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CEDAR SPRINGS, TEXAS (Falls County). Cedar Springs, once known as Mill Tract, is on Farm Road 2027 nine miles south of Marlin in south central Falls County. It was named for several springs that flowed through a nearby cedar grove. In the early 1870s the community had a sawmill, a gin, and a store. In 1879 a post office was established, taking the name Viesca, in remembrance of the colonial settlement Sarahville de Viesca, which had been five miles north. The community had a population of thirty in the mid-1880s. In 1890 it had 100 residents, a general store, and a hotel. When the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway completed the section of track between Waco and Lexington in 1891, bypassing Viesca by six miles, many residents were drawn to the railroad and the newly established community of Lott. The population of Viesca fell to fifty by the mid-1890s. When the post office was discontinued in 1905, the community resumed the name Cedar Springs. In 1905 the community had a two-teacher school for sixty-six white students and a one-teacher school for eighty-one black students. Until the mid-1950s Cedar Springs served as the focus of a common-school district; this district was divided and consolidated with the Lott and the Rosebud school districts in 1955. Cotton and corn were the principal crops grown by farmers in the Cedar Springs area until the 1930s. At that time tomatoes were introduced as a specialty crop, and farmers also began to grow watermelons, cantaloupes, and sweet potatoes. Stock, in particular turkeys, increased in importance after 1960. The population of Cedar Springs fell to fifteen in the early 1930s but increased to fifty by 1939 and to seventy by 1945. A school, a church, and several residences marked the community on county highway maps in the late 1940s. Ninety residents were reported in 1970 and 1990.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:Roy Eddins, ed., and Old Settlers and Veterans Association of Falls County, comp., History of Falls County, Texas (Marlin, Texas?, 1947). Lillian S. St. Romain, Western Falls County, Texas (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1951). Vertical File, Texas Collection, Baylor University.
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It's funny to think people used to tell their friends they were "going to Coachella," as though they were headed to a single, mystical, solitary destination in the middle of nowhere. In the early years, you'd be hard-pressed to find clubs or culture that could rival the feeling of sinking your bare toes onto the lush, green grass of the Empire Polo Fields in Indio while musical insanity hit you from all sides. Flash-forward to the present day, and what the festival experience is known for has mushroomed far beyond the festival's chain-link fences and into every hotel, motel and Holiday Inn within a cab ride of the venue.
The club and party culture surrounding the festival has become a magnet drawing young, scantily-clad hipsters, ready to pump their disposable income into the main artery of the Coachella Valley. And not for nothing. In the past several years, the swath of extracurricular pool parties, day clubs and secret dance floors that only fire up after-hours are as much about status as they are about having fun. While a few of these parties aren't hard to beg or buy your way into, others stake their reputation on being too exclusive for mere mortals to attend (unless you're a hot girl, of course). Whichever side of the party spectrum you prefer, rest assured the desert provides it all during Coachella's down-and-dirty double weekend. Here, then, is our road map to some of the area's best festival-related parties. See you there!
PHOTOS: Coachella 2012: Bathing Beauties and Pool Parties
If there was one aptly named place that encapsulates the paint- and dirt-slathered smorgasbord of psychedelic music that is Desert Daze, it would be the nearby city of Mecca. And for one day, that's exactly what Sunset Ranch Oasis becomes for the shaggy-haired seekers of a mini-Coachella built on local blood, sweat and bong smoke. Organized by Phil Pirrone and his trusty festival crew at Moon Block Party, the one-day festival assembles a lineup that mixes emerging LA-area artists such as Chelsea Wolfe, Fools Gold and the Entrance Band with OC faves such as Dahga Bloom, Death Hymn Number Nine and Corners.
Those who remember the inaugural 11-day bacchanal that tried to stretch itself through the entire run of Coachella weekends 1 and 2 might've been shocked to see Desert Daze reduce itself down to one, tightly compacted day of music, headlined by Grammy-winning, Mali-based, world-music band Tinariwen. Taking place on a 163-acre ranch—a catfish farm-turned-desert-oasis complete with three full lakes—its two stages will host more than 20 bands along with copious amounts of live art, street performers, interactive installations and communal activities. Perhaps one of the best features is the ability to camp overnight on the property, something no one could do last year. More important, it's a chance for bands from OC/LA and the Inland Empire to deliver a taste of mind-melting, head-banging talent to an immaculate palm tree-lined location sure to incite a large, gracious army of the great unwashed to partake in the 4/20 (their date, not ours) celebration. At Sunset Ranch Oasis, 69-520 S. Lincoln St., Mecca; www.desertdaze.org. April 20. $35-$65. All ages.
Those looking for a pop-up slice of Las Vegas debauchery will likely have a room booked at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort. Imagine the biggest nightlife brand in Vegas teaming up with the biggest hotel on the strip to host five exclusive Desert Parties that mimic a full weekend of EDM-focused events, starting with a Friday after-party hosted by GreyStone Manor and featuring music from Australian EDM twins Nervo. The entire weekend is a study in posh, high-end club life: To accommodate an around-the-clock party schedule, a beach club, day club and nightclub will push a high-decibel mix of trance, house and techno the entire weekend courtesy of such massive stars as Morgan Page, EC Twins, L.A. Riots and Chuckie. The head manager of Insomniac even signed on to do production, so you know the ambiance will be legit. The party is mainly for guests staying at the resort, alas, which makes the whole transition from raging at Coachella to slugging back Red Bull vodkas on the dance floor to stumbling back to your hotel room on the morning walk of shame that much more convenient. At the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort, 44-400 Indian Wells Lane, Indian Wells; www.desertparties.com. April 12-14. Hotel guests and invite only, but if you can blend in with the Mexican busboys, you just might have a chance.
PHOTOS: Vestal Village's Coachella Party 2012
Every year, Newport Beach sports-watch accessories company Vestal turns a 40-acre ranch 5 miles southwest of Coachella into a three-day crash pad for invited guests looking for an extraordinary round of day and night parties. Over the course of three days during the first weekend, nearly 1,000 people come and go each day, getting full transport back-and-forth to the Empire Polo Fields to see Coachella. Hosting scores of sunbaked girls lying by the pool near an outdoor stage or the crystalline man-made lake, the property is a guaranteed hotspot for invited guests. Pro snowboarders, skaters and bands such as Eagles of Death Metal and Ra Ra Riot descend on a party that boasts multiple full bars, RV parking and camping—oh, and something called the Human Slingshot. After perfecting the art of using painter's plastic to turn the property's golf course into one big Slip 'N Slide, the Vestal guys got creative and decided to add a toe wedge (the bungee cord with a handle that most people use during water skiing) and a small ramp to launch daredevil campers into the air before they swan dive into an inflatable pool. It's an admirable stunt, especially for a company that thrives on action sports.
But the real action comes at night, when the barn house gets converted into a neon-drenched club swirling with projections and a round of post-Coachella performances that start at midnight and end when the sun comes up. The secret party has gone a long way to protect its exclusivity by not revealing the address to the general public, but should you be one of the lucky ones who find their way inside, you'll understand why it sometimes takes a village to raise a proper Coachella party. At a secret village in Indio—look for the streams of action-sports-esque folks; www.vestal.com. April 12-14. Invite only.
Sure, we love to watch paid, half-naked models strut around a pool as much as anyone. But when it comes down to it, it's far more fulfilling to gawk at talented people than beautiful ones (of course, there are plenty of musicians who fit into both categories). For the true music fan, a party such as the one going on at the Sapporo House is a gold mine of low-key stargazing. Anchored by Boston-based Internet-radio station WFNX and Japanese beer brand Sapporo, this two-day party on the first weekend will boast a sturdy stream of acoustic sets from Coachella artists who happen to pop by and pick up a guitar. And trust us, they will do so in droves. Last year, the party drew a total of 26 Coachella acts, including Foster the People, the Hives, Passion Pit and Neon Trees. Before that, even Mumford and Sons stopped by to show their loyalty to a station that was one of the first to play cuts from their 2010 debut album. Invited guests are treated to a litany of on-air interviews between the bands and the radio station, as well as a two- to three-song set. This year, the party moves from its original location in the PGA neighborhood in La Quinta to a bigger pad in Indio that's just 6 miles from the fest. If grabbing a beer and picking up a casual conversation with a band such as Manchester Orchestra or the Black Keys sounds like your idea of a party, then you've got to find a way to get into this. At a private mansion, Indio—look for extra-hipstery hipsters; www.wfnx.com. April 12-13. Invite only.
This year, the 11-day hipster bacchanal at the Ace Hotel celebrates its wooden anniversary. Coming up on five year's worth of memories drenched in booze, pool water and Coppertone, this year's stack of events sounds more than promising, starting with a cavalcade of live bands and DJ nights sponsored by Third Man and Warped Records. Among the highlights will be a return performance from Flying Lotus, who took over the sun-kissed commune last year alongside fellow deck masters Gaslamp Killer and Thom Yorke (yes, it seems so long ago that we discovered the lead singer of Radiohead had a thing for crate-digging and beat-making). FlyLo is expected to take the stage with DJ Day during a special edition of dance club ¡Reunión! Plus, there will be more deft DJ performances from KCRW's Jeremy Sole, Benji B and the pop-up version of LA hip-hop club the Do Over (complete with finger-licking barbecue and West Coast hip-hop classics). All nighttime events in the Amigo Room are free and 21-plus, while all Desert Gold pool parties are free and open to all ages. If they get to capacity, the events might be closed off (hotel guests will not be turned away), but be sure to plan your Coachella excursions properly so as to not be left standing outside with your porkpie hat, aviator glasses and neon swimwear. At the Ace Hotel, 701 E. Palm Canyon Dr., Palm Springs; www2.acehotel.com/desertgold. April 12-21. All events are free.
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It's one thing to go to a raging day party and then stop in at Coachella, but imagine being able to be at that raging party while you're watching the action at Coachella . . . from a hot-air balloon! It's the one perk of the Mirage party (formerly called the Oasis Pool Party) that just might make this the best auxiliary event in Indio. Located at a super-secret mansion in the unincorporated community of Vista Santa Rosa, just five blocks from the festival, the Mirage party treats invited guests to balloon rides that oversee all of the loud, colorful half-nakedness going down. Of course, that's not the only reason tastemakers, music-industry big-wigs and Coachella artists flock to this event hosted by such sponsors as Chevy Volt, Bagatelle Beach, Red Bull and Vevo. Erecting a poolside lounge on a lush, 10-acre property, Mirage will satisfy those looking for an action-adventure escape, a royal pig-out session and a glossy, high-end day-club experience. As if the Patrón-sponsored balloon ride weren't enough, picture a zip line ride over a giant lake, with a shiny new Chevy Volt floating on an island in the middle. Add a full roster of poolside DJs, gourmet-food vendors and the quick stumble to Coachella, and you've got yourself one of the best bashes of the bunch. At a private residence in Vista Santa Rosa—look for the balloon! April 12-13. Invite only.
The Sistine Chapel of glowing, thumping, desert debauchery. Sporting a Ferris wheel as iconic as the one we're used to seeing at Coachella itself, the Neon Carnival is part street fair, part ultra lounge, part circus and part modeling runway—one of those parties celebrities are falling over themselves to get into. Created by famed LA party producer Brent Bolthouse, the event—sponsored by Armani Exchange—turns a giant, humdrum airplane hangar in the town of Thermal into a place that lures plenty of trendsetters and jetsetters from all over the world. A pastel, illuminated entryway reveals a world of big-name DJs; glowing dance floors; and beautiful people dancing on tables and taking over the stages with their hands up as roller coasters slingshot their bodies through twists and turns—which could be either really scary or really awesome for the stoners on board. If you're a somebody who wants to be seen by others in your social station, you'll stop by and stay awhile. At Tradition Aviation, 86400 Lightning St., Thermal; www.facebook.com/neoncarnival. April 13. Invite only.
PHOTOS: Lacoste Live Pool Party 2012
It's nice to know that if you're a reasonably well-connected festival-goer looking to embrace your inner preppie, the love will be returned at the Lacoste L!VE Desert Pool Party, as the brand behind that cute li'l gator logo is now a full-blown presence at Coachella for the fourth year in a row. Pitted on a sprawling mansion property within walking distance of the festival's grounds, the sea of flowing, white cabanas and olive-skinned models wearing Abercrombie & Fitch are as plentiful as the alligator-shaped inflatable rafts floating in the pool. And if you're looking for an excuse to combine your two great loves—shopping and swimming—there is always the ultra-swanky Lacoste pop-up shop with all the pastel polos and high-end threads you can buy. Last year, guests were treated to DJ performances from Elijah Wood (the Hobbit himself!), Myles Hendrik and Busy P of Ed Banger Records. Arrive early, as the event is very likely to hit capacity. And, of course, being so close to the festival means artists playing the festival are more than likely to wander over and hang out. Unknown location—try to divine where it is at www.lacosteliveblog.com. April 13-14. Invite only.
The KROQ Party House at Coachella is the day party that definitely has the avid live-music fan in mind, with a nonstop barrage of bands and artists delivering sets to a crowded (but not insanely packed) legion of partiers. Last year, the Hives, Awol Nation, War Paint, Group Love and more stopped by to jam out for a live broadcast, which you can listen to if you don't happen to make it past the three security gates. It's quite a change from the radio station's first Coachella party, which was on the main drag before you reach the festival—they've definitely wisened up since then. The private party is available to ticket winners who enter the ongoing, online contest at www.kroq.com. Not only will you be winning access to a sweet pad, but you can get plastered by the pool alongside Kat Corbett, Stryker and Kevin from The Kevin and Bean Show. Best of all, this ranch-style house delivers a party that runs on all cylinders until they kick you out at dark to go enjoy the festival. After all, that's why we're all here! At a private location in La Quinta—look for Dave the King of Mexico; www.kroq.com. April 12-14 & 19-21. Ticket winners only.
PHOTOS: Filter Yacht Club 2012
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Few things sound quite as novel as a nautical-themed party in the middle of a desert. And for the past 11 years, posh Coachella crowds have embraced Filter's love of the high seas with its annual Yacht Club party, sponsored by Aerie. Running during both weekends of the festival, this Coachella tradition is known for its buzz bands and free-flowing booze. Catering to indie-loving mag readers and boat shoe-wearing scenesters means plenty of the best baby bands coming through, ones that just might pop up at Coachella soon after, such as the LA-based, gritty, rock-girl duo Deap Valley. If you want to get a jump on a lot of the cool acts everyone will be talking about next year, you'll definitely want to set sail for this soiree. And don't forget your favorite Captain and Tennile hat—better yet, you should go as Admiral Nelson. At an unknown location—comb www.filtermagazine.com for scraps of info. April 11-18. Invite only.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Hit by a slowdown in its chip business, Cypress Semiconductor Corp. here today become the latest chip maker to issue a warning about its financial picture in the fourth quarter.
The disclosure by San Jose-based Cypress follows similar announcements made by Altera, Fairchild Semiconductor, Mosel Vitelic, and other chip makers in recent days. Another concern is that some major OEMs have also lowered their previous forecasts, including Gateway, Lucent, among others.
There are other ominous signs in the market. A slowdown in the PC market, coupled with an inventory glut with DRAMs and other key components, is prompting analysts to believe that the market is headed for a major slowdown.
Meanwhile, Cypress said it is reducing its guidance for sequential revenue growth for its fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2000. Based on slower sales in a range of end markets, it now anticipates quarter-on-quarter revenue growth of 4% to 5%. Analysts also project that the company will earn $0.76 a share for the period.
For the third quarter of this year, ended Oct. 1, the company reported sales of $356.2 million, up 83% from the like period a year ago. It also reported a net of $100.5 million, or $0.70 a share, in this period, compared to $25.5 million, or $0.21 a share, a year ago.
In the fourth quarter of last year, it reported a profit of $47.5 million, or $0.39 a share, on sales of $207.9 million.
On a positive note, the company still expects to post record sales and profit for that quarter, said T. J. Rodgers, chief executive of Cypress. "Bookings are reasonable and should allow us to grow both in revenue and earnings in the first quarter of 2001," he added.


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A 7-year-old Kansas boy who was clawed by a leopard last week during a school field trip to a zoo in Wichita is out of the hospital.
The first-grader went home Monday, three days after his run-in with the big cat at the Sedgwick County Zoo.
Zoo officials say the boy climbed over a 4-foot railing around the leopard exhibit, crossed an 8-foot safety zone and stood next to the metal mesh fence. The leopard was able to get its paws through the mesh and clawed the boy on the neck and face.
KAKE-TV reports the boy's family issued a statement Monday thanking bystanders who rushed to help after the attack.
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$Live* Minneapolis New Years Eve 2016 NYE Fireworks Online Streaming information has been provided here. Where can you go to watch fireworks on New Years Eve in Minneapolis? Are there fireworks in downtown Minneapolis? Here's where to see fireworks in Minneapolis and St. Paul on New Years Eve. Minneapolis historically put on a firework display in downtown Minneapolis, over the Mississippi River. They cancelled the fireworks a couple of years ago for budget reasons. The only firework the City of Minneapolis organizes is the Independence Day Red, White and Boom fireworks. Here you'll find upcoming concerts, exhibits, performances, festivals, races, sports schedules, community events and more.
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Local ski hill Buck Hill has an annual New Year's Eve party. On December 31, Buck Hill will have skiing, snowboarding, and snow tubing until Midnight. There will also be ski racing, competitions, free tarot card readings, free glitter hairstyles, entertainers, live music, and special cocktails for sale. Then, Buck Hill promises a huge fireworks display at Midnight.
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Pellegrini: Silva injury to be assessed on Tuesday
It was the shortest home press conference of the season so far following City's 3-1 win over West Brom.
With big stories potentially developing elsewhere in the city, questions were in unusually short supply for Manuel Pellegrini.
However, the City boss did have time to reveal his satisfaction with a straightforward win for his side over the visitors.
"I see the title race as the same this week as I did last week," Pellegrini asserted.
"We knew we had two or three games postponed so it was difficult to be at the top of the table in that situation.
"We lost the game against Liverpool and we know we lost the chance to control our destiny but we have a duty to win the rest of our games and then see where that leaves us.
"In the first half we played very well, that was the team we've seen in the whole season at the Etihad. Maybe the goal they scored made us more nervous in the second half as we didn't play as well but we didn't concede a goal and that's important."
The one black mark on the day was the ankle injury which ended David Silva's match.
Pellegrini confirmed that it was the same ankle that prevented the playmaker from playing against Sunderland but could give no further update on his condition.
"We will see tomorrow what happens with the doctor," the 60-year old said.
"He couldn't recover in three days from his problem and that's why he didn't play against Sunderland. It's the same ankle [he hurt against West Brom].
"He had a kick some weeks ago and last week he has played with pain."
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Pellegrini's West Brom counterpart Pepe Mel was pleased with the reaction his team showed to the concessions of two early goals but hinted that the game was over in ten minutes as far as the Baggies were concerned.
"It was a very difficult game for us – we conceded in the third minute and by the tenth minute we were two down," Mel admitted.
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Explore the wonders of nature with your preschooler. The Washington County Conservation Board will be hosting a "Small Wonders: Tiny Turtles" program on Saturday, Feb. 23. The program will begin at the Conservation Education Center at Marr Park at 1 p.m.
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Mercedes-Benz is trying to hit two birds with one stone in its latest commercial for the revised G-Class off-roader.
The brand with the star created a television spot that shows the newest version of the G-Wagen model literally pushing its way into a makeshift parking space at a construction site.
Just before the credits, a message comes up on the screen that reads, "For anyone who needs it: Now with Parktronic", which is a new parking aid with reversing camera that is optionally available on the refreshed 2013 model.
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Cape Town - The South African Post Office on Wednesday reported a profit for the sixth year in a row, according to Nick Buick, the CEO. Presenting his last report before he is to leave the job, he announced a pre-tax trading profit of R379m for the 2009/2010 financial year.Although the chief executive, Motshoanetsi Lefoko, admitted that the profits were less than last year's - they fell by 22% - she said that economic conditions were very harsh and that the organisation was very proud of the result. Buick pointed out that the drop in the country's interest rates has harshly affected the Post Office's revenue. Interest income fell by R200m.He also noted that profits actually rose before post-retirement medical benefits for employees were deducted. In fact he said they rose by 58%. But the medical aid costs amounted to R197m.Buick also pointed out that the balance sheet was very strong. Net asset value continuing to improve - rising by 15% in the year."The strong balance sheet has put us up to invest and diversify our revenue in the future," he said. Chief operating officer John Wentzel said that the outlook for next year "is not rosy". "The challenges will continue into 2010/2011," he said, saying that the decline in mail services is also likely to continue. But he said that the corporatisation of the PostBank will provide opportunities for investment.
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Is this because they steal our valuable post and sell it off on bid or buy?
I must admit I was surprised to hear that SAPO had made a profit for 6 years running.
I stopped using their services years ago due to poor service, undelivered mail, counter service etc.


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Tv commercial for a new upcoming product. The product is a new urn that through the ashes of the dead person and the biodegradable urn - gives life to a tree. This is the story of a boy and his father that finds peace in having their mother personified as a living tree.
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THE DEATH COLLECTORS: definite sickos who spend big bucks for serial killer memorabilia. Homicide detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus encounter them while trying to solve the 30-year-old murder (in the courtroom) of artist and serial killer Marden Hexcamp. From the author who debuted big last season with THE HUNDREDTH MAN.
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WASHINGTON -- This year's Military Bowl will be held Dec. 27 and is set to feature Army against a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The bowl committee announced the plans Wednesday for the game held annually at RFK Stadium in the nation's capital.
Army would be the third service academy to play in the game, following Navy in 2008 and Air Force in 2011.
The bowl will seek out other teams if Army isn't bowl eligible and if the ACC doesn't have enough eligible teams to send a representative to Washington.
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But it is very slow.. I have reinstalled my internet driver all the time.. then my speed goes like whoes! Very quick.. But i don't like to reinstal all the time..
I have a USB wireless adapter.. Please help it's driving me crazy
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open msconfig/startup ... disable all except for AV/firewall and test... if your speed improves, begin to re-enable one by one until you find the offending entry....
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What Antivirus do you have? And what firewall? Anti-spyware?
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Is it possible that you have a background process using your bandwidth? When the internet slows down, does your Task Manager show any activity other than your browsing? I am thinking that a background process may have some time lag after you reinstall the network before it decides to start hogging the network. A couple of times I thought things were extra slow, but I noticed my WMC was busily downloading, and using most of my internet bandwidth.
Loot at the Task Manager when things are going well, and when they are slow... Is there a difference in the Network activity?
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A friend gave me a brochure from Heifer about 10 years ago. I took it with me on the train ride home to Chicago. As I read about Heifer and saw the photos of how animals IMPACT and CHANGE LIVES of people all around the world I began to cry. THIS was the type organization I had been looking to team up with. When you give an animal to a family, they are required to give it's first offspring to a neighbor, so the gift keeps giving long after the initial gift. It's an amazing model, and one that I'll always be a part of. I usually donate goats and llamas. When I'm able too, I'm going to donate cows as well. Thank you Heifer for making donating so easy, and so powerful. Mike
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Jack Lemmon said something wonderful in his movie "Tuesdays with Morrie"...we must love one another, or die.
Thanks to The Art of Elysium, we can love one another, that's what life's all about.
The Art of Elysium is truly a blessing. They have a very human, immediate positive effect on people, that will last a lifetime.
The way we "feel" inside creates the world we live in. So if playing my Guitar and singing a few songs to kids in the hospital makes them "feel" a little bit better, even for just a moment, The Art of Elysium and I have done our job as human beings.
Nura Creitz is amazing to work with. Not only does she work around my schedule, she also is incredibly positive, encouraging, and makes you comfortable in an environment that is sometimes challenging.
From the 1st class of what the Org is about, to your first hospital experience and after, the staff is professional, warm, and extremely helpful. I'm honored and proud to be a part of such an incredible organization. Thanks to everyone at The Art of Elysium!
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Progress on Kung Fu Legends is slow because of my need for art. I want to be able to work on having 3D models to put into the game. I want 3D models to be able to mock up some artwork for the website. Unfortunately, I'm no artist, and my wallet is no fund for artists. I'm also in a design phase where I have an art style in my head that I want to work towards, but I don't have the sketching or art-language skills to convey this to a proper artist. Nevertheless, I've given some of the art design a go.
The idea I'm going for is something like art mannequins, crash test dummies or the similar, but stylistically different, Stikfas models. I want something like that, but without the artifice of ball-and-socket joints. I want detailed hands, but almost totally blank faces. This way I get to have very simple art, but it also gives people something to project upon. You can allow them to read things into the poses or movement of a character without having to animate them in any great detail. It also helps focus on broad body movements, which ties strongly into the martial arts theme. I'd be all for clothing and stylised hair, so long as they are simulated and I don't need to worry about animating them.
To be able to read emotions in a character I'm thinking of overlaying very simple cartoon-style effects. Like a red tinge for blushing, surprised eyebrows, or a cartoon mouth for yelling. Reading sight-lines can be done with the tilt of a head, which you read from the position of hair. Removing eyes reduces the animation workload substantially. Removing the mouth for most of the time means you never have to worry about lip-synch.
I'd like to avoid being too much like manga/anime because that style is done to death. It'd be kinda neat if I could use shaders to give materials the appropriate look, like subsurface-scattered skin, reflective metal and translucent cloth. That'd give it a great modern, realistic look, whilst remaining stylistically minimal. I have immense confidence in being able to work with shaders, but less in modelling or doing detailed texture work.
So here's two attempts I've made at modelling the head of a generic character. The first attempt is styled off a mannequin's head, which is why it's a bit lightbulb-shaped. I'm also experimenting with the minimalistic facial expressions.
I don't mind it so much. I put in the nose to help with directing the head. I should probably put ears on, but meh. In profile he has a flat face, but really it's quite round which, for example, gives a bit of space between the eyebrows and skin. That also assumes I want to do it that way and not just paint them onto the head surface like a decal.
This next attempt was to give it slightly more anime proportions, and to round out the back of the skull while flattening the face. I didn't put the nose or eyebrows in this time, so see how readability went without them.
I have a feeling that this model would play the comic effects much better, as well as suggesting a slightly more realistic style.
So many things to consider, and it's only just the head! I haven't decided if necks should be cylinders just disappearing into the head, or whether they should be a curved extension of the head. The latter is harder to model, but gives fancier results. The ball-and-joint visual style worked well for Toribash, but I would like to give characters a touch more realism.
The other thing I've been considering is where I actually want this art. I'd love promotional artwork to jazz up the website. Also, I have an idea of still-life scenes in the background for the main menu. As for the game itself, I've thought about riffing on the anime-game-style where you just have a frame of a character above/next to their dialogue. I'm certainly not keen at the moment for animating fight scenes because that'd be a nightmare. If the technology behind Euphoria became more dependable, mainstream and openly-implemented, I'd look into something like that. But first thing's first – let's make something that doesn't make someone's eyes bleed and helps the rest of the game. Crazy-ass ideas are for the future.
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The Selangor menteri besar's political secretary of two years says online attacks against her by Azmin's supporters would not deter her from carrying out her duties
PETALING JAYA: Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim's political secretary Faekah Husin is unfazed by the relentless attacks in cyberspace to boot her out.
The campaign called "Kami Sayangkan PKR (We Love PKR)", allegedly waged by supporters of PKR deputy president and Selangor PKR chief Azmin Ali has escalated in recent weeks.
The issue first surfaced in 2010. Azmin had called for Faekah's sacking over her involvement in the Selangorku grants programme
It resurfaced recently when Azmin re-tweeted calls for Faekah to be replaced.
When contacted, Faekah dismissed the allegations that she had abused her position in the steering committee of the "Selangorku" grants programme.
"It is not true. It could be from Azmin's supporters or Azmin himself. I don't care. It is an open secret that Azmin wanted Khalid to replace me as political secretary in 2010.
"As a trade-off then, Khalid gave up his position as Selangor PKR chief and Azmin took over the helm of Selangor PKR," said Faekah.
On her position as political secretary, she said: "It is the prerogative of the menteri besar to appoint whomever he feels fit for the position."
She also denied allegations that she had the final say on deciding the "Selangorku" grant recipients.
"I'm just a steering committee member tasked with identifying political constituencies for infrastructural projects.
"The committee is made up of Menteri Besar Incorporated, Public Works Department [PWD] engineers, PWD quantity surveyors and the menteri besar's press secretary who make the decisions," Faekah said.
'Complaints against Faekah on the rise'
She said grants were given out through the programme to state representatives and MPs for infrastructural development.
"Local councils then make the final decision on who qualifies through an open tender process," she said.
She added that there are people who approached her for grants for projects which were not within the scope of the grant.
"If we act like Umno, I'm certain the people will kick us out. We won because the people wanted a change, not because PKR, DAP and PAS were strong," Faekah said.
She said her statement may have been misconstrued by some supporters of Pakatan Rakyat which led to calls for her to be booted out and it went viral in cyberspace.
Meanwhile, Azmin, the Gombak MP and Bukit Antarabangsa assemblyman, said the number of complaints against Faekah was on the rise, including from the state civil service.
"We have told the complainants that unless they lodge formal complaints and adduce evidence in support, there is little the party and the menteri besar can do," Azmin said.
He did not reveal the contents of the alleged complaints levelled against Faekah.


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London, Feb 1 (IANS) Sri Lanka continued its assault on civil society and failed to take meaningful steps towards accountability for war crimes during the armed conflict that ended in 2009, Human Rights Watch has said.
In its 665-page World Report 2013, Human Rights Watch said there was no fundamental progress on key human rights issues in Sri Lanka over the past year.
Broad detention powers remained in place under various laws and regulations, leaving several thousand people detained without charge, it said.
Security forces committed arbitrary arrests and torture, including sexual assault, against Tamils, the report said.
Tamils allegedly linked to the vanquished Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were at particular risk despite being repatriated, Human Rights Watch research found.
While the Tamil population in the north benefitted from greater access by humanitarian groups, the military presence kept living conditions from being normalized, it said.
"The Sri Lankan government needs to address the many problems that undermine basic rights for people in the war-torn north and east," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
"Justice and accountability for abuses, an end to torture in detention, and ending constraints on basic liberties continue to prove elusive for the Tamil population," he said.
The UN Human Rights Council, responding to Colombo's prolonged failure to investigate alleged laws of war violations, adopted a resolution in March 2012 calling on Sri Lanka to take all necessary steps to ensure justice and accountability.
It urged the government to expeditiously present a comprehensive plan detailing the steps it had taken to implement the recommendations of its Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission and address accountability.
The government has yet to publicly release any information about concrete steps it has taken towards implementing the recommendations set out in the Human Rights Council resolution.
The government showed further disregard for rights protections when, during its Universal Periodic Review before the Human Rights Council in November, it rejected 100 recommendations from member states including some that have a direct impact on accountability.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brothers continued the trend of recent years to accumulate power at the expense of democratic institutions, including the judiciary, and constrict free speech and association, the report said.
The government targeted civil society through threats and surveillance. Statements by officials and state-run media named and threatened rights defenders who called for accountability for wartime abuses or criticized other government policies.
Local activists expressed deep concern about the security of their staff and the people they assist.
The government shut down at least five news websites critical of the government in 2012 and put in place onerous registration requirements and fees for all web-based media services.
The former editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper reported being threatened by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa for publishing an article critical of him.


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Canadian country superstar Shania Twain has opened up about her split from her husband Robert (Mutt) Lange.
"As I am sure you have seen or heard; I am going through a rough time personally in my life," she wrote on her official website, thanking fans for their support in the wake of the breakup of her 14-year marriage to the famed music producer.
"I have so much to say but I know the best way for me to speak is through my music. ... I need some time to heal this broken heart but make no mistake; I will be back and hopefully stronger than ever."
Twain, 42, and Lange, 59, announced their split on May 15.
They have a son, Eja D'Angelo, 6.
People.com reported that Lange's relationship with Twain's close friend and secretary, Marie-Anne Thiebaud, was the reason for the split -- which Thiebaud vehemently denies.


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Regardless of anything that changes in the next 24 hours as the strike seems to be winding down, standardized testing is simply not an effective means of evaluating teacher performance. The Sun-Times ran one of the better op-eds I've seen on the issue yesterday.
The first important consideration of testing is purpose. The process of test construction is so specialized that an instrument designed for one purpose cannot be used for another. Even if we use the best tests possible, it is a core truth of psychometrics that no test is completely reliable: Error is part of every score.
For this reason, test developers, academic bodies and professional associations alike warn against attaching severe consequences to performance on any test.
It gets even worse from there. The way that CPS plans to use test scores in teacher evaluation, referred to as value-added, is so incredibly flawed that almost no one with a knowledge base in this area thinks it's a good idea.
The National Research Council wrote a letter to the Obama administration warning against including value-added in Race to the Top federal grant program because of a lack of research support. The Educational Testing Service, an organization that stands to benefit tremendously from any expansion of testing, issued a report concluding that value-added is improper test use.
These are the people who know the statistics, and none of them thinks the models work. There is a list of obstacles:
One: A correlation does not mean a causality. Researchers have found fifth-grade teacher "effects" on fourth-grade scores using these models. Ridiculous, right?
That's because the models don't work. For one thing, there must be random assignment of students for this kind of comparison among teachers to work — and no administration that cared about students would ever do that. There are deep statistical problems, and no way to reduce the amount of error to an acceptable level. The biggest problem of all, though, is that this is a ranking. So half of all teachers will always be below the 50th percentile. That's math.
Amen. Eric has a collection of more in depth articles available here. Clearly people who worry about such things as validity and reliability in social science are French commie pinko fascists librul elites.
And yes, you can blame Barack Obama and Arne Duncan for this as the Race to the Top Requires tying teacher evaluation to standardized test scores. It's only slightly less ridiculous than the requirement under NCLB for all students to be average or above.


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A look at The Cleansing's roster reads like a who's who of Danish death metal history, as the band features current and former members of Corpus Mortale, Exmortem, and Panzerchrist, among others. For the most part, The Cleansing is the update to the band Usipian, whose 2005 debut Dead Corner of the Eye generated some buzz a few years back. Four of the members have forged ahead with this new project, a hybrid of roots brutal death metal and a slightly more technical edge (though never showy or bewildering). The band reminds me of a mix of their Danish counterparts Panzerchrist or Exmortem with a healthy dose of Morbid Angel and Hate Eternal.
This is a band whose forte is its ability to create very punctual death metal rhythm with razor like efficiency. Tracks like "Insects in the Void" and "The Prodigal Son" weave choppy, progressive death metal riffing with a suitable amount of discord to create a frantic, neurotic womb of misdirection and calamity. They also get adventurous with tracks like "The Domino of Phantom Effects" with its dark ambient/acoustic intro, or the grating, grinding "Architectural Infinity" with its great, almost industrial vibe to the riffing during some sections, meshed with some sinister death metal. The band's experience and professionalism translate well into their musical aptitude, though restrained, they are capable of fluttering into a manic lead on a simple whim.
The mix of the Poisoned Legacy is punchy and well adapted to saddle the blunt hammer vocals of Toke Eld, and the material sounds like it would crush in the live environment, breaking a great many human bones in the dance pit. I'll admit that I didn't love this album...there were few tracks or even riffs which I wanted to revisit after a single listen. But a few spins of the album in its entirety are assuring enough that fans of semi-technical modern death metal would appreciate the effort, the grooves and the interesting leadwork. A competent debut.
Review originally published at http://www.teethofthedivine.com by Erik Thomas
Not content with Dawn of Demise and their super chunky, hefty style of death metal Deepsend has delved into the Danish death metal barrel once again, and pulled out another killer, similarly styled act in The Cleansing.
Formed from the ashes of Usipian featuring cross band members of Panzerchrist and Corpus Mortale (notably Martin Rosendahl also of Iniquity and Exmortem fame), the bloodlines and experience of The Cleansing are unquestionable, and it shows on their volatile debut album - a perfect mix of typically chunky Danish brutality and modern polished, death metal savagery.
Armed with the all too familiar Danish tone and deep bellows purveyed by the band members current and former acts, Poisoned Legacy rumbles with the fierce intimidation of a battle tank mowing down infantry in high gear, spitting out a ridiculous number of down tuned hefty grooves as well as ample amounts of blast beats that never veer into uber tech or blasts fests. The tempered restraint of Poisoned Legacy is never lost on too much of either as the band delivers plenty of tracks that mix volatile blasts and satisfying groove and as heard on killer tracks like "Flesh Recycled", "Ghost Lights" "Harnessed by the Shadows", "Deliverance", token huge, slow churner "The Domino of Phantom Effects" and closer "Awoken at Gunpoint".
Admittedly, it's hardly groundbreaking stuff, but with the experience of the line up, it drips with a menacing confidence and chemistry that only such a line up could produce - akin to the Hail of Bullets collaboration. Not that this is a great as ..Of Frost and War, but it feels the same and imbues that same kind of perfect balance only attained by veteran members knowing exactly how they want to sound and delivering it effortlessly.
A must have for fans of Usipian, Corpus Mortale and recent label mates Dawn of Demise as well as Lay Down Rotten and Moker, The Cleansing look to be another fine addition to the underrated Danish death metal scene.


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A throwdown: Obama v. the Tiger Mother
Parts of the State of the Union address President Barack Obama delivered Tuesday night seemed like a rebuttal of sorts to Yale professor Amy Chua's widely read call for Americans to drive their children to greater achievement through uncompromising techniques she views as Chinese.
"Our students don't just memorize equations but answer questions like 'What do you think of that idea? What would you change about the world? What do you want to be when you grow up?'" Obama said in his speech to Congress, alluding to criticism of Chinese-style education that emphasizes rote learning and memorization over creative thinking.
"What we can do — what America does better than anyone — is spark the creativity and imagination of our people. We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright Brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation doesn't just change our lives. It's how we make a living," Obama said.
Later in his address, Obama did endorse a bit of discipline in child-raising, though he didn't talk about threatening to burn kids' stuffed animals.
"Only parents can make sure the TV is turned off and homework gets done. We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated but the winner of the science fair; that success is not a function of fame or PR, but of hard work and discipline," Obama said to great applause from the audience.


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We do not have boardrooms; however, our smallest ballroom is ideal for a group of 50 people and can accommodate up to 200 people.
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Yes. Please ask your sales manager for our full event guidelines for additional information.
Does the room rental charge go towards the food and beverage minimum?
The rental charge is an additional fee and does not apply towards your food and beverage minimum.
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Turning On The Lights: Deregulating The Market for Electricity
No. 228
Friday, October 01, 1999
by Vernon L. Smith and Stephen Rassenti
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Executive Summary
Consumers, industry and business have reaped enormous benefits from increased competition and innovation following the deregulation of major industries in the United States and other countries. In the U.S. deregulation of five major industries - natural gas, trucking, long-distance phone service, railroads and air travel - provides total annual benefits to consumers from price reductions and service quality improvements exceeding $50 billion.
Currently, state legislatures and the U.S. Congress are debating deregulation of the largest, most highly regulated monopolistic industry: electric power. Commercial and residential customers spend more than $200 billion a year for electricity. Of that amount $20 billion to $50 billion is unnecessary spending caused by regulatory inefficiencies. Regulation also causes electricity prices to vary widely from state to state. Thus:
- The annual cost of electricity for a typical family can vary by as much as $950 from one section of the country to another.
- The average cost of electricity is 10 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh) in New York and almost 10 cents in California, but is only 5 to 7 cents per kwh through much of the country's midsection.
- In Chicago electricity costs 13 cents per kwh, compared to 6 cents in neighboring cities in Indiana.
The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration has estimated that just allowing competition in retail sales to consumers - without eliminating the costly inefficiencies of federal regulations - could lower electricity prices on average by as much as 6 percent to 13 percent within two years. A Clemson University study estimates that broader deregulation measures and competition would lower electricity prices by at least 13 percent and perhaps as much as 26 percent. This implies:
- A typical household would see its monthly electric bill fall $18, from $69 to $51.
- The average monthly bill for a business would drop $109, from $415 to $306.
- The average monthly bill for an industrial customer would drop $1,793, from $6,860 to $5,067.
When residential and business customers alike can buy their electricity from more than one source, experience suggests that electricity prices will fall, service quality will improve, and the prices of other goods and services will fall as overhead costs from electricity decrease. Additional retail price reductions will become possible because of rapid technological improvements that have cut the potential cost of electricity production in half.
Falling costs and technological innovations were the norm before local electric companies became monopolies - firms with the power to make money by restricting production and raising prices. Before 1910, the United States had competing local electric companies:
- In 1887, six electric companies organized in New York City alone.
- By 1907, 25 electric companies were operating in Chicago.
- Duluth, Minn., had five electric lighting companies operating before 1895, and by 1906, Scranton, Pa., had four.
- As late as the 1930s, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, each had direct competition between two private electric companies.
In exchange for monopoly franchises, utilities accepted regulated pricing that provided a "fair" return on capital invested. The federal government became involved in electric power beginning in the 1930s, as both regulator and producer. Today about 25 percent of electricity in the U.S. is generated by local, state and federal governments.
Most states are moving toward retail competition, which will allow consumers to purchase electricity from competing generators. However, retail competition will not be effective if all consumers are required to pay arbitrary fees to reimburse utilities for their so-called stranded costs - utility investments that, while apparently justified under regulation, are uneconomical under competition. Nor is there much consumer choice if there are price controls on power transmission or if local distributors are able to exercise monopoly power.
A solution to these difficulties is divestiture. Today's electric utilities should divest themselves of power generation facilities and restructure the industry. Divestiture would create two discrete kinds of businesses.
- "Supply" companies involved in power generation.
- "Wires" companies involved in transmission and distribution.
Divestiture will encourage the transition from regulated monopolies to competitive markets by driving down costs and attracting new entrants. States could require utilities to separate into wires and supply companies in order to get compensation for stranded assets.
Since much of the cost of electric service is related to generation, deregulating that end of the business will produce immediate and substantial benefits to consumers and open new opportunities to entrepreneurs.
Consumers will have a variety of service and pricing plans to choose from, as with long-distance and cellular telephone service. They will have access to the latest price information, so they can make intelligent decisions about buying for the short term or contracting for the longer term.
New service options tailored to the consumer's needs will be available, such as interruptible power - allowing the utility to cut off or reduce power during peak demand periods. For example, in New Zealand and Australia consumers pay less for electricity under a service option that allows utilities to turn off residential hot water heaters by remote control at peak demand periods.
Also, customers will be able to bypass the grid and generate their own electric power. Efficient gas generators, fuel cells and sun-powered cells are available now, and entrepreneurs already are working on other power sources. Competition will spur innovation and hasten the introduction of new technologies.
The primary focus of local wires companies will be on service. Competition will prevail in the production of the commodity (electricity), but familiar local hands will restore power in emergencies.
However there is the danger that reform can produce reregulation instead of deregulation. In California, the first state to allow all residential customers to buy competitive retail electric power, many consumers saw their electricity bills increase after reform, due to fees for utilities' stranded costs, subsidies for green power, and more regulators to manage competition.
If Congress and the states took the divestiture route we propose, most - or even all - of the stranded costs utilities claim would disappear. No expansion of state or federal regulatory powers is necessary to manage competition - it will occur naturally - and consumers can realize the full benefits of market competition: better service at lower cost.


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To me, beauty contests are pretty strange things to begin with: something about women being paraded on stage to have their bodies evaluated like cattle at an agricultural fair rubs up against every feminist impulse in me. That is not to say they are not interesting spectacles. Whether we like it or not, images of all humans are constantly measured against often unstated cultural and personal standards of beauty; these types of pageants seem to be a real-life attempt to articulate and apply contemporary definitions of beauty.
As our ideas of beauty – and, indeed, our ideas about how to display the beautiful body- change through time, these pageants always seem a little more strange in retrospect. But I think these vintage photographs of unusual beauty contests take this strangeness to a whole new level. It seems to me that the source of weirdness in these images fall under four main categories:
- weird competition sponsors (like the Lobster, Diaper and Sausage queens)
- unusual devices to measure standards of beauty (like X-rays or the Marilyn Monroe cut-outs)
- blatant challenges to the conventions of traditional beauty contests (like the Most Beautiful Ape and Miss Fat and Beautiful pageants)
- bizarre methods of ensuring body part competitions would not be unfairly swayed by facial beauty (like the eye-isolating masks of the Miss Lovely Eyes contest, or the disturbing bags over the head in body-only beauty pageants)
But I think the most disturbing element of these photographs was the way I found myself evaluating my own body in relation to each of the bizarre beauty contests, wondering how I would have done in them! (I would be dead last in the posture competition, but I think being from Nova Scotia might give me a leg up for Lobster Queen). More below…
// Images from multiple sources: click to go to original source.
Elsewhere on the Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things:
- Hidden mothers in Victorian photographs
- Wedding dress made from WWII parachute
- James Mollison's portraits of music fans
- Women laughing alone with salad
- Irina Werning's past/future photographs
- Abandoned suitcases of insane asylum patients
- Verity Whiter's monstrous bodies


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Take a Walkman to Finland
The reason why we are bothering with the troubles of the Finns is that copyright and royalty practices have a tendency to spread across borders.
December. It's snowing in Helsinki, and people are trying to catch a taxi home after a day's work. It will be a long ride because of the traffic jams. Here's one. We get in it. Five, ten minutes go by; it's totally quiet in the cab. Why don't you turn on the radio, I ask the driver. Oh, I have a radio, but in Finland we don't play the radio in the cab, he explains. Huh?
What can you do in a Finnish cab stuck in traffic in the dead of winter if not listen to some music? The Supreme Court in Finland could care less. A week ago, judges ruled by a majority of 7 to 4 that the 9,500 taxi drivers in Finland are to pay $20 a year in royalties to the Finnish copyright society Teosto. The chairman of the taxi drivers' association, Lauri Luotonen, said that most drivers will probably turn off their radio when carrying passengers or listen to tapes. It was Luotonen who started all this brouhaha; he refused to pay royalties to Teosto, which then sued him all the way to the high court. Consequently, if you're going to Finland, take a Walkman.
The rationale behind the court's decision is self-evident. Under Finnish law, anyone playing music that is protected by copyright in a public place as part of another activity in which he is making money, must have a special license or pay royalties to Teosto. Under Finnish law, anywhere that is not inside a home is a public place. Now let's put the pieces of the puzzle together: drivers drive outside of their homes; they collect fares; they play the radio for their passengers, too. Well then, $20 a year it will be.
The minority judges felt differently. They explained that when you stop a cab, you don't do it to listen to music but to get from point A to point B. "The radio is on to entertain the driver. Many times the passengers actually ask him to turn it off," they noted.
The reason why we are bothering with the troubles of the Finns is that copyright and royalty practices have a tendency to spread across borders. The first copyright law in the world was passed in England in 1710, and a few decades later crossed the Atlantic and was incorporated into the U.S. Constitution. The World Intellectual Property Organization now serves as a springboard to jump these kinds of laws from one country to the next.
It is not unreasonable to ask, then, whether one sweaty summer day Israeli taxi drivers will discover they have to pay royalties to listen to Natan Zehavi yelling at another caller. This court ruling attests primarily to the increasing power wielded by those demanding royalties for content for which they are already being paid - after all, the radio already pays Teosto royalties.
In the early 1970s, America's RCA tried to develop an innovative technology - distribution of films on magnetic media, long before what we know as the VCR was invented. RCA was certain that the financial value their technology offered the film industry is maximal: the videotaped film can only be played once; after that, it is locked. If the viewer wants to watch it again, he would have to take the unit to the store, where it is unlocked for additional pay. This way, the copyright holder can make sure that the movie is watched just once.
One of the designers gave a demonstration for five senior Disney officers. They were appalled. They were unimpressed with the new technology and said they would never agree to distribute content this way. When the RCA representative tried to understand why, one of the Disney guys explained: "How can we make sure that the movie is only watched by the person who paid for it? What would stop other people from entering the room and watching the movie for free?"
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Jeff Bridges may be reuniting with the Coen Brothers for the first time since the underappreciated greatness of The Big Lebowski. Hold on there professional Walter impersonators, they're not planning a sequel. Instead it's a remake. A remake of True Grit.
The original 1969 western starred John Wayne as a rough, alcoholic Texas Ranger named Rooster Cogburn, who helps a young girl track down her father's murderer in hostile Indian territory. It's the movie that won John Wayne an Oscar and yet the Coens think they can do better. I doubt it, but that doesn't mean whatever they do with it won't be good.
Variety says Bridges is currently only in discussions to take on the film's lead role. If things work out, he'll step into the iconic shoes of Wayne and almost certainly cause his corpse to roll over in its grave. That damn stoner Lebowski replacing the Duke? He most definitely would not approve. John Wayne was more of a Walter.
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