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FLOWERY BRANCH–Panthers center Ryan Kalil caused a stir before the season when he took out out a full-page newspaper advertisement in Charlotte predicting his team would win the Super Bowl.
Since then the Panthers have started 1-2, including a 36-7 drubbing at home from the New York Giants, and wide receiver Steve Smith publicly criticized quarterback Cam Newton for sulking. Now the Panthers have to face the Falcons (3-0) Sunday at the Georgia Dome.
But Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis doesn't see any of that as a reason that Kalil's prediction can't still be accurate.
"We've got a goal in mind," said Davis, the former Georgia Bulldogs star. "Ryan Kalil said it best: 'We are going to win the Super Bowl.' We still believe that wholeheartedly."
Kalil's ad drew ridicule in large part because Carolina finished 6-10 last season and last won a playoff game in 2005.
Davis noted that the Packers and Patriots are among the teams with two defeats.
"Can you look and say those teams are not going to make the playoffs? I feel the same way about our team," he said. "We had a couple games that got away from us but we have a whole season in front of us. We've only played three games."
Davis acknowledged that teams such as the Packers and Patriots get more of the benefit of the doubt because they've been champions in recent years.
"I understand that but I feel like, just like those teams, we have the talent and the capability of getting it done," Davis said. "Once we start clicking we are going to go on a roll here soon, and just remember that I told you that."
Carolina coach Ron Rivera, in his second season, said he wasn't angry at Kalil about the ad. He said Kalil wasn't being arrogant but rather was trying to draw attention to the fact that the Panthers believe they are "putting ourselves in position to have success."
"He thinks, 'Why not? Why shouldn't we have that opportunity?' and I agree with him," Rivera said. "I told the players if a guy puts it out there there's no sense taking it back, it's too late, but the truth of the matter is you've got to believe it. If you don't, you have a problem. That's kind of the thing we are trying to get our guys to learn and do."
September 26th, 2012
7:53 pm
Talk is cheap…..as of this sunday the road to the superbowl for Carolina will go through Atlanta…lets see how much talking they are doing after sunday
September 26th, 2012
7:56 pm
Dog gone D-led………………….even an idiot don"t predict the Superbowl so early in the Season…………………………..whats wrong with that fella ?……………………………………………
One thing for sure, that Superbowl Trophies are very hard to come by, the sweat, agony,pain,endurance and many other things come into play to get one………………………………
I know some come on here and brag……well……………………we got one !….that is good, someday ,the Atlanta Falcons may have one too, but you know we got pranksters that will say Atlanta will never have one…………………………..I tell you a secret……….. " Let's just keep it that way for now "
September 26th, 2012
8:29 pm
[...] and firefighters. Abraham was not in the locker room when it was open to media a more… Thomas Davis doubles down on Ryan Kalil's Super Bowl boast – blogs.ajc.com 09/26/2012 FLOWERY BRANCH–Panthers center Ryan Kalil caused a stir [...]
September 26th, 2012
8:33 pm
I had to endure taunts from a friend who proclaimed that Peyton and the Broncos were headed to the Super Bowl after he led them to victory in their first game. Since then, 2 losses. It's a little early to be making predictions about post season.
September 26th, 2012
8:34 pm
Hi Cam,
Welcome to the only place you have played for more than one year since high school!
September 26th, 2012
8:36 pm
If Nolan confused Peyton Manning, I can't even think what he is gonna do to Cam Newton. Poor guy dosen't even see it comin'. It's Atlanta's year to go to the Super Bowl and Matt Ryan, Julio Jones, Roddy White, Harry Douglas and Tony Gonzalez is gonna prove it!
September 26th, 2012
8:42 pm
Ryan seems like a good person,,,,,,,,,, but its so sad,,,,,, I had an grandmother that felt like Gregory Peck was going to run off with her one day,,,,, so so sad
September 26th, 2012
8:59 pm
Hey falcon………….most opponents that the Falcons face that lose usually do go on to doom and demise…………………..how fitting on would say…………………………………..
September 26th, 2012
9:02 pm
You sound as naive as your grandmother
September 26th, 2012
9:12 pm
The nature of fans is to brag! Players know it's "one game at a time." So do coaches. Only media fed frenzied fans, make such bragging predictions. Coaches and players want to keep focused on the next game…the better ones that is.
September 26th, 2012
9:37 pm
Bring em on Laughing cause it seems the Falcons will be laughin at YOU!………………………………………………………………
September 26th, 2012
10:02 pm
Thomas DeCoud was just interviewed on Sportscenter. Ha! Starting to get a lot of buzz about the Falcons. More so than in 2010.
Of course also hearing a lot of 0-3 as well. I've even heard Ryan mention it as a motivator in couple of interviews.
I think we as fans and the Falcons as a team should own that record as a mantra, 0-3. Embrace it! Use it as fuel! Hang a banner in each end zone. Pass out signs at the game… 0-3!
Every time they want to take their foot off the gas and ride out the clock, start chanting O and 3, 0 and 3, 0 and 3!!
Our defense gets tired and starts to put their hands on their knees… 0 and 3!! 0 and 3!!
Opposing quarterback gets too much time in the pocket and completes a pass… 0 and 3!! 0 and 3!!
Our offense lines up to go for it on forth and one… 0 and 3!! 0 and 3!!
When the defense comes to the line and wants us to get louder, don't wave your arms, guys,… no, hold up both hands, make an 0 on one hand and hold up 3 fingers on the other. And that's the fans cue to go flat out crazy 0 and 3!! 0 and 3!! 0 and 3!!
September 26th, 2012
10:08 pm
Whoops! Of course, fans shouldn't chant when the offense is on the line…
September 26th, 2012
11:11 pm
Well I got one thing to say. If the Panther think that the Falcon are going to give them any help to get to the Super Bowl, they be dreaming. The Panther can go ahead and chalk up another one in the L column and get Cam some tissue. The Falcon will be 4-0 after Sunday provided they can stay out of Jail. And let us not forget that the Saint will be OhFur.
September 26th, 2012
11:44 pm
just watched inside NFL guys !!! They said it!! they called them the AINTS dead serious check it out!!
September 26th, 2012
11:51 pm
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September 27th, 2012
12:56 am
[...] Thomas Davis doubles down on Ryan Kalil's Super Bowl bet [...]
September 27th, 2012
2:30 am
Have another drink Thomas Davis…………..
September 27th, 2012
5:49 am
Hey — don't stop guys from buying ads in newspapers. I would rather them have it out there than on the field. Maybe the Panties will be our trap game? I think not, but I'd rather be ready and focused than braggadocio. Let's just see what happens if we all stay healthy… I'm feeling good. Howsa 'bout you?
September 27th, 2012
8:23 am
I think the Panties can cover the Taints. As for beating the Falcons, not so much, bless their hearts.
September 27th, 2012
8:25 am
for the guy who said "only and idiot would predict a super bowl this early in the season", its NOT a prediction if you wait until the outcome is OBVIOUS to predict. HUH…..
September 27th, 2012
8:54 am
Cam on being ask the biggest difference of the NFL and being at Auburn. He said " They take taxes out of your check here in the NFL".
September 27th, 2012
9:44 am
Thomas Davis is a winner regardless of what happens to the Carolina Panthers this week-end.
September 27th, 2012
11:28 am
TD is wrong, but he is one of my all-time favorite college players. I am not sure I have ever seen another player make so many bone-rattling hits on running backs and receivers.
September 27th, 2012
12:50 pm
Can anyone imagine a Falcon moment sweeter than holding the Lombardi trophy high….. on the Saints homefield??
September 27th, 2012
1:44 pm
[...] Thomas Davis doubles down on Ryan Kalil's Super Bowl bet [...]
September 27th, 2012
2:02 pm
Heck of some in-depth football talk!
September 27th, 2012
2:03 pm
The Falcons should be motivated for all 16 games because they have no playoff victories to speak of. They are just trying to get back where they were in 2010-2011. I think the talent is there to win, but I hope the team is truly hungry for the ultimate prize. Tony Gonzales and the other veterans especially
September 28th, 2012
12:26 pm
[...] Thomas Davis doubles down on Ryan Kalil's Super Bowl bet [...]
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A New Mature Apple Emerges; Is It Too Late?
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On Wednesday, I could only shake my head in disgust, watching shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) plummet after-hours. It made absolutely no sense. And it served as my reminder for how irrational and grossly absurd the stock market can be sometimes.
Hated rival Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) posted a mere profit growth of 5% and the stock soars 6%. Meanwhile, Apple posts 13.5% profit growth and the stock tanks. Not to mention Google was already trading at twice the P/E of Apple. It's sheer lunacy. But then again, this sort of folly should surprise no one.
The Quarter That Was
First, let's get something straight – despite what the subsequent 10% drop in the stock might suggest, Apple's Q1 results were not even close to being horrible. I was nonetheless reminded that the company was no longer being led by magicians. And this was precisely the message the company wanted to send.
At first, disappointment set in. It has become clear that management can no longer live up to the pressure of pulling rabbits out of hats. Steve Jobs is no longer there to do it. This is not by any means an indictment on the company. However, there was no other conclusion to draw when Apple's CFO, Peter Oppenheimer described the company's change to how it issues guidance:
"In the past we provided a single point estimate that was conservative. This quarter and going forward, we are going to provide a range of guidance that we're likely to report within."
Basically, the company is saying that going forward when it issues guidance it will be "more realistic" and not the "low-ball" variety that it has been known to provide. And in the long term, I think this is very important as it will greatly benefit the company.
Essentially, Apple is making an appeal to the Street and to the investor community to therefore be more realistic in their projections and expectations. The company realizes that it is no longer miles ahead of everyone else. Though it is still the leader, the gap is closing. And this was evident in the numbers.
Revenue arrived at $54.5 billion, which was in line with Street estimate, but possibly softer depending on which data point used -- consensus was roughly $54.58 billion. Apple beat EPS estimates – posting $13.81 versus $13.34 per share. Investors were displeased with the iPhone unit number. Buy side analysts were looking for 50 million, Apple posted 47.8 million.
However, it's worth pointing out that part of Apple's revenue weakness has to do (in part) with Q1 being shorter this year than last year. This year had only 13 weeks versus last year's Q1, which had 14. This is not meant as an excuse, but it should be considered when factoring sales performance. But it didn't help.
Investors then panicked when margins arrived at 38.6% -- sending the stock into a frenzy. However, margins came in line with Street estimates. And to be fair, while margin compression was one of the most popular cited bear arguments, Apple's performance should be viewed as a positive since it beat its own prior guidance of 36%.
The Competition is Proving Capable
However, analysts chose to focus on the fact that it dropped more than 600 basis points year-over-year from 44.7%. Again, Samsung has not made it easy. Still, I was a little surprised by the soft iPhone unit sales. I was on record in saying Apple would beat the 50 million unit number especially since Apple had overtaken Google in U.S. smartphone sales – reaching 53.3% market share.
However, today it is Google that deserves the applause – especially with revenues rising 36% year-over-year to $14.42 billion. The company beat on revenue by over $2 billion. This is despite prolonged struggles with average cost per click, which fell 6% year-over-year, marking the fifth consecutive quarterly drop. This is the amount of money advertisers pay to Google for ads.
For Google, this is a nice improvement over Q3 when it missed EPS estimates by 15%. So clearly the tide is beginning to shift between the two bitter rivals. But they operate differently. And Google has not shown to be taking a bite out of Apple's device sales. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is presumed to be doing this. But its numbers say differently.
Microsoft's attempts with the launch of Surface and Windows Phone have been dreadful. For that matter, so have PC sales, which were terrible in 2012, including (roughly) -7% in Q4. Plus, it's going to get worse. Hard to imagine considering the Microsoft's abysmal Q1 report, during which the company posted net income of $4.47 billion on revenues of $16.01 billion, missing both top and bottom line estimates.
Microsoft remains too slow to adapt to several key growth areas to be considered a legitimate threat to Apple. However, Research in Motion (NASDAQ: BBRY) is no longer the long shot that it was presumed to be. Although I don't consider RIM the death knell to Apple, a RIM/Amazon union can prove effective.
For instance, if Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) launches a phone this year as has been the rumor, all bets are off if Amazon chooses RIM's BB10 for its OS. And reports suggest that the phone may be out by the second or third quarter of this year. Interestingly, Foxconn is rumored to be the manufacturer. This is the same company that makes the iPhones for Apple. In terms of threat to the iPhone, it all depends on how Amazon prices the phones.
However, should Amazon choose to go with RIM's BB10, it could impact the growth of both iOS and Android. Essentially, Amazon would be taking out two rivals with one decision. Meanwhile, this helps RIM immensely since it is starting to gain some traction after having sold 7 million BlackBerry phones in its most recent quarter.
Bottom Line
While I never believed Apple was playing a game with the market, it is clear that the company is now taking a more serious position with its reports. In the same sense, the company realizes that it can no longer just get out of bed to 30% growth each day. There's work to be done and the competition is on its heels. That Apple guided Q2 margins lower to a range of 37.5% and 38.5% proves this.
However, with $137 billion in cash, the fundamentals have not changed. The question is, where is the stock going? And what will be the catalysts to reverse this slide? Disappointingly, no new revelations were made. While I remain confident that the company will turn things around, the days of glossy-eyed expectations are gone. It's a new Apple and therefore new expectations. But I'm struggling to set some at the moment.
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Paralympics 2012: Ellie Simmonds wins gold in world record
2012 Paralympics
- Date: Wednesday, 29 August to Sunday 9 September
Coverage: Extensive daily coverage across 5 live, 5 live sports extra and the BBC Sport website
Britain's Ellie Simmonds set a new world record to retain her Paralympic S6 400m freestyle title in London.
The 17-year-old triumphed in five minutes 19.17 seconds to beat the record by more than five seconds.
The previous record had been held by 17-year-old American Victoria Arlen, who was overhauled by Simmonds in the final 100m to finish second in 5:20.18.
"I just wanted to go out there and retain my title and win a gold medal," a delighted Simmonds told BBC Sport.
Ellie Simmonds
"When I came out there was a massive roar and it gave me a massive buzz. In the last 50m I gave it my all and when I touched the wall I had nothing left"
"My coach said I was capable of a 5:19 race but I wasn't thinking about that. I was quite nervous leading into it because Victoria has been in such good form leading into the Games."
Arlen broke Simmonds's world records in the 100m and 400m freestyle at the US trials in June, but earlier this week she was told she was ineligible to compete at the Paralympics.
She successfully appealed and, after Saturday's 400m heats, the International Paralympic Committee said Arlen could keep her S6 classification until August 2013, although she will be assessed in the breaststroke event this week.
Simmonds, who set a new Paralympic and European record of 5:24.64 in the heats, trailed Arlen up to the 350m mark.
However, she edged ahead in the final 50m, cheered on by the majority of a 17,000-strong crowd at the Aquatics Centre.
"When I came out and there was a massive roar it gave me a massive buzz. In the last 50m I gave it my all and when I touched the wall I had nothing left," Simmonds added.
"There was a lot of pressure on me and I could feel the expectation, but I've had an amazing four years of training and I have trusted my coach Billy Pye all the way."
Simmonds also paid tribute to Arlen, who spent two years in a vegetative state after contracting a virus and had to learn to swim again.
"She is an amazing athlete and I knew I had to be on top form to beat her," she said.
"I knew she would push me to the best of my abilities and she did. It wouldn't have been an exceptional race or an exceptional time if she wasn't there.
"I am looking forward to racing her in the future, but I am going to enjoy this moment."
Claire Cashmore added another silver to the GB tally in the SB8 breaststroke. The Briton qualified fastest but in the final finished behind Russian Olga Vladykina, who set a new world record.
Matt Whorwood took bronze in the S6 400m freestyle in a race won by Ireland's Darragh McDonald.
There was disappointment for GB stalwart Sascha Kindred, who was seeking a fourth consecutive SB7 breaststroke title but could finish only fourth as Australian Blake Cochrane won gold.
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Comment number 87.jerichouk
2nd September 2012 - 23:53
Well done, just a shame mental disabilities dont get such good publicity.
Lose a limb and your a hero, lose your mind and your a villian...
Comment number 86.eibbed
2nd September 2012 - 22:56
Well done Ellie, hope you could hear us shouting for you up here in the North of England!!
Our Olympians are so wonderful, the whole lot of them.
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New Journalism Startup Combines News, Comics
Symbolia's a new magazine that tells the news through illustrations. Sources are drawn, and quotes get their own speech balloons.
Their first issue is available for free download now, covering the Zambian Psychadelic Rock, Iraqi Kurds, zoology in the Congo and California's Salton Sea. They feel, in most cases, like longform reads.
It's really meant for iPads, though you can download a PDF version. Future issues will be priced at $1.99, and Symbolia plans to publish six a year. Android fans will have to wait, Symbolia people said today, but they'll begin publishing Ebooks in the Android Marketplace.
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One could, of course, do this across all sorts of media outlets.
For the educators though, an interesting media literacy exercise in how news outlets exist as brands and the messaging they hope to transmit.
Take screenshots across news organizations and decipher how word choice, positioning, heds and deks illustrate an organizational bias.
Image: Fox News Home Page, November 2. Taken and annotated by Ethan Gold. Select to embiggen.
things we should be teaching in schools #1: media literacy.
An essay about money, class, determination and whether journalism is becoming a glamor industry.
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To be a writer in this market requires not only money, but a concept of "work" that is most easily gained from privilege. It requires a sense of entitlement, the ability to network and self-promote without seeing yourself as an arrogant, schmoozing blowhard. And it requires you to think of working for free—at an internship, say, or on one of those gratis assignments that seem to be everywhere now—as an opportunity rather than an insult or a scam.
This is no longer an industry that rewards working-class values, in other words, and I underestimated how hard it would be to shuck them. It still seems strange to me that people work, unpaid, without a guaranteed job at the end. And I haven't reconciled myself with the central irony here: that journalism, ostensibly a populist endeavour, is becoming a rarefied practice best suited, both financially and psychologically, to the well-off.
Alexandra Kimball, How to Succeed in Journalism when You Can't Afford an Internship.
Small Town News
The Pew Research Center released a report today in partnership with the Knight Foundation that explores how US adults get local news by community type.
Fun facts from the report:
Urban residents: People who live in large cities rely on a wider combination of platforms for information than others and are more likely to get local news and information via a range of digital activities, including internet searches, Twitter, blogs and the websites of local TV stations and newspapers. Urbanites were also those least tied to their communities in terms of how long they lived in the community and how many people they know…
…Suburban residents: Those who live in suburban communities are more likely than others to rely on local radio as a platform (perhaps because of relatively longer commuting times); they are more interested than others in news and information about arts and cultural events; and they are particularly interested in local restaurants, traffic, and taxes. Like urbanites, they are heavy digital participators who comment and share the news…
…Small town residents: Along with rural residents, people who live in smaller towns are more likely to rely on traditional news platforms such as television and newspapers to get local news; newspapers are especially important to them for civic information. Small town Americans prefer the local newspaper for a long list of information—including local weather, crime, community events, schools, arts and culture, taxes, housing, zoning, local government and social services. Residents of smaller towns are also the most likely to worry about what would happen if the local newspaper no longer existed.
Rural residents: Those who live in rural communities generally are less interested in almost all local topics than those in other communities. The one exception is taxes. They are also more reliant on traditional platforms such as newspapers and TV for most of the topics we queried. And they are less likely than others to say it is easier now to keep up with local information.
Pew Research Center, How people get local news and information in different communities (PDF).
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CNN's Soledad O'Brien did something which is extremely rare in television news these days: she actually did her job…
…The action took place Tuesday afternoon, as O'Brien was interviewing former New Hampshire governor and George W. Bush Chief of Staff John Sununu. With the actual documents in hand, O'Brien pointed out the striking similarities between the Medicare plans of Mitt Romney and his controversial vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan, who seeks to change the government guaranteed health care program into a voucher system.
"But it's very different," Sununu insisted. "For example, when Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference."
O'Brien essentially accused him of lying:
"I understand that this is a Republican talking point because I've heard it repeated over and over again. These numbers have been debunked, as you know, by the Congressional Budget Office. … I can tell you what it says. It (Obama's Medicare plan) cuts a reduction in the expected rate of growth, which you know, not cutting budgets to the elderly. Benefits will be improved."
At this point Sununu, clearly agitated, became nasty and indignant, angered by O'Brien's insistence on fact over fiction:
"Soledad, stop this!" Sununu replied, raising his voice. "All you're doing is mimicking the stuff that comes out of the White House and gets repeated on the Democratic blog boards out there."
O'Brien continued reading from the Romney and Obama plans verbatim, and cited Factcheck.org, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office and CNN's own independent analysis in refuting Sununu's deceptive rhetoric.
Read through for the rest of the exchange. The video's available as well.
The History of News in Five Minutes
We sat down with NYU Journalism and Mass Communication Prof. Mitchell Stephens to talk about the news — why we share it, how we've shared it, and what it is today.
We've come full circle, he says, from marketplace conversations being a main news source in agrarian and preliterate societies to today's personal newsfeeds and amateur-led sharing. We relied on each other to share news before large organizations and reporters packaged it for us, and we are beginning to rely on each other again with the internet. We are freer now to make the news about our lives than ever before and that, he says, is mostly a good thing.
For more information, see his books A History of News and The Rise of the Image the Fall of the Word. We'll upload more of what he had to say over the next few weeks.
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A really nice podcast from Sarah Marshall at Journalism.co.uk about using Tumblr.
FJP: Mark Coatney started Newsweek on Tumblr and was later hired by Tumblr itself, as their media outreach director.
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Recently we had the pleasure of sitting down for an extended conversation with Lon Binder, VP of Technology at Warby Parker. We discussed a range of issues central to how Warby Parker approaches IT, including going beyond the standard customer experience, utilizing outsourced expertise, the challenges of finding talented hires, and much more.
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GC: How are you looking to go beyond like the standard e-commerce experience, and how are you using cloud to actually enable that. Already people are tracking the development of Warby Parker for a number of reasons, but the standout stories so far has been the business model itself and the industry that it's in. Being the leader of the IT organization, what are you looking to build here that's going to be looked at in the same way?
LB: There are a number of things that we're doing in cloud that enable customers to have a better experience and that differentiate us from a typical e-commerce company.
Most e-commerce companies – at least traditionally – think about getting a lot of customers on the site and then converting as many of them as possible. It's a numbers game. And the longer they're on the site, the more risk there is for them to not convert, and so actually most e-commerce companies are trying to get you to buy as quickly as possible on the site, which is not the way we think about ourselves.
We actually operate more as a lifestyle brand than as a direct response retailer or as a typical e-commerce site. We love customers to come on the site and luxuriate in the brand, as it were. They should come on and enjoy browsing the gallery pages and reading about us – it's super-important for our mission to come through, which is to help those who need help. And so we love our customers to go and browse around the videos and hear about what's happening with our non-profit partners in the developing world.
That's very different from the typical e-commerce site, and I'll give you an example of how cloud comes into that: we've got a lot of press over the last year and it's been exciting for me as a technologist to try and support that and make sure that I'm making it possible for us to get as much press as we can.
And then the site went down as a result of people learning about Warby. So we partnered with Akamai, which is a great cloud provider; they provide a number of different services, all on their own infrastructure that we can take advantage of.
One of the big questions we had was whether to enable full page caching. If you enable full page caching, there are some downsides in terms of how thoughtful you have to be from an engineering standpoint when you roll out your features. The upside for the customer is that the page loads much faster. On the Warby side, we can scale faster when you have traffic coming onto the site from press. Working with Akamai was also great because they also have mobile offerings that we could think about as well for more rapid acceleration.
The conversations we have often come down to whether a choice adds complexity to the engineering process. But at the same time, it makes the customer experience better, so that's what wins. It's just one example that differentiates us.
We want customers on the site longer, and we went to a cloud provider to help us make it happen. We want to hire really smart engineers, but we don't necessarily need to have all the world class infrastructure engineers in the world in our office.
GC: So you're really embracing then the sort of outsource technical bench model?
LB: Our approach is the differentiator; we want to build that up. We don't need to be the best infrastructure company in the universe when we have a provider right there at a great price point.
GC: What is your approach to mobile and how does that make what you're doing more complex or less complex, or do you see it as sort of a necessary evolution?
LB: Everybody's going mobile, and if you look at the trends in the US, the typical e-commerce site is experiencing 25% of its traffic from mobile, and we're no different than that. In other countries it's substantially higher; in some countries it's as high as 75 to 80% mobile.
To answer your question, I'm actually going to focus on social media, which sounds a little unrelated, but I'll explain.
The way we approach interaction with customers is to put ourselves where the customers want us to be, and again, it's always customers first. So if customers want us to be on Twitter, we're on Twitter, answering their questions. If they want us to be on Facebook, asking us for typical case support, like if they have a question about their frames, we're on Facebook. They want to post to our wall, and we'll be there to respond.
Now if they want to do live chat, we do that. We'll be anywhere customers want us to be, to make it a great customer experience. That's how our social media became so large and why we innovated running video Tweets as a customer service – we're one of the first companies to ever do that.
And so when it came time to think about mobile, we took the exact same tack as we had for our social media – we put ourselves where customers want us to be. And so we started thinking about mobile web, mobile app development, and about what features need to be available on mobile devices. We took time determining which platforms would make the most sense. It has been of utmost importance to ensure that our other channels were running well, which they were, so we've recently launched a mobile website. The mobile website immediately did very well, because we were trying to put ourselves where customers want us to be.
Now we've looked at that and we've learned some lessons and we're getting ready to roll out another major step, which is coming soon.
We've already started working on a mobile app, which is actually ready to go out. We've held it back because when we think about how customers use it, we feel it could be better and we want it to be really excellent before that goes out the door as well.
GC: And do you anticipate customers being able to purchase essentially through the mobile app as much as they would through the website?
LB: When we talk to customers about how they want to interact with us, they want to shop on the website, and we've found a whole number of reasons why that is. For the mobile app, it's more about what drives the need to have an app. We realized that there were some features that your phone offered, like the advantage of the camera and other things that were better in an app than they would be on a mobile website. So the app is for customers who want certain functionality that would only be available in an app versus the website, which would have all the typical shopping and browsing functionality. So we differentiated it, again based on customers.
I'll just give you an example of this data: When customers go on their phones and open our emails, they're there to shop or learn about whatever it was that was advertised in the email.
Another example: customers may go to Google or another search engine on their phone to search for frame information, but they are on the web looking for web information. This process is very different from people who have a very specific need that they're trying to fill, where they go into their app store and they're looking for a certain functionality. That's a different need that we're trying to fill with our mobile.
GC: You have a number of compliance concerns now. How do you balance giving your customers the choice of where they want to have access with making sure that everything is functioning safely so that they're not going to have a bad experience?
LB: It's a huge challenge. We have to be PCI compliant, because we process credit cards and of course Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is something that everybody should be thinking about.
We try to bring in engineers who are very security conscious, very focused on customer information and how to secure it. Most of our technology is already extremely secure. There's always more you can do – you're always a target when you're online. And the more visible your brand is, the more people want to mess with you.
We try to do everything we can to secure customers' information. The mobile point of sale, of course, increases the potential risks associated with somebody trying to get at customer data. We layered in five different layers of security there, ranging all the way from physical security up through software security. We are balancing that with the fact that customers also want to check out in a store very quickly. There were some systems where the sales associate would have to put a password – or two passwords or three passwords – on every checkout, which would slow down that experience in the store.
There are things that you can do, for example, on a mobile point of sale device. We can remotely wipe it out, or we can do all sorts of time-based triggers. When a customer is downloading an app, there's things that we can do in controlling the app, versus on the website, where we can only do what the browser can do. So we can use layers of SSL – which of course we do – password protection, and then not storing certain information to ensure that it can never be accessed. We also tokenize credit card information so that we don't hold the credit card data, but we can still make sure the customer information we do access is safe. The high level answer is, we try to secure as much as we can without hurting the customer.
GC: So when we talk about engineering quality, there are many different qualities being discussed and analyzed, from cloud engineers to the DevOps role. Does your perspective focus on the individual, or is there a profile that you're trying to attract or trying to develop within your organization?
LB: It's funny that you ask that – nobody's ever asked me that before and I think it's a really good question. We are very individual-focused, which makes our technical recruiter's job a nightmare.
Some of the recruiters who I've worked with for a long time know me: that I'm always about the individual and I'm hiring people who think that same way. There's no template resume that describes the engineer that we want; we're looking for someone who fits our behaviors, which means they're considerate of other people, they're really passionate about some of the initiatives that we're focused on, like helping others and creating a great experience. So if an engineer doesn't either have that already or want to have that, they're not going to be a great fit.
And then we're looking for people who bring that objective view that I mentioned before, who are open to questioning everything. So for example, I interviewed a candidate who said, "I love Ruby; I'll only write Ruby." And I said, "This is not the job for you."
And there's nothing wrong with Ruby – we love it as a language – but if you're that glued to one technology, you're not an objective thinker and you're not for us. We look for that in candidates, that ability to be objective, rational, and considerate of other people. We also want to have fun, which is really at the core of our brand. It's meant to be a really fun place to work.
Some people don't like that – the environment can be kind of noisy in the office. It's not a party every day, but it's a pretty fun place to work. Collaboration is important to us as well. We run agile teams, so if you're an engineer in our organization, whether you're on production or you're on development, you're going to be on an agile team with six to eight people, which is a very tight-knit group; you've got to enjoy that.
And so we don't really care whether you've written .NET for the last five years, or if you've written Python; we're looking for smart engineers who fit those qualities and those behaviors that we're looking for. And that's why it's kind of a headache for our technical recruiter, yet we've found some great people.
We had somebody – Adam – who came into our retail store, trying on some glasses. He said he had seen the office, thought the place was really cool, liked the product, and liked the mission. He said he'd like to apply for a job here, and we hired him about three days later – he now works for us as a Senior Software Engineer, and he's amazing.
After working for us for about a month, he realized Warby Parker really is as good as he thought it was going to be; he recommended his ex-boss come in and interview. So his boss Dan came in for an interview and about two weeks later he became our Chief Architect. He's absolutely unbelievable. That's kind of what's been happening in technology, is that some people would just find us and then we've got them.
GC: And why did you choose to set up here in New York?
LB: We're New Yorkers. Neil, one of our founders, was born and raised here in the city. There are five senior managers in the company and I'm the only one who actually doesn't live within a few blocks of the office. I live in Long Island City; I'm a native New Yorker – I grew up in this neighborhood – my whole life. So we're very much New Yorkers.
We're a Made in New York company, as well, and we fully support that program. We think what the Bloomberg administration has done is fantastic for New York. New York City is one of the most impressive places to work or run a company in the world. We have access to some of the brightest and smartest people here, we have great services available and it's clear that New York City wants to do even more, but still has a long way to go. But there are a lot of great schools that are creating great programs here.
New York is an amazing place to run a business: you can find great talent and you can attract people here. It's also, from a brand standpoint, a great place to build a company. It's certainly where fashion lives, and given our focus that's always a good thing.
We've also opened up our showrooms around the country and we have stores that are opening, like the one that just opened in Boston, so we're spreading beyond just here. But New York is a wonderful place to call home.
GC: What about cloud has enabled you to hedge costs more closely in line with revenue? A lot of what's talked about with cloud is its benefit in terms of being able to save money, but is that the limit, or has it fulfilled a greater purpose for you guys?
LB: I think it's unfair to judge cloud as one unit, to say it works only when you're smaller, bigger, growing, stable, etc. There are different providers who offer different types of services and an array of different ways of dividing the space. And so cloud serves a range of needs for different purposes.
For example, when we were just launching, we launched on a hosted e-commerce platform, integrated with ERP, which enabled us to launch really quickly. And actually, Brett, the consultant who built the very first piece of technology that Warby Parker used was found on oDesk. We used the website to find him, hosted the whole thing on somebody else's platform… it was just incredible.
That was perfect for then, but I wouldn't say that just because we've grown bigger now we need to host the website ourselves. Actually the hosting still happens in a managed service environment. There are many other cloud services that we use, such as our hosted voice-over-IP phone system. As we grow there are many other systems available for us to take advantage of, that help us get through growth phases quickly and then can also provide areas of value where we don't need to have core competency.
So I'd say at every level there's always a partner for you.
GC: And then, I guess to wrap up, looking ahead for how you see your company developing over the next two to five years? What developments in the industry are you looking forward to the most in terms what can be leveraged to obtain maximum value for your company?
LB: That's a great question. I would say in technology there are a number of changes that would have great value to us. We're hiring a ton of people in engineering specifically, and across the company as well.
There are all sorts of different websites coming together and collaborative groups online for finding great talent and for people to find us, and where we can participate. We love open sourcing technology and we give back to a lot of open source projects.
Exposing what we're doing and seeing what other engineers are doing is a great way for us to get to know each other, kind of like a date, before somebody decides to work for us. And so I would say that's probably the most exciting, because that's how we meet a lot of smart people who we hope would want to work for us.
I'm also really excited about the rate and clarity around new technologies. We've come out of the period of time where everybody was making their own framework, so you had 20 competitors for MVC models in every language, whether good or bad, and we're finally starting to see them collapse downwards.
Part of that is because people are getting comfortable in learning new technologies faster, merging technologies together, borrowing from each other and sharing. For a company – just in the same way with cloud – we have great visibility into what these platforms and open source frameworks are doing, and how we can take advantage of them, whether we use pieces of them, or borrow from them with a license, or give back to them and help the community. I think that's the charitable part of the technology community, and it's also really empowering as a company because we don't have to build everything ourselves.
Five years ago there were almost as many technologies being developed, but there wasn't any visibility into them. People were hosting them on their own sites, you know, and the documentation wasn't really that great, and the community wasn't quite as active.
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It was the song "Greensleeves" that drew Shirley Dempsey-Kahn into the Goodwill store that December morning. It reminded her of her first trip to London as a child, with her father, a naval officer, and her mother.
She would be returning in January, and she thought to buy herself an extra piece of luggage. The kind with a handle and wheels and an expandable compartment. The kind of suitcase flight attendants favor.
During Christmas dinner, the Baltimore widow, then 75, told her family about the items she had found in the suitcase. A beautiful silver crucifix. An earring decorated with angel wings. The luggage key, still in its box. A St. Christopher's medal. A copy of Harper's Bazaar.
She'd used the address label on the magazine to write to the suitcase's previous owner, offering to return the religious items and the earring. The woman, Renee May, lived not far from her, in Federal Hill. She was disappointed that she hadn't heard back — she had included her email — but it was the holidays, after all.
She poured herself a glass of wine and looked over the items she had found in the suitcase.
"A vision of PBS's Hercule Poirot, stroking his curling-upward-at-ends mustache, is before me," she would later write an essay about suitcase, titled "Goodwill Luggage." Like the fussy Belgian sleuth, she used her "little gray cells" to fashion a picture of the woman who once owned the suitcase.
The luggage lock, unused. "My benefactor is a risk-taker, I conclude."
The crucifix, 4 inches long and on a silver chain. "The design of the crucifix denotes more than her faith. She is modish, artsy." Ms. Dempsey-Kahn concludes.
The single enamel-on-copper earring, with cream and gold-tinged wings soaring across an azure sky, is well-crafted and elegant. Clearly, this woman had style and income.
The St. Christopher's medal must mean that she is a traveler. Or is it a gift to the new owner of the suitcase? Her own mother, after all, never gave away a handbag without putting a quarter inside.
"I conjure up a tall, youngish traveler … her mind more on getting out of the office as quickly as possible on a Friday, dashing off to Pennsylvania Station where she boards a train to Manhattan, reads Harpers … all the time thinking about the boyfriend she will be meeting under the clock in the lobby of the Waldorf."
By the time she leaves for England in January, Renee May is as real to Shirley Dempsey-Kahn as a neighbor or a niece.
During the trip, she gets compliments for her compact and sensible luggage choice. When she opens the expandable compartment to add the books she has purchased, her mind turns again to the young woman she thinks of as "Miss May."
When Ms. Dempsey-Kahn returns to her apartment in Baltimore's Harbor Court, she sorts through email and sees an address she does not recognize. But the subject line reads "luggage," so she opens it.
"The post office sent us the letter you wrote to our daughter Renee, who was killed aboard Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon …"
She stops reading, and a cry she describes in her essay as more animal than human builds in her chest and fills into the empty apartment. "I wailed for hours," she writes.
That is how Shirley Dempsey-Kahn learned that the suitcase she found at the Goodwill store that day in December 2001 had belonged to one of the flight attendants killed on Sept. 11. The elegant young woman she had dreamed up – whom she imagined meeting a tall man in a tuxedo in a Manhattan hotel – had died along with 63 others on the plane.
Renee May was 39 and engaged. She was born in Buffalo, N.Y., the oldest of three children, but grew up in California and graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in English. Her parents and her brothers still lived out West, but she loved to travel and had been flying with American Airlines since 1986.
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Torah Bright: Chicken Jam Over and Out
The 2011 Chicken Jam is over and done with. Not exactly the weather we'd hoped for but I had so much fun to riding powder with the girls. The last night we went out to see Trouble and La Roux play up at Canyon lodge and ended up dancing the rest of the night away at The Hyde Lounge. Not a bad way to end an amazing weekend. Here are a few photos from some of the weekends adventures!
Autograph signing with Kjersti and the Wolf pack!
Dinner with Robyn, Ty, Erin, Aimee, Basa, Lesly and Amber.
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Chavez wins 3rd Venezuela re-election in tightest race yet
By FRANK BAJAK and IAN JAMES Associated Press October 8, 2012 9:26AM
Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez perform a mock funeral for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles as they celebrate in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. Chavez won re-election and a new endorsement of his socialist project Sunday, surviving his closest race yet after a bitter campaign against Capriles.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his masterful political touch in winning a third consecutive six-year term after a bitterly fought race against a youthful rival who has galvanized Venezuela's opposition.
The state governor who lost Sunday's presidential vote, Henrique Capriles, had accused the flamboyant incumbent of unfairly leveraging to his advantage Venezuela's oil wealth as well as his near total control of state institutions.
Capriles also narrowed Chavez's margin of victory to his smallest yet in a presidential contest. This time, the former army paratroop commander who led a failed 1992 coup won 54 percent of the vote against 45 percent for Capriles. In 2006, Chavez's margin of victory was 27 points.
Nevertheless, the populace endorsed once again Chavez's stated aim of converting Venezuela into a socialist state.
Capriles said in his concession speech that he rejects the idea of two Venezuelas divided by ideology and class.
"I will continue working to build one country," said the wiry, 40-year-old grandson of Holocaust survivors who unified and energized the opposition while barnstorming across the oil-exporting nation.
Capriles had vowed to seriously address violent crime that has spun out of control, streamline a patronage-bloated bureaucracy and end rampant corruption, but his promises proved inadequate against Chavez's charisma, well-oiled political machine and legacy of putting Venezuela's poor first with generous social welfare programs.
Nevertheless, Chavez only got 135,000 more votes this time around than he did six years ago, while the opposition boosted its tally by 1.85 million. Chavez appeared to acknowledge the opposition's growing clout.
"I extend from here my recognition of all who voted against us, recognition of their democratic weight," he told thousands of cheering supporters from the balcony of the Miraflores presidential palace.
Tensions were high Sunday night as announcement of the results were delayed.
Finally, fireworks exploded over downtown Caracas amid a cacophony of horn-honking by elated Chavez supporters waving flags and jumping for joy outside the presidential palace.
Chavez will now have a freer hand to push for an even bigger state role in the economy, as he pledged during the campaign, and to continue populist programs. He's also likely to further limit dissent and deepen friendships with U.S. rivals.
A Capriles victory would have brought a radical foreign policy shift including a halt to preferential oil deals with allies such as Cuba, along with a loosening of state economic controls and an increase in private investment.
President Raul Castro of Cuba, which could have been badly hurt by a Chavez loss, was among Latin American leaders sending warm congratulations to the former paratrooper on his victory after nearly 14 years in office.
"I can't describe the relief and happiness I feel right now," said Edgar Gonzalez, a 38-year-old construction worker.
He ran through crowds of Chavez supporters packing the streets around the presidential palace wearing a Venezuelan flag as a cape and yelling: "Oh, no! Chavez won't go!"
"The revolution will continue, thanks to God and the people of this great country," said Gonzalez.
Voter turnout was an impressive 81 percent, compared to 75 percent in 2006. Chavez paid close attention to his military-like get-out-the-vote organization at the grass roots, stressing its importance at campaign rallies. The opposition said he unfairly plowed millions in state funds into the effort.
Chavez spent heavily in the months before the vote, building public housing and bankrolling expanded social programs.
"I think he just cranked up the patronage machine and unleashed a spending orgy," said Michael Shifter, president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue think tank.
But Shifter also didn't deny the affinity and gratefulness Venezuela's poor feel for Chavez. "Despite his illness, I still think he retains a strong emotional connection with a lot of Venezuelans that I think were not prepared to vote against him."
Chavez spoke little during the campaign about his fight with cancer, which since June 2011 has included surgery to remove tumors from his pelvic region as well as chemotherapy and radiation treatment. He has said his most recent tests showed no sign of illness.
Capriles told supporters not to feel defeated.
"We have planted many seeds across Venezuela and I know that these seeds are going to produce many trees," he told them at his campaign headquarters.
Despite winning a February primary that unified the opposition, Capriles was unable to sufficiently erode Chavez's firm base of loyal support.
One pro-Chavez voter, private bodyguard Carlos Julio Silva, said that whatever his faults, Chavez deserved to win for spreading the nation's oil wealth to the poor with free medical care, public housing and other government programs. The country has the world's largest proven oil reserves.
"There is corruption, there's plenty of bureaucracy, but the people have never had a leader who cared about this country," Silva said after voting for Chavez in the Caracas slum of Petare.
At many polling places, voters began lining up hours before polls opened at dawn, some snaking for blocks in the baking Caribbean sun. Some shaded themselves with umbrellas. Vendors grilled meat and some people drank beer.
Chavez's critics accused the president of inflaming divisions by labeling his opponents "fascists," ''Yankees" and "neo-Nazis," and it's likely hard for many of his opponents to stomach another six years of the loquacious and conflictive leader.
Some said before the vote that they'd consider leaving the country if Chavez won.
Gino Caso, an auto mechanic, said Chavez is power-hungry and out of touch with problems such as crime. He said his son had been robbed, as had neighboring shops.
"I don't know what planet he lives on," Caso said, gesturing with hands blackened with grease. "He wants to be like Fidel Castro — end up with everything, take control of the country."
Associated Press writers Fabiola Sanchez, Christopher Toothaker, Jorge Rueda and Vivian Sequera contributed to this report.
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Conversation with Simon Lewis: How do we make the most of our Consciousness?
Due to enthusiastic responses we are keeping this conversation for two days!
My goal is to find ways to answer this most important question of our time, so others may find their inner selves. Everyone wants and needs maximum mental performance, yet school dropout rates attest to the size of the gap that our adolescents drop into. Why are these solutions a hidden secret? How can we develop an integrated approach to maximize our most precious resource on Earth — our collective consciousness — and nurture it in each of us? Why aren't measurable repeatable approaches, to bridge the gap from potential mind toward actual mind, widely known and available to all from youth to old age, and how do we make this become a reality?
I hope you join me to discuss these and other questions,
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I just finished reading all of your final comments and want to extend special thanks to TED for making this civil, thoughtful and remarkably global forum possible, as well as the INK organization who originally invited me to India in association with TED, and gave a first opportunity to share my ideas before an international audience.
And I want to thank each of you, who spoke or who listened, for it is your contribution that empowers all. I understand from TED that remarkable audience of some 2,000 participated online in our swiftly assembled colloquy, with over a hundred drawn to participate with comments from countries as far apart as the USA, India, South Korea and China.
I wish all of you of the happiness to be found in seeking the hidden path toward actual mind, and I thank you for showing me how much interest and concern there is, how many tangible ideas are offered, from around the world to help achieve this for all societies and ages.
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Sep 29 2011: A distinction must be made between what is and what we perceive. The numerous material appearances we observe are attributes of the conscience, but the conscience itself is not reserved only to humans. The conscience is much more than that. It is a universal power which penetrates through the whole reality and transcends all human attributes. The human is one of the many manifestations of the conscience, just like everything that surrounds it, although a human is a special manifestation because it has thinking capacities. Thinking is a specific development of the conscience, valuable and useful without doubt, but it is also extremely one–sided and possibly dangerous, because it has the tendency to develop its own theories and to isolate itself from the real conscience. Man isn't privileged just because it is the only being aware of reality, but in the fact it is privileged thanks to its potential of reflection, able to reach the consciousness from which everything emanates.
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Getting Paid Album Art, Tracklisting and Teaser II
Artist: Zechs Marquise
Album Title: Getting Paid
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
01. Getting Paid
02. Lock Jaw Night Vision
03. Static Lovers
04. The Heat, The Drought, The Thirst, and The Insanity
05. Time Masters
06. Guajira
07. Everlasting Beacon of Light
08. Crushin' It!
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Zechs Marquise, the El Paso, TX quintet are back with their sophomore album Getting Paid, bringing an intensified swagger to the band's multifaceted psych-prog haze for their most aggressive and versatile effort to date. "We liked that hip-hop attitude," explains drummer Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez of the album title. "Getting your piece, taking yours." And, Getting Paid certainly finds the band fully taking charge of their musical destiny.
In the years since their auspicious 2009 debut Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare, Zechs Marquise toured extensively throughout the U.S., proving to be a formidable live act supporting Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group and RX Bandits as well as leading their own headlining tours. Zechs Marquise have also grown considerably in other ways. Recent addition Rikardo Rodriguez-Lopez on keyboards and trumpet joins his brothers, drummer Marcel and bassist Marfred alongside guitarists Matthew Wilkson and Marcos Smith contributing to the band's expanded sound. Not only have they reached new plateaus of entrancing riffs and rhythms, but Getting Paid also integrates vocals on select songs, including guest performances by vocalist/guitarist Matthew Embree (RX Bandits, The Sound Of Animals Fighting, Love You Moon, ME&LP) and El Paso singer Sonny Baker.
The album was entirely produced and engineered by Marcel. "We started off recording percussion to sequencers and loops," he explains. "I chopped those sounds up and arranged them. From there, were wrote the album with each of us coming in and playing on top of it. Kind of like a hip-hop song." Considering the hectic tour schedules of both Zechs Marquise and The Mars Volta (in which Marcel plays keyboards and percussion), the band was forced to work on the album over an extended period of time in between both band's tours. "It gave us a lot of time to get perspective on the songs," Marfred says. "We're really happy with and proud of this record."Once all parts were composed using the studio as a tool, the band re-recorded the album live. "We wanted something to represent our live energy," says Marfred.
"The album cover by Zeque Penya is a play on Blacksploitation soundtrack art and stuff like (Miles Davis') Bitches Brew cover," Marfred explains. "We wanted our own weird take on it." Likewise, Getting Paid is throughout a wickedly wild take on elder forms of free jazz, skronk excursions, proto-funk and psychedelia with assertive tones and rhythms.
Zechs Marquise formed in El Paso in the spring of 2003, taking its name from a popular Japanese anime character. In June 2006 the band released 34:26, a live improvised set culled from their frequent west coast tours. The group's first proper full length Our Delicate Stranded Nightmarewas produced and recorded by the band throughout 2008. In May 2009, Zechs Marquise signed on to the management roster at Sargent House and released Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare on LP/CD/digital in August of that year through Rodriguez Lopez Productions.
Getting Paid will be available everywhere on LP/CD/digital on September 27th on Rodriguez Lopez Productions
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Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old from China and youngest to compete in a major in 148 years, played well beyond his age. He holed a 15-foot putt from just off the 18th green for a respectable round of 73 and a reasonable chance of making the cut.
Guan dropped a shot early in the second round with a bogey at the par-3 fourth.
Tiger Woods wasn't far off as he began his quest for a fifth green jacket. Wild at the start of the opening round, including a tee shot that knocked a cup of beer out of a spectator's hand, Woods settled into a groove and opened with a 70 as his girlfriend, Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn, watched on a few holes.
In his four Masters wins, Woods has never opened with a score lower than 70. His key is not to shoot himself out of the tournament before the weekend. He had an afternoon tee time Friday.
Johnson has a game that fits perfectly for Augusta and he finally brought it. Johnson hit a 9-iron for his second shot on the par-5 13th and made a 15-foot eagle putt, and he smashed his drive on the par-5 15th and hit pitching wedge just through the green for an easy birdie.
Fred Couples, the 53-year-old wonder at his favorite major, made bogey on the 18th and still was in the large group at 68. There were a dozen rounds in the 60s on Thursday, and nearly half the field shot par or better. Three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson recovered from a rough start by running off four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the back nine to salvage a 71, while Rory McIlroy had a 72.
Woods said he struggled with the slower pace of the greens, and so did defending champion Bubba Watson, who opened with a 75.
"They're soft and they are slow, and consequently we have 45 people at par or better," Mickelson said. "But that means I've got to change my whole mindset and just get after these pins, because the ball's not running like it used to and I'm giving this course way too much respect because of my past knowledge."
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Budgets are tight and gift lists can be long, so it's time to start looking for ways to find more cash.
This post comes from MSN Money's Liz Pulliam Weston.
The holidays can be expensive -- and there are only so many people you can kick off your gift list before you start to feel positively Scrooge-like. When you can't trim expenses any further, it's time to look for ways to raise more cash.
Now, you could try holding a yard sale (in the snow) or opening a lemonade stand (in the snow), but there are other, easier ways to come up with free money, including the following:
New technology brings new ways to use mobile devices, but it also is likely to bring even more complex wireless pricing plans.
Here's news you didn't want to hear: Cell phone plans are likely to get more complicated.
That's right. A product with which you can easily incur $34,000-plus in charges for just a few months of misunderstanding is going to make it even more difficult to understand your service –- at least if you want to do more than talk. You didn't think new technology was all fun and games, did you?
Trying to find the right holiday gift for someone who has everything? Consider a gift that helps a worthy cause.
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First, the bad news: Even rich people are feeling the pinch in this recession -- and the poor are paying for it. Charitable donations are down more than a third among the wealthiest Americans.
In 2009, nearly all -- 98.2% -- of Americans with a net worth above $1 million gave to charity. But the amount of their giving dropped significantly from just two years earlier. After adjusting for inflation, average charitable giving by millionaires plummeted 34.9%, from $83,000 to $54,000.
"Charitable giving follows the overall economy," said Una Osili, director of research for the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, which conducted the 2010 Bank of America Merrill Lynch Study of High Net Worth Philanthropy (.pdf file). "When economic conditions improve, charitable giving improves as well."
But average Americans may be picking up the slack. A new survey by Christian relief agency World Vision found that 51% of Americans said they'd be more likely to give a charitable gift -- a gift that benefits a charity -- as a holiday present this year.
Think inside the box and put used cardboard back to work.
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Cardboard boxes are part of our visual vernacular -- trash to shopkeepers, treasure to eBay sellers, an annoyance to blade-wielding stock boys (and girls) around the world. Whether we're breaking them down or taping them back together, we are awash in a sea of these multisized corrugated work horses.
The list below is a love letter to the cardboard box -- 30 tips to reinterpret, reinvent and reuse it either temporarily or permanently. Take some tongue-in-cheek, take some to heart, and the next time you can -- take a few home from the curb.
The hard drive holds images of copied documents, and they could end up in the wrong hands.
When potential exposure to identity theft comes to mind, how often do you think about the office copy machine?
Don't feel bad. A survey by Sharp Document Solutions some time back found that 54% of consumers didn't know that many copy machines have a hard drive that stores photocopied documents. Think payroll information, Social Security numbers, medical records -- important stuff that in the wrong hands can lead to ID theft.
Whether you're fond of real or fake fir, here's what you need to know about finding the right Christmas tree.
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Nothing says holidays like a Christmas tree. If you haven't picked one yet, here are some quick tips to buy it right. If you have purchased a tree, we also have tips to keep it fresh through New Year's.
When I was a boy growing up outside Atlanta, for several years my father bought live Christmas trees, then planted them in the yard after the holiday. Both my youth and my father are now gone, but those trees remain.
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We've written a lot about how airlines and airports are giving us less and less, while charging more fees.
Here's something they're giving us more of (besides scrutiny): alcohol, or at least opportunities to buy it.
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