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Yesterday, a new president. Today, a women's march. What a time to then be in the snowy depths of Sundance Film Festival, where passionate people are celebrating a medium of storytelling. Think of all of the discussions that the independent film communities are currently having regarding their roles in the future - how they can become an even more driven, powerful force in delivering the messages we need. In light of the nationwide (heck, even worldwide) marches happening today, No Film School asked 5 female filmmakers with films at Sundance this year where they see the future of indie film. The result? Five totally different perspectives. This a total must read, so check out the full article via No Film School now!
While the New York Film Festival is still going strong in the Big Apple, another stellar film festival is happening outside of the hustle and bustle of the city, offering a screening platform just as powerful as NYFF to other under the radar industry heavy hitters and smaller, up-and-coming indie films. Indiewire is calling the Hamptons International Film Festival, now celebrating its 25th year, the Oscar Season's secret weapon and we can't agree more. Learn more about Indiewire's breakdown of the value of this amazing festival here, and if you are lucky enough to find yourself in the Hamptons over the weekend, check out the festival's full program, which kicked off this week!
One of New York's biggest film festivals officially kicked off this week, and with it has come a plethora of new films and retrospectives to look forward to! Enough to fulfill any film lover's appetite....x100! If you haven't already given the full schedule and program a gander, what are you waiting for you?! Start grabbing tickets while they're still available! In the meantime, check out Indiewire's discussion on the exact value that New York Film Festival offers the film world: "There's something there for everybody, and everyone is coming together in the same place to experience a festival of their own. That's the New York way."
As the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, considered one of the biggest festivals of the Fall season, wraps up this weekend, Indiewire reflects on the filmic winners and losers of the past week and a half. From glowing Oscar contenders to searing disappointments, check out highlights from another stellar year at TIFF!
Hard to believe 2017 is flying by as quickly as it is! As the summer months wane and the cooler months start creeping in, a new festival season is upon us! Toronto International Film Festival is chock full of amazing, insanely anticipated films and we are loving the press and reviews that have been coming in. Check out Filmmaker Magazine's top 25 films to look forward to at this year's TIFF! Another fun fact: Filmmaker Magazine is celebrating their 25th Anniversary this month as well!
The past week was a whirlwind of creative energy, community-boosting moments, innovative films and overall, a seriously cool culmination of indie spirit in Red Bank, NJ at the second annual Indie Street Film Festival! It's hard to believe that another year has come and gone! And after an inspiring 5 days, the team behind Indie Street Film Festival was beyond honored to announce this year's award winners! "Like Me", directed by Robert Mockler, was named the best narrative feature and "Unrest", directed by Jennifer Brea, took the top prize for best documentary feature as we concluded five days of film screenings plus a wide array of special events and entertainment in Red Bank, New Jersey. Short film winners included Best Narrative Short – "Hold On", directed by Christine Turner and Best Documentary Short – "Little Potato", directed by Wes Hurley and Nathan M. Miller. Best Animation Film was awarded to "Pussy", directed by Renata Gasiorowski. The jury, including noted film critics, producers and filmmakers Alison Willmore (Buzzfeed), Dominic Davis (Rooftop Films), Heidi Reinberg (Producer), Leah Sapin (Human Rights Watch), Meredith Alloway (Writer), William Cusick (Filmmaker/Programmer), James Belfer (CEO, Cartuna), James Siewert (Award-Winning Director/Animator) and Ben Wiessner (Producer, Ornana Films), also presented Special Jury Awards for Best Editing to "Fish Story", directed by Charlie Lyne and Best Comedic Vision to "Business", directed by Kati Skelton. Red Bank artist and resident Gerda Liebmann earned an Audience Choice award for Best New Jersey Film for her first documentary, "You will be Persecuted". Audience Favorites included Best Narrative Short – "Resolutions", directed by Tamara Fisch and Best Narrative Feature – "Life Hack", directed by Sloan Copeland. Among the many discussions presented, notable panels included Adaptation, which included festival Advisory Board Member and noted Actor/Producer Arian Moayed (Rock the Kasbah) and Oscar-winner Mara Kassin, and Meet the Programmers, featuring Larisa Apan (Hamptons Film Festival) and Opal Hope Bennett (Nantucket Film Festival, Doc NYC). A community mural project at Kitch Organic, an appearance by special surprise guest Actor Amir Arison (The Blacklist), a community barbecue, provided by JBJ Soul Kitchen following the screening of "Barbecue", a documentary directed by Matthew Salleh, and the world premiere of "Brothers", the latest work from New Jersey filmmaker Jack Ballo, about two brothers who lived off the grid for four years in the woods of Sayreville, NJ filmed using only the camera in Ballo's iPhone, were also festival highlights. "The films we've shared made us laugh, cry and hungry," noted Jim Scavone, Executive Director of Red Bank RiverCenter, and the festival's Managing Director. The films were screened and the special events held at multiple theatrical venues in Red Bank, including the historic Count Basie Theatre, the Two River Theater, Bow Tie Cinema and Red Bank Middle School. Winners from each feature film category will enjoy a shared 1-week theatrical release in NYC. At the awards presentation, Indie Street Film Festival's Artistic Director Jay Webb confirmed the event would return to Red Bank in 2018 and planned a long-term commitment and partnership with sponsors and the local arts and business communities. Webb also posed a rhetorical question, asking attendees why support for independent artists and filmmakers was important. "In a world of digital content overload that demands more curation and leaves us less physically connected, gathering people in the community around film screenings and the arts is something our whole team believes is of critical importance," Webb concluded. "Audiences in a theater or at a live art event in the presence of the creators will feel the shared emotional vibrations of the exhibition and truly become a part of the story. Offering locals, especially young people, these types of shared creative experiences can help them learn to accept human differences and not be afraid of them." For more information about the screening of films from the festival, or how to connect with Indie Street Film Festival organizers, artists and filmmakers, visit www.indiestreetfilmfestival.org or follow us on social media!
Oh man! We're less than 2 weeks out from the second annual Indie Street Film Festival! What could be more exciting?! We know: more killer indie news surrounding the fest! ISFF has just announced their special screening slate for this year and if you're an indie film lover, dance enthusiast, or just a Michael Caine fan, you're gonna love this pretty sweet lineup. The New Jersey premiere of the 2017 Slamdance fav "Dave Made a Maze", a breakout film directed by artist/writer Bill Watterson, will open the 2nd Annual Indie Street Film Festival on Wednesday, July 26. Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj's "Polina", featuring Academy Award-winner Juliette Binoche will be the closing film on Sunday, July 30. The NY/NJ premiere of "Coup D'Etat", directed by Lisa Addario/Joe Syracuse and starring Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winner Michael Caine and Katie Holmes, and "Person to Person", written and directed by Dustin Guy Defa and starring Michael Cera, Abbi Jacobson and Philip Baker Hall, will also screen at the fest set for July 26th through the 30th in Red Bank, NJ. "From a live art performance by local artist Ronnie Jackson, who carves New Jersey landscapes and scenes into surfboards, a cookout after the screening of the documentary Barbecue with local sponsors, to a Liquid Lights creative workshop, we know festival attendees will enjoy what ISFF brings to the community," noted ISFF artistic director Jay Webb. "What sets this festival apart from other film events is the integration and cooperation of Red Bank's venues, restaurants and bars, retail shops and the local arts community which all gel to make the ideal atmosphere to celebrate the creativity of independent filmmakers." "Dave Made a Maze", featuring Nick Thune as Dave and Meera Rohit Kumbhani as his girlfriend, Annie, is the story of an underachieving artist who builds a fort in his living room only to wind up trapped by fantastical pitfalls, booby traps and critters of his own creation. Ignoring his warnings, Annie leads a band of oddball explorers on a rescue mission. Once inside, they find themselves trapped in an ever-changing supernatural world, threatened by booby traps and pursued by a bloodthirsty Minotaur. In "Polina", a promising classical ballet dancer about to join the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet discovers contemporary dance, a revelation that throws everything into question on a profound level. "Coup D'Etat" is the story of a sixteen-year-old American girl who develops a pen pal relationship with Anton Vincent (Michael Caine), an island nation dictator, who unexpectedly seeks refuge in her suburban garage when he is deposed by his own people. "Person to Person" follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.The festival will present more than 60 independently produced narrative, documentary and animated films, panel discussions, Q&A's with filmmakers, live art, an interactive community mural project, a community cookout, and both live and DJ music performances. For a complete schedule and to purchase tickets/passes, please visit www.indiestreetfilmfestival.org!
What a time to be alive if you're a film lover! This year has seen a wave of innovative new works hitting the screens of festivals around the globe…and New Jersey's own Red Bank better get ready because it's that time of the year again - their time to cinematically SHINE! The 2nd annual Indie Street Film Festival line-up has JUST BEEN ANNOUNCED and it features some of the best of the best in indie cinema from around the world. The Indie Street Film Festival will return to Red Bank from July 26th through the 30th featuring more than 60 independently produced narrative, documentary and animated films, panel discussions, Q&A's with filmmakers, live art, an interactive community mural project, a community cookout, and both live and DJ music performances. Two sets of "Jersey Shorts" showcasing the work of local filmmakers and New Jersey locations and subjects will also be featured. Narrative feature films in competition include: The Ring Thing, directed by William Sullivan (Provincetown Film Festival) Like Me, directed by Robert Mockler (SXSW) Beat Beat Heart, directed by Luise Brinkmann (Slam Dance, Filmfest Munich 2016) Life Hack, directed by Sloan Copeland (Brooklyn Film Fest, SoHo Int. Film Fest) Documentary feature films in competition include: Barbecue, directed by Matthew Salleh (SXSW) Hotel Coolgardie, directed by Pete Gleeson (Slamdance, Hot Docs) Olancho, directed by Ted Griswold and Chris Valdes (Brooklyn Film Fest) Unrest, directed by Jennifer Brea (SXSW, Hot Docs, Sundance Special Jury Award) The winning films will be selected by a jury consisting of noted film critics, producers and filmmakers. Industry experts including Aaron Hillis (Indiegogo), Alison Willmore (Buzzfeed), Dominic Davis (Rooftop Films), Heidi Reinberg (Producer) and Leah Sapin (Human Rights Watch) will join others in awarding the winning feature films with the prize of a 1 week theatrical screening in New York City and optional online distribution through Indie Street Media. Jury awards and audience awards will be announced at a live ceremony on the evening of Sunday, July 30th. Highlights include the NJ premiere of Unrest, an eye-opening documentary shot and directed by Jennifer Brea, as she tackles the very personal subject of chronic fatigue syndrome. Life Hack, featuring Sean Kleier (Odd Mom Out) and Devin Ratray (Nebraska, Blue Ruin), is an incredibly relevant comedic cautionary tale about our digital privacy or complete lack thereof. New Jersey talent will of course be showcased, including the world premiere of Brothers, the latest work from Jack Ballo, who directed the critically acclaimed 2016 documentary Destiny's Bridge, about the plight of a homeless community living off-the-grid in the woods of Lakewood, New Jersey, and Pasquale's Magic Veal, a dark comedy featuring Vincent Pastore, who played "Big Pussy" in The Sopranos. Donald Sumpter (Game of Thrones, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) and Adam Long (Happy Valley), star in The Knackerman, a narrative short funded by Creative England and the BFI Network. In Cul-De-Sac, from the team behind the Academy Award-winning short Curfew, a married couple's bubble of suburban normality is punctured when they find a surprise inside their toddler's teddy bear. Cop Dog, the sixth animated film in Bill Plympton's Oscar-nominated Guard Dog series, finds its plucky dog-hero with a new occupation: patrolling our airports sniffing for illegal drugs. Several other shorts will make their NJ premiere, including films written by screenwriters for NBC's THIS IS US and SYFY's CHANNEL ZERO, as well as performances from actors such as Jimmie JJ Jeter (Hamilton) and Chris Carfizzi (Showtime's Billions). Indie Street Film Festival Artistic Director/President of Indie Street, Jay Webb, noted that in addition to the incredibly diverse films from around the world that will be screened and discussed, this year's schedule includes events linked to films showcased in the festival as well as New Jersey themes. "From a live art performance by local artist Ronnie Jackson, who carves New Jersey landscapes and scenes into surfboards, a cookout after the screening of the documentary Barbecue with local sponsors, to a Liquid Lights creative workshop, we know festival attendees will enjoy what ISFF brings to the community," Webb added. "What sets this festival apart from other film events is the integration and cooperation of Red Bank's venues, restaurants and bars, retail shops and the local arts community which all gel to make the ideal atmosphere to celebrate the creativity of independent filmmakers." ISFF is more geared toward cooperation than competition, so all feature films accepted into the festival are awarded the opportunity to join Indie Street as a partner filmmaker and be promoted through its VOD platform. Winners from each feature film category will enjoy a shared 1 week theatrical release in NYC. Films and events will be held at multiple theatrical venues in Red Bank, including the historic Count Basie Theatre, the Two River Theater, Bow Tie Cinema and Red Bank Middle School. For a complete schedule and to purchase tickets, please visit www.indiestreetfilmfestival.org. 5 day Passes are available for films only (Film Buff Pass for $99) or for all films and parties (All-access Pass for $169) and can be purchased by visiting the festival website. All-access passes are also on sale now that include entry to all festival events, open bar at nightly parties brought to you by sponsors Flying Fish Brewery and Prairie Vodka, as well as discounts at local businesses. Single event tickets will be available soon. Keep up with breaking news on social media: facebook.com/IndieStreetFilmFestival · twitter: @IndieStFilmFest · Instagram @IndieStFilmFestFor more information on the Indie Street Film Festival or to learn how you can help out, contact email@example.com or head to indiestreetfilmfestival.org to check out THE STELLAR FULL LINEUP!! Be sure to check out highlights from last year's successful inaugural year:
BAMcinématek's 9th annual BAMcinemaFest, a showcase of some of the best in American independent cinema, kicked off into high gear last week and continues strong through 6/25! With still a full solid 6 days of amazing indie film left to feast upon, it's not too late to catch some of the best of the fest! Check out Filmmaker Magazine's Scott Macaulay and Vadim Rizov's top 11 picks playing at the 2017 BAMCinemafest! From two Michael Almereyda offerings to MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND, the Narrative Grand Jury Prize winner at this year's SXSW, there's pretty much something for all film lovers to...well...love!
For over a decade now, film as a physical medium has been heralded as dead. Done. Kaput. But if the lineup at this year's Cannes Film Festival proves anything different, it just goes to show that film is here to stay. Call the analog medium a zombie or ghost or superhero or even a freak of nature. The industry is seeing a resurgence of projects shot on film and we are totally loving it! To show just how integral and important shooting on film is, Kodak released the list of 15 films playing at this year's Cannes Film Festival that were shot on their stock. From "The Beguiled" to "Wonderstruck", these films are also some of the most highly anticipated of the entire festival. Check out the full list via Indiewire and if you wanna know more about the making of some of Cannes' top films, head here to get the lowdown on cameras used during production!
Man oh man, how the months have flown by! It's finally that day again - the final submissions deadline for the 2017 Indie Street Film Festival! Hundreds of film have been submitted - short, long, funny, sad, weird, honest, raw and everything indie-tween (see what we did there?)! If you've got a film, we want to see it! But act fast - you've only got a few hours left to be guaranteed those filmic darlings of yours will be considered! So, what are we looking for? Everything! Our goal is simply to program the very best films we can find. Remember: diversity is important as well as good storytelling. We are giving special consideration to New Jersey Filmmakers as we will have a special side-bar for Jersey films, too. We are also specifically looking for films that do the most with smaller budgets and are innovative either visually, conceptually or in their storytelling. Fit the bill? You can submit via Withoutabox and FilmFreeway NOW! For more information on the Indie Street Film Festival, head to our website or check out our recap video showcasing highlights from last year's insanely successful fest!


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Our company name and product name is firedb. We build online applications will be using our website to promote our company/brand and our products and services.
We are looking for a design of our website firedb.com
The logo is http://99designs.com/contests/10591…ies/755689
(Design Deliverable 1) Design of the website
This is the one page (the homepage) which will consist of;
- Navigation
- Large Banner
- Smaller Banners
- Latest blog entries
(Design Deliverable 2) Supporting images
For the other pages of our website we will be using the design from deliverable (1) and simply replacing the Large Banner with an Image (e.g the Products page will have an image with heading and graphic much like the homepage banner).
The ideal situation would be to have an image supplied for the 'heading' of each page;
- Products
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- Blog
- Contacts
- Clients
On certain pages we will need to have a vertical navigation (e.g on the products page we'd have navigation on the left of the page for features, demo, buy now)
- We'd like to see the vertical navigation box included as part of the design (so we are able to use it throughout the site)
Content (1)
The homepage should have the following:
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B) Navigation: Home, Products, Services, Blog, Contact, Clients (buttons with up/hover/down states)
C) 1 main banner
- Custom software to save you time and money: Build your business with us
D) 3 or 4 smaller banners
- Features: See what firedb has to offer
- Find out more: Find out why more businesses choose firedb
- Demo: Try firedb today
- Sucess Stories: See what our clients have to say
It should be easy to change the text from the original so we can alter these banners later.
E) Latest News
- Show at least one blog entry on the homepage. Potentially up to three entries (e.g one under the other at the bottom of the site)
Content (2)
The supporting image used in other pages could be much like the main banner page (probably not as high) and should have;
- The heading (e.g Products)
- Possibly a tag line under it (e.g We have a large range of great products)
- An appropriate graphic (e.g a software box or in an image)
The vertical navigation box should just allow us to throw whatever we'd like inside and should have;
- Space for a heading (e.g Product Navigation)
- Space for the items inside (e.g features, demo, buy now)
We have a specific layout in mind. (banner at the top with smaller ones underneath)
Another example of this layout which I will highlight for reference: http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/at…/38573.jpg
- Like the idea of the gradient in the background
- Like the giant banner
- Like the smaller banners
Note: The news looks a little out of place, we would have preferred the news below the smaller banners with the three banners taking all the width (eg dell.com) or fit four banners taking all the width (eg apple.com).
Blog Layout: We like the blog layout with heading+image+text (see example here http://extjs.com/blog/ ). So when designing the website we'd like to see this design for the blog entries.
- Colors which might work well, blue, gree, white, grey, brown
- Simplicity, boldness, clean design
- Similar fonts for banners as used in the big banners for dell and apple (headings think and bold, easy to read)
- General text for the website should be easy very easy to read (e.g text @ apple.com)IMPORTANT
- Website should fit well in a 1024x768 screen (i.e no horizontal scrolling)
- Format: Photoshop or Illustrator, RGB Color
- File must contain separate layers for each unique item (eg the banner, the logo etc)
- Include hover/up/down states where appropriate
- Advise against dark backgrounds (gradients are ok just stay away from black backgrounds)
- Try and keep the feel of a professional software company. Refer to logo for inspiration.


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A Labour Europe spokesman has said the UK should not permanently rule out joining the euro and called for the party to adopt a less "defensive" stance on the EU.
Lord Liddle told The Guardian it was "just ludicrous" for politicians to suggest Britain could cut itself off from the single currency altogether in case it emerged stronger from its present crisis.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls declared in 2011 that there was " no possibility of the euro being joined by a British government at any time in my lifetime".
As a Treasury adviser to Gordon Brown during the Labour administration, Mr Balls was instrumental in keeping the UK out of the single currency.
Speaking on the eve of talks between Labour leader Ed Miliband and German chancellor Angela Merkel during her visit to the UK, Lord Liddle suggested membership remained possible in 10 to 20 years.
The former adviser to Tony Blair and the EU Commission president told the newspaper: "The attitude of mind of people that we can cut ourselves off from this is just ludicrous.
"We are an integral part of an integrated European economy. So, in time, if the euro sorts itself out surely the logic is: why should we hang back from that?"
"If the euro does overcome its problems it is arguable that Britain has a flexible enough economy to be able to survive within the euro's constraints.
"We are now more convergent with the euro area than we have ever been.
"One shouldn't close one's mind on ideological grounds to the possibility of joining."
Labour, he said, had " failed... to integrate Europe into its whole thinking about what it is trying to do".
Mr Miliband faces pressure from within the shadow cabinet to match David Cameron's promise of an in/out referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.
"Labour is defensive about Europe.
"The core of the case that Labour makes for our membership of the EU is made on jobs and growth.
"We make the case strongly. But we could do much more to demonstrate how European solutions are complementary to what we want to do at home in tackling all these challenges we face."
In his book, The Europe Dilemma: Britain And The Drama Of EU Integration, the peer argues that if a stronger version of the euro emerges, " progressives should not be content with Britain's unsatisfactory status quo as a euro-out where we have little influence on many key economic decisions impacting on Britain's future".
A Labour spokesman said: "Labour in government made the right decision not to join the euro a decade ago. It's a decision which has stood the test of time.
"Ed Miliband and Ed Balls have both said that joining the euro would not happen in their political lifetime. It will not happen."


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For children and young people being active helps develop a strong heart, and strong muscles and bones.
For older people it especially helps with balance, co-ordination, maintaining bone strength and the flexibility of joints – which means you are less likely to have a fall.
If you've been unwell, or haven't been active for years, you may wish to speak to your GP (doctor) and check that it's safe to start increasing your activity. Always work at an intensity that's safe for you. Set yourself sensible goals which reflect your fitness levels and review these as your fitness levels improve.
Active people are more likely to:
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Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again. — When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase.
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Sprint-Nextel Severs Its Internet Connection to Cogent Communications
Sprint-Nextel Severs Its Internet Connection to Cogent Communications
Discussion: GigaOM, Data Center Knowledge, Slashdot and Arbor Networks Security
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: Peering Dispute Between Cogent, Sprint
Timothy / Slashdot: Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet
Craig Labovitz / Arbor Networks Security: Trick or Treat: A Halloween Peering Surprise
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Is Google Playing Chicken With the Justice Department? — Are Google and Yahoo thinking of walking of away from their controversial search advertising deal, as reported in an amusingly hedged report in The Wall Street Journal last night? — How's this for covering your bases in a story …
Discussion: Bits, CNET News, Ars Technica, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, The Microsoft Blog, Todd Watson, Deal Journal, Startup Chatter, Industry Standard, Search Engine Watch, Contentinople, BloggingStocks, Portfolio, InformationWeek, Tech Trader Daily, Search Engine Land, Between the Lines, Epicenter, MediaFile, Techdirt and Mashable!
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News: Yahoo, Google under pressure to make next move
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Why I Believe Google Had No Intention of Partnering with Yahoo
Joseph Tartakoff / The Microsoft Blog: Google-Yahoo deal might collapse
Heidi N. Moore / Deal Journal: Google and Yahoo: The Trouble with Trusting Frenemies
Donna Bogatin / Startup Chatter: Which Googler Chicken has Kara Swisher's Dow Jones Ear?
Jordan Golson / Industry Standard: Yahoo and AOL compare notes on merger, Yahoo and Google quit search deal?
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch: Regulators to Prevent Google from Bailing Out Yahoo?
Nicole Ferraro / Contentinople: News Bits: Terror in Silicon Valley
Douglas McIntyre / BloggingStocks: Yahoo and Google may dump their deal
Laura Rich / Portfolio: Google, Yahoo Might Ditch Their Ad Deal
K.C. Jones / InformationWeek: Google-Yahoo Deal May Be In Jeopardy
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily: Google And Yahoo: Is Their Search Deal Dead?
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: Google, Yahoo Prepare To Abandon Paid Search Deal?
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Mission accomplished: Google's ad deal with Yahoo has already worked
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Paul Thomasch / MediaFile: Google-Yahoo vs. Department of Justice
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Yahoo - Google Search Deal Not Looking Too Good
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Yahoo, Google May Walk Away from Search Deal: Report
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
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Discussion: TechCrunch, CNET News, Epicenter, WebProNews and fierceonlinevideo.com …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Yahoo Does Something Right: Leapfrogs To No. 2 Spot In Web Video
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft faces uncertain financial future as it looks to the cloud — LOS ANGELES — The Ray Ozzie Era at Microsoft has begun. — The man who assumed Bill Gates' role of chief software architect unveiled a new blueprint for the company here this week, detailing plans …
Discussion: TechFlash
Jack Schofield / Guardian:
Microsoft's Azure is not Hailstorm, but what's the point of it?
Microsoft's Azure is not Hailstorm, but what's the point of it?
Discussion: InfoWorld, Rough Type, Data Center Strategies and fiercecio.com/news/frontpage
Nik Simpson / Data Center Strategies: Waiting For The Other Shoe to Drop
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
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Amanda Kelly / Inside AdWords:
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Discussion: The Register, CircleID, Washington Post and SC Magazine US
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Angela Moscaritolo / SC Magazine US: Sinowal data-stealing trojan has infected half million PCs
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Trojan virus steals bank info
Trojan virus steals bank info
Discussion: MacDailyNews
Jon Udell:
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Discussion: tecosystems
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft's other new platform: Live Framework
Microsoft's other new platform: Live Framework
Discussion: TechCrunchIT
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT: Microsoft's Treadwell and Bryant: Mesh and Office on Azure
Scott Moritz / Technology news:
Verizon mulls heavily-discounted BlackBerry — Free. That's Vodafone's (VOD) recently-unveiled price for the hotly-anticipated touchscreen BlackBerry Storm from Research in Motion (RIM) in the United Kingdom. — In a sign of just how desperate phone companies are to lock customers …
Discussion: InformationWeek, Electronista and Engadget Mobile
Tesla sees new financing, founder offers support — Tesla Motors Inc expects to close a financing round of over $20 million from existing investors as soon as next week to bolster a cash balance now at $9 million, said Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of the electric car start-up.
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider: Tesla Motors Getting Some Cash
Martin LaMonica / CNET News: Tesla Motors seeks cash to keep moving forward
Chris Morrison / VentureBeat: Electric car maker Tesla low on cash, but won't go bust (yet)
Katie Fehrenbacher / Earth2Tech: Cash Strapped Tesla Looks To Raise $20M Internal Round
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Michael W. Jones / TECH.BLORGE.com: Tesla Motors seeks cash infusion
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry Curve 8900 hands on
Simon Sage / IntoMobile: More BlackBerry 8900 hands-on pictures
Dave Rosenberg / Negative Approach: How Blackberry can beat iPhone: stop giving the cool phones to AT&T first
Ronen Halevy / BerryReview.com: Gizmodo Gets Hands On With AT&T Curve/Javelin 8900
Joey Sanders / BlackBerryNews.com: AT&T begins field testing the 8900 Curve (Javelin)
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs: Gizmodo Reviews the AT&T BlackBerry Curve 8900!
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Would You Pay $162 a Year for All the Music You Can Eat? — That's the offer, sort of, being made by something called Datz Music Lounge. — The details, from MusicWeek (via Coolfer): You give the company 100 British pounds, and for the next year you can download all the music you want.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, CNET News, Music Week and p2pnet
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Datz Music Lounge: Gimmick or the Future of Digital Music?
Greg Sandoval / CNET News: Source: EMI talks to rivals about giving up U.S. distribution
Ben Cardew / Music Week: Datz launches unlimited download store
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft's Mac unit gets new boss — Microsoft said Friday that it is changing the leadership of its Macintosh Business Unit, the group responsible for Office for Mac. — Eric Wilfrid, a product unit manager in the division, will succeed Craig Eisler, who is moving to a role elsewhere …
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog
Joseph Tartakoff / The Microsoft Blog: New GM for Microsoft's Macintosh unit
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Can iPhone Sales Grow In The December Quarter? — One the features of Apple's (AAPL) recent earnings report for the fiscal fourth quarter ended September was that the company sold 6.9 million iPhones, many more than some analysts expected, and enough to push the company into the ranks …
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Experimental Monkeys Now Available — We often talk about the growing number of interesting SearchMonkey applications that have been built by developers. Many of the applications live in the Yahoo! Search Gallery, but quite a few aren't accepted for various reasons.
Discussion: Webware.com, Search Engine Watch and WebProNews
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com: Yahoo offers SearchMonkey experiments
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch: SearchMonkey Allows Apps to Go Experimental
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Yahoo Creates Experimental Status For SearchMonkey Apps
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Is There Still A Big Loophole For Software And Business Method Patents? — I've been talking to plenty of people (mostly lawyers) about the Bilski ruling on software and business method patents while also having more time to reread the discussion in detail, and I'm going to backtrack on my original assessment.
Discussion: The Register, eWeek, The Prior Art, Computerworld Blogs and A VC
Austin Modine / The Register: US court blocks Amazon-style patent trolls
Roy Mark / eWeek: Court Reshapes Patent Reform Debate
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
The New Xbox Experience with Netflix — Netflix Week continues (and we're not even done yet)... This morning, the New Xbox Experience (NXE) was delivered to my console. After quickly creating a non-representative (i.e. slender) avatar, I jumped right into Netflix.
Discussion: VentureBeat, Hacking NetFlix, Engadget and CrunchGear
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PARK RIDGE, Ill. — Big Ten athletic directors and football coaches say they have reservations about loosened NCAA recruiting rules that would allow unlimited contact between recruiters and high school players.
The NCAA Board of Directors in January approved rulebook revisions that, among other things, remove limits on the number of phone calls and text messages to prospective recruits. The eased restrictions are set to begin July 1.
During their regularly scheduled meeting in Park Ridge, Ill., on Monday, athletic directors and coaches issued a statement expressing "serious concerns whether these proposals, as currently written, are in the best interest of high school student-athletes, their families and their coaches."
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Posted: October 04, 2008
The man suing Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee for proof of Obama's American citizenship is outraged that his own party – rather than just providing the birth certificate he seeks – would step in to silence him by filing a motion to dismiss his lawsuit.
As WND reported, prominent Pennsylvania Democrat and attorney Philip J. Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court two months ago claiming Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen and therefore not eligible to be elected president. Berg has since challenged Obama publicly that if the candidate will simply produce authorized proof of citizenship, he'll drop the suit.
Berg told WND the longer the DNC tries to ignore his lawsuit or make it go away – instead of just providing the documents – the more convinced he is that his accusations are correct.
Despite assertions by the Washington Post, FactChecker.org and other organizations that Obama has produced a certified Hawaiian birth certificate, Berg told WND he remains "99.99 percent sure" that the certificate is a fake and he wants a court, not a website, to determine its validity.
Earlier last week, lawyers for Obama and the DNC filed a joint motion to dismiss Berg's lawsuit. The fact that the DNC joined in the dismissal request has Berg fuming, believing his party's leaders have ignored his pleas for proof in order to favor their chosen candidate over a rank-and-file constituent.
"I think it's outrageous," Berg said. "The Democratic National Committee should be ensuring the Democratic Party and the public that they have a qualified candidate up there. To file a joint motion is like they're in cahoots.
"Since then, I have asked by way of press release that Howard Dean resign, because (the DNC members) are not fulfilling their duties," Berg said.
"The DNC has a responsibility to all Democrats in this country to make sure that all of their candidates are properly vetted and properly qualified," Berg added. "I think it's really an outrage to the 18-plus million people who voted for Obama and the people who donated more than $425 million to him under false pretenses."
Berg is frustrated, not only with his own party's leadership for allegedly not investigating Obama's background, but also with the major news outlets for failing as well.
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How to build a better bishop
With the diocesan chancery ground zero in the sex abuse crisis, now is a good time to ask whether a renovation might be in order.
"I want you to get up right now, go to your windows, open them, and stick your head out and yell, 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!'"
That famous exclamation from the Academy Award-winning film Network (1976) was likely in the hearts--if not exactly on the lips--of several thousand Catholics from around the country who gathered at Boston College in 2002 to pray and reflect on the first wave of shocking accounts of the sexual abuse of children by some of their own long-revered Catholic priests.
Now the anger is expressed most forcefully in Ireland, Germany, and elsewhere as the scandal has gone global.
The greatest Catholic anger, however, then and since, has been focused not so much on the priest perpetrators who are clearly sick, but on bishops who enabled this behavior by recycling these clergy to new assignments and new victims, covertly paid out hush money, and deceived the Catholic faithful.
How could one understand such behavior by Catholic bishops? Why was there no honest communication from them? Were they really allowed to make these secret payoffs? Why didn't they think about the victimized children, their parents, and the wider Catholic community? How did they get to be bishops anyhow? Why were laity excluded from decision-making?
As they sort out this list of questions, Catholic women and men reflect on their faith and their responsibility in meeting this ugly challenge. They were and are angry and hurt. Their faith, however, is still firm. "Keep the faith, but change the church!" has become their resolve in America, and church leadership should hope it goes that well elsewhere.
The U.S. bishops, meeting in Dallas in 2002, pledged zero tolerance for sexual abuse. They approved the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" and a structure to follow up on the nice-sounding words. The church, they promised, would henceforth proceed with "transparency and accountability.
On the immediate issue of policing the church to avoid further sexual abuse, the American bishops deserve credit for the actions they have taken. It is important that the charter and its implementation be sustained, and I assume it will be. It could wisely be used as a model for the worldwide church. On the broader pledge to being a church proceeding with "transparency and accountability," there is some progress, but further work is needed.
Many Catholics have the impression that the ministry of bishop is currently as it always has been throughout history, perhaps even that Jesus intended bishops to be minor monarchs. But the role of bishop can be renewed to better serve the people of God. In that spirit, I propose four ways to renovate the bishop's office.
1. Selecting bishops
There is a broad-based chorus of voices calling for reform in the process for the selection of bishops. Papal biographer and theologian George Weigel has described the current process as "far too ingrown, with a troubled hierarchy having what seems to many an inordinate influence in shaping decisions about who will now be permitted to join the episcopal fraternity."
He calls it "a serious mistake" that laity are not involved in any significant way in the process and notes that "laypeople can see things that clergy may miss." Common sense suggests, says Weigel, that a more broadly consultative process would produce a more balanced assessment of the needs of a diocese and the qualifications of particular candidates.
Under the current process, the pope names diocesan bishops after a process that has the U.S. papal nuncio prepare a list of three candidates, a terna, which is submitted to the Roman Congregation for Bishops, where it is critically reviewed. The congregation then offers its own terna for the pope's consideration. The U.S. nuncio consults, theoretically, with bishops, priests, and laity, but, as Weigel notes, the consultation process for the nunciature's terna is "dominated by the bishops and those priests whom they trust or the nuncio trusts-which means that the process of consultation is heavily tilted toward those . . . [who] have a vested interest in the status quo."
Ultimately, it has been not just the nuncio but a small circle of Roman officials who have controlled episcopal appointments. American church historian James O'Toole illustrates the problems of the selection process by reflecting on the career of Cardinal William O'Connell, Boston's archbishop from 1907 to 1944. O'Toole calls the century from 1907 to now "the O'Connell century," a period in which an expanding Vatican influence came to outweigh local interests in choosing church leaders. As O'Toole notes, it was an atmosphere in which "ambitious prelates could lobby for advancement, and their chances for success improved because they only needed to persuade a handful of Roman officials to secure the prize."
O'Toole writes that in his five years as bishop of Portland, Maine, O'Connell "flooded Rome with evidence of his own orthodoxy and reports of the supposed theological unreliability of other claimants. He contributed financially to favored papal causes, seemingly beyond the resources of his small diocese. . . . When he got his reward in Boston, other American churchmen saw that they might pursue the same strategy."
The real problem with O'Connell and those who practiced churchmanship in his style was less with any of these individuals than with the system that produced them, O'Toole says.
"Leaders were chosen precisely because they were disconnected from the church and city in which they were expected to be leaders," O'Toole notes. "The Vatican clearly preferred outsiders--bishops who would feel more loyalty to Rome than to any particular diocese, place, or people. How often did newly appointed bishops say at their first press conference that they looked forward to 'getting to know' their city, and why did no one think that was strange?"
Rome needs to understand that it is no longer battling nobles and kings who wish to control and exploit the local church. It can safely accept a reform that respects the local church and restores the early tradition, which had the local bishop chosen by and from the people. The norm of Pope Leo I (440-461)--that no one can be a bishop unless he is elected by the clergy, accepted by his people, and consecrated by the bishops of his province--can safely and wisely be restored.
2. Collaborative leadership
Another means of renovating the bishop's office is by implementing a more collaborative leadership structure and style. Pope John Paul II himself emphasized this when he met with a group of American bishops in 2004.
The late pope suggested that the church had historically found the resources for authentic self-renewal when it returned to its "origins in a conscious reappropriation of the apostolic tradition and a purifying re-evaluation of her institutions in light of the gospel." He said that "in the present circumstances of the church in America, this will entail a spiritual discernment and critique of certain styles of governance, which, even in the name of a legitimate concern for good 'administration' and responsible oversight, can run the risk of distancing the pastor from the members of the flock, and obscuring his image as their father and brother in Christ."
Quoting the Synod of Bishops 2003 document Pastores Gregis and its acknowledgement for the need today for each bishop to develop "a pastoral style that is ever more open to collaboration with all," he said that a commitment to creating better structures of participation, consultation, and shared responsibility "should not be misunderstood as a concession to a secular 'democratic' model of governance, but as an intrinsic requirement of the exercise of episcopal authority and a necessary means of strengthening that authority."
Unfortunately, some clergy and bishops may have learned lessons of excluding laity through their notions of what happened under the lay trustee system in early American Catholic history. Prior to 1829 Catholic churches were erected and incorporated under a lay trustee system. John Carroll, the first U.S. Catholic bishop who served as bishop of Baltimore from 1790 to 1815, saw this as the best way to secure church property and to involve the laity in the governance of the church.
Carroll faced some problems with the system, but he did not consider them major, and he never repudiated it. Later bishops voted to outlaw the trustee system in 1829. Older historical scholarship tended to focus on the relatively few bad experiences with the trustee system, to judge it negatively, and to brand it "lay trusteeism."
More recent scholarship, such as that of Marquette University historian Patrick W. Carey, has established that the great majority of trustee experiences were characterized by "harmony and cooperation." For example, between 1815 and 1830, considered the most volatile trustee period, churches expanded to 230 with six serious trustee disputes. In other words there were problems in only 2.6 percent of the parishes.
Nonetheless, in 1829 the bishops resolved that all future churches should be consigned to the bishop rather than trustees. Historian Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J. tersely notes: "Unfortunately, the condemnation of lay trusteeism also meant the end of an official lay voice in the church." The "corporation sole" approach to church ownership, by which property is held exclusively in the name of the bishop, brought a certain tidiness, but also a centralization of episcopal authority that produced, as Carey notes, "a kind of episcopacy that had, as the trustees repeatedly charged, few institutional lay restraints upon episcopal powers."
These were the circumstances that led to the radical autonomy of some bishops in the sex abuse issue. For some, the corporation sole policy became a corporation sole mentality. It was this problem that Notre Dame's Scott Appleby addressed in 2002 in his invited remarks to the U. S. Catholic bishops regarding the sex abuse scandal: "Catholics on the right and the left and in the 'deep middle' are all in basic agreement as to the causes of this scandal: a betrayal of fidelity enabled by the arrogance that comes with unchecked power."
A more democratic style of leadership and authentic collaboration will help the renovation of the bishop's office.
3. Financial matters
A third needed renovation is through an effective system of checks and balances in financial matters. Robert McClory's article "Collection Racket" in the May 2009 issue of this magazine addressed this issue in regard to parishes. Bishops, too, need financial checks and balances, transparency, and accountability. Historian Charles Morris found in his research that most dioceses didn't even have financial statements until quite recently. Some of the historical fragments of financial matters that Morris reports, however, are rather disconcerting.
Dennis Dougherty, archbishop of Philadelphia from 1918 to 1951, "insisted that the cathedraticum or diocesan tax for the support of the cathedral, which ran well into six figures, was his personal income." He also made a donation of $1 million to the Vatican when he was made a cardinal in 1921.
Many contemporary bishops have embraced the cause of fiscal accountability. As they do, one task is quite clear. The laity want publicly released annual audits at all levels. The bishops will gain credibility if they also initiate democratization of their own diocesan financial councils (DFC). Bishops need the consent of the DFC for expenditures of $1 million or more; for dioceses with fewer than 500,000, the amount is $500,000.
The DFC consists of three or more members of the Christian faithful who are appointed by the bishop. Most Catholics would regard this as a weak system of checks and balances, essentially a rubber stamp for the bishop, who can spend up to $1 million with no approval. If consent is needed for a larger expenditure, the bishop has the DFC composed exclusively of his appointees. But DFC constituted by vote of the diocesan pastoral council from a slate of qualified candidates is a reform that would help renovate the bishop's office.
4. Protocol and lifestyle
A final renovation concerns episcopal protocol and lifestyle. James O'Toole's description of "the O'Connell century" notes that in Boston and elsewhere "archbishops cultivated an imperial, even imperious, style of leadership." Some were very taken with their princely status. Cardinal O'Connell caused a stir in 1911 when he insisted on being ranked ahead of the governor of Massachusetts at a formal dinner. "A governor was just a governor, after all, and [O'Connell] was a prince," writes O'Toole.
Philadelphia's Cardinal Dougherty in 1936 purchased an estate called the Terraces for $115,000. At the time a newly constructed home could be purchased for $5,000. The Terraces had 16 rooms, five baths, a pool, a stable, and a garage for six cars. Dougherty spent a further $100,000 building a new limestone front and a number of new rooms. Historian Charles Morris states that "none of this would be shocking if Dougherty were an oil baron, but he was a Catholic bishop, spending blue-collar donations during a national economic crisis."
Contemporary bishops have inherited these baronial episcopal residences, but a change from the past has begun. In 2004 the Italianate cardinal's residence that was built by Boston's Cardinal O'Connell was sold by Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley. He seems to have heard the advice of laity like Richard Santagati, the president of Merrimack College, who advised O'Malley that he could "reach out to the Catholic community by choosing a lifestyle that is different from the past."
Also in 2004 the Roman Congregation for Bishops published a lengthy Directory for the Pastoral Ministry of Bishops, which stressed the need for the bishop to exemplify holiness and all the virtues preached by Christ. It said that in reflecting Christ, each bishop should "be poor and appear to be poor," living a modest lifestyle in keeping with the socio-economic conditions of his faithful.
New foundations
As Jesus demonstrated in the gospels when he drove the money-changers from the temple, anger is not necessarily a bad thing. The episode is important and is recorded in each of the four gospels. Not unlike the famous exclamation from Network, Jesus was not going to take it anymore from those who desecrated his Father's house. Many laity and clergy and bishops, too, have shared that kind of anger with the sex abuse scandal.
We now have an opportunity to move from anger toward constructive change that can help renew the church. The renovations I have proposed in the bishop's office involve some changes for the whole community. Let us keep the faith as we together undertake these and all our needed renovations, both institutional and personal.
This article appeared in the July 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 75, No. 7, pages 33-36). Portions of this essay previously appeared in Theology Today (January 2009).


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