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Microsoft seen poised to push anti-virus
- 02 February, 2005 09:01
Consensus is building among industry watchers that Microsoft will have anti-spyware and anti-virus products on the market for businesses and consumers by year-end.
Many expect Bill Gates to detail such a product rollout during his keynote address at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco in two weeks. Microsoft declined to discuss that prospect last week.
However, with Microsoft's pending security splash regarded as a fait accompli, anti-virus and anti-spyware vendors are sizing up their chances of withstanding the Redmond giant. Business customers, stocked up on anti-virus but now eager to buy spyware protection, wonder if a Microsoft entry would drive down costs, or if Microsoft - whose software seems to always require patching - really can be counted on as the first responder in worm and virus outbreaks.
"This is a challenge for Microsoft: the inherent conflict of interest in that Microsoft has had to constantly struggle with this need to fix problems in their own products," says Neil MacDonald, a Gartner research analyst. For Microsoft to sell anti-virus and anti-spyware products is akin to "the water company, which has smelly water, selling filters to take the smell out," he says.
Last week the speculation that Gates will make security news at RSA had analysts - including at least one financial analyst, Adam Holt at J.P. Morgan, who predicts Microsoft will have an anti-virus product out in the third quarter - issuing alerts about the prospect.
MacDonald says Microsoft is in a hurry to get into the anti-virus/anti-spyware business if only to provide added protections for its Web browser, which is starting to lose market share to the open source Firefox browser. Firefox is said to have better security protections than Internet Explorer.
Anti-virus and anti-spyware protections are destined to be combined, experts increasingly agree, and Microsoft appears to have signaled its assent recently by acquiring Giant Company Software in December and issuing a free beta version of an anti-spyware product in tandem with a free virus cleanup tool this month.
"It should be a single product, and the anti-virus vendors have dropped the ball," MacDonald says, though he adds that McAfee and Computer Associates are among the few that seem to understand the convergence. "I blame it on the greed and ineptitude of the [anti-virus] vendors," he adds.
IDC also believes that virus and spyware protection will more often be merged into one product, further blurring the line between today's estimated US$3 billion anti-virus market and the much-less-mature US$47 million anti-spyware market. This consolidation will occur because customers increasingly are demanding a single product to combat viruses, spyware, Trojans, worms and other types of malicious code, says Brian Burke, a senior research analyst at IDC.
Burke says Microsoft can be expected to have an integrated product by early next year.
One anti-spyware software vendor, Webroot Software, rejects the notion that stand-alone anti-spyware products will be ignored as combination products gain traction. David Moll, Webroot CEO, also says Microsoft will find spyware a tough sell because "customers will be faced with an interesting decision about purchasing a security product to protect software from the same company." Moll adds that Microsoft just signed a three-year deal with Webroot to use its technology for MSN subscribers.
Speed is the key
It's Microsoft's willingness to be the first responder - identifying new threats and issuing signature updates within hours or minutes, like anti-virus firms do today - that is the biggest question, Burke says. Microsoft is only accustomed to providing monthly signature updates, but "anti-virus has evolved from a product to a service and the effectiveness of the security is only as good as its last update," he says. "The value of anti-virus is increasingly based on the vendors to quickly provide signature updates for the latest threats."
IDC says Microsoft will either use Windows Update Service, which currently distributes hot fixes and patches, to deliver these updates or partner with an anti-virus vendor. Advertisement:
Once Microsoft enters the anti-virus update business, the major effect on the market would be felt primarily on the consumer arena - which Symantec dominates - rather than the corporate side, IDC says. Anti-virus vendor Trend Micro, which is resigned to the prospect of Microsoft as a competitor, shares that view.
"There will, in fact, be co-existence," says Lane Bess, president of Trend Micro's North American operations. Bess says Trend Micro will continue to increase its anti-virus sales and intends to put more focus on spyware.
Microsoft last week sent a representative to the ICSA Labs anti-virus Product Developer's meeting in San Diego, where the new subject of establishing testing criteria for spyware was discussed. This would appear to signal the company is gearing up to join the rest of the traditional anti-virus suppliers, says David Perry, Trend Micro's global director of education.
Bess says Microsoft will have an easier time pitching anti-virus products to consumers than businesses.
"In the enterprise space, Microsoft will be hard-pressed with CIOs," he says. "I have that discussion with CIOs when I ask them, 'Am I going to be in trouble when Microsoft comes in with an anti-virus product?' You get a bit of a chuckle, and they say, 'I'm not going to trust my enterprise security to Microsoft.'"
However, some organizations indicate they are keeping an open mind.
"I've asked Microsoft 'Why aren't you in the business of protecting your own backyard?'" says Eben Berry, manager of IS at Network Health, a healthcare provider in Cambridge, Mass. He's taking a wait-and-see attitude, but hopes Microsoft dives in because spyware has become one of the most disruptive problems inside Network Health.
Berry says he has scouted for spyware-protection products. The danger of spyware has convinced management it should block employee access to the Web, which it was reluctant to do before. He hopes any Microsoft entry would bring down costs because buying spyware is like buying anti-virus software twice.
Microsoft has long played an important role in the development of anti-virus products by issuing desktop and server APIs that anti-virus vendors use in their own products to better scan Windows-based systems.
If Microsoft wasn't going to publish such guidelines anymore, that would cause difficulties for competitors, says Mark Shavlik, president and CEO of Shavlik Technologies, which makes patch management and vulnerability-assessment products. "If Microsoft did do that, it would essentially damage the [anti-virus] companies by hiding the APIs," he says.


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Generally he works on architectural projects but for the last couple of years, he has been into creating virtual 3D-models, design, web-design and animations, cartoons and comics. He feels that technical and economical feasibility is very important, since all his projects (even the utopian ones would) work under real conditions. Lately, I encountered Pneumocell, one of his wonderful creation, which fascinated me to an extent that I thought of having him here on our design channel, so without much ado, I now present before you Thomas Herzig, the pioneering spirit behind inflatable architecture.
1. When did you actually realize that you have an inclination towards designing?
Thomas: As a child of 7 years I wanted to become an 'inventor'. My poor technical knowledge at that time did not stop me from drawing crazy light-speed-cars and vessels. Then at the age of 9, I had been so much impressed by the work of the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi, which I decided to become an architect too.
Today after my graduation as an architect, my ambitions still are a mixture of architecture, design, and inventing.
2. Pneumocell, inflatable rocking chair, inflatable couch, and inflatable lamp all have one thing common in them and that is the inflatable configuration, any specific reason to go in for such kind of (inflatable) revolutionary architecture?
Thomas: Inflatable constructions are by far the most efficient in regard to lightness and minimal use of material. The reason is that only tensile loads occur on the thin flexible membrane while pressure loads are hold by another flexible media like air or water, which are available just everywhere and for free. Because of this efficiency, nature has been using this principle of construction for millions of years.
Every creature in living nature is built on cells. The idea about pneumocell as an assembly-kit, has been deeply influenced by the example of biological cell-structures. They are standardized inexpensive cells, which allow an almost unlimited variety of combinations.
3. What is the concept behind ELEKTRO-BLITZ?
Thomas: The idea behind this is, to build a vehicle with minimum air-resistance and minimum weight, and equipped with efficient electric propulsion to minimize energy-consumption. But the car still should be fun to drive. To obtain less front area and less heavy mechanical parts, the car has 2 wheels only. There is an electric engine directly integrated in each of the wheels. Electric engines have peak torque at lowest rpm. So there is no need for clutch, gearbox, and differential transmission. The small gas-engine only loads the small battery that feeds the engines. A gyroscope prevents the car from tipping over. 37 KW would be enough to achieve a speed of 320 kmph.
4. Please acquaint our readers with your Coffee-Shuttle?
Thomas: It is a mobile coffee-bar, a project for a design-competition by the Italian coffee supplier LAVAZZA.
For transport it has the size of a normal 40′ container. At warm weather you can open the wings to increase usable space. Because coffee is an organic product the design should remind on a mobile creature, an insect. Since coffee-shuttle was supposed to move from town to town, recognition-value of the design also is important.
5. How far have you been able to shape your creations to their identity and function? How do you approach your designs? Is there some kind of motif running in your creations?
Thomas: It is my goal to design in the same way as nature would create for the same purpose. For man-made or industrial products of course we have to use different material and we have different tools available than nature does have with its biologic creations. This is why an organic-functional design does not necessarily need to look like a plant or an animal. Just the spirit behind is the same.
Nature's creations are not based on a designer's arbitrariness, not on fashion, and do not flatter any person's vanity or aim to be special. They are pure functional, not in a physical way only, but also in regard to emotions and communication.
As an example, the functional purpose of the beauty of flowers is communication with insects and attraction of these for pollination. This is why I prefer the expression 'identity' which goes far beyond mere 'function'.
Design made by a human mind never will be able to match the perfection of nature with its millions of years of selection. But I am honestly following the same idea, and it makes me happy that with each project I get a better idea about the identity of nature's creations, even if I never will be able to entirely achieve the same degree of perfection.
6. Do you have a signature style? If yes, what are the hallmarks of the style?
Thomas: When I start a design I do not care about my signature or style. I care about the identity that needs to be based on the purpose of the object, and not on the designer's personality.
Pure art like painting may be the product of a psychotherapeutic analysis of one's own identity. But design as a functional matter should be the product of analysis of the products identity.
7. Any flying tips for our readers?
Thomas: Don't trust any tips. Only you can decide which path you need to go!
Try to get all information and education that might be useful but do not try to be special by looking what you might do differently to other designers.
Don't look on yourself and don't look on others! Look on the purpose and identity of the product you want to design, and let your ideas freely come as they come. Then your design will be unique and special, because also YOU are unique, different from any other person in the world.
8. What are your current obsessions and preoccupations? What do you think the Next Big Thing will be?
Thomas: Currently I want to improve the performance of pneumocell and settle it on the market to fully use its potential for worldwide selling in big numbers. For future there are a lot of other ideas about inflatable constructions unelaborated yet.
New concepts of cell-structures for vehicles, and cells filled with sand instead of air for inexpensive fast building in desert-areas.
9. Finally I'd like to have your say on our Thedesignblog.org?
Thomas: I have the impression that you put a big effort in getting information and displaying the most remarkable designs all around the world. You do not just publish the pictures but also study and understand the designer's intentions. And your site's content is growing rapidly day by day.
Thank you Thomas for this wonderful interview, I'd also like wish you luck for all your future endeavors.

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Scotland and Iraq came to me this morning offering up some unique samples of noise. So I figured, let's go where most would not expect noise/power electronics to exist… but indeed they do in unique ways.
Throne of Blood is the first of today's offerings with their Name Your Own Price digital release Everywhen. This is the product of one Stewart McLachlan.
The release contains four unnamed tracks; good when you consider the nature and purpose of the recording. According to the artist's bandcamp site, "Everywhen" is one extended piece split into 4 sections. The idea behind this record was simply to create a meditative, glacially-evolving textural piece that, if utterly surrendered to and experienced attentively, could induce euphoria, despair, or anything in between in the listener."
Track 1 begins with a one chord-based drone followed by a slowly rising static wall of noise which increases in volume as the drone track remains constant. Right away, this release creates almost a hypnotic, trance-like state. By track 3, the drone synth because less audible and the noise takes a bit over more until about 3:43 when the noise completely drops off. A slow-going synth, noise track consistently flows on a much lower level and then tapers off toward the end of the cut. Track 4 is a straight-up harsh noise wall that can stand with the best of them but then tapers off near the end where the synth then puts a close to the release.
Here is why this release is unique. Clearly it's not the intent of the artist to exemplify the dynamics reasons why we all love noise. I think the intent is herein is to hypnotize and offer a piece where the listener loses themselves in the drift created by the synth drone and the rising and falling of the noise wall…. very successful in its trance-like nature.
That's all that really needs to be said. Nice and different effort coming out of Scotland. Again, this is a Name Your Own Price release but it wouldn't hurt for you to toss a couple dollars in this guy's direction. Go check it out.
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This antique oil painting is signed by the artist and dated 1882. As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in the very finest condition it can be for its age having just been professionally cleaned and re-varnished. Augustine Damourette was born in Nantes in 1837 and, alongside John Singer Sargent and Paul Hellau, studied under the famous French portrait artist Carolus Duran.
Augustine Damourette exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1879, and went on to become a successful painter of glamourous Parisian society beauties. Please be aware that this large antique oil painting hangs in a very heavy water-gilded frame and is not suitable for hanging on a weak or stud wall. (framed) 114cm x 83cm (45 x 32¾).
(canvas only) 81cm x 54cm (32 x 21¼). Century French water gilded frame.
Newly professionally cleaned and re-varnished. We do not sell dirty, damaged or unframed works of art.
Where necessary the paintings we sell are cleaned and restored by Fine Art Restoration est. 1974 or Simon Gillespie Studio (as seen on BBC Television's'Fake or Fortune' and'Britain's Lost Masterpieces'). Academy Fine Paintings is an international fine art dealership based in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England. We specialise in 19th century British and early 20th century Post-Impressionist oil paintings by some of the most important artists of the period.My name is Gavin Claxton and in addition to being an art dealer I now also work as an antiques and fine art expert on BBC television. Clients should always bear in mind that the vast majority of paintings we deal in are antiques - works over 100 years old and frequently much older and will therefore invariably retain some evidence of aging, historical damage and repair. During its lifetime a 150-year old oil painting may well have been exposed to extremes of heat or cold, intrusion of water, bumps, cuts and natural age-related deterioration, all of which require restoration. When a listing's heading reads'by' and is followed by the artist's full name (or the artist's initials, if his full name is unrecorded), the work is in our opinion by the artist. When the term'signed by' is used, in our opinion the work has been signed by the artist.
When the expression "attributed to" is used, the work is in our opinion possibly a work by the artist, in whole or in part. When the expression'circle of' is used, the work is in our opinion a work of the period of the artist and showing his influence. When the expression'follower of' is used, the work is in our opinion a work executed in the artist's style but not necessarily by a pupil. When the expression'manner of' is used, the work is in our opinion a work executed in the artist's style but of a later date.
When the term "after" is used, the work is in our opinion a copy or imitation (of any date) of a work by the artist. When the term'bears signature' is used in our opinion the signature is by a hand other than that of the artist. Great care and much time is taken over the safe transportation of the paintings we sell. No second-hand bubble-wrap and reused cardboards boxes here!Before leaving us, each painting takes us approximately 2 to 3 hours to properly i. Safely and securely package for transport; whether for a journey or 30 miles or 3000. Every painting is first wrapped in acid free paper and then the entire frame is enveloped in deep, dense foam U cushioning. This is then covered in numerous layers of AirCap bubble wrap, which is the best and safest product of its type on the market. The entire package is then bound in black shrink wrap (as used by airline companies) and a final later of waterproof cloth tape is applied to all corners, ends and edges. UK clients are also most welcome to collect from us in South Buckinghamshire. We are very aware that not all of clients are in a position to pay the entire sale price upfront. Paintings will be dispatched to clients only once the total balance has been paid in full. Its ironic that 99.9% of the worlds fine art is owned by the wealthiest 0.01% of the population when so many of the artists who created it lived and died in relative poverty.
The fact is that the art world, especially in times of global recession, thrives on inequality. But whilst the possibility of purchasing works by Leighton, Holman Hunt, Constable, and Turner is always going to be the preserve of the super-rich it has never been a better time to invest in works by their contemporaries. The item "Large Fine Antique Original 19thC French Oil Painting Beautiful Girl Paris Salon" is in sale since Thursday, November 8, 2018.
This item is in the category "Art\Paintings". The seller is "academyfinepaintings" and is located in Gerrards Cross. This item can be shipped worldwide.


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Game: Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Developer: Prideful Sloth
Publisher: Prideful Sloth
Console: PS4 (Reviewed), and PC
Release Date: June 18, 2017
A mysterious stone has guided you across the ocean, but a storm seems to have a different idea. The ship is tossed into the sea and you are struck with a vision. A guardian spirit informs you that following the mysterious stone will help you find the answers you seek. You'll find out about your parents and who you really are.
You wake in a shallow cave and your adventure begins. Your mission is to free the sprite children of the guardian and use their combined power to clear the evil Murk. What follows are what in any other game would be grueling side quests; collect this, find this, craft that, and bring it all back to several someones. Build your own farm, but you can't collect all the animals yet to fill the farm. Nor can you plant your own fields. So onward you push to find more sprites to unlock more areas and more fetch quests.
The first area gives you a brief Breath of the Wild moment, where you can see the edges of your world and the many places you can go. It's an extremely colorful world, and very bright. Sometimes a little too bright, as there are certain towns with street lights that are nearly blinding at night.
The villages and people are designed with the word "quaint" in mind. There are no landscapes that inspire awe for any period of time. Some are mildly interesting, like the purple forest I have pictured here, but the splendor wears off quickly. There is nothing substantial to hold you there. Yonder is beautiful the same way Pingu is a well done clay-mation; you can admire the effort that went into it, but the narrative won't keep you interested for longer than five minutes.
While the landscape is, at least, pretty, the audio and music is as unremarkable as a dollar bill. The general sounds are much like Stardew Valley, pleasant but not entirely memorable. The music is much the same when it makes itself heard. Characters are not voice-acted, though each character makes a noise when you speak to them.
I'll also say that the controls are oddly mapped. For one, the game does not make use of the touchpad at all, which most games do to open the in-game menu. Instead, Yonder uses the triangle button. And the map is completely separate, on the d-pad. I do not know what to make of this.
From all of the above, it is difficult to get a grasp on what the developers intended this game to be simply from playing it. Is it a child's game? Is it a farming simulator? Is it an adventure game? Thereby, I cannot in good faith tell you whether one mechanic worked well or not. I have no basis to compare to.
That said, let's take one theory at a time. If this is a farming simulator, it improves very slightly on one thing that usually keeps me from playing such games: movement is much faster and there is an ultimate goal that is less abstract than "save the town from Wal-Mart."
However, Yonder lacks the depth of Stardew. You will have no deep conversations here, no homeless man, no narrative on mental disorders or addiction — none of that. The "evil" Murk is nothing more than a temporary and often pointless obstacle. You can't truly farm here either; there is no one field in which you plant all that you need, nor is there a helpful timer to tell you when a tree is done growing. You do not water your plants, but you plant them and cut them down.
So, there aren't enough pieces to make a complete farming simulator. So, does Yonder make a good adventure game instead? No. There is no combat. Your tools are purely for collecting materials. You have recipes for food, but you have no health bar. The food is "payment" for farmhands (though I have yet to discover exactly what their function is).
The Murk is all that blocks you from particular areas and advancing the plot. However, it is quite literally pointless the rest of the time. Only when you are unlocking a Sprite does it matter. There are pathways around the murk, or you can unlock it, and the area leads to nothing but a chest or an actual dead end. I kid you not, there was one cave I cleared and it had literally nothing in it — not even a treasure chest.
In terms of an adventure game, Yonder has taken side quests and sucked all the fun out. If the point of this game is exploration, there is nothing sublime in this nature. Abzû, Journey, Flower, all hold a mystery/a story. Their nature leaves you in stunned awe, whether you care to know the mystery or not. Yonder shows you a beautiful place, and asks you to destroy it in the way of collection. True, you can replant the trees you cut down, but that's it. There is nothing to keep the player in a given area. It gets boring rather quickly.
If Yonder isn't a farm sim, or an adventure game, is it for children? It is my theory that yes it is. A game for children of ages 5 and up. As long as you don't eat the controller, you'll be fine. It is the only category that can put Yonder in any sort of positive light.
When I was about 6 or 7, this game would have been perfect. It was around then that I would pick up Ocarina of Time and did everything but combat. I made up my own stories about certain areas and directed Link on my made-up missions. Yonder would have filled this need exactly. I was old enough to understand game mechanics, but too shy to try my hand at "skilled" combat.
Yonder can give a sense of accomplishment without any in-game danger of risk. There are hours and hours of collection to be had here. Go fishing, cut down trees, mow the grass – whatever you like. You might even stumble onto the plot.
As a child's game, I would rate Yonder slightly higher, but even children deserve more depth in story than Yonder can offer. As an adult, however, Yonder doesn't know what it wants to be it falls short in all possible categories. There's not enough farming for it to be a farming simulator, not enough danger to be an adventure game, and not enough story risks for a children's game.


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A Trail of Fear
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DescriptionYou now know Niuzao's secret. We are not only the wardens of this temple... we were the wardens of the Sha of Fear that was buried beneath it.
The Sha itself may have escaped... but it left traces behind. If you're truly going down into the catacombs, you should eliminate those traces, before they escape and cause greater problems than those we already face.
We already have mantid, mogu, and yaungol to worry about. This sha problem needs to be nipped in the bud before even we are overrun.
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It may have taken forty years, but Iggy and The Stooges guitarist James Williamson is finally able to see and accept the idea that his career is an impressive entity very deserving of praise. That such a discovery has only become apparent to the guitarist now might seem surprising, but even more unbelievable is the fact that the point finally hit home because of an event which, on the surface, might appear unrelated: on September 28, 2013 Williamson will deliver the keynote music address at the Creative Convergence Silicon Valley (C2SV) Technology Conference and Music Festival at noon before he performs with Iggy and The Stooges at St. James Park later that evening.
The combination of those two events – the speaking engagement and the performance – will simultaneously give the guitarist respect and acknowledgement for the two sides of his career which, until recently, seemed to run independently of each other. While it's true that James Williamson first garnered notice as the guitarist for Iggy and The Stooges, the lesser-known part of Williamson's story is that, after The Stooges broke down in 1974, he obtained a degree in electronics engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and, by 1982, had climbed the corporate ladder to the position of Vice President of Technology Standards for Sony.
His roles as the guitarist for one of the most influential bands in rock history and as a self-professed "tech geek" are why Williamson is the perfect speaker for C2SV; he embodies the concept of "creative convergence," the term for which C2 stands. Even so, that doesn't mean he isn't still a bit modest when it comes to acknowledging his own achievements. In conversation, Williamson is perfectly affable and candid when conversation turns to his roles both as the keynote speaker at C2SV and as guitarist for Iggy and The Stooges, but he also regularly downplays any compliments that he might receive with good humor. In that way, he proves yet again to be the ideal candidate for the role of being the keynote speaker for this festival.
Bill Adams vs. James Williamson of Iggy and The Stooges
JW: Hello?
BA: Hello may I speak to James Williamson please?
JW: Yeah, hi! How are you doing, Bill?
BA: Oh, I'm doing pretty well, how are things on your end James? You're about to give the keynote address at a conference which really seems to be geared toward all the things you've done in your career!
JW: It really does seem that way doesn't it! [chuckling] I don't know how that happened exactly – other than the fact that I'm the local boy so it would be pretty easy to get me here – but it looked pretty interesting to me. They've been doing the conference for the last couple of years and modelled it in the vein of South By Southwest. They approached me a few months back to see if they could get The Stooges to come and play the festival. We went back and forth with it and it ended up working with our schedule because we were playing a couple of Riot Fests before we were done, and then this performance would be our last one for the year.
BA: Oh really? This is the capper on the year?
JW: Yeah, this is the last one of the season. We're old Bill, we only play when it's warm [both laughing].
BA: Oh wow. See, that it's sort of the end of the year is sort of cool though because, with all the research that I did, your involvement with this festival makes perfect sense because everything about this festival could tie in very easily with the different things that you've done in the music business in your life.
JW: In a way, it really does, and I think that's one of the reasons they wanted me to speak at it. I was sort of a natural choice because, between working as a guitarist and working on the tech side and also having worked at Sony, I've really had my foot in both worlds for most of my career.I'm really flattered that they would have me do it and I'm looking forward to it, now all I have to do is make sure that what I say is interesting [chuckling].
BA: Well, I mean, that's already sort of set – isn't it? I mean, at least theoretically, the feynote speaker sort of sums up and personifies what the festival is all about – I think.
JW: Normally at a conference, I'd say you're right; there's usually one keynote, and he's the guy who sets the tone for the whole thing but, in this case, I think there are a few keynotes. In that way, I think they're using the term a little more loosely because I know they've got a couple of technology people who are talking too. In my case, I just came off a show in Toronto and I'm leaving for Denver tomorrow, so I really didn't have the luxury of being able to prepare a full speech or anything like that. Because of the timing, what's going to happen is more of a conversation that's going to happen; we've got a moderator who's coming in that's familiar with my background and we'll discuss different things and developments which have happened or that I've done throughout my career.
BA: Right. And as far as the "creative convergence" angle of the conference goes, I'd say you're the idea guy to get to speak. I mean, you're a guitar player of course, but you have been present and active in the other side of the business for quite a while – whether it was at Sony or otherwise. I wasn't trying to be trite when I said it, this conference really does seem to be geared geared toward your combined skill sets.
JW: It certainly does fit naturally, so I'm looking forward to it. I hope they can draw the people who do appreciate it. I've been in the technology world and one of the reasons I never really talked about being in The Stooges much was because not every nerd knows who The Stooges are [laughing]. That said, I'm hoping that we'll be able to draw some people from both communities so that everyone will at least have a bit of context for what we're talking about. I guess we'll see how it goes.
BA: I can appreciate what you're saying. Now, as far as 'how it's going to go' does indeed go, of course The Stooges are also playing the conference as well as I wanted to ask a bit about that too. You've got Ready To Die out now, and I really wanted to say congratulations on the release. It's a great record man.
JW: Well thank you! I'm really happy to hear that. Whenever you release a record – especially with The Stooges' name attached – it's impossible to make everybody happy, but it's good to hear that it has been well-received; I like it – we like it – so I'm always happy when I hear that other people do too.
BA: I can understand what you're saying as far as not being able to make everybody happy goes. I mean, Iggy and The Stooges had a whole lot of history behind just one album, really. So how did this one come together? Was it a matter of everyone in the band sitting down and discussing what possibilities there could be?
JW: Well, not exactly. I mean, Iggy and I write the music so it's really down to us as far as what we want to do. We kind of had a couple of diferent viewpoints on what should happen with Ready To Die; I mean, Iggy has been in this industry continuously and he's had the gamut of different releases: he's had some really big hits and some really big flops. Even with that said though, he ws pretty sure that everyone was going to judge this album against Raw Power. Of course people were going to do that, but I was more inclined to think that people would judge it against the band as it exists now – I hoped they would, anyway. In those terms, I think we succeeded, definitely; I think we made an album that sounded like us and that's really all I wanted to do. The last album that they tried to make with Ronnie in the band, I don't think it sounded like The Stooges – to be honest, I don't know what it sounded like, but it just didn't come across. Because I thought the last one was sort of lacking, my goal as producer and as songwriter was to make stuff that sounded like we had written it and sounded like us as we are now. I think the album PLAYS nicely from front to back; as producer, I had to listen to it continuously from front to back, and I found that I never got tired of it which is a really important signal that there's something to these tunes, I think.
BA: I see what you're saying, and can totally understand your view. I mean, I'm 34 years old and can say that I've been listening to Raw Power not just for my entire adult life, but my entire life in general.
JW: [laughing] Well, I'd say that's a pretty good baseline for it.
BA: I thought so. Okay, so, it shows up and before I even put it on, I started thinking about it. I happen to agree with you as well that The Weirdness was really just okay; it wasn't awesome, it was just sort of another album where everyone expecting it was expecting an incredible event. This one is an event though; listening to this versus Raw Power, it didn't sound like anywhere near as much time had lapsed since the release of Raw Power – it had a similar kind of energy.
JW: That was the goal. The goal was to make Ready To Die was a contemporary work to Raw Power; we didn't want to sound like a bunch of old guys – we didn't write the songs FEELING like a bunch of old guys, necessarily – we just made it the way we thought sounded good.
BA: So how has it been received live?
JW: Very well. We run four or five of the songs in the live set now, and they really do fit seamlessly with the other body of work, and that's what really the key that tells you, 'This isn't just some isolated Stooges effort, this is part of the continuum of stuff that we've done.' I find that, in putting the new songs in as we have, it really livens the set up a great deal. I mean, I love the old songs and all, but nobody wants to just go up and be a jukebox on stage, you want to have some life in your set.
BA: So what's going to happen now? I mean, as you were saying, the band is coming up on its own year end, so what's next? Is Iggy and The Stooges still a creative outlet? Or is the thought process to the effect of, 'Okay, we did it. We proved we could, now let's get on with our lives?'
JW: I really don't know. I mean, Iggy and I are coming from two completely different places; he's been doing this continually over a pretty incredible period of time. I mean, how many albums has he made? Forty? I'm not sure of the exact number of albums he's made but I know it's large; whereas I've made four. That said, I feel like I've got a lot of music left in me – in fact I'm working on a little single project right now with a singer from Austin, TX – and the desire to work more, so I'll continue to do that; it's not the end of the creative process for me. Whether or not we do any more Stooges albums us TBD; we take it a year at a time at this point, and we're probably going to take next year off. From there, well, Iggy's going to be sixty-seven years old by then, so the question has to become, 'Do we want to do this anymore?' Like think about it; what must it be like for him to be stage diving like he does every night at his age? Or any of the other stuff he does; no raional person would be doing that.
BA: Well, I was thinking that when I saw The Stooges play in the park in Toronto. I couldn't imagine that he'd long-jump that barricade between him and the crowd, but he did.
JW: Of course he did! Half the time we tell him not to too – but telling him not to just guarantees that he will. For sure. [laughing] Because of that, we ask ourselves every season if we want to do it again, but we already know the answer. Because we do already know the answer, we have to look at it a little more critically than that; not 'Should we?' but 'CAN we?' We can still bring it, and I'd put us up against any band at any age right now; but no one wants to be too old to rock anymore, but I think some bands are. Like, I think The Stones are too old to rock now, if you ask me. I saw the band on their last tour, and Keith can't even play anymore and Ron Wood kinda never could [chuckling]. Mick's still okay, but they can't really hold a song together anymore and I don't want to hold on so long that we're in that position where you're sort of a parody of yourself and people are just making fun of you. It's hard enough to do this as it is, but I don't want to do it like it's a joke or become Herman's Hermits.
BA: I can understand that and, I mean, Iggy has already dodged that bullet a few times. There was that period in the Eighties when he really did look like he was going to become a parody of himself, but then in the mid-Nineties he bounced back and started making what I consider to be music that matters again.
JW: That's exactly right I think; he got The Stooges back together and started really working again, and started making music which was relevant to people again. I think you're absolutely right in that, if he goes too far off of that, then he will end up doing the self-parody thing and that'll be the end of it. That would be too bad and I really hope that doesn't happen; I'd rather go out at a point where people still want to hear you instead of going out at a point where people really doin't want to hear you.
BA: Well, what's that old adage? You always wanna leave 'em wanting more, right?
JW: Yeah – that's it.
BA: And you know? I think he's at a point where he's surrounded himself with the right guys to do it; I know Mike Watt's living a dream getting to play with The Stooges….
JW: That's very true. Watt very enthusiastic and he's fun to be around in that regard; he works hard and he's happy to be doing it – it's fun every show for him.
BA: So what is The Stooges for you now? I mean, you moved on and got on with your life for thirty years after The Stooges broke down the first time. It stands to reason that you came back because you wanted to, would you keep running with it now if you had the option?
JW: I don't know. Like I was saying, we're four years into this now, and I can't explain how gratifying it has been, really. All of these wonderful things have happened – the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame happened, the adulation from the crowds is there and it's fantastic how far it has gone from the days when nobody wanted to hear us play and we weren't selling any records; now we're playing to incredible crowds and we're selling lots of records. Because of that, I'm very satisfied with having made the decision to come back and play because it's fun to play and we can do all these victory laps. That said, I'm going to be sixty-four this year, I have a granddaughter now and my own family, and it's nice that we're in the position where we don't have to be on the road all the time. It's still a balancing act, but I think we've got it set pretty well; we don't do an exhausting number of shows every year and I think that if we keep going, you'll see us do progressively fewer and fewer, but as long as we sound good and people still want to hear us, I don't think any of us is interested in outright quitting.
BA: That's valid. As far as the adulation and respect goes, that seems to be an ongoing trend for you lately. I was reading somewhere that, in addition to holding a rock n' roll hall of fame award, you also hold an engineering hall of fame award.
JW: Yeah! That's a new development! That just came up – I haven't ever received it yet – but there's a ceremony happening next February where I'll have to get up and accept the award, but I'm already in. I was astonished, to be honest, because I'm not even sure how or why I got it [laughing]. I'm really happy to have won that award though, and I'm pretty sure I must the only person in the world with both those awards [chuckling].
BA: No doubt, but it must feel good too because all these accolades are just getting piled on top, and it's looking awfully good to be James Williamson at this point because, as celebrated as the band you're in is, some of these accolades are specifically for acheivements you've got beyond the band too.
JW: I'm no complaining, that's for sure. I mean, those are just awards, but they're symbols of things I've accomplished, and it's nice to be able to tell my granddaughter about these things I did and have the things which show I did them [chuckling]. By the same token, what has been really fun to do is break out all these songs that I helped to write, and see kids in their twenties dig them so much when we play them live.
BA: I can appreciate that. I mean, I'm thirty-four years old as I say, but I remember seeing The Stooges play that park in Toronto and watched a kid who couldn't have been more than fifteen years old singing every single word to the songs from Raw Power in front of me!
JW: Yeah! And you know? That's everywhere, all over the world, and it's really cool to see that. For the longest time, I didn't think that we were successful at all and, while we liked what we were doing, there was only a handful of other people who really dug it so, to see that happen now is really, really quite amazing. That said, we've seen how relevant we are or were with Raw Power, and making Ready To Die was really our effort to continue to be relevant, and I feel like we did it. I think the songs are great and the lyrics are topical; we covered gun control and sex and money and sick kids and all the kinds of things which are current and really hot-button topics right now. I feel good about that.
BA: Absolutely – and people can identify with it! A song like "Job" in the state of Michigan? I'd bet it feels good to be able to inhabit that kind of mindset if you can. I think it's great, and it's one of the reasons why I asked if there was the chance that Iggy and The Stooges might make another record after this – you've obviously got the right mind to remain relevant.
JW: Well, Iggy and I write together very easily, so it's conceivable that we could do more. The problem with being a singer when you're sixty-six is that, eventually, your voice starts to go, you can't hit the notes you used to hit and you become more limited. That said, it's up to Ig; I'd do it – in fact I'm going to be doing it – but time will tell. Technically, we're still promoting Ready To Die, so we're not far enough down the road to start talking about another record quite yet.


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It's obvious beauty, world-class art, sumptous pastries,
infamous cooking style and leader of fashion.
It is also rich in history, weaving it into modern day life.
Each time I visit Paris it is different but the same.
No matter how many times I visit a favorite spot, I am able to see it with a new eye.
The whole city is that way –
the comfort of the familiar and new additions to keep things fresh.
Over the years I have developed organizational processes,forms, research files,
and products that help to make each visit interesting and memorable.
Friends are amazed at how well prepared I am and recommend me to their acquaintances
when they plan a visit to Paris, asking for advice and recommendations
on what to see, do, places to eat and where to stay.
TRAVEL SOLO isn't about being alone on your trip.
It's about having the flexibility to be in the moment, change your mind about your plans
and not having to worry about your travel companion's idiosyncrasies
you never knew about until you travelled with them.
By being on your own, you are able to immerse yourself in your surroundings
and have a richer, fuller connection to where you are and what you are experiencing.
The wonderful part is that, on your own, you are more likely to
strike up converations with people from a variety of countries
that can broaden your view of the world, your own country and yourself.
This blog is dedicated to all things Parisian.
Not only will there be entries about Paris in general,
we will also cover travel tips, specific tours and the places you'll be visiting on the tour
as well as announcements on scheduled workshops.
May the information shared here inspire you to visit Paris
and experience the magic for yourself.
Bon voyage.


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Kimberly + Brett | Denver and Airport Engagement Shoot
When I was in college, I changed my major about 110 times, finally landing in the international studies field. I wanted to go places and see awesome areas! I never thought my degree would lead to running my own photography business and getting to see some of the coolest places ever! We met Kimberly and Brett over coffee about 2 months ago and when they mentioned shooting their engagement shoot at the Centennial airport, Mike and I were both elated! Through coordinating schedules, sickness, and poor weather conditions, we finally landed a Saturday morning when we were able to get in the hangar's and take some awesome photos at Brett's stomping grounds. Brett recently received his pilot license and after pulling a few strings, was able to get all of us into some of the coolest areas of the airport we'd probably never see otherwise.
Brett and Kim are honestly that couple that just makes my heart so happy. Their love and adoration for each other is undeniable and we are so overwhelmed with joy to get to experience these incredible months with the two of you! Bring on August 9!!!
- Published in Engagements


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First Friday Art Walk
February 2, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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An event every month that begins at 4:00 pm on day First of the month, repeating indefinitely
The art galleries in the Old Mill District represent numerous artists and some are working artist studios. Our galleries showcase a variety of mediums from traditional paintings, sculpture, and photography to print making, fiber, and mixed media. Stop by anytime and meet these working artists and experience their beautiful works.
Lubbesmeyer Studio & Gallery
Tumalo Art Co.


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Big shout-out this morning to Babyshop for this lovely delivery! The kids were super thrilled this AM when I surprised them with their gifts. Yes they may already be kitted out for back to school, but it's always fun to have a backup for those days their lunch explodes inside their bag (cue yesterday!)
Some of your children may have already started school and you have completed all the necessary shopping? BUT keep reading for something fun…
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The most fun thing of all! Competition time!
Here is Ruby modeling the full range of "Marie the Cat".
Mommy in Dubai, in partnership with Babyshop is giving away a Marie the Cat backpack and lunch bag just like Ruby's! C'est la vie (French for it's life!)
Couldn't resist sharing this beauty of Ruby & Marie the Cat in freezing COLD Tokyo (April 2015)
If Marie the Cat is not your thing then how about winning a Minions backpack and lunch-bag?
Babyshop claims the medal for the one stop shop kids retailer in UAE for easy and convenient back to school purchases.
"The range is inspired by fun colours, designs, patterns, styles and classic essentials that pre-schoolers, primary and teenage students can choose from. It also features the widest range of licensed character merchandise in the market, with a huge selection for both boys and girls."
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Winner will be announced this coming Sunday, September 4th!
Best of luck xo


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Socialbakers Names New CEO
There are big changes at the top of social analytics company Socialbakers, as Criteo executive managing director of fast-growing markets Robert Lang is the new CEO.
There are big changes at the top of social analytics company Socialbakers, as Criteo executive managing director of fast-growing markets Robert Lang is the new CEO, with co-founder Jan Rezab becoming executive chairman.
Lang (pictured in the photo to the right, as well as on the right of the photo below, with Rezab on the left) spent six years at the display advertising company, where he was responsible for building and running operations in nearly 100 countries.
Socialbakers, a Facebook Marketing Partner, said in a release that Lang will focus on international expansion and product development, with Lang adding:
I am incredibly excited about joining Socialbakers, a company that for years has been setting the global standard for social media analytics. The team led by Jan Rezab has grown the business significantly since it was founded in 2009. Today, the company has more than 300 people, works with over 3,000 clients and is perfectly positioned for the next stage of growth.
I am passionate about scaling European tech companies. We have world-class technology in Europe. and it is fantastic to see it matched with global ambition.
Rezab added:
As an entrepreneur, I have come to recognize that Socialbakers is at a stage where it now needs someone with the experience of running and scaling a fast-growing multinational business. That person is Robert. We are confident that with Robert as CEO, the company will continue to grow rapidly as the industry leader.
Readers: What do you think of the changes at Socialbakers?


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UFC Fighter Soiled Herself Trying To Escape Choke Hold
UFC visited Oklahoma City Sunday night. The match that left fans reeling? Felice Herrig's defeat over Justine Kish. Why? The video below.
There are countless, immature poop jokes up for grabs here. Instead of going for the low hanging fruit, I'll just leave this here …
UFC Fighter Soiled Herself Trying To Escape Choke Hold
First, the choke hold Kish somehow was able to escape from.:
HOW DID @JustineKish GET OUT OF THAT?! pic.twitter.com/IVzfjSG7MO
— #UFCOKC (@ufc) June 26, 2017
But, here is where you can see Kish's effort left a little aftermath on the mat:
Justine Kish shit herself. #UFCOKC pic.twitter.com/dX936oi3h1
— Davei Boi (@Davei_Boi) June 26, 2017
People noticed quickly.
Did Justine Kish go #2 on the mat during that #UFCOKC fight? It sure looks like it: pic.twitter.com/ne15k7dVEc
— Fury's Fight Picks (@FurysFightPicks) June 26, 2017
But at least Kish had a sense of humor about the accident.
I am a warrior, and I will never quit #ShitHappens haha be back soon.
— Justine Kish (@JustineKish) June 26, 2017
So, this is just something "that happens" in MMA? Mmhmm.
Yet another reason you won't find me in any octagon.
Josh Helmuth is the editor of Crave Sports.


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Bangalore, Oct 16 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda on Sunday visited former state chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, who has been admitted to hospital after he complained of chest pain.
"He is under treatment and I had discussions with the doctor. Doctor told that the diagnosis and other things would continue today and tomorrow; it requires minimum 48 hours as far as cardiological factors are concerned. It will take 48 hours to come out with the report. So, doctor will brief after the examination. At present he is not in a position to speak, he is under stress. He is under observation," Gowda told media persons here.
" He has got a health problem that is why he has come, not with any conspiracy or anything he should not stay in the jail. He was very particular to be in the jail. Because of the health problem he has come. We don't know what exactly it is. We are going there and then we will see the thing, then we will react to it," he added.
According to sources, Yeddyurappa had high blood pressure and vomited a couple of times, which prompted the jail authorities to rush him to the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology.
Yeddyurappa, against whom an arrest warrant was issued in connection with cases regarding alleged irregularities in denotification of government lands, surrendered before the Lokayukta Court in Bangalore on Saturday.
Earlier, the special Lokayukta Court rejected his anticipatory bail and issued an arrest warrant against him.
The court also denied bail to Yeddyurappa's former ministerial colleague S N Krisnaiah Setty, but gave relief to 14 other accused including the former Chief Minister's sons B Y Raghavendra, Lok Sabha MP and B Y Vijayendra, and son-in-law Sohan Kumar.
Former Lokayukta Santosh Hegde's independent inquiry into mining graft in Karnataka, accused Yeddyurappa and other key officials for causing a loss of at least 160 billion rupees to the state exchequer between 2006 and 2010 from illegal mining and a series of abuses.
Yeddyurappa tendered his resignation on July 31 to Governor Hansraj Bhardwaj, following allegations of corruption that was later accepted. (ANI)
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Launching a blistering attack on the BJP for its oft-repeated description of Manmohan Singh as a weak Prime Minister, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said disrespect of the prime minister amounted to disrespect of the entire country.
Addressing an election rally in Varanasi, she questioned the saffron party's slogan of "strong leaders and decisive government".
"The Prime Minister is a leader of the country and not of a party. So, if one disrespects the Prime Minister, he or she disrespects the entire nation," Gandhi said.
Withount naming BJP leader L K Advani for his criticism of Manmohan Singh as a weak Prime Minister, she said: "How can he (Advani) be a strong leader in whose tenure Parliament was attacked and several terrorist attacks took place? Terrorists who were caught were also released."
"It was an NDA minister who flew with the terrorists to Kandahar and it was these terrorists who stepped up their ante against India," she told another rally in Ballia.
"Today that Home Minister (Advani) is dreaming to become the Prime Minister. Everyone has the freedom and right to dream. But the dream of the Congress is to see India on road to development. We see our political success in the success of the youth," the UPA chairperson said.
"Those, who are terming Manmohan Singh as a weak PM are viewing the challenge of terrorism from a communal angle," Gandhi said.
Reiterating her faith in Singh, she said the Congress would seek votes based on development works carried out by the government headed by him.
Wooing voters in temple city Varanasi, Gandhi, who will file her nomination from Rai Bareli Lok Sabha constituency on Monday, said for the Congress, the definition of a strong leader is one who does great work for the country.
In this connection, she referred to Mumbai terror strikes and said owing to diplomatic offensive unleashed by the UPA government, Pakistan had to admit the reality.
Gandhi said "the UPA government never tolerated terror, nor will it ever do so."
Fighting terrorism was a national challenge and the Congress was capable of handling the challenge, she said at rally at Bansgaon in Gorakhpur district.
Recounting achievements of the Manmohan Singh government, she said it brought the nuclear deal for the country, which would help in electrification of remote villages.
Ridiculing the performance of the NDA government, she said: "Everybody remembers what they did when they were in power."
"You need a strong government and a leader with qualifications and experience...who has all these. Only Congress and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh," she told the rally in Varanasi.


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Robert Henry Bybee
(Obituary ~ 01/30/04)
Robert Henry Bybee, 88, of Curtis, died Wednesday (Jan. 28, 2004) at Community Hospital of McCook. He was born Dec. 21, 1915, to Issac M. and Nellie A. (Hume) Bybee in Bridgeport. He graduated from Bridgeport High School in 1935. He went to work on the railroad Bridge Gang. Then he was a brakeman for Burlington Northern Railroad for 43 years, until his retirement in 1978...
Donna Lynn (McFarland) Peterson
(Obituary ~ 01/30/04)
Donna Lynn (McFarland) Peterson died Thursday (Jan. 29, 2004) at Community Hospital as a result of three years of ovarian cancer. She was 51 years old. Donna was born Oct. 23, 1952, in North Platte to Donald E. and Leora Laura (Johnson) McFarland. She graduated from North Platte High School in 1971. She participated in track and field and softball as a player and coach. She also enjoyed traveling in the United States and abroad, quilting and cross stitching, gardening and growing flowers...
Wauneta-Palisade, Wheatland girls advance to GPAC title game
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CULBERTSON -- The Wauneta-Palisade and Wheatland girls basketball teams both cruised to easy wins Thursday night in the semifinal round of the Golden Plains Activities Conference Tournament in Culbertson. The Broncos and Spartans both jumped out to early leads, finishing with wins of 28 and 29 points, respectively...
Bison swimmers fall to North Platte, Kearney
(High School Sports ~ 01/30/04)
NORTH PLATTE -- The McCook Bison swim team competed in a double dual against Kearney and North Platte on Thursday. Top finishers included Cody Martin in the 200 free against North Platte and Jessica Hall in diving against North Platte. Next up for the Bison swimmers is a double dual in Hastings on Feb. 6...
Longhorn wrestlers pin loss on McCook
(High School Sports ~ 01/30/04)
By JOHN J. MESH Gazette Sports Editor The Chase County-Imperial wrestling team knocked off the McCook Bison grapplers 45-30 in a dual Thursday at the MHS gymnasium. The Bison received pins from Richard Smock at 275 pounds, Jon McCart at 103 and Dallas Korus at 125...
Blank announces re-election bid
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Don Blank announced today that he will seek re-election to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. Blank represents District 7, which includes 34 counties, comprising the entire western half of Nebraska. He was first elected in 1986, and was re-elected in 1992 and 1998. Blank won his last election with more than 70 percent of the vote in the general election...
- Al fresco (Local News ~ 01/30/04)
Region should be grateful to Don Blank
(Editorial ~ 01/30/04)
Involvement in government is important, but never more so than when push comes to shove. Western Nebraska has a tendency to feel slighted by the east, justified or not, but when budgets get tight, it's important that regional representatives be in place to protect the interests of their constituents...
Read it again
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/30/04)
**Dear Editor, Maybe we should all reread what the Bible says concerning creation and whoĀwas responsible. The book of John chapter one states: vs.1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. vs.2) The same was in the beginning with God. ...
Common goals
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/30/04)
**Dear Editor, I would like to thank the McCook Gazette and Tyler Bieck for an inspirational and accurate accounting of my son's life. Shuan has faced this on a daily basis and articles like this bring so much to others around him and in the community...
Thanks, officer
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/30/04)
**Dear Editor, I want to express my appreciation to the Nebraska patrol officer who stopped me on the road to the cemetery last Saturday evening about 9 p.m. I was coming to town after visiting the cemetery grave of my wife. He had seen me drive around out there after dark and was checking to see if everything was OK. He said there had been vandalism in the area. He was just on the lookout. I did not get his name, but certainly appreciate his watching out...
Honor rolls and 8-track tapes
(Column ~ 01/30/04)
The scene: Your average high school basketball game. After a particularly lop-sided game, a parent demands that the game not be published in the local newspaper, the high school paper or the yearbook. He feels the final score may scar his child for life...
Will be missed
(Opinion ~ 01/30/04)
I would like to thank city attorneys Daylene Bennett and Peter Burger for their great service to the city of McCook for the past 24 years they're going to be sorely missed. I admire them for having the ------- to address their letter to the city manager what a lot of McCook citizens feel, but don't say out in the open. Thank you Miss Bennett for your dedicated service. You'll be missed...
More on Bush
(Opinion ~ 01/30/04)
On Ted Koppel last night, David Kay, the former head of the Iraq survey group said that obviously the administration was wrong, and there weren't any weapons of mass destruction. Kay, being a good Republican, defends Bush, and says he was misled by bad intelligence. ...
Keep doors open to help end suspicion
(Editorial ~ 01/30/04)
With the mistrust and accusations flying around McCook over the city's ongoing water problems, maybe it's time to give the community a reason to trust its leaders. A document submitted by the Environmental Remediation Branch of the Department of the Army Corp of Engineers shows that there is no evidence that the old McCook Army Air Base site is contaminated by chemical warfare material -- one of the primary reasons a well site was never developed on the property...
Fire, heroism and competition
(Column ~ 01/30/04)
Fire was a constant threat in 1902 ... you heated with wood and coal stoves and the fire department had to come from C Street to wherever you were located ... after they got to the station and hitched up the horses. The fire station was on the east side of the alley, where the back end of the old First National Bank sits. I found three fires around Christmas time in the McCook Tribune ... not one Christmas related...
Water, water everywhere ...
(Column ~ 01/30/04)
... and not a drop to drink. We've all heard that old adage for all our lives and it has never had more meaning than it currently does for the users of the McCook municipal water system. The water that comes out of my pipes is cloudy, smelly, and doesn't taste very good and, of course, we continue to hear similar complaints from people all around our fair city. ...
Report says air base fears unfounded
(Local News ~ 01/30/04)
According to a report from the Army Corps of Engineers, concerns over contamination at the McCook Army Air Base were unfounded. The McCook City Council will receive a detailed report from the Corps at its next meeting, Monday, at 7:30 p.m., in the Council Chambers at McCook Auditorium...
Cambridge colors
(High School Sports ~ 01/30/04)
Ashley Rice of Cambridge High School waves orange and black flags during halftime of the Cambridge-Republican Valley game in the Republican Valley League baskbetball tournament Friday night in Cambridge. Cambridge defeated RV and Arapahoe defeated Southern Valley, which means Cambridge meets ArapahoeĀin the championship game Saturday at 7:45 p.m...
County considers buying West Ward
(Local News ~ 01/30/04)
Red Willow County commissioners will discuss a possible bid on the West Ward school building in McCook, during their meeting Monday. The school building issue is scheduled at 10:45 a.m. The county board will also discuss, at 9:15 a.m., a loan from the county's revolving loan fund, to Southwest Biofuels LLC, which wants to build an ethanol plant at the Perry site west of McCook...
James G. Earnest
(Obituary ~ 01/30/04)
BENKELMAN -- James G. Earnest, 71, of Stratton died Thursday (Jan. 29, 2004) at Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman. He was born Nov. 18, 1932, to George and Flossye (Alden) Earnest in Stratton. He attended Stratton Schools. On July 3, 1957, he married BL "Bev" Earnest of McCook. ...
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Sometimes you just wish you were a photographer. I simply do not have the words to describe the awesome majesty of Greenland's Kangia glacier, shedding massive icebergs the size of skyscrapers and slowly pushing them down the Ilulissat fjord until they crash into the ocean off the island's west coast. There, these natural ice sculptures float and bob around the glassy waters near here. You can sail between them in a fishing boat, listening to these white ice monsters crackle and break, heave and sigh, as if they were noisily protesting their fate.
You are entirely alone here amid the giant icebergs, save for the solitary halibut fisherman who floats by. Our Greenlandic boat skipper sidles up to the tiny fishing craft, where my hosts buy a few halibut right out of his nets, slice open the tender cheeks and cut me the freshest halibut sushi I've ever tasted. 'Greenland fast food,' quips Kim Kielsen, Greenland's minister of the environment.
We wash it down with Scotch cooled by a 5,000-year-old ice cube chipped off one of the floating glacier bits. Some countries have vintage whisky. Some have vintage wine. Greenland has vintage ice.
Alas, though, I do not work for National Geographic. This is an opinion piece. And my trip with Denmark's minister of climate and energy, Connie Hedegaard, to see the effects of climate change on Greenland's ice sheet leaves me with a very strong opinion: our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards. We've added so many greenhouse gases to the atmosphere for our generation's growth that our kids are likely going to spend a good part of their adulthood, maybe all of it, just dealing with the climate implications of our profligacy. And now our leaders are telling them the way out is 'offshore drilling' for more climate-changing fossil fuels. Madness. Sheer madness.
Most people assume that the effects of climate change are going to be felt through another big disaster, like Hurricane Katrina. Not necessarily, says Minik Thorleif Rosing, a top geologist at Denmark's National History Museum and one of my travelling companions. 'Most people will actually feel climate change delivered to them by the postman,' he explains. It will come in the form of higher water bills, because of increased droughts in some areas; higher energy bills, because the use of fossil fuels becomes prohibitive; and higher insurance and mortgage rates, because of much more violently unpredictable weather. Remember: climate change means 'global weirding' not just global warming.
Greenland is one of the best places to observe the effects of climate change. Because the world's biggest island has just 55,000 people and no industry, the condition of its huge ice sheet - as well as its temperature, precipitation and winds - is influenced by the global atmospheric and ocean currents that converge here. Whatever happens in China or Brazil is felt here. And because Greenlanders live close to nature, they are walking barometers of climate change. That's how I learnt a new language: Climate-Speak.
It's easy to learn. There are only three phrases. The first is: 'Just a few years ago...'
Just a few years ago you could dogsled in winter from Greenland, across a 40-mile ice bank, to Disko Island. But for the past few years, the rising winter temperatures in Greenland have melted that link. Now Disko is cut off. Put away the dogsled.
The second phrase is: 'I've never seen that before...' It rained in December and January in Ilulissat. This is well above the Arctic Circle. It's not supposed to rain here in winter.
Steffen said: 'Twenty years ago, if I had told the people of Ilulissat it would rain at Christmas 2007, they would have just laughed at me. Today it is a reality.'
The third phrase is: 'Well usually... but now I don't know any more.' The river that was always there is now dry. The glacier that always covered that hill has disappeared. The reindeer that were always there when the hunting season opened on 1 August didn't show up. No wonder everyone here speaks climate now - your kids will, too, and sooner than they think.


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Eleven Oregon counties are suing a mortgage-industry company that registers loan sales, circumventing public property records.
The counties — Clackamas, Coos, Crook, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lane, Linn, Marion, Washington and Yamhill — announced Thursday they have filed a $50 million lawsuit over unpaid recording fees since the lending industry created Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, or MERS, in the 1990s.
The counties are following the lead of Multnomah County. They're represented by the same Lake Oswego attorney, Tom D'Amore.
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A Michael Jackson impersonator has poured acid on his skin to make him look 'lighter'.
Antonio Gleidson Rodrigues, 32 has spent around £2,000 on a series of cosmetic procedures and has even had rhinoplasty to imitate the his late idol's botched nose job.
Each day he spends around four hours rehearsing his dance moves and one and a half hours applying make up to make sure fellow fans in his hometown of Fortalenza continue to scream for a selfie or an autograph.
Self-proclaimed number one Michael Jackson impersonator in Brazil Gleidson Jackson, as he likes to be known, said: "In 2009 I went into the operating theatre and had my nasal septum corrected which allowed me to reach the higher notes.
"I wasn't able to reach notes like Michael before but after surgery I can now sing some notes in falsetto."
After his first surgery Gleidson had hyaluronic acid injected into his face, which had a whitening effect and botox injections to enhance the area under his eyes.
He also had surgery to close the gaps in his teeth and had his eyebrows tattooed, but there's even more to come, he insists.
"If I can afford it in the future, I am thinking of working on my cheekbones so I can get rid of the wrinkles along my mouth – I also want to have my eyebrows arched.
"I would like to have my forehead tattooed and have my nose made even slimmer."
Jackson's death in June 2009 rocked the world but there were few who felt it quite as much as Gleidson.
The former drama teacher added: "My reaction was absurd – I started to cry right away, I still don't understand how this could have happened to Michael Jackson.
"He was a guy who used to drink juice and avoid energy drinks – how could he have died of an overdose.
"In my opinion, to lose that man – the greatest artist of all times – is a real tragedy for the world.
"There will never be another one like him – but I can try my best."


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There she is at the park near the lake by the green benches. By the runners jogging by. It's the statue of an angel with a broken wing. The tall trees above
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The Bee Gee's 1977 crooning Saturday Night Fever love song "How Deep Is Your Love" is great inspiration for using social selling to deepen great customer relationships! If Tony Manero (i.e., John Travolta's character) was selling paint today in his father's store, he'd be using social media to 'deepen his love' with his customers … instead of 'dancing with them'. Too many sales executives use old-school phone calls and emails to keep up customer relationships!
So you have to ask yourself, do YOU need to use social media or social selling if you already have closed a sale or only work on selling to accounts that use many of your products? Do you want to deepen your 'love' with them? That was a fantastic question asked by a sales executive during a session where I was rolling out our new social selling program at SAP.
Face it. People consume content differently than they did 5 years ago. They are using Twitter as their news feed, YouTube to understand how to do things, LinkedIn to vet ideas with peers, and blogs and communities to understand and learn others' points of view. Your customers are people, so you need to figure out how to leverage this new consumption behavior. Gone are the days of only sharing content with your customers over the phone and on email!
It's important for every sales-professional to use social selling strategies. Even if they have a great relationship with an account there is always an opportunity to "deepen the love". No, there is no true prospecting or cold calling that you need to do since you have an established key account. However, like Tony Manero's mother said, "you need to make yourself relevant in new and different ways because your competition is doing just that!"
Your customers are evolving with the way they consume content and the way they self-educate. Forrester reported in their July, 2013 study that 81% of B2B decision-makers use communities and blogs, 73% use LinkedIn and 42% use Twitter.
5 Ways To Deepen Your Love With Your Customers With Social Selling
Take a look at these 5 easy-to-learn 'moves' to get closer with your clients:
- Direct Message Links. Use Twitter to send a direct message (DM) with a link to an article. If your clients use Twitter, then this link will non intrusively break through their communication clutter.
- "CC" Them On Tweets. Add their Twitter handle at the end of an interesting and relevant tweet. Mentioning your current clients in a tweet with a link gives them a subtle nudge that you are thinking about their needs and interests.
- Share Their Tweets And Blog Posts On Twitter. Show them some social media love by retweeting their message and adding your two cents to it to "underline your point", if there is one to be made. If your customer blogs, regularly tweet a link to their posts to help them build their followers. This syndication is always appreciated by bloggers!
- Leverage Their Blog Posts. Comment on your customer's blog to have a conversation with them in a way that is not based on email.
- Use LinkedIn. Share a link to a relevant blog on your LinkedIn profile in a shared LinkedIn group, via Twitter.
Do you have another way in which you connect with your clients? If so, please share below! Or, contact me directly at MarketingThink.com or on Twitter @GerryMoran.
If you need to fine-tune your social selling Twitter, LinkedIn or blogging skills, please check out this advice to:
- Creating an effective tweet that is sure to be seen by your clients
- Connecting with your client with a retweet
- Building the perfect blog post
- Using LinkedIn invites to deepen relationships within an account
Because you have a solid relationship with you client, does not mean they want you to call them every other day or have you be one of their 300 daily emails. Social media can help you stay relevant, consultative and in touch without being "that sales person". Remember what Tony Manero would say about staying alive in today's social selling world, "Quit the jive talking on the phone with your clients! You should be dancing with them with social media to deepen your love!"Follow @GerryMoran
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I hate to age myself by saying this, but I know that song very well, How Deep Is Your Love, and now I know how to better communicate with my followers on twitter. Always learning from you and appreciate the great suggestions and advice.
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Great post Gerry! I really appreciated the 5 "moves" as they'll prove really helpful to a newbie like me. I look forward to your awesome content!


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