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Singer-songwriters are a dime a dozen these days. It's like they're being churned out on a never-ending assembly line, manufactured with the same blueprint: rough-hewn voice, tattered button-up shirt, handsome face, guitar. Rocky Votolato is like the original of those copies of copies, and he has the lyrical integrity and experience to back up such claims.
From his work in the late '90s with his band Waxwing to his continuing decade-plus long career as a solo artist, the Pacific Northwesterner (by way of Texas) has been enchanting both sexes with honest songs of love and heartache, his scratchy voice and down-to-earth stage presence. This show is sixteen-and-up, and tickets are $15. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., and the performance begins at 8. Also on tonight's bill: Dan Craig and our own Andy Thomas.
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An equity-efficiency tradeoff exists whenever activity in a given market may simultaneously increase productive efficiency and decrease distributive equity, or vice versa. Explanations for equity-efficiency tradeoffs typically center around transaction costs or other distorting effects of involuntary redistribution within a population, which might prevent actors from reaching their maximum production possibility frontier. Alternatively, advances in production efficiency might incidentally increase circumstantial inequality.
BREAKING DOWN 'Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff'The equity-efficiency tradeoff commonly refers to economic policy, though there are many different kinds of efficiency and many different interpretations of equity. The treatment of efficiency is distinct in health care, for example, when compared with efficiency in financial markets or efficiency ratios for businesses. Equity is more difficult to define.
Defining and Measuring Equity
The term "equity" is often normative, though it might positively refer to specific equality of measurable outcomes. Specific academic disciplines, such as welfare economics or utilitarian social justice studies, may arrive at very different or even conflicting understandings of equity.
Those concerned with the unequal distribution of economic resources may advocate public policy to limit productive efficiency, hoping to generate a more equitable outcome. In these circumstances, an equity-efficiency tradeoff is either assumed or artificially introduced to a market. Natural rights theorists, on the other hand, may be more concerned with the equitable access to property and self-ownership. This could create a tradeoff with the efficiency of coercive government policy.
Defining and Measuring Efficiency
In classic economic analysis, total efficiency is sometimes defined in terms of Pareto optimal allocations. In a theoretical Pareto efficient market, no alternative arrangement, via exchanges of resources, could make one person better off without making someone else worse off. However, many modern economists disregard the static conditions of Paretian analysis on the grounds that it creates non-falsifiable predictive statements about how market conditions ought to be, which is necessarily normative.
A broader and more dynamic definition of economic efficiency, adapted from the process of human resource coordination, relates not only to the quantity of produced goods and services but also to the discovery of new ends and means. The pioneers of identifying and measuring dynamic efficiency include Joseph Schumpeter and F.A. Hayek, neither of whom thought it was possible to measure a non-static production possibility frontier within this framework. In other words, it may be objectively impossible to confirm or reject an equity-efficiency tradeoff.
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As human societies escape dire poverty, certain individuals or groups tend to gain faster than others. The problem of distributive justice — how groups of individuals best organize and distribute produced goods in a "just" way — is one of the oldest subjects in moral philosophy. Closely related tensions exist between equality and freedom, or between voluntary gains versus involuntary gains.
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i just don't like bashers/shorter.....never short a stocks in my life...never will.....i think it's unfair that the system allow naked short!
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Stil waiting for your news... How does coming to the board with lies help you, again?
It's pronounced "Solly"
At least that's how the LLEN people say it.
By next Friday they'll say "So Solly, we no report for now. Prease forgive"
You were dead wrong on this one + you exposed what a bigot you are!
The system does not allow naked shorting...FINRA monitors this closely.
If you want to know if LLEN or any stock you trade has the signs that may indicate naked shorting, (shorting of securities by borrowing shares that don't exist" all you have to do is look for "failure to deliver " notices, which may indicate a problem.
People who enter a short sale, borrow shares from a broker or short their own shares. The average trader has nothing to do with a naked short. it's the broker who screws up and loans shares he does not have. Finra will see this in the data and come down on them like a ton of bricks.
I really get tired of seeing comments like yours. They are born of ignorance.
If you look into LLEN's trading, you will not find "failure to deliver notices". At least there were none the last time I looked which was late last year.
Yes, and you are supposed to cross the freakin street at the corner, get over it pal.
everyone know that finra monitoring is a joke....come on....they don't have the fun or the resources to monitor everything!.....also, "failure to deliver" are rule for people who play by them.....but when it come to American greed!!!!!! you know what type of rule they are playing.....
I am long. I am waiting for your news today. If its a filing for a delayed 10-Q, it will be a let down.


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SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/30/13 -- SiSense and Microsoft Corp. announced today that they are working together to add Windows Azure to SiSense Cloud offer. By installing SiSense on Windows Azure, customers can enjoy the benefits of the company's software in the Cloud as they did on-premises.
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Edison Boosts Power at Sunrise Gas Plant in California
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I had an aneurysm ( brain bleed due to a thin artery in a major artery ) 2006., 2 years ago I hurt my back and ankle at work. I use Norco . Lately ( within the last 2 years)., my daughters , my family say I am crazy , bipolar , schizophrenic because I get angry and keep bringing up the past. I sometimes think I'm addicted now but then again I have so much pain . I'm losing all sorts of relationship because of " my anger, and bipolar and not letting go of the past issues that my family and friends have put me through. I get told " you force your help on me and then you bring up the past over and over again and you are toxic . Is Norco doing this or is it because I feel so abused by people who are always getting in trouble and ask for my financial and spiritual help. I get irritated with my daughter who can't seem to be honest , my husband who is such a robot boring person my brother and daughter have ADHD and they drive me NUTTS but when I get angry at them they call me crazy . I'm trying to help an addict but he's not doing anything for himself and keeps having financial and legal issues but when I try to help he says I'm driving him crazy because I keep bringing up the past and scream and yell . I was sexually abused by my dad, my brothers and a few others when I was a kid and my brothers used to beat me. My first husband was an ass he started drinking and gambling so I found a lover and a nasty divorce . My kids can't stand me any more and I get so angry at my brother who smokes , drinks tea and uses opium and is always high. I am always pissed off.
Lower back pain with stress fractures in spine.woke up one morning &could not walk. Spent 1month in rehab.am in constant pain. Use a walker Will prolia help protect my bones.
Hello Everybody ! This is the part of my day of which I'm feeling much better ! Thusly, I would not feel up to sharing and I ust say that I have a loving feeling as this is my first club ! Now, the bad part. My Dr told me as I was leaving the hospital a couple months back, and as I yelled to ...
I feel tired all the time. I have fallen once and had 6 stitches in my head. I have banged my head on hard metal surfaces 2 times. If I strain too much my back aches. I get depressed a lot. I have a lot of headaches. I am under a lot of stress because my husband died of alzheimers after he had ...
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I had an aneurysm ( brain bleed due to a thin artery in a major artery ) 2006., 2 years ago I hurt my back and ankle at work. I use Norco . Lately ( within the last 2 years)., my daughters , my family say I am crazy , bipolar , schizophrenic because I get angry and keep bringing up the past. ...
I had an aneurysm ( brain bleed due to a thin artery in a major artery ) 2006., 2 years ago I hurt my back and ankle at work. I use Norco . Lately ( within the last 2 years)., my daughters , my family say I am crazy , bipolar , schizophrenic because I get angry and keep bringing up the past. ...
I have been on Norco 10-325 in increasing doses for almost 5 years due to a cervical spine injury. As the pain increased, so did the doses, although I am "only" at 4/day. Along the way I was also given Soma for collateral damge, and later Ativan and/or Klonopin for insomnia and anxiety. And it ...
I take norco for a torn rotator cuff. In the last 2 weeks my face has blown up with a horrible red rash. I am being treated with metro gel and a antibiotic . Any body have this ?
4back surgeries, AVN of Hip, neck issues, currently using crutches due to hip and my wrist hurt and shoulder. Also, have insomnia.
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The conventional view of cloud brokers misses the need to enforce policies and ensure compliance
During a dinner at VMworld organized by Lilac Schoenbeck of BMC, we had the chance to chat up cloud and related issues with Kia Behnia, CTO at BMC. Discussion turned, naturally I think, to process. That could be because BMC is heavily invested in automating and orchestrating processes. Despite the nomenclature used (business process management) for IT this is a focus on operational process automation, though eventually IT will have to raise the bar and focus on the more businessy aspects of IT and operations.
Alex Williams postulated the decreasing need for IT in an increasingly cloudy world. On the surface this generally seems to be an accurate observation. After all, when business users can provision applications a la SaaS to serve their needs do you really need IT? Even in cases where you're deploying a fairly simple web site, the process has become so abstracted as to comprise the push of a button, dragging some components after specifying a template, and voila! Web site deployed, no IT necessary.
While from a technical difficulty perspective this may be true (and if we say it is, it is for only the smallest of organizations) there are many responsibilities of IT that are simply overlooked and, as we all know, underappreciated for what they provide, not the least of which is being able to understand the technical implications of regulations and requirements like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOX – all of which have some technical aspect to them and need to be enforced, well, with technology.
See, choosing a cloud deployment environment is not just about "will this workload run in cloud X". It's far more complex than that, with many more variables that are often hidden from the end-user, a.k.a. the business peoples. Yes, cost is important. Yes, performance is important. And these are characteristics we may be able to gather with a cloud broker. But what we can't know is whether or not a particular cloud will be able to enforce other policies – those handed down by governments around the globe and those put into writing by the organization itself.
Imagine the horror of a CxO upon discovering an errant employee with a credit card has just violated a regulation that will result in Severe Financial Penalties or worse – jail. These are serious issues that conventional views of cloud brokers simply do not take into account. It's one thing to violate an organizational policy regarding e-mailing confidential data to your Gmail account, it's quite another to violate some of the government regulations that govern not only data at rest but in flight.
A PRACTICAL VIEW of CLOUD BROKERS
Thus, it seems a more practical view of cloud brokers is necessary; a view that enables such solutions to not only consider performance and price, but ability to adhere to and enforce corporate and regulatory polices. Such a data center hosted cloud broker would be able to take into consideration these very important factors when making decisions regarding the optimal deployment environment for a given application. That may be a public cloud, it may be a private cloud – it may be a dynamic data center. The resulting decision (and options) are not nearly as important as the ability for IT to ensure that the technical aspects of policies are included in the decision making process.
And it must be IT that codifies those requirements into a policy that can be leveraged by the broker and ultimately the end-user to help make deployment decisions. Business users, when faced with requirements for web application firewalls in PCI-DSS, for example, or ensuring a default "deny all" policy on firewalls and routers, are unlikely able to evaluate public cloud offerings for ability to meet such requirements. That's the role of IT, and even wearing rainbow-colored cloud glasses can't eliminate the very real and important role IT has to play here.
The role of IT may be changing, transforming, but it is no way being eliminated or decreasing in importance. In fact, given the nature of today's environments and threat landscape, the importance of IT in helping to determine deployment locations that at a minimum meet organizational and regulatory requirements is paramount to enabling business users to have more control over their own destiny, as it were.
So while cloud brokers currently appear to be external services, often provided by SIs with a vested interest in cloud migration and the services they bring to the table, ultimately these beasts will become enterprise-deployed services capable of making policy-based decisions that include the technical details and requirements of application deployment along with the more businessy details such as costs.
The role of IT will never really be eliminated. It will morph, it will transform, it will expand and contract over time. But business and operational regulations cannot be encapsulated into policies without IT. And for those applications that cannot be deployed into public environments without violating those policies, there needs to be a controlled, local environment into which they can be deployed.
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There will be new vendors providing applications, middleware, and connected devices to support the thriving IoT ecosystem. This essentially means that electronic device manufacturers will also be in the software business. Many will be new to building embedded software or robust software. This creates an increased importance on software quality, particularly within the Industrial Internet of Things where business-critical applications are becoming dependent on products controlled by software. Qua...
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SYS-CON Events has announced today that Roger Strukhoff has been named conference chair of Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo 2016 Silicon Valley. The 19th Cloud Expo and 6th @ThingsExpo will take place on November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. "The Internet of Things brings trillions of dollars of opportunity to developers and enterprise IT, no matter how you measure it," stated Roger Strukhoff. "More importantly, it leverages the power of devices and the Interne...
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Large scale deployments present unique planning challenges, system commissioning hurdles between IT and OT and demand careful system hand-off orchestration. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Smith, Senior Director and a founding member of Incenergy, will discuss some of the key tactics to ensure delivery success based on his experience of the last two years deploying Industrial IoT systems across four continents.
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CenturyLink has announced that application server solutions from GENBAND are now available as part of CenturyLink's Networx contracts. The General Services Administration (GSA)'s Networx program includes the largest telecommunications contract vehicles ever awarded by the federal government. CenturyLink recently secured an extension through spring 2020 of its offerings available to federal government agencies via GSA's Networx Universal and Enterprise contracts. GENBAND's EXPERiUS™ Application...
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The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the develo...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that MangoApps will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MangoApps provides modern company intranets and team collaboration software, allowing workers to stay connected and productive from anywhere in the world and from any device.
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The IETF draft standard for M2M certificates is a security solution specifically designed for the demanding needs of IoT/M2M applications. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Brian Romansky, VP of Strategic Technology at TrustPoint Innovation, explained how M2M certificates can efficiently enable confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity on highly constrained devices.
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The 19th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Microservices and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportuni...
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In today's uber-connected, consumer-centric, cloud-enabled, insights-driven, multi-device, global world, the focus of solutions has shifted from the product that is sold to the person who is buying the product or service. Enterprises have rebranded their business around the consumers of their products. The buyer is the person and the focus is not on the offering. The person is connected through multiple devices, wearables, at home, on the road, and in multiple locations, sometimes simultaneously...
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"delaPlex Software provides software outsourcing services. We have a hybrid model where we have onshore developers and project managers that we can place anywhere in the U.S. or in Europe," explained Manish Sachdeva, CEO at delaPlex Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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From wearable activity trackers to fantasy e-sports, data and technology are transforming the way athletes train for the game and fans engage with their teams. In his session at @ThingsExpo, will present key data findings from leading sports organizations San Francisco 49ers, Orlando Magic NBA team. By utilizing data analytics these sports orgs have recognized new revenue streams, doubled its fan base and streamlined costs at its stadiums. John Paul is the CEO and Founder of VenueNext. Prior ...
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"We've discovered that after shows 80% if leads that people get, 80% of the conversations end up on the show floor, meaning people forget about it, people forget who they talk to, people forget that there are actual business opportunities to be had here so we try to help out and keep the conversations going," explained Jeff Mesnik, Founder and President of ContentMX, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 19th International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world and ThingsExpo Silicon Valley Call for Papers is now open.
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The IoT is changing the way enterprises conduct business. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Hoffman, Vice President at EastBanc Technologies, discussed how businesses can gain an edge over competitors by empowering consumers to take control through IoT. He cited examples such as a Washington, D.C.-based sports club that leveraged IoT and the cloud to develop a comprehensive booking system. He also highlighted how IoT can revitalize and restore outdated business models, making them profitable ...
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With 15% of enterprises adopting a hybrid IT strategy, you need to set a plan to integrate hybrid cloud throughout your infrastructure. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Steven Dreher, Director of Solutions Architecture at Green House Data, discussed how to plan for shifting resource requirements, overcome challenges, and implement hybrid IT alongside your existing data center assets. Highlights included anticipating workload, cost and resource calculations, integrating services on both sides...
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Big Data engines are powering a lot of service businesses right now. Data is collected from users from wearable technologies, web behaviors, purchase behavior as well as several arbitrary data points we'd never think of. The demand for faster and bigger engines to crunch and serve up the data to services is growing exponentially. You see a LOT of correlation between "Cloud" and "Big Data" but on Big Data and "Hybrid," where hybrid hosting is the sanest approach to the Big Data Infrastructure pro...
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"We are a well-established player in the application life cycle management market and we also have a very strong version control product," stated Flint Brenton, CEO of CollabNet,, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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We all know the latest numbers: Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from last year, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. We're rapidly approaching a data production of 40 zettabytes a day – more than we can every physically store, and exabytes and yottabytes are just around the corner. For many that's a good sign, as data has been proven to equal money – IF it's ingested, integrated, and analyzed fast enough. Without real-ti...
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I wanted to gather all of my Internet of Things (IOT) blogs into a single blog (that I could later use with my University of San Francisco (USF) Big Data "MBA" course). However as I started to pull these blogs together, I realized that my IOT discussion lacked a vision; it lacked an end point towards which an organization could drive their IOT envisioning, proof of value, app dev, data engineering and data science efforts. And I think that the IOT end point is really quite simple…
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A critical component of any IoT project is what to do with all the data being generated. This data needs to be captured, processed, structured, and stored in a way to facilitate different kinds of queries. Traditional data warehouse and analytical systems are mature technologies that can be used to handle certain kinds of queries, but they are not always well suited to many problems, particularly when there is a need for real-time insights.
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October 23 through 26, 2007, Linux Magazine will be broadcasting from the conference on business use of Open Source solutions via live streaming on the Internet.
The conference addresses IT decision makers from mid-sized businesses and municipalities with practically oriented topics. On the four days of the event, half-day sessions will answer questions on the cost, technical feasibility, or security of Open Source solutions based on practical examples.
The seven sessions reflect typical fields of application where small to mid-sized organizations can benefit from free software. Each session will be followed by detailed 10-minute reports of production use or 10-minute product presentations on major Open Source solutions. The topics include alternatives to Exchange, and Groupware solutions based on Open Source, high availability and clustering for mid-sized businesses, spam and viruses, effective strategies with free software or Windows/Linux integration with Server Based Computing.
Details of the program, prices and registration are available here.
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San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
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Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
Will The Machine change the way future programmers think about memory?
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The new Torus distributed storage system is available under an open source license on GitHub
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Cool Job Alert: Balloon Sculptor
"Every giant character balloon starts as an incredibly detailed clay model that stands about three feet tall, much like the ones that car designers mold. I love that we still use this old-school technique."
On the Calm Before the (Metaphorical) Storm
"Being with the hugely inflated balloons on the street all night before the parade is magical. The prep that goes into inflating them is intense, with big crowds watching you work. But around 10 p.m., they close off the streets even to spectators, and it grows quiet as people drift away. And then there you are on a deserted New York City block in the middle of the night, surrounded by these enormous characters. It's surreal."
On the Hazards of (Actual) Storms
"Parade day weather can be unpredictable—I've been out in snow, even hail. You have to be particularly careful when there's heavy rain: Pull a little too hard on the rope of a balloon and a waterfall might pour down on you."
On the Worst-Case Scenario
"Superheating is a condition that causes helium to expand shockingly fast within the balloon, to the point at which it can tear or burst—loudly. That's why balloonatics train for on-the-fly repairs; we need to be able to fix any kind of mishap—on the street, in the dark, in the rain! When a tear occurs, we glue on a patch, like mending a blown tire. Someone seeing the balloon in the parade would never know."
On the Big Day
"I don't actually watch the parade. Before the last balloon makes it to the Central Park West starting line, I'm already racing to the finish at Herald Square, trying to beat the first balloon there so I can start deflating when it arrives. But we all gather at the studio the next day to watch a recording of the parade and eat a—catered!—Thanksgiving feast."


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2013 American Music Awards Nominees Announced
The 2013 American Music Awards nominees have been announced, with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake grabbing the most nominations of the bunch!
The 2013 American Music Awards nominees have been announced, with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake grabbing the most nominations of the bunch!
The more we see Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon, the more we want them to have their own show together. Their latest joint effort? Showing everyone just how pervasive the hashtag culture has become online -- and how utterly ridiculous it is.
Justin Timberlake is such an amazing live artist that when he comes to play on your radio show, he can't help but bring a visually spectacular element to his performance as well as the perfect audio.
The iHeartRadio Music Festival commandeered Sin City this weekend. In case you missed it and couldn't make it, we've recapped the event in the form of live photos of Miley, Katy, JT and more. Go ahead, check the photo recap out. These pics will make you feel like you were there.
Justin Timberlake recently sat through a super awkward interview with a Brazilian comedian named Sabrina Sato and something tells us he wasn't in on the joke.
Last week, we reported that Jessica Biel officially took her hubby Justin Timberlake's last name. Now, the stylish actress is dressing like him, which is a compliment, since he is a sharp-dressed man.
Move over, Jimmy Fallon: You're not the only NBC television personality having a public bromance with Justin Timberlake -- and Matt Lauer is trying to one-up you by making it official!
There's some turmoil in Justin Timberlake's family circle down south. His aunt Jane Harless, whose brother Paul married JT's mom Lynn when the singer was just five, has been jailed after being accused of stealing thousands from his parents in a check forgery scam. Ugh!
Jessica Biel has officially become Jessica Timberlake! Though she married Justin Timberlake in October 2012, the '7th Heaven' actress finally changed her legal name, taking on her hubby's.
Justin Timberlake has been fully immersed in music for the past year, but he hasn't shed his love of acting while reclaiming his pop music throne. The president of pop, as christened by Jimmy Fallon, still wants to do films, and one role he'd love to play?
A bummed-out Jay-Z watching Mike Tyson losing his first bout.... Justin Timberlake crooning in front of a burning white limo -- what does it all mean? It means the official video for Jigga's 'Holy Grail' is here!
'N Sync fans got the reunion they've long been clamoring for at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards -- it just was too short!


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DUSHANBE -- Chinese authorities have executed a Tajik national convicted of drug trafficking.
Tajik Foreign Ministry officials told RFE/RL that Hasan Yusufov, 51, was executed early in the morning on January 28.
Tajik Embassy representatives were allowed to meet with Yusufov before his execution, the officials said.
Yusufov was arrested in Urumqi, the capital of China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, in 2011 and was charged with drug trafficking.
He was later found guilty and sentenced to death.
All attempts by the Tajik Embassy to overturn the death sentence were fruitless, the Foreign Ministry officials said, adding that talks were under way to bring Yusufov's body home to Tajikistan.
Tajik officials said earlier that 16 Tajik citizens were currently in China's prison system, four of whom are on death row while five are serving life terms.
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Camellias are among the South's icons—right up there with Elvis, cornbread, and kudzu—but these flowers are actually native to Asia. André Michaux, botanist to King Louis XVI of France, brought camellias (Camellia japonica) to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late 1700s, and they've graced our gardens and tables ever since. Sometimes called "common camellias," they have uncommonly beautiful glossy, evergreen leaves and luscious blooms in shades of pink, white, and red. Some even have yellow flowers. "I'm always partial to pink blooms," says JoAnn Breland, horticulturist for the City of Charleston. "I also like the forms of camellias; the flowers of "Professor Sargent" resemble folded crepe paper. They're so perfect that they don't even seem real."
Pictured: sasanqua camellias (Camellia sasanqua)
We'll never get tired of flowers, trees, and shrubs like hydrangeas, azaleas, and magnolias. Here, we proclaim once-and-for-all the South's most iconic plants.


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By the time most women hit middle age you would think they have their lives together right!
Some have families, children, a great job, a nice house and a fancy car.
Maybe life isn't all that great though behind those closed doors.
Maybe divorce has been something you've been considering or you've been extremely unhappy with your career and are eager to do something different.
That's what happened to me back in late 2006.
For over 31 years I was in the secretarial field having worked my way up to the position of executive assistant to presidents and owners of companies.
I preferred the smaller companies because I wasn't just a number, I was a person.
Unfortunately there were bankruptcies and downsizes along the way and they continued to happen throughout my entire career.
I was always having to find a new job and the most I was with a company was seven years.
In January of 2007 our company did the obvious, they downsized and I was released from my position with a really nice severance package. That's when I decided I wasn't returning to corporate America ever again.
Building A Business Online
That's how so many people find themselves online today.
I had no desire to open any type of brick and mortar business. There wasn't anything in particular I really wanted to do at that time so I felt there were more opportunities online.
Starting over is a scary thing when for the last 30 some odd years you've had a career that not only supported you but afforded you some really nice things.
I'm not the person who is comfortable with change and I'm a planner. I've never left one job without having another one lined up so this was a huge move for me.
I don't suggest anyone doing this of course because building a business online requires a lot of your time, hard work and you are not going to see immediate profits.
What I will tell you though is that it's one of the most rewarding things I've ever done and it was so worth all the heartache and misery I went through in order to get me to where I am today.
Having a business of your own where you're fully supporting yourself and even making more than you ever did in corporate America, well it doesn't get more rewarding than that.
Where Blogging Fits In
Most people who have an online business aren't quite sure how blogging fits into this and/or why they should start a blog.
More businesses started incorporating blogging because having a website alone was no longer enough. The search engines love fresh new quality content and you can't achieve that with just a website.
Although that's the main reason businesses started blogging, as we all know, nothing ever stays the same.
Due to the massive amount of scammers online, people rarely buy on impulse anymore. I'm sure you're careful who you buy from as well right? We may still trust sites like Amazon or Overstock but what about the individual? What about the smaller companies?
Most people will research a product they are considering purchasing before they buy them. Most of the time a website isn't enough and that's where blogs come in.
I gathered some statistics I thought you might find interesting to back up my claim:
- 46% of users read reviews and blogs before purchasing online. Source: Selz
- Small businesses with blogs generate 126% more leads. Source: Social4Retail
- 81% of US consumers trust advice and information from blogs. Source: Social4Retail
- 61% of US consumers have made a purchase based on a blog post. Source: Social4Retail
- 77% of Internet users read blogs. Source: Social4Retail
- 57% of companies with a blog have acquired a customer from their blog. Source: Social4Retail
- 23% of total Internet usage time is devoted to social networks or blogs. Source: Social4Retail
- Marketers who have prioritized blogging are 13x more likely to enjoy positive ROI. Source: Hubspot
- Companies who blog receive 97% more links to their website. Source: Hubspot
- Blogs have been rated as the 5th most trusted source for accurate online information. Source: Hubspot
Blogging, No Matter Your Age
Most women don't like to tell their age and I've never really understood why.
I'm one of those that's not bashful because I've earned every single wrinkle I have and moment up to this point.
I'm 57 years young and to me, age is just a number. I feel the same today as I did back when I was in my 30's, imagine that.
I started blogging back in 2008 at the age of 50 and even though it was very intimidating to me, I eventually got over all of that.
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Location was great!
Pool too small....hot tub not working! No hot water in room....but after complaining to desk the situation was resolved!
Hotel location was the only likeable thing about it.
Hotel vey dated, needs serious renovation. Thought I paid to much based on the condition of the room.
Five star it's perfect for our family and the staff is so friendly.
Room was comfortable with easy access from the interstate. Our king bed was in good shape, not broken down as most beds are on the first floor.
We came in late Saturday night and had nowhere to park due to a crew of construction workers drinking beer in the parking lot. Our bathroom had hair scattered throughout and the air conditioner was so loud we had to sacrifice comfort to be able to sleep.
Friendly staff. Nice hot breakfast. Complimentary cookies were also fresh and tasty. Clean lobby and nice breakfast seating area.
Air conditioning unit was coming off the wall, it was detached. This was room #220, we contacted the front desk and we were given the option for another room but we had already unpacked and felt it wasn't a huge deal, we were more concerned with letting someone know we didnt cause the damage. TV was hard to get to come on and after midnight we were only able to get channels 3 through 13, but again it wasn't a huge deal just a little frustrating. And lastly we had a view of Steak n Shake's drive thru so we had to keep the curtains drawn the entire time. Hard bed and flat pillows. However it was clean. Just felt we were given the Internet special for the price.
Everything! We were originally booked at the Days Inn nxt door, but a/c didn't work and the nxt room they tried to give us was full of mold on the walls. So this room was ten times better!
location was good.
bathroom was dirty. black dirt or something was in the jets of the tub. Staff was that helpful when looking for a place to eat or liquor store.
The size of the suite and the jacuzzi actually worked this time.
Shampoo and conditioner slung all over the bathroom. A floater in the toilet. Took an hour for them to bring us a plunger just for them to tell us to fix it ourselves because they didn't clean the room when they were supposed to. Rude wait staff, disgusting room, we will never stay at another Holiday Inn ever.
Loved the room. Service was great. Nice and friendly staff. Room was clean and Bed was very comfortable. Easy check-in and check-out.
Breakfast was not good
It was very convenient for everything we wanted to do. Everyone was very polite and helpful.We will stay there again.
We needed a hook in the bathroom, when they installed it, it fell off, I fixed it myself.
The staff were very welcoming and friendly and went above and beyond to be kind and helpful.
When I checked into my room, I immediately noticed the smell of mildew/mold. I stayed in the room for a while trying to blow it off because I had been traveling all day and was just happy to finally be out of my car. Then, I noticed the carpet was wet in the room. I immediately called the front desk and they promptly switched me to another room. When I switched rooms, there was no mildew/mold smell, but the room smelled similar to old cooking grease. The sheet on the bed was also so old and thin that you could see straight through it to the mattress. It has rips in it and some stains on other parts of the bedding. I was tired and didn't feel like moving rooms again, so I just stayed in the room since I'd only be there one night.
Everything was amazing. New floors new furniture new beds bathrooms looked updated. Only complaint is water pressure, but that's bad in every hotel so I can't judge them on that. And maybe some fabric softener on the towels.
Softer towels. Better water pressure.
It was really nice and clean/current. I felt as the I got a really good deal on the room. We enjoyed our stay very much. The pool was nice and the hotel is in a convenient location.
It was not very crowded the nights we were there but you could hear other people anytime they got close to the room.
Easy to get to...nice outdoor pool. Lots of good places to eat near by.
Breakfast was little debbie oatmeal cream pies and other snacks...sat and sunday they added 2 cereals.
Family owned. Clean and efficient
Breakfast was skimpy
easy access on and off freeway, lots of anmenities near hotel, good breakfast, comfortable beds
Layout of hotel is strange, has mix of outdoor entry rooms and indoor entry rooms, elevator very small
It was clean, quiet, and a great breakfast. We were in and out well above the rating.
Right off the highway and near everything. Great hotel for the price and would stay there again!
Breakfast area could be a little bigger.
Entrance was outside not hallway.
The staff was extremely friendly. The rooms were clean and comfortable. We loved having a refrigerator, microwave, and the use of a business desk. The breakfast was one of the best!
No selection in vending machines. We were traveling with hungry teens. It's only a minor thing though. We would stay here again. One of the nicest family hotels that we've chosen.
overall hospitality
furniture needs upgrade
Right off highway
Beds were hard
Excellent breakfast buffet. Also enjoyed the hot tub and pool area.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Macdonald Swan's Nest Hotel Stratford-upon-Avon
Great location just across the river
Stayed for just one night at the Swans Nest on a quick trip to Stratford. We thought the location of the hotel was the best selling point, allowing you to walk everywhere to the major sites . Rooms and bathrooms were clean and furnished well. All you have to do is walk over the bridge and you are on the road that leads to all the theatres and some good eateries and a nice spot to picnic by the canal. We would advise getting a combined ticket to all 3 of Shakespreares "townhouses " at the hotel reception as it saves you money (�11 for 3 houses which includes Shakespeares birthplace, Nashs House and 1 other that the names escapes me but was the best of the three with a great Druckers coffee and cake shop attached ! ). If you have children you can get boat trips right opposite the hotel and there is a Butterfly Farm next door, Warwick Castle which is fab is only about 15 miles away. We had a really nice meal in Cafe Pasta which is just scross the bridge highly recommend the goats cheese and chicken salad and the garlic bread is really lush.
The Hottest Beer in Town
We booked two double rooms but on arrival our reservation was ok but our friends did not exist even though it was on the same confirmation. This was sorted satisfactorily.
Our room, (No.45) was a good size and nicely appointed, the breakfast was excellent. The hotel though does lack atmosphere behind it's impressive facade, the lobby is dingy and the whole place carries a sense of tiredness.
Finally, avoid the bar at all costs, on our visit it was difficult to gauge which was hotter the bar itself, the prices or the beer, we pointed out that it is illegal to serve so called "lager" from an unmarked pump.
Good value - great location
We stayed at this hotel last weekend while in Stratford on a theatre break. We found the hotel to be clean and the rooms were nice, modern and seemed recently refurbished, also nice to have an ironing board and plenty of space. The staff were very friendly and helpful, it is noticable that they are all foreign but no communication problems and if anything a much better attitude than you usually get from surly british teens!
The location of this hotel is great, situated across a footbridge from both main theatres (Royal Shakespeare & the Swan), its a good base for exploring stratford and is right by the river. The breakfast was lovely if a little expensive (ours was included in the price of the room but we noticed it was about �12 if you had to pay for it seperate) plenty of choice and the cooked elements served to your table rather than a pile on at the eggs and bacon.
My mother left her purse at the hotel and didnt realise til we were nearly home but the hotel had already found it and contacted her mobile - cant fault their honesty, one of the maids had found it in her room but there was nothing missing when she collected it. I would recommend this hotel to anyone wanting a nice, central hotel with parking and good facilities. We enjoyed our stay.
Good value for the special deal we got
We stayed at the Swan's nest for 2 nights in March, and took advantage of an excellent deal we got when we booked 8 months before.We paid �72 per night for a double room and only �36 per night for our son to be in a similar room, with no single supplement.We thought it was great value for money. Our rooms were clean and comfortable, our only complaints being that both rooms were stuffy and unaired. Though they were non smoking, there was definitely a hint of smoke in the air, and even of the sweaty feet of which another reviewer complained!The hotel itself is nicely situated by the river, in easy walking distance of the theatre and the shops.The restaurant was pleasant and offered a good breakfast service although staff were a little slow at refilling the dishes on the buffet. We would stay here again, but I am not sure it would be worth the usual rate payable.Try to negotiate a good deal!
Great value for money
We visit Stratford regularly but this was the first time we had stayed at the Swan's Nest (having previously stayed in 4 star hotels). Having read some of the very negative reviews posted on the site, we were pleasantly surprised when we arrived at the Swan's Nest. It's true that all the staff are non-British but so what? (In our experience, the service provided by non-British hotel staff is usually much better anyway). We found all the staff at the Swan's Nest to be extremely polite and helpful. Our room was compact, but very clean and tidy with all the necessary facilities including a really good shower. For the price we paid, and in comparison to 4 star hotels in Stratford, the room was excellent value for money. We had a couple of drinks in the bar which, although a little smokey, had a nice ambience (we definitely didn't agree with the reviewer who had rather negative comments about the bar area). The next morning, the breakfast was really excellent - freshly cooked and served to us at our table (unlike most hotels, there was no need to queue up and fight your way around a buffet table). In fact, we both thought it was the best breakfast we'd eaten in a British hotel in a long time. And in terms of location, the hotel is ideally placed to explore Stratford. We will most certainly be staying there again in preference to the 4 star hotels we have previously used in Stratford.
The smell of sweaty feet was unbearable
We stayed for one night at this hotel. The receptionist was not very welcoming and when we got into the room you could smell the feet of several previous guests. The restaurant was shut and the bar did not open till late. Sitting in the bar reminded me of an old people's home - no not the ages of the guests - but the ambiance!! The wine was old and warm and the final blow was we could use the swimming pool of the lovely hotel opposite to see what we could have had. The only plus was the breakfast staff could smile and were very pleasant and it was very good food.
Clean and comfortable, great location
This is actually one of the better hotels we've stayed in, compared to the foreign cheapies we usually book. Great location, few minutes walk from the town centre and right next to the river. Room was large and spotlessly clean with a huge tv. Good selection at breakfast, even if you do have to wait until a table becomes available. Ok, so it didn't have much character but it was clean, spacious and comfortable which. to me, is more important. Foreign staff not a problem as didn't see much of them anyway. Also had free car parking (certain hotels in Stratford charge extra for this). I would definitely recommend this hotel to others.
Avoid at all costs
Lovely facade but that's where it stops. Grotty and basic inside and the complete opposite of the front exterior. The trip round the back to the car-park makes you feel that you entering a down-market supermarket complex.
The room? My campbed gives a better night's sleep. Reminded me of my student days.
Oh, and the staff. The EU really is upon us. Not a Brit in site and accordingly the transient staff clearly couldn't care less.
Avoid at all costs
The Swan's Nest Hotel
We recently stayed at The Swan's Nest hotel right by the river Avon. This is a lovely hotel and we had an executive double room which was very comfortable with great views of the river. The breakfast was also good with a good selection of cereals, fresh fruit and the a full english breakfast which was delicious! I would highly recommend this hotel.
Great location, nice room
This is a nicely located hotel. We had a spacious double room for a one night stay over a weekend (one niters can be hard to get in Stratford over weekends) with a nice ensuite with a fixed head shower and a flexible hose shower. A nice bonus was the CD/Hi Fi as well as usual TV.
We had tickets for the theatre and it is a pleasant 5 minute stroll from the hotel along the river walk to RSC and the town. We did not eat at the hotel apart from breakfast - OK full english but nothing special. Staff are thin on the ground but friendly and efficient. Would I stay again. Yes definitely.
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Far too many bottles of wine later it was 1.00am and with no more world issues that needed solving we hit the sack, knowing there was probably going to be a sore head or two the next day.
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... told about it by a lovely lady who is a member of the Church. She was particularly pleased to speak to us about it and insisted that we sign their visitors book. It is truly a picturesque town, typical of so many in England.
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