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Vision 20/20 with the 1st female Prime Minister (Trinidad & Tobago)
Last night will be recorded in the history books as a night to remember. I, for the first time in my life stayed up to the bitter end of the elections results and into the morning for the victory speech by Mrs. Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
Usually, when I express my opinions re politics, my husband will give a sound that a parent will give to a child who obviously does not know what they would be talking about. I told my husband that based on the following observations:
1. The very powerful tv campaign ads that the people's partnership had running on the radio and tv stations;
2. the discontentment of certain members within the PNM Party;
3. the fact that every school child knew about UDECOTT, Calder Hart and the talk of corruption;
4. the unanswered questions on the Guanapo Church construction etc;
5. PNM only addressing what they had already achieved in the last couple years;
6. Collapse of the wall and roof of the President's house;
7. The wrongful use of the President's crest;
8. Most of all, dictatorship signs not just by the leader but also his lieutenants
would be enough to get the young people and the people liming on the fence to go and vote for change. I just could not see people voting for another Venezuela and Cuba in the Caribbean. We love our freedom too much.
As the Trinidad and Tobago maps became a sea of yellow, my husband was going through mixed emotions because he was of the opinion, like a lot of people, that the results were going to be PP 24, PNM 18. Not the PP 29, PNM 13. My prediction of PP wining by a landslide was now a reality and I felt that my opinions were now going to count for something.
Protected content the period of emerging change throughout the world and Trinidad and Tobago is just one piece of the major plan. Economies are in trouble, businesses have collapsed and oppositions are forming the government.
Napoleon Hill in his book "Think and Grow Rich" wrote "business is due for reform, make no mistake about this! The methods of the past, based upon economic combinations of Force and Fear, will be supplanted by the better principles of Faith and cooperation….." "Moreover, and this is the most important thing of all – they (people) will be led by leaders who will understand and apply the principles employed by Mahatma Gandhi. Only in this way may leaders get from their followers the spirit of Full cooperation which constitutes power in its highest and most enduring form".
From where I sit, history is just repeating itself and people are not paying attention. Messrs Persad-Bissessar and Warner's speeches encompassed the ideals that people wanted to hear from them. Jack Warner has certainly gone into the history books as the man behind the 1st woman Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago.
I remember years ago having a conversation with Jack Warner, whereby he explained to me, as a lecturer to a student, how the system in the world of football worked. I was amazed at how clearly he understood the intricacies of the system and he played like a true chess master. Again, it is very clear to me how Jack Warner has discovered the "missing link" in all systems of education known to civilization today. That is the failure of educational institutions to teach their students
Kudos go out to Jack Warner and he has come a long way. Another important principle that Jack has implemented is the MASTER MIND ALLIANCE. He would have had to decide what advantages and benefits that he would have had to offer individual members of the group, in return for their cooperation. No one will work indefinitely without some form of compensation. As I am, reading the same book that he must have read, I am seeing the principles that he is now using to his benefit.
Congratulations to Mrs. Persad-Bissessar. I voted for change, the 1st female Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago and consultation with the people. Could no longer handle the arrogance and disregard for the people. My encounter with Mrs. Bissessar was last year November when my husband and I was at the airport in Antigua returning home from a conference. The first thing that struck me was how short and slim she was. This was not the same woman that I am accustom seeing on the tv. I really thought she was taller. She stood in line like everybody else and waited with a young woman to get on the plane. I could not help but to continue to look at her because my mind was trying to reconcile the physical being with the perceived image of her. At Piarco airport, in the ladies bathroom, I went up to her and introduced myself and asked whether she had heard of "Life Coaching". I then gave her my husband's business card with my name on the back, inviting her to contact me if she ever wanted to get more information. After all, she is a wife and mother who experience the same issues that women experience on a daily basis. Then, I watched how the custom officer dealt with her in the red line. She was "yes maam, no maam". Very polite, although I could tell that she was not happy about being made to wait forever just to pay for the items. Her companion by this time had proceeded out of the area and left her on her own. I remember thinking to myself that this lady could one day become the Prime Minister of this country, I dismissed the thought. Well, she certainly proved me wrong.
Life after a divorce is viewed as a new beginning and adventure. I look forward to this divorce. As the song goes: "You can bend but never break me, cause it only serves to make me, more determined to achieve my finally goal, and I'll come back even stronger, not a novice any longer, cause you've deepen the conviction in my soul…."


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Game On by Olley White
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was such a fun story. Two online friends finally meet up and they are both surprised. One thinking he will meet a potential girlfriend and the other hoping for a new girl BFF. Neither one gets exactly what they are looking for but each ends up with something very near to it. I love that a little humiliation really helps to move things along.
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Once in a while, you get a meal that's not only fantastic, but also … motivational. It doesn't make you just throw down the napkin and sigh "I am not worthy …"
Eleven Madison Park is like that.
Instead, it makes you want to run home, turn on the stove, get out that mandolin, and "invent", because you have been 'enlightened'.
Commonwealth is like that.
I have had shishito, pimiento di padron, friariello di napoli, your classic frying peppers many times over. Here at Commonwealth however, they were served with goat cheese foam and rose petals. The floral note and the fresh gaminess pairing is just so unexpected from what I am used to.
The 'corn pudding' is basically corn pastry cream, another "why didn't I think of that?!" moment. Its complete lusciousness, is so contrasting in texture to the fresh kernels and corn-meal-coated fried okra. So interesting.
Just 4 nights ago, I participated in an uni-orgy. Basically 90 GIANT pieces of sea urchin roes consumed 6 different ways by 4 people. We had them with corn soup, pasta, scallops, cucumbers … you name it, but no one thought of contrasting its creamy texture. Commonwealth did and more. Like a deconstructed, Asian-inspired carbonara, our uni was topped with a thin brown rice cracker and 2 halves of perfect soft-boiled quail egg.
I thought I had to wait another month to eat uni. Not when it's done so brilliantly.
Now squash blossoms. I found them in Rome years ago and had not stop eating them every summer. I have had them batter-fried, stuffed with cheese, with basil foam, with nothing, which was actually my favorite. Not to mention in salads, in risotto … squash blossom is me! I have been harvesting my own since the beginning of the summer. But at Commonwealth, they stuff it with brandade. William started making his own version of salt cod fritters since … I don't know how many years, but none of us thought of combining these 2, until now.
Even thought there isn't as much revelation from the crowd-pleaser of pork belly and waygu beef, they were executed flawlessly, as good as any preparation I have had anywhere.
The geoduck is probably the only thing I didn't hear the calling. Not that it's not delicious or impeccably fresh. It is just too exotic of an ingredient, for home.


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At this important point in the project I felt it would be useful to seek feedback from an outside professional. I took my sketchbook and exhibition plan drawing to Gemma Marmalade, HE Contextual Studies lecturer and practising Fine Art photographer. I showed her my development work so far, my mood-board and exhibition layout, and discussed influences I had been researching. She was very enthusiastic about my idea and gave me lots of feedback as well as direction to new artists I could research.
She told me that she liked the ideas behind all of the work that I had shown her but felt that my plan for the exhibition risked being too full which could mean the communication of my concept being too diluted. She recommended that I choose fewer strands of the idea to focus on and take forward and keep the other work as valuable evidence of idea development.
I have chosen to pursue the aspect of my idea that is an attempt to visualize the internet. I intend to create an installation, using video, projections and sound, that attempts to give the sensory experience of entering the worldwide web; a physical imagining of what space the internet occupies, both in and outside of our minds. Gemma also recommended that I stick with digital media as much as possible, which I agree with as I feel it will trigger the pre-existing vocabulary and discourse relating to digital media already present in the minds of the audience.
I have chosen to shift focus away from the self-portrait and Instagram focussed side of this project as I didn't have inspiration to develop ideas further than simply emulating the work of other artists and so did not feel like I was creating anything new. Aesthetically it was also very unpolished and I could not see how I would be able to display it and make clear to viewers that this amatuerish style was deliberate rather than under-developed.
However I do see how this work was worthwhile pursuing in order to develop and inform the evolution of my idea.
Talking with Gemma was incredibly inspiring and helped me to feel enthusiastic and motivated once again by my idea, as well as showing which direction to pursue as previously I had felt a little overwhelmed and confused by the amount of ideas I was aiming to explore.


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Was Newsweek Wrong?
I really don't think so in spite of all the self criticism and the rest of the corporate media chiming in to denounce the "mistake" that the military is flushing the qaran down the toilet. I believe the store is true because it is consitent with the storied that prisioners are telling and the Anu Ghraib torture scandal.
The scary part is how the corporate media jumps through hoops for Bush as the Whitehouse controls them like puppets. I'm still waiting for them to apologize to Clinton for all the false reports they manufactured on him.
Does anyone really believe that this sort of think didn't happen? I don't think so. At Abu Ghraib this was cmmon. Part of the torture was religious humiliation. They just were too stupid to understand the consequences of it.
The other bizzare aspect of this is that these muslims go nuts over the treatment of a book and not over the the treatment of people. That's why the religiously insane scare me.


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Saturday, July 11, 2015
Harvest Ethics (Am I a Thief?)
Returning from Tucson at the beginning of the week, I found that the High Harvest has definitely begun, as signaled by the traditional anonymous box of squash left on the front porch. Last night's dinner was squash fritters topped with goat cheese. Now there are only six big zucchini left to deal with (until the next influx, anyway). I will probably do what I did last year and bake a bunch of zucchini bread for the freezer. I defrosted the last of last year's zucchini loaves a few days ago, and it was in perfect condition. The trick is to wrap the loaf tightly in aluminum foil and then place in a ziploc bag. There are still a few cups of organic pecans in the cupboard leftover from a trade several weeks ago, and the zucchini bread plan will use those up as well.
Pickling cucumbers have appeared in the stores, and so I made a bunch of pickles. Four pints of bread and butter canned pickles, which are not my favorite but beloved by Paloma and my mom. I also started a big jar of lacto-fermented dills - but without any dill! I have yet to find any dill weed. I just used plenty of garlic, red pepper flakes, and a whole bunch of grape leaves to stop the pickles from getting soft. My children were aghast when I spotted an enormous grapevine growing up into the trees on the side of the road and pulled over to pick some leaves.
"Mom! You don't know who those belong to!"
"Nobody cares if I pick a handful of leaves off this vine, honey, it's gigantic. Besides, nobody can see me behind the trees."
"MOM!!! You're a THIEF!"
"Oh, relax, if anybody comes out I'll ask them nicely. It's not like I'm taking the grapes."
I also take apples and plums off of abandoned roadside trees. And the sour cherries off those branches of my neighbor's trees that hang over the fence onto my property. I'm unrepentant. Everybody knows that the fruit hanging in your airspace is fair game. As is the fruit off any tree growing in the ditch beside the road if there's no house in hailing/waving distance.
In Seattle, I had a beautiful young Bing cherry tree that I planted in the front yard, which was unfenced. I didn't mind if passersby took a small handful of cherries as they walked by - the temptation was strong - but I did draw the line when I saw people bringing bags and picking into the bag without asking. Once I actually caught a couple of young men UP IN THE BRANCHES, picking all the cherries they could and stuffing their shirtfronts. I yelled at those guys.
In apple season, I often cruise around looking for trees. I like to make apple cider and it takes a LOT of apples. As I said above, if the tree is not within sight of a house, I consider it free fruit. If it is in someone's yard or planted on the road near the driveway, I will knock and ask before taking any fruit. Oh - and obviously I only do that if I see that the apples are falling on the ground and not being picked up. If there are no apples on the ground I figure the owner is using the fruit. And if the owner says "yes, by all means, take all the fruit you like" I always offer back some cider or applesauce in return. I have some elderly neighbors who offered me all the apples I want in exchange for cleaning up the windfalls.
I truly believe I am acting well within the social norms of my region, but I'm very curious to hear what people from other parts of the country say. Am I a thief? Do you have to hike up a quarter mile driveway and knock before you take a handful of grape leaves? When is a tree abandoned? Is it open season on vacant lot trees? Can you strip them bare or is it good form to leave some fruit for the next person? Tell me in the comments.
3 comments:
- Anubis Bard said...
I wouldn't say you're a thief. Roadside trees are fine, clearly. But we have a property that used to have tons of blueberries on it. None of us really lived nearby, and some years the berries were left to the birds and bears. But some years we would go berry picking and whenever we found that someone had already raided them - thinking it was the wild woods as one interloper said when we caught them blue-handed - we were morally outraged.
- July 11, 2015 at 4:56 PM
- Aimee said...
Ha! Eventually I put a sign in my cherry tree saying to take a few but please leave the rest.
- July 13, 2015 at 2:44 PM
- HelenB said...
My vote is with you. No, the activity you've described doesn't make you a thief.
- July 15, 2015 at 9:22 AM
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Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) screams in silence as he falls into the "sunken place".
For a lot of people, their expectations are that the title must refer to some kind of demand made by white people to black people in the movie. That's what their social conditioning leads them to think would make sense.
Part of what makes Get Out work so well, is that it takes serious and playful account of what audiences are bringing to the table, and then it skewers these prejudices with anything sharp and deadly it can find handy.
The protagonist, Chris Washington (played by Daniel Kaluuya, who was so good in one of the best Black Mirror episodes, "Fifteen Million Merits"), decides against his own common sense and the advice of his best friend Rod, to travel home with his girlfriend Rose Armitage to meet her parents.
The problem?
Chris is black and Rose is white.
Right there, in the beginning of the movie, we get a little taste of what is coming, a hint of our own expectations and fears played against us by Peele.
Because, think about it for a moment. Why is Chris being black and Rose being white still a problem in 2017? And so intense is the provocation of that question, Chris is pained to bring it up at all, because he knows what the subtext of that question to Rose is going to be. It's like asking her: hey babe, so are your white parents who live in the woods the usual white racist rednecks or what? Not exactly a romance builder.
But Rose not only is cool and reassuring in her response—hey, they love Obama, they aren't racists, relax!—but on the way out to the house she totally stands up for Chris when he gets harassed by a white cop. It seems like Rose is the ideal white girlfriend, understanding, and not bothered at all about employing her white privilege to help a brother out.
Except, she's not really helping a brother out. As she says, she's helping out "her man". And there is definitely something creepy and menacing when a white woman of wealth and privilege says that about a black man. And the creepy and menacing bits just keep coming.
At one point, Rod tells Chris, in the plainest, most reliable advice anybody is ever going to get from a true friend:
"Look, Jeffrey Dahmer was eatin' the shit out of niggas' heads. OK? But that was after he fucked the heads. Do you think they saw that shit comin'? HELL NO! OK? They was comin' over there like alright let me just suck a little dick. Maybe jiggle some balls and shit. No! They didn't get a chance to jiggle shit, because they head was off they fucking body. I mean they still sucked the dick, but without the heads. It was fucking weird, detached-head shit. You know that's Jeffrey Dahmer's business."A little later, Rod makes it plainer:
"Oh shit! Chris, you gotta get the fuck up outta there. You in some hi-wire-shit situation! Leave motherfucker!"Or, as another character, who has momentarily come to his senses screams at Chris:
"Get out! Get out! Get the fuck outta here!"Yep, that's what the title is really about.
As with that little signal at the beginning of Alien—it's a warning.
It's just that, like the crew of the Nostromo, Chris can't quite believe until it's too late that the threat is as horrible as it turns out to be.
Now, a lot of people are writing a lot of crap about racism regarding this movie, whether or not it's a fair depiction of racist memes regarding white people, or whether the movie is some kind of reverse racism and a bunch of other stupid, totally wrong, shit.
I'm gonna tell you what it's really about. And no, I don't care whether you've seen the movie or not. So, be adults and figure out what to do next.
The real threat in Get Out is not that Chris will get his feelings or even his femurs hurt by racism. Chris is a smart, insightful, young black American, a man with "eyes", because he's also a successful photographer. So, he's prepared by experience and vision to deal with white Americans being racist imbeciles. That's just the default social fabric for black people in the USA.
Indeed, the racist imbecility of white people in Get Out is used to distract Chris and the audience from what is really going on. Because the real threat to Chris is not racism at all, at least not as we usually think about it, but instead it is what underlies racist sentiments, at least as many black people might view these matters in 2017 America.
Because, Peele's movie asserts in bold, bloody terms that what white people are really after is not to segregate and otherize black people, but to appropriate their bodies, to conquer and reprogram blackness and black identity itself, so that it becomes a physically stronger, more alive, bearer of white identity, white vitality, and white consciousness.
The slavery that the white people in Get Out mean to inflict on their black victims is worse than bondage, worse than rape, worse than murder. Because it is the lifelong imprisonment of black minds inside their own bodies, which bodies have been (almost) completely taken over by white masters and their sick, twisted schemes.
Indeed, the image of Chris falling into what Rose's headshrinker (and evil hypnotist) mom calls the "sunken place", is that of a slow-motion descent into the very worst and deepest dungeon (of the mind) imaginable.
Chris screams in rage and horror the first time this happens to him. But his screams are silent. Nobody will ever hear them.
That this happens, and Chris does not immediately exit the Frankenstein or Armitage castle tells you something about Jordan Peele's critique of black people's complacency and naiveté in this allegedly post-racial era.
Of course the movie was shot before Trump became president, and so if anything the facts on the ground seem to scream in loud terms that Peele's warning had better be taken seriously.
The only real concern I have with this movie, and it is already one of the great horror movies of all time, is that if white people are as monstrous as Jordan Peele argues they are, a whole lot of them might be watching and enjoying Get Out for all the great tips it offers prospective or active monsters in how to go for the truly monstrous bleachers.
Why limit yourself to cross-burnings and lynchings, after all, when you can perpetrate demonic possession?
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Is there room for launch companies smaller than the United Launch Alliance and SpaceX?
Vector Space Systems successfully launched a full-scale model of its Vector-R rocket on Wednesday in Mojave, California. The test flight, which remained under 50,000 feet for regulatory purposes, allows the company to remain on track to begin providing launch services for small satellites in 2018, said Jim Cantrell, the company's chief executive and cofounder.
The Arizona-based rocket company is one of a handful of competitors racing to the launch pad to provide lower-cost access to space for small satellites. These satellites are generally under 500kg in mass and often much smaller (the industry trend is toward smaller, lighter, more capable satellites). The Vector-R rocket will eventually be capable of launching a payload of up to 45kg to an orbit of 800km above the Earth. Other companies trying to reach this market include US-based Virgin Orbit and New Zealand-based Rocket Lab. Neither company has begun commercial launches.
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The secondary payloads on the Falcons/Ariane don't pay nearly that much. The guys with the two 5t GTO sats pay most of the cost.
Surely, they do cost more than the 2-3M these guys ask, but the total cost (replacement, insurance, delays, loss of opportunity) has to include the risk. Ariane success doesn't make news, SpaceX success is becoming routine: you pay for reliable service.
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By Richard Menta 1/12/03
The second of a two part year in review, we run through the losers of 2002. As with last year's list it has been a year of controversy, but also one showing a clearer trend to the future. Despite several court victories by the record industry, file trading is up significantly and record sales are down. Madster and Napster are dead and gone, but KaZaa has more than replaced them.
The jury is still out on Ogg Vorbis, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and fair use in general, but this coming year may become a watershed one for the formative direction that digital content distribution will take.
1. The RIAA and Record Industry
Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) president Cary Sherman (Hilary
Rosen is now the CEO) told BBC News Online "that music would always be available
for free somewhere on the net despite costly court battles to shut down illegal
music sites
It has got to be accepted that file sharing will always be there
just as shoplifting is accepted as wastage in the retail sector."
That comment says quite a bit, at least that the heads of the music industry lobby are being more realistic to the realities of the Net. That doesn't mean that the RIAA is going to try any less to take control of online music - he did equivacate file sharing with shoplifting - it just means they have accepted the fact they will need to adjust their strategy. Still, this is an organization run by American lawyers whose weapon of choice is the American legal system so don't expect the lawsuits to lighten up.
And the RIAA has had excellent results in the courts. They saw the destruction of Napster by the California legal system. They have left Madster (formerly Aimster) bloodied on the ropes and about to be called for a TKO and this month they won the right to sue Australian-based KaZaa in the US.
What has this won them so far? To be quite blunt, nothing.
KaZaa alone claims 140 million worldwide users, a figure that is double Napster's at its peak. Add to that the traffic from more than a dozen other P2P clients and you can see why Mr. Sherman made his somewhat conciliatory statement above. More people are trading than ever. Many more people.
Furthermore, the legal exploits of the RIAA make front page news and each time leave a bad taste in the mouths of the very people who spend hard earned money on their products. This is not just the Napster and Madster trials, but in the recent case where the music industry was the defendant.
In 2002 the music companies were nailed for price-fixing CDs and agreed in an out of court settlement with the Department of Justice to reimburse consumers to the tune of 67.4 million dollars (anyone who bought a CD between January 1, 1995 through December 22, 2000 is eligible and can claim reimburssment here). The very industry that calls its own customers pirates and thieves proved themselves to be the real criminals in full view of the record buying public. Blame file trading all you want, but don't dismiss bad PR. And they wonder why sales are down?
But wait, have sales really dropped? That's what industry released statistics say, claiming that this past Christmas season alone was down 10%. But evidence is showing that the record industry is only manipulating the numbers to gain legislative sympathy.
If the music industry really did witness a drop in sales - and they very well may have - then they have a problem because right now I and many others now have doubts (doubts openly expressed in research relying on industry numbers like Stan Liebowitz's "Record Sales, MP3 downloads, and the Annihilation Hypothesis"). I don't doubt that they have alienated a piece of their audience to a point where these people just aren't buying, but the magnitude of that drop and the industry reasons for it remain suspect.
The credibility of the music industry is strained and I personally tend to find more believable the research from the likes of Jupiter, Ipsos-Reid, and Edison Research that showed file trading induces record sales, or at least has had a minimal effect depending on how you want to interpret the statistics.
On that thought, maybe the perfect example is the report from Edison Research who took their acquired data and gave it a pro-RIAA spin. While their interpretation concluded that there was a file trading problem, they never fudged the numbers to support that conclusion. That is why when I did my own interpretation of their results I came to the opposite conclusion, one that supported the notion that trading music on the Net has not had a detrimental effect on record sales. I detailed my reasons here.
There are other issues here that made 2002 a down year for the entertainment conglomerates. The broadband providers and electronic manufacturers are starting to resist their legal and legislative moves. Used CD sales are skyrocketing as more consumers reject high CD prices. Lawrence Lessig is attacking the Sonny Bono Act that extended copyrights to 95 years.
In Europe, where copyrights are only good for 50 years, a high percentage of music including early Rock and Roll is falling into the public domain. Right now if two Europeans trade the music of Hank Williams or the complete video of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs there is no copyright infringement. This content is all presently in the public domain on the continent. Now if an American trades this content with a European is there copyright infringement? Be prepared to spend 10 years in US court to argue that point (it's interesting that the RIAA wants KaZaa bound to US copyright laws even though they do no direct business here, but they don't want to be bound by the European copyright laws that have a different interpretation regarding the term of those copyrights.)
All of the above ranting does not mean that the movie and record industries will not prevail in the long term. If the Berman Bill were to actually pass, then the RIAA would probably top the winners list for 2003. What I am saying is reflected in this fact; when I pick up and purchase a CD of an artist whose music I truly love I can't help but think "am I being manipulated or even cheated?"
So far I have been buying the CD anyway. As a knowledgeable consumer something must be still compelling me.
2. Morpheus
At the start of 2002, Tennessee-based Morpheus was the number one P2P client riding the advantages of the FastTrack network. A few months later they were kicked off that network and watched as their user base flocked to KaZaa. They still are in the top 10 of Download.com's most popular list, but pull in less than 1/10th of the traffic KaZaa does. One more note, as a US company they are more vulnerable to music and movie industry lawsuits and any negative court rulings they may bring.
3. Madster (Aimster)
As the foreign KaZaa zoomed to popularity and profitability, US-based Aimster lost the rights to its own name and was crushed in the courts by the entertainment industry, even before the trial itself started. Bankrupt and barely hanging on by a thread, even after an early 2003 court ruling reversed a prior order to shut down, Madster is all but over.
4. Regional American Net Radio
Regional broadcast radio over the airwaves died a few years back with Clear Channel Communications' acquisition of 1600 some radio stations. Fortunately, Net radio proved to be an ideal (and cheap) way for local Net DJs to spin the lastest local hits, catering to the regional tastes of their home audience and sharing that perspective with a world audience. As I wrote in my commentary Raising the Barriers to Entry the media industry was not going to allow such easy access to continue. Now the Library of Congress, with the help of the media lobbies, has killed regional Net radio by killing personal Net radio. A tragedy that hopefully will see some reversal this year. Sadly, I'm not optimistic.
5. Copy Protected CDs
An acquaintance recently purchased the new Peter Gabriel CD. It played fine on her standard CD players, but would not play on her computer at work where she regularly listens to music to pass the tedium of her job. What did she do? She simply downloaded the files from the Net onto her PC and played that instead.
The problem is she was still angry that the CD she bought was intentionally disabled, preventing her from using it as she wished. Do you know what she did next? She returned the CD.
A perfect example of a dissatisfied consumer who already committed to the purchase and was completely discouraged by the intentional hampering of the product. Scariest for the music industry was when I heard her angrily mutter these words "I won't make that mistake again."
6. Napster
Actually killed off in 2001, the final indignity came in 2002 where it was dismantled and sold piecemeal at public auction. The name and technolgy were purchased and will probably resurface, but it doesn't matter. KaZaa and others have long ago replaced it.
7. IBM 1GB Microdrive
This tiny and remarkable drive should have taken over an MP3 portable market littered with 32MB and 64MB players, but Big Blue - a strong believer in premium pricing - arrogantly kept the street price high on their Microdrives despite the fact the technology was already several years old. Then came the Apple iPod and the Microdrive became a footnote. Oh well, they still have the pro-digital camera market...until someone puts the Toshiba drive found in the iPod inside one of them.
8. Pressplay, Musicnet, Rhapsody and similar pay digital download sites.
Too many restrictions and prices that equal or exceed that of a standard CD have dampend consumer interest in these services. Frankly, they give you less - much less - that what you can download for free. This is especially true with their song catalog, which are still missing many artists and songs.
The good news for these services, despite the anemic response from music fans, comes from research by Ipsos-Reid and Jupiter. They found that there is a significant number of consumers online who are open and willing to pay for digital downloads, even with the free P2P services in existance. They are just waiting for the right terms.
The key is to offer better services or at least the perception of better services. The big analogy of 2002 came from Janis Ian who commented that the bottled water industry is doing quite well despite competition from free tap water. There will be changes in the industry-approved services this year. Success will be dependent on how much and how fast.
The ultraslim iRiver SlimX MP3/CD player is available at Amazon
Other MP3 Stories:
The MP3 Winners of 2002
Shareaza Interview
Jon Johansen - v - Hollywood
Blubster: Reloaded


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This is the game-winning that gave the Tampa Bay Lightning a 5-4 O.T. win against the New York Islanders. First, the hit by former Boston College Eagle Brian Boyle on Thomas Hickey, it is what it is. Then the great effort by Boyle to get to the blue paint and score the game-winning goal. Thoughts on the hit? Some don't like it. I don't think the league will review it.
What about the flying elbow by scumbag Brian Boyle on Hickey that led to that goal??— Eric Salzillo (@EricSalzillo) May 4, 2016
So Brian Boyle gets game-winning overtime goal. Suspended for next game. Probably.— Blog of Brotherhood (@MiamiHockeyBlog) May 4, 2016
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I have learned so much as a volunteer here at VIP Services. Each time I enter I learn something new about others, as well as myself. This service presents a great opportunity to, not only serve others, but to create new educational experiences from a personal standpoint. There will always be a need for volunteering in this facility, and I can assure you, it will be life-changing. Why not stop in, make your wishes known, and come along for a great journey!!!!


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Every year millions of American resolve to lose weight. A major component of losing weight is eating healthy and developing a healthy diet. Learning more about nutrition and being able to track nutrition is one of the best ways to do this. There are nutrition software programs available to help people learn more about nutrition and how to apply it to everyday life.
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DietMaster 2100
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This nutrition software program provides users with both short term and long term management for their fitness goals and diet goals. Nutrinote offers nutrient composition of the person's diet and its association to specific health indicators, customizable charts and graphs and a food nutrient and recipe database. This program is only supported by PC and retails for $39.95.
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Kathleen's Diet Planner 14.6
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Fit Day
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Diet Organizer 2.4
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Diet Pro 2.0
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BeNutriFit 1.7
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Mealformation 5
This program is primarily a menu management and food database. It does not offer tracking abilities, but does offer users the chance to learn more about foods and nutrition to help them develop a healthy diet that is right for their individual lifestyle. It retails for $49.00.
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TopTenReviews. (2010). 2010 Nutrition Software Review Product Comparisons. Retrieved on August 24, 2010 from TopTenReviews: http://nutrition-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
Nutrition Software Directory. (2010). General Nutrition. Retrieved on August 24, 2010 from the Nutrition Software Directory: http://nutritionsoftware.org/general-nutrition
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I knit a pair of converse shoes. I'd had this idea for aaages, but just recently conned someone into giving me an old pair. I cut off all the fabric, save for about a 1/4 inch along all the edges, and knit pieces to sew in place. They didn't take a very long time to make- the hardest part was sewing everything together. Ugh! I think the effort was worth it, and they're actually really strong. I played a game of baseball in them the other day, and they've held up just fine!
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Portland-based indie-folk darlings The Decemberists and English singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney have announced their new collaborative project Offa Rex and their upcoming album The Queen of Hearts.
The project will see The Decemberists and Olivia Chaney reimagine a number of traditional British songs in their own unique style.
"There's this weird relationship between British and American music, this interesting trade and theft that goes back and forth," Colin Meloy from The Decemberists explained. "My hope was that if we — the neophytes, the dilettantes, the pretenders — brought Olivia to Portland to work with Tucker, perhaps these traditional British songs would be infused with something different."
The Queen of Hearts is due for release on the 7th July. The full track listing and the video for the sixties-English-folk-revival-esque title track "The Queen of Hearts" is below:
1. The Queen of Hearts
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4. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
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|09 Jun 2012
HDD is not recognized by Bios and Windows
Okay at first it could sound very simple on how to fix it but it's a bit more complicated than that so please hear me out
First of all im very new to this so forgive me if I posted this in the wrong section.
Okay so went shopping and asked some computer technicians to build me a computer and all now that I'm trying to install windows 7 32 bit ( or 64 bit) when i get to the part " where do you want to install windows 7 "
i see this : Disk 0 unallocated space 3.9 GB
okay now the thing is there are 10000 of threads like mine but the difference here is that i have a 500gb hardrive , why on earth is only showing this one with only 3.9 GB ?!?!?
there are no more partitions and all the options such as " delete , format , etend and so on are disabled ,
only " New" is available which whatever i try prompts with an error and cant change anything,
i checked my BIOS ( now im a bit noob ) and on SATA settings the only thing i could find was my Optical Drive i couldn't find my hardrive listed there
now i've tried IDE, ACHI as well same thing.
Please help me out here
here is some spec details on what I'm using :
Motherboard : Asus Mainboard INTEL S1155 H61 P8H61 B3
Memory : 2x 4GB Ram DDR3 PC1333
> HARD DRIVE > : Seagate HDD Desktop SATA III SV35 500GB 7200RPM 32MB
Graphic Card: SAPPHIRE VGA PCIE ATI 7850 2GB DDR5 256BIT
CPU: Intel processor S115 CORE i5 2500k 3.30ghz
Any help would be appreciated
UPDATE: This is an absolute raw harddrive installing an operating system on it for the first time
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Hello Raeion. Welcome to the forum.
When the hard drive is not recognized in the BIOS it means that either the drive is defective or there is a connectivity problem.
The first thing to double check is connectivity. This is how I would proceed:
(Please use proper static precautions!)
If you had this machine built for you then you may want to just take it back and get the technicians to fix the issue. Don't leave the store until you can see the drive recognized in BIOS.
If you were to damage something doing your own work you might void any warranty.
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The Crib Collective?s mission is to create a culture of social entrepreneurship among young people in Chicago?s North Lawndale and Little Village communities. We define social entrepreneurship as the art of creating innovative initiatives that cause positive and systemic social transformation.
The artistic focus of The Crib is on preparing youth for leadership in social change AND on strengthening the impact of their efforts. We believe that art in various forms offers immense potential for reflection, planning, creation of transformational community experiences and organizing a power base. Yet, we are still at the outset of exploring this potential and integrating it throughout our social change strategy. This is the focus of the proposed project.
Arts and artists have been a foundational part of The Crib Collective since our inception and our expertise is rapidly expanding. We opened our doors in 2002 with the Open Mic program and brought over a thousand young people through that year. Each Open Mic event has featured local artists at various stages in their careers ? some signed and touring (like Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin) others just beginning to work the circuits, but all intent on having a positive impact. Our staff includes 4 high quality artists ? two visual artists who are students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and two spoken word and recording artists who are contracted with local performance venues. We are home to Luv?n?Dedication Studios and its CEO.
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Post success of Micromax Canvas 6, its successor Micromax Canvas 7 is expected to come on board soon. The dual SIM phone will have abundance of high end features at a price range of approximate Rs. 15000. If reports are to be believed, it will be packed with 5.5 inch full HD IPS display screen with corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection and 1920 * 1080 pixels resolutions.
The 4G enabled phone will come with latest Android of Android N 7.0 and powered by 64 Bit Deca-Core MediaTek Helio X20. Micromax Canvas 7 features finger print sensor and backed by 4100 mAh powerful battery. And whereas the cameras of the phone are concerned, it will be packed with 16 MP dual tone LED flash rear camera and 8 MP selfie camera. It will be equipped with many sensors i.e. Fingerprint, Accelerometer, Ambient Light, Gyroscope and Proximity Sensor.
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August 4, 2009, Sister Julie B. Beck, Relief Society General President, addressed LDS seminary and institute of religion teachers on Teaching the Doctrine of the Family.
As parents, church leaders and teachers we are called upon to teach this most important and sacred doctrine to our families and children. As Sister Beck states, "This generation will be called upon to defend the doctrine of the family as never before. If they don't know it, they can't defend it."
Sister Beck quotes President Kimball who said:
"Many of the social restraints which in the past have helped to reinforce and to shore up the family are dissolving and disappearing. The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us. …
"… There are those who would define the family in such a nontraditional way that they would define it out of existence. …
"We of all people, brothers and sisters, should not be taken in by the specious arguments that the family unit is somehow tied to a particular phase of development a moral society is going through. We are free to resist those moves which downplay the significance of the family and which play up the significance of selfish individualism. We know the family to be eternal." (Spencer W. Kimball, "Families Can Be Eternal," Ensign, Nov. 1980, 4.)
It talking about the Theology of the Family, Sister Beck tells us:
"In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we have a theology of the family that is based on the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement. The Creation of the earth provided a place where families could live. God created a man and a woman who were the two essential halves of a family. It was part of Heavenly Father's plan that Adam and Eve be sealed and form an eternal family.
"The Fall provided a way for the family to grow. Adam and Eve were family leaders who chose to have a mortal experience. The Fall made it possible for them to have sons and daughters.
"The Atonement allows for the family to be sealed together eternally. It allows for families to have eternal growth and perfection. The plan of happiness, also called the plan of salvation, was a plan created for families. The rising generation need to understand that the main pillars of our theology are centered in the family.
"When we speak of qualifying for the blessings of eternal life, we mean qualifying for the blessings of eternal families. This was Christ's doctrine, and it was restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. It is recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 2:1–3:
"Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
"And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers.
"If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming."
"This scripture is talking about temple blessings—ordinances and covenants without which "the whole earth [is] utterly wasted."
"The Family: A Proclamation to the World" was written to reinforce that the family is central to the Creator's plan. 1 Without the family, there is no plan; there is no reason for mortal life."
"The key elements of the doctrine of the family are found in the family proclamation. President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) said that the proclamation was "a declaration and reaffirmation of standards, doctrines, and practices" that this Church has always had."
Also See:
Families - Index
Here are some examples of young LDS Defenders of Marriage and Family:
What is Reel Love?This is one of my favorites. The Ruth Institute sponsored a Challenge for videos about 3 minutes long that promote love...hence, Reel Love. The Ruth Institute had this challenge to promote marriage among our nation's college students.
"We also applaud the Ruth Institute for involving college-age students in an idea that is important when our culture is promoting something so different. The Ruth Institute says: "We envision a renewed culture where the majority of marriages are stable."
Mariah is Mormon and her video, of the ones I watched, was my favorite and was creative in style but what she shares about her ideal of what "real" love is speaks volumes for someone so young.
Levi and Shanna Mele, students living in Evanston, IL are getting some media attention for doing what comes somewhat natural for many LDS young adults do, be married and have children....while going to college. The Daily Northwestern (Northwestern University's news site)ran this news video:
Undergrad dad
"Daily Northwestern's profile of "father figure" Mele: It's pretty rare for a college wrestler to be married and a father. Northwestern University's 133-pounder Levi Mele has a wife Shauna-Lee and 4-month-old son Wyatt, who arrived on the first day of classes." In a profile by Sarah Kuta for the Daily Northwestern student paper, the 22-year-old Mele talks about how he balances his Wildcat mat career, academics and his family life." (by Mark Palmer, College Wrestling Examiner)
A few months later, the Daily Northwestern, ran another article on the Mele Family: NU wrestler balances parenthood, sport
About the same time a staff reporter, Kara Spak, for the Chicago Sun Times saw the video and did an interview with the Meles for her own article:
Married on campus: 'Life is so much more stable'
Spak quotes some interesting trends about campus life:
"Four decades ago it wasn't uncommon for a woman to pick up an "MRS" degree — or a man to pick up his wife — on the road to graduation. In 1970, the average age for a woman to marry was 20.8; for a man, 23.2. College campuses were hotbeds of hope for happily-ever-afters.
"In the middle of the 20th century, women saw college's function as husband hunting," said Barbara Risman, a sociology professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "The goal was to have an engagement ring on the finger by senior year."
"Now, on many campuses, women outnumber men, both are career-focused and few of either sex are looking for a lifetime commitment at this point in their lives, Risman said.
In the midst of a campus culture dedicated to self-exploration, binge drinking and casual sex, a handful of local students are still taking the plunge and marrying before graduation. Putting a ring on it as an undergraduate comes with a scramble to find appropriate on-campus housing, surprised parents and friends and a lot of questions from classmates."
Deseret News picked up the Chicago Suns Time article, Mormons & Media: High-profile folk help understanding of LDS? by Scott Taylor. Quote:
"Levi and Shanna Mele are one of the leading husband-and-wife duos prominently featured in the Chicago Sun-Times's lengthy look at married couples doubling as college students in "Married on campus: 'Life is so much more stable."Also see:
From mission to mat in the Big Ten by Greg Hill, LDS Church News staff writer
Levi Mele - Wrestling Bio
Church Missionary Wrestles With Time Commitments and Team-Mates
Levi Mele - My Faith
I'm struck by the interest in this little family for being married in collage and having a child. They were doing was what the Lord had commanded all to do. In Genesis the very first commandment given to mankind was to "multiply and replenish the earth."(Genesis 1:28) God's chosen people have always taken this commandment serious. And yet we in this day and time we see constant assaults against the family unit.
Psalms 127: 3-5 (NKJV) states:
"Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one's youth.
Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;
They shall not be ashamed,
But shall speak with their enemies in the gate."
Other LDS Defenders of the Family:
On Being a Mother
"I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named." (Amplified Bible: "every family in heaven and on earth" (Ephesians 3: 14-15)


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