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--IMAX Corp. benefiting from growth in movie-going among the Chinese public
--IMAX signing deals to screen more Chinese films to hedge against blackouts on foreign imports
--Company to increase its number of China screens by 50% this year
BEIJING-IMAX Corp. is benefiting from explosive growth in movie-going in China, and hasn't seen any impact from the wider economic slowdown there, Chief Executive Richard Gelfond said.
At the same time, the company is signing deals to show more Chinese-made films on its giant, high-resolution screens--a hedge against Chinese regulators' practice of imposing blackout periods on screenings of foreign films, Mr. Gelfond told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview.
IMAX's box-office revenue per screen in China was up 30% in the first half from a year earlier, he said. The company collects a percentage of box-office receipts from both cinemas and studios for films shown on its jumbo screens, for which moviegoers pay a premium.
"I haven't seen any evidence at all of consumers losing the appetite to spend the incremental money to see an IMAX film," Mr. Gelfond said.
The number of IMAX screens in China is set to grow by about 50% this year, to more than 100 from around 70 at the end of 2011. IMAX has contracts to build a further 140, which would bring the total in China to around 240, compared with around 350 in the U.S., Mr. Gelfond said. Read the entire article on The Wall Street Journal's website.


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In this webinar you will learn how to use to various techniques to accelerate your communications system simulations in MATLAB and Simulink. The webinar showcases a series of optimizations applied to accelerate the simulation of a 4G LTE control channel processing algorithm. We start with a baseline algorithm and through successive profiling and code updates introduce the following optimizations:
• Better MATLAB serial programming techniques (Vectorization, Preallocation)
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Through demonstrations we also show that the extent of acceleration can be further amplified by combining two or more of these simulation acceleration techniques.
About the Presenter: Houman Zarrinkoub, Ph.D. is a senior product manager responsible for Communications Toolbox. He joined MathWorks in 2001 as a development manager for signal processing products. Prior to MathWorks, he spent six years at Nortel Networks as a research engineer specializing in speech processing for wireless systems. He holds a B.S.E.E. from McGill University and an M.S.E.E. and a Ph.D. from the Institut Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite du Quebec.
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Pretty wacky isn't it?
Just a demonstration to show how easy Grub can do such thing when Vista cant do it itself.
I started with a Live CD, a Kanotix 64bit, to create 3 partitions of hda1, hda2 and hda3 of size 25Gb, 25Gb and 1Gb in NTFS, NTFS and Fat32 in a spare hard disk. Partition type for NTFS is 7 and for Fat32 it is type c. Since a Dos partition is involved I needed to reboot and then formatted only the hda3 Fat32 partition. I marked hda1 as bootable.
I then installed the 1st copy of Vista in hda1 and had it in working order first.
I then booted up a Live CD again and use its cfdisk program to mark hda1 hidden. Its partition type 7 changed to 17. By making hda2 bootable the active flag jumped from hda1 to hda2.
I could then install the second copy of Vista in hda2 and have it working. I chose different wall papers to distinguish the two Vistas.
Lastly I booted up the Live CD, create /mnt/hda3 to mounted hda3. I found Grubs the stage1 file from the Live CD by
which locates in /KOPPIX/lib/grub/x86_64-pc subdirectory. I made a /boot/grub subdirectory in /mnt/hda3 and copies all the Grub files in /KOPPIX/lib/grub/x86_64-pc to /mnt/hda3/boot/grub. Strictly speaking only stage1, stage1.5 and stage2 are needed. The last command was to invoke Grub to set itself up in hda3 by commandsCode:find / -name stage1
Grub is now inside the boot sector of the partition of hda3.Code:grub root (hd0,2) setup (hd0,2)
To make Grub booting the two Vistas I created a menu.lst in /boot/grub subdirectory in hda3 as that is where Grub will search for a booting menu. My boot menu looks like this
When I reboot the 2nd copy of Vista is active and so the M$s own MBR boots it.Code:title 1st Vista in hda1 root (hd0,0) makeactive unhide (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title 2st Vista in hda2 root (hd0,1) makeactive unhide (hd0,1) hide (hd0,0) chainloader +1
I dont need to unhide hda2 when booting hda1 because hda2 will become D drive. Booting hda2 however I must hide hda1 as it can rob the C drive status from hda2.
Inside Vista I can click start and then right click computer, then click manage, then storage to activate the disk Management program. As hda1, hda2 and hda3 are all partitions supported by M$ and they all shown up there.
To give control to Grub I right click hda3 to select it to be active.
On a reboot the M$s MBR has no choice but to boot hda3 because it is active and Grub is loaded with a screen listing the two Vistas available for booting.
The above scheme works well except to activate Grub I must in Vista to transfer the active flag to hda3 every time.
Points noteworthy:-
(1) Grub is inside hda3 unattached to any operating system.
(2) Grub is booted by the Vistas MBR!
(3) Vista can't boot another copy of its own self.
(4) There is no operational Linux in the PC.
(5) Grub operates without the need to access the MBR


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Comment #1 Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:32 AM
Damn I hate drooling like this! Superb work Cyndie!
Comment #2 Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:36 AM
Looking very nice, very nice indeed Xiandi.
Comment #4 Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:05 PM
This is one of your best ever, Cyn!! I love it! Can't seem to take it off my screen.
Yall know what's comin........
Comment #5 Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:17 PM
This is Soooo Beautiful! Sure hope there will be a Winstep to go with it??
Comment #6 Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:20 PM
There is. And she made docks and a rainy.
I made DX stuff.
Comment #7 Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:45 PM
I love this Xiandi ! Very comfortable to use, clean and crisp, and of course I like the black accenting the other colors. Extremely well done. -- Ace --
Comment #8 Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:36 PM
You know what would be nice is that someone would pull all the themed skins to together in one place, like a suite and......oh never mind.
Comment #9 Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:21 PM
This is just beautiful,is the background available?
Comment #10 Thursday, February 14, 2013 5:37 PM
You are soooo hilarious!!!!
Comment #12 Thursday, February 14, 2013 5:52 PM
Will be soon. She dun good.
Comment #13 Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:19 PM
Thank you so much everybody!
Matching skins are up now!
Comment #18 Friday, February 15, 2013 9:23 AM
i want wb8 T_T but this should be and is on my to get list...
Comment #19 Friday, February 15, 2013 9:43 PM
Thaks so much everyone! I'm really glad you like it!
Comment #20 Sunday, February 17, 2013 5:37 AM
Yet another beautiful, well designed skin. My heartiest congrats to you Cyndie!
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I'm a major proponent of purchased pedicures. I love walking into a salon and having some other person work his or her magic on my little tootsies. All that scrubbing and buffing and painting–and don't forget the massage finale–puts a lady in a fine mood. Honestly, I have absolutely zero problem spending $25 or $30 on myself (err…my feet) every once in a while.
With that said, there are a few occasions where an at-home pampering session is just…necessary. Maybe you're prepping for a hot date and you want to make sure all your piggies are in pristine condition. Maybe you've had a really long day and you just need a foot soak to take your mind off the rude lady from the subway or your boss's seemingly-incessant criticism. Perhaps you just want to primp–a natural-born right bestowed upon all women.
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Soak Those Bad Boys
Fill a large basin with medium-to-hot water. I like to use a litter box because it's cheap and large enough for both feet. You can invest in a made-for-feet basin or even try large bowls. The choice is yours. Add about a cup of Epsom salts and a little bit of lotion or body wash and mix. You can also use essential oil. Let your feet soak for a good 10 to 15 minutes. Sometimes I just wait until the water gets cold, but I'm kind of lazy.
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The Epsom soak will loosen dead skin and other unpleasantries, making it easier for you to scrub it all away. Sometimes I use a loofah, other times a pumice stone. My personal favorite, though (and this is somewhat of an indulgence) is Le Edge. It's a multipurpose exfoliation tool. It's disgusting–in a very satisfying way–to see what this thing scrapes off.
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So about 2 years ago I started a long term goal of mine: to gradually grow most of my food on my own. Today I am taking a huge step, I am adding animals! I just picked up 6 Rhode Island Reds baby chicks! I have built a coop for them when they get a bit older, but for now here is a quick video in their new home.
I choose this breed of chickens because they are known for laying large eggs frequently, which is what I primarily want them for. They don't get broody, generally quieter, aren't too jumpy. The other upside is that they do pretty well as a meat chicken in the event that I have to do so. This is kinda a big step in the process that I am working on and I hope I am doing it right! Anyway, there is more to come on the chicks in the coming weeks.


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The process has been on going for a long time. So given there are two different academic fields for consideration, A theory of Everything, would explain a Unified reality theory?
If one has a scientific mind, or, philosophical mind, what does this mean to you? I am interested on what you have to say about this.....
There are unified fields theories and as a scientist would this play into an aspect of reality as a Unified Reality Theory(Finding a ToE is one of the major unsolved problems in physics?) See: Theory of Everything -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything
As a philosopher( the system-building scope of philosophy is often linked to the rationalist method of philosophy,) as a deeply debated theory of everything? See: -Theory of Everything and philosophy
Now, could "consciousness research" trump both?
|Complex ideas, complex shapes Adinkras — geometric objects that encode mathematical relationships between supersymmetric particles — are named after symbols that represent wise sayings in West African culture. This adinkra is called "nea onnim no sua a, ohu," which translates as "he who does not know can become knowledgeable through learning. See: From the Mathematics of Supersymmetry to the Music of Arnold Schoenberg
Jim Gates is an example of a scientist, looking for a pattern. His historical investigation in terms of the culture was used as a template to show a correlation pattern established in the way in which "pattern formation" was developed according to his theory. Algorithmic in nature, as to its identity as to a beginning to the formation of his theory. Symmetry, as to have formed from the perfect state. Symmetry breaking, as to become a materialization.
Now beauty, as we said, shone bright among those visions, and in this world below we apprehend it through the clearest of our senses, clear and resplendent. For sight is the keenest of the physical senses, though wisdom is not seen by it -- how passionate would be our desire for it, if such a clear image of wisdom were granted as would come through sight -- and the same is true of the other beloved objects; but beauty alone has this privilege, to be most clearly seen and most lovely of them all. [Phaedrus, 250D, after R. Hackford, Plato's Phaedrus, Library of the Liberal Arts, 1952, p. 93, and the Loeb Classical Library, Euthryphro Apology Crito Phaedo Phaedrus, Harvard University Press, 1914-1966, p.485, ]
asking the sixty-four dollar question is consciousness the ultimate reality is it the Unified Field See: Is Consciousness the Unified Field?, John Hagelin
Here is a video called, Beyond Einstein: In Search of the Ultimate Explanation (Original Program Date: June 1, 2008)that help create the question for me. When, and if you have time.
The question about wholeness, as a quest for bringing everything together seemed to be an underlying need for a foundation to explain a Unified Reality Theory. A quest for science regarding Relativity ad Quantum mechanics. A quest for a unified reality theory requires consciousness?
In a way, the closing of the Tesserack scene in Interstellar while a science fiction, is an interesting cumulative quest for understanding gravity across time. "They are not beings they are us?"


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Aren't these cupcakes too pretty to be eaten? Why they are.
Handmade by Lazy Susan, who are really two food-fanatical, confection-crazy craftsters who hail from Singapore, these totally cute kitschy one-of-a-kind treats are to be worn!
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Garien the PlanesWalkerEdit
Human Male, level 33 wizard(neutral good)
Garien is a native to the Blue Nation of Federates. He has been around the Federation since its birth. Since Garien is over 200 years old, he has seen much, and done much. Garien is extremely important to the history of the Blue Federation, and is thought by the world to be the most powerful magician on it.
He began life two hundred and elleven years ago, during a torrential downpour of political pain. A local tyrant had been conquering the entire island, just a few miles north of modern Blue Nation. The island, known as Rokese, was a place of holy pilgrimage. No crusade against the tyrant Lord Richard was succesful in stopping his pillaging of the holy temples, or his brutal over taxation of the defenseless peasants.
Local witches of Rokese were in part responsible for the destruction, as they had religious differences with the priests of the island. Lord Richard had enlisted the witches help, and then easily slaughtered the local coalition of Rokesian soldiers. Richard had not realized, however, that his new allies might have someone who could pose a threat to him.
Garien was an apprentice to the most powerful of the Rokesian witches. His master, Ralshun had met with Lord Richard to discuss what the witches of Rokese had as a reward for their services to him. Ralshun learned bitterly the price for being in Richard's way, even if he was only a threat in Richard's twisted mind.
Ralshun never returned to the tower where Garien was waiting for him. In weeks, Richard had completely conquered ever inch of the island of Rokese. In the meantime, he had found ancient scrolls which had great secrets to Ralshun's success over magic. The night after he found the scrolls in a secret tunnel beneath the tower, he had a dream, which he correctly believed Ralshun to be a warning, and confirmation of what Garien had feared. Garien's first epic tale began the night he learned of his teacher's murder.
The truth is that Richard was told to murder Ralshun through the advice of his Minister of Sorcery, Shi Kang. Shi Kang had prepared an epic ritual before Ralshun had the audience with Lord Richard. This necromantic ritual instantly killed, and transformed Ralshun into undead when Shi Kang gave the command word. Not perceiving any defenses Ralshun may have had at this, Ralshun's contingent spells prepared incase something like this may happen catapaulted Ralshun's raw power throughout the entire palace, cursing everyone inside to become undead.
This curse, known as the Tyrant's Cataclysm, is important for two reasons; it gave Shi Kang command of the entire city of Brigand, and it cursed Shi Kang with a curse that would drive Shi Kang to be one of the world's worst villains for over two hundred years.
Shi Kang had been one of Ralshun's most gifted students before young Garien had met Ralshun. Discovering that all in Brigand were under Ralshun's command, Garien had gathered all of the witches of Rokese and assaulted Brigand for seven days. Soldiers loyal to Lord Richard had joined the witches, determined to avenge "the bewitchment of their most honorable lord". Fighting in a stalemate, on the seventh day, Garien, had reluctantly made use of an artifact, known as the Wrathfire Ring.
With the ring he was able to smash into Shi Kang's throne room past hundreds of gaurds, and uttered a spell which terrified Kang enough to break his mind. Kang fled from Garien, promising vengeance on both Garien and Rokese.
Shi KangEdit
Formerly human male, level 30 necromancer, neutral evil
Shi Kang, over 211 years ago, the year of Garien's birth, became apprentice to Ralshun, the Great. Ralshun, a powerful wizard, did not specialize in necromancy, despite being very skillful with it. Shi Kang had reached a plateau in his training from Ralshun because Ralshun did not have the ability to teach Shi Kang the necromantic talents that he desired. Shi Kang, suspicious that Ralshun may be holding back, plotted revenge on his former master for years. Twenty six years later, he became Lord Richard's chief advisor of magic.
Shi Kang advised Lord Richard to murder Ralshun as a nuisance that could get in the way of Richard's conquest. The trap was set. Shi Kang had prepared an extremely powerful ritual that would make Ralshun Shi Kang's undead slave. Although the spell succeeded in its purpose of murdering Ralshun, Ralshun's contingency spells reacted with Shi Kang's to violently envelope the entire city under Shi Kang's control. The result was that Ralshun's body crumbled to dust.
Furious, Garien had deeply desired to avenge his teacher. Ralshun had in his possession an artifact of great power that allowed wearers of it to unleash an insignificant portion of Ahura Amon's portfolio of Wrath on the wearer's enemies. Using it, Garien tore through Shi Kang's powerful undead servants like a crossbow through a leather skin pouch and tried to kill Shi Kang. Shi Kang escaped, and every fifty years, he attempts to avenge his lost sanity, and his mortal life on Garien.
Lord Arek AmberstoneEdit
level 21 sorcerer, human male, Chaotic good
Lord Amberstone was a lord of a minor city in the Federation States. He fought in two wars, against the Illithids and the Ogres during the Harvest War and the Disaster. Currently he holds the position of Master of the armed forces of the Federation States. He routinely holds debates against the many philosophizing magicians of the city of Amberstone.
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2007 WAMC Northeast
Read the article
that appeared in
Baltimore City Paper Online.
(Are you surprised the Albany Times-Union never picked this up?)
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Pirates' Blog - Post your own comments about WAMC-FM
2006 WAMC Northeast
SEE: "Chartock
defends $48,000 raise" - Albany Times-Union - 03/14/06
Also see: "Alan
Chartock and control of WAMC's $6 million coffers:
is bilking not bilking?"
Also see: WAMC-FM's
Board of Trustees lacks legitimacy -- Let the members vote.
McGuire writes in TU that the ex-SUNY professor told him "the raise
has 'not been a secret,' stating he received the salary hike after retiring
as a professor from the State University of New York."
Oh really? Well when, until The Pirates broke the story
on this Web site on March 8th, did anyone -- ANYONE -- within earshot
of WAMC's seven-state signal ever hear a peep from Mr. Chartock
or anyone else on WAMC about the CEO asking for or receiving a raise
-- let alone a 45% increase?
Does anyone recall Mr. Chartock or his trusty WAMC Board of Trustees
seeking input from the listening public (whose money subsidizes the station
and pays Mr. Chartock's now $166,000 salary) about whether it was a good
idea in a year of 2 1/2% inflation for a public charity to give a corporate
officer a 45% pay increase?
Certainly no mention was made during the station's most recent $700,000
Nor was any given at the fund-drive four months before that, nor at the
one before that, nor back before that.
So in the year-and-a-half since he took the secret raise, when exactly
was Mr. Chartock finally going to let the public in on to whom more of
its money was now going, and the little secret that he says wasn't a secret.
My guess is Alan was just waiting for his esteemed Board of Trustees
to make the formal announcement, and that in the meantime WAMC's
'CEO for life' would just laugh all the way to the bank --
but of course, not secretly and not behind closed doors.
And for those who still think WAMC-FM is a
'not-for-profit' public charity,
that little salary increase works out to be a
45% pay hike
for the ex-SUNY professor.
(Editor's Comment: No
wonder Alan chose WAMC over SUNY, the money's better,
plus he's got near total
control over $6 million per year flowing through the station.)
See Chartock's salary
increase for yourself:
Check out WAMC's
Fiscal 2005 Form 990 -- just released by IRS.
(When you open the .pdf file, scroll down to "Statement 11 - List
of Officers, ... .")
Also, compare the current
salary with Fiscal
(Scroll down to "Statement 9.")
Also see: WAMC-FM's
Board of Trustees lacks legitimacy -- Let the members vote.
*Alan Chartock's pay from WAMC-FM
for the latest fiscal year (2005) is $166,101
(in compensation plus employee benefit plan contribution)
versus last year's $114,444,
a difference of $51,657.
Logon to WAMC
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2006 WAMC Northeast
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2005 WAMC Northeast
The Pirates have established
a new Blog site for WAMC-FM listeners. For the first time
in the radio station's history listeners can now give feedback in a public
forum for all to read. Anyone may comment about anything of interest
to listeners whether it is station programming, its management, or even
office gossip around the water cooler.
This new Blog site is set
up to be an open forum with a no-holds-barred attitude to encourage
honest in-your-face commentary and opinions. In posting to
the site, bloggers have a choice whether to use a real name, to sign with
nom-de-plume, or simply to remain anonymous. By giving such
choices, the site encourages maximum public participation.
Best of all though is that
after all these years WAMC-FM listeners will finally have
opportunity to find out just what all those other WAMC-FM listeners
are thinking about when it comes to their favorite radio station..
Did ex-UAlbany Prez Hitchcock
give Chartock preferential treatment?
How much money did double-dipping
prof cost NYS taxpayers in 24 years?
Did you know?:
A loophole in New York State law requires State Ethics Commission inquiries
to be immediately closed if the person under investigation leaves their
job with the State.
Karen R. Hitchcock: Chartock's
personal friend, a WAMC-FM
regular, and,
according to Chartock,
university president I ever served under."
(Editor's Comment:You
bet she was!)
See two related Albany
Eye blogs:
Trouble With Karen
See one article in
Pirates published February 2002:
WAMC chairman tells
"These charges are completely
-- Young female victim was WAMC-FM
employee in 1990's.
-- She'd been planning on career at station
-- left due to boss's behavior.
-- She was sworn to secrecy as part of
-- Victim's name is being withheld by
Pirates to protect her privacy.
-- Her Boss's advances were witnessed
by staff.
-- Other female employees were also harassed.
-- At least one witness is willing to
testify (name also being withheld).
The information contained
above has been verified, confirmed, and corroborated by not less than three
separate and independent WAMC-FM sources..
See The Pirates'
reply to Albany Eye:
wide shut!
Excerpt: "Then, of
course, at WAMC, there is the evidence itself.
To the instances of financial
chicanery where this 501c3's dollars have
inured to the benefit of
its CEO; to the violations of the prohibition from
participating in political
campaigns on behalf of a candidate;
now add this latest revelation
of a $20,000 payoff to settle a sex scandal."
See letter to The Pirates
published May 2000
detailing similar workplace
A First Amendment Fundfor
When was the last time you
heard anyone on WAMC utter four-letter words or any other FCC attention-getting
expletive for that matter? In fact, have you heard anyone even suggest
that the tightly-muzzled staff at WAMC ever has had a habit of airing
And not only that, but now
to go so far as to set up in advance a deep-pockets fund the purpose
of which is supposedly to defend against litigation with FCC stemming from
an anticipated onslaught of complaints from area listeners suddenly overwhelmed
with a desire to file charges of obscenity against the station; the fantasy
of it all leaves a sense that something is not right, that something else
is afoot here.
Have you heard of any other
NPR station anywhere setting up such a fund?
Then just what is going on?
Why the fuss? Why this sudden need by WAMC to set aside money for
legal defense?
Why would you do it
-- unless, of course, you already knew you'd done something that warranted
that kind of response and defensive posture.
What does Alan Chartock
know that he is not telling listeners and the station's membership about?
Is WAMC facing an IRS problem?
Has CEO Chartock used his
WAMC soapbox just once too often as his own personal platform by which
to lobby on behalf of candidates he favors for public office -- and in
opposition to those he is against?
Has Chartock's lobbying threatened
WAMC's cherished tax-exempt status, and is this new defense fund not
for anything FCC-related, but actually for fighting the U.S. Internal
Revenue Service? (IRS has stringent, long-standing regulations governing
501c3's and political activities, See below.)
Or maybe it's not at all
about preservation of the station's 501c3 status. Perhaps instead
Alan is worried that WAMC failed an IRS audit. (Just where does
$6 million go every year?)
Or it could be that Chartock
is afraid that listeners are finally fed-up and on the verge of filing
a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all WAMC dues-paying members -- the
purpose of which would be to seek voting privileges for the membership
so they can be the ones to elect annually those who would sit on
WAMC's board of trustees --- so listeners finally could elect those
who would run listener-supported radio. (See related article: Alan
Chartock: Selected, not elected -- EVER!!! )
Especially when you hear
that resembles unbalanced news coverage,
lobbying, or anything that
you believe is directly or indirectly participating or intervening
in any political campaign on behalf of -- or in opposition to --
candidate for public office.
and this is important for you to do, contact
the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Then demand (yes, demand) that WAMC-FM's tax-exempt status be taken
phone WAMC-FM and complain loudly!
complain to WAMC's advertisers
and underwriters -- make yourself heard!
rules governing participation by tax-exempt organizations in lobbying,
and political campaigns:
IRS link --
Organizations and Politics: Click
IRS link -- Tax-Exempt
Organizations and Political Activities: Click
IRS link -- Charities
May Not Engage in Political Campaign Activities: Click
IRS link -- Life Cycle
of a Charity - Jeopardizing Exemption: Click
IRS link -- Where Do
You Report Suspected Tax Fraud Activity?: Click
IRS Albany office: (518)
IRS National office: (800)
WAMC-FM's Federal
Tax ID information:
(Give this information
to the IRS employee taking your complaint)
WAMC, Inc.
318 Central Avenue, Albany,
Employer ID #22-2400593
Telephone: (518) 465-5233
Web site: www.wamc.org
to WAMC-FM:
Toll-free: (800) 323-9262
- ext. 150
Toll: (518) 465-5233
This Web site's goal is to
let you know what listeners
really think, and to provide answers
to questions about things you might have wondered, but about which you
could never get a straight answer from the powers-that-be at WAMC.
For example, aren't you interested
where your "membership" dollars really go?
.....And aren't you curious
why dues-paying 'members' of WAMC are not allowed to vote in annual
elections for the station's board-of-trustees, nor allowed the 'right'
to run for that office? (Members of most other listener-supported
so-called 'public' radio stations have these valuable membership privileges.)
.....And how is Alan Chartock,
former board chairman, now its president and CEO, able to surround himself
on the WAMC board with hand-picked trustees who continually
rubber-stamp his wishes (and his personal salary increases), a board which
never fails every year to elect him chairman, and paid 'executive director'?
.....And how did a valuable
FM broadcast license, owned by the citizens of New York State and operated
by Albany Medical College, end-up being transferred for free
to the literally permanent control of one politically-connected
SUNY professor and a small hand-picked group of his buddies? And
all this without benefit of that pesky legal formality -- whenever the
State disposes of valuable assets -- of publicly auctioning-off those assets
to the highest bidder?
.....And speaking of SUNY,
why did SUNY overlook FOR 25 YEARS Alan Chartock's 40+ hours per week 'other'
job at WAMC, a glaring breach of its own University Policy (a code-of-conduct
which prohibits full-time
"moonlighting" by full-time, tenured faculty)?
......And aren't you wondering
how Mr. Chartock obtained this sweetheart deal from SUNY which, though
"moonlighting" is prohibited, paid him a full professor's
SUNY salary package while simultaneously
overlooking the professor's
full-time salary package with perks, benefits, pension, travel allowances,
and expense account all courtesy of 'public' radio WAMC 90.3 FM?
......And haven't you noticed
how news reports and feeds from
WAMC 90.3FM rarely, if ever, make
it onto
Public Radio's network news coverage or onto NPR's national
......And aren't you inquisitive
as to just what percentage of your dollars generated during each of the
lucrative thrice-annual
WAMC membership drives ends-up in the WAMC
CEO's pocket as salary, perks, and pension benefits?
Stay Tuned!!! As this
site evolves and grows, these questions and MORE will be answered!!!
This Web site is dedicated
to offering up-to-date, topical material concerning radio station WAMC
90.3 FM. Feel free to e-mail your submissions for posting on
this Web site.
Sincerely yours,
G. M. Heller, Executive
Chair, President, CEO, and Editor
WAMC Northeast Pirate
P.S. If you would like
to submit comments, opinions, reviews, and/or points-of-view for inclusion
and posting on this Web site, please feel free to e-mail material directly
to me at email@example.com.
Your material will be posted for all to see. Should you prefer that
your name and e-mail address not be published with your views, please let
me know. This Web site firmly, resolutely, and absolutely protects
the privacy and identity of authors, letter writers, and contributors who
wish or need to remain anonymous. Thank you.
Bloggers! The
Pirates have
established a new Blog site for those wishing to comment concerning any
issues relevant to WAMC-FM. The Blog is set up to be an open
public forum (with the only restriction being that of good taste) --
so blog away! To access the The Pirates' Blog, Click
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A Wi-Spy is a portable USB spectrum analyzer, similar to a cable tester, but for wireless. It displays all radio energy in a frequency range, such as the 915 MHz, 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz public spectrum. Unlike a Wi-Fi card, the Wi-Spy is a fine-tuned piece of hardware that shows non-Wi-Fi activity emanating from devices like microwave ovens, automation systems, bluetooth, cordless phones, wireless security cameras, or anything else operating wirelessly in those frequencies. It also helps users determine a viable channel for network communications.
What is Chanalyzer?
Chanalyzer turns data collected from a Wi-Spy (and a wireless network interface card) into charts and graphs that will help users determine if they are experiencing interference. With a Wi-Spy, its' data can be found in the Density, Waterfall and Channels Table views. With a wireless network card, Chanalyzer displays available access points and can be found in the Networks Table and Networks Graph. If you are running Chanalyzer in a virtual machine, like VMWare, you will need to connect an additional USB Wi-Fi adapter to see specific network information.
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1) Download Chanalyzer Pro Software from MetaGeek.
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Choose a Wireless Network Interface Card (NIC)
Select a built-in or connected wireless network card in the main menu to access additional WLAN information about SSIDs, RSSI, MAC address and data rate. Click Wi-Fi in the menu bar, and then your wireless network card to collect Wi-Fi data in conjunction with the spectrum data. Wireless scanning is optional - Chanalyzer will continue to function if a wireless NIC is unavailable.
*Wi-Spy is a spectrum analyzer. It is not capable of reading at the Wi-Fi packet layer. Therefore Wi-Spy will not appear in the Wi-Fi card drop-down list.
Occasionally a wireless network card will actively perform probe requests on all Wi-Fi channels, creating noise across the entire band with power levels above -40dBm. This background activity can often skew results of a spectrum analysis site survey. If you notice this behavior with your wireless network card and don't want the additional noise in your recording, we recommend that you select No Wi-Fi Scanning.
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Disney buying 'Star Wars' maker Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion
Brandon Bailey
Vowing to breathe new life into filmmaker George Lucas's beloved "Star Wars" franchise, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday that it will pay $4.05 billion to buy San Francisco-based Lucasfilm and the rights to produce future installments in one of the world's most lucrative film sagas.
Disney CEO Robert Iger, who called the series "one of the greatest family entertainment franchises of all time," said his company plans to release the first of at least three more "Star Wars" films in 2015, with an additional sequel coming every two to three years after that.
Lucas had previously said he would make no more "Star Wars" films, and he recently announced plans to ease into retirement after naming a successor to run his production company. Disney said he will serve as "creative consultant" on the upcoming films.
"I've always believed that 'Star Wars' could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime," the 68-year-old film pioneer said in a statement released by both companies.
The deal will add to Burbank-based Disney's already significant presence in the Bay Area, where the media conglomerate also owns Emeryville-based Pixar Studios -- itself an early spinoff from Lucas' company. Disney said it has no plans to move employees of Lucasfilm or its subsidiaries, including the celebrated special-effects division known as Industrial Light & Magic, from their current locations.
Lucasfilm has been headquartered at San Francisco's Letterman Digital Arts Center since 2005, but the company also has operations in Singapore and at two campuses in Marin County, where Lucas moved from Hollywood to the property he renamed Skywalker Ranch in 1978.
The privately held Lucasfilm employed about 1,700 people as of last year, according to an analysis by the research firm PrivCo, which estimates it had $1.5 billion in revenue in 2011.
In addition to new films, Disney plans to create new toys, consumer products, TV spinoffs and theme park tie-ins from the "Star Wars" series, which the company will add to a growing stable of iconic characters that already includes Disney's Snow White and the Little Mermaid, Pixar's Buzz Lightyear and Nemo, and Marvel's Iron Man and the Mighty Thor.
"If you look at the films that work these days, it's these big-branded characters that do really well," said Michael Corty, who follows Disney for Morningstar. "So this is in their wheelhouse."
Lucas also produced such hits as the Indiana Jones films starring Harrison Ford, but Iger told analysts Tuesday that Paramount has certain rights to that series that make it unlikely Disney would seek to revive it.
"We're going to concentrate on the 'Star Wars' franchise," said Iger, who added that as part of the deal, Disney is acquiring an "extensive and detailed treatment" or story outline for the next three films in the series.
While the later "Star Wars" installments were panned by some critics and fans, the last sequel in the series ranked as the top-grossing film of 2005. "We believe there is substantial pent-up demand" for more installments, Iger told analysts.
The six "Star Wars" feature films produced by Lucas have earned a combined $4.4 billion in box office revenue. Disney Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo said he estimated each of the last three films could have averaged $1.5 billion after adjusting for inflation and the increase in potential for revenue from overseas and other sources.
Toys and other products tied to the "Star Wars" brand will bring Lucasfilm about $215 million in revenue this year, Rasulo added, but he said Disney believes it can make even more money in foreign markets and through additional tie-ins at theme parks and elsewhere.
"We like Star Wars' potential on television, as well," Iger told analysts, adding that Disney may create a related series for its new cable channel aimed at boys.
Though best known for its films, Disney is a diverse conglomerate that also owns television networks ESPN and ABC, vacation resorts and retail stores. It reported $1.8 billion in profit for its most recent quarter, up 30 percent from a year earlier.
Some analysts trace the current strength of Disney's film division to its $7.4 billion purchase of Pixar, which was an early spinout from Lucasfilm before it was taken over by Apple (AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs.
"Their movie business before Pixar was kind of struggling," said Morningstar's Corty. "Disney needed an injection of creativity and Pixar helped with that."
Disney's latest deal will mean additional wealth for Lucas, whose personal fortune was estimated at $3.3 billion by Forbes earlier this year.
As sole owner of Lucasfilm, he will receive slightly more than $2 billion in cash and about $2 billion worth of stock in Disney -- making him the second-largest individual shareholder in the company.
The filmmaker had announced plans to retire earlier this year, when he named veteran producer Kathleen Kennedy as co-chair and his eventual successor as head of Lucasfilm. Disney said Kennedy will now run the operation as a division of Walt Disney Studios.
Lucas had recently abandoned plans to build a new studio on a third Marin property known as Grady Ranch, after neighbors opposed the project. A spokeswoman for Lucas said he will retain ownership of the current Lucasfilm campuses, including the sites in San Francisco and Marin, with the understanding that Lucasfilm will continue operating on the sites.
Contact Brandon Bailey at 408-920-5022; follow him at Twitter.com/BrandonBailey.
1971: George Lucas founds company as he releases "THX 1138," his first feature film.
1975: Special-effects studio Industrial Light & Magic and sound-effects company Sprocket Systems, which later becomes Skywalker Sound, founded.
1977: "Star Wars," the first film in a blockbuster trilogy, released.
1978: Lucas purchases 2,500-acre ranch in Marin County that later becomes Skywalker Ranch, home of some of Lucasfilm's production studios.
1979: Lucas hires Ed Catmull to head Lucasfilm's new computer division, which later creates the Pixar Image Computer.
1982: New video game division, Lucasfilm Games, later renamed LucasArts, launched.
1983: THX division, focusing on in-theater sound, founded.
1984: Computer division, using new Pixar Image Computer, releases first short film, which featured contributions from John Lasseter.
1985: Lucasfilm moves to Skywalker Ranch.
1986: Lucas sells Pixar to Steve Jobs.
1997: Original "Star Wars" trilogy re-released.
1999: Release of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace," kicking off new trilogy.
2003: Lucasfilm Animation established.
2005: Lucasfilm moves into new offices in the former Presidio military base in San Francisco.
2006: Disney buys Pixar from Jobs.
2008: "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," first full-length animated film, released. TV series of the same name debuts.
2012: Disney buys Lucasfilm.
Source: Lucasfilm, Pixar, staff research


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Brother and Sister Claim They Were Just Having Sex, Not Stealing That TV
Siblings Robert and Amanda Larrivee entered into the women's bathroom of Samuel's Sports Bar in Springfield Massachusetts, with the intention of stealing the restroom's TVs. But the noise they made ripping the units from the walls alerted one of the bar's patrons, and then a bar employee quickly locked the duo in the bathroom and called the police.
Realizing they were trapped, the Larrivees knew they needed to think of a good reason Robert was in the women's bathroom. So when the cops arrived, the brother and sister claimed they had entered the ladies room to have sex.
Police weren't buying their tale, mainly because they could see a flat-screen had just been torn off the wall. But when they realized the duo were siblings, the excuse got even more ridiculous.
It was later discovered that the flat-screens were missing from the men's bathroom as well. Amanda, 30, and Robert, 38, face larceny charges.
While they probably don't get it on, we think it's safe to say this is brother and sister with a highly unusual relationship.


text: Father Hugo teaches the "secret" of what it means to live by faith. God uses "mishaps, losses, sickness, suffering, persecutions" fruitfully. Christians can fully trust that when God uses his "pruning knife," He does so in order that His children can multiply the fruits of holiness and grow in love. (4 pages, first published: 1980's)


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|The magician displays three wooden blocks. A hole runs through the middle of each block and each block can be inserted down a wooden rod. The magician removes the top block (A) and places it inside an empty hat. Likewise he places B and C in the hat. After displaying the wooden rod, he replaces the blocks back onto the rod and covers same with a bright red wooden tube. When he lifts the tube, the middle block (B) has vanished and reappears inside the hat! This item is well made and should last a lifetime with normal use. Great for children's shows, prevention programs (you know, the ABC's of . . . whatever). A classic in magic.
|The magician displays a small cabinet. He opens the two front and two top doors of the cabinet to reveal two compartments. One compartment has a die filling it. The magician takes out the die and places it into his hat. He closes the doors of the box, says the magic words, and declares that the die is now back in the box. He doesn't prove his claim however by opening the box and showing that the die has traveled to the box. Before anyone can say anything, the magician commands the die to go back into the hat. He opens to box to show that it is (still) empty and picks the die up out of the hat. The audience, especially the kids, are not impressed.
Next the magician places the die back into the box, closes the doors, says the magic words and declares that the die has now traveled magically into the hat. To prove the die's disappearance from the box, the magician opens one top and corresponding front door. This would great if it weren't for the fact that the magician has opened the wrong set of doors! The kids shout that the die is in the other side. The magician closes the doors and the opens the other set of doors, only in the process he tips the box and a loud clunk is heard. The kids are certain that the magician is trying to put one over on them and they are hot on the magician's trail. After some additional byplay of the magician trying to elude his suspicious audience, finally he does open all the doors of the box and sure enough, the die has disappeared! The missing die is then reproduced from the hat!
This model of the classic Die Box effect features black lacquer finish with ornate designs, black die, double door principle and a "clunk" noisemaker that is clear and loud. The pattern and design of this box was made famous by the late Homer Hudson. A very nice die box for the price. 0281FOLre-0012
|During the heyday of the Rubik Cube craze, we used to watch Suds at magic conventions make these cubes on the spot! This is the ungimmicked version of the effect where an apparent ordinary mixed-up rubik cube is simply tossed up into the air and it comes back down completely solved! This is a flash trick that gets response from just about every audience! This trick has been used by Bruce Chadwick in his act for over 25 years!
|The magician displays a beautiful natural wooden block. Threaded through the two holes in the block is a decorative cord. He demonstrates how easily the block can slide up and down the cord. Yet when the block is dropped down the cord, the magician can make the cube freeze and stop on the cord at any time. As well, at his command the block will resume falling down the cord! Use this classic effect for mind reading, asking the block to stop once on the cord for yes and twice for no. Have a spectator yell stop at any time and the cube stops on command. This is a fun trick to do, is very easy to perform and is beautifully hand-crafted. A great item in magic and highly recommended.


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Hopefully I don't repeat myself…but both these are good sources and thought I would include both of them. They overlap some points, but hopefully will reinforce the importance of James Polk.
"Who was James K Polk? The Enigma of our Eleventh President" by Robert W. Johannsen
This is a great article that discusses Polk, his life and some of his accomplishments. I have to agree with this article in that many people don't know who is James Polk was, even though he was one of our greatest presidents. He was a workaholic and the only president to actually accomplish all of his campaign promises. He was a many who did exactly what he set out to do. Now this probably contributed to his death just a few months after leaving office…many people say he actually worked himself to death and maybe he did. The author of this article wrote:
He brought a high level of discipline, diligence, and intellectual acumen to the responsibilities of his office. He was a man who fixed his eyes clearly on his goals, and pursued them "with undeviating resolution."
The article ends with this thought:
Perhaps Harry Truman, a person of no little presidential experience himself, put it best: Polk "exercised the powers of the Presidency ... as they should be exercised"; he knew "exactly what he wanted to do in a specified period of time and did it, and when he got through with it he went home."
I think that this article can help us to better understand the complex man who was our 11th president. He certainly would not play well in today's media – he was too cold and calculating – but he was a strong president who knew what needed to be done and did it. It is always important for a leader to be willing to work and get events done.
Another interesting tidbit from the article that our presidents should all remember: "Presidents who wish to be remembered as great, some have said, should keep diaries." After all, how else can we later judge them? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
I recently finished Seigenthaler's biography of James K. Polk. Now this is a book that has been sitting on my shelf in "need to read" pile for over a year…and I actually started the book in like September…but hey, I finally finished it! I'm not a slow reader….just easily distracted by other books…and non-fiction doesn't pull you with the "have to know the ending" the way fiction does, so it gets left behind easier…but enough defense of why it took me so long!
This is a well-written biography and that is easy to read. In other words, it is not one of the long-winded academic tomes where you have to be a historian to keep going. It really is a book that anyone can read and enjoy (and should…Polk needs more attention!). It is mostly a political biography, but does a really great job of summing up the politics of the era and making them accessible to everyone. While you might not like Polk as a person by the end, you will certainly respect him as a politician. Polk kept a detailed diary while President, so we have a great primary source for his thoughts and actions. Seigenthaler writes, though, that Polk "must be read as a brooding and humorless man." (pg. 119) He was not necessarily a nice man and as the author tells us, very partisan. Everything was in party lines to Polk. While always polite to everyone's face, in his diary, he would vent about hated political enemies. Seigenthaler ends the book with these words:
What Polk recorded about himself immeasurably enriches our understanding of his term in office. At the same time, it puts him under a looking glass with human flaws and personality quirks and sometimes makes him the author of his own disparagement. What he wrote in his diary often attests to his smallness as a human being. What he did in four hellish years attest to the greatness of his achievements. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., has compared Polk's standing among presidents with that of Harry Truman: "Neither Polk nor Truman was one of those creative presidents who make the nation look at things in a new way…But both had the intelligence and courage to accept the challenge of history. History might have broken them, as it broke Buchanan and Hoover. Instead it forced them, not into personal greatness, but into the performance of great things." He did great things. That is a powerful epitaph.
On that note, though, there is some interesting views of Buchanan in this biography as well. Buchanan was Polk's Secretary of State and I have never had a high opinion of Buchanan, but it was greatly lowered by this book. Buchanan really struck me, in this book, as a whiner.
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