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Johnson City, Tenn. -- East Tennessee State's Matt Nunley delivered a two-out, two-run single in the sixth inning of a seven-inning affair to lead the Bucs in a 4-2 win against Belmont in the second game of today's doubleheader. Belmont won the first game 9-3, also in a seven-inning game.
ETSU's game two starter, Matt Baber hurled a complete game, scattering eight hits and allowing two runs, to improve to 9-6 on the season.
Raymond McBride gave the Bucs a 1-0 lead in the second inning of the night-cap when his double scored Nathan Copeland. McBride went 2-2 with two RBIs in the game. The game remained that way until the fifth when Belmont's Jim Forrester belted his first career home run, a two-run shot that gave the Bruins a 2-1 lead.
ETSU (18-27) loaded the bases in the bottom of the sixth with one out. After getting Shannon Carter to ground into a fielder's choice, Belmont starter Brandon Jaggers hit Raymond McBride in the hand, forcing in the tying run. Nunley followed with the game-winning single that gave the Bucs a 4-2 lead.
Jaggers threw 5.2 innings, allowing four runs, and fell to 8-6 on the year.
The opening game was scoreless until the top of the third when Greg Whittaker scored on a Mat Meade fielder's choice. Back-to-back singles by Jerrod Smith and Josh Brummett gave the Bruins a 3-0 lead off Buc starter Reid Casey.
Meade earned his second RBI of the game with a single in the fourth that plated Forrester. A fifth-inning two-run double by Brummett gave Belmont a 6-0 lead. Following a 42-minute rain delay, ETSU reliever Jackson Simerly retired the next two batters to end the Belmont threat.
The Bruins (27-24) added two more in the sixth to take an 8-1 lead before the Bucs struck for two in the home half of the inning. Chad Boruff led off the frame with a double and later scored on a Carter single. A Copeland single plated Ryan McKinney who had reached on a walk. Belmont closed out the scoring with one in the seventh.
Belmont's Cody Fisher threw a complete game, allowing three runs on eight hits, to improve to 8-4. Casey suffered the loss for ETSU, falling to 5-7.
The Bucs and Bruins will complete their three-game series tomorrow at 1 p.m. in Cardinal Park.


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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon held a press conference early Monday morning, to address what he termed 'acts of terror' being committed against families across the Show Me State. Select members of the press were invited to attend the event, held in an undisclosed, secure location.
Members of the media were told in advance that the Governor would not be taking questions after making a prepared statement.
"Evidence has emerged of a terror plot being carried out against the citizens of our state. These attacks are escalating, both in number and in severity. They represent a clear and present danger to Missourians and a dire threat to our way of life."
"These acts are random, as are their victims. They are being committed with bold audacity and ruthlessness and are being executed in such a way so as to maximize their effect. The citizens of Missouri are the targets of a campaign of terror, being waged against our very way of life."
"In the wake of these attacks and in order to protect the citizens of our state, I am enacting the following measures as Governor, effective immediately."
"I am mobilizing the Missouri National Guard, the Missouri State Highway Patrol and all local law enforcement. These agencies will have a clear mission: To aggressively apprehend and detain suspicious individuals for interrogation. Citizens are asked to remain calm and above all, to cooperate with authorities during this time of crisis, so that they can effectively do their jobs and keep Missouri safe."
"Also, beginning today, a mandatory curfew is in effect. All residents of Missouri will remain off the streets between the hours of 6 PM and 6 AM."
"Those residents who have legitimate reasons for being out during these restricted hours, such as work, school, etc. will be identified by the Missouri Registry Database. These citizens will be permitted to travel during the hours of restriction, though that travel will be limited to routes to and from approved destinations only."
"We ask that all residents remain calm during this challenging time. Complete cooperation is necessary. The authorities of the state of Missouri will find the evil-doers responsible for these attacks and we will bring them to justice."
"These attacks on our way of life will not be tolerated. We will not give in to these terrorists. We will rise above and we will bring swift retribution to those who would wage war against our citizens."
The gravity of the Governor's remarks resonated from the concrete walls of the secure location. The seriousness of the situation was reinforced by the several armed guards who took flanking positions around the room.
At the end of the Governor's remarks, a reporter from the Associated Press attempted to ask a follow up question, in spite of the clear instructions given prior to his statement.
"Governor, what do you say to reports and eyewitness accounts that point to these crimes are being carried out by cultists using various government offices?"
Before the question was fully formed, two armed guards rushed the reporter, each taking an arm. They escorted her through a side corridor and a heavy steel door slammed behind them. Her loud protests could be heard as they drug her away.
Immediately following this surreal event, the Governor left the room and his press secretary ushered the media out of the secure location, shoving copies of the Governor's statement into the hands of the press corps with stone faced silence.
Her stern gaze indicated that she would not be answering questions either.
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In comparing the accounts of witnesses and survivors of the attacks that are occurring around Missouri, several commonalities can be found in their varying accounts.
Most, like the friends and families of Brandon Ellingson, Donnie Erwin and David Norman never saw it coming. They assumed that the nightmares they are trapped in were the stuff of invention and fiction, safely contained in Stephen King novels or fright night movie marathons. For them, things that go 'bump in the night' aren't real and true terror only happens in lands far, far away from the neon lights of America.
Others, like the Shore family and the Lagares family, knew monsters lurked under the Midway. They heard their claws scratching at the door. They had glimpsed the outline of the shape under the sheet. They knew that these abominations were creeping in the shadows, eager to feast on the innocent.
Universally, the cold feeling of uneasiness that has worked its way up a growing numbers of spines across the Show Me State, is due to a dark knowledge, an irrational certainty, that something wicked this way comes…and it is hungry.
In every neighborhood, down every street, down well traveled roads, an identical mirage has been seen, shimmering into shape. It warbles in and out of plain sight, there one minute, gone the next. What follows these sightings is a scratching of heads and a rubbing of eyes. The mirage disappears almost as soon as it appears, fading back into the mist of disbelief. It leaves those who see it questioning their own sanity, before they relegate it safely away under the heading 'imagination'.
Still, doubts linger like a fog in a hollow.
Was it possible? Did they really see it? Do they need to up their dosage of denial?
It tickles at the base of their brain like an incessant mosquito, buzzing, buzzing. They know what they saw, unbelievable as it might seem. They know.
They could smell the popcorn and sawdust. They could hear the organ music. They could see the red and white tent, the lunatic lights that adorn it.
The Great and Secret Show, the dark carnival, has come to their town.
Missouri has always been a battleground.
Today, in New Republic, the 'Battle of Who-Could-Care-Less' is being fought in Missouri's fields, in its cities, its valleys and hills. It is a campaign being waged by those in power who have a disdain for our values and our freedom. This war is being fought on multiple fronts and the mission is a simple one:
Obscure the truth at all costs.
Disinformation, manipulation and outright lies are the ammunition employed by those fighting it. For them, it is necessary to pull the wool over the eyes of skeptical Missourians in order to do the unthinkable.
In this, the advocates of the New Republic have largely been successful. The proof is all around us.
Last week, in an editorial from the St. Louis-Post Dispatch:
On Friday, Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander predicted that 39.81 percent of the state's voters would turn out Tuesday. That compares with 47 percent in 2010, the last midterm election, when there was a high-profile U.S. Senate race on the ballot, and 53 percent in 2006, when there was not only a Senate race, but three hotly contested ballot issues.
Why would Missourians not exercise their right to vote? The answer can be found in this article, from David Sirota, journalist for the International Business Times:
On a warm October night toward the end of the 2014 campaign, almost every politician running for a major office in Colorado appeared at a candidate forum in Southeast Denver. The topics discussed at the local synagogue were pressing: a potential war with ISIS, voting rights, a still-struggling economy. But one key element was in conspicuously short supply: the media.
This is increasingly the reality in much of the country, as campaigns play out in communities where the local press corps has been thinned by layoffs and newspaper closures. What if you held an election and nobody showed up to cover it? Americans are now discovering the answer.
Between 2003 and 2012, the newspaper workforce shrank by 30 percent nationally, according to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. That has included a major reduction in the number of newspaper reporters assigned to cover state and local politics. Newspaper layoffs have ripple effects for the entire local news ecosystem, because, as the Congressional Research Service noted, television, radio and online outlets often "piggyback on reporting done by much larger newspaper staffs." Meanwhile, recent studies from the University of Chicago and the Federal Reserve Bank suggest the closure of newspapers can ultimately depress voter turnout in local elections.
Colorado is a microcosm of the hollowing out of local media. In 2009, the state lost its second-largest newspaper with the shuttering of the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News. The state's only remaining major daily, the Denver Post, has had rolling layoffs. According to Post Editor Gregory Moore, in this election cycle the paper has only 7 reporters covering elections throughout the state — a 50 percent reduction in the last 5 years.
"We just don't have the resources to do what we were once able to do," Moore told International Business Times. "We try to select the competitive races that we really need to pay attention to, but in terms of having a body on every race, we just don't have the resources to do that."
For the 2014 election, Moore said the paper produces a voter guide providing at least a summary of almost every state and county race in the state. There's also one full-time reporter assigned to the U.S. Senate, one assigned to the gubernatorial races and one covering the hotly contested 6th district congressional race between Republican incumbent Mike Coffman and former Democratic House Speaker Andrew Romanoff.
Challengers in districts that the Post isn't covering say the media's decisions about resources may help determine election outcomes.
"It creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. When the local press assumes a race can't be close, then they don't cover it, and then that suggests to voters a candidate isn't credible," said Martin Walsh, the Republican congressional candidate challenging Denver's Democratic representative, Diana DeGette. "Ultimately, that guarantees that the race won't be close."
Even stories that do get published may have less of an impact without other journalists around to track reaction or do follow-up stories.
"With so many newspapers and news outlets in general having fewer resources, there's no pressure or incentive for candidates to engage with the press and there's no echo chamber that makes candidates feel like they have to respond to anything," Fox 31 reporter Eli Stokols told IBTimes.
An investigative scoop might get reinforced by an opposing candidate's ads, Stokols said. But, "there's not a critical mass of media large enough or competitive enough to amplify scoops or gaffes or big stories. If it happens, it comes from national media from D.C. journalists recognizing something and blogging about it. But until it's on local TV or radio, it's probably missing most of the persuadable low-information voters out there."
In the age of a shrunken press corps, there is now little risk for well-financed, top-ticket candidates when they avoid the few media outlets that consistently cover the campaign. Any flak they might get for shirking the press is far smaller than the risk of an interview clip going viral (like the now-famous one of Coffman trying to defend his allegation that President Obama is not an American).
Republican Senate candidate Cory Gardner, for example, rarely appears in unscripted settings with journalists, preferring to blanket the airwaves with ads.
"If you are a candidate with a lot of money, you can just hide out, maybe write a few op-eds, and then go back into hiding, knowing that any bad story someone might write about you being unavailable will just disappear after a day, because there's no press to hound you," Stokols said. Gardner doesn't even put out media advisories letting the press know ahead of time where he might be, said Stokols.
Gardner's campaign did not return IBTimes' call seeking comment for this story.
Romanoff, the Democratic candidate in the 6th district, said that what little campaign coverage there is often ends up being about the candidates' ads, because that requires minimal time, travel and expense to cover. And with a record $89 million worth of political ads purchased in the state this election cycle, there is no shortage of new spots to review.
"It's not quite a Seinfeld episode, it's not a show about nothing, but the coverage has become a show about a show," he said, adding that it is a marked shift from his time only a few years ago as a state legislator. "Back then, there was a press corps that covered the capital, and there was news being made every day because you are voting on bills, you are amending them and there was a more robust corps of capital reporters. But on the campaign trail these days, the primary way to get to voters is through paid media and a grassroots field operation."
During a recent get-out-the-vote rally featuring Hillary Clinton, former three-term Denver Mayor Wellington Webb reminisced about the city's legendary newspaper wars between the Post and the Rocky, when six reporters were assigned just to cover city hall.
"It was a whole different game back then," Webb said over the din of blaring music, as volunteers stopped to take pictures with him. These days, candidates running for local office have to be more focused on old-school door-knocking campaigns.
"The public is smarter than what you give them credit for, and you have to go out and be hungrier than anyone in terms of going door to door," he said. "But the question is, can you get to enough voters to make that choice?"
That's a particularly acute problem for candidates in down-ballot statewide races.
A local candidate for legislature or city council can hope to meet most voters in an election. Top-ticket statewide candidates can attract at least some media coverage. But the candidates for constitutional offices like attorney general, treasurer or secretary of state face a triple whammy: They are running in races with too many voters to meet; they get almost no coverage; and that makes it difficult for them to raise their profiles to enable them to do the fundraising needed for expensive television advertising.
One alternative, said Rick Ridder, a campaign consultant for the Democratic attorney general nominee Don Quick, is to be innovative with ads on social media and cheaper cable TV outlets.
"On our limited budget and with no press coverage, we have to try to niche-target ads to key voting blocs," Ridder said.
But while some smaller news outlets have shown signs of life — even of profitability — it's not clear they can power a political campaign.
"I have yet to see someone master all the alternative media out there in a way that really lets an underfinanced candidate compete," said James Mejia, a former Denver school board member who narrowly lost a bid for mayor in 2011. "All the digital media, the blogosphere, the neighborhood weeklies — all of them are growing and getting a larger audience, as opposed to the bigger papers, which are shrinking. But they have yet to have a major political impact because they are so diffuse."
Although his newspaper doesn't "have the bodies to do as much as we used to do, that doesn't mean the work isn't being done" by others in the alternative press, said Denver Post editor Moore. "What I fear with limited resources is that we miss something," he said.
That concern is well founded. Only four years ago, the New York Times published a front-page expose on Colorado's Democratic Senator Michael Bennet engineering a complex financial scheme that ended up enriching Wall Street firms while costing the city's school system more than $177 million dollars. The story, which came out days before a closely contested senate primary between Bennet and Romanoff, was largely missed by the Post, even though it involved a candidate in one of the highest profile races in the state. There was no Rocky Mountain News to cover it, either. Bennet, the front-runner, narrowly won the primary.
The media drawdown doesn't make an upset impossible, though. Earlier this year in Virginia, most of the local and national media ignored the primary challenge to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, only to see him unseated by little-known college professor David Brat. It's the kind of upset that gives a candidate like Republican George Leing hope.
Running in Colorado's second congressional district against millionaire Democratic incumbent Jared Polis, Leing has been largely ignored by the local media.
"I am realistic and I know it is getting tougher and tougher for traditional newspapers as they don't have the same- size staffs they used to have, and they have to make choices," Leing told IBTimes, noting that he had received an endorsement from the Ft. Collins Coloradan.
"But this race is more competitive than many people think, both on a strictly numbers basis and on the merits. It is more difficult to compete if you don't have the ability to get that message out broadly. But I think I'm going to win and shock everyone. We've seen it happen before, and I think we will be seeing it a lot more in the future, whether or not the local media covers these races."
While this piece focuses on Colorado, investigations done by americanspring2011.com in 2012 addressed the dissolution of Missouri's own local press in two series' of articles titled 'Missouri's Ministry of Truth' and 'Rural Missouri's Media Gatekeepers'.
A direct fundamental shift has taken place in the Missouri media landscape. The end result of this has allowed the unthinkable to occur in the Show Me State.
This migration in media goes beyond the simple disintegration of newsrooms. It has created a virtual echo chamber for propaganda promoted by those in power, allowing the Great and Secret Show to continue unchallenged.
Examples of this can be found in the Brandon Ellingson case, where local media quickly put out a sanitized version of the events surrounding his death. Two days after his death, on cue from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the account of Jim Bascue became the foundation for a myth. This account, reproduced in the echo chamber of Missouri media, became a part of the narrative heard around the country, as this USA Today article reflects.
This goal narrative was a simple one. Turn the perpetrator of the crime into a sympathetic victim. Transform the victim into someone who deserved what he got. This sideshow alchemy has worked to completely obscure the crimes committed against Brandon Ellingson. It is part of a continued illusion, meant to conceal the Great and Secret Show.
The same is true in the Lagares case.
Despite being presented with multiple facts and irrefutable proof of the attacks being waged on the Lagares family and Kyle and Nicole, the two-bit media magicians in the Lake area have continued to ignore the crimes being perpetrated in their community against the innocent. Local media simply has no willingness to challenge their benefactors, the advertisers, and their company line.
Their willingness to abandon the truth and act as carnival barkers spouting sales pitches has allowed for these crimes to go unchallenged and their perpetrators to walk freely. They are directly responsible for the continuation of the atrocities being committed around the state. Without their compliance, the guilty would be punished. Instead, these monsters are allowed to continue their crime sprees, and they are growing more and more bold.
The Great and Secret Show, the truth under the illusion, would not be allowed to continue, if the people knew the truth. These gross acts would be met with true justice instead of being issued a free pass to continue their serial attacks on the families across the state. Instead, these media outlets have traded their credibility for pennies on the dollar and sold out the citizenry in the rush to cash the check.
They have lied to us. They have tried to pretend it isn't happening. They have tried to cover up the truth that so many families already know.
The dark carnival is here.


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So it should come as no surprise that a group of nosy, hungry journalists — who are also cheap — decided to do some investigating at a fast food restaurant.
Let's call the restaurant McLa Grange. And believe us, we love some McLa Grange, which is why most of the staff put in a lunch order that day.
At issue were the cheeseburgers. Several years ago, the double cheeseburger got booted off the dollar menu and replaced by the ambiguously-named McDouble. (Yeah, we tried to cover up the restaurant name, but hey, they named the sandwich.)
We ordered several of each, unwrapped them, took cell phone photos and concluded there really is only one tiny difference: the second piece of cheese on the double cheeseburger.
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Emma Frances Ball was born in Lawton, Van Buren County, Michigan on 17 October, 1860 married to John Andrews no chidren died on 23 September, 1926 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
Ellis Judson Ball was born in Kankakee, Illinois in 1855 married to Grace Randall and Evora Hawkins two children surviving to adulthood died on 6 June, 1929 in Salem, Oregon.
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As far as surfing goes in Indonesia, the bays of Sorake and Lagundri on Nias island is the ultimate destination. Nias' Sorake Bay is an internationally renowned surfing spot, and has become one of surfing's most exotic wave-searching destinations. Every year, surfers flock from across the globe for a chance at its legendary point break. International surfing competitions have been held in Nias since 1993, and even the world championship surfing competition in 2000. Touted as the second best surfing spot in the world after Hawaii, the bay is located in the district of Teluk Dalam on the Southern tip of Nias Island.
Nias is the name of the archipelago off the west coast of North Sumatra consisting of 131 islands. Nias Island is the largest, covering an area of about 5,000 square kilometers—slightly smaller than Bali. Of the 27 islands immediately surrounding Pulau Nias, only 11 are inhabited. Pulau Nias itself is approximately 125 km west of Sumatra.
Before the island's discovery by three wandering surfers in 1975, Nias was known only by a few hard-core travellers—the island's main visitors being archaeologists who went there to study its ancient culture and megalithic traditions. The "tourism boom" brought about by the surfers caused a rapid growth in eateries, accommodations and attractions, but much of the culture and tradition have survived and maintained their authenticity despite outside influences.
Sorake Bay is enclosed by the beaches of Lagundri and Sorake, giving it both left and right hand breaks. Unaffected by winds and tides, the constant flow of waves is perfect for novice and professional alike to practice, play and perform! Waves are typically 3 to 5 meters, but have been said to reach as high as 15 meters. Some start from as far as 200 meters from the beach, can have up to 5 levels, and even rolls unbroken all the way to shore. The catch-phrase "All time Nias," comes with the understanding that unlike most parts of the world, Sorake Bay delivers non-stop waves throughout the entire year, making any time of year the best time for surfing. The highest waves are between May and September, with most competitions being held from June till July.
On December 26, 2004, an earthquake of enormous proportions struck just a few kilometres north of Pulau Nias. Measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale, it was one of the deadliest recorded natural disasters in history. The tsunami that followed the earthquake changed the island's coastline remarkably, with the coast moving 50 meters inland in some areas, and as much as 100 meters of new land exposed in others. Hundreds were killed and much of Nias was destroyed. The number of tourists declined dramatically after that, but now they are slowly beginning to filter back in.
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Whilst a Nuclear War may be about to break out in N.Korea, London was rather muggy. DiS stripped down to our shorts and made some Gumbo with Grizzly Bear's recipe and wrote about various other stuff.
Here's the highlights of this week on DiS as a Spotify playlist, with commentary from DiS' Editor:
1) CSS 'The Knife' (Grizzly Bear cover)
This week the fellas from Grizzly Bear were DiS' guest-editors. They picked their favourite three covers, this is my favourite from those Brazilian party kidz, which kicks this playlist off rather well.
2) Phoenix 'Love Like a Sunset - Part I'
Their fabulous new album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix was released this week. We have a review of that (by me, just as soon as I've done the other 42 things on my to-do list!) coming up very soon. Also, we have Grizzly Bear in conversation with them, which will be up on the site later today. However, before all that, I wanted to flag up this song, as this is THE song of the year so far, in my humble opinion (as posted on DiS' Twitter and on the boards earlier this week).
3) Women 'Shaking Hands'
DiS has been on a bit of a 'records we missed from earlier this year' review amnesty, which will continue for the next few weeks. Women's self-titled debut is by far one of the stand-out alt.albums of the year so far, read the DiS review of it here.
4) Sigur Ros 'Staralfur'
Did you hear the news that they have nearly finished making a new album?. Won't be out 'til 2010 tho [sadface].
5) Friendly Fires 'Strobe'
This album is still on heavy rotation 'round my place and I'm crossing a few fingers for them that it'll get nominated for some awards, as it's truly one of the finest debuts from a British indie-pop band in recent times. This week, they announced a bit of a WTF gig in the dark?!
6) Johnny Foreigner 'Salt, Pepper and Spinderella' (Bloc Party remix)
We put up Part 4 of the JoFo tour diary this week.
7) Patrick Wolf 'Hard Times'
Our verdict on The Bachelor came from Lauren Strain. She liked it. Read her review.. And if you missed it the epic three part interview I did with Mr. Wolf, it be here:
8) Crystal Stilts 'Love is a Wave'
Miss Roby declared this the "single of the week" in this week's single column. We concur. Nice things were also said about them in our Dot to Dot review. Oh and if you missed it, Dom Gourlay interviewed them earlier this year.
9) Deerhunter 'Game of Diamonds'
Cox and Co. released Rainwater Cassette Exchange this week, read Lukowski's review of it here.. This week we also uploaded to the internetz Brainlove's review of Deerhunter's show in London at the Scala last week.
10) Wilco 'Ashes of American Flags'
DiS was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former Wilco member Jay Bennett. Jeff Tweedy had this to say about him: "We are all deeply saddened by this tragedy. We will miss Jay as we remember him - as a truly unique and gifted human being and one who made welcome and significant contributions to the band's songs and evolution. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends in this very difficult time." News story here.
11) Glen Campbell 'Wichita Lineman'
This is easily one of the greatest songs of all-time. Thanks to Chris Bear for reminding us on this fantastic roadtrip mixtape.
12) Grizzly Bear 'On a Neck, On a Spit'
This week's playlist obviously wouldn't be complete without some tracks from our guest-editors. Strangely Veckatimest, which was released this week via Warp, isn't on Spotify, yet. But you can read our 9/10 review of it here and listen to it on their myspace.
13) Department of Eagles 'Waves of Rye'
A little something from Daniel Rossen from Grizzly Bear's side-project Department of Eagles, taken from their fabulous album In Ear Park.
14) Grandaddy 'The Crystal Lake'
A classic. The former Grandaddy leading man has a new solo album. Sadly that's not on Spotify yet either but we did have an epic chat with him, which has been serialized on the site this week:
15) Feist 'My Moon My Man' (Grizzly Bear remix)
A rather delicious remix from this week's guest editors. This is a good opportunity to mention Daniel Rossen's mum Wendy, who said she was worried that Leslie Feist - who wasn't sounding too great on the radio, and maybe needs a rest - as part of her fascinating high-watermark-for-any-takeover-week column.
16) Alessi's Ark 'Woman'
There's an awful lot of mumbling under-people's-breath that Alessi might be the UK's answer to Feist and/or Joanna Newsom, and even a few brave souls suggesting she'll 'do a Laura Marling' and be up for the Mercury Music Prize this year. I'm still a bit 'whatevs' about her. Maybe, with all this high-end talk, the bar has been set unfairly high for the young lady, as, in his review of Notes from the Treehouse, new DiS contributor Richard Wink, had some rather nice things to say about her debut longplayer.
17) Speech Debelle 'Go then, bye'
An apt track end with, not just because of the title but also because she's also the face of the last ever Plan B magazine. Daniel Ross reviewed her new record Speech Therapy this week too.
And that's yer lot. Happy listening, reading, commenting and not thinking-about-nuclear-war.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Weather the weather
Some of you have asked me to post warmer looks, such as, looks that would be great for tropical areas. Seeing as how it's raining and around 40-70 degrees Fahrenheit over here, it's not as logical for me to post such looks. Though I understand some of you still want me to, so the best solution from my point of view would be, well..this. Here are a couple of warmer weather looks that I've styled on my lookbook over the past two years.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Everlasting Wanderer pt.2
Photos by: Bethany Struble Shirt/Pants by: Pacsun Hat by: Brixton Shoes by: Dr. Martens Backpack by: Coach
Alright, the rest of the massive amounts of pictures from this set! Just a bunch of close ups/details. Style guide coming up soon peeps :]
Sunday, January 27, 2013
In brightest day, in blackest night (style tips)
Photos by: Bethany Struble Jacket by: Pacsun Lantern: Paccony
I've always loved going to the beach, I know it sounds strange, but winter time is actually one of my favorite times to go. Not to swim or anything, but just being there with the cold crisp winter sea air caressing my face, a wonderful feeling. Enough about me though, let's talk about you, what do you like? WHOA WAIT, we're not speed dating.
But really though, the best thing about the winter beach is the beautiful colors of the rain clouds and the sun. Especially if you've got a dark "supernatural-esque*outfit on. If any of you watch the show supernatural and you're desiring a similar style/look, it's actually a pretty simple look to achieve, and here's how!
To achieve a supernatural (The TV series) style in an outfit:
1. Saturation (Or de-saturation actually, the tv series has a very dark mood/setting. The outfits they use help achieve that feel by dressing the main characters with desaturated colors, a couple safe choices are such [most are faded}: Olive green, Navy Blue)
2. Dark colors (They very rarely use bright colors, when they do, the screen is over-layed with deep blue hues to darken the color anyways. If you want to have a darker look, obviously darker colors are a safe choice)
3. Don't layer same colors (Even though their colors are dark and bland due to de-saturation, there is always contrast. The last thing you want to do is end up wearing all black and looking like a goth teen, which is very possible, of course unless if you are a goth teen and you enjoy looking like it. In which case, enjoy)
4. Wear blue denim pants (From what I've seen on the show, they don't wear much of anything but blue denim for bottoms, which is great, blue denim keeps things very casual, but clean and rugged at all times)
And of course if you're like me and enjoy feeling epic, carry an awesome lantern with you. Pretend it wards of ghosts or something, regardless, people will ask you what it's for. When they do, smash it over their head and take their wallet and leave a note that says, "For such occasions". Jk. but not really. But really. ANYWAYS, enjoy!
Random thought spiel for you guys really quick today. Blogging. Why do it, why not do it, why do I do it?
First off, I just want to say, I don't blog about male style to be REVOLUTIONARY. My blog isn't going to change the way the world will see fashion/style, if it does for a couple of you, awesome, if not, oh well, that's not what it's for. So what IS the point of my blog?
I've gotten many questions regarding my style, if I had been stylish all my life and such. As much as I'd love to say, yes, I've been reading fashion/style magazines ever since I was a child, that is not the truth. I haven't been stylish all my life, in fact, I was so unstylish, I was the butt of a lot of jokes back in high school. I wore cargo shorts or any other shorts for that matter all my life until I was out of high school. Here is a prime example of me in my senior year in high school:
So why does this matter? This is partially why I blog.
I blog simple styles that I enjoy wearing that I feel comfortable in, and in the same way, I create simple outfits that ANYONE can wear, they're not crazy or insanely creative (sorry for that, if that's what you're looking for, I'm sure my blog hasn't helped you with that and you're probably not really reading my blog anyways). I blog about things that I wish I had known about in high school. The simple tips on how to dress myself better. i.e.
1. fit
2. colors
3. basics
All the little things I wish I had someone tell me. I don't blog to get that coveted #menswear tag, I blog for anyone who wants to read it. Here and there I'll throw a random simple style tip, obviously they're jokes a lot of the time, I'm not the most serious guy in the world, but if you read between the lines, you'll get a pretty straightforward tip. I don't blog to influence you all to wear the same things I wear, if you want to take a couple things from my outfit that you like and use it as your own, feel free. But if you can learn a little something or take in something useful from my blog, then that's all I wish for. Or even if I can put a smile on your face from my corny jokes, that makes me happy.
I don't blog for the followers, no one should. If you have a blog because you think you'll be famous or because you want to be famous, you probably should not blog, because you don't enjoy it. It'll quickly become a chore for you. My blog is my journal, I'll blog regardless if I'm getting a lot of hits or none at all, I just enjoy it.
So to sum it all up. I blog because I enjoy it, if I help you in some way or form, great! If not, I'm sorry. If you want to start blogging, do it! If you enjoy it, then you'll have a great fun hobby that you'll enjoy doing regardless if it leads you anywhere else or not. I dress simple, because it fits me best, if you enjoy more extravagant looks/style, wear what you wear best! Not everyone is born stylish, I know I wasn't, so if you're not either, don't feel bad, join me in my crusade for style brothers! (and sisters)
Thursday, January 24, 2013
In the Morning Light (Paccony)
Photos by: Bethany Struble Shirt by: Vans Pillowcase by: Paccony
I feel so scandalous posting these pictures in my bed, even though I'm not like exposing anything lol, but I really wanted to show you guys my new pillowcase! One thing that I've always thought was cool was silk pillowcases, because, from living with my parents, all I had were cotton floral pillowcases. Having one of these really made me feel independent. Strange as it sounds, but of course, thus is the mystical power of a silk cloth on one's face. If you're all wondering where I got this pillowcase, check out Paccony.com for more home/interior design deals. Here are some deals they currently have!
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Everlasting Wanderer
Photos by: Bethany Struble Shirt/Pants by: Pacsun Hat by: Brixton Shoes by: Dr. Martens Backpack by: Coach
I took so many pictures on this shoot that I had to separate them into two blog posts, so here is the first set of pictures from the shoot. So stay tuned for the second set
Monday, January 21, 2013
Tell The Gravedigger That He Better Dig Two
Photos by: Bethany Struble Jacket by: Volcom Shirt by: Modern Amusement Pants by: Kasil Shoes by: Fly London
It's been like summer in January. I honestly will never get the hang of it. Just a quick outfit post for today. Have a good one y'all!
Saturday, January 19, 2013
What Are Bros For
Check out my newest skit with my brothers and roomates! If you haven't yet, subscribe to our channel to watch more of our shenanigans :]
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
My Cup of Tea (Bright Pants Styling tips)
Photos by: Nick Sutjongdro Vest by: Banana Republic Jacket by: Kasil Shoes by: Aldo
AHHHH purple pants. Or plum? no, purple, definitely purple. I don't know what drove me to dress in such a ridiculous manner, regardless, I did. I LIKED IT. But you won't see me wearing this everyday lol. Why? There's just not an occasion for purple pants all the time. Maybe for some of you, but not for me. In fact I usually try to stray away from colored jeans besides the main three, blue/black/beige. Of course sometimes I get a little adventurous, in which a look like this comes out. So is there a rule when it comes to wearing colored pants? Of course not, but I'll write a guide anyways for it.
When it comes to wearing incredibly saturate pants, here are some things to think about:
1. Matching colors in other pieces (if you do this, you'll end up looking like a giant (grape in my case) fruit or crayon.)
2. Moderation (In most cases, saturated pants should be the main color pull in your outfit, statement pieces that let you go a little wild. Pairing it up with shades [black/white/grey] works really well)
3. Confidence (are you confident enough to wear brightly colored pants? If not, leave them in the back of your closet under your 70s dance pants until you're ready to wear them. Colored pants bring in a lot of attention, and I mean A LOT. Seeing as how your legs are about 50-60% of your body [or more if you're a freak like me with ridiculous leg-torso ratio], it's a huge part of your outfit, if more than 50% of your outfit is glowing like a neon pumpkin, it's bound to get some stares)
Enjoy, and dress well!
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Coyotes Hold Off Wild
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Mike Smith stopped 21 shots, Lauri Korpikoski and Martin Hanzal both scored, and the Phoenix Coyotes extended their point streak to five games with a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Wild on Monday night.
Korpikoski scored his fourth goal — all against Finnish goaltenders — in the first period, and Hanzal got his third in three games in the second. Smith was sharp for the second straight start, giving up a goal on a turnover in the second period and fighting off a power play by the Wild in the closing minutes.
Zach Parise scored his 200th career goal, and Niklas Backstrom stopped 32 shots for Minnesota. The Wild went more than 15 minutes without a shot spanning the second and third periods and hit the post twice to remain winless on the road this season (0-3-1).
After a shaky start to its defense of last year's Pacific Division crown, Phoenix has rounded back into defense-first form.
Clogging shooting lanes and diving in front of pucks, the Coyotes have made their end of the ice claustrophobic for opposing teams again, allowing five goals during a four-game point streak after allowing 20 in the first five games.
Phoenix helped Chad Johnson earn his first NHL shutout against Nashville, and Smith looked a lot more like the goalie who led the Coyotes to last year's conference finals in his last start. He turned away 17 shots against Dallas for his 20th career shutout on Saturday.
Coming off a lackluster loss to Anaheim, the Wild shook things up before Monday's game, trading forwards Darroll Powe and Nick Palmieri to the New York Rangers for tough-guy forward Mike Rupp.
Minnesota had to wait for Rupp, though; the veteran who scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal for New Jersey in 2003 wasn't able to join the team in time to play against the Coyotes.
The Wild also called up heralded rookie Charlie Coyle from the AHL and shook up their lines in hopes of getting a spark.
The changes didn't do much good against the Coyotes early.
Phoenix created some good chances, and Smith was solid again, stopping Zenon Konopka's backhander from in close early, then poke-checked the puck away from Kyle Brodziak before he could get a shot off on a short-handed breakaway. He also got some help from defenseman Keith Yandle, who slid across the crease to make a toe save with Smith in a prone position.
Yandle made another impressive play right after that, gloving down the puck near Minnesota's blue line and firing a shot that Korpikoski redirected past Backstrom. Korpikoski, from Finland, has scored all four of his goals this season against Finnish goalies: Backstrom, Kari Lehtonen, Antti Niemi and Pekka Rinne.
Hanzal made it 2-0 midway through the second period, flipping in a backhander past a sprawled-out Backstrom after a hard shot by Radim Vrbata bounced off the Wild goalie.
Minnesota got its forecheck going after that, though, creating a turnover in Phoenix's zone. Parise ended up with the puck after it bounced off Coyotes forward Mikkel Boedker's skate and beat Smith with a wrister from the left circle for his sixth of the season.
But that was it for the Wild. Jonas Brodin hit the right post midway through the second period, and Pierre-Marc Bouchard did the same in the third during a late power play.
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Jeannette, I often think about your toasted salmon sandwiches every Friday at midnight. Such a seemingly small thing, but so special to me.
I remember when you went against my mother's wishes and took me to Oshawa to see the new movie "Psycho". I was so thrilled to be taken to the movies by my wonderful new sister-in-law! It was only the second time I'd ever been to the movies, and you bought me popcorn and a coke. I was so amazed that you chose to spend time with me and to give me a wonderful day out.
Even though my mother was right in that I was terrified and had nightmares for weeks afterward, the memory of that day with you is still special even after 50 years.
I remember driving back late one night from Toronto, sitting beside you in the front seat of the car. It was winter and you were wearing a big faux fur coat. I was sleepy and you told me I could put my head on your shoulder and go to sleep. I doubt you knew what that meant to me, but it's another treasured memory I carry. I didn't do it as that kind of physical closeness was something my family never did, but I longed to. I don't recall ever being told I could snuggle up to anyone before you offered your shoulder!
You showed me how to design and sketch clothing using paper dolls. It sounds strange now I know, but for my artist soul that opened a whole new world for me. I spent hundreds of blissful hours designing clothing for those silly paper dolls, an activity which offered me peace from a less than pleasant home life.
I'm so glad I had a chance to see you again last year (after more than 30 years!) at my mother's memorial service. I didn't recognize you at first but you recognized me and we had a big hug. I still remember the first words out of your mouth "When did you get to be so tall!"
We had a lovely chat and that's another memory I'll cherish. But I wish I'd told you of those special moments with you when I was young.
Thank you for the joy you brought me as a young girl. This song is for you. You had serious health problems for many years of your life and I hope you've reached that peaceful valley.
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Benefit Concert to Be Thrown for Kellie Pickler's Drummer, Gregg Lohman
A benefit concert to support Gregg Lohman, the drummer in Kellie Pickler's band, is scheduled for Monday, April 1. The show is being staged to raise money to help offset the costs of Lohman's medical bills after a serious car accident earlier this month.
Lohman is currently recuperating at home, and a full recovery is expected.
However, the expenses are adding up, even though he has health insurance. The concert, which will take place at Douglas Corner Café in Nashville from 7 to 11PM, will feature members of Pickler's band, The Beagles, Raisin' Cain, 7 Bridges, a house band including members of Poco, Pure Prairie League, Tracy Lawrence's band and Aaron Tippin's band. A jam session featuring prominent Nashville pro musicians is also planned.
More participants are being added on a daily basis.
A $10 minimum donation is being requested from all attendees and performers. A silent auction of music gear donated by Regal Tip and other manufacturers will also take place. All the proceeds will go directly to Lohman.
Additional donations can be sent as checks made to Gregg Lohman and mailed to Concert for Gregg, 3341 Towne Village Road, Antioch, TN, 37013.


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Millwrights often work in close association with other tradespeople such as electricians, welders, pipefitters, instrument technicians and machinists.
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Journeyperson millwrights find employment in construction, maintenance, machine shops, stock keeping and sales. They are employed by manufacturing, processing and construction companies, as well as amusement parks and ski hills.
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Employment rates reported by NAIT alumni are for information purposes and do not guarantee future employment opportunities.
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Tuition Cap: $784
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Let's address some fitness and nutritional mishaps that may drop themselves squarely in your lap, and just how you might move a wee bit sideways in order to keep moving.
Let's address some fitness and nutritional mishaps that may drop themselves squarely in your lap, and just how you might move a wee bit sideways in order to keep moving.
You wake up late for work and, man, you don't wanna go!
Who hasn't this happened to, honestly? You sleep through your alarm, forget to turn it on after the weekend, whatever -- all I know is that you're on your heels and ready to hit the canvas.
Well, if your day is a carefully laid-out plan where exercise is the first order of business and everything that follows pays honor to that commitment, guess what? Just do the rest of your steps and you will be making the most of your day by sticking to your plan, sans one important step. Don't panic into error; just stick to your plan and you'll be right as rain.
You forgot to pack your gym clothes but are full of energy.
Well, nobody said a brisk walk at lunch isn't a "check mark" when it comes to getting it done. Get your body moving and keep the endorphins firing by swinging your arms around in your fancy work duds and see how this can keep you on track all day. Doing something is always better than doing nothing except when it comes to robbing banks, I always say.
You forgot to go grocery shopping and have nothing to eat.
This is a common occurrence as well; we've all stared into the refrigerator and seen the Arm & Hammer baking soda box and looked to the sky and yelled, "Why, Betty Crocker, WHY?" Calm down, campers. Breathe deeply and go grocery shopping but buy an apple and a banana before you shop and EAT IT. This will ensure that you aren't pigging out in the snack aisle when you could have avoided it.
Just a few tips from a guy who makes the same mistakes you do. Have a great week, gang!
Darin St. George is a personal fitness coach at Gold's Gym in Natick, Mass. Visit his website at www.TrainerX.com.


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MacrodobiaApril 18, 2005
Oh good, tabbed palettes are coming back to Flash and Fireworks.
Alright, this one is a little hard to process: Macromedia just got bought by Adobe in a deal worth $3.4 billion in stock. It's hard to say that without saying it again: Adobe just bought Macromedia. (asssuming shareholders and regulators approve etc. etc.)
Adobe started off making fantastic products for print designers, and has spent the past 7 or 8 years trying to get a foothold on the web. Unsuccessfully, I'd add, as the last time anyone used an Adobe product to generate actual production-ready HTML code would have been some time before the Euro went into wide circulation. Discounting the production work that happens in Photoshop/Illustrator, there are no stand-out Adobe web development tools. LiveMotion? Dead and gone. GoLive? GoLifeSupport. ImageReady? Well, it's been a while since I've personally hit the little button at the bottom of my Photoshop toolbar, but at least that one gets used by other designers from time to time. (Okay, and my GoLive crack was a cheap shot too, but I couldn't resist.)
Macromedia, on the other hand, has been the young-and-hip counterpart, building a product line almost exclusively focused on the web. Dreamweaver, Flash, Contribute, Fireworks, ColdFusion, need I go on? Except in a business sense, they've only been mildly successful, evidenced by the fact that they don't totally own the market they're in.
So now the two join forces. Why? Oh, I think Flash might have something to do with it. Competition over the formats and tools of tomorrow's rich applications is heating up, and Adobe didn't have a foot in the door until today. Sure, they've been big on SVG all along, if perhaps by default, but there are a lot of reasons why SVG is probably not going to be the lingua franca of the future application space. Low implementation rates, a hazy future, and very little developer interest. (Although, interestingly, SVG has a mobile version which is apparently gathering a lot of steam in the handheld space.)
Flash, on the other hand, is a viable option here and now. It has the potential and the developer base to build tomorrow's applications. A couple of questions naturally follow: what will become of Adobe's long-standing commitment to SVG, now that Flash is in the fold? Since SWF is an 'open' format and Macromedia makes money on the player anyway, would there be a business case in transitioning SWF to SVG?
But this is also where the fear, uncertainty and doubt kicks in. If Adobe is gearing up for a battle in the rich application space, what happens if they lose? They're not exactly known for their coding tools at the moment; presumably, key Macromedia teams will be in charge of ensuring the design tools work well with the development tools. From a technical standpoint, a lot remains to be proven. From a competition standpoint, well… as best as I can tell, their main competition is a stable of open source technologies, and Microsoft. That's almost a rigged game, where a likely outcome for Adobe is a thorough trampling by both other interests. Remember how Microsoft sent a rep to promote their latest and greatest to a crowd of Flash developers?
The combined Macromedia and Adobe stable of design software is industry standard; with this buyout, Adobe essentially has a monopoly over the design world. (Quark aside. Very far aside.) So they'll always have that to fall back on. But investors like growth. If the growth stops, or slows, or does anything short of grow, investors react. This particular method of growth is risky, given the competition, and if it fails to materialize, then what? Another buyout? By whom…?
And this is just one particular line of inquiry of many. There are hundreds of other questions which have been asked elsewhere, regarding product lines and feature merging and PDF and and and. Over time, we'll get the answers. Here's hoping this move pays off.
Freehand + Illustrator = Frustrator
Is Microsoft really a direct competitor? It seems to me that Corel is the only direct competitor left, and they're way behind.
I'm really concerned about this as well.
I personally prefer Fireworks to ImageReady and Freehand to Illustrator and am very nervous on how Adobe could potentially murder those apps.
I mean, I absolutely use Photoshop for all my digital imaging, but for layouts I almost always use FW.
Not to mention that now all MM software will be jacked up to Adobe prices. (OUCH!)
And I hate to say it…but what about support and customer service? I can't remember the last time I got good customer service from Adobe, whereas, the opposite is true with MM (maybe others would disagree, I dunno.)
Oh, and uh…what exactly is the "complementary functionality of Macromedia Flash and Adobe PDF"? They are both on the web?
First thing I thought when I saw the news this morning was "Oh cr*p, now they are going to chop Studio MX in pieces and shove it into Photoshop!"
These are kinda sad news for me. I have been using Fireworks since version 1 (circa 1998) and have come to appreciate the convenient, unique features that such program offers to me in day-to-day web production, offering me what Adobe didn't deliver - and still doesn't. Using Photoshop for web graphics is akin to driving a Hummer just to get to the grocery store two blocks away.
At this time, it is uncertain what will be the outcome of Adobe buying MM, but one thing is clear - in any case, things will change, for better or worse (let's hope the former).
Quoting Mr.Dominey: "At least it wasn't Microsoft".
I'm very uneasy about the monopolistic aspects, but I am quite optimistic about the resulting products. While MM have been more attuned to the web in general, Adobe have had a much better approach to opening formats, and in general their products have a far more solid, less buggy feel. Frankly I have often found MM visual interfaces annoying and frustrating for more than 10 years now - I'll be glad to see them reworked by Adobe. I think there are some great strengths on both sides.
Ah, great. Adobe gets to murder more software with ridiculous bloat.
C'mon, why should Adobe READER of all things take soooooo long to load? I've started using the (less functional, but magnitudes faster) Foxit PDF Reader ( http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php ) for reading PDFs.
Adobe makes some stuff with great functionality, but you could NEVER say that they're exactly optimised…
Just to echo of previous comments. I like many others will be very upset if Fireworks disappears.
However this would be only one possible symptom of what will be a monopoly or as good as. Monopolies are almost never good for customer service, prices or innovation.
I can only hope this will be the exception to the rule or that competition will spring from somewhere.
Does anybody remember back to Adobe buying PageMaker from Aldus? Yes, PageMaker wasn't Quark in those days, but then Quark wasn't PageMaker either.
What I'm forever grateful to Adobe for is that InDesign was born out of this particular Adobe buy and now we have a fantastic and incredibly competitive layout program that has wonderful cross-compatibility/functionality across the other important image software for print: Photoshop and Illustrator.
Then, Adobe had assessed the market's need and wants - Quark too expensive and inflexible; PageMaker okay, but, not as good as it could be - and gave us a great software solution to those issues. Hopefully, the same philosophy, wisdom and spirit is at play here.
I too was quite shocked by this news story … I wonder if they'll even get approval, since it would be a monopoly.
One comment I wanted to make, though - have you seen GoLive CS2? I haven't used it yet, but from what I hear it's ground-up built around CSS-based design. Sounded like a really cool package, but I haven't heard many CSS designers talk about it thus far.
At least Quark didn't buy them both. ;)
I have never liked Adobe. Now I despise it.
Interesting. Personally a strangle hold on any market is a bad idea in my mind. This move effectivly gives Adobe just about all of the design software market. It's actually kind of disturbing.
Here's hoping thing work out for the betterment of software evrywhere. Realistically, I doubt it.
Yeah, I've read about this before, too.
I don't hope that Adobe will kill some of the Macromedia applications for the sake of their own, like Fireworks, Freehand and Dreamweaver.
Let's all be glad that it didn't happen the other way around. Personally I think this will be good in the long-run.
Years ago, many of the improvements in Macromedia's and Adobe's products were driven by the other company (Illustrator vs. FreeHand in particular). Recently not so much, but it was still good to have two strong competitors in the design marketplace.
What the combined company has (or will have, I should say) now is a strong slate of software products and file formats across the design spectrum. Maintaining control over PDF, PSD, SWF, AI, and PostScript right across the board, as well as having both Photoshop and Dreamweaver under the tent is a pretty big field.
But who's going to push Adobedia now? As Dave said, open source and Microsoft are two big forces. The combined team is going to have to be very smart, and not assume that Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Photoshop, and Illustrator are going to keep them profitable in the long term.
Too bad, though. I did like Macromedia's software boxes better than Adobe's.
Question for Dave:
Will you join me in a murderous rampage if Fireworks somehow gets lost between all this? I know you are one of the chosen few who appreciate Fireworks for what it is, and realize that making web graphics (or god forbid, page designs) in Photoshop is akin to scratching your back using a prosthetic foot.
This is pretty much my main fear about the merger - I'm not sure Adobe really "gets" Fireworks' niche usefulness.
"I know you are one of the chosen few who appreciate Fireworks for what it is, and realize that making web graphics (or god forbid, page designs) in Photoshop is akin to scratching your back using a prosthetic foot."
Where did you get that from? I use Fireworks from time to time, sure. But I work primarily in Photoshop and Illustrator. Yes, even for (god forbid) page designs.
Well I'm feeling sort of silly now, but I could have sworn you wrote something along the lines of Fireworks being the better choice for web vectors around the time you made the ice-skating girl illustration back in December.
Suffice to say, I certainly think Fireworks is the better choice for page designs (importing PSDs as needed) and I'll be pretty peeved if they decide to pull it.
Well, that's a big move. In my humble opinion, it is really dangerous, a bit like the Microsoft problem. Adobe is now a monopoly and they have their hotel on each card of the game. Now, who will successfully get away without paying the big bill?
Expect to see a raise in software prices. If there is no competition, consumer will pay. However, this could end up in better open-source products like The Gimp, as some designers will not be able to afford that too easily. One thing I hope is that they will keep working on their actual products. We still need useful updates, and we, customers, have to keep pushing to get them, even if there is no more competition. They will need new competitors, competitors that create really good products, even better than Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Illustrator. I think the real problem here is Flash… as no one could ever create a fully working software to build flash designs without paying royalties to Adobe.
We all hope it will not get too bad, but hey, money's talking here! Raise your software budget!
I'm not much of a designer or anything, but I fail to see how this could be even the slightest improvement in any conceivable way.
Adobe was already doing little to improve their graphics products (at least from my limited view), but now that their main competitor is gone, are we to expect more?
Sure open source is working on some things and I guess Microsoft is aware that the market exists, but that's not what I'd consider competition.
I'm really not familiar with every aspect of the design market, so I might be missing some obvious things, but as a user of web and graphics software, I'm kinda worried that we're in for a decade of suck.
if i can be so bold as to make predictions, i'd say that fireworks will find itself merged into imageready. and, as somebody who invested time and effort mastering livemotion before it was so unceremoniously killed off, i can only hope that adobe will resurrect its wonderfully intuitive (for an old after effects hand like me) interface and graft it back on top of the powerful functionality of macromedia flash.
exciting times ahead…although the monopolistic aspects scare the hell out of me…
I just hope Macromedia brings the Adobe line-up up, rather than Adobe bringing the Macromedia line-up down. Ive been very disapointed with the Adobe software of late.
I always thought Macromedia should buy Quark but heyhoo, the Adobe monopoly rolls on I guess.
Flash is an "open" format? Really? Why then is there no Flash Player for Linux PPC and Linux x86-64? If SWF is, in fact, truly open, I would expect to see some sort of usable player for each of these platforms. Theoretically, these players would be "open" too.
You're wrong about this, unless I'm missing something.
This is grim news - Dreamweaver is already bloated, so god knows what sort of monster Adobe will create when they get their hands on it.
Looks like we can kiss goodbye to Homesite forever, now, and since v.3 I've preferred Fireworks to Photoshop for creating web graphics, too, so this whole deal stinks in my opinion.
My company are just about to order a dozen Studio MX licenses, but I'm going to advise that we hold off until this all shakes out.
One option I'm not sure I've seen mentioned is the merging of Fireworks, Imageready and a lesser known, but reasonably effective imaging product - Adobe Elements. For those who haven't used it, Elements is a scaled back version of Photoshop with many of the same features, but at a much smaller price.
I use Photoshop for my digital imaging and design needs, so I won't be heartbroken if Fireworks disappears. But, I understand the concern by those that use it exclusively - esp. those who do web imaging only.
I do very strongly agree with one statement that I saw elsewhere - at least it wasn't Microsoft buying Macromedia. Take it from someone who has used ColdFusion for a while and is now being forced to switch over to C#.NET. Not good times. And yes, I understand the benefits of OO programming.
I just hope that Adobe retains the customer support level that Macromedia has maintained. Our development team has been able to make direct contact with the CF development team on more than one occasion - sometimes with the product lead. And at Macromedia MAX, a room full of developers was able to lob questions and needs directly at the entire development team of both ColdFusion and Flash. Tell me that happens with any MS products…didn't think so.
This is a bit grim. I can't stand the 'feel' or interface of Photoshop et al.
For all its annoyances Dreamweaver is great, and the thought of having to give up Fireworks really doesn't appeal much either.
"Flash is an "open" format? Really?"
Really. The byte code was opened for development and extension by third parties years ago, although Google is telling me that shockingly little evidence of that remains online. This is the best I could come up with:
You will notice the quotes around the word "open" in my original article, because it was never truly "open sourced". No third-party players? No idea why. These guys made a commercial development tool out of it though:
The only Macromedia product I use is Homesite and I'm a big Adobe fan so I'm actually looking forward to what happens with this merge.
A few comments from above:
"Adobe was already doing little to improve their graphics products"
: The changes to CS2 are huge. They continue to add loads of improved features to their creative suite.
"why should Adobe READER of all things take soooooo long to load?"
: have you tried Reader 7 yet? It's incredibly fast.
"Looks like we can kiss goodbye to Homesite forever, now,"
: Whens the last time Macromedia actually updated it?
What would be extremely cool would be that Adobe releases the Macromedia apps they decide they won't include in their portfolio as open source - warning utopian thought [not so, see solaris…]- lol!
Or that guys from macromedia that won't like the idea of working for Adobe create a start up (now we'd have real competition)? Anyone?
I have to say I'm excited. As mentionend by Matt above, MM interfaces have always been very bugging. I'm particularly frustrated by Flash's implementation of bezier curves. There is little precision control over the curves. It can be very frustrating. I have always felt that Adobe's interfaces were the best of any software in any market.
I feel the same way about Adobe's software manuals. They are intensely thorough yet clean. The information is easy to find and consume. On the other hand MM's software manuals are a hoax at best. When learning flash, I was frustrated at the details left out in the software manual.
The fears that innovation at Adobe will diminish are unfounded. Photoshop is the best software package; again, in any field. There is no piece of software so thorough and well built. And Adobe continues to innovate this product despite having no real direct competition. No one comes close and yet they still innovate.
Adobe has never rested on it's laurels and I don't see the acquisition of MM changing that. I am excited for the integrity of production that Adobe will bring to MM's products and software manuals. I expect this to be a great step forward in terms of ease of workflow.
One more note…all the talk has been focused around MM's web apps and mostly Flash. Don't forget that MM also owns Fontographer. Let's hope that little gem gets to see daylight again under the helm of Adobe.
I'm wondering what will happen to Freehand in particular. When Adobe bought Aldus, Freehand looked like it would die, but fortunately for all the Freehand users, Macromedia took it over. Maybe where there's crossover, Adobe will allow those Macromedia products to go elsewhere again.
My main concerns with this merger is Adobe have never even seemed to aknowledge the linux platform bar Adobe acrobat reader. (and we all know how good that product is)
Macromedia has had a roadmap for linux compatibility for sometime … primarily with full wine support then portage. Working in a Web Development shop that is moving towards being entirly linux based this could be a major PITA. Who knows adobe might actually follow suit.
At least they will stop suing each other for patent infringement … the patents being what any software developer would call "logical progression"!
But thats what scares me, all that IP in one place …. its going to be hard for any serious competition in a market that REALLY needs it.
This is bad news. Adobe is an aging dinosaur in may respects. Bloated software, poor interfaces, bad support, etc. As a web dev/designer I work with Macromedia almost exclusively (save a little Photoshop). Time to say goodbye to my beloved Fireworks. Dreamweaver will get hacked up and grafted onto GoLive. You could go on and on about how bad this is for the design community.
All this does is boost shares and the bottom line for the short term and leaves the customers to get the shaft. So much for competition and innovation. Corporate megalomaniacs suck.
>>This is a bit grim. I can't stand the 'feel' or interface of Photoshop et al.<<
I absolutely agree on that, most people I know agree that the UI for Adobe apps has been going downhill since Photoshop 5 or 6.
>>"Adobe was already doing little to improve their graphics products"
: The changes to CS2 are huge. They continue to add loads of improved features to their creative suite.<<
The above was the context I was talking about, sure Adobe have added loads of bells and whistles to their apps, but I have problems finding all the juicy new stuff under the mire of clunky interface. For this reason Im still using photoshop 7 - the last semi-reasonable photoshop Ui imo.
I'm pleasantly suprised to see I'm not alone in my consternation over Firework's impending doom and also pleased to see that others love Fireworks for the lovely tool it is. Maybe we need a "Save Fireworks" campaign… then again if it's going to cost as much as Photoshop maybe we should all just support the GIMP instead.
Re: Homesite, Stephen said
"Whens the last time Macromedia actually updated it?"
Well, they had a small team still working on it - I've answered survey e-mails from the team lead, asking what I'd like to see in a future version of Homesite, but admittedly the last one was almost a year ago now.
The coding side of this is less important, I'll jump ship to Zend and Topstyle when the time comes, but for web graphics it'll be a sad day when Adobe starts butchering the fine product that Fireworks has matured into.
> Unsuccessfully, I'd add, as the last time anyone used an Adobe product to generate actual production-ready HTML code would have been some time before the Euro went into wide circulation.
I don't understand this. All of my GoLive-built sites validate with the W3C. If you can't generate valid code with GoLive then you don't know what you are doing.
As for GoLive CS2, yes, it has even more features for designing with CSS. For example, the layout grid, which used to be table-based and something few serious GoLive users would touch, now generates CSS instead of tables.
i hope that the future versions of both Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks will have support for SVG as nearly all the other Adobe products do extensively support SWF … omigosh what will happen to CFML or will we see a similar thing which happened to Homesite and Dreamweaver?
hope for the best
My greatest concern is that people that have bought ie flash mx of former macromedia and when they eventually would considder upgrading -they would find another program.
Macromedia's pneuma is killed by this transaction. I won't be surprised if, in a closed future, they annouce a fusion of their developpers into the same entity, and after that, they'll make some drastic cut. Be sure that Macromedia's engineers will soon be available on the market. (Sorry for my poor english)
At first I thought this was a bad idea, then I started to think it has happened on a smaller scale before; Macromedia bought Flash and im sure Adobe didn't build everything in their Creative Suite.
Why not do it on a large scale, better interaction between softwear and more tools in one place. With programs like Flash that are capable of "publishing" in many standard formats, including *.pdf now, will be easier to use and have better features that work better.
The first problem I see is multiple file types *.psd vs. *.png. I think we need to scrap the *.jpg.
On the down side CS MX will cost a fortune!
This sucks. Macromedia sold out on us all. Outside certain open source projects (Mozilla), they were the only software development company that I really trusted.
All of Macromedia's products got better with each new version. Can we say this about all of Microsoft or Adobe's products. Didn't think so.
It is a real sad day.
I think it's both good and bad.
For one, we can be quite sure prices will sky-rocket once the merger is complete. Also, Adobe's support isn't what it should be (though I've heard lots of bad words about Macromedia's support as well).
Adobe seems to spend as much time and money on both Mac and Win platform as opposed to Macromedia as they just don't seem to care about the Mac at all (except taking money out of our pockets). Flash 5 was the last release that was truly good on the Mac.
Let's just hope Adobe gets some help putting their installers together because those give me the biggest grief. Installing Illustrator CS was a pain and to top it off it didn't work properly until after the fourth time I tried installing it. After that though, I have not had any crashes which is not what you can say about Flash…
I think it will be great for Flash-lovers but it's going to cost a hell of a lot of money. Other than that I doubt it Adobe will make any innovating changes over the next years if there is no competition…
Regarding the "open format" question: there's a couple projects I'm familiar with. On my AMD64 box, under gentoo, I've had luck with gplflash: http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/ as a firefox plugin. Another swf player implementing the open standard is swfdec http://www.schleef.org/swfdec/, which I haven't used. In terms of authoring tools, on the other hand, there's laszlo (http://www.laszlosystems.com/products/) which I beleive ends up outputting swf's, though I haven't used it (no J2EE application server on my current webhost). It does look very interesting though.
Oh, as an addendum to put my post on topic, regarding the prospective acquisition, it seems to me that the two most annoying formats on the web today are flash and pdf's, and this is especially the case for those without bandwidth. I see this merger as a threat to an open, standards-based web and a bad thing in general.
FREEHAND MX = Illustrator + InDesign + more…
Hope to see as they are right now, if not I want them merged in to the most powerful weapon for Graphics/Print.
This is bad news. Adobe is an aging dinosaur in may respects. Bloated software, poor interfaces, bad support, etc. As a web dev/designer I work with Macromedia almost exclusively (save a little Photoshop). Time to say goodbye to my beloved Fireworks. Dreamweaver will get hacked up and grafted onto GoLive. You could go on and on about how bad this is for the design community.
We don't know what is happening as a result of the merger between Macromedia and Adobe. One representative deep inside Adobe has commented that there is strong standards support within the company. Rachel Andrew and Drew McLellan are still carrying forward their consultancy with Macromedia. Before the merger Macromedia were testing their products against the Acid 2 test.


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JK, Cap. Why the hell would you ask us? DO WHAT YOU WANT!


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