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What's the difference between neighborhoods with a high rental turnover and vacancy, and a neighborhood that's in demand, where people choose to stay year after year (even if they don't own)?
I lived in the same neighborhood of Philadelphia for much of the last decade. It's a nice place to live, it's convenient and feels safe. But it's average, not great. The neighborhood has already become what it is; most residents and commercial neighbors seem happy with things the way they are.
I lived in one of 4 units in a small apartment building for nearly 5 years. Not for lack of trying, I barely knew any of the other tenants, most of whom were there for a year or two at most. I realized that the "niceness" attracted people who largely kept to themselves, and but the "niceness" never drew them in enough to keep them.
Beyond the "niceness" lies a complacency that I believe keeps average neighborhoods average.
Just because people live near each other doesn't mean they have anything in common. Just because people live near each other doesn't mean they know their neighbors, let alone care enough to look out for each other.
That's the difference between an average neighborhood, and a great one. A great neighborhood is built for people who want to be neighbors. A great neighborhood is made by the people in that neighborhood doing things together.
I'm the founder of a coworking space and community in Philadelphia called Indy Hall. Indy Hall is a membership community for people who often work in isolation: freelancers, entrepreneurs, and remote employees. Some of us work in proximity to each other, sharing a 10,000 square foot workspace in Old City, but we also socialize and collaborate.
Our community has grown from just two dozen founding members in 2006 to more than 300 monthly members in January 2014. Our model for building community and placemaking has become a standard that's followed by people on every continent except for Antarctica.
I wake up every morning excited to get to work. It's not because I'm going to spend my day in a room full of people instead of working from my home office. It's because I know those people, and because we care enough to look out for each other. That's a warm, nurturing, exciting, dynamic, and inspiring place to spend your days.
Which is why I'm excited to be working with Chad Ludeman of Postgreen Homes to create an equally warm, nurturing, exciting, dynamic, and inspiring place to live.
Our catalyst project, dubbed K'House (which is pronounced like "Kaboom") will serve as a spark for this kind of movement. Indy Hall's growth accelerated dramatically once we had a physical location – and 6 years later, our membership continues to grow by 10% or more every month.
Meanwhile in Kensington, we've slowly been building connections to the existing residential and business community over the past couple of years.
K'House will become a physical connection to the community in addition to being our residence much like Indy Hall's location did, and we expect to be able to quickly grow beyond our first home as momentum builds.
Chad's experience building homes in this neighborhood (not to mention that he and his family are residents, too) has already proven to be another feather in our cap, making it even easier to connect and deepen our roots. No other developer that I've met has the kind of long-term mindset necessary for building homes AND building a real, authentic community.
The founding residents, who will join me in living in our new buildings, will work together with the neighborhood to build a strong foundation for that growth community and the K'House is a critical cornerstone in making that possible. We are all experienced community builders, who see moving into K'House together as an investment in ourselves as well as our neighborhood and our city.
Want to join us for dinner sometime? Say hello in the comments below!
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Monday, October 27, 2014
Call for Chapters: E-Governance Applications for User-Driven Healthcare
Call for Chapters: E-Governance Applications for User-Driven Healthcare
Rakesh Biswas, M.D. (Department of Medicine, LN Medical College and Research Center, India)
Ephrem Eyob, Ph.D. (Department of Engineering Technology, Virginia State University, USA)
Proposals Submission Deadline: January 15, 2015
Full Chapters Due: April 30, 2015
For release in the Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development (AEGDDRD) Book Series.
Series Editor: Zaigham Mahmood (University of Derby, UK & North West University, South Africa)
The Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide & Regional Development (AEGDDRD) book series aims to publish authored, edited and case books encompassing the current and innovative research and practice discussing all aspects of electronic government development, implementation and adoption as well the effective use of the emerging technologies (including social media and mobile technologies) for a more effective electronic governance (or e-governance).
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Fast transformation of human activities due to information and communication technology (ICT) innovation is becoming a ubiquitous phenomenon as government and health care delivery are directly impacted. New discoveries in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and nano-technology is speeding the creation of new knowledge. Comprehensive e-services framework is speeding the distribution of best-in-kind services in healthcare, with new modules for helping them build better IT networks for healthcare services, especially healthcare delivery. Some governments are becoming leaders by building a range of applications and Internet-based services to connect with citizens about the healthcare services they receive, including healthcare and wellness services.All this activity needs a platform for documentation and further development through shared learning with an international audience of academics and interested individuals.
The objective of this work is to provide a clear and consolidated view of current e-government and healthcare network models. We seek to explore the new methods to model, characterize, and build e-government networks for health care. We need to study the critical issues (cultural, security, threats, legal, and technical) confronting e-government healthcare networking, the emergence of new mobile healthcare networking devices and applications, and how healthcare networks impact the business aspects of healthcare industry. Network robustness is also a vital property that needs to be addressed. Furthermore, the collection of chapters will be able to offer tools and guidance and best practices for local governments to optimize their experiences in transacting business internally and externally to citizens that either are interested to get information, interested in having an assessment done, or need to keep track about how their care is being laid out.
Target Audience
This book is designed for professionals and researchers working in the field of health care and e-government, both from theoretical and practical point of views. The book will also provide insights to the executives responsible for understanding the technology and utilizing it to positively impact their business. The audience for this book includes, but is not limited to, the following:
• Researchers
• Health practitioners
• Government officials
• Bloggers
• Healthcare networkers
• Web developers
• People and enterprises involved in marketing/advertising health care products and services using internet and mobile applications
Recommended Topics
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Models of healthcare networks
• Healthcare networks analysis of virtual online communities
• Healthcare networks evolution
• Information diffusion in healthcare networks
• M-government
• M-health care
• Infrastructure for e-government and healthcare
• E-healthcare issues
• Patient Safety in e-care
• Radio Frequency identification (RFID) for health care applications
• E-Health and Patient Care for the Elderly
• Cultural issue and e-healthcare disparities
• Robustness of Healthcare networks
• Online communities
• E-healthcare networks and security
• E-healthcare networks on mobile devices
• Integrating individual patient needs with population based governance: role of user driven healthcare
• Personalized medicine and e-governance
• Open health information management and e-governance
• Dynamic case reports model of open electronic health records for e-governance
• Ethics of online health and e-governance
• Role of e-governance in driving public engagement in health services research
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January 15, 2015, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by February 15, 2015 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by April 30, 2015. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, E-Governance Applications for User-Driven Healthcare .All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2016.
Important Dates
Proposal Submission Deadline: January 15, 2015
Full chapter Submission: April 30, 2015
Review Results to Authors: June 30, 2015
Revised Chapter Submission: July 31, 2015
Final Acceptance Notifications: August 15, 2015
Submission of Final Chapters: August 31, 2015
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DoJ: Apple considered 'illegally dividing the digital content world with Amazon'
The justice department's complaint doesn't go into detail, but does suggest that Apple considered forging a deal with Amazon. The sentence in the lawsuit, noted by All Things D, suggests Amazon would have retained control of the e-book market while Apple stuck to video and audio.
"in addition to considering competitive entry at that time, though, Apple contemplated illegally dividing the digital content world with Amazon, allowing each to 'own the category' of its choice â audio/video to Apple and e-books to Amazon," the lawsuit reads.
Because the Department of Justice doesn't explain this accusation, author Peter Kafka noted that "it's not uncommon for lawsuits to contain big helpings of theatrics, with accusations and context that won't end up having any bearing in court."
Though the alleged deal between Apple and Amazon never came to pass, the department still believes that Apple colluded with book publishers to fix prices of digital content. It filed suit against Apple and the publishers on Wednesday in a New York district court.
Named in the suit in addition to Apple are Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin and Macmillan. Filings in court revealed that Simon & Schuster, Hachette and HarperCollins have already settled with the department to avoid the suit, while Macmillan and Penguin intend to fight the complaint.
Now, the government is seeking a settlement from the hold-outs â Apple, Macmillan and Penguin â that would allow Amazon and others to return to a "wholesale model." That would allow retailers to set the prices for the books they sell.
A total of 16 states have also joined the fray against Apple and book publishers by filing their own lawsuits. They claim that the agreements made with Apple have cost consumers $100 million.
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said that settlements reached with Hachette and HarperCollins will pay out $52 million in "consumer restitution." States involved in the complaint are Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and West Virginia.
With the launch of its iBooks platform, Apple convinced e-book publishers to switch to an "agency model" for sales, allowing them to set prices. Previously, Amazon used a "wholesale model" in which it would set its own prices, sometimes even at a loss, and upset publishers.


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A Voice for Citizens, A Force For Change
The League of Women Voters encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government. It influences public policy through education and advocacy. We are a diverse, non-partisan, political group with a long-standing tradition of educating voters.
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…on the markets, debt, the Dollar, being a contrarian, and on China. Not great quality video, but his thoughts are on the money like always (hat tip RW).
Hugh Hendry - 'I want to short people like me' (10 minutes):
Hugh Hendry - Chinese Economy 2009 (5 minutes):
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Body found on Mt. Rainier; hunt for writer halted
Body found on Mt. Rainier; hunt for writer halted
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — The Mount Rainier search for missing outdoors writer Karen Sykes has been suspended with the recovery of the body of a "deceased female" in the area where teams have been focusing their efforts.
The body, recovered about 3 p.m. Saturday, wasn't immediately identified.
Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman Patti Wold said that the remains were found off the trail near Boundary Creek in rough, steep terrain — an area difficult to access and not commonly traveled.
There was no immediate word on the cause of death, and Wold said the medical examiner would determine the person's identity.
Park officials had announced earlier in the day that the search had been suspended, but they did not elaborate at that time.
Sykes hasn't been seen since she separated from her hiking partner on Wednesday.
She is well-known in the Northwest hiking community and has written numerous hiking stories for online publications and newspapers. She is also a photographer and has written a book about hikes in western Washington.
At the time of the hike, she was reportedly working on a story when she and her partner encountered snow about 5,000 feet. Her partner stayed as she went on, with the idea that they'd meet up later, but she never turned up.
The partner, who made it safely back to the trailhead, reported her missing at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Seven ground crews, including two dog teams, combed an expanded search area near the Owyhigh Lakes Trail on Rainier's east side Saturday. Rescuers also searched by air.
Her friends had hoped that searchers would find her safely sheltered. Wold said she had adequate survival gear to camp overnight in an emergency.
Safety concerns for Sykes and search crews included snow bridges, tree wells and steep, wet, slippery terrain, Wold said. A searcher was hurt Thursday when he punched through a snow bridge and was airlifted out of the search area.
Her disappearance came weeks after six climbers are believed to have fallen to their deaths while attempting to climb a challenging route to the summit of the 14,410-foot peak southeast of Seattle.


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The latest update to Evernote adds a new feature to its premium version: adding, syncing, and accessing your Word, Excel, Powerpoint docs, or any other file you throw at it, on any device or platform.
Users will now be able to drop any file into a note which is then synchronized with the Evernote Service. The note is made instantly available to all versions of the app, including the one for the iPhone. While you won't be able to edit those files on the iPhone, you will be able to view, listen to, and even email them. Currently, this feature is limited to Evernote Premium. The service costs $5/month or $45/year if you pay annually. [Evernote via Wired]


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Saving For Retirement
City of Minneapolis employees have access to a variety of resources to help financially prepare for retirement:
MSRS Deferred Compensation Plan
The Minnesota State Deferred Compensation Plan allows eligible employees to accumulate additional retirement savings on a tax-favored basis through automatic payroll deductions.
Pension Plan
Most City employees are automatically enrolled in the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA). This retirement plan provides pension, disability, and survivor benefits. You and your employer both contribute a percentage of your pay to fund future benefits. Contribution percentages are determined by Minnesota law. Closed Pension Plans and Supplemental Union Pension Plans may also be available.
Health Care Savings Plan
The Health Care Savings Plan allows eligible employees to save money, tax-free, to pay for eligible health care expenses. Eligibility and contribution amounts are determined by your employee group.
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Abbreviazione / Definizione
3rd Energy Package
European regulatory framework for competition in gas and electricity markets. The package includes directive 2009/73/EC for the regulation of gas markets and directive 2009/72/EC for the regulation of electricity markets and other related legislative documents and regulations.
AEEG (Autorità per l'energia elettrica e il gas)
European regulatory framework for competition in gas and electricity markets. The package includes directive 2009/73/EC for the regulation of gas markets and directive 2009/72/EC for the regulation of electricity markets and other related legislative documents and regulations.
ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable)
Term often used in the milieu of safety-critical and safety-involved systems. The ALARP principle is that the residual risk shall be as low as reasonably practicable.
ANSI (American National Standard Institute)
Private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards so that American products can be used worldwide.
Backfilling the trench
Once the pipeline is in place in the trench, the trench is carefully backfilled so as not to damage the pipe coating.
Biological Diversity (biodiversity)
Variability among living organisms from all sources including, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part (Convention on Biological Diversity 1992).
BSI (British Standard Institute)
Multinational business services provider whose principal activity is the production of standards and the supply of standards-related services.
BVS (Block Valve Station)
These are the first line of protection for pipelines. With these valves the operator can isolate any segment of the line for maintenance work or isolate a rupture or leak. Block valve stations are usually located every 20 to 30 miles (48 km), depending on the type of pipeline.
CHM (Cultural Heritage Management)
Is the vocation and practice of managing cultural heritage. It is a branch of cultural resources management (CRM), although it also draws on the practices of conservation, restoration, museology, archaeology, history and architecture).
An agreement between the company and a shipper, including, but not limited to, shareholders, entitling the shipper to transport gas through the TAP pipeline.
CAPEX (Capital Expenditure)
Capital Expenditure (expenditures creating future benefits. A capital expenditure is incurred when a business spends money either to buy fixed assets or to add to the value of an existing fixed asset with a useful life that extends beyond the taxable year).
Consultation Zone
The consultation zone is an area within a certain distance from the pipeline where future development of the area will have impact on the risk picture. The consultation zone can be one or several zones of various distances from the centreline of the pipeline where the pipeline company shall be consulted before the areas are developed or new building applications are processed.
Commercial Operation Date
The date the TAP pipeline is completed and able to receive, transport and re-deliver natural gas.
CS (Compressor Station)
Facility which helps the transportation process of natural gas from one location to another. Natural gas, while being transported through a gas pipeline, needs to be constantly pressurized in certain distance intervals (from 40 up to 100 miles). The gas in compressor stations is normally pressurized by special turbines, motors and engines.
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
A form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. Ideally, CSR policy would function as a built-in, self-regulating mechanism whereby business would monitor and ensure its adherence to law, ethical standards, and international norms.
EGL AG with its principal place of business in Lerzenstrasse 10, 8953 Dietikon, Switzerland, a public company limited by shares and listed at the SIX Swiss Exchange; TAP's shareholder..
A right-of-way agreement between the pipeline company and the property owner giving a pipeline company a right to use a right-of-way for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a pipeline. It may also include temporary permits, licences, and other agreements allowing the use of one's property. The easement holder typically has the right to access and inspect the property contained within the easement and to place certain restrictions on how the property can be changed, maintained or used, while all other rights remain with the landowner.
European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas works to promote the completion and functioning of the internal market and cross-border trade for gas and to ensure the optimal management, coordinated operation and sound technical evolution of the European natural gas transmission network.
ESIA (Environmental Social Impact Assessment)
Assessment of the possible impact—positive or negative—that a proposed project may have on the environment, together consisting of the natural, social and economic aspects.
A process system for ignited gas, either waste gas or vented for emergency or maintenance relief
Gas Transmission System Regulation
The Regulation on the conditions for access to the natural gas transmission networks No. 1775/2005 of the European Parliament and the Council of 28 September 2005.
GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period.
GT (Gas Turbine)
Also called a combustion turbine, is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a flow of combustion gas. It has an upstream compressor coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combustion chamber in between. Gas turbine may also refer to just the turbine element.
GTA (Gas Transportation Agreement)
Arrangement that allows one company to have marketing control of electricity produced by generating assets owned by another company.
Ionian-Adriatic Pipeline, the IAP project intends to connect the existing and the planned gas transmission systems of the Republic of Croatia, via Montenegro, and Albania with the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.
Italian RNG (Rete Nazionale di Gasdotti)
The Italian national natural gas transport system as defined in the Italian MICA Decree of 22 of December 2000.
IDD (Integrity Due Diligence)
Means the effort made by a party to identify and deal with potential ethical risks or areas of ethical uncertainty in order to avoid harm to another party or himself.
ISO (International Standard Organization)
An international-standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.
IDD (Integrity Due Diligence)
Means the effort made by a party to identify and deal with potential ethical risks or areas of ethical uncertainty in order to avoid harm to another party or himself.
The Italian Ministry of the Environment and the Territorial Protection (Ministero per l'ambiente e per la tutela del territorio)
MSE (Ministero dello sviluppo economic)
The Italian Ministry of Economic Development, formerly the Ministry of Productive Activities (Ministero delle attività produttive) aka MAP
NCS (Norwegian Continental Shelf)
Continental shelf over which Norway exercises sovereign rights as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is rich in petroleum and gas and it is the base of the so-called
Net Present Value, an economic standard method for evaluating competing long-term projects in capital budgeting.
Open Season
A procedure used to improve access to transport capacity in pipeline projects. It is generally used for new pipeline, LNG or gas storage projects in situations when regulation requires these projects to offer transportation services to the market and third parties not involved in the project and to do so in a transparent way. It can also be used as a mean of gathering information about potential interest in the project and provide an indication to project's sponsors on how and when to expand the project.
On-bottom Installation
Installing the pipeline directly onto the seabed without any subsequent pipeline burial.
PIG (Pipeline Intelligent Gauge)
A generic term to describe a device that travels inside the pipeline. "Pigs" can be used for a number of purposes including cleaning, gauging and measuring the condition within the pipeline.
Posidonia grass
Posidonia oceanica (marine phanerogam, commonly known as Neptune Grass) is a sea grass species that is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. It forms large underwater meadows that are an important part of the ecosystem. The fruit is free-floating and known in Italy as 'the olive of the sea'.
Permanent Right-of-Way
Usually a narrower strip to enable access for inspection, maintenance, repair and protection of the pipeline. The pipeline company shall have the right to access the strip at any time.
PGA (Peak Ground Acceleration)
Measure of earthquake acceleration on the ground and an important input parameter for earthquake engineering.
The process of cleaning or measuring internally the pipeline whereby a "pig" is sent though the line to clean/ measure the inside of the pipeline.
QRM (Quality and Risk Management)
Identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events.
ROW (Right-of-Way)
A narrow, un-obstructed strip or corridor of land of a specific width directly above the pipeline and around the supporting facilities, where some of the property owner's legal rights have been granted to a pipeline company. A right-of-way agreement between the pipeline company and the property owner is also called an easement. Rights-of-ways and easements provide a permanent, limited interest in the land that enables the pipeline company to operate, test, inspect, repair, maintain, replace, and protect one or more pipelines on property owned by others.
SCADA (System, Control and Data Acquisition)
Industrial control system: a computer system monitoring and controlling a process. The process can be industrial, infrastructure or facility-based.
Southern Gas Corridor
The Southern Gas Corridor is a term used by the European Commission to describe planned infrastructure projects bringing gas from the Caspian and Middle Eastern sources to Europe, aimed at improving security of supply. These new gas pipelines will create a new and alternative gas supply corridor to Europe in addition to similar ones originating in Russia, Africa and the North Sea
Single Authorization
Authorization for the construction and operation of natural gas pipelines belonging to the Italian RNG, pursuant to article 52-quinquies of Italian Presidential Decree No. 327 of 8 June 2001, as subsequently amended by the Italian Legislative Decree No. 330 of 27 December 2004.
The Treaty establishing the Energy Community between the EU and certain South East European States (became effective on 1st July, 2006).
Temporary Right-of-Way
A strip normally 30 metres wide to enable the construction of the pipeline. Additional space is usually required at road or river crossings or when required by terrain or soil.
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG
The company responsible for the planning, development, financing, construction and operation of the TAP pipeline project.


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It is unfortunate that an eighties one hit wonder by Falco came out with the same name as the 1985 Best Picture Winner Amadeus. In my opinion, the word Amadeus is generally related to that tune that so easily sticks in your head which is pathetic for two reasons. The first reason is simply because that word should bring to mind Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The other reason is because it pushes the film Amadeus into the background. I went into Amadeus thinking the film was a joke, based on what I had heard about it, and was happily surprised when it was a brilliant film.
It is difficult to determine how accurate a current portrayal of Mozart's life is considering nobody making the film could have ever met him, but this film painted Mozart in a very interesting light. Juxtaposing Mozart's brilliance with his increasing madness, the story is told in flashback format. The film opens with elderly composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) attempting to kill himself. Moved to a mental hospital, Salieri is interviewed by a doctor. Trying to kill himself because Mozart's compositions are remembered while his are not, Salieri recalls when him and Mozart were in their prime. Working for Emperor Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones), Salieri meets Mozart (Tom Hulce) when he is hired to write a symphony. Proving his brilliance and his ignorance of his brilliance, Mozart, within moments of meeting Salieri, takes one of Salieri's new works and improves it in minutes. From that point on, the film follows Mozart's career as Salieri attempts to compete with the brilliantly superior man.
Wild, rude and childish, Mozart acts like a spoiled child, knowing that his brilliance can allow him to do whatever he wants. Immediately pushing the envelope, Mozart begins to write a German Opera though most of his superiors believe that to be wildly inappropriate. When Emperor Joseph II backs Mozart's decision it started Mozart's life long string of composition output. As he continued to push the envelope, eventually composing an opera based on the tale of Figaro which had been banned from being performed. Mozart continued to grow more and more famous and Salieri continued to grow more and more jealous. Using his connections and the politics of performance, Salieri began to make sure that Mozart's performances became failures though, seeing every one himself, he admitted they were pure brilliance.
Mozart continued to make a home in Vienna, bringing his wife Constanze Mozart (Elizabeth Berridge), who unconventionally tries to control everything, to live with him. A father's boy at heart, Mozart's father ends up visiting. Used to his son doing whatever he is told, Leopold Mozart (Roy Dotrice) is surprised when his son refuses to move back home with him. Leopold lives with Mozart and Constanze briefly until Mozart's father and wife get into a fight and Leopold moves home. Shortly after returning home, Leopold dies, throwing Mozart into the depths of his madness. His music taking a dark turn, Mozart begins to work on his own projects and refuses anything that could make him money. Seeing the madness as a way to rid himself of Mozart, Solieri dresses in disguise and commissions Mozart to write a requiem for the dead, his own funeral. Mozart throws himself into the work, terrified of the specter-like being Solieri is pretending to be. The film culminates in a beautiful scene where Solieri volunteers to help Mozart, whose health is failing, to finish his final piece. Mozart creates music with his voice, speaking the score for the piece out loud while Solieri desperately tries to keep up. Even at the end, Mozart proves his superiority.
I have talked too long about the plot of the film, which is outstanding, but I want to mention some other amazing aspects that the films delves into. Solieri, a man who sees religion in music, struggles with his belief in God throughout the film. Solieri sees Mozart as a fool and cannot understand why God would give such a fool the gift to show the world God through his music. His entire belief in religion is shaken and destroyed by Mozart's superiority over him. The performances in the film were outstanding, earning both Tom Hulce and H. Murray Abraham nominations for Best Actor. Abraham ended up winning the Oscar, a win that he deserved very much. Both Peter Shaffen, the film's writer, and Milos Forman, the film's director, were honored with their own Best Writing and Best Directing Oscars. The music in the film was also perfect, capitalizing on the use of classical music and filling the score with pieces from Mozart himself.
As far as Best Picture goes, the film went up against Places in the Heart, the Killing Fields, a Passage to India and a Soldier's Story. I have not seen any of the other Best Picture nominees so I cannot compare them to Amadeus to determine if Amadeus should actually win but the film was certainly good enough to win. Directing, writing and acting were nearly perfect throughout the film, creating a stunningly beautiful and unique portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life. As far as this being a well done film I give it a 4 out of 5 and as far as pure entertainment goes I also give it a 4 out of 5 ending with a total of 8 out of 10. Even if you're not interested in Mozart, this film is worth seeing.


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Director Curtis Hanson, a journeyman only recently bestowed the title of Great Director, has already made his horror movie (1973's The Arousers), his kiddie action comedy (1980's The Little Dragons), his teen sex romp (1983's Losin' It ), his handful of Hitchcock riffs (1987's The Bedroom Window, 1990's Bad Influence, and 1992's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), his theme-park water ride (1994's The River Wild), his film noir (1997's LA Confidential), and his Karate Kid homage (2002's 8 Mile, starring Eminem in the Ralph Macchio role).
The only thing missing from his filmography, which includes the wondrously earthy Wonder Boys, is his science-fiction epic; not anymore. In Her Shoes, yet one more Hanson movie that began as a best-seller, fills that void, offering up a two-plus-hour tale in which we're to believe not only that Cali gal Cameron Diaz and Aussie Toni Collette are sisters, but also very Jewish. Lest you think this unimportant, this bit of kosher chick-lit is taught in a Jewish Studies course at the University of Pennsylvania, alongside works by Roth and Bellow. I believe the phrase you're looking for is: Oy vey.
Alas, if that were the movie's greatest problem, it could overcome such a lousy pairing; James Caan and Al Pacino didn't look like brothers either, after all. But the movie is a bust in myriad ways, especially because almost every scene possesses the oily feel of manipulation and condescension, as though Hanson and screenwriter Susannah Grant are ordering you to Cry here! and Laugh here! and Cry and laugh here! You can almost hear them shouting at you over the soundtrack, even when during those quiet, slow-mo moments filled with heart-breaking and/or gut-wrenching epiphanies -- say, that scene in which an illiterate Diaz stutters and stammers her way through Elizabeth Bishop's beloved self-help poem "One Art" at the urging of a dying prof.
Since Diaz is featured prominently on the poster, reducing Collette to an afterthought in much the same way the actual film does, let us begin with her. In this adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's novel about two diametrically opposite sisters who love to hate to love to hate each other, Diaz is cast, of course, as the wild sister, Maggie Feller. We know she is wild because when first we encounter her, she's drunkenly shtupping a guy in the bathroom stall during their ten-year high school reunion. It's a faux pas from which she can't recover, and she's forced to call her upright-citizen sister Rose (Collette) for a ride. Rose is peeved -- she's in the middle of cuddling with her law-firm boss, after their first night of courteous sex -- but she's not altogether unfamiliar with the situation. This isn't the first time she's had to rescue her vomit-covered sis from a night of toilet friggin'.
But Diaz is less a wild child than an immature one -- a dunce, in short, who apparently never learned to read, since her mother was unstable, heavily medicated, and, eventually, quite dead. (The film never explains precisely why Maggie is illiterate, perhaps because there can be no good explanation for why a bright girl from a nice middle-class Jewish home can't read.) She's a party girl who seems to have misplaced all her invitations; the nuttiest thing Maggie does is skip off to Manhattan for an MTV audition, which she flubs after not being able to read the TelePrompTer. She's also wholly unlikable: Of all the men she could screw, Maggie chooses to bed Rose's boss in Rose's bed, which sends Rose into a tizzy and Maggie off to Florida to find the grandmother she believed dead.
In Her Shoes is one of those horrid Hollywood movies in which an actress like Collette gains a handful of pounds, wears only a little makeup, and is constantly referred to as frumpy and fat. This is self-help cinema for pretty people who don't think they're pretty enough. These aren't characters, but caricatures of the Driven Woman Who Chose to Ditch Her Stressful Day Job to Walk Dogs and Her Feral Younger Sister Who Moves in with an Old Lady and Discovers Responsibility After All. This is a song you've heard a thousand times before, and every note rings false -- save for those performed by Shirley MacLaine as the girls' grandmother, Ella Hirsch, who lives in an idyllic retirement community populated by cheerful old folks who apparently believe Cocoon was a documentary. The movie only sparkles when Ella kibitzes with her pals, Mrs. Lefkowitz (Francine Beers) and Mr. Feldman (Jerry Adler), the latter of whom has a little thing for Ella. One can't help but ache at the irony: a movie about young women just figuring out their dreary lives are empty and drab, till at long last it moves into the old folks' home and finds its soul. But studios will never make a movie about MacLaine's character; she can only be a footnote to a younger woman's story, a guest in her own home.
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U.K. Suffers Failed Bond Auction:
Here's what Mike Larson had to say about their auction and ours as well…
Weak 5-year auction leads to bond selling
In the wake of the failed U.K. auction of 40-year gilts, the bond market is paying close attention to this week's U.S. Treasury auctions. We're in the process of selling $98 billion of 2-year, 5-year, and 7-year notes, the biggest weekly sales of longer-term debt in U.S. history. And while I wouldn't call the 5-year auction a failure, it certainly wasn't strong.
The $34 billion of 5-year notes were sold at a yield of 1.849%, above pre-market talk of 1.801%, per Bloomberg. The bid-to-cover ratio came in at 2.02, below the average of 2.18 at the last 10 sales and down from 2.21 in the February auction. Indirect bidders purchased just 30% of the notes on offer, down from 48.9% at the last auction and the lowest since December.
Bonds are getting spanked in the wake of this sale. The long bond futures are down 1 26/32 now, with a virulent sell off taking place after the auction results came public at 1 p.m. What makes the sell off all the more interesting is that it is happening DESPITE the first actual Fed purchases of U.S. Treasuries. The Fed bought $7.5 billion of Treasuries with maturities in the 2016 to 2019 timeframe.
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DescriptionSolomon's Key is a platform game with both action and strategy elements. On each level your goal is to retrieve a key which can then be used to unlock the exit. To help out, you have a magic wand which can be used to create and destroy blocks (though some blocks can't be destroyed). In order to reach the key you will need carefully to arrange the blocks on the screen so you can jump your way around safely. Wandering around each level are a variety of enemies which will cause you to lose a life if you're caught. Some creatures can be killed by destroying the block they are standing on, others must be dodged. Hidden bonuses and magic can be found on many of the levels, sometimes even hidden in blocks. Some treasures give you bonus points, others can form magic spells to help deal with the enemies. To make the game more difficult, each level has a time limit in which it must be completed.
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- "ソロモンの鍵 王女リヒタの涙" -- Japanese SEGA Master System spelling
- "ソロモンの鍵" -- Japanese Famicom spelling
- "Solomon No Kagi" -- Japanese title
- "Arcade Archives: Solomon's Key" -- PlayStation 4 title
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|Computer and Video Games (CVG)
|Sep, 1987
|9 out of 10
|The Games Machine (UK)
|Oct, 1987
|90 out of 100
|Happy Computer
|Oct, 1987
|83 out of 100
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1001 Video GamesSolomon's Key appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Cheat cardThe magazine Commodore User published a cheat card (no. 4) that contained a 23-line program giving the player the choice of infinite lives, infinite time, or unlimited fireballs, or all three. The player had to type the program in and then follow the on screen prompt to load their game.
- Happy Computer
- Issue 01/1988 - Best Dexterity Game in 1987
- Power Play
- 1987 - #2 Best CPC Game '87
Kabushi (250623) added Solomon's Key (Amstrad CPC) on Jul 30, 2005
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All Jeffco students participate in general music classes beginning in first grade. In fifth grade, students may also take instrumental music classes which offers them the opportunity to learn how to play a wind, brass, percussion or string instrument. In middle school, music education options include classes in band, orchestra, and choral music. Music electives at the high school level include a wide variety of both instrumental and choral offerings. Jeffco students excel in music at a very high level and regularly win regional, state, and national awards for their performances.
Research reveals strong correlations between a quality music education program and academic achievement. The study of music develops essential skills in critical thinking, creative problem solving, effective communication, and team work. Participation in music supports our District's Mission: To provide a quality education that prepares all children for a successful future.
Jeffco Public Schools offers the opportunity for those students already participating in their school's choir, band or orchestra at the middle school and high school levels to audition for a Jeffco All County Honor group. Auditions are held late 1st semester and the concerts are in January. Any student in a Jeffco neighborhood, option or charter school participating in their school's choir, band or orchestra can audition for the chance to perform in the same type of group they have as a class. Please see your teacher for details.
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Last week, we ranked the 50 greatest female sex symbols of film. This week, we're tackling the men, before they tackle us. Remember, there's an important distinction here. These aren't just sexy men; they're men who had a seismic impact on male sexuality. To be safe, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.
50. John Travolta
In his younger days, Travolta had a distinctly masculine grace and sensitivity that recalled the young Marlon Brando. Neither actor aged especially well, but we'll always have Grease.
49. James Franco
Go ahead and laugh at his pretensions and his ubiquity, but James Franco perfectly captured a particular brand of irresistible teen bad boy in Freaks and Geeks, and his good looks and undeniable talent keep him among the ranks of contemporary sex symbols despite his best attempts to silly-art-project his fame away.
48. Viggo Mortensen
There's a reason the Lord of the Rings movies sold millions of tickets to people who didn't really care about hobbits.
47. Leonardo DiCaprio
Had he stuck with his floppy hairstyle from Titanic, we might remember Leonardo DiCaprio as we do Leif Garrett. Luckily, he put his good looks to better use, establishing himself as a globe-trotting, supermodel-nailing sex symbol for grown-ups.
46. Tom Cruise
We know it's tough at the moment, but try to remember why Tom Cruise got famous in Risky Business, Top Gun, et al. The fact that he alienated Katie Holmes doesn't negate that when she was in high school, she and every other teen girl in Christendom wanted a piece of him.
45. Bruce Willis
Women want him, men want to be him, etc. Bruce Willis has swagger.
44. Gregory Peck
Contemporary audiences mostly remember Gregory Peck for his genteel nobility as the ultimate Southern gentleman in To Kill a Mockingbird. But he'd already established his sex appeal in a series of Westerns that used his angular jaw to the fullest. In that light, the hot-dad quality of his Mockingbird performance seems inevitable.
43. Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem's face looks like it was chiseled from a red sequoia by a Cubist, mescaline-amped sculptor, and it's disturbingly sexy. That's probably how he managed to secure People's Sexiest Man Alive award while sporting the doofiest haircut in the annals of film villainy.
42. Richard Roundtree
Emerging from the beige eroticism of the '70s, Richard Roundtree was a black-as-hell sexual pioneer, instantly iconic as a sex machine to all the chicks.
41. Alain Delon
Just being French generally makes you sexier than most people, but Alain Delon's sly and seductive performance in Purple Noon, as the sexually ambivalent Tom Ripley, propelled him into a new realm of lust.
40. Robert Wagner
Cf. Warren Beatty, the best way to become a sex symbol is often to sleep with other sex symbols. Take it from Robert Wagner, who slept with Joan Collins, Joan Crawford, Natalie Wood, Anita Ekberg, Barbara Stanwyck, and Elizabeth Taylor.
39. Keanu Reeves
When you don't trouble yourself with his didn't-know-he-was-being-filmed approach to acting, you will remember that Keanu Reeves was the wet dream of the '90s, in Speed, The Matrix, and My Own Private Idaho. Even today, we might not rewatch his movies, but we'd probably fuck him.
38. Gael García Bernal
Gael García Bernal and his unspeakably pretty face could have suffocated quietly in telenovelas. Instead, he earned international recognition with edgy performances in sexually charged dramas like Y Tu Mama Tambien. We're very grateful.
37. Burt Lancaster
One flash of that iconic smile in From Here To Eternity, and a few thrusts amid a surge of waves on a Hawaiian beach, and we have the blue-eyed Burt Lancaster, forever emblazoned in sex-symbol history.
36. Ryan Gosling
Thoughtful, intense, and unabashedly feminist, Ryan Gosling is a sex symbol for our time. Just ask every single woman in your Facebook feed.
35. Ramón Novarro
Lauded as the new Rudolph Valentino, Mexican actor Ramón Novarro subverted the trope of the distant, unattainable masculine love interest with his flashy romanticism in films like Scaramouche and Ben-Hur. He remains a comely vanguard for early gay (and straight) actors.
34. Patrick Swayze
When Patrick Swayze gyrated against a lithe virgin in Dirty Dancing, the world panted. When Patrick Swayze came up behind Demi Moore working a potter's wheel in Ghost, our seats got wet. He illuminated the '80s with his brusque charm, and remains lodged in our memories somewhere between crushable campiness and genuine lust.
33. Tom Selleck
Though Burt Reynolds paved the way for the hairy man, Tom Selleck earned his own witty niche in the mustachioed market.
32. Melvin Van Peebles
Standing at the helm of his own acclaimed film about a revolutionary hustler, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles created blaxploitation and returned black men's sexuality to a cinema that had emasculated them for decades.
31. Wesley Snipes
He probably seems like less of a sex symbol now that he's in prison for tax evasion. But once, the chiseled Wesley Snipes projected the sex appeal of a man who could rip your dress off with one throw of a glaive. Just ask Jada Pinkett Smith, Halle Berry, and Jennifer Lopez.
30. Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas is actually a pretty good actor (see him in an Almodovar movie), but it almost didn't matter in the mid-'90s, when he capably filled the "big-eyed Latin lover" niche. The camp appeal of stuff like the sex scene from Desperado should not be underestimated.
29. Michael Fassbender
If you're wondering if you can be called a sex symbol, ask yourself if George Clooney has complimented your enormous penis on national television.
28. Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson was an aircraft mechanic for the Navy and truck driver before gaining recognition as an actor, and he brought a working-class, salt-of-the-earth masculinity to films like Giant. His breezy chemistry with Doris Day in their string of romantic comedies established him as a charming, urbane prototype for generations of male stars.
27. Sidney Poitier
In 1963, Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Lead Actor. But his suave, sophisticated style carried more lasting resonance than any award.
26. Matthew McConaughey
McConaughey is one of the few men on this list who's publicly stated that he feels comfortable being called a sex symbol. But part of this Southern boy's charm is his exhibitionistic self-regard.
25. Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty was a good-looking guy, but that alone isn't enough to make you a sex symbol. What is enough to make you a sex symbol is sleeping with an alleged 12,000 partners. Of his promiscuity, Beatty has modestly remarked, "It was what it was."
24. Steve McQueen
You aren't given the nickname "King of Cool" by just being averagely sexy. With a background in drag racing, Steve McQueen greatly advanced the devil-may-care sexy-man archetype.
23. Michael Caine
Because he's sustained a prolific career well into his seventies, Michael Caine's name may suggest "dignified elder statesman" more than "ascot-bedecked lust object." But watch Alfie and you'll see why he got famous in the first place.
22. Tony Curtis
With his dark curls and dark eyes, Tony Curtis radiated an intensity that allowed him to stand next to Marilyn Monroe in pumps and rouge in Some Like It Hot and still be widely regarded as a sex symbol. His bisexuality (see Spartacus for an on-screen example) only adds to the sense you get that this real-life satyr would sleep with anyone.
21. Errol Flynn
If you inspire an enduring locker-room boast ("in like Flynn"), it is safe to say that you have earned your spot as a sexual icon.
20. Bruce Lee
With one flying high-kick in Fist of Fury, Bruce Lee shattered a sign reading "No Dogs and Chinese Allowed." With the whole of his career, he shattered the similar restrictions about Asian-Americans in Hollywood, allowing actors who'd once been relegated playing waiters and servants to take roles with agency, sex appeal, and killer abs.
19. Ewan McGregor
Though Ewan McGregor's square jaw, bright blue eyes, and lovely speaking voice are indisputably appealing, we're most attached to his penis, which he shows off at any opportunity (see Trainspotting, The Pillow Book, Velvet Goldmine, Nightwatch, or Young Adam). More than his handsome face, it's that fearlessness that makes him a sex symbol for our time.
18. Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was known as "The Latin Lover" despite being French-Italian. Part of that was just the total racial cluelessness of his times, but his fans may have been responding to the ambiguous exoticism of his sexuality, which tempered the usual action-hero machismo with a mysterious femininity.
17. Clint Eastwood
Before Clint Eastwood was exclusively speaking to empty chairs, his taciturn brand of masculinity was speaking directly to our downstairs parts. His work with Sergio Leone introduced us to a rough manhood that was terrifyingly sexy.
16. Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni's flawless features and brooding, European inscrutibility made him the international sexual ideal of the 1960s.
15. Johnny Depp
Though everyone agrees that he's been laying on the pancake makeup a little thick this decade, Johnny Depp can't make us forget the soulful persona he built up in the '90s. He's probably responsible for more unnamed adolescent stirrings than any other actor in history.
14. Kirk Douglas
A gift from the Golden Age, Kirk Douglas made himself a sex symbol with a series of virile, often bare-chested performances; no woman of 1960 could resist his sexual ferocity in Spartacus.
13. Cary Grant
Cast beside iconic female leads like Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly, and Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant persuaded us that his suave, devilishly good-looks were not to be outshone. His very name still connotes suave handsomeness.
12. Harrison Ford
Even as he has turned into a cranky old guy with an earring before our eyes, Harrison Ford remains, somewhere, the irresistible rake we remember. His performances are actually generally quite chaste — probably as a result of his getting famous in the adolescent fantasies of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg — which makes it all the more impressive that he's an international sex symbol. He's just that fine.
11. Sean Connery
The domineering brow and the panty-dropping lilt of his Scottish accent were enough to make Sir Sean Connery an indelible sex symbol. Then, put that combo in a tux with a handgun and a rotating band of arm-candy.
10. Robert Redford
Robert Redford's sandy-haired, blue-eyed hunk persona has transcended the decades. That he leveraged his sex-symbol status on behalf of environmentalism and political advocacy only made it more lasting.
9. Gary Cooper
With relationships with sex symbols Clara Bow and Lupe Vélez, and starring roles in over one hundred films, Gary Cooper fastened himself as more than just a winsome face. When you've been immortalized in two separate songs ("Puttin' On The Ritz" and "Mr. Sandman") for being one stylish, sexy sonofabitch, you know you've made it as a sex symbol.
8. Clark Gable
There was something quintessentially dashing and commanding about Gable's Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, with his thick brow, debonair charms, and knowing glances. As Joan Crawford said, "He was a king wherever he went. He walked like one, he behaved like one, and he was the most masculine man that I have ever met in my life."
7. Burt Reynolds
If there's one hirsute body that could make the term "mustache ride" appealing, it belongs to Burt Reynolds. The Smokey and the Bandit star's animalistic appeal translated off-screen, as he shuffled through starlets like Tammy Wynette, Sally Field, and Dinah Shore. The vision of Burt Reynolds, in the buff, lounging on a bearskin rug, inspires something downright primitive in all of us.
6. Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington's sexiness is by turns domineering, genuinely charming, and grave. By toggling back and forth between those three erotic settings, he's managed to muscle his way not just to three Oscars, but into our hearts and loins.
5. Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt proves that a man can be as captivatingly beautiful as a woman, but still rawly masculine enough to make men think he could beat the hell out of them. His universally recognized gorgeousness transcends character, costume, hair length, and beard style.
4. George Clooney
George Clooney represents every American male's fantasy of aging — he's gotten sexier over time. The silver streaks in his hair and crinkles in his eyes have only enhanced his sandpaper-voiced appeal. By avoiding middle-aged paunch, and perpetually flashing that mile-wide grin, Clooney's managed to make an eternal bachelor look like a catch.
3. Marlon Brando
Just watch A Streetcar Named Desire, okay?
2. James Dean
If Paul Newman is the quintessential sexy man, then James Dean is the quintessential sexy boy. No one will ever pull it off the tragic-rebel thing as well as he did, but it's an ideal worth aspiring to: forever encircled by a puff of smoke and pulling away to angst-ridden pastures on a Triumph.
1. Paul Newman
Whether it was the brooding masculinity of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof or the unyielding self-assurance in Cool Hand Luke, Newman's sexiness varied, but never wavered. Ice-blue eyes, chiseled torso, winking good humor, confidence that radiated outward for miles, and a universally acknowledged decency; the man had it all.
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Looks like there's a big discussion about Digg's demise and Reddit's rise. Wish I could read the story.
Looks like there's a big discussion about Digg's demise and Reddit's rise. Wish I could read the story.
Digg is bringing back version 3 features because of the uproar from its user base. Let's see if Sphinn will do the same. Danny Sullivan jokingly Tweets that:
"in its next rollback, Digg brings back 2006, when it was popular and loved"
The decision was made after taking a survey, er, vote… gulp.
It's not so new these days, that moribund website that used to be the powerhouse of social media, Digg aka new Digg. This is just a random reminder that the new Digg sucks and has driven me to neurosis as you can tell.
Here are a few of the many voices speaking out against Digg 4.
MrBabyMan: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/3cje4o
KevinRose @Digg_community Please don't let individual content curation die out for the sake of RSS auto-fed publisher accounts. I've been telling the Digg team this since I was invited to Digg HQ to test the V4 alpha earlier this year. Publisher accounts are currently dominating Digg's front page. I completely understand the financial need to engage publishers, but without the individual-user posts that, in my opinion, made Digg a unique destination for original content, the new Digg has no more relevance than a Popurls or an Alltop (sorry, Guy), merely repeating (relinking) what everyone else is linking.
Digg User yanko1975: http://digg.com/yanko1975
Why having a friend's submits section is important.
1) Removal of a friend's submits section from Digg increases Power user's power.
2) Allows you to track your friends submits over time.
3) Allows you to search your friends submits.
4) Allows non power users to see their friends' submits.
Power users already have a network outside of Digg, be it a Blog, Facebook, Twitter or other means to up vote their friends submits.
You are not prohibiting Power User's Activities.
You are as dumb as DRM!
You are punishing Average Users, preventing Average Users from enjoying your site.
Why the Bury option is important.
1) Allows good to get to the top, and filters out the bad.
2) Empowers the Digg users for good, and yes evil.
3) Gives Digg users the ability to control the News.
What makes Digg different than RSS feeds is that Digg was controlled by the Diggers.
The Report button introduced a 3rd party with power over what users read.
This effectively destroys the sense of the community Digg once had, by removing the Digg users' ability to control the News.
How to deal with Digg Patriots w/o removing the bury button!?!
– Analysis of how Digg Patriots work.
– Digg Patriots have built a social network to control what type of news hits the front page.
– Strategy: As a group they target stories to bury.
Counter strategy: Do Diggers like the DPs?
– The only people who like what the Digg Patriots do are the DPs.
– Put a tab for the "Most Buried News" in 24 hours, 7 days, and 30 days.
– Let the Digg and Bury War Begin!!!
Why Edit needs a preview button
1) You give us 90 seconds to edit, what do you want, speed editing? Give us a preview button.
Why the Comments Section is important.
1) It allows the users of Digg to communicate with each other.
2) It is the Social part of Social Media.
3) Comments are the conversation on Digg. Why is it so horribly mangled?
What is the problem with the current Comments system?
– Difficult to find/reply to replies.
– No email notification of replies to your comments.
– No options for how Comments are shown
In a nut shell, it is nearly impossible to keep a conversation on Digg at the moment because the comment system is so horribly managed. There are several new aspects that I do not like, but I would rather you fix these first.
Because the Current Comment System is so horrible, it is killing two way conversations.
What Triggers, "Slow down there partner, you almost broke an axle."
1) Up Arrow
2) Up Arrow Comment
3) Down Arrow Comment
4) Comment
5) Reply to Comment
6) Change Fallow/Fallowing setting
Everything, every thing you do on Digg, triggers that message. Are they on different timers? No, of course not this is Digg V4.
Why is this bad? You are interrupting Digg users from:
– Up Arrow News they like
– Up Arrow comments they like
– Down Arrow comments they do not like
– Commenting
– Replying to other's Comments
– Adding people that they like to Fallowing
– Removing people they do not like to Fallow
You are prohibiting all activity on your site, at the same time. Everything is on the same timer. Blind Up Voting is treated the same as posting commenting, replying, or anything else on the list above.
I understand why you want a timer, to curtail the activity of Power Users.
However, you are punishing ALL users for Any Activity on your site.
How many, broken axles do you expect users to wait?
Redmond Pie http://www.redmondpie.com/8-reasons-why-the-new-digg-v4-totally-sucks/
So the Digg v4 was launched yesterday. A monster full of bugs as if no testing was done before it was made available to public on a busy day at a busy hour. Bugs weren't the only thing which made me think that way, everything about new digg seems like it was never tested.
I have been very active on Digg for a very long time and below are my finding about what I think is wrong with the new digg.
1. My News is full of uninteresting stories and spam
Spamming Digg has never been this easy. In fact that's the only thing I actually saw in "My News". "My News" is cluttered with the stories that the people you have been following either submitted or dugg. In terms of old digg, you could consider it something like Recommendations Engine. But, it's different. Recommendations Engine picked up the stories which could be of interest to you from upcoming (stories submitted within 24 hours) while "My News" shows stories even from 10 days ago, if it's recently dugg by a following digger.
2. Duplicates
Everyone hates duplicates, and everyone hates them more if they both make it to front page and it gets even nauseous if you don't have the ability to bury one of those. While Digg v3 had a bad duplicate detector, at least it had it. And to make sure, I'd check all the submissions from that specific category by sorting them by most dugg, to make sure there is no submission about that already in the upcoming section which is of course impossible to do now. I could see a story running as much as 5 times today since there is no real way to detect duplication.
3. RSS submissions sure is a bad idea
With auto-rss-submissions, My News gets even more cluttered with blogs like Gizmodo publishing as much as 70 entries a day while it's certain that all of them weren't supposed to be submitted to Digg. It gets worse if you are following a news source because they publish hundreds of stories a day.
With auto submissions, the title, description and categories are auto chosen too. Taking that into consideration, how would this top 10 lists blog auto submit the content and into what category?


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Newtown has hired a trauma expert and mental health adviser to determine what help town residents need more than three months after 20 children and six educators were fatally shot at an elementary school.
Jill Barron says she has been working with the town soon after the Dec. 14 killings. Her work includes treating New York firefighters after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
She is working with Newtown Health Director Donna Culbert to strengthen the town's mental health support system and assess what the community needs.
First Selectwoman Pat Llodra says the need for a mental health consultant with expertise in trauma is critically important. She says every member of the community and beyond was affected by the killings.
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Hello there,
I've been wondering if there is any solution out there to remove/fix/up the very annoying 20 character limit when renaming unit stacks?
Let me explain what I mean: Usually it is very helpful to rename stacks in order to be able to keep better track of them (though there are doubtlessly other reasons). So using the "ALT" key in combination with a left-mouse-click on any unit stack brings up the "Rename your force" box, where one can rename one's stack. BUT currently one seems to be limited to names that have a maximum of 20 characters! So a Confederate Division lead by General Longstreet can not be renamed to "Longstreet's Division", because it is composed of 21 characters!
The renaming field of the "Rename your force" box is a LOT longer than the 20 character limit and would be able to accommodate longer names with ease.
A second point is that somehow the apostrophe still seems to be unavailable to us when renaming units.
That said I have found a "temporary fix" to get one's longer names into the game, but it is only a workaround and thus less than elegant and a tad cumbersome. Here's how to do it: [INDENT]0) you have a unit you desperately want to rename, using more than 20 characters and include an apostrophe in the name
1) go ahead and rename the unit stack (using ALT + left mouse-click) to something like "CHANGETHISNOW" (or something similarly easy to find)
2) save your game
3) exit AACW
4) browse to and open the "ACW" game folder
5) look for and open the folder called "SAVES" where you should find a folder with the name of the saved game
6) you will see several files in there ending in ".hst", ".ord" and ".trn"
7) open each one of the files using Notepad and search for "CHANGETHISNOW" and change it to whatever you want, then save the file (make the very same changes in the other files as well)
8) restart AACW and open the saved game
9) enjoy the name you game the unit[/INDENT]


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Mayer Hawthorne has seen his share of rejection — and I'm not talking about music labels.
The suits-and-sneakers-wearing crooner with the thick-rimmed glasses said he wasn't the coolest kid in his Ann Arbor, Mich., high school and was often turned down by his female peers.
"I got rejected," said Hawthorne (real name: Andrew Mayer Cohen) over the phone last week from his tour bus in Tempe, Ariz. "There was plenty of that. Luckily that didn't stop me from trying. I still had my share of girlfriends."
Hawthorne has gone on to release three albums, with the most recent one, 2013's "Where Does this Door Go," featuring three songs produced by Pharrell Williams. Hawthorne — who will perform a sold-out show on Valentine's Day at Park West — has also collaborated with Pitbull, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and Jessie Ware. His sound is a mix of soul and pop with hip-hop influences, or, as he has called it, "Steely Dan meets the Beastie Boys."
As is often the case when someone reaches a certain level of fame, Hawthorne now has people from his past reaching out to him, for one reason or another.
"There's been a couple of those," Hawthorne said. "People come out of the woodwork. I had a babysitter from back in the day try to contact me to see if I was available. I hadn't had contact with her since I was a kid."
Hawthorne is surrounded by beautiful women in his music videos, and his sharp wardrobe can be described as geek chic. He said he isn't playing a persona on stage or on camera and insisted he is just being himself. And if you ask him, his "suave" really isn't that suave.
"I don't consider myself cool," Hawthorne said. "I'm more of a music nerd."
Last month Hawthorne attended the Grammys for the first time. His limited edition boxed set for "How Do You Do" was nominated for best boxed or special limited edition package. Hawthorne's boxed set lost, but he said he still enjoyed himself — because awards don't mean that much to him.
"It's not at the top of my bucket list," Hawthorne said. "I don't make music to win awards. This is going to sound corny, but the thing at the top of my bucket list is to be able to do this forever. I don't want to have to go back to a 9 to 5."
The versatile Hawthorne often plays his own instruments and self-produced his first two albums, 2009's "A Strange Arrangement" and 2011's "How Do You Do." For the third album, he opted to relinquish his producer responsibilities to the producers he selected. It wasn't easy. There were disagreements, with Hawthorne wanting to make sure his album still sounded like him.
What was the key to resolving the disagreements?
"Whenever I felt like I wasn't getting my way and got upset in the studio, I would step back and realize, 'Wait a minute, this is what you wanted,'" Hawthorne said. "I wanted people to push me. I wanted people to force me to try something new. At the end of the day, we get to make music for a living. It's not worth getting upset about. And I'm a lover, not a fighter."
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When: 8 p.m. Friday
Where: Park West, 322 W. Armitage Ave.
Tickets: Sold out


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Commemorations for Abib 30
On this day, the two honorable Sts. Mercurius and Ephraem (Ephraim) were martyred. These saints were loving brethren in the spirit, and kinsmen in the flesh, and they were born in the city of Akhmim. They became monks in one of the monasteries of Upper Egypt, and they remained their for twenty year.
Satan, the enemy of good, brought tribulation upon the Orthodox Church, and the followers of Arius entered the churches to offer the sacrifices upon the altars of the Orthodox. These two saints rose up and came to the church and cast aside the bread and wine which the Arians had laid on the alter and said, "He who has not been baptized in the Name of the Holy Trinity is only fit to offer up an offering on the altar of idols." The Arians seized the saints and beat them very severely, until they delivered their souls into the hand of the Lord and they received the crown of martyrdom.
May their prayers be with us, and Glory be to God forever. Amen.
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