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The Niagara River still is pretty cold this time of year, which is why Andrew Cuomo might want to find an exit before he drives off of the Peace Bridge.
I hate to be the one to break it to the governor, but: In the high-stakes game of Peace Bridge chicken he is playing, the Canadians are driving the speeding tractor-trailer. Cuomo is behind the wheel of a Chevy Vega. He can either sensibly pull off onto the ramp, or end up in the drink. His move.
The governor's attempts to bring Canada to heel, in the name of fast-forwarding a U.S. plaza facelift, with each passing day look more like a bluff that has backfired.
As bad as the Canadian versus American battle on the bridge authority has been, it potentially can get worse.
Sources tell me that the Canadians, weary of Cuomo's Ugly American act, are ready to flex their muscle. It would not take much for Canadian Customs officers to make life tougher for countrymen returning home with carloads of stuff bought at our malls. It would be a quick way to slow the flow of Canadian shoppers, pump up Ontario retail – and make a dent in cash registers across Western New York. Ouch.
Longer term, Ottawa might contemplate changes to cost-spiking Canadian airport regulations. That could make it cheaper for our Ontario neighbors to fly out of Toronto and less likely to trek to Buffalo. Jet Blue and Southwest may not hang around for long if the steady stream of Canadian fliers slows to a trickle. The hotels ringing the airport would take a huge hit.
Clearly, Cuomo is not the only one who can throw the high, hard one.
I am not saying the Canadians will bring out the heavy artillery, just that they have it on hand if the battle keeps raging.
It doesn't need to come to this. I have no idea whether the governor is getting bad advice, is surrounded by nodding bobbleheads, or merely insists on speeding headlong into oncoming traffic. Instead of looking for a face-saving exit – the usual political move when your end game hits a dead end – Cuomo seems to be stepping harder on the gas.
Still moving through the State Legislature is the bill to dissolve the Peace Bridge Authority, leaving each side to run its own plaza. Not only does it have little chance of getting the necessary sign-off in Washington and Ottawa, but dissolving the bridge authority would bring pain to Buffalo. If there is no bridge authority, we have to add toll booths on the already-claustrophobic U.S. plaza.
If there is no bridge authority, Canadians will want an equal share of that third lane now commonly used for U.S.-bound traffic – lengthening the wait time to cross into Buffalo. Note to the governor: Be careful what you wish for.
You know things are getting desperate when the troops are ordered to rally. Thursday's dog-and-pony news conference, featuring a gaggle of high-profile business/political types, was a transparently lame attempt to portray an "independent" consensus backing Cuomo's stance. Yet each of the attendees had an obvious tie to the governor.
Nearly as weak was a piece in The News on the same day, defending the bill to erase the bridge authority. The bill's sponsors – Assemblyman Sean Ryan and State Sen. Mark Grisanti – wrote that the bridge authority is dysfunctional because it is unable to borrow money to fix the U.S. plaza. They neglected to mention that the reason the bridge authority can't sell its bonds is because of the uncertainty caused by the Ryan/Grisanti bill. Shameless.
It all might be amusing, if the stakes were not so high.
What's at risk is the progress that Cuomo purports to endorse. The anti-bridge authority bill threatens the plan to pre-inspect U.S.-bound trucks in the spacious Fort Erie plaza. Pounded out after more than a decade of wheel-spinning, thanks largely to the field work of Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Brian Higgins, it might be the largest step forward since the last bridge rivet was driven.
Truck pre-inspection would take idling 18-wheelers off the bridge, speed cross-border commerce and cut the exhaust fumes that damage lungs across the West Side. Cuomo's muscle-flex not only puts the plan at risk. It presumably is not appreciated by fellow Democrats Schumer, although he has not said anything publicly, nor by Higgins – who last week broke ranks and called for Cuomo's proxies to pull the anti-bridge authority bill. It still stands.
Fasten your seat belts.
Unless somebody pulls to the side of the road, and soon, the game of cross-border chicken will soon claim casualties. You don't have to be Kofi Annan to craft an obvious exit strategy: Each side sacrifices a prime bridge player or two in the name of peace, re-affirms deadlines for the U.S. plaza facelift, pulls the anti-bridge authority bill and declares binational victory. Then we can get on with the business of ending the bumper-car maze of the Buffalo plaza. Then we can lock down the truck pre-inspection deal that will mercifully take idling, exhaust-belching 18-wheelers off the bridge.
Now that's what anyone – Canadian or American – would call progress. Even, I suspect, the governor.
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It ended with a ball shanked off the frame, and a simple handshake between sisters.
BY THE NUMBERS54 -- Minutes the match lasted6 -- Aces by Serena8 -- Double faults by Venus13 -- Straight matches won by Serena at FCC
The sibling rivalry between Venus and Serena Williams is the stuff of tennis legend (and now a feature-length movie), the 24 meetings between the sisters including the finals or semifinals of nine Grand Slam events.
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Venus and Serena had not played each other since 2009, making Saturday's semifinal meeting at the Family Circle Cup one of the most anticipated matches in the 41-year history of the tournament.
But in less than an hour, a record crowd of 9,538 at Billie Jean King Stadium saw that Venus, 32, is no longer in a position to challenge the primacy of her younger sister.
Serena, 31 and ranked No. 1 in the world, moved to within one win of her third Family Circle Cup title, taking an easy 6-1, 6-2 victory over Venus in the biggest rout ever between the sisters.
Serena will face No. 9 seed Jelena Jankovic, the 2007 Family Circle Cup champ, in today's 1 p.m. final. Jankovic fought hard for a 6-4, 6-7, 6-2 win over Stefanie Voegele on Saturday.
Against Serena, Venus double-faulted eight times and ended the match by cracking a ball off the frame of her Wilson racquet. The sisters then clasped hands at the net — no hugs, just a handshake.
"It's great to see her at No. 1," said a wistful Venus, "and fulfilling every dream."
Venus herself, of course, was No. 1 in the world and owns seven Grand Slam titles (to 15 for Serena). The sisters are the only two women in WTA Tour history to crack the $25 million mark in career earnings.
But over the last couple of years, Venus has been slowed by an autoimmune disease that forces her to watch her diet and can sap her energy. Having to play two matches on Friday, one a three-setter, didn't help, either. Serena played twice Friday, as well.
"She'll never admit it, ever, but I don't think she was 100 percent," Serena said of Venus, whom she has beaten five straight times and in 14 of 24 meetings. "You will never get that out of her, but quite frankly, three matches (in two days) is much tougher for her than for me.
"It's definitely not easy, because I'm struggling, and I can't imagine what she must be feeling."
Serena was right, as Venus, now ranked No. 24, made no excuses.
"I had a chance to win the match," she said. "We both had racquets and everything. I didn't take advantage of my opportunities, so there's no reason for me to be upset about that. I just have to improve my game. You know, I've been off balance for a long time, and I'm trying to regain my balance."
Serena often expressed her pride this week in Venus' comeback. But on Saturday, there was no on-court recognition that this match was different from any other.
"When I'm out there," Serena said, "I'm really just focused on the ball. I don't really focus on anything else."
It took Serena just 22 minutes to win the first set, and Venus tugged at her visor in frustration after her fifth double-fault helped Serena break to start the second set.
Down 3-2, Venus had her best chance to stay in the match when Serena ended a long rally with a backhand drop shot into the net, then double-faulted to go down 0-30. The crowd was behind Venus, but she missed a return and hit a backhand wide before Serena hammered a 117 mph ace (one of six) and ripped a backhand winner to hold for 4-2.
The end came quickly after that, but one thing seemed clear. Long after they are done playing, Venus and Serena will remain just that — Venus and Serena.
"We all come together at the end," Serena said. "And we just try to love each other like we always do."


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Three police agencies teamed up late Monday night to slow down and then apprehend a Batavia man accused of leading them on a 43-mile Thruway chase that reached speeds of more than 100 mph, state police reported.
The chase started westbound in the Town of Pembroke, all the way to the Williamsville toll barrier, before the driver made a U-turn and headed eastbound toward Batavia.
State police on the Thruway used a set of "spike strips" to deflate at least two of the vehicle's four tires. The driver then took the Batavia exit, before his vehicle sideswiped a trooper's car, stalled at Route 98 and was hemmed in by state police, Genesee County sheriff's deputies and Batavia police.
Troopers charged Ronald Worthington, 42, with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and several traffic violations, according to police reports.
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Deadly Dilemmas III: Some Kind Words for Preventive Detention
Larry Laudan
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Ronald J. Allen
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February 4, 2011
101 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 781 (2011)
Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 11-24
U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 187
This paper explores the role of assessments of dangerousness in the criminal law, arguing that they are ubiquitous not only in setting sentences and guiding bail and parole decisions but, far more importantly, in determining which activities are criminalized and which are not. While many theorists of the criminal law continue to assert that prospective judgments of dangerousness have no legitimate role in the criminal law (since persons are to be punished supposedly only retrospectively for harms already committed), we argue that it is entirely appropriate to punish people for harms that they are likely to commit, provided that pertinent due process demands are satisfied. More generally, we deny both the existence and the desirability of a sharp distinction between the aims of criminal law and the aims of other forms of legal control and regulation.
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The big concern remains the possibility of severe weather this afternoon and evening in southeast Texas.
The region faces a "slight risk" of severe thunderstorms, according to NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.
Specifically, what this means is that there is:
- A 15 percent of 50-mph wind gusts within 25 miles of a location in the yellow area
- A 15 percent chance of 1-inch or larger hail within 25 miles of a location in the yellow area
- A 2 percent chance of a tornado within 25 miles of a location in the yellow area
The storms are being driven, in part, by a strong cold front that should reach the Houston area around 3 to 5 p.m. this afternoon.
Forecasters believe the chance of severe weather is greatest to the north-northeast of the Houston metro area because a capping inversion is likely to hold over the city itself. This means there are warmer temperatures in the upper levels of the atmosphere. This inversion in temperatures prevents air from rising and providing fuel for storms.
Here's a look at the NAM model sounding forecast for 6 p.m. in Houston tonight:
The red line represents atmospheric temperature, and if you can't read the graphic, that's fine. It's complicated. But basically what it shows is the temperature in the atmosphere (red line) cooling initially (moving to the left) as it rises, and then bends back sharply to the right (showing warming) as it moves up through the atmosphere.
The bottom line is that while severe storms are indeed possible in Houston this afternoon and evening, more likely we'll have lighter showers and possibly some thunderstorms. The more severe weather most likely will remain to the north, northeast of Houston where the capping inversion is weaker.
It will be cold and blustery in the wake of the cold front, with highs on Monday and Tuesday likely only rising into the mid- to upper-40s. Lows tonight could fall near freezing to the north of downtown Houston, and areas in Montgomery County and points north could very well see a freeze.


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Buddy Holly
is perhaps the most anomalous legend of '50s rock & roll -- he had his share of hits, and he achieved major rock & roll stardom, but his importance transcends any sales figures or even the particulars of any one song (or group of songs) that he wrote or recorded.
was unique, his legendary status and his impact on popular music all the more extraordinary for having been achieved in barely 18 months. Among his rivals,
Bill Haley
was there first and established rock & roll music;
Elvis Presley
objectified the sexuality implicit in the music, selling hundreds of millions of records in the process, and defined one aspect of the youth and charisma needed for stardom; and
Chuck Berry
defined the music's roots in blues along with some of the finer points of its sexuality, and its youthful orientation (and, in the process, intermixed all of these elements).
's influence was just as far-reaching as these others, if far more subtle and more distinctly musical in nature. In a career lasting from the spring of 1957 until the winter of 1958-1959 -- less time than
had at the top before the army took him (and less time, in fact, than
spent in the army) --
became the single most influential creative force in early rock & roll.
Born in Lubbock, TX, on September 7, 1936,
Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley
(he later dropped the "e") was the youngest of four children. A natural musician from a musical family, he was proficient on guitar, banjo, and mandolin by age 15 and was working as part of a duo with his boyhood friend
Bob Montgomery
, with whom he had also started writing songs. By the mid-'50s,
Buddy & Bob
, as they billed themselves, were playing what they called "western and bop";
, in particular, was listening to a lot of blues and R&B and finding it compatible with country music. He was among those young Southern men who heard and saw
perform in the days when the latter was signed to
Sam Phillips
' Sun Records -- indeed,
Buddy & Bob
played as an opening act for
when he played the area around Lubbock in early 1955, and
saw the future direction of his life and career.
By mid-1955,
Buddy & Bob
, who already worked with an upright bass (played by
Larry Welborn
), had added drummer
Jerry Allison
to their lineup. They'd also cut some sides that would have qualified as rock & roll, though no label was interested at that particular time. Eventually
, who leaned toward more of a traditional country sound, left the performing partnership, though they continued to compose songs together.
kept pushing his music toward a straight-ahead rock & roll sound, working with
, and assorted other local musicians, including guitarist
Sonny Curtis
and bassist
Don Guess
. It was with the latter two that
cut his first official recording session in January of 1956 in Nashville for Decca Records. They found out, however, that there was a lot more to playing and cutting rock & roll than met the eye; the results of this and a follow-up session in July were alternately either a little too tame and a little too far to the country side of the mix or were too raw. Some good music and a pair of near classics, "Midnight Shift" and "Rock Around With Ollie Vee," did come out of those Decca sessions, but nothing issued at the time went anywhere. At the time, it looked as though
had missed his shot at stardom.
Fate intervened in the guise of
Norman Petty
, a musician-turned-producer based in Clovis, NM, who had an ear for the new music and what made it sound good, especially over the radio, to the kids.
had a studio where he charged by the song instead of by the hour, and
and company had already begun working there in the late spring of 1956. After Decca's rejection,
and his band, which now included
Niki Sullivan
on rhythm guitar, threw themselves into what
regarded as the most promising songs they had, until they worked out a tight, tough version of one of the failed originals that
had cut in Nashville, entitled "That'll Be the Day." The title and lyrical phrase, lifted from a line that
John Wayne
was always quoting in the
John Ford
movie The Searchers, had staying power, and the group built on it. They got the song nailed and recorded, and with
's help, got it picked up by Murray Deutsch, a publishing associate of
's who, in turn, got it to
Bob Thiele
, an executive at Coral Records, who liked it. Ironically, Coral was a subsidiary of Decca, the same company to which
had previously been signed.
saw the record as potential hit, but there were some major hurdles to overcome before it could actually get released. For starters, according to author Philip Norman in his book Rave On,
would get only the most begrudging support from his record company. Decca had lucked out in 1954 when, at
Milt Gabler
's urging, they'd signed
Bill Haley & His Comets
and subsequently saw his "Rock Around the Clock" top the charts, but very few of those in charge at Decca had a real feel or appreciation for rock & roll or any sense of where it might be heading, or whether the label could (or should) follow it there. For another, although he had been dropped by Decca Records the previous year, the contract that
had signed prohibited him from re-recording anything that he had cut for Decca, regardless of whether it had been released or not, for five years; though Coral Records was a subsidiary of Decca, there was every chance that Decca's Nashville office could hold up the release and might even haul
into court. Amid all of these possibilities, good and bad,
, who had played on "That'll Be the Day," was replaced on bass by
Joe B. Mauldin
"That'll Be the Day" was issued in May of 1957 mostly as an indulgence to
, to "humor" him, according to Norman. The record was put out on the Brunswick label, which was oriented more toward jazz and R&B, and credited to
the Crickets
, a group name picked as a dodge to prevent any of the powers-that-were at Decca -- and especially Decca's Nashville office -- from having too easy a time figuring out that the singer was the same artist that they'd dropped the year before.
also became the group's manager as well as their producer, signing
the Crickets
-- identified as
, and
-- to a contract.
wasn't listed as a member in the original document, in order to hide his involvement with "That'll Be the Day," but this omission would later become the source of serious legal and financial problems for him.
When the smoke cleared, the song shot to the top spot on the national charts that summer. Of course, Decca knew
's identity by then; with
's persuasion and the reality of a serious hit in their midst, the company agreed to release
from the five-year restriction on his old contract, leaving him free to sign any recording contract he wanted. In the midst of sorting out the particulars of
's legal situation,
discovered that he had someone on his hands who was potentially a good deal more than a one-hit wonder -- there were potentially more and different kinds of potential hits to come from him. When all was said and done,
found himself with two recording contracts, one with Brunswick as a member of
the Crickets
and the other with Coral Records as
Buddy Holly
, which was part of
's strategy to get the most out of
's talent. By releasing two separate bodies of work, he could keep the group intact while giving room for its obvious leader and "star" to break out on his own.
There was actually little difference in the two sets of recordings for most of his career, in terms of how they were done or who played on them, except possibly that the harder, straight-ahead rock & roll songs, and the ones with backing vocals, tended to be credited to
the Crickets
. The confusion surrounding the
Buddy Holly
dual identity was nothing, however, compared to the morass that constituted the songwriting credits on their work.
It's now clear that
, acting as their manager and producer, parceled out writing credits at random, gifting
Niki Sullivan
Joe B. Mauldin
(and himself) the co-authorship of "I'm Gonna Love You Too," while initially leaving
's name off of "Peggy Sue."
usually added his name to the credit line as well, a common practice in the 1950s for managers and producers who wanted a bigger piece of the action. In fairness, it should be said that
did make suggestions, some of them key, in shaping certain of
's songs, but he almost certainly didn't contribute to the extent that the shared credits would lead one to believe. Some of the public's confusion over songwriting was heightened by complications ensuing from another of the contracts that
had signed in 1956.
had his own publishing company, Nor Va Jak Music, and had a contract with
to publish all of his new songs; but the prior year,
had signed an exclusive contract with another company -- eventually a settlement and release from the old contract might be sorted out, but in order to reduce his profile as a songwriter until that happened, and to convince the other publisher that they weren't losing too much in any settlement, he copyrighted many of his new songs under the pseudonym "
Charles Hardin
The dual recording contracts made it possible for
to record an extraordinary number of sides in the course of his 18 months of fame. Meanwhile, the group -- billed as
Buddy Holly & the Crickets
-- became one of the top attractions of rock & roll's classic years, putting on shows that were as exciting and well played as any in the business.
was the frontman, singing lead and playing lead guitar -- itself an unusual combination -- as well as writing or co-writing many of their songs. But
the Crickets
were also a totally enveloping performing unit, generating a big and exciting sound (which, apart from some live recordings from their 1958 British tour, is lost to history).
was a very inventive drummer and contributed to the songwriting bit more often than his colleagues, and
Joe B. Mauldin
Niki Sullivan
provided a solid rhythm section.
The fact that the group relied on originals for their singles made them unique and put them years ahead of their time. In 1957-1958, songwriting wasn't considered a skill essential to a career in rock & roll; the music business was still patterned along the lines that it had followed since the '20s, with songwriting a specialized profession organized on the publishing side of the industry, separate from performing and recording. Once in a while, a performer might write a song or, much more rarely, as in the case of a
Duke Ellington
, count composition among his key talents, but generally this was an activity left to the experts. Any rock & roller with the inclination to write songs would also have to get past the image of
, who stood to become a millionaire at age 22 and never wrote songs (the few "
" songwriting credits were the result of business arrangements rather than any creative activity on his part).
Buddy Holly & the Crickets
changed that in a serious way by hitting number one with a song that they'd written and then reaching the Top Ten with originals like "Oh, Boy" and "Peggy Sue," and regularly charging up the charts on behalf of their own songwriting. This attribute wasn't appreciated by the public at the time, and wouldn't be noticed widely until the 1970s, but thousands of aspiring musicians, including
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
, took note of the fact, and some of them decided to try and emulate
Less obvious at the time,
and company also broke up the established record industry method of recording, which was to bring the artist into the label's own studio, working on a timetable dictated by corporate policy and union rules. If an artist were extremely successful -- à la
, or later on,
the Beatles
-- they got a blank check in the studio and any union rules were smoothed over, but that was a rare privilege, available only to the most elite of musicians.
Buddy Holly & the Crickets
, by contrast, did their work, beginning with "That'll Be the Day," in Clovis, NM, at
's studio. They took their time, they experimented until they got the sound they wanted, and no union told them when to stop or start their work, and they delivered great records; what's more, they were records that didn't sound like anyone else's, anywhere.
The results were particularly telling on the history of rock music. The group worked out a sound that gave shape to the next wave of rock & roll and, especially, to early British rock & roll and the subsequent British Invasion beat, with the lead and rhythm guitars closely interlocked to create a fuller, harder sound. On songs such as "Not Fade Away,""Everyday," "Listen to Me," "Oh Boy!," "Peggy Sue," "Maybe Baby,""Rave On," "Heartbeat," and "It's So Easy,"
advanced rock & roll's range and sophistication without abandoning its fundamental joy and excitement.
and the band weren't afraid to experiment even on their singles, so that "Peggy Sue" made use of the kind of changes in volume and timbre on the guitar that were usually reserved for instrumental records; similarly, "Words of Love" was one of the earliest successful examples of double-tracked vocals in rock & roll, which
the Beatles
, in particular, would embrace in the ensuing decade.
Buddy Holly & the Crickets
were very popular in America, but in England they were even bigger, their impact serious rivaling that of
and, in some ways, even exceeding it. This was due, in part, to the fact that they actually toured England -- they spent a month there in 1958, playing a series of shows that were still being written about 30 years later -- which was something that
never did. But it also had to do with their sound and
's stage persona. The group's heavy use of rhythm guitar slotted right in with the sound of skiffle music, a mix of blues, folk, country, and jazz elements that constituted most of British youth's introduction to playing music and their way into rock & roll. Additionally, although he cut an exciting figure on-stage,
looked a lot less likely a rock & roll star than
-- tall, lanky, and bespectacled, he looked like an ordinary guy who simply played and sang well, and part of his appeal as a rock & roll star was rooted in how unlikely he looked in that role. He provided inspiration -- and a way into the music -- for tens of thousands of British teenagers who also couldn't imagine themselves rivals to
Gene Vincent
in the dark and dangerous department.
At least one star British guitarist of the late '50s,
Hank Marvin
the Shadows
, owed his look (and the fact that he wore his glasses proudly on stage) to
, and his look can be seen being propagated into the 1970s by
Elvis Costello
. Additionally, although he played several different kinds of guitar,
was specifically responsible for popularizing -- some would say elevating to mystical, even magical status -- the Fender Stratocaster, especially in England. For a lot of would-be rock & rollers on the Sceptered Isle,
's 1958 tour was the first chance they'd had to see or hear the instrument in action, and it quickly became the guitar of choice for anyone aspiring to stardom as an axeman in England. (Indeed,
, inspired by
, later had what is reputed to be the first Stratocaster ever brought into England.)
The Crickets
were reduced to a trio with the departure of
in late 1957, following the group's appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, but that was almost the least of the changes that would ensue over the following year. The group consolidated its success with the release of two LPs,
The Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly
, and did two very successful international tours as well as more performing in the United States.
had already developed aspirations and interests that diverged somewhat from those of
. The thought apparently had never occurred to either of them of giving up Texas as their home, and they continued to base their lives there, while
was increasingly drawn to New York, not just as a place to do business, but also to live. His romance with and marriage to Maria Elena Santiago, a receptionist in Murray Deutsch's office, only made the decision to move to New York easier.
By this time,
's music had grown in sophistication and complexity to the point where he had relinquished the lead guitar duties in the studio to session player
Tommy Alsup
, and he had done a number of recordings in New York utilizing session musicians such as
King Curtis
. It was during this period that his and the group's sales had slackened somewhat. The singles such as "Heartbeat" didn't sell nearly as well as the 45s of 1957 had rolled out of stores. He might even have advanced farther than a big chunk of the group's audience was prepared to accept in late 1958. "Well...All Right," for example, was years ahead of its time as a song and a recording.
's split with the group -- and
-- in the fall of 1958 left him free to pursue some of those newer sounds, but it also left him short of cash resources. In the course of ending the association, it became clear to
and everyone else that
had manipulated the numbers and likely taken an enormous slice of the group's income for himself, though there was to prove almost no way of establishing this because he never seemed to finish his "accounting" of the moneys due to anyone, and his books were ultimately found to be in such disarray that when he came up with various low five-figure settlements to those involved, they were glad to get what they got.
With a new wife -- who was pregnant -- and no settlement coming in from
decided to earn some quick money by signing to play the Winter Dance Party package tour of the Midwest. It was on that tour that
Ritchie Valens
, and
J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson
were killed in a plane crash, on February 3, 1959.
The crash was considered a piece of grim but not terribly significant news at the time. Most news organizations, run by men who'd come of age in the 1930s or 1940s, didn't take rock & roll very seriously, except to the degree that it could be exploited to sell newspapers or build viewing audiences.
's clean-cut image and scandal-free life, coupled with the news of his recent marriage, did give the story more poignancy than it otherwise might have had and probably got him treated more respectfully than would have been the case with other music stars of the period.
For teenagers of the period, it was the first public tragedy of its kind. No white rock & roller of any significance had ever died before, forget three of them, and the news was devastating. Radio station disc jockeys were also shaken -- for a lot of people involved in rock & roll music on any level,
's death may well have been the first time that they woke up the next day wishing and hoping that the previous day's news had all been a dream.
The suddenness and the whole accidental nature of the event, coupled with the ages of
-- 22 and 17, respectively -- made it even harder to take.
Hank Williams
had died at 29, but with his drinking and drug use he had always seemed on the fast track to the grave to almost anyone who knew him and even to a lot of fans;
Johnny Ace
had died in 1954 backstage at a show, but that was also by his own hand, in a game of Russian roulette. The emotional resonances of this event was totally different in every way possible from those tragedies.
A few careers were actually launched in the wake of the tragedy.
Bobby Vee
leaped to stardom when he and his band took over
's spot on the tour. In America, however, something of a pall fell over rock & roll music -- its sound was muted by
's death and
' military service, and this darkness didn't fully lift for years. In England, the reaction was much more concentrated and pronounced --
's final single, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," rose to number one on the British charts in the wake of his death, and it seemed as though the new generation of English rock & rollers and their audiences wouldn't let
's music or spirit die. Two years after the event, producer
Joe Meek
and singer
Mike Berry
combined to make "Tribute to Buddy Holly," a memorial single that sounded like the man himself reborn and still brings smiles and chills to listeners who know it; it is said that
never entirely got over
's death, and he did kill himself on the anniversary. On the less extreme front, players from
, and
Keith Richards
on down all found themselves influenced by
's music, songs, and playing. Groups like
the Searchers
-- taking their name from the same
movie whence the phrase "that'll be the day" had been lifted -- sounded a lot like
the Crickets
and had a handful of his songs in their repertory when they cut their earliest sides, and it wasn't just the hits that they knew, but album cuts as well. Other bands, like a Manchester-spawned outfit fronted by
Allan Clarke
Graham Nash
, and
Tony Hicks
began a four-decade career by taking the name
the Hollies
's record label continued to release posthumous albums of his work for years after his death, beginning with
The Buddy Holly Story
in early 1959, and they even repackaged the 1956 Decca sides several times over under various titles (the mid-'70s British LP
The Nashville Sessions
is the best of the vinyl editions). The company also engaged
to take various
demos and early country-flavored sides done by
Buddy & Bob
and dub new instruments and backing voices, principally using a band called
the Fireballs
. Those releases, including the albums
, did moderately well in America, but in England they actually charted. New recordings of his music, including
the Rolling Stones
' bone-shaking rendition of "Not Fade Away" -- taking it back to its
Bo Diddley
-inspired roots -- and
the Beatles
gorgeous rendition of "Words of Love" helped keep
's name alive before a new generation of listeners. In America, it was more of an uphill struggle to spread the word -- rock & roll, like most American popular culture, was always regarded as more easily disposable, and as a new generation of teenagers and new musical phenomena came along, the public did gradually forget. By the end of the 1960s, except among older fans (now in their twenties) and hardcore oldies listeners,
was a largely forgotten figure in his own country.
The tide began to turn at the very tail-end of the 1960s, with the beginning of the oldies boom.
's music figured in it, of course, and as people listened they also heard about the man behind it -- even Rolling Stone magazine, then the arbiter of taste for the counterculture, went out of its way to remind people of who
was. His image constituted a haunting figure, frozen forever in poses from 1957 and 1958, bespectacled, wearing a jacket and smiling; he looked like (and was) a figure from another age. The nature of his death, in an air crash, also set him apart from some of the then-recent deaths of contemporary rock stars such as
Brian Jones
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
, and
Jim Morrison
-- they'd all pushed life right to the edge, till it broke, where
stood there seemingly eternally innocent, both personally and in terms of the times in which he'd lived.
Then, in 1971, a little-known singer/songwriter named
Don McLean
, who counted himself a
fan, rose to international stardom behind a song called "American Pie," whose narrative structure was hooked around "the day the music died." After disposing of the erroneous notion that he was referring to President Kennedy,
made it clear that he meant February 3, 1959, and
. Coverage of "American Pie"'s popularity and lyrics as it soared to the top of the charts inevitably led to mentions of
, who was suddenly getting more exposure in the national press than he'd ever enjoyed in his lifetime.
His music had never disappeared -- even
the Grateful Dead
performed "Not Fade Away" in concert -- and now there was a song that seemed to give millions of people a series of personal and musical reference points into which to place the man. Until "American Pie," most Americans equated November 22, 1963, the day of President Kennedy's murder, with the loss of national innocence and an opening of an era of shared grief.
pushed the reference point back to February 3, 1959, on a purely personal basis, and an astonishingly large number of listeners accepted it.
In 1975,
's MPL Communications bought
's publishing catalog from a near-bankrupt
. To some, the sale was
's final act of theft -- having robbed
and his widow blind in settling the account of what was owed him as a performer, he was profiting one last time from his perfidy. The truth is that it was a godsend to Maria Elena Holly and the
family in Lubbock; amid the events of the years and decades that followed, MPL was able to sell and exploit those songs in ways that
in Clovis, NM, never could have, and earn hundreds of thousands of dollars for them that
never would have. And with
-- a
fan from the age of 15, and probably the most successful fan
ever had -- as publisher, they were paid every cent they had coming.
Amid the growing interest in
's music, the record industry was very slow to respond, at least in America. At the end of the 1960s, there were exactly two
LPs available domestically,
The Great Buddy Holly
, consisting of the 1956 Decca sides, which hardly represented his best or most important work, and the even more dispensable
album, consisting of overdubbed demos and outtakes. British audiences got access to more and better parts of his catalog first, and a collection,
20 Golden Greats
, actually topped the charts over there in 1978, in conjunction with the release of the movie The Buddy Holly Story, starring
Gary Busey
in the title role. It was a romanticized and very simplified account of the man's life and career, and slighted the contributions of the other members of
the Crickets
-- and never even mentioned
-- but it got some of the essentials right and made
into a star and
into a household name.
In 1979,
became the first rock & roll star to be the subject of a career-spanning box set, ambitiously (and inaccurately) called
The Complete Buddy Holly
. Initially released in England and Germany, it later appeared in America, but it only seemed to whet hardcore fans' appetites for more -- two or three
bootlegs were circulating in the early '80s, including one that offered a handful of songs from the group's 1958 British tour. In a rare bold move, mostly courtesy of producer
Steve Hoffman
, MCA Records in 1983 issued
For the First Time Anywhere
, a selection of raw, undubbed masters of original
recordings that had previously only been available with extra instruments added on -- it was followed by
From the Original Master Tapes
, the first attempt to put together a
compilation with upgraded sound quality. Those titles and
The Great Buddy Holly
were the earliest of
's official CD releases, though they were soon followed by
Buddy Holly
The Chirping Crickets
. In 1986, the BBC aired The Real Buddy Holly Story, a documentary produced by
as a counteractive to the
movie, which covered all of the areas ignored by the inaccuracies of the movie and responded to them. There have followed stage musicals and plays, upgraded and audiophile reissues of his work, and tribute albums, all continuing to flow out at a steady pace more than 50 years after
's death.
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Brundage Snow Blog
December 18, 2013 by April
We are excited to announce that we will open for winter operations on Friday, December 20th!
Current snow depths range from 12" at the base to 28" inches at the summit, which will allow the mountain to open for the 2013/14 season.
We plan to operate the Easy Street Lift, the Blue Bird Quad and the Centennial Triple Chair on Friday, December 20th. Visitors can enjoy a discounted $36 all-mountain lift ticket on opening day or purchase a $15 ticket for Easy Street only.
"Favorable temperatures this week have consolidated our snow base nicely, so we have just what we need to start running Friday," said resort spokesperson, April Whitney.
"We're also seeing encouraging signs in the forecast which leads us to believe we may be able to open more terrain very soon," added Whitney.
The National Weather Service is predicting 1-2" of snow Wednesday night, with another 5-11" possible by Saturday morning. Updates on additional terrain and lift operations will be made as warranted at www.brundage.com.
A link to the pinpoint forecast is available on the snow report page: http://www.brundage.com/the-mountain/snow-report/
Brundage Mountain managers want visitors to be aware that early season conditions exist, off-trail riding is not advised at this point, and that visitors need to obey closures and markings for their own safety. Guests are also encouraged to check the grooming report daily for changes to normal grooming patterns.
Light Up the Night Party Set for Saturday
Brundage Mountain's annual holiday party is set for this Saturday. The "Light Up the Night" event will feature a bonfire, beer garden, torchlight parade, tree lighting and a slope-side fireworks show. Smoky's Bar & Grill will be open late with a special menu for Light Up the Night guests. Live music will be provided for guests who choose to purchase tickets for a special holiday sit-down dinner right after the light show.
Full details are available at: http://www.brundage.com/event/light-night/
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Next-gen iPhone is "complicated and difficult to assemble," expected to ship in Q3
0. phoneArena 06 Jul 2011, 08:21 posted on
There you have it folks, the next-generation iPhone is supposedly "complicated and difficult to assemble," according to a supply source quoted by the Wall Street Journal. That's a good thing for the user…
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1. kcombs (Posts: 275; Member since: 15 Dec 2010)
whatever they do with iPhone it needs to have a bigger screen, I recently switched from my iPhone 4 to android and I like the android phone, but I would love another iPhone just with a 4in screen. if it has the same screen I think they would loose sales..
4. PhoneLuver (Posts: 481; Member since: 05 Jul 2010)
I totally agree with you! The other thing is battery life! No way I'm going back to suffering like I did with the 3GS!
5. EFchris91 (Posts: 22; Member since: 25 Jun 2010)
The battery life on the iPhone 4 is amazing..
10. kcombs (Posts: 275; Member since: 15 Dec 2010)
I agree, but after a year with my iPhone 4 its the same as my Samsung Infuse with a 4.5in screen, and my Samsung battery I can replace when it goes bad..
13. quakan (Posts: 1373; Member since: 02 Mar 2011)
I feel like apple needs to make a bigger screen for sure and improve battery life but i also think they shouldn't make it any thinner because i think the iphone 4 had just the right amount of thickness.
2. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
I wonder what it means....
69. biggles (Posts: 222; Member since: 15 Oct 2009)
It means they'll probably raise the cost. Can you say $399 on contract for 32gb? Not worth it by any stretch.
3. clevername (Posts: 1436; Member since: 11 Jul 2008)
I experiences the same thing when I had to make a switch and got a Samsung focus. I am so used to a 4in screen that it feels weird when I go back and play on my broken iPhone.
6. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Thinner screen sounds like it also could be more fragile. I know there are rumors of the metal back housing returning, but thinning out the screen seems to detract from the overall strength of the phone.
7. Lauren (unregistered)
The iPhone 5 will silence you fandroids completely with a polished, smooth, fluid device; qualities that have YET to appear in ANY of Android's 4654768465 handsets.
8. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Couldnt stand it that no one was dissing or dogging the iPhone, could ya?
Feel better now?
9. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Right! What was that all about?
12. kcombs (Posts: 275; Member since: 15 Dec 2010)
the only reason iPhone is smoother is because it has no overlay software on it, take the overlay (motoblur, HTC sence, Samsung Touch Wiz) off and the phones run much faster and much smoother than iPhone. don't get me wrong I still like my iPhone sometimes better then my Samsung Infuse, but if apple continues to control it's owners and tells them what they can and cannot do they will continue to loose sales to android.
14. Lauren (unregistered)
Hmm, I beg to differ. Does the Galaxy Tab 10.1 ring a bell? It currently doesn't have Samsung Touch Wiz on it, yet it still lacks the fluidity of the iPad. Android just needs to work on aesthetics and smoothness. Until then, Android will always be the unpolished underdog, no matter what features they add.
15. kcombs (Posts: 275; Member since: 15 Dec 2010)
that's funny I wasn't talking about tablets..
21. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Since you started this...smooth is great, but is that all you got? Its a great device but that only takes you so far. What can I do with I after I'm done ohh-ing and ahh-ing about how smooth it is? You're still locked into iTunes, period! Unless you are willing to void your warranty and jailbreak your phone. I can download all kinds of launchers that make my Droid X just as smooth. What do I do when I get bored looking at the same 20 blocks on an iPhone? Sure, I could change the wallpaper, but my mom can do the same on her LG 8350.
The iPhone has no widgets, no flash, no customization, no SMS ringtone customization(I think), no custom ROMs, no side loading apps, no ability to survive a four foot drop in one piece, no live wallpaper, no other form factors, and basically no personality. Its popularity and some people's need to conform is what will make it the best selling device on the planet, not because it's better.
As for the polished look of the iPhone...if glossy icons is what makes a great phone too you, then you have the right device in the iPhone. But some of us prefer function, and when it comes to features, Android mops the floor with the iPhone. Until the iPhone can load non-iTunes apps without jailbreaking, it will forever be a FEATURE phone! Face it, iOS is outmuscled by Android in just about every respect. The ip4 has the best screen, camera and a simple UI, which makes it a good phone. But your iPhone is so closed and locked down, it will alway be the true underdog.
28. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
same tired arguments. most people can care less about custom roms, live wallpaper (really is this even a feature worth talking about?) etc. By the way you can jailbreak your iPhone and get all these things if you really want them and still have the smoother experience and better battery life. I don't jailbreak mine because I don't care about that childish stuff on my phone.
And to conform? Let's see last study Android had 38% of the smartphone market compared to about 26% for the iPhone. So wouldn't you be the conformist? That's such a dumb argument. Apple until recently had under 10% of the pc market and yet had a loyal fanbase from people who enjoyed their products. How would these people be followers or "sheep" when 90 of people were using windows. Seems Apple users are the free thinkers to me.
31. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
A sheep is someone who thinks what they're told to think and does what they're told to do. A sheep doesn't necessarily have to be part of a majority. People use Windows because of its wide range of uses, and because it's a useful platform that is easily compatible with everything. People use Apple computers if they want to look superior in the coffee shop or if they are into graphic design. And with the iPhone, even though it's no longer on top, it's still the phone pushed by the media, movies, shows, etc. You don't really see Android mentioned anywhere, and if it is, it's for a specific product in a commercial.
44. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
So people who use pc and android are free thinkers but people who use Apple are sheep even though Apple users are in the minority? You see how that makes no sense?
"people use windows because of it's wide range of uses"
What exactly is it that a Mac pc can't do?
You're a hopeless troll, but what's sad is you think you're intelligent.
48. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
A PC is far more compatible with various legal and business software, and much more customizable than a Mac. You can get a PC from whatever company for whatever price you want, optimized for whatever work or play you need.
You don't understand the definition of sheep, and you don't want to understand. It's actually quite hilarious how you've changed your tune, Taco. Used to be that all you talked about was how many people use iProducts; now you're trying to recast yourself as a rebel against the crowd. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
56. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
I'm saying that to show you how your argument about sheep is dumb and pointless. Sheep are followers and so would go to the most popular product. If android is winning in market share how could iPhone users be sheep?
A pc is more cutomizable? Gtfo here. Did you know you can now custom order a Mac? My god youre a dips**t
60. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
No, sheep do not automatically go to the most popular whatever. If you were right then cults would not exist.
And the argument over what's more customizable comes down to the total number of permutations you can get. Windows wins that one hands down.
33. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Saw you coming a mile away taco. Isn't the "smoothest experience" argument even more tired? You can think of it as childish all you want and I'm not saying you should want it. But why not offer it seeing as though it is very popular? Sure you could get it but again since Apple wasn't allowed to send you to jail for it, they now just void your warranty if you do. And that LG 8350 I was talking about has a better battery life than the iPhone too, does that make it a better phone?
And I never said everyone with an iPhone is a conformist, I just said that's one reason why it's so popular. I recognize there are many iOS users who just love the tech but there are many people who want it just because...it's an iPhone! This is an actual reason given to me by customers. They never said anything about the "smooth experience" or better battery life. It was just because it's an iPhone. If you don't like that, tell your fellow iOS users to stop giving that as a reason.
I am part of that loyal fan base of Mac computers you are talking about. Most people buy PCs because it's what they are used to and it's cheaper. Two completely different senarios here, so give me a better analogy.
46. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
So if you're a Mac user why do you pick that over pc when you can get double the specs on a windows for what you paid for your Mac?
50. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
I got tired of viruses and spyware. And there was no way I was going to Vista or backwards to XP. And my Mac has outlasted every PC I've ever owned or used, even my work computer. It's easy to use and I can get sw from downloads.com for free. Had Apple applied the same philosophy to their phones as they do their computers, I would probably own one right now.
55. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
That is the same thing. People like iPhones because they're stable, easy to use, built to last. Theyre absolutely using the same philosophy. Thevthings that are limited are for stability and battery life for the most part.
61. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
No I have to disagree there. They limit their phones and tablets to maximize profits. There is only one place you can go on those devices to get content...iTunes. It's a good strategy from a business point of view, but imagine if they applied that closed ecosystem to their Mac lineup where you have to buy iwork and cant download Open Office, iMacs would be useless.
64. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Well 1. What you're doing is stealing because those are pay for programs. However if you do want to steal then you can do the same on the iPhone by jailbreaking it. You can get all apps and music for free.
Mac has an app store as well you're just circumventing it.
Lol at Macs would be useless if you couldn't steal software.
75. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Well 1. It sounds like you have never heard of download.com and didn't take the time before posting to check it out. Since it's obvious that you are not as technically inclined as you pretend to be let me explain. Download.com is basically the downloads tab on CNET.com. CNET.com is a tech review site where they review cellphones, TVs, cars computers, etc, etc. They review both free and paid programs, and they provide links for downloading these programs, hence the name. They even have a whole section dedicated to mac computer, and these people called "Developers" write all kinds of programs just for mac computers. I know, it weird right? Now, since Open Office is a free application, I didn't steal anything. These "developers" gave it to me to use on my computer.
Next time you might wanna do a little research before you call someone a thief. It helps to make you look like you know what your talking about.
90. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
is iWork also a free application? Also jailbreaking doesn't void your warranty. I think you're full of s**t trying to pretend you're not biased.
52. TreyTreyTaylor (Posts: 676; Member since: 21 Dec 2010)
That was beautiful.
62. IPhone4eva (unregistered)
No widgets?! No customization?! No SMS Ringtones?!? Are you that inept???? OBVIOUSLY you don't know a thing or two about the capabilities of an IPhone and what it can do once it's jailbroken! For your info, you CAN add widgets on custom themes....wait a minute, did I say CUSTOM?? Last I checked that is a form of customization! As far as Itunes is concerned, we CAN get our music absolutely free! And as for the apps, we can get ALL of our apps for free as well. Last I checked, you you still have to pay for some of your apps AFTER you root your paper weight...err...droid.
67. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Why is it that every iPhone fan assumes that I know nothing about your little false idol just because I like Android better? Not only do I know about your little phone, I also have a jail broken iPad! Also, i've been a technician for several years selling and fixing Iphones, Blackberries, and Droids. Oppps...Didn't see that coming did you? So obviously i know a little more than you think about about all cellphone OSs and OBVIOUSLY you know now what happens when you make assumptions, right? You make an a** of you and sumption, LOL! I know you USED to be able to get all apps for free before the app that gave you that ability was removed from Cydia. If its back, that sucks because now you're pirating apps from developers who worked hard on that SW, and now they have no way to make up the lost revenue. At least a free app on Android has ads, so that way they can get paid for their work.
I still stand behind my statement, the iPhone HAS NO CUSTOMIZATION unless you are willing to void your warranty and jailbreak it. My Android comes with everything I need to make my phone unique which is important to me. If you unlock you phone and look at the screen, what info can you get from just that homescreen??? The how many notifications you missed, see the time? You can't do anything from your home screen except pick which app you want to open. If you have the ATT iPhone, you probably don't even see any bars! I got music, stocks, weather, my last SMS, traffic updates, news updates, an email widget and pictures of my smoking hot wife all WITHOUT rooting it! Now that's customization!
And that whole "paper weight" comment was kinda cute. But I tell you what...let's loose our phone cases, go outside and both drop our phones on the concrete from waist high. Let's see whose really walking around with a paper weight after that. After you pay your deductible and get you new iPhone, come back here and pick on somebody who doesn't know there stuff, because you just got seriously owned!
74. TreyTreyTaylor (Posts: 676; Member since: 21 Dec 2010)
You my good sir are the King of ripping. Straight creamed his ass.
76. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
I've been trying to be a nice guy, but I keep getting called out for no reason. It's my Avatar, isn't it?
82. TreyTreyTaylor (Posts: 676; Member since: 21 Dec 2010)
lol yea.
77. ableroner (unregistered)
Umm. You realize that it only voids your warranty if you bring the phone in with jailbroken software. You can do a factory restore and it'll be fine. I've done it before.
84. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Yeah, that's the word, but some say they can still tell if the rep digs for a certain file. I don't know if that's true or not.
17. iosmaster (unregistered)
i have an sgs with raw android and still gets laggy i dont understnd bench mark mine with lagfix does 1972 on the score and my iph4 runs smoother and even games start faster like asphalt 5 angry birds i mean alot faster but i admit that inside the game already loaded it the same btw i love SGS display hate performance.
20. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Hate to disappoint you, sweetcheeks, but after the Gingerbread update my Droid X actually does run pretty smoothly, with almost no lag. That's with Widgets running on my homescreen, something the yawn-worthy, boring iPhone home screen doesn't have.
And just so you know, I wasn't planning on dissing Apple or the iPhone until I saw your comment.
23. iosmaster (Posts: 115; Member since: 06 Jul 2011)
so sweet but im just telling you my experience with my SGS still laggy with gingerbread and darky rom and kernel boost still laggy on interface i admit its faster on graphics more fluid on images i can see a small improvement specially on angry birds i sense a more fluid game vs the iph4 but its just a little, but on the interface falls still, to slow and again its my SGS
45. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
So it's taken 2 years to get an update where you have a decent android phone? Nice!
49. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
No, Taco. It took about 11 months to eliminate homescreen lag. The Droid X has always been a great phone, just laggy on the homescreen because of Blur.
57. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Androids been out over 2 years. I thought you loved moto blur? Why would you love something that's buggy and laggy? You sheep.
78. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
I never said it was buggy. I said that the homescreen was laggy. I do love Motoblur, because despite the lag it provides some great functionality. Now, if I were a true sheep I would deny that my phone has any problems whatsoever, and was absolutely perfect and that any alternative to it was a total piece of s**t and... oh wait, I just realized that I'm describing you. Funny how I always get the two acts mixed up.
I recognize when there's flaws with any product I use, little annoyances. Whether I like a product depends on whether my overall experience trumps those small annoyances. The answer is... you guessed it, Motoblur, especially now, provides a great experiences despite the flaws it used to have.
88. ilia1986 (unregistered)
omg how did I miss taco coming in and bringing the fun to this thread?
Taco, did you remember to pack your ibreakfast this morning? full of A5 chips, I presume? but it wasn't your father Steve who made them, though - it was Uncle Samsung!
89. ableroner (unregistered)
I assume by "making" you mean manufacturing.
but apple designed the SOC with the A9 as the architecture. Samsung just assembles them.
79. ableroner (unregistered)
There's no answer to CoreAnimation on Gingerbread. There's no GPU acceleration for UI animations. It looks choppy. You just don't notice it.
43. George2315 (unregistered)
Yeah the best part of the new iOS will be that orginal notifications bar at the top that you can scroll down. Oh wait doesn't Android already have that? That being said....both operating systems have their pros and cons. The new iOS 5 might have some improvements but so will Ice Cream Sandwich. I'd personally rather have something open source and not so controlled.
18. dannynoble (unregistered)
damn iFan is having an orgasm, we're just saying that iPhone need a bigger screen. how does android's fluidity come into play here?
24. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Sorry - no bigger screen on this one. Too early to upgrade resolution - and very un-Apple to lower ppi.
Btw after trying Ubuntu (It's Awesome) I also understand that Apple didn't invent that Mac OS X software as well. Instead of buying an extremely overpriced macbook\pro\air - just install ubuntu on your laptop - even if it's far from being a hardware beast. If you really want you can install a Mac OSX theme for free.
The ONLY thing that Apple did do very right by themselves in this regard - and one to which I am yet to find and alternatives is iWork...
36. NeXoS (Posts: 288; Member since: 03 May 2011)
They should pay their factory workers MORE MONEY if it's such a highly difficult technical assembly project. And then pass those costs onto Apple.
37. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Apple would never allow it. They're all about maximizing the cash going into their coffers, no matter what ethical price they pay.
53. Dace0ne (unregistered)
Sniggly...I think you're mistaken...the iPhone is actually on top......you keep on talking about android like its a phone....android is a software (not a phone) that is used on hundreds of devices. So when you compare 1 phone to 100+ phones you're point sounds silly.
The reason the iPhone and Macs are shown on TV and in the Movies is because apple pays for the product placement.
Honestly I applaud google for the effort they've put into android but I think it would be a lot better if they had control of the phones they put their software on...no?
58. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
The iPhone is the top selling single model, yes, but that hardly matters. When it comes to smatlrtphones Android is the top operating system. That's what I'm talking about.
54. baldilocks (Posts: 746; Member since: 14 Dec 2008)
I think all of these 'rumors' are funny. They all contradict each other. Steve Jobs is laughing his ass of at all of these so called 'analysts'..no wonder it has the word 'anal' in it because they don't know s**t.
66. Tmachaveli (Posts: 425; Member since: 01 Apr 2011)
this is so funny..i love reading what ppl say on here .i just think get whatever,phone u like the best..i'm a android man myself and i like what ti does for me.i can get 12-14 hours a day and that's good enough for me and i using a dam samsung moment lol(.getting photon 4g when it comes ou)t..I could go on and on about why i don't like the iphone but i don't feel i need to do that because at the end of the day a person gonna buy what they want to
71. SomeGuy (unregistered)
It is funny. I love the anger in these comment sections. People freak the eff out.
85. IEatApples (Posts: 66; Member since: 06 Jul 2011)
Yea man if you get angry from reading these comments then maybe you shouldn't read these comments. People come here to argue over phones because they think its fun, and thats what the comments section is for. Go complain on your local news site or something, then maybe you ca make a difference. Also who cares how thin the new iphone is cause it will never have anything on android. I would easily break a phone as thin as the phone in this articles picture. i like my 11mm thick atrix.
87. BenCjamin (Posts: 80; Member since: 13 May 2011)
I say when apple finally breaks down and gets a contract with adobe flash instead of being "we're too good for that" idiots then they will have a product that will be superior to android until that day comes android will always come out on top.


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KAMPALA, 28 May 2012 – Participants at the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) investment Forum that ended today pledged hundreds of million dollars to developing agribusiness, green industry, renewable energy, education and health in Uganda.
Co-organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the two-day event was attended by over 250 investors, entrepreneurs and government officials from Uganda and the Gulf region.
The Forum, under the theme "Uganda: A country of opportunity and prosperity", provided Ugandan businessmen with an opportunity to meet counterparts from GCC Member States - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Some 600 bilateral meetings were held and some 200 business project ideas were developed during the Forum, which is expected to boost trade between Uganda and the GCC countries.
The forum was inaugurated by the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni. In his speech the President praised the role of the various partners in organizing this forum, including UNIDO.
The GCC delegation was headed by Sheikh Ebrahim Bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Chairman of UNIDO ARCEIT (Arab Regional Centre for Entrepreneurship and Investment Training). In his keynote speech Sheikh Al Khalifa reiterated the need for entrepreneurship development for economic growth and confirmed UNIDO ARCEIT's willingness and commitment to support Uganda in its economic empowerment endeavours.
The Ugandan Government expressed interest in funding a infrastructure project worth USD 440 million through public-private partnerships.
The forum was organized in cooperation with the Government of Uganda through the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), the Federation of Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) chambers of commerce and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB).
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When I heard that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized on Sunday because of blood clots, painful memories surfaced. I know all too well how deeply dangerous this ordinary sounding medical condition can be.
My son was 12 when he complained of feeling pain in his back so I took him to the doctor. She sent him for X-rays and those suggested he might have scoliosis, which is a curvature of the spine. But my motherly instincts told me that didn't sound right. I told his pediatrician my concerns, so she sent us to see a specialist. Before we could make the appointment, his pain intensified and the most terrifying thing happened. In a few days my healthy, normally active child was paralyzed. He couldn't control his muscles to walk.
My husband and I rushed him to the specialist, who immediately had him admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, (ICU). The nightmare had begun, and a battery of tests, MRI, SCAT scans ensued. I felt like I was drowning, struggling under water with no air but I had to be brave for my son. Then a diagnosis finally surfaced, "Your son has a blood clot on his upper spine," the doctors said.
Blood clot on his spine? I went from terrified to baffled terror? How did he get a blood clot on his spine? The doctors said this condition usually results from some type of trauma, but I didn't remember him falling. They asked us a barrage of questions—like maybe we were hiding something. To this day, we have never received an explanation for the blood clot entangling my child's spine, which in turn paralyzed him. He didn't have a history of clots or do they run in my family or my husband's. Did someone hit him at school and he didn't want to tell? Was he being bullied? There were so many questions and no answers.
Dr. Charles S. Kleinman, Cardiologist at the Presbyterian Children's Hospital said that he had seen cases of blood clots forming with no specific explanation and that scared me. If we couldn't find out why it formed, could it recur? On top of thar, my husband fell ill at that moment, so I had my son inthe ICU and my hubby in the emergency room. Suffice it to say my stresses "runneth over."
Thanks to neurologist Dr. John Miller and his team at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City who operated to remove the clot and prescribed physical therapy for rehabilitation, my son is healthy today and can walk again. It could have gone in the other tragic direction.
Doctors now say Clinton's clot is in her head, between her skull and brain behind her right ear, caused by her fall of Dec. 15. Reports also say she has a history of clots, but doctors are confident in her full recovery.
But what exactly is a blood clot? ELEV 8 writes: "Blood flows through the body in a continuous loop. Blood is pumped through the body by the heart, but that same blood returns back to the heart both by gravity and by muscles in the arms and legs contracting and squeezing, or milking, the blood back to the heart. If blood becomes stagnant, it may clot and cause potential life-threatening conditions.
Blood clots can be found in different parts of the body; some areas more dangerous than others. Here are some warning signs of blood clots or Thrombosis as it's medically termed:
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MONTREAL – The Buffalo Sabres need to figure out whether Drew Stafford has a place in their organization. He didn't Saturday.
Stafford's disappointing season descended further as interim coach Ron Rolston made the right winger a healthy scratch for a 2-1 win over Montreal.
"This is obviously extremely disappointing," Stafford said in Bell Centre. "We've been winning a couple games as well, so you definitely want to be part of the solution. Not tonight, unfortunately.
"It's definitely disappointing, but it's his decision and something I have to respect. I have to work my way back into the lineup. It's no secret I haven't been getting on the score sheet."
Stafford has struggled from the drop of the puck this season. The former 31-goal scorer has four goals and seven assists in 31 games, low totals that are coupled with the team's worst plus/minus rating at minus-12.
"We want everyone to play and play hard," Rolston said. "We've got a lot of guys. We've got some tough decisions right now, so it's just a decision."
Stafford went pointless in the previous three games. He has three goals and no assists in his last 13 outings.
"Like I said, it's no secret that I haven't been producing," Stafford said. "At the same time, it's just another challenge."
The alternate captain is in the second season of a four-year, $16 million contract. His status has diminished greatly. Stafford started the year as a top-six forward, but he's been in a fourth-line role for much of the last month.
The 27-year-old began sliding down the lineup because of 14- and seven-game scoring droughts.
With only 11 days until the trade deadline, the Sabres could give Stafford a chance to reclaim playing time or examine what the market is for a 6-foot-2, 214-pound winger who has three seasons with 20 or more goals.
"I've told you guys before, the game reveals your character," Stafford said. "It's the same kind of situation right now."
Thomas Vanek, who missed one game after taking a slap shot off his hip, returned to the lineup. So did fellow winger Nathan Gerbe, who was scratched for two straight.
"It's never easy sitting," said Gerbe, who entered the night with three goals and six points in 25 games. "I thought I've been playing well when I get out there. The role I'm in, I thought I've been playing really well, great chances and working hard, and that's all I can control."
Defenseman Andrej Sekera sat for the fourth straight game with an upper-body injury. Enforcer John Scott was a healthy scratch.
Some teams display the standings in their dressing room. Shortly after his arrival last month, Rolston said he had no plans for that. The team needed to worry about improving its game, not its place in the Eastern Conference.
Buffalo has moved up the chart after languishing in 15th place for a while, but Rolston still won't talk about the standings with his players.
"No," he said. "We don't want to look too far in front of us. We want to worry about moving in that direction positively and continue to make the changes that we want to.
"As we talked before, that other stuff will start taking care of itself, the results part of things, but we don't want to look to the results because then the change won't happen. You'll just be focusing on end result, but we have to focus on the change and then the end results come."
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A game most people first learn about away from home at a summer camp or someplace similar. In this game a lemon wedge taken from a bar and the juice is squeezed into the peehole of a guy's penis and a girls vagina. Tat lemon is set aside and a new one is used to repeat the process. The first one to wince or scream is out of the game and the last person with a straight face wins.
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With calves, less can sometimes be more
With calves, less can sometimes be more
Scott Nordstrom, D.V.M., has seen it happen over and over: He cuts the number of vaccinations calves receive and then watches them do better.
"One of the first things people need to recognize is there are over 50 different diseases you can vaccinate cattle for," says Nordstrom, Technical Services Director-Dairy for Intervet Schering-Plough Animal Health.
"Unfortunately, when people get into a problem they look outside for a solution and often times there is some sort of vaccine out there. Because they aren't necessarily 100 percent certain of what the cause is, they go ahead and throw in a vaccine. They often get into a situation where at the end of the day they have two or three or four more vaccines than they actually need and they might not have even gotten at the cause of the problem."
One particular example of where less can be better is gram-negative vaccines. "Thirty percent of the energy use in a baby calf is for immune function," he says. "If I dump a bunch of additional antigens into a calf then I'm asking that a bunch of additional energy be utilized by the calf in order to live – but there's not an infinite pool of energy and protein."
One of the biggest problem times with gram-negatives is after shipping. "If a group of heifers is shipped a long distance and is vaccinated upon arrival, they will have stress on top of stress, and that's when we'll see problems," he warns. "Besides being fatigued they're often dehydrated and have been without feed. Those animals should be unloaded and not handled until they acclimate to food and water and their stress and cortisol level aren't having depressed effects upon response."


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Oak Villas residents reach out to Irving to help with apartment problems
Dallas Morning News reporter Jeff Mosier writes about some problems at the large Oak Villas apartment complex on MacArthur Boulevard. Residents are reaching out to Irving to help out with some of their concerns, which include water leaks, drywall damage, rodent and pest problems and more. One resident claimed she and her baby got E. coli infections from the unsanitary conditions caused by rodent droppings.
What makes it difficult for residents to get improvements is that apartment owners and property management blame each other, according to the article.
Ben Beitel, CEO of New York-based Besyata Investment Group and managing general partner of the complex, said ownership representatives visited the property periodically but were unaware of its problems.
The Pinnacle Family of Companies, which has managed the complex since November 2011, laid much of the blame on ownership. A written statement provided by company spokeswoman Kerri Fulks said that "due to recurring funding issues and unpaid invoices by the third-party owner, Oak Villas has, at times, been unable to secure vendors for maintenance needs and has not had sufficient funds needed to make repairs. The ownership group is fully aware how the lack of funding has impacted the property."
Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne said discussions with apartment representatives have been "hopeful." But she said Irving officials have consulted with city legal advisers in case there isn't cooperation.
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Got anything in your closet that allows you to come off as dignified and stylish, while letting you comfortably endure unrelenting heat and sunshine? And no, those faded swim trunks you love to wear around the house don't count. What does is a Guayabera shirt from the Cubavera collection.
A Guayabera is a casual linen shirt for men, resembling the style of camp shirts. From a work shirt to a standard of formalwear and from the hillside of Cuba to the world, the Guayabera's legacy has grown immeasurably, and continues to grow today. Refined but relaxed, some might say it's the ultimate embodiment of the rich heritage it's a part of.
The Guayabera shirt, a typical cuban shirt for men made of linen material, was conceived in the early 18th century of humble beginnings. Its indelible legacy traces all the way back to the Cuban countryside, or el campo. Legend holds that the distinct design was first created by a poor seamstress who sewed four pockets onto the front of her farmer husband's shirts to carry guayabas in. Its popularity kept spreading throughout the 18th and 19th century, and continued to grow in modern times.
Hold this handsome four-pocket linen shirt up to a light and you can literally see through it. That's because linen is thin, light and breathable, all attributes that work in your favor once the mercury has spiked. You'll feel as though you're bare-chested, yet onlookers will see a refined gentleman who's smiling happily as he strolls about in proper beach wedding attire. And should you get wedding cake on your Guayabera, fear not. After all the wedding toasts are finished and you've made your way home, simply take off this linen dress shirt and drop it into the washing machine. Ahhhhh, the joys of 100% linen construction. And should your social calendar call for casual dress, simply pair your 100% linen Guayabera with our One Pleat Linen Pants and sandals or jeans, and our Canvas Espadrille.
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Comments about Levenger Luggage Tag:
The leather luggage tag is perfect. I would have given it a 5 star across the boards, but the leather was a bit dry upon arrival and I needed to condition it. That aside, I still liked the product and it's functionability.
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Excellent tag for frequent traveler
By dhchicago
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Well designed, and excellent quality materials. Easy to attach to luggage, and has a security flap to protect address information.
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Excellent gift for my team. Great quality and functional for their business travel.
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I bought this luggage tag as a birthday gift for someone that travels a lot and I was proud to give him this quality item. The leather is luxurious and will last a long time. I had his initials embossed in the leather which made it a nice personal gift. He loved it! Love the boxes that all the items come in - makes for a nice presentation. Thanks for offering wonderful products.
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I got this tag to go with the double pocket brief bag I purchased as a graduation gift for my brother. He absolutely loved the engraving of his initials and raved about the nicely wrapped presentation of the tag. I will definitely have to get him some more for his luggage. In fact these would probably make a great stocking stuffers for the holidays!
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