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The Global eCommerce Opportunity
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At Forrester, we've recently launched playbooks on topics such as Agile Commerce, Retail eCommerce, and B2B eCommerce. We are now getting underway with an eCommerce globalization playbook: Our first report on The Global eCommerce Opportunity (subtitle Landscape: The eCommerce Globalization Playbook) just went live. In the report, we discuss topics such as:
Which regions of the world are top of mind for brands today. The idea of a globally connected world is appealing, yet we are very much at the early stages of international expansion when it comes to eCommerce.** We look at typical global expansion paths and which regions are seeing an influx of new eCommerce initiatives. US and European retailers have tended to expand into each other's regions first with an eCommerce offering – increasingly, however, both US and European brands are taking a much more Asia-centric approach. Coach, for example, only offers eCommerce-enabled sites in the US, Canada, China, and Japan.
What drives brands to explore an increasing number of global markets. Global eCommerce expansion initiatives are driven by far more than just market size. Contributing to the decision are a variety of factors, including the maturity of the eCommerce ecosystem in each country. These ecosystems are developing rapidly: eCommerce solution providers are increasingly developing in-country expertise across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America; payment service providers are adding payment options for a growing number countries; logistics providers are boosting their ability to reach customers in different countries reliably and cost-effectively. The easier it is to identify trusted local partners, the less daunting the market entry.
How today's approach to international expansion looks different than in the past. Last week in a blog post, I mentioned that there is much interest in targeting online shoppers around the globe with a variety of approaches, ranging from direct-to-consumer websites with local fulfillment to online marketplaces to international shipping. Other changes in approach include the migration to a single platform to power all global eCommerce sites and a shift in control of global sites to a centralized team (while ensuring local offices provide insights to mantain locally relevant offerings).
Which factors tend to trip up companies' global expansion efforts. Our survey of eBusiness professionals shows that the biggest challenge for B2C companies expanding internationally is a lack of technology partners to support them; for B2B companies, it's difficulty getting budget for international initiatives. We identify some of the mistakes companies make when launching new global initiatives, such as assuming unrealistic – oftentimes less than one year – payback periods with these new offerings.
I welcome your thoughts on the shifting global eCommerce opportunity.
**Anyone interested in the actual pace of globalization would do well to read the research of Pankaj Ghemawat, who has challenged the notion that the world is as global as many of us would believe.
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Discussion in 'Ten Million Post Contest' started by harry*333, Jun 5, 2010.
since you cant clearly see the ipods in the small version I also uploaded a larger one
Love it - good thinking!
Very nice.
whoops... just read the rules again and it says that no other files can be attached so here you go
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I wouldn't stress about the size, I think your images are well known enough that the white dots on the apes and men are instantly recognized by the viewer as iPods... very nice design.
Good job
It would be nice to see iPhone and iPad incorporated too
I'm working on it
Just kidding, pretty cool.
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I used the "ievolved" title for it
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It would be hard to pick a more symbolic moment to join the church than during an Easter Vigil Mass -- the high point of the ancient Christian calendar.Thus, the pope traditionally baptizes several new Catholics during this rite in St. Peter's Basilica. This year, one of the converts was Magdi Allam, a high-profile journalist and, perhaps, Italy's most famous "moderate" Muslim.This caused a firestorm. One Muslim scholar active in interfaith talks condemned the "Vatican's deliberate and … [Read more...]
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The young pope was friendly, but blunt, as he faced the 240 college leaders from across the nation who gathered at Catholic University to hear his thoughts on faith and academic freedom."Every university or college is qualified by a specific mode of being," said Pope John Paul II, who was only 57 on that day in 1979. "Yours is the qualification of being Catholic, of affirming God, his revelation and the Catholic Church as the guardian and interpreter of that revelation. The term 'Catholic' will … [Read more...]
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Today's manicure was inspired by the evil queen from Once Upon a Time. (I really love that show!! :D).
I think the purple nail polish was a franken I made for my sister. The black was non-toxic acrylic paint. :D
I hope you enjoy these nails as I had a great time making the design! :D
Have a wonderful Saturday!
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tutorial? Those are amazing!ReplyDelete
@ Unknown: Thank you so much!! :D It was actually pretty simple; I didn't follow any set guide, I just painted random black swirlies wherever I wanted! :DReplyDelete
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Love it!! It really does look like something an evil queen would wear.ReplyDelete
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This looks awesome! I was going to ask for a tutorial but read above that you just did random black swirlies. If I attempt this I hope it looks half as good as yours.ReplyDelete
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I love Once Upon A Time!! & This mani is so full of win it's incredible! :DReplyDelete
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Before I even read the title of this post, I instantly thought of Regina from Once Upon a Time from the swatch! You really captured her essence in this swatch...truly amazing and very beautiful.ReplyDelete
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The black design almost looks like a cutout from the background color or something. Very pretty! ^.^ReplyDelete
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AACN Pleased that Funding for Nursing Education is Preserved in the President's FY 2006 Budget Request
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AACN Pleased that Funding for Nursing Education is Preserved in the
President's FY 2006 Budget Request
Elimination of Some Health Profession Programs May Limit Access to Care
WASHINGTON, DC, February 8, 2005 - Today, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) announced its support for the $150 million in funding for nursing education included in President Bush's FY 2006 budget proposal. Though the president called for the elimination of other programs that prepare health professionals, funding for nursing was requested at the current level for Nursing Workforce Development programs (Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act). AACN is concerned, however, that the elimination of the other health professions education programs (Title VII) will severely limit access to health care for underserved populations.
"In a year when many education and health care programs are targeted for elimination, we are pleased to see the president maintaining a focus on addressing the nursing shortage and supporting the nursing workforce," said AACN President Jean Bartels, PhD, RN. "With three out of every four vacancies in hospitals today calling for registered nurses, it is crucial that Congress preserve, and preferably increase, funding for programs that bring new nurses into the profession and prepare current nurses for advanced clinical, teaching and research roles."
Though funding for nursing would be maintained, AACN is concerned that the Nurse Faculty Loan Program is still not adequately funded. This loan repayment program was created through the Nurse Reinvestment Act of 2002 to increase the supply of nurse educators. According to AACN's latest data, 32,797 qualified students were turned away from baccalaureate and graduate level nursing programs last year due primarily to insufficient numbers of faculty. Over 75 percent of schools surveyed cited the faculty shortage as the primary barrier to increasing enrollment.
"At a time when nursing schools are being pressed to produce more graduates while maintaining quality standards, turning away qualified applicants is unthinkable given this nation's health care needs," added Dr. Bartels. "Legislators must make funding graduate level nursing education a top priority to alleviate the dire need for educators to prepare nurses at all levels."
AACN is disappointed to see only slight increases or funding cuts for agencies and programs focused on improving patient safety and maintaining access to care. The FY 2006 budget request includes essentially level funding for both the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), two agencies focused on improving health care quality and patient outcomes. The new budget proposal also calls for a 3 percent decrease in funding for the National Health Services Corps which provides scholarships for health care providers who agree to work in underserved rural and urban areas.
Further, the President's proposed elimination of programs that support the other health professions, including medicine and allied health, will further limit the availability of health care providers. "AACN is shocked to see dramatic cuts to programs that support the health care workforce and is concerned that this action will diminish access to care and deny services to vulnerable populations," said Dr. Bartels.
Specific funding levels for nursing education programs that were proposed in the President's FY 2006 budget are listed on AACN's Web site at government-affairs/FY2006Chart.pdf.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is the national voice for university and four-year-college education programs in nursing. Representing more than 580 member schools of nursing at public and private institutions nationwide, AACN's educational, research, governmental advocacy, data collection, publications, and other programs work to establish quality standards for bachelor's- and graduate-degree nursing education, assist deans and directors to implement those standards, influence the nursing profession to improve health care, and promote public support of baccalaureate and graduate nursing education, research, and practice.
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Painting en plein air—that is, outdoors, on location—is a delightful way to sharpen your painting skills, enjoy the outdoors, and hang out with friends. Just as working from a live model improves your drawing skills, so painting on location helps you strengthen your compositions and to see both values and colors more clearly. These benefits accrue regardless of whether you ever paint landscapes in the studio and cannot be entirely replaced by working from either models or still-life setups. For landscape painters, of course, painting from life will lend authenticity to your work regardless of how skilled you otherwise may be.
Yes, it's true: painting outdoors on location is challenging, but in that challenge lies its value to all painters. Nature offers far more information in any given scene than you can possibly include in a painting. That means you have to learn how to pick and choose and to simplify the complexity before you. That's a skill you will find useful regardless of the type of work you do.
Shifting sunlight presents another useful challenge. Because the scene before you changes minute by minute, the first step in any plein-air painting, regardless of the medium you choose, should be to quickly capture the pattern of light and shadow. One you have established that pattern, you also have established your basic composition and from there can complete the painting without worrying about the movement of the sun or the interference of passing clouds. Learning to quickly assess the possibilities of a scene and block it in encourages the use of large shapes and simple patterns. This, again, is a skill that translates seamlessly to studio painting.
Many artists avoid plein-air painting because they fear feeling embarrassed in front of their peers or onlookers. They shouldn't worry. Onlookers are almost always amazed and delighted, and your peers share all your challenges and frustrations.
Here are a few useful ways to reduce your fear and frustration when painting outdoors:
- If you feel overwhelmed, paint small studies of trees, rocks, water, whatever. These studies will train your eye and greatly reduce your frustration. They will also provide a reference library you can use in the studio.
- Remember that even a disappointing effort can provide inspiration and guidance for later studio work, particularly when combined with reference photos.
- If you are painting with more experienced plein-air painters, ask them for guidance. Almost without exception they will be glad to share some tips and provide encouragement.
- Enjoy the camaraderie, which is available even on the most frustrating days.
- Finally, don't expect a masterpiece. Even the best, most experienced plein-air painters crank out far more second-raters, by their standards, than masterpieces.
Tips and Reminders
The following tips and reminders are recommended practices based on personal experience and the wisdom of fellow plein-air painters. They are intended for those of you who have little or no experience painting on location.
- Make yourself a checklist of what to take. Then, gather your equipment ahead of time. It is incredibly easy to forget even essentials. Many painters keep a special plein-air kit ready to go at a moment's notice.
- Consider using a limited palette. It's good practice and a lot easier to carry.
- Aside from essentials, keep equipment to a minimum. Consider a painter's cart if you are unable to carry everything yourself.
- Dress in layers to be ready for changes in weather.
- If you are unable or prefer not to stand while painting, remember to take a folding stool.
- Take paper towels for both painting and clean-up, and plastic bags for disposing of dirty paper towels both during and after painting.
- Remember to pack snacks, lunch, and drinking water. Water is especially important for the more remote venues, where it will likely be unavailable.
- Bring insect repellant, particularly for the mountain venues.
- Prepare for the sun by carrying a hat, sunscreen, and perhaps an artist's umbrella.
- When setting up, choose a spot where both your palette and your canvas or paper are shaded, or use an umbrella to create your own. Whatever you do, avoid painting with the sun directly on your painting and palette, as this will cause you to paint your values darker than they should be. For the same reason, avoid wearing white when you paint.
- Work small. Unless you are an experienced plein-air painter, don't attempt a painting larger than a half sheet of watercolor paper (15 x 22 inches) or a canvas or panel larger than 12 x 16 inches.
Watercolor Painters
- Your washes will normally dry much faster outdoors than in the studio. You may need to adjust your studio habits to take this into account.
- A watercolor block is an excellent choice. It is portable, serves as its own laptop easel, and contains as many sheets as you're likely to need.
Acrylic Painters
- Your washes will normally dry much faster outdoors than in the studio. You may need to adjust your studio habits to take this into account.
- Consider using the new slow-drying acrylic formulations for painting outdoors.
- A wet palette with a cover is ideal. A spray bottle is essential regardless.
- Panels are recommended. If working on a stretched canvas, you will need something to block light coming through the back of the canvas.
Oil Painters
- Wet canvas boxes are recommended, though some pochade boxes and easels provide slots for carrying wet canvases. The flat boxes that frames come in also work. Otherwise, prepare to make room in your car for laying the canvas flat and keeping other gear from smearing it.
- Consider painting without solvents. A couple of containers of artist-grade walnut oil or safflower oil work just as well for cleaning brushes and palette. Solvents are difficult to transport and dispose of. If spilled, they contaminate the environment.
- Consider using water-soluble oils. Then you will only need water to thin your paint and clean your brushes. Most oil painters, however, prefer traditional oils because water-soluble oils do not have the same handling properties.
- Panels are recommended. If working on a stretched canvas, you will need something to block light coming through the back of the canvas.
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Happy Friday everyone! Lots of things to do outside this weekend...
Heading to the Gulf coast is seldom a bad idea.... but this weekend should be great. The Cedar Key Fine Arts Festival is this weekend. The event, also known as the Old Florida Celebration of the Arts, is celebrating it's 50th year. You can stroll down Second Street on the island checking out the art of over a hundred artists and craftsmen. While on the island, you can also sample home made treats and seafood. And the kids can have fun at City Park right on the beach. The festival runs from 10 am to 5 pm Saturday and Sunday. Website
Just up the coast, the Horseshoe Beach Spring Festival is Saturday. The event, sponsored by the Horseshoe Beach Library, features a parade down Main Street at 11 am. There'll also be arts and crafts and a concert by the water. As for the food, how about seafood gumbo, fish chowder and burgers? The event goes from 10 to 4 Saturday. Website
If it's food you're looking for, you might want to check out the Ocala Crawfish Festival Saturday. The organizers are bringing in over a ton of crawfish for the event. You can get a pound of them for ten bucks, by the way. If you're not full there'll also be red beans and rice, roasted corn and lots more. Your young ones can check out the big kids area, too. The event, a fundraiser for The Marion Academies, starts at 2 pm Saturday and goes through the evening. Website
Also this weekend, the 2014 Bradford County Strawberry Festival. There'll be no shortage of things to eat there, of course. The family friendly event also has a Kidz Zone, the Strawberry 5k run and entertainment throughout the day. The fun runs Saturday from 9 am to 7 pm, and Sunday from 9 to 5 in downtown Starke. Website
Country music fans, Janie Fricke is in concert at the Orange Blossom Opry in Weirsdale Saturday. She was one of the biggest names in country music in the 80's... being named the CMA Female Vocalist of the Year in 1982. Shows are at 2:30 and 7:30 pm Saturday. Website
Finally... Gator football is back! The Orange and Blue debut, the Gators spring game, kicks off at 1:30 Saturday afternoon in The Swamp. Website
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Quick opinion question: it says to silicon the plugs on a bell box for wet location. If it's not going to get real wet, like under a garage peak overhang, I just use several wraps of Teflon tape. I put this on the lamp holders too (not a good ground anyway due to coating, so I DO use the grounding screws on the box, cover, and lamp holders). Anyone say Teflon tape is a terrible idea? Other tips?
Ive never done either
I caulk the ones on the top of the box, if any.
If you can't use the caulk do to its location, put the plug in and then put a good size dolup on your finger and cover the plug.
I useally chalk the top half but almost never on bottom half ( unless subject ot spraying water then I will seal up the whole thing )
And of course drill out a small 1 or 2 mm hole on bottom of it that will assit any water to drain out.( unless it is under " damp location " I may let it slide depending on the set up )
I drill a hole in the bottom. A small hole.
Actually I don't, but I would do that before trying to seal it up.
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The tourism guru credited with transforming Glasgow from a decaying industrial eyesore into a major cultural destination is visiting Waterloo Region.

Eddie Friel, an Order of the British Empire recipient who resides in upstate New York, will speak at Themuseum on Thursday in acknowledgement of the downtown Kitchener museum's 10th anniversary.

Friel's 40-minute talk will examine the role of cultural tourism in destination image-building and as a driver of economic generation.

"Professor Friel's topic, focused on urban regeneration, is pertinent to Themuseum and to this community," says chief executive David Marskell. "I am looking forward to his perspective and to discovering how he will inspire Waterloo Region."

Friel is a passionate proponent of cities as centres of creativity, innovation and wealth creation.

In a telephone interview, he confirmed he is intrigued by the cluster of creative industries in Waterloo Region and how they operate as an engine of economic development."

"Waterloo Region understands how the world has transitioned from a manufacturing technology to a knowledge technology."

The challenge facing the region, he adds, is employing history, heritage and culture to reinvent itself to tell a story that differentiates itself in the global marketplace.

"The issue is how you develop a sense of place that connects not only with tourists, but with people who live, work, learn, play and invest in the community."

He confirmed Marskell has invited him to Waterloo Region four times previously.

"David has been kind enough to invite me to the region on a number of occasions and introduce me to the people who have been directly involved in the transformation process.

A native of Northern Ireland, Friel has spent more than four decades in public and private sectors of the tourism industry in the United Kingdom, Canada and U.S. He has held various senior management positions including North American director of the Northern Ireland Tourist Board.

In 1983 he was appointed the first chief executive of the Greater Glasgow Tourist Board, where he developed urban regeneration strategies and policies that helped transform the city from a decaying industrial city into one of Europe's major cultural and tourism destinations.

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Just What Should Be Done With Online Piracy?
Posted by Mark Mulligan on May 12, 2009
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The UK
creative industries have pulled together to lobby the government on the issue
of online piracy. A coalition of TV
bosses and senior music and movie executives are pushing for tighter
enforcement of illegal downloading and for the creation of a body that would
oversee enforcement, owned by the creative industries but overseen by the
regulator Ofcom. The coalition comprises
heavyweights such as Universal Music and Sony Pictures and UK
Virgin Media.
Unsurprisingly the proposals have been subject to a fair
amount of flak in the tech press. but there are some ideas worthy of serious
consideration. Regular readers will know
that my position on digital piracy encompasses the perspectives on both sides
of the argument. This doesn't mean that
I sit in the middle, indeed I am in the often uncomfortable position of being
able to annoy both sides! But that
caveat aside, here are what I think are the four key dynamics that underpin
this issue:
- Illegal
downloading of content is a bigger problem now than it ever was. We're nearly ten years after the launch
of Napster. That decade has seen
tens of millions spent globally on legal action, enforcement and
lobbying. But more consumers are downloading more content
across more platforms and applications than ever before. Current
enforcement may be restricting the size of the growth but it's not doing
- The
first generation of file sharers (Digital Natives if you like) are hitting
the age at which they stop being time rich / cash poor and become cash
rich / time poor. This is the stage
at which they should start becoming core media buyers. Nothing suggests this is about to
happen. Their 'free' habits are too
deeply ingrained.
- Most
legal paid services online and on mobile are niche at best (e.g. iTunes)
and failures in the main.
- Physical
media sales are declining in many sectors in may regions. Piracy is far from the only contributing
factor but it is a key one.
So doing nothing simply isn't an option, even if most media
execs recognize that enforcement in itself will not eliminate digital
piracy. Indeed it will never disappear
entirely but a realistic aim is to push it to the margins in the same way that
shoplifting is in the high street equation.
High profile industry led action, coupled with robust legislation and
effective partnerships between content owners and telcos are all key
ingredients that will help combat the problem effectively.
But the secret
sauce is a comprehensive landscape of compelling legal alternatives that
cater for all consumer segments. This
inherently means fighting free with free itself in order to engage younger,
typically file sharing, consumers. The
music industry is already on this path (cf Spotify, We7) as are TV broadcasters
(cf Hulu, iPlayer) and so too many games providers. But there is a lot more to be done, not least
in ensuring that the business models are sustainable, particularly during the
economic downturn.
The bottom line is that it doesn't matter how big your stick
is unless you've got a nice fat juicy carrot dangling in front of the horse's
re: Just What Should Be Done With Online Piracy?
Comment from Bas (not verified) on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 11:01
Not a realistic aim at all and it's not fair to charge consumers for the costs of an industry having trouble keeping up with technological developments.The only way that's fair for all parties involved is collective licensing.
re: Just What Should Be Done With Online Piracy?
Comment from farkus (not verified) on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 15:48
Interesting blog post here. I agree with your last paragraph, but I believe all 4 of your key dynamics are wrong. Let me explain:1. How do you substantiate that it is a bigger problem/ever increasing problem now than it ever was before? Beside the fact that you have no evidence to prove your point I think your focus is in the wrong direction. Napster wasn't not so much a problem with scofflaws trying to get free music as it was the market telling the labels what they wanted (digital a la cart music). Since then the labels have continued to sue and that is proving quite unpopular. If there is an ever growing problem it is more and more people are rejecting the litigation campaign and become advocates for change. As a result there is a growing hatred for the labels themselves and many who simply boycott their music altogether. Litigation will never be the answer.2. "Their 'free' habits are too deeply ingrained." nothing you suggests says that this isn't going to happen. Again you are giving me no substantial evidence to support your hypothesis. Even still I don't believe that our 'free' habits are too deeply ingrained, but, rather, it is simply the natural tendency of a digital market. In other words it isn't free because we want it to be, it is free because it is supposed to be. Again you give me no evidence to the contrary. There has been ample evidence reported that bittorrent users actually purchase more music than non-bittorent users. At the very least I think it is disingenuous to say that they don't ever purchase. If the object is of significant value to the person they will put money out.3. Again it is the market speaking here. iTunes actually does quite well, but now that they raised their prices (even though they called it a lowering of prices) sales have dropped. $.99 sounds cheap for a song, but when you figure out the true market forces for the digital bits it is far too expensive. The labels could have learned from allofmp3 about variable pricing/bit rate with multiple formats. Give me a reason to pay $.99 and I will.4. Where do you get your evidence to support that piracy is a major contributing factor to the decline of plastic disks? Have we thought that maybe the younger generation just isn't that interested in them? Why do you need physical media when you have iPods and various other digital players. Piracy has been a red herring since napster in the decline of physical media. Technology and people have evolved beyond the need. Give me real evidence that piracy directly (not indirectly or "because I want it to.") causes the decline in physical media.I also take issue with your solution to enact stricter laws. In the second to the last paragraph you defeat your own point. You say the issue will never go away, on that I totally agree with you, but you go on to say that strict enforcement and partnerships will combat the problem "effectively." Really? You don't just see encryption (vpn or tor) or maybe private bittorrent (like oneswarm) coming to play? You don't see that solution as just being an arms race? Or maybe people will resort to other ways altogether. The point is that it hasn't ever worked what makes you think that anything the legacy players will put into action will? And as I said earlier since napster now people are better informed and generally don't side with the stricter regime.However, your last paragraph is truly the only thing worth reading. Your "secret sauce" is exactly right. It is about leveraging what the market wants rather than litigating how you think the market should act. You are absolutely right. Now I personally do not use bittorrent for nefarious purposes, but I must admit that I have no reason to when it comes to tv viewing. Hulu is so easy that there is 0 need for me to wait days while a torrent seeds and downloads. If the RIAA labels had done something like this rather than acting the way they did during napster we probably wouldn't be having this conversation. Would priacy still happen? sure, but it wouldn't be a problem. It would be pushed "to the margins in the same way that shoplifting is." If the content owners woke up and started to realize what their customers want (rather than suing them or taking away what they want *ahem* boxee vs hulu) this whole conversation and all of the legislation or licensing they think they need would be moot.So I applaud you for realizing the "secret sauce." It is just quite unfortunate that it is still a secret. It doesn't need to be, and the RIAA and MPAA can still save their business by recognizing this and responding accordingly.
re: Just What Should Be Done With Online Piracy?
Comment from Mark Mulligan on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 02:28
Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful response. As many of your points concern Forrester's research approach I wanted to provide a detailed response to explain how Forrester conducts its research and builds arguments.Forrester has been tracking file sharing and non-network piracy for many years. We have extensive data across the US and Europe that tracks the behaviour, as well as the attitudes of these consumers. We, and indeed I myself, have written many reports on the topic, using this proprietary data (my first data supported file sharing report was published in 2001).Data similarly underpins my assumptions in this post. My job as a research analyst is to build evidence supported arguments, not to indulge in unfounded conjecture. Forrester's blog posts are a forum for communicating our thinking beyond our client base, into the broader market place. As such we typically do not present data in the manner in which we do in reports. However all of our arguments are based upon the same rigorous evidence based methodology, even if the evidence is not presented in the post.In addition to tracking file sharing, Forrester has done extensive work investigating the scale of the causal link between music piracy and the decline in recorded music revenues. We have conducted extensive empirical research utilizing a mix of supply and demand side evidence.Forrester firmly believes that file sharing is not a black and white issue and that not all file sharers are the same, nor that they should be treated the same. We have exhaustive evidence to demonstrate that many are high value music buyers, though the same data also shows that many are also freeloaders who have no willingness to pay for music, and that their attitudes to paying for music have been irrevocably shaped by file sharing.My position in this post, as I have argued in many Forrester reports, is that enforcement itself is not the solution. That the legitimate sector must fill the need vacuum, particularly because the rise of non-network sharing and anonymous networks will be nigh on impossible to police (for more details Forrester clients can see our 2007 report 'Addressing the Non-Network Threat')http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/european_music_file_sharing/q/id/52057/t/2Copyright is in clear need of attention in the digital arena. Legislation drawn up in the analogue era intrinsically fails to address many of the issues that digital usage poses. But it is key that these revisions focus on providing a robust framework for supporting the creative industries' efforts to develop vibrant digital businesses and not to simply act as a crutch for crumbling physical businesses.This is a period of rapid change and transition and mistakes will be made. But content cannot simply be free without content owners and creators getting paid. That is why it is pivotal that lessons are learned from file sharing, but that it is ultimately shunted into the periphery.If you like to learn more about Forrester's extensive data and research on music and video piracy then please contact us via one of the methods shown here: http://www.forrester.comYou can also read more of my posts about file sharing on my other bloghttp://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/
re: Just What Should Be Done With Online Piracy?
Comment from farkus (not verified) on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 09:10
I do appreciate your attempt to tow the line and represent both sides. Of course I will look into Forrester's methodology in more detail when I have time.To be sure there are certainly free-loaders, but I am not entirely convinced that those free-loaders ever would have been paying customers if given no other option. I listen to quite a bit of music for free (via Myspace and other legal options). In am often free-loading, but don't always buy, in fact typically if I do buy it is because I can't live without that song. Before myspace people free-loaded via the radio or friends. The point is that free-loaders always existed and will always. I don't think they do as much harm as people want to think.I also agree that current laws cannot begin to encompass a digital age. I appreciate what you said here about what new laws should look like, "supporting the creative industries' efforts to develop vibrant digital businesses and not to simply act as a crutch for crumbling physical businesses." May main concern is that these laws cannot forget the consumer. While I appreciate protecting creators rights, the people fighting for these laws are not the content creators (as in artists or musicians). As such they seem only concerned with their legacy, failed, business model and much to the peril of the consumer. The consumer finds rights taken away and personal well being threatened to protect said industry. New laws MUST protect the consumer and codify fair use."This is a period of rapid change and transition and mistakes will be made. But content cannot simply be free without content owners and creators getting paid. " No one says that content owners or creators won't get paid...see you are missing the point here. Free is only part of the equation. There are so many more opportunities out there to get paid rather than forcing the payment of bits and bytes. Do you know how many artists I have found because of streaming services or pandora and what not? If I had to pay for all of the "free" music I have listened to...well there would be a lot of artists without my money. The point is that as I find them and grow to like them they start to get more of my money for other reasons (like the record, can't pirate that, or this Thursday I am heading to a concert, can't pirate that). By throwing up a paywall in order to find a band creates a barrier. Indeed many bands both big and small have found great success in giving away music for free. It typically results in more fans which gets more money.Let me give you a personal example. I was not a Radiohead fan until I downloaded their latest album for free from their website. Of course you could say that I am freeloading and yes I was, but before that album I wasn't listening to them at all. I never would have been a paying customer. Now they are one of my favorite bands as a result of free. When someone talks about free it is just the beginning. No one is saying that content creators or owners aren't going to get paid. Money will be made it just won't work with the old ways.FYI I was just reading (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/uk-isps-refuse-to-play-internet-copyright-cops.ars) There is a quote from the RIAA mentioning that P2P has flatlined in growth (basically refuting your point that it is an ever growing problem of pandemic proportions) and at the same time legal purchases are increasing.
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Comment from Erik Higa (not verified) on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 15:59
You will never stop us.
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Good blog. Nice smart arsy comments as well.


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No Redemption
"It's not a redemptive novel in a Christian kind of way," Cave told The Guardian. "Bunny Munro dies unredeemed; he's suddenly wiped off the face of the planet."
Without this redemption, the novel avoids becoming a clichéd morality tale wherein Bunny somehow arrives at a moment of clarity and compensates for the errors of his ways. In fact, rather than being the parable of a sinner's redemption, the novel amounts to a play-by-play destruction of a man. While The Death of Bunny Munro is certainly not the only text to tackle such a plot—Death of a Salesman being the closest comparison—what makes it unique is that the central character is systematically designed to elicit virtually no feelings of sympathy or pathos from the audience. Bunny's laundry list of deplorable acts include obsessively visualizing vaginas, pulling his car over to the side of the road to masturbate after hearing a Kylie Minogue song on the radio, hoping his newfound widow status will make him more appealing to women, attempting to ditch his son with his dead wife's parents, and, perhaps most appalling, being too oblivious to recognize his son's subtle pleas for medication for his granulated eyelids. And yet, despite Cave's vilification of Bunny, his plight does appeal to readers' sympathy, a result all but inexplicable.
As the road trip progresses, Bunny finds he is no longer the cavalier playboy he once was, seeing each successive attempt to finagle his way into a lady's bed squandered. Bunny is essentially pure motorized, conscious lust, an id in a suit and tie carrying a suitcase full of beauty products, and yet as his desires get more and more pronounced, they are achieved with less and less frequency. Each episode presents Bunny in a more embarrassing situation than the one before as he goes from a commanding presence to a pathetic figure surrounded by forces beyond his control. Where women on his sales list would previously welcome him in, fall for his effortless smooth talk then bed him, they now laugh in his face or physically assault him.
And yet, in as much as the tale is about Bunny's fatal demise, it is also about his son's survival against all odds, living beyond the prophecy ordained by the proverbial sins of his father, so long as he chooses to do so. The one-two punch of Bunny invading a drug den and raping a skin-and-bones junky and the last meeting with his abusive, cancer-ridden father is the absolute nadir of Bunny's plight and serves as a climax of such to the book. It is this final meeting with his father that finally defeats Bunny, sucking away whatever vitality remained in him. At the same time, the scene showcases how Bunny Junior, through the steel-fisted resolve of pure choice, has the potential to avoid following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
With such a concentration on Bunny's demented sexual escapades, with sex being the means by which he is finally undone, could the novel be a satire on our world's focus on sex itself? Bunny is the full realization, the epitome of rampant sexual desire virtually all magazine covers, TV shows, and music videos cater to. And yet, with all the sex he could possibly want laid out before him, he still craves more. There is no bottom to his well of desire. He's constantly seeking the zenith, the top of the mountain, failing to realize there is no such thing. Thus, he loses himself and his family in his foolish pursuit. Sex itself then, Cave seems to imply, is not the be-all, end-all modern Western culture makes it out to be. Rather, it is a hollow endeavor, as are, arguably, all achievements, as they only lead one to wanting more. Thus, it is clear The Death of Bunny Munro is far from literary pornography; if anything, it attacks the same foundation on which pornography is built upon, subtly using the conventions of the form to deride it.
The comedic tones that at times pop up (if the reader has a dark enough sense of humor to recognize them) could support the notion that the piece is intended as a satire, or even as Camp, which Sontag in part defines as a cheerful alternative to satire. "The traditional means for going beyond straight seriousness—irony, satire—seem feeble today, inadequate to the culturally oversaturated medium in which contemporary sensibility is schooled," Sontag writes. "Camp introduces a new standard: artifice as an ideal, theatricality." Such a definition clearly fits The Death of Bunny Munro.
However, if we choose not to see the text as comical, satirical, or campy and analyze it as a legitimate tragedy, it still has much to say in the way of social commentary, apart from the theoretical criticism of society's obsession with sex. For, in truth, the novel is not solely about the destruction of one man, but it is of the total disintegration of one modern British family. As such, it is the veritable opposite of author Ian McEwan's novel Saturday, published in 2005, just a few years prior to Cave's book. In weighing the extent of Cave's novel's statement on modern British life, Bunny can be juxtaposed with a Saturday's Henry Perowne. Both are, in their distinct ways, microcosms of modern British (or Western) life. However, Perowne's characterization is steeped in realism—he is a successful neurosurgeon with a loving wife and two adult children, but he is also dealing with the ennui all but inherent to middle aged men. In spite of this, he manages to tap into an inner strength in order to contain a series of random occurrences and learn something about himself in the process. Perowne is a flawed figure we can empathize with, capable of becoming the ideal we aspire to. His family members, similarly, pull in different directions but are united in their sense of duty and genuine affection for one another. Bunny, on the other hand, is the wicked underbelly of the Western middle class male. As such, he is the dark side that can result from a culture just as capable of producing a figure as Perowne. Whereas Perowne's family is the ideal, Bunny's is the nightmare manifest.
Aside from these considerations, and with the criticism that The Death of Bunny Munro is masked pornography having been dispelled, the novel's series of depraved acts and cast of vile characters still beg the question of whether the work has any artistic worth, or if it exists as a curiosity meant to titillate and appeal to our baser senses. When comparing the work to two other novels that faced similar accusations upon publication—authored by two of Cave's most prominent influences, no less—one can see such allegations do not suffice as means of undercutting the work's artistic merits. In Faulkner's Sanctuary (1931), a college girl is savagely raped and kidnapped by a bootlegger and murderer, yet when her chance comes to testify against him in trial, she inexplicably claims a different man violated her. This falsely accused man is subsequently lynched, based solely on the girl's testimony.
In Cormac McCarthy's Child of God (1973), the author fashions a protagonist even more detestable than Bunny Munro—Lester Ballard, a serial killer who dabbles in pedophilia and necrophilia. Ballard's depravity is so grandiose, it is almost as though he is McCarthy's exercise in deviancy. And yet, despite the initial criticisms faced by both these novels—that they violated social mores or taboos, that they were nothing more than irredeemable, prurient pulp or literary smut—they have since come to be regarded as legitimate pieces of literature. While neither is hailed as their respective author's greatest work, they are respected components of their collective output and are generally not treated by critics as blights to be ignored. Using the changing attitudes these two novels garnered over the years as a measuring pole, it is likely The Death of Bunny Munro will continue gaining momentum, growing in recognition beyond the kneejerk reaction that it is merely shock value tripe.
On the other hand, one could argue comparisons to the works of Faulkner and McCarthy are entirely superficial, in that the Southern Gothic themes common to them might lend them more suitable to discussions regarding Cave's first novel. For, while The Death of Bunny Munro no doubt has some Gothic elements, it is certainly not at home in the Southern realm. One could probe further and say it is not a Gothic novel at all, that it is influenced by that genre, but not bound to it, and thereby call into question what genre the novel can be classified as at all. To say the novel belongs to the picaresque tradition—an unwholesome protagonist's series of often comical misadventures—might be altogether more fitting, following the pattern set by such works as Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the novels of Charles Bukowski. These works, like Cave's, fall decidedly on the nihilistic end of the genre's spectrum. Yet, distinguishing The Death of Bunny Munro from these texts is the fact that Cave's novel could in no way be considered a veiled memoir or fictionalized autobiography.
With The Death of Bunny Munro bearing such hallmarks of at least two distinct literary genres, in which does it best fit? Is it contemporary Gothic with a touch of the picaresque, or a modern picaresque bearing an obvious influence of the Gothic? Or, is it an amalgamation of the two, filtered through the lens of a tragedy? Pigeonholing the work into a convenient, catch-all category is to render it a disservice. If a genre must be applied to the piece, perhaps the best would be to say it is born from a pool of disparate sources, compiled and interpreted as only Nick Cave could.
Comparisons to other novels aside, in the end The Death of Bunny Munro must stand on its own when gauging its literary merit. Perhaps at this juncture, little more than a year since its publication, it is too soon to objectively assess its place in legitimate literature. What can be said, though, is that under close inspection, the most frequent criticisms leveled against the work are shown to be essentially baseless. What cannot be argued is that whether the novel succeeds or fails to be recognized for its artistic virtues, it will be remembered, at least marginally, due to one of its main criticisms—that The Death of Bunny Munro is nothing more than the product of an aging musician's ego-stroking, that it is the result of its author not being content in the artistic niche he had already mastered. Such a quick dismissal may carry more weight if Cave's book were a one-off project, as it is not altogether uncommon for singer-songwriters to foster ambitions as aspiring authors, with notables as Ryan Adams, Patti Smith, Steve Earle, and Billy Bragg having been published novels in recent years, to varying critical reception. But as The Death of Bunny Munro is Cave's second novel, it indicates Cave is not a fluke rock star-cum-author.
Interestingly, the publication of The Death of Bunny Munro has somewhat marked Cave as charting a mirror image of the career trajectory of one of his most prominent idols—Leonard Cohen, who published two novels and several books of poetry before deciding to moonlight as singer-songwriter. Though Cohen's endeavor was roundly dismissed as a novelist's midlife crisis at the time he undertook the transformation in the mid 1960s, he is now regarded and recognized foremost as a songwriter. Certainly, it would be interesting if Cave continues with the reverse paradigm of Cohen's career, becoming more esteemed as an author in the decades to come than as a musician.
In short, The Death of Bunny Munro will be remembered because of its author's name, the very thing certain critics said detracted from its integrity. Yet, Cave's reputation will not decide whether Bunny is remembered as a footnote or a watershed achievement, whether it is remembered in spite of its author's established credentials or because of them. Such consideration will inevitably rest on the novel's own inherent worth, or lack thereof. Regardless how history comes to look upon the work, in the context of Cave's career, it stands alone as the purest distillation of his artistry—a poetic novel with Cave's inimitable brand of the grotesque, absurd and often comic nature of humanity—at least until Cave publishes his third novel.
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Blue Charm. Gray Ghost. Golden Witch: names of Carrie Stevens' fishing flies which helped define the Rangeley tradition, and made Maine's Rangeley Lakes Region the premier fly fishing destination in America. Enthusiastic anglers throughout North America chose Carrie Stevens' streamers of bright silks and feathers for their beauty as well as for their effectiveness. They were confident they would thus be assured a chance to record their trophy brook trout and salmon in a log at the Upper Dam House, a favorite lodging for many anglers' annual migrations to the Rangeley fly fishing paradise.
From New York to Philadelphia, Boston to Chicago and beyond, a summer trip to Rangeley was the ultimate angler's dream, and its highlight was a visit to the Stevens' camp to meet with famous Carrie Stevens in person. Her unique contribution to fly fishing history and her warm personality made her beloved by many.
For thirty fishing seasons in the early 1900's, Carrie Stevens created distinctive flies at her camp at Upper Dam on Mooselookmeguntic Lake, where she lived with her Maine Guide husband, Wallace. Although she tied her last fly and closed her camp in 1953, her art lives on in the work of Maine's fly tiers like Selene Dumaine whose flies grace the pages of this site. Selene's distinctive work has been featured in Fly Tyer magazine, and her faithful adherence to Carrie Stevens' methodical, painstaking craft has made her flies popular with avid anglers throughout the Northeast. In the sunlight of her century-old Readfield barn workshop, Selene evokes the rich tradition of the Rangeley region . . . and continues a legacy that echoes through the years.
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So I've been a bad girl on this site. Seriously I haven't been on here since early October and that is just sad.
To the many people who were waiting friend requests and pen pal-dom and trades, well fear not, I am working through them all! And what of the zine HOLES?
Simply put the usual Zine fair of IN PROGRESS. Nearly completed just gotta get the rest of the submissions in the issue to be complete and few more layouts.
Having my printer break wasn't exactly helpful either but, when life gives you lemons, squeeze em into the eyes of Gods, eh?
Anyways updates:
Life has been either on overdrive or at a weird slow motion deal for me the last few months.
holidays were actually not bad for once (which believe me, if you knew me internet, you'd know that Holidays are the off spring of Hell that try to kill me every year.) I even had the best xmas I've had in years.
I've been working on other projects of mine as well. From writing some CyberPunk Stories, to song writing, to rediscovering my love of Manga writing/Drawing. (yes. Punks can be nerds too world.)
of course, as I am rediscovering actually doing this thing like enjoying the small things in life, things are falling a part all over the place.
Net Neutrality is as dead as punk cliches.
Rights for anyone who's pretty much not a white male christian are something laughable.
Seriously? who ever heard of rights, RIGHT?!
And if you identify as anything but male well, sorry, you're just fucked.
And the environment? HAHAH...*starts choking as the air becomes unbreathable the water too acidic to drink, the food not even food anymore*
So what does one do in times such as these?
Defy the rules, destroy, and then create of course.
On the upside I'll be trying to hence forth keep up with this blog on a weekly bases.
So I guess that is it.
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