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Is There Value in the Emerging World of Social Commerce?
Professor Olivier Toubia, with doctoral student Andrew Stephen, analyzed this new business model to find out whether it benefits sellers as well as owners of networks. The premise of social commerce sites is, to some degree, counterintuitive: a shop that connects customers to other shops risks driving business to its competitors.
The researchers obtained data from a sprawling social commerce site that has platforms in Britain, France, Germany and the United States. (The company hosts over 300,000 shops.) In 2006, this site began allowing shops on its platforms to connect to one another, in a similar manner to friends on Facebook. Before 2006, the site did not have a social networking feature; although it had thousands of shops as members, the shops were not linked. By comparing data from before and after the social networking feature was added, the researchers could measure the impact of social networking on revenue, both for individual shops and the owners of the network.
The researchers found that linking sellers increased profits for the marketplace as a whole, but the benefit was very small. One reason for this, the researchers determined, was that some shops on the network had links directed to them but did not link in turn to other shops. (The network did not require reciprocating links between shops.) "A lot of the value of the network is cancelled by these dead ends, or free riders," Toubia says. "Dead ends limit the browsability of the network, and a frustrated consumer who reaches one might just leave the marketplace." As its network grows, he says, a social commerce site should impose rules to eliminate dead ends.
Next, the researchers analyzed the network at the shop level. They looked at many factors, including how many links are directed to a shop; the extent of clustering, or interconnected links, among a shop's neighbors; and how easy it is to reach other shops from a shop (the equivalent, in social networking terms, of the degree of separation between friends).
The researchers found that having a relatively large number of links directed to a shop benefits that shop. They also found, more surprisingly, that linking to other shops has a net positive effect, even though this may increase competition. On average, a shop that links to another shop has a 67 percent chance of receiving a reciprocal link, and the benefit of that reciprocal link outweighs the negative impact of the initial link. "It makes sense to link to other shops, even though you're sending customers away," Toubia says. "It helps more than hurts, because in most social networks people link back."
Conversely, the researchers determined that being part of a cluster — or neighborhood, in network parlance — has a negative effect. Suppose a shop is in a neighborhood of 10 stores, all of which are linked to one another. The only customers who are likely to find the shop are those who stumble upon the neighborhood. Rather than become parts of closely linked neighborhoods, the researchers found, shops should cultivate links from a variety of other shops, spread as far as possible across the network.
The researchers also found that having fewer degrees of separation between a shop and other locations has a negative effect on the shop, because it is easier for customers to leave. At the same time, it benefits shops to be easily reachable from other shops in the network.
Overall, the researchers found that social commerce makes sense as a business model. Stores benefit from connecting to one another, and customers benefit because it is easier to browse among stores. However, given that shops benefit most when they are relatively accessible from other shops but limit accessibility to other sellers, Toubia warns that not all social networking sites are suited for commerce. "On traditional social networking sites, people tend to reciprocate links and tend to cluster," he says. While reciprocating links increases customer traffic, clustering tends to hurt a seller.
Given these competing factors, sites such as Facebook should proceed cautiously when experimenting with social commerce, Toubia says. "Some of the natural forces that drive social networks can actually work against them if their owners try to turn the community into a network of sellers."
Olivier Toubia is the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business in the Marketing Division at Columbia Business School.
Olivier Toubia
Olivier Toubia is the Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His research focuses on various aspects of innovation (including idea generation, preference measurement, and the diffusion of innovation), social networks and behavioral economics. He teaches a course on Customer-Centric Innovation and the core marketing course, in the MBA and Executive MBA programs. He received his MS in Operations Research and PhD in...
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Andrew Stephen, Andrew T. Stephen, Olivier Toubia
"Deriving Value from Social Commerce Networks"


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Can Quotas Bring Equity to the Boardroom?
In 2003, Norway passed a law giving all public and state-owned firms in the country five years to attain 40 percent female representation on their boards of directors or face harsh penalties, including closure. The law was aimed at remedying a near-universal phenomenon in which the percentage of women on the governing boards of companies is far lower than the percentage of women in the workforce. By 2008, the law's target year, all of Norway's public and state-owned companies had achieved the 40 percent goal.
Female representation on boards in the United States is stagnant at around 10 percent, but structural and cultural differences among countries leave open the question of whether similarly ambitious quotas would work here — or elsewhere. "The challenge of understanding how quotas could work was to provide an analysis of a possible world that does not yet exist," says Professor Bruce Kogut, who worked with Mariano Belinky of McKinsey and Jordi Colomer, then of Politecnica in Barcelona, on the problem. "So we turned to simulations to analyze the question of whether or not quotas can work in the United States."
Much of the researchers' work is built upon insights from Rosebeth Kanter, Herminia Ibarra, and Ronald Burt, who have shown that women who are not directly connected to powerful women must rely on male mentorship to move up in their careers. Other research shows that while women seek out other women for personal advice, they seek out male colleagues for career and business advice. Although male mentorship of women can be effective, such as the recent grooming of Virginia Rometty by Sam Palmisano at IBM, the data suggest that these female-male contacts have not generated many female leaders. Without a critical mass of connections to other powerful women, ambitious women are dependent on the dominant group — men — to select them, perpetuating inequality in board leadership. Kogut points to Xerox, led from 2001 to 2009 by Anne Mulcahy, who mentored her female successor, Ursula Burns. Many women are now being brought to the upper levels of management at Xerox.
Kogut and his coresearchers, using the 2007 BoardEx database that reflects board membership for all US public companies, employed network science to create a simulation of how directors get chosen for boards. In short, they ran a variety of combinations of various boards' thresholds and quotas to simulate the "detokenization" of boards, in which a board must bring on a female director if the ratio of women on the board is below a given threshold. They accounted for the organic processes that result in board membership shuffling and spaces opening up on the board, such as when existing members retire or reach the end of their board tenure. The researchers' analysis shows that even low quotas can result in substantial power for female directors and that this can be self-sustaining over time.
"If the goal is to give more power to women overall, you can do so at a much lower level than Norway's 40 percent quota," Kogut says. "We estimate that the United States can achieve a substantial increase in the importance of female directors by just asking all boards to have at least one female director. This is enough to generate growth, putting enough women on boards so that they don't drop below a critical percentage of representation."
A common objection to the use of quotas is that a truly democratic system for boards would limit directorships that might otherwise be held by relatively few individuals, female or male. But with quotas, Kogut says, comes diversity and power, and a critical mass of women directors that will keep a representative proportion of women on boards across companies.
The world of board directorship is a relatively small one. The US network is characterized by high multiple-network directorships, in which many directors sit on multiple boards, effectively creating a director network. Connectivity is key to board composition and to enabling directors to influence and organize across other boards: if women sit on too few boards, then how are female board directors able to influence the other boards? That's why any low quota can help: if each board brings on at least one woman, female connectivity in the network increases.
"Norway probably needed a high quota because there wasn't a lot of connectivity among even the male board directors," Kogut says. "But in countries like the United States or, for an extreme example, India, which has very high multiple-network directorships, low quotas can be very powerful." The goal of the paper was not to propose a universal solution, Kogut notes, but to show how the new tools from the science of complexity can explore possible future worlds that we may want to achieve.
Bruce Kogut is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics in the Management Division and director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School.
Bruce Kogut
Bruce Kogut is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics and Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He teaches the core courses in strategy and in governance and an elective on "The Future of Finance" for the MBAs and EMBA and has taught in executive programs in the US...
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Bruce Kogut, Mariano Belinsky, Jordi Colomer
"Equality at the Top of the Corporation: Assessing Possible Worlds of Mandated Quotas"

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Even though it's only the first week of December, action on the wrestling mat is already quite intense.
I was at the end of a recent Wirt County practice last week and the Tigers appear to be in good form this early on.
The Tigers of head coach Kenny Dye very well could have and probably should have won the Little Kanawha Conference wrestling championship last year, but it didn't happen. The good news for fans of the orange and black this season is it appears the Tigers are indeed going to be the hunted. Wirt County is the host site for the LKC tournament.
Although I will not be covering any wrestling tonight, the place to be without question is in Jackson County at Ripley High School where the Huntington Highlanders will be strolling into town to take on coach Matt Smith's Vikings, who last Saturday defeated Parkersburg South for the first time ever in a dual.
Yes, I know Parkersburg South has captured the last four Class AAA state mat crowns and the Patriots are seeking big school history by trying to win five in a row, but many people around the Mountain State feel the Highlanders are the team to beat. Coach Rob Archer's squad topped the initial wvmat.com Class AAA wrestling poll and received nine of the 10 first place votes, finishing ahead of the Patriots and their first-year mat boss Donna Dixon.
Moving to the college ranks, it was good to finally get a chance to watch the Ohio Valley University wrestling program compete on Tuesday evening inside the Elite Sports Center.
Fighting Scot head coach Pat Sole wants to make a winner of OVU, but building a program from the ground up is never an easy task. It's also a difficult task when things not in your control go awry.
On Tuesday night versus Ashland University, the Fighting Scots had to forfeit three of the 10 weight classes.
"It's a combination of things," admitted Sole, which varied from injuries to illness. "College is a long season. You start in September in preseason and you start in season training hard in October and it doesn't end until March.
"The guys are just beating on each other and we are low in numbers and kids. We have to be conservative with what we can do and what we can't do."
What coach Sole wants to do is have one of his OVU grapplers qualify for the national tournament. Whether or not that happens this year or not, I'm sure it will occur at some point in the not too distant future.
Despite thinking he was going to have a full lineup this year, it's not materialized.
"We had a full lineup and we lost a couple kids right off the go the first two weeks of school," said Sole, who noted at current full strength OVU would have just one weight class to forfeit.
"The biggest thing is trying to get the guys to make it through the season without getting injured."


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Federally funded security guards at dangerous neighborhood parks. Federal grants to poor neighborhoods to build grocery stores or to keep school gyms open after hours.
These are the types of unprecedented — yet uncontroversial — disease prevention initiatives whose inclusion has been lost in the rancorous debate over health care reform legislation working its way through Congress.
The prevention provisions mark a victory for advocates and federal lawmakers who for years have unsuccessfully sought more federal funding to close the gap in health disparities and life expectancies between richer and poorer Americans.
In Alameda and Contra Costa counties, for example, there's a 16-year life-expectancy difference between those living in a comfortable Walnut Creek area and an East Oakland neighborhood just 12 miles away, where one-fifth of the residents live in poverty.
An adult raised in West Oakland, where 41 percent of residents live in poverty, is also five times more likely to be hospitalized for diabetes than someone raised in the affluent Oakland hills, and is twice as likely to die of cancer.
The House health care reform bill, passed last month, sets aside $33.9 billion over five years for a prevention and health promotion strategy. Democratic lawmakers are pushing for a vote by Christmas on the Senate version, which includes $15 billion over 10 years for similar prevention and health promotion programs.
In both House and Senate bills, a grant request to open a grocery store in an area without one would qualify as a health program, said Rich Hamburg, deputy director of Trust for America's Health. So would a request for money to hire security guards to watch over a park that residents have come to fear because of crime, he said, or money to keep a school playground open after hours. Nutritionists could be hired to teach students healthful food preparation techniques at home, or how to make good choices when eating out.
The Senate bill authorizes "community transformation" grants that would have a similar aim as the House Prevention and Wellness Trust, Hamburg said.
Seven in 10 Americans support the prevention provisions in the nearly $1 trillion health care reform bills, according to a November survey by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
"Support for wellness, prevention and health promotion is strong across parties, across regions, and all age groups," Hamburg said. "Every which way, it has strong support."
During the previous four congressional sessions, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, a former House member from Southern California, tried unsuccessfully to introduce comprehensive legislation to fund programs for reducing health disparities with her Health Equity and Accountability Act. Although there was a hearing on it last year, the bill never moved beyond introduction, said Cara James, a senior policy analyst with the Kaiser Family Foundation. Some of its language, however, is now incorporated into the health care reform legislation.
"It has not moved on its own," James said. "So I think the strategy of trying to incorporate it into the larger health reform is probably going to be a better strategy in terms of getting things accomplished."
This year, the Congressional TriCaucus, formed of the African-American, Hispanic and Asian caucuses in the House, reintroduced an act of the same name. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, leads the Congressional Black Caucus. Language from that bill also was infused into the House care health reform legislation, Hamburg said.
As a result of these earlier efforts, $15.4 billion of the $33.9 billion earmarked for disease prevention and health promotion in the House bill would fund a Prevention and Wellness Trust. At least $3.4 billion of that $15.4 billion trust must be awarded to projects designed to reduce health disparities in low-income communities, although other programs funded by the trust will also address the issue.
The bills also break ground in their flexibility as to what's considered a health program, given the powerful role neighborhood conditions play in disease prevention. It's in poorer neighborhoods, where liquor stores often substitute for the grocery stores, that residents often become sicker and die younger. Higher rates of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and other costly chronic conditions also develop in areas where fast-food outlets are the only nearby restaurants, and residents are apprehensive about walking or biking, given high crime rates.
"Regardless of your race or ethnicity, where you live matters," James said. "Access to healthy foods and the ability to exercise matters to your health outcomes. The environmental toxins to which you're exposed matter. The types of jobs that you have matter."
Chronic stress, such as what comes from financial worries or fear of crime, also takes a heavy toll on health. Constant surges of such stress hormones as cortisol and adrenaline, over time, cause physiological changes that can trigger disease processes.
Essential steps
In addition to the unprecedented funding for programs addressing health disparities, both bills provide money for broader prevention efforts, such as increased public health staffing, education and outreach on disease prevention, immunizations and health screenings.
The new programs aren't only to relieve the suffering associated with disease and shortened life spans. They're also a critical step in controlling health care costs, said the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit dedicated to reducing health disparities.
In a report it released in September, the center estimated that more than $230 billion in direct medical costs over a three-year period in the United States were due to treating the diseases attributed to health disparities. When factoring in indirect costs, such as lost productivity and wages, absenteeism and premature death, the tab comes to $1.24 trillion over the same period, the center stated.
Prevention strategies that reduce the prevalence of disease in poorer communities pay off, according to a 2009 analysis by the Prevention Institute and the Trust for America's Health. The analysis found that a $10 investment per person in proven methods for improving diet, increasing physical activity and smoking cessation pays for itself after the first year, provides 5-to-1 savings after five years, and continues to save into the future.
And with the nation spending $2.2 trillion a year on health care costs — with three-quarters of that for treating chronic diseases — the country can't afford not to invest more in prevention, Hamburg said.
This expanded focus on prevention has buoyed hopes that a new era in federal health policy is emerging, in which the promotion of Americans' health garners as much concern as the financing of the health care delivery system.
"If you're an ordinary American, what the debate looks like is a conversation among insurance companies and hospitals, and all the stakeholders in the health care delivery system, instead of being about people's health and well-being," said Daniel Zingale, a senior vice president with the California Endowment, a Los Angeles nonprofit with more than $3 billion in assets. Zingale, a former senior adviser to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, led the governor's unsuccessful 2007 attempt to provide universal health care coverage in California.
"True health reform would not just be about the health care delivery system," Zingale said.
Reasons behind health
Only about 15 percent of these health disparities are linked to a lack of access to medical care, according to Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General and former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Satcher now heads the Satcher Health Leadership Institute in Georgia, which trains public health leaders on strategies for reducing health disparities.
Genetics accounts for another 20 percent of health determinants, he said, while the physical and social environment accounts for 25 percent to 30 percent. Lifestyle choices account for the remaining 40 percent to 50 percent variations in health.
Though the latter figure points to the critical role that individual responsibility plays in one's health, the picture gets complicated when factoring in the options available to people. And there's an interaction among these four variables, he emphasized.
"They don't exist in isolation," Satcher said. "Our social environment influences access to care, it influences behavior. People can't exercise personal responsibility if they don't have safe streets, if they don't have a place to get fresh fruits and vegetables.
"I'm not trying to say that personal responsibility is not a part of this," he added. "I know people who have all the access in the world to fresh fruits and vegetables and safe places, and they still won't take advantage of it. So you've got to have personal responsibility and community responsibility on the table."
Medical care can make a significant difference in prevention efforts, such as the role prenatal care plays in reducing infant mortality.
The anticipation over these groundbreaking proposals is palpable in the public health community.
"We don't know when such an opportunity will come by again," Hamburg said. "And the excitement is around the recognition that wellness and prevention is a primary element of health reform. It's not a nice-to-have, it's a must-have."
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My PS3 Media Server is working fine but I was going to tweak some settings and can't open the interface to do that. When I double click on the PS3 image on the tray or in Applications it opens nothing. Any Idea how to open this back up? Do I have to uninstall and reinstall each time I want to change the settings?
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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
February 21, 2007
Continuing Resolution Boosts Funding for Efficiency, Renewable Energy
A newly approved bill provides a significant funding increase for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) for the remainder of the current fiscal year. In mid-February, Congress passed and President Bush signed a bill that will provide continued funding for the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2007, which concludes at the end of September. Such "continuing resolutions" are enacted in lieu of the traditional budgetary process.
House Joint Resolution 20, also known as the "Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007," continues funding at FY 2006 levels for much of the federal government, but Section 20314 of the bill specifies that nearly $1.474 billion go to EERE. That represents a nearly 27 percent increase over the amount appropriated by Congress for FY 2006, but the effective increase is even greater, since the bill eliminates most if not all congressionally directed funds, or "earmarks." The lack of earmarks gives EERE a great amount of flexibility in how it directs the funds.
The continuing resolution's impact on specific EERE programs cannot be ascertained at this point, since the bill does not specify how the funds will be distributed among EERE's programs. However, the bill requires DOE to report back to Congress with a spending plan within 30 days of its passage. See the White House press release, the full text of the bill, and for comparison, the EERE budget documents for FY 2008.


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Evolutionary Fabric. Revolutionary Scale.Architecture, Cloud, Customers, HPC, Just the facts, Trends No Comments »
Quite catchy - Cisco way to Unified Fabric Architecture…
Its promise was to deliver flexibility across Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments for any application – now promises enhancements for new age massively scalable Data Centres to deal with Big Data/Hadoop environments and bare-metal deployments. These data centres have massive blade density and demand flexible workload mobility (VM's freely moved) not compromising on plug-and-play capability plus throughput on network and storage transport.
Unified Fabric will virtualize data centre resources and connect them through a high bandwidth network that is very scalable, with high performance and enables convergence of multiple protocols onto a single physical network.
@Locuz we have managed to exploit this further by being able to bring automation to the application layer. Our HPC and High Performance Storage capabilities are coming handy as Business computing has been echoing the same needs that we kept executing for long enough now.
Want to build the next generation Data Centre, review our reference architecture and do not hesitate to write to firstname.lastname@example.com


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Dedicated to preserving the new nation, Thomas Jefferson tore apart the biblical Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
He believed the Bible was crammed with superstition, such as miracles. Moreover, Jefferson scorned religious dogma. It caused bitter divisions among colonial Christians. When superstition thrived and doctrinal debates increased, he worried that the dream would die of a new land dedicated to liberty.
Jefferson severely edited the Gospels. Why?
If people of good will agreed with Jesus' basic morality, they would pull together. With fewer religious divisions and less debate over dogma, the Republic would flourish. A simpler Bible would help religious adversaries become amiable.
Jefferson didn't treat the Bible as a holy relic, treasuring every word. He suspected that primitive superstitions permeated scripture. Like barnacles clinging to a boat's hull, they must be scraped off in order to discover Jesus' authentic message.
As president (1801-09), Jefferson wrestled with the Bible's basic teaching. He believed dogma shouldn't inhibit intellectual freedom.
Jefferson's goal was to show what an enlightened person credibly believed. His edited Bible witnessed, he maintained, to Jesus' excellent principles that shaped morality. He asked fundamental questions, wanting to separate "diamonds" of truth from the "dung" of superstitious waste.
Critics against historic Christian faith railed against clergy practicing ecclesiastical tyranny over peasants' minds. Like Jefferson, scripture's doubters pointed to the Bible's layers of "holy mysticism" that fed erroneous notions, naive superstition and brittle dogmatism.
In 1804, working late into the evening before retiring in the President's House (White House), Jefferson cut the Bible down to size. Wielding perhaps a penknife or a razor, he condensed Jesus' authentic message, freeing it from superstitious tradition.
Lacking formal training in editing ancient manuscripts, the president used a simple rule of thumb to determine the Gospel's veracity. If "the style and spirit" of the biblical words corresponded with how Jesus lived, he preserved the passage.
He called this edited Bible "The Philosophy of Jesus." No copy of it survives, although we know of its existence because Jefferson refers to it in his correspondence. This slim volume was "the work of one or two evenings only, while I lived at Washington, overwhelmed with other business," Jefferson wrote, "and it is my intention to go over it again at more leisure."
During retirement at Monticello, Jefferson collected six Bibles: two copies each in English, French and a combined Latin/Greek text. Using some kind of sharp instrument, he carefully cut out what he agreed with in Jesus' teaching and life. He kept the parables and passages like the "Sermon on the Mount," in which Jesus is portrayed as the new Moses who articulated ethics for fulfilling life.
Christ's resurrection from the dead wasn't included. Jefferson's Bible concludes with Jesus' burial. Easter, as an historic event, made no sense to him. Jefferson organized his Bible by dividing loose-leaf notebook pages into four columns. Scripture in the four languages was lined up in parallel columns, giving a chronology of Jesus' life.
In 1820, Jefferson paid Richmond printer Frederick Mayo to bind the 86-page volume in red morocco leather. Adopting a handsome French style, he entitled it "The Life and Morals of Jesus" in gold lettering. Keeping his spiritual convictions private, Jefferson produced no copies of this personal Bible.
This Bible exhibits what Jefferson believed about Christian faith stripped of idle superstition and dense dogma. Two years after taking the presidential oath in 1801, Jefferson affirmed, "I am a Christian in the only sense in which he (Jesus) wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other."
Christians who believe in Christ's physical resurrection say Jefferson's mental fingerprints cover his selective picture of Jesus, who died and wasn't resurrected.
His Jesus looks a lot like Jefferson - erudite, morally intense and convicted of truth that rankled bland religion.
"No miracles, no metaphysics, no mystery" is how Martin E. Marty, historian of American religion at the University of Chicago emeritus, critiques Jefferson's Bible. Parables and moral aphorisms are preserved in this Reader's Digest version of the Bible.
Jefferson rejected Christ's resurrection, the central truth of Christianity. "He made a Socrates out of Jesus," says Professor Marty.
The Rev. Jack R. Van Eps is a Presbyterian minister who heads the nonprofit, tax-exempt Creative Growth (www.thelivinghistory.com), which enhances Christian worship through storytelling and dramatic presentations aimed to make God's history come alive. Van Eps' book, "How Jefferson Made the Best of Bad Messes," is available in local bookstores for $7.95.


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Winter Olympics (8 p.m., NBC):
Bob Costas may have taken a few days off, but you've been steadfastly planted on the couch all this time. That's the spirit! Tonight, your reward is being able to watch the best female figure skaters in the world vie for gold -- all in pre-packaged, tape-delayed sequined splendor.
"Inside the Actor's Studio" (8 p.m., Bravo): Brace yourself for lots of gushing from James Lipton. Tonight's episode is devoted to Oscar nominee Matthew McConaughey, who just happens to be on the hottest streak of his career.
"King of the Nerds" (10 p.m., TBS): Contestants debate the age-old question: "Star Trek" or "Star Wars"? May the farce be with them.
Also on Thursday:
Contact Chuck Barney at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.ChuckBarney, or Twitter.com/chuckbarney


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- Oct 19:
- TCAL roundup: Volpatti leads Valley Christian past St. Patrick-St. Vincent
- WACC-Shoreline roundup: Piedmont edges Alameda in wild game
- WACC-Shoreline roundup: Piedmont edges Alameda in wild game
- OAL roundup: Lavance Warren helps McClymonds top Fremont
- OAL roundup: Lavance Warren helps McClymonds top Fremont
- American 41, Mission San Jose 0
- DFAL roundup: Campolindo stays unbeaten with 35-20 win over Las Lomas
- DVAL roundup: Concord hands Northgate its first loss, winning 30-28
- EBAL roundup: San Ramon Valley edges Granada
- Oct 18:
- BVAL roundup: Pittsburg uses running game, defense to turn back Liberty football
- East Bay high school/community college scoreboard for Friday, Oct. 18 events
- East Bay roundup: Encinal blanks Berkeley for second straight shutout
- De La Salle football team dominates James Logan
- Friday's East Bay high school/community college football scores
Valley Christian High running back Vince Volpatti outgained the entire St. Patrick-St. Vincent roster Friday and even intercepted a pass as the Vikings defeated the Bruins 40-14 in a Tri-County Athletic League-Rock Division game at Chabot College.
Volpatti finished the night with 311 yards and four touchdowns on 28 carries. Also a defensive back, Volpatti intercepted a pass for the Vikings (4-3, 2-1 TCAL-Rock).
As a team, the Bruins (5-3, 3-1) gained just 175 yards.
"Our offensive line did really good and we just ran the ball really hard," Volpatti said. "The line pushed and we stayed on our blocks, and I just kept running."
Volpatti had scoring runs of 33, 20, 6 and 2 yards. Theman Taylor and Griffin Smith also reached paydirt for the Vikings.
While Valley Christian established its running game from the start, St. Patrick-St. Vincent didn't get into much of a rhythm until later in the game. The Bruins got on the board in the third quarter on an 85-yard touchdown run by Marcus Villalobos, but by then, St. Patrick-St. Vincent faced a 25-8 deficit.
The Bruins scored again in the fourth quarter on a quarterback keeper by Anthony Williams.
Pinole Valley 45, Berean Christian 25: The host Spartans (2-5, 2-1 TCAL-Rock) scored in every quarter and limited the Eagles (2-6, 0-4) to just 28 yards rushing.
The backfield trio of Isiah Lewis, Javari Shepherd and Chris Salmeron combined for 300 yards on the ground as Pinole Valley pulled away in the second half.
Lewis finished with 132 yards on 17 tries and one touchdown, Salmeron had 13 carries for 107 yards, and Shepherd added 61 yards on six carries to spark Pinole Valley.
The play of linebackers Terell Kennedy, Shepherd and Antwan Martinez powered the Spartans' defense and kept Berean Christian in check for most of the second half, forcing three fumbles and giving Pinole Valley excellent field position.
Quarterback Jax Cuddihy completed nine of 24 passes for 210 yards and four touchdowns to lead Berean Christian. Freshman receiver Isaiah Hodgins hauled in three passes for 73 yards, all went for scores.
-- Joe Wolfcale, correspondent
Stone Division
John Swett 41, De Anza 20: The Indians notched their first TCAL-Stone Division, beating the host Dons.
John Swett (3-4, 1-1 TCAL-Stone) trailed 12-6 in the third quarter, but quarterback James Sykes led the Indians offense and made some big plays on defense. Sykes had touchdown runs of 65 and 77 yards, and also had an interception.
Kyle Hardcastle and Brandon Newman each had a sack for John Swett's defense and defensive backs Jai're Hogan and Joe Ialoa also each had an interception.
De Anza (1-6, 0-2) started fast, with quarterback Brennen Brooks passing for 159 yards and rushing for two touchdowns in the first half.
The second half would be a different story as the Indians defense shut down the Dons passing game, intercepting three passes and keeping them out of the end zone until 15 seconds left in the fourth quarter. Brooks hit Robert Stern on a 58 yard touchdown pass.
John Swett improves their TCAL-Stone record to 1-1 and the Dons fall to 0-2.
-- LeAnn Shea
Hercules 46, Richmond 0: Josh Jackson scored two touchdowns in the first half as the Titans (6-1, 2-0 TCAL-Stone) got past the host Oilers (1-6, 1-1).
A long run by Jackson set up a quarterback sneak by Louis Michael to give Hercules a 7-0 lead with 9:14 left in the first quarter. Jackson then followed that up with second quarter touchdown runs of five yards and one yard, and a 30-yard field goal by Loran Fonseca gave the Titans a 23-0 lead at halftime.
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Ghost Stories at Crown Hill Cemetery
Oct. 13, 2012
Crown Hill Cemetery, 700 W. 38th St.
Gates open at 6:30 p.m.; Stories begin at 7:30 p.m.
Join us for this unique evening of ghost stories on the grounds of Crown Hill Cemetery. Pack a picnic and a cooler, bring blankets, lawn chairs and flashlights (to find your way back to your car). Gate opens at 6 p.m., stories begin at 7:30 p.m. As the evening progresses, the stories will move from child-friendly to stories intended for young adults and adults. In case of rain, the ghost stories will be moved inside.
Join the VIP Reception ($50/ticket)
Gather a group of friends and partake in snacks, drinks and music in the Gothic Chapel on the grounds of Crown Hill Cemetery before the stories start. This informal event also includes an optional 30-minute "Around the Gothic" walking tour led by Crown Hill guides.
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ARDEN, N.C. — Colleagues of the late Sen. Martin Nesbitt are planning to gather in western North Carolina to bid the lawmaker farewell and honor his legacy representing mountain constituents.
Nesbitt's funeral was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at a Baptist church in Buncombe County. He died last Thursday from stomach cancer at age 67.
Members of both parties have praised the Asheville Democrat for a more than 30-year legislative career in which he was Senate majority leader and a top budget writer in the House. He relinquished the post of Senate minority leader three days before he died.
Nesbitt was the primary voice in the Senate opposing the legislature's Republican-dominated agenda.
Current minority leader and former House Speaker Dan Blue was expected to speak at the funeral. The burial is private.
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This may not be "The Last Time" the Rolling Stones tour.
Yet, I'm sure hoping that it is.
It would probably be best -- for both the band and its fans -- if the Stones decide to hang it up after the current 50 and Counting Tour comes to a close.
More than ever before, the band came across like a pure nostalgia act in concert on Sunday at Oracle Arena. Of course, celebrating old memories is the name of the game in the classic-rock business. Yet, the Stones usually find ways to create cherished new ones as well on their tours.
This time around, however, the group created the wrong kind. The Stones were no better than mediocre in Oakland.
And, really, is that how they want us to remember them?
Time, clearly, is no longer on the Stones' side. The band members range in age from 65 (guitarist Ron Wood) to 71 (drummer Charlie Watts) and it shows. They are still the most impressive senior citizens in rock, yet nowhere near as good as they were on the last tour, A Bigger Bang, which ran from 2005-2007. Just imagine what the situation would be like in, say, another five years.
The band, which performs Wednesday at HP Pavilion in San Jose, didn't do itself any favors by going the arena route this time around. You can hide a lackluster performance amid the pyrotechnics, giant stage props and special effects in a stadium spectacular.
Yet, the 50 and Counting Tour is fairly stripped-down affair, at least by Stones standards, featuring just a giant video screen in back of a lip-shaped stage and a catwalk that loops through the crowd. It put the focus squarely on the band -- and the inadequacies of the band as it exists in 2013.
The show began with a video montage celebrating the band's 50th anniversary, which actually occurred last year. Iggy Pop, Perry Farrell, Martin Scorsese and other famous fans talked about the band's music. The best line belonged to Johnny Depp: "They are great songs to do bad things to."
Unfortunately, the Stones rarely did justice to many of those great songs on this night. The group started out strong, with a double shot of "Get Off of My Cloud" and "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)," but then quickly faded.
The one exception was Mick Jagger, who showed amazing energy and stamina throughout the two-hour-plus show.
The biggest problem was the guitar. Wood and Richards couldn't conjure much magic on any of the songs, even the ones -- like "Brown Sugar" and "Sympathy for the Devil" -- known for juicy leads. Wood managed a handful of above-average solos, especially on the nice version of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" in the encore, but Richards was basically a nonfactor.
And all the Jagger dancing and prancing in the world can't help the Stones if the guitars aren't clicking.
Even the much anticipated return of guitarist Mick Taylor, who was a member of the Stones from 1969 to 1974, didn't help matters much. He appeared in the main set for just one song -- a boorish take on the overrated "Midnight Rambler" — and then was gone.
The biggest shot of electricity came courtesy of the other special guest -- Tom Waits. The eccentric Bay Area troubadour showed up to trade verses with Jagger on the blues standard "Little Red Rooster."
It looks like these special guest appearances will be a regular thing on this tour. In Los Angeles, Keith Urban and Gwen Stefani joined the Stones. Who knows who will show up in San Jose? Maybe it will be Neil Young or, perhaps that guy from Smash Mouth.
After closing the main set with a surprisingly ineffective version of "Sympathy for the Devil," the band regained some steam during a three-song encore of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (featuring the San Jose State University Choraliers), "Jumping Jack Flash" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction."
It was the only truly satisfying moment of the night.
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It's a new season of "Amazing Race" and the all-star cast includes some fan faves -- hello, Oklahoma cowboys and Harlem Globetrotters. It also includes a whole lot of hot messes, so you'll be delighted by who gets Phil-iminated tonight.
But first, UCLA's marching band has a little treat for us, as they come marching across the Bruins' football field, playing the brassy "Amazing Race" theme song and sporting Chinese characters on their elaborate hats. In a moment, those poor trombonists and drummers are going to be attacked: Eleven teams are heading for China and a double-express pass win, Phil tells us, but they can't leave until they've found band members with the correct characters on their hats. (By the way, the word "hats" will not stop country singers Caroline and Jennifer from lifting musicians' capes to see if any words are lurking there.)
But before Phil turns the racers loose, he has distressing news. Kentucky buddies Bopper and Mark were supposed to run this race but Bopper has been sidelined with an inflamed pancreas. Mark has been given a chance to run the race for the two of them, with a little help from a fellow Kentuckian, Mallory -- the perky blond who ran the race a couple of seasons ago with her dad. It's an emotional moment. Mark weeps. Rachel -- of team Brenchel -- does too.
Then we're off. Cowboys Jet and Cord are the first off the field, followed by the Afghanimals, Leo and Jamal; father-son cancer survivors Dave and Connor (Dave was sidelined by a ruptured Achilles tendon during their season); and the shrill Sri Lankan twinnies, Natalie and Nadiya. All four teams will be on the first flight to Guangzhou, China.
The bridal district
It's a lead that only benefits the cowboys and dad-and-lad, who knock out the first task swiftly. The Afghanimals and the twinnies team up in their search for clues at three shops with awesome names -- Silver Gorgeous -- on the Street of Wedding Dresses. First the unfabulous foursome walks up to the right dress shop and decides they're in the wrong place. Then they go into the wrong place, decide it's the right one and start randomly pawing wedding gowns.
Meanwhile the cowboys are heading for a building in the garden zone "with bubbles on top." It's the impossibly high Canton Tower, which has a Ferris wheel -- "bubbles" -- on the slanted roof. Board a bubble, read a clue (which says "Try again") taped to the door, board another bubble and repeat. The cowboys watch with incredulous delight as Brenchel, Margie and Luke from the second flight -- not the first -- head into a bubble and start looking for the clue outside in the cityscape.
Soon the cowboys are headed for Haixinsha Stadium, where Cord dons a colorful little onesie and heads up the tower to do five high-wire flips.
"Those were your colors," Jet tells him. "They matched my hair," Cord says.
Brendan -- from Team Brenchel -- heads up too with a wry comment about having "the world's biggest wedgie."
Back on bridal row, the twinnies have become even more whiningly, nasally insufferable than ever before. Things do not improve when they arrive at the tower, where they begin shrieking recriminations over bubble choices. Other teams watch from their bubble cars, first amused, then horrified at the meltdown.
The pit stop
Meanwhile Phil awaits at the Guangzhou Opera House, the pit stop for this leg of the race, and suddenly all is right with the world.
In first place -- with an express pass for themselves and a second one to share -- are the cowboys. Dad-and-lad Dave and Connor are team two, followed by Brenchel, Margie and Luke, the Afghanimals, Mark and Mallory, Globetrotters Flight Time and Big Easy, and engaged couple Jessica and John in eighth place. John, you may remember, is the obstinate guy whose incredible refusal to "waste" the express pass during their season cost them the race.
"I'm kind of happy we don't have the express passes this time around," Jessica says, "because we don't have to worry about using them." Nice. One. John glares at her.
The country singers come in ninth place and Joey and Meghan squeak out at No. 10 -- and the twinnies are headed back home.
Nice. One.


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Former Cal teammate Steve Bartkowski called Chuck Muncie "the most talented athlete I've ever been on the football field with."
Muncie, one of the greatest running backs in Cal history and a three-time NFL Pro Bowl selection, died Monday. He was 60. Family spokesman Vintage Foster of AMF Media Group told The Associated Press that Muncie died at his Los Angeles-area home from heart failure.
Muncie was a consensus first-team All-America and runner-up for the Heisman Trophy for Cal in 1975, then was the third overall pick in the 1976 NFL draft by the New Orleans Saints. He rushed for 6,702 yards and scored 74 total touchdowns during his pro career, much of it spent with the San Diego Chargers.
Muncie's off-field issues often overshadowed his abilities as a versatile big back with great pass-catching skills. He was suspended for the 1984 NFL season after testing positive for cocaine and later spent 18 months in prison for selling cocaine.
Bartkowski, who played quarterback for 12 seasons in the NFL, called Muncie "one of the most likable, nicest guys I've ever been around, which I think was his downfall.
"It was a strength that really became a weakness. I don't think he ever met a stranger."
Muncie got his life back in order well after his NFL career ended and established the Chuck Muncie Youth Foundation, which counseled young people and gang members on decision-making.
"I'm a very selfish person," Muncie told the Los Angeles Times in 2008, "and I like to feel good. One way I could make myself feel good was by helping other people. I learned, over a period of time, that was something that worked for me."
"This is a real loss because Chuck Muncie has done more for more people than any athlete that I've ever been around," said Mike White, who coached Muncie at Cal and later was head coach of the Raiders.
White said after Muncie was drafted out of Cal, he immediately made a donation to the Port Hueneme Boys and Girls Clubs in Ventura County, helping the organization to grow.
White attended an event at the club with Muncie and said, "The heartfelt gratitude that these young people had was unbelievable. Never in my experience with all the athletes that I've been around had someone made an impact so soon after his collegiate career."
Still, Bartkowski said the 6-foot-3, 227-pound back never showed his full potential in the NFL.
"He had incredible talent beyond anything you could really imagine," Bartkowski said. "To think he produced the numbers he produced under the conditions he played and the things that were going on away from the game, kind of gives you an indication of the superman he was.
"It's a sad, sad time for everyone who knew and loved Chuck."
White, who coached two-sport star Bo Jackson in all-star games, said, "They were only ones who were ever comparable. (Muncie) had athletic abilities without parallel."
At Cal, Muncie rushed for 3,052 career yards, still fifth-best in school history. He ran for 1,460 yards ad 13 touchdowns as a senior, earning Pac-8 Player of the Year honors. He was a two-time first-team all-conference selection.
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CONCORD -- Ouimet Bros. Concord Funeral Chapel is picking up the pieces after a car slammed into its foyer during a service on Sunday, causing an estimated $50,000 in damages.
The funeral chapel is still arranging funerals but its chapel will be closed for about a month, its managing partner said Thursday.
"We were very fortunate there weren't more serious injuries," Michael Nicosia, the managing partner said. "It could've been an awful lot worse."
A funeral service was beginning around 1:30 p.m. when a 1974 Chevrolet Nova swerved off Clayton Road and struck the funeral home's foyer, injuring a 66-year-old man attending the service.
Police said the 16-year-old driver of the Nova and a 16-year-old driving another car may have been speeding as they drove west on Clayton Road.
The 66-year-old man suffered a broken leg; the driver and a passenger in the Nova were taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.
The facade of the funeral chapel was boarded up Thursday as Nicosia met with insurance representatives. Most of the damage was to the foyer but the debris has been moved into the chapel, rendering it unusable for now. Nicosia said the chapel will be closed for three to four weeks, but that the funeral home is still arranging services off-site.
For now, local churches and the Salvation Army have stepped up and offered their buildings to the funeral chapel.
"It's coming together," Nicosia said. "The community is such that it makes a world of difference."
Ouimet Bros. Concord Funeral Chapel has operated in Concord for 55 years and moved from downtown to its current location at 4125 Clayton Road in 1985.
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Under the terms of the agreement, investigators at Siemens' clinical lab will work collaboratively with Janssen scientists to design immunoassay-based companion diagnostic tests for use in the latter firm's clinical studies. At the same time, Siemens will develop and validate an in vitro diagnostic test as a companion diagnostic for the Janssen therapeutic product, the firms said. The resulting test is slated to be "broadly commercialized on Siemens' central laboratory automated immunoassay systems," they added in a statement.
"Our relationship with Janssen marks an important next step in Siemens' personalized medicine strategy," said Michael Reitermann, CEO, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics. "As a leading clinical diagnostics company, with the tools and technologies to help define the future of patient care, we are looking forward to collaborating with Janssen and extending their position in cardiac therapies."
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1. How long have you been rhyming kid?
"for a minute yo."
2. Did you begin with poetry or rapping? And what inspired you to start?
"I rapped first. but it was poetic rap. It was on some next level hallmark moment type ish."
3. What were your influences musically? Outside of music?
"Almost all of the hiphop that existed between 1978 and 1996. Outside of music...ninjas were my main influences."
4. How do you differentiate yourself as an emcee from other emcees?
"Well...my voice is different. My thoughts are different. My approach and presentation is different. This is the reality of what I do...I don't have to think much about it."
5. Being from RI, How does it feel to be established RI isn't known for producing a lot of emcees
"It feels like my swimming legs have developed well beyond the muscles of a body that has never resisted a current."
6. Hip Hop culture roots mostly from minorities from the inner city. Coming up have you came across any criticism or negative vibes for being a "suburban white boy"?
"Does James Brown get down?"
7. When you are writing, is there a difference in your process between your
poetry and your raps? Do you start out with an intention for one or the
other, or do you just start writing and then assign them to one or the
other, or is there no separation for you? Do you think your audience can
tell a separation? Is there a tendency to be less humorous or misogynistic
in your poems?
"All of it is written with the same audience in mind. I am under the impression that the same audience who digs my poetry also digs my raps...and vice versa. It is all coming from the same source with the same destination in mind."
8. In your song "narcissist" you are making fun of people obsessed with
commercial fashion. Have you always had this stand point, or is the
character in the song you, the way maybe you used to be, and then you
realized how superficial it all is and now you are rejected commercial
"No, I didn't always think that way. I don't think I would be able to drive the point home if I didn't understand both sides of the argument. I grew up on hiphop....Adidas and Nike are COOL! I wouldn't be caught dead wearing no-name brands. Actually...I was caught alive wearing no-name brands...but I hated it. Eventually we must all come to the conclusion that our actions directly/indirectly support SOMETHING...and it is up to us to bare that responsibility. I don't support slave labor...I don't care to advertise for corporations who contribute to the destruction of a world I try to positively operate within. It's as simple as that. If you want to fight the "man" then you can start by removing his name from your underwear."
9. You write a lot of songs about respecting women, not eating meat, not buying commercial clothing, and dissin other emcees for using pop cultural references etc. Do you feel it is your responsibility to educate? Or simply entertain? Or Both?
"It is my job to entertain. I am an entertainer. The other things just make sense within the context of the entertainment. If I am in a position to raise consciousness in one form or another, then I accept the responsibility to do so...because people are LISTENING. I'll be damned if I don't have something to say while I already have their ear. Especially since...nothing much is being said anywhere else. But I don't care to use this mic as a soap box specifically."
10. I see a lot of materialistic and hedonistic kids at your shows... do you
ever feel like your messages are too coded for them to "Get educated"
through your music?
"I respect that some people can disgree with my points but still enjoy the music. That's why I am an entertainer first and foremost. I don't think I am too coded for people to understand my point. Those who don't, eventually will...if they don't then they will be too stupid to live so I won't have to worry about them for much longer."
11. Lets talk about tha album . what producers did you work with on 'Personal Journals'?
"Mom and Dad."
12. There are a few guest appearances by "Lil Sage" on tha album how old were you when that was recorded?
"L'il Sage ranges from age 8-12"
13. The title 'Personal Journals' sounds like some meaningful something from tha heart and soul of Sage Francis How long has it been in the making?
"32 years."
14. It's obvious that 'Makeshift Patriot' is a very meaningful and dope track. It has received love from everywhere. How long after the event did you make the track, and what are your feelings on the event since that date?
"It was released exactly one month after 9/11. My feelings have not changed...much like the world around us."
15. Did the fact that September 11th is your birthday play a role in your inspiration to write the song? And do you think it will mentally affect future birthdays to come?
"of course."
16. For those that might not know tell me a lil more about the Non-Prophets, what's been going down lately?
"The Non-Prophets consists of Joe Beats and myself"
17. Can we expect any more material in the near future?
"In the works are the Makeshift Patriot EP (only available on vinyl), the Known Unsoldier CD, the Non-Prophets LP entitled HOPE, a live album with a band, and a couple books that probably won't be finished until 2010."
18. What about AOI and The Orphanage? What's going down with them? Are there projects planned for the near future?
"No. AOI will play one final show, which will happen within the next few months. I am not in the Orphanage, but as far as I know there will never be an Orphanage album...I'm sick of people asking about that damn thing. heh."
19. I had a chance to check you out live for the first time at the Gastoff and at tha RSE store 5th element in Minneapolis It was def dope I loved your energy Do you put a lot of practice into your stage shows or do you just go up and rock naturally?
"I rock naturally...but every time I rock naturally it's practice for the next time I rock...naturally."
20. I also seen you battle one of your biggest fans (Ice-Rod) Are you still on the battle scene or have you lost the interest in battling?
"I'm not a huge advocate of the battle circuit, but I can hold my own (as any emcee should.) Having fun or ruining someone's life should be the only two reasons we do anything."
21. A lot of cats have a misconception of what a freestyle is from one of the dopest off the top out there what is this are called "a freestyle" to you?
"My definition has changed through the ages...because my use of the word depends on people's definition...right now I can definitively say that freestyle is a big lie."
22. What advise would you give heads out there trying to perfect their freestyle? Do you think you should go public (open mics, shows, etc.) with it if its not hot?
"Study your surroundings...make sure no one in the crowd was present the last time you kicked all those wack lines."
23. What do you think about tha online hip-hop scene?
"I don't consider anything online to be a scene."
24. I noticed that you are a moderator on the non-prophets.com forum. Do you network a lot through the website?
"Non-Prophets is my group. I pay for that website. I moderate the messageboard to keep it condusive to interesting conversation. No, I don't network much through the website. Yes, I network a lot on the internet."
25. I see you are really open with your E-mail address how often do you check your mail do you get a lot mail from cats trying hate on what you are trying to do?
"Emails are free and they can be accessed at all times without an absolute need for response. I check my email many times a week. It is rare for me to recieve hate-emails, but it happens."
26. For cats more in tha "lil sage" stage of rhyming reaching out for advice what would you tell them?
"Keep writing and rhyming. Make each rap better than the last. Kick your own ass. When it's time to go public...be so sure of yourself that negative feedback won't matter."
27. Looking back on your life would you say that you live with any regrets? If you could go back and change anything what would it be?
"I don't have many regrets. Any changes I would be apt to make could drastically change the person I am today and I don't want to do that. I would probably make myself more social in highschool. I would have done a better job at exposing a lot of my teachers and surrounding community leaders as the racists and homophobes that they were. I would have kissed my girfriend goodbye when I left for college. I wouldn't have paid so much for college. I would have confronted daddy. I would have went the independent route with my music much sooner than I did. In the end...I am thrilled to be who I am and I don't think much about regrets because those changes can't happen."
28. Say word well sage .is there any shout outs, plugs, last words anything you wanna say to your fans or enemies?
"Consider a vegetarian diet...it works. Thanks for spreading the word. sagefrancis.com"
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if bob shot the sheriff, but didn't shoot the deputy. Who did? Do you know?? How do you know?? What's your association with the deputy's killer?!? Was it you?!
fess up.
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This is one of the best online interviews I've ever read. When they ask good questions its funny how good answers are returned.
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i thought this was one of the most stiff corny boring (but informative) interviews I ever read. There was absolutely no personality in the questions....
Thu Aug 22, 2002 11:15 pm
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that's because dude knew the answers to most of his questions. kinda came off like a tool. but it was a good interview nonetheless.
wait, who the fuck am i siskel and ebert and shit?
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holy fuck
its ya boy crescent (this ones for the ladies), my birthday is 9/11 too motherfucker! what the deal? wanna hit up chucky cheese? get at me.
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What do you mean with corporations contribute to the destruction of a world? I just want to hear your opinion about it.
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Sharp Offers Sub $1000 Notebook
Posted by Oscar M. Cantu Categories: Hot Deals, PC / Laptop
Sharp has announced the availability of its anticipated Actius MC24 notebook computer. This notebook computer is designed with the home/small office user in mind; it is a fully equipped notebook computer including a 60GB hard drive for a selling price of $999.00. The list of features are the following:
- AMD Mobile Athlon XP-M 2400+ with AMD PowerNow!TM Technology Support
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service 2 with Advanced Security Technologies
- 512MB DDR SDRAM (PC2100) standard (expandable to 768MB)
- 12.1" XGA TFT LCD (1024 x 768), 16 million colors
- 60GB Hard Drive
- CD-R/RW&DVD-Rom drive
- 4 USB 2.0 ports, Audio output jack, External mic. jack, External Display Connector
- 56kbps fax modem (V.90)
- Wireless (IEEE802.11b/g, 11 channels), 100BASE-TX/10BASE-T
- Approx. 2.0hrs Battery Life
- 5.07 lbs
As you can see, this is a pretty good deal at less than $1000. Sure some parts could be better, but at $999 almost anyone can afford this stylish notebook.
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Virtual Laser Keyboard
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No more tiny, cramped PDA keyboards, or fumbling for the right keys on your cell phone. Roughly the size of a disposable lighter, the Virtual Laser Keyboard emits a keyboard onto any surface, and infrared sensors determine where your fingers are pressing. Other than not really being there, the keyboard acts just like a real one. Completely configurable, right down to the sound of clicks to simulate keypresses, the virtual keyboard is perfect for anyone who needs a small compact keyboard for their portable device. The Virtual Laser Keyboard can be yours for the low price of $200.
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Sony's Cell Processor
Posted by Oscar M. Cantu Categories: Home Entertainment, Video Games
Sony's newest and highly-anticipated microprocessor code-named Cell will run at a blazing 4.6 gigahertz. Next month, IBM, Sony and Toshiba will present four technical papers at the International Solid State Circuits Conference. This chip is a multicore 64-bit processor capable of massive floating point processing. What this translates into is massive operating power from a single chip. Sony plans to use this processor to power its next generation Playstation as well as home servers for broadband content and high-definition televisions. It probably will not be long until we see this kind of processing power on our home desktops as we see processing speed increase at almost a weekly basis.
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The only way to have the biggest and best Super Bowl party on the block is to collaborate the food and fun with high definition. If you haven't purchased an HDTV yet, you may need some help with choosing what is best. As the HDTV market grew tremendously in 2004, the choices grew by a large margin. CNN Money has an article that aims to provide some insight on the myriad of options that are out there, as well as how retailers are likely rake in the profits this week.
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Google to Offer Innovative Video Search
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Google Labs announced plans to implement a new video search, unlike any search offered by other web portals. By offering the option to search recent television programs online using the closed captioning embedded within video, users can now find content from major distributors. Still in its beta stage, this new type of search will be in competition with other video searches from major search engines, such as Yahoo! video search. I know that Yahoo's video search has been widely used since it's release in December. Every day, my personal server recieves several hundred hits while searching for video content on my site. Hopefully, these new video searches will help users in much the same way that Google's library text search and journal article search beta have been helping people. For a full list of all beta projects, click the link below.
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Logitech 100 Remotes A Day Giveaway
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Home Entertainment, Hot Deals
They have 700 of these new activity based remote controls to give away, and you can score one simply by filling out a very short survey on their site. We recently reviewed the Harmony 688, and walked away impressed. Logitech has a good thing going with the Harmony remote line. If you have multiple components and use a bunch of remotes to control them, this contest is for you - that is, if you are at least 18 and live in the United States.
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WSJ Looks at Russian Music Download Sites
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Music
By now you must know of our love for sites like MP3Search.ru and AllofMP3.com. It feels good to pay what feels to be a reasonable amount for music, doesn't it? What about the legalities of it? The Wall Street Journal takes a look at just that in a recent article. Will it deter anyone from using the sites? Highly unlikely.
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Camping Out for Episode III
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We know how excited a lot of you readers are about the upcoming release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. We really do. But guys, it doesn't open until May. This means that you can continue living a full, happy, normal life until then! Now, someone go down to the Cinerama in Seattle and tell that to Jeff Twieten. You see, for some reason, Jeff has decided to wait in line for the new flick, which includes Darth Vader's first big screen appearance in 20 years or so, starting now. He plans to wait in line for five months, and isn't even sure if the theater he is waiting at is going to be showing the movie!
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Take Two Strikes MLB Deal and Buys Visual Concepts
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Corporate News, Video Games
Back atcha, EA! In light of recent developments in the game industry, many thought that Electronic Arts was going to have the whole world of sports gaming locked down. Take Two decided not to let that happen, as they just signed a deal with Major League Baseball granting them exclusive third party rights to make games based on the franchise. What this means is that first parties (Microsoft, Sony's 989 Sports, and Nintendo) may still makes games based on MLB, but no other third parties - including Electronic Arts - may do so. The deal begins in 2006, and lasts for seven years. Just hours after the news was announced, Take Two announced the purchase of Visual Concepts, Sega's sports dev house. This is just getting nasty.
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DVD Release List: 01/24/2005
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This week brings a myriad of both newness and nostalgia. If you are up for something more recent, check out Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which was shot completely using green screen technology. If you want something a little older, you can pick up the second season of The Dukes of Hazzard. Want a mixture of both? Alien vs. Predator is also released today. More new releases after the jump.
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- Feb 19:
- Purdy: Bay Area Olympian Polina Edmunds introduces herself to the world
- Olympics hockey: Canada won't be at full strength against USA
- Olympic hockey: Canada survives scare against Latvia
- Olympic hockey: USA crushes Czech Republic, will play Canada in semis
- Olympics: South Korea's Yuna Kim wins figure skating short program
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- Nightmare on Ice for host nation: Russian hockey team eliminated
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SOCHI, Russia -- Ted Ligety of Park City, Utah, gave the U.S. ski team its biggest moment of the Sochi Games on Wednesday and entered Olympic lore by winning the gold medal in the giant slalom at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center.
Ligety roared out of the first run with a .93-second lead that no one could catch. He posted a cumulative time of 2:45.29 to finish .48 ahead of silver medalist Steve Missillier of France. Another Frenchman, Alexis Pinturault, won the bronze.
Ligety is the second American to win two Olympic gold medals in skiing, joining Andi Mead-Lawrence, who won gold in the slalom and giant slalom at the Olso Games in 1952.
"This is the event I wanted the most," Ligety, 29, said after the victory. "This is the event I have been putting so much pressure on myself to win, so to pull through is an awesome feeling."
His victory gives the U.S. team four medals with the men's and women's slalom races coming. Ligety and Mikaela Shiffrin are expected to be in the running for medals in both of those events.
"The plan was to really just nail a couple of big rolls," Ligety said of his sizzling first run. "This hill is not difficult skiing wise, but it's difficult tactically. I was trying to be smart over those big tactical terrain changes, then push as hard as I could in the sections where I knew I could take some risks."
It paid off for the man who won three gold medals at last year's World Championships.
Ligety has been one of America's best skiers for eight years but has also been in the large shadow of stars Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn.
"He is just brilliant," said Austrian Marcel Hirscher, who finished fourth. "The best guy won today. Before the race started it would have been a big surprise if someone beat him."
San Jose native Tim Jitloff finished 15th with a time of 2:47.13, while Jared Goldberg of Salt Lake City was 19th. After winning a bronze medal last weekend, Miller was 20th.
Miller, 36, said he hurt his left knee during the super G, the race he got his sixth Olympic medal.
"Managing it has been the biggest challenge this year, coming back from injury," he told reporters. "Your body, when you go off snow for a while, doesn't like getting back into it.
"If you keep skiing every day, you get used to it."
Miller said he changed equipment because of a crash he had at St. Moritz, Switzerland, last month.
"I didn't feel like I could take another crash like that,' he said. "It's been maintaining some pretty good puffiness in there through this whole couple weeks."
Contact Elliott Almond at 408-920-5865. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/elliottalmond.


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KMTR Channel 16, Eugene, OR Team USA hopeful looks for Paralympic curling debut in Sochi.
By John Franchi, Published: Feb 23, 2014 at 5:22 PM PST
KTVZ Channel 21, Bend, Oregon, Throwing the stone; Olympics' hidden gem. Feb 17, 11:30pm EST
NewsChannel 21's Kandra Kent learns the ins and outs of the Olympics' oddest sports, curling... click image to watch the video at KTVZ 21.com, Bend Oregon
KATU TV2 Video: Learning how to curl, Portland-style. By Kerry Tomlinson, KATU Problem Solver Published: Feb 21, 2014 at 6:39 AM PST
Drew Carney returns for a Learn to Curl Lesson WEDNESDAY, 2/12 at a Evergreen Curling Club's Learn to Curl Class
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Transmission sets initial preferences so things "Just Work", while advanced features like watch directories, bad peer blocking, and the web interface can be configured with just a few clicks. Macworld put it this way: "It's fast, it's extremely lightweight, and â" even though it's available for a variety of platforms â" it behaves just as you'd expect a Mac program to."
Transmission supports full encryption, file selection, a web-based interface, groups, peer exchange, automatic port forwarding, webseeds, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.
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1.0 truly is fantastic. Transmission has become the uTorrent of the mac. Perfectly simple, and works flawlessly.
The new 1.00 betas work great! :)
transmission is useless for me as long as it does not provide a credible plugin on the lines of safepeer/peergaurdian.
peer gaurdian on leopard is problematic.
Azureus is the best option on a mac running leopard even though it causes crashes.
totally agree, 0.82 was the only one working for me, the 0.9x were excessively buggy.
Transmission is currently rather buggy due to a major rewrite, and as a result, 0.9x versions have been banned on some trackers. It is probably best to stick with 0.82 for a while, perhaps until the 1.0 release.
The reason I am not installing this on my mac is transmission does not obey the rules of many torrent sites. It seems to haev some tracker issues due to which sites like ipodtvnova explicitly discourage it's use.
My apologies if this has already been posted, but I really recommend the Second Gear mod posted on MacThemes: http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16782299&p=1
Just a note, though - the cool HUD-style info window is sadly available on 10.5 only.
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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6.8 As I have already indicated, Irving conceded, inevitably, that in the early years Hitler was a profound anti-semite, although he claimed that Goebbels's hatred for the Jews was more intense than that of Hitler. He also accepted that anti-semitism was from the outset one of the major planks of Nazi policy. However, he suggested that Hitler's anti-semitism was cynical in the sense that he adopted it as a means of getting power. Once he came to power, Hitler's anti-semitism receded. Irving pointed to occasions when Hitler had interceded on behalf of individual Jews. He even had a Jew on his staff. He retained General Milsch, a half-Jew.
6.9 In relation to the public statements on which the Defendants rely as evidence of Hitler's continuing anti-semitism after the establishment of the Third Reich, Irving stance can be summarised as follows: he accepts that on occasion Hitler used harsh language in relation to the Jews. But Hitler's concern and objective in relation to the Jewish problem was that it should be solved by their deportation and resettlement outside the Reich. I have set out in some detail at section V(viii) and elsewhere the reasons advanced by Irving for saying that the Defendants have misinterpreted the public statements made by Hitler in relation to the Jewish question. Irving argued that his description of Hitler as "the best friend" the Jews had in the Third Reich was justified.


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The Truckee Running Festival 5K, 10K, Half-Marathon and Kids Runs put on by Big Blue Adventure brought more than 120 people out to the Legacy Trail and Waddle Ranch this past Sunday.
In a field of 46 runners in the half-marathon, JB Benna, 33, took the overall win in a time of 1 hour and 33 minutes, while Jennifer Benna was the top woman and ninth overall in 1:46.
Ronald Hess of Fair Oaks was second in 1:34, and Matthew Dolan of Fallon, Nev., rounded out the top three in 1:35.
Among local finishers, Jim Telling of Incline Village placed seventh in a time of 1:40, Truckee's Roger Pynappel was 12th in 1:49, and Truckee's Alison McEnany was second among women and 16th overall in 1:53. Tom Baird of Truckee was 24th in 1:58.
Thirty-six people raced the 10K. Chris Barber of Reno won in a time of 38 minutes and Jenelle Gomez of San Francisco was the top woman and fourth overall in 43:06.
David Simon of Incline Village finished third overall in 42:32, while Jeronimo Hernandez of Truckee was sixth in 43:12, Hayley Hemphill of Tahoe City was the 10th woman in 54:59, Kelly Wallis of Tahoe Vista was the 11th woman in 55:36, and John Hotchkiss of Truckee was 20th in 55:50.
In the 5K, which featured 38 runners, Chris Badolato of Reno won in 18:36 as Truckee's Chris Gallagher finished right on his heels in 18:43 for a runner-up finish. Catherine Lowdon of Hillsborough was the top woman and fifth overall in 20:25.
Pixie Baber of Truckee was the third woman and 10th overall in 27:07, Adam Carrasco of Truckee was 11th in 27:43, and Sharon Key of Truckee was fourth among women and 14th overall in 28:57.


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yeah, that.
No, because people never know when they are going to get taxed. Besides, you can't ban fractional reserves.in the real world.
In the case above, the fact that people may get taxed at any instant mean that they are effectively permanently in debt to the state, they just don't know by how much.
A pretty horrific situation!
Here's they key point mansoor - inflation cannot be "controlled" like you are intimating, either in our current monetary system, or your hypothetical one above or indeed in any conceivable system.
I strongly, strongly suspect that any fractional reserve system will eventually fail without government backed deposit insurance protection. Once you grant this protection eventually you end up with taxation (anyway) to give value to all the "badly" created private money.
Do you see what I mean?


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There were 43 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday. At that time, there were 1,317 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Assault with a deadly weapon: Police are looking for a 5-foot-10, 190-pound man in his 30s who assaulted a 48-year-old man in Mormon Slough underneath El Dorado Street about 6 p.m. Tuesday. The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Attempted robbery: Police are looking for two men in their 20s who pistol-whipped their 25-year-old victim in an unsuccessful attempt to steal his gold chain about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday in the 700 block of North Airport Way.
Weapons arrest: Police arrested a man in the 2300 block of Airport Way about 10 p.m. Tuesday after he placed an item in a trash can that turned out to be a loaded handgun. Willie Davidson, 53, is in custody at the San Joaquin County Jail, with bail set at $606,000.
The California Highway Patrol did not provide a daily report Wednesday.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 114 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday, including four vehicle accidents, 94 medical calls and four structure fires.
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There will be a Public Hearing regarding a Proposed Open Container Law for the Village of Ilion to be held on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 6:00 P.M. in the Village Hall Auditorium. All residents are invited to attend. The regularly-scheduled Village Board Meeting will immediately follow.
The Village of Ilion Village Offices will be closed on Monday, September 5, 2016 in honor of Labor Day.
Village of Ilion residents are reminded to clean up after their pets in and around Village streets and neighborhoods.
Click here to view the West Main Street Bridge Repair Schedule.
Click here to view the Public Notice of the Intent of FEMA to fund a project : Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Project # 4020-0070.
Click here to view the Herkimer County Public Health Department's 2016 Rabies Clinic Schedule.
Due to safety concerns, the stairs leading from Otsego Street to Remington Avenue will be closed until further notice.
Parking tickets can be paid at the Municipal Office window. However, no cash is accepted for payment at the window. You can pay with with these options: check, money order, debit card or credit card. Checks and money orders are payable to: Village of Ilion.
Electric and Water Customers can pay their bills on line through this website. Please visit our utility page for details.
As Mayor, and on behalf of the Board and the entire staff, let me welcome you to the official website of the Village of Ilion NY. I am extremely proud to represent the Village of Ilion, with all of its beauty, its progressive attitude and its rich history and I am proud to serve as its chief executive.
Our staff works hard to keep this site up to date and filled with meaningful information. If after viewing the site you have additional questions or need clarification on anything at all, give us a call at the village offices. Someone will be happy to assist you.
Thank you for visiting our website and please, check in frequently for updates.
Sincerely Yours,
Attention Village of Ilion Electric Users: Due to a transitioning to automated electric meter reading, it will be necessary to momentarily interrupt the electric service to your home or business.
This project will begin May 15th and continue until all meters in our system have been replaced. Unless you are a business or are on the special needs list, this will be the only notification you will receive of an interruption of service during the time frame noted above.
Commercial businesses will be notified in advance and efforts will be made to replace the meters at times that will not impact your ability to transact business.
Any questions, please contact the Municipal Office at 315-895-7449. We apologize for any inconvenience & appreciate your cooperation.
To all Village of Ilion residents;
It has been brought to the Village's attention that during recent windy weather conditions we have been experiencing, that recyclable materials are being blown around various neighborhoods when placed out for collection.
Please remain aware that recyclables are NOT to be placed in plastic bags due to having to remain loose when placed in the collection vehicle.
Recyclables also need to be placed in a container WITH A LID when placed to the curb on your collection night.
Thank you for your cooperation with this issue in keeping Ilion as clean as possible.
Terry A. Leonard