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Like most folks my age, I find much of today's "totally awesome" language just as brain-dead as the "happenin'-groovy-far out" expressions we used to think were "cool" when we were kids. There are some exceptions, though, and one of them is the response "Really?" Possibly the best term to come out of pop culture in 50 years, "Really?" pretty much says it all when one is trying to express their disbelief that whatever they just heard is really the best that someone could come up with.
Which, of course, makes it pretty darn useful in today's culture. For instance, take the comment by "daveinphoenix" to my May 30 blog, about publicly disclosing conflicts of interest, in which "dave" (if I may be so informal) expresses his outrage at the "huge" 1% AUM fees that some advisors charge. Truth to tell, my response should be "Really?" and just leave it at that. But since that doesn't fill up a whole blog, I'll elaborate.
Dave seems to hang his outraged hat on data he says was released by the Attorney General of New York a few years back, showing that "over a 10-year period, a 1% asset management fee = a 9% front-end load if a mutual fund has no increase in market value," which he writes is "1% to the 10th power."
Really? Sorry, couldn't help myself. Let's tackle the math first.
Now, I was no math major myself, but at my liberal arts college, they did make us take some basic arithmetic (lest we miscount the number of credit hours we needed to graduate), and by my calculations, 1% to the power of 10 would be .01 x .01 x .01 x .01 x .01 x .01 x .01 x .01 x .01 x .01, which my calculator tells me equals .00000000000000000001 or .000000000000000001%. Since that's a pretty darn reasonable AUM fee, even for say, Donald Trump, I think we can conclude that's not what Dave meant, and that Dave wasn't a math major either.
The other part of his argument suggests that he also wasn't an economics major: A 1% annual fee over ten years is the same as a 9% sales load? Really? Oops. If this analysis makes sense, why stop there? Why not point out that a 1% fee over 100 years equals a 90% load? How outrageous is that? Boy, those billionaires who pay their private bankers an AUM fee sure must be stupid.
This is what we philosophy majors call a reductio ad absurdum: taking an argument to its ridiculous conclusion. The flaw here, as any good economist (such as Stephen Levitt, author of "Freakonomics") would tell us, is reducing the benefit of paying AUM fees vs. commissions to merely the dollars involved. It's the same flawed logic that encourages people to pay off their mortgages to "save" the hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest that they would have paid to those "greedy" bankers (which makes economic sense only if you couldn't find anything more profitable to do with your money than your after-tax mortgage rate).
In this case, the faulty presumption is that the recipient of, say, a 5% sales load (the alternative to the annual AUM fee) would be satisfied with his or her upfront commission for the following ten years; while all he has to do is change mutual funds once, and his wife is driving a new Mercedes—and the AUM fee suddenly isn't looking so bad.
As Freakonomics shows us again and again, to understand the economics of a situation, one has to look for the financial incentives, and the risks they create. Sophisticated investors don't pay AUM fees because they are, or might be, cheaper: they do it because fees reduce the incentives for their advisors to act contrary to the investors' best interests. Perhaps this will come as a surprise to Dave—and to the New York Attorney General—but people will pay extra for that kind of peace of mind. If they don't, it's not because they want to save a few bucks. It's because they don't understand the reality of the situation. Seriously.


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Week 1
Lesson 1- Getting Started
You've made a great decision to start a gift basket business! Create a firm foundation for your soon-to-be successful enterprise with the help of this lesson. You'll learn what to expect from this course, and you'll meet a new designer, just like you, and discover how she plans her daily schedule. We'll cover what it takes to be successful, too, and we'll also find out how much money you'll need to start your business. You'll also follow a ten-step tutorial using items around your home to make your first gift basket. At the end of this first lesson, you'll be ready to set up your business!
Lesson 2- Making Gift Baskets
Ready to start designing? This lesson will masterfully explain how to create a professionally styled gift basket, just like the pros make. You'll learn about the essential materials you'll need, and you'll follow photographs showing each design step, from basket bottom to bow. We'll discuss how efficient use of your basket-making time ensures that you make as much money as possible. Finally, we'll go over design and product changes that make each gift basket stand out.
Week 2
Lesson 3- Products and Supplies
Let's go shopping! To create beautiful baskets, you'll need basket-making supplies, as well as products like snacks and gifts to put inside your designs. But how do you decide what and how much to buy? Lesson 3 is full of smart shopping tips that will help you save money and make the right decisions about what to purchase and where. You'll also learn about registering your business so that companies selling merchandise identify you as a bona fide retailer—which means you'll be able to shop and save!
Lesson 4- Your Workspace
Will you set up shop in a garage, basement, or spare room? This lesson explains the advantages of a home-based workspace and provides tips to set it up. You'll also learn about the downside of working at home and explore other options so you can determine what will work best for your business. We'll review an equipment list to ensure you have everything you need, and you'll learn the secrets of creatively organizing your office and design area.
Week 3
Lesson 5- Your Customers
Without sales, you don't have a business, so it's time to meet your customers. We'll review the top ten reasons why individuals buy gift baskets, look at five steps that convince corporations to become customers, and identify professional business owners you know right now who may become your top buyers. You'll come away with a basket full of ideas on how to approach businesses and organizations in your hometown, and you'll learn how to make sales without being pushy.
Lesson 6- The Competition
Baskets full of goodies are a popular gift choice, so you expect a little competition, right? The good news is that your competitor list may be smaller than you imagine. Now you'll discover how to separate the real competition from every business in your area that sells gift baskets. We'll reveal who isn't your competitor, and some of them will surprise you. Then we'll take a look at your actual competitors and assess their strengths and weaknesses. You'll learn how you can use this information to build your own business. Believe it or not, your competitors may lead you to your next customer!
Week 4
Lesson 7- About Pricing
Grab your calculator . . . Lesson 7 is all about money! Success depends on knowing what to charge for each gift basket design, and you're going to learn the formulas to keep you profitable. You'll be introduced to three distinct methods to calculate your prices, and you'll see a sample chart that will help you easily apply that method to all your future designs. We'll also go over the costs that go into each price calculation—it's much more than adding up the snacks and gifts you're putting into the basket. Knowing how much you spend is just as important as how much you charge, so you'll see a quick and easy way to keep track of your expenses. Finally, you'll learn how to increase each sale with a little-known technique that gets customers to say "yes."
Lesson 8- Marketing 101
Opportunities to let customers know about your gift baskets are all around you. Which will you choose? First we'll cover the difference between marketing and advertising. Next we'll look at marketing techniques, from printing business cards to creating an online marketing campaign. You can spend a lot of money to promote your business, but the good news is: you don't have to. You'll learn to create a marketing plan and advertising strategy that work for you and your budget.
Week 5
Lesson 9- Getting Paid
Let's face it: you're in business to make money. This lesson unveils how to get paid. You'll discover the methods to collect payments by cash, check, and credit cards, plus how to process payments online. We'll also talk about the importance of creating a business account and how critical—but easy—it is to establish systems to handle different types of payment.
Lesson 10- Delivery Options
Getting your completed gift baskets from point A to point B requires planning and additional supplies. Delivering each gift basket on your own may be an option for local orders, but as you get busy, you'll need other ways to get your designs to customers. You'll discover which delivery systems you can use to ship baskets across the country and around the world. You'll find out which equipment and supplies are required for proper packaging and review a tutorial in packing a ship-shape basket.
Week 6
Lesson 11- Your Web Site
This lesson reveals the steps to creating a Web site for your business. Understanding what you want to accomplish on the Web is key, along with choosing a company to keep your site up and running 24 hours a day. You'll unlock tricks to creating a site that's attractive and user friendly—even if you don't know a thing about Web design. You'll also learn the secrets of search engines to make your site easy to find. Best of all, you'll find out who's visiting your site, which of your designs are most popular, and ways to increase online sales.
Lesson 12- How to Keep Growing
Now you know all the basics to start and support a gift basket business. What's next? This lesson reveals the tactics that top designers worldwide have mastered to keep their businesses going and growing. You'll learn how to recognize growth potential and begin to plan for new opportunities, looking ahead six months to ten years. Whatever your ultimate vision is for your business's future, this lesson will show you how to make it a reality.


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The creationist lawsuit against the JPL is getting better and better: the Glendale News Press reports that lawyers for David Coppedge tried—unsuccessfully—to bar the press from their client's religious discrimination lawsuit. [Update: No, I read that wrong, it was attorneys for JPL who requested the press ban, citing privacy concerns for the witnesses.]
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest Hiroshige denied their request without explanation as the trial delved deeper into the beliefs of the plaintiff, David Coppedge, and how the space exploration agency based on scientific research can accommodate employees who wear their faith on their sleeve.
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America Alone
Sintesi dell'editore
Liberals tell us that "diversity is our strength", while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, while the Supreme Court decides that sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state", and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.
If you think this can't happen, you haven't been paying attention, as the hilarious and provocative columnist Mark Steyn shows to devastating effect in this, his first book on American and global politics.
"America Alone is Mark Steyn at his best: funny and irreverent, even while assembling well-reasoned and complex arguments in support of serious insights." (Human Events)
"In America Alone Steyn's acerbic wit and relentless pursuit of politically incorrect truths show how Islam is gradually conquering the West by reverse assimilation, aided and abetted by global-warming ecochondriacs, craven multiculturalists, and self-detonating Islamists of the Muslim baby boom." (Jed Babbin, author of Inside the Asylum)
Cosa pensano gli ascoltatori di America Alone
- Dave
- 18/04/2007
Got to read more from Mark Steyn
I'm just through the Introduction and can't believe how funny, insightful and provocative Steyn is. Not going to matter if Martha's Vineyard is under water if we're living in a bankrupt, Sharia-ruled country. Good to read an author who understands that losing in Iraq is not an option.
25 people found this helpful
- Kathryn
- 26/01/2007
Great content, lousy narration
I like the content of the book--you have to be interested in a conservative analysis of the middle east and current affairs. Steyn displays great breadth in his scholarship, skipping around effortlessly between Greek philosophers, Shakespeare, and contemporary pundits. His acerbic wit is hilarious; as readers we'd laugh a good deal harder if our own demise wasn't the butt of the joke.
The problem I have with the audiobook is the narration: monotone, pedantic, and hardly ever seeming to "get" Steyn's humor. I miss Steyn's Aussie accent, which can carry sarcasm like the British do without really offending because it all sounds so--jovial and good natured. This narrator sounds merely ponderous, without any of the lightness the language demands. He has this really annoying practice of ending sentences with an ascending tone, like he's asking a question when he's not. Completely affected!! I think it's a book that's more enjoyable read rather than heard, at least in this rendition.
38 people found this helpful
- Baxter
- 30/04/2008
Self Defeating West
I found his thesis fascinating. The demographic changes that we have all heard rumbles about are spelled out here in frightening detail. It is amazing to think that these great western societies, which have brought us everything from modern science and medicine to the first real slavery abolition movement in human history, are simply destroying themselves by selfishly not breeding. The concept of the perpetual adolescence brought on, largely, by the social democratic state making sure their population is not self reliant in an interesting one I had not thought of before. I have heard for years that great societies fall because of the collapse of the family but I have never understood the case for this until now. This book is a great, if somewhat disturbing, read. Let us hope that the author is wrong and that the west (Europe, Japan) can pull itself out of its own self inflicted demographic death spiral.
18 people found this helpful
- John
- 01/06/2008
Intelligent, insightful, educational.
Audio: Well-read by narrator Brian Emerson. If you've ever heard Mark Steyn speak, such as when he's on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, you know it would have been a special treat if he had narrated his own book. Steyn's listenable Candadian-British accent and ability to deliver his many humorous witticisms with just the right emphasis is a pleasure to hear. Emerson is an excellent stand-in however, with his clear, well-pronounced, and lively delivery. The narrator and subject matter held my attention such that I listened to the 10 hours over about 3+ days, despite having 12 of 52 hours remaining on Atlas Shrugged that I've been working on for 2 months.
Content: Excellent, superb, intelligent, insightful, witty to a fault? All of the above. The Islamic 'influence' (isn't THAT putting it mildly!) on the rest of the world is a subject people would be highly advised to inform themselves about. This is not something happening "over there" somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away. Steyns' intelligent compilation of FACTS, and his insightful discourse about them, is one such information resource. Combined with Steyns' inability to deliver more than a few sentences without injecting very clever wit, humor, or innuendo, the book becomes easy to read\listen to. (If only I could muster even HALF the wit and humor that Steyn does, then I'd be a, uhh... oh nevermind.) His humor does not degrade this serious subject, but makes it more palatable. The book is not a rant (The Muslims are coming! The Muslims are coming!), but a level-headed, clear-sighted discussion. I highly recommend it.
(P.S. For backup on demographic facts, surf the 'Net for United Nations Birth Rates and wallow in their databases. Also have a look at Pat Buchanan's STATE OF EMERGENCY, which is packed with referenced demography, such as from UNpopulationDotOrg. I felt Steyn must have read Buchanan amongst others, or used similar available data.)
21 people found this helpful
- JohnCC
- 11/03/2007
Not to be ignored!
Yes, it would be great to have those heady pre 911 days back when radical Islam wasn't our problem. Unfortunately there IS no going back and as Mark Steyn puts it so succintly; An old lady driving erratically on the highway is her problem. The same old lady with the same driving pattern, in an 18 wheeler, becomes your problem. That 18 wheeler is radical Islam and it IS our problem. We either deal with it or we do what Neville Chambelaine did with Hitler; ignore it and hopefully it will go away. This book is a must for every liberty loving person, Chinese, Indian, the West, it does not matter, the message is relevant and crucially important for us all. Yes, the multi culti leftys will scoff, as they do, at us "alarmists" but I fear they will one day hear the words "Told ya!" Sadly that will be too late.
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- Beatriz
- 15/04/2016
Steyn-the uber man
Just recently got interested in little things like free speech, radical Islam, refugee crisis, things like that. Mark Steyn is the first writer or speaker who was able to open my eyes and help me see beyond the weak explanations of our social and political elite. Bombastic? Yes! But it takes very colorful writing to get our minds around the nature of our current global quagmire. Excellent. But his books are even better when he narrates, very nice accent.
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- S. Babb
- 29/06/2008
A must read
Every American needs to read and absorb this information. A very clear and well defined analysis of what is happening in America now.
16 people found this helpful
- Chris Montalbano
- 30/08/2019
Negative Story
I found the first two chapters of this book to be very negative and written in a sarcastic tone.
1 person found this helpful
- Ralph
- 29/05/2009
Brute demographics!
A 5-star book that I gave 4 because Mr. Stein should have read it! His marvelous senes of humor doesn't come through with this narrator which is a real shame. I would be willing to re-purchase this download if Mr. Stein were to re-record it. Anyway--I HOPE HE'S WRONG, and I don't agree with everything but his brutal collection of demographic evidence and history is compelling. More importantly, he NAILS the inherent, fatal weakness of our current wishy-washy, cultural relevatism in the face of assertive, aggressive, devout belief! By the time you realize what's happening--it's too late! (...as it already is in Europe and soon will be in the U.S.A.)
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- Eunice
- 20/07/2009
I thought this would be another "Rah, Rah America" book. Wrong!!!! It is a fascinating study of demographics and the shift of populations. I pretty much listened straight through! I use earbuds, so it makes my ears ring, but it was worth it! Well done, Steyn!!!
The narration was fine. I had wished Steyn had read it himself, at first, but then fell right in with the narrator. Again, well done!
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- Marlow
- 24/01/2014
Absolutely Essential
Any additional comments?
I already had a copy of this book in paperback but I bought the audio version as well for the pleasure of listening to what I already knew to be a superb book. Steyn's "America Alone" (along with its companion piece After America) is one of the essential books of the last decade. Everyone should read this book, especially those who would wish to disagree with it. Both funny and truthful, it says so many of the things which need to be said but which are usually smothered in silence due to fear of political censure. Steyn turns a searchlight of truth upon the realities of contemporary western society and reveals just how self-destructive ideological correctness has been, and will continue to be in the future as its unplanned consequences play out. The book is a few years old now but it's still as relevant as ever. If you haven't read (or listened to) this book yet, buy it.
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- JayCee
- 05/03/2017
Interesting and concerning.
What made the experience of listening to America Alone the most enjoyable?
Steyn's writing is always interesting.
What did you like best about this story?
Plenty of facts to ponder.
Have you listened to any of Brian Emerson's other performances? How does this one compare?
No. To be honest, I would have preferred Steyn to read his own book
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I was left feeling somewhat uneasy about the political future of the USA, and Europe. Any one who likes their ideas to be challenged would find this an interesting read. Perhaps not the very best of Steyn, but superior to many political writers today.
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- Mr Richard G Keene
- 09/09/2018
A sound, serious argument, at times laugh out loud funny
This understated and amusing take on a difficult subject made this a pleasure to follow. It is my first audio-book and I will doubtless listen to it a second time soon as I found there were times I zoned out (as I was driving much of the time). For anyone interested in the surely inevitable Islamification of the West - or as Mark Steyn notes, the West excepting USA - this is highly recommended.
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- Mike
- 17/04/2020
Thought Provoking
A compelling narrative that was written in such a way as to make it hard to put down, a rarity among non-fiction. I confess I went in with some contradictory views, many of which I still hold but I admit the author made me rethink some positions with sheer well argued cold logic!
- Christopher B.
- 24/09/2019
Interesting, Insightful and Worrying
Reading this book some twelve years after its publication I was struck by its relevance. Mr Steyn's stark warning on the trajectory of western civilisation appears to have been vindicated by subsequent events. The Narration was slightly disappointing. It was clear and easy enough on the ear but it did rather obscure the authors' signature sardonic humour.
- 29/12/2012
terabley recionay
Miss quoating fiction to make a point. This is just a tirade agenst wellfare and islam. Pease the lord and pass the ammountion.
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Marley Marl - The Symphony (feat. Juice Crew (Masta Ace, Kool G Rap, Craig G and Big Daddy Kane) (1988) (Produced by Marley Marl)
[Verse 1: Master Ace]
Listen closely, so your attention's undivided
Many in the past have tried to do what I did
Just the way I came off, man I'm gonna come off
Stronger and longer, even with the drum off
I keep on goin' and flowin' just like a river
I got a whole lot to give so I'm-a give a
Little at a time, new trails are blazin'
Action is in effect, and always stays in
Yeah, just like a shot from a cannon
I am the man in charge and I've been plannin'
A jam strong enough that it can life your soul
I'm the originator, and my rhymes are made of gold
Once you hear the capital "A" rap, it'll stay
With you for awhile, it won't go away
Unless you force it, because it stays with you, my friend
And if you toss it away, I'm-a hit ya again
I project my voice so it's right in the crowd
There's a sign at the door: no bitin' allowed
And if you didn't read it I suggest you do so
Or you'll be stranded, just like Caruso
Sleep if ya wanna, go 'head, get some shut-eye
A man broke his jaw tryin' to say what I
Say on the microphone, you shoulda left it alone
Just for the record, let it be known
That my ego's only partially grown
And never will I ever condone biting in any form, yo I'm only warm
That verse was the calm, now here's the storm...
Next up (Yo, I believe that's me). Craig G, light up the mic for the Symphony
[Verse 2: Craig G]
This jam is dedicated to all un-optimistics
That though I wasn't coming out with some exquisite rhymes
But that's alright, cuz now I'm back
To kill all the rumors and straighten the facts of me
Not rockin' rhymes like I always used to
But you jumped on hte tip when you heard me and the Juice Crew
You said, "Mmm mmm mmm, ain't that somethin?
Yo Craig, I head you in that jam, and it's pumpin'!
I apologize. Oh yeah, and uh, can I have your autograph for me and my grandma?"
That's how I'm livin': all surprise mode
Don't even sleep, try not to keep your eyes closed
Cuz if you do, when you awaken, your so-called spot will be taken
I'll take you over like a greedy executive, cuz on the mic my prospective is
To be the best in all rap events, and since I have a call, I call experience
Next up...(Yo, I believe that's me)
Kool G Rap, light up the mic for the Symphony...
[Verse 3: Kool G Rap]
Yo, Marley gives the slice, I get nice
And my voice is twice as horrifying as Vincent Price
Goes deep, till you fell in a spell of a sleep
And while I'm countin' the money, you count sheep
When G Rap strikes the mic, I recite the type of hype that you like
And make the people unite
I grip up hips and zip up lips, step on reps, you flip and wanna sip on my tip
Take a deep breath, because you don't have another left
Comin' back like I'm avengin' my brother's deat
Makin' veterans run for medicine
Cuz I put out more lights in a fight than ConEdison
Rip the damn cage like I'm on a rampage
And if you want rage, I'm-a make front page
Read the headlines, suckers, todays the deadline
Your head is way past bedtime
Can't kill though. Solo. Cuz you're still all...soft like a pillow
My rap is rougher than Brillo
So fear me, don't dare dare me
And don't compare me to him when you hear me
Talk about a battle but you ain't yet ready for war
Your metaphor sucks more than a whore
You can't replace me, ice me or ace me, bass me, face me, slice me or race me
Bite me or taste me -- I'll show you that I got force
My rap burns your mouth like hot sauce
Run for water while I break your tape recorder
Server-to-sucker: the order is manslaughter
Another rapper, G Rap wrecks, he's rated X, to mean the boy is sex. Next...
The amplifier gets used and abused. Pumps so loud, we might blow a fuse
This is anger, madness, ready to hang 'er
Rapper or singer: I'm puttin' up my middle finger
Next up... (I believe that's me)
Big Daddy Kane, get on the mic for the Symphony
[Verse4: Big Daddy Kane]
Settin' it off, lettin' it off, beginnin'
Rough to the endin', you never been in
To move the groove with the smooth rap lord;
Like a bottle of juice, rhymes are being poured
Down your ear, crisp and clear
As I prepare to wear, tear and smear - then I'm outta here
With a mark left that you can all cling
Cuz rockin' a party? Yo, it's a small thing
I rip many places on regular basis, and broken down mics were the only traces
That I'd been there and there at the party
The mic had my prints, and on it was a body
So take caution. I'm not horsin' around in a throwdown, clown
I'm takin' yours son
So just acknowledge the way that I kick it
Cuz if rap was a house, you'd be evicted
And dismissed from the microphone, chokin' on a bone, cuz Daddy's home
And battlin' me is hazardous to health
So put a quarter in your ass, cuz ya played yourself
Like a game in the arcade. You need a far aid
I'm walkin' the path that Allah made
I'll attend and then begin to send a speech to reach and teach
So just say when
So I can let lyrics blast like a bullet
My mouth is the gun; on suckers I pull it
The trigger, ya figure, my pockets gettin' bigger
Cuz when it comes to money, yo, Grant's my nigga!
You've got the groove, MCs, freeze, stand still, nobody move
It's a sabotage, as I take charge. Don't barge, cuz gotdamn, I'm livin' large
Like a giant. You're nothin' but a midget, a small digit
You ain't hit it, forget it, quit it
I reign superior, always takin' care o'ya
No-frill rappers, you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate
As the great will dominate straight to the state
Of reignin', gainin. So put Kane in, that category. Period. End of story...


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Researchers develop new technique to assess diversity of plant species from afar
March 23, 2012
By analyzing vegetation information collected by satellites over time instead of for just one day, scientists in the Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS) have developed a novel procedure to assess the composition of plant species in an area.
Researchers long have used multi-spectral images (which include radiation outside human perception, such as infrared) and other remotely sensed data to create maps of vegetation around the globe. But seasonal changes in vegetation can limit the usefulness of these procedures, making them accurate for only the particular day or season when the data was collected.
"We analyzed the variability of the electromagnetic spectrum over time, in response to the temporal variability of the vegetation in an area," said Andrés Viña, MSU assistant professor of fisheries and wildlife, CHANS-Net member, and lead author. "We calibrated our analysis with information on plant species composition we had collected in the field at our study site, the Qinling Mountains region in the Shaanxi Province of China. So instead of looking at a snapshot, we looked at the area over time. Now we can say if two places exhibit similar temporal variability, then they are probably floristically similar.
"This procedure allows resource managers to assess the plant biodiversity of a region without having to do the painstaking work of collecting regionwide field data," he added.
The paper, "Relationship between floristic similarity and vegetated land surface phenology: Implications for the synoptic monitoring of species diversity at broad geographic regions," is published online in the June 2012 issue of Remote Sensing of Environment.
Viña explained the two types of diversities: alpha diversity is diversity of place and beta diversity is diversity from one place to another, the focus of this research.
"This is the diversity we were interested in, the beta diversity," Viña said. "If one area is similar to another in terms of the timing of natural events, such as leaf emergence, flowering, fruiting and leaf senescence along the seasons, can we say that the floristic composition will be similar? Our research has demonstrated that this is true."
Viña said the research could likely apply to other geographical areas with strong seasonality. He and his colleagues plan to test the technique to see if it works in places without strong seasonality and/or that have a very high number of species, such as tropical rain forests.
In addition to Viña, other paper authors are Mao-Ning Tuanmu, MSU fisheries and wildlife doctoral candidate; Weihua Xu and Zhiyun Ouyang, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yu Li, research assistant at The Nature Conservancy; Jiaguo Qi, of the MSU Center for Global Change and Earth Observations; and Jianguo "Jack" Liu, MSU University Distinguished Professor of fisheries and wildlife, who holds the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability and is CHANS-Net principal investigator. Tuanmu, Ouyang, Qi and Liu are CHANS-Net members.
The research was funded by NASA, the U.S. National Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.


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WASHINGTON--As Washington tries to find a way past the political dysfunction that triggered the shutdown of the federal government, Gov. Jerry Brown came to town Thursday to suggest it look for inspiration in California.
Brown told a ballroom of liberals celebrating the anniversary of the Center for American Progress, one of the left's favorite think tanks, that it was only a few years ago California had been written off by the pundits as a lost cause.
"Three years ago California was called a failed state," he said. "They were virtually chortling in the conservative venues."
Brown credited California's turnaround to a series of ballot measures. The measures allowed a state budget to get passed with a simple majority of lawmakers, put an independent commission in charge of voting boundaries, and raised taxes by billions of dollars.
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Brown acknowledged some of the struggles his administration has faced. He lamented the many deep cuts in programs lawmakers had to make over the last several years to keep the state solvent. And he called the situation in California prisons "another mess, but far less of a mess than it had been in years before." Brown said reducing overcrowding in prisons is one of the greatest political challenges any officeholder can face.
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I remember as a kid I avidly coveted a pair of clogs,first seen on my Swedish friend Tina's feet. I loved the clumpy hollow sound they made whenever she walked and they were a far cry from the Kickers we were made to wear and loathed.My mom never understood the attraction;understandable since growing up in Alexandria,Egypt a clog would have been used for killing roaches and doing odd jobs around the house.But she soon caved in and I became the proud owner of a pair of patent yellow leather clogs that I wore with pseudo Swedish pride.
Years on and clog free,I attended boarding school in Switzerland . The subject of clogs amazingly came up one night as our in house director gave us our welcome speech.Each winter ,from the months of January till March, was spent up in the mountains and we senior girls inhabited a gorgeous chalet with wooden floors and paneling with nothing for miles around (so no one could hear us scream...) apart from the wee train station straight out of the Alamo. So due to all the wood,it was understandable that clogs were verboten,the sound would ricochet like gunfire and deafen the entire population. We were also told,while I am at it,that no self respecting female member of this school should be seen smoking in the village streets, chewing gum like a cow or standing under a red light after dark....Natch!
I never revisited the idea of clogs until last summer when suddenly they became very in vogue and Chanel brought out a rather vertiginous version at an also vertiginous price.The battle was half won,at that price they would never find a niche within my wardrobe and I would probably be avoiding a trip to the A&E...Bonus. But one always wants to buy what is both "in" and "over priced" just to partake in that wonderful circle of tomfoolery,so I decided to check out Ebay and see if there would be any for the taking and there were,quite a few in fact,sold as new or "worn once and broke my ankle"but most still up there price wise. Maybe the sellers were desperate to get their money back or buy back their pride,after all there is nothing chic about biting the dust from on high. Did you not see the episode of "Sex and the City" when Carrie tripped and flew across the shop floor in Dior?! Mortificado!
I had never heard of the Masai Barefoot Technology line of shoes but my sister had read about them and dragged me into the sports shop on Kings road to try them on.They were created in 1996 and the company's philosophy is "to keep the body in continual motion" after having studied the Masai. The fact that "they can walk barefoot on natural and uneven ground" helped them make the discovery that "instability had amazing health benefits."Well if motion sickness is anything to go by,I would rather walk on solid ground with my flat soles than rock my way down the high street on what can only be described as a pair of ink blotter rockers strapped to each foot.Hideous...although they have since improved the look I still can't abide them. The Masai are a beautiful,lithe,majestic people that inspire calm and inner strength,I cannot see how the shoes represent them in anyway and I find myself singing: "Weebols wobble but they won't fall down.." when looking at a pair of those shoes in whichever shape or form they now come in. Other than my sister who has since sold hers on Ebay,I have a dear friend in London who has a pair in a nasty shade of concrete grey. I have had the pleasure of walking down Kings road many a time with her as she rocked and rolled alongside me. Sometimes she would skid,trip or suddenly be pitched forward and come to an abrupt halt like someone suddenly slamming on the brakes...I didn't know whether to act like nothing was up or cry out: "Timberrrrr!"
Marcia Kilgore of "Bliss" and "Soap and Glory"fame decided to create a fashionable alternative to the flip flop that would enhance your physic and cure certain ills,she aptly named them: Fitflops. Here comes the science: "They are biomechanically engineered to help you tone and tighten your leg muscles while you walk"in plain speaking: to get your junk out of the trunk. They also "relieve chronic back pain,sciatica and osteoarthritis..."I would much rather get my flop fit at the gym and wear my simple,cheap as chips Havaianas flip flops that don't promise you a darn thing and therefore won't disappoint.
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Okay, just a heads up for this review: it contains spoilers for Episode 1 of The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief. So if you care about things like that, go ahead and skip to the tl;dr and rating at the bottom of the page.
I don't have anything against episodic games. I'm a huge fan of everything by Telltale that I've picked up. But there are a few inherent problems with the way The Raven is assembled. Most notably, every episode requires you starting a new game. Maybe I'm just spoiled by The Walking Dead's continuous narrative, but it kind of sucks that nothing you do in a previous episode has any bearing on the course of the game. Not only that, but after the opening sequence, I had to explain everything I found in episode one to the passengers of the MS Lydia. Since a few days had passed between finishing episode one and picking up episode two, I was fuzzy on some of the details. It's not like I was prevented from continuing the game for getting any of the details wrong (or that it'll matter once I start episode three), it's just annoying to have such egregious gaps in the gameplay.
Episode 2, Ancestry of Lies, opens in the medical bay of the MS Lydia. Constable Zellner is just waking up after getting chloroformed by the good doctor, so everything echoes and looks like its tint took a hard dive into the green and blue. It's a really intense scene, especially compared to the previous episode, because it's the first time I was able to die. While he's preparing a syringe, the doctor lets slip a few hints at his motives for killing the Baroness, and if you can't escape before he turns around, he sticks it in your neck. Game over, blackout, start back at the beginning. This is definitely my favorite scene so far. I only wish there were more serious consequence like dying throughout the game. I mean, the primary antagonist is a mad bomber, and the only person who can kill me is a doctor? Also, I'm not sure if I completed this section correctly because as I was playing, Zellner had an animation glitch that phased him through his restraints so I could escape. But I was willing to roll with it in order to see what else was in store for me. Unfortunately, after this brief excitement, it was back to the same old gameplay as episode 1 – mostly interrogating the passengers with some intermittent point-and-click puzzles. The ship's mystery is quickly wrapped up as you land in Cairo and arrive at the museum, and thankfully that's when the story really starts to pick up.
In my review for the previous episode, I didn't spend much time explaining the hint system because the game is fairly easy to get through without any help. But the difficulty has been ramped up for the second episode, so you'll find yourself referencing your notebook and fishing for hints a lot more this time around. As you progress through the story, you'll notice a score box appear in the upper corner of the screen. These are the points that determine your rating at the end of the chapter and earn you either the Amateur, Advanced or Master Detective achievement. You can choose to "purchase" a hint by lowering your score in two different ways. I briefly touched on the first in my last review: you press X, and every object that you can interact with will be highlighted with an hourglass. Basically, if you aren't sure if you've found everything in a room, you can spend 10 points to check. It's a bit like calling out "Marco Polo" to see what all responds. The second way to get a hint is to consult your notebook. Not only does your notebook summarize all the information you have uncovered for every character and event, but it also lists the steps you have taken and need to take in order to progress. If you get stuck, you can spend 100 points to ask for a hint for the next step. The game will give you advice like "I should try speaking with all the passengers," or "I need to find an [item] in order to continue."
Halfway through the episode, you finally confront the Raven. And here is where my biggest frustration with the investigation manifested itself. It felt like almost no time had been spent trying to find out who the Raven could be – my time was occupied by trying to open the professor's door, figure out who killed the Baroness and wondering if the Raven was even still alive to rob the museum (spoiler alert: he is). When it came time to guess who the Raven really is, it pissed me off because that's all it was – a guess. It didn't make me feel like I had solved a mystery, it felt like it was just time for the game to let me know who was behind it all. But my frustration aside, this is also where the story takes an interesting turn, because it takes you back to the very beginning of the game: only now you get to play as the Raven's partner. It was pretty cool to get to replay the train scene from a different perspective that explained the links between all of the clues.
The pace of the gameplay as the Raven's partner is the exact opposite of Zellner. Where Zellner's gameplay mostly involves talking to passengers with some intermittent puzzles, as the Raven's partner – a thief – you are keeping a low profile, so it's almost all point-and-click jury-rigging with only a few conversations. It's kind of odd that in the first half of the game you play as a constable trying to solve the mystery of the Raven, but the gameplay is largely based on exposition, and the second half explains the mystery, but the gameplay is largely puzzle-based.
Despite being shorter than episode 1, Ancestry of Lies is an overall stronger episode. There's more action, the puzzles are more difficult, and the story starts progressing in a satisfying way (with a couple notable hiccups). But ultimately, all of the gameplay problems and animation glitches that plagued the first episode are just as present in the second. Ancestry of Lies is streets ahead of Eye of the Sphinx, but it's still the exact same glitchy, frustrating mess.
Despite being shorter than Eye of the Sphinx, Ancestry of Lies is an overall stronger episode. There's more action, the puzzles are more difficult, and the story progresses in a satisfying way (with a couple notable hiccups). But ultimately, all of the gameplay problems and animation glitches that plagued the first episode are just as present in the second. Ancestry of Lies is streets ahead of Eye of the Sphinx, but it's still the exact same glitchy, frustrating mess.
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In the latest blow to City College of San Francisco, the school that is fighting to remain open and accredited will lay off dozens of employees and cut salaries because far too few students are enrolling.
City College needs about 3,000 full- and part-time students to register for the spring semester - and fast. If not, the school expects to lose $6.5 million in state funding, which is tied to enrollment.
"What we are asking for is difficult but necessary if we are to survive this fiscal crisis and reform our college for the benefit of our students and our community," interim Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman announced in an e-mail to employees and students on Friday.
The setback comes as City College is struggling to retain its accreditation, which is in jeopardy because the school has not lived within its means for years, according to the regional Accreditation Commission for Community and Junior Colleges.
For example, as the state cut millions of dollars in funding to community colleges during the budget crisis, City College relied on attrition rather than layoffs to reduce expenditures.
Now, beginning in January, City College will lay off 34 full-time clerical workers and slice 20 to 30 part-time instructors and 18 part-time counselors from its payroll, union and college officials said.
College trustees have also approved a 4.4 percent salary cut for non-union employees, including most administrators. But employees will actually see their paychecks reduced by 8.8 percent because half the school year has already gone by.
College officials say they will unilaterally impose the same cut on faculty if labor leaders won't agree. At the college, members of the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 are livid and say they will fight the move.
"The (college) district does not appear to be concerned about the impact that these premature cuts will have on workers' livelihoods," said Alisa Messer, the union's president, adding that many part-time employees have been at the college for decades. Nor has the college seen any state cuts yet, she said.
"We're skeptical about the need to pre-emptively cut wages when we should be doing everything we can to ensure that the college does not lose funding and enrollment is met," Messer said.
Scott-Skillman said the college expects to lose $6.5 million in state funding because this is the second year in a row that enough students haven't registered to justify City College's state allocation of $154 million.
The state gives colleges a one-year grace period in hopes it will make up the loss of enrollment the next year.
"If that doesn't happen, the state sees the college as a smaller institution and funds it accordingly," Scott-Skillman explained in her letter. "Unfortunately, we are on that path."
Currently, the state expects City College to enroll the equivalent of 34,000 full-time students, or about 85,000 actual full- and part-time students.
So far this year, they are about 3,000 students short of that, said Larry Kamer, the college's spokesman. They have until the end of the summer session to make up the difference.
Although city voters approved Proposition A, a parcel tax to benefit City College, that money won't arrive until a year from now, Scott-Skillman said. Nor does the school have sufficient reserves to weather the reduction in state funds.
It's possible that students may stay away from City College because they're afraid it will lose its accreditation and be forced to close next year. The college has until March 15 to prove it should stay open, and the accrediting commission will reach a verdict in June.
But its accreditation wasn't in jeopardy last year, and City College had the problem then, too.
Steve Ngo, a college trustee, identified two other likely reasons for the drop in enrollment: bad planning, and, ironically, the improving economy.
"When the economy is good, our enrollment drops because people don't feel the need to retrain anymore," Ngo said, referring to thousands of students who flocked to the school during the recession to learn new skills - then vanished.
As for bad planning, the college has often failed to offer classes based on students' needs and available cash - a calculation known in the business as "enrollment management."
For example, last year, trustees directed administrators to cut classes with low enrollment. Instead administrators made an across-the-board cut to be fair to instructors, Ngo said.
As it tries to remain accredited, however, the college has changed that practice to try and offer students more of what they actually need. They hope it will increase enrollment.
-- To register, enroll or view classes at City College of San Francisco, visit ccsf.edu.
Nanette Asimov is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Twitter: @NanetteAsimov.


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House that roared: Crystalphonic digitized, not downsized
Earlier this year, the unexpected closings of legendary facilities like Cello Studios in Los Angeles and The Hit Factory in New York sent shockwaves through the recording industry.
Blame it on cheaper home recording gear, or on piracy– or on terrorists if you want to be really creative. Either way, Crystalphonic Studio on Preston Avenue was in a precarious position, one of the last of a dying breed of exorbitant, no-holds-barred recording facilities. Crystalphonic opened in June 2003 to much fanfare and a stunned audience of local musicians, none of whom could believe the caliber of the place– the chairs cost $1,200 each– or the fact that such a venture was being launched so far from a major urban market.
That was precisely the point, though– it was all part of proprietor Kevin McNoldy's plan to bring top-notch recording capabilities to Anytown, U.S.A.
They'd still draw the larger acts, he reasoned, by offering a small-town reprieve from the adrenaline-soaked scenes in New York and Nashville. And it didn't hurt that the rent and operating costs in Charlottesville would be much lower, leaving room for sweet, gooey profit.
Having multi-artist manager Coran Capshaw's Red Light Management in town didn't hurt. Two years later, Crystalphonic has seen its share of big names– among them, Capshaw golden boys Blue Merle and jam rockers OAR, fresh from their Red Light baptism– but it hasn't been quite a steady hit parade.
And yet somehow, perhaps against all odds, McNoldy and company made it through the great studio massacre. Or did they?
To hear them tell it, they've more than held their own.
"We're one of the studios in the United States that's thriving while so many others are failing," says McNoldy.
Still, Crystalphonic is changing, perhaps preparing for exorbitant analog sonic luxury to go the way of the vinyl LP, and making way for a sleek, digital killing machine.
"I thought, 'I don't want to keep catering to this thing that's going to become a dinosaur,'" says McNoldy. Surprisingly, he's talking about his own studio in its former incarnation, which was bursting at the seams with high-end analog equipment. It sounded great, but was horribly inefficient.
"When things get low in the industry, that's when change can really happen, and you should invest in the things you believe in because it can only go up from there," McNoldy says.
Clearly, one of the things he believes in is technological development.
To that end, this spring Crystalphonic completely gutted its facility– around the same time as the sessions for OAR, their most famous recording client to date– in order to make way for a completely new paradigm.
The ultra high-end Solid State Logic audio mixing console, a hallmark of rock and roll and the studio's former pride and joy, has been sold and will be replaced by a Digidesign Icon, a digital equivalent that trades the electrical pathways of the SSL for the virtual knobs and faders of a computer program.
It seems like a natural progression for a studio that sold off several truckloads of top-notch synthesizers, keyboards, and drum machines about a year ago in order to replace them with software packages.
The move to digital resonates well with local songwriter Lauren Hoffman, who predicts that it will increase recording opportunities for fledgling artists.
"Bands who have the same software at home can save a lot of money making records, because they can make the record at home and then take it to professionals who mix it and tweak the audio," says Hoffman. "It costs a lot of money to go in and track everything at a nice studio."
Her latest album includes some work that was done in a smaller home studio, and she says fans have been reacting to it with nary a suspicion.
That's money that might have otherwise gone into the studio's pocket, right?
Chris Kress of PMD Recording actually ran a recording business in the very same space now occupied by Crystalphonic before relocating and going digital.
"Starting in about 2000, I felt like things were going downhill commercially for professional studios," says Kress. "There's just too much opportunity to do great work at home. Platinum records were being made in people's houses. I'm glad I changed my business three years before this started to hit."
McNoldy sees it differently.
"A lot of studio owners think they're going to lose business to it, but I believe I can do a lot to help improve what people are doing," he says. "We all need each other."
Thus, Crystalphonic employees are given home recording rigs, in part to help them learn to make the transition from living room to studio as painless as possible. "I'd rather be viewed as someone who defines the future of this than as someone who adhered to the past model," McNoldy says.
Here's the curveball: his plan for the future also involves zipping clients' projects back and forth– by way of a specialized Internet framework– between the Virginia facility and a "private mix suite" he's setting up at his new home. In Florida.
Despite his new studio, though, McNoldy promises to remain as involved as ever in the affairs of Crystalphonic's Virginia division.
"I'm still a partner. I'm in exactly the same position I was in before. We might as well call it the Crystalphonic B Room," he says, "except that it's 800 miles away."
To McNoldy, that's just a huge buffer zone, a way to ensure that the burden of business administration doesn't reach him again.
For years, in addition to being the single big name associated with the studio and offering his services as a producer to recording clients, McNoldy also handled a hefty portion of the paperwork, which left him with little time for his chosen art.
"I wrote 500 songs before hitting college. I went from that– 50 songs a year, a song a week, minimum– to writing two songs in the five years since we started this venture. I found that I couldn't even listen to music anymore," he says. "It was like being in a gilded cage. We'd have an amazing record producer downstairs, and I'd think, 'I can't go downstairs and write a song in my own room?'
"I was getting very frustrated with not being able to produce," McNoldy continues. "Then I did the Chance Element project, and that really got my juices flowing again."
That's pretty high praise for a relatively low-profile act. Chance Element, a local rock project featuring brothers John and Mike McMahon, has been around for only a year, and has been playing shows for only a little over half that time.
Nevertheless, in that time they've become one of Crystalphonic's most loyal clients, and McNoldy has been deeply involved in the production of their album, slated for release in October.
John McMahon likes the new Crystalphonic.
"The technology being used here also makes Kevin available as a producer to anyone who wants him... and he's a talented guy," says McMahon. "Then again, this setup works for us because we know him so well– it might be different for a newcomer."
McNoldy hopes that won't be the case.
"We're trying to mimic me being in the studio through all the technology," he says. "In the same amount of time it would take for me to send a file upstairs to downstairs, I can send a file from here to Virginia."
So why fake it, then? Why not just actually be in the studio?
"There are direct flights from Orlando to Charlottesville," McNoldy answers. "When there's a production that I'm intimately involved with, I'll be there."
And while he may have been trying to escape the administrative side of the business, his evasive maneuvers have led him to a management position at an Orlando-based professional audio supply company called Magic Audio.
"It's like a painter being in control of his paint supply," explains McNoldy. "When you control your vital resource, you control your destiny." In other words, having one foot in the door of a sales outfit could help Crystalphonic maintain the rapid rate at which it buys and sells gear.
Unfortunately, that's one of the very behaviors that spawned rumors about the company's financial health, which McNoldy says is fine and dandy.
"The same guys who are starting rumors about me because I'm moving equipment are the guys who are sitting on the same equipment for 30 years," he says with a satisfied chuckle. "This is going to be OAR's biggest album yet, and it's done with one of the biggest producers in the industry. And you're going to tell me I'm in trouble? What have you recorded this week?"
"The biggest rumor I always had to fight in marketing, was that they're going under or going bankrupt or whatever, and that's never been the case," says Sarah Johnson, who amicably parted ways with Crystalphonic in May after spending the better part of a year working on their marketing efforts.
"I know that it was well on its way to the financial situation not even being a situation anymore," she says of the underpinnings in place when she left. "I can only assume that it kept getting better. And I hope that it did, because it needed to."
Johnson is referring to, among other things, the staggering debt that Crystalphonic accumulated in the first few years. "The marketing position probably should have come at the beginning," she continues, laughing just a little.
McNoldy speaks of it like a vanquished foe: "You can't say you're profitable when you're paying off a million dollars in debt, so we have wiped it out."
According to McNoldy, a massive restructuring of assets– including the alarming equipment sales– has left Crystalphonic 2.0 completely in the black.
Gooey profits, indeed. "Like any business, we suffered casualties and made mistakes here and there," he says. "The best way to put it is that we cut off our legs to hit weight in a wrestling tournament... but the point is that we made it."
Clearly, McNoldy has already given up on the traditional recording model, and he may soon give up on the traditional music industry model as well.
"Studio owners are going to be the future of A&R," McNoldy predicts. "What I'm looking at is finding artists and recording them and taking them from start to finish.
"If I were to start this right now," he continues, "Chance Element is the one I'd start with– they're definitely a band that I'd want to take under my wing."
Two months ago, McNoldy stated in The Hook's annual music issue that he was interested in pursuing "The Motown model in a modern form." That plan may actually be coming together.
"I've always been in love with that concept; you live on the upper floors, and you record on the lower floors," he says from Orlando.
Back in Virginia, Scott Harrison is now living upstairs in Crystalphonic's former Studio D, which has been dormant ever since house mastering engineer Temple Newbold left for Florida with McNoldy, taking most of the Studio D equipment.
Harrison and fellow newcomer Jack Gray were hired as engineers to fill in. At 23, Gray is likely one of the youngest engineers ever to command a $5 million studio.
"To be honest, it's a little frightening," Gray says, "but then again, I think that if I wasn't frightened, there'd be something wrong with me."
His mild manner soon fades, however. "With Kevin as the omnipotent advisor, and us with our feet on the ground– well, I don't want to be overconfident, but I think we'll be unstoppable," Gray says.
Local jazz king John D'earth agrees.
The Thompson/D'earth band just completed an album at Crystalphonic, working with Gray from start to finish. "He was an absolute dream to work with," says D'earth. "He always enabled us."
"In order for this to survive, you have to pass it on to good people," says marketer Johnson, and she thinks Harrison and Gray are up to the task: "They're trained by Kevin. Everything they know came straight from him."
Well, maybe not everything.
Prior to his involvement with Crystalphonic, Harrison was personally hired as an audio assistant and jack-of-all-trades by Dave Mustaine, guitarist for the heavy metal band Megadeth.
"All of those speaker cabinets on stage with him on the current tour? I customized those," says Harrison, taking a break from soldering cables for the new Crystalphonic setup.
So can he carry the weight of a $5 million studio?
"In the long run," says Johnson, "it's probably the best thing for the company to move on and progress the way it should. For his own health, it was time for him to do this.
"I guarantee that this is not a permanent break, though," she continues. "This is his baby."
That's also why McNoldy's departure in early August was done slyly and with minimum fanfare– until now, that is. "I didn't want anyone to feel like I was gone," he says.
Crystalphonic's "jack-of-all-trades," Scott Harrison.
Long-time financial backer and Crystalphonic's current CEO, Dave Spence.
"Studio owners are going to be the future of A&R," McNoldy predicts. "What I'm looking at is finding artists...and taking them from start to finish."
New Crystalphonic engineer (and former go-to-guy for Megadeth guitarist Dave Mustaine), Scott Harrison
Crystalphonic's other new engineer is 23-year-old Jack Gray.
Gray & Harrison: with McNoldy as "omnipotent advisor," Crystalphonic's "unstoppable" Dream Team


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New Year's Eve is fast approaching — will you be drinking? If so, you may want to pick up some asparagus while you're laying in champagne, liquor and other supplies for your tipple-lipped festivities; studies show the stalky vegetable may actually help treat hangovers.
Via Popular Science:
Research published in the Journal of Food Science studied the effects of asparagus shoots and leaves on mouse and human liver cells. Specifically, researchers took a look at potentially beneficial amino acids and minerals found in asparagus extract (so maybe not exactly the full vegetable). "Cellular toxicities," as lead researcher B.Y. Kim calls them, were alleviated with asparagus, and the veggie even protected liver cells, the team's study suggests.
The study, which was actually published back in 2009, is available free of charge here. More at Popular Science.


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Faced with yet another budget shortfall, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio
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In a letter to council members, Villaraigosa said overspending and "unanticipated expenditures" had left L.A. with a deficit just four months into a new fiscal year. He asked policymakers to cast a second and final vote on his reduced-benefits pension plan and said his budget advisors would begin identifying new long-term cost-cutting measures, including a ballot measure to strip the city attorney's office of any responsibility for civil cases.
"The fiscal reality calls on us to do business differently and move forward with initiatives we never would have considered under different circumstances," he wrote.
The mayor's letter came out just ahead of a long-awaited budget report from City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana, L.A.'s top budget official. Santana is expected to detail the city's latest financial woes and give his recommendation on employee layoffs. He originally asked for layoffs last spring but the council decided to hold off on a decision for six months.
Villaraigosa's message comes nearly a week after two dozen union leaders sent their own letter to City Hall asking the council to table the pension rollback, which would raise the retirement age and cut benefits for newly hired civilian employees who are not at the Department of Water and Power. That move would save $30 million to $70 million over five years, according to Santana.
Those union leaders -- including Maria Elena Durazo, head of the powerful Los Angeles County Federation of Labor -- asked council members to obtain a new actuarial plan that would spell out the financial costs and benefits of pension rollback before a final vote is cast. The letter made no mention, however, of any legal action by the federation to block implementation of the new pension plan.
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