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In the Matter of
Implementation of Section 302 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
CS Docket No. 96-46
Comments of the Staff of the Federal Trade Commission
and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice
In Opposition to Petition for Reconsideration
July 15, 1996
The Staff of the Federal Trade Commission(1) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice offer this joint comment in opposition to the Petition for Reconsideration of the National Cable Television Association, Inc., insofar as that petition asks the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its decision to permit the operators of Open Video Systems ("OVS") to limit the ability of competing, in-region cable operators to demand carriage of their programming on the OVS.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division are responsible for maintaining competition and safeguarding the interests of consumers. Both the Antitrust Division(2) and the staff of the FTC(3) have wide experience in reviewing antitrust issues in the area of video programming distribution and other telecommunications issues.
This proceeding concerns the implementation of the portion of the Telecommunications Act of 1996(4) that relates to the establishment of OVSs.(5) Under the Telecommunications Act, a distributor of video programming, including a telephone company ("local exchange carrier" or "LEC"), may elect to transport video over its wires as either a common carrier, cable operator, or OVS operator.(6) OVSs will operate under a legal framework that is distinct from that of both common carriers and cable operators.(7) Like the Video Dial Tone ("VDT") systems that they replace,(8) OVSs will combine features of common carriers and cable systems.(9)
An OVS operator may act as a programming provider for at least one-third of the capacity of its own system.(10) An OVS operator is obligated to allocate the other two-thirds to unaffiliated video programming providers, but only to the extent that such program providers apply for channel capacity on the system.(11) The FCC is required to prescribe regulations that would prohibit an OVS operator from "unjustly or unreasonably" discriminating among these video program providers.(12) The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking raised the question of whether a decision by an OVS operator to discriminate against or to exclude a cable operator that is a direct competitor should be defined by regulation as just or reasonable.(13) The Second Report and Order concluded that an OVS operator should be permitted to discriminate against a competing, in-region cable operator to the point of excluding it from providing programming to the system.(14) In addition, the Second Report and Order contemplates that competing, in-region cable operators which lack significant market power may petition to demand access on an OVS.(15) We agree with the FCC's conclusion on this issue and find it to be consistent with well established legal and economic principles.
In construing the antitrust laws, the Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that a restraint on competition is reasonable if it enhances consumer welfare.(16) Our inquiry, then, is focused on how discrimination against, even to the point of exclusion, a dominant cable operator by a directly competing OVS operator will affect consumer welfare.
When a dominant firm is protected by high entry barriers, efforts to lower those barriers to entry must be structured to prevent the dominant firm from seeking, either directly or indirectly, to thwart those efforts. The FCC has recently concluded that, "overall, cable television operators possess substantial market power."(17) Because these markets are protected by high entry barriers, local cable operators have been able to "maintain prices above the level that would prevail if the market were competitive.(18) Moreover, the FCC has already found that the delivery of video programming by LECs represents an important source of potential competition for dominant cable companies.(19) Furthermore, as the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking notes, Congress created OVS to provide competition and lower barriers to entry in the provision of video programming to consumers. To the extent that cable company incumbents have market power and there are high entry barriers, efforts by new entrants to offer competition in the provision of video programming will likely enhance consumer welfare, by reducing prices and increasing quality. A requirement that OVS operators must permit competing in-region cable systems with market power to have access to OVS channel capacity would impede such competition, as the FCC has concluded.
The NCTA petition argues that it is inappropriate for the FCC to adopt rules that permit discrimination against in-region cable systems, but not other video delivery system providers such as DBS and MMDS. But in-region cable operators, because of their market power in multichannel video programming distribution, may have different incentives with regard to the use of channel capacity on an OVS than would programming providers who do not have such market power. A cable operator may have an incentive to see that the OVS is not successful. It could, therefore, use a request for capacity on the OVS as a way to protect and continue to exploit its market power. Enabling a cable operator to demand capacity on an OVS means that less capacity will be available for use by the OVS operator, and for other firms that might want to use some of the OVS capacity. This could result in the OVS providing a service that, because of its relatively limited channel capacity, is a less attractive alternative to the incumbent cable system. This, in turn, could help preserve the cable operator's market power, thereby giving the cable operator a strategic incentive to demand capacity on the OVS.
Thus, mandated access for in-region cable systems could result in less effective entry from OVSs than would otherwise be the case. In the extreme, potential programmers that would otherwise use the OVS may decide that, if the cable company is allowed on the system, it will no longer be worthwhile for them to participate. Thus, less entry, overall, would occur. These factors could also reduce the value of the system to the OVS operator, since, overall, the programming will be less attractive and it will be marketed less aggressively. This, in turn, would lead to fewer subscribers than would otherwise be the case and may deter the construction of an OVS in the first place.
Concern about mandatory carriage of a dominant cable company's offerings may have already played a part in some LECs' decisions to abandon efforts to provide VDT, the precursor to OVS. In Georgia, BellSouth Corp. objected to a request by Scripps Howard Cable, the relevant community's dominant cable operator, for half of the capacity of its proposed VDT system.(20) In Connecticut, Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. objected to a request by Cablevision Systems Corp., the relevant community's dominant cable operator, for over half of the capacity of its proposed VDT system.(21) Both LECs have announced plans to convert their video distribution systems from VDT to traditional franchised cable, rather than to OVS.(22) These decisions to forgo development of OVS may rest, at least in part, on a concern that competing dominant cable companies will be able to demand carriage on OVS.(23)
Furthermore, as the FCC noted in the Second Report and Order, giving dominant cable companies the ability to demand carriage on OVS may also reduce dominant cable companies' incentives to develop and upgrade their own systems.(24) The cable company might recognize that, although it may lose some customers because of its failure to upgrade, some portion of those lost customers are likely to switch to the cable operator's products on the OVS system. Recognizing this, the cable operator would have less incentive to undertake investments to upgrade its cable systems and consumers would lose the benefits of such innovation- based competition.
Accordingly, we agree that the OVS regulations should be structured with a keen concern for the ability of an OVS operator to offer a service that is independent from that of a competing dominant cable operator. An OVS that is independent from competitors with market power will provide consumers with the benefits of competition.
We also believe that a bright-line approach that gives the OVS operator the right to discriminate against or outright bar a dominant cable competitor makes sense. Justifying a bright-line standard does not require a demonstration that permitting OVS operators to discriminate against, or even to exclude, dominant cable competitors from their systems is always good. Rather, a bright-line approach is efficient if it generates greater net social benefits than would the expected application of a case-by- case approach, taking into account the costs of: (1) discriminatory or exclusionary conduct by OVS operators that is wrongly permitted; and (2) enforcement.(25)
In this situation, it is doubtful that discriminatory or exclusionary conduct against a dominant cable operator by an OVS operator would harm consumers. In fact, if a cable operator in a market is the most efficient provider of programming for part or all of that market's OVS capacity, the OVS operator will generally have no incentive to discriminate against or to exclude the cable operator. Accordingly, there does not appear to be much possibility that consumers will be harmed from dominant cable operators being wrongfully excluded from directly competing OVSs.
Considering enforcement costs, a bright-line approach is highly preferred in that its enforcement costs approach zero. In contrast, the costs of adjudicating disputes as to programming on VDT systems have been substantial. We believe that an approach that examines an OVS's discrimination against a competing dominant cable company on a case-by-case basis will replicate the conditions that hindered the development of VDT and will result in unnecessary costs and delays.
In this regard, we note that the Second Report and Order does provide an exception by which certain competing, in-region cable operators may petition the FCC for an exemption so as to be able to demand carriage on an OVS.(26) However, the specific exception cited -- for cable operators offering service to less than 20% of households and to fewer than 17,000 subscribers within the OVS' service area -- is a limited one, narrowly targeted to those cable operators who do not have a dominant market presence within the OVS's service area. In line with our concern that a case-by-case petitioning process may lead to unnecessary costs and delays for OVS operators, we would agree with the FCC's approach in defining this narrow exception.
In sum, we agree with the FCC's decision to permit an OVS operator to discriminate against, or even to exclude, a directly competing dominant cable company, and with its conclusion that such discrimination or exclusion is reasonable and just under the Telecommunications Act. This approach accords fully with the mandate of the Telecommunications Act that the FCC accelerate the emergence of competition in this market.
(1) This letter represents the views of the staff of the Federal Trade Commission. They are not necessarily the views of the Federal Trade Commission or any individual Commissioner. Inquiries regarding this comment should be directed to John Wiegand (415-356-5270).
(2) U.S. v. Texas Television, Inc., C-9664 (S.D. Tex. 1996) (consent decree stemming from an agreement between three local television stations concerning retransmission consent negotiations with cable systems); U.S. v. Tele-Communications, Inc., CV-94-0948 (D.C. 1994)(consent decree requiring application of anti-discrimination provisions of Cable Act to distribution of programming to Regional Bell Operating Companies); U.S. v. Primestar, 93-CV-3913 (S.D.N.Y. 1994) (consent decree involving satellite-delivered programming). In addition, in 1991, the Division investigated and subsequently moved to vacate consent decrees with the three major television networks -- NBC, ABC, and CBS -- which prohibited the networks from, among other things, owning certain financial interests in television programs or participating in the syndication of television programs.
The Division has previously submitted comments in a variety of FCC proceedings in this area, including: (1) effective competition standards for rate regulation of basic cable rates (MM Dkt. No. 90-4); (2) evaluation of the financial interest and syndication rule (MM Dkt. No. 90-162); and (3) revision of rules and policies concerning Direct Satellite Broadcast services (IB Dkt. No. 95-168, PP Dkt. No. 93-253).
(3) Summit Communications Group, Inc., C-3623 (FTC, Oct. 20, 1995) (consent agreement arising out of allegations that competing cable providers entered into a market allocation agreement); TeleCable Corp., C-3575 (FTC, Oct. 19, 1994) (consent agreement arising out of TCI's acquisition of TeleCable Corp. required that TCI hold separate and then divest either its own cable assets, or those of TeleCable, in Columbus); In re Boulder Ridge Cable TV, C-3537 (FTC, Oct. 10, 1994) (consent agreement barring parties to a cable acquisition from enforcing an ancillary agreement not to compete within 15 miles of each other in any present or future market); In re Tele-Communications Inc., FTC File No. 941-0008 (FTC, accepted for public comment on Nov. 15, 1993) (Commissioners Azcuenaga and Owen dissenting)(consent agreement by which TCI agreed to sell all of its QVC stock if QVC succeeded in acquiring Paramount; agreement withdrawn when Viacom, rather than TCI, acquired Paramount).
The FTC staff previously has commented on various issues before the FCC, including: (1) elimination of the prohibition on common ownership of cable television systems and national television networks (CT Dkt. No. 82-434); (2) rules relating to whether cable television systems "must carry" television broadcast signals (MM Dkt. No. 85-349); (3) the FCC requirement that broadcast licenses be held for at least three years before being transferred (BC Dkt. No. 81-897); (4) competition and rate regulation for cable television service (MM Dkt. No. 89-600); and (5) effective competition for cable television service (MM Dkt. No. 90-4).
(4) Pub. L. No. 104-104, 110 Stat. 56.
(6) 47 U.S.C. § 571(a).
(8) 47 U.S.C. § 573(b)(3) (repeal of VDT); In re Open Video Systems, ___ F.C.C. Rcd. ___, ¶ 2 (1996) (Report & Order & Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) (OVS similar to, and replacement for, VDT).
(9) In re Open Video Systems, ___ F.C.C. Rcd. ___, ¶ 1-3 (1996) (Second Report & Order).
(10) 47 U.S.C. § 573(b)(1)(B).
(11) Id.
(12) 47 U.S.C. § 573(b)(1)(A).
(13) In re Open Video Systems, ___ F.C.C. Rcd. at ¶ 15.
(14) In re Open Video Systems, ___ F.C.C. Rcd. ¶¶ 50-56 (codified at 47 C.F.R. § 76.1502(c)(2)(iv)(C)).
(15) Id. at ¶ 56 (lacking market share statistics, the rule permits cable operators with less than 20% penetration and fewer than 17,000 subscribers within the OVS's service area to petition the FCC for relief so as to demand carriage on a competing OVS).
(16) See, e.g., NCAA v. Board of Regents, 468 U.S. 85, 98 (1984); Reiter v. Sonotone Corp., 435 U.S. 330, 342-44 (1979); see also Robert Bork, The Antitrust Paradox 61 (1978); Richard Posner, Antitrust Law 18-20 (1976).
(17) In re Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in Video Programming, 9 F.C.C. Rcd. 7442, ¶ 212 (1994) (First Report).
(18) 1994 Cable Report at ¶ 131.
(19) In re Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in Video Programming, 11 F.C.C. Rcd. 2060 at ¶¶ 9, 86-103 (December 1995) (Second Annual Report).
(20) Ted Hearn, "Scripps Howard, BellSouth Battle Heats Up," Multichannel News 150 (8 May 1996); Ted Hearn, "Bell South Fights to Keep Cable Off Georgia VDT Trial," Multichannel News 1 (May 1, 1995).
(21) Kent Gibbons, "SNET Says It Can't Fill Rainbow's VDT Channel Order," Multichannel News 14 (June 5, 1995).
(22) Ted Hearn, "BellSouth Nabs Franchise in Chamblee, GA," Multichannel News 20 (April 22, 1996); Kent Gibbons, "SNET Drops VDT Plan, Goes Cable across Connecticut," Multichannel News 1 (January 29, 1996).
(23) Ted Hearn, "For Now, It Looks Like SOS for OVS," Multichannel News 142 (April 29, 1996).
(24) In re Open Video Systems, ___ F.C.C. Rcd. at ¶ 52.
(25) See Frank Easterbrook, The Limits of Antitrust, 63 Tex. L. Rev. 16 (1984); see also United States v. Container Corp. of America, 393 U.S. 333, 341 (1969) (Marshall, J., dissenting).
(26) In re Open Systems, ___ F.C.C. Rcd. at ¶ 56.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-Santa Clarita) will serve on a select health care task force, created by House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and led by Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt.
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If your last date hated graphic novels, or if he thought Yaoi was "wowie", if he thinks it's 'Josh' Wedon, or she called them 'dolls', maybe you're just not meeting the right kind of people. Where is the average geek to go, to perhaps, find true love? Well, a comic book shop, of course! The Eisner award winning Brave New World Comics, Santa Clarita's premier pop culture super store, is proud to announce an event of epic proportions.
Effective Jan. 15, 2009, Hunger Defense Fund merged into it's parent charity, Help the Children.
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Bipartisan negotiators reach modest budget pact
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GAO to review agency sequestration planning, implementation
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) asked auditors to review five different areas of sequestration. The Government Accountability Office will examine the actual sequestration order, as well as the July 31 memo to agencies from the Office of Management and Budget. He also wants GAO to look at any supporting reports, regulations and orders for compliance with the Budget Control Act, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, and other relevant statutes.
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Congress is demanding more answers about how $1.2 trillion in budget cuts set to take effect in January will be applied across the government. The House Budget Committee Wednesday unanimously approved a bill directing the Obama administration to provide Congress a report that provides specific details about how the spending cuts will affect federal agencies and programs. Meanwhile, the House Armed Services Committee formally requested that the head of the Office of Management and Budget, Jeff Zients, testify before the committee on the "mechanics and impact" of the automatic cuts.
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Hoping on the Top Ten bandwagon:
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Tubbs has a new home
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The RV park has 96 sites for visitors who are passing through the area and want to stop for fresh air. It is open seven days a week, including holidays, and costs $16 per site throughout the winter months. In the summer, the fee slightly increases to $20.
The park has seven full-time employees and one ranger on duty during operation hours. Even though it has attracted many motorhome travelers from across the country, a number of people who are looking to get away for the day have flocked to Palmetto Island as well. The campground offers fishing and picnic locations for outdoor lovers of all types.
Park manager Marcelle Guidry told the news source that the staff has received nothing but positive responses since opening two months ago. RV sites and cabins have been booked since Palmetto Island State Park debuted.
A family of four can save an average of 74 percent by vacationing in a motorhome, according to the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association.


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Railtown 1897 SHP -- Wildflower Train Rides! -- April 13 and 20, 2013 (4:30)
Park: Railtown 1897 SHP
What: Wildflower Train Rides!
Where: Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, Jamestown
When: Two Saturdays Only - April 13 & 20, 2013; Park open daily
Cost: $24 adults, $10 youths ages 6-17, free for children 5 and under
For More: 209-984-3953 or visit www.railtown1897.org
With spring in full bloom, Railtown 1897 State Historic Park is offering special Wildflower Train Rides on two Saturday afternoons only! Guests will enjoy a unique train ride experience behind the "Movie Star Locomotive" Sierra No. 3 as they treat their eyes to beautiful wildflowers! And, prior to boarding, passengers will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada foothills. Then, along the six-mile, one-hour train ride through the scenic Gold Country, guests will encounter meadows and rolling hills, with such flora as "meadow foam," "gold fields" and other colorful flowers typically in bloom. Plus, guests are even able to take wildflower seeds home to spread for themselves! Advance reservations are suggested and tickets are available now for online purchase at www.railtown1897.org.
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The once masterful director needs to sober up and make movies with bite again.
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Drugs have fueled the creativity of many good artists. The list goes all the way back to Edgar Allan Poe and the wicked tales he came up with strung out on opium. Unfortunately that mind alteration can sometimes make good ideas ruminate a bit too long. The result can be a muddled mess of half ideas.
Such is director Oliver Stone's latest sociology lesson Savages. He tries to study the collision of our peaceful and our primal self. What makes us cross over to our bad side? What takes us away from our content state and drives us to a fight or flight situation? His hypothesis seems to be we all have someone so precious that we will cross that line for, and when that person is taken from us we will fight tooth and nail and become a savage to get them back.
He sets up a story in which a hippy chick narrator named O or Ophelia (Blake Lively), acts as the Zen glue that holds the lives of two primo Kush entrepreneurs in the balance. Chon (Taylor Kitsch mumbling his way through another role), is a jar-headed Iraq veteran, and Ben (Aaron Johnson), is a Buddhist spouting brilliant botanist. Both guys obsess over her and love her, as well as each other. Of course the world of Stone is way too evil to keep their blissful equilibrium safe for very long, even when they seems insulated in sleepy Social of Laguna Beach.
Stone hasn't met a natural high he didn't like. He has made no bones about it, and is quite public about it. According to Jane Hamsher's book Killer Instinct Stone came up with much of his wild imagery for his notoriously amped-up Bonnie and Clyde Natural Born Killers while in a peyote- induced haze.
This is why when I saw the high-octane trailers for Savages, I expected Stone's adrenaline junky side. Instead when his mind unleashes a Mexican drug cartel led by the ice queen Elena (Salma Hayek) and her menacing minion Lado (Benicio Del Toro) on this flawed love-triangle of "heroes," I hoped would get to see some real bite.
Elena has Lado kidnap O from the lovers, so she can force them to join her drug empire. She is very naïve and from her privileged upbringing doesn't have much worldly experience beyond the mall. Soon she is in a remote location, sleeping on a dirty bed in a cage, being drugged in and out of conscience by Lado, who is surely doing unspeakable things to her, which are only revealed in the closing moments of the film.
Why don't we see any of this true evil horror earlier? Unfortunately, Stone has his characters babbling, philosophizing and endlessly facing off, instead of really going to battle. It's like the most boring of UFC fights, when neither opponent will commit and they just keep circling and kicking each other in the shins.
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Stone masterfully and successfully studied a similar chess game of good vs. evil in the piece of pulp U-Turn (1997). In that escapist film we saw some good old backwoods sex and carnage between a drifter trying to take a wife away from her older controlling husband. But, in Savages we just get glimpses of some torture, with Stone seeming to be afraid to really pull the trigger. An alleged snitch in the cartel is set on fire at a distance for his wrong doing, and the camera is at a distance and is shot all muddled just when we are going to truly see something intense.
The vibe I kept getting was similar to the one I feel while I am watching the Stone-penned Scarface when it plays on regular television. I am not a sadist, but if I have been sold that a film is going to go to a certain place, I am hoping it will get what I expect.
Also, Stone keeps finding redeeming qualities to all of his evildoers. Maybe he is trying to say there is a silver lining to everyone, no matter how damaged we are? Elena has a daughter she never sees because she is ashamed of her mother's career choice in crime. So, when O demands to stop being mistreated by Lado, Elena takes her into her mansion and makes her a surrogate daughter.
All of this is truly a shame since the acting is top notch all around (well except for the unwatchable Kitsch). We even have John Travolta thrown in for comedy relief as a bumbling DEA agent trying to play both sides. They all seem more than willing to go that extra mile, especially Tel Toro whose scenes will make you pray that you never get an unexpected visit from gardeners at your house.
Nothing good lasts forever is the message I got from Savages. Not just from the plot, but from the style of Stones directing. This is the man behind Platoon and Wall Street for goodness sakes. This man used to have the balls to give us a Sgt. Elias or a Gordon Gekko. Soon he gave us unwatchable Alexander the Great biopics and watered down treatises on the downside of pro football. A story called Savages needed more suspense, more twists, and more old-school Stone before he got too stoned to tell a coherent story.
Stone has broken the cardinal rule of Tony Montana, the greatest characters he ever written. He has gotten high on his own supply. The film world is no longer his. He needs to sober up go back to the basics. He needs to go back to being a savage himself.


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Built in the early 19th century and set amidst 100 year old gardens, the Chateu de Bel Ombre Manor house was the heart of the Bel Ombre estate. It offers a Mauritian menu, open for dinner only.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Daily doodle: big bird, small house
So, here is one of my daily doodles, better said, nightly doodles, because I usually sketch at night, before I fall asleep and then I scan and color the sketch the next day.
I just realized today is 3rd of June which means it's only 3 days left until the Drawing Day 2009. I think that's such a good idea, to dedicate one day in year to drawing so I'm definitely going to participate on Saturday. How about you?
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- Maria said...
- June 3, 2009 at 9:35 PM
- Owl Eng said...
fabulous!! the bird is cool with great style! love the contrast projected by scale and the background doodle...Your art work always set me in imagination mood ;). Thanks!!
- June 4, 2009 at 1:43 AM
- humanobserver said...
- June 4, 2009 at 6:02 AM
- Art Fan Ako said...
I like this a lot! Sharp colors and design!
- June 4, 2009 at 8:23 AM
- Dalva M. Ferreira said...
May I say the obvious? You are very pretty, your drawings are fantastic, and I will follow your work from now on. And I will tell my daughter (who is also an illustrator in formation) about your blog. Kisses from Brazil!
- June 4, 2009 at 9:11 PM
- get zapped said...
I love the whimsy of this. Darling work as usual. Thanks for the daily doodle and art day reminder.
- June 4, 2009 at 11:32 PM
- aimee said...
hey, asja - not only is this a FABULOUS doodle, it is perfect for the weekly word prompt i've been doing with some other gals called 'weekword' (kind of like illustration friday). this week, the word was 'scale' - so your large bird next to the small house fits in beautifully!
i'll update my post and link to you!! - June 6, 2009 at 1:53 AM
- sandra.d. said...
oOo asjici, kako je mastovito i divno ovo pticje dobro jutro kuco mala! uzivam u svakom tvom novom koraku!
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- Amy C said...
gorgeous and fabulous I really like the grass too.
- June 7, 2009 at 9:49 PM
- Asja said...
thank you all!
Aimee-that sound great, thank you! - June 8, 2009 at 6:56 PM
- ArtSparker said...
Wonderful, delightful piece.
- June 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM
- Dusik said...
very intricate. i love the design. reminds me of the easter eggs they do in ukraine
- June 20, 2009 at 6:29 AM
- tsu-mina said...
I'm very busy in this moment and so, I didn't see this picture...I like it so much...great! as ever
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We stayed at the hotel for three nights. It is a perfect spot for anyone on a budget. It is located next to the main train station, yet only a 10-15 minute walk to the Bordeaux Center. Also, is within a 2-minute walk of two different tram stops, which convienently took you to anywhere in the city. Hotel is spotless, and the room is equipped with everything you would need for a few nights. Breakfast is well priced, and there is a nice buffet spread each morning. Staff at the reception are extremely helpful and receptive. Would definitely stay there again.
"Triangle d'or"Reviewed by a Hotels.com guest on Aug 14, 2012
Perfect location for this tiny old style historical hotel in the heart of Bordeaux. All modern features available and all must see n the city within walking distance.
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Happy New Year to all! Remember, drink responsibly, but have fun. But try not to wear any lampshades on your heads, that's so 60s.
This is one wild and wacky city here in N'Awlins.
Went for a jaunt down Bourbon Street last night and it's a zoo. Really. People on the balconies are like the visitors throwing food (beads) to the animals below. Not sure what that says about society, and this city, but it's not good, I can guarantee you that.
Don't think for a minute there isn't some worry coursing through the minds of upper-level management types, who wonder about the intelligence of leaving the team here tonight after the game.
But stay, they will.
I'm sorta hoping Mo Pete's having a house party we can crash, but haven't heard about it yet. Maybe Darrell Walker will have a place to go.
Or maybe it'll be back to the room 'cause, believe it or not, Bourbon Street is not my cup of tea.
Bruce in Winnipeg wonders:
For your classic lists, here's one: What are the top five ex-Raps still playing who could come back and help this squad (your choice if you include the two superstars.)
Good question. Looking through the rosters, there aren't a whole lot of them, surprisingly. But five do come to mind. How about:
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Marcus Camby, great rebounder-shotblocker.
Tracy McGrady, you want a slasher? Here he is.
Matt Bonner, for comic relief and three-point shooting.
Mo Pete, you apparently miss him more than anyone
Antawn Jamison, which may be a stretch but I'm the one answering the question.
Not a bad group of starters and backups, eh?
And, as a special service to him, and you, here's five ex-Raps still in the league who'd come back and hurt them:
Rafer Alston, we need more locker room showdowns.
Mike James, they don't shoot nearly enough quick shots.
Vince Carter, just for the angst factor and the injury theatrics.
Damon Stoudamire, point guard controversy? Add another.
Rob Babcock, it's time for a trade.
Speaking of New Year's, we seem to have been on the road an awful lot over the years. I can remember one night in Phoenix and another in Seattle, both of which were off-nights that gave us a chance at a great dinner and nice time.
Games? Only one other.
It was in Washington back in 1997, the night Butch Carter suggested Tracy McGrady better smarten up or he'd be out of the league in three years.
I can also recall sitting in the arena press room typing, listening to Aretha Franklin or maybe it was Gladys Knight, singing Auld Lang Syne and thinking life was pretty crappy.
It only got crappier when I got back to the Georgetown hotel we were in only to find the lobby bar closed. Two Miller Lites out of a minibar is no way to spend a New Year's Eve.
Before the lads go to arrive here in the Big Easy, they had to practice in Houston because, well, because they needed it. It's odd for them to work after back-to-back road games but Sam knew they could use the time in the gym rather than the time in the hotel room.
So, what'd they do?
Not much, I'm told. Got up some shots, went over some offensive sets, hardly intense but it was necessary. There's really no time to put in any new plays at the moment, they will have two straight days of practice at home this week, that's when they'll get it done.
Checking in around the league, I see the shocking news that Isiah Thomas is on thin ice in New York.
Wow! Who'd-a thunk that!
Hey, ladies, wanna come to the game?
Go the Hornets website and download a coupon and you get in free.
Guess basketball on New Year's Eve in New Orleans is a tough sell. Go figure!
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Q: Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure you will) but it seems to me that the other team is not covering Moon when he has the ball beyond the arc. They seem to challenge him to shoot the ball from way out there where he his almost guaranteed to miss. This allows them to double up on Bosh and still cover the other three players resulting in a desperation play or Moon jacking one up for a turnover.
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A: Correct you? Not a chance. That's exactly what teams are doing because they don't respect his jump shot. And maybe they shouldn't. And maybe that's why Sam is so adamant that Moon drive the ball more often.
And maybe the kid'll get it soon.
Hey, when you're getting hammered tonight, don't forget the mailbag's open for post-game frivolity and this Friday's usual offering. Just click here to send something along, I could use a laugh before, or after, the game.
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Make some delicious chocolate caramel turtles for loved ones this holiday season.
For as long as I can remember my mother has been making chocolate caramel turtles around the holidays. It was our gift that we would give out to family and friends. I loved this Saturday with my mom and brothers. We got to unwrap all the caramel, eating a couple pieces here and there, dip our fingers in the warm chocolate, and take in all the smells of the season. Making these candies in the cooking studio this year, brought back a wave of memories of my childhood, and how these little turtles were the kick off to the holiday season. I promised myself that I needed to continue the tradition for many holiday seasons to come!
What you'll need:
Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips- (18 oz)
Soft Caramel (28 oz)
Pecans Halves- 16 oz. (20 oz)
Wax paper
Double Boiler or a small pot with a large metal bowl that rests on top of the pot, without touching the bottom.
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Stretch out three 3-foot lengths of wax paper on a working space. I like to use the kitchen table with the chairs removed, just so I can work on all sides on the table.
Pour about ½ inch of water into the double boiler and place on stove top. Place the top bowl on the pot of water Pour the 18oz of chocolate chips into the top bowl, and bring the water to a simmer (medium heat). Gently melt and stir the chocolate chips with a wooden spoon. Once the chocolate is melted, remove the bowl with the melted chocolate and head over to your workspace.
Place the bowl on a hot pad, and once the chocolate is cool enough to work with, dip your finger into the chocolate, and make a silver dollar size round circle on the wax paper. Repeat this process, spacing 1 inch part in rows, until ONE of the 3-foot wax paper is full.
Place the chocolate back on the double boiler. Gently press 4 legs (pecan half's) on the silver dollar chocolate circles. Once you have finished one piece of the wax papers, grab the melted chocolate off of the double boiler and repeat the chocolate and pecan process.
During this process you might have to re-heat the chocolate. Just place the chocolate bowl on the simmering water, re-heat until the chocolate is melting again. Once the wax papers are full, place the remaining chocolate on the simmering water and reduced the heat to low.
Unwrap all the caramel pieces and place into a medium saucepan.
Place the saucepan over medium heat, and with a wooden spoon, stir until the caramel is smooth and melted. You can add a bit of milk in this step to help smooth out the caramel. Moving quickly, spoon about 1 teaspoon of the melted caramel over the pecans, on all three wax papers. TIP: move quickly during this process, swirling the teaspoon of caramel onto the pecans.
Once the caramel is hard, about 5 minutes, turn up the heat on the double boiler, and re-melt the chocolate. Head over the caramel turtles and spoon about 1 teaspoon of chocolate on top of the caramel, using the swirling technique as you used in the caramel stage.
Let the candies harden overnight (6-8 hours). Gently peel the turtles off of the wax paper, and place in gift boxes, or a platter to be served.
Makes 80. Try and eat just one. I think it might be impossible! Happy Holidays!
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Nobody knows how Rodd Keith wound up standing on Santa Monica Boulevard at 5 a.m., 10 days before Christmas, looking down at the Hollywood Freeway. Nobody knows if he was alone, or what the hell even happened.
Earlier that night, Rodd Keith had called his brother, Gerald Eskelin. "He was living in a sort of loft above a recording studio on Sunset, around Highland, and he wanted me to come down and have a drink with him," Eskelin recalls. "I could tell on the phone he was blazingly out of it, and I said, 'Rodd, let's get together tomorrow.'"
By this point, in 1974, Rodd Keith's drug problem (he used LSD, PCP and heroin, according to his friends) had taken over his life, and his personal manner had become pretty unbearable. Looking back, Eskelin believes Keith was suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia. "He began freaking people out, developing his own cute little language," Eskelin remembers. "He loved using words that sound similar — 'cheese sauce' was Jesus. He called himself 'Shom Howe' — show 'em how. Combining all that with the angel dust and other drugs he got into, sometimes it was impossible to sit down and discuss anything with him." Keith refused to get help, though. "He used to say, 'I can pull the wool over those guys' eyes,'" Eskelin says.
It's not that Rodd Keith was an asshole — he was a sweet, lovable guy. But, as Eskelin explains it, "He wasn't hooked into reality. He had such a sense of being bigger than everyone else. He used to say he spelled his name with two D's because God only used one." The son remains the same: Song-poem legacy Ellery Eskelin. (Photo by Van Natta/ITVS)
According to everyone who knew him, Keith was a musical genius — the type who can pick up any instrument and play it, create melodies on the spot, improvise on piano for hours, write gorgeous arrangements and compose in any genre. He had the talent to go as far as he wanted. Somehow, though, he could never quite get it together.
"Rodd used to come over and we'd crack a bottle of wine and cry about the 'legitimate' music business," says his old friend and colleague Dick Castle. "That's really what we were all after. I think the last time I saw him, he was sitting here crying in his beer, calling himself a prostitute. He said, 'I'm prostituting music — I'm literally going out and selling myself to the highest bidder.'"
Still, Gerald Eskelin never thought his brother was suicidal. In fact, nobody's certain whether Rodd jumped or was so high he thought he could fly, or maybe walk the railing like a tightrope.
"Part of me feels like, gee, I wonder if things would have been different if I'd gone down there that night," Eskelin says. "Who knows? Maybe it would have saved him for another week or month. Or he might have gotten into more trouble and ended up in an institution.
"I have to look at it like, that's it, that's what happened."
Rodd and Dick, with those porn-star names, were working in the dingiest outpost of the record industry: the "song-poem," or "demo" business. "Song-sharking" may be its most accurate label. You know, those outfits that advertise in the backs of tabloids: "Poems Wanted for Recording Consideration," "Earn royalties!" "Poems Wanted for Songs & Records!"
Naive would-be poets sent in their lyrics — and a fee (nowadays around $100 to $400), expecting entrée to the music business, maybe even a hit song. What they got, instead, was a cheap-ass recording of their words set to music — usually recorded in four or five minutes. One take.
If they were very lucky, Rodd Keith, who worked for several song-poem companies in the '60s and '70s, had composed the accompanying melody and arrangement. In his hands, leaden, awkward poetry sometimes achieved a kind of transcendence; he could actually extract the original intent of the writer, it seemed — or else make something far more interesting, at risk of offending the customer. On "I'm Just the Other Woman," Keith sang in a woman's falsetto over a piano recording played backward. The lyricist demanded a new version. The singer is the song: Gene Merlino in action(Photo by Lyle Gamm/ITVS)
In the pre-digital heyday of song-poetry (the '50s through the '70s), song-sharks employed full bands to record demos. And while Keith was the best, the song-poem netherworld was full of talented musicians, usually working under pseudonyms, trying to supplement their legit gigs. The hackish circumstances required unusual skill. "You really had to be a fabulous reader to sing demos," says Castle.
"You'd go through 12 songs in an hour," says "Mary," who sang demos for 20 years. "It was a challenge. Though the songs were not songs, you had to make them into songs. It made me a better musician, and you got to work with really good musicians."
If the singer flubbed a line, he or she tried to fudge it. Laughter was a distinct hazard. "I used to force myself to think of something sad," Mary says. "Something horrible." You'd have to. Just consider a few song titles: "I Am a Ginseng Digger," "Song of the Burmese Land," "Listen Mr. Hat," "Non-Violent Taikwondo Troopers."


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David Desharnais scored the tying goal with 37 seconds left in the third period and added a goal in the shootout and the Montreal Canadiens rallied for a 4-3 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday.
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Patrick Dwyer scored short-handed to cap a three-goal burst in the second period, and the Carolina Hurricanes snapped their six-game road losing streak with a 4-3 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday night.
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