Harlem headquarters of the former players' union, which was dissolved Monday and reformed as a trade association to pave the way for the lawsuits. "And that is because the owners have locked out the players and have maintained that lockout for several months. ... The players are willing to start playing tomorrow if (the owners) end the boycott."
The California case, filed Tuesday night in the Northern District, named plaintiffs who represent a wide array of players: Anthony, Durant and Chauncey Billups (high-paid stars); Leon Powe (a mid-level veteran); and Kawhi Leonard (a rookie). The plaintiffs in a similar case filed in Minnesota are Caron Butler, Ben Gordon, Anthony Tolliver and Derrick Williams.
Boies said there could be other lawsuits, and at some point, they could be combined.
It is possible, Boies said, that the players could get a summary judgment before the NBA cancels the entire season -- essentially a two-month timeframe. By that point, with the clock starting on potential damages Tuesday -- which was supposed to have been the first pay day of the season for the majority of players -- treble damages could amount to $2.4 billion.
"We would hope that it's not necessary to go to trial and get huge damages to bring them to a point where they are prepared to abide by the law," Boies said.
A statement released by the league office Tuesday night, spokesman Tim Frank said: "We haven't seen Mr. Boies' complaint yet, but it's a shame that the players have chosen to litigate instead of negotiate. They warned us from the early days of these negotiations that they would sue us if we didn't satisfy them at the bargaining table, and they appear to have followed through on their threats."
Earlier, Boies seemed to have anticipated this response, noting that the NBA's lawsuit in the Southern District of New York -- in which the league sought a declaratory judgment pre-emptively shooting down an eventual dissolution of the union -- came first.
"The litigation was started by the owners," Boies said. "... This case was started months ago when the NBA brought it there."
The crux of the players' argument is that, absent a union relationship to shield them from antitrust law, the 30 NBA owners are engaging in a group boycott that eliminates a market and competition for players' services and are in breach of contract and violation of antitrust law. The players are seeking to be compensated for three times their lost wages as permitted by law, plus legal fees and any other relieft the court deems necessary and appropriate.
One of the many issues to be resolved is where the lawsuits ultimately will be heard. The NBA almost certainly will file a motion seeking that the players' complaints be moved to the Southern District, which is in the more employer-friendly 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Northern District in California is in the more employee-friendly 9th Circuit, while the Minnesota case was filed in the district residing in the 8th Circuit, where the NFL players ultimately fell short in their quest for a permanent injunction lifting the lockout.
The NBA players are not seeking a permanent injunction; rather, Boies said they are pursuing the more expeditious and fact-based summary judgment, which could save months of legal wrangling.
UPDATE: Boies asserted that the plaintiffs have the right to choose which appropriate court has jurisdiction over their lawsuit, and that the NBA's lawsuit in New York was premature -- since the NBA players had never before in their history of union representation since the 1950s disclaimed interest or decertified until Monday. In contrast to the NBA's argument that dissolution of the union and an antitrust action were the players' goals all along, the lawsuit laid out that the players participated in bargaining with the league for more than four years after they were first allegedly threatened with massive rollbacks of salaries and competition for their services. Boies said the players had continued to bargain for months while locked out, offering a series of economic concessions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars until they finally reached the owners' desired 50-50 split in the final days of negotiations.
Unlike the NFL Players' Association's failed disclaimer of interest and antitrust action, in which the players' case was harmed by the lack of certainty over whether the collective bargaining process had ended, Boies said there was no disputing that bargaining talks had concluded in the NBA -- and that Stern himself had ended them by presenting a series of ultimatums and "take-it-or-leave-it" offers that the players could not accept.
"They had an opportunity to start playing with enormous concessions from the players," Boies said. "That wasn't enough for them. If the fans want basketball, there's only one group of people that they can get it from, OK? And that's the owners, because the players are prepared to play right now."
The NBA undoubtedly will argue that it was the players who ended bargaining when their union disclaimed, and that the disclaimer is a sham, or a negotiating tactic as opposed to a legitimate dissolution.
The lawsuits came one day after the players rejected the league's latest ultimatum to accept their bargaining proposal or be forced to negotiate from a far worse one. The National Basketball Players Association at that point disclaimed interest in representing the players any longer in collective bargaining with the league after failing to reach an agreement during the 4 1-2 month lockout that was imposed by owners July 1.
In the California case, Boies, his partner, Jonathan Schiller, and players' attorney Jeffrey Kessler laid out a meticulous case that the collective bargaining process had been ended by the owners and that the players had no choice but to dissolve the union and pursue their case via antitrust law. They laid out a series of concessions the players made in an effort to reach a deal, including a "massive reduction in compensation" and "severe system changes that would destroy competition for players."
The lawsuit quoted Stern's own demands when he issued two ultimatums to the union during the final week of talks, threatening the players both times to accept the offer (with a 50-50 revenue split and various restrictions on trades and player salaries) or be furnished a worse offer in which the players' salaries would have been derived from 47 percent of revenues in a system that included a hard team salary cap and rollbacks of existing contracts -- all deal points the two sides had long since negotiated past and abandoned.
Asked if Stern made a mistake issuing the ultimatums that ended the talks, Boies said, "If you're in a poker game and you bluff, and the bluff works, you're a hero. Somebody calls your bluff, you lose. I think the owners overplayed their hand."
In the California lawsuit, the players' attorneys alleged that the owners' bargaining strategy was hatched during a meeting between league and union negotiators in June 2007. In that meeting, the lawsuit alleged, "Stern demanded that the players agree to a reduction in the players' BRI percentage from 57 percent to 50 percent," plus a more restrictive cap system. Stern and deputy commissioner Adam Silver told Hunter, according to the lawsuit, that if the players did not accept their terms, the NBA was "prepared to lock out the players for two years to get everything." Stern and Silver assured Hunter in the meeting that "the deal would get worse after the lockout," the lawsuit alleged.
The threats of getting a worse deal after the lockout if the players didn't accept the owners' terms were repeated in a letter to the union dated April 25, 2011, according to the lawsuit -- which then laid out the contentious, sometimes bizarre, and almost indisputably one-sided negotiation that transpired over the next few months.
"I will give the devil their due," Boies said. "They did a terrific job of taking a very hard line and pushing the players to make concession after concession after concession. Greed is not only a terrible thing, it's a dangerous thing. By overplaying their hand, by pushing the players beyond any line of reason, I think they caused this."
Boies said it was in neither side's best interests for the action to proceed to trial, which could take years and multiply the threat of damages against NBA owners. Even in their current capacity as members of a trade association, the players could have a settlement negotiated on their behalf among the attorneys for both sides. The settlement could then take the form of a collective bargaining agreement, but only after the majority of players agreed to reform the union and the owners agreed to recognize it.
Another option would be for a federal judge to require both sides to participate in mediation under the auspices of a federal magistrate; attendance would be required, though the results wouldn't be binding.
"There's lots of ways to get started, but it takes two to tango," said Boies, who once sued Microsoft in an antitrust case and represented Al Gore in his failed 2000 presidential bid based on a disputed vote count in Florida.
"If you've got somebody on the other side who is saying, 'It's my way or the highway, it's take it or leave it, this is our last and final offer and you will not see negotiation,' you can't resolve this," Boies said. "That, I will predict, that will stop, OK? There will come a time when the league faces the reality of the exposure that they face under the antitrust laws, the exposure that they face because of fan dissatisfaction with their unilateral lockout, the exposure they face by having other people in the business of professional basketball. And they will believe it is in their best interests to resolve this case.
"I can't tell you when that will happen," Boies said. "But I will tell you that it will happen, because those forces are too strong for anybody to resist indefinitely."
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Players sue NBA for antitrust violations
Posted on: November 15, 2011 8:24 pm
Edited on: November 15, 2011 11:45 pm
Category: NBA
Tags: Anthony Tolliver, antitrust, Ben Gordon, Billy Hunter, Carmelo Anthony, Caron Butler, Chauncey Billups, David Boies, David Stern, Derrick Williams, Grizzlies, Kawhi Leonard, Kevin Durant, Knicks, Leon Powe, lockout, Mavericks, National Basketball Players Association, NBPA, Pistons, Spurs, Thunder, Timberwolves
Since: Oct 11, 2011
Posted on: November 20, 2011 12:59 pm
Its not easy to run a profitable business,....
thats why most players never become owners or even GM's. If you players think its so dang easy then why don't the players buy a few teams OR even invest in a few teams? Largely because they would be over their heads. Remember when Shaq said he would buy the Magic after he retired? Is that in the works or does it depend on his book sales :)
I laugh every time I read about another professional athlete that mis-manages their money. I live in Cleveland I would understand if, the businessman, Dan Gilbert had to file for Bankruptcy with one of his investments (Cavs) and start over or just walk away. As long as we have the NCAA tourney and a few other crappy sports, the fans will be ok. We are used to players screwing us (Ringless James) and owners being forced to take a team away (Modell w/ Browns). Life goes on and we find other teams/sports to cheer for.
We don't need a NBA full of players we no longer support. Think about it, even when the lockout ends, will you pay $100 per seat to watch these players cry on the court?
Since: Oct 13, 2007
Posted on: November 17, 2011 10:57 pm
Players sue NBA for antitrust violations
Start their own League? So where? They have the capital to build an arena? Schedule games? Charter flights? Hotels? Salaries? Taxes? What cities are going to foot the bill?
Majority of NBA players seem to lack the ability to manage their own finances, hence the reason for the lockout? YOU THINK YOU CAN MANAGE RUNNING A LEAGUE?
Since: Oct 13, 2007
Posted on: November 17, 2011 10:51 pm
Players sue NBA for antitrust violations
Not for nothing, Is there a reason most of the photographs of disgruntled NBA Players, are all Black? Is this showing a divide that portrays the NBA and the Union of the long suffering of the "Black" player? Is it a litmus test on exactly who is crying the most about the lockout? I see a point where "White" NBA players are more comfortabe with their finances as opposed to the "Black" NBA players? Are the NBA and the Media out to prove a point, or justify how the "White" NBA owners are "The Slave Masters" and the players merely "Slaves"?
I personally think it is a shame, that any NBA player is "Suffering". You have a skill set for a sport that does not require a great amount of thinking, had any of them actually paid attention in college, and actually know what their degree is in? Can they survive without basketball?
Next up for NBA Players, applying for unemployment.,,
LeBron James is going to hold a press conference friday afternoon. Reports are coming out that he is going to take his talents to Taco Bell.
Since: Sep 20, 2006
Posted on: November 17, 2011 9:38 pm
Players sue NBA for antitrust violations
Billy Hunter is looking out for basketball players the way Don King used to look out after boxers...by looking out for himself first.
Billy, and his legal team are the ONLY people wading through the NBA's swamp of stupididty, that are going to get paid without NBA games. They'll be paid MILLIONS to "represent" players down the legal "road to nowhere" they guaranteed, by refusing to accept $2 BILLION in players salaries, and refusing to allow players a majority vote on that offer...and Billy and those lawyers will get paid, regardless of their performance, whithout the players drawing a check themselves.
Owners should be able to relate to paying millions to employees that embarrass them with their half-hearted performance, without making any money themselves....but I doubt they'll give players much sympathy.
Billy has lots of ideas about how to get other people's money.... He's volunteering to "help" players organize their own league...if the players put up all the money (after they pay him for his legal "help" in a dozen lawsuits they can't win) , and he also knows players have trouble organizing their azz in a cab before the law arrives, after a strip club frecas.
Remind me again WHO'S side IS Billy on ?
Since: Jan 31, 2007
Posted on: November 17, 2011 4:48 pm
Players sue NBA for antitrust violations
Let these greedy punks go start their own league. The NBA is awful, it isn't what it use to be. Too much other good stuff happening: NFL, NCAA Football, NCAA Hoops, who needs the NBA. NOBODY, except the greedy players and owners!! Take the whole season off fellas, no one watches until May, and by then we have MLB. Keep sueing each other for the next year or two. NOBODY CARES!!
Since: Sep 11, 2006
Posted on: November 17, 2011 2:03 pm
Players sue NBA for antitrust violations
I took a real hard look at today's NBA standings. They tell me that nobody is winning. And the only party getting paid is these scum bag losers, I mean lawywers. Players, fire the lawyers and the NBAPA management team and get someone with some common sense to go to work for you. Just my humble opinion.
Since: Apr 13, 2008
Posted on: November 17, 2011 1:55 pm
Players sue NBA for antitrust violations
Is rondo trying to look like urkel?!
Since: Mar 30, 2010
Posted on: November 17, 2011 1:39 pm
Now that IS stupid
It's not like the players were fighting for working conditions or the ability to feed their families so I don't understand what their logic is for this suit other than it being an extension of how ther were getting their money anyway. They do NOTHING for 3 quarters and 10 minutes and now they want to be paid for 100% nothing. Good strategy guys. IQ's as high as your scoring average. Owners are crooks and thieves and players are primadonna athletes with no respect for the fans who wish they had half that talent. Bury the NBA for the joke that it was and go international already.
Since: Oct 24, 2006
Posted on: November 17, 2011 11:57 am
Players sue NBA for antitrust violations
In answer to your question Richfb........NOBODY DOES!
Since: Jul 17, 2008
Posted on: November 17, 2011 11:08 am
Players sue NBA for antitrust violations
Obviously, you did not see the draft class this year. The league is about the top 15-20 players. Without them, there is no league. It is a rare draft that includes more than 1 superstar, and you think that they can replace them with foreigners and college kids. People won't pay to see that when they have been getting the top talent in previous years.


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I'm a sub novice photographer. I own a Nikon D5000, a Canon P&S, and an iPhone 4s. I'd really like to learn how to get the most out of my existing equipment before I think about upgrading. Where do I start? Is there a book I should read or another forum I should stalk which caters to beginners?
I don't know about your specific area, but where I live, there are community college classes for different kinds of photography. If not c.c., then sometimes a city has adult recreation classes that cover photography.There are some books on outdoor photography, but many are very equipment-specific, and the books seem obsolete in a hurry. If nothing else, they tend to be a source of inspiration, and then the reader has to go put it into practice.--B.G.--
You can also check out Meetup.com for photo groups geared toward beginners in your area.
Hi Ian, I've taught photography on a few occasions and when looking for books the vast majority are technical instruction books. There are so many I'd recommend just going to a local book store and browsing until you find one that is clear to you. There isn't much magic to the technical stuff. It's like driving and the more you practice the easier the tech will come to you.The magic of making good images is about seeing them in the first place, the technical simply supports your vision. Kind of like writing. Unless you have a good story all the writing skills in the world don't matter.To that end there is a book I have enjoyed very much: The Practice of Contemplative Photography by Andy Karr and Michael Wood.I think it's well suited to the outdoors as it teaches you to 'see' first, which is one of the main reasons for going, and develop the technical skills in tandem with your vision. The book is divided into exercises that help you see light, texture, color, simplicity, etc. The technical stuff will come naturally as yo inquire the medium and make images.Just my 2 cents.Richard
For each major camera brand, like Nikon or Canon, there is a user's forum on the internet. Sometimes that is more of a discussion group, and sometimes that is more of a photo-sharing group. Some are better than others.No offense here, but if you are really a beginner, it would not hurt you to get into a photo-sharing group. You will see both good stuff and bad stuff, and if your eye can sort out the difference between the two, that is a start. Sometimes the intermediate users get into a discussion group. If you share some recent images, don't be afraid that they will tear you apart. At first, that happens.Another approach is to shoot some stuff, and then print out the very best images with a good printer on good paper. Show those around to friends. After a while, you will learn which ones show good skills and which do not.--B.G.--
Thanks Gents. That gives me something to work with.
Hej IanTry looking at the forums at dpreview.com, you'll probably find a subforum for each of your cameras and some for your beginning needs. Very high activity, so easy to get good answers. Highly Recommended forum, I've used it for years. Good luck. Peter
www.naturescapes.net continues to have a very high std of photography posted by its members and the forums are a good source of advice. Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape by G Rowell is as inspirational today as when it was first written, despite being years out of date in terms of equipment.http://guytal.com/gtp/index.jsp
My best piece of advice is to not worry so much about the gear. The various forums can be a good place to learn but its easy to get sucked in to thinking you need the newest camera, lens, or gadget will make your pictures better. When I got interested in photography I took the one photography course my college offered. It didn't focus on how to use all the modes and functions of the camera. Instead we studied a host of different photographers' work and worked on learning how to see. Sure, knowing how to control DOF with the aperture or freeze/blur motion with the shutter speed is an essential skill but after not much practice it will be easy. Having a vision or inspiration is much harder to come by. I find that checking out a new photography book or going to the museum help inspire me or at least give me a new idea to try out. To figure out how to use the camera, Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson is very good. For more on how to make better photographs The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman is one I like, as well as The Art of Photography by Bruce Barnbaum and The Practice of Contemplative Photography that was mentioned above.The big thing is to get out and start making pictures that YOU like. Getting on the internet and debating whether the extra 1/3 of a stop of the 85/1.4 is worth the $500 premium over the 85/1.8 is about as productive as arguing the merits of a 10d vs 15d shell on your quilt here. You're never going to get better if you don't practice and don't show your work to your friends and family. You'll know you're getting better when you have to turn down offers to take their wedding pictures :)Adam
Tony Wong has a great essay posted on Hike It. Like It. The whole series is a good read, but I like Tony's comments on changing your position to get shots that aren't from eye level. Such as standing on a stump/rock or crouching down low. Often the images will be more dramatic than those taken from a standing position.http://hikeitlikeit.com/2011/photography-and-backpacking-5/
Edited by cobberman on 07/02/2013 09:46:44 MDT.
Again gents, thanks for the wealth of information. The D5000 is certainly an entry level DSLR but I'm not going to consider upgrading until I've improved my technique. I really appreciate all of the advice and I'll start reading through some of these forums and order the suggested reading material. Happy trails folks!
Ditch the iPhone.Carry the P&S with you in your pocket or in a pouch on your shoulder strap, where you can get it out in seconds with one hand. Practice that.The problem with a DSLR is the time it takes to get it out and take a photo. One tends to miss far too many shots. It is not a good learning camera.Realise that taking a photo costs nothing these days. So take many, many, many. When you take one photo, take a second in the opposite mode (landscape vs portrait). Then another zoomed a bit. Then move along a short way and take another. LOOK at what you are photographing.When you get home, study each photo as though someone else took it. What are the good ones? Fwiiw, I would expect to take 20 average photos or more for every good photo. Oh well, and probably one or two duds as well!Really good photography has very little to do with the technical merits of the camera. Some of the world's finest photos were taken with a Box Brownie. What you need is an 'eye' for a photo, and training your eye takes time - and lots of practice.Cheers
Thanks Roger. The one benefit I have with the iPhone is time lapse photography. I may be able to do that with my other cameras but if so, I haven't figured out how yet. I can identify with the 20/1 ratio. I think part of the problem is that I'm not taking enough pictures and from enough angles.
I once had a teacher who always wanted to see my bad pictures, all the outtakes, We'd spend most of our time on those... at first it was kind of embarrassing, I was a bit of a smart-assed teenager so it was also a reality check. But in the end, and to this day, I learn more from honestly looking at my bad pictures and assessing what I wanted to get versus what I actually got.I find that most of my bad images are the result of my vision not matching reality. Either because what I wanted wasn't there (time of day, lighting, etc) or, I hadn't clarified what I wanted to portray (ie not the water but how the ripples distort the reflection in the water).These kinds of assessments are invaluable.Esoterically speaking to make a good image you have to see reality for what it is and not what you want it to be.
Edited by rmjapan on 06/19/2015 14:51:43 MDT.
Yes, I read books by Galen Rowell and John Shaw during my formative years.Yes, if you really understand photography, you can get good results regardless of whether you are digital or film. However, digital photography minimized so much of the continuous cost of photography (compared to film and processing) that you can shoot a lot more and eventually get good results just by trial and error. You really want to have that internal feeling for exposure and composition. Preconception of the image before you ever snap the button becomes important.--B.G.--
Ian, I'll disagree wholeheartedly with Roger. I believe a SLR is the best and fastest way to learn photography. A good pistol bag makes fast enough drawing of your "weapon", and they're faster to turn on, and with a manual zoom, and an optical viewfinder, composition lock is beyond compare to a P&S in speed.
I'm glad that you disagreed first, Peter.Perhaps Roger got bogged down with a poor example of DSLR.I'll pick my DSLR anytime before my P&S.--B.G.--
It is like anything we do in life -- practice. Next is to study pictures you like. Disclaimer: I rarely take a quality picture.
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