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The fifth Test has ended in a dramatic draw with umpires taking players off the field for bad light just as England looked set to complete a thrilling win that would have given them a first-ever 4-0 Ashes series victory.
After two yawn-inducing days in the series finale – England's slow batting on Friday, and rain all of Saturday – the match was given life and made compulsive viewing on Sunday by a brave declaration by Australian captain Michael Clarke at tea that set the hosts a Sunday league-style chase of 227 in 44 overs.
At 5-206 the hosts required only 21 balls from the final four overs and looked to be coasting thanks to a blazing 62 from 55 balls from Kevin Pietersen.
However, they were stopped in their tracks by the fading light at the Oval, with umpires Aleem Dar and Kumar Dharmasena calling the players from the ground at 7.36pm to a chorus of booing from a capacity crowd.
Clarke had remonstrated with the umpires after the light meter had been brought on by fourth umpire Richard Kettleborough, knowing that if the reading matched the one when play was abandoned last Thursday at 7.26pm no more play would be allowed.
There was drama in the over in the lead-up to the umpires' decision as well. On the ball before the match was called off the captain had spoken with paceman Mitchell Starc at the bowler's end and the left-armer then ran in and stopped short of the crease, walking back again to the top of his run-up for an extra ball he had to bowl due to a no-ball in the over.
"Same old Aussies…always cheating," the crowd beamed, complaining of time wasting.
When Starc did charge in again Bell hit him straight but the fast bowler trapped it with his foot, and threw down the stumps to run out England's leading scorer of the series for 17. There was some consolation for Bell when he was later named man of the series after scoring 562 runs including three centuries.
An edge-of-the-seat finish was ahead but England's next batsman, Matt Prior, did not get to face a ball. Chris Woakes was the other not out batsman on 17 from just 13 balls.
The umpires continued to be booed at the presentation as was Clarke, but England's frustration was eased by their receiving of the replica urn on the ground afterwards for their 3-0 series win.
Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world's leading questionnaire tool.It was unclear how England would attack the extended last session – would they push for an historic 4-0 win, or be content to simply enjoy the afternoon in front of a jubilant home crowd singing "Stand up, if you're 3-0 up, stand up…"?
The answer came immediately when openers Alastair Cook and Joe Root, generally dour and workmanlike, struck three fours in the first two overs to race ahead of the required run rate.
The carrot dangled by Clarke was swallowed by the England captain Cook and the brakes did not go on when Root was caught behind by Brad Haddin off the bowling of Ryan Harris for 11. That dismissal gave the veteran wicketkeeper 29 catches for the Ashes, overtaking Rod Marsh's 20-year-old world record for most dismissals in a Test series.
There was no time to reflect on that milestone, though, as the tension mounted at the Oval, with Cook and Jonathan Trott diligently staying on track to challenge the target.
Only two teams in the history of the game had lost a Test after declaring twice – Garry Sobers' West Indies in 1968 against England and Graeme Smith's South Africa in 2006 against Australia – but that was the risk Clarke was prepared to give his own side a slim chance of winning themselves.
For only the second time in the series – he sent down a solitary over at Old Trafford – the captain brought himself into the attack and was able to tie down the scoring with some tight left-arm spin.
But at the other end Trott and Cook picked on Nathan Lyon, who conceded 10 runs in an over.
Lyon responded well in his next two overs, holding England to only a run in each, as the sting momentarily went out of the chase when Cook was trapped lbw for 34 by debutant left-armer James Faulkner, the Tasmanian's fifth wicket of the match.
That, however, only brought the cavalier Pietersen to the middle and the chants soon turned to "We're gonna win 4-0, we're gonna…" when he stroked nine boundaries with the first 29 balls he faced including a jaw-dropping straight drive off Starc.
The surge left England needing 89 runs from 16 overs, and Australia requiring a further eight wickets, with Starc going for 15 runs in one over.
Clarke turned to Shane Watson, who had not bowled in the match, and assembled a scattered one-day field with as many as six men on the rope as Pietersen brought up his half-century in 36 balls.
Trott, meanwhile registered his fifty from a more restrained 79 balls but just as Pietersen looked set to bludgeon England to victory he came unstuck, heaving Ryan Harris – brought on in a smart change by Clarke – to long-on, where David Warner did very well to make ground and hold the catch.
It was a desperately needed breakthrough and Faulkner, not unaccustomed to the demands of the situation having played limited-overs cricket for Australia despite being on Test debut, then followed some great 'death bowling' by removing Trott lbw soon after for 59.
At 4-163, England were then left needing 57 runs from 50 balls to win.
A dramatic finale was promised and but ruined by bad light.
Earlier, England's Matt Prior (47) and Graeme Swann (34) had thrown the bat around to career the hosts to a first-innings total of 377, 115 behind Australia, with Faulkner (4-51) picking up Bell for 45 and cleaning up the tail.
Australia then threw out the textbook with another reconfigured batting line-up in pursuit of quick top-up to their lead. Watson (26) returned to where he started the series, at opener, alongside Warner (12), and while the all-rounder belted Swann deep into the Vauxhall End for six their second innings was not quite the Twenty20-like bash fest they might have envisaged.
In 23 overs, they scrapped and slapped their way to 6-111 before declaring again, with Clarke knocking on the door of the England dressing room in the tea break to let Cook and Root know to put on their pads.
Australia sent out their most aggressive players first, with Faulkner in at No.3, Haddin at No.5 before Clarke himself entered with an unbeaten 28.
Opener Chris Rogers was transferred to the tail in the reshuffle and did not get a bat.


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Cubs' Bonifacio initially called safe before he was ruled out on pick-off attempt
PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates are off to a good start on the field of play. Their manager is off to his own good start in the field of challenging plays.
Both the Bucs and Clint Hurdle are 1-0. Before their 1-0, walk-off win against the Cubs in the 10th inning Monday, the Pirates benefited from an overturned call in the top of the 10th.
With the game scoreless, relief pitcher Bryan Morris made a pick-off throw to first base, but umpire Bob Davidson signaled the runner, Emilio Bonifacio, safe.
Hurdle, who had yet to use his one challenge, made his way to the field slowly to engage Davidson, who along with home-plate umpire and crew chief John Hirschbeck immediately consulted the replay mechanism with the Replay Operations Center at Major League Baseball Advanced Media's headquarters in New York.
After 2 1/2 minutes, the umpires made their way back to the middle of the field and signaled Bonifacio out, ruling that first baseman Travis Ishikawa had applied a timely tag on his shoulder.
"After I saw the replay," Bonifacio admitted, "I was out. I didn't feel anything on my shoulder at first."
"That could've been a big change in the game for them, maybe lead to something happening for them," second baseman Neil Walker said. "It slowed the game down a bit, and the fans were probably not too excited about it, but they got the call right."
The Pirates became the second beneficiaries of a call overturned by Major League Baseball's expanded instant-replay system. The Braves were the first in their game against the Brewers, when Ryan Braun was called out after he was initially ruled safe.
But Hurdle, who had split his two challenges in Spring Training games, is believed to have become the first manager to actually make two successful challenges.
"I'm confident in these umpires' abilities. You're going to find out just how good they all are," Hurdle said. "We're all just trying to find out how to use [expanded replay] properly and efficiently to advance the game."
Remarkably, it was the first batter Morris has picked off in his 61 big league games.
"There've been a few times in the past where I thought I had the guy picked off," Morris said. "But in the past, he's [called] safe and that's it. It worked out in our favor."

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Should I use "wasn't" or "weren't" in the following sentence?
My last couple of years as an Edison Eagle wasn't all about fighting and bad friendships.
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Should I use "wasn't" or "weren't" in the following sentence?
My last couple of years as an Edison Eagle wasn't all about fighting and bad friendships.
Formal agreement requires weren't. That's because the subject of the sentence is the plural years, premodified by my last couple of. However, in terms of notional agreement, My last couple of years can be seen as an integrated whole that calls for a singular verb. Which you choose depends partly on your own view of the relative merits of formal and notional agreement, but also on the likely reaction of your intended audience to your choice.
In most noun phrases with of it is the grammatical number of the head noun, not the noun in the prepositional phrase following it, that determines the grammatical number of the verb. So, we write:
But couple, in the noun phrase a couple of, is what the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (p349) calls a number-transparent quantificational noun, meaning that it allows the number of the oblique to percolate up to determine the number of the whole NP. [Oblique is the term the CGEL uses for the noun in the prepositional phrase beginning with of, and NP stands for noun phrase.]
As well as a couple of, the CGEL lists a lot of, the rest of, plenty and others as number-transparent quantificational nouns. The upward percolation is exemplified with the phrase a lot of:
On this basis it might seem clear that the OP's sentence should read:
since years percolates up to determine the plural of the verb. But, it is in fact not so clear, because plural nouns are often conceptualized as singular entities. That's why we say, for example:
The CGEL uses the term override for this common mismatch in grammatical number between subject and verb. So, if the writer is strongly conceptualizing the two years as a singular measure of time, then :
would seem to be acceptable - although I suspect that rather more people would consider wasn't to be a mistake than weren't.
This should definitely be weren't, as the subject of the sentence is years (which is plural). Without as an Edison Eagle, the sentence would be:
My last couple of years weren't all about fighting…
Adding as an Edison Eagle will not change the basic sentence structure, so the sentence should still read:
My last couple of years as an Edison Eagle weren't all about fighting and bad friendships.
It is certainly "weren't". "Last couple of years" is plural, and hence it should be "weren't".
You should write "weren't," because "couple" is used in its plural sense, as evidenced by the prepositional phrase, "of years," immediately following it. The singular "was" should sound wrong to you.
Sometimes the noun "couple" is singular though. So "A couple was strolling down the lane, arm in arm" is correct. Here the couple is a single entity; the emphasis isn't on two distinct individuals.
By the way, in your sentence, the simple subject is "couple." So it is that word that must agree in number with the verb.
It should be wasn't. To see why just take the sentence and eliminate some things that don't change the structure:
My last couple of years as an Edison Eagle wasn't all about fighting and bad friendships.
The "of years" just clarifies what the couple is. And "as an Edison Eagle" also just clarifies. Remove them.
So if someone asks you, "How were your years as an Edison Eagle?". Do you answer:
My last couple wasn't all about fighting and bad friendships.
My last couple weren't all about fighting and bad friendships.
Clearly, it's the former. "Last couple" is singular.
Update: Oddly, the usage frequency seems pretty close to equal. I have no idea why. "Couple" is clearly singular.


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I'm a sole proprietor who started this company two years ago. Right now, we have several apps in iTunes for the iPhone and iPad. I threw the website together myself, so please disregard the design, as it will be completely revamped. You can search us in iTunes if you're interested in seeing all of our current apps.
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I recently received an email from a woman who said she had very long hair. For the past several months, her hair had been shedding much more than what was normal for her. She had read on some forums that sometimes the weight from long hair can pull the hair shaft out and can result in loss. So, she wanted to know if cutting her hair much shorter could potentially stop her shedding. I have a definite opinion on this based on my own experience and research. I will share it in the following article.
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It would be impossible to count how many times each summer a professional groomer is asked to shave a client's dog in an attempt to make it cooler. Here in rural Montana where the summers are scorching, I have had requests to shave almost every breed imaginable. It is a common misconception that all dogs would automatically be cooler if they had less hair.
First it is important to consider is what type of hair the dog has. All dogs can basically be divided into two groups. First we have those who need to have their cut on a regular basis, such as poodles, shih tzus, cocker spaniels, lhasa apsos, terriers, etc. Dogs in this group have hair that would continue growing longer and longer until it was cut. These breeds can be shaved with no problem. Taking off excess coat by shaving them down in hot weather will indeed make them more comfortable and cooler, and will not cause damage to the dog's coat. However, this is not the case with the second group.
This group of dogs consists of all the other breeds, longhaired or shorthaired, whose hair grows to one length only and then remains that length. These dogs typically shed much more than dogs in the first group. These include retrievers, pomeranians, great Pyranees, chow chows, pugs, German shepherds, huskies, and the list goes on and on. Their coats act as insulators against the elements, and should never be shaved. After all, do you take the insulation out of your home in the summer to make it cooler? Absolutely not, and the same goes for these dogs as well.
It is important to note that if you have a mixed breed dog, it can be difficult to determine which group the dog falls into. Most groomers can evaluate a dog's coat upon inspection to let you know which group the dog falls into, and what course of action to take, the risks involved, etc.
As a former professional groomer, I strongly feel that it is the groomer's responsibility to fully explain these things to clients wanting to have their dogs shaved. It is important to share knowledge with the clients to make the best decision possible for the pet in need of grooming.
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ALTOONA, Wis. (WEAU) – Is humanity not alone? Is there extraterrestrial life among us? That's a question a group of people wanted answered Wednesday night at a discussion session in Altoona, just in time for Halloween.
The talk of "aliens" is nothing new. We've seen it in movies like E.T. and Signs, then there's UFO reporting's like Roswell and theories of Area 51 being an alien spacecraft crash landing site. But experiencing a "close encounter" may be nothing like seeing it in the movies.
"I was walking along and it was kind of the night and I looked up in the sky and I thought it was the moon but it was too cloudy to be the moon," says Tosha Foster of Chippewa Falls, who shared her story among the ten others who attended the session. "As I looked, it was a circle and it slowly faded away and then it disappeared and I knew it couldn't have been a plane because there were no other distinguishing features and it was just a big circle that slowly disappeared and it was gone."
Stories like this were shared at the "Extraterrestrials Among Us" session at the Altoona Public Library, put on by Judy Meinen, R.N., owner of Angel Care Healing Touch.
"A lot of people don't like to talk about this stuff because they're scared everybody's going to think they're crazy so it's easier to talk to somebody about it, who's had the experience," says Foster.
Meinen also hosts other workshops including "Fairies Among Us," "Angels Among Us," "Healers Among Us," and coming up October 24th "Spirits Among Us."
Meinen says physics experts only know of one percent of what exists in the universe.
"I think it'd be very arrogant to think that we're alone here on this one planet in this very huge expanse of existence," says Meinen. "I do feel anything and everything is. There's 99 percent of universe we don't know about."
Meinen says there's no real clear-cut description of what "extraterrestrial" looks like.
"They can look like, from what I understand, they can blend in with the rest of us or they can be very tall, sometimes more awkward looking, they're usually higher intelligence," she says.
So if E.T. is among us, Meinen says it's not quite like the E.T. Steven's Spielberg came up with or any other Hollywood movie for that matter.
"I would say I've never seen a gray, like what we see on Signs or other movies," she says.
While the idea of aliens might be unbelievable to some, Meinen says she just wants people to be willing to question it and take the fear out of it.


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The American Library Association and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago observe Money Smart Week® (MSW) April 21-28. MSW is a series of free classes and activities designed to help consumers better manage their personal finances. This year, as a partner, the Fremont Main Library at 2400 Stevenson Blvd. will host the following programs.
Annuities and Annuity Fraud Tuesday, April 24, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Join Alyce Sandbach, Prosecutor with the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, and Neil Granger, Insurance and Annuity Consultant, to learn about different annuities and what you must know to protect yourself from fraud. Sandbach will present on specific prosecutions, classic red flags that signal fraud, and laws that govern the conduct of salespeople and protect buyers. Granger, who consults for government agencies and non-profits, will speak on the different types of annuities now on the market.
The ABC's of Long Term Care Wednesday, April 25, 1:30 – 3 p.m.
Amanda Baldwin, MSW, Legal Assistance for Seniors, will talk about the pros and cons of Long Term Care (LTC) Insurance and:
describe the differences between Medicare coverage and long term care
explain ways of getting long-term care and options for financing it
focus on the features as well as the pros and cons of LTC insurance
offer guidelines for purchasing long-term care insurance
Saving Money on Your Home Thursday, April 26, 1:30 – 3 p.m.
George Duarte, President of Horizon Financial and Certified Green Real Estate Professional, will speak about energy upgrade programs and rebates for performance audits that are available; as well as different financing alternatives. Find out how this can be done when purchasing a home, or when energy retrofitting a home someone already lives in
Using Your iPhone and iPad Friday, April 27, 1:30 – 3 p.m.
Use your iPhone to advance your career and keep up with friends and business; or use your iPad to relax and enjoy leisure time. Cyndi Kwong of Global Internet Group Use will talk about the different strategies and various apps that serve the needs of smartphone and tablet users. Learn how to use your gadget to help solve your on-the-go problems and keep up with the latest news, track your job search, your banking or your business.
All programs are free and no registration is required. These programs are sponsored by the Fremont Chamber of Commerce and the Alameda County Library. The Library is wheelchair accessible. An ASL interpreter will be provided if requested at least seven working days in advance of the presentation. Contact voice 510-745-1421 / TTY 888-663-0660.


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Can I get an MBA degree while attending the PhD Program?
Yes. If you take all the required courses for the MBA, you may receive the degree after you successfully propose your dissertation.
What kind of financial assistance is available to students in the PhD Program?
Students are generally awarded a fellowship that includes tuition, health insurance fees for the student and a stipend. Visit the Tuition and Financial Aid page for additional information.
How much does the program cost?
Please visit the Tuition and Financial Aid page.
I already have an MBA/Master's Degree. Will this reduce my time to the PhD degree?
No. Prior coursework at the graduate level will not reduce your time to degree. There is very little overlap between MBA and PhD level coursework (even if your MBA was earned from Chicago Booth).
How many applications do you receive and how many students do you admit?
Approximately 20-25 new PhD students matriculate each autumn, selected from around 800 applicants. All applications are reviewed at the same time and in comparison with each other following the submission deadline of December 15. The application reviewers base their decisions on all the information in an applicant's file including the essay, academic background and performance, research interest and potential, prior exposure to academic research, strength of the recommendations, and scores on the GMAT or the GRE. The review process takes place between December 15 and February 28, with admission decisions sent out by email in early March.
Do I have to take the GRE or GMAT to apply?
Yes. Depending on the intended dissertation area, applicants for the PhD Program MUST take either the GMAT or the GRE.
What is the required minimum GRE/GMAT score?
There is no minimum cutoff score for the GRE/GMAT in order for your file to be reviewed.
If I already have an MBA or other advanced degree, do I still have to submit GRE or GMAT scores to apply?
Yes. Prior coursework or degrees at the graduate level do not exempt you from submitting either a valid GRE or GMAT score.
When do my GRE and GMAT scores expire?
Your scores will be considered expired if the test was taken more than five years prior to the application deadline. If you took the test before December 15, 2015, you must retake the test for us to consider your application for Fall 2021 admission. The PhD Program Office retains received test scores for two years.
What is the latest date to take the GRE or GMAT to get the official scores to your office on time?
Test scores must reach our office by the application deadline, December 15. Therefore, applicants should consider taking the test by September, since the results of later tests may not be available until after our admissions deadline.
Do I need to take the TOEFL or IELTS? What is the waiver policy for the TOEFL/IELTS?
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is required of international applicants whose native language is not English. For TOEFL/IELTS waiver policies, please see the International Applicants page.
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TOEFL/IELTS scores are valid for two years. Your score will be considered expired if the test was taken more than two years prior to the December 15 deadline.
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We require all applicants to submit a minimum of two letters of recommendation (preferably from academic sources) as part of their application, although we will accept up to four.
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Our application fee is $80, is non-refundable, and must be paid online by credit card.
Can the application fee be waived?
The fee is required of all applicants, except for students currently registered in a degree program at the University of Chicago. Under no circumstances will an application fee be refunded, nor can the fee be waived or deferred. Applications received without a fee will not be considered for admission.
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great videoI could never express it as eloquently as musicabona, but yes a great sensual video, love it
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YOU SAVED MY LIFEI was 12 and it was a hard period in my life: my parents divorced and not in a friendly way, you know...Anyway I was really angry with all the world and one night "Misteroius ways" came out from my radio...it was like a revelation, i felt a kind of warm, a sense of peace.The song said " it's allright, it's allright...one day you look back and you'll see...": it was for me!!! Then I bought "Achtung Baby" and I find " Acrobat"...what a cure for my angry! Thanks U2, you saved me!!!
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Spirits move meAfter almost 20 years, \"Mysterious Ways\" is still my favourite U2 video of all time. Having directed it in Fez, Stephane Sednaoui makes us enter a phantastic oriental world accompanied by stunning kaleidoscope-like images of the gorgeous architecture and narrow laneways populated by a lot of natives. The intense and almost unreal colours combined with some distorted shots of the band and a partly modified perspective represent the song in wild, expressive aesthetics. In every sequence there is a strong sense of movement, letting the ground shake, creating dizzying effects. This is not only a music video at highest artistic level; this is an impressive portrait of a truly mystic place.


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Music Industry Execs Debate Brokep From The Pirate Bay
from the and-who-wins? deptOver in the UK, on Thursday evening, there was a music industry panel discussion that involved a massive number of panelists (ten -- which seems a bit too many) covering a wide variety of viewpoints from the music industry. Mostly they came from the traditional parts of the music industry, but the interesting participant was Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, aka brokep, from The Pirate Bay (and now Flattr), taking part in the discussion with a group of folks who regularly call him all sorts of unfriendly things. Stuart Dredge, over at Music Ally, ran a nice live blog of the conversation, which mostly went down about as you would expect. Dredge noted that it was mostly an "industry" audience, and he worried that "there's a bit of a kick-the-Pirate-Bay mood bubbling" in the audience.
Thankfully, it doesn't look like things got that far. Mostly it was the typical back and forth. Industry folks whining that they can't compete with The Pirate Bay... even as they were talking about the variety of ways they were competing with The Pirate Bay. Basically, what becomes clear is they would prefer competition that they control, rather than competition that consumers drive. Tragically, innovation doesn't work that way.
Peter made the point that a lot of people were confusing the music industry with the recording industry, and mocked them a bit for not actually talking about culture or music:
"Most of the things we're talking about today are about the record industry, not about the music industry. Everyone is talking about percentages... nobody is talking about music. It sounds like most people here could be selling diapers instead!"While technically true, the discussion was about the business of music, so I think it's fair to be discussing some numbers and the business angle. But there is a larger point to be made here. With studies showing that more music is being created, the complaints about the "death" of the industry are clearly misplaced. The real complaints from the industry types are that they aren't able to make money off of it any more -- but that doesn't mean the music industry is in trouble at all. Instead, it's thriving. In fact, Peter also made that point:
It's not a right for the record industry to make a profit.... Technology has come that has made most of the record industry less valuable. We need to just move on, it's sort of an evolution... It might not be good for people working in the record industry, but the music industry is better than ever."The industry folks on the panel still seem to be living in a state of denial at times, talking about how they should milk the 40 and 50 year olds who are still buying CDs, rather than really understanding the changing marketplace. My favorite laughable quote came from Guy Moot, of EMI Publishing, who said:
"The joy of ownership is a very different thing from the joy of a digital download or stream..."Sure, it is, but the record labels have worked very, very, very hard to make it clear to people that they don't get to "own" anything. How many times have been told "you just get a license." If we really got to own stuff, there wouldn't be so many complaints.
There were so many people taking part, it's difficult to cover them all. Will Page (whose interview we recently posted) made some good points, and Jeremy Silver, from the Featured Artist Coalition (who's also a very interesting guy to chat with about these issues) comes off as being quite sensible in saying that file sharing of unauthorized works is here and not going away -- and the industry should take some of the blame for sitting on the CD cash cow and never innovating. Rather than complaining about it, it's time to look forward.
On that note, it seemed like the most reasonable speaker may have been David Stopps, who spoke from the perspective of an artist's manager. He noted that the it's absolutely possible to "compete with free," talked up the importance of touring to make money and using the music to boost those revenues and also played down the "demise" of the record labels, by noting that "they still have the back catalogue" to milk for a long time and that their job has become a lot easier thanks to technology:
He says A&R is becoming easier for labels, because sites like Hype Machine and We Are Hunted are where A&R guys are looking to see "who's listening to what music". It's less about "taking a punt" than in the old days. "Artists are building up fanbases themselves… and that can be monitored."He also brings up the band Metric as an example of a band that has "gone all the way" without a record deal, noting that they turned down a variety of major label deals with massive advances to "do it on their own" and that it's working:
"They're doing a fantastic job, they use Topspin to sell their music, and that seems to be very successful for them. We're gonna see more of that..."Along those lines, he also notes that The Pirate Bay can be a really great way for people to discover new music, and monetize them elsewhere, pointing to Imogen Heap, who discovered tons of people in Indonesia downloading her music in an unauthorized manner... but when she went there, she was able to sell out a 4,500 seat arena, making "a lot of money."
Finally, he also knocks BPI and others in the industry for still thinking that DRM is a reasonable solution -- pointing out that it's totally anti-consumer:
"The problem is, nobody really asked the consumer," he says, about attempts to put DRM on CDs. "They absolutely hated it. You put the CD into the computer and it wouldn't play... In the future, we've got to bring the consumers into the business model. In fact, they already are part of the business model."Geoff Taylor, the head of BPI (basically the UK's RIAA) comes off as about what you'd expect. He trashes The Pirate Bay repeatedly, claims that it's "destroying national cultures" (with no proof, of course) and says that there needs to be "disincentives" to dealing with unauthorized file sharing.
It's the same story as usual: they're so focused on negative incentives for people doing stuff they don't like, they never seem to care about creating positive incentives for those they should be targeting. That's BPI's problem. Not The Pirate Bay.
Anyway... given the participants, it was about what you would expect, and didn't seem to get quite as nasty as some feared before the event. I doubt anyone's mind was changed about anything, but it still sounded like a pretty good discussion.
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N° 45–2005: Venus Express ready for lift-off
18 October 2005
ESA's Venus Express spacecraft is to be launched on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday 26 October at 06:43 CEST (04:43 GMT, 10:43 local time).
Venus Express is Europe's first mission to Venus, a place of many mysteries that scientists are still eager to solve. Principal among those mysteries is why a planet so similar to the Earth in size, mass, and composition has evolved so differently over the course of the last 4.6 billion years.
ESA's ESOC establishment, the Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany will control the mission and organise a launch event from 06:00 to 12:00.
A live televised transmission of the launch will bring images from Baikonur to broadcasters and the general public. ESA senior management and specialists will be on hand at ESOC and at other ESA establishments for explanations and interviews.
All live transmissions are carried free-to-air. For broadcasters, complete details of the various satellite feeds (on Eutelsat W2) are listed at http://television.esa.int.
For the general public, a launch transmission via Astra 1G has again been organised, with all schedule and transmission details online at http://television.esa.int/photos/Astra.pdf On the occasion of the launch of Venus Express, the Planetary Society has teamed up with ESA to invite youths and adults worldwide to enter a Venus Express Art Contest. The theme of the contest is "Postcards from Venus". Entrants are invited to imagine the surface of Venus from an above-ground perspective. The winner will be invited to follow the Venus Orbit Insertion event at ESA's control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, on 6 April 2006. More on the constest at http://planetary.org/postcards_from_venus/
Media representatives wishing to follow the event at ESA/ESOC, or the retransmission at other ESA establishments, are requested to fill in the attached registration form and fax it back to the place of their choice.
For further information, please contact:
ESA Media Relations Division
Tel: +33(0)220.127.116.1155
Fax: +33(0)126.96.36.19990
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I will be attending the Venus Express launch at the following site:
[ ] Italy
Location: ESA/ESRIN
Address: Via Galileo Galilei, Frascati (Rome), Italy
Open: 06h20-12h00
Contact: Franca Morgia – Tel: +39.06.9418.0951 – Fax: +39.06.9418.0952
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Location: Space Expo, ESA/ESTEC Visitors' Centre
Address: Keplerlaan 3, Noordwijk
Open: 06:00-09:00
Contact: Heidi Graf, Tel. + 31 71 565 3006 - Fax + 31 71 565 5728
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Location: ESA/ESOC
Address: Robert Bosch Strasse 5, Darmstadt, Germany
Open: 05:00-12:00
Contact: Jocelyne Landeau-Constantin, Tel: +49.6151.902.696 – Fax: +49.6151.902.961
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Location: ESA/ESAC
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Contact: Monica Oerke, Tel + 34 91 813 13 59 – Fax: + 34 91 813 12 19
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Don't Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste
My partner Albert shared this line on his blog almost five years ago now. I find myself using it all the time. And it is an important lesson that I have learned in my career.
When something goes badly in your company, for many the initial instinct is to keep things under wraps as much as possible to avoid freaking everyone out. I would argue that it is better to acknowledge the crisis and use it to your advantage.
Change is hard to bring to an organization and a time of crisis is often a perfect time to make some changes that you have wanted to make for a while. It creates a perfect backdrop and context for doing that.
Maybe you are in the midst of a financial crisis brought on by a tough fundraising environment. Maybe you are experiencing some management turmoil. Maybe you've lost your largest customer. Maybe you are getting pummeled by bad press. It really doesn't matter what is the cause of the crisis, but all of the above will work well.
I have seen a portfolio company react to a financing crisis react by making important and overdue changes to its business model and organization. The financing crisis ended and the company emerged in a much stronger place.
I have seen an entrepreneur react to the loss of several important team members by shuffling up the organization, pivoting the product roadmap, and operating with a much leaner team. The company recovered from the loss of the key team members, launched a new product very successfully, and got onto a path to profitability.
There are a lot of these stories to tell. Because crisis is what brings clarity and focus. You get punched in the gut, you get back up, and you take care of business.
So if you are in the middle of a crisis in your company right now, think hard about using it as an opportunity to make some changes. There is never a better time.


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by MICHAEL CARUSO
The Buxtehude Consort, founded and directed by baritone John Fowler, will perform a concert of Passion Cantatas by J.S. Bach, Heinrich von Biber, Dietrich Buxtehude and G.P. Telemann 8 p.m. Saturday, April 14, in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 22 East Chestnut Hill Ave.
Featured singers include soprano Molly Quinn, alto Jennifer Smith and Fowler. The singers will be accompanied by a period instruments ensemble and organ. Violinist Marika Holmqvist will also play "The Crucifixion" from Biber's "Mystery" Sonatas. Tickets are available at the door; visit www.buxtehudeconsort.org.
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Ave. will host a concert 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 14, presented by Singing City Choir. The ensemble, Svitanya, will perform a program of Eastern European folk music. Tickets are $25, and proceeds will help defray the costs of Singing City's tour of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia this July. Singing City was founded in 1948 by Elaine Brown and is currently directed by Jeffrey Brillhart, organist and music director of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. Visit www.singingcity.org.
Wyndmoor's Patricia Manley has bold plans for the Willow Grove Branch of Settlement Music School. Formerly the director of Settlement's Germantown Branch, Manley took over the reins in Willow Grove in September of 2011 upon the retirement of Marsha Hogan.
Manley said that raising the new facility's profile in the community is probably her biggest goal. The building, located at 318 Davisville Rd. in Willow Grove, opened in January of 2011. Settlement's only suburban branch outgrew its leased space in Jenkintown, where it operated for nearly three decades. Settlement Music School was founded in 1908 in the Queen Village section of South Philadelphia. The entire system now boasts six branches: five in Greater Philadelphia and one in Camden, New Jersey.
One of the new facility's most stunning attributes is the Leonard Mellman Recital Hall. It will be the site of a free duo-piano recital 7 p.m. Friday, April 20, featuring Yuko Izuhara Gordon and Keiko Kurachi. Their program includes Mozart's "Sonata for Two Pianos in D major," Brahms' "Variation on a Theme by Haydn," Milhaud's "Scaramouche Suite for Two Pianos," Poulenc's "Sonata for Two Pianos" and more. For more information, call 215-320-2630 or visit www.smsmusic.org.
Esa-Pekka Salonen guest conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra March 29-31 in the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall. The former music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic led the Philadelphians in Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta," Debussy's "La Mer" and his own Violin Concerto, with Curtis Institute of Music alumna Leila Josefowicz as soloist in the 2008 score.
Salonen's splendid work on the podium Saturday night revealed the incredible level of talent that enabled him to bring the Los Angeles Philharmonic into the top rung of American orchestras. Michael Tilson Thomas has accomplished the same feat further north in California with the San Francisco Symphony, giving the state two entries in the newly minted "Big Seven," joining Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, New York and Philadelphia (the former "Big Five"). As a composer, the Finnish-born maestro is universally regarded as a leading force in the restoration of accessibility to contemporary classical music.
Divided into four contrasting and evocative movements, Salonen's Violin Concerto is a convincing synthesis of impressionism, neo-classicism, post romanticism and jazz. Timbres, scorings and rhythms are beautifully varied, while melodies and harmonies challenge the listener to follow them throughout their developmental journey.
That challenge was easily met because of Josefowicz' superb playing Saturday evening. The young woman is incapable of producing anything short of a gorgeous tone. Not surprisingly, the composer accompanied her flawlessly.


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Arbor, meet ardor
I'm now a certified tree-killer.
It was deliberate. When I bought my little Casa Craptastica a dozen years ago, it had two arborvitaes in front that blocked views of the walkway to my front door. Conifer geeks call these trees "everybodys" because everybody's got them. But there's a reason for that — they're adaptive, solid, easy-care, privacy-producing. In my front yard, though, my best friend called them a safety hazard when they were only 8 feet tall. Someone could hide behind them to attack me, she worried. Now, this is residential Loveland, where a cop lives across the street and, in addition to arborvitaes, everybody's got dogs that raise the dead barking their heads off anytime someone so much as walks down the street. But the trees still bothered her, and so her kind husband installed motion-sensor lights that automatically shot the walkway full of light glaring enough for surgical procedures whenever someone approached.


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Calvin Hughes
Emmy Award-winning newscaster Calvin Hughes co-anchors Local 10 News at 4, 5, 6 and 11 p.m.
Hughes, who earned his Bachelor of Science in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, has worked as an anchor/reporter in three of the nation's top 10 media markets, including Philadelphia, Atlanta and Dallas. He has also carried his pen and reporter's notepad to Lexington, Kentucky, Evansville, Indiana, and Columbia, Missouri, where he launched his career on the radio at the age of 19.
When he joined Local 10 News, Hughes and his family did not hesitate to delve into the richly diverse communities of South Florida.
In 2008, after reporting on a story about Haitian refugees who risked and, in some cases, lost their lives in a deadly voyage set for the shores of Miami, Hughes relentlessly pursued an opportunity to report comprehensively on Haiti. Almost two years later, on Jan. 12, 2010, after the disastrous 7.0 earthquake struck the country, Hughes was well suited to be one of the first journalists in Port-au-Prince to cover the devastation.
His passion for the people of Haiti and their indomitable spirits has led Hughes to return to Haiti more than a dozen times, most recently to make the first historic flight to Cap-Haitien from Miami for the opening of the new airport. While there, he landed an exclusive interview with current President Michel Martelly.
In 2011, the Miami New Times voted Calvin Hughes Miami's best TV news anchor, noting that he reported the story of Haiti's earthquake "gracefully and professionally."
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How in the world do I get my dogs to listen? I feel like they have wax in their ears. They are the most treat unmotivated dogs in the world. I was working with Belle on Come/Stay/Sit outside with all the distractions(on lead!) and she just didn't seem to care about the treats at all. She did some sit, and than when I told her to come I had to drag her back to me. I was trying the "Watch Me" to get her to pay attention but I don't know..
Dahlia is a little better but she still is pretty treat unmotivated. I tried just praise but that doesn't seem to work either. Dahlia does learn quickly and can sit, down, and we're practicing "come"(on lead) She did good inside, but outside with all the distractions she wouldn't pay attention.
I am going to try to devote time to each dog individually to see how that works.
If anyone has any good suggestions I'd appreciate it.
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Try working with them one-on-one.
I'll move this to the Behavior section.
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Chester's the biggest treat snob in the world.
And now with his allergy to poultry, it just makes things even harder.
What I've resorted to is buying thin slices of meat (pork or beef) when the prices are slashed for quick sale because they've reached the "sell by" date. I cube these and cook 'em up with a tiny bit of garlic powder for extra smell, and just use these for training treats. I actually did some work with him tonight with some of the chopped pork and it worked great. Sometimes I cook up some ground buffalo as well but keeping some big chunks in there to use as treats. It has more aroma than beef and Chester usually will go for it.
Just a thought your doggies are treat-finicky.
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I say speed and follow through. If she's not paying attention, don't wait for her to pay attention - give the command, and follow through. For example: Come. Start out with her at the end of the leash. She's not looking at you? -- Who cares? Too bad, so sad. Say her name and then Come. She doesn't react within a split second? Start running backwards and reeling her in while encouraging her (good girl, goooooood girl!), and then call a sit when you have no leash left and she's right in front of you. Praise LIKE CRAZY. Treat her if you use treats.
Once she learns that you're going ahead with the training session regardless of her attention level or enthusiasm, she's going to start to pay attention, because she'll want to do it on her own, rather than being reeled in immediately. And she won't want to be surprised by suddenly being reeled in or "helped" into position (if you're asking for a sit or a down or another command).
I find the quicker and clearer we are in our follow through and showing the dog what we expect, the more attention they start paying to us and the faster the response.
Just my 2 cents. Good luck!
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Train at suppertime, BEFORE they get their bowls. A couple of minutes a day can work wonders.
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Well for one they are not "tricks". Down, come, stay etc.... is basic obedience commands that all dogs should know IMO.
Some tips:
You are teaching too many things in one session. Teach one command at a time until they get it really good, then move onto to others. IMO, a good solid sit every time you ask should be the first thing a dog learns.
If treats are not doing it for them, find something else they love for praise like a toys, their favorite stuffy or blanket...could be anything really...only you can figure that out.
My dogs live for a good belly rub, pat on the chest or side, ear scratch or a kiss with a "good boy or girl" (there are so many ways to praise with nothing material). I only use treats to teach new commands in the beginning, but they always disappear fast cause I don't want to have to carry treats around with me forever for them to do something I ask. Princess is not treat motivated, when training her I use her favorite ball for an example.
Train each dog individually to avoid distractions from each other. Train the command first then practice with distractons after they learn what you want.
Keep training sessions short and simple but often.
Practice makes perfect. You must keep up on training for the life of the dog. Rex is 13 and still have "refresher" sessions.
Use NILIF.
Go to an obedience class.
And Lastly, not to sound rude, remember there is nothing wrong with your dogs if they are not "listening" or learning...it's always the owner. So step back and figure out what you need to change if something isn't working.
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I agree with what Carole just posted.
These are not tricks but actually can be lifesavers.
I let molly out in the backyard (fully fenced in) without really checking it out and let molly off her leash. Too late did i see a woodchuck in our yard. How it got in i'll never know since we even have chicken wire fencing at the bottom of our wooden fence.
Anyways ~ it's there and molly goes into pure prey mode and wants to kill this thing. Me i love all animals and I couldn't stand if molly had hurt it. I let out this blood curdling nooooo downnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn and to my surprise molly dropped like she should have. Now i probably didn't have to yell it like i did but that was my own panic .
Sit is a simple command that dogs of just a few weeks old should know. It's easily taught with treats or just by holding your hand up and a little over the back of their heads.
Consistency is the key to training and having a well trained dog. Molly is far from perfect but she does know the basic commands along with some really cute tricks.
Again~ you need to keep at this for their safety. They've gotten loose a few times already and these commands can be a lifesaver.
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