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I am always looking for art that instantly catches my attention and when you see an art piece by Rone you are immediately taken by the intensity and beauty that many of his creations have to offer. Something as simple as the female face has taken a major role in his art and he has transformed this focal point into a striking and beautifully complex work of art. I was able to interview Rone on his pieces and received some insight into the exhibition he is currently working on. This is his story....
I'm a fan of the pieces you create with the portraits of women. Who are these women? What do they represent? Which girl is your favorite?
The women are models I am lucky enough to work with to create my images. To me they represent beauty, innocence or sometimes defiance. I can't really pick a favourite girl but I do have favourite artworks or walls.
Do you consider yourself a street artist, a graffiti artist, or do these labels encompass a mixture of the type of artist you consider yourself to be?
I'm fine with street artist. But that would only refer to the work I do on the street. Once it's in a gallery it's just art.
Tell me about Everfresh and your involvement with them. What has the group contributed to the street art scene in
Everfresh is a collection of like minded friends who have been painting together in
On your website I found this quote "We all have moments in our lives that make us who we are". Was there a moment in your life that sent you down the artistic path?
I remember seeing graffiti for the first time when I would travel to
What mediums do you work with and what is the hardest medium you use to create your pieces?
I work with water based paints so I can get the paint to drip and run, but it dries really fast so I really need to work fast some times. The hardest part might be creating the posters in the background of the canvas works. Each one is designed and screen printed all at Everfresh studio which is a long process for something that gets painted over or ripped apart.
Tell me about your "Can't Stop", "Won't Stop" and "Don't Stop" series. What do those phrases mean to you as an artist?
The '…Stop' phrases were coined by Wonderlust from Everfresh. I put it to him to use his text with my girls and we had a pretty good reaction from it so we continued the series. To us it is a reference to the nature of graffiti, the addictiveness, the empowerment and the inspiration that we find in it everyday.
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Paul Swain, owner of Greenhill Gallery in Perth, with a sketch similar to the one he is seeking to authenticate as a da Vinci.
Photo: Astrid Volzke
A tiny red chalk sketch, carried to Australia in a handbag and hung in a Perth house for generations, is being studied as a possible work of 15th-century Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci.
If authenticated, the 22- by 12-centimetre unsigned sketch of an old man's face could be worth millions, and would instantly become one of the art world's most significant recent finds.
The sketch came to the attention of Perth art dealer Paul Swain last week, when it was referred to him by the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and on first sight he believed it could be the work of da Vinci.
Mr Swain, who runs Perth's Greenhill Gallery, is now travelling to Britain to consult experts at the Tate Gallery, and then intends to have the paper carbon dated to see if it correlates with a date of around 1450, the time the Italian Master may have drawn it.
"All I am trying to do is to establish its credibility, get it carbon dated and take it one step at a time," Mr Swain said.
"It's in a tacky little frame, with very old glass on the front of it, but [when I saw it] I thought 'Oh yeah, it actually could be.'
"I will get them to look at the image first to see if it looks legit, and then we'll have the paper the drawing was drawn on carbon dated to pinpoint the era in which it was drawn.
"From there, we will take it to the real experts, in London and Paris and Italy, and get them to have a look at it."
With the sketch being kept hidden from public view until authentication has taken place, Mr Swain would only say it was very similar to a da Vinci sketch, Study of the Heads of an Old Man and a Youth.
"It is very similar, but a front view," Mr Swain said.
The Perth family who own the sketch, and want to remain anonymous, have had the piece displayed at their home for generations, after it was brought to Australia from Britain early last century.
"The owner is a local guy, and it was given to a member of his mother's family ... a gift to her from someone who had a huge collection," Mr Swain said.
"Apparently she did a favour for them and they said 'Pick a piece from our collection.'
"She picked the smallest piece because it would fit in her luggage to come home to Australia.
"She picked the smallest piece, which ended up being the most significant piece, and brought it out to Australia in her handbag - and it could turn out to be a da Vinci."
The last da Vinci sketch to be sold at auction went for more than £8.1 million ($22.5 million) in July 2001 - more than double the expected amount.
Da Vinci's Horse and Rider sketch was sold at Christie's in London, and at the time equalled the world record price paid for an Old Master drawing.
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January 1995
by William A. Henkin, Ph.D.
Copyright © 1995 by William A. Henkin
<Q> I'm a novice Top playing with a novice bottom. I especially like to have him serve me, sometimes as my houseboy and sometimes as my pleasure slave. It seems to me that he is eager enough to do whatever I say when I'm ready for sexual service, but when I ask or demand that he do something he doesn't like, such as wash my dishes or clean my bathroom, he becomes sullen and resentful. I've begun to feel that I'm the bottom, and that I'm supposed to Top him the way he wants to be Topped. If this is the way SM relationships go, who really is the submissive one: the Top or the bottom?
<A> The submissive one is whoever submits to the other's requests, demands, or requirements. Nominally, submission is the bottom's privilege, but Tops often accommodate their bottoms, too. This give and take is part of what makes well executed dominance and submission such a courtly dance.
Based on the information you've provided, and assuming there are no other issues waiting in ambush behind the whipping post, this marriage can be saved; but saving it requires that you go back to renegotiate your Top-bottom interaction.
It sounds to me as if your playmate is topping from the bottom, punishing you with his surly behavior when he doesn't like your scene so he can get what he wants. It also sounds as if you've been accepting his routine and reciprocally bottoming from the Top: doing him the way he wants to be done in response to his behavior, thereby rewarding his passive-aggression in order to get him to be the nice guy you started to play with. The resentment you have begun to feel toward your bottom and toward your whole relationship is likely a direct outcome of this unholy combination of unspoken manipulations on both your parts. The question I have is, why are you playing this way?
When he agreed to bottom to you, did your houseboy and pleasure slave agree to be submissive too? Or are you assuming that he is submissive just because he bottoms? When you got together did you tell your bottom his duties would include washing your dishes and cleaning your bathroom? And did he agree to do such chores? Or did you have a general agreement that he would do what you told him to, without clearly negotiated limits? What proportion of your bottom's labor is pure grunt-work for him, and how much does he take pleasure in?
If you had a clear agreement, and if you are keeping your end of the bargain, your bottom's behavior as you describe it is inappropriate and should be strongly discouraged; if he is unable or unwilling to change it, you must consider whether you want your bottom to Top you or you want a different bottom.
If you did not have a clear agreement, and your bottom is washing lots of dishes and toilets, but serving you sexually and getting done infrequently, he may not be getting his needs met. His behavior may simply be a coded way of telling you that he feels abused by your demands. In this case, scrap your contract, oral or written, and begin afresh with clear lists of both your needs, wants, limits, and offerings. See if you have a match or not before you play again.
If the only problem is that your bottom isn't having a good time and doesn't know how to let you know directly, practice clear communication together during your straight time, and learn to translate it into play space. You can also make a lot of drudgery more palatable for him and more amusing or you by giving it an erotic cast: for instance, cleaning the Top's house in a butt plug and collar feels different than cleaning house in old jeans and a t-shirt.
I'd hesitate to generalize about "the way SM relationships go" from any single SM relationship, especially one between two self-proclaimed novices. In my observation SM relationships go every which way, just as vanilla relationships do. SM relationships just have a special kind of twist to them which can make their interactions easier or harder than otherwise, depending on the partners involved. Right now the twist seems to have made yours harder, but that doesn't mean you have to throw in your whips. If you value your relationship or your bottom, see if you can untangle some of the snarls instead.
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Available only from Hammacher Schlemmer, this is the rechargeable desk lamp that provides bright light anywhere without requiring proximity to a power outlet. An internal rechargeable battery powers the lamp for up to 10 hours after a 10-hour charge via the included AC adapter. The lamp has 48 LED bulbs that cast bright white illumination without the glare and distortion produced by an incandescent bulb's yellowish glow. A flexible gooseneck can be raised, lowered, or twisted for optimal positioning over a book, computer screen, or crafts. The lamp has a brass-plated base, pole, and shade, and a dimmer dial provides smooth transitions between light levels. Bulbs last 50,000 hours. 20" H x 8 1/4" Diam. (7 1/2 lbs.)
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No cord is great
By Menopausal lady with dogs
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My dogs had pulled the piano light by running into the cord - and it had damaged the grand piano. This light angles toward piano music and the lack of a cord makes it much more safe when the dogs run around.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Hard To Find Lamp Fills The Bill
By SUP
from Bonita Springs, FL
Provides very good light for desktop reading. The adjustable feature is a real plus for directing the light. The only negative I have is the lamp's height, too tall for my liking. Would like to see something along the lines of a cordless Banker's or cordless Tiffany style desk lamp.
I use this with my make-up mirror .
By Short Stuff
from Brookfield, Wis
I use this with my make-up mirror in my tiny apartment bathroom with no windows and not enough outlets.
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exactly what i was looking for!
By eyesight sight
from sarasota florida
my eyes are really bad and this gives enough light but not too much so it is still comfortable
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I would buy this product again.
By Voracious reader
from Longmont, CO
This lamp would look best on bed-side table or desk. I use it in living room for a reading lamp because of the very functional cordless feature. No more trying to hide the cord under the area rug or tripping over a cord!
Great service!
By Grandma J
from Clermont Florida
I have serious eye problems and I need help more light than the normal light bulb. This lamp is just perfect with my eye problems.
Does not work as advertised
By Bummed in the Moountains
from Colorado
It didn't work as advertised. Doesn't charge right. Doesn't last long at all. I was very disappointed. The only product I got from this company that was not as expected.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Cordless Lamp works well
By Cedarstrip
from Toronto, Ontario
Arrived carefully packed and was already charged and working. Does a fine job in supporting reading. The light is whiter than some may like but provides a clear view of the text. The lamp is well made and looks good. I am using this on a side table beside an easy chair, but the goose neck adjusted for this without difficulty.
Great Cordless Lamp!!
By MB1602
from Shiloh IL
Needed a cordless lamp for my sofa table...am thrilled to say, this is perfect! I'm very thankful because this is also the only cordless lamp found anywhere! Easily recharges too. Works great, definitely worth the investment!
I would purchase this lamp again if necessary.
By Mena
from Raleigh, NC
Lamp is used next to lounge chair where ther is no electrical outlet. Will use when the lights go out during storms or other reasons such as the piano. It is sturdy, attractive and well made.
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The usual dietary sources of Vitamin B12 are animal-derived foods, although a few plant-based foods contain substantial amounts of Vitamin B12. To prevent Vitamin B12 deficiency in high-risk populations such as vegetarians, it is necessary to identify plant-derived foods that contain high levels of Vitamin B12. A survey of naturally occurring plant-derived food sources with high Vitamin B12 contents suggested that dried purple laver (nori) is the most suitable Vitamin B12 source presently available for vegetarians. Furthermore, dried purple laver also contains high levels of other nutrients that are lacking in vegetarian diets, such as iron and
Vitamin B12 (molecular weight = 1355.4) belongs to the "corrinoids" group, which comprises compounds that contain a corrin macrocycle. The term "Vitamin B12" is usually restricted to cyanocobalamin, which is the most chemically stable and unnatural form of cobalamin [
Structural formula of Vitamin B12 and partial structures of Vitamin B12 compounds. The partial structures of the Vitamin B12 compounds only show the regions of the molecule that differ from Vitamin B12. (
Vitamin B12 is synthesized only by certain bacteria, and it is primarily concentrated in the bodies of predators located higher in the food chain [
There are several main types of vegetarian groups: (1) Lacto-ovo vegetarianism [
From a nutrient intake perspectives, vegetarian diets are usually rich in carbohydrates,
Nutrient imbalance in vegetarian diets.
|Vitamin A
|Vitamin C
|Vitamin D3
|Vitamin E
|Vitamin B12
|Saturated fatty acids
In the United States, ready-to-eat cereals fortified with Vitamin B12 comprise a high proportion of the dietary Vitamin B12 intake [
Mozafar [
Some researchers attempted to prepare Vitamin B12-enriched vegetables by treating them with a solution that contains high levels of Vitamin B12 [
The Vitamin B12 contents of soybeans are low or undetectable. However, a fermented soybean-based food called tempe contains a considerable amount of Vitamin B12 (0.7–8.0 μg/100 g) [
Only trace amounts of Vitamin B12 were found in broccoli, asparagus, Japanese butterbur, mung bean sprouts, tassa jute, and water shield [
Vitamin B12 is found in various types of tea leaves (approximately 0.1–1.2 μg Vitamin B12 per 100 g dry weight) [
Several wild edible mushroom species are popular among vegetarians in European countries. Zero or trace levels (approximately 0.09 μg/100 g dry weight) of Vitamin B12 were measured in the dried fruiting bodies of porcini mushrooms (
The consumption of approximately 50 g of dried shiitake mushroom fruiting bodies could meet the RDA for adults (2.4 μg/day), although the ingestion of such large amounts of these mushroom fruiting bodies would not be possible on a daily basis.
Various types of edible algae are consumed worldwide as food sources. Dried green laver (
To measure the biological activity of Vitamin B12 in lyophilized purple laver (
For a long time, it was unclear whether algae have an absolute requirement for Vitamin B12 for growth, and why algae that lack a requirement of Vitamin B12 for growth contain substantial amounts of Vitamin B12. However, recent biochemical and bioinformatics studies have accurately defined the Vitamin B12 requirements of various algae (half of all algal species absolutely require Vitamin B12 for their growth), and they have suggested possible physiological functions for Vitamin B12 in algae [
Various types of dried green and purple lavers are Vitamin B12 sources: (
Furthermore, the standard tables of food composition in Japan [
Structural formulae of Vitamin B12 and pseudovitamin B12. (
A survey of naturally occurring and high Vitamin B12-containing plant-derived food sources showed that nori, which is formed into a sheet and dried, is the most suitable Vitamin B12 source for vegetarians presently available. Consumption of approximately 4 g of dried purple laver (Vitamin B12 content: 77.6 μg /100 g dry weight) supplies the RDA of 2.4 μg/day. In Japan, several sheets of nori (9 × 3 cm2; approximately 0.3 g each) are often served for breakfast. A large amount of nori can be consumed as certain forms of sushi (vinegared rice rolled in nori). In particular, hand-rolled sushi made by wrapping rice and fillings with nori is easy to prepare and facilitates the consumption of a large amount of nori. When dried purple laver was treated by toasting until the laver's color changed from purple to green, the toasting treatment did not affect the Vitamin B12 contents [
Proposed method for improving nutrient imbalance in vegetarian diets using dried purple laver as a Vitamin B12 source in addition to other plant-based food sources.
All authors equally contributed to the preparation of the manuscript and have approved the final version.
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1. Re: OpenScript - Record is not happening834498 Dec 27, 2012 8:49 AM (in response to 981825)Hello
Do you use a proxy to go to Internet or to your test application?
Do you use a vpn?
You can check in View -> OpenScript preferences -> Record -> http
General -> check the network interface which is selected
Proxy Settings -> check if chain proxy is marked and define accordingly to your network settings.
You can also try to run Help -> Diagnose tool to see what's wrong.
2. Re: OpenScript - Record is not happening981825 Dec 27, 2012 10:14 AM (in response to 834498)I am Using the browser proxy, there is No specific Proxy for application.
Once I start recording, I can navigate through application. But No request I see.
Also Tried with Help -> Diagnose tool , But not rectified.
3. Re: OpenScript - Record is not happening834498 Dec 27, 2012 12:45 PM (in response to 981825)Have you configured OpenScript preferences -> record -> http -> proxy: chain proxy?
What is your application?


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A video journalist who makes a living filming deadly carnage must fight for his life when he discovers zombies living beneath the streets of L.A. in this chilling horror film. Eric Hayes (Timothy Muskatell) is always searching for the next horrific accident or crime scene so he can sell the graphic footage to tabloid programs. But he gets more than he bargained for when he stumbles upon a group of undead ghouls whose bloodlust exceeds even his.


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A lot of jokes have been made about Tim Tebow getting help from up above, but apparently many people believe that's actually the case.
In a telephone survey, the Poll Position website found that 43.3% of people who are aware of Tebow's success believe Divine Intervention has been a factor.
The Jan. 8 survey involved 756 people who were up to date on Tebow. The youthful 18-to-29-year-old demographic was the one most apt to believe that it isn't just the football gods who are smiling on Tebow, with 52.3% saying yes to the Divine Intervention theory.
Among ethnic groups, the Hispanic/Latino demographic was the biggest believer, with 81.3% saying yes. Among African-Americans, 59.5% said yes, and for whites it was 38.3%.
Politcally speaking, 54.2% of Republicans said yes, as did 38.2% of Democrats and 35.1% of independent voters.
So we'll conduct our own poll, and hope for a larger sampling. Do you think there's anything at work besides Tebow's football skills in his success on the field?
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He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
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Comment - Wine - The UK: Land of... What's the Opposite of Plenty?
By Chris Losh | 5 February 2013
Just over two years ago, Chris Losh suggested that the UK was poised to lose its place as the most dynamic wine market in the world. This month, he suggests, things have gone from bad to worse, with no end to the grimness in sight.
The last few months have been pretty turbulent in the UK. Giants of the high street have been going bust on a seemingly weekly basis, and a chill, grey mood of helpless entrenchment seems to have settled over the country.
I've been taking the temperature of the UK wine trade for over 15 years now, so I'm used to the low-level grumbling and the odd bit of sabre-rattling about the pernicious evil of the supermarkets/consumer behaviour/government duty levels (delete as appropriate).
But, 2013 seems to be something else again. Person after person I've talked to over the last month has used the words 'tipping point' or 'crossroads' to describe the coming year.
Let's get the macro-economic stuff out of the way first: The UK economy is flat-lining. Growth is non-existent, and, perhaps more to the point, nobody – economists, the Chancellor, the public or the wine trade – seems to know where it will come from again, or when.
The Duty Escalator – supposedly a four-year plan brought in in 2008 to make duty rises more predictable – has, surprise surprise, been extended for another two years. To describe its effects as 'damaging' is a bit like saying that arsenic isn't nice in tea.
Meanwhile, the Euro, which provided the only (feeble) bright spot on the horizon last year, isn't offering any relief, firming up from a mildly helpful EUR1.25 to the pound mark for most of last year to EUR1.15, and still falling.
So much for the wider economy. How about the wine drinkers?
Well, more bad news here. The head of drinks at one major UK supermarket told me a couple of years ago that an estimated 1m wine drinkers had migrated out of the category since the start of the recession. (That's the first recession, not the one we've just had or the third one that's scheduled for this year).
I'm sure many more have abandoned wine since then. Moreover, the drinkers who are left remain obstinately tight-fisted.
On one level, this is understandable. With prices rising and jobs uncertain, this is no time to be preaching the 'trade-up' mantra when it comes to that weekend bottle of Cabernet.
Yet, consumer notions of what a bottle of wine 'ought' to cost are now so out of line with the market realities of producing the stuff at a profit that it's a wonder there are any wine companies left at all.
Much has been made over the last few months of the average price-per-bottle finally making it through the GBP5 (US$7.85) barrier. In fact, it's done so, probably at least ten years too late.
A colleague of mine in the trade has crunched some numbers: From 1997 to 2012 compound inflation was around 50%. Add in increases in duty and VAT, and today's supposedly semi-premium GBP5 bottle was 1997's GBP2.60 bottle of plonk.
The trade (including retailers) is now collectively paying for its inability to force people to pay the going rate for a bottle when times were good, wine was booming and people had the money to do so.
None of this is exactly new. So, why the feeling of a watershed moment?
The answer is the impending shortage of wine caused by the 2012 vintage. In October, I pointed out that this would inevitably to lead to suppliers more or less the wine-world over raising their prices.
Well, now the figures are starting to come in, and the trade is beginning to realise the enormity of the task before it. In a best-case scenario, retailers (and their customers) will accept the increases and sell the bottles through with negligible degradation of volumes.
It could happen, I guess, but it's unlikely, to say the least.
The global export manager of one European company was (understandably) very rude to one UK retailer when they suggested he sell his GBP30 bottle of wine at GBP9.99, promoted for three months at GBP7.99.
"Why the hell would anyone bother doing business in the UK any more when there is no return?" he sighed. "We get better pricing from nearly all other markets."
The tightness of the UK buyer and consumer is, I suspect, so entrenched as to be irreversible. And, when the irresistible force of higher prices meets the immovable object of buyer parsimony, something will have to give.
I suspect that this year we will see a good many wineries simply abandoning the UK as not worth the trouble. There may still be some attraction to producers in having a presence in this most global of markets, but the days of having to be here at any price are long gone.
Many more will stay, but will simply bottle inferior products, in order to hit increasingly impossible price points.
How long the trade will be able to pass off this second-tier stuff to a public that's already looking to cut back on expense is anybody's guess. But, I'd suggest that any industry that bases its economic model on peddling inferior products at higher prices is in for a kicking.
Certainly, it will not turn around the contraction in the market, so the battle for share (rather than organic growth) will intensify.
The last six months have seen the demise of two decent-sized and one large wine company. All the indications are that we can expect more blood on the carpet before the year is out.
For the UK's wine merchants, the current economic limbo was described by one contact as "like being in a long-term holding pattern, and every so often a plane runs out of fuel and crashes".
I'd say even that joyless assessment might be over-optimistic. This looks like an industry about to enter a tailspin.
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Eric Weiner is a "spiritual seeker," and he has quite a tale to tell on Interfaith Voices this week. And he laces his story with humor. He notes that he was born into the Jewish tradition, but he calls himself a "gastronomic Jew," i.e., someone more familiar with lox and bagels than with the Torah.
But thanks to an emergency room nurse who scared the living daylights out of him when she whispered in his ear about "finding his God," he began a process that he calls "flirting with the divine." He lived eight different religious traditions, with some emphasis on the mystical tradition in each. He tried out Sufi Islam, Nepalese Buddhism and Kabbalah in Judaism.
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Top all this off with a sampling of Taoism and Shamanism, and it's quite a spiritual journey.
When I asked where he wound up, he described his current God as an IKEA God: some assembly required. He's piecing it all together. And if you believe the polls, lots of people do the same thing.
Eric Weiner tells his story in a new book, Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine.
This interview is followed by a discussion of the ethics of drone warfare. And finally, there are some voices from the March for Life, followed by an invitation for listeners to comment.
You can hear it all at interfaithradio.org.
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Bibeau has a 10-4-0 record with the Toronto Marlies this season along with a 3.20 goals-against average and .889 save percentage. The 21-year-old netminder has yet to make his NHL debut.
Arcobello, who has played in nine games with the Maple Leafs, has 27 points (12 goals, 15 assists) with the Marlies this season.
Also Sunday, the AHL announced that Marlies left-winger Richard Clune has been given a one-game suspension. The automatic ban comes after he accumulated his third general game misconduct of the season in Toronto's 3-2 win over Syracuse on Saturday.
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Monday's close: $19.21 (U.S.)
52-week trading range: $15.06 - $20.50 a share
Annual dividend: none
Analysts' ratings: There were nine buys and one hold, according to Bloomberg data. Target prices ranged from $19 a share from Daniel Furtado of Jefferies & Co. Inc. to $27 a share from William Armstrong from CL King & Associates.
Recent history: Shares of the U.S.-based payday lender and pawn broker have lost 3 per cent over the past year. Formerly known as Dollar Financial Corp., it also owns brands like Money Mart and Insta-Chèques in Canada. Because many U.S. states now have laws capping fees charged on short-term loans, the firm has been diversifying its business to Britain and Europe. DFC's stock has struggled because of concerns about tougher regulations on payday lenders in Britain where it has gained market share. The company, which has a store-based and Internet business, last week reported a second quarter that beat analysts' expectations, but tightened guidance for fiscal 2013 to $2.35 and $2.45 a share from $2.35 to $2.55 a share.
Manager Insight: DFC Global has a very conservative management team that would rather "under-promise and over-deliver" because of the difficulty in projecting earnings in Britain and Europe, and previously in North America, said Randy Kelly, chief executive officer of Montreal-based Formula Growth Ltd., which owns the stock. "I am not concerned, and neither is the Street because the stock is up [since last Thursday's earnings release]...I think the company will continue to beat, and over-deliver on earnings."
The sector "has been a space that Wall Street doesn't want to pay up for" until it sees strong numbers every quarter, he said. "The poster child has been First Cash Financial Services [whose stock has climbed 30 per cent over the past year on its strong Mexican business]."
Tougher rules in Britain, including a restriction on the number of times a payday lender can can "ping" a borrower's bank account for overdue payments, is expected to weed out smaller players, and help increase DFC's business, Mr. Kelly said. "We know the rules are working in their favour, and will only be good as the year progresses...The company is making acquisitions, and broadening their base in continental Europe...We think that they are going to be firing on all cylinders."
DFC's stock is cheap versus its peers at 8 times 2013 earnings, and could climb to the $26- to $27-range as it closes the valuation gap, while the company continues to buy back its shares, he suggested. "This business should be worth 10 to 12 times earnings...There could be lots of legs beyond a short move in the stock. It could be a multi-year play."Report Typo/Error
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The 2012 spring semester will officially begin for SWTJC faculty with the start of spring convocation on Tuesday, Jan. 10.
A continental breakfast will be served starting at 8 a.m., followed by the first general session at 9 a.m. in the Tate Auditorium.
In addition to the president's welcome and presentations by deans, Tuesday's agenda will include a SACS update as well as division and department meetings.
Highlighting Wednesday's agenda will be keynote speaker Bill Madigan's presentation on promoting faculty/student engagement. An educator, staff developer and self-proclaimed "brain research junkie," Madigan's presentation will be from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Tate Auditorium.
Thursday's schedule will include a variety of presentations and breakout sessions.
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The once-capped New Zealand centre arrived at Stradey Park from Stade Francais last May and will now stay with the Scarlets until June 2009.
"I'm ecstatic to have re-signed with the Scarlets," said the 25-year-old.
"I've really settled into the team and have found a home in Llanelli. I'm thrilled to have been in a position to extend my stay so early on."
Scarlets chief executive Stuart Gallacher said: "We are delighted that Regan has committed to the Scarlets for a further three years.
"His impact on the team this season has been significant and he has been an outstanding success."
The season has been one of falling just short for the Scarlets, failing to reach the Heineken Cup knock-out stage, losing the Powergen Cup final and falling behind in the Celtic League - having lost to the Ospreys at the Liberty Stadium on Tuesday night.
But King sees a bright future for the west Wales region, especially with plans well advanced for a new state-of-the art stadium at Pemberton.
"There's no doubt that the season has been a bit of a roller-coaster, but we're Powergen Cup finalists in it's inaugural season and I'm sure that we will go from strength to strength in the coming seasons," King added.
"I'm confident that the Scarlets will again become a force to be reckoned with in Europe.
"And after being at the Liberty Stadium on Tuesday evening - despite the result - you can't deny that having a brand-new stadium as your home is a very attractive prospect and something that I am really looking forward to."


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It is a quality that causes people to sit up and take notice—and even to feel a bond.
"We had to sit up with the kids until two in the morning," an NAACP chapter president told me.
Perhaps these will persuade the Iranians to sit up and take notice.
Struggling to sit up, his breathing was heavily labored and each inhalation caused him obvious pain.
It was so hard to sit up there and stay composed and keep track of everything—to process what the facts were.
There—I'll sit up, and be proper, and you'll have plenty of room.
Her health had improved a great deal, and she was able to sit up all day.
Neither of them wanted to sit up, and yet they dared not lie down and try to sleep.
She may see one or two guests and have a book to read, but she is not to sit up.
Then open the cold water faucet, begin to move about in the bath, sit up and wash face and chest with cold water.
Old English sittan "to occupy a seat, be seated, sit down, seat oneself; remain, continue; settle, encamp, occupy; lie in wait; besiege" (class V strong verb; past tense sæt, past participle seten), from Proto-Germanic *setjan (cf. Old Saxon sittian, Old Norse sitja, Danish sidde, Old Frisian sitta, Middle Dutch sitten, Dutch zitten, Old High German sizzan, German sitzen, Gothic sitan), from PIE root *sed- (1) "to sit" (see sedentary).
With past tense sat, formerly also set, now restricted to dialect, and sate, now archaic; and past participle sat, formerly sitten. In reference to a legislative assembly, from 1510s. Meaning "to baby-sit" is recorded from 1966.
To sit back "be inactive" is from 1943. To sit on one's hands was originally "to withhold applause" (1926); later, "to do nothing" (1959). To sit around "be idle, do nothing" is 1915, American English. To sit out "not take part" is from 1650s. Sitting pretty is from 1916.


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Information Technology Services
Academic Year 2001-2002
Visible Goals and Objectives that Support
UH Strategic Plan for Information Technology
Last Updated:
Project Title
Target Date
Target Date
Hyperlink Address
Faculty Development
Re-establish a faculty/staff
training lab and enhance Teaching & Learning
with Electronic Networking Technologies (TALENT)
faculty development program
Improve capacity of UH faculty to
employ technology to improve campus-based and
distance-delivered courses
Kenwrick Chan
and ongoing
Goals for this year complete but
project is ongoing
Almost Complete
See Comments
Manoa Classroom Data
Install and activate a data jack
in every Manoa general-purpose classroom with
work to be performed nights and weekends as
necessary to avoid disruption of ongoing
Any faculty member teaching in
any Manoa general-purpose classroom will be able
to plug in a laptop or other computer and obtain
Internet access.
Jan Kawachi
1) Install data jacks in all
2) Establish separate classroom network with
DHCP and authentication
3) Move existing classroom jacks to new
classroom network
1) Complete
2) Complete
3) All classrooms except Music building and Air
Force ROTC buildings have access to the Internet.
Cabling infrastructure issues for these two sites
are being addressed and connectivity to these
classrooms will be completed during the Fall
24x7 Cable Television
Implement a video server to
enable full 24x7 programming of educational
television on available public access
The Public will have
substantially increased access to UH educational
resources without increasing operational costs to
deliver these services
Winston Dang
except for items revised
due to new SIS project
Enhancement of Online
Teaching Tools
Provide ongoing enhancements to
online teaching environment and increase
integration with the University's IT
. WebCT upgrade
. Respondus for online testing
. Streaming video service established
. UH directory integration into WebCT
. Portal integration into WebCT
Infrastructure, training, and
support will be in place for faculty to use
technology in instruction
Fall 2003
1) WebCT hardware & software
2) Implement Respondus for online testing &
integrate w/WebCT
3) Implement streaming video training.
4) UH directory integration into WebCT.
5) Portal integration into WebCT.
1) Complete
2) Complete
3) Complete.
4,5) UH directory integration & portal
integration with WebCT revised to be dependent on
new SIS project, so will not be in place for all
campuses until Fall 2003
6, 13
except for externally
imposed obstacles
HITS Upgrade
Upgrade and migrate the current
analog video network to a broadband general
purpose OC3+ digital network using Internet video
technologies for interactive television
Entire University will enjoy a
100-fold increase in intercampus connectivity and
interactive television uses will no longer be
limited to constraints of a 4-channel analog
broadcast network
Yul Pyun
In production - all sites have
been upgraded. A temporary DS3 circuit has been
installed to support Kauai CC with full
functionality pending resolution of federal
permit issues with OC3.
Akamai Server
Implement Akamai cache server for
UH network
Improve access time for
repeatedly used web pages and reduce growth rate
required for (expensive) Internet links
except for externally
controlled changes
Upgrade speed of external links
by at least factor of 3 and implement modern
high-speed peering network infrastructure
(Gigapop) for external Internet2/Next Generation
Internet connections including direct
international connectivity to Australia and
Improved links to Internet and
Internet2 enhance access to information resources
by all members of the university community and
establish Hawaii as a hub of Pacific basin
research and education networking
1) Establish new Internet2
2) Establish new Internet connection
3) Establish connection to Australia's research
4) Establish connection to Japan's research
1) Complete
2) Complete
3) Complete
4) Delays in the link to Japan due to change in
plans by Indiana Univ/TransPAC project
Improve Utility of MHPCC
Leverage UH management of the
Maui High Performance Computing Center to improve
its accessibility and utility to UH
UH researchers in all disciplines
will be more competitive in emerging research
areas where high performance computing is a
critical tool
David Lassner
Educational Partnership Act
agreement negotiated with Air Force; Links
upgrade to OC3; Initial workshop conducted at
NEW PROJECT: Student
Information System
Implement new integrated
systemwide student information system
Improved service to students
through integration across all campuses and
functional areas; improved management
information; improved support for teaching &
John Morton
1) July 1 2002 cutover of 7
community colleges to Phase 1 implementation of
SCT Banner SIS
2) Implementation of multi-institution version
of Banner
3) Conversion of all campuses to
multi-institutional version for Fall 2003
All milestones completed within
time and on budget.
Electronic JV
Implement capability for field
units to perform Journal Vouchers (JVs) from
within FMIS.
Improve efficiency and controls
for this common yet troublesome administrative
Jaime Yago
Complete; some testing still in progress
Mandatory Governmental
Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Compliance
Revise FMIS chart of accounts
charges as required by GASB 34/35
Ensure compliance with Government
Accounting Standards and support new internal
reporting changes and improvements
All priority GASB software
modifications have been completed or are in the
final testing stages with our customers before
being deployed.
Complete for Manoa
Undergraduate and Graduate Division
Online Admissions
Online applications so
prospective students can apply to the University
of Hawaii via the Web.
Better direct services to
prospective students worldwide and improvement in
both perception and reality of UH as a wired
Renee Kimoto
and ongoing
August 2002
1) Prospective undergraduate
students can apply to Manoa
2) Convert Graduate Division over to internal
application. Other implementation phases
UH Manoa Undergrad application in
production; Graduate Division application in
Delayed; plan under review
Online Leave Accounting
Web-based online leave accounting
system integrated with the UH PeopleSoft HR
Convenient leave process for
employees and supervisors with access to live
leave date to reduce salary overpayment problems;
also elimination of duplicate institutional data
entry process to achieve increased efficiency and
reduce likelihood of errors.
Ken Nakahara
Initial mock-up web pages
undergoing ITS internal review. Project plan
under review given PeopleSoft's termination of
service for current version and features of next
Online Web-based Travel
Request & Completion Reporting
Implement web-based travel
request and completion forms with travel
reporting modules.
Improved operational efficiency,
reduced errors and improved employee safety
1) Create and track travel
advance request.
2) Complete travel completion.
3) Interface to backend financial system.
Prototype postponed
Coding Complete; Rollout
in progress
Employment/Cooperative Education
Extend use of new web-based SECE
system to all interested campuses and implement
direct interface to SCOPIS
Students from any participating
campus will be able to conveniently access
student employment and cooperative education
opportunities. Also reduced paperwork and cost
savings for administration of SECE-related
processing and administration.
1) Re-engineer the Java
application to improve processing efficiency,
scalability, and convert to Oracle database.
2) Implement hiring module at Manoa and back-end
3) Begin implementation at the next campus.
Completed re-engineering to improve
processing efficiency; SCOPIS interface in testing
phase with various depts; soft-roll out targeted for
mid Fall 2002; Campus rollout in progress with Kauai
CC as the first pilot campus; rollout to other
campuses unknown.
UH Management of UH Civil
Service Employees
Transfer of University of
Hawaii's Civil Service employee position and
personnel data from the Department of Human
Resources Development's Human Resources
Information System (HRMS) to UH's PeopleSoft
System for local processing.
Allows UH to have administrative
control over all its civil service personnel and
position management information databases;
streamline the civil service personnel
transaction process.
Superceded by SIS project
University Portal
Initial rollout of UH Portal
framework with initial services demonstrating
concept and value.
The Portal will enable the
University to provide unified access to internal
and external student information and services
through a single gateway in a secure, consistent,
and individually customizable manner.
Sammy Lee
Soft Rollout
Soft Rollout
Fall 2002
Campus Pipeline's Luminis, which
is included in the SCT/Banner SIS project will be
implemented using the uPortal v.2.0
Initial version in production;
enhancements and rollout ongoing
Web-based E-Purchasing
Implement improved web-based
purchasing interface to FMIS
Accelerate and enhance online
purchasing availability to improve operational
efficiency while demonstrating a significant new
web-based front-end to FMIS.
Tammy Vandevender
Fall 2002
1) Create and track
2) Change orders to purchase order and payment
3) Interaction with Departmental Checking and
1) Complete
2) Complete
3) Interaction with Departmental Checking and
Superquote interfaces targetted for completion
Fall 2002.
Financial Data Warehouse
Implement a financial data
warehouse with query/report capability
Provide UH community with the
tools and the data needed to improve visibility
into financial data and improve operational
efficiency of financial reporting
Small pilot Financial Data
Warehouse deployed to a limited number of Finance
staff; production warehouse still in
HR Data Warehouse
Migrate current HR Data Warehouse
from Adabas to Oracle
Improve access to HR data by
providing more tools, enhanced performance and
improved integration across functional areas.
Vernon Ching
Manoa building telecom
infrastructure improvements
Students, faculty and staff in
affected buildings will be able to use Internet
resources with acceptable service levels
In partnerships with departments,
working on upgrading telecom infrastructure for
the Biomed Building, College of Business
Administration Building, College of Education
buildings and Saunders Hall.
On Schedule
Manoa Network Upgrade
Bring switched / multicast /
redundant / DHCP / QoS network capability to all
fibered buildings
Users in all major/permanent
buildings on Manoa campus will have more reliable
network availability with full access to
Internet2 and multimedia delivery.
1) Relocate Manoa networks to
Manoa core switches and retire FDDI
2) Convert permanent buildings to 100 Mbps
uplinks to Manoa core switches.
3) Implement multicast as needed
4) Implement campus-wide DHCP service
5) Establish redundant links to each permanent
1) Complete.
2) 95% complete.
3) On going
4) Converted Biomed, College of Ed, Holmes Hall
(partial), ITS Keller, and Kennedy Theatre.
5) On going
Oahu I-Net Upgrade
Upgrade metropolitan links to
Oahu community colleges, UH West Oahu and
All Oahu CC, and UH West Oahu
will be able to fully participate in applications
requiring high bandwidth such as HITS upgrade,
Internet2 and multimedia delivery
Yul Pyun
planned extensions
Wireless Networking
Implement UH-Manoa wireless
Enable students and faculty to
roam Manoa campus with wireless access to
Internet and campus services and provide secure
wireless access model for other campuses
Steve Goto
Initial Phase Complete! Extended
coverage to include Hamilton Library, HITS
classrooms at Kuykendall, and Law Library.
Broadband connectivity to
the home
Investigate possibility of
improved broadband access for UH students,
faculty and staff statewide
An educational broadband
offering, if available, could reduce costs and
improve quality of connectivity for participating
members of the UH community on all islands in
support of learning, research and
Marlon Wedemeyer
Discussions with Oceanic
regarding reduced statewide connectivity rates
for education have been positive.
Slightly delayed
H.323 Videoconferencing
Establish an H.323
videoconferencing infrastructure including the
implementation of an ISDN H.320 gateway
Reduce need for inter-island
travel and improve ability of UH community to
collaborate with colleagues at other universities
and use standard videoconferencing for teaching
& learning, research and administration
MCU, gateway and initial video
conferencing units received. New target date for
installation and service is Fall 2002 .
Intercampus VOIP
Use voice over IP technology to
trunk internal UH interisland calls across
high-speed data network.
Savings to University faculty and
staff for neighbor island phone calls
Voice conference bridge
Provide voice conferencing
capability using Manoa PBX
Reduce costs for voice
teleconferences for UH community compared to
using 3rd-party vendors
Harry Morita
Implement enhanced web
conferencing system
Improve capability of UH
community to use web-based conferencing tools to
enhance communication and collaboration in
support of all activities.
Public FORUM available,
documentation for use required; authenticated
conferencing selected, documentation required
System and Network
Operations Center
Evolve our mainframe Operations
group into a Systems and Network Operation Center
providing 24x7 coverage of vital information
technology services
24x7 monitoring and problem
resolution will ensure high availability of vital
services such as network connectivity, email, and
applications and provide a better environment for
hosting asynchronous distance learning
Michael Hodges
1) Create SNOC Admin PD
2) Design 24x7 shift coverage plan
3) Work with OHR and Union to implement.
1) Complete
2) Complete
3) In progress
Mail Complete; Calendar
service superceded by SIS project
Implement iPlanet
Implement enterprise email and
calendaring across entire university.
Improve reliability, performance
and quality of email; provide a University-wide
calendaring capability for all students, faculty
and staff.
1) Install and test email and
calendar servers hardware/software
2) Develop UH community support plan for email
3) Cutover email service to iPlanet
4) Develop UH community plan for web calendaring
5) Enable webcalendaring services.
1) Complete
2) Complete
3) Complete
4,5) Deferred due to competing and possibly
superior functionality being made available by UH
System purchase of SCT Banner and Campus
Pipeline, which includes a webcalendering portal
linked to class schedules.
LDAP and WebISO/CAS
Implement university-wide
directory services and provide centralized
authentication server for any institutional web
Centralization of directory
information will provide single source for
accurate information, ease application
development since authentication service will be
generally available, and improve security by
reducing number of passwords in use.
Russ Tokuyama
Minimal LDAP functionality
implemented. Full directory functionality and web
authentication service delayed
Procedures complete; intrusion
detection delayed.
Security Enhancements
Implement intrusion detection
system and incident response procedures
Improved protection of campuswide
computers, networks and servers resulting in
greater reliability and protection against lost
Jodi Ito
1) Implement incident response
2) Implement intrusion detection system
1) Complete
2) System for IDS undergoing OS and application
testing; Implementation scheduled for Fall
In progess but delays likely
Keller Generator
Provide adequate UPS and backup
generator for core system and network
The University System will have a
reliable network and services that will keep
running through the routine scheduled and
unscheduled outages that plague the core
Carl Yoshioka
Faculty & General
Computer Related Training
Re-establish a faculty/staff
training lab and provide access to a diverse list
of courses to assist faculty and staff in their
Faculty/Staff will have a better
understanding of the tools and applications
available for their work.
Linda Maeno
1) Establish facility.
2) Establish website.
3) Establish training.
Restructuring of
student assistance complete; software
improvements ongoing
Help Desk Improvements
Restructure Help Desk operations
to improve service levels and increase access
with longer hours and 800-number service.
Improved service, more service
and ability to track customers, provide metrics
and develop knowledge base to support continuous
Naomi Okinaga
1-800-342-7949 established for
neighbor island trouble calls; Help Desk
restructured for better service; work ongoing on
software support infrastructure
Progress made
Support for IT Support
Reconceptualize and invigorate
support for distributed IT support staff
IT support staff throughout the
University will have an improved sense of
community to improve their capability to serve
their customers.
Training and brownbag program


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Ready to get started on her latest project, Megan Fox was on the set of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on Saturday (May 4) in New York City.
Dressed in jeans and a dark hoodie, the brunette beauty grabbed a hot drink while she walked to the scene of her next shot between takes.
Although the first film in the franchise made her a household name, it looks like Megan Fox will not be returning for "Transformers 4."
While at the premiere for his new film "Pain & Gain," director Michael Bay quickly told E! News "no" Miss Fox will not be returning, adding, "Because it's a totally different story, it's with Mark Wahlberg and his daughter."
They don't exactly have a friendly past together, but it seems Megan Fox and Michael Bay have buried the proverbial hatchet in the interest of working together again.
The "Jennifer's Body" babe has signed on to star in Bay's reboot of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," according to Michael's official blog.
Bringing their holiday in Rio de Janiero to an end, Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green showed up at LAX International Airport last night (February 12).
Carrying their baby boy Noah, the "Beverly Hills: 90210" hunk looked a bit intense as he followed his gorgeous "Jennifer's Body" babe out of the terminal.
Enjoying the local customs, Megan Fox showed up at the Carnival Parade in Rio de Janiero, Brazil last night (February 10).
Joined by her tattooed husband Brian Austin Green, the "Jennifer's Body" babe flaunted her post-baby body at Brahma's VIP area at the Sapucai.
Ready to enjoy some sun, Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday afternoon (February 10).
Showing off her post baby body, the "This is 40" brunette donned jeans and a dark grey tank as she and her hubby hustled through the airport while he toted along their newest addition.
Hot new mamma Megan Fox is showing off her amazing post-baby bod on the cover of Marie Claire UK's March 2013 issue.
It's no secret that Tinseltown is brimming over with uber-desirable dames, and GQ magazine names their picks for the 100 Sexiest Women of the Millennium in their February 2013 issue.


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Software engineer Melanie Kafka remembers being at a critical point in her life when she discovered Palm Beach Atlantic University. Melanie Kafka and Eric Aquino with Mark Kaprive Brianna Brown and Caitlyn Girardi
In the days leading up to the 2012 presidential election, while pollsters were predicting that Florida would be a relatively easy win for Republican candidate Mitt Romney, those inside the Romney campaign were seeing different indicators, the candidate's senior advisor in Florida said. Brett
The winning mathematics team members from Suncoast High School receive their prizes, a trophy and Texas Instruments graphing calculators. Their advisor, Dr. Mary Murray, is on the left. The winning computer science team
Palm Beach County Commissioner Priscilla A. Taylor, a 1999 graduate of the MBA program in Palm Beach Atlantic University's Rinker School of Business, has been chosen by her fellow commissioners to serve as the county's mayor. Taylor, who previously served as vice mayor, replaces Commissioner
Palm Beach Atlantic University President William M. B. Fleming Jr. last week recognized five members of the PBA community for demonstrating the University's theme for the 2013-14 academic year, "PBA One — One Mind, One Voice." President William M. B. Fleming
The LeMieux Center for Public Policy at Palm Beach Atlantic University will host a dialogue, "Insights into the 2012 Presidential Election and the 2014 Election Cycle," at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, in the Lassiter Rotunda of the Warren Library, 300 Pembroke Place, West Palm Beach. The event is free
A 13-year-old with a love of science proved to be roach coach extraordinaire at the 31st annual Great American Bug Race at Palm Beach Atlantic University on Wednesday. Thomas Bronson, a home-educated seventh-grader who is enrolled in Florida Virtual School, came to his first-ever bug race with
Once again standing before students in Palm Beach Atlantic University's DeSantis Family Chapel, former PBA President Dr. Paul Corts asked those in attendance to stand up and look around them. "This is holy ground. This is really, really holy ground," he said. "There's not a chance it could
Broward County Commissioner Martin Kiar, who previously served for six years in the Florida House of Representatives, says he attributes many of his achievements to the educational foundation that Palm Beach Atlantic University laid for him.
Former golf professional Bill Hobbs was well into his ministry of serving the inner-city youth of West Palm Beach by the time he earned a degree in human resources management from Palm Beach Atlantic University in 1991. He later formed Urban Youth Impact, a reputable, faith-based nonprofit


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10:14 am - 12/31/2012
SM's dance unit "SM The Performance" releases "Spectrum" aka BEST SONG OF THE YEAR
"Spectrum" is a cover of a song with the same name that appeared on DJ Zedd's second single. The track is an electronic dance track which showcases the strong performance skills of the dance unit.
Source: AKP luvjwty11@yt nighttunesblog@yt
OMG it's so awesome, this is probably the first SM inter-group group song that i like...and it's not original LMAO. It was smart of SM to just come to the gayo with their own group it was like a big fuck you imo


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This is not your grandma Agatha's favorite album, unless your grandma raised you on power chords. This Seattle quartet is punk only the Northwest could produce, with its hands-in-your-pockets-while-it-rains tonality and boundless minor chords.
Like At the Drive-In or Sparta before their edges were dulled, Agatha harkens back to those lovely days when everything was "post-punk" this or "post-hardcore" that. But it's far from post-anything, aside from the rough polish done in post-production on the band's first full-length, LP. Unlike many modern DIY outfits, Agatha isn't afraid to let you actually hear what specific chords and riffs it's playing. And it definitely wants you to sing along to "Agitate for the class war!"
Yet LP isn't a clean record, like Rumbletowne labelmate RVIVR's latest effort. When Agatha sings, "We think in a language of violence," it's played violently, too. If it doesn't get you riled up, you need to take your earplugs out.
Loma Prieta, Agatha, Night Nurses and King Elephant play the VFW on Mon., April 15, at 9 PM. $5/$7 under 21. All ages.