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Hartford's Festival Of Light Shakes Off Doubts, Finds Success
Ice Rink Popular, Corporate Donations Up
Jenna Carlesso
January 07, 2011
Public reaction was tepid when the city's long-running Festival of Light holiday display moved from Constitution Plaza downtown to a more central location at Bushnell Park this winter.
Organizers cited declining corporate interest and donations, among other reasons, for making the shift, and some visitors described the new light show as less than perfect.
But now, as the festival concludes, things are looking brighter.
The park's free skating rink proved popular, drawing visitors from the city and the suburbs, and corporate donations have reached a new high. The festival brought in about $300,000 this season, a large increase from the $135,000 raised in 2009. Organizers attributed the rise to the change of venue and its new features.
"I think people saw the potential that it not only provided a venue for folks to engage in activities, but also provided economic components, like the surrounding restaurants and entertainment venues," Mayor Pedro Segarra said. "Now that this year was successful, we hope to get more corporate sponsors next year and create a bigger event."
The festival's opening ceremony had been held at Constitution Plaza since it began in 1963. Some people who attended the event at its new Bushnell Park location on Nov. 26 left feeling disappointed by what they described as an underwhelming light show. The traditional twinkling lights that illuminated Constitution Plaza were absent, replaced by colored spotlights and searchlights.
But the ice rink which offered free skating and skate rentals opened two weeks later, and toward the end of the festival, averaged 1,000 skaters a day, according to organizers. They also reported large crowds visiting the park to take in the lights and participate in other activities, like riding the carousel, visiting Santa and watching entertainment.
"Once everything was up and running and people could see the whole picture, I think they were very pleased," said Rie Poirier-Campbell, chief operating officer of the Greater Hartford Arts Council, which organized the event. "It was very well received this year."
Festival sponsors echoed that sentiment.
"I think it was a tremendous idea to move it to Bushnell to bring people into the park," said Mitch Gross, a spokesman for Connecticut Light & Power, one of the festival's top sponsors. "With the rink and the carousel and everything else, there's lots of things to do that bring people into the city. That's why events like this are held."
It was the first year LAZ Parking appeared on the festival's list of sponsors. The company donated $5,000 in in-kind services by providing free skates.
"We were happy to be able help give so many families the opportunity to put on skates for the first time," said Alan Lazowski, chief executive officer of LAZ. "Because of that, we felt the rink was an overwhelming success for the city."
Mike Zaleski, head of the Hartford Downtown Business Improvement District, which donated $2,000 as well as in-kind services, said he was happy with the festival's overall presentation.
"While much different than the white lights that were prominent at Constitution Plaza, I thought [the new installations] brought an interesting and dynamic look that people hadn't seen before," he said.
Organizers are now beginning to think about what next season's festival might look like.
Segarra said he envisions a larger rink that would stay open longer and including more activities, like snowboarding lessons. To that end, he said, he's hoping for more corporate donations.
The mayor said he'll also try to gauge public reaction so the next festival doesn't disappoint.
"We have an opportunity to study and learn and put something out next year that hopefully meets everyone's expectations," he said.
Jane Penfield, the festival's operations director, said organizers are considering opening the rink at the start of the festival the day after Thanksgiving instead of two weeks later.
"It would be nice to have the skating up and running from the beginning," she said. "With a whole year now to look forward and plan, we'll be in a better position to think these things through."
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For several years, one of my cousins, Jerry, rented a farm that was not what you would call tremendously productive. It was kind of hilly and had pretty shallow soil and no shortage of "mineral deposits" — otherwise known as rocks. A little limestone here and there isn't all that out of the ordinary here in Winneshiek Country.
My cousin milked cows, and the soil types on this farm weren't that bad for growing hay to feed the Holsteins. His landlord was Kenneth Hovden, a great guy in his 90s. After Kenneth's wife died when he was in his 80s, he found a girlfriend in nearby Decorah. We always gave him a hard time about getting married again, but he said he was Lutheran and the girlfriend was Catholic. A marriage would never work because they couldn't decide how to raise the children!
Kenneth, unfortunately, passed away, and his kids inherited the farm. They promptly raised the rent on Jerry by a fairly substantial sum. Jerry passed it up, and a new tenant was found. This new tenant began working the farm and discovered a rock that needed to be removed. It also had a fence post next to it.
No big deal. New Tenant grabbed the rock and discovered that it couldn't be moved by hand. He then got his tractor with a loader and found that IT wouldn't move the rock either. The next step was to call in the heavy artillery — a nice little Cat bulldozer operated by a man named Smiley.
Smiley began the excavation process. He dug around the rock and didn't get it out. So he dug deeper. He still didn't get it out. So he dug deeper yet. Same results. Finally, after digging what could be a house basement, he realized that this little pebble was going to be a bit of a job to move anywhere. You don't just dig a boulder like this out of the ground and move it to the nearest fence line.
The solution was to haul it out of there in his dump truck. The problem was that a rock of that size didn't fit in the bucket of the dozer and the dozer probably wasn't going to have enough oomph to lift it anyway. The next step was to change the depth of the freshly dug basement to make it possible to simply back the dump truck up to the rock and push it into the dump truck.
Once the trench was dug and the bed of the dump truck was at the same level as the boulder, it was pushed onto the truck. No problem. But it sure would be nice to know how big that puppy was. So Smiley headed to Ridgeway with the rock in the back to get it weighed at the co-op. The co-op, of course, is where all the nuts come to weigh all their loads of various goods on a certified scale before heading down the road to create havoc with said loads. At least, that's what I've HEARD.
According to the scale ticket, the pebble weighed at or slightly more than 30,000 pounds! 15 tons! And people whine about the damage I could do when all I lose is some wimpy little 1,800-pound round bale of hay. Just think what I could do with a 15-ton rock on the right curvy, hilly road!
The rock sat in the back of Smiley's dump truck parked in his yard alongside Highway 9 between Ridgeway and Decorah. It had a For Sale sign on it, too. No word on what it took to own a piece of the rock, or the whole thing for that matter. It probably ended up being a lawn ornament for some rich dude's front lawn.
There is one mansion in Decorah that is owned by a member of the Bruening family, as in Bruening Rock Products — a large construction and gravel company based in Decorah. My advice to Mr. Bruening would be to acquire the rock and put it somewhere near the edge of his property on top of the big hill. Go ahead. Build a phony catapult around it just to make your neighbors nervous. Better yet, build a giant plaque next to it and identify Mr. Bruening as the winner in the annual Nordic Fest Rock Throwing Contest.
Oh yeah, the fence post near the rock in the field? My cousin said Kenneth put it there a LONG time ago. The first year Jerry farmed the place, Kenneth pulled him aside, pointed to the post and said, "Stay the @#$% away from that rock. It's bigger than the both of us!"
If he only knew.
Guy No. 2
Get a piece of the rock
For several years, one of my cousins, Jerry, rented a farm that was not what you would call tremendously productive. It was kind of hilly and had pretty shallow soil and no shortage of "mineral deposits" — otherwise known as rocks. A little limestone here and there isn't all that out of the ordinary here in Winneshiek Country.

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Sold it a couple weeks ago and picked up a 2003 Nissan Xterra SE to replace it. Since I've got the Xterra, my old Jeep will probably soon follow the GTO.
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Picked up a 1991 Jeep Cherokee this past weekend. 4x4, 4.0L I6 under the hood, with 193k miles on it. Found it on craigslist and picked it up for $400. The engine runs, but something is knocking in it. We thought it might be loose flexplate bolts, but it's not. We're thinking something internal, either a collapsed lifter, or possibly something in the bottom end. The sound goes away as oil pressure increases. I've started looking into new engines though, so we may not even bother with fixing it because of the mileage. It looks like it was in one accident (different colored fenders) and the carfax said it was rear ended about 6 years ago, but we couldn't find any structural evidence of either of them no matter how hard we looked. The interior is in darn good shape for being around 18 years old, and other than a funky door latch and broken cruise control, pretty much everything seems to work. Power windows and locks work. 4 wheel drive seems like it works, but we're gonna look all that over. It has ABS, but it doesn't work. Since this thing will probably end up offroading some, I probably won't even worry about fixing it. If anyone would like to donate to the "Buy Jack an Engine Fund", you can PM me and I'll send you my PayPal address (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) Anyway, here's a picture.
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I've been considering getting a DSLR camera. I've pretty much narrowed it down to a Nikon D40, D50, Canon Rebel XTi, or possibly a Pentax K200D (depending on if my Dad has some Pentax lenses like I think he does). I'm somewhat leaning toward either the XTi or the D50 at the moment. The D50 instead of the 40 because the D50 still has the internal autofocus motor, so it's able to autofocus the older Nikon lenses, while the 40 can only focus the newer AF-S line, which doesn't include any normal length prime lenses (28-50mm). Canon has a decent number of lenses available, as does Pentax. One thing the Pentax has over the others is a stainless steel frame on the body, along with weather proofing (sand and rain resistant). Pentax also claims the K series cameras (K100D and 200D) are able to mount pretty much any lens they've ever made. I have't been able to handle any besides the D40 so far. Best Buy only had the newer XSi and none of the Pentax cameras. So, any opinions?
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Here some pics of the car, does a pretty good job of showing off some of the new stuff I've done...
First the rear end, and the awesome paintwork a friend if mine did on the rear insert...
This one shows the stance the new suspension has given it
I just thought these were pretty good...
Since I never posted one, here's a shot of some of the interior. You can see the new shift ball I installed when I put in the new shifter in this one
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In the recent (Sep. 2006) clash between Strømsgodset and Bodø/Glimt in Drammen, there was even rumours of a reward on the toothbrush among the home side fans. It wasn't a huge reward, but it was said to increase as time grew closer to the match. The toothbrush--"tannbørsten" in Norwegian--is subject to both applause, envy and ridicule from outside of Glimt's supporter crowd. There are various attributions to this; some point to that it is virtually unparalleled within Norwegian supporter tradition. Being a traditional symbol, it would contribute to the forming of identity and sense of history connected to the club, and is as such a gathering and collective show of strenght among the supporters. Others would point to the fact that any mascot, be it an item or a figure, would be subject to (any) degree of contempt and/or aggression from rival fans, as it--through it's history and the current active use of that history--constitutes a symbolic representation of the club as an entity.
The story behind the toothbrush is one that I don't personally know, so I will rely on a few other sources and translate**.
Writer and long-time Glimt supporter Torgeir Grubstad wrote to a forum member, JIP, who shares with us in this post, saying (this is an excerpt):
I would remark that according to the Wikipedia article, this must have been in 1974. The Arnulf that is referred to here, is Arnulf Bendiksen, the first "leader" of the supporters. As the article also states:At one of these games, Finn Olav Jacobsen pulled a toothbrush out from his pocket, in order for Arnulf to have something to conduct with. It wasn't yellow, but the idea was born. So, at the next game, Arnulf had a small yellow toothbrush. At the time, Finn Olav worked in a store, and knew someone with connections to Jordan (A brush manufacturer, translator's remark). (A salesman or something like that). Through that person, we attained our first big yellow. It had only one flaw. It's shaft was too thin. Of course, it broke after the first game. Someone added to it a piece of wood and nailed it all together. (...) Thus, the toothbrush was ready for it's glorious journey across the country.
Forum member Masinga wrote in this post:The first toothbrush of '74 was broken in two at Brann Stadion by an over-enthusiastic bergenser*** in connection with the quarterfinal of 1976
So there you have it. Brush with pride.This review of the history of the toothbrush is amusing. I thought that it might be interesting to add to some of the history, although it doesn't so much regard the tootbrush itself. It is more about the proud traditions of the Glimt supporters. I now and then read a bit in a book about sports I was given as a christmas present. It is titled "Øyeblikkene vi aldri glemmer" (The Moments We Never Forget, translator's remark). It is actually Arne Shcheie's**** moments that are referred to, and it is written by Otto Ulseth of Adresseavisen. I quote from page 68, for those who haven't read this earlier:
"It was Bodø/Glimt that brought the modern supporter culture to the country, with the waving toothbrush--which to this day is unique to the Glimt supporters--songs and a vast ocean of one colour, in this case yellow.
When Glimt played the cup final in 1975, all of Norway got to see for the first time how supporters of a club should look and behave. The supporters from Bodø were the first supporter crowd to become a [real] part of the team that played the games. It would soon become impossible to imagine Glimt without this yellow, singing, waving choir in the stands"
Great writing from a trønder***/RBK patriot! It was Glimt who imported modern supporter culture into Norway. Where the usual attire would be hat and coat at Bislet, Lerkendal, Åråsen or Brann stadion. Glimt fans were the first! And central to it all was the toothbrush as a symbol of the new age!
* Writing this I could not find a single other example. I would appreciate it if anyone notified me if they know of one.
** The translations are mine and mine alone. If anyone should object to anything, or find any errors, please notify me.
*** A "bergenser" is a person from Bergen. A "trønder" is a person from the counties of Nord- and Sør-Trøndelag, where Trondheim is situated in the latter.
**** Arne Scheie is a well-known football and ski jumping commentator for the Norwegian Public Broadcasting (NRK). Otto Ulseth is currently sports editor at Trondheim-based newspaper Adresseavisen, and former assistant (2004) and head coach (2005) of Tromsø IL.


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Sunday, March 18, 2012
12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
1:30–6 PM - Michael Bullock presents Yemenwed and The Freaky Boiz
2 PM - ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1 presents The Social Media Reader
Michael Bullock presents Yemenwed and The Freaky Boiz with DJ sets by Honey Dijon and Michael Magnan
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Tired of changing the words around in hit songs to make them relevant to their own lives, The Freaky Boiz took to Youtube and uploaded some videos featuring themselves rapping in bed, often shirtless. With only smart lyrics and loads of charisma these videos have attracted over a million views. The Freaky Boiz are 22-year-old Terrance "TTgotit" Wilson and Pierre "P-Weezy" Phipps. Like 2 Live Crew before them, the Freaky Boiz deliver blatant sexual lyrics with unapologetic bravado. Earlier this month they were asked on the radio, "Is there room for homosexuality in hip-hop?" P-Weezy answered "I believe there is not room, that's why we are gonna make room for it! We are going to be the artists that finally represent people like us."
The concert is accompanied by the debut of, The Source, a video by the multidisciplinary, NYC-based artist collective, Yemenwed.
ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1 presents The Social Media Reader
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The Social Media Reader, a collection of essays exploring the rise of a participatory culture that blurs the boundaries between creators and audiences, will be published this month by NYU Press. The book features key essays from the major authors in the field, including Chris Anderson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, Henry Jenkins, Lawrence Lessig, Tim O'Reilly, Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky, and Siva Vaidhyanathan. The Social Media Reader editor Michael Mandiberg will be joined by MemeFactory's Patrick Davison and artist Brad Troemel to discuss social media art and put forth a theory of Internet memes, from Hamster Dance to Advice Dog. The Social Media Reader will be available for purchase during the event.
Every Sunday between February 5 and May 13, 2012, the MoMA PS1 Performance Dome will house Sunday Sessions, featuring an amalgam of artistic programming—from light, sound, and music installations to lectures by world-renowned scholars and special performances. Various other galleries and rooms inside of the former schoolhouse will also be activated during these weekly sessions.
Sunday Sessions is supported in part by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.
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Just when you thought life couldn't get sweeter, here come two amazing new guilt-free desserts. These sweets are super-decadent and will bring big smiles to many faces... like YOURS!
1/8th of cake: 215 calories, 6g fat, 345mg sodium, 39g carbs, 2g fiber, 20g sugars, 3.5g protein -- PointsPlus® value 6* Time to slice off a hunk, a hunk of burnin' cake! Actually, let's leave off the burning part -- we still think Elvis would approve of this PB-nana hit.
3/4 cup Cool Whip Free (thawed)
1/4 cup reduced-fat peanut butter, room temperature
1 3/4 cups moist-style devil's food cake mix
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 cup club soda
1/2 cup mashed banana (about 1 very ripe medium banana)
1 medium banana, sliced
1 tbsp. mini chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9" round cake pan with nonstick spray.
In a medium bowl, thoroughly mix frosting ingredients. Cover and refrigerate.
In a large bowl, stir cake mix with baking powder. Add remaining cake ingredients, and whisk until blended.
Pour batter into the cake pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean, about 30 minutes. Once cool, transfer cake to a plate. Evenly spread with frosting. Top with banana slices and chocolate chips.
Slice, serve, and enjoy! (Refrigerate leftovers.)
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So what if it isn't pumpkin pie season? This dessert ROCKS. Plus, isn't everything more fun in a wonton wrapper? (We sure think so.)
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Anna Kell, assistant professor of art at Bucknell University, will host a workshop and "Junk Walk" through downtown Lewisburg Monday, Feb. 25, at 1 p.m. The public program will begin at The Downtown Art Gallery located at 416 Market St. in Lewisburg.
The Junk Walk is designed to connect audience members to the process of repurposing found items into art objects. Art history has documented several artists who have adopted variations of this process; Kell builds on these practices contemporarily.
"For me, found objects have a profound sense of history and specificity which relate to the values and visual culture of a particular place" Kell said.
"On the Junk Walk, we will try to discover objects and phenomena that are truly Lewisburgian in character and we will reconfigure these objects into sculptural arrangements that express our unique experiences in this place."
Participants are invited to explore the community and The Street of Shoppes, a local second-hand store, for items that can be repurposed.
Kell will lead the walk relating the experience to her own art making practice, concluding at the Downtown Art Gallery. She will teach a collective workshop incorporating each object into a collaborative sculpture. The completed piece will be on display in the window of the gallery through March 22.
This public program is a connection to Kell's exhibition at the Downtown Art Gallery, "Pentimenti." The title refers to a group of paintings in which the artist has preserved and embellished existing stains and discoloration on found, discarded mattress fabrics. The "life" of each found object turns a corner as the artist re-frames a piece's accidental marks as the main imagery in her work. Her guided walk presents the opportunity for the audience to work directly with the artist to gain perspective and methodology behind her practice and process.
Kell is looking forward to this opportunity to engage with the community and students in such a unique way. She says, "I expect the Junk Walk to be a fun time — a chance to meet each other and to explore Lewisburg — and art — in a new and unexpected way."
In the event of rain, participants should meet at the Downtown Art Gallery as planned at 1 p.m. However, the walk through Lewisburg will be abbreviated to visit just The Street of Shoppes. Immediately following, the group will return to the gallery for a workshop.
An RSVP to Pam Campanaro, Gallery Associate <email@example.com> is appreciated to ensure appropriate amount of supplies, but not required for participation. This event is free and open to the public.
For information about future Downtown Art Gallery and Samek Art Gallery programs, visit http://galleries.blogs.bucknell.edu/events/
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Ides Program Revels in "Wild and Fertile" Educationby Steve Charles • August 21, 2010 Share:
In his stirring presentation "Education After the Death of School" at Friday's 31st Annual Ides of August program, Professor Samuel Rocha warned that one telling sign of a dying school "might be when teachers hate to be students, and, consequently hate to be teachers."
If the 15 presentations by his faculty colleagues Friday are true indicators of the fervor that drives these teachers as students of their fields of scholarship and research, freshmen arriving this weekend at Wabash are about to receive what Rocha called "a wild and fertile" education. And Wabash is as alive as the high summer season that welcomes the beginning of this academic year.
The Ides program was established more than 30 years ago by Professor Tom Cole '58 to bring the faculty together to share personal and scholarly interests, and this year's talks were the most varied and interdisciplinary in recent memory. More than half of the projects discussed also included Wabash students as research assistants or collaborators, and presenters ranged from first-year professors to 25- and 30-year faculty veterans
Faculty and faculty/student presentations included a film, soon to be released internationally, by a professor and students about African woodcarver Lamidi Fakeye; a plea for a global health and research initiative in Peru; research on the manipulation of time; a National Science Foundation grant funded study in physics education that's already finding surprising and useful results; ongoing research projects in social cognition with local kindergarteners; the "hellhound of Wabash"; the power of performing music as an entre into a culture and community; an insightful look at the challenges facing education in the future; and an innovative approach to documenting a life's work in archaeology.
Learn more and see photo albums from the presentations here and here.
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Eddie Shaw, in white cap, is a veteran Chicago blues musician, known for years spent in the band of blues legend Howlin' Wolf. In this photo, he performs with Peninsula musicians Martin Walters, drums, and William "MoBetta" Ledbetter on guitar at the Chicago nightclub Kingston Mines. Walters and Ledbetter were in Chicago to attend Blues Camp, a week-long music program for youth.
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Do Heat Waves Spur Violence?
Are the triple digit temperatures provoking people to do their worst?
Jul 25, 2011
Jef Akst
Hot weather has long been linked to violence, but whether or not it is the cause of our species' bad temperedness remains unclear. In fact, a study conducted at the turn of the 21st century suggested that at around 80 degrees Fahrenheit, assault rates no longer increased with temperature, but actually started to drop. This led some researchers to suggest that perhaps moderate levels of heat, and thus discomfort, provoke aggression, while extreme heat and discomfort made people want to flee, Wired Science reports. Another theory holds that because many displays of violence depend on social opportunity—as the weather increases, and people spend more time outdoors, violent crime rises, but as the temperatures become too hot to handle, and people retreat indoors, the trend stops.
But reanalyzing the data in 2005, Iowa State University psychologist Craig Anderson found that the trend of increased violence with rising temperatures continued even past 80 degrees, if he took account the time of day. Specifically, most assaults occurred between 9 pm and 3 am, when temperatures are generally cooler. And within this time period, Anderson found that higher temperatures indeed led to more assault cases. This interpretation of the data supports physiological hypotheses, such as the increases in heart rate, blood circulation and sweating, as well as metabolic changes, associated with hot weather could alter the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, which may in turn influence a person's likelihood of escalating a situation or walking away from it. Heat is also known to increase testosterone production, which can promote aggression.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Time Warner on Wednesday posted a big jump in third-quarter net income, helped by continued popularity of its cable network shows.
Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes said the company saw a significant payoff during the recent quarter on its programing investments at TNT and TBS, with both networks receiving some of the highest ratings among key cable TV audiences.
The networks accounted for four of the top 10 scripted shows on advertising-supported cable, while "The Big Bang Theory," which is produced by the company's Warner Bros. division, continued to draw audiences to TBS.
Despite the earnings jump, the media and entertainment company chose to back its previous profit guidance for the full year, rather than raise it. Time Warner Inc. shares edged up in midday trading.
John Martin, Time Warner's chief financial and administrative officer, acknowledged on the company's conference call with investors that the guidance implies flat adjusted fourth-quarter results, but noted that the company faces tough year-ago comparisons at Warner Bros. and continuing financial pressures at the publishing arm.
For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Time Warner earned $1.18 billion, or $1.26 per share, up from $822 million, or 84 cents per share, in the same quarter of 2012.
Excluding one-time charges, its adjusted profit from continuing operations was $1.01 per share.
Revenue was flat at $6.86 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $6.94 billion in revenue.
Revenue from the company's cable networks rose 5 per cent to $3.5 billion, as advertising revenue rose 11 per cent, helped by the growth at its U.S. cable networks.
Time Warner noted that TNT's "Rizzoli & Isles" and "Major Crimes" series remained two of the top rated among original, scripted cable shows.
Meanwhile, revenue at the company's Warner Bros. film and TV entertainment division fell 7 per cent to $2.7 billion, mainly as a result of tough comparisons to a prior-year period boosted by revenue from the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises."
Revenue at Time Warner's publishing division, which the company plans to spin off eventually, edged down 2 per cent to $818 million.
Bewkes said on the conference call that Time Warner plans to make initial filings in the next few weeks and expects to complete the spin off in the second quarter of next year.
New York-based Time Warner Inc. also said Tuesday that it still expects its full-year 2013 earnings per share to rise by a "mid-teens" percentage.
The company's shares edged up 19 cents to $68.42 in midday trading. Its shares have risen almost 43 per cent so far this year.


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PARTICIPANTS: Zultress Maven, Marylou Goldrosen, and Sandrine Han Announcement: International Interdependence Hexagon Project. This year we are focusing on COLLABORATION. Although individual entries are always welcome, the essence of Interdependence is a relationship to/with another or... [More]
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This is a story.
A magical time machine was found in a Karate dojo and presto, out stepped Itosu Sensei who had been transported to the present. Also by magic, he spoke perfect English. Realizing he was in a dojo, he was curious to see how the art had developed.
But before he could go inside to watch an ongoing class, the dojo manager stopped him. "Are you interesting in learning Karate?" he asked.
"Why of course," said Itosu.
"Are you a new student or returning?"
"I guess I would be returning. I trained a long time ago."
"Well," said the dojo manager, "we have this policy for returning students."
"Oh, what is it?" asked Itosu.
"You have to pay monthly dues and dan promotion fees and annual certification fees from when you stopped training until the present. What rank were you?"
"I did not have a rank," replied Itosu, "but it seems that most of my students and even theirs have become 10th degree black belts."
"Fine," said the dojo manager, "we will say that you are a ten dan." "When did you train last?"
"That would have been in 1915," answered Itosu.
"1915! Well this is certainly my day. To reinstate you at your dan ranking, with the back tuition, back promotion fees, back annual certification fees, title fees, and of course back interest and late fees computed to 1915, that will be 10 million dollars!"
"10 million dollars just to watch your dojo?" asked Itosu.
"Fair is fair," explained the dojo manager, "we just can't have returning students pop up or come in from other organizations. We have to maintain the quality of Karate."
"Is that what you're doing?" asked Itosu. "Karate certainly has changed."
"Oh," said the dojo manager, "how much did you charge in your time?"
"Nothing at all. Students paid by their hard work and dedication over their entire lifetimes. I only had a few students."
"Well you see," said the dojo manager, "we are professionals now." "I have an MBA! Oh, and don't forget that you'll need to purchase a gi from our dojo store and the appropriate patches. A red belt will have to be special ordered. Don't worry, we get a quantity discount on those. But the embroidery will cost you extra."
With that Itosu Sensei stepped back into the time machine and returned home to Okinawa. And the dojo manager went back to work.
The end. Lucky that this is just make believe.
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"I don't see what my religious views have to do with you, or anyone else" I said. "But, yes".
"And your brother is a priest?" I just grunted.
"So coming from a religious background, does this make you qualified to claim that The Devil has visited a small North Devon village?"
I began to get angry. "I have never said anything of the sort" I said. The silly bint began to get all self-righteous. "You have been writing about the night the Devil went down to Woolsery".
"For God's sake", I grunted. "It's a joke! Haven't you ever heard of the Charlie Daniels Band?"
Obviously not
So, just for the record, before the people who seem to like to take a potshot at me every time that I put my head above the parapet, read whatever is printed about us with glee:
1. The Devil did NOT come to Woolsery last weekend
2. Nobody in the CFZ has ever intimated that He did
3. I am not some weirdo fundamentalist who is claiming Demonic intervention for some peculiar reason of my own
4. The footprints found last week are of perfectly natural origin (as were the more famous ones of 1855) but we don't know what caused them just yet.
5. It is interesting that so many different explanations have been mooted for the Woolsery footprints in the week since they were photographed.
6. If we can find out conclusively what caused the Woolsery prints of 2009, we will have a pretty good idea what caused the South Devon ones of 1855, and we can put an enduring mystery to bed.
7. And, by the way, we did not put out a press release about these prints. The newspapers concerned read about the mystery online and telephoned us (that will scotch the inevitable "Jon Downes is a shameless self-publicist" rumours")
but above all (for the sake of tabloid journalists who may be reading this:
I do not know what made the footprints, but it was NOT the Hornéd One. Capisce?


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PHOENIX (Tuesday, February 21, 2012) -- Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne today announced that three defendants in the ongoing Fiesta Bowl criminal investigation have signed Plea Agreements admitting guilt to multiple criminal charges, and the Court has entered and accepted these pleas. Among those accepting agreements in Maricopa County Superior Court is the organization's former Chief Executive Officer of the Fiesta Bowl, John Junker.
Horne stated: "He has pled to a charge that carries a presumptive sentence of 2 ½ years. The court can sentence him to the 2 ½ years or less. The court can also impose fines."
"I want to recognize the cooperation of the current leadership of the Fiesta Bowl, which has taken measures to ensure these types of criminal activities are never repeated. I also want to thank our partners in the U.S. Attorney's Office, F.B.I. and the I.R.S. for their cooperation in this ongoing investigation," Horne concluded.
Under the terms of the agreement, Junker has pled guilty to one Class 4 Felony count of Solicitation to Commit Fraudulent Scheme and Artifice.
The plea agreement details Junker's participation in an effort to direct campaign contributions to state and federal office holders by asking some Fiesta Bowl employees to make individual contributions in the employee's name. The Fiesta Bowl would later reimburse the employee for the exact amount of the contribution and describe the reimbursement as an employee bonus. The agreement also lays out details demonstrating that Junker knew the scheme was illegal, and was aware that donor lists and campaign finance reporting documents would be falsified.
The agreement reached in court today also requires that Junker reimburse the Fiesta Bowl the $62,500 that represents the amount of the prohibited campaign contributions and other miscellaneous questionable expenses. It further requires that he cooperate in the ongoing investigation.
Other Fiesta Bowl investigation defendants that have reached Plea Agreements today are:
Peggy Ann Eyanson and Jay Lee Fields: Each has pled Guilty to one Class 1 Misdemeanor count of Making a Prohibited Campaign Contribution, a violation of A.R.S. §§ 16-907(A). The agreement is for a $2,500 fine plus surcharges. Eyanson is the Bowl's former Director of Business Operations, and Fields is the former Sr. Vice President for Marketing. The charge is that they made contributions for which they were reimbursed from Fiesta Bowl funding. They are also required to cooperate in the ongoing investigation.
Copies of the Plea Agreements are available through the Superior Court website.
This case was handled by Assistant Attorney General Leesa Berens Morrison and James Keppel, Chief of the Criminal Division.


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Fund watch: Not all yield is income, and there are other qualities that fit the definition of "yield," as long as you're willing to take it in the form of price appreciation. Net stock buybacks and paying down debt are two of the issues examined in this week's ETF Focus column. Cambria Shareholder Yield ETF (SYLD) and AdvisorShares TrimTabs Float Shrink ETF (TTFS) are the two ETFs taking the idea the farthest, and the pair has wound up with notable outperformance versus the S&P 500 (SPY) over their short lifetimes. Full story here.
In the news: Hedge funds and private-equity funds aren't rushing to take advantage of their new advertising options under the JOBS Act, writes the Financial Times' Stephen Foley.
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I am curious what others think about his reasoning. What would be the motivation to fabricate the New Testament?
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Certainly leaving something in the way of writing that some might regard as authentic wouldn't be nearly as miraculous as turning water into wine or any of that silliness?
Maybe carpenters were illiterate in those days.
Because the resurrection story was already a common element in many near-east religions. By appropriating it into the new Xtian myths, followers of other faiths could be convinced that maybe Jesus was another manifestation of their old deity, and it would be okay to go along with the story. They didn't invent the resurrection, they stole the idea. There is very little new to Xtianity.
Thanks Kir. But if he didn't exist, why start the myth that he did? What did the early Jewish and Roman converts gain from the creation of this myth? I think one could make the case that Islam unified many Arab tribes and provided justification for aquiring land. The same could be said for Judaism.
Yeah, I suppose that's possible. Shoot, I guess fishing would get old. Why not attempt global mind control by creating a new religion? ;)
Why are there stories of Achilles? What motivation did the Greeks have for believing he was some invincible son of Peleus? Was he a real person who did the deeds that the myths speak of or did someone fabricate them? Or is it just possible that Achilles might have been a real person- some strong warrior- whom was greatly respected; rumors started about him killing 30 people single-handed; 30 became 100; 100 became 1000...etc? Why are any mythical heroes made? And why are actual people often made far greater in tale than they ever were in deed?
If you read this entire post, you may notice that it is chock full of a priori assumptions. It is circular reason at its worst - like saying the Bible is true because the Bible says it is true. If you haven't read it, yet, don't bother.
I gave up on the first sentence of his first point. The idea that everything requires a creator is fatally flawed, in that whatever that creator was, would need a creator, and would've existed outside of the existence he had yet to create.
It would all be speculation. What did people nearly 2000 years ago do or think or how were they motivated when you have nothing in any historical record other than the NT? How do you go about determining what they REALLY believed if it was different from what is in the extent documents and why it changed; how exactly it evolved into what is in the extent documents?
There are, of course, the literary and form critics along with the textual critics who argue for pre-gospel written documents, none of which are extent and for oral tradition that predates those supposed documents. All of that is also speculation. Perhaps it is based on sound reasoning and cohesive principles but in the end, no one knows.
All we know if what is in the extent documents. Are the documents reliable to the point they can be traced back toward the supposed actual events? How far back is that? Are there any other independent, well attested, perhaps eyewitness reports, documented reports regarding any of the events other than general historical events. Not even those mentioned in the NT can be verified and some of them could be argued to be wrong.
So, the issue for me is what sort of evidence would it require for me to accept as fact that such an extraordinary event as someone rising from the dead as the satisfaction of a vicarious, propitiatory sacrifice to satisfy the justice of the deity that created the entire universe so he would not send most of the people who have lived to eternal torment. That that person was also actually God in carnate?
It would take more evidence that I might possibly be able to imagine and certainly far more than actually exists.
As for evidence, the Christians I'm used to (Presbyterians) say that the ultimate evidence is that one believes in spite of the lack of evidence, which itself is evidence of the grace of God in that person's life, since the message of the cross is foolishness to the perishing. It's quite frustrating, but in a sense liberating, at least in dealing with the Reformed. Now I just say I don't believe, and who's fault is that? If it takes a supernatural act of God to create the very belief I lack, then what am I to do? If his sovereignty trumps my will, as the Reformed understanding of scripture dictates, then I'll become a Christian whenever he chooses to bless me with his grace. Until then...


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Tecmo, sensing a disturbance in the fanboy force, sent out a preemptive email today explaining to anyone and everyone why Fatal Frame 4 was not at E3 this year. Actually, to be fair it's more like they passed the buck... preemptively:
Several of you asked about Tecmo's other titles that have been announced in Japan which were not on display at the show. Fatal Frame 4 (Wii) will be published by Nintendo, so please contact your Nintendo PR contact for further information. Rygar: The Battle of Argus (Wii) is in development and we are planning to provide more information this fall.
I contacted Nintendo for comment and take their stony silence as complete confusion. We'll update you as soon as they update us.


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HBO's hour-long comedy "Getting On," premiering Sunday, sets the standard for this emerging "hospice humor." It's a dark and astonishing gem of a show, with a bravely skillful cast juggling the petty obsessions of the workplace with Much Bigger Issues. Not just life and death, age and loneliness, but also stickier questions about compassion and care, about what we owe one another and what we are owed ourselves.
You will laugh and you will wince, and you will see yourself and those you love, whether you care to admit it or not.
Adapted by "Big Love's" Will Scheffer and Mark V. Olsen from a British show of the same name, "Getting On" exists in the microcosm of Billy Barnes Extended Care Unit of Mt. Palms Hospital in Long Beach. It's a place where old folks go to prepare for, or recover from, illness or surgery.
Mt. Palms is fictional, but Billy Barnes is real enough. He was a composer and lyricist known best for his work on "Laugh-In" and the song "Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair?" — a contrast of the humorous, the satiric and the mournful that makes him a fitting patron saint for the show, which is also all of those things.
Nurse Dawn (Alex Borstein) is also all of those things, the self-involved and self-defeating center of the six-episode series. With her flip 'do and penchant for headbands, Dawn seems overly familiar with the "That Girl!" ethos, which in 2013 has calcified to a protective coating of faux professionalism, i.e. order-following. We meet Dawn as she is "training" new nurse Denise/DiDi (Niecy Nash), a process that includes explaining to her the byzantine procedure that must be followed after a patient has an accident on a chair.
This event requires an exchange about the use of the word "feces" that plays like a 21st century "Who's on First," and quickly sets the tone for the show. Eschewing the syrup of Ricky Gervais' similarly set "Derek," "Getting On" acknowledges the realities of bodies that are aging and ill, and the creators and cast are not afraid to take a joke one beat too far, pushing it to the often uncomfortable realm of protest-absurdity.
But there they do not wallow. Sometimes feces is just feces, and sometimes it's a metaphor. Into the midst of this opening salvo against bureaucracy sails Dr. Jenna James (Laurie Metcalf), a doctor dismissive of the Extended Care Unit except as far as it can further her career.
She is currently collecting feces samples in the hopes of making her name by upgrading the standard "stool chart." All of which is played with anxious, angry and beleaguered sincerity by all parts.
While the patients moan, wander or watch in alarm, the drama, and satire, of "Getting On" focuses on the people paid to care for them. When Dr. James, who Metcalf stretches to trip-wire tension, has a public meltdown, she is "banished" to full-time assignment at Billy Barnes. A new head nurse is appointed, a man with issues of his own and a plan to bring Disney-like service and structure to the unit's "customers."
Twisting and turning through drama and comedy, pathos and satire, "Getting On" is a bit like "The Office" crossed with Paddy Chayefsky's "The Hospital," but with more tenderness. Though this is, at least in early episodes, supplied almost exclusively by DiDi.
As the "normal" character amid the oddities, Nash has the most difficult job. It's up to her to keep things real. With admirable restraint and comedic dexterity, she clears enough space for the dysfunction to unravel and leaves room for the possibility of repair.
Borstein (best known as the voice of Lois Griffin on "The Family Guy") and Metcalf meanwhile fearlessly display their characters' damage in a way all but forbidden to female performers on broadcast networks. There is nothing "adorkable" about Dawn; she's a mess, which she sort of knows but doesn't want to own because that would mean she'd have to do something about it. And who hasn't been there, sister?
Metcalf's Jenna is similarly afflicted. Denied the grandeur and fashion sense of, say, "The Good Wife's" Diane Lockhart, she's a woman who suspects, possibly rightly, that the mostly male authority figures have conspired against her. And she reacts by making everything much, much worse.
Their collective saving grace is their ability to truly help those in their care, people too often defined by symptoms and assumed limitations. That care is often given accidentally, incidentally or almost in passing.
But it is given, it does matter and it is disturbingly hilarious to watch.