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After Technology Destroys Capitalism
In honor of , let's think big for a moment. No, no, no. Bigger than that.
Consider all the furious attention paid to economic inequality of late, courtesy of Thomas Piketty and . He argues that increasing inequality is an inevitable outcome of laissez-faire capitalism, and proposes we fix this with a global wealth tax.
I humbly suggest that he's thinking much too small, and that the 21st century will be far too transformative to be contained within the worn and shabby walls of capitalism.
…Given that intro and title, I should quickly disclaim: I am, in fact, a big fan of capitalism. I don't think it's possible for anyone to have traveled across as much of the developing world as without being convinced of the enormous benefits (on the whole) of technology-powered capitalism and/or capitalism-powered technology, which have made billions of lives around the globe immensely better over just the last few decades.
(Don't get me wrong. I'm a capitalist. But let's not pretend that capitalism is oh-so-awesome: it's just the best available alternative.)—
Jon Evans (@rezendi)
What if today's technology is beginning to finally make better alternatives possible…but just as clean tech is being thwarted by the trillions of dollars previously sunk into fossil-fuel infrastructure, our collective investment in capitalism itself is forestalling superior post-capitalist alternatives?
If that sounds completely crazy, consider this:
Will ownership turn out to be largely a hack people resorted to before they had the infrastructure to manage sharing properly?—
Paul Graham (@paulg)
Replace "ownership" with "capitalism" up above — and I would argue the line is fine — and I submit you wind up with an awfully similar conclusion.
Similarly: "We are beginning to witness a paradox at the heart of capitalism … enables an emerging collaborative commons to flourish alongside the capitalist market," Jeremy Rifkin in the New York Times. And: "What should happen if and when the continuous production of surpluses stops being desirable or even necessary? The point, if you will, when capital becomes excessive to humanity's needs?" , of all publications, the Financial Times.
I think it's worth at least considering the possibility that we are, very slowly, inching towards a post-capitalist society.
But if and when we get there … capitalism will be replaced with what, exactly? A centralized command economy? God, no. Everyone singing "" in perfect seven-billion-part harmony? Seems highly unlikely. Even in a good-case low-scarcity future, there will still be hierarchies, highly unequal distribution of resources, etc; it's just that the rules of distribution will be different, and hopefully better.
I strongly suspect that any post-capitalist society will be built around a technologically sophisticated , very very a la Cory Doctorow's .
Obviously we already live in a world full of subtle reputation economies — you see one in action any time a celebrity gets special treatment. Nowadays, though, technology could enable something much more codified and quantitative. (Crude hacks like Klout may at least , for all their flaws.)
But any working reputation economy can't be subject to centralized control. That would offer too much opportunity for corruption and abuse. Instead, it would probably need some kind of distributed algorithm which could reliably orchestrate and verify transactions without any central authority. If only such a system had arisen of late…
Oh. Right. Huh. .
How would a blockchain-based post-capitalism reputation economy work? I don't pretend to know exactly, this is obviously highly speculative and hand-wavey, but: suppose that every month everyone got 100 Repcoins (a bad name, but still better than "") to allocate, along with some incentive to dole them out to people they don't personally know … but Repcoins, like nuclear isotopes, dissipate over time, with a half-life of a few months. Voila: the artists, activists, and companies which many people think are awesome would collect, and spend, meaningful — albeit temporary — reputational wealth.
I'm just spitballing here, to illustrate that we can and should think way outside of the box; currency with a half-life might not be the right idea. Regardless of the implementation details, though, all utopias (and this isn't really a utopia, more like a next-itertopia at best) share the same key problem; how do you get there from here? If there's no answer, this is nothing but meaningless speculation.
But this time I think I actually see a way.
Let's back up for a second. I've been that the combination of new technology and old capitalism will soon drastically worsen inequality. It seems to me that technology will soon destroy jobs faster than it creates them, if it hasn't started to already. Which is a good thing! Most of the jobs it destroys are bad, and most of the ones it creates are good. Net human happiness should be vastly increased, not decreased, by this process — but, unfortunately, capitalism doesn't work that way.
Even titans of capitalism and tech leaders increasingly agree. The Wall Street Journal: "Technology and globalization are transforming jobs faster than many workers can adapt." The Financial Times: "combined with other new technologies, robots might make the distribution of income far more unequal than it is already." : "Technology makes wealth inequality worse." : "Inequality will become the No. 1 issue for democracies."
And now, thanks in large part to Piketty, capitalism itself has become suspect, too. "Capitalism simply isn't working…the gap between rich and poor threatens to destroy us," The Guardian, which also that the last five years in the UK have been "the longest period of falling real incomes in two generations."
There are alternative views, of course. Bruce Schneier's interesting take on . A bizarre Economist piece which . But it's fair to say that both technology and capitalism — which, remember, brought us much if not most of whatever progress we've made as a species over the last two centuries — are now being blamed in tandem for economic stagnation, inequality, and unfairness across the developing world.
Suppose for a moment that this is true, that we have indeed now reached some kind of critical inflection point. (We can't know this for sure, no matter how hard we look at the data; the nature of inflection points is that there's no compelling evidence for them until well after they occur.) What's to be done?
Well, better education won't hurt, but as the New York Times, "most new jobs are likely to be lower-wage jobs." We already see highly educated graduates competing for , while millions of long-term unemployed have been "a mishmash of personal savings, odd jobs, credit card debt and loans from friends and family."
And so a lot of people have been banging the drum for a . The idea has become that The Economist's review of Piketty actually for this: ""Why not propose a universal basic income: an inheritance, effectively, for everyone?" But as the Boston Globe :
In the United States, the idea of handing out unconditional government allowances is seen, understandably, as a nonstarter … it just sounds too much like a socialist fantasy … the idea is widely seen as too radical a departure from the status quo. Working out the mechanics would be a nightmare … people who get free government money tend to work less and get divorced more … by guaranteeing people money without requiring them to do anything in exchange, we decouple their value in society from their ability to do a job
That whole "people should work or starve" attitude seems evil and perverse to me — as Politico , "The idea that "full time" work is something foreordained and the bedrock of morality is new, mostly a product of the last century" — but it's a moot point, because if I'm right, even those angry reactionaries who fulminate about parasites will eventually be forced to accept that there simply aren't enough jobs which need to be done by people. Consider the fate of America's millions of truck/taxi/Uber drivers when, as the Financial Times,
the entire concept of a car as an appliance is replaced by cars as the physical backbone of a transportation network or cloud … . The real action is commercial, where — freed from the cost of the driver — the fleet of delivery vehicles can easily expand
…All of which is a recapitulation of what . Now let's take it a little further.
What happens in a world, or at least a nation, where most of the population lives semi-comfortably (by historical standards) off a basic income, supplemented by occasional temporary gigs, thanks to the economic output of tomorrow's technology; a small middle class works at the diminishing number of jobs which can't be handled by technology; and a smaller-yet minority of the ultra-rich actually design the tech, and/or live off their inheritances a la Piketty? Call it a "low-scarcity" future, as opposed to the full-on Singularitarian "post-scarcity" future.
It seems to me that such a world would be extremely fertile ground for the rise of — you guessed it — a reputation economy. The key is that it wouldn't outright replace a traditional monetary economy, at least not for some quite considerable time; rather, it would begin to thrive parallel to, and independent of, its capitalistic counterpart. Eventually, though, as I've , since we are fundamentally social creatures, in the long run, "at some point it will be better to be awesome than to be rich."
If this is so, then Paul Graham's tweet up above is true but doesn't go far enough; capitalism itself will be viewed as a crude but useful hack — albeit one with a whole lot of nasty side effects — which ultimately paved the way to a more enlightened system.
I eagerly admit this is all very far indeed from guaranteed; even if I'm halfway right, then I suspect this will all take a handful of decades yet. But who knows, maybe I'm wrong, maybe this will all happen much faster, on a near-Singularitarian timescale. Maybe if your ultimate goal is to be rich, you're already barking up fundamentally the wrong tree. Because … will any reputation economy reward the lords of capitalism? Somehow, today, with the occasional , that seems .
Don't be too alarmed. This is just a May Day thought experiment. But I'm increasingly convinced that, if nothing else, it's one at least worth contemplating.
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Valerie Jarrett: Maybe we should try talking to tea partiers in simpler terms
posted at 1:49 pm on February 23, 2010 by Allahpundit
In fairness, although the questioner asks specifically about TPers, she seems to think that talking to everyone in simpler terms would be a good idea. Which is a standard lefty dodge. Just as Obama's supposedly going down the tubes because he hasn't been aggressive enough in building Great Society II, the ObamaCare meltdown is due not to public antipathy to the bill on the merits but to the failure of our American Pericles to properly explain it the first 8,000 times he talked about it on camera. It's a teachable moment — everything is — and he simply hasn't taught yet. No worries, though. He'll get it through our thick heads one of these days.
As for her point about tea partiers preying on people's economic anxiety in their own "extreme" way, compare and contrast with what she said about Palin's mild "hopey changey" joke on Obama supporters a few weeks ago as being not "constructive." Enjoy a few minutes of constructiveness.
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Highlights of Mr. Ohlsson's 2014-15 season include performances of Busoni's Piano Concerto with the National Symphony and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, as well as a series of Scriabin recitals in London, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, in celebration of the centenary of the composer's death. He will also return to the orchestras of Detroit, Dallas, Houston, Baltimore, Minnesota, BBC Scotland, and Prague. Mr. Ohlsson has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Takács, and Tokyo string quartets, and together with former SFS associate concertmaster Jorja Fleezanis and SFS Principal Cello Michael Grebanier he is a founding member of the FOG Trio. He has also appeared in recital with singers such as Magda Olivero, Jessye Norman, and Ewa Podleś.
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About this movie (by Hal Erickson, Rovi)
"This sequel to 1943's My Friend Flicka stars Roddy McDowell, recreating his role in the earlier film. The son of a horse rancher (Preston S. Foster), McDowell takes it upon himself to train Thunderhead, a white colt with the same rebellious streak that distinguished its mother (Flicka). Thunderhead helps McDowell round up several horses that had been stolen from his father, and also attracts the attention of a racing aficionado (Ralph Sanford).
Once fully grown, Thunderhead indicates that he'd be happier running wild, so McDowell tearfully but proudly gives the horse his freedom. Like My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead, Son of Flicka was based on a novel by Mary o'Hara. The original film would engender one more sequel, Green Grass of Wyoming (48), and later would inspire a brief TV series."


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(June 7, 2005)--Now in its 34th year, the Texas Folklife Festival (TFF) celebrates the diverse and colorful cultures of the Lone Star State Thursday, June 9 through Sunday, June 12 at the Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC) in downtown San Antonio.
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Pictured is Dave Goeke, a member of the Texas Wendish Heritage Society, serving Wendish noodles. The Wendish culture does not have a country, but has a unique language, customs and traditions. Traditional brides wore black on their wedding day as a reminder of the hardships accepted as part of marriage.
The Wendish, or Wends, immigrated from eastern Germany to Texas in 1853 and settled in Lee County. The community experienced a revival of their culture in the 1970s, and established the Texas Wendish Heritage Society.
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Lentil soup, baba ganoush and moussaka from Zeus. (Nichole Osinski / American Press)
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By Nichole Osinski / American Press
In a state where boudin, gumbo and po'boys are the norm, finding a good vegetarian meal that isn't limited to beans and rice can sometimes be a challenge. Thankfully, all it takes is a little international exposure to get a palate-satisfying — albeit meat-free — lunch.
Looking for a well-rounded vegetarian taste for food, I settled on three countries' cuisines: Greece, Japan and Ireland.
First up was Zeus Cafe, which serves an eclectic mix of Greek-inspired meals with some Lebanese dishes. I started out with the baba ganoush and a hot cup of lentil soup.
It was a cold, rainy day, and the slightly spicy soup did the trick to help me warm up. The pureed eggplant in the baba ganoush then helped cool my mouth after the heated lentils had hit my tongue.
The mix of garlic, lemon and sesame oil dressing gave the eggplant a distinct, almost sweet flavor. Add a few purple kalamata olives, and my mouth was filled with a burst of slightly salty and rich flavor.
As a seasoned vegetarian I turn to eggplant when I want a hearty meal; the vegetable has an almost meaty flavor and texture to it. The last part of the meal came in the form of vegetarian moussaka — more eggplant but mixed in a soupy broth with onions, tomatoes, garlic and some unnamed spices.
The $5.99 vegetable medley, along with the $7.75 baba ganoush, was filled with such a mix of flavorful foods that I didn't think twice about the meat pies the man across from me was eating. Top it off with a warm-your-belly lentil soup for $4.50 and I was drifting off into my own Mykonos dinner table scene overlooking the Aegean Sea.
I then ventured to Miyako, a Japanese restaurant and sushi bar. I decided on miso soup, edamame and hibachi vegetables. Instead of a side of rice I opted for $5.50 miso eggplant.
I special-ordered the eggplant without batter and was pleasantly surprised when I was rewarded with the freshly cooked purple vegetable without it being covered in crispy carbs. It tasted like a mix of squash and taro drizzled with olive oil.
The soup and edamame were not overloaded with salt — a problem I run into in many Asian restaurants. Pieces of tofu and scallion in the soy broth added substance with nori seaweed thrown in for taste.
The vegan-friendly hibachi vegetables consisted of the usual mushrooms, onions, broccoli, plus lettuce, which gave it a nice texture. But the lettuce, yellow and limp, looked to have been sitting in the sauce a bit too long. Still, it didn't take away from the flavor.
Next, I went to MacFarlane's Celtic Pub. The dimly lit pub with its dark wood tables and Irish sayings tacked on the walls is the perfect setting to tuck into a hearty beef stew or spicy sausage — or, in my case, a strawberry balsamic salad.
A side of cooked zucchini and squash with sweet potato fries — more Southwest Louisiana than Celtic, but still a favorite of mine — and my vegetarian palate was soon satisfied.
At $10 for a spring mix covered in candied pecans, red onions and strawberries, the salad delivered a lightly sweet and crunchy alternative to the regular house fare. A stickler for fresh lettuce, I was happy to find the greens were crisp with a satiating crunch only a vegetarian can appreciate.
The strawberry balsamic vinaigrette was a sugary bonus to the honey-flavored pecans and ripe strawberries. My two sides cost only $2 each and were just as fresh.
The fries were covered in a dash of black pepper and salt — which added just the right amount of extra flavor. I only wanted to — and did — savor each orange stick one bite at a time.
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I will have to have my techie put that on for me, thanks!
Nice, thanks! I have an android phone, I wondering if there is now an app for it as this ablocfab is from 2010? Will have to check or maybe I should just break down and buy an IPad or an IPhone! Been wanting one anyway.
Thanks Bella this app is awesome.
Way back in 2010 there wasn't as much interest in quilting apps as there is now. The IPads, tablets and phones are in many more quilter's hand now. Some of the first quilting apps have been forgotten.
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I have that app and it's great!
Thank you. Just added it and it looks great.
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I did it and passing it on to others. Thank you.
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That is nice, Thank You! Now I need something that tells me what to do with the left-over blocks I got carried away with LOL
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BellaBoo, thanks for sharing! I just added the app and I am going to play with it now!


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Original post made by Dolores Ciardelli, editor of Danville Express, on Nov 9, 2007
From the time we opened the Danville Weekly, people told us, "Do a story on Phil." Well, we did, in the issue of Feb. 10, 2006, when we explored his artistic endeavors and his persona as "Starman."
Phil's art at the Pioneer Gallery is portraits done in acrylics using 12 steps of a gray scale. In layman's terms (my terms), it's a bunch of little squares of while, gray and black that look like a bunch of little squares. Then, when you relax your mind, they meld into a portrait. The huge painting of the Governator was immediately clear. But Marilyn just wasn't coming together, although I saw the letters spelling out "Marilyn Monroe." Then I looked into the mirror hung across the room for just that purpose and voila! there was Marilyn.
This week we ran a photo of Phil with his portraits behind him and, interestingly, the camera lens seemed to put them into focus, although it kept the elusive image of St. Jude intact. You have to check these out for yourself.
While I was at the gallery, which is run by the Alamo Danville Artists' Society, landscape artist Stephen Sanfilippo gave me a tour. This was great - it helped me focus on each work of art as he explained the artist's medium and specialty. Stephen paints in oils, always "en plein air," and his style is realist/impressionist.
Stephen told me it was Phil's idea to approach developer Brad Blake so ask for use of the building as a gallery, with studios. Pardon the overused expression, but what a win-win situation. I am so excited about this gallery. The members did all the work themselves in just a few days after Brad gave them the OK.
It's located in the old Times building near to Faz. Check it out.
a resident of Danville
on Nov 11, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Hey! I wondered who that guy is. I see him all over.
a resident of another community
on Aug 17, 2013 at 7:41 am
I knew Phil back in the 80's when he was a frequent guest at my house in Aptos, as he came down often to surf in the Santa Cruz area. He took a lot of slide photos of me and my friends surfing various breaks. I have some of these slides myself, slide duplicates and so on that he gave to me. I was wondering if anyone, family members, or friends, have access to them. Phil used to keep/collect a lot of stuff, including lots of surfing memorabilia. I'm interested in some slides he took in the summer and early fall of 1983. I don't want them, but would just like to take a look at them, and see if I have duplicates of all the ones I wanted.
Larry Freitas, Aptos, California


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Haidhausen is an in-district, consisting of old buildings, beautiful parks, cafes and restaurants are everywhere, shops and all that man is so needed in the immediate vicinity.
The whole apartment has parquet. The apartment is fully furnished. Best served by public transport.
Munich is the proud capital of the Free State of Bavaria. She is ready to around 1.35 million inhabitants, the largest city in Bavaria and Germany's third largest city and stops next to the largest folk festival in the world, the Oktoberfest, and many other attractions for its visitors. Almost every tourist, for example, heard of the Hofbräuhaus. The famous beer hall at the Platz in the center is well attended throughout the year. Not far from here, Viktualienmarkt one of the places where Munich is entirely up to yourself: Longtime locals meet here in the beer garden for brunch, the chef of the gourmet restaurants buy in the market stalls of fresh ingredients for their dishes.
Also in the center, the other main attractions are: the Church of Our Lady with the onion domes and panoramic views is about the city as the symbol of Munich, the city hall in the Gothic Revival style dominated (do not miss the chimes at 11 and 12 clock), the lovely Marienplatz, the old Peter offers visitors of the 306 steps to climb on a clear day, clear view to the Zugspitze in the Alps. Behind the Karlstor Stachus extends Munich's old town, attractions including the highest turnover in Germany and many pedestrian zone. For fans of machinery and equipment is a must: the German Museum on Museum Island in the Isar. It is the most visited museum in the Republic. Art lovers can visit the art galleries of the art site in Munich.
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Very pleasant hostess, friendly and helpful.
The room is very quiet, and yet you can reach the S-Bahn and trams to the center in just 3 minutes walking distance.
We will be back!
Sehr angenehme Gastgeberin, freundlich und hilfsbereit.
Das Zimmer liegt sehr ruhig, und man erreicht trotzdem S-Bahn und Straßenbahnen zum Zentrum in nur 3 Minuten Geh-Entfernung.
Komme gerne wieder!
Booked room and bathroom / WC not lockable. Arrival from 21 clock / departure - also on Saturday to 8 clock.
Gebuchtes Zimmer und Bad / WC nicht abschließbar. Anreise ab 21 Uhr / Abreise - auch am Samstag bis 8 Uhr.
Super nice stay. Any time.
Super netter Aufenthalt. Jederzeit wieder.
Everything worked very straightforward, good location in particular to the fairgrounds.
Hat alles sehr unkompliziert geklappt, gute Lage insbesondere zum Messegelände.
Anne is very nice, room and bathroom clean and nicely decorated.
The area is very nice.
All chic!
Anne ist sehr nett, Zimmer und Bad sauber und liebevoll eingerichtet.
Die Gegend ist sehr schön.
Alles schick!
Dear Anne,
thanks for the place to stay. It was really a nice, clean and quiet room. The train is just around the corner and you can also run well walk into the center. We enjoyed it both very much and I would recommend it definitely continue. A little earlier check-in and late check-out for times would have been great, but is in the description.
Greetings Tatjana
Liebe Anne,
danke für die Übernachtungsmöglichkeit. Es war wirklich ein schönes, sauberes und ruhiges Zimmer. Die Bahn ist gleich in der Nähe und man kann auch gut zu Fuß ins Zentrum laufen. Uns hat es beiden sehr gut gefallen und ich würde es auf jeden Fall weiter empfehlen. Etwas frühere Check-in und dafür späteres Check-out-Zeiten wären toll gewesen, steht aber in der Beschreibung.
Liebe Grüße Tatjana
The room was very clean, quit and the host was nice. The location was absolutley great. The only thing was that it was very expensive. Too expensive in my believe.
I had a pleasant stay at Anne. The room was wonderfully quiet and the location is really fantastic. For me it was still great to have a health food store around the corner and I was able to use the kitchen. Recommended! Regina
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Brendon Anthony, Director
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Serves as clearinghouse for Texas music industry information using the TMO's Business Referral Network.
Provides referrals to Texas music businesses, talent and events in order to attract new business to Texas and/or to encourage Texas businesses and individuals to keep music business in-state.
Serves as liaison between music businesses and other government offices and agencies.
Publicizes significant developments within the Texas music industry.
The Texas Music Office (TMO) is a state-funded business promotion office and information clearinghouse for the Texas music industry. The TMO assists more than 14,000 individual clients each year, ranging from a new band trying to make statewide business contacts to BBC journalists seeking information on Down South Hip hop. The TMO is the sister office to the Texas Film Commission, both of which are within the Office of the Governor.
The TMO serves the Texas music industry by using its Business Referral Network: Texas Music Industry (7,300 Texas music businesses in 96 music business categories); Texas Music Events (690 Texas music events); Texas Talent Register (7,200 Texas recording artists); Texas Radio Stations (824 Texas stations); US Music Contacts; Classical Texas (detailed information for all classical music organizations in Texas); and International (949 foreign businesses interested in Texas music).
The TMO created and maintains EnjoyTexasMusic.com which contains 15,962 business, band or event listings totaling 3,028 printed pages. In 2007, it attracted 383,118 unique visitors resulting in 1,039,135 page views.
The TMO opened January 15, 1990, with the legislative mandate "to promote the development of the music industry in the state by informing members of that industry and the public about the resources available in the state for music production."
By creating the Texas Music Commission (TMC) in 1985, the 70th session of the Texas Legislature identified music as an industry in need of state government recognition and assistance. The TMC was a nine-member advisory board appointed by the Governor Mark White that held hearings for and issued annual reports to the Legislature. Its primary advocate was House Speaker Gib Lewis, whose staff, notably Bekki Lammert, handled the support for the volunteer Commission's nine members.
This was the first law passed by a state legislature in the United States creating an office promoting commercial music business.
During the next legislature in 1987, $25,000 was appropriated to the new Texas Department of Commerce to further research the music industry to determine the best way for a state entity to assist music business development. In 1988 TDC partially funded Texas' first Group Stand at the world's largest music business convention, MIDEM, consisting of various Texas music businesses presenting their music at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.
One of the TMC's final recommendations was to create, as a sister office to the Texas Film Commission, a staffed office in the Executive branch promoting music business. The Legislature passed as part of the TDC budget a new law that stated, "(a) The office shall promote the development of the music industry in the state by informing members of that industry and the public about the resources available in the state for music production."
The Texas Film Commission, appropriated $39,000 for music, posted the job notice for the first TMO director in September 1989. More than 80 people applied. TFC Director Joseph Dial and Deputy Director Tom Copeland selected Casey Monahan, a music journalist with the Austin American-Statesman since 1985. The TMO officially opened January 20, 1990 during the administration of Texas Governor William P. Clements.
During its first year the TMO compiled Texas' first Business Referral Network for music. More than 1,000 Texas music businesses were interviewed.
In January 1991, Ann Richards was sworn in as Texas Governor. One of her first legislative requests was to move the TMO and the Texas Film Commission from the Texas Department of Commerce to the Office of the Governor. Richards' longtime personal interest in Texas music and film greatly raised the public profile of both industries, and bringing these two programs into the Governor's Office institutionalized these industries as key parts of Texas' future economic growth plans. Other Richards music milestones include publishing the first Texas Music Industry Directory (1991), and her "Welcome to Texas" speech to the opening-day registrants of the 1993 South By Southwest.
In March 1991 the TMO published the first of 16 annual editions of the Texas Music Industry Directory. The TMID, released concurrently with SXSW, went from 199 pages with 1169 listings in 1991, to 432 pages with 15,278 listings in its final edition in 2006. Ninety-six different types of music business were cross-referenced. The TMID was edited by Monahan with assistance of publication coordinators Deb Freeman (1991-1998), Jodi Jenkins (1999-2004), and Andrew Leeper (2005-2006).
In 1994, Monahan joined Austin area artist manager Carlyne Majer, Asleep at the Wheel band leader Ray Benson, South By Southwest Managing Director Roland Swenson and City of Austin music liaison Bob Meyer to bring to Texas a Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The Recording Academy opened its first new chapter in 22 years in September 1994 when the Texas chapter opened its doors in Austin.
In 1994, the TMO created its first annual calendar of annual live music events.
In 1995, the TMO collaborated with the Texas State Library & Archives Commission to create its first website, www.governor.state.tx.us/music.
In 1996, Texas Governor George W. Bush added one staff member to the TMO.
In 1999, the TMO created the first statewide referral network for Mariachi Education and Mariachi Talent.
In 1999, the TMO collaborated with University of Texas School of Law Fellowship recipient Kate Hayman to produce the booklet "Getting Started In The Music Business." This online publication provides answers to basic legal and business questions associated with the music industry. The 2008 edition has been expanded to cover many Internet-related topics, including digital music copyright law.
In 2000, the TMO collaborated with 12 MBA candidates from the Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin to produce "The Musicians and Retailers Guide to the Internet," a 32- page primer on how to build effective music-related websites.
In 2001, the TMO brought together the Texas State Historical Association and Texas State University's new Center for Texas Music History to publish The Handbook of Texas Music, an encyclopedia of the state's rich musical history and heritage.
Also in 2001, the TMO began its annual Capitol Salute to Texas Music, a reception during South by Southwest bringing together state representatives and state senators with music industry leaders to discuss music opportunities as well as to hear Texas legends such as Johnny Gimble, Junior Brown, and Randy Garibay.
In 2002 the TMO created the Texas Music History Tour, an online guide to the large number of classic Texas music venues and historical music sites.
In 2003, a bill creating an Enjoy Texas Music special license plate authored by former Sam Lightnin' Hopkins' bassist Rep. Ron Wilson (D; Houston), was passed by the Texas Legislature and signed into law by Governor Rick Perry. Twenty-two dollars of the $30 extra fee goes into a TMO-administered fund that issues grants to low income schools to purchase musical instruments for its students.
In 2005, the TMO worked with Austin attorney Cindi Lazzari in her efforts to expand to musicians the protections enjoyed by visual artists during bankruptcy proceedings.
In 2007, the TMO (with the assistance of Texas Women for the Arts and the Texas Cultural Trust) created the Intermediate Masters program benefiting a Texas music student's graduate studies.
In 2010, the TMO created the Live Music Grant program providing grants to non-profits and government agencies to pay Texas musicians for free live music events across the state.
In 2015, Brendon Anthony was named Director of the office. Newly elected Governor Greg Abbott moved the TMO into his Economic Development and Tourism division. Anthony is currently opening up new channels of communication via social media and overseeing a rebranding of the office along with a redesign of the license plate program while working to attract new music-related business to the state.
Other cities and states have created similar offices. By 2007, 13 city and state music promotion offices were in operation: Albuquerque Mayors Office of Music, Austin Cultural Arts Division, Austin Music Marketing Office, Chicago Music Commission, Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago Cultural Center, Louisiana Music Commission, Memphis and Shelby County Music Commission, New Mexico Music Commission, Oklahoma Film & Music Office, San Francisco Entertainment Commission, Seattle Mayors Office of Film & Music, and the Tennessee Film, Entertainment Music Commission.


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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Do you have this in a PDF i can download and keep?
I saw this tutorial this morning, referred by a post from Cyberquilters, joined the group and made 4 of the blocks. I was hoping to post a picture, but couldn't figure out how in my time frame, so here is a link if anyone would like to see my blocks: http://wraggedypatches.blogspot.com/...-pinwheel.html
It's beautiful. But I know I will need to follow your tutorial for the first few blocks. It looks very intricate, but I think with following the instructions, I can do it. And I have a number of charm packs, including solids, so I should be able to make it w/o having to buy anything else. How do you think it will look using layer cakes?
Beautiful will have to try this out.
Treat people the way you want to be treated!!
That's a great idea! Please come back and show us your blocks all sewn together! I am dying to see the finished product now!
Thanks a bunch for this!
A picture says a thousands words. Thanks for the great pictures and instructions. A wonderful way to use those charm packs.
A woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. by Albert Einstein
The fabrics are gorgeous. Interesting design.
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I'm guessing some of you on here have those big-mamma-jamma smoker rigs that you hitch up to the truck and enter the rib cook-off arena.... Sadly, my smoker isn't in that class. But I did get a nice propane fired dual burner 44" tall. Should be able to cold smoke in the winter with the single burner. I'm excited about this. I've been thinking about getting one since last November, (yet another buck put in the freezer,) but I finally hit the wall and had to buy one now. Why?
Best friend took his family to the Outer Banks for vacation... He brought back about 50 lbs of Bluefish and Spanish Mackerel. And... he and I are scheduled to go back down in 2 weeks for another fishing trip.
So.... my question is.....
How do I smoke all this fish?
I have Hickory and Oak (Jack Daniels aging barrel chips,) chips, but I understand that those are more for beef and pork. I also have Apple chips, I heard those are good for fish. I also heard Pecan is the best for fish, but I can't find that locally. I could order it, but I'd like to know if it's really that much better.
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Kiwi goes back down on the line
Do we draft Zac Brown # 32 overall?[/quote]
I doubt we trade Osi (we wouldn't get the value he provides playing out his contract).
And even if we do we have more than enough LBers to take Kiwi's place to mitigate the need in the first round.
I don't see us taking Zach Brown (or any LBer) in the first round.[/quote]
Wouldn't get the value? He has 1 year remaining on his contract with the virtual impossibility of resigning him after that said season.
He's on the other side of 30 now and it would be the perfect time to sell high. ESPN's Dan Graziano said it best,
"He's at peak value and they can afford to lose him. That's a confluence
of circumstances that doesn't come around too often. As a pure business
decision, trading Umenyiora this summer is the right thing for the
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But again, Dan's article doesnt really address the issues surrounding this hypothetical trade. Its nice in theory, but not in practice for a variety of reasons that ALL stem from Osi's incredible contract demands last year. Last year, the media kinda bashed the Giants on the issue without ever really looking at the cause of the problem, which was absolutely Osi's inflated demands.
As we know, the Giants will seek fair value in trade. Most right now feel that would be about a 2nd round pick. Absolutely Nobody is going to trade a 2nd round pick, or even a 3rd round pick for a guy who has 1 year left on his deal. This means, Osi will have to agree to a new contract with whatever team we are trading as a prerequisite for the trade. If he demands top 5 DE salary, as he did last year he will kill any deal before it happens. Teams just arent going to pay that, just like we wouldnt. Also, any team that is going to have contract negotiations will want to let their docs have a look at him. Remember, last year Osi hid an injury from both the Giants and all potential trade partners. Come trade time, that IS going to be an issue.


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(Oct. 6, 2008)--Beginning Monday, Oct. 27, the UTSACard Office will be housed temporarily in University Center II Room 1.02.20E on the 1604 Campus (across from the bookstore in the former location of the Student Government Association) until a permanent home can be constructed.
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Does anyone even make an EC56 lower cup/bearing setup? Seems when you get to that size it was designed around the use of ZS lower.
Works components has an 1 or 1.5 degree angle set for a tapered fork with a ZS lower and EC upper.
So you're gonna run the bike in it's slackest setting, a longer fork and an angle set to slack it out even more
On another note I'm gonna be demoing a Prime today It'll be my first ride on a Banshee and am really looking forward to trying the new KS suspension.
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Pulaski Tech President Dan F. Bakke is 2009 chair of the North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. His tenure began in January and Dr. Bakke closed the ceremonies at the NLR Chamber's annual banquet, held Feb. 17.
Ronald Dedman, vice chair of the Pulaski Technical College Board of Trustees, was recognized for outstanding service as the 2008 chair of the Chamber Board of Directors at Tuesday's 24th annual banquet.
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During ChicagoCon 2007, the training and the "Con " Activities were intermixed throughout the week. We made some significant changes this time around based on the feedback of numerous people. For this reason, Conference Only Tickets for ChicagoCon 2008s are now available and do not require the purchase of any boot camp courses.
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9:00 AM - More 1-hour presentations in the auditorium to include Kelly Housman (Microsoft), Dan Hoffman (Fiberlink, EH-Net), Brian Wilson (EH-Net), Dean De Beer, Jack Koziol (InfoSec Institute), Jim Shewmaker (SANS, Bluenotch), Steven McGrath (Chicago 2600), Mike Murray (Neohapsis) and more. Breakout Sessions will be held in the classrooms simultaneously during the entire day featuring Microsoft Technologies, Real World Pen Testing with LearnSecurityOnline, Open Source Hacking Tools with the Chicago 2600 Club and SCADA Security with Sph3r3. Lunch will be provided at 1:00.
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This has likely been one of the coldest, latest springs we've had in this neck of the woods. Warm days are few and far between, and my tulips were eaten by varmints before they even had a chance to flower! But there is a light at the end of this chilly tunnel, believe it or not.
Oh yes. I know it's hard to believe, but summer IS coming. And with summer is a whole new crop of movies to enjoy! For your enjoyment I've compiled a list of upcoming releases, in theater and on DVD:
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IRON MAN 3—May 3
STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS—May 17
EPIC—May 24
MAN OF STEEL—June 14
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY—June 21
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LONE RANGER—July 3
SMURFS 2—July 31
PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS—August 16
LEO THE LION—August 30 (estimated)
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FOODFIGHT!—May 7
RETURN TO NIM'S ISLAND—May 21
ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH—June 4
HORRID HENRY: THE MOVIE—June 4
DINO KING—June 18
JACK THE GIANT SLAYER—June 18
AMERICAN GIRL: SAIGE PAINTS THE SKY—July OZ THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE--July 2 SUPER BUDDIES—August 27
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I dont understand why any of you think that an R6 isnt a good starter bike... i own an 02 R6 that i bought from a girl (who by the way is 5'5" 125lbs soakin wet with her boots on) and i love it, i also have a Repsol and my baby which is a ducati 848 , and my first bike was a GSXR 750... as long as you respect the bike you can learn on almost anything.... nowadays with these new bikes like the CBR RR 1000 that you can electronically adjust the power to perform like a 600 i think more people should look into that route, because 9 outa 10 people who bought themselves a 600 for thwir first bike got bored of it after a year. I agree that the R6 Is a beast of a 600 (with the right rider) you can easily hang with the big boys... i have a little work done to it and i have smoked 750's with no problem. All i have done to jt is that sprockets (low end) and full exhaust, jetted card, and of course the best mod of all... ME RIDING IT. I have taken it to the track and it has never ceased to amaze me just how great that bike rides. So in my opinion GO FOR IT ! dont listen to these guys they sound like over protective moms telling there kid he cant have a BB gun cuz he'll shoot his eye out (you'll shoot your eye out! Ahh classic) just learn how to ride slowly and be confident yet cautious. Then when your comfortable riding spend some time at the track and I promise you that you will learn how to make a 600 or a 750 have that bike doing what its designed to do!!!
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This is why we should have a minimum of x number of years or something to be able to post in the New Rider forum.
cause this... yeah this is just a straight
I dont really understand what u mean? Im not allowed to participate in a conversation? Why? Because i havent been a part of the forum for long enough? Ill tell u what i may bot be a long time member but i AM a long time rider and isnt that what we are here for? To talk about riding? Look if u dont like what i said it costs you nothing ... pay me no mind. If u do then lets talk and all the new riders in here in the Brooklyn area (or nyc period) let me know if you need help learning how to ride on ANY bike you feel comfortable on. So slap yourself in the face, let me live im not telling u what to speak about and how, so dont worry about what im talkin about
yes yhou can speak what you will- it's the beauty of a forum. But you just handed out some really awful advice. And that's the last thing new riders need.
And no thanks- I don't need any help learning how to ride. I know how to ride- but thanks for the offer. Plus- I don't particularly think riding in Brooklyn is my style. cause- that's commuting- not riding.
I live in Brooklyn, but i go riding all over. I go upstate, i go to CT, long island. Ive done the whole east coast including that place in i believe it was NC called dragons tail or something like that.. THAT was fun as hell its something like 430 curves over around 11 miles! (Its been like 5 yrs i dont remember the exact distance and curves, but its very well known)... im sorry if you feel that its bad advice, i just think that spending 2-3k on a 250cc or even more on a less sporty 600 is a big investment for something you'll be bored of in a few months (a year tops if you actuallh ride. I ride year round ive been out most of the day already and its pretty cold in NY today. But to each his own... again i learned on an old Gsxr 750 (A 93) and i just took it easy and got the hang of it and then i still had a bike i could have fun with. I put around 25k miles on it and i sold it to a guy who made it a track bike and i made my money back. 250's are hard to sell. Theres one in my neighborhood for sale for 2250 and its been there for months. I dunno maybe youre right there are a lot of people i see everyday tha dont belong on a bicycle let alone a sport bike. So i guess im talking about someone who has the coordination to ride, and sharp enough of a mind to know their limits. Anyway thats just my opinion
Dude you live in NYC. Your rent is $1000/month at a minimum. The depreciation and search costs of a Ninja 250 or Ninja 500 are half a month's rent at the most.
IMHO it's worth the $500 to start small. Chalk it up to riding skill and reduced risk, and then move onto a bigger bike as a more experienced rider.
I do have the view that a Ninja 250 does not fully teach you the throttle control that a 600cc bike requires. 30 HP to 95 HP is a big jump. But you learn cornering, you learn how to deal with traffic (particularly in NYC), and you learn some of the aspects of throttle control. On the 600cc bike, you are now free to focus on other stuff.
I am of the view that NYC riders have a different experience than the rest of the country. Instead of wide open roads, we have taxi cabs forcing us out of our lanes. Instead of learning to take curves with skill and grace, we learn to lane split and find our way around the assholes blocking our way towards a fast entrance to the Queens-Midtown tunnel. More conservativism is required for cornering due to the traffic.
Brooklyn/NYC/Urban NJ riding is waay different from the rest of the country. I don't advocate starting on a 600cc bike, but it might have been easier for you to get away with it in the city- things might have been different if you were learning to ride in California.
Im not the new rider, ive been riding for around 12yrs. And rent. For 1000 in nyc? Must be rent control cuz i pay 1800 for a 1.5bedroom apt in brooklyn. Unless u live in the projects or maybe queens its more than a G. But ya ny point exactly its a lot of money to invest for a bike u will soon be tired of. I think a 600 or if u can find an old honda interceptor 500 or something similiar is a better starter bike. Feel me?
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Elephant Shark Is a Living Fossil
Geneticists have sequenced the DNA of the elephant shark, the first member of the shark family to be decoded. Cartilaginous fishes—such as sharks, rays, and skates—diverged from bony vertebrates 450 million years ago. The new study revealed a family of genes that may help explain that transition. Zebrafish with these genes knocked out experienced reduced bone formation, a finding that could aid research on bone-related diseases. More surprising, the elephant shark lacked the CD4 genes related to immune function, including ones considered vital for defense against infections and for preventing autoimmune disorders. Nevertheless, the elephant shark has a robust immune system. Its genome also exhibits the slowest rate of evolution among those vertebrates whose genomes have been sequenced, trumping even the so-called living fossil, the coelacanth. That finding makes the elephant shark's DNA a valuable resource for understanding the common ancestor to all jawed vertebrates.
Venkatesh, B., et al. Elephant shark genome provides unique insights into gnathostome evolution. Nature doi:10.1038/nature12826 (Published online January 8)
Earthquake Lights Explained?
In 2007 in Lima, Peru, a surveillance camera recorded mysterious flashes of light just as a magnitude 8.0 tremor struck, providing the first definitive documentation of a long-rumored phenomenon called earthquake lights. Now a study of 65 locations where such lights have been reported shows that they occur almost exclusively on steep rifts, where the Earth's crust is pulled apart. The authors say their finding supports the p-hole theory, proposed by physicist Friedemann Freund of the SETI Institute, for the origin of earthquake lights. According to this theory, oxygen atoms bound up in minerals are sometimes short an electron. As rocks grind together during an earthquake, these bonds are broken, releasing positive charges, or p-holes. These electric charges may be channeled up the near-vertical faults of rift zones, creating a glow when they reach the surface and interact with Earth's atmosphere. But an online Nature news report describing this new study sparked a heated debate among seismologists about the validity of the p-hole theory.
Thériault, R., F. St-Laurent, F. T. Freund, and J. S. Derr. Prevalence of earthquake lights associated with rift environments. Seismological Research Letters 85:159 (January 2)
Deformed Frog Hotspots
A 10-year study of frogs and toads in U.S. National Wildlife Refuges shows that, overall, fewer than 2 percent of the animals have deformities such as missing or shortened limbs—but in some hotspots, including locations in the Mississippi River Valley and eastern Alaska, up to 40 percent exhibit deformities. It is unknown whether the deformities are caused by the presence of a pollutant or by a natural process. The researchers examined more than 68,000 amphibians in 152 nature refuges between 2000 and 2009. The highly variable incidence of abnormalities in different places suggests a local-scale cause. However, the frequency of malformation varied episodically from year to year, a pattern often associated with natural dynamics such as parasite epidemics. The authors have made their data freely available online so that other scientists can search for more answers.
Reeves, M. K., et al. Localized hotspots drive continental geography of abnormal amphibians on U.S. Wildlife Refuges. PLoS One doi:0.1371/journal.pone.0077467 (November 18)
Solar Giant Cells Substantiated
As heat moves around the Sun through convection, it flows in huge, consistent patterns known as granules, which measure about 1,000 kilometers across, and supergranules, which measure about 30,000 kilometers across. For 45 years, solar physicists suspected that the Sun also experienced another type of convection called giant cells, similar to but even larger and slower than the supergranules, but such cells had never been substantiated. Since 2010, NASA's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory has been imaging the Sun continuously, providing the data needed to track the motion of supergranules and detect the giant convective cells, which span some 200,000 kilometers and move at about 29 kilometers per hour. The finding could help predict the movements of solar magnetic fields, which would aid the forecasting of solar storms.
Hathaway, D. H., L. Upton, and O. Colegrove. Giant convection cells found on the Sun. Science 342:1217 (December 6)
New Hominid Genetics
Two recent genetic discoveries are complicating the story of human evolution. Mitochondrial DNA analysis of a 130,000-year-old toe bone from Denisova Cave in China revealed that it was from a Neandertal, not a Denisovan as expected. By comparing the new Neandertal genome to those of Denisovan and modern humans, the researchers substantiated that Neandertals and Denisovans diverged from one another after their common ancestor diverged from modern humans. The comparison also showed that the three human lineages interbred multiple times after they diverged, although these events were rare. Meanwhile, a femur found in Spain was thought to belong to a Neandertal, but upon analysis of the 400,000-year-old DNA, it turned out to match more closely Denisovan DNA. The Spanish fossil could represent a common ancestor of Neandertals and Denisovans; it could be from a different hominid lineage; or it could force anthropologists to rethink where Denisovans lived, since they were previously thought to have inhabited Asia, not Europe.
Prüfer, K., et al. The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains. Nature doi:10.1038/nature12886 (Published online December 18)
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Sitting with four of the members and one supplier during lunch this past weekend, I knew I was in trouble. It was the day before my first presentation to a franchise group, which was to focus on using technology better to win more sales, improve the customer experience and of course, save them time.
"Show me your phones" I asked the table during lunch. A little pre-conference research on my part. The supplier and one member had an iPhone. The other three were very staunch in their antipathy of smartphones. Simple phone users were they and that was all they needed.
This is something I encounter daily and almost every business faces. The clashing culture of those within the organisation that love and adopt the new mobile technology; and those that won't go near it.
As you know it's often a case of fear, or the feeling the pain of learning and change won't be worth the effort.
So how do you 'sell' the changeover?
What I do and suggest for you is a double-fisted approach. First the benefit in examples relevant to them; then take the fluff walks, money talks approach. Let me give you an example.
People who don't have smartphones haven't experienced the ease they bring in simple communication and directions. Therefore to start off you might take several screenshots on your smart phone. What I do is this:
1. A photo of the signature within an email viewed on the phone. I put a red arrow next to the phone number and explain ' all you do is click the number in blue' and go to the next screen shot
2. A confirmation to enact the phone call.
3. I go back to the email signature again and the arrow is by the address.
4. Next screen shot the map.
5. Next screen shot an arrow pointing to getting directions from current location.
While something like this is common to you and I, remember people with old fashioned phones haven't seen this. While this might win over a few individuals, the next bit fluff walks, money talks where you quantify the benefit is what really shows the power of technology.
My next question is 'how many phone calls do you make a day'. Various responses. Then I go through the pain of tapping each number, having to write a number down from a voice mail and then tap it out, etc.
Then you ask 'How much time does this take you; maybe 15 seconds per phone call to dial'? 'Do you think you would make three phone calls a day'?
The home run is when you then add up the seconds wasted over a year. 15 seconds; three times a day; five days a week; 52 weeks a year. This works out to three hours, twenty five minutes squandered.
Then you can move on to more relevant time saving uses.