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Natural gas usage in the UK could see price reduction here
A GROWING gas commodity in global markets could lead to reduction in Guernsey Gas prices, its commercial director has said.
A GROWING gas commodity in global markets could lead to reduction in Guernsey Gas prices, its commercial director has said.
John Davies has said while Guernsey could not make use of shale gas locally – island boilers are geared to burn liquid petroleum gas – its use elsewhere could have a positive effect on the price of other fuels.
'What has happened in America is that they have found a way to extract the gas by pumping water into the ground, which has made it commercially viable – they are just about ready to export the first shipment of shale gas,' he said.
'The UK is exploring the possibility of shale found in the UK to see if it is viable, but there are a lot of political hoops to go through – people are worried about what impact extracting it could have.'
Mr Davies said that shale gas would be cheaper as it meant companies would not have to rely on volatile Arab markets.
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Prices reduced here??.....I won't hold my breath while I'm waiting.
Me too - waiting for the 8th wonder of the world!
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"Anything that helps the game of golf is good, no matter what," said Garcia, who played a practice round with Wie.
"It might not help the guy she takes the spot from this week, but it might help him in the future.
"When I see Michelle or Annika Sorenstam playing on a golf course I don't see them as female players, I see them as golfers."
European Tour chief executive George O'Grady has previously described the practice of women playing in men's events as a "gimmick".
Wie is only the second woman to play in a European Tour event, after Laura Davies finished second last in the 2004 ANZ Championship in Australia.
But Garcia - the only member of Europe's Ryder Cup team playing in Switzerland - believes anything which increases interest in the game, keeps sponsors coming in and prize money high is a positive step.
The Spaniard warned, however, that Wie's relatively low ball flight could count her against her this week on Crans-sur-Sierre's small, undulating greens.
"She is a wonderful player, pretty long for her age and being a woman and she has beautiful distance control with the irons," he added.
"She might struggle a bit if it doesn't rain because some of these greens are really difficult to hit for us. If we are struggling to hold them with nine irons, you can imagine what it's going to be like with longer clubs."
"There are going to be some people that aren't happy with me playing in men's tournaments," she said.
"I am not expecting 100% support every week but that is the way the world works.
"There are going to be people that support me and others that don't but I feel people here have been very supportive and welcoming.
"I am not just doing it for the support I get, I am doing it for myself and my own self happiness.
"I love playing men's events and the challenge. I feel an adrenaline rush when I play these events and it is a lot of fun."

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The Victory Center provides intensive therapy based upon the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis, in particular those associated with B.F. Skinner's (1957) analysis of verbal behavior. This form of therapy is typically provided to children with autism in home-based programs.
The Victory Center combines this highly effective intensive training with frequent opportunities for facilitated social interactions within its own classrooms or with the typical preschool on campus. Progress is measured at regular intervals through the collection and interpretation of data.


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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by dfense, Apr 7, 2014.
Or this:
3-13 season. Create a logo = not a rivalry, it's a priorities issue with the face/leader off your team. Or is it all about him, for himself.
Wait, what??? This is the logo they came up with? This is not new, this is from 2012.
Some things need no improving upon!
Please, continue. I want to hear more of your theories. I find them fascinating.


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Exclusive first look: Ambli, Michel Wahaltere's new restaurant, puts a global spin on takeout
Ambli exec chef Michel Wahaltere.
All photos by Lori Midson.
Michel Wahaltere has cooked all over Colorado, most recently at Gisella, in Aspen, which closed last year. He was the opening chef of Campo de Fiori in Cherry Creek -- now Pikkas; the original exec chef of the 9th Door in LoDo; the opening chef of MiniBAR, a concept that also shuttered years ago in Cherry Creek; the exec chef of the long-gone Moda, now 100% de Agave -- and several more local restaurant and culinary concepts, including a food truck that he named Chicago Louie's paddy wagon. And now he's back in Denver, where he's the executive chef of Ambli Gourmet Eatery & Wine, a strip mall stunner that opened earlier this month at 600 South Holly Street.
See also: Range will bring cuisine from the American West to downtown Denver
"I went through a divorce while I was in Aspen, and it took me a while before I became emotionally ready to leave that town and return to Denver, but I love this city -- it's become such an amazing mecca for foodies -- and I was ready to start a new adventure," says Wahaltere, who partnered with owners Pariza Mehta and Kelly Morrison on Ambli, a "global" food concept emphasizing international dishes geared toward the takeout crowd. "We're doing dishes from France, Italy, the Middle East, Africa, Spain, Italy, Belgium and Mexico, all of which have my own twists, and a lot of what we have on the menu are prepared foods that you're certainly welcome to eat here, but can also be taken home and easily reheated," explains Wahaltere.
The 3,500-square-foot communal cafe and bar mimics the global cuisine concept: prepared foods are served from a spherical island in the middle of the space; a sandwich, soup and salad station is curve-shaped; the ceiling design is rounded; and an elevated bar area, which serves a separate tapas menu, is also swerved in curves. The color palette -- bright blue, stark white, sherbert orange and muted chocolate -- is modern, and there's a small retail component, too, shelved with unique wine-focused products and accessories.
And wine, says bar manager Ethan Davis, formerly of the Kitchen, Denver, is the primary focus, too, of the beverage program. "We have a few cocktails, but we really want to make this about pairing wines with food, so that's what we're stressing," says Davis, adding, too, that the small but formidable beer list, which features bottles from Italy, China, India, Mexico, Germany, the UK and Colorado, represents the worldly culinary culture that defines Wahaltere's menu -- a menu that boasts pastas and flatbreads, made-to-order sandwiches and customized salads, Indian and African curries, hummus and side dishes, including roasted vegetables, pan-roasted Brussels sprouts, curried potatoes and quinoa salad.
All of the side dishes and entrees are available to go, while the tapas, a scroll that features samosas, chicken ticca skewers with naan, African beef kabobs and tempura spinach leaves (they're amazing) are only served in-house, either at the bar, or in the cafe. In addition, Wahaltere is offering daily specials, including desserts, which can also be packaged to go.
"It's a novel idea insomuch that we're giving guests the option to run in and grab something to go on the run, or stay and have a glass of wine and a great meal in a really beautiful space," says Wahaltere. "It's a little unusual, but I like to do things a little differently, and we're definitely elevating the takeout part of this to a much higher level," he adds.
Ambli is open for lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday; Sunday brunch will begin on Sunday, February 23.
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Okaka eyes Roma exit
Roma forward Stefano Okaka is hoping for a move to England or Scotland, according to the player's agent.
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Last Updated: 12/07/10 10:52pm
Roma forward Stefano Okaka is hoping for a move to England or Scotland, according to the player's agent.
The 20-year-old Italian striker spent a spell on loan at Fulham last season, after finding first-team opportunities hard to come by in Serie A.
Okaka is keen to move in order to get games under his belt, so as to help his progression to the Italy national team having already been capped at Under 21 level.
His agent, Domenico Scopelliti, told romanews.eu: "English and Scottish clubs interested in Stefano? I have not been contacted by any club in particular.
"Certainly, if Roma decide to sell him, Stefano would like to repeat the experience in England or go to play in Scotland.
"They are the leagues suitable for his characteristics. I think that Okaka should play with continuity, and this obviously cannot happen in Roma.
"I believe that another experience like that at Fulham would be fine and that's what I am looking for.
"Hopefully it will be a little Premier League club, because that would enable him to play a whole season in one of the most beautiful and difficult championships in the world.
"The national team is one of the main objectives of Stefano."


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Pittsburghers honoring Masloff's memory at City-County Building
Rest in peace, Mayor.
That's the message scrawled in blue ink on page after page of a pair of leather-bound books set out for well-wishers in the City-County Building, Downtown, where Pittsburghers paid their respects to former Mayor Sophie Masloff on Monday.
"Great Lady. Great Mayor. Great Person." wrote Alan Hausman, 55, of Squirrel Hill.
A lifetime civil servant and forthright, dedicated Democrat, Masloff, who died on Sunday, served on City Council and became Pittsburgh's first female mayor in 1988.
Her six-year term endeared her to a city already taken with her kind, straightforward style.
"I never saw anyone work as tirelessly as she did," said Joe Kleppick, 28, of East McKeesport, who dropped by on his lunch break to sign the book. "I met her a few times; I was young when she served as mayor, but she had this influence that made you want to get more involved."
Council Clerk Mary Beth Doheny filled curio cabinets outside council chambers on the fifth floor with photographs, political cartoons and magazine and newspaper stories featuring the beloved mayor.
The collection includes pictures of Masloff being sworn in as mayor and posing with former President Clinton, Steelers founder Art Rooney and boxer Muhammad Ali. Doheny said she was en route to Maryland for vacation on Sunday when she learned of Masloff's death. She returned to decorate the cabinets.
"I wanted to be sure we honored her," she said.
Like a conductor poised at a podium, Nancy Burns of the city's parks department lifted her arms, directing public works employees in bucket trucks who were draping black-and-purple funeral bunting high above the building's Grant Street entrance.
Beside her, Jamie Shipley, 54, of the North Side laughed at the twin bouquets of white calla lilies, snapdragons, chrysanthemums and peach roses flanking Masloff's sepia-toned photo.
Burns and Shipley looked at each other. "We shouldn't tell," they said, almost in unison.
"Sophie didn't like flowers," said Shipley, a city parks department employee. "But the table needed something, and she wasn't here to yell at us."
Keisha Thomas, 42, of Penn Hills, leading her teen nephew and son, pointed to the picture.
"SHE was a good mayor," Thomas said, nudging the boys. "They weren't even alive when she was in office, but I want them to know her name. They need to know and respect their own history."
Stormie Miramontez, 48, of Shadyside thanked Masloff for a job.
She got to know the city's matriarch at a now-closed Squirrel Hill restaurant the two frequented toward the end of Masloff's tenure in office. In one conversation, Miramontez, then in her 20s, said she was struggling to find steady work.
The mayor was honest, she said. Masloff couldn't help her personally, but she took the girl's number and promised to do what she could. The next day, Miramontez had a job offer at Poli's Restaurant, which closed in 2005.
"If she said she was going to do something, it got done," Miramontez said.
Brian McVicker, 43, said he just wanted to pay his respects.
"It wasn't until she died that I realized how much of my life she was always a part of," McVicker said.
John Fournier, 30, of Shadyside popped down with fellow city staffer Debbie Lestitian, 48, of Brookline.
"Everything everyone is saying about her, that she was so kind and forthright, it's all true," said Fournier, who serves as Mayor Bill Peduto's deputy chief of staff. "I feel lucky I got the chance to know her."
Lestitian, Peduto's chief administration officer, once led the Stadium Authority Board on which Masloff served from 2001 to 2013.
"There may have been a political side to Sophie, but you never felt like she was trying to control the message," Lestitian said, crediting Masloff with encouraging other young women to run for office. "You could take her at her word."
"I never met her," said Jonathan Schmerling, 59, of Mt. Lebanon, just after signing the book. "But she was great for the city, and that's good enough for me."
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World expert to give public talk about treating lung disease
World expert to give public talk at the University of Canterbury about treating lung disease
March 14, 2014
A visiting academic to the University of Canterbury (UC) and one of the leading bio-fluid dynamicists in the world will give a public lecture on campus next week.
Professor Jim Grotberg, of the University of Michigan, runs a research group that leads the world in studying a life-saving treatment for premature babies, and adults with severely impaired lung function. He will give a public lecture at UC's NZi3 building 1pm next Tuesday, March 18.
Professor Grotberg spearheaded a NASA bioengineering institute and pioneered the lung-on-a-chip and an implantable artificial lung for patients.
"I'm the kind of person who wakes up in the morning with a burning curiosity about respiratory function and disease.
"The inside of people's lungs is coated with a thin liquid film, so when someone breathes in an aerosol, it lands there and starts to spread because the surface tensions are different between the two," he says.
To help doctors, Professor Grotberg began modelling how inhaled aerosols carrying medications spread in the lung, as well as the bulk delivery of liquid surfactant into the lung as a treatment for prematurely born infants.
UC computer modelling expert Professor Tim David says Grotberg is one of the most eminent bioengineering scientists in the world today. He is an expert on lung disease modelling.
Grotberg says his lab is continuing to pursue a number of problems involving lung liquid or gas. His talk will review his efforts in surfactant and liquid delivery into the lung, airway closure, liquid plug propagation and airway reopening, respiratory crackles, epithelial injury and liquid ventilation.


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According to Obama, the usage or transportation of chemical weapons could prompt U.S. action. But as quickly as that remark heightened talk of war, U.S. officials went talking to The New York Times to outline the practical difficulties of intervening. First and foremost, there's the issue of violence spreading beyond Syria, they told reporters Steven Lee Myers and Scott Shane:
The Syrian Conflict Has a Contagion Problem - (Sectarian Conflict to soon spread beyond Syria)
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What does it do?
It's a weekly timesheet broken down into the five working days. There are checkboxes and each checkbox equals 30 min. It will calculate how much time a resource is worked on a project/task - gives you task/project total as well as daily total. All the resource needs to do is click on the checkboxes and fill out Job Code and Task. Very easy to to use.
Can also be used as a persoanl timesheet if you are freelancing.
There is also a second sheet called: 'All Projects and Comments' nothing special there use it loss it. Main reason I added that is because I wanted to create accountability. Often ill get the:" but it was xyz responsibility". Now the project/task leader will be responsible for contacting the person who is in charge of that thing... But see for yourself.
I ask the guys to fill it out and send it to me at the end of every week.
Hope it helps get things done!
Perhaps this can also open discussion around project management. What to do with this information? Do you feed it into a bigger project plan? How best to deliver this information to clients. How else do you manage multiple resources? How do we create accountability and make sure our resources deliver on time with quality etc.... Be nice to keep discussion v. practical.
Thank you - Sascha
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|Look up lair in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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- Burial plot in a graveyard, in Scots language
- Demon's Lair, fantasy role-playing game system created in 1997 by Lasalion Games
- Devil's Lair, a large cave in Australia
- Dragon's Lair, a laserdisc video game
- Irma Lair, fictional character in the comic book W.I.T.C.H. and the animated series of the same name
- Mark Lair (born 1947), American bridge player
- Mike Lair (born 1946), American politician
- Seduction lair or men's lair is a men's social club and study group centered on courtship initiation and development
- Tiger's Lair, official football student section for the University of Missouri
- Wolf's Lair, Adolf Hitler's first Eastern Front military headquarters
- The Lair, 2007-8 American gay-themed vampire television series
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I get this one alot. There is a natural hip indentation in all humans, male or female, and this is evident whenever you watch a bodybuilding contest. However, some women can deposit a lot of fat in this area. I always ask what a woman wants or whether she wants that area filled with fat. Fat Transfer works well.
How to Fix Indented Hips? (photo)
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Hip indentations
Fat Injections For Indented Hips
The best treatment for indented hips would be fat injections. Whether you have enough fat to inject, however, will determine whether that is possible. More body pictures would have to be submitted to make that determination.
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Fat or Sculptra for hip indentation
Alternatively, fat grafting is a great option, but does have more downtime and requires you have enough fat to donate.
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How to Fix Indented Hips...
The shape of the hips can often be quite variable. Rarely does a person have a perfect shape. There may be irregularities or indentations that occur naturally. The best procedure to smooth your hips would be a combination of liposuction and fat transfer. Liposuction can contour the areas that protrude a bit, and then the fat can be processed and injected into the indented areas. The fat can be built up over a few sessions until your result is just right. Be sure to consult with a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon before scheduling surgery.
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Liposuction with fat transfer to the area that is deficient is probably the best solution for this kind of problem
The appearance of indented hips
There are actual indentations and there are the appearance of indentations. In the black and white photo I would argue that the person has more of an appearance of indentations. If the excess fat of the flank and lower outer thighs were to be reduced the "indentation" in between the two areas of fullness would not be present. Therefore, the appearance of indented hips usually requires liposuction of the areas of fullness on either side of the "indentation" while ac actual indentation is often best treated with fat grafting.
All the best,
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By Judy Coates Perez
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Instructions for Pattern Use
1. Download the pdf and print out all of the pages.
2. Lay out the pdf pages in rows (row 1 = pages 1-5; row 2 = pages 6-10; row 3 = pages 11-14; row 4 = pages 15-17).
Tip: You may wish to cut away the blank margins from each printed page. This can be done quickly using your rotary cutting tools (use a craft knife instead of your rotary cutter if you wish).
3. Match up the crosshairs and tape the pages together in rows. Then tape the rows together.


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Amazon Japan commissioned this custom toy (designed by the creator of one of my favorite anime* Azumanga Daioh!), designed to appear as if it were a golem brought to life from discarded shipping boxes. It's sort of brilliant, acknowledging the stack of boxes dedicated Amazon users amass, while injecting a little bit of whimsy. It's only 2200 yen, too. I'd get it if I thought my Amazon Prime would let me ship it from Japan for less than the cost of the figure.
Bring a few over to North America, Amazon!
Catalog Page (Japanese) [Amazon.co.jp via Hobbyblog via Gadget Lab]
* I know it was a manga first, but I didn't read it.


text: The top five soap scandals - ever We remember the most controversial moments in EastEnders, Brookside, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Coronation Street Comments Written By 4:10 PM, 09 April 2011 If, as Henry Fielding suggested, love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea, the cuppas clasped in hand as we sit down to watch soaps are sweet to the point of syrupy. Whether approached with noble intentions to highlight contentious issues or with more sensationalist motives, controversy is courted by soap producers even if they occasionally underestimate the furore their story may cause - as was the case with grieving Ronnie's baby-snatching exploits in EastEnders, which eventually generated more than 6,000 complaints. But which plots have caused the most outcry and uproar - not to mention ratings boosts? 1. Mark and HIV (EastEnders, 1990) From Michelle's teenage pregnancy to paedophile Tony's grooming of Whitney, EastEnders rarely shies away from scandal, but none has been more challenging - or possibly done more good - than Mark Fowler contracting HIV. Announcing his condition to his family on Christmas Day 1990, Mark lived with HIV and the stigma surrounding it. Arguably, he did more to educate than countless government campaigns. 2. The body buried under the patio (Brookside, 1993) When battered wife Mandy Jordache and abused daughter Beth murdered Trevor and stashed his corpse in the garden, the nation was captivated until the body was discovered two years later. The story made a star of Anna Friel, who went on to share British TV's first pre-watershed lesbian kiss with Nicola Stephenson in 1994, and wedded the name Trevor to soap wife-beaters (see EastEnders' Little Mo-basher Trevor Morgan). 3. The plane crash (Emmerdale, 1993) Planned to signal a racier revamp of the soap and provide the excuse for "Farm" to be dropped from Emmerdale's title, the stunt garnered the show's biggest audience, of 18m viewers, though only four characters were actually killed off. It also attracted criticism, occurring around the fifth anniversary of the destruction of Pan Am flight 103 above Lockerbie. 4. Male rape (Hollyoaks, 2000) In the soap's first late-night episode, Gary Lucy's Luke Morgan was sexually assaulted by three men who were, after much trauma and tribulation, tried and convicted for their crime. With fewer than one in ten male rapes reported, the storyline was praised for raising awareness, but also criticised for doing so in a soap aimed at teenagers. 5. Sarah-Louise Platt's pregnancy (Coronation Street, 2000) In its early years, the very existence of Coronation Street and its representations of working-class lives caused outcry, though Weatherfield has often and unfairly been deemed coy and cosy compared with its bolder counterparts. When Sarah-Lou got pregnant at the age of 13, it wasn't just her mum Gail whose head was sent a-spinning. Following near death in a car crash, abduction and almost murder by Gail's serial-killer husband, and her boyfriend coming out, Sarah left Weatherfield for Milan. Perhaps even Berlusconi's bunga-bunga parties seem like a quiet life compared with the Weatherfield rollercoaster. Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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A good (I hope!) friend of mine runs the Tumblr Our Incredible Journey[1] and has recently found that they've needed to explain[2] what, exactly an Incredible Journey is. You should go read that explanation, but the gist of it is this:
The "Incredible Journey" construct is drawing attention to the now-cliche of a startup exiting through acquisition and closing down its service, shuttering everything and essentially deleting data. It's a bait-and-switch. Founders are typically *very excited* and honored to become part of the acquiring company and they write effusively about the new opportunities afforded to them.
But, all of this comes at a cost: the time, data and effort expended by that now closed service is now lost. It's a model that's repeating because the Valley has a particular model of emphasising growth over (profitable) revenue, where the big plan is an exit and other forms of less hard cash value.
This is also, it feels like, a protuberance of the Californian Ideology again. In the world that practically worships a utilitarian view of ethics, it doesn't matter if a small number of users lose out if the acquisition and closure of service is to deliver a bigger vision to more people. It's always the next thing, the big thing, the growth thing.
And I get to bang my empathy/sympathy drum a bit more and perhaps revisit the whole value exchange again. User data generates value. That value can be captured in lots of different ways - from advertising revenue against present or future value, or in terms of demonstrating the capability of a team to execute against a product definition to show their value to a potential acquirer.
It's almost like a mating dance - I used to love the description of the language that Stephen Baxter used in his Phase Space/Time/Space/Origin collection of books of Sheena 5 and the uplifted squids: "Court me. Court me. See my weapons! I am strong and fierce."[3]
"Look at the users we attracted! See their data! Admire the way we execute onboarding processes!"
All of that to preen and to position for talent acquisition - in the worst cases, of course - where users are but collateral damage. So Incredible Journey, in that TRON way, fights for the user, stands to remind that they exist, that there *was* a value exchange and no, it wasn't explicit, and that what was poured into that startup's mating attractor was human endeavour that's now gone, forever. And for what.
[1] http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
[2] http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/89180616013/what-is-an-incredible-journey
[3] http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/squids/baxter-sheena5.html
I'm reading Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace's book, Creativity, Inc.[1] (You should buy it - click that link!) at the moment. Anyone who's followed this newsletter for a while, or knows me well enough, knows that I'm a stupendous Pixar fan - not just because of the movies that they've produced, but because of *how* they've produced them and the creativity and culture that they foster in their production. I'm also lucky enough to know a friend at Pixar who's been gracious enough to show me around a couple of times, both of which have been nigh-on religious experiences.
I used to think that my former employer, Wieden+Kennedy, was close to Pixar in terms of culture, and after reading Catmull's book, I'm not as sure. I realise that all of this is now also through the lens of layoffs, but there were a couple of clarifications and areas that I've seen in Catmull's telling of how he's tried to nurture a constantly changing, evolving, adaptive and curious culture at Pixar.
W+K has this motto that "the work comes first" and it's frequently used to justify things like pushing off client meetings because the work isn't ready yet. That's one of the good qualities about the place: that it's willing to wait and perfect the work and when it's ready to share with a client - when it's good enough - *then* it will be presented. We were reminded, of course, that it also cut the other way: we might be persuaded that the work we had conceived of was to be protected and to fight tooth and nail for it against the client, persuading them of its value and ability to solve the particular communications problem. But at the same time, we had to recognise that creating *better* work, that *better* solved the problem was also a way out.
While both organisations share a commitment to quality and craft, I do see something unique in the way that Catmull describes what he considers to be more important - people or ideas. In Catmull's mind, the answer, hands down, is: people. Ideas aren't out there, waiting to be discovered. The new has to be painfully created, wrought out of not necessarily nothingness, but synthesised and birthed. And I think birthed is the right kind of metaphor: to start from a tiny seed and to be grown in fits and starts - but then the metaphor falls down, because (and I agree with Catmull here) - we don't know where we're going. We might know we're going *forward* - or more accurately, we might know that we're *moving* - but we might not know where we're going to end up, and it's continual acts of course correction that make sure that we make land.
But ultimately, those ideas come from people. They aren't there to be discovered by just anyone. And people are thus the most important resource of any creative organisation. There are numerous other factors involved - the way Catmull talks about creating an atmosphere that's receptive to and able to produce candor is fantastic. I highly recommend reading the book if you're involved in any creative endeavour whatsoever.
So no, I no longer believe the work comes first. I believe the people do, and Catmull does a good job of showing how hard it is to actually *act* in a way that demonstrates that people come first. And not just some people, but all people, in a way that requiring everyone who's contributing to producing a feature film needs to feel like a team to work like a perfectly oiled machine. And, perfectly oiled machines still make noises.
One of the other things that stuck with me was a saying that Catmull attributed to Lasseter: "Art challenges Technology, Technology Inspires Art". It's the kind of quote that, like "Standing at the intersection of the liberal arts and technology" feels like it speaks tremendously to me.
One of the things that I loved about being at Wieden was working with storytellers who would get inspired by technology and wanted to do things with it. It was interesting because at the time, like most other agencies, we were figuring out what our role was in "digital" and "interactive". I had come from a non-advertising background, a startup background, and had never really intended to end up in advertising. And yet, the chance to work with some of the best storytellers in the world and *inspire* them with technology and then produce *new kinds of storytelling* that pushed technology, created new kinds of story, new ways of telling story - that was the promise that brought me to the agency. I would love to be able to say: look at what we can do now. Look at these things. And look how you could bring them alive! And for us to make them live, to make them sing, to make them *move* people, we can only do it with storytelling *and* technology. That was the promise, and it extended through not just storytelling but through services and products that used the best of storytelling to solve problems. That was what got me excited.
I've gone through the startup mill twice - once at Mind Candy, as second to my founding CEO, building up a team with him, and the second time with my brother at Six to Start. Both times, some of the most rewarding experiences I've had have been when I've brought teams together, inspired them and led them to make fantastic things. Sometimes those things were too early, sometimes they weren't fantastic enough. And almost embarrassingly, one of the times I knew that I'd succeeded in helping to build a close-knit team was when we were running close to the wind, again, at Six to Start (it's never a good idea to start a company in a down economy) and it was time to have The Talk about the cashflow problems we were facing. As a manager and owner having gone through the process of making sure that everyone else is paid before you are, having people say that they would work for you *for free* through this difficult period was incredibly moving. And we would say: that isn't the point. You're supposed to get paid. We're all supposed to get paid.
There are times when I know that I'm doing the best I could be though, and all I can do is try and remember for next time. So one of the hardest things for me to learn when I arrived at W+K Portland was that I was a director now, and that I wasn't necessarily *doing the work*. It wasn't my job to solve the problem, because I had incredibly talented, smart, more than competent people on my team who were more than capable of solving them problem themselves. As someone who loves solving problems, that was one of the hardest things to give up - I love being at the whiteboard and sketching out how things might work. But over time, I learned that as a director, my role had changed and that it was now different: that it was giving guidance and not doing the work.
But part of me still wants to do that: still wants to build a team from the ground up, to solve big problems, to make a big difference. And part of it is because again, some of the best and most personally rewarding experiences (and, to be honest, shit-bricking experiences) have been the "how do we react in a crisis moments" of pulling a team together and showing clarity, direction and that there's a way out of the situation that we're in. That we might feel like we're stuck, but we're still a team and if we all start moving, it's all going to be OK and we're going to make land.
And then there are things like realising: valuing the people at an organisation is as much as knowing who's a good fit and that what's good for *them* might be for them not to remain. It may well be that my former employer has decided that their core is advertising, and while the things that I wanted to do there were indeed great ways of solving client problems, they were a step to far in terms of reach of what they wanted to do. They are, and perhaps always will be, an advertising agency, not the kind of company that makes products or services because that office is, at its heart, passionate and exists to make storytelling.
That's something that I did get from Catmull's book - Pixar didn't suffer from an existential crisis. It's not so much about navigating change in a changing business environment in the way that ad agencies are still having to do. Pixar always knew what it wanted to do: it wanted to make the best computer animated movies. The challenge for an advertising agency like Wieden is: it used to be clear what advertising was. It still is, in a way, clear what advertising is. But the advent of "digital" and "interactive" has meant that that line has blurred, and the agency has to decide where it wants to hang its hat. Its competitors are all trying to build products and services and it has to preserve what is core and true to itself.
For me, it's clear now that that's *advertising*. And advertising doesn't at its core have products and services. Advertising is a communication business, and brand advertising doubly so. To say that communication can occur inside of services and products is of course true, but they're not easy forms of communication to buy from the outside. They are big, hard problems to solve. Especially when those channels might already exist.
I wouldn't be surprised if I do a startup again. I know my wife wouldn't be. I feel like I'm quietly waiting, like a seed, for the right conditions. For the right time to take that step again. And then I'll bloom.
[1] Amazon: http://amzn.to/1lB5X3w
That's the sting of Alex Payne's well-written critique[1] of Marc Andreessen's optimistic position on the big-picture success of capitalism in pulling *humanity's* (note: not different states) standard of living up over the past hundred years or so.
The question that I've always been asking is this: what sort of society do we want to create? Because (surprise) we have the power (in theory) to create the sort of society we want (if, I guess, you ignore the somewhat worrying studies that show that in late-stage capitalist democracies like the US, an individual's vote is somewhat... less than effective).
I do think that there are some issues that aren't covered in Payne's essay. Namely that yes: labor wants self-determination, but one of the things that labor *doesn't* get, is to choose the environment that it finds itself in. None of us do. And yes, while the pushback may be on exploitative business models, the issues around a company like Uber are complex. Because Uber is playing a long game, a longer game than, I would venture, the average taxi driver would be expected to play. What I mean by that is: Uber's appetite is big, obviously and demonstrably so. It is also being *encouraged* to have a big appetite. What a lot of people see is the prototypical "disruption" in a market that hasn't had software eat it yet. But again, software that driving taxis does it in a bunch of different ways. It does it in the long-term where Uber's CEO, Travis Kalanick, admits that of course Uber's future is in self-driving cars.
The kind of self-determination that labor is talking about in Payne's case needs to necessarily encompass: what sort of labor does a self-determining individual want to do when taxi-driving is something that has become automated?
And to remember this: Uber's goal isn't to provide a great working environment for drivers. It isn't even to ensure that drivers have a job. Taxicab companies have that requirement, but again, Uber's appetite is bigger.
Payne, I think, has identified the problem with the whole "technological gains will increase productivity that will pay for the future safety net". That's the post-scarcity argument: that at some magical point in the future, someone flicks a switch and everything becomes free. Not that we live through an incredibly painful period of transition that's within our power to smooth out. Not that those types of technological change happen everywhere at the same time. There's a reason why everyone keeps quoting Gibson's "the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed."
It's that in the *entire history of mankind* we've never been good at distributing. There is no reason to believe, in the same way that Payne puts forward, that the magical robot future will lead to even distribution of technological advancements. Sure, capitalism and the market might be a way to achieve *faster* distribution than ever before given that we live in a more interconnected infrastructural world, but that's only an improvement *inside the framework of capitalism*.
What happens if you want to distribute that change *faster* than the way that capitalism can allow? Or can we only think inside of the market (sorry, share) economy box?
And, of course, there was the whole notion of the sharing economy lurking in the background. There's a reason, I believe, that we're calling it the sharing economy and not the peer economy as some used to. It's because it sounds better. It sounds nicer. It sounds warmer. It ticks off all the right *brand values*.
But the peer economy - well, we would have to explain what peers are, right? That peers are equal? Oh, they're not equal? Some are more equal than others? That's the reality that the Bitcoin community are coming to face with the news that there's a mining bloc that had the majority of blockchain processing: that's not distributed peer-to-peer based cryptocurrency. It's the start of centralised control. A single point of failure.
So no, we don't have peer economies anymore. We have sharing markets. And we don't have the concept of a peer.
You want more disruption? You start closing the loop and allowing microloans to enable people to buy their own airbnb property to rent out, right? And not doing it through mortgage providers. Maybe that's closer to a peer economy. Or you allow microloans to enable people to pull together community resources to build Ubers. Or, you build an open-source Uber clone (because hey, you could do that, right?) and let the drivers compete against Uber. Because we're sharing, right?
[1] https://al3x.net/2014/06/17/dear-marc-andreessen.html
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Since the 1970s, the gender imbalance in technology has been in an embarrassing, mystifying holding pattern.
In IT and in computing degrees the gender split remains roughly 4/1––the same as four decades ago. Only 3 per cent of tech startups are founded by women.
In the meantime, the percentage of women grads in law and medicine has almost reached parity (up from around 10 per cent in 1970), and the number of women in the US military has quintupled.
So why does a discipline so boastful of its impact on the future seem to live so firmly in the past?
In the rush to decipher this problem, serious people have tried to blame the unreconstructed teenage misogyny of rich nerds, the surfeit of male math teachers and subtle gender biases in the way job ads are written.
Yet all these problems afflict women in legal, military and medical careers—and somehow those sectors have managed to move forward.
The truth is, men dominate technology because technology is a religion.
This rarely gets talked about because many of us consider tech entrepreneurs to be arch-rationalists with no religious beliefs. But actually, Silicon Valley is overflowing with borderline religious institutions and utopian cults dedicated to the goal of transcendence, and particularly male transcendence.
The overtly transcendental beliefs of many of tech's superstars seep through the industry and encourage junior acolytes to shun and exclude women, and to ignore issues that women are often more interested in—namely practical stuff that actually benefits real people living today.
Take the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (recently renamed to avoid confusion with the like-minded Singularity University). It counts among its chief funders and supporters Peter Thiel (PayPal's co-founder and the first outside investor in Facebook), Google's Larry Page, and Telsa Motors' CEO and real-life Iron Man Elon Musk.
The Singularity Institute advocates research into the technological singularity – a hypothesised moment in history when humans become immortal through their convergence with technology. Its wealthy curates proclaim that the singularity will eliminate the suffering of corporeal existence, and therefore everything that medicine and law and other more gender representative disciplines care about.
Sublime robots do not need palliative care or restorative justice.
From the outside, the Singularity Institute bears eerie similarities to the Freemasons, another rich peoples' cult built around the 'hot career' of its day––civil engineering. For engineers of the 18th and 19th centuries, the impressive scale and the life transforming nature of contemporary civic projects––bridges, dams, railways––convinced many they were actually involved in fulfilling God's plan to render a paradise on earth. The story is complex, but Freemasonry can perhaps best be summarised as a belief in transcendence-through-town-planning.
And of course, women were not only excluded from joining the Freemasons, they were forbidden from crossing the threshold of Masonic lodges.
Many of the Singularity Institute's backers have also poured money into the Seasteading Institute, a maritime transcendence cult where the shackles of government and society are cast off not through the technological singularity but by creating floating cities that can anchor in lawless international waters. Free from the pernicious influences of the mainland, seasteaders can pursue whatever radical libertarian goals they wish, including Frankenstein science and social engineering experiments in child rearing, relationships, schooling, and work.
But, as n+1 magazine recently said: 'there's nothing preventing a hypothetical start-up country from regressing into a patriarchal, Paleo-Futuristic state. If anything, the [seasteading] movement's reverence for caveman essentialism suggests the latter.'
It is probably worth bearing in mind at this point that libertarianism and transcendentalism often stand for the same thing in Silicon Valley: a childish desire for absolute freedom that casts women as the enemy.
Indeed, where transcendence through science, engineering, or technology is concerned, women get in the way and muddy the waters with their demands for very boring things like social justice and food for at least most people.
Peter Thiel said as much in an essay on a Cato Institute website a few years ago:
The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron.
Thiel's message echoes that of Walter Charleton, one of the founding members of science's own culty boys' club, The Royal Society, who said of women:
'You are the traitors to Wisdom, the impediment to Industry, the clogs to virtue, and goads that drive us all to Vice, Impiety, and ruine. You are the fools Paradise, the Wiseman's Plague, and the grand Error of Nature.'
Every time we're told by the goliaths of the tech world that they're saving humanity by creating stratospheric balloons to supply wifi to African villages or sending private starships into deep space, we need to remember that these utopian dreams are often motivated by a cloistered group of fairly unusual billionaires and gnomic thought leaders, many of whom are falling into the same transcendental traps that the Freemasons, the Catholic Church and others have tripped on before.
And these transcendental beliefs traditionally involve the exclusion of women.
Just as Christian religions describe Eve ripped from Adam's ribcage in a laughable attempt to bestow the miracle of birth on men, so ownership over the birth of truly groundbreaking ideas in science and technology is usually ripped off women and given to men – consider the way British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin had her critical research into DNA purloined by Francis Crick and James Watson. Or the scant attention paid to Ada Lovelace, the eccentric daughter of Lord Byron and the first computer programmer.
The aura of transcendence not only signifies that women are not welcome. What is happening behind the temple doors often has an enormous importance for how our society is shaped and run.
If you're wondering why, for instance, Twitter has been so slow to respond to rape threats made against women, or why all of the major tech companies seem to be complicit in the construction of an NSA managed Orwellian surveillance state, it could be because without women in tech, our future is likely to be one where the perspective of women is marginalised and where democracy is trashed in favour of an elite transcendentalism that is happy to flirt with whatever political model keeps it afloat.
As the feminist academic Cynthia Cockburn has argued:
'Transcendence is a wrong-headed concept. It means escape from the earthbound and repetitive, climbing above the everyday. It means putting men on the moon before feeding and housing the world's poor.'
'[T]he revolutionary step would be to bring men down to earth.'


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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
There are some renovations happening all over downtown Hood River, from businesses moving locations or expanding, to the construction on Oak and State. A notable store that may be changing its design as well is Ananas Boutique.
Owner Heidi McLennon plans to bring live music to her store, at 206 Oak, and feature a variety of different live performances on what will be downtown's newest stage.
"I'm hoping we will draw in a new crowd to see our new fun boutique and club experience," McLennon said.
McLennon and her husband, Steve, own Ananas Boutique in Hood River and Ananas Copa Cabana in The Dalles.
The shop in The Dalles was opened in 2010, while Ananas Boutique was opened in 1991. They are closing down the shop in The Dalles after the lease is up March. McLennon started up the brand by selling her handmade clothes to many little shops around Hawaii when she had lived in Maui.
"I think it will be better because I won't be competing with myself anymore," she said, explaining that her preconceived notion going into owning the second store was that customers would go to both stores, but it didn't work out that way. It was either the store in Hood River was busy and business was slow in The Dalles, or vice-versa.
"It has been very hard because of the Internet and economy," McLennon said.
"It is hard to be a brick and mortar store these days." Since the Internet has become huge, many people decide to order their clothes and dresses online instead of the local businesses, she said.
This month, she will start renovations to transform the shop. She plans to make the whole store look and feel more open and build a 5-by-10-foot stage. The stage will be a dressing room during the day and at night it will become a platform for live music.
McLennon plans on bringing the music that was in her shop in The Dalles to Ananas in Hood River. The project is planned to be done in April.
The stage will also be used for band practices and drum line-type events for children. The McLennons are in a band named Samba Hood Rio.
They are also involved in another band, Eleven, which mostly does Brazilian and folk music — which is interesting considering that McLennon was born in Finland. The shop will be the "Rio Samba Headquarters."
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Every four years some unlucky game makers inherit the unenviable task of turning the Olympics, a jumble of sporting activities, into something worth playing.
This time Sega's got the job – with help from a hefty cheque, no doubt – and has decided (wisely) to slim down the number of sports from the 26 in the real-life games to a lean dozen. Fencing, equestrian dressage and water polo fans will be disappointed, but that still leaves all the essential track and field events, diving, swimming, gymnastics and more. Variety isn't a problem, then. But quality is.
To make this choice manageable, Sega has made the controls dead simple so a good chunk of the events are little more than 'see button symbol, press button' exercises. Surprisingly, that's not always as bad as it sounds.
The shot put and discus events, for example, find that mysterious balance where repetition becomes pleasure, much like a moreish smartphone gaming app. But before you sprint off to your nearest game shop, consider the dull diving and humdrum gymnastics, the stilted rowing and tedious volleyball.
Despite these false starts, the running events make a decent fist of an uncomplicated sport with a reliance on managing your pace instead of frenetic button mashing. Another plus is the kayaking, which is rather good and has some brill water effects to boot, although its single course won't hold your attention for long.
The presentation also helps make up for the patchiness with a decent stab at capturing the buzz of the Olympics, even if it still suffers from the repetitiveness that curses almost every sports game.
Taken as a whole, this is one of the better Olympic video games, but it's too shallow and too hit-and-miss to do much more than whet the appetite of Olympiad fanatics ahead of the real thing.


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These Kids Have An Important Message About Drinking And Falling In Love
In light of songs like "Donkey" (shudder) taking over the mainstream country airwaves, I feel the need to even things out a bit by presenting some evidence that good country music is still being made, even if radio stations insist on plugging their ears and yelling "LALALALA" when confronted with any artist that's not Florida Georgia Line. So here's one I'm loving right now: "Friends Don't Let Friends Drink (And Fall In Love)," by LA-based country singer Sam Outlaw. It's a honky tonk ballad perfect for a hot summer day sipping whiskey on the porch. And the video, in which the song is masterfully lip synced by some adorable kids for a crowd of stuffed animals, is just too good not to share. Enjoy! [YouTube]


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Peace in the Middle East, particularly the ongoing war in Syria, topped the agenda Monday as Pope Francis welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Vatican.
The Russian president "conveyed the greetings of (Russian Orthodox) Patriarch Kirill, but there was not a discussion of ecumenical relations," said Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman.
A formal statement issued after the meeting said "special attention was given to the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and to the serious situation in Syria."
The Vatican said Putin thanked the pope for a letter the pope had written him in September when the Russian president was hosting a summit of the G-20 leaders of the world's largest economies. The pope asked the leaders to "lay aside the futile pursuit of a military solution" to the Syria crisis and promote dialogue and negotiation.
Putin's government has supported Syrian President Bashar Assad and has blocked U.N. Security Council resolutions to authorize the use of force to oust the Syrian president.
Pope Francis led a prayer vigil for peace in Syria in September and had asked other Christians around the world to observe a day of fasting and prayer for peace in the Middle Eastern country. The war has claimed more than 100,000 lives in fighting since March 2011 and some 9 million have been displaced or forced to seek refuge in neighboring countries.
The Vatican statement said that during the pope's meeting with Putin, "the urgency of stopping the violence and bringing the necessary humanitarian assistance to the (Syrian) population was underlined," as well as the need to promote negotiations and "involve the various ethnic and religious components, recognizing their essential role in society."
Lombardi said the two also spoke about "the life of the Catholic community in Russia" and its contributions to the life of society, the oppression of Christians in some parts of the world, the defense and promotion of human dignity and the safeguarding of human life and the family.
Putin's plane arrived late in Rome and he was more than 45 minutes late for his meeting with the pope. The two spoke privately, aided by interpreters, for 35 minutes before Putin introduced the members of his entourage, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Pope Francis gave Putin a mosaic with a view of the Vatican gardens and Putin gave Pope Francis an icon of Our Lady of Vladimir, one of the most venerated images in the Russian Orthodox Church.
As the pope was moving away from the gift table, Putin was overheard asking him, "Do you like the icon?" When the pope said yes, Putin made the sign of the cross, bowed and kissed the icon and the pope did likewise.
Lombardi said the ongoing tensions in the Middle East also were the main focus of Putin's meeting later with Archbishop Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.
Earlier in the day, Pope Francis met with several thousand Ukrainian Catholic pilgrims, many of them concerned about the demonstrations that had been going on in Kiev to protest Putin's alleged efforts to discourage Ukraine's government from forging closer economic ties with the European Union.
At the end of his Sunday Angelus address Nov. 24, Pope Francis also mentioned the Ukrainians' prayerful remembrance of the 80th anniversary of the "Holodomor" or "Terror-Famine of Ukraine."
The pope described the Holodomor as "the great famine provoked by the Soviet regime that caused millions of victims." Largely blamed on Joseph Stalin's radical economic policies, and perhaps augmented by his desire to crush the Ukrainian resistance, some 1.8 million to 3.5 million Ukrainians died of starvation in 1932 and 1933.
Critics have accused Putin of promoting a revisionist and overly favorable image of Stalin's regime and particularly of his prowess in turning the Soviet Union into a superpower.
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Organize your cash and cards in a simple yet elegant manner. This unique item from Brooklyn based Hayden Leather features two card slots, a gold-stamped logo at front, a leather-covered money clip at back, and a central card slot. • Made with Lo Stivale vachetta leather • One large central pocket lined in smooth yellow leather plus 2 card slots that can hold up to 3-4 cards each • External leather money clip and discreet gold-stamped logo • Smyth sewn for strength and longevity • Made in NY • Comes with fabric dust bag and gift box Dimensions: 4.25" x 2.75"
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Quickies: Jennifer Lopez To Guest Star On "HIMYM" & "Jersey Shore"'s Vinny Is A Harvard Hopeful
- Jennifer Lopez will guest-star in a March episode of "How I Met Your Mother" as a sexy self-help guru bent on breaking Barney of his lady-using ways. [The Hollywood Reporter]
- Check out Kermit The Frog's X-Ray, and observe his muppet-related condition. [BuzzFeed]
- You can see the evolution of the Kardashian clan in this family album. [Us Weekly]
- Vinny of "Jersey Shore" may be a fist-pumping creeper, but ladies, beware: He's got a serious side. Before getting cast in the shore house, he maintained a 3.9 GPA with Latin Honors, and took the LSAT with Harvard or Yale in mind. [NY Daily News]
- Joe Francis, the brains behind all those "Girls Gone Wild" boobathons, might be the father of Tila Tequila's possible baby. [Jezebel]
- PETA is pleading for the folks of Punxsutawney to replace Phil the groundhog with Phil the robot. Because making groundhogs see their shadows is cruel? [L.A. Times]


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By: Matt Zemek
We live in a strange world.
We live in a world where the Nebraska Cornhuskers can look utterly lost on defense against the likes of Wyoming and Minnesota but then smother Michigan in the Big House.
We live in a world where Brady Hoke – seemingly a rising star in the coaching profession two short seasons ago, a man who appeared likely to lead Michigan back to the mountaintop in college football – faces a 2014 season marked "win or bust."
We live in a world where Bo Pelini – almost certain to be dismissed as Nebraska's head coach if a Hail Mary pass had fallen incomplete against Northwestern a week ago – can pretty much guarantee a 2014 season if he beats Michigan State.
We live in a world where Nebraska – so abysmal at times this season – can capture the Big Ten Legends Division if it wins out. Yes, this would mark a second straight Legends title for the Cornhuskers, all while Hoke and Michigan are quite possibly headed for a December bowl game.
Michigan entered this contest as a team with a split personality. The Wolverines had a Seattle Seahawk-like ability to flourish at home but collapse on the road. For Michigan's offensive line to falter at home against Nebraska's defensive line represents the fullest indictment yet of the player development that's (not) occurring in Ann Arbor. Some might say that recruits don't mean much until they step onto the playing field in college. Others might say that the play selection of offensive coordinator Al Borges is to blame for Michigan's woes. Those are reasonable criticisms. Yet, Michigan's players just aren't very good. Nebraska's players were better, and Nebraska's had trouble playing consistently for much of 2013.
Bo Pelini is gaining job security. Brady Hoke's job might be on the line 11 or 12 months from now. What a world we live in.


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Sigma 50mm f1.4 DG HSM focus woes...
Recently, I discovered that my Sigma 50mm f1.4 was consistently producing images where the plane of sharp focus was in front of the point focused with the camera. I did some tests to confirm this and the problem was very consistent.
The lens is within warranty and I returned it and my Canon 60D body to Sigma with a description of the problem. Their service was extremely prompt and I received the camera and lens a week later, having had "firmware updated and adjusted AF data". Unfortunately, the focus error is just as it was before the lens was serviced.
I'll certainly bring this up with Sigma next week when their office opens, but I'm wondering if others have had focus errors with this lens and if the problem was solvable.
In many situations the focus error won't be an issue, but I want to be able to use this lens confidently at large apertures.
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Mashable has posted a list of 50+ Google Reader Extensions & Scripts for Firefox that is worth checking out. There are several here that I use and enjoy:
Because my list of feeds and folders is large, I really like Google Reader Optimized because it makes better use of screen space than the default display. (Requires Stylish or Greasemonkey)
Smart Google Reader Subscribe is awesome. A small button in the corner of the screen notes that a page has a feed and will subscribe to that feed in your Google Reader account if you click on it. Even better, it indicates visually whether or not you've already subscribed to that feed in Google Reader.
I don't use the iGoogle (formerly known as the Google Personalized home page) because I find it sort of annoying and slow. So when I click a "Subscribe with Google" link somewhere, it is also annoying and slow to have to keep specifying that I want to subscribe in Google Reader, not iGoogle. Auto add to Google Reader solved that problem- it bypasses that screen and just subscribes using Google Reader every time.
But I'm not satisfied yet. My biggest complaint with Google Reader is that I want the left panel to have adjustable width so I can see the full names of feeds and folders. Has anyone come across a solution for that problem yet?


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AMP chief executive
The 65-member team, which includes 35 former senior AXA Asia Pacific Holdings executives and reports to AMP's Paul Sainsbury, who reports directly to Mr Dunn, is expected to begin policy recommendations over the next two weeks.
"We are starting to get to a point where we have worked through the initial issues," Mr Dunn said.
During the past six weeks, the group has been meeting to familiarise themselves with each other's businesses and business cultures, and to identify strengths and potential savings as a prelude to a merger that involves 6000 employees and nearly 1 million shareholders.
"They should start making decisions – but not all the decisions," he said.
Mr Dunn, who said the integration would be a "merger of equals" rather than a takeover by AMP, is confident it is on course to achieve $120 million in post-tax synergies by year three of the deal, after post-tax integration costs of about $285 million.
It took 17 months and three offers to complete the merger, creating Australia's largest wealth manager with 2900 aligned and owned financial planners, $130 billion in assets under management, and leading market shares in retail superannuation, retirement income, retail managed funds and individual risk.
The overall deal, which involved AXA Asia Pacific Holdings's French parent, AXA SA, buying the Australian operation's Asian businesses, was worth $14.6 billion.
The merger team is focusing on high-level issues about the group's direction, targets and strategies in a $1.3 trillion sector where its key competitors are the deep-pocketed big four banks.
Savings are expected to come from eliminating back-office duplication, mergers in some life insurance and wealth management operations, and, as was flagged in AXA APH's final results, the merging of platforms.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has upgraded National Mutual Life, which is AXA APH's Australian and New Zealand's life insurance company, from A+ to AA-.
"The Australian and New Zealand operations of AXA are a complementary business fit for AMP, and funded under very strong capital, leverage and interest-cover metrics," S&P analyst Michael Vine said.
The agency's review described the $4.2 billion deal as financially conservatively structured, with funding via a $3.7 billion share issue and $600 million raising of subordinated debt to meet the cash payment and acquisition costs.
"As a result, we expect AMP Life's very strong capital metrics and coverage of regulatory solvency will be maintained," the S&P report concludes. "Synergy benefits may take some time," it adds.
Mr Dunn, who will retain the combined group's multi-brand advisory structure, also said "significant opportunities" were emerging for joint product development, particularly in response to changing regulatory requirements.
AMP's recently launched Flexible Super, which is compliant with the low-cost MySuper requirements, has about $2 billion under management.
Mr Dunn said AXA's North platform was "continuing to please on the upside". The North platform, which was described by the competition regulator as "innovative" and "providing aggressive competition for investors", was a factor in the regulator's decision to reject National Australia Bank's alternative bid for AXA.
The AXA advisers' output was being boosted by being able to tap into AMP's corporate superannuation strength and bank, while North was assisting AMP launch a full wrap platform.
Mr Dunn said it would continue consultation with the federal government about its decision to ban life insurance commissions within superannuation products, which will mean financial planners will have to charge upfront rather than commission expenses being recouped across the life of the policy.
But he did not comment whether it would be raised when industry and government officials meet this week to discuss "future of financial advice" reforms.
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Just wondering, and I can't help but get upset.
After reading The Partners for a Cure website, it is sponsored by Pfizer, and Astra Zeneca. The article only spoke of financial mergings and not about what RESEARCH and developments have/will take place. I am just frustrated because my mother passed away from Bile Duct Cancer and I don't think the chemotherapy helped at all. I think it just made her worse and go downhill faster. She was in Stage four when they found it so there wasn't much hope. But what I feel is that there HAS to be some treatment other than chemotherapy, that can be developed. Pharmaceutical companies are making so much money on a drug thats a monopoly. I just wish everything wasn't about money and marketing charades, but RESEARCH AND RESULTS.
Sorry to have gone off on a tangent, but this terrible cancer needs a cure.


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Another day, another headline on Apple's legal battles — but this one could signal a promising shift for stockholders.
A few weeks ago, we published a piece on the growing trend of technology companies that are spending more on litigation and patent acquisitions than on R&D. A prime example was Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), a company that's cut research and development expenditures from 8% of annual revenue to just over 2% in the span of a decade, and now spends more on lawyers and related activity than it does in the lab. I pointed out that Apple's seeming obsession with litigating archrival Samsung into submission was leaving the company at risk of losing its edge.
There was another risk I failed to consider, but it just blew up in Apple's face in big way: When a fight starts getting dirty and your opponent also happens to be your biggest component supplier, they have a lot more leverage than you might realize. Especially when there's no one else able to pick up the slack.
You see, Samsung makes the CPUs in Apple's iPhones and iPads … and Samsung just hiked the price it charges Apple for those mobile CPUs by 20%.
Ouch. A big part of Apple's tremendous growth story has been the margins it's able to command on its products. For example, IHS iSupply pegs the profit margin on a 16GB iPhone 5 at around 68%, based on a $649 non-contract price and $207 for components and manufacturing costs. Of that $207, $17.50 is the processor. Hike the cost of that component by 20% and it becomes $21, cutting into that profit margin.
More galling to Apple is the fact that this extra cash goes straight back to its rival. The Wall Street Journal thinks Apple will end up selling 200 million iPhones and iPads this year. They don't all use the same CPU variant, but just say we applied that $3.50-per-CPU price hike across the board, and extended it for a year's worth of production. Samsung would end up netting an extra $700 million or so … almost enough to make up for that billion dollars or so Samsung has to cough up to Apple for patent infringement.
But wait, wasn't Apple looking at shifting mobile CPU production away from Samsung to Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE:TSM)? Couldn't it then avoid paying Samsung's premium? The TSM deal is still in the negotiation phase; it takes time to ramp up a new supplier to production-level quantities even if a deal is done. And then there's the fact that Samsung has a contract to supply Apple through 2014. So no short-term escape.
Of course, by hiking its prices, Samsung has pretty much guaranteed that its biggest customer for mobile components will take its business elsewhere the moment it can, costing Samsung the 8.8% of its annual revenue Apple currently contributes.
It kind of makes you wonder whether this kind of drawn out, tit-for-tat strategy benefits anyone involved.
Given the backdrop of all this squabbling, it was refreshing to hear that Apple has taken a different tack with HTC, another mobile rival it has been engaged in a lengthy legal patent spat with. Apple had accused HTC of copying iPhone features in its smartphones, while HTC claimed Apple's iPads and MacBooks were infringing on its wireless patents. This battle has been in the courts since 2010.
Apple sent out a joint press release on Monday announcing the companies had settled their differences by signing a 10-year license agreement. Terms weren't provided, but Bloomberg thinks it involves HTC paying Apple between $6 and $8 per phone its sells.
Perhaps even more telling were the quotes from Apple CEO Tim Cook and HTC CEO Peter Chou which were included on the press release.
Cook: "We are glad to have reached a settlement with HTC. We will continue to stay laser focused on product innovation."
Chou: "HTC is pleased to have resolved its dispute with Apple, so HTC can focus on innovation instead of litigation."
Innovation over litigation. Could it be that we're seeing a light at the end of the tunnel? They're certainly saying the right things.
Apple's stock is down over 20% in the past month, at least partially because of a loss of confidence in the company's ability to innovate and come up with new products. It's released incremental updates of iPads, iPhones, iPods, iMacs and MacBooks for several years now and worse, been caught playing catch-up to Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) with a small-form-factor tablet.
The Samsung battle is so big and so complex that it's not going to go away so easily, but the HTC settlement gives some hope that Apple management has been listening and is preparing to shift resources and focus back to new product development.
If so, it's good news for anyone holding Apple stock — because that's the only way the company is going to develop another breakthrough product that keeps the company growing instead of slipping into slow decline.


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Jurors started deliberating but did not render a decision Friday on the mental competency of a former Westminster police detective convicted of kidnapping an Ontario Mills waitress and raping her in Fontana.
Jurors will continue deliberations on Monday in West Valley Superior Court in Rancho Cucamonga.
Last week, the jury found Orban guilty of eight felony counts, including kidnapping, rape, oral copulation and sexual penetration with a foreign object.
Orban pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and, in the second part of the trial, it was up to the defense to prove he was insane at the time of the attack.
Now it's up to the same group of jurors to decide what Orban's mental state was on April 3, 2010, when authorities say he forced the woman into her car at gunpoint in the parking lot of Ontario Mills and made her drive to Fontana where the attack occurred.


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Each year on Labor Day, we take time to reflect on the productivity of America's workers and our responsibility as a nation to support their efforts.
Come October literally hundreds if not thousands of tons of "food" will be plowed under throughout the Central Valley.
Wildfires, they say, are getting worse.
Here's how you know the California prison inmate hunger strike is a stunt, if a dangerous stunt: The strike to protest security housing units in California prisons began with 30,000 participants; Jay Leno, Susan Sarandon and other celebrities signed a letter that denounced the SHU as "solitary confinement" and "torture." As of Thursday, the count was down to 79 inmates, including 44 who had fasted continuously.
Manteca is not New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's kind of town.
Face it. You are Jim Carrey and you are the star of "The Truman Show."
John Carney is a 31-year-old pursuing a master's degree in fine arts at the University of Maine.
This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced more than 630 new projects across the country under the Rural Energy for America Program. These new projects will help producers and businesses boost their bottom line, while increasing America's energy security and protecting our environment.
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As Sheriff of Stanislaus County, I appreciate the importance of educating our young people, so that they're prepared to succeed rather than turn to a life of crime, gangs and addiction. I find it troubling how many local youth - approximately one out of every four - are not graduating from high school. When these students do not graduate, they're far more likely to end up becoming the victim or perpetrator of crime. Research confirms what we've seen first-hand: high school dropouts are eight times more likely than graduates to end up behind bars. If we could raise graduation ...
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Left-wing celebrities have teamed up with one of America's most radical historians to take control of the classroom in the name of "social justice." Parents, beware: This Hollywood-backed Marxist education project may be coming to a school near you.
On Sunday, Dec. 13, the History Channel will air "The People Speak" — a documentary based on Marxist academic Howard Zinn's capitalism-bashing, America-dissing, grievance-mongering history textbook, "A People's History of the United States." The film was co-produced and bankrolled by Zinn's Boston neighbor and mentee Matt Damon. An all-star cast of Bush-bashing liberals, including Danny Glover, Josh Brolin, Bruce Springsteen, Marisa Tomei and Eddie Vedder, will appear. Zinn's work is a self-proclaimed "biased account" of American history that rails against white oppressors, the free market and the military.
Zinn's objective is not to impart knowledge, but to instigate "change" and nurture a political "counterforce" (an echo of fellow radical academic and Hugo Chavez admirer Bill Ayers' proclamation of education as the "motor-force of revolution"). Teachers are not supposed to teach facts in the school of Zinn. "There is no such thing as pure fact," Zinn asserts. Educators are not supposed to emphasize individual academic achievement. They are supposed to "empower" student collectivism by emphasizing "the role of working people, women, people of color and organized social movements." School officials are not facilitators of intellectual inquiry, but leaders of "social struggle."
Zinn and company have launched a nationwide education project in conjunction with the documentary. "A people's history requires a people's pedagogy to match," Zinn preaches. The project is a collaboration between two "social justice" activist groups, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.


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Stunned Robert Gray, 56, found the strange looking artefact in his loft where it had sat for the past 50 years.
Robert thought the feline-shaped "pile of rags" was a stuffed cat so he took it to a vets for an X-ray.
But incredibly the series of images revealed the outline of a perfectly preserved ancient puss – complete with face, ears, spine and brain.
Experts at the Royal Cornwall Museum have now verified the remarkable find as a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy – worth £2,000. [$3,105USD]
Robert, an actor and B&B owner, of Portscatho, Cornwall, inherited the bandaged artefact when his father died in 1984 but assumed it was a fake.
He said: "My father acquired the cat in the 1970s as a token of thanks from a museum. It's been in the loft languishing there for 50 years.
Dusty stuffed animal found in an attic is actually a 2,000-year-old MUMMY
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