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What We Learned: The Weeknd's 'Ask Me Anything' Session On Reddit
There was a time when the name "The Weeknd" was shrouded in mystery and cloaked in anonymity. When Abel Tesfaye first debuted his menacing, experimental R&B project back in late 2010, no one even knew his real name. Who would've predicted that in less than three years he'd be answering random questions from fans on a Reddit Ask Me Anything session? It seems like at a certain point Tesfaye got tired of the anonymity.
Now he's answering questions from the internet about whether he's a butt or a boobs man—turns out he's into both. During his interview, Tesfaye discussed the origins of the Weeknd project, the possibility of a future Kanye collaboration and more. Take a look at some of the best questions and answers from The Weeknd's Reddit AMA session below.
Do you play your own music when you have sex with the ladies? Other music? No music?
Where did "The Weeknd" come from? I've always wondered.
I left home when I was about 17 dropped out of high school and convinced Lamar to do the same lol. We grabbed our mattresses from our parents threw it in our friends shitty van and left one weekend and never came back home. It was gonna be the title of HOB. I hated my name at the time though so I tried it as a stage name. It sounded cool. I took out the "e" because there was already a canadian band named the weekend (copyright issues).
Do you speak Ahmaric?
Yes fluently. First language I learned. Had no dad and mom was working 24/7 so my grandma raised me until I was like 5. No English.
Read in an interview that you were in Paris with Kanye. Can we expect something from you guys?
I'm not sure but kanye is the homie!
Is there a chance of a collab with Frank Ocean?
Never met him. Love channel orange though!
Are you a butt man or boobs man?
Who inspires you to keep making music?
My friends… And my mom.
What is your favorite TV show Abel, do you think Hank is going to die on Breaking Bad?
Waiting until the season is over so I can watch all in one day. Fuck that every week bullshit. Game Of Thrones won my heart last season though
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Beyond the classroom Get involved. Live for action. Challenge yourself. With competitive athletics. Incredible outdoor activities. Community service. Right here at your new home in the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains.
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Throw Frisbees. Ride horses. Play hockey—on the field or on the ice. Norwich's intramural and club sports come together to create many ways for you and your friends to have fun—and be active. From Kreitzberg Arena to Shapiro Field House, you'll also have the facilities you need—to swim, to workout, or to play an impromptu game. What's clear:
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Club sports: Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Ice Hockey Longboarding Mountaineering Paintball Snowboard & Ski Soccer Learn more about Norwich club sports and intramurals at www.norwich.edu/campus/clubsports.html
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Ballroom Dancing Club Be a Motivated Female (BAMF) Campus Activities Board Chinese Club Cigar Club Computer Security and Forensics Club Council on International Affairs First Nations Club Handgun Intensive Tactical Shooting Club International Student Organization Intramural/Recreational Sports Council Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Allies Club Model United Nations Norwich Christian Fellowship Pegasus Players (theatre) Political Science Club Quidditch Association Student Government Association Tactical Society The Norwich Guidon (newspaper) The War Whoop (yearbook) WNUB-FM
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Student Volunteer Programs Alternative breaks (Thanksgiving & Spring) Blood and bone marrow registration drives Book, food, and clothing drives Disaster relief Emergency response Overseas service-learning trips Soup kitchens/community dinners Trail work Youth mentoring Special events CSI Symposium Homecoming Junior Ring Weekend Parent & Family Weekend Todd Lecture Series William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium Winter Carnival
Learn more about Norwich student life at www.norwich.edu/campus
Get ready to: Navigate: Local rivers in a canoe, kayak, or inner tube. Climb: The craggy limestone, granite, or icy faces at Bolton, Deer Leap, and Smuggler's Notch. Dive: Into the waters of Northfield, Warren, or Stowe Falls. Scale: Trails on foot or on a bike at places like Paine Mountain, Camel's Hump, and Mount Mansfield. Soar: On snowboards or skis. Bonus: As a Norwich student, you'll get discounts at nearby resorts.
Breathtaking adventures Like to mountain bike? Want to play paintball? Ski? Hike? Climb? Rappel? Welcome to the SFC John Shaw Outdoor Center. The newly built center features an extensive network of four-season trails, including an NCAA-sanctioned cross-country trail, a paintball woods course, fitness and running loops, a cadet marching route, and groomed ski paths. At the Shaw Center, you can even check out gear, like snowshoes and crosscountry skis, mountain bikes or even reserve a campsite.
Love the outdoors? You'll love our location. "Spectacular" covers it. So does "amazing," "impressive," and "stunning." The rugged Green Mountains are ideal for every kind of outdoor activity you can imagine. Prefer city life? We're just 10 miles from Montpelier, Vermont's capital city; an hour from Burlington, Vermont's largest city; and just three hours from Montreal and Boston. What's clear:
You'll never say, "There's nothing to do."
Healthy living Norwich University is situated on more than 1,200 acres, surrounded by the Green Mountains, in Northfield, Vermont (pop. 6,200). For five straight years, Vermont has topped United Health Foundation's list as the healthiest state in the nation.
Learn more about Norwich's spectacular location at www.norwich.edu/about/vermont.html
The bonds you form at Norwich last a lifetime. Your classmates? They'll always be there for you. Your roommate? A friend for life. Your favorite professor? Likely the person you call
Powerful connections
when you land your first job. Even a casual acquaintance may be the person who tips you off to a great career opportunity in the future. That's what happens when you're part of a family. Especially a family as tight as Norwich's. What's clear:
You'll know what it means
when we say "Norwich forever."
As a cadet, you'll have the honor of welcoming those who came before you into the ranks of the Old Guard by presenting them with their Old Guard Medallions as part of the Corps of Cadets review and retreat ceremony during Homecoming activities.
"Norwich put into me—into us—something that I can only call the Norwich spirit, the Norwich ethic. It lives in the words of our motto: 'I will try.'"
Learn more about the Norwich community at www.norwich.edu/campus/together.html
General Gordon Sullivan '59 32nd Chief of Staff of the United States Army Former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Preparation for life From one of two beginnings—cadet or civilian—your Norwich journey leads you into a future that will challenge you in ways you can only imagine. You're ready to achieve distinction.
"My studies were very difficult at Norwich.
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When you graduate from Norwich, you'll be ready for anything. Graduate school. The military. Your career. Your life. That's because Norwich prepares leaders. Global citizens. People of character. People with purpose. People who are focused, driven, and committed to excellence. You'll join an extensive network of Norwich alumni who will help you realize your dreams. Why? Because they know where you're from. You're one of them. You're Norwich. What's clear:
"I got where I am because of what
"Norwich is a leadership laboratory. It
My professors held my feet to the fire.
the Corps of Cadets instilled in me:
allows anybody a fair chance to participate
That made me successful in my career.
persistence, determination, a positive
I'm always the last one standing. I moved
attitude, and to be a go-to person who
up the ladder quickly." Sussan Coley '83 Business Development Executive IBM
does the job well and on time." Mike Rizzuto '97 Director, Post Production Sony Pictures Studios
and learn and lead." Matthew Baker '00 Lieutenant Commander United States Navy
No fear
Made for movies
World leader
In her job with IBM, Sussan Coley '83 travels to war-torn countries—places her colleagues refuse to go. She's unafraid, drawing on her life experiences, including her Norwich education. A Norwich student when the Iran hostage crisis broke out in 1979, she was forced to return to her home country of Iran. A year later, having escaped Iran, she returned to Norwich where she double majored in electrical engineering and mathematics before earning an MBA at Boston University. She's a trailblazer for women in engineering who has worked at Fortune 500 companies, owned her own business, and who serves on Norwich's Board of Fellows.
For Mike Rizzuto '97, the distance from Norwich's Corps of Cadets to a film studio is surprisingly short. Every day, he uses the skills he learned at Norwich. Skills that have taken him up through the ranks of a career working with top Hollywood producers and directors. That success— and passion for filmmaking—started at Norwich, where he and a team of classmates in the University's Television Production Unit won a college Emmy.® Norwich not only prepared him for his career but gave him powerful alumni connections (his first boss was an alum) that helped him land his dream job.
As a helicopter pilot, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Baker '00 has served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom; was stationed in Japan and Hawaii; and has earned awards such as the Air Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, and Navy Achievement Medal. Norwich, though, is still fresh in his mind. The Florida native's first few months at NU weren't easy, but he went on to earn a three–year Navy ROTC scholarship. He served as battalion commander in the Corps of Cadets and Navy ROTC, co-captain of the football team and vice chair of the Corp Honor Committee. He is stationed in Jacksonville, Florida, serving as a squadron department head.
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The university: Private, senior
Faculty: 112 full time; 72 percent
military college that offers traditional
hold terminal degrees.
undergraduate degree programs
Student/faculty ratio: 14:1
to both cadets and civilians. Founded: 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge as the first private military college in the
Academic programs: Over 30 academic programs, four ROTC programs.
nation and the birthplace of the Reserve
Clubs/organizations: Approximately 80,
Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program.
including academic and professional societies; special interest clubs;
Location: Northfield, Vermont, in
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activities; religious, military, and
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natural areas. Just 20 minutes from
programming committees; and more.
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largest city; and three hours from
in NCAA Division III; unlimited
Montreal and Boston, two of North
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America's most cultured cities.
Financial aid/scholarships:
Students: About 2,300 cadets, civilian
Scholarships, grants, loans, and
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work-study are available.
1,500 graduate students, from more than 45 states and 20 foreign countries.
Expect Challenge. Achieve Distinction.
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Realizing that their plan wouldn't work, they decided to use Aessa as the honeypot and lure Temarren to a dark and secluded spot, which actually worked. Aessa lured him out onto a long and lonely stretch of the docks and got him to ingest a concoction brewed up by Rod, which caused him to be violently sick. Xander and Rod arrived and convinced Temarren that he was poisoned and that they were the only ones who had the antidote. He then told them that Captain Grayven had decided to sell his part of the map to Black Lorren, a notoriously deadly pirate captain who commands not just one, but three ships. They also found out that two of Black Lorren's men, Marq Piper and Tiger Jericho, were in port and were supposed to make sure this meeting and sale took place. The PCs then bound Temarren, dumped him in a dingy, and set him adrift in the bay.
Meanwhile, Orno came up with a plan of his own and disregarding any amount of finesse or subtly, marched straight into the Witchlight and tried to get Captain Grayven to show him the piece of the map. However, Orno attempted to be mysterious and not reveal the name of his employer/the potential buyer, which did not work at all. Grayven, now suspicious that someone else is after the map, had Orno escorted outside.


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Well my BIG one starts this Saturday with my chance to run 145 miles from Birmingham to London, England along the Grand Union Canal. This is one of the big name race challenges in the UK which starts at 6.00am on Saturday and we have 45 hours to cover the full distance with very strict rules, no rests longer than 40 minutes and a few more to mention.
Training has been good and I am ready for the event....I think. Wish me luck
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Best of luck, Jerry. Sounds like a fun race.
When it's all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?
Good luck.
I saw that race last year online - looks awesome.
Looks like fun
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Purdey, as GUCR virgins the general advice is to run it to complete it as it holds many hidden mental barriers that come up and bite you on the arse. Apparently runners who "thunder" through at 20 miles will invariably fail apparently. The biggest mental torture is at Navigation Bridge at the 70.5 mile mark where a huge number give up as this is the half way CP and night is drawing in, the secret is to just focus on getting your night kit together, eat your hot food, if you don't have a buddy then get one and bug out before the demons catch you up.
There are some great runners turning up and there are at least two with the attitude of "All or nothing" but they have completed this prestigious race on two previous occasions and earnt the spurs, I have a very strong feeling that there will be a race at the front. If I was running this by myself I would indeed have my head down and having a go for the top 25% finishers but I am running with my pal George and we propose to stick to a practiced and steadily paced game plan, we hope (and suspect) that the Tortoise will indeed catch the Hare
There are some great runners turning up
There are some great runners turning up
Rubbish. I stick by my advice. Run the first hour as fast as possible. By the way......
MY race.....MY pace
I know it was a joke...I have been so focussed on this damn race for so long that we have agreed a game plan that will only be changed on the run if there are issues that only a race will present
Very cool Jerry, Good luck.
Good luck, Jerry!!!!
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A DANCE teacher hopes to tap to the top on TV talent show Got to Dance.
Freddie Huddleston, a teacher and former student at Tiffany Theatre College in Leigh, will be seen performing in front of judges on the Sky 1 show on Saturday.
He had to impress judges including former Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt, actor and tap dancer Adam Garcia, and Wickford dancer and choreographer Ashley Banjo in the prerecorded show.
The 24-year-old, from Westcliff, dances American tap to George Benson's On Broadway in a bid for a live semi-final place.
Freddie said: "It was very exciting but different from what I've done before. It was out of my comfort zone, but that's why I decided to do it. "It was great dancing in front of the judges – you don't get any better than that."
Freddie has performed in panto alongside Pineapple Dance Studios' director Louie Spence, but was keen to learn from judges on the show.
Freddie said: "It was a great experience because they are all so good at what they do. They have a lot of ideas about different stuff and it's useful to hear.
"Adam was the most useful because he is a tap dancer. I've followed everything he does. It was amazing to be in the same room as him and for him to be watching."
Freddie grew up in Lincolnshire and started dancing aged 12.
He moved to Southend at 17 to join Tiffany Theatre College to study tap and musical theatre. He joined the teaching staff after finishing the three-year course and has choreographed for the school show.
The dancer, who refused to reveal if he made it through Saturday's audition, said: "The main reason I came on was to showcase what I do and to encourage others to try tap. "I was one of the only tap dancers at my audition and that saddened me.''


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Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was today sworn in as president of Egypt in the wake of his landslide victory in last month's presidential election.
Security measures were increased for the swearing-in ceremony in Cairo, with armoured personnel carriers and tanks placed in strategic locations.
The retired field marshal and commander in chief of the army overthrew the presidency of Mohammed Morsi last July and has since pursued a relentless crackdown on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, which called for a boycott of the May election.
Mr Sisi won with 97 per cent of the vote in a turnout of less than 50 per cent.
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Posted on February 15, 2007
Spring training in Florida, on the map
Even though it's freezing here in north-central Florida tonight, the Major League Baseball spring training season is about to begin. Boston.com built a neat package for all those die-hard Red Sox fans: Fan's Guide to Fort Myers.
It includes three Google maps that use the free Atlas application to pinpoint sites of interest. A unique feature is a users' photo page where the photos are pinned to a satellite photo of the baseball stadium in Fort Myers, Florida.
Get a Bugmenot password if the site throws you a bad pitch.
Technorati tags: sports | online journalism | maps | examples
Posted on February 14, 2007
Who has time for video?
"How do you find time to look at all this stuff?" People often ask me that question.
The answer is twofold: It's my job. And: Really, I don't have the time. Other things suffer because I don't allocate my time as well as I should.
This leads me to a comment about video and podcasts and all that linear-based media we are getting online today.
Who in the world has time for all this?
I happened across a post on this same subject from Tom Abate, who writes MiniMediaGuy — an often interesting blog about local and community-focused journalism. First he describes a panel of four newspaper journalists who have been shooting video and producing multimedia for some time at the Ventura County Star. He attended the panel in person, at the University of California, Berkeley.
Then Abate mentions that Berkeley generously archived Webcasts (video) of all the panels at the conference. Wow! This is great, isn't it? Here's what Abate wrote:
… the truth is that, having missed the original lectures, I may never consume the information. It's just not pleasurable to spend 50 minutes viewing a webcast.
He had the same reaction later when he started to listen to some podcasts highlighted in a Poynter article by Amy Gahran. The content of the podcasts was stuff he really wanted to know, but listening is just so inefficient.
It takes too long.
This brings me to onBeing, a gorgeous new video project from washingtonpost.com (for which Rob Curley is getting accolades from all over). The project made its debut a week ago (Feb. 7), and lovers of multimedia journalism were immediately impressed. I've seen probably a dozen blog posts about it since then.
Last night about 7 p.m., I finally had time to check it out.
Well, I certainly am impressed, like everyone else. It's compelling, it's interesting, it's beautiful in both design and execution. I'd like to see more hooting and hollering about Jenn Crandall, the videographer, because she is the person who captured these intimate interviews with regular people. That's what makes this so special, you know. If the content of the videos were crap, all that sexy interface would not matter one iota.
But back to the time issue.
There's a brand-new video at onBeing today, an interview with a woman who plays football. I have it playing in the background, while I'm writing this. I'm listening while I write. I don't have time to watch right now.
I watch YouTube. My students watch YouTube. But when I need to answer a question, verify a fact, get solid information — I do not have TIME to wait for a video to play — even for 2 minutes. I can scan at least three Web pages in 2 minutes, maybe four, processing thousands of words in a high-speed quest for answers.
I do watch a lot of video online. But we've got to keep some perspective on this.
The Post's onBeing is a really good use of video in part because the subject matter is right. You're going to watch one of these when you want to relax a little, be entertained, and maybe learn something new — but you're not sure what that might be. Like striking up a conversation with someone at a bus stop. You don't expect to get a big benefit out of it, a key nugget of life-changing information. You're just passing the time in a pleasant way.
Passing the time vs. managing your time.
There are big differences between these two uses of time — which is precious to everyone. Some content is going to be very well suited to video — but other content will be better when it's delivered in other, more appropriate formats. We've got to have open discussions about when video is a good choice and when it is not.
Technorati tags: video | online media | journalism | newspapers
Posted on February 14, 2007
When multimedia is worth doing
My friends Nora Paul and Laura Ruel have posted a good article at OJR: Multimedia storytelling: When is it worth it?
They summarize the first study conducted by DiSEL (the Digital Story Effects Lab) from a few years back. In the study, they looked at two versions of a BBC story package about the effects of recreational drugs on a person. One version was "dynamic" (it is animated and has some interactivity); the other was static, just HTML.
They concluded that interactive presentations work best if these are your goals:
- Users will spend more time with the presentation;
- Users will describe the experience as "enjoyable";
- Users will recall more of the information;
- Users will recall your brand;
- Users will feel entertained.
Nora and Laura also discuss some related findings from Poynter's Eyetrack III.
I have often argued that when graduate students conduct a study of online journalism stories or packages, testing for recall (that is, how much the user remembered afterward) is kind of odd — considering that we are looking at journalism. It's a convenient measure for use in a research study. But do journalists sit around and say, "Hm, do you think people will remember this story tomorrow? No? Then let's not run it." Do readers talk about the story at work the next day because they are able to recite facts from the story? No. So I'm not wild about findings related to recall.
I am, however, intrigued by the finding that people spent more time with the (more) interactive story.
What I'd also like to see more research about: Understanding. This is MUCH harder to measure than recall, but it's so much more important for journalism.
Take, for example, the studies that have found that a large percentage of Americans believe that Saddam Hussein had something to do with Al Qaeda. It would be very interesting to give a set of research subjects an interactive "learn about Al Qaeda" package and a static package with the same subject matter. You would have to pre-test them to discover their current thoughts on the matter, of course. After the two groups were exposed to the two versions, I would like to know whether there is any difference between the two groups in their understanding of the truth in this news story.
If people who saw the interactive version were more likely to understand what is real and what is not, then we would have a very meaningful result for further study.
I also would like to see some tests on what people choose if they have options for both multimedia and a static text. How much time do they spend on each one?
I have heard anecdotal evidence from several journalists that when an animated graphic is promoted on the home page beside a headline (which links to the text story), the graphic will get more than twice as many pageviews as the text story.
I think this really deserves further study.
(Melissa Worden also commented about this article. So did Danny Sanchez and Angela Grant.)
Technorati tags: journalism | infographics | information graphics | interactivity | online journalism | online media
Posted on February 13, 2007
Slideshow tutorials for multiple apps
In an online video tutorial, Richard Hernandez introduces you to how to use three online photo-presentation programs: SimpleViewer (free!), MonoSlideShow ($20 U.S.), and SWF 'n Slide Pro ($65 U.S.).
Last month Richard treated us to a tutorial about the ubiquitous (and beloved) Soundslides ($40 U.S.), and then another tutorial about how to build "chaptered" Soundslides.
Thanks, Richard! When will you give us one about SlideShowPro ($25 U.S.)?
Technorati tags: slideshows | photojournalism | audio | online media | tutorial
Posted on February 13, 2007
Missed the vision, ignored the visionaries
You never know what you'll find while Googling.
Currently, web publications are largely translations of traditional media. Little original content is produced, and changes are seldom made. In some cases, feature articles are created, possibly utilising multimedia. These "webortages" are still mostly based on linear story telling, which is typical for existing media. The "translation" concept is also used by many radio stations, which provide more or less the same audio stream both to web and broadcast listeners. Some features, such as background information on the news stories or personal home pages of radio personalities, may be included. Archived stories may also be available to those listeners who have missed their favourite show. Due to limited bandwidth, the amount of video content is small in present web publications. Fast web connections allowing the transmission of near-TV quality video pose a challenge to journalism to integrate text and video content.
That was published in 1999.
A team of researchers in Finland developed a prototype that looks so like the Web of today, you might be surprised.
The trial system was tested by 62 end-users in households in the Helsinki area. They were 7-70 years of age…. The users were mostly very experienced users of computers and the Internet. They had very little or no anxiety towards new technology.
There were several evaluation methods: forms on screen, interviews, log files and tracking eye movement while using IMU…. Personalization and integration were evaluated on the assumption that they add to the usefulness of the system. There were a total of 42 interviews before and during the trial, both on the phone and personally. 29 different users were interviewed in all….
The users' opinion of the main interface was that it was simple and easy to use (Figure 12). The simplicity was due to the fact that the main controls and headlines were logically placed and visible at all times while browsing through articles….
Has the journalism field just been spinning its wheels for the past eight years?
Technorati tags: audiences | journalism | online journalism | online media | technology | history
Posted on February 12, 2007
'Convergence' is dead
Buzz words come and go, and it's high time to nail the coffin lid on this one.
As I'm following things these days, it seems that the model now — for newspaper companies, at least — is "to heck with the electronic media, we'll just create our own video and audio." I don't follow the TV news end of things closely enough to judge how quickly they're moving in this direction, but I would guess that if they're not, they'd better get started.
The tools are inexpensive enough that there's little substantial barrier to entry. The questions revolve around the best ways to tell the story, manage your time resources, and monetize the results.
That's from Bryan Murley, who pondered this during a visit to Nebraska to conduct training for college journalists and their advisers.
Everybody got all jazzed up back in 2000 when the Tampa Tribune merged with the local TV station and built a Space Age kind of command post ("Houston, can you read me?") in the center of their newsroom.
There are lots of sweaty palms in this Tampa newsroom, where the Tampa Tribune and WFLA-TV, Channel 8, and their online sites have decided to converge. That convergence took place in March, when all three moved in under one glass roof. This $40 million temple to convergence was built by Media General, a Richmond, Virginia, based company that owns all three outlets. Dubbed the "Newscenter," the newspaper, broadcast, and online operations are on separate floors, connected by a central atrium. The nerve center is this super desk, where a staffer from each operation sits along with a multimedia editor to bring it all together. They share information and, most importantly, reporters. (Source: PBS NewsHour, July 17, 2000)
I look at the Tampa Web site from time to time, and frankly, it leaves a lot to be desired. You may disagree, but to me, judging the Web site of a news organization is the only practical way to evaluate that news organization today. If the Web site is poor, like Tampa's, then the news organization is in trouble.
Now the buzz is all about Gannett's "Information Centers" and mobile journalists who shoot video, file copy 24-7 online, and live in their cars. Oh, I meant work in their cars.
Change is good — change is imperative. I'm all for change.
What I'm against is a lemming-like rush to do something to which you can apply the latest buzz word so that you seem to be adapting and evolving.
A buzz word this year is transformation. That's very good — that's about big changes, really significant changes that make a difference. A real difference. Not just a surface difference.
Of course, that's what everyone said about "convergence" too.
Many people, maybe most people, tend to get fenced in by what they think is possible. We don't have money for this (now). We don't have enough people to do that. We don't know how to write that code or build that thing. We don't have enough time.
So we just won't do it.
What we need to look for is a can-do attitude. In Malaysia they say "Boleh!" — "Can!" You can see that positive force at The Roanoke Times, at the San Jose Mercury News, at the Naples Daily News, and even at the NBC Nightly News.
Buzz words come and go. When they go out of date, they sound stale and even foolish. But a good practice — a change for the better — never seems foolish in hindsight. A change for the better makes people's lives better. Not worse. A change that seeks to improve journalism — not merely follow a trend — is a change worth doing. A change worth standing up for and shouting "Boleh!"
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Breaking the Cycle of Control: Our Relationships with Food
The "one-jelly-bean" mom
When I decided to get pregnant, I jumped into organic and natural, unprocessed foods with both feet. I quit my daily habit of two café lattes a day and committed to "cleaning up my act." During my pregnancy I read about all the things I could do to make sure my son would eat and want healthy foods. No sugar for the first three years, according to Dr. Sears, would ensure he would not crave sweet foods. I asserted my need to control through food in the family.
When I look back at this need to control, I know that so much of it is a desire to regain the power I lost as a child. I still struggle with this loss and have had to work to not use that loss as an excuse to exercise power over those around me, especially the children in my life.
When Martel was a baby, I trusted him to nurse on demand, but somehow I didn't make the leap to him eating when and what he wanted as he grew older. I hadn't yet examined and "discovered" my adultism and how fully indoctrinated I was in the belief that only adults could determine what a child should eat.
I projected many things onto Martel. Of course he would be grouchy like me when he didn't eat. I had to make sure he ate every two-three hours whether he wanted to or not. No fast food, no junk food, only one sweet or sugary thing once in a while.
I was sure that his anger and outbursts were the result of low blood sugar or eating the wrong thing. It would have NEVER occurred to me that his anger could be the result of being oppressed by me until almost a year later.
I have this vivid memory of sitting in Martel's nana's apartment soon after we moved back to our hometown. There were jellybeans in a bowl. Martel was four and wanted a jellybean. Ok Martel, you can have a jellybean, but ONLY one. I was a "one jelly bean" mom.
Lifting the Veil of Oppression
As a result of lifting the veil on my oppressive behavior, I began to let go and trust Martel. I had disempowered him and he needed to reclaim his personal power and right to self-determination. All along Martel had been claiming his power. My socialization taught me this behavior was called temper tantrums and it was inappropriate and disrespectful. As a parent it was my responsibility to tame him and his temper.
The anger and outbursts lessened. They were not about the food he was (or wasn't) eating. They were about the lack of control and total lack of freedom he had to choose when and what he wanted to eat. We stepped out of the cycle of control. I had been telling him by my actions that I knew his body better than he did. "Don't trust your body Martel, trust what I say." I taught him to not listen to his own body, but listen to this authority figure who claimed to know him better than he knew himself.
People will say, but he doesn't have the experience to know what is good for him. You have to set appropriate and healthy boundaries. I used to believe that. Now I mostly believe in him. I believe in his wisdom and knowing his own body. And, he has incredible wisdom because he listens to his body.
It was a struggle for me to let go of the role I had learned and had embraced since he was born. I was the mom and I knew best. I was trained well to believe this. I rejected his right to self-determination. With help from others and continuing to challenge myself to move out of the cycle of control, I have slowly learned that only he knows his own body.
I remember when people would tell me how to feel or what I should be doing as a child. I hated it. I felt diminished and began to lose my connection to my own power. Despite feeling this, I still imposed control on Martel.
The cycle of socialization can be all encompassing. We lose our power as children (and hate it) and this power is replaced by the teachings of our institutions that tell us we must do the same to our children if we are to be good parents.
Reclaiming His Power
About a year after Martel regained his freedom, he asked me to make him a pop tart and egg toast. I made the pop tart, then the toast. I sat down to eat my own breakfast at the table and he was watching his shows and eating while standing up.
I was casually watching him and then I really observed what he was doing. I saw the joy with which he ate both the pop tart and the toast. He would pick up the piece of pop tart or toast, look at it, decide where to bite and chew slowly. He then would look up again at exactly where he wanted to bite, take the bite and chew.
He was so joyful. He was in a state of grace, eating exactly what he wanted, the way he wanted. He eats only what he wants. He listens to his body when he is full. He is not full of shame and guilt. He has wisdom that I can only hope to regain. I am sure I had it once, but I was not trusted to know myself and my own body. And I have continued to live the story of distrust.
As more time has passed, Martel has become so amazingly clear about what he wants. He won't eat something just to eat something. If it doesn't taste right to him, isn't exactly what he wants, he doesn't eat it. Traditional control parenting, the kind that allows the cycles of socialization and control to continue, would tell me I was creating a picky eater. What I see is that he eats exactly the right food at the right time for his body. At least around food, the cycle of control has been broken. I have benefited from seeing how he lives with food and how he has a healthy relationship with food. I hope to keep learning from seeing this relationship unfold everyday.
Let me tell you a bit more about food and our experiences. Both of the children in my life have food sensitivities and reactions. Many parents I work with believe that letting go of control means that their child will eat all the things that trigger them. But there are real ways as parents that we can balance everyone's need and sensitivities and help children get a stronger connection to their bodies. I have personal experience and have worked with other parents specifically around this issue. Let's talk and work together to reduce stress, create peace and balance. Learn more.


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Prior to joining Fidelity as an analyst in FMR Co.'s Equity division in 2005, Mr. Welo worked as a director at BlackRock and previously, as an equity analyst at Boston Partners Asset Management. He has been in the investments industry since 1999.
Mr. Welo earned his bachelor of arts degree in government from Pomona College and his master of business administration degree in finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) charterholder.


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A PAIR of would-be thieves were caught after leaving their DNA on empty beer cans in a disused part of the Nestlé factory in York.
York Crown Court heard how Philip Alan Morgan, 27, and Thomas Paul Hardcastle, 25, found their way into the factory after other thieves had already broken into the site.
Both Hardcastle, of Beckfield Lane, York, and Morgan, of Jute Road, York, said they did not break in with the intention to steal metal, but admitted they would have taken items had they discovered any.
Geraldine Kelly, prosecuting, said: "Philip Morgan accepts that he entered the property on the sixth and the tenth of September, as a trespasser.
"On the sixth his DNA was detected on a can of lager on the fifth floor. On the tenth, DNA was detected by blood left at the scene.
"He gained entry by smashing a window on the first floor."
She said Hardcastle had gone into the building on September 6 and that his DNA had been found on "cans of lager on various floors throughout the property".
The pair were arrested in October, with Morgan initially denying he had ever been on the Nestlé site, but both eventually admitted intending to steal.
In mitigation, the court heard how both defendants were hard working but that Hardcastle had acted due to "financial difficulties", while Morgan's mother was described as being "to some degree financially dependent on him".
Sentencing them both to a three-month curfew between the hours of 9pm and 6am, Judge James Hill QC told them they were lucky the prosecution decided to accept their guilty pleas to burglary with intent to steal rather then an original, more serious charge of conspiracy.
He said: "Stealing scrap metal is something which is all too prevalent these days.
"It's not a victimless crime and somebody has to bear the burden – usually with increased insurance premiums."
As well as the curfews, Morgan was ordered to pay £1,500 costs due to his late guilty plea, while Hardcastle was ordered to pay £750.


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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is widely referenced as one of the greatest American companies. Yet, the company's retail stores appear to be wrestling with margin crimping challenges resulting from inconsistent leadership.
Rumblings of trouble at Apple's iconic stores came to light last June when the New York Times ran a story questioning whether Apple store hourly workers were being paid fairly.
The pressure to address employee pay mounted as reports surfaced showing Mr. Cook's stock grants, received earlier in the year, climbed past $500 million last summer.
While pay disparity has long been a contentious argument between retail workers and c-level managers, the issue and fall-out appeared to catch Apple unprepared.
The situation was a complex one for the company.
Apple's stores generated $16 billion in merchandise sales in 2011, yet some of its biggest champions - front line employees - were earning just a little north of $11 per hour.
As a result, many of the company's 40,000 retail workers were reportedly earning around $25,000 a year - significantly less than the U.S. household median income of $50,000 in 2011.
The company notched $473k in sales per retail employee in 2011, much better than the $206k level across the industry. And an April 2012 study showed Apple stores generate 17x more sales than a typical retail outlet, notching the highest sales per square foot in retail in the process.
Faced with a growing retail footprint generating lower margins than other channels, the company was challenged to boost margins while still keeping workers happy ahead of the iPhone 5 and iPad mini launches.
Either in anticipation of the article or in response, Apple employees got pay raises around the same time the New York Times article printed.
On June 20th, Apple Insider noted some retail workers would be seeing income bumps of up to 25%. Those pay raises kicked in during July, which means they first showed up in September quarterly earnings.
Pay increases impact on Apple's bottom line.
While retail store sales were up 5.3% year-over-year and accounted for nearly 12% of the company's revenue last quarter, segment margins fell to 24.2% from 30.2% a year ago. This resulted in operating income of $1.6 billion, down from $1.9 billion last year.
This weighed on Apple's overall operating margin, which fell 31.6%, down from 37.3% a year ago.
As a result, Apple's earnings growth slowed to 23%, a rate below its sales growth of 27%. This marked the second consecutive quarter earnings growth trailed revenue growth.
Apple's retail headwinds will continue to weigh down results given the company's plans to spend $850 million this year on its retail stores. The spending will include adding 30 new stores, which will bring its store count up 20% from where it stood in FYQ2 2012.
The larger store count and employee base will be one of a series of factors weighing on Apple's bottom line this year.
Retail leadership remains a question mark.
The impact of retail's falling operating margins on earnings could have made for some tough conversations inside Cupertino's walls.
With Ron Johnson leaving for J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP) in June 2011, Apple brought in U.K. retail executive John Browett in early 2012. Mr. Browett appeared an atypical choice given his prior tenure as CEO of low margin grocer Tesco and turnaround story Dixon's.
The decision to bring a cost cut oriented leader in to head up Apple's retail operation may indicate Apple was already concerned with retail margins heading into 2012
This theory is supported by reports Mr. Browett tried to offset last summer's wage hikes by cutting shifts and laying-off workers.
In the end, it appears the cost conscious Browett conflicted too much with Apple's culture. Mr. Browett's departed last fall - only six months after taking over.
The story got even muddier last month, when VP of retail Jerry McDougal exited the company under the veil of "spending-time-with-family."
While Mr. McDougal stressed his decision wasn't Apple driven, it should be noted he was once considered an heir to Mr. Johnson. Instead, the company went a different way with Mr. Browett.
Given the search for Mr. Browett's replacement is ongoing, Mr. McDougal's departure may signal Apple is close to appointing a new successor.
Whether the successor is internal or not, Apple remains clearly fixated on segment expenses. When Mr. Browett left, Apple sent finance veteran Jim Bean over to retail to "help" out.
The dysfunction at the top hasn't appeared to seriously dent retail stores sales, yet. Although an argument could be made Mac sales were disappointing during the holidays given they slumped 16% from last holiday season.
Despite fewer Mac sales, quarterly retail sales set a new high thanks to a record number of shoppers, driving profit dollars to their highest ever.
However, the question isn't whether more locations can keep the absolute dollar sales and profits growing.
Instead, it's whether Apple can find the right compromise between customer service and earnings to support margins.
Until a new leader is appointed and consistency in retail leadership is established, it's likely questions will remain regarding the segment. For investors, the struggles suggest adjusting expectations for lower margins - something the market appears to have done.
Disclosure: I am long AAPL. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Session of 1998
SENATE BILL No. 433
By Committee on Assessment and Taxation
9 AN ACT relating to property taxation; requiring certain actions relating
10 to the levying thereof.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
13 Section 1. (a) Without adoption of a resolution so providing, the leg-
14 islature or the governing body of any taxing subdivision shall not approve
15 any appropriation or budget, as the case may be, which is to be funded
16 by revenue produced from property taxes, and which provides for funding
17 with such revenue in an amount exceeding that of the next preceding
18 year, except with regard to revenue produced and attributable to the
19 taxation of new or new improvements to property.
20 (b) The provisions of this section shall be applicable to all fiscal and
21 budget years commencing on and after the effective date of this act.
22 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
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Cool product from RIO
Not sure if any of you have used RIO's Shock Gum before but it is a really cool product. Especially a good product when fishing small tippets. It can be bought on tapered leaders but I prefer to use the spool of Shock Gum and just use a double surgeons knot. Could use an albright or nail knot as well....I have just found the double surgeon holds up and is the quickest/easiest for me to tie while on the water.
Fly Lines, Fly Leaders, and Fly Fishing Accessories - Rio Shock Gum
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Very cool.
There is also a technique for setting the hook with thin leaders/tippet called the slip set. You relax your line control hand and raise the rod letting the line slip through your control hand allowing the line weight to set the hook gently.
I have a tendendcy to get a little over excited sometimes and forget to relax thus snapping the tippet and losing the fly and the fish. This shock gum looks like it could solve the over reaction, over excited problem. Gotta try it. Thanks.
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Hey yatahey. Like I said, I think it is best used for lightweight tippet. I am like you....I am a little too anxious sometimes and when I am using something like a 7x tippet that can lead to you breaking the fish off. With the shock gum I have yet to have that happen. Let me know what you think of it if you try it.
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The company continues to make progress with its Volly™ service and has now signed 60 large third-party mail service providers who will offer the Volly secure digital mail service to 6,500 companies and consumer brands. As it continues to work with billers and develop its software, the company has decided to add to and enhance its technology to provide additional capabilities that will improve the onboarding process for billers. This will result in improving the scalability of the service and facilitating biller density. Therefore, the company has determined that Volly's long-term value will be enhanced by deferring its availability to consumers until 2013.EBIT improved when compared to the prior year due to the growth of revenue and cost reduction initiatives in the U.S. and Europe, offset by continued investment in Volly. Excluding the investment in Volly, EBIT margin would have been approximately 540 basis points higher this quarter.
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Banh mi-style sandwiches seem to be popping up everywhere lately. While I love this — because I love a good banh mi — I've got one big bone to pick. Most of the ones I've had are simply not good.
Now, before the rotten fruit starts flying, just hear me out! There are a couple of key elements to the flavor profile of the banh mi that I feel many restaurants try to cheat out and cut corners on. It's in that moment that bad sandwiches happen and days are ruined.
Sriracha Mayo
Nowhere near a feat of rocket science-level engineering, the combination of mayonnaise with Sriracha is a thing of sheer magic. It's creamy, spicy and satisfying light-years beyond plain-old original mayo. Do your banh mi condiment a favor and give it some Sriracha lovin'.


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What to do when water is moving 500 cfs plus?
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When addressing the discharge of a stream, most of the reporting sites do in fact gage the discharge in cfs (cubic feet per second). This is the quantity of discharge going through the controlling gates, weirs, or generating turbines. The swiftness of the water, current, depends then on the configuration of the stream bed, i.e., how wide, how deep, etc. A stream bed of 100 feet width and a depth of one foot with a discharge of 500 cubic feet per second would have a current moving at approximately 5 feet per second (about 3.5 miles per hour). Again, with a discharge of 500 cft, assume then the stream bed width is 50 feet wide and only one foot deep, then the water will be traveling at twice that current speed, or 10 feet per second (about 7 mph). There are many conditions downstream of the discharge control point that will affect the current speed, this example is only meant to help one understand the difference in discharge (cfs) and current speed (fps).
This would mean one should know something about the particular stream and what the conditions are at 100 cfs, 500 cfs, and so on. In other words, a discharge of 500 cfs at Lower Mountain Fork might result in a current much less than 100 cfs at another stream. I hope I haven't made this too confusing. The point is, you must know what affect on current the different discharge amounts have on each stream.
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