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1961: Charley Hennigan Has Third 200-Yard Receiving Game of Season
The Houston Oilers, defending champions of the AFL, looked as though they wouldn't defend their title very effectively when they got off to a 1-3-1 start in 1961. However, after owner Bud Adams dismissed Head Coach Lou Rymkus and replaced him with Wally Lemm, the team caught fire. On December 3, they hosted the top team in the Western Division, the San Diego Chargers, at Jeppesen Stadium. The result was a convincing 33-13 win, spurred by four George Blanda touchdown passes, three of them to flanker Charley Hennigan.
Hennigan was one of the key offensive performers behind Houston's success, and on this day he caught 10 passes for 214 yards. It marked his third 200-yard game of the season, on the way to accumulating an overall pass receiving yardage record that would last for 34 years.
It hardly seemed likely that Hennigan would become a successful pro football player when he arrived at the team's first training camp in 1960. He had drawn scant attention from the NFL when he came out of Northwest Louisiana in '59, and had played briefly in Canada. Hennigan was teaching high school Biology in Jonesboro, Louisiana when he decided to take a shot at the new pro football league and signed with the Oilers. Fast but thin at 6'1", 187 pounds, he didn't do much in training camp or the preseason, but gained an advocate in assistant coach Mac Speedie, the former star end for the Cleveland Browns who coached the Houston receivers.
In the 1960 season opening game, Hennigan scored the first touchdown in team history on a 43-yard pass play from Blanda and had four catches for 85 yards in the first half – and then suffered a separated shoulder that required surgery and kept him out of action for three weeks. He came back to catch 44 passes for the Oilers in '60, and did much more in 1961.
The team may have started slowly, but Hennigan didn't as he went over a hundred yards in each of the first seven games, and twice went over 200 yards with a high of 272 yards on 13 receptions on October 13 at Boston. Two weeks later he caught 9 passes for 232 yards at Buffalo.
In all, Hennigan ended up with 10 hundred-yard games on the way to a season total of 1746 yards on 82 receptions (a 21.3 average gain) with 12 touchdowns (his three against the Chargers were his single-game high). The yardage total was finally exceeded in 1995 by both Jerry Rice of the 49ers (1848) and Isaac Bruce of the Rams (1781), and of course they did it in a 16-game season as opposed to 14. Oddly enough, Hennigan was even shut out in one game in '61.
Hennigan and split end Bill Groman, who caught 50 passes for 1175 yards and 17 touchdowns (equaling the record at the time, held by Don Hutson and Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch) helped the Oilers to accumulate a team record 4392 yards through the air (not exceeded until 1980 by the Chargers). QB Blanda threw for 3330 of those yards, with a then-record 36 TD passes.
While Hennigan's yardage total was eventually exceeded, the three 200-yard games in a season have not. Nor have the seven consecutive hundred-yard performances, although that was tied by Michael Irvin of the Cowboys in 1995, when, with 11, he also became the only NFL receiver to exceed Hennigan's 10 hundred-yard games in '61 (three others have also had 10). Granted, the level of competition in the AFL in 1961 was not on a par with the NFL or as high as it would be in just a few more years, but the numbers remain impressive decades later, when rules changes have significantly opened up the passing game.
Houston ended up winning nine consecutive games under Coach Lemm to finish the season, compiling an overall 10-3-1 record to again place first in the Eastern Division. They faced the Chargers, 12-2 and easily the best team in the West, in the AFL Championship game, which the Oilers won by the surprisingly low score of 10-3.
While Bill Groman's numbers dropped off significantly after '61, Hennigan remained one of the AFL's best receivers and again led the league in pass receiving yards in 1964 (1546), the same year that he set a record with 101 receptions.
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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
ignore the version of asterisk in our svn. We are using whatever version of asterisk is packaged upstream, therefore it can be upgraded.-Thom
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by A. Buchman
The gardening farm in Czenstochow arose in connection with the trend toward productivity, which was felt more strongly in Poland on the threshold of the 20th century. The first to implement the plan were the well-known community workers, Leopold Werde, Henrik Markusfeld, Grosman and Stanislaw Herc. They bought a piece of land of approximately 20 acres in 1902 for this purpose.
The gardening farm began with ten students in total and at first was satisfied with flowering plants.
A gardening teacher was hired from Germany. The first students were from Czenstochow and its surroundings, aged 12 to 14. The budget was put together from voluntary contributions and subsidies from the Jewish community.
No particular education or qualifications were demanded of the students, except for physical fitness. The manager was a religious Jew and the students had to observe all religious, Jewish laws, such as praying, saying blessings and so on.
The students who did not see any prospects for themselves after two or three years of study in such a school began to demand more secular education and further progress in the trade. But the financial resources of the farm were limited most of the students dispersed. Only four people remained.
This lasted until 1904. Then the I.K.A. [Jewish Colonization Association] became interested in the farm, designated a subsidy and engaged the well-known agronomist, Borukh Sznajerzon, who turned the Czenstochow gardening farm into one of the most blossoming institutions in Poland.
The farm in Czenstochow began to have a good reputation across the entire country. The number of students rose to 30. There they received free: food, a place to live, clothing and they wore special uniforms.
The students who were accepted had to know one of the languages: Polish or Russian and a certain amount of arithmetic. The students received further education in the school from a separate teacher. Sznajerzon, the director, himself taught all special gardening trade subjects: botany, chemistry, physics, zoology and so on. A Polish gardener led the practical work on the farm. All of the accommodations that were needed on the farm, such as the hotbed boxes, beehives and tools were built and created by the students themselves. A library in various languages about everything that had a connection with gardening was also organized on the farm.
Greenhouses were organized. Warm hotbed windows. Plants from various different areas were raised: tropical and sub-tropical, as for example, oranges and figs.
In winter, cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, melons and beans grew in the greenhouses. Henrik Markusfeld bought a large field and donated it to the farm. Various grains were planted in the field.
A varied and large choice of local fruit trees wasplanted. Grafts were taken from them to cultivate more trees. The cultivated trees were sent in the tens of thousands across all of Russian Poland.
A botanical garden was accommodated with hundreds of plantings from various nations.
This all called for more than 6,000 rubles, which I.K.A. and the municipality gave. A flower shop was opened in Czenstochow in order to create a new source of income.
The farm became so well known with its practical knowledge in the world of planting that the city decided to create a park: the park in Ostatni Grosz [district of Czenstochow]. Later, also the city park for the exhibition in 1911.
In 1906 an orchard of hundreds of trees and a rose garden were planted.
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Even a nursery for summer plantings. The farm's rozarnja [hot house for roses] made a strong impression among the Christian gardeners in Poland. There was a rose house of thousands of rose bushes of various sorts and blossoming at various times. The roses were sent to the flower shops in Poland and were also transported abroad.
In the month of January during the great frost, the first roses of the Jewish gardening farm appeared in Czenstochow. The cuttings lasted until the month of May when the roses from the open garden began.
General photograph of the farm
There also was a drying room for bulbs of daffodils, tulips, lilies and various other flowers.
In 1911, the Jewish gardening farm in Czenstochow took part in the world exhibition in Czenstochow and received one gold medal and 10 silver medals.
The non-Jewish gardeners were greatly displeased that the actual work on the farm was led by a Christian. Sznajerzon, the director, therefore, sent several of the students to learn about the special ideas of planting in order to be able to carry out the practical work.
However, everything began to go downhill when Sznajerzon, the director, left the farm in 1913. Other agronomists, Jews, came, but no one could compare with Director Sznajerzon in regard to energy, idealism, knowledge and professionalism.
With the outbreak of the First World War, in 1914, many students dispersed. Those who remained worked further with the help of a small subsidy from the community.
The I.K.A. committed to its subsidy with the arrival of the director, Dubczinski. However, the farm then took on another character, more of a halutzish [offering preparation of pioneers for emigration to Eretz-Yisroel]. The main part was taken by agricultural education that was needed in Eretz-Yisroel. The pioneer work was carried out until the end of the First World War, when director Dubczinski left the farm, and his place was taken by the agronomist Feldsztajn. Ninety percent of the students who studied under his leadership left for Eretz-Yisroel.
Under his leadership the school for girls also was opened and girls came from all over Poland, many of them with a higher education, to learn the gardening trade in order to be able to emigrate to Eretz-Yisroel. They adapted well to the physical work in the garden, with the trees, flowers, hotbeds, and also in the cattle stall.
As a result, the prestige of the school began to increase with every Jew, chiefly among the nationalist element. It made a rare impression when young, healthy girls in their farm uniforms stood in the Czenstochow streets with shovels and gathered the manure and threw it in wagons which were driven away to the farm.
A group of students with the director of the farm
The Czenstochow city hall also began to take an interest in the farm. The farm even was supposed to receive a gift of certain rights through the Polish Education Ministry, but just then the agronomist, Feldsztajn, left for America and the entire situation at the farm changed.
The farm was taken over by Hashomer Hatzair [Youth Guard socialist-Zionist youth movement]. Almost all of the trees were cut down. The graftings, the rose garden, hotbeds, decorative planting all of this was annihilated
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and the terrain was changed to an agricultural one. Vegetables from the farm were sold in the Czenstochow market. Many male and female pioneers worked outside the farm, waiting for the opportunity to emigrate to Eretz-Yisroel.
After the farm was transferred to Hashomer Hatzair, the Jewish community refused to subsidize it. On the 2nd of December 1927, the Czenstochower Zeitung [Czenstochower Newspaper] published an article of alarm, demanding that the community provide for the farm under the leadership of Hashomer Hatzair.
During the time of its existence until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the Czenstochow farm graduated hundreds of male and female students, who were qualified as gardeners and agricultural workers.
Of the first students, many travelled all over the world: America, Australia, Argentina. But 80 percent of the male and female students are located in Eretz-Yisroel, some in kibbutzim [collective community], some owning their own farms and in commercial agriculture.
Whoever comes into contact with the male and female students from the gardening farm in Czenstochow in Eretz-Yisroel admires their work and activities.
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by A. Gotlib
The Czenstochower Artisans School was founded in 1898. Its original founder, Henrik Markusfeld, created it as a monument to immortalize the memory of his deceased parents, Adolf and Ernestine Markusfeld.
The graduates of the cabinetmakers' division in 1912 with H. Markusfeld,
Engineer Asorodobaj and Jarzembinski, above
The importance of the Artisans School can only be appreciated when one remembers that the Jewish artisan or crafts worker still stood at a lower cultural and communal level at that time. A trade went hand-in-hand with ignorance. An apprentice would be given [to an artisan] for several years and he had to do home-work for a long time, while learning the trade. A tailor and a shoemaker were given the title tailoring, shoemaking.
Right from the start, the Artisans School took on the task of uniting a craft with general education.
At first the Artisans School was a division of the Talmud Torah [religious school for poor boys] and was officially called: Jewish Artisans School at the Talmud Torah. It occupied the three-story building on Garncarska Street.
It included three divisions: 1) Mechanical locksmith division, which until then generally was not available for Jews; 2) Furniture making; 3) Wheelwrights. The director of the divisions were: Szrajber master locksmith; Akrent master carpenter. Jarzembinski (a Christian) wheelwright. The arithmetic teacher was the Zalcman. We should also mention the shomer hasof [gate keeper], small Mordekhale.
The school's mechanical workshop
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At first, there were few candidates eager to enter the school. If I am not mistaken, at first only those students whose parents could pay 150 rubles for three years in advance were accepted. Later, students from the poorer strata of the Jewish population were also accepted and not only were they free from payment, but each of them received a subsidy from IKO [Jewish Colonization Organization] 10 rubles every three months. Later it was reduced to the sum of seven and a half rubles. The students worked in workshops during the day and studied at the evening courses at night.
Among the students in the first three years were:
The brothers Avraham and Moshe Weksler, Shlomo Dzalaszinski, Shlomo Win, Chaim Win all of these excelled in their professionalism.
The influx of students increased from year to year. Many young men from the houses of study entered the Artisans School. In the years 1904-1905, when the artisan and the working man organized and showed revolutionary and communal strength children of more wealthy parents, as well as students from the middle school (gymnazie) began to enter the Artisans School.
In the course of time, the directors changed. Jebic took over the office of Director Szrajber. However, he was not successful with the students and he left the school. His place was taken by Gerwicman. Through his initiative the Artisans School began to give guild certificates. In 1912-1913 the director's office at the school was occupied by Engineer Asorodobaj. Under his leadership the Artisans School raised its level to a modern technical school. Studies were held with yearly exams and subsidies were designated for the more capable students to be able to study at a higher technical school.
The institution earned a reputation as a first class school and students began to storm it, not only from Czenstochow, but also from the surrounding cities. With the help of I.K.O., new machines were arranged for and the kerosene motors were changed to electrical.
In 1913 the expenses for the Artisans School reached 11,000 rubles. The income was: 1,500 rubles from the Jewish community, 500 rubles - the Markusfeld brothers, IKO 4,900 rubles, and 4,000 rubles from school payments and work orders.
In addition to the above-mentioned people, the school also employed: Oks (Russian, arithmetic and natural science). Awner (Polish and German), Perec Wilenberg (hand drawing), Wajsberg (Hebrew and Jewish history).
In 1913 Henrik and Josef Markusfeld, Engineer Ratner, Stanislaw Herc, Henig Frenkl, Dr. Batawja and director Asorodobaj belonged to the school committee.
A group of students with Dr. Josef Markusfeld
and personnel from the farm.
With the outbreak of the First World War, when Czenstochow was occupied by the Germans, the subsidy from the I.K.O., the main support for the school budget, ended. The workers could not pay the tuition money and did not continue their studies. Henrik Markusfeld, who refurbished and restored much of the machinery that was damaged during the fire in Malarnja, a short time before the war, again came to help the school. As a result, the Artisans School received the ability to pay the instructors, which lasted until the directors could put together a budget and restore the activities.
After the war, when emigration to Eretz-Yisroel began, and there was a demand from there of certain trade preparation evening courses for the locksmith and carpentry trades, which were needed in Eretz-Yisroel, were opened at the Artisans School. Dozens of young people and adults received elementary trade education over the course of several months and with it there was the possibility for many immigrants to arrange for the appropriate work in Eretz-Yisroel.
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In the later years, when the well-known industrial law was given out by the Polish government
A group of students with the personnel from the
Artisans School in the school year, 1930
on the 15th of December 1929 (it was then called the guild edict) that brought in restrictions for artisans and was aimed against the Jewish artisans with the cooperation of the artisans club, three year complement courses were opened, in which apprentices received a theoretical trade and elementary mastery that according to the law was necessary for the exams.
The Artisans School did not only train cadres of hundreds of intelligent Jewish artisans, but also created instructors and in general helped to elevate our artisanship to a higher level.
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INCIRLIK, Turkey | May 9, 2013
Among the 141 high school seniors honored by the U.S Department of Education as U.S. Presidential Scholars, for their accomplishments in academics or the arts is Bryce Kaw-uh from Incirlik Unit School.
Bryce is the only DoDEA student selected for this 49th class of Presidential Scholars. Bryce Kaw-uh is the son of Lt Col Tonney and Mrs. Teresa Kaw-uh, assigned to 39th ABW at Incirlik Air Base, Incirlik, Turkey.
He has also been selected to be part of a select group of 2013 scholars that will attend the tenth annual U.S.- China Student Leaders Exchange. The exchange, a partnership between the National Committee on United States-China Relations andthe China Educational Association for International Exchange, is a two-week study tour of China with visits scheduled to Changsha, Xi'an and Beijing.
The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars, appointed by President Obama, selects honored scholars annually based on their academic success, artistic excellence, essays, school evaluations and transcripts, as well as evidence of community service, leadership, and demonstrated commitment to high ideals. Of the three million students expected to graduate from high school this year, more than 3,300 candidates qualified for the 2013 awards determined by outstanding performance on the College Board SAT and ACT exams, and through nominations made by Chief State School Officers or the National YoungArts Foundation's nationwide YoungArtsTM competition.
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Randolph Air Force Base, Tx — There's a new source of information for airmen on the run. Air Force fitness recently created an online how-to running program training guide called In Training to help Air Force members of all running abilities achieve their running goals.
"In a partnership with several corporate sponsors, we are dedicated to growing runners in the Air Force community, military and civilians alike," says Margaret Treland, Air Force fitness chief. "We know there are people who are interested in running, but for one reason or another, just haven't gotten started. This program will be a way for people to meet other runners in their area and track their progress online."
Program participants will have access to running tips, training schedules and an easy-to-use tracking system. The tracking system Web site acts as a virtual coach, logging distances and allowing runners to see how they compare to others in the program.
The training regimen is designed to help a person train — regardless of their initial fitness level — for the 12th annual U.S. Air Force Marathon, which will be held Sept. 20 in Dayton, OH. Events on that day include a marathon, a wheelchair marathon, a half marathon, an individual 10K and a team 10K. The tracking program is the first of its kind to be associated with a sanctioned marathon, according to a statement from the Air Force. However, runners can apply the same training tips and regimens to local runs or marathons, according to the Air Force.
The program can be found on the Air Force Fitness' Web site: www.usafsports.com.


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Ethiopian adoption story warms hearts for the holidays
One Michigan family had to buy a larger dinner table this Thanksgiving, due to the generosity of Liberty University students.
The Wolfes (mother Kathy, father Randy, and children Kristin, Brad, and Bonny) travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Nov. 8 to complete the adoption of three teenage Ethiopian siblings.
Within a week the family was back in the United States with double the number of children after the addition of Aschalew, Genet and Yesalemush.
Kristin, the eldest Wolfe child, is a Resident Director at Liberty University.
The whole adoption affair was funded by a "jeans offering" taken in a Campus Church service at Liberty University in January.
Kathy Wolfe said she is in awe of all God has done through this heartwarming story.
"We can't wait to come back to Liberty. We can't wait for the students to see all they have done, " she said.
Campus Pastor Johnnie Moore, who accompanied the Wolfe family to Ethiopia, said this is one example of how students in Lynchburg, Va., can affect the farthest parts of the world.
"You can't solve all the world's problems, but everyone can, in some small way, affect the life of someone," he said. "The collective worth of LU generosity was enough to totally change the future of these kids."
Moore said he hopes the compassionate example set forth by LU students will be followed by churches, schools, and students nationwide, especially when it comes to adoption. Foreign adoptions dropped 12 percent this year, to their lowest level since 1999, according to the State Department.
***The February/March print edition of the Liberty Journal will feature the Wolfes and the story of how Liberty University made a difference in the lives of these three kids from one of the world's least fortunate nations.
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By Amanda Powell
A year-round resident of Florida and Puerto Rico, the Cry1F-resistant pest has been spotted in North Carolina
Just three years ago, fall armyworm in Puerto Rico was first documented to be resistant to Bt field corn expressing the Cry1F protein. By late summer 2012, resistance to Bt corn expressing the same protein was confirmed in southern Florida. In August 2013, the first fall armyworm resistance to Cry1F was verified in North Carolina.
"In Florida, we haven't had corn with the Cry1F gene long, so producers were surprised to find fall armyworms completing development and surviving," says Gregg Nuessly, professor of entomology and interim director of the Everglades Research and Education Center at the University of Florida.
Unfortunately, fall armyworm resistance to the Cry1F toxin appears to be spreading. Nuessly explains that within the continental U.S., fall armyworms overwinter in south Florida and migrate north during the growing season.
"But if a population is resistant and starts moving back up the East Coast, some of them will be carrying the gene for resistance. By the end of the summer, resistant fall armyworm could be found up the eastern seaboard where they grow corn," Nuessly says.
Dominic Reisig, North Carolina State University Extension entomologist, documented and confirmed the Cry1F resistance. He points out that fall armyworm is not a major pest in North Carolina, although producers do see it later in the season on all crops.
Common sense approach. When it comes to Cry1F seed products, farmers should let common sense prevail and keep the following in mind:
- Cry1F still provides control of major corn pests.
- Fall armyworm resistance has been confirmed in several southern states, but resistance is not 100%.
- The seeds that express the Cry1F gene are still better than non-Bt crops.
- Scout all crops.
- If any pest meets thresholds, spray according to integrated pest- management recommendations.
- If resistance is suspected, farmers should contact their Extension agent or state entomologist to test the protein and take a sampling of the worms.
Refuges matter. Reisig recommends farmers follow integrated pest-management practices, such as planting refuges, to prevent loss of this tool.
"When growers don't follow regulations and refuges aren't planted, it puts a lot more pressure on these pest control traits and the selection for resistance," Nuessly says.
The same strain of fall armyworm attacks corn, soybeans and cotton, thus producers planting any seed expressing Cry1F protein could be vulnerable.
"Anything that has Cry1F protein is susceptible. But the protein is borderline bulletproof so I don't recommend avoiding it; just proceed with caution and choose the best fit for the field and yield goals," Reisig adds.
For additional resources on fall armyworm resistance issues, visit www.FarmJournal.com/fall_armyworms


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I think this beats Zoya Gaia as my new all time #1 favorite polish! American Apparel California Trooper is a gorgeous light khaki creme, supposedly the same color as California State Trooper uniforms! This is 2 easily applied coats. Ashley loves this one so much that she wants to get a bottle of her own and a back up bottle!!
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Kelli Carpenter, who has been married to O'Donnell for five years, has moved out of their Nyack, N.Y., mansion, and the talk show queen admitted to USA Today that the couple is on rocky ground.
Carpenter, 42, is reportedly living in an apartment in Manhattan while they try to salvage their relationship, but O'Donnell would not confirm the separation. The couple married in San Francisco in 2004.
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Breaking Down the Crazy Apple-Buying-Beats Riff
May 9, 2014 10:54 AM PT
The hottest -- and possibly craziest -- tech rumor of the week is, hands down, that Apple is in negotiations to acquire Beats Electronics for US$3.2 billion.
First reported by Matthew Garrahan and Tim Bradshaw of the Financial Times, the story has been fanned into a raging inferno faster than a wildfire on a hot August day. Unfortunately, the only cited source for the rumor is "people familiar with the deal."
The Basic Beats Deal
On the surface, the deal to acquire Dr. Dre's and Jimmy Iovine's Beats Electronics would give Apple a popular line of cool headphones as well as a nascent streaming music service, Beats Music, which is designed around paying subscribers. Individuals pay $9.99 per month, while a family of five can get it for $14.99 each month.
The premise behind Beats Music is curated playlists created by DJs who live and breathe music. Finding the right stream for each person has been the challenge for years, especially when a single person's own tastes can change not only from day to day but within a day: Who hasn't busted a move to a song in the morning and later that day couldn't skip it fast enough?
Mood music, baby. Contextual. With Beats Music, you craft a sentence to describe your location, how you feel, and whom you're with. For instance, you would build a sentence through preconfigured labels for something like this: I'm ON A BOAT and feel like GOING BACK IN TIME with MY FAMILY to VINTAGE SOUL & FUNK.
Apple doesn't have this.
Apple's iTunes Radio lets you create a basic radio station, which supposedly learns from your preferences, letting you note the kind of song you would like to play more of -- or never play again. Apple's solution is good, but it's not fantastic -- and it sure as heck isn't insanely great.
Still, Beats Music is an app that runs on the iPhone, so Apple already has it anyway -- just no cut of the revenue.
Meanwhile, iTunes downloads fell 2 percent to $3.93 billion, which signals the first annual decline since iTunes launched in 2003. On the other hand, streaming music revenue in the U.S. grew 39 percent, generating $1.4 billion in revenue, to account for 20 percent of the recorded music industry's business, Billboard reported.
If you do the math -- no matter how the notes are shifting -- the music business represents pocket change to Apple, which generated $170 billion in 2013.
Worse, even if Beats is fantastically successful, Apple's customers are still happily using their iPhones. Even if a rival like Google (or the burgeoning Amazon) rushed out to buy Beats and somehow made it exclusive, Beats Music wouldn't be enough to get millions of people to ditch their iPhones.
Desperate to Buy Cool?
Another flavor to this rumor is that Apple suddenly is desperate to buy cool. The problem with this statement is that it goes against the DNA of Apple: Apple doesn't buy cool. Apple buys intellectual property, the people behind innovative little companies. Apple doesn't buy things that it already essentially has.
No matter how uncool Tim Cook might seem to be, he doesn't seem to be the type of stodgy old man who wants to buy someone else's creation to add to the Apple family of products -- especially not to be cool.
It would be such a huge departure -- with little practical monetary upside -- that there would have to be a much better explanation.
Leak or Misinformation?
It's unlikely that the Financial Times reporters simply made this stuff up. They likely had a source -- but was that source tapping into the truth? What if the source was working with faulty -- even planted -- information? What if that source is now fired?
So how could this deal actually make sense?
First, Apple has a tendency to create innovative new ways for hardware and software to work together. If Apple is creating new wearable technology that needs a new hardware specification -- say a new plug for headphones -- getting Beats to build it into its line of popular headphones would be smart.
If Apple had to pony up the cash to retool a manufacturing system to make it happen, that would make sense. Heck, Apple did something similar for its sapphire glass efforts, so why not for popular headphones?
Of course, Apple could simply build special new headphones itself, right? Sure, but why stop there? Consider Apple's new CarPlay initiative. It lets car manufacturers create their own interfaces to Apple's tech. This is a relatively new move, a loosening of typical Apple control. It's not a leap to imagine Apple wooing Beats to incorporate or use some new Apple tech.
Second, what if Beats Music has an important patent, technology, or special transferrable music license? What if Apple's music man Eddy Cue -- who reportedly is in discussions with Beats -- learned this from Iovine?
While possible, all of it seems a bit unlikely, especially the licensing: If the music industry has such a love-hate relationship with Apple, wouldn't it ensure that Apple couldn't simply buy specialized streaming rights from Beats Music?
There's a smarter option that still makes sense: What if Apple wants to manage and sell Beats Music subscriptions itself? Right now, you can order Beats Music through AT&T, and it's available through other U.S. mobile networks and carriers. When Apple saw those deals happening, I'm sure there was a mad scramble in Cupertino. Was Apple supposed to let the cellular service carriers collect the revenue for side-stream products without a fight?
Having significant third-party subscriptions processed through carrier monthly billing processes is a competitive landscape-shifting move that Apple would recognize -- especially if Beats Music should turn out to be utterly fantastic.
Apple has to be fighting to ensure that the carrier-driven subscription model does not become a default model for Beats Music -- or worse yet, for any industry.
On the upside for Beats Music, instead of working with AT&T, what if it could get Apple to manage its subscription service? What if Apple rolled out the service across the world, letting Beats Music do its thing, while Apple just gave Beats Music a huge worldwide channel boost to hundreds of millions of iTunes accounts?
Apple has access to an incredible base of customers who happily buy content through their iTunes accounts -- and through their iPhones. Even if Apple should manage to retain a 30 percent cut of the revenue, there would be no other way Beats Music could rocket out to the world as quickly as it could through Apple.
That's a win-win situation. Worth $3.2 billion? Hard to say, but at least it seems to make sense for both Beats and Apple.


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NEW YORK — U.S. stocks climbed Friday after a two-day slide, as consumer shares rebounded amid data showing household purchases rose the most in three months. Biotechnology shares extended losses, weighing on the Nasdaq Composite index.
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks climbed Friday after a two-day slide, as consumer shares rebounded amid data showing household purchases rose the most in three months. Biotechnology shares extended losses, weighing on the Nasdaq Composite index.
H&R Block and GameStop climbed at least 6.2 percent, leading gains among consumer shares. Cognizant Technology Solutions rallied 4.4 percent after Morgan Stanley raised its recommendation on the stock. The Nasdaq Composite almost erased a 1.3 percent rally as Gilead Sciences and Biogen Idec tumbled more than 4 percent, capping the week's sell-off in riskier assets.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index added 0.5 percent to 1,857.62, trimming its loss for the week to 0.5 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 58.83 points, or 0.4 percent, to 16,323.06 today. The Nasdaq Composite increased 0.1 percent to 4,155.759, completing the week with a 2.8 percent drop.
"It's been a choppy market," Mike McGarr, a portfolio manager at Becker Capital Management in Portland, Ore., said by phone. The firm oversees $2.8 billion. "There has been a very noticeable change this month, away from those sorts of high flyers, and back toward value. It's nice to see the market coming back to more fundamentally real stories."
Investors have been selling the bull market's biggest winners, locking in gains as they assess how much of the recent economic weakness is weather-related and if the situation in Ukraine will worsen.
The Nasdaq Biotechnology index slumped 2.8 percent Friday, pushing its loss this week to 7 percent. The gauge rallied 79 percent in the 12 months through February. The Russell 2000 index fell all but one day this week for a 3.5 percent decline. The measure for smaller companies is down 1 percent this quarter, poised to snap a six-quarter streak of gains, the longest stretch since 1996.
Gilead, the world's largest maker of HIV medicines, sank 4 percent Friday to $68.55. Biogen Idec, maker of the multiple sclerosis drugs, tumbled 5.1 percent to $294.12.
Money is flowing to large companies with stable earnings. Microsoft surged 2.4 percent today to $40.30 for the biggest gain in the Dow. Energy shares climbed 1.2 percent while Exxon Mobil added 1.5 percent to $97.70.
Consumer-discretionary shares rallied 0.8 today as data showed household spending in the U.S. rose in February by the most in three months as incomes increased.
Americans were shaking off the effects of the coldest winter in four years as they ventured out to shop, supported by a job market that's also picking up speed.
Separate data indicated consumer confidence fell less than previously estimated in March.
"If consumers go back in and are confident enough to start spending again, that supports earnings and will certainly support the equity market," Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist at EverBank Financial in St. Louis, said by phone. "I feel like we're forming a base that we can move high now."
The Chicago Board Options Exchange volatility index, a gauge for U.S. stock volatility known as VIX, retreated 1.4 percent to 14.41. About 6 billion shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges, 12 percent below the three-month average.
Consumer stocks in the S&P 500 rebounded from a five-day slide. H&R Block, the biggest U.S. tax preparer, climbed 6.2 percent to $30.36 while GameStop, a video-game retailer, advanced 8.8 percent to $40.62.
Restoration Hardware Holdings surged 13 percent to $71.93. The home-furnishings retailer forecast that adjusted profit will be between 9 cents a share and 11 cents in the first quarter, compared with analysts' estimates for 6 cents. It said annual profit will be as much as $2.22 a share, beating the average projection for $2.18.
Cognizant gained 4.4 percent to $49.69. The provider of consulting and outsourcing services was boosted to overweight, an equivalent of buy, by Morgan Stanley. The company's growth potential may have been under-estimated, analyst Katy Huberty wrote in a note.
PG&E fell 4 percent to $41.89. Charges to be filed by the U.S. Attorney's office will accuse the company of violating the federal Pipeline Safety Act, leading to the explosion and deaths, according to a company statement. PG&E didn't say when it expects the charges to be filed, and said it believes they aren't merited.
Red Hat slipped 7 percent to $52.23. The largest seller of Linux operating-system software said it expects to earn $1.56 a share this year. That trailed the average analyst estimate of $1.62 in a Bloomberg survey.
BlackBerry dropped 7.1 percent to $8.41. The smartphone maker said sales won't grow until the fiscal year that begins next March, even after cost-cutting helped the company post a smaller quarterly loss than analysts estimated.
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Thursday, Aug. 15, marks the first Ventura City Council candidate debate of the 2013 election season.
According to the city clerk, three incumbents — Mayor Mike Tracy, Jim Monahan and Neal Andrews — and seven challengers are expected to square off this election season and, as any city politico knows, it will take a hat trick to get elected.
First, file the paperwork, then run a bold campaign, and finally, convince residents to vote in November.
In Ventura, nothing is more difficult than the last step.
In the two previous City Council elections —2009 and 2011— fewer than 28 percent of registered voters cast ballots. That's less than 19,000 votes in a population of about 107,000.
But incumbent Jim Monahan has found a recipe for success. The Ventura High graduate and Korean War veteran has held a seat on the council for the past 36 years, and sees no reason why it shouldn't be four more.
"People have asked me to [run again]," said Monahan. "I have a lot of unfinished business."
Monahan was perhaps the most vocal in calling for previous City Manager Rick Cole's resignation and said a main reason for wanting to keep his council seat is to work with the new city manager, Mark Watkins.
"We have to rebuild public trust in the city of Ventura," Monahan said. "It's been in terrible shape for the past few years. We have a new city manager and we have to give him all the support we can."
Challenger Erik Nasarenko, 43, wants to invigorate the City Council with new energy and perspectives, a "new generation of leadership," as he called it.
"Ventura is a great city and we can make it better by tending to our streets, parks, libraries, reducing the number of massage parlors in the city and by completing Ventura Community Park," said Nasarenko.
The married father of two kids, Nasarenko, a deputy district attorney who prosecutes domestic violence and child abuse crimes, hopes his campaign platform will attract the attention of those raising kids in Ventura.
"I want to bring to a municipal election a new segment of the electorate," said Nasarenko. "Parents, families, people who have kids in schools, they typically don't come out to vote in off-year municipal elections. My goal is to get them to the polls, vote absentee ballots and take part of in important election. So much of what happens on Nov. 5 we see in our daily lives."
People of color seem to elude capturing enough votes to win a seat on the council, at least that's been the standard over the last couple of decades.
Ventura native Lorrie Brown hopes to change that. Brown, 39, an African-American, has also thrown her hat into the ring.
"As a woman of color, it's important to pave a way for other women of color to understand they do have a place and they do have a voice and they should not be afraid [to go] against the politics of business as usual," said Brown.
Brown works in Oxnard's Community Development Department and said her background in strategic planning is invaluable.
"Because my profession is in community development, I am a strong proponent for economic development, assisting small businesses and generating sales tax revenue," Brown said. "But a balance is needed between a need for economic development and the need for affordable housing in respect for the environment."
Of the challengers, only attorney Richard Francis has previously served on the City Council. He was first elected in 1987 and appointed mayor in 1989. Francis understands what it takes to get elected and said his campaign will be reintroducing the growth management strategies from the visioning process that resulted in the widely-accepted 2005 General Plan.
"I'm hearing there is a lot of disappointment," said Francis, about the current City Council. "There is a whole new group of council members who were not around for that [visioning] process and have chucked it and are going in a different direction without community input."
Francis, an advocate against urban sprawl, was the co-author of SOAR (Save Open-space and Agricultural Resources). He has been endorsed by four-term councilman Brian Brennan, who announced last week he would not file papers for another term.
David Swaffar filed papers to run for council because he, like Francis, feels that the current City Council has not been adequately representing its constituents.
"I'm unhappy with council's efforts to reach current residents before they make decisions and also with their direction," said Swaffar, 41, a local bar/restaurant owner and artist. "I want to be a voice for the people born and raised here." Swaffar said that voter turnout for City Council has been dismal over the years because, until now, there haven't been candidates that truly represent Ventura.
"There is a huge portion of people interested, but disinterested when the choices have been what they have been," he said.
Former candidates Brian Lee Rencher and Melody Joy Baker will also be contending for the four available council seats. Paul Meehan, who couldn't be reached for comment, is also a contender for City Council. On his Facebook page, he stated: "I've always had a desire to make the world a better place. I feel like I've done that in a lot of small ways until now. I would like to change that and make a much more substantial contribution. Now that I have two small kids I want to be sure that Ventura is the best city it can be."
Incumbents Tracy and Andrews could not be reached before deadline.
The Ventura City Council debate will run from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Aug. 15, at the Community Room of the Bell Arts Factory located at 432 N. Ventura Ave. It will be hosted by the Stonewall Democrats of Ventura County


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"I just figured I would never get to meet a lot of those guys and tell them thank you personally," DeShields said. "Hopefully they'll see me and say, 'Hey, that guy right there, he might know something.'"
What the Chicago Cubs second baseman knows is to respect the Negro League players. If not for them, he says, he wouldn't be in the Major Leagues right now.
He has so many Negro League jerseys that he can't remember all the teams. On Thursday, he reported to the Cubs first full workout wearing a red ABC Crackers jersey. DeShields also collects books on the subject and has visited the Negro League Museum in Kansas City several times.
DeShields has been lucky. He has had the opportunity to meet Buck O'Neil, a Negro League player and former Cubs coach who signed Ernie Banks.
"You just sit there and listen," DeShields said of his times with O'Neil. "Some of the stories he tells you, you just sit there and listen. It's an honor to be in his presence sometimes. I think he's a great dude."
DeShields, 33, would like to see more African-American ballplayers interested in their roots.
"It hit me when I got out of high school," said the Delaware native. "There wasn't a lot of African-American history in school. After school when I got into pro ball, I started reading and I started collecting more and more books and it turned into an avalanche, I guess you could say."
He'd like to see the Negro Leagues added to course curriculums.
"It's part of American history," he said.
Does DeShields ever wonder if it could've been him having to cope with the prejudicial times?
"Even when I struggle a little bit now I'm like 'Shoot, this ain't nothing compared to what those guys went through,'" he said. "So it kind of keeps me going a lot of times, too."
Jackie Robinson had to endure tremendous pressure when he broke into the Majors with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 but DeShields is still studying some of the details.
"Jackie, that was big," he said. "But the reasons behind it are what throw me off a little bit. I don't know if (Dodgers owner) Branch Rickey thought Jackie was a nice guy and he wanted to give African Americans a chance or if it was strictly for the money. I don't know. That's why I have mixed feelings about it. When Jackie went, it was the downfall for the Negro Leagues. For every one guy that got to play, there were 10 who had no where to play anymore."
His mixed feelings are justified. The integration of Major League Baseball contributed significantly to the end of the Negro Leagues.
DeShields grew up in Delaware but now lives in the Atlanta area.
"I have a lot of friends who are Southern boys now and I told them I didn't grow up being called names and things like that," he said. "We all got along. When I went different places, that was my first time experiencing anything like that."
Among the Negro League players who fascinate him are Oscar Charleston, who played between 1915-54, Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe and career .309 hitter Judy Johnson -- "because he's a Delaware dude," DeShields said.
"And Rube Foster," DeShields said of the father of the Negro Leagues, "for having the vision to put this all together back in a time when things weren't really good. Probably out of all those guys, Rube is the one who sparks my interest the most. Not only was he a good ballplayer but a tremendous person and a visionary."
Carrie Muskat covers the Cubs for MLB.com. This story was not subject to approval by Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Final Session
He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.
– John Mark Mcmillan (from the song How He Loves)
The sound of His extravagant love has echoed through the halls of the McEnery Convention Center throughout this conference. And today, as we gathered for our final session, the sound grew to a crescendo and we were all swept away by His radiance and glory. God is doing a new thing in Aglow. The old was great, but the new season into which we are stepping will eclipse all that has happened before. At the core of this new thing is an increased awareness of God's unconditional, uncompromising, unstoppable love for his children. We are resting in that love and move into the future with confidence.
A Shift Took Place
Without a doubt, the apex of this conference was Saturday morning when Ray Hughes brought a stirring message about sound and light, followed by a time of worship and prayer that left us all breathless in the power of His presence. A shift happened during that session that is difficult to articulate, but very real nonetheless. The sound from that morning session was sustained throughout the afternoon and evening meetings. By Sunday morning we were all feeling like the Lord had accomplished His purpose for this conference, and so Jane decided it would be good to spend the time reflecting on what had happened the previous two days. She asked the regional directors to each share a "takeaway" — something that was significant to them about this conference.
But first, we have to tell you about a report from Sandy Wezowicz and Arlene Samuels.
Aglow and AIPAC
One of the many facets of Aglow is our growing relationship with AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The New York Timescalls AIPAC "the most important organization affecting America's relationship with Israel." Sandy Wezowicz, Aglow's Watchmen on the Wall Director, says "God is developing a strategic partnership between AIPAC and Aglow." In their report at the beginning of this session, Sandy and Arlene shared the following amazing facts:
- The U.S. Congress consistently stands with Israel on the world stage — the only elected officials from any country who do so.
- This past June, congress passed the strongest sanctions ever against Iran and their efforts to develop nuclear capability. Congress showed unusual solidarity with 99 senators and 400 house members voting yes to pass this legislation.
- Jewish members of AIPAC are deeply touched by the support they have received from Aglow and other Christians.
Please pray for wisdom as we continue to develop our relationship with AIPAC and support the nation and people of Israel.
Following the report, Sandy led us in a prayer for the peace of Jerusalem as we joined countless others around the world on this day to pray for Israel.
Here are just a few of the takeaways shared by the regional directors:
Nancy McGuirk – The assignment on Aglow can seem overwhelming. As we go where He tells us to go and do what He tells us to do we will be like the sheep my kids have raised over the years and have often entered in competitions. The sheep are trained using a halter. They learn to follow and obey their master's voice. But several weeks before the competition, the halter is removed and sheep are led only by the voice and a gentle hand under the chin. This means the sheep could easily bolt during the competition, but that never happened. I feel that the Lord is removing the halter from Aglow because we have reached a point where we consistently hear His voice and obey.
Karen Reed – We need to sing a new song to get the old song out.
Sandy Wezowicz– The door is closed from being present-to-past. We're dancing on the graves of the old sounds. The new sound has come because we are worshipers and praisers.
Glenda Flemming – I believe Psalm 89:15-18 is for us:
Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!
They walk, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance.
In Your name they rejoice all day long,
And in Your righteousness they are exalted.
For You are the glory of their strength,
And in Your favor our horn is exalted.
For our shield belongs to the LORD,
And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Jane concluded the session by sharing: "I've been receiving a deeper deposit of the understanding that God is good. In the past year and a half I'm finding that I'm starting with heaven instead of earth. It's blowing me away. What if you made the decision that nothing could challenge you but heaven? As we change our perspective, we will be carriers of His goodness."
It's been an amazing conference. God has moved us another step forward to our destiny, to the new sound He has for Aglow. What will we look like a year from now as we gather in Houston? Only God knows!


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Girls actress Zosia Mamet felt wounded when a fundraising campaign to boost her music career flopped, but she is determined to push on with her pop plans.
Mamet and her sister Clara, who perform together as The Cabin Sisters, launched the Kickstarter.com drive last year (13) to raise cash to pay for a promo for their track Bleak Love.
The siblings aimed to raise $32,000 (?20,645) from fan donations but the project flopped, and they raised just $2,783 by the deadline.
Speaking to British magazine Stella, Mamet says, "I'd been warned not to do it. There was a moment of like, 'Ow...' but then I let it go. I was like, 'I'm going to let it run its course. I'm not going to stop making music.'"
At the time, Mamet also came under fire for using the site when she has an established career and wealthy parents - her father is screenwriter and playwright David Mamet, and her mother is Oscar-nominated actress Lindsay Crouse.
However, she insists the flak was unnecessary, adding, "I understand that sometimes people deserve criticism, that's totally fine. Everyone is welcome to their opinion. I just don't want to know all of them, so I don't read reviews... I think to do that, you have to have incredibly thick skin. And that can often create a disconnect between you and your emotions".
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Considering we're nearing shopaholic territory, it's only fitting that — during the most dangerous time of year for us addicts — we put together a list of boutiques for every single thing you could want to give (and, okay, receive this season). Naturally, with the glut of choice retail destinations in Chicago, this was no easy task: Along with faves like Ikram and Eskell, there were also a few necessary newcomers to add to the mix (hello, gorgeous new Burberry store!).
The last piece of the puzzle? Variety, dear readers. From candlesticks to cologne and dresses to dungarees, this comprehensive cheat sheet is pretty much the definition of "everything." To make it even easier for you ('tis the season, after all!), we've categorized our picks by 'hood. Here's the catch: You have to
cut up the credit card cut yourself off at some point.


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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
My Geek Magazine Cover
Here's my Geek Magazine Cover which is on the stands right now available in 2 variant covers. I'll also have an interview which will be posted to www.geekexchange.com next week.
Posted by Andrew Robinson at 5:03 PM
Labels: andrew robinson, batman, dc comics, geek magazine, hulk, iron man, marvel comics, spiderman, superman, wolverine, wonder woman
3 comments:
- George said...
Fun! Superman's body language is the best...
- December 12, 2012 at 9:26 AM
- Percy Bysshe said...
awesome cover!
- January 18, 2013 at 8:53 AM
- Posting Load and Truck said...
Obviously I like your web site... I will surely come again again!
- March 4, 2013 at 12:20 AM
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Lil Kim Gives Birth to Baby Girl, Names Her Royal Reignby Maggie Malach | PopCrush
Congrats, Lil Kim! The rapper gave birth to her first child, a daughter she named Royal Reign.
Entertainment Tonight reports the baby girl was born just before 10AM today (June 9). Royal Reign weighed in at 6 pounds, 5 ounces.
The identity of the baby's father remains unconfirmed, although ET reports it is rumored to be Mr. Papers, a rapper based in New York. According to E!, Lil Kim was first linked to Mr. Papers in June 2012.
Lil Kim took her pregnancy public in February during the Blonds Fashion Week after-party hosted by MAC Cosmetics. At the time, she confirmed to Us Weekly that she was expecting, saying, "I'm so excited! I'm a few months along, I can't wait to be a mom!"
At the time, the rapper expressed her desire to keep making music after the baby was born, telling Us, "I'm still going to work. I'm still going to be hardcore. The baby has made me even more of a beast!"