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Samudra Gupta
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- Died:
- 380 ce
- Title / Office:
- emperor (330-380), Magadha
- House / Dynasty:
- Gupta dynasty
- Notable Family Members:
- father Chandra Gupta I
- son Chandragupta II
Samudra Gupta (died 380 ce) regional emperor of India from about 330 to 380 ce. He generally is considered the epitome of an "ideal king" of the "golden age of Hindu history," as the period of the imperial Guptas (320–510 ce) has often been called. The son of King Chandra Gupta I and the Licchavi princess Kumaradevi, he is pictured as a muscular warrior, a poet, and a musician who displayed "marks of hundreds of wounds received in battle." In many ways he personified the Indian conception of the hero.
Samudra Gupta was chosen as emperor by his father over other contenders and apparently had to repress revolts in his first years of rule. On pacifying the kingdom, which probably then reached from what is now Allahabad (in present-day Uttar Pradesh state) to the borders of Bengal, he began a series of wars of expansion from his northern base near what is now Delhi. In the southern Pallava kingdom of Kanchipuram, he defeated King Vishnugopa, then restored him and other defeated southern kings to their thrones on payment of tribute. Several northern kings were uprooted, however, and their territories added to the Gupta empire. At the height of Samudra Gupta's power, he controlled nearly all of the valley of the Ganges (Ganga) River and received homage from rulers of parts of east Bengal, Assam, Nepal, the eastern part of the Punjab, and various tribes of Rajasthan. He exterminated 9 monarchs and subjugated 12 others in his campaigns.
From inscriptions on gold coins and on the Ashoka pillar in the fort at Allahabad, Samudra Gupta is shown to have been especially devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu. He revived the ancient Vedic horse sacrifice, probably at the conclusion of his fighting days, and distributed large sums for charitable purposes during these ceremonies. A special gold coin that he issued commemorated this ceremony, while another showed him playing the harp; all were of high gold content and excellent workmanship.
The caste status of Samudra Gupta and his successors remains uncertain. It is reasonable to assume, however, that the Guptas supported caste distinctions, and they may have been responsible for the emergence of Brahmanism as a theological system as well as a code of social behaviour, which was carried into present Hindu society.

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by Rafael Medoff
As the final minutes of Rosh Hashana ticked away, thirteen year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in the thick brush along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen. The year was 1943, and the Goldbergers, like thousands of other Danish Jews, were desperately trying to escape an imminent Nazi round-up.
"Finally, after what seemed like an excruciatingly long wait, we saw our signal offshore," Goldberger later recalled. "We strode straight into the ocean and waded through three or four feet of icy water until we were hauled aboard a fishing boat" and "covered with smelly canvases." Shivering, frightened, but grateful, the Goldberger family soon found themselves in the safety and freedom of neighboring Sweden.
For years, the Allied leaders had insisted that nothing could be done to rescue Jews from the Nazis except to win the war. But in one extraordinary night, seventy years ago this week, the Danish people exploded that myth and changed history.
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When the Nazis occupied Denmark in 1940, the Danes put up little resistance. As a result, the German authorities agreed to let the Danish government continue functioning with greater autonomy than other occupied countries. They also postponed taking steps against Denmark's 8,000 Jewish citizens.
In the late summer of 1943, amid rising tensions between the occupation regime and the Danish government, the Nazis declared martial law and decided the time had come to deport Danish Jews to the death camps. But Georg Duckwitz, a German diplomat in Denmark, leaked the information to Danish friends. (Duckwitz was later honored by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.) As word of the Germans' plans spread, the Danish public responded with a spontaneous nationwide grassroots effort to help the Jews.
The Danes' remarkable response gave rise to the legend that King Christian X himself rode through the streets of Copenhagen on horseback, wearing a yellow Star of David, and that the citizens of the city likewise donned the star in solidarity with the Jews.
The story may have had its origins in a political cartoon that appeared in a Swedish newspaper in 1942. It showed King Christian pointing to a Star of David and declaring that if the Nazis imposed it upon the Jews of Demark, "then we must all wear the star." Leon Uris's novel Exodus, and the movie based on that book, helped spread the legend. But subsequent investigations by historians have concluded that the story is a myth.
On Rosh Hashana and the days that follow, numerous Danish Christian families hid Jews in their homes or farms and then smuggled them to the seashore late at night. From there, fishermen took them across the Kattegat Straits to neighboring Sweden. This three-week rescue operation had the strong support of Danish church leaders, who used their pulpits to urge aid to the Jews, as well as Danish universities, which shut down so that students could assist the smugglers. More than 7,000 Danish Jews reached Sweden and were sheltered there until the end of the war.
Esther Finkler, a young newlywed, was hidden, together with her husband and their mothers, in a greenhouse. "At night, we saw the [German] searchlights sweeping back and forth throughout the neighborhood," as the Nazis hunted for Jews. One evening, a member of the Danish Underground arrived and drove the four, "through streets saturated with Nazi stormtroopers," to a point near the shore.
There they hid in an underground shelter, then in the attic of a bakery, until finally they were brought to a beach, where they boarded a small fishing vessel together with other Jewish refugees. "There were nine of us, lying down on the deck or the floor," Esther later recalled. "The captain covered us with fishing nets. When everyone had been properly concealed, the fishermen started the boat, and as the motor started to run, so did my pent up tears."
Then, suddenly, trouble: "The captain began to sing and whistle nonchalantly, which puzzled us. Soon we heard him shouting in German toward a passing Nazi patrol boat: 'Wollen sie einen beer haben?' (Would you like a beer?) —a clever gimmick designed to avoid the Germans' suspicions. After three tense hours at sea, we heard shouting: 'Get cried and the Swedes cried with us as they escorted as ashore. The nightmare was over."
The implications of the Danish rescue operation resonated strongly in the United States. The Roosevelt administration had long insisted that rescue of Jews from the Nazis was not possible. The refugee advocates known as the Bergson Group began citing the escape of Denmark's Jews as evidence that if the Allies were sufficiently interested, ways could be found to save many European Jews.
The Bergsonites sponsored a series of full-page newspaper advertisements about the Danish-Swedish effort, headlined "It Can Be Done!" On October 31, thousands of New Yorkers jammed Carnegie Hall for the Bergson Group's "Salute to Sweden and Denmark" rally.
Keynote speakers included members of Congress, Danish and Swedish diplomats, and one of the biggest names in Hollywood–Orson Welles, director of Citizen Kane and The War of the Worlds. In another coup for the Bergson Group, one of the speakers was Leon Henderson, one of President Roosevelt's own former economic advisers (Henderson had headed the White House's Office of Price Administration).
In blunt language that summed up the tragedy–and the hope–Henderson declared: "The Allied Governments have been guilty of moral cowardice. The issue of saving the Jewish people of Europe has been avoided, submerged, played down, hushed up, resisted with all the forms of political force that are available…Sweden and Denmark have proved the tragedy of Allied indecision…The Danes and Swedes have shown us the way..If this be a war for civilization, then most surely this is the time to be civilized!"
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How evangelicals won a culture war and lost a generation
Opinion by Rachel Held Evans, special to CNN
On March 24, World Vision announced that the U.S. branch of the popular humanitarian organization would no longer discriminate against employees in same-sex marriages.
It was a decision that surprised many but one that made sense, given the organization's ecumenical nature.
But on March 26, World Vision President Richard Stearns reversed the decision, stating, "our board acknowledged that the policy change we made was a mistake."
Supporters helped the aid group "see that with more clarity," Stearns added, "and we're asking you to forgive us for that mistake."
So what happened within those 48 hours to cause such a sudden reversal?
The Evangelical Machine kicked into gear.
Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said the decision pointed to "disaster," and the Assemblies of God denomination encouraged its members to pull their financial support from the organization.
Evangelicals took to Twitter and Facebook to threaten to stop sending money to their sponsored children unless World Vision reversed course.
Within a day of the initial announcement, more than 2,000 children sponsored by World Vision lost their financial support. And with more and more individuals, churches and organizations threatening to do the same, the charity stood to lose millions of dollars in aid that would otherwise reach the poor, sick, hungry and displaced people World Vision serves.
So World Vision reversed course.
Stearns told The New York Times that some people, satisfied with the reversal, have called World Vision headquarters to ask, "Can I have my child back?" as though needy children are expendable bargaining chips in the culture war against gay and lesbian people.
Many of us who grew up evangelical watched with horror as these events unfolded.
As a longtime supporter of World Vision, I encouraged readers of my blog to pick up some of the dropped sponsorships after the initial decision. I then felt betrayed when World Vision backtracked, though I urged my readers not to play the same game but to keep supporting their sponsored children, who are of course at no fault in any of this.
But most of all, the situation put into stark, unsettling relief just how misaligned evangelical priorities have become.
When Christians declare that they would rather withhold aid from people who need it than serve alongside gays and lesbians helping to provide that aid, something is wrong.
There is a disproportionate focus on homosexuality that consistently dehumanizes, stigmatizes and marginalizes gay and lesbian people and, at least in this case, prioritizes the culture war against them over and against the important work of caring for the poor.
Evangelicals insist that they are simply fighting to preserve "biblical marriage," but if this were actually about "biblical marriage," then we would also be discussing the charity's policy around divorce.
But we're not.
Furthermore, Scripture itself teaches that when we clothe and feed those in need, we clothe and feed Christ himself, and when we withhold care from those in need, we withhold it from Christ himself (Matthew 25:31-46).
Why are the few passages about homosexuality accepted uncritically, without regard to context or culture, but the many about poverty so easily discarded?
As I grieved with my (mostly 20- and 30-something) readers over this ugly and embarrassing situation, I heard a similar refrain over and over again: "I don't think I'm an evangelical anymore. I want to follow Jesus, but I can't be a part of this."
I feel the same way.
Whether it's over the denial of evolutionary science, continued opposition to gender equality in the church, an unhealthy alliance between religion and politics or the obsession with opposing gay marriage, evangelicalism is losing a generation to the culture wars.
A recent survey from Public Religion Research Institute revealed that nearly one-third of millennials who left their childhood faith did so because of "negative teachings" or "negative treatment" of gay and lesbian people.
Christians can disagree about what the Bible says (or doesn't say) about same-sex marriage. This is not an issue of orthodoxy. But when we begin using child sponsorships as bargaining tools in our debates, we've lost the way of Jesus.
So my question for those evangelicals is this: Is it worth it?
Is a "victory" against gay marriage really worth leaving thousands of needy children without financial support?
Is a "victory" against gay marriage worth losing more young people to cynicism regarding the church?
Is a "victory" against gay marriage worth perpetuating the idea that evangelical Christians are at war with LGBT people?
And is a "victory" against gay marriage worth drowning out that quiet but persistent internal voice that asks, "what if we get this wrong?"
I, for one, am tired of arguing. I'm tired of trying to defend evangelicalism when its leaders behave indefensibly.
I'm going AWOL on evangelicalism's culture wars so I can get back to following Jesus among its many refugees: LGBT people, women called to ministry, artists, science-lovers, misfits, sinners, doubters, thinkers and "the least of these."
I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.
Rachel Held Evans is the author of "Evolving in Monkey Town" and "A Year of Biblical Womanhood." She blogs at rachelheldevans.com. The views expressed in this column belong to Rachel Held Evans.


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One of the promises the Obama administration made when it came to foreign policy was simple and straightforward: Don't do stupid s*** (stuff). While they've been successful in living up to that mantra by doing things like making the nuclear deal with Iran, they've failed miserably and disgracefully in Egypt.
A recent piece from the AP not only illustrates this fact but should be very disturbing from a national security perspective. The article points out how the young in Egypt, who supported the democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood, are now disillusioned with the idea of democracy and are turning to jihad. A startling tidbit from the story says it all:
Once sympathetic to Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, some of them resent it as weak and ineffectual.
"Now we know there is only one right way: jihad," said the law student, Abdelrahman, showing off scars from pellets fired at him by police shotguns during protests…He spoke bitterly about the series of ballot box victories in 2011 and 2012 that gave the Muslim Brotherhood political dominance and made Morsi the country's first freely elected president.
"Democracy doesn't work. If we win, the powers that be, whoever they are, just flip things over," he said. "The Brotherhood thought they could play the democratic game, but in the end, they were beaten." (Emphasis added)
The article goes on to describe some of the brutal tactics the state has employed against protesters and notes the young man quoted above is on his way to supporting and joining ISIS.
And what has the Obama administration done about this abuse of human rights that is driving more people toward extremism? Supported and armed the abusers even further and has now boasted about those arms in a YouTube video, which was recently pointed out by Glen Greenwald.
Greenwald also adds a quote from a recent piece in the NYT (mostly fluff) about Secretary of State John Kerry supposedly taking a stand (but not really) against Egypt's human rights abuses. The quote should not just be noted. It should be burned into the brain of everyone that thinks the U.S. is always on the right side of things when it comes to who we support around the world. It just speaks volumes and no democracy with any morals should allow this type of thinking from their elected government:
"American officials . . . signaled that they would not let their concerns with human rights stand in the way of increased security cooperation with Egypt."
That quote should turn everyone's stomach.
And this isn't to say the Muslim Brotherhood would have been a perfect friend to the U.S. or that they didn't do things that were seen as utterly awful in the eyes of many. It was a fledgling democracy and things got very ugly and even fatal at times. But it was the choice of the people of Egypt at the time and, most importantly, the alternative appears to be incredibly worse with the disaffected now looking toward joining ISIS.
The cycle of violence here is as black and white as it gets. The Muslim Brotherhood is overthrown and an authoritarian regime takes power and abuses human rights. The United States then backs that regime by arming them and allowing them to abuse their power even more. The angry youth who lose faith in democracy take up arms and choose a path of violence. The U.S. sells more arms to a brutal regime to crackdown further.
This is the equivalent of handing Jack the Ripper a set of knives, knowing he's already killed people, but politely asking him to just use these on food. There's no mystery as to how this will work out.
Egypt looks like a bad situation getting worse at the moment and the United States is exacerbating the problem by knowingly arming an abusive government. We've done it many times before and many innocent people have been slaughtered by U.S.-backed regimes around the world. It's yet another example of how not to do foreign policy yet the Obama administration is doing the same old stupid s*** we've seen too many times before.


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Left to right: Kennedy Reed, LLNL; UCC Vice-Chancellor Samuel Adjepong; AAMU President John Gibson; Ravindra Lal, AAMU. Victor Fajer Avila (center) president of the Cuban Physical Society, meets with Bernd Crasemann (left) and Irving Lerch of the APS in Havana. |
In June, Irving Lerch, APS director of international affairs, and Bernd Crasemann, chair of the APS Committee on International Scientific Affairs (CISA), participated in workshops on physics teaching and engineering, and applied physics in engineering, held in Havana in June at the Superior Politechnical Institute. The Cuban physicists who met with the APS representatives reported that the largest immediate need was for access to scientific journals; improving Internet access would enable more Cuban physicists to access journals electronically, and in the meantime APS provided CD-ROMs for the 1998-1999 issues of Physical Review and Reviews of Modern Physics.
Their trip also included a visit with Rolando Perez Alvarez of the University of Havana, who chairs the Cuban National Committee to IUPAP. According to Perez, there are about 2,000 physicists in Cuba at all educational levels and in all areas of employment. However, only about 1,000 of the country's physicists are engaged in research, and of these, only 200 hold doctorates. The number of students enrolled in physics programs has declined from a few hundred per year to a few tens, reflecting a marked lack of job opportunities in the field. In addition, the quality of the students is declining, and poor economics have severely hampered university programs, which must often rely on equipment donations.
In May, Kennedy Reed (LLNL), a member of CISA, and Samuel Adjepong, a physicist and the vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Ghana, West Africa, visited several U.S. institutions and agencies. This was part of a continuing APS initiative to increase interaction between the American and African physics communities. Reed and Adjepong met when Reed was a visiting scientist in Ghana in 1997 and 1999.
Adjepong's itinerary began in New York City with a meeting, together with Lerch and Reed, at the Carnegie Foundation, which recently announced it would join three other foundations to form a "Partnership to Strengthen African Universities". The partnership hopes to encourage the development of projects that will be sustainable after the period of foundation support ends.
Reed and Adjepong next went to Newark, NJ, for meetings at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and at Rutgers University's Newark campus (RU-NC). The result was the signing of a formal agreement between these universities and UCC, establishing a Physics Scholar Exchange Program to provide opportunities for students and faculty in each institution to work and study in each other's physics departments. Among other specifications, the agreement calls for offering selected courses through programs of the African and New Jersey Virtual Universities. Anthony Johnson (Chair, NJIT Physics Dept.) and Earl Shaw (Chair, RU-NC Physics Dept.) were instrumental in developing the plans for this exchange program.
Reed and Adjepong traveled to Huntsville, AL, to visit Alabama A&M University (AAMU) and meet with AAMU President John Gibson. At AAMU a memorandum of understanding was signed establishing a program of collaborative research and student and faculty exchanges between UCC and AAMU. Like the agreement signed in Newark, this one also includes plans for use of the Internet and distance learning in the collaborations. While in Huntsville they went to the University of Alabama where they met with President Frank Franz and university officials, and also visited Raytheon Corporation.
The itinerary ended in Washington, DC, where Reed and Adjepong participated in high-level meetings at the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences, and also went to the World Bank to discuss recent developments in the African Virtual University. "This visit was an important step in our continuing efforts to promote scientific links with Africa," Reed said, adding that "such collaborations and exchanges can help physicists in Africa become more strongly coupled with global research and development, and will enable them to more effectively employ science and technology for addressing the critical needs of developing African nations." He concluded "These collaborations can also open new channels for African scientists to use their training and talent to contribute to the advancement of science."
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How much will your publisher pay you?
There's a short, easy answer to this: as little as they can. Not because they're heartless monsters, but because businesses pay as little as they can for their supplies, and charge as much as they can for their products*.
But that's an abstract answer. The more concrete one — exactly how much will your publisher pay you? — hinges on how many other people have books that can fill the same niche for the publisher, and how many other publishers there are looking to fill that niche. In other words, the amount you get turns on supply and demand.
When you start out writing, you are in competition with all the other unpublished writers out there. There are a lot of you, with more publishable books than the big houses can absorb, and so, by and large, writers are paid very little for their early works. If you become a bestselling, big-name writer, you will command more money — not just because the publisher believes they will make more money from you, but because it is harder to replace an established writer than it is to replace an unknown. If JK Rowling writes for you, you can't fire her and hire JK Rowling II to write books of equivalent profitability for you. It's a poorly kept secret that very successful writers often draw "advances" that are so high that they'll likely never earn out — a sneaky way of paying an effectively higher royalty rate without setting business-wide precedent.
Writers write because they can't stop
So, it's down to supply and demand, and the news isn't good. Writers write, by and large, because they can't stop. The writers who say that if they can't get paid they'll get a real job and stop writing are either kidding us, or kidding themselves. Most successful writers spend years working for pittances, with no reasonable expectation of breaking out. "I plan on writing for a living" is about as realistic as "I plan on buying winning lottery tickets for a living." If enough people try it, some will succeed, but it's not what you'd call economically rational.
This means that there's an oversupply** of writing in the market. And to make things worse, there's a chronic, and accelerating undersupply of publishers. If you're a writer, you want there to be lots of publishers, in competition with one another. Competitors bid each other up, and whether you're a lucky beginner or a big name, the likelihood that someone else will pay you more for your book goes up when there are more companies vying to buy it.
For writers, an industry with a single publisher that publishes 10,000 titles a year is much worse than an industry with 100 publishers, each publishing 100 titles. If a company is the only game in town, then everyone has to play by its rules. Monopolies suck***.
In a world where the number of "real" publishers is contracting, and where the remaining giants are stuck in the trap of wanting to innovate, but not at the expense of existing (but dwindling) business, you'd expect lots of innovative little "publishers" to spring up, each of them trying new things. That's what we've got today: from indie one-writer productions who do it all themselves to venture-funded startups trying all kinds of novel things, there is a burgeoning world of technologically enabled upstarts with nothing to lose by abandoning the traditional economics of publishing.
Which gets us back to how much your publisher will pay you. In an industry dominated by three or four players all making their money the same way, the offer made to writers is likely to be the same everywhere you go****. When there are lots of players, making money in different ways, your product — your book — has lots of different parties bidding for different reasons, and when that happens, the seller***** commands a higher price in the deal.
All of this is straightforward Econ 101, the law of supply and demand, familiar to anyone who's played Dope Wars or Lemonade Stand (or who's run a business).
The complex world of piracy
Now, let's talk about piracy. Piracy is complicated. We tend to assume that writers and publishers are on the same side — after all, when they lose, we lose, right?
That's true, to the extent that piracy actually results in fewer sales******. But that's not the whole story. That's just an argument about whether the glass is half full or half empty, and this question only matters to writers if they get some of whatever's in the glass. Publishing lobbyists love the copyright enforcement tools the entertainment industry has gotten for itself, and publishing associations are always in the pack when Big Content bays at the government's doors for even more power to enforce copyright online.
If writers' and publishers' interests were the same, then proposals like last year's SOPA and the ongoing international Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty would stand to benefit both of them equally. But these proposals (like all Internet-era copyright laws) will only have a piddling effect on online infringement. What they will do is make it harder for writers to get fairly paid by publishers.
That's because, to a one, the indie publishers, upstarts, one-writer shops, VC-funded money-fountains, and everything in between, depend on public infrastructure provided by Internet services. They post their book trailers to YouTube. They use free mailing lists, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter to promote their works. They take in money with Square, or Paypal, or Google Payments. They sell through Amazon Kindle self-publishing systems, or Lulu, or BookBaby. They put their wares in Google Play or the App Store. They rely on Goodreads and book-bloggers to get the word out, and they share their production files on Dropbox and YouSendIt, and get free, book-specific email addresses through Gmail. They buy search keywords on Bing and Google. You get the picture.
Copyright enforcement
Here's the problem: these are exactly the services that the entertainment industry (and its members in the mainstream publishing industry) expect to bear the costs of copyright enforcement. In lawsuits like Viacom's suit against YouTube, in legal proposals like SOPA, in treaties like the TPP, and in heavily lobbied-for laws all over the world, the entertainment industry has taken the position that if there should be no "safe harbors" online. If you process payments, you should be sure that none of that money is implicated in illegal file-sharing. If you host message-boards or social media, you must ensure that no infringing content or links are posted to your service. In other words, if you provide a service where all comers can post content, at low or no cost, you are responsible for reviewing tens — hundreds — of millions of individual pieces of content every day, and for removing any that infringe copyright.
Of course, this is nonsense. YouTube receives three days' worth of video every minute. All the copyright experts ever born, or yet to live, could not stem that tide. The only way it could work is if YouTube, Blogger, Twitter, and a thousand related services, all played by the same rules as cable TV, where nothing goes out to the public unless it is explicitly approved, negotiated, and lawyered-over.
Scaling back the Internet
In other words, by asking governments to ascribe liability to these "intermediaries" (services that sit between creators and audiences), the entertainment industry is demanding that the Internet be scaled back to something that'll fit in cable TV's bathtub. Something where only people with a lot of capital and clout can speak and be heard. Something where big entertainment companies can use their money and power as a wall to stop anyone from challenging their pride of place.
When a big star goes into a record-company negotiations, she isn't limited to saying, "Sorry, that deal's not good enough, I'll see what I can get across the street at your competitor." Now she can say, "That's not good enough, I can do better on my own, like Trent Reznor did." Or, "That's not good enough, I can hook up with a new kind of music business," like Madonna did. But only if the intermediary liability is small enough to allow all these different kinds of companies to clamor for artists' attention and products.
When a successful beginner like Amanda Hocking or EL James comes before a big publisher who wants to take her from indie to pro, the worst deal they can offer her has to be better than the best deal she could get for herself, or from one of the new startups.
Put it another way: There's never been a time when tight controls over distribution were good for artists: fewer labels always means worse deals for musicians; fewer studios always means worse deals for filmmakers, actors, and other film professionals; fewer publishers always means worse deals for authors.
Piracy, obscurity, and income
Tim O'Reilly famously once said "The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity." That's true, but it's not the whole truth. These online services are, indeed, places where people infringe copyright a lot*******. It's true that being widely pirated can also make you widely known, but you can't eat fame.
In other words, 20,000,000 YouTube views and $3 will get you a seat on the MTA.
But here's the thing about fame: although it's hard to turn fame into money in the arts, it's impossible to turn obscurity into money in the arts. It doesn't matter how you plan on making your money — selling books or downloads, selling ads, getting sponsorship, getting crowdfunded, getting commissions, licensing to someone else who's figured out how to make money — you won't get the chance unless people have heard of your stuff.
When the entertainment titans of the last century struggle to lock down the Internet, they claim it's to stop piracy and protect artists. But if they shut down the Internet and all the innovation and opportunity that comes with it, who will protect us from them?
* Which is why you got the best deal you could on the computer you used to write your book, and why you'd like your publisher to pay you as much as possible.
** In economic terms — that is, there are more readable, publishable books written than the world wants to pay to read. That doesn't mean that in cultural terms these books are unimportant.
*** So do duopolies, triopolies, and other constricted industries. When the big six publishers become the big five, then the big four, etc, it's bad news for everyone who sells to them — writers especially.
**** Yes, sometimes big books are auctioned off between multiple parties, or a big name is poached from one house to another with a big offer, but this is a rare outlier, and happens less and less as the number of bidders/competitors dwindles.
***** You.
****** "Fewer sales," as opposed to "lost sales." If you want to eat, you need to focus on how to get as much money as possible, not how to get paid by everyone who enjoys your books. If piracy creates more new sales (through publicity) than it costs (through substitution), then you're ahead of the game.
******* They also do everything else there: work, learn, love, create, politic, bicker, worship — everything we do today involves the Internet, everything we do tomorrow will require it.
This article originally appeared at O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing.


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Five Costly Car Dealer Options to Skip
Dealer Options are Part of Car Sales Pitch
Let's face it, when you buy a new car, you deal with experienced sales professionals who use a variety of time-tested methods to sell you add-on products and services. With profit margins on new car sales tighter than ever, these adept pitchmen have plenty of incentive to sell us whatever car dealer options they can.
Although some of those dealer options, upgrades and extras can be worth the investment by making life with your new car more enjoyable and adding value to it at trade-in time, the following five dealer options and upgrades are best avoided.
Although new cars no longer need it and some automakers will void the factory corrosion-perforation warranty if the car is undercoated by a third-party, this hasn't stopped some dealerships from promoting undercoating as a dealer option, says Mike Quincy, auto content specialist at the Consumer Reports Auto Test Center in East Haddam, Conn.
"Cars leaving the factories today all have excellent rust-proofing," Quincy says.
"(Dealers) have an incentive to do it because there's a fair amount of markup they can get on these services," he says.
Dealer-applied undercoating can range from $200 to $1,200, depending on the car, the type of treatment package (basic or premium), and whether it includes an extra option, such as sound-deadening. Moreover, rust-proofing can be sold to the new car buyer as a separate dealer option or be included in a pricey bundle called an "environmental protection package" that also can include paint sealant and fabric protection.
Fabric Protection
"A lot of dealers will also eagerly pitch you fabric protection, which is basically a spray that they will put on -- a spray that costs them almost nothing and that's applied by a person who's making minimum wage -- but for which they might then charge you $100 or more," Quincy says of this dealer option. "Again, it's something your car doesn't need -- and it's certainly something your body doesn't need either, because it's just more chemicals for you to be in contact with inside the car."
John Nielsen, national director of auto repair and buying at AAA, in Heathrow, Fla., adds that automakers now provide cars with high-quality interiors that incorporate materials and fabrics that shouldn't have stain-related issues if consumers exercise a modicum of care. "If you have a spill and wipe it up right away, you're really not going to have a problem," he says."If you really need additional fabric protection, all you have to do is buy a bottle of Scotchgard."
Paint Protection
This dealer option is often promoted by showroom salespeople as a product used in the aerospace industry that offers a new car "a superior, year-round, no-wax shine that provides a long-lasting barrier against the environment." Protective paint sealant can cost the new car buyer well over $200.
However, most automotive paints today are durable finishes that benefit much more from regular washing and waxing, says Nielsen. Quincy adds that carmakers also generally advise against waxing or sealing the paint on a new car for a period of weeks or months.
VIN Etching
VIN etching is a procedure that allows you to make an adhesive plastic stencil containing the vehicle identification number, or VIN, of your car. You then place that stencil on a window and apply a special acid solution that chemically burns, or etches, the number onto the glass.
According to Allstate Insurance Co., VIN etching can be a deterrent to thieves because it not only makes it nearly impossible for them to profit from selling windows and windshields, but it also makes it more difficult to find a way to dispose of a car once it has been stolen. Consequently, VIN etching is recommended by police and auto insurance agencies to protect against auto theft, and a number of car insurance agencies will even offer a discount to the comprehensive portion of your car insurance, or waive your insurance deductibles,if your car is protected by VIN etching.
Unfortunately, despite being a relatively simple process, VIN etching as a dealer option can cost the car buyer from $150 to $300. It's cheaper to use a do-it-yourself kit, which runs from $20 to $40 online.
Extended Warranties
As a dealer option, basic extended warranty policies for cars can start at $1,000 and easily climb to several thousand dollars for luxury and high-performance cars.
Extended warranties offer bumper-to-bumper protection covering everything on your car except components commonly replaced in routine maintenance. Plan prices vary by mileage, the term of coverage and by deductible level.
"But if you do your homework and you choose a car based on the reliability reports found in Consumer Reports, for example, paying extra for the cost of an extended warranty just isn't worth it," says Quincy. "Generally, we don't recommend that people buy extended warranties, and especially not from third-party, nonfactory sources."
A much better alternative is to spend the money you might have otherwise applied toward the purchase of an extended warranty on the recommended maintenance that your car requires. That's actually the best insurance you have against years of motoring troubles.


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Ready-to-drink liquor, or RTD, consists of pre-made cocktails, like margaritas, that you can directly pour into a glass and enjoy. If you want to relish a delicious, spiked lemonade or a Bloody Mary, there's no need to go through the thousands of recipes on the internet and get all the ingredients. Just get a canned or bottled version of it and pour it in a glass with some ice. When you're looking for good times but you're on a lazy streak, nothing can beat a ready-to-drink cocktail.
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Sometimes, it just takes too much effort to muddle mint and extract lemon zest. Plus, if you crave a Long Island Iced Tea once every few months, it doesn't make sense to stock up the bar with five different types of liquor bottles. There has to be an easier way. Just order your favorite cocktail in a RTD package and enjoy. Not everyone is an expert in mixology, and you don't have to be a bartender to enjoy different drinks. Don't have all the ingredients but want to try three different types of cocktails? Opt for a ready-to-drink margarita and other beverages.
Is ready-to-drink liquor worth it?
Since these drinks are made by mixology experts, they taste and feel like the cocktails you get in the bar. Plus, there are many options, from lime margaritas to fruit cocktails to shots to mojitos. Blend these drinks with ice or add ice cubes at the end — or maybe even give a little twist to your drink by adding your own ingredients. There's a lot you can play with. Ready-to-drink cocktails are available in different volumes. If you want to try a cocktail for the first time, it's best to order a pouch or small can of it. If you find it's your new favorite cocktail, order a full bottle.
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Duke faces stiff opposition to proposed rate hike
Duke Energy's rate hike request met strong opposition at a public hearing before members of the N.C. Utilities Commission in Franklin last week.
Duke claims the 12.6 percent hike is needed to pay for upgrades to power plants and infrastructure across its system, including construction of a controversial new coal plant near Marion. If approved, the request would bring the utility more than $496 million per year in additional revenues. Duke says the rate hike will help maintain its credit rating.
Speakers representing environmental groups, local businesses, and local governments — along with plenty of private citizens — were nearly unanimous in denouncing the proposal. The giant utility was criticized for continuing construction of unnecessary coal plants, for its failure to invest more in renewable energy, for the timing of its request during a recession and for its decision to sell power made in North Carolina out-of-state.
"It is unconscionable to force a rate hike in for an unnecessary power plant," said David Bates, the executive director of the Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance, referring to Duke's new coal plant. "There's no such thing as clean coal, just less dirty."
Bates spoke during the hearing and at a rally held prior to it in front of the Macon County Courthouse. About 20 protestors listened in at the rally, which was organized by the Sylva-based clean air advocacy group the Canary Coalition.
Duke Nantahala District Manager Fred Alexander told the utilities commission, however, that continued construction of the new coal plant, known as Cliffside, is a "great environmental story."
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"Once we turn the new unit on, we can begin retiring 1,000 megawatts of old coal plants," he said. The old plants are dirtier than the new coal plant, achieving a net gain to air quality.
The hearing was a formal affair, with speakers swearing on the Bible before offering their testimony. In addition to the hearing officer running the meeting, there were two opposing tables at the front of the room: one for a Duke Energy representative and one for the Public Staff of the N.C. Utilities Commission. The Public Staff acts as a guardian of the public's interest against the regulated monopoly enjoyed by utilities.
The independent oversight body is against the rate hike, according to Dianna Downey, spokesperson of the Public Staff.
"We have a team of accountants and engineers to study the rate hike request. At this point we believe the rate hike request by Duke is not justified," said Downing, adding that the findings are still preliminary.
The strongest support for Duke came from John Burton of Bryson City, who is the treasurer for the Nantahala Outdoor Center, which relies on Duke for whitewater releases to accommodate rafting. He urged regulators to keep an open mind when considering Duke's request.
"Electricity and utility costs have gone up less than everything else. Also, the quality of transmission has dramatically improved," Burton said. "Duke has succeeded in keeping rates down and in improving reliability."
Others from the business community, however, criticized the timing of Duke's rate hike request.
Dan Roland of Franklin is the operations manager for Jackson Paper in Sylva, one of Duke largest commercial customers in the region. He said the company recently decided to expand in Jackson County, and while it expected a rate hike, it was surprised at the size and the timing.
"We are opposed to the rate hike request. While we understand the request, we question the short notice and the size of the increase ... it is a tremendous shock," said Roland.
What's it paying for?
Part of the debate at the hearing was exactly what Duke's proposed rate hike will pay for. Many of those speaking against the proposal said the new coal plant, known as Cliffside, is not necessary since the state's energy usage is declining. Duke, however, says only 20 percent of the rate hike is to fund Cliffside, and it argues it has already spent about $1 billion. State law allows utilities to collect money for new power plants while they are under construction. So even if the construction was abandoned, Duke could still try to recover the money already spent.
In addition to Cliffside, Alexander said the request was to pay for "billions of dollars of investments we've already made to build a cleaner and more reliable system."
But critics said Duke has done little to invest in cleaner energy production or more efficient use of the energy it already produces. Julie Mayfield, the executive director of the Western North Carolina Alliance, urged the utilities commission to deny Duke's rate hike.
"While there continues to be debate about the percentage of this requested increase that covers infrastructure improvements, previously installed environmental controls and Cliffside, what is clear is this: part of the rate increase is for Cliffside; Duke recently received a 4.5 percent rate increase to cover the increasing costs of coal; and none of the requested increase will cover renewable energy projects or energy efficiency programs," said Mayfield, reading from a prepared statement.
Avram Friedman, the executive director of the Canary Coalition, said Duke was being duplicitous on several fronts. He said Duke Energy claims the Cliffside plant is to meet growing energy demand in North Carolina, but actual usage in the state is down 2 percent, he said. He also criticized Duke's recent decision to sell electricity to an energy cooperative in South Carolina and another attempt denied by the utilities commission to sell electricity to Orangeburg, S.C.
"There's no reason to place this extra burden on electric ratepayers," said Friedman. "More than 100 new coal plants have been cancelled around the country in the past three years and Cliffside isn't needed either. It makes much more sense to implement energy policies that will save ratepayers money, by offering economic incentives to invest in energy efficiency in homes, businesses and industry."
At least two local governments in WNC — Swain County and the Cherokee Tribal Council — have passed resolutions opposing the rate hike request.
The last in the series of public hearings on Duke's request is scheduled for Oct. 19 in Raleigh.


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America - meet your newest hero! The lethal alien symbiote known as Venom is in the custody of the U.S. military - and with a familiar face from Spider-Man's world inside the suit, the government's own personal Spidey is going into action as one of the nation's top covert agents in hostile territory! Collecting VENOM (2011) #1-5.


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Seems killer clowns (or the fear thereof) have significantly reduced the number of trick-or-treaters on the streets tonight – certainly round our way.
Usually on Halloween, our little street is full of the horrid little goblins, with their hands out demanding sweets or money. Last year parents were actually ferrying their porcine little horrors down here in huge people movers, from surrounding council estates, under the illusion that pickings would be richer round here. While the parents sat in their vans smoking a fag, of course.
Whereas this year I saw just one very orderly child escorted by both parents at the beginning of the evening. They looked more more like they were off to a party than knocking on doors bothering people. And the family next door walked down the road a few minutes ago to another family's place, dressed up a bit – but very, very quiet. And again, accompanied by both parents.
All-in all it's been the most pleasant Halloween for decades. So that's three-cheers for the killer clowns as far as I am concerned – even if most of the ensuing hysteria was made-up and hyped-up by the popular press. What was it like round your way?


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According to the Let's Move initiative, one in three American children is considered overweight or obese. Children also consume 31 percent more calories and 56 percent more fat than their peers did 40 years ago. Starting today, Chick-fil-A® is taking another step in continuing to address the issue of childhood obesity by debuting one of the nation's most nutritious kid's meals.
In recent months, many fast food chains have updated their side options in an attempt to offer healthier children's menu items. Chick-fil-A instead is concentrating on making the entrée healthier by adding Grilled Chicken Nuggets as an alternative for children. The move marks the first time a national fast food chain has offered a grilled entrée as part of a children's menu.
The chain also is enhancing its side choices, adding Buddy Fruits® Pure Blended Fruit To Go applesauce as a complement to the Fruit Cup option Chick-fil-A added to its menu in 2004. And, the chain is changing its children's beverage line to only feature one percent milk, 100 percent apple juice, its signature freshly squeezed lemonade, and water as drink choices.
Chick-fil-A's Grilled Nuggets, paired with the Fruit Cup and one-percent milk, is one of the most nutritious children's meal combinations offered among any major fast food chain. The meal has only 210 calories and 3 grams of fat – reflecting an 86 percent cut in fat grams and a 56 percent calorie reduction compared with its previous offerings.
"According to reports from the Centers for Disease Control, Americans frequently choose convenience over nutrition. This has created a greater likelihood of our children becoming overweight or obese. The reality is that we live in an on-the-go world where parents have limited healthy meal options for their kids on the way to and from recreational activities, school or other events," said Woody Faulk, Chick-fil-A's vice president of brand strategy and design, who oversees Chick-fil-A's menu. "Our new Kid's Meal reflects our commitment to helping parents strike a balance between nutrition, convenience and price. We want parents to know that they do have a choice at Chick-fil-A."
Following is more information on Chick-fil-A's new Kid's Meal offerings:
- Introduction of Grilled Nuggets: These gluten-free Grilled Nuggets are made from a boneless, skinless breast of chicken tumbled in a salt and pepper spice blend and then grilled to perfection. The four count is only 80 calories and 1 gram of fat, while the six count contains 110 calories and 1.5 grams of fat.
- Addition of Buddy Fruits ® Pure Blended Fruit To Go: Apple Cinnamon: Each squeezable fruit pouch is gluten free, all natural and contains 100 percent pure fruit. It is 60 calories, 0 grams of fat and equals one serving of fruit.
- Improved beverage options: Kid's Meal beverage offerings will be changed to only feature one percent milk, 100 percent apple juice, Chick-fil-A's freshly squeezed lemonade (30 percent DV vitamin C), and water as drink options.
According to Chick-fil-A's full-time dietitian Jodie Worrell, these new menu additions come as part of Chick-fil-A's broader initiative to offer healthier menu options to customers. Initiative highlights include the addition of the Fruit Cup in 2004 and moving to a complete menu (including all condiments) with zero trans fats in 2008. Chick-fil-A also is actively working to reduce sodium across its menu, including a 40 percent sodium reduction in its Chargrilled Chicken filet, 25 percent less sodium in breads and removing 10 percent of sodium in dressings and sauces.
"While we are excited about the moves we have made on the Kid's Meal menu, we also are extremely proud of the progress we have made with our overall menu," Worrell added. "Removing trans fats, adding more nutritious salads and reducing sodium are examples of some of the steps we have taken in recent years to further our commitment to customers of offering a well-balanced menu of choices. Our work is not complete though. We are constantly looking for a better way to offer our customers healthier choices."
Kid's Meal Commitment Extends Beyond the Food
Chick-fil-A's commitment to families extends beyond offing more nutritious menu options. The chain also uses its "Growing Kid's Inside and Out®"Kid's Meal program as an opportunity to nourish young minds through the premiums included as part of the meal. Rather than offering a toy promoting the latest movie or television series, Chick-fil-A complements its quality children's menu offerings with meaningful and fun tools that encourage interaction between children and their families. Examples include Little Gold Books, VeggieTales CDs, Discovery Kid's activities and books adapted from the Martha Speaks PBS series.


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Water from vehicle washing can make its way across a hard surface (such as a driveway) and enter the storm drainage system. From there, wash water enters our creeks and streams, makes its way to rivers and, eventually, the Chesapeake Bay. Water from vehicle washing can contain contaminants such as nutrients and hydrocarbons and should not discharge to the storm drainage system, creeks, or streams where it can harm fish and other aquatic life.
When you take your car to a commercial car wash, wastewater is contained and treated by the business per federal regulations. If you wash your car at home, there are other ways you can reduce the environmental impact of car washing:
Designate an area for vehicle washing that discharges to gravel, grass, or other permeable surface that allows water to infiltrate. Better yet, wash your vehicle on the lawn – you will clean your car, filter the wash water, and water your grass all at the same time!
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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has had a very fortunate political career. In 2015, he was elected because many Republicans refused to support his GOP opponent, then U.S. Senator David Vitter. Last November, his narrow victory occurred because a significant number of Republican voters abandoned the GOP candidate, businessman Eddie Rispone, to support his re-election.
This week, he scored another victory as his preferred candidate for House Speaker, Representative Clay Schexnayder (R-Gonzales) was elected by a Republican-controlled legislature. Schexnayder defeated a more conservative opponent, Representative Sherman Mack (R-Albany) by a healthy 60-45 margin.


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Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) notable books
For example, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) publishes a list of notable books (here) from the 'Newbery', 'Caldecott', 'Belpré', 'Sibert', 'Geisel', and 'Batchelder' award and honour books. They also list notable Children's Books that have also received American Library Association awards, such as the Coretta Scott King Award, Michael L. Printz Award, and Schneider Family Book Award. They include awards for literature as well as non-fiction. The ALSC defines notable books as those that are:
Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding. As applied to children's books, notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children's interests in exemplary ways.Since 1996 they have also listed notable videos for children (here).
Lists of this kind are a helpful resource to help identify books that don't necessarily win the top children's literature awards around the world. For example, 'Jellicoe Road' written by Australian author Melina Marchetta won the Michael L. Printz Award that is for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. This book was first published in 2006 in Australia as 'On the Jellicoe Road' but was first published in the USA in 2008 with a slightly changed name.
The book tells its story through strong characters with authentic voices. Like Marchetta's other young adult novels (e.g. Looking for Alibrandi, 1993), 'Jellicoe Road' is an exploration of relationships and family traditions. The main character Taylor Markham is making the transition from troubled teenager to independent young woman. She struggles with the the memories of her past. The book uses a dual narrative that allows the parallel telling of how Taylor reluctantly leads the students of the Jellicoe School in secret territory wars against the Townies and the Cadets. The book evokes strong images of the Australian landscape through a story full of suspense, emotion, romance, humour and tragedy.
Each year the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) publishes a list of 100 notable books. Once again, the purpose in doing this is to recognise the many fine books that are published each year but which don't necessarily receive the recognition they should, simply because they are not shortlisted in the annual CBCA Children's Book of the year awards. The limitation of awards and shortlists is that by definition they are 'short'(!) and so fail to capture the full range of wonderful books published each year.
Shaun Tan's 'Tales from Outer Suburbia' is one of 102 (!) books that have made the list of notable books in 2009. As the CBCA awards have not been announced yet this book, like all others on the list, could still become a winner or honour book in 2009. Irrespective of the award outcomes, inclusion on the 'Notable list' offers greater profile for a larger number of excellent books. You can download the CBCA 2009 Notable list (here).
Related links
All previous posts on children's literature awards (here).
All children's literature posts (here).
'Children's Literature Assembly' Notable books (here).


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Friends Season 4 Episode 22 : The One With The Worst Best Man Ever
Ross chooses Chandler as his best man, but picks Joey instead when Chandler says Ross won't be his best man. Joey then loses Ross's ring after a bachelor party and is convinced the stripper stole it after she slept with Joey. They later find out that the duck swallowed the ring. The girls give Phoebe a baby shower.
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The AIA, with open access to the full text of current issues of the AJA, a coveted slot in the DOAJ, and now two more interesting features, is moving far, far ahead of the APA, which is still all about narrow-band publication.
AJA Online Forum
The American Journal of Archaeology is pleased to open the AJA Online Forum (www.ajaonline.org/forum/). The Online Forum complements Forum articles published in the AJA that discuss controversial, popular, or neglected topics in archaeology. The Online Forum is the place to continue the scholarly dialogue and the exchange of ideas. Online Forum contributions may take a variety of forms: short comments on specific points in the published articles, introduction of new material to the discussion, longer more formal presentation of views, or informal discussion. Naomi Norman, AJA Editor-in-Chief, encourages everyone to participate in the AJA Online Forum and, indeed, consider submitting Forum articles for publication in the Journal.Museum Reviews Online
In 2004, Elizabeth Bartman was appointed Museum Exhibition Editor of the AJA. In addition to commissioning reviews of important exhibitions for the print edition of the Journal, additional reviews will be posted on the AJA website (www.ajaonline.org). The first of these is now available. Victor Cunrui Xiong has reviewed the Metropolitan Museum of Artâs âChina: Dawn of a Golden Ageâ? exhibit. Please visit the AJA website and click on the Museum Reviews link to read the entire article.


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Firmenich invited press to its New York headquarters for a panel presentation exploring the link between online social networking and the latest fragrance news and trends. OsMoz.com, the Firmenich Web site recognized for its virtual Perfume Island and regularly updated fragrance news, presented the online context that set the stage for the discussion.
With the launch of a revamped Web site, OsMoz.com version 2.0, as well as a more condensed and mobile version of the site, Mobile.osmoz.com—customized specially for this year's new iPhone 3G—Firmenich announced its attempt to offer more convenient fragrance news access to Web viewers.
According to Debra Butler, vice president, creative marketing, Firmenich, OsMoz.com is designed with a question-and-answer forum for fragrance aficionados to bring industry expertise to consumers. The site's latest version features fragrance launch updates, consumer-ranked lists of the highest rated fragrances, and an extensive encyclopedia of global fragrances.
Joining the discussion were Jake Nagle, senior artistic director, Firmenich and Karen Grant, global industry analyst and vice president, beauty, The NPD Group, among others. With a positive outlook on the industry, Grant contradicted the challenges of an economy where consumer confidence is at such a low level. "People are still finding things to please them despite the economy 'noise,' and in difficult times, people want to feel beautiful," she said.
"The biggest risk in beauty is with the youngest consumers, where 80% of them are Internet users," Grant said. "It is important to know that the crazier the world is, the more people want to be connected, so the opportunity exists to do more in beauty on the Internet."
Concluding the panel discussion, the experts agreed that the Internet is the best medium on which to generate brand buzz. "The whole idea of fragrance existing in a virtual world is unusual, because you can't smell anything," Nagle said, "but OsMoz.com has taken it to the mobile world, because we need to be where the consumer is."
Beattie Discusses Elizabeth Arden's Business Model
Introduced by Carlotta Jacobson, president of Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW), E. Scott Beattie, chairman and CEO, Elizabeth Arden, Inc., joined CEW for a newsmaker forum to discuss his company's successful business model.
Jill Scalamandre, CEW chairperson, interviewed Beattie, noting that in his role, he has overall responsibility for Elizabeth Arden, Inc.'s global sales in excess of $1.3 billion.
With the acquisition of the Elizabeth Arden brand from Unilever in 2000, Liz Claiborne inherited a company with a heritage. The company's numerous fragrances include those for celebrities Mariah Carey, Usher and Britney Spears, as well as for designers Badgley Mischka and Nanette Lepore. In addition, Elizabeth Arden Prestige now offers Juicy Couture, Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds, skin care line Prevage, and is planning the launch of a new fragrance, Pretty, slated for spring 2009.
"Key to the company's success is its connection with the consumer first," said Beattie. "Second is its assurance that celebrity fragrances bear the hallmark of true commitment to the product, and third, products must be global in nature."
Beattie believes he has harnessed the energies of heritage and modernity, while drawing on his investment banker roots to maintain financial solidity and growth for the brand. Entrepreneurial spirit, the ability to find niches in the industry, supply chain management, and innovative, creative people working in an open environment have all contributed to Elizabeth Arden, Inc.'s growth, according to Beattie.
Champions Honor Gould
Rochelle Bloom, president of The Fragrance Foundation, honored Michael Gould, chairman and CEO of Bloomingdale's at the Ninth Annual Circle of Champions Award dinner, held at New York's St. Regis Hotel in October. Bloom described working with Gould during her last two years at The Estée Lauder Companies, calling him "tough, fair and a great partner," before she introduced Leonard Lauder, chairman of the board and former chief executive, The Estée Lauder Companies, to make the formal presentation.
"Michael is one of the great men in the world—a great merchant and a great philanthropist," said Lauder, who noted Gould's start at Abraham & Straus, which he referred to as "the training ground of almost every great merchant in America."
Gould, who was formerly chairman and CEO of J. W. Robinson's in Los Angeles, as well as COO of Giorgio Beverly Hills, later to become president and CEO, went on to run Bloomingdale's as chairman and CEO in 1991. "When he joined Bloomingdale's, it began a renaissance for retail," Lauder added.
Gould noted that after 40 years in the business and 17 years as CEO of Bloomingdale's, he has learned that "it is not the CEO, the bottle or the packaging" that makes retailers successful, rather, it is their friends, family members and co-workers that empower them along their path in life. "I'm blessed to have been able to work with good people," he concluded, "who have made me a little better."
Cancer Gala Makes 'Sense'
The Skin Cancer Foundation held its annual Skin Sense Award Gala at New York's Pierre Hotel, honoring David Suliteanu, president and CEO, Sephora USA, and Lois Joy Johnson, former beauty and fashion director, More magazine.
Suliteanu accepted his award on behalf of the 7,000-plus Sephora employees, noting how the retailer's initiative in creating The Sun Safety Kit raised $350,000 in 2008, which was donated to The Skin Cancer Foundation.
Johnson related how her personal experience with skin cancer gave her the impetus to write about the importance of sun safety in More magazine and help others in the process. "I now have a wardrobe of wide-brimmed hats and sun protective clothing," Johnson said. "Nevermind the Bentleys—the new status symbol is having healthy skin." Perry Robins, president of The Skin Cancer Foundation, presented skin cancer statistics and discussed preventive methods, acknowledging the work being done with The Road to Healthy Skin Tour van, supplied by Aveeno and Rite Aid.
Seed Fund Promotes Organic Community Gardening
This fall, Ido Leffler, founder of Yes to Carrots, launched a new collection of personal care products and a 501C3 non-profit venture, the Yes to Carrots Seed Fund, which aims to empower women by helping them plant sustainable, organic community gardens.
Leffler brought a farmer's market to life during his vegetarian luncheon presentation in New York City to raise awareness of the positive effects of giving back to communities through his new venture. He also announced the recent addition of tomatoes and cucumbers to his formerly all carrot-based brand, just two years old and sold in just under 20,000 stores across 17 countries.
Brand Ingenuity
Laura Geller announced the re-branding of her line, now called Laura Geller Brand Ingenuity, at an event in New York City.
Geller's newly redesigned brand is now expanding into the drugstore channel, as well, as it branches into CVS stores in Washington, D.C. and California as part of the retailer's Beauty 360 store-within-a-store concept. "We have been very strategic about our rollout plans and we feel the time is right for this re-branding," Geller said.
Her refreshed brand offers a cosmetics collection, among other items, which is formulated in Italy, and blended and baked for 24 hours in terracotta pans to create rich textures and vibrancy.


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KT400A vs nForce2 vs SiS746
Motherboards/AMD S462 by piotke @ 2003-05-15
A couple of months ago nVidia introduced the nForce? chipset for AMD. It outperformed VIA?s KT400 chipset by a considerably margin. Now VIA introduced a newer version, the KT400A. Is it a decent alternative for the Nforce?? And what about Sis ? They have the Sis 746 that boasts 200Mhz FSB. I compared three motherboards based on these chipsets, and of course, overclocked them. Tested motherboards: Abit NF7-S v2.0 (nForce2) , DFI Lanparty (KT400A) and the ECS L7S7A2L (SiS746)


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2001 .NET system goes online, human decisions are removed from the office environment.
2001 2:14am, August 29th, .NET become self-aware, corporations try to pull the plug but it's too late, .NET strikes back.
2002 Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows released.
2004 Supreme Court rules to break up Microsoft.
2005 President Gates disbands Supreme Court, orders break up of Sun Microsystems, IBM and Oracle.
2006 Windows 2004 released.
2007 Microsoft purchases Napster-Disney-Cisco-Coke-Ford-Avis to compete with Oracle-AOL-3Com-Pepsi-GM-Hertz and GE.
2008 Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 84 released.
2009 Gates' second term as President begins.
2010 Microsoft Office surpasses the 18 Terabyte mark.
2012 Windows 2010 Service Pack 1 released.
2013 Windows 2010 released.
2015 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 for Apple Macintosh.
2016 Microsoft enhances their only innovation by introducing the "Red Screen of Death."
2020 Bill Gates purchases Linus Torvalds.
2021 Researchers develop first crash-proof operating system, then destroy it. They are just that evil.
2024 Microsoft genetic engineers realize Bill Gates' childhood dream and develop the first talking rabbit.
2025 A reunited Backstreet Boys perform at the 50th anniversary of the founding of Microsoft.
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Welcome new and returning families, the St. Pete Raiders Soccer Club hopes you will have a great experience with us this season.
General Information for the U12 age bracket
Practice Schedule:
U12 - Twice a week, from 7:30 - 9:00 Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday (if space allows could be 6-7:30pm) - Practice begins in Oct.
Practice Format:
90 mins two times per week with their Parent Facilitator/Coach
Team Formation:
1. Team rosters will be drawn using the Blind Draw system per GYSA rules. Rosters will have a maximum of 14 players per team.
League Format:
1. Games will be on Saturdays beginning the 1st week of November and continuing thru the end of February. Usually will have 6 home games and 6 away games. Away games are at other clubs in Pinellas county.
Game Format:
1. Game play will be 9v9 ( 8 field players and a goal keeper ).
2. Games played on Saturdays beginning 1st week in November.
2 - 30 minute periods with 5-8 halftime period. Referees will be used.


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Triple-Negative Breast Cancer May Succumb to New Treatments
Treating triple-negative breast cancer is too often like swinging and missing three pitches in baseball. But for a UCSF-led team that includes a breast cancer laboratory researcher, a breast cancer oncologist and a breast cancer surgical oncologist, it's now a new ballgame.
As you can read in one of a series of UCSF.edu articles on promising approaches to defeating breast cancer, the trio's game plan calls for targeting an inflammatory response that helps fuel triple-negative breast cancer growth, and to help carry it out they are equipped with a new $6.5 million grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Not all breast cancers are the same when it comes to the genetic makeup of their tumor cells, and the triple-negative variety has nasty stuff. What it doesn't have is a reliance on genes that other types of breast cancers often depend on — the estrogen receptor, the progesterone receptor, and a third receptor called HER2. Hence the name triple negative.
After years of research, genetic profiling, and drug development, oncologists now have treatments designed to target two of these receptors in breast cancers that have them. Raloxifene and tamoxifen target the estrogen receptor, while Herceptin targets HER2. Oncologists often use these treatments along with other therapies to help knock those cancers out of the park for good, and compared to decades past, they have a high batting average. Overall, more than nine out of ten women diagnosed with breast cancer now survive five years or more.
However, for the roughly one in six women with breast cancer who have triple-negative breast cancer, the odds are worse. About three out of four survive five years or more. The tumors sometimes grow aggressively — from an undetectable to a difficult-to-treat stage between regular screening mammography exams, for instance. A new study finds that triple-negative tumors are more rapidly deadly than other breast cancers when they spread to the brain.
Fortunately, medical researchers are making new genetic discoveries about triple-negative breast cancer that may translate directly into better treatment. For one thing, there may be genetic subtypes within this often deadly tumor type, maybe even some that will be susceptible to already existing drugs used in new combinations. But for UCSF researchers a fruitful line of research centers on a different cell type — immune cells called macrophages, which aid and abet triple-negative breast cancers.
Better treatments for triple-negative breast cancer would also help reduce racial disparities in cancer treatment outcome. Triple-negative breast cancer accounts for a disproportionately higher share of breast cancers that occur among Hispanic and African American women. Tragically, these deadly tumors also disproportionately affect younger women, with even more years of life lost.
The team is headed by UCSF laboratory scientist Lisa Coussens, PhD, UCSF oncologist Hope Rugo, MD, and Shelley Hwang, MD, a surgical oncologist at Duke University. The researchers' preliminary findings are promising. "Data from our lab show that tumor-bearing mice treated with a drug that reduces infiltration of macrophages into tumors, PLX3397, enhances sensitivity to chemotherapy, thereby reducing the spread of cancer to the lungs and prolonging survival," they report. They plan to do additional studies in animals before testing the drug in women.


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King of Pride Rock! The Marilyn Rodman Theatre for Kids Program's Lion King Puppet Show Is a Hit
Can you feel the love in Boston? Broadway In Boston and The Marilyn Rodman Theatre for Kids Program continue their ongoing commitment to bringing at-risk children to the theater, and thousands of children across Massachusetts, including many in the city of Boston, have experienced live theater through this special partnership. The Marilyn Rodman Theatre for Kids program recently bought 2,000 tickets to The Lion King, which plays the Boston Opera House through October 12.
In addition, the program put on puppet demonstration before the performance of The Lion King and around 100 children attended. The Marilyn Rodman Theatre for Kids program selects various private and public schools as well as social service agencies that serve children at-risk to receive tickets throughout the year.
Over the past several seasons, Broadway In Boston has raised approximately $200,000 to support this dedicated effort and since its inception in 2003, the program has distributed nearly 50,000 theater tickets to children throughout the state to enjoy. This past season, The Marilyn Rodman Theatre for Kids program purchased tickets to Wicked, Million Dollar Quartet and Blue Man Group among others. About 500 children were sent to each show.
The Marilyn Rodman Theatre for Kids program is funded through the generosity of corporate and private donors. Broadway In Boston also solicits donations from season ticket holders, members and other patrons that are encouraged to support this program. In addition, benefit performances are held to raise money for the program.