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Staal Is The New Brind'Amour
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For several years, Rod Brind'Amour was a very valuable NHL player. He was the forward with the most ice time (or very close to the most) in the entire league. Brind'Amour could score pretty well, but his true value was defensive and he won the Selke Trophy twice for his efforts. At age 38, his Selke Trophy days are gone and he has struggled at times this season. His -29 +/- rating is tied for the league worst with Brendan Witt. Brind'Amour has still scored 29 points (which ties him for third on his team) and he still plays a large role in Carolina. Among forwards on the Carolina Hurricanes, Brind'Amour has the second most ice time.
Eric Staal is first. Staal has not only had more ice time than Brind'Amour, he has played against a higher calibre of opposition. I think Staal is developing into a top level defensive forward and a possible Selke Trophy candidate.
Eric Staal is often seen as an offensive disappointment. He scored 100 points in a breakout 2005/06 season and has not managed to exceed 82 in a season since. The tradeoff for decreased offensive contributions is a more well-rounded game that is better defensively.
Although I would pick Mikko Koivu as the Selke leader, I see Staal as a candidate. If he continues to develop defensively, he could be a future winner.
It is impressive to see Eric Staal take over from Rod Brind'Amour as the Carolina Hurricane go to guy who is on the ice in all important situations. Among forwards this season, Staal is sixth in total ice time. He is playing an important role in Carolina, despite the drop in his offensive numbers.
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Compatibility with Firm Dominance
This paper analyzes the effect of firm dominance on the incentives to become compatible and how compatibility decisions affect investment incentives. We will consider compatibility in two dimensions: compatibility of the complementary good and inter-network compatibility. We show that if products are substitutes, compatibility tends to be welfare decreasing with the potential negative consequences of increasing compatibility being more likely when asymmetries are strong. We also find that in many instances the dominant firm's interests regarding compatibility are in line with those of users, and are opposite to those of the weak firm, which will always demand more compatibility to be enforced. Finally we show that compatibility may harm innovation, particularly for the dominant firm.
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Less than 3 weeks after this ruling, the CRTC imposed a similar penalty on Plentyoffish Media Inc. The online dating service was fined $48,000 for allegedly sending registered users commercial electronic messages (CEMs) that lacked a clearly displayed unsubscribe mechanism that could be readily used.
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The CRTC is not the only Canadian authority to take legal action under CASL. The country's Competition Bureau also opened a case in March 2015, this time against two major rental car companies and their parent corporation. The Bureau is seeking $30 million from Aviscar, Budgetcar, and Avis Budget Group Inc. for allegedly deceptive marketing practices.
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DUBUQUE (AP) — The mother of a 2-year-old Dubuque boy who died last year is asking a judge to let her speak with the man accused of killing him.
Television station KCRG reports Kylee Vandermuelen asked a judge Wednesday to lift a no contact order between her and her former boyfriend, Nicholas Reed. She says she needs to communicate with Reed because she's pregnant with his child.
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I'm so sorry I'm late! DX I was away from the computer for the past couple of days and as such, I could not work on any of my SUs that I reserved on any RP. D= I'm so sorry! x_X If my SU is terrible, I've been sleep deprived. Just to warn you. =P
Miharu Mizushima
Miharu was born into an influential family. Her father was a kind man that treated his family and servants with a kind heart. Her mother was very pure and did not allow anyone to be hit in the household. Herself, the daughter, was very polite, but never spoke out of turn; the image of the perfect child.
Well, that was the image they showed in public. In reality, her father was mentally abusive; calling her worthless and weak, as well as telling her to stifle her emotions so she wouldn't embarrass him and the family name. Her mother was physically abusive; whenever her father didn't pay attention to the mother, or when things were complicated due to Miharu, her mother would strike her harshly.
Miharu snapped one day, running away from home at the age of twelve; living her life on the streets for three years until she was accepted into Tristein Academy at the age of fifteen. Her current name is an alias and she changed her appearance.
When she was accepted into Tristein Academy, she focused on studying; reading books in order learn about more information about anything and everything. She buried her troubles under studying, using it as an escape. However, in the practicals, she was still the worst in the class, no matter how much she studied. However, her written grades were so good that she still was able to go up with her year.
Miharu is very withdrawn; almost to the point of being a mute. She almost always has a blank face on, and she usually speaks in a monotone. She usually seems lifeless, although she is known to be fairly sarcastic at times. However, since she speaks in a monotone, her sarcasm is most likely taken to be true. She never lets anyone know when she is in pain; even if it could kill her if she doesn't. However, it is not because she is prideful; it is because she had been taught all her life to never complain about anything. She does have rather strong opinions though.
Sometimes, however, she snaps, usually by herself, and lets all of the emotions that she had repressed out. This usually happens once a month, although once she lasted a year before snapping. A few hours after "snapping", she is extremely exhausted. The next day, however, she would be back to her old self.
Miharu doesn't care about her familiar being a "commoner"; she believes that such degrading terms are wrong after spending three years on the streets. She could really care less on what her familiar could be.
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Miharu has dark blue hair, almost black, that reaches up to her shoulder. It is fairly layered, but it is straight. She has no bangs. Her eyes are a light blue, almond shaped, and with double eyelids. She was around 5'7" and weighed about 110 pounds. She doesn't wear any jewelry, nor does she have any tattoos, although she does have several scars, mostly her mum.
When she is not wearing her uniform, she is most likely wearing something blue, black, white, or a mixture of the three.
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"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."
"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
"REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm."


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This is the plot of This Is the End:
Visiting from the Canadian motherland, Jay Baruchel meets up with his pal and countryman Seth Rogen in L.A., where they try to get past post-Rogen-sellout estrangement through partying at James Franco's place. It's not really Baruchel's scene, but the apocalypse begins just as he's about to bail. That means holing up with Rogen, Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and Jonah Hill -- all playing (with) themselves -- for the desperate stoner-raunch survivalism of roughing out a lo-fi sequel to Pineapple Express, dodging violent deaths, and bucking for Redemption.
Seemingly a lark for Rogen and his co-writer and co-director Evan Goldberg, the film is at least on preposterousness par with celebrity-stuffed disaster-movies of years past. Plus: Hollywood self-indulgence as the last straw for a vengeful God? This is the joke. We met with Rogen, Goldberg, and Robinson for a few minutes recently to discuss it.
SF Weekly: What an amazingly self-indulgent movie. Congratulations!
Seth Rogen: Thank you.
Evan Goldberg: Thank you...? Let me tell you a bit more about us...
Rogen: It's just getting started.
Please describe the This Is The End experience.
Robinson: A right royal comic romp!
Rogen: A British guy told us it was a right royal comic romp. From beginning to end.
Robinson: I was watching it last night, man, and they had to pull me away to go to dinner. 'Cause you hop in there and you're just on the ride.
Rogen: Yeah, it's a crazy weird movie. It's funny because it is a weird mix. I guess, like, conceptually it is self-indulgent, but our prime goal is to entertain the audience. That's all we care about, is making the audience laugh. And it's self-indulgent because we thought that's what the audience wanted to see. Honestly.
Goldberg: It's extra fun making a movie where, like, if it went wrong and was the worst version of the self-indulgence that you're referring to, it would have ended our careers.
Rogen: It's true!
So how do you know that you're not doing that?
Rogen: You don't. That's what's exciting about it!
Goldberg: It's gambling. We're playing with fire!
Rogen: And we've made a few movies like that, where we're like, man, this has a really big chance of being a fuckin' disaster.
Goldberg: Pineapple Express? We didn't know that was gonna work.
Rogen: And then we made some movies like, oh, there's a good chance this could work. And those are always less fun. Like 50/50...
Goldberg: A cancer comedy...
Rogen: ...If this is bad, it'll be the most offensive movie of all time. And that is when it's more fun. That's when you're on set, thinking, I can't believe we're actually doing this. There's a chance that this is a spectacularly bad idea. And that's what makes it awesome.
Goldberg [to Robinson]: Did you think that? Were you ever like, geez, these guys might be ruining all our careers?
Robinson: Oh, no, no, no.
Goldberg: Oh, that's nice.
Robinson: We're improving in rehearsals, and you know, we're having fun together. It's so fun making it. Somebody was asking me yesterday, was there anyone who would drop a bomb and mess you up, where you'd just lose it? And everybody would do that. Everybody. But McBride especially. He would like come with these ... decimations....
Rogen: It was crazy.
Robinson: And with stuff like that, you're just glad you're in the presence. To have been there to have seen him say something to Emma Watson...
Goldberg: ...That she makes us promise we'll never use.
Ok, so how do you decide -- and I don't know if you guys worked this out together -- who falls in the sinkhole, who gets impaled by a streetlight, who gets possessed, who gets into heaven...?
Goldberg: The way it went down is: We had the idea to make an apocalypse movie. We had the idea for them to play themselves. We combined the ideas. We're like, we should make this movie. But we realized we weren't ready yet. And then we realized we needed a redemption story. When we had that all figured out, we thought, Who are the main six guys we need? And it was these six guys. So we got them locked down.
Rogen: And then we watched tons of movies. In the writing, before we were shooting. Horror movies, the apocalypse, and we kinda just got ideas. Oh, maybe someone gets possessed. That could be funny. And maybe we do an exorcism. That could be funny.
Goldberg: Anything with a messed up situation, like, people trapped on a boat and nowhere to go... Oh, Anaconda!
Rogen: And then slowly we'd get these ideas. We just had lists and lists of ideas, and we kinda just picked our favorite and structured it into a movie, basically.
Goldberg: With the main six guys, we worked out the characters and what would happen to who. But with the cameos, we kinda just worked out a ton of deaths, and decided who would be what based on who we got. I mean, for all we knew, everyone would be like, oh no, I don't want to do that.
Was anyone in the cast not your first choice?
Rogen: No, it's pretty much everyone we wanted. Which is crazy.
Goldberg: Way too early we met with Daniel Radcliffe, and presented him with, like, a really shitty version of everything. We blew that one.
Rogen: Oh yeah. That was our fumble.
Goldberg: We were just excited to meet him. We really liked his work. But we really fucked that one up.
Rogen: But we got Emma Watson!
Goldberg: Edward Norton couldn't make it due to scheduling, but we had some pretty fucked up stuff planned for him. I would have liked to do that. Next time!
Is Jay Baruchel not the secret weapon of every movie he's in?
Goldberg: He's great. He's kinda the audience's entryway into this film. Even though it starts on Seth, you're kinda relating to Jay a little bit more because Jay's accusing Seth of being a Hollywood sell out.
Is that really a thing between you?
Rogen: Not really. I mean, if anything, Jay's weird for not doing that. But no, it's more just like we took the circumstances that exist and added a subtext. Just the fact is I came here, Jay stayed in Canada. There's not as much beneath the surface as there is in the movie.
You talked about improv before. How do you deal with improv and decide between scripted material and what you bring to it day to day?
Robinson: You do have a structure, so you might start with a certain line and know you've gotta hit certain points. But there's definitely a sense of: OK, you guys play, and go where you want. And they're throwing stuff out all the time. Say this! Try this! And then we're throwing stuff out, so there's a lot of playing and dancing. So, kudos to these cats for cutting and pasting and catching it. I imagine the DVD extras on these are gonna be crazy. 'Cause the scene can be totally different.
Are there ever continuity issues when you do that?
Rogen: No, you track it.
Goldberg: We've made enough movies with enough improv to know. But I won't lie. It was too hard for just the two of us to pull it off. We had Franco, or Craig, or all our producers who, if somebody added something to a scene, would run up to us and say, these are the things he said, don't forget to go back and get coverage of this or that. So we had a whole network of support.
That makes it sound like a lot more work than people realize.
Rogen: It is a lot of work.
Goldberg: People think we don't work!
Rogen: It's a really technical process, doing a movie with a lot of improvisation. Doing it well.
Goldberg: Talking with Jay about his experience on, like, Million Dollar Baby, it's like: What a different fucking universe!
Rogen: In some ways, it is more simple to make a movie like that. But to do improv in a way that you can actually use it, and it looks like the rest of the movie? Yeah, there's actually a lot of thought and planning required.
Goldberg: Let me ask you, Craig, was there ever a point where you were like: "I don't want to improv today. These guys are driving me nuts. I just want this to be like a normal movie!"
Robinson: No, if anything, it was like, I should be throwing out some more stuff. But with Seth and Jonah, they will go ... and Franco ... it's almost like it was already written. It's like, how are y'all doing that? I'd try to hop in when I could.
Are you guys doing something that couldn't have been done 20 years ago?
Rogen: It's hard to say. I don't know how they made movies 20 years ago. But I recently heard that in Ghostbusters, all of Bill Murray's funny stuff was improv. And I recently read the script, and literally none of the classic lines you know and love are in the script. "And the flowers are still standing!" Not in there! Honestly I was under the misconception that movies weren't as loose back then, but when I read that script, I was like, holy shit, this is completely different. It made me think that there was at least the start of it a long time ago.
Goldberg: I think Judd Apatow took it to a new level, and should forever be credited as the guy who changed things. He's like the Henry Ford of filmmaking.
Friendlier to Jews, though, generally.
Goldberg: Yes. Judd figured out a way to just make an assembly line of comedy, which doesn't require any one person to be perfect in what they've done. It's everyone helping each other. It's like a kibbutz.
If you could tell your younger aspiring selves that this is where you'd be in 2013, how would the little yous respond?
Robinson: I'd be like: Sweet. It's a lot of work, though.
Rogen: Honestly, right now almost more than ever I'm really enjoying what we're doing, and we're making stuff that I really like. And it feels like we're a little more in control of that process than we have been, and it's less like a mystery as to how it's all happening. Which is nice.
Goldberg: It feels like this movie's going to make us stable for the first time. In Hollywood you always have the sense that, like, you're in orbit of where you want to be, and you feel like you could just drift off. Or get lost and forgotten. But I feel like we're going to be a little more stable now. Slightly.
This is the End opens Wed., June 12.


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This week on the STL 20, a new artist joins the countdown, bumping the Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine off the STL 20. Keep reading the STL 20 recap to find out who it is, and see if Adele remains on top again!
Each week, Paul Cook brings you the recap of what's been hot on the airwaves. Check out the Y98 STL 20 every Saturday morning from 8 – 10am to find out which songs were on top for the week and which artists have songs on the rise.
In case you missed last week's countdown: STL 20 Countdown (Week of 3.10)
#20- Jason Mraz – "I Won't Give Up"
Jason Mraz joins his way to the STL 20 countdown with "I Won't Give Up" at #20 from his upcoming fourth studio album, Love Is a Four Letter Word.
#19 – Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera – "Moves Like Jagger"
Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera stays strong at the #19 this week with "Moves Like Jagger," featured on the re-release of 2010's Hands All Over.
#18 – Coldplay – "Paradise"
Coldplay holds on to the #18 this week with the second single from their fifth studio album Mylo Xyloto, "Paradise."
#17 – Lady Antebellum – "Just A Kiss"
Lady Antebellum falls back to the #15 spot for this week with "Just A Kiss," the lead single from 2011's Own The Night.
#16 – Katy Perry- "Part Of Me"
Katy Perry makes her way up on the countdown at #16 with "Part Of Me" from her album Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection.
#15 – Lady Gaga – "You and I"
Lady Gaga falls back two spots at #15 this week with "You and I," the fourth single from 2011's Born This Way.
#14 Jessie Jay- "Domino"
Jessie J jumps ahead in the countdown at #14 this week after last weeks debut in the countdown with her latest single "Domino" from her first studio album Who Are You .
#13 – Colbie Caillat – "Brighter Than The Sun"
Colbie Caillat drops to the #13 this week with the second single from her latest album All of You, "Brighter than the Sun."
#12-Train – "Drive By"
Train jumps ahead two spots this week to #12 with their song, "Drive By" from their upcoming album California 37. The expected release date for the album is March or April of this year.
#11 – Kelly Clarkson – "Mr. Know It All"
Kelly Clarkson slips back one spot on the countdown this week to #11 with "Mr. Know It All," the first single from her fifth studio album, Stronger. She comes to St. Louis on March 16th, 2012.
#10 – Selena Gomez & the Scene – "Love You Like A Love Song"
Selena Gomez skips ahead two spots to #10 this week with the second single from her third studio album When the Sun Goes Down, "Love You Like A Love Song."
#9 – David Guetta ft. Usher – "Without You"
David Guetta featuring Usher stays strong at the #9 this week with the third single from this year's Nothing But The Beat, "Without You."
#8 – Daughtry – "Crawling Back to You"
Daughtry falls back one spot to #8 this week on the STL 20 with "Crawling Back to You," the lead single from their third studio album Break the Spell.
#7 – Christina Perri – "A Thousand Years"
Christina Perri jumps ahead one spot on the countdown this week to #7 with "A Thousand Years," the second single from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
#6 – Gavin DeGraw – "Not Over You"
Gavin DeGraw slips back two spots to #6 on the countdown with "Not Over You," the lead single from his fourth studio album Sweeter.
#5 – Rihanna – "We Found Love"
Rihanna skips ahead one spot to #5 with "We Found Love," the lead single from her sixth studio album, 2011's Talk That Talk.
#4 – Katy Perry- "The One That Got Away"
Katy Perry fall back two spots to #4 this week with "The One That Got Away," the sixth single from 2010's Teenage Dream.
#3 – Kelly Clarkson – "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You Makes You)" (2)
Kelly Clarkson climbs ahead two spots again this week to the #3 spot with her latest hit, "Stronger," released as the second single from 2011's Stronger.
#2 – Bruno Mars – "It Will Rain"
Bruno Mar jumps ahead one spot to #2 this week with his latest single, "It Will Rain."
#1 – Adele – "Set Fire to the Rain"
Adele holds on strong to the #1 spot for the fourth week in a row on the STL 20 with "Set Fire to the Rain," the third single from 2010's 21.
Tune in again to the STL 20 next week to see which tracks are on the move.
In case you missed last week's countdown: STL 20 Countdown (Week of 3.10)


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Ahh, Eurotrash, the pejorative that ruffles no feathers (at least where movies are concerned); fans love it, sane folks have never heard of it. For those not in the know, Eurotrash movies flourished from the '60s to the '80s, made on The Continent, these films were generally concerned with sex and death in various configurations. A lot of nominal auteurs flexed oodles of style (and little sense) with impunity by littering (or promising to) litter the screen with blood and breasts. Jean Rollin is a chief exemplar of the Eurotrash brand, and his 1969 effort The Nude Vampire is a shiny example of all that is good and bad in that sullied cinematic land.
It's nearly beside the point to lay out any sort of plot for The Nude Vampire. There really isn't any. Near as I can tell, a wealthy man and a few of his bored pals cook up a bogus suicide cult to amuse themselves while trying to scientifically explain vampirism. Bored man's son Pierre gets mixed up in things, falling in love with the titular vampire and forcing his dad's hand, before everyone walks through the curtain into an alternate reality to learn the truth. Or something.
As a Eurotrash purveyor, Rollin's weakness is that he hasn't an interesting story to tell, and if he does, he buries it under such an avalanche of faux-debauched, somnambulistic style that any dream-like state you might wind up in is entirely unintentional. At least that's the case with The Nude Vampire. Story-wise, Rollin ultimately gives his own game away at the end in a scene strongly reminiscent of the ending of Casablanca. As two vamp-sci conspirators stagger into the forest, one asks the other "did you understand any of this?" "No, not really," the other replies as they then go on to try to explain the movie to each other. While appreciated, such explicatory asides shouldn't be necessary.
No mistake, Rollin concocts, a lush, decadent experience rife with striking, expressionist imagery, miles of red velvet and gorgeous locations. Opening scenes of a young couple stalked through shadowy alleys by creepy dudes with masks and antlers have a primordial power. However the boggled 'story' then gets played out with alternating scenes of weird looking chicks dancing in spiked pasties, or the dad and his two goofy cohorts placing red hoods on people or being chased around by a vampiric dork and his silent, torch-wielding crew of goons through lovely castles and countryside - all at a very slow pace. Everything looks great (assured and well framed) and drips style, but the slow pace, dearth of plot, boobs and blood (far less than one would hope for in a movie of this ilk) ultimately ranks The Nude Vampire as one of Rollin's lesser efforts.
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SSD vendor STEC's CEO charged with insider trading
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SAN FRANCISCOThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thursday (July 19) charged the chairman and CEO of solid-state drive (SSD) maker STEC Inc. with insider trading, alleging that he sold a significant portion of his shares in the company with the knowledge that demand from a major customer would be lower than expected.
The SEC complaint alleges Manouchehr Moshayedi sold shares owned by he and his brother, Mark Moshayedi, a STEC co-founder, in a secondary offering in 2009 despite knowing that demand from EMC Corp. for an SSD called ZeusIOPS would be significantly lower than previously stated. The complaint further alleges that Moshayedi engineered a secret deal with EMC to prevent knowledge of its reduced demand for the product from coming to light prior to the sale of the shares. Each of the Moshayedis netted about $134 million on the deal, according to the SEC complaint.
The SEC complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Central California, charges Moshayedi with securities fraud. It asks the court to order him to forfeit the proceeds from the stock sale and pay interest and penalties. It also asks the court to bar him from serving as an officer or director of any public company.
"Moshayedi put his own self-interest ahead of his responsibility to lead a public company, and shareholders who placed their trust in him suffered as a result," said Michele Wein Layne, director of the SECs Los Angeles regional office, in a statement. "Company insiders are strictly prohibited under the securities laws from exploiting corporate dealings for private gain, particularly in the secretive and manipulative manner that Moshayedi did."
In a statement, STEC (Santa Ana, Calif.) said the SEC had notified the company it would not bring charges against the company or any of its other executives.
"With the conclusion of the investigation, we remain confident that an independent trier of fact will find that the commission's allegations against Manouch Moshayedi, our chief executive officer, are without merit," said Kevin Daly, STEC's lead independent director.
Gary Mobley, an analyst with Benchmark Capital, said in a report circulated Friday that the SEC has been investigating the 2009 deal for over a year. He said that if Moshayedi is forced to step down as a result of the complaint, it could increase the likliehood of an outright sale of STEC.
"While the company is between product cycles, STEC does have significant enterprise-class SSD IP," Mobley said. "Also, the company does have $206 million in cash."
Mobley maintains a "hold" rating on STEC's stocklargely because of the investigation, he saidand a price target of $8 per share. STEC's shares traded at $7.53 in afternoon trading Friday, down about 1 percent from Thursday's close.
The SEC complaint alleges that Moshayedi sought to take advantage of an upward trend in the stock price of STEC by selling shares owned by he and his brother, in a secondary stock offering set to coincide with the release of the companys financial results for the second quarter of 2009. But in the days leading up to the offering, Moshayedi learned that demand from EMC for ZeusIOPS SSDs would be significantly lower than previously stated, according to the SEC.
The complaint also alleges that Moshayedi convinved EMC to buy $55 million worth of the ZeusIOPS SSDs in the third quarter of 2009far more than EMC needed in the quarterin exchange for a $2 million discount on the product in the fourth quarter. The SEC maintains that Moshayedi made the deal with EMC so that STEC could hit its third quarter sales target and analyst estimates, thus preventing the stock price from falling.


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A crusade has been underway in Congress in recent years to
improve the quality of broadcast television on behalf of America's
children. While obviously well-intentioned, these efforts have
failed because they have preserved the current uncompetitive
regulatory structure instead of allowing market competition to
expand the number of new educational choices available to the
average American family. But Congress now has a rare opportunity to
improve the quantity and quality of children's programming by
inviting a host of new competitors into the marketplace through
expanded auctions of broadcast spectrum.
Unfortunately, 104 Members of Congress recently reaffirmed their commitment to the status quo when they sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asking the agency to strengthen provisions of the Children's Television Act of 1990 (CTA). The problem is that the Children's Television Act actually has more to do with making work for communications industry regulators than with improving the quality of children's television. Although the Act does demand that broadcasters air more programming that "meets the educational and informational needs of children," it fails to define what that means. As a consequence, a lot of bureaucrats must spend a lot of time watching cartoons to decide what they think is "educational" and what is not.
Bureaucrats decide "Fat Albert" is educational, "The
Flintstones" is not
For example, according to recent FCC rulemakings, both "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" and "The Smurfs" are deemed "educational." "The Flintstones" and "G.I. Joe" have not been so lucky. They have been singled out as being out of compliance with the CTA. Instead of asking the FCC to watch cartoons, Congress should ask itself whether regulators should be deciding what children watch at all. Any improvements in the quality of broadcasts in recent years can be attributed to the rise of cable and other video competitors, not edicts from Washington. Efforts such as the CTA are riddled with implementation problems and do nothing to improve the long-run quality of broadcast television. The real answer, as in the world of books and magazines, is to allow more choices and let parents decide for themselves what programs or channels are truly educational.
Washington knows best
The 104 Members of Congress who wrote to the FCC want the Commission to establish a minimum number of hours of acceptable programming per week that broadcasters must air. The letter declares that the FCC should establish a quantitative federal requirement of at least three hours of federally approved "educational" programming that private broadcasters must air each week or risk having their broadcasting licenses revoked.
While license revocation is rare in practice, it is the indirect pressure of federal oversight that counts in influencing programming. In essence, the FCC uses laws like the CTA to engage in regulatory extortion: Either firms meet the Commission's demands or they forgo marketplace opportunities which the FCC has the authority to restrict, such as a merger with another communications company.
All of this begs the question of why Congress does not make similar demands of companies doing business in the print media marketplace. Why is it that The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other newspapers do not have to devote three pages of their "A" sections to issues Washington bureaucrats define as "educational and informational"? While one could argue that it is because the print media already are more focused on such issues than the more entertainment-minded broadcast industry, in reality the answer lies in seven decades worth of misguided First Amendment jurisprudence that has accorded electronic media lesser speech protections and access to markets than print media. As a consequence, laws like the CTA continue to be applied to electronically transmitted media such as broadcasting, even though they would never pass constitutional muster if applied to the print realm. Serious questions remain as to how the CTA will be enforced once most newspapers and magazines are delivered to Americans electronically.
In addition, such bureaucracy-enhancing efforts clearly do not complement last year's deregulatory efforts aimed at reducing federal meddling in communications markets. Instead of encouraging the FCC to expand its cultural inspections, Congress has the unique opportunity to force broadcasters to improve the quality of their programming, without infringing the spirit of the First Amendment, by launching more spectrum auctions.
Auctioning spectrum will invite more competition and
improve quality
Policymakers could invite greater numbers of educational and informational providers into the marketplace by auctioning off more spectrum, something Congress is now considering. Unfortunately, policymakers are about to give away approximately $10 billion to $70 billion worth of spectrum to the same broadcast industry from which they are trying to demand better programming. This means countless new, innovative educational and informational services may be kept off the market because existing broadcasters will be able to hoard large portions of new spectrum. Consequently, broadcasters will be under even less pressure to offer better quality fare to children and families. Auctioning the spectrum, by contrast, not only would bring in revenue to permit tax cuts and deficit reduction, but also would force incumbent broadcasters to air better quality children's programming to keep in step with their new rivals.
Regulations like the Children's Television Act do not benefit
children and should be repealed. Intense rivalry for viewer
allegiance, not more federal mandates, is the only way to improve
the quality and amount of children's programming. Auction off more
spectrum, and America's children will be offered the kind of
quality programming they deserve and Congress desires.


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On July 29 I'll be posting Part 3 of Secret Window. Part 3 will be one post and as with Part 1 (Quiltmaker May/June Issue) and Part 2 (Quiltmaker July/August Issue) you will need Quiltmaker September/October Issue. This part puts your Unit 7s together and the rest of your blocks together to give you what you've all been at the edge of your seat for "The Big Reveal". Some of you haven't posted your completed Part 2 pictures to the Media page yet…get busy! You'll definitely want to be ready to finish this project as soon as you can get your hands on the next issue.
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Ohhh, I can hardley wait.. Barbara
Me either........I keep going to my local bookstore to see if they have the new issue in yet. I know they won't have it for a while yet. But I keep checking.
I have never before been so up-to-date and anxious before to get on with and finish a mystery quilt! I bought a kit because I fell in love with the Summer Breezes fabric line. It is just absolutely beautiful. I have looked up quilts with similar blocks to imagine what it will possibly look like! I behaving a little crazy about this I know. Only 2 more days to wait now.
I subscribe to several quilting magazines as well. They all arrive about the same time. I have received a few already so I know Quiltmaker will be here soon.
Can't wait!
I also bought a kit because I am pretty bad at putting fabrics together for mysteries and I just love the fabrics in the kit! I can't wait to get Part 3 but I seem to have alot of fabrics left in the kit which I have not used at all. I wish that we would have one more month to make "parts" and then get the finished picture last!!! I am so glad that it is only two days away now, since I have everything waiting on my cutting table with finished units ready to go. Thanks for this fun mystery!
LOL, I just started on the 2nd part last night. I am always behind during the gardening season.
[Ava, Missouri
I have my "Y" blocks finished and now have to complete my "X" blocks. I printed foundation papers for unit 7, but after viewing the tri-recs tool assembly, I think I'd like to try that. I have those rulers just sitting around in my tool drawer. Time to make good use of them! I'll post when they're completed. We have a sewing retreat this weekend at our LQS and several of us are going to be working on this project! I'm really enjoying this mystery project and also cannot wait for the reveal!
I used the Tri-recs, too, with some initial skepticism but they worked like a charm. It will make you realize that you can do alot with those two rulers! Good luck!
It's good to hear that you'll be using your rulers again. Sounds like a fun weekend!
Sandi, aka kwiltnkats
There are many uses for the rulers; we just need to think to use them since many instructions don't suggest that you do.
Mary, I used the tri-rec rulers for mine and it just was so easy.. Makes me wish I'd found these earlier for other projects..Barbara
Babara, I wish I had found them way earlier, too, as I have done several projects where I ended up paper piecing them. This was at least as precise and with no tearing of paper! I borrowed the Tri-recs from a guild friend and at the recent AQS show in Knoxville, TN, I bought a new ruler which was fantastic for just this shape...It is called the V-Block Trimmer by Deb Tucker. She did an awesome demo at the show and of course, I could NOT resist buying it. It is really sweet and she has videos on her website on how to use it. It shows you how to cut, sew and trim these v-blocks like we used in the mystery quilt. Here is a great video on how to use this ruler. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJSZO4b40d0 No, I do not work for her!!! :-)
I used my tri-recs rulers and they worked out perfect. It was very easy cutting the strips and then using the rulers to make the angled cuts. I posted a picture (just finished!) and have to trim them up still, but I'm now ready for the next step. This has been such a fun project!


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Q: You've explained the wash-sale rule in the past. But I bought a stock that I had sold at a loss less than 30 days earlier. I did so because it suddenly rebounded and I couldn't wait any longer. If I sell the stock again, but this time at a gain, is my basis adjusted for the prior loss? N.W., Deal, N.J.
A: Yes. The wash-sale rule says you can't deduct a stock-sale loss if you reacquire the same or a "substantially identical" stock within 30 days. The amount of the nondeductible loss would be added to your basis in the newer shares. For instance, say you took a $2,000 loss from a sale less than 30 days ago. If you buy back 1,000 shares of the same stock now at $10 a share and eventually sell it at $15 a share, your taxable gain will be limited to $3,000 ($5,000 minus the $2,000 of extra basis from the earlier disallowed loss).
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Two blondes were working on a house. The one who was nailing down siding would reach into his nail pouch, pull out a nail and either toss it over his shoulder or nail it in.
The other blonde, figuring this was worth looking into, asked, "Why are you throwing those nails away?"
The first blonde explained, "If I pull a nail out of my pouch and it's pointed toward me, I throw it away 'cause it's defective. If it's pointed toward the house, then I nail it in!"
The second blonde got completely upset and yelled, "You MORON! The nails pointed toward you aren't defective! They're for the other side of the house!"
A woman hired a contractor to repaint the interior of her house. The woman walked the man through the second floor of her home and told him what colors she wanted for each room. As they walked through the first room, the woman said, "I think I would like this room in a cream color."
The contractor wrote on his clipboard, walked to the window, opened it and yelled out, "Green side up!" He then closed the window and continued following the woman to the next room. The woman looked confused, but proceeded with her tour. "In this room, I was thinking of an off blue."
Again, the contractor wrote this down, went to the window, opened it and yelled out, "Green side up!"
This baffled the woman, but she was hesitant to say anything. In the next room, the woman said she would like it painted in a light rose color. And once more, the contractor opened the window and yelled, "Green side up!"
Struck with curiosity, the woman mustered up the nerve to ask, "Why do you keep yelling 'Green side up' out my window every time I tell you the color I would like the room?"
The contractor replied, "Because I have a crew of blondes laying sod across the street."
The executive was interviewing a young blonde for a position in his company. He wanted to find out something about her personality so he asked, "If you could have a conversation with someone, living or dead, who would it be?"
The blonde quickly responded, "The living one."
Why did the Blonde throw butter out of the window?
Because she wanted to see a "Butterfly"!
Why did the blonde throw fire out of the window?
Because she wanted to see a "Firefly"!
Why did the blonde throw her mother out of the window?
Because she wanted to see her "Motherland"!
Why did the blonde throw herself out of the window?
You know dummy, because she was a Blonde!
A girl asked her friend, a dumb blonde, "How is your new boyfriend?"
The blonde replied, "He's nice except for one thing. He changes shapes!"
"What do you mean?! How?"
The blonde said, "When he leaves the bed after making love, he comes back looking entirely different. Even his clothes and face have changed... and he wants to make love again and again.
And this happens all during the night!"


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CUPERTINO, Calif. -- As the economy begins to ride out and recover from the recession, computer giant Hewlett-Packard sees that small businesses, particularly in the U.S., are ready to cautiously resume spending on IT.
At a media event here, HP (NYSE: HPQ) officials briefly detailed a few new product offerings, but spent the bulk of their time talking about the company's expanded efforts to win more of the multi-billion-dollar small business market.
HP also hinted at an upcoming cloud computing announcement aimed at small business, but gave few details. "Looking to the future, we're seeing strong growth and opportunity for a Web-empowered ecosystem that will connect your computers, printers, your iPhone, whatever, to retail partners," Todd Birzer, a marketing manager with HP's printing and enterprise solution group, said. "This will be an HP cloud, but I'm not going into details today."
On the product side, HP made several announcements it said should appeal to budget-minded IT buyers in the SMB space. The company said it has partnered with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to provide unified communications products designed to bring more collaboration and communications options to SMBs including Microsoft's SharePoint server.
"There's a driving, pent-up demand for IT infrastructure among small businesses in the U.S.," said Chad Thompson, analyst with AMI Partners, who spoke at the event.
Using HP's financing arm, an SMB could acquire a network of computers, servers and software for as little as $2,500 a month, according to Duncan Campbell, vice president of worldwide marketing for converged infrastructure and enterprise storage at HP.
"The other thing is that we can break this whole UCC (Unified Communications and Collaboration) down into bite-sized chunks that make it easier for SMBs to execute on, just getting what they need," said Campbell.
Product announcements included the HP V1410 Switch Series, an extension of the HP's ProCurve 1400 family with simplified management and what HP said is lower cost plug-and-play connections. The V1410 is available pre-configured with eight-, 16- and 24-port options and a choice of wall or rackmount options. The V-series also includes a lifetime warranty and a next-business-day replacement policy.
HP has broadened its range of networking products deeper in the SMB space following its purchase of 3Com.
On the storage side, HP unveiled the StorageWorks X310 Data Vault that it said is designed for SMBs with limited IT staff. The system's interface is based on Microsoft's Windows Home Server OS to simplify installation and management.
Data Vault offers internal expansion up to 7 terabytes and up to 15 TB when connecting to external drives using the eSATA and four USB ports on the system. HP said clients can share local and remote files through a custom URL that is accessible from any Web browser. The system also offers daily automated backup for up to ten PC or Mac clients.
HP didn't have any specific printer product news but claims it's doing more to help SMB's understand and even market their green initiatives.
HP's Sustainability Reporting Tool uses a series of industry guidelines to help SMBs track and report on gains they've made in saving energy and walks them through the process of both reporting and creating a presentation of the results.
"Companies can report these findings to investors, customers and employees," said Birzer. "It's the kind of thing consultants do for large companies that small businesses haven't been able to do."
Birzer said that in some ways the downturn has been good for HP's printing business for SMBs because more of them decided to print in-house versus going to copy shops and other outside production facilities.
"You can realize significant cost-savings on small print runs doing them in-house," he said. "And our research shows you can be more effective with marketing materials you print in-house because you can, for example, customize brochures for each tradeshow, rather than printing once in bulk."
HP has a Web site that includes more details on its SMB product announcements.
David Needle is the West Coast bureau chief at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals.


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|I will marry only he who defeats me in battle
|Monkey Knife Fight
|Susan Goldman, who has cervical cancer, is partly thankful as she braces herself but changes her mind as she's sprayed with burning jet fuel.
|Amish rake fight
|Monkey Gave Me a High Five
|Everyone picks their poison. I've got mine.
|You're going home in the back of an ambulance
|When I woke up this morning I had no regrets - I felt no shame
|Harry Harlow and his monkeys
|I tried to fight a coward.
|Those (Naughty) Kids on Meerkat Manor
|An Infinite Number of Monkeys
|E2 Gatherings
|knowing is two-sevenths of the battle
|Noders' poetry
|June 3, 2014
|Harry Harlow
|The symbolism of animals
|blood in my ears
|Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
|No regrets
|Yes! We have no bananas!


text: Last week I met up with Erinne and Jeremy at the DeCordova Museum, one of my favorite museums in the city, and did a bit of wandering around the sculpture garden. Then we headed off to Somerville for a little flash back. Jeremy is a musician, and plays at The Burren several Saturday evenings, and on one of those evenings a few years ago, Erinne happened to wander in, and enjoyed what she saw!


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Like many little ones, Caroline is fascinated by stickers. I found My Big Book Of Stickers and it was a fabulous teaching tool!
We garnered hours and hours of learning time from this one book. I actually should say David did because this was an activity that primarily David did with Caroline after supper while I was walking.
The sticker book offered the opportunity to work on motor skills. Peeling and working with those little stickers is a great exercise for a toddler. Caroline's skills in this area improved significantly over the weeks we used this book.
It was a great discussion tool. The book covers the subjects of ABC, Animals, Colors, Mix and Match, Numbers, Shapes, Sizes and Words. Every time we put stickers in the book, we discussed the objects and/or concept on the page. We used it as a launching pad for going above and beyond what was on the page.
The book is colorful with large pictures and stickers. Everything is labeled so it is possible to use it for print awareness as well. Now that the book is completed, it is in Caroline's book basket in the living room. She still looks at it every day even though it was completed weeks ago.
I really enjoy using sticker books as fun teaching tools and am currently on the lookout for the next one!