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Google's Android proving extremely profitable
At the Techonomy conference this week, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that their Android smartphone has not only acquired a strong standing in the smartphone market, but as also proved to be a financial success. According to Schmidt, "Trust me that revenue is large enough to pay for all of the Android activities and a whole bunch more."
Google Changes Their Search Policy in Europe
Google announced on Wednesday that will amend its search policy in Europe to allow marketers to bid on trademarked terms. The changes stem from a decision ruled by the European Court of Justice in the spring, regarding a law suit between LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Google, which stated that Google had to abide by trademark laws and allow advertisers to purchase keywords related to third-party trademark terms.
Google Wave to be Shut Down
Google announced this week that it will be shutting down their Google Wave service. The service was launched in May 2009, but has struggled to develop a user following. Urs Holzle, Google's senior vice president of operations, explained that, "Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. So we don't plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects."
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Microsoft vs. Salesforce.com Conflict Forewarns of Future Cloud Battles
Check out Nicholas Kolakowski's article on eWeek.com that discusses the recent dispute between Microsoft and Salesforce.com regarding patent-infringement and argues that, although the two have decided to settle their disagreement outside of court, the case forewarns of future Cloud conflicts.
Google and Bing's Search Arms Race
In an article in the NYTimes this week, Claire Cain Miller and Ashlee Vance take a closer look into the developing arms race between Google and Bing to produce the newest and most innovative search features.
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"Girls" and "Enlightened" might be over for now, but we don't have too long to wait for another quality HBO sitcom to start up, as we're four weeks from the start of the second season of "Veep," the Emmy-award winning political comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Created by Armando Iannucci, the man behind "The Thick Of It," and "In The Loop," the first season might not have quite hit the peaks of brilliance of the earlier show and movie, but it's still one of the most consistent and enjoyable sitcoms on TV.
Plus, we've got every hope that things will kick up a gear in the second season (historically, shows start to hit a groove in their second season), and a new trailer has arrived from HBO that doesn't give us any reason to doubt this. There's nothing here that suggests the wheel's been reinvented, but all the favorites are back (especially Jonah, probably the best thing on the show), and the insults are flying. Plus, Gary Cole, creeping steadily towards his goal of appearing in every quality TV show ever made.
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Jason Strunk went above and beyond completing the ALS Ice Bucket challenge with his coaching staff at Lubbock High.
Strunk, challenged by KLBK Sports Director, Matt Roberts got into a trashcan full of ice while members of his coaching staff doused him with several more buckets. A cold and wet Strunk challenged Lubbock High Principal, Doug Young, along with fellow LISD head coaches, Seth Parr at Coronado, Wayne Hutchinson at Monterey and Danny Servance at Estacado. Assistant coach, Tyler Trout also challenged the Lubbock High Football team.
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As an agriculture reporter and radio personality for KMA Radio in Shenandoah, Tom Beavers has personal experiences to share about growing up in 1950s rural Iowa and about the radio homemakers. This interview was recorded in on June 30, 2009 at the KMA studios in Shenandoah, Iowa.
Debra Herbold: Tell me about your memories of small town Iowa in the 1950s.
Tom Beavers: Rural Iowa in 1950s was quite unique from the standpoint of many areas had electricity for just a short time. Electricity on our farm came in 1947. Before that time we had coil oil lamps and we did chores with lanterns, coil oiled lanterns. When electricity came in 1947, it was wonderful because we had lights in the corn crib, and in the barn for milking, and then the chicken house for the chicken chores, and a yard light so we could see going from the house to the barn and to the crib.
Life in that period was very labor intensive. Many of the farmers still used horses besides having a tractor. Horses were used for some of the feeding chores. When we fed cattle, lots of times the horses would draw the wagon into the lot to scoop the corn into the bunk. Hog chores were all hand -- in other words you scooped the corn from the crib into the hog lot for them to chew it off the cob so to speak. The children had homework just like they would during today's time. And we often would sit around the table at supper time and discuss, you know, what went on in our life during the day. And then our parents would discuss what went on in their lives.
Saturdays usually were devoted to grinding feed, to doing chicken chores, like cleaning out the chicken house, which I dreaded. Cleaning out the cattle barn wasn't as bad. And then we cleaned the hog barn. It was all very labor intensive at that time.
Debra Herbold: What was the biggest change in rural Iowa when electricity was hooked up?
Tom Beavers: The biggest change about having electricity was the fact that you could be illuminated. You had a yard light. You could see to walk to the crib and to the barn. You could do the chores in the barn and so forth with lights. You could grind feed at night with lights in the corn crib. Of course, we had tractors at that time with lights and that facilitated field work, if we had to do some things in the evening. But primarily the change was dramatic when we got electricity.
Debra Herbold: Did it change the way you prepared food?
Tom Beavers: Prior to electricity, the food itself was prepared in a wood stove, a wood-fired cooking stove and the oven was heated by the heat from the burning wood. So cakes and pies went into the oven just like we do today with the electric ovens. The surface was heated, for example, skillets, were heated by the heat permeating up through the cast iron top on the stove. So you'd fry chicken, you would fry a lot of foods, whereas today you have your microwave oven and you have your crock pots and things to prepare your meal. We didn't have those in the 50s but most of the food was fried or baked. So basically you had the same types of food except for the way it was prepared.
Debra Herbold: Describe the role of women and men in the 1950s.
The woman's role in the 50s was completely different than the role of women today. Women in the 50s were expected to be at home taking care of the house chores, taking care of washing and ironing the clothes, taking care of the children when they returned home from school, because dad always wanted mom there when the kids returned home from school. In the 50s I was in high school. Prior to that time, we were in a one room school. Often we would come home and mother would have some fresh baked rolls and we would get a chance to eat one right after school - like a snack today for after school. But the father, or the man of the house, was in charge of the crops and livestock in order to earn money. So, he expected to be in the field for a long time. And when he came in at noon he expected a hot meal. When he came in for supper or dinner, as it's called in some households, mother was always there to prepare that meal. She did not work off the farm. Off farm started in the 70s in our area of Villisca, because there were a few women that had gotten an education degree and they started teaching in order to help earn money, to buy that 80 acres where they were starting up farming. But primarily the role of a woman in the 50s was in the home. And they expected her to do the washing, the ironing, and the cooking and all of those things.
Debra Herbold: Any memories of your mother doing those types of chores?
Tom Beavers: It's an interesting story about soap operas because we think about soap operas as being something of a modern era. But really, soap operas were going on in the 40s. My mother and sisters loved to listen to those because it gave them an outlet to the Hollywood impact, or the movie star. And they felt associated with that. My dad loved the Joe Lewis Fights and when Joe Lewis was fighting, dad expected that radio battery to run all the way through. Well, if mom would be ironing during the day, listening to these soap operas and run the battery low, then when the fights would come on in the evening at six o'clock, dad wouldn't be able to listen to the whole fight.
And it was interesting because when people iron clothes today, they plug it in to the electrical outlet. When mom started ironing, she would heat the iron on the wood range and then she would press the clothes. And all of them had to be starched. That was back in the day when all clothes had to be starched. So, it's kind of interesting about radio, how the homemaker would listen and be attached to that, and I think that lead to the homemakers programs too.
Debra Herbold: Did rural women feel isolated in the 1950s?
Tom Beavers: Women on the farm, as I mentioned, were expected to be there all the time to do the housework, the cooking, and the cleaning and so on. So, they were really isolated. If they didn't have a neighbor come over to visit, they were by themselves. So they would turn the radio on in order to hear something from the outside world. And, primarily, the reason that homemakers became so popular was that they became a part of the household - that when a homemaker would begin her program, the housewife would be tuned in and she would have an attraction to that, so she would write the recipes down. And she would want to hear about their families because she couldn't tell about hers. But she wanted to get an outsiders view in regard to what was happening in their families, their children's lives. And that opened up a whole door for that person that was on the farm.
Debra Herbold: Tell what made a good radio broadcaster in that era.
Tom Beavers: Visiting, I think, is the key. In fact, the whole idea was that the homemaker never talked down to anyone. They always visited with them on their level. So, if they wanted to talk about their children, it related directly to that homemaker's, or the person on the farm, to her family. So if Johnny was in the fifth grade struggling in math, the homemaker would often talk about it on the broadcast. It would relate right to Freddy out on the farm that was having trouble in the fifth grade. And so it was an attraction because it opened the door for the farm wife to say if they're having trouble too, I'm not isolated, I'm not the only one having the problems. And that's the same thing if they had trouble with the wash, and maybe the bleach didn't work, or maybe the starch didn't work, the homemaker could relate to that and then the house wife would say, you know, I had that same problem. And they would write letters back and forth about that. So, it was a real attraction to have that homemaker on the radio.
Debra Herbold: Talk about Billy Oakley.
Tom Beavers: Bill Oakley was a real pistol. I knew Billy for a long time and I helped her during some cooking schools when we would have programs at the armory here in Shenandoah. She would have what's known as a "cookie tea" and that was a big event for homemakers. I know Evelyn was involved in it. Billy and some of the Kitchen Klatter folks were involved too. Ladies would come from all over in order to meet the homemakers. But it's interesting, the impact that Billy Oakley had because she was syndicated. She had tapes that were sent out to other radio stations. So, she was known far and wide just as Kitchen Klatter was. Just an aside -Kitchen Klatter started in Shenandoah with the Driftmier family. And when I was starting to be a broadcaster again in the 70s, I took several trips to national conventions. And if I was in Connecticut or California or Georgia or Texas or anyplace and would be asked "where you from?", I would say "KMA". And they'd say, "KMA? I know KMA! My aunt or my grandmother used to listen to Kitchen Klatter." They had tapes that went out to places like Lexington, Nebraska or St. Joe, Missouri or anyplace around that had radio stations. So they knew KMA through Kitchen Klatter. Evelyn Birkby was on Kitchen Klatter some and so that kind of led to her being well known.
Debra Herbold: Many people say radio homemakers were unique in their salesmanship abilities. Why do you think that was?
Tom Beavers: The idea of a homemaker advertising a product didn't start out just in that tone. They would have commercials. But later, they said if that homemaker would talk about the starch, or talk about the salve, or talk about the lotion, or talk about any of the products that were used in the house, the homemaker would draw on a very big audience. An example is what happened with Billy Oakley. Billy Oakley had been asked by one of the listeners about having a problem with her hands cracking. Jay Drug Company in Shenandoah sold a product called Bag Balm. Bag Balm is a salve that farmers used on the udders of cows to keep the teats soft. Every time they milked, they would rub this on. And they had no hand problems because they were using that to treat the udders. So, Billy got the idea that maybe we ought to sell that. So Jay Drug Company bought commercial time and Billy actually sold out all their product in about a week's time. They had to re-order many times in order to keep up with the demand. That's how popular homemakers became selling a product.
Debra Herbold: Tell me about syndication.
Tom Beavers: Tape broadcasting was very popular for the homemaker shows from KMA like Kitchen Klatter and Billy Oakley. Most of the programs that aired on KMA weren't taped. They were just broadcasted that particular day and then the next day the homemaker came back and it was a brand new program. So, if a person missed a program like a Florence Falk show, for example, from Essex, they could order the tape and hear yesterday's program. So, later Kitchen Klatter said, we need to syndicate so we can send these out to various radio stations and expand our trade area and help sell our product - because they were selling Kitchen Klatter products over the radio. So they expanded their coverage but not all homemakers had that ability.
Debra Herbold: Tell us about your personal experiences coming back on the air and the response you received from listeners.
Tom Beavers: I graduated in 1959 from Iowa State College and I was going to become a teacher of agriculture. But during my student teaching, in November of 1959, I went to KGAN with the FFA boys for some FFA week commercials. I saw that as a really exciting thing and maybe I wanted to be a broadcaster. So, I had applied after that at KMA to Tony Kelker, our manager, and he hired me to start in June of 1960. Well, I went through five years and I wanted a higher salary. They didn't give it to me and I left for a few years, went into banking for 20 years, and came back in 1984 as a salesman at KMA. In 1989, the farm broadcaster that everyone in the whole United States knew, passed away from a heart attack. At that time, our station manager asked me to come back on the air. I said, "It's been too many years. No one will remember me". He said, "Let's give it a try".
So, on my first program I introduced myself as Tom Beavers, and said, "A lot of you may not remember, but I used to broadcast on KMA". Well, it was unbelievable the amount of phone calls and letters that we received saying, "Yeah we remember you and we're glad you're back". It's kind of been a family affair really - my broadcast years have made me a part of their family, just like the homemakers become part of their family.
Debra Herbold: Describe Saturday nights in town in the 1950s.
Tom Beavers: Produce like eggs and cream were very much in demand in the 50s and prior years to that. So, we would gather the eggs, clean them and put them in crates. The cream would be separated from the milk. We would then have a five gallon bucket of cream and thirty dozen eggs and we would come to Villisca. You would come early so that you would find a parking place around the square, so that you would be within walking distance of the store that you wanted to shop in. And it was not uncommon o have people still visiting at 10 o'clock at night on Saturday's. Saturday was the shopping day for farmers. They didn't go to town any other time except Saturday.
Debra Herbold: How important was a garden to farm families in the 1950s?
Tom Beavers: Gardening to kid was absolutely miserable. But to the family, it was necessary, because all the produce that were grown were (in the later years, when we had electricity) either frozen or canned. You didn't have a lot of fresh produce. You put it away. So a visit to the cave brought up all the vegetables that you had grown during the summer season and you ate them during the winter. So, the canning was really important. The gardening was extremely important because, as I said, that's where the produce came from. Very few products were bought in town other than sugar, flour, salt, and the products that you needed on the farm such as batteries and tires. But a lot of it you raised your own. You slaughtered your hogs and your cattle. You did all of that so that you would have the meat and produce to live on.
Debra Herbold: Some have said that people in the 50s lived more within their means than people do now – your feelings on that?
Tom Beavers: I don't know if they really lived within their means because I think we had families in the 50s, just like we have families today, that overspend. But primarily where I grew up on the farm, it was pretty frugal. We didn't have a lot of money. In fact I had to beg my dad when I was a kid to get a dime so that I could buy something, because a dime to him was a lot. So, I don't know that they were extravagant at that time. I'm sure there were some families that didn't make it because they spent too much, but generally, living on a farm was very frugal, very tight. We didn't have things like they had in town.
Debra Herbold: Describe the differences you felt between your family and a town family.
Tom Beavers: You know, we didn't associate a lot with town people until we got into high school because in grade school we were with our neighborhood kids and so our association didn't take us to the towns. Whereas in high school, then we met town kids and then we grew to associate with them through parties and entertainment like skating, dances, and things like that. But we really didn't understand town youngsters. We felt that they were different. And I guess they felt we were really different. When we came to school we didn't dress like they did. We had kind of a work shoe. Many times kids came to school in overalls because that was their wear. You had a clean pair to wear to school. You had an old soiled pair to chore in. So you -- you had just basically two outfits. You had two pairs of shoes - one was for good and you didn't dare scuff those because you wore those to school and to church. And then you had your work boots you worked around the farm in.
Debra Herbold: As you spent more time with town kids, did you start to blend together?
Tom Beavers: Oh, yeah. We're having our 55th school reunion of our graduating class of 1955 over the fourth of July and the kids that grew up in Villisca are just like all the rest of us. All the ones that grew up in the country - we're all alike.
Debra Herbold: Did you take your lunch to school? Food in high school?
Tom Beavers: In grade school I started carrying a lunch bucket with a thermos of milk. When I got into high school, the first two years I had to carry my lunch, and then they started the hot lunch program in Villisca. And that was great because then we had a different meal than old dry sandwiches and an apple or a banana and a cookie.
Debra Herbold: Tell us about your feelings on the importance of food in the community?
Tom Beavers: I didn't realize it at the time, how important food was, until I matured. But I know as a kid growing up, it was always a common practice to have shared responsibility in the rural community. My example would be if Burt King got injured with a ram, a male sheep, he got severely injured; everyone came to the farm and harvested his crop. All the women cooked the meals for all of the men that were working. If someone had died, sometimes a casserole dish or some food item would be taken to that family. And that didn't really strike me as being something. I just took it for granted until I matured. And then I realized, you know, that's a common practice throughout the whole world, I think, of helping others.
Debra Herbold: How do you think Evelyn Birkby inspires the community here?
Tom Beavers: I think longevity is perhaps one of the reasons that she continues to inspire people. I'm not sure how old Evelyn is, she'd probably tell me if she was in the room, but I k now she's older than I am by quite a bit. So with her being around yet and people having listened to her years ago, they still feel that bond between them. And so Evelyn is just a unique individual. She talks to people on their level, as all homemakers do, and she visits about her family. Some of the men always said when the homemaker was on, they would prattle on about some of the things that were happening in their household with their kids, etc. The men always kind of pooh-poohed it. But yet Evelyn had a lot of male listeners. A lot of dads listened to Evelyn. And that story about the recipe just strikes me as so funny because a man in the field wrote the recipe in the dust of the fender on the tractor and then dashed to the house so the wife could copy. That's the influence that Evelyn has on people's lives. They attach themselves to Evelyn and they become part of her family and this is wonderful. And that's the way farm broadcasters are. They became part of the family.
I know my youngsters, when they were in grade school and high school, they would hear homemakers talk about the family and they never thought much about it. Well, when I got to be a broadcaster again the start of 89, I started relating about their experiences and what they were doing and they would say, "You didn't say that did you dad?!" And I said, "Yeah. I told them that because the folks that are listening want to hear what's going on in your life". And it was quite unique. And I think that's what makes broadcasting unique.
Debra Herbold: What do you think the biggest change has been from the 50s to now?
Tom Beavers: Well, you could talk all day about the change of attitudes. When people grew up as youngsters in the 40s and 50s, they had respect. They had honor. They had abilities that they wanted to learn. Our attitude has changed dramatically with our young people in regards to respect. We have lost a lot of respect of our young people and maybe it's a fault of the adults not having the respect for their young people. But this is one of the major changes that have caused so many problems in education. The fact that young people don't want to learn and don't have respect for their elders. And I think that's one of the major changes that have happened in our society.
Debra Herbold: How do you think media plays into that?
Tom Beavers: Well, of course, as a grandparent, I see some of these programs that these young people are listening to and I think some of it propagates lack of respect. I think some of the young people that are on some of the YouTube things that our granddaughters listen to and watch -- I think it illustrates sometimes a lack of respect. They only want to talk about themselves. They want to know what's good for them and not what's good for the other person. So, I think that has an influence.
Debra Herbold: Before radio, TV, and the internet – seems like rural Iowa had to rely on each other and community was an important thing....
Tom Beavers: Oh, very definitely - communities stuck together. I'll give you an example. If you were going home from school and you slipped over the fence and got an apple from the neighbor's tree, that neighbor would mention it to your parent on the sly. They'd say, "Did your boy like the apples from the orchard?" Now I personally did not see the neighbor watching me but he was watching me and he related it. If anyone got into trouble, it got back to the parents. It was a shared responsibility of growing those children. And if you did something wrong, it was going to get back to your folks because that family wanted to see you grow up right. So, I think that was a main change. I mean you couldn't do that today. If you saw someone doing something wrong and then you went to that parent and said, "I saw your son or daughter doing that", they probably wouldn't believe you to start with. And even if they did they wouldn't do anything about it.


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North American Trailer For Tom Lin's STARRY STARRY NIGHT
Check out the North American trailer for Tom Lin's Starry Starry Night. The film has been playing this weekend (19th, 20th and 22nd) at the Seattle Film Festival, then at the New York Asian Film Festival and then opening July 6th exclusively in
New York at the AMC Empire 25 and in Seattle at the AMC Pacific Place 11.
Starry Starry Night is the slightly fantastical tale of Mei, a 13-years old girl trying to deal with growing up, while still escaping to her own fantasy world when real-life problems prove to be too daunting to face. Mei finds a companion in Lee, an introverted young boy who just transferred from another school into Mei's class. When Mei's parents decide on a divorce, Mei runs off with Lee in search of a moment of untainted happiness and maybe even some romance.
Our own Niels Matthijs was rather fond of the film and wrote in his review, "Tom Lin paints one of the dearest, warmest and most charming films of the year. Starry Starry Night is a beautiful and imaginative trip into the mind of a 13-year old girl, exploring her world and dealing with her problems". And China Lion was rather fond of his review and pulled a quote for the North American poster and trailer you see here.
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Digital Video recorders (DVR) are used in Security systems of shopping malls
The article assumes that subscriber has broadband ADSL / VDSL
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In today's world security has a very high priority in everyone's life, you may want
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5) To do this, log on to the administration page of the router IP
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have set)
7) Go to the section Called "Port Forwarding" this is located under the
subhead of Advanced or NAT in various routers.
8) Create a static LAN client with ID: DVR and IP 192.168.1.250
9) Under port Forwarding or NAT forward WAN port (Public port) 8080 to
Private Port (Internal port) 8080 for IP 192.168.1.250
10) The above setting instructs the router to send all requests on port 8080 from
the Internet to the DVR's port 8080.
11) Finally save your settings and reboot your router.
12) Test that your internet connection is functioning.
13) Go to another internet connected remote computer open the browser and type
http://yourstaticIPaddress:8080 you should be able to see your cameras.
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http://188.8.131.52:8080 from Internet (thro Static IP)
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VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 15, 2012/ Troy Media/ – It's as if she's suddenly speaking Italian. I must have misheard. Turning my head towards my 17-year-old daughter for clarification, she repeats her assertion as if I'm suddenly deaf. 'MOM. You and I are NOT working the dry grad fundraiser tomorrow.'
What? I'm confused. It's not tomorrow? Dragging my behemoth 16-month calendar across my lap towards me, I cast my eyes on tomorrow's highlighted notation: Meredith's dry grad bottle and clothing drive fundraiser – 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
Yes, that's my handwriting. Surely I didn't get the day wrong?
Message not getting through
Meredith stops tapping on her iPad, obviously discerning her verbal message isn't getting through. 'My friends and I have decided we do enough for the school already. It's time for the others to step up. OK?' She smiles distractedly and returns to her beckoning email; matter settled, mother forgotten.
Our living room, in which we are sitting mere feet apart, grows somewhat smaller and warmer. I lean back in my armchair stunned. That's it? I'm dismissed without a say?
It's then that it hits me. For the first time my vote doesn't count in family events.
Oh, I'm aware that it's only one instance and there are bound to be lots of times when I'll still be consulted. It's just that this is the first time and, judging by my daughter's casual manner, she's completely unaware of its impact on me. How can she not notice?
To be fair, perhaps I haven't expressed much interest in her high school graduation year. I have yet to attend one of the monthly dry grad parent meetings. However, this is due to pure self-preservation on my part. My two children are 20 months apart in age and a grade apart in school. If I step up now it's a dead certainty that I'll be handed the running of the whole dry grad program next year when her brother Henry enters grade 12. No thank you. Years of co-chairing the Parent Advisory Committee, running the Sparks program and coordinating school fairs during the elementary years have cured me of the desire to head up any more school endeavours.
Still, I've always assumed Meredith would inherently know I'd be more than keen to help with tomorrow's event. The key fundraiser for the booze-free grad celebration (a three hour boat cruise this year), the yearly bottle and clothing drive is the one event that welcomes full parent participation. Indeed, it is viewed as the last high school opportunity for parents and children to work together towards a common goal. How can she not want to do this with me?
Something niggles at my conscience. I look over at my daughter and find myself forced to consider her reasons for making this choice. She's right. Her involvement in student government activities is tireless. Perhaps it is time for others to take up the torch.
On further reflection, I concede to being a teensy bit pleased to be spared the delight of a six hour shift in a drizzly parking lot. The concept of not having to spend my Saturday huddled under a leaky canopy, jamming chilled fingers into wadded balls of latex gloves, and pawing through sticky green garbage bags, separating discarded pop cans from their boozy beer cousins, fills me with quiet glee. Perhaps I can give this job a miss.
No. I can't. There's the tiny matter of our donation patiently waiting in the basement. It must be delivered. A dread creeps over me. Who will I meet in the parking lot as I drop it off? Worse, will they question our lack of attendance?
Meredith, sensing my hesitancy, smiles. 'Don't worry Mom. You won't know anyone.'
Reason to smile
My wise girl miraculously absents herself to a hot bath. Henry, rolling his eyes, hefts the heavy wooden wine crate and schleps out to the car. I stagger behind carrying the lighter cardboard box overflowing with empty juice cartons and bottles; the frigid air seeping into my light jacket.
Five minutes later, I swing into the parking lot. It's just possible to make out a group of kids and parents huddling under a dripping canopy. The unmistakeable clink of empties rings through the mist. A huge truck waits to haul away the clothing donations.
A scowling grad appears out of the gloom. Nope, I've never seen her before. Meredith will be thrilled. After she snaps her gloves in place, I hand her the box and smile.
There's always Henry's fundraiser next year.
Kelly McKenzie delights in writing about the minutiae of everyday life. Widowed, mother of two active teenagers, she is awash with material.
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as a few of you know i spent spring break in kamloops. so of course i rode rose hill. i made a huge mistake that i know and even said i wouldnt do. i went to fast on a trail i didnt know. i was comin down one of the first decents and the lure of the nice berms and smooth lines got me. so i just went with it. then BAM theres a rock garden.slammed on my brakes and somehow i managed to ride it through but strayed from the trail a bit. on the side if the trail theres a big burnt fallen tree. well i hit this went over the bars and straight into a tree. i winded myself but other then that i felt fine. shook it off rode the rest of the trail(locals were really nice, they waited every once and a while for me to catch up). it wasnt till i sat down in the car that i realised that i really did something. so i was off the bike for a day then got back on for a shorter easy ride then the day after i was back at rose hill and in the next few days rode it about 10 times. got some sweet air and had lots of fun. well i get back to pg and my back is really bothering me so i decide its a good idea to go se a doctor to see what i did. go for a xray then get a phonecall from the doctor asking me to come in. turns out i have a 25% compression(basically crushed) on the 4th thurasic(4th vertebre down from the neck) which means that im out for i month. i know im lucky because if it was 50% then it was possible that i could have been paralised. worth waiting just a month for it to heal. the doc said that if i had taken another hard hit to the top of the head it would have been bad. so i guess this just gives me some time to tinker with my bike and get her ready for the rest of the season.
from what i heard from the locals rose hill eats people and bikes alive the brake bumps where HORRIBLE at some points i thought i was going to get bucked off. and then a few days before i got there a guy broke his neck, aparently he was a pro rider(thankfully hes ok now) and then another guy hurt himself really bad the day i got there(dont know what but he got an ambulance ride) but other then that the hill was great like i said big berms and big air(some insane stuff the locals built) and it seemed everwhere i looked there was a big huck of some sort(road gap, path gap...)
the bike was awesome not so great though the brake bumps but awesome on the big hits, really nice through the fast corners and the tires were very grippy in the sand and hardpack. it survied the many wrecks i had with nothing wrong with it at all.
i was very dissapointed because on the day i got there there was a camp with shaums march teaching as well as serveral other pro riders. but oh well mabey next time.
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The most densely plotted instalment of the saga so far, Attack of the Clones is a tale of both Machiavellian political drama and doomed romance; it's epic war film and silly comic-book fantasy combined, as teenage Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) chafes at the restrictions imposed by his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and falls in love with Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman). Renegade Jedi Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) is leading a breakaway federation of disgruntled systems; while the insidious influence of Darth Sidious is felt rather than seen as his invisible hand guides apparently unrelated events, from Jar Jar's unwitting instigation of a disastrous Senate decision to bounty hunter Jango Fett's revelatory role at the centre of the conspiracy. Along the way the story has fun with the conventions of Chandleresque detective fiction as Obi-Wan explores the seedier side of Coruscant, and incorporates the noble warrior ethos of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in its portrayal of the Jedi order. The portentous tone is lightened by tongue-in-cheek self-referential dialogue and the antics of robotic clowns R2D2 and C3PO. (One niggle for music fans, though, is the cavalier cut-and-paste approach to John Williams's music score.) Like the Empire Strikes Back, Clones is the bridging film of the trilogy and thus ends on an equivocally bittersweet note. On the DVD: Attack of the Clones is an all-digital film, and so looks suitably superb in this anamorphic widescreen transfer, accompanied by a THX encoded Dolby 5.1 soundtrack. Anyone who owns The Phantom Menace two-disc set will know what to expect from the special features: here's another group commentary led by George Lucas, two lengthy documentaries on the digital effects ("From Puppets to Pixels" and "The Previsualisation of Episode II") plus several other featurettes and Web documentaries, notably "Films Are Not Released, They Escape", a look at the sound design. There's also a fun trailer for the R2-D2 mockumentary "Beneath the Dome", trailers, photo galleries and more to satisfy any Star Wars fan. --Mark Walker
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I Saw The Devil Getting An English-Language Remake
Kim Jee Woons I Saw The Devil is a really intense, unique film, one that seems to straddle many genres. Lee Byung-Hung ( G.I. Joe: Retaliation ) plays a special agent on the trail of a serial killer who murders with glee. But when he lets the murderer go, (the excellent Choi Min-sink of Oldboy fame, plays the killer) the mystery is why hes done it, and how this unpredictable psycho will react. Deadly serious, bitter payback: you shouldnt have to guess if this was a recent Korean movie, with its emphasis on hard-boiled revenge and moral ambiguity. But its more than that: the plot feels like serial killer potboiler stuff, but some moments seem like genuine horror, some like a steroidal version of early 90s American thrillers, and a few scenes are out-and-out action spectaculars. Its the only movie that feels like a sort of action slasher, and each stab on the soundtrack genuinely feels like a punch.
So now the question remains: why hasnt subtitle-wary America remade this yet? Thanks to Adi Shankar and Spencer Silna of the pretty creepy-sounding production company 1984 Private Defense Contractors (huh?), an American version is headed our way. According to ComingSoon, theres no writer or director attached yet, but Kim Jee Woon recently made his English-language debut with the tongue-in-cheek western The Last Stand so maybe theyll give him another crack at it. It is a surprise to see another remake of a recent Asian revenge picture so soon after Oldboy just rolled into America with the force of a lone tumbleweed.
In an official statement about the project, Shankar was quoted as saying, "Kim Jee Woons I Saw The Devil is perfect in so many ways. The intention is not to remake the film per se but rather to port it console-style for international audiences." Hoo boy, so much to unpack, Mr. Shankar. First of all, you could have stopped after that first sentence. Secondly, you dont have to remake it, you can actually port it over, by attaining the DVD and placing it in your player. If you order by mail, a postal worker will port it over, and then you can port it into your DVD player. And those are just the port highlights! But seriously, please dont try to remake a movie by making the original sound like a household appliance.
Getting Kim Jee Woon to return to the directors chair might be the best move, but why have him do the same story again? Of course, its not a mark against the original film, but you kind of lose the whole thrust of the film without him. The filmmaker behind the delirious The Good, The Bad & The Weird specializes in the kind of onscreen chaos that just cant be mimicked. I Saw The Devil has a pretty derivative plot, and its elevated due to the filmmaker's woozy direction. Imagining this in the hands of a dullard like Shawn Levy, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Giamatti or some other paycheck-chasing American stars instead of the perfect pair from the first film? Its just kind of depressing, really. Catch the trailer to the original film below.
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Nigeria are set to kick off their FIFA U17 World Cup campaign in group F this Saturday afternoon against title holders Mexico. The three-time winners of the event are amongst the four African countries present in the United Arab Emirates.
Nigeria are the most successful team in the competition's history. But playing Mexico could be a hard nut to crack as the title holders would want to remake their history after the glory of the last two years. In their lone clash in 1987 in Canada, Mexico won 1-0 although it was the Nigerians who went through to the next stage by virtue of their superior goal difference. Speaking in an online interview, Nigeria coach Manu Garba has expressed total confidence in his squad for today's game to kick off 2:00PM in the city of Al Ain City. Morocco and Tunisia recorded a positive start of the tournament yesterday after beating Croatia 3-1 and Venezuela 2-1 respectively in groups C and D. Meanwhile, Cote d'Ivoire fell to Italy 0-1 Thursday.


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Medical costs are untouched in Oklahoma's proposed workers' comp changes
Despite questions about their effectiveness, spinal fusion operations — in which two or more vertebrae are fused together — are among the most expensive and common procedures performed under Oklahoma's workers' compensation system.
They are also among the most protected procedures under both current and proposed reforms to the state's system.
Senate Minority Leader Sean Burrage is questioning why an earlier plan to limit medical reimbursements to 150 percent of Medicare costs — estimated to bring about $12 million in additional savings — was yanked from the proposed reforms and replaced instead with steeper cuts in payouts to injured workers.
"This is a group of people who have been quick to cap things like damages for people who have been in car wrecks, damages for people who have been burned in fires," Burrage, D-Claremore, said. "They've been quick to cap things for other people; why not say doctors can make 150 percent of the Medicare reimbursement rate?"
But others say the steepening cost of treating injured workers has more to do with utilization than with price.
According to hospital discharge data compiled by the state health department, there were at least 1,756 spinal fusion procedures covered under workers' comp in 2010, a total claims payout of more than $121 million.
That reflects about a third of all medical claim reimbursements paid to physicians and hospitals over the course of a year — money paid by employers and their insurance companies for a procedure that at least one national study has indicated could make injured workers five times more likely to become permanently disabled than those with similar conditions who don't have the procedure.
Spinal fusion discharges made up about 40 percent of all inpatient treatment of workers' comp claimants over a year, according to the hospital data.
"What more do you need to know?" Burrage said.
Spinal fusions of the neck and lumbar comprised the top four most frequent surgical claims filed through the system in 2011, according to a list compiled by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.
Spinal cord surgeries made up three of the five most frequent anesthesia claims in 2011, and spinal X-rays or MRIs comprised 10 of the top 11 most frequent radiology claims, according to the council.
Medical claims make up about 45 percent of all payouts under the comp system in Oklahoma, which is far less than other states in the region. But at $969 million, total system costs in Oklahoma are about four times that of Arkansas.
A full two-thirds of all medical payments under the system are for inpatient procedures, compared with a national average of about 42 percent.
Mike Seney, a senior policy analyst with the State Chamber of Oklahoma, said the proposed cap on medical reimbursements was dropped because an anticipated reduction in claims under the proposed system would reduce the number of surgeries.
Treatment guidelines adopted in 2011 are no longer mandatory under the proposed system, but a switch from a court-based system to an administrative one would give its oversight commission the ability to adjust the fee schedule, Seney said.
"We believe that the new commission, through rule making procedures and the wider-spread usage of (treatment guidelines) across the board, is going to lower the costs across the board without having to be quote-unquote mandatory," he said. "We're going to see a lot less surgeries done, too."
Richard Victor, executive director of the Workers' Compensation Research Institute in Massachusetts, said medical costs for the workers' comp system in Oklahoma increased by 10.2 percent between 2009 and 2010, the highest cost increase in the nation.
But the same report shows actual prices paid per procedure under the system have remained relatively flat for at least a decade.
"So if it's not price, that means it's utilization," he said. "There's been issues about high levels of use of chiropractic care, high levels of utilization across the board — more office visits, more MRIs, more pain management."
Overuse of the workers' comp system in Oklahoma is a primary reason for the proposed changes, said Nathan Atkins, spokesman for Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman, who authored the bill.
There were over 28,000 trials and contested case hearings in the state workers' comp court in 2011 compared to about 4,000 each in Texas and Arkansas, Atkins said.
But critics of the proposal, including Democratic lawmakers and the lawyers who take workers' comp cases, said serious system reforms should address medical costs.
Bob Burke, who represents claimants at the comp court, said he believes the proposed legislation is driven not by a genuine push for reform but for political reasons.
"It is a power grab for some really big businesses in the state to control the workers' comp system and for them, rather than a court, to decide what workers get," Burke said.
A leading physician at the hospital which does the most workers' comp spinal procedures in the state is a close friend and former fraternity brother of Bingman's. But both Dr. Robert Remondino of Oklahoma Spine Hospital and Bingman, R-Sapulpa, denied collaborating on the legislation.
Oklahoma Spine Hospital filed claims reimbursements for 973 inpatient treatment procedures under the workers' comp system in 2010, according to discharge data.
The hospital, its doctors and its associated companies together donated more than $340,000 to elected officials, political parties, political action committees and other entities in recent years, according to reports filed at the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.
"Our only conversation was he and I had the understanding that we're friends and that however the legislation came out we would remain friends," Bingman said.
Remondino, who developed a carve out for spinal surgeries in the court's treatment guidelines in 2011 — guidelines that recommend against spinal fusions — said adjustments to the fee schedule in 2011 reduced physician reimbursements by $40 million.
Reimbursements under the comp system are necessarily higher than under Medicare because of ancillary work involved in the treatment, he said.
"The bureaucracy and just the paperwork that's involved, and the fact you may recommend something that someone may disagree with and there may be deposition — it's much more involved," he said.
Most physicians and hospitals are paid less than what the fee schedule prescribes anyway due to discounts taken by managed care companies, Remondino said.
And states that have capped workers' comp reimbursements have ultimately pushed physicians away from providing those services, he said.
"They did that in Texas and many of the physicians got out of the work comp system, and then I think they went back up to 180 (percent) or higher to try and get physicians back in the system because they couldn't get an injured worker treated or seen," he said.


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