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Robert Crais made his name writing thrillers that starred private eye Elvis Cole and tough guy Joe Pike — men adept at dropping wisecracks and thugs in equal measure.
His new heroine can take down a bad guy with the best of them, but, beyond that, she is like no other character Crais has dreamed up.
"You really want to be me when out of the blue you tell your publisher your next book is about a dog," said Crais, laughing. "Loooooong silence."
Maggie — the military German shepherd turned Los Angeles Police Department dog and partner to Officer Scott James, the other protagonist of Suspect — isn't your typical showbiz dog, the kind portrayed as either preternaturally smart or humanlike in a dog's fur coat.
"I get it," Crais said. "When I first said I was going to write a book about a dog, the reaction was that it's going to be like what they've seen on TV or in movies — that it's going to be a human wearing a black-and-tan jacket: 'Maggie! Get the car keys!'
"I didn't want to do that. Simply out of respect for these animals, I didn't want to make Maggie a cartoon. I wanted to write her as realistically and believably as possible."
That his new book features a cop-and-dog crime-fighting team happened mostly by accident, Crais said.
"I began research not because I was looking for a book but because I've always been a dog guy, though I don't have one now," he said. "My last dog passed away about 15 years ago, and I was never able to replace him. I felt disloyal."
He had picked his pet, an Akita he named Yoshi, when the pup was just a few days old, and they lived together for 12 years.After Yoshi died, Crais said, he would occasionally think it might be time to get another dog, but he would always drop the idea as memories of his old companion resurfaced.
"I decided I wanted to find out why — why do I feel this way about my dog, for Christ's sakes?" he said. "So I started reading about that, mostly to try to explain to myself that whole human-dog relationship. That led to enormous amounts of reading about how dogs think, how dogs perceive the world, dog senses, dog training.
"And that led to K-9 cops and their dogs, and military dogs and their trainers. And when I started to get into that territory, I think that's where the character of Maggie came to me."There is no closer relationship between a human and a dog than between military handlers and their dogs when they're downrange, overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq."
In Suspect, both Maggie and Scott have lost partners with whom they were close. Both are wounded characters, physically and emotionally — facets of their personalities that Crais embraced as he wrote the book.
"It allowed me to illustrate what a healing force a dog can be in our lives, and how man and dog can heal each other," he said. "I wanted to show these two damaged individuals, the dog and the man, and how they need each other and bond together and form their own pack."
Working on the book left Crais with a great deal of respect for the K-9 officers he watched at work as part of his research.
"It is the most dangerous job that a police officer can have," he said. "A K-9 officer is more likely to be in violent confrontation with a bad guy than a SWAT officer, a narcotics officer, any other kind of officer. They're not deployed until there's a bad guy who's already made the choice that he's not going to give up."
Suspect was originally intended as a stand-alone book, something different to write before returning to Crais' long-running series with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.
"I love Elvis and Joe; they're my go-to guys," Crais said. "But I fell in love with Maggie. Having written her, and where this (book) leaves off, there's ample opportunity to return to her."


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Good value for money. Nice bar with bar food.
Rooms are basic but satisfactory.
The helpfulness of the staff, particularly in the restaurant
Unfortunatley the heat in the bedroom was unbearable all night and unable to open the window. I turned off all of the heating prior to eating dinner but the room temperature was unchanged on my return to the room, this lead to a very uncomfirtable night
Very friendly, Overall it was a comfortable and friendly hotel.
The bacon at breakfast was inedible. It was rock hard, must have been cooked and left in a heater for a long while. Not freshly cooked.
First class service
The room was very clean and made for a very enjoyable stay. The pub restaurant was very good
The attractiveness and cleanliness of the hotel, the restaurant, service and ambience was superb. Could you please send me a loyalty card as I will be using the hotel again next week.
There was a lot of noise at 6am, the door at the top of the stairs was continually banging with people talking loudly.
I was upgraded to a superior room on arrival which was a nice surprise and staff made you feel very welcome, nothing was too much trouble. Restaurant food was first class and justified the slightly higher prices than you would normally see so well worthwhile.
The only thing I didn't like is the fact that I was only staying there for one night on business - one week would have been much nicer! :-)
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(c) Not be under the influence of any substance which could impair driving abilities.
(d) Meet the requirements of paragraphs (A), (B) and (D) of rules 5101:2-13-25 and 5101:2-13-26 of the Administrative Code .
(2) For drivers who are not used in the staff/child ratio and who are not employees of the type A home, the administrator shall secure a JFS 01266 "Contracted Driver Qualification Statement for Child Care Centers and Type A Homes" (9/2011) that has been completed at least annually by the driver's employer.
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(1) The curriculum for this training shall be developed by the Ohio department of job and family services (ODJFS) and shall include:
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"When Bob Haro took a bold step into the business world of BMX in late 1978, who could have predicted the impact of that decision on American and global youth culture. This book charts the story of the Haro brand from Bob's humble beginnings as a BMX racer and aspiring entrepreneur in southern California, through the years working for the BMX Action magazine as a staff artist, and into the infamous 1980's - an unrivaled period of intense progression and creativity for the new sport. As the story evolves through the decade, and new brands enter the scene, Haro Designs scales up and leads freestyle into a new era.
Through these 144 pages, you will find unique insights and imagery from Bob Haro, his riders and team managers, the Vice president of the company and other influential personalities from this era. This is the beginning of our sport. A celebrated period where the blueprint of a modern day Action sport was being created at the hands of an inspirational team of freestyle riders and dedicated company employees."
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Haro Bikes - The Rise of BMX Freestyle - Volume 2, rejoins the Haro story in early 1987, shortly after Bob Haro had negotiated the sale of the company to the mighty West Coast Cycle distribution empire. During that negotiation, a stipulation agreed on by all parties, would be Bob Haro and Jim Ford's commitment to lead the company into an exciting new era. Both Haro and Ford would agree, and the future looked brighter than ever.
The new arrangement would bring a wealth of new resources, and as the plan unfolded, Haro set its sights on new, and previously untapped, avenues of the action sports market. New expertise fast-tracked the company into the formative mountain bike scene, and a frenzied period of research and development would deliver genuine innovation. An ambitious attempt to enter the lifestyle driven, and highly lucrative skate scene, would connect the brand to some of the best athletes of the era. And the gloves were off in the vibrant BMX Racing scene too. In response to the presence of almost every BMX Racing brand in the freestyle arena, in the spring of 1986, Haro would unleash their all new Racing Division, and a debut year of almost total domination would follow.
In the more familiar BMX freestyle world, Haro continued to recruit the most exciting "breakthrough" vert and flatland riders in the world. With a dedicated presence in Europe, and a larger, more evolved team in the United States, Haro would continue to dominate both the freestyle market, and the International contest scene.
As the dust settled at the conclusion of 1992, the Haro brand had changed hands for the third time in six years. The once thriving freestyle scene had become a neon wilderness, and the realities of life in the corporate bicycle industry had taken a toll on the small, enterprising management team at Haro Designs. But the double chevron would endure, and rise to become a leader once again. And the rest is history.


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Other than just crossing their fingers, the New York Knicks have a long to-do list if they want to challenge the Miami Heat.
Before even thinking about contending for a championship, New York will have to find a way to get past LeBron James.
If they eventually meet in the playoffs, the Knicks will have to come in riding one of those hot waves they rode earlier on. They're going to need the ball to bounce their way, but there's a few things they can do to increase their odds of pulling the upset.


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Graham Zusi also scored for Sporting, which will travel to meet the Philadelphia Union in the semifinals on July 11, and Jimmy Nielsen had to make just one save for his second straight Cup shutout.
Sporting, which last made the semis when it won its only Open Cup in 2004, broke open the game with two goals in a three-minute span in the second half.
Zusi's blast from just outside the penalty area made it 2-0 in the 56th minute, and Sapong's header in the 59th widened the lead to 3-0.
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Should campaign-finance reform apply to Oscar barnstorming? Witness the soft-money spendthrifts at Miramax (last seen wallpapering your local Buddhist temple with Cider House Rules posters) and their attempt to yoink the Best Picture statue once again from an early DreamWorks front-runner in favor of their late-breaking underdog. American Beauty has proved to have remarkably long legs, but Cider House is still adding theaters and building audience. Harvey's minions hope to maximize the surge by working the bossman's hoodoo on all conceivable fronts, from blanketing the trades to last Sunday's special screening for a group of adoption-rightsexperts and groups.
Cider House's surprise appearance on the Oscar ballot seemed the imprint of a publicity machine's steamrolling force, since the movie was shut out of critics' awards and had a weak presence at the Golden Globes. But critical response to Lasse Hallström's film was in fact strangely warm, charitable, fuzzy: Stephen Holden at The New York Times perceived "depth and emotional weight" in his colleague Elvis Mitchell's pick for most deserving Best Picture entrant. Salonwhose highbrow is usually archedadmired its "resoluteness": "The Cider House Rules is unabashedly pro-choice, and unapologetic when the choice is abortion." Praise for its politicswhich crops up even in negative reviewspinpoints another factor working in Miramax's favor. Fully equipped with mugging doll-faced moppets and overweening Now Feel This! score sure to warm any Academy member's cockles, Cider House also delivers an abortion-rights maxim; the mostly left-leaning voters are invited to pat themselves on the back with their ballots. Planned Parenthood will present its Maggie Award, for achievement in coverage of reproductive rights, to Cider House this Saturday, the evening before the Academy Awards.
But Cider House's messageand this is a Message movie to end the genregets warped in the transmission. The Times locates "earned wisdom" in orphaned hero Homer Wells's decision, despite a lifelong opposition to abortion, to end the pregnancy of a young black girl carrying her father's child. (It's both indicative of Cider House's racial priorities and a foreshadowing of Miramax's lily-white advertising campaign that the film uses this gruesome revelation as an excuse for Charlize Theron to have an emotional scene.) Homer's action is portrayed as the product of a new understanding of the world's moral complexities, but what physician who didn't get his M.D. from Bob Jones would try to talk this tortured, terrified girl into motherhood?
Likewise unremarked upon is the abortion scene itself, in which Homer, unfathomably, requests that the abusive father hold the ether mask over his daughter's facea metaphorical double-team rape. John Irving's script, adapted from his novel, treats Dad with an equanimity that exceeds sympathy to become indulgence, and this impassive moral relativism bleeds into and poisons Homer's choicefor it's presented as exactly that and only thatto perform the abortion. Incest and reproductive rights are filed side by side under Things Fall Apart. This is a pro-choice movie, and resolutely abashed about it. Cider House didn't need a Weinstein-led children's crusade to get the Academy's attention; its apologist-liberal agenda is the same timid stuff that has scooped up Oscars for decades.
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Carlos Holder has worked as a cook, a driver, a custodian and did a stint in the military, but now he's just searching for any job to make ends meet.
"I'm just looking for anything that can help me," the Sun City resident said.
Even though nationally and in Arizona, the number of unemployed seniors is fairly low, programs at the Banner Olive Branch Senior Center in Sun City indicate a different issue.
Unemployment rates for people ages 55 to 64 was 5.9 percent in 2009 in Arizona, and the rate for people 65 or older was 8.0 percent; the total unemployment number for Arizona in 2009, however, was 10 percent, according to numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"The bills are piling up for me," Holder said.
Holder said even with retirement benefits, Social Security, and disability checks from Veterans Affairs, it's still not enough. He's received some help from Olive Branch, where he visits two or three times a week, but he still needs more money coming in.
Ivy Shirley, the director at Olive Branch, said the job-related programs at the senior center have seen an influx of job seekers in the last few years. The various workshops offered have doubled in attendance, and the twice-yearly job fair draws about 500 people. Beyond that, Shirley said the senior center helps job-seekers who are in their 70s or early 80s, whereas attendees used to be younger.
One such workshop offered last Wednesday gave seniors tips for a successful interview.
About 40 people gathered at Olive Branch to listen to a presentation from Banner Health Recruitment employees Andrea Molina and Bertha Almarez, a follow-up to a resume writing workshop offered earlier this month.
By a show of hands, most of the class was actively looking for a job, but only a few had been granted interviews.
Molina and Almarez reiterated points about the importance of both a clean resume and filling out an employer's application form, and they told the attendees that dressing professionally and being on time for an interview are key.
Carol Jankowski, the volunteer coordinator for the workshop and other Olive Branch job programs, said that many seniors are nervous going into an interview because they know they might be at a disadvantage compared to their younger counterparts.
"It can be very hard for an older person to go out there," she said.
Kim Johnson, also of Sun City, is in a similar situation to Holder. She needs a job to cover the bills Social Security doesn't.
"When you're a senior, you're on your own," Johnson said, although she calls the staff and volunteers and Olive Branch "angels" who provide meals and have even helped pay utility bills through the center's need-based programs.
Johnson said since she looks younger than she is, an interview might go well, but it stops there.
"It seems when they find out how old I am, I'm out the door," she said.
Shirley said Olive Branch doesn't use any specific statistics when putting together its programs, but instead goes off of the need they see in the community.
For people 55 years of age and older, the Arizona Department of Commerce shows a small drop in the number of claimants of unemployment benefits from August of 2009 to August of 2010.
Carole Corr, an assistant at the senior center who also helped organize the workshops, explained that many of their guests have lost investments and may have even lost their homes.
"We hear a lot of hard luck stories here at the center," Corr said. "It's not easy to make ends meet."
Jankowski explained while some seniors, like Carlos Holder and Kim Johnson, may need to go back to work for financial reasons, some people also just want something to do.
Deanna Neff of Surprise falls into that category.
"I like working with people. I like to do work," she said after the interview workshop, which she thought was helpful.
While people like Neff are looking for a job to fill their days, others are struggling to pay their bills.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nationally, the number of people in poverty actually declined for seniors 65 and older (from 3.7 million in 2008 to 3.4 million in 2009). That is a change from 9.7 percent in 2008 to 8.9 percent in 2009.
"There's a lot of need out there," Jankowski said.
She is also organizing a senior job fair on Oct. 6 at the United Church of Sun City, next door to Olive Branch at 11250 N. 107th Ave. Twelve to fifteen employers looking to hire seniors will be on hand to take resumes and chat with job seekers.
"People over 55 are more and more in need of employment and there are not a lot of opportunities out there," Jankowski said.
Contact the Banner Olive Branch Senior Center at 623-974-6797 for more information about the job fair and other job programs.


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Carmelo Anthony returned to his Olympic gold medal past and scored 26 points Thursday to lead the New York Knicks to a 102-87 victory over the Detroit Pistons.Share Tweet
Kevin Durant wanted to play for the Toronto Raptors as a kidEvery team in the league would love to have Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant on their roster. But as a young NBA fan growing up in Washington, D.C., which roster did Durant himself wish he could join? Surprisingly, the answer wasn't his hometown …Share Tweet
Brian Scalabrine lied about concussion symptoms to Celtics doctors to get cleared for the playoffsPau Gasol will return to the Los Angeles Lakers' lineup for the team's nationally televised Thursday game against the defending NBA champion Miami Heat after missing five games with a concussion brought on by an inadvertent elbow from Denver Nuggets cen…Share Tweet
The Knicks Get 2 Pieces Of Good News For Their Depthdimemag.com nytimes.com Jan 17, 2013For the Knicks there will be no "panic on the streets of London" today, as The Smiths sang. Second-year guard and perimeter defending savant Iman Shumpert could start in New York's game against Detroit in the English capital after his recovery fromShare Tweet
The New York Knicks and Ball Don't Lie present a helpful guide to understanding EnglandOn Thursday afternoon, stateside time, the Detroit Pistons and New York Knicks will play a regulation game in London's O2 Arena. In anticipation of the event, Knicks website maestro Jonah Ballow put together an interview collection featuring various KniShare Tweet
Ibaka's emergence has kept Thunder among eliteCNNSI.com Jan 17, 2013Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook dominate the headlines in Oklahoma City, but Ian Thomsen says that the emergence of Serge Ibaka has really kept the Thunder among the elite.Share Tweet
Luol Deng calls his shot, hits OT game-winner to send Bulls past Raptors (VIDEO)After a furious second-half Toronto Raptors comeback erased a 19-point Chicago Bulls lead and turned a laugher into a fun Wednesday night table-setter, the two teams sat tied at 105 with 8.7 seconds left in overtime. You might have expected the Bulls to…Share Tweet
Hornets give Rivers win in first game vs. fatherESPN.com Jan 17, 2013Greivis Vasquez scored 15 points with 11 rebounds and Austin Rivers won his first NBA game against his father on Wednesday night as the New Orleans Hornets beat coach Doc Rivers and the Boston Celtics 90-78.Share Tweet
LeBron James Becomes Youngest Ever To 20,000 Points; Kyrie Irving Explodes In Crunch Timedimemag.com Jan 17, 2013Two things were clear in Oakland last night. Clearly, Golden State has a ceiling, and the Heat don't. And clearly, LeBron James is really freakin' good, like "the youngest player to ever score 20,000 points" good. In Miami's 17-point win, JamesShare Tweet
Family First: In the Rivers' first father-son meeting, Austin g…CNNSI.com Jan 17, 2013In the Rivers' first father-son meeting, Austin got the best of Doc in the Hornets' 90-78 win. But the emotional night, years in the making, was about much more, says Ian Thomsen.Share Tweet
Carmelo Anthony On Knicks' WinJan 17Carmelo Anthony talks after the Knicks' win over the Pistons.
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Cuisinart recalls food processors due to laceration hazard
The Columbus Dispatch - November 22, 2013 12:37 PM
Details: This recall involves nine models of Cuisinart food processors including,
MFP-107, MFP-107BC, MFP-107BCWS, MFP-107BK, MFP-107BKWS, MFP-107DCWS, MFP-107MGSLT, MFP-107MR or
MFP-107WS. The model number is on the underside of the food processor base. The food processors
were sold in white, black, brush chrome, metallic gray, metallic red and silver colors. They have a
seven cup plastic work bowl and three push buttons "On," "Pulse" and "Off." Cuisinart is stamped on
the front. Sold at Belk, Best Buy, Dillards, J.C. Penney, Macy's, Sears, Williams-Sonoma and other
stores nationwide, and online at Amazon.com and Zappos.com from October 2012 through June 2013 for
about $100. Distributed by Cuisinart, a division of Conair Corp., of Stamford, Conn. Manufactured
in China.
Why: The reversible slicing/shredding disc can loosen when in use and the blade can strike and break the food processor's cover. The cover's broken plastic pieces can hit consumers, posing a laceration hazard. Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled food processors and contact Cuisinart to receive a free replacement lid and reversible slicing/shredding disc.
How many: About 25,000
Incidents: Cuisinart has received one report of an incident involving a consumer being struck on the cheek by a piece of the food processor's plastic cover that cracked off while the reversible slicing disc was being used. No medical attention was sought.
For more: Contact Cuisinart toll-free at (877) 339-2534 from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET Saturday or Sunday, or online www.cuisinart.com and click on Recall for more information.


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Theatre in Dublin
During your visit to Clontarf Castle Hotel in Dublin among the many things to do in Dublin why not attend a show in Dublin at one of the brilliant Dublin theatres.
Take a look at some of the theatres in Dublin to find out more.
Abbey Theatre
The Abbey Theatre was founded in 1903 by W.B Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory it remains true to its heritage, regularly re-animating plays from the Irish repertoire, as well as presenting classics from European and world theatre and new plays by established writers.
Recent productions include Freefall written by Michael West presented by The Corn Exchange.
Bord Gais Energy Theatre
This brand new 2,111 capacity purpose built theatre was designed by world renowned architect Daniel Libeskind and is an outstanding addition to Ireland's Theatre world. The Bord Gais Energy Theatre presents the best of National and International Theatre, Musicals, Drama, Opera, Ballet, Family Shows & Classical Concerts and has the facility to accommodate world class West End and Broadway productions for the first time in Ireland.
Gaiety Theatre
Since the glamorous night of its opening on 27 November 1871 the Gaiety Theatre has remained true to the vision of its founders in presenting the highest quality musical and dramatic entertainment.
As Dublin's longest-established theatre in continuous production, the Gaiety triumphantly maintains its unrivalled presence as the city's premier venue for popular musical shows, opera, ballet, dance and drama.
The Gate
Located in the cultural and social heart of the city the Gate Theatre has been, both artistically and architecturally, a landmark building in Dublin for over two hundred years. It was established as a theatre in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir. Under their guidance, the Gate offered Dublin audiences a first introduction to the world of European and American avant garde theatre as well as vibrant productions from the modern and classic Irish repertoire.
It was at the Gate that such luminaries as Orson Welles and James Mason began their prodigious acting careers. Today the theatre continues to attract the finest of creative talent and offers a stimulating and inclusive programme, appealing to theatre goers of all generations and from a broad spectrum of the population. The theatre is unique in that it has had only two artistic directorates in the last 75 years.


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Ok to start the computer I am working on is an HPp6330f <- link (or if you dont feel like going to the link) its an Intel I3 with 3 x 2Gb PC3 - 10600 ram chips. I decided to upgrade my ram to 12gb by ordering a pair of 4Gb pc3 - 10666 chips ( 4+4+2+2 = 12) I didnt think the 66 Mhz would be that big a deal as it should just run at the slower speed (in theory).
I was wrong....very wrong
If I install the 4gb chips in slots 1 and 2 and the smaller chips in 3 and 4 it freezes on the bios screen and doesnt respond to anything but the power button being held. (so I figure 8gb is still an improvement I'll try just them)
Just the 2 4gb chips runs ok for about 1 minute before the system shuts off and reboots. In the short time I have I can get into bios and see that all 8gbs is being recognized.
If i try either 4gb chip all by itself it is stable until I try and boot to windows and I get a BSOD? I looked but couldnt find a log for the crash.
I have tried every imanginable combination of sockets with the ram ( use only socket 2 and 4, using just socket 4, 1 4gb and 1 2gb, etc.)
So Im at a loss, "what would casue it to BSOD with 1 stick but reboot with 2 or freeze with mixed ram?"
oh a side note to crucial: Your Ram checker says that the hp p6330f Crucial specs will accept pc3 - 12800 this is incorrect (HP and more imprortantly MSI the mobo manufacturer) list pc3 - 10600 as the highest it will accept hp specs
Hi sgreen18,
I am sorry for the issues that you have experienced with your RAM upgrade. What is the part number on the label of the memory? This part number should read something like CT51264BA1339, etc. This will help us determine the compatibility of the RAM modules you received and the system.
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Bill Kristol Gives a Glimpse Into the Repubs' Strategy for November
Make no mistake: heading towards the general election in November, the Republican Party smells intense fear, and that fear will manifest itself into the dirtiest, ugliest, most divisive presidential election campaign in American history. The GOP's coming off of eight miserable, economically ravished, war-torn, scandal-plagued years of Bush/Cheney. Given the likelihood that Sen. Barack Obama--with his message of inspiration, hope and change--will eventually prevail in his protracted primary battle with Sen. Hillary Clinton, the reality is settling in that the junior Senator from Illinois could be the next occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania. Just ask neocon pundit William Kristol.
In his op-ed piece in Monday's NY Times, the rabid right-winger confides that in private meetings with leading conservatives there's a growing belief that Obama's gonna beat their presumptive nominee, Sen. John McCain. And he suggests that, at least in some Repug circles, the smear campaigns are already being developed. Kristol writes: Last week over drinks, one Republican strategist not affiliated with the McCain campaign mused about how an independent advertising effort against Obama might work. "Barack Obama: He's not who you think he is" would be the theme. The supporting evidence would come from his left-wing voting record in Illinois and Washington, spiced up with fun video clips of Rev. Wright.
"Fun clips of Rev Wright?" You bet your ass they're gonna run like mad with this stuff. I've been saying that for weeks now. Remember how they vilified John Kerry over his windsurfing photo? Can you imagine what these vicious thugs are going to do with those "God Damn America" clips from the Reverend? Obama's not gonna know what hit him.
Kristol goes on to quote a Democratic operative: "Finally I think McCain's going to win. Obama isn't growing in stature. Once I thought he could be Jimmy Carter, but now he reminds me more of Michael Dukakis with the flag lapel thing and defending Rev. Wright. Plus he doesn't have a clue how to talk to the middle class..." And that's a Democrat speaking.
So there you have it: Obama's an unpatriotic, raging liberal elitist whose preacher hates America. And we haven't even thrown in his past drug use; his wife's comments about America; or his "terrifying" middle name or "Muslim heritage." Just wait. This party's only getting started. If Kristol is right about one thing, it's that the Republican attack machine is quite busy greasing its venomous gears as we speak. The question for Democrats is this: Can Obama face down this onslaught and come out victorious?
On another note, we could use your help at The The Adrienne Shelly Foundation. We are a tax-exempt, non-profit organization dedicated in my wife's honor to help carry out her spirit and passion, with the goal of assisting women filmmakers. Adrienne was brutally killed in NYC on November 1, 2006. Through the Foundation, her commitment to filmmaking lives on. We've established scholarships, grants, finishing funds and living stipends at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts/Kanbar Institute of Film; Columbia University; American Film Institute; Women in Film; the Independent Feature Project; the Nantucket Film Festival; and the Sundance Institute. We're very pleased to announce that one of last year's grant recipients, Cynthia Wade, just won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject for "Freeheld." We are proud of Cynthia and to have supported this film. Your generous contribution will go a long way towards helping us continue to achieve our very important mission.
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Mark Leslie was in the Greylock offices today. Somewhat embarrassingly, I had just printed his HBR paper "The Sales Learning Curve" and left it on the printer (a fact that my partner Asheem, amused, pointed out to him). It's a classic reading which I'd wanted to refresh on before comparing notes with our resident growth hacker Andy Johns, a thought leader on consumer user growth.
The smartest technologists are usually somewhat thoughtful about the pacing of their sales hiring and methodical in making their forecasts (and implicitly understand their own SLC). But they rarely bring the innovation resident in their products to the rest of the business. I am concerned when entrepreneurs tell me they've got a "traditional, enterprise sales model." I also see a lot of presentations from really fantastic entrepreneurs with a slide that looks like this:
- Direct
- ISV's, Integrators
- OEM Partners
This says sales was an afterthought, or at least that they've defaulted to the status quo. Distribution decisions often influence product design (at the extreme, Amazon.com distribution = product design) and always influence organizational design.
Much has been written about why legacy packaged software companies find it hard to react to competitive cloud offerings such as Salesforce.com and Workday, but people usually focuses on two things: 1) innovator's dilemma / the inability to cannibalize 90%+ margin maintenance revenue streams and 2) the need to re-architect from the ground up to create a truly multi-tenant, single-codebase application in order to both take advantage of cloud agility & scalability and deal with the cloud unreliability and latency.
But just as important to the Workday success story was the fanatical focus on customer success. In a SaaS business, the customer relationship is fundamentally different. Yes, Salesforce and Workday have "enterprise sales reps." But if you gave legacy competitors the Workday code, and let them keep their sales, services and support organizations, I doubt they'd create and maintain valuable customer relationships.
Some things about enterprise sales are fundamental — i.e. if you are selling a storage appliance that costs $100k to make, you probably need to sell to the IT organization with field sales reps, at more than $100k. I'm not expecting Paypal or Dropbox-like virality. But how should your product be priced, sold and serviced? By who and why?
At Greylock, we look at a lot of ideas that aren't fully baked yet. We don't need you to have a funnel or a pipeline before you have a product. But, I'd be really excited if an entrepreneur showed me a deck that had a sales roadmap with half as much clarity as his product roadmap. These are some of the basic questions you could answer…
- Who are your power users / champions?
- Your distribution is: Direct/channel
- Your people are: Inside / outside
- Selling is: High volume / relationship
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Based on: The book by Lois Duncan
Story: Family comedy adventure which sees two orphans deciding to rescue a city's stray dogs. Arriving at a foster home with a 'strictly no pets' policy, 16-year-old Andi (Emma Roberts) and her younger brother Bruce (Jake T. Austin) realise they'll have to find a home for their dog Friday. On a trip downtown, the kids discover an old disused hotel that would be ideal for their needs. When they discover some of the local strays have already made it their home, they decide to take it one step further, turning the hotel into a refuge, and pleasure palace, for every stray mutt they can possibly find. But all the activity soon brings them to the notice of the police and the local dog-catchers, who valiantly, if stupidly, try to close down the operation.
Starring: Emma Roberts, Lisa Kudrow, Don Cheadle, Kevin Dillon, Jake T. Austin, Kyla Pratt, Jeremy Howard, Ajay Naidu, Robinne Lee, Yvette Nicole Brown
Directed by: Thor Freudenthal
Music by: John Debney
Produced by: Ewan Leslie, Lauren Shuler Donner
Written by: Jeff Lowell, Robert Schooley, Mark McCorkle
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If i may add, one point I was surprised about was the fact that the first jacobian came out to be zero, though i beleive i have done it correctly
I think my method is correct here, but i must of gone wrong somewhere (note i cannot use divergence theorem)
I have a vector field:
Where a is a constant and a sphere:
R is the radius.
Now i have to do a surface integral i.e. not gauss's divergence theorem of a volume integral. Though i did this in order to match my answers and i got
Though i haven't yet found a method to get near to an answer for the surface integral. I know:
Though in this situation dx, dy and dz are all present:
then i sub in n into the flux do the dot products, cancel the 1/|N| terms and get:
Now i introduce spherical coordinates whereby:
Now it looks a little messy but is still all doable - albeit a little long winded but im not allowed to use the divergence theorem.
To cut it short i get
Which is not the obvious and the one i got from divergence theorem:
Any help is much appreciated and thanks for reading
I really dislike that way of doing a surface integral. Instead, I would do this:
Start by using spherical coordinates, with , a constant: , , so we can write the "position vector of any point on surface as
The derivatives of that vector with respect to the two parameters,
are tangent to the surface and their lengths contain information about the differentials of arc length. So their cross product
is normal to the surface and contains all differential information.
(I chose the order of multiplication to give the outward normal)
In other words, that is .
Now, so that
and your integral is
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US whole food giant and owner of stylish Fresh and Wild chain in the UK is opening a massive new store in Kensington, London. Read more here. http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/.....c1530.html.
This great news, and they have plans for more - let's hope they have a market here in the UK!
The significance for chocolate though is they will likely carry a decent range of fine chocolate. As well as the obvious choices, I hear rumours of Pralus.
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Fourth Floor Fun
Daily Herald #1
"Fourth Floor Fun"
by Eric D. Snider
Published in The Daily Herald on October 3, 1992
There's been a lot of heated debate on the subject, but I think I can safely say, after four weeks of living here, that the fourth floor of Q-Hall in Deseret Towers is by far the most immature floor in all of BYU, and we're awfully proud of it.
But perhaps "immature" isn't the right word. Perhaps "fun-loving" is more accurate. One thing we like to do for "fun," for example, is shave each other's heads. Some guy named "Arnie" (I didn't realize anyone actually had that name until I arrived here) owns a buzzer, and any time someone gets bored, they go to him and have him carve designs in their hair. I am not personlly included in the category of people who like to have Arnie shave their heads, as it is against my personal code of ethics to go near anyone who possesses electric shaving implements if his name is Arnie. The same goes for people named Rufus, Dave, and Gus.
But I think the best example of the prevailing attitude on the fourth floor, the one that pretty much speaks for itself, despite the fact that I am going to speak for it, is the way everyone behaved during Open House a couple weeks ago. Open House takes place every two weeks at BYU, and it is simply a period of time when the women are allowed to go into the men's dorms, not just in the lobby, which they can and do hang around in all the time, but actually up into the men's rooms!
(Before you get the wrong idea, let me assure you that the men's doors must remain open, so that if there's any fornication to be done, it will be done in full view of everyone else. Also, these things are always held on Sunday, which presumably is the day when people are least likely to fornicate in the first place, being weary from fasting and all.)
Anyway, in anticipation of the first Open House of the semester, several of the guys on the fourth floor turned the commons room into a discotheque, complete with a glittering ball hanging from the ceiling, which they made by purchasing a styrofoam ball and gluing several dozen little round mirrors to it. They also found the soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever" (don't ask me where; I don't think anyone will admit to owning it) and blasted it on the stereo.
The reason for this '70s resurrection (if you really think they needed a reason) was, obviously, to impress the women when they came to visit. And my, were those women ever impressed. They were impressed when the guys would grab them roughly by the arms as soon as they got off the elevator and shove them into the discotheque, practically ordering them to be impressed. They were impressed at how the guys hopped around and danced like a bunch of diseased birds performing a mating ritual. And most of all, they were impressed at how the guys cleaned up their bedrooms before their arrival, that is, if by "cleaned up" we mean "kicked everything under the bed and commanded their dirty socks to get up, walk down to the laundry room, and wash themselves."
All in all, the girls must have had a swell time, particularly after Arnie offered to give them all haircuts, free of charge.
My first column for the Daily Herald (see the preface for more info on how I got the job). I think the whole thing is somewhat immature and not all that funny. My automatic dislike for the '70s goes against popular culture, which was just beginning to have a kitschy fondness for that decade; I should have realized that, rather than make weak jokes about it.
I actually got a letter in response to this -- an ominous warning of what was to come. In conjunction with my first column, a Herald staff writer wrote a brief feature about me. In that interview, I mentioned that I had graduated from the fictitious University of Humor and was a Trained Humor Professional. (You need to know that before reading this letter.)
To: Someone in charge of the weekly columns.
This letter concerns the article written by Eric Snider -- On the Light Side -- 'Dorm's Open House...'
His article proves he is not only 18 years old but that he is also ridiculously immature with his mention of 'fornication.' I guess he felt to throw this in so he could show how really clever he could be?? [Well, yeah...]
I also graduated from the University of Humor -- but, thank goodness, a different university than the one he did.
The letter was unsigned, and so it was not printed in the paper. Still, it was vaguely upsetting to start getting mail after only the first column...
Looking back on it now, I probably shouldn't have used a term like "fornication" so loosely (pardon the pun) in a public forum. I just think the word itself is used so often in religious settings that it has lost its impact. We no longer stop to consider the serious sin it refers to. This was no doubt the case with me, although the letter-writer apparently still takes it quite seriously.
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Hyman Robert Bizinsky papers, 1946-1990
Bizinsky, Hyman Robert, b. 1915 d. 1982
Active in Los Angeles, Calif.
Collection size: 1.3 linear ft.
Collection Summary: Correspondence, sketches, sketchbooks, clippings, and exhibition announcements. Papers record the career of Bizinsky from his 1946-1951 years in Paris and his lifelong friendship with crusading Atlanta Constitution editor Ralph McGill. Also included are 2 pages (4 sides) of Bizinsky's ink sketches of horses, a 1967 sketchbook, a sketch diary and loose sketches. Among the correspondents are Edward P. Morgan, the noted journalist and newsman, and Philipe Soupault, French poet and art critic (one letter, in French).
Biographical/Historical Note: Painter, teacher; Los Angeles, Calif. Bizinsky was a post-impressionist painter of city and landscapes. He attended classes at Atlanta's High Museum of Art, and worked as a cartoonist for the Atlanta Constitution under editor Ralph McGill, who became his mentor, a lifelong friend, and collector of Bizinsky's work. He later attended the Art Students' League in N.Y. and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beauz-Arts in Paris. From 1946-1951 he worked in Paris with fauvist Emile-Othon Friesz and exppressionist Yves Brayer. He returned to the U.S. in 1951 under a scholarship from the Huntington Hartford Foundation in Southern California, and settled in Los Angeles where he became active in the Westwood Art Association.
Donated by Mrs. H. Robert Bizinsky, widow, 1994.
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Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)Translation: Laboratory of Experimental Economics
Translation: Department of Economics and Business
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Location: Barcelona, Spain
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The URP is ASPT's new undergraduate research prize, where up to three ($300) prizes may be awarded each spring for an outstanding, independent research project in plant systematics (broadly interpreted) completed by an undergraduate student within the last 2 years.
Hanna E. Dorman - Mississippi State University. Research topic: 'Phylogeography of Acmispon dendroideus (Fabaceae) on the California Channel Islands tracked through variation in Nsp1.' Advisor: Dr. Lisa Wallace.
Anne Johnson - Duke University. Research topic: 'Unique expression of a sporophytic character on the gametophytes of notholaenid ferns (Pteridaceae).' Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Pryer.
Malorie Lipman - University of Florida. Research topic: 'Parental chromosome balance in naturally occurring trigenomic Tragopogon miscellus x T. mirus hybrid' Advisor: Dr. Douglas Soltis.
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2013 Innovations in Plant Systematics Education Prize Awardee
The IPSEP is ASPT's new innovations in plant systematics education prize, where a $500 prize will be awarded to an educator who has developed novel and innovative resources for teaching plant systematics (broadly interpreted) to undergraduate and/or graduate students.
Bruce Kirchoff - University of North Carolina - Greensboro, for his innovative application of research in cognitive psychology to teaching plant identification with both active visual learning and online keys. For more on Bruce's work, see his web page.


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"I was originally a Jazz fan but since I am getting pooped on so hard on the Jazz forums it is really starting to make me wish Kanter develops into the Kevin McHale potential he has and make the Jazz look bad. Nothing would make me happier at this point." Unidentified Kanter homer on reddit.
7/16 is one made shot away from 50% shooting, not the worst thing in the world really.
The trick with Kanter is he needs to get the awkwardness out of his game. I think he will.
Long Live JYD
I'm just glad we're talking crap about him and he has 18/8!
For that to be a meh performance, he has to be pretty damn talented. I think the Al comparison is not bad, but as noted there are some pretty key differences that make Kanter's upside SO much higher.
Al has much better hands, reach, and probably touch. Kanter has him hands down with the bully attitude and that warrior demeanor more than anything buys him more time as far as I'm concerned. But the guy is not an elite talent and will get everything he gets the hard way.
I quoted Cy because it's clear that the dude was drafted to run that low post play. He better be elite at that play cuz if he isn't better than Al (he's not) this is a huge mistake not drafting the true prototype center in JV. All you guys hating on Al and Corbs better pay attention to how this player is used. In exactly the same manner as Al. If you like that play, the iso center off deep post, this is your future. If you wanted a center that does all the little things and is not worried about being the hub of the offense you probably wanted JV.
You guys are all over Kanter's effort now, but this cannot be sustained over 35 minutes. It can't. He will have to slow down somewhere, and when he does this forum will ride his ass all the way to hell for it.
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I don't like the Al and Kanter comparison.
Al's got this slithery and unorthodox way about him on the court whereas Kanter kinda plays like a rock on the court.
Al's kinda squeezes his body to get his jump shot off. Really unorthodox, but it works.
Kanter's shot is balanced, very good follow through. It's almost picture perfect as far as I can tell. I'm not trying to be biased, I just think his jumpshot looks real good.
Al's got that push shot that I just don't see Kanter developing. Al's push shot comes through his body turning towards the hoop. Very unorthodox and it works.
Kanter has to use his strength to rebound. Al's rebounding comes a lot from his great wingspan.
There's a lot more...but I'd like to see Kanter develop more into a PnR player. His wide body is perfect for picks and has a real nice looking jump shot. I think this isn't too unreasonable. Chances are that Brown Notes is right and Ty is developing him to be more of a post up player. Unfortunate because Favors and Kanter both have better tools as PnR players.
big turkey is still a good rebounder but since he lost weight and gained speed, he tries to prove a point in transition offense success, ending the fast breaks with dunks. if he maintained his position in all those fast breaks since the start of the season, he would have easily get more rebounds. one more important thing is, he and favors were always bumping into each other last season on rebounds, then obviously the man with the more leap got the ball in his hands, but still it would be harmful if they kept jumping to the same ball without control. I am guessing, tyrone corbin tried to solve this issue by giving favors the rebound and kanter the wing run. which is imo not right if you keep playing kanter at 5. he is a 4 right now and needs to train in that position. but in jazz'zzz big man rotation, who else would be center around kanter? favors is a great blocker but center needs bull physicalities.
EK should quit dreaming about playing "PF" in NBA.
He is a C for the Jazz and that is the only position he can play!
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2) fine with me as long as he sets his mind to dunk the dang ball under the rim instead of pump faking which in the end he usually gets blocked or doubled or tripled. attempt the dunk at least, u'll have a good chance of getting fouled and u r a good free throw shooter. even tyson chandler told u to go right to the basket, told u u were strong as a bull. use it there too!
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Carnival Freedom Cruise Review by debra816: Carnival Freedom--- Best Cruise Ever!!
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Carnival Freedom--- Best Cruise Ever!!
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Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Freedom has wonderful music (R&B) etc. playing thruout. The shows in the main lounge are second to none. The costumes were superb. I felt we should be watching these productions on Broadway. However, there was one evening with a not so good show. I think it was geared toward the "seniors". Sinatra type of music, etc. The service and staff very friendly. Music in the lobby and walkway in front of casino was excellent. Their Karaokee was not all that great. I think the room was to large which made folks feel "impersonal". The best Karaokee I've experienced was in smaller settings and everyone felt more personal.
The food was great, but not as good as other ships which was superb! Half of the menus were repeat, more often that I expected. Even in the formal dining room. I really like the diners spread for the late nighters (held in the area of the clubs which was set up near the sushi-bar location. Also disappointed that there were no burgers and fries on the lido deck late More at night. Only pizza.
Overall it was our best cruise ever!!! Music, shows, food, service.
One other point is, it is a beautifully decorated ship, and pristine clean throuout, except for the balcony had layers of oily salty film on the railing and it's furniture. Also the windows were dirty in the rooms and the dining room (lido deck) windows. Could not take any decent pictures thru them without a smeared, smudgy, filmy appearance. I have not seen any other ship with dirty windows like that. This is a first for Carnival. That was really a let down because stopping at five ports I like to take pictures from my room/window. Less
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We were in 2308 and it was a great location. Quiet. The cabin was set up with twin beds and not only that, was sagging in the center(s). The spread/duvet was not very "white" either and the steward changed it to King size early on and somehow removed the sagging also added newer/whiter covers. (I'm just used to my other cruises on Carnival ships with the "white spread/duvet and pillows on their other ships). The bathroom smelled of urine when we first came in our room. After telling him and asking that he "re-sanitize" our room it smelled fresh all week long.
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There is a movement afoot to boycott Amazon, and it even has its own online petition at ThinkBeforeYouClickCA.org. This in fact is a battle of petitions, with the boycotters working online and Amazon, ironically, gathering signatures at bricks-and-mortar venues.
How big the movement will get or whether it will have any impact remains to be seen, but at a minimum it represents a new and unexpected element in the world of publishing.
What's at issue is the collection of sales tax.
The background: In states (this is purely a US matter) and municipalities where there is a sales tax, anyone who steps into a bricks-and-mortar store expects to pay sales tax anywhere in the range of 5-9%, money that is then used for various governmental purposes. The sales tax regime is a crazy quilt, with the cost of a product sometimes literally being different when you cross the street into a neighboring tax jurisdiction. Online merchants have been spared the collection of the tax unless they have "nexus" — physical facilities in the state. It's clear that this situation creates an unbalanced marketplace, with Barnes & Noble, for example, with physical nexus in many states, having to collect the tax, but Amazon, with nexus in very few states, collecting little tax.
It's hard to be a merchant when your online competitor can charge 8% less on everything they sell.
Individuals are supposed to pay the tax themselves if the online merchant doesn't collect it, but few people do. I am one of the few that comply — keeping a spreadsheet open and entering each purchase with the sales or "use" tax required under the law — and I must tell you that it is a royal pain in the neck. But I do it because I am a civic-minded chump, knowing full well that this is a regulation honored more in the breach.
The state of California, where I reside, has now passed legislation that would require Amazon to collect the tax. Amazon has taken the extraordinary action of trying to overturn the legislation by pressing for a referendum on the subject. People with petitions are out looking for signatures now.
I should provide some background on how democracy is practiced in the richest state in the richest country in the world. Like citizens everywhere in the US, Californians support state democracy and majority rule, going to the ballot box every year to send officials to the capital in Sacramento. Unlike many other states, however, California has improved the system by insisting that some measures require a supermajority, thus broadening the base of power by supporting minority rule as well. And in the piece de resistance, fearing that some work might be left undone — or done — even with majority and minority rule at work in our public affairs, we Californians also support a state referendum process, whereby the people can vote directly on many issues, bypassing the legislature. This is how Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor (through the back door when Governor Gray Davis was recalled) and how Howard Jarvis pushed through Proposition 13, which severely restricted the state's ability to hire teachers, put books in libraries, and fix potholes. When I described the California style of democracy to an Eastern European publisher I know, a look of nostalgia appeared on her face for the era of Soviet totalitarianism.
It is in the tradition of Jarvis that Jeff Bezos now stands. The proposed referendum, should it get on the ballot, would make it illegal to force online merchants to collect sales tax.
This has gotten some people hopping mad. Hence, the boycott.
It's a shame it has come to this. Amazon is truly one of the world's great companies. It is difficult to imagine the world of books without it, despite the fact that it has able competition from Barnes & Noble, which is still the largest US bookseller when print and electronic books are combined. And there are other meaningful venues: Powell's, Google E-books, the Apple iBookstore, and literally thousands of outlets in the physical world, from independent bookstores to mass merchandisers to drugstores. The book business is an amazing thing; in 2010 about 2.7 billion books were sold in the U.S., giving the lie to anyone who says that the book is dead and that people don't read. In this world, Amazon is the rising colossus: innovative, technologically amazing (my Eastern European friend pronounces the name "a-MAYZ-on," thinking the name comes from "amazing"), touching all points of the value chain, from self-published books to college texts. There is nothing Amazon cannot do except collect taxes.
When I first heard rumblings about a boycott, I began to ponder what it would mean to comply. It would be very hard. My professional life is so bound up with Amazon that I don't know how to extricate myself. Could I in good faith not tell a client to avail itself of Amazon's Cloud-hosting service? Could I tell my own kids not to look for their college textbooks on Amazon? How could I justify to a client not including Amazon from a list of distributors of e-books? Or do I tell an author of long out-of-print scholarly monographs not to consider Amazon's print-on-demand operation? And this does not include the services that Amazon may yet get into. For example, the horsey technology now used by journals publishers for author submissions, peer review, and hosting would be child's play for the engineers at Amazon to improve upon. How many times have I told clients that Amazon's technology and interfaces represent the standards that their own services must rise to? A world without Amazon would be a diminished one.
For scholarly publishers, working without Amazon may be a nonstarter. Amazon's market share varies by region, format, and subject area, but for scholarly books it reigns supreme. I happened to gather some data on Amazon's role in the university press world a couple years ago. At that time, Amazon constituted about 25% of press revenues, a figure that has surely risen since then. Some presses reported that Amazon was almost half of their total volume.
The gathering of signatures for the referendum is proceeding apace. A friend of mine, who lives in Berkeley, told me of being accosted by someone brandishing an Amazon petition. She should sign it, he said, because we all have to stick up for the little guy. Amazon is the little guy? My friend asked some questions and elicited a series of illogical and blatantly false statements. Finally, the petition-gatherer pleaded with her to sign, declaring that he was on Social Security and needed the $3 per signature that the petition's sponsor paid. She signed. We now know the price of the California style of democracy.
Even considering the boycott opens up other, disturbing thoughts. Would Amazon retaliate? Amazon has been known to behave aggressively toward publishers that have displeased them, removing the "buy" buttons from publishers' titles — even while keeping the titles in the database, where a Google search will almost always bring a potential customer — when the publisher did not submit to Amazon's demands. And this question of retaliation makes this not only a question for placard-carrying boycotters in Berkeley but for publishers in general and perhaps the society at large. Should any company be able to intimidate someone who voices a lawful protest?
The boycott of Amazon made me think of Siva Vaidhyanathan and his book, "The Googleization of Everything." Like Amazon, Google touches everything, and it makes you wonder if these companies should operate outside the regulatory environment. This is not a matter of Amazon or Google being "too big to fail" but of their being too intertwined to extricate. Of course, this is not the 1960s; today the genius of the world is not Berkeley but the economics department of the University of Chicago. Calling for regulation of industry as an assertion of the will of the people seems awfully remote. The market will tell us what is best for us.
Still and all, as I ponder this situation and the wild-eyed young men who asked me to sign one of many petitions in my local downtown area the other day, I hear the strains of Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air."
A great song.
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Zvonimir Tot (z-VON-e-mere TOTE) is a Chicago-based jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger with a style deeply rooted in the jazz tradition but flavored by his European origin. He holds too many university degrees. Tot has performed in the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Croatia. He has performed and/or recorded with many world-renowned musicians, including:
-Saxophonists Scott Hamilton, Billy Harper and Peter King
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(...) Zvonimir Tot (is) an exceptional jazz guitarist. The fluidity of his technique, the bent-note expressiveness of his pitch and the sleekly melodic quality of his improvisations have earned him wide admiration. Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
When he improvises, Zvonimir evidences many things, from the intensity of a conservatory virtuoso to the serene patience of a Zen guru, and always, the love of lore that characterizes griots and troubadours the world over. Neil Tesser, Jazz critic; author, Playboy Guide to Jazz
Zvonimir Tot is the hot new voice in the world of jazz guitar virtuosos. Judy Roberts, Chicago Jazz Magazine
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Mr. Scruff DJs at KoKo, London
British phenomenon uses jazz to keep them dancing
While less known to American audiences, the eccentric and lovable British DJ Mr. Scruff has been something of a minor phenomenon in the U.K. While eluding serious mainstream success since he first purveyed his comedic, jazz-infused beats back in the mid-'90s, the Manchester-based DJ has successfully amassed hordes of devoted fans and left an abundance of brilliantly wayward 12"s in his wake. Above all, as demonstrated with aplomb at his latest gig in London, he puts on a great show.
Scruff, aka Andy Carthy, is that rare breed of music alchemist—genre-defying, irreverent and fun. His material is a fusion of wobbly lounge-jazz, swing, Afro-funk, disco, big brass and big bass, with samples pillaged from second-hand record stores worldwide. Accompanied by his DIY, loose-lined animations on giant screens, he prides himself on playing marathon sets that delve deep into his bubbling musical cauldron.
His latest epic set took place in the suitably grandiose venue of KoKo in Camden, north London, a cavernous old theatre, steeped with blood-red walls and an Olympic-size mirror ball suspended from its high ceilings. Scruff eased the punters in with reggae, dub, soul, Motown and jazz before pushing the tempo with more disco-oriented grooves once the venue reached full capacity. By then, the heaving mass of revelers was moving and grooving in time to the sound systems's funky bass lines, layered with smooth, soulful female vocals, with the occasional souped-up, Prohibition-era swing thrown in. Two big screens either side of the DJ booth showed off Scruff's latest animations, drawn by his own hand: weird potato-like creatures playing French horns, tucking into apple pies and bouncing along to the relentless beat. Behind the dance floor lay a pop-up teashop selling Mr. Scruff's own brand, freshly-brewed tea. Wholesome or what?
Approximately three hours in, though, the set begins to drag. The infectious, rubbery funk has ebbed, replaced instead by empty, bassless house music better suited to a yuppie wine bar. It feels lazy and lackluster, with no rise, no fall, no journey. Yet by the early hours, the vinyl decks are reinvigorated by some heavy-duty Latino sounds as hip-swiveling salsa takes over, punctuated by powerful trumpet blasts, propelled by Cuban percussion. By now, the chest-pummeling bass is inescapable, pumping fully palpable vibrations through the audience. As the marathon set approaches its end, Scruff classics such as the bouncy, hip-hoppy "Vibrate," the wacky "Fish" and the swinging "Get a Move On" are thrown into mix. There's also a new track labeled simply as "new scruff tune" on the screens, met with riotous reception as the projectors tell the crowd "incoming bass alert" and "get your knees up."
Those on the dance floor are impossible to pigeonhole: a city banker over here, a rave fanatic there, jazz fans on the front row, all dancing to Scruff's long, unpredictable and unpretentious set with genuine joy. Scruff, dressed in t-shirt and jeans, stoically keeps going to the end. And while he remains mostly deadpan throughout, his eclectic range of sounds are definitely best presented with a goofy grin than a smug smirk.


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Activism Alert: Senate Bill 6
By Staff · April 9, 2010
We here at QL are a tad biased. We mostly hail from Florida and thus know about all things Disney, orange related, and Bush family scandals. We're also mostly all products of the Florida Public School System.
Here's were the activism comes in. Senate Bill 6 just passed the Florida Legislature. Its a terrible bill that puts educators on par with used car salesmen. With the enactment of this bill, teachers will be held financially responsible for the performance of their kids. I don't know about you, but when I slacked off it wasn't because my teacher wasn't trying. It was because I was a teenager who wanted to talk with my friends in class instead of conjugating verbs in Spanish.
More than that, good, experienced teachers aren't going to want to work in the low performing schools where at-risk children really need them. This bill will set education in Florida back decades. Not only is Florida at risk, but other states are proposing similar bills. The legislature has passed the bill and it is sitting on Charlie Crist's desk. Take a second and give the governor a call telling him to VETO SENATE BILL 6. I'll even Google that for you:
Phone number: (850) 488-4441
Fax number: (850) 487-0801
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