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Shares of Apple Computer were hit hard on Tuesday -- a rarity for the rejuvenated PC maker.For the most part, shareholders took the news of profit shortcomings in stride. See full story. There were some Apple AAPL, -2.24% bulls who expected an even bigger hit and aired their relief on the online message boards.
TonyW wasn't sweating the retreat on Silicon Investor: "AAPL's problem sounds like real short term.Demand is so great that they couldn't get supplies to satisfy demand. The management must be making alternative moves to get chip sourcing presently. The fact they let this happen is a negative. The incipient cause of wide demand is a positive. (I'd) rather have them have unsatiated demand rather than unsold inventory."
A time to buy?MeDroogies thought so: "Well, I must admit I'm a little 'happy' about this turn of events. It's Jobs' way of letting me get back in at a decent price.This is a tragicomedy. Tragic that such a great turnaround is sullied, a comedy because the error is not theirs, and only portends better quarters down the line."
On Raging Bull, Pmcw was miffed about the timing of the announcement: "AAPL is a great company and Jobs is the right guy, but he made a mistake by not discussing this shortage weeks ago. Clear and simple, if AAPL wants to be a highly respected stock with loyal and deep institutional ownership, they need to manage the Street's expectations and be forthcoming with information about a major miss of numbers. Don't tell me they just figured out the shortage yesterday. If this was the case, they would have serious problems, and I don't believe this is the case.Silence is not golden."
Trostan, on CBS MarketWatch, saw Tuesday's activity as a litmus test: "Whether Apple skates through this earnings-warning fallout -- arguably its first patch of adversity since Gil Amelio's departure -- with minimal damage may be the truest test yet of whether the company is all the way back from the grave."
The Apple faithful stood strong as their 'comeback kid' stumbled.As long as the stock continues to take one step back, two steps forward, shareholders won't have much to complain about.
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Tuesday was a tough day for the broad market, but few felt the pain as acutely as those holding shares of Superior Consultant Holdings Corporation supc Delivering earnings well below estimates in a sour marketplace is definitely a recipe for disaster. SUPC's dazed shareholders tried to make sense of their stock's 50 percent decline on the message boards.
DownOnWallStreet tried to look at the positive: "SUPC is worth more than the sum of its parts. The company has a good cash balance and investments worth more than $90 million. The market is therefore valuing the company at less than the value of its parts. We believe the company is worth more than the sum of its parts (approx. $13 per share) and this will be reflected once the market settles down. Expect a rebound to take the stock back to a level commensurate with its inherent value, about $15 per share, over the next month or so."
Phlaccid, posting on Yahoo, was no softy: "How the heck do you miss earnings by 50 percent in a consulting firm? It's simple metric: Number of Consultants * Growth * Utilization * Average Bill Rate = Revenue ... 50 percent??"
Many other bottom feeders saw the slaughter as an opportunity to scalp a few points. Ifmo253 posted, "This is a gimmee. ... We will get a great bounce on this one. Holding (till the stock hits) 15-16 in a couple of days. There is too much buying here to go down any more." And MarcI: "Agreed on a quick rebound. I'm PLANNING to retire in my 40s because of 'dead-cat bounces.' "
TVManJon cautioned investors who were looking for the quick buck: "The dead cat already bounced. I've been there, done that, and, in my opinion, this doesn't have the right ingredients to bounce. The float is too low, and the management's statements are mostly wishful positive spins on the future purposely said to try to keep what happened today to a minimum. ... Only greed is clouding the ability to read between the lines."
Not much of an intraday bounce was to be had Tuesday.We'll have to wait and see if SUPC is as dead as TVManJon would have you believe.


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Even though I grew up on a farm in Indiana and spent a great deal of time outside, I would not say I am as attuned to nature as one might expect. In some ways it is a little disappointing to realize this and admit it. Of course when I was outside, I was surely aware of the weather. If it is raining, you don't need a very high IQ to know it is raining! Awareness of the weather, however, does not mean you are generally aware of nature.
Every time I come back to Annie Dillard's great book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, I am reminded of my off-and-on relationship with nature. I realize again how much I miss on a walk across campus. I lament at how unconscious I apparently am so much of the time. At one level, this is sad because it means I am capable of so much more. At another level, it is funny. It is funny because I sometimes think I am fairly aware and, then, realize perhaps I am not as aware as I think I am. Another good opportunity for some humility! Whenever I have the opportunity for some humility, at least I am on a spiritual track again.
Near the end of a chapter called, "Spring," Dillard quotes Einstein. I have never double-checked the quotation, so I hope he said it. If he did not, then whoever said it has a good idea. "Never lose a holy curiosity," said Einstein. Clearly, the key word here is "curiosity." Let's look at this idea and see how it fits within spirituality.
If you were to look up that word in a dictionary, you would find that curiosity means a desire to know something or to find out something. A curious person is an inquisitive person. I would like to think that most people are curious to an extent. If we watch children, they seem pretty curious by nature. The will explore almost anything. Little ones will put anything in their mouths! Maybe that is when we begin to lose our curiosity, namely, when we outgrow the desire to put things in our mouths!
I think it is ok if we literally get over putting things in our mouths. But if we see it figuratively, we need to be careful not to lose our taste for exploration. Maybe this is the clue to what Einstein means. If we lose our willingness to explore, then we have become settlers. We have settled for what already is. We declare in our own way that we are ok with the routine and the given.
That is not bad. Typically, there is nothing wrong with the given and our routine. More than most people, perhaps, I am a person who values routine. But if I settle for the routine as all there is, then I have lost something important in my life. I have lost the possibility for the novel---the new. I have lost the chance for the different. There is nothing wrong with sameness---I value that. But there is more; there is always difference.
Curiosity is a quest. It is an inquisitiveness for the novel and the different. It is a free choice. Voluntarily my curiosity opens me to a world that is more interesting, more complex, more beguiling that I ever imagined. I hope I never get to the place where I say, "I don't care." If I do, I probably have admitted that I am finished growing as a human being. I think we were created for growth. Curiosity is the divine implanted grow impulse.
Having said that, I realize I have just introduced the opening to talk about the adjective Einstein used, namely, "holy." "Never lose a holy curiosity," he said. I like the way he puts it. I can understand his use of "holy" in a couple ways. I have already indicated one way we can understand "holy curiosity." This holy curiosity is the divinely implanted impulse to grow and deepen as human beings. I have already indicated that I could be much more attentive when I am in nature. I could let nature teach me so much more about myself and about my God, the Creator of this amazing world and the unfathomable universes. To settle for my routine and the given in my life is sadly to settle for so little. I have a God to discover and I too often settle for my own little world and my own sorry self.
The other way we can understand "holy curiosity" is to see our curiosity to be wired to desire to know God. We are naturally inquisitive for the Divine. We would be idiots to assume that we are the center of the universe. Any sane person knows that the egocentric person has it all wrong. The trouble is, being egocentric often feels so good---so "god-like!" Again, we would be idiots to set ourselves up as gods and not see the idolatry in doing so!
Our holy curiosity is designed to not fall into temptation, but deliver us to the doorstep of God Itself. We might find that doorstop in the details and intricacies of nature. We might find ourselves approaching the heart of God when we go deep within and find our own hearts. Holy curiosity leads us both without---into the big world out there filled with amazing things. And it leads us deep within---where in the words of a revered Quaker, we find "an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul." It is there that the holy curiosity delivers us into Holiness Itself.


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Anna Faris is in the undeniably awkward position of touring the country promoting a book all about how she fell in love with her ex.But luckily for Anna, she insists both she and Chris Pratt are completely at ease with the situation - and will 'always be great friends'.
The pair met one another while shooting Overboard earlier this year, but they were not romantically linked until September when they were seen at a carnival together with the blonde beauty's five-year-old son with Chris, Jack. It seemed romantic in the way they were looking at one another and how they were laughing at the table...Nobody can really say this reflects Szpilman's wartime hardships, but my intuition tells me, unmistakably, that only someone who has paid rent in the abyss could conceive such phrase readings.Nearly identical in their selection of works, the two discs differ mainly in Sony's inclusion of a CD-ROM video feature of the aging Szpilman playing Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor in 1980. The dignity of the pianist's manner has infinitely more impact if you know that this is the piece he was playing when Polish Radio was destroyed by the Nazis and that he returned to five years later, after the Nazis had been destroyed.Szpilman's fellow musicians - whatever side they were on during the war - changed so much over the 1940s and after that the great masterpieces they performed seemed to rewrite themselves. How the current war will change what we hear remains to be, well, heard.You can hear it in before-and-after recordings, in which one conductor beefed up the militaristic brass, and another found a conduit for psychic pain in the music's dissonances. You could argue that such changes have most to do with how we hear. I made a point of listening to the Szpilman discs (one from the independent label BCI Eclipse and the other from the German branch of Sony Classical) before and after seeing the film.It won three Oscars: best director; best actor, and best adapted screenplay.(Wednesday, March 26, 2003) Meanwhile, Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" received a huge rave in the Jerusalem Post, with William E.Grim calling the film, "undoubtedly the greatest Holocaust film of all time," adding "'The Pianist' is a testament to the indefatigable spirit of life that refuses to go gentle into the night." He also notes Adrien Brody's performance as "stunning." Works for Violin and Piano with Bronislaw Gimpel: Beethoven "Spring", Grieg op.45, Rathaus "Pastorale and Dance" (1st publication of the world premiere recording in 1963) and small works by Schubert, Dvorak, Wieniawski, Bloch, Prokofiew For all of its devastating power, Roman Polanski's film The Pianist reaches a point where it doesn't entirely ring true.No, from the first notes of both Szpilman discs, you hear poetic, Old-World rubato and that warm blanket of piano tone that's missing from the film's soundtrack performances by Janusz Olejniczak.Most arresting is a 1960 reading of Schumann's Fantasy in C major, the middle movement, which reaches an utterly singular, harrowingly intense climax.What I heard didn't change, but the film explained a few things.Szpilman, who died three years ago, was an artist of sterling pedigree, which all but guarantees his recordings won't be a redux of the David Helfgott-style compromised pianism heard in the wake of the 1996 film Shine.
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A week or so ago I noticed a little difficulty arise between Scott Greenfield and Rocket Matter concerning Paper.li. Whilst this started on Twitter it soon moved onto their respective blogs. Scott's blog post Rocket Doesn't Matter told us:-
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The Rocket Matter, LLC Daily is out! http://bit.ly/hqNe3L ▸ Top stories today via @consumerfinance @lavocate @davisesq212 @scottgreenfield
It's not the first time I'd seen a twit like this, but the first time I actually looked at it. It occurred to me I had no idea who or what Rocket Matter is and what their daily had to do with me. So I looked.
It turned out to be another of those internet Dailies, the fad for those who create nothing to have something to use to market themselves by glomming off the content of others. Most of the stuff was typical social media garbage, apparently the sort of stuff they find interesting. But why me? Why was my post in there?
There's no commentary. There's no "value added." It's as if the editor of the New York Times went through a bunch of stories in other newspapers and put them together to make a New York Times, but without asking anyone's permission."
Scott went on to wonder whether this was all some kind of marketing tool for Rocket Matter where they were perhaps using his and "other people's content, without permission, to create the fodder by which they are marketing themselves". Scott's conclusion is that this is what is going on and for him what "is not okay is to use my content as the lunch meat for your marketing sandwich".
Scott will have no difficulty with The Time Blawg's sandwich (if this post could be described as that) given his view:-
"Fair use, meaning commentary, discussion, whether for or against, or merely to substantiate a point, is great with me. Anyone and everyone, even marketers, are free to grab a quote, sentence or even a couple of paragraphs if it makes sense, as part of a discussion."
Scott was usefully told by Antonin Pribetic that you could avoid appearing in a Paper.li Daily by sending a tweet to @NewsCrier (and not @TownCrier as suggested in the comments to Scott's blog post). So Scott duly tweeted News Crier. I will come back to the effectiveness or otherwise of this later on.
However, by the time Scott had taken this action Rocket Matter had decided to pull their Daily. In Boy Did I Step into a Hornet's Nest with Paper.li we learn:-
"So about six months ago or so I signed up for this service called "Paper.li" which creates an online newspaper out of the tweets of your followers. I found it interesting, because it's kind of like Twitter on shuffle.
Turns out some authors were getting annoyed when they would get picked up by Paper.li…
One attorney in particular, Scott Greenfield, wrote a blistering post about our use of Paper.li and how he felt we were freeloading his content to further our marketing goals. It was compounded by a misread on my part about the nature of our Twitter correspondence (did I mention that I'm dense that way)? I thought we were good natured-ly joking, even when I told him he complains "like an old woman or a bus" and was totally taken aback when I saw his post, feeling we were using his content to market our product…
Needless to say, our goal was not to freeload content. Paper.li was one of those things you sign up for and then forget about. We produce a lot of content ourselves, so we are sensitive to Mr. Greefield's concerns, and I killed the daily without thinking twice."
Then the other day I saw a tweet from CharonQC:-
"These twitter daily newspaper proclaiming *The Too Farking Lazy To write My Own Blog Is out* dailies are very tedious 🙂 Write your own!"
I started to wonder whether Dailies did have any purpose to serve if they were annoying some of our most respected Twegals. Would it be wise for a lawyer or a law firm to publish one? I have of course seen plenty of Paper.lies but had not published one myself. There are some good law related ones: The Guardian Law Daily and Legal-Conections Daily spring to mind. My own content often appears in them but I had no knowledge as to how they were created or exactly how the content was selected.
As research in preparing this blog post I decided to publish The Time Blawg Daily on Paper.li. This would give me an understanding of how it works and I can always pull the Daily if I upset anyone. I discovered that you can set it not to automatically issue tweets about every edition like the tweet that brought The Rocket Matter Daily to Scott Greenfield's attention. However, how will anyone ever know about your Daily if you don't tweet about it? Perhaps no one else needs to know directly about it and it can remain 'your very own Daily'. More on that later.
It took me only a few minutes, if that, to set The Time Blawg Daily up. Basically once a day (although you can publish twice a day or weekly instead) Paper.li automatically takes Tweets from who you are following and puts them into an online newspaper format. You have no real control (as far as I can see) as to what this content might be – other than of course the fact that it comes from people you follow. There is an advanced setting (which I have not explored properly yet) which allows you to create more focused papers:-
"You can query Twitter with a more complex search term than just a #tag (e.g. find all the tweets that talk about climate AND carbon but NOT solar = climate carbon -solar).
You can also restrict the Twitter users that can contribute content to the paper by specifying a Twitter list.
Note that this is a first step in providing you with more editorial control. More features are on the way…"
As far as I can see a Paper.li gives you in one place each day (or twice a day or weekly if you prefer) some of what may be the more interesting tweets and content from the people that you follow. From a personal point of view, without necessarily having to tweet it out to everyone else, this could be a useful and quick way of keeping abreast of what is going on without having to look through your whole Twitter stream for the day. You might well pick up on interesting content that you would otherwise have missed. The same goes for anyone who reads your Paper.li.
Is it, in effect, the 'Daily Me' (or a step towards that) as discussed by Nicholas Negroponte in his book Being Digital? This is explored by Richard Susskind in The End of Lawyers:-
"Negroponte discussed the idea of the Daily Me – a newspaper, delivered electronically every morning, made up of news, comments, and reportage but containing only topics of direct interest to each particular reader. Each reader, in other words, receives a personalized newspaper that only contains items of direct interest to him or her."
Your own Paper.li may not be quite as focussed as envisaged by Negroponte. However, it is likely to contain a fair amount of topics of direct interest to you if you follow people on Twitter that have similar interests to you.
Are they a marketing ploy? I don't really see them as this. They are more about the content (which the publisher has little control over anyway) than the publisher themselves. The adverts on them benefit Paper.li and not the publisher. The first edition of The Time Blawg Daily had adverts for Living Social, Groupon and Google Adwords which again I have no control over.
However, as a publisher, you may end up being associated with content that you would rather not be associated with. Likewise as an innocent Tweeter you may end up in a Paper.li that you would rather not appear in. You might be happy to be in most Paper.lies but not certain ones. Can you control that?
As we have seen you can create a blanket ban using @NewsCrier. Or can you? As we saw earlier Scott Greenfield tweeted @NewsCrier. However, low and behold, he is in the first edition of The Time Blawg Daily! It is not his own content but a tweet from Scott about 'Rumsfeld To Get 'Defender Of The Constitution' Award At CPAC'. Sorry, Scott I was not expecting that to happen.
So does @NewsCrier not work? How else could you prevent your tweets appearing in a Paper.li. I suppose you could block the publisher. That should work as the publisher would no longer be following you so your tweets would not be picked up by the Paper.li. That would also be one way of selecting a Paper.li you didn't want to be in but still allowing publication in others. However, is it extreme to block someone just because they have decided to publish a Paper.li?
@ErikJHeels has been blocking people who retweet Paper.li tweets, as well as those who publish a Daily, as he considers it to be spam. To stop seeing such retweets (as opposed to the publications) he just needs to unfollow. Blocking is perhaps a bit severe for that purpose.
Even blocking a publisher to prevent you appearing in their Paper.li (or using @NewsCrier if it actually works) will not necessarily prevent your content appearing in a Paper.li. This is because if someone else tweets your content it will potentially appear in a Paper.li. Thus in the first edition of The Time Blawg Daily there is content from the BBC News website. @TheTimeBlawg is not following any BBC twitter accounts. However @TheTimeBlawg is following @PurplesmurfLLB and it is as a result of her tweeting the BBC content that it appears in The Time Blawg Daily. Thus, can you really ever avoid your own online content appearing in a Paper.li?
If you are a lawyer or a law firm chances are you will be following many other lawyers and law firms. Some of these may be direct competitors to you. As a result you might not want to publish content that leads people to their websites or blogs rather to your own. Paper.li is perhaps more about others than it is about you. Is it really marketing who you are following rather than you? However, that sharing/giving has potential benefits to you in the long run as indeed such activity has on Twitter. But on Twitter you perhaps have more control on what you do share/give than you have with a Paper.li.
What do you think?
What are your views on Paper.li? Do you mind your content appearing in them? Do you publish one and if so what are the pros and cons you have seen? Do you think Paper.li is spam? Does it warrant blocking or unfollowing? Is it a marketing tool and, if so, for who? Should lawyers have their own Paper.li?
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Ah, Paper.Li. I've yet to find anyone with a good word to say about them. My own control is that I unfollow anyone who RTs a daily because it mentions them (I tend to unfollow anyone who RTs their own mentions anyway). However my biggest bugbear with them is attribution. I've often appeared in a Daily with something I've RTed then attributed to me. And that really bugs me – I have no desire to take credit for anything that isn't mine. Like Scott, I've investigated how you can stop it, but have so far found no mechanism that works.
PS, apologies for typos, I bashed this out on my phone!
That was a very interesting post Brian. I often get picked up on these paper.li streams and I've always been a little uneasy about it. I follow people because I find their tweets interesting and I like to engage with them so the idea of stopping to follow their tweets simply because of an automated tweet seems a little on the extreme side.
I have found my tweets and blog posts ending up alongside other tweets and blog posts that I would not necessarily want to be associated with. This has largely been about the content of the other links contained within that particular paper.li edition and the sometimes questionable nature of that content.
I can see a personal advantage in being included in an edition of someone's paper.li in that it opens your own content to an audience beyond those who follow you. I regularly find when reviewing the stats for my blogs that people have found their way to a particular article from one of these paper.li editions.
I have personally considered the idea of having a paper.li, but decided against it based on the lack of editorial control.
I don't 'really' mind the Dailies….. I just like stirring when I am in that sort of 'stirring' mood.
I do, however, prefer to see good blogging – of all shades and styles – from a growing (this is good) number of law bloggers. Far more interesting.
Why The Grauniad…gawd bless their liberal cotton socks… should feel the need to have their own Twitter daily is beyond me.
To be honest… I never look at them now…… do I care? No… not much.
I would far rather mention a good blogger's blog post in my own blog and be mentioned in another's blog….
Must dash… have some more rubbish to write mocking the newly minted Egyptologists….and on all matters arab…. Où sont les experts et pundits sur l'Algérie?
I just happen to know the answer to this 'issue of the day'…. They are racing to Wikipedia to find out where it is…. hyperventilating and tweeting away on their goddam iPads to give the impression from their armchairs that they are about to bring down another dictatorship single handedly…..and that 'their tweets are REALLY important on the matter'…yawn….
Great post Brian.
A daily paper.li is to be welcomed provided you get it right; it must suit your own business model and objectives.
I run about 6 paper.lis at the moment both for myself and for clients, including a mixture of keyphrase searches and listings. If your law firm is worried about mentioning competitors, it may be a good idea to run the paper.li based on a custom-made list that you've made.
One tip for the SEO enthusiasts out there – any backlinks to your website posted on a paper.li count towards SEO as the links posted are NOT nofollow ones 😉
Best wishes
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I take your point Brian, but I disagree with people who don't make clear in tweets that what they are linking to isn't theirs either. I think I'm probably just a twitter grouch lately-so many things about it drive me mad!
To stop stirring for a moment – anything bloggers / regular tweeters do to help spread the word about blogging is fine by me…well….short of, obviously, anything which may be criminal, infringe the human rights of others, is not tortious etc etc etc……. BUT…if it makes prime minister Dave Cameron…'sick to the pit of stomach'… I'm all for it.
Don't quite know what to make of this yet. We're taking a wait and see approach.
I have one of these "Dailies" and while specifics aren't always easy to determine, I have seen an increase in traffic, both on Twitter (number of followers) and on our website. It could be a coincidence, or related to other marketing factors.
Still, publicity is publicity. These papers are really just extreme retweets. You can't control who retweets your posts, your links or your blogs. And you can't control what other material those same people retweet. No more than you can control anyone else on the web from linking to or otherwise reviewing your posts, your comments or your blogs.
Some of it is a nuisance. Some of it is ridiculously random. Some is offense, base and/or just plain stupid. At times, that's a good description of much of the content on Twitter, period.
Kartelblog…. Twitter can do what they like with my tweets…within their terms of service. This, however, does not give them the right to use my content on my blog. Nor, I suspect, would twitter (or WordPress) seek to do so.
They would be daft to do so. Twitter and WordPress (which I use for my blog), in my experience, seem to be very benign to the interests of those who generate original content. Maybe I am just being too optimistic?
I hope not.
You are correct. Blocking is severe. But this is how I chose to deal with spammers. Those who unsubscribe from Paper.li's spam service are free to notify me (email@example.com) and I will un-block them.
if you want to stop being included in paper.li dailies you could try
Hi Brian,
I do indeed have "the Vidster" and my reason for doing this was predominantly to make it easy for myself to read all the articles in my twitter stream. Many of the people I follow have links to articles and blog posts I might never have seen if they had not alerted me to them.
The reason to keep the daily for now is that I like to see variety and often the variety is hard to find. Many law blogs (or blawgs) and blog reviews refer to the same lawyers over and over again. That just does not keep my interest. Also, the constant referring or linking to posts from the same law bloggers makes me wonder how encouraging it is for a newcomer to wet their feet in the blogosphere. Another issue tied to this is that too often the distinction is being made that lawyers are only real lawyers when they practice. Non-practicing lawyers seem to be linked to less frequently or they do not appear at all in blog reviews. I think we miss out on a lot by splitting up the blogosphere (or blawgosphere) this way.
My blogroll is a mix of well known/popular blogs and some blogs that not many people follow. I try to highlight them in my weekly "Sum it Up! posts. They all contribute to my knowledge and daily laughs and I like others to experience that as well. The blogs are from cops, foreign lawyers, non-practicing lawyers, and many more.
I understand that some people may not like it that their names and posts are being used without prior permission. Considering that paper.li takes only the title and a few sentences, it seems to me to classify as "fair use" since a simple click on the title leads you straight to the original post.
Either you can opt out on the paper.li site or, contact the person in whose name that paper was made. I also see the issues Alistair mentioned. Because of those issues, I may delete "the Vidster" later on but for now, I'd like to experiment with it.
Thanks for asking my opinion, Brian!
I can see a personal advantage in being included in an edition of someone's paper.li in that it opens your own content to an audience beyond those who follow you. I regularly find when reviewing the stats for my blogs that people have found their way to a particular article from one of these paper.li editions.
We have a paper.li over at the ABA Antitrust Section http://bit.ly/ed2TbR as a showcase for what the Section and its Committees do on Twitter. Using social media is fairly new to the Section, but the Section now has 13 Twitter accounts http://bit.ly/hNkga6, so we thought a paper.li might be a good idea to show the added value Twitter has for people working in the area. The "ABASAL Daily Digest" is built over a Twitter list of the Section's and the Section Committee's Twitter accounts.
I have a paper.li for antitrust/competition law at http://bit.ly/gUfRSP. I started the "Antitrust Daily" using the customize option (first with all of Twitter, then a list of attorneys/journalists) plus a Twitter search query but it turned out that paper.li does not handle long search queries well. I now use a list of Twitter accounts who tweet only or also on antitrust and related topics. The noise vs signal ratio is not ideal but OK.
This is a long way of saying that not all paper.lis out there are by and for bloggers. I don't think there is anything wrong with bloggers promoting their blogs. We are talking about the Web 2.0, right? But in my view, the real value of paper.li is where it disseminates information on particular topics or areas of interest. If you take out the social media garbage and the lifestyle tweeting, there is actually very limited content on Twitter for certain areas of the law. Antitrust/competition law is one of those. I guess one of the reasons is that people simply do not see Twitter as a relevant source for that kind of content. I am hoping paper.li may help to change that perspective. If some don't like it, they don't like it. Others do. One can't be everything to everyone.
On the technical side of things, I don't understand why a discussion on the merits of paper.li should turn into a WP policy discussion ("benign" – I'd like to see that conversation with the folks over at WP). One shouldn't confuse the respective roles which Twitter, Smallrivers and CMS installations like WP have in all of this.
People pour their content into one big bowl. That bowl is called Twitter. There currently are 110 million tweets per day in the bowl. So Twitter lets people filter. That's done by following, lists and/or searches. However, the fact that user A decides to see only what users B to K put on their timelines does not change the 110 million tweets-in-the-bowl fact. The bowl is there, and it's open. It is visible to the Internet world outside of TW, and it's searchable for Google.
Twitter does more, its API hands out ladles and spoons to others for them to make use of the bowl (although that is changing, read http://rww.to/hIY1hY). That's what TW says in its ToS, and that's what that venture capital campus outfit in Lausanne is doing. Smallrivers has one of those hundreds of spoons, or perhaps in this case a ladle, but Twitter is still the big bowl, and there is still no change to the fact that what people pour into that bowl is (almost) entirely their business.
How anyone could think that putting content on a website gives rise to a right or moral claim for them to have control over others linking or not linking to it is beyond me (always assuming of course that outgoing links are in compliance with the laws of the country, the anchor text is OK, etc.). When the toothpaste is out, it's out.
I haven't looked at this from a legal angle but I feel that the various discussions about paper.li and the like serve as a helpful reminder that Web 2.0 tools are better not used with a Web 1.0 mindset.
Hi Brian
Good discussion as always.
I thought about these Dailies and I chose Not to have one for the following reasons :
1. I have my own daily – its called 'Engaging with people on twitter' I do it regularily and I follow and engage with only those people I want to. ( its great being autonomus)
2. I have my own blog – which I update on a regular basis with content I write and approve and with Guest blogs from people I choose.
3. Not everyone – understands that these paper .li are randomly collected posts from twitter and many people think (wrongly) that they have some how been picked because their post was GREAT.
4. The content of these papers is dubious – who says the authors are who they say they are?
5. Yes they may generate SEO – but SEO is not everything.The biggest generator of SEO is video and twitter.Its all about quality not quantity.What is the point of directing thousands of viewers to your blog or site if the content is poor or the service you offer does not match up to expectations.
6. Is it a marketing tool – yes absolutely.
7. Do I need to use one – No I dont thinks so.
8. If I am included in a Daily am I flattered ? No not really but I would be pretty angry if I was mis quoted for something or if I didnt post something and it was attributed to me.
9. Will I sign up for one – No
10. Will I block someone for sending out a daily – No , there are lots of dailies and many people do use them as part of their marketing strategy ( all be it in my honest opinion a pointless exercise)
Legaleaglemhm's Daily diary of life as a Diploma student is out every day – I write it , on the tube, in the Uni and in the kitchen and It is done using 140 characters.It may be short but like me its 100% me.
Michelle Hynes
What concerns and embarrasses me is that good content has sometimes been attributed to me automatically when I have merely retweeted something that has impressed me authored by somebody else
I would walk to the ends of the earth to avoid taking credit for something I have not written.
I have had another look at these dailies. Am I interested in them? Definitely not. Do I regard them as credible marketing for a serious professional? Definitely not – in fact, to be blunt, I would raise my eyebrows if any law firm used them because of the lack of control over the content.
I certainly won't block anyone or unfollow – it takes less time, frankly, to let the time line zip by.
I have had a look at about 50 of these things now. More often than not I was familiar with the key content in the UK based ones because of my own reading on the web – and there is a great deal of repetition. Harmless enough.
I won't be wasting my time looking at any more. I will use my time to enjoy the many and varied blog posts available in the UK, US, Canadian and overseas law blogging world – quite enough to keep me busy after my online 'perusal' of the tabloids each day to see what is happening in a Britain which I do not appear to live in :-).
I also get a surprising number of very useful links to interesting material tweeted by people I follow.
Do I find them mildly irritating? Not really – but there again, after a lifetime in teaching, I have little patience for plagiarism and laziness. Good grief…. I am beginning to sound like my brother Professor R.D. Charon…
Still… where would I be if people started behaving sensibly….? I would have to close my blog down… be nothing to write about 🙂
Come to think of it…where would any of the practising lawyers be if people behaved sensibly?
Interesting post Brian – and the comments also.
I'm orf…. and won't be around much on twitter for a while.
Hi Brian,
I don't really care about the copyright (and lack-of-attribution) issue as much as others do. Even though I agree it's an issue. My main issue is the spam in my Twitter timeline that Paper.li generates. I work hard to follow real accounts, not robots. And to have real content in my stream. Accounts that auto-Tweet and auto DM add noise to the conversation, not signal.
To answer your specific question, I block all those who originate Paper.li Tweets AND those who re-Tweet them. Lately, I've been letting the world know about my opinions. Reasonable people may differ, of course, but I've not yet hear a reasonable pro-Paper.li argument. I remain shocked that Paper.li was able to raise venture capital.
Then again, people like blood sausage (to paraphrase Bill Murry in Groundhog Day).
I disagree with your opinion on paper.li. Twitter, by its design is an "at the moment" live stream of events. The 2% of tech geeks that sit on twitter all day long are the exception, and maybe you are one of these people. But for most people, its used from a mobile device to send out where I am and what I am doing. I use it when I come across something I like or want to to more research on or just to share.
I have followers who only look at my paper.li becasue its functions more like a newspaper than a live stream. If anything, I wish paper.li gave us more control over the content and how its organized.
I understand your position and see your point, which is why I publish weekly. I just wanted to share my thoughts and let you know that not all paper.li users are evil robots!
Kartell….. if a truly unpleasant individual put my content on his site – be sure… I'd do something about it.
The toothpaste might well be out of the tube… but I would certainly pursue anyone who misused my content to get indirect benefit…… Hitler, Stalin etc etc…… by way of example… fortunately, they are dead… but there are others about who are pretty unpleasant.
So..yes… I definitely have a moral right in an extreme case…and I'd be happy to see if that could be turned into a legal right if pushed!
Fortunately – the people I follow and who follow me on twitter are good people..so it is unlikely to cause me a problem!
In my view the value of these "dailies" is basically zero… but on the other hand I only see them as a minor irritant (after all they are, by definition, a pretty minor blip in my Twitter stream as they only flash up once a day). I tend to just ignore them rather than blocking or unfollowing the perpetrators.
Shoudl lawyers have their own? Well, based on the above I would say no, no and no! As Michelle says above why not just focus on engaging with people instead.
Just going back to Scott's original point about using other people's content as the "meat" in the sandwich, I have noticed recently that the Quality Solicitors twitter feed (http://twitter.com/qual_solicitors) seems to be composed largely of links that they tweet to articles written by others (newspapers, blogs etc.) but phrased as a "headline" and a link to the article rather than a RT and without any attribution.
For example today's offering "Thousands of illegal workers claiming benefits…." with a shortened link to a #DailyFail article on the subject.
What do people think about this kind of approach? Surely it must be good Twitter form to either do this as a RT (if it was originally tweeted) or attribute back to the original author in the Tweet?
Obviously this is an emerging area and there is scope for argument about what is "correct", but I wouldn't be particularly pleased if someone was tweeting links to my blog in this way.
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I think it's important to understand exactly what paper.li does. It looks at the tweets of those you follow, follows the links embedded in their posts and publishes in a fancy format excerpts from those linked pages. For each excerpt it links to the original publisher's story, prefaces the excerpt with the original publisher's name and displays below the story the tweeter who posted the link, linking to their Twitter timeline.
So it's quite neat and I can't see why anyone whose story is linked to would object any more than they would object to the millions of other services that do similar (Google comes to mind!). But what's paper.li's purpose? Is it any use to anyone? I suspect not very much and hence the irritation it seems to engender. At first sight it is seductive. Having noticed GdnLaw's paper.li I immediately created a paper.li … kept it going for precisely 2 days.
If someone's found a use for it, let us know. SEO? Give me a break!
Brian, as I've just mentioned on the Twittersphere, we've decided to ditch our paper.li daily. I've written a brief blog post about why: http://www.blog.thelawwizard.com/2011/02/why-we-ditched-paper-li/
Surely it must be good Twitter form to either do this as a RT (if it was originally tweeted) or attribute back to the original author in the Tweet?
Absolutely. Attribution is everything.
Correction – quote is from @Peninsulawyer
Hi Nick – we all try to assist each other in the blog world – which is good and you more than many with your advice and resources on Infolaw.
I was, of courser, faffing abart when I did my parody tweet and caption pic.
The good news…. more people blogging on law – many varying styles and approaches. I often find blogger views more interesting than the writing in mainstream news.
Another good thing – The Guardian, the Lawyer and legal Week are more than happy to promote blogs. It doesn't cost them anything. We aren't competing with them and the favour works both ways.
BTW – I can't lay claim to the quoted extract… that was another poster. 🙂
Time for a catch up chat soon?
Oops, sorry it was Jon Bloor
As the creator of legal-connexions daily that you kindly mention, I thought I would chime in too. When I set it up the chief aim was to aid people in discovering other tweeters and legal bods, I see it akin to Flipboard on the iPad in aggregating a snapshot of Twitter. I have also contemplated many times deleting it due to the controversy of paper.li, yet there are subscribers and people who like it. Maybe the answer is to keep it going but for subscribers only to get notification.
I killed "the Vidster" and here is why: http://www.defrostingcoldcases.com/miscellaneous/i-killed-the-vidster
If paper.li dailies offer an option where I can create a daily of only my tweets and blawg posts, then I will create such a daily, post haste.
I will not, however, tweet about it or link it to my blawg or terrorize my followers by hyper-retweeting to gain attention or more followers.
I will simply use it as my own "Digital Legacy Archive" to rival that of the Library of Congress after Twitter sold us all out and gifted our "copyrighted content" without our implied or express consent.
Good riddance to paper.li dailies. We either create or we destroy. Rebroadcasting and republishing without any critical thought or analysis is like being a curator of a museum filled with rented furniture.
If Paper.li did analytics then we'd be further down the line
on understanding what it does or not.
I see Paper.li as being useful to readers if….
You like the Tweeter.
You have similar interests.
The Paper.li is tightly focussed.
But also has some side issues that may spark other interests.
And you get included from time to time and gain followers yourself.
Perhaps one way to use it is to set up a Twitter account
e.g. boating news and then follow the people who are
important in that area and create a Paper.li so that
it is an industry boating news Paper.li
It's then convenient for readers and targeted and
saves them having to do all the work themselves….pretty much like
a newspaper.
Another way to use it is to target your locality and become a
local Champion. This does have traffic benefits for your main website.
Think Groupon/News for your town.
Benefits to your main site come from people clicking on your profile to see who you are/what you are about.
Target only those who give out quality Tweets to get focussed content.
I agree this is not 100% focussed because it can't be at the moment.
I agree that an email and paper newsletter is better use of time than a Paper.li for me.
But I'll keep open minded on this.
My mind is now more closed too.
I've stopped my Paper.li experiment for the moment.
Love the masterminding going on here.
Thanks, Brian, for another thoughtful post about digital marketing, and for the interesting discussion which has followed.
As a digital comms professional who has only recently started working in the world of law I'm slightly surprised that so many of the comments have been concerned with how to exclude yourself from appearing in other people's paper.lies. It reminds me of the old story about the hill walking blogger who found the key phrase 'up skirt photos' in his website referrals log because a walk description of his mentioned skirting round a hillside before climbing up. He could have fretted about his page appearing in Google's search results alongside porn sites and excluded Google from indexing it altogether, or alternatively he could have chilled out, had a chuckle that some random people were turning up to his site and being very disappointed, and instead been happy with the fact that far more people were finding his site via Google for more legitimate search terms.
I remember being a webmaster in the very early days of the web, when people would email me to ask permission to link *to* our websites. These days the idea of emailing site owners to ask them to remove links is now an alien concept (or at least I thought so until I read this thread). The reality is you really have little control of who links to you, any more than you can control every possible search term you appear in Google's search results for, any more than you can expect every Twitter user to ask permission before mentioning you in a tweet. Unless of course you don't have a website at all and you stay off the internet.
Accept and revel in the democracy and chaos that is the web and take delight in the fact that people you've never met are prepared to mention you!
But then again, I'm not a lawyer. 😉
I'm sure people are not objecting to having links to their articles; they are objecting to the apparent attribution of their stories to others.
A typical paper.li daily announcement is:
The *xxx * Daily is out! http://bit.ly/12345 – Top stories today via @aaa @bbb @ccc @ddd
@aaa @bbb @ccc and @ddd did not write the stories, they linked to them in their tweets, but most people don't get the subtle distinction between "via" and "by" and in the paper.li itself the tweeter's name is much more prominent than the original site's.
But the xxx daily is out tweet makes no reference to either the original article or its owner, so I can't see what possible objection they could have to this tweet. I assume what people are objecting to is the reference within the paper.li itself. And when you click on a link here, does it not take you through to the original article anyway, rather than somebody else tweeting about it?
As an aside to this, there was also some discussion as to whether links from paper.li content would provide benefits to SEO. In fact within the last 24 hours Google has made a major change to its algorithm targeting "content farms". These are sites containing automated content which has been created by scraping content from other websites, ie. sites which contain little or no original content of their own.
Since paper.li content almost certainly falls under this definition it is likely paper.lies will have very little SEO benefit in future as Google tweaks its algorithm and other search engines follow suit. While these changes won't penalise the sites containing the original content, as the changes are aimed at the content farms, no benefit will be had from links in paper.lies as paper.li style content will either be excluded from search engine indexes or be penalised to such an extent as to prevent them cluttering up results pages.
More information about the Google algorithm change can be found on the Search Engine Land website: http://selnd.com/eZgBWj
Brian: Interesting thread. I ended the 22 Tweets Daily because, as many of those commenting have pointed out, the stories are attributed to those who tweeted them, not those who authored them. Don't get me wrong: I find it very interesting to see what the people I follow are reading. But I no longer think paper.li is the way to package those reading recommendations up and share them with the world.
Thank you for the observations Brian.
As noted, the YoublawG daily was indeed a Paper.li set up as an experiment, although admittedly dating back to last year. The daily was based on a twitter list I enjoyed following on twitter. I thought it may be more advantageous for me to follow on paper.li . Sometimes this did prove useful for me, although I think it is fair to say that things change as soon as you hit the autopublish button.
One minor point as an aside which I would never do, but is a potential backdoor method, is for someone to copy someone else's list, produced through hard effort, and then for them to make a paper.li based on that. But I don't expect to see any of that happening anytime soon, particularly given the bad press attaching to sites like paper.li.
As for my Dailies that do remain intact, I believe that are all now based on general keywords such as #legal or #law or #scotland, which provides, as far as I am concerned, a useful aggregation for me to use. Autopublish is, for the moment, still switched on for those accounts mainly because I think other people can take some value from these also. Nevertheless, as you say Brian, the majority would say that these are perhaps best avoided.
Finally, I would just like to re-iterate the point that Mark Horrell makes above – Google is now actively weeding out content farms from its algorithm. Which means that any SEO advantages which may have been said to have been created through such a site are now heavily, if not entirely, defeated. I read in mashable that this has been for some time one of Google's biggest challenges and it is good to see steps being taken to encourage and cultivate a community of unique content that is rightly attributable to its authors.
Best wishes
I don't understand the snobbery on this issue. Nor do I understand the correlation between a 'daily' and a blog. They are different things and achieve different results. Just in the same way a blog cannot be compared to a book. A blog on family law is hardly Hershman & McFarlane is it? Why should/would it be?
As for a daily not adding any value – lighten up! I find them quite a useful bit of fun and actually if anything draw attention to bloggers and blogs – it promotes them. I know law students who have started reading blogs from posters on here due to seeing the blogs on a daily. Likewise our daily often thoughts up articles that the find useful that we would not have an expertise in blogging on – we are a family law firm, so articles etc from support groups, single parent organisations and such like have indeed given 'extra value'.
I also kind of like the eclectic randomness of what it thrown up. Will it/does it have the possibility of causing problems? Of course! But let's get things into perspective – blogs, twitter etc are all of use. The day people adopt too high a value as to what their element provides over others is the day the true value gets lost.
So, cheer up; live and let live!
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Hi Brian,
Kelly at Paper.li here. Since the original date of your post, Paper.li has released new features and new functionality: have they helped you as a publisher? If so, what changes have helped most. If not, what's still missing in your point of view.
We'd be thrilled to hear from you and your community. As well, we're also curious as to if a verdict has been reached on if lawyers should have their own Paper.li, or not :=)
Best regards,
Kelly at Paper.li
Paper.li is a great tool to have the news you like in one place. You can use the filters in the content page to have the kind of news you are interested in i.e bribery news only. I use my paper.li to keep tabs on all legal news thanks to the legal writers, lawyers, chambers and legal firms I follow.
Cryton I agree, especially as I took up the paper.li idea from you!
The filter options are very useful for making sure you include only things that you want.
Hopefully there is no accreditation problem either if the individual entries are accompanied by references to their sources, which so far they seem to be.
More anon…
An update from the past few weeks which readers may have already spotted – paper.li announcing ability to go pro, offering much more extensive customisation http://blog.paper.li/2012/07/upgrade-customize-and-make-paperli.html


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Baku. 14 June. REPORT.AZ/ "The legalization of prostitution in Armenia may cause a reduction of a rate of sexually transmitted diseases to 60%."
Report informs citing Armenian media, this statement was made by the country's head of department of Dermatology and Infectious Diseases Scientific-Medical Center, doctor-dermatologist Samvel Hovhannisyan.
He added that the legalization of this "ancient profession" must be strictly controlled by the country: "Opening of such "business industry" requires big amount of financial resources". Moreover, those who offer intimate services must be completely healthy."
It ss prohibited to get engaged in this work, and they are fined in Armenia.
According to UNESCO in 2001, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, prostitution has strongly developed in the country.
According to the report dated 1 July 2014, there are 3 700 STD infected people.


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I never thought to mention it, but I like this house rule for Presence a lot. It makes Presence more valuable as the "works well with others" ability, without making it so good that everyone should buy a lot of it. You could make a good Alfred/Jarvis/Wong character around this, a high Presence, and the Jack of All Trades advantage.Davies wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2017 11:47 pm
House Rules Observed By All Characters
* Some Expertise skills are based on Presence. In addition, any skill check for a Team Check skill is modified by Presence rather than the normal ability.
* Defensive Roll 1 gives a +2 bonus to Toughness checks, with a +1 per level thereafter.
The Defensive Roll one is good, too: it basically makes Defensive Roll like buying ranks of Protection with a one point "Power Loss: Vulnerable or Defenseless" quirk. I'll probably work these into the game I run.


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After a very long 2 weeks of sick, sick and more sick I felt like today would be fitting to do a 5 things list. Scripture teaches us to give thanks in everything even in the midst of sickness so here we go....
1. I don't talk a lot about my husband but that is in no way a reflection of how grateful I am for him. This week he took on daddy duty while I had 2 girls nights. He also just has the ability to love me so well. In my most stressed out moments he's the first one I want to call or chat with just to feel ok again. He even helped me by typing out a week of curriculum when my computer died! He is a good man ;-).
2. My kiddos..I've learned a lot about my kids through these sick days. I've learned that Jude is a cuddler. This morning his couging woke him up at 6 and I went in to get him. I sat in the rocker and just rocked him for like 40 minutes. When I would peek at him to see if he was sleeping he would just look up at me and smile. Ellison on the other hand wants her space. I just now tried to cuddle with her and she told me she couldn't turn the pages on her book (LOL). She wants me to be there just not snuggling.
3. Yesterday I had a great lunch with a freind of mine. We sat outside on the grass and just talked about life. She asked me a great question which was so right on with everything going on in my life. It was one of those cool "God knows me" moments. Our conversation was sweet and was a reminder to not put God in a box.
4. God's grace for sure! Man I have not been the best mom and wife since coming home from Spain. Things just keep coming at me and it wares on me. Unfortunately my family doesn't always get my best. I am reminded and encouraged in the fact that his grace is so good and sweet. If I had it all right, I wouldn't need Him.
5. The final thanks for this week is for my job. Over the past month or so I've had to be out for a number of reasons. Family in town, lice, mission trip, sickness, computer craash. Through all of it, I've had nothing but support from my co-workers. I love that I can be a contributor even though I'm only in the office for about 8 hours per week. I'm able to do my job and feel valued and wanted. It truly is such a gift to be able to be a part of UpStreet and North Point in general!
Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, His love endures forever......


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To open on 2 November in Milan EICMA-Show 2010 will present a concept bike at the electric from the Japanese Suzuki – Suzuki Crosscage.
This is a real surprise of this exhibition, previously no appearance of this machine is not announced in public. True, in a global sense, certainly not any surprise – the car put up for different views is not the first year. Steadily improving, apparently.
The motorcycle boasts a full-fledged electronic instrument panel (though it now nobody will be surprised), but no further details about the latest incarnation of its electric concept, which was first shown at the Tokyo Motor Show back in 2007, Suzuki did not provide.
According to unofficial data, the motorcycle on a lithium-ion batteries has a cruising range on a single charge of 200 km.
True, it's not quite electric bike. Instead of the traditional internal combustion engine equipped with a Suzuki Crosscage power plant consisting of a fuel cell developed by the specialists of British company Intelligent Energy, and the battery that performs the role of backup power supply, as well as store energy during regenerative braking. Fuel cells run on hydrogen, which is stored under high pressure in a special container located under the seat.
Produced by the current system feeds the electric motor is located directly on the hub of the rear wheel. This power plant provides Suzuki Crosscage dynamics, it is comparable to conventional motorcycle equipped with, for example, 125 cc engine.
Original decision – console swingarm and as a console front suspension, in addition to a shock absorber.
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SAP gold channel partner, Extend Technologies, has sold its SAP Business One Practice to services provider, Enabling, for an undisclosed sum.
The deal will see more than 25 clients transferred to Enabling with the service provider also obtaining Extend's SAP Business One three full-time staff and contractors. The additions increase Enabling's headcount to 110.
Enabling marketing communications manager, Sarah Poole, said the business offered the company an opportunity to gain more exposure in the market and made it a major solution partner for SAP. "Max White [Extend managing director] was out in the market looking for the right type of alliance partner and company to sell this portion of their business," she said. "We have very similar philosophies and culture and could see a very strong alliance with Enabling.
"We found that we were lacking in a particular solution for a customer and this certainly gives us exposure to another segment of the market that we weren't able to service previously."
Poole said the company wanted to add more staff in the next 12 months and expressed hopes the acquisition would have a significant impact on the market.


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Complications ensue when Terri and Chad find themselves in a business relationship. Both share one belief: business and personal relationships don't mix. Controlling a boiling passion and coping with fears of commitment mount as they work for a solution. The only way to save both their business and personal lives is admitting their unique qualities, which complement each, and form a new partnership.


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Graduation 2018
Upper Division (Grade 12)
Class of 2018
The graduation ceremony for the class of 2018 will be held outdoors in the Wandke Amphitheater on the Pebble Beach Campus on Sunday, May 27, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. A reception hosted by Stevenson School will follow the ceremony for graduates, families, guests, and faculty members.
Graduation Announcement and Invitation Ordering Information
Please view the column to the right for further details and ordering information.
Graduation Week Events
A complete printable schedule of events for Graduation Week is posted here.
Live Stream of Graduation Ceremony
We are excited to offer a live video stream over the Internet of the commencement ceremony for our Stevenson friends and family members who cannot attend the event in person. The event broadcast will start shortly before the ceremony begins at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
You will be able to click here to view the live stream shortly before the event.
Commencement Speaker 2018
We are pleased to announce that Catherine Stihler, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland and formerly the Rector of the University of St. Andrews, will deliver the address at Stevenson School's 65th commencement exercises on May 27 in Wandke Amphitheater. Born in Bellshill, Ms. Stihler attended the University of St. Andrews, where she was awarded an MA (Honors) Geography and International Relations and an MLitt in International Security Studies. In 2013 she gained an MBA from the Open University. In 2014, she was named the 52nd Rector of the University of St. Andrews and was the first person in 116 years to hold the position while serving as an elected public official. Notably, she is still only the second woman to be named to this post.
In 1999, Ms. Stihler was elected as the youngest British MEP and has been recognized as an ambassador for accessibility, consumer rights, and citizen rights. Currently Vice Chair of the Internal Market Committee, she works on digital policy, leading on copyright reform, digital skills, data protection, and privacy. She led the campaign for bolder anti-smoking messages on cigarette packs, promoting Scotland's anti-smoking legislation as a role model for the EU. She was also instrumental in helping to place Braille on pharmaceutical products and securing new EU-wide rules that make construction products safer.
Graduation Week Events
Upper Division Graduation Week Schedule – 2018
Thursday, May 24
Community Honors and Awards Day
This day celebrates a Stevenson tradition honoring outstanding students and faculty. Dress for the day is formal. Collared shirts with pants are appropriate, as are dresses, skirts or the equivalent. No denim, sweatshirts or athletic clothing, please.
8:50 a.m. Advisee Meetings (Grades 9-12)
9:00 a.m. Student Council Awards – Keck Auditorium
(Students and faculty)
9:30 a.m. Community Honors Assembly – Wandke Amphitheater
(Parents are welcome and encouraged to attend.)
Assembly starts with Senior Class Procession. Students sit by class. Students and faculty will be seated in the front of the Amphitheater and attending parents should sit behind the students and faculty.
11:00 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. Advisee Meetings (Grades 9-12)
12:00 p.m. Class Barbecues / Lunch (Grades 9-12)
- Grade 12 – Pirate Pool
- Grade 11 – Reid Hall Patio
- Grade 10 – Wilson Field near Barrows Hall
- Grade 9 – Wilson Field near Treasure Island
Parent volunteers are needed and welcome to attend. Yearbooks are distributed at the class barbecues. Day students will need to bring a change of clothes for the barbeques. The gym locker rooms will be open for changing and day students may also go to a resident student friend's room to change.
1:00 p.m. Faculty available for extra help sessions
1:00 p.m. Senior Activity (required) – Gym
1:30 p.m. Senior Meeting/Graduation (required) – Gym
2:00 p.m. Six Flags Magic Mountain – Seniors meet in Douglas Hall
The Grad Nite trip is another Stevenson senior tradition. The class travels by bus for an all-night amusement park celebration. The park is closed to the public but open to graduating seniors from high schools from all over the state. USA Student Travel's requirements state, "Seniors should wear clean, untorn clothing without writing on it that covers them appropriately and includes closed-toed shoes they'd be willing to walk a few miles in. Magic Mountain does not allow students to bring in hats, backpacks, briefcases, hip packs, camera bags, tote bags, oversized purses, shoes with skate wheels, laser pointers, pocket knives, matches, lighters, food and beverages, cameras, or cell phones or pagers that are in cases, and medications except inhalers (a chaperone can carry certain medicines through the pat-down line for the seniors)." Students should bring money for snacks and souvenirs. The class returns in the early afternoon on Friday. Contact person: Mr. Andrew Czerny, senior class sponsor, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Friday, May 25
11:00 a.m. Seniors Return from Magic Mountain (return time is approximate)
11:30 a.m. Graduation Rehearsal #1 – Wandke Amphitheater
Rehearsal is mandatory for all seniors.
Saturday, May 26
3:30 p.m. Senior Class Panoramic Photo – Meet in Wandke Amphitheater
Dress for Senior Dinner (see below). Please notify Mr. Olson if you are unable to attend.
4:00 p.m. Graduation Rehearsal #2 – Wandke Amphitheater
Rehearsal is mandatory for all seniors. Dress for Senior Dinner (see below). Seniors are encouraged to wear the shoes they plan to wear the day of graduation. It will give them practice with the difficult and varied walking terrain (grass, stairs, cement, and gravel).
5:30 p.m. Senior Dinner – Reid Hall
All seniors are expected to attend the Senior Dinner. The senior class and faculty are treated to a special dinner in Reid Hall, followed by a presentation that includes a faculty speaker chosen by the class. This is a senior and faculty event only. Dress for the evening is formal: coat, tie and collared shirts with pants are appropriate, as are dresses, skirts with blouses, or the equivalent. No denim, sweatshirts or athletic clothing, please. Contact Mr. Olson or Mr. Czerny if you have any questions.
7:30 p.m. Baccalaureate – Erdman Memorial Chapel
Baccalaureate is a non-denominational farewell sermon in honor of the Senior Class. All seniors are required to attend. Immediate family members are welcome to attend; please note, seating is limited.
Sunday, May 27
12:00 p.m. Seniors Assemble – Ricklefs Library
All members of the Senior Class will meet in the Library at noon for final instructions from Mr. Olson. Caps and gowns (forest green) for all graduates should be picked up in the Ricklefs Library by noon and returned to Mr. O'Hara in the Library following the graduation ceremony and reception. Dress for the day is formal: white collared shirts with pants, dresses, skirts with blouses, or the equivalent and appropriate shoes. Stevenson ties will be provided as gifts to those who requested them.
12:15 p.m. Faculty Assemble – Wilson Hall
1:00 p.m. Graduation Ceremony – Wandke Amphitheater
Seating for graduation is on a first-come, first-served basis, and will be available beginning at 11:00 a.m. (No seats may be saved prior to 11:00 a.m.) Six seats are allocated per family. Please be respectful of other families. Ample additional seating is provided adjacent to the amphitheater. In the case of rain, graduation will be held in the gymnasium and students will commence in the Common Room of Silverado Residence Hall. The event will also be live streamed. Click here to view the live stream shortly before the event.
3:00 p.m. Graduation Reception – Pirate Pool & Pedestrian Plaza
All faculty, parents, friends, alumni, and graduates are invited to attend the celebratory reception for the graduating class immediately following the ceremony.
Guests will be treated to a selection of hors d'oerves, beverages, music, and more. Everyone is encouraged to stay and enjoy the special festivities.
6:00 p.m. Residence Halls close for Seniors
All senior resident students must be moved out of their rooms by 6 p.m.
Middle Division (Grade 8)
Upper Division Announcements & Invitations
We are working to support local small businesses in our community and have selected "The Quill" in Pacific Grove as our printer. You can order graduation announcements only or add an optional invitation to attend the graduation ceremony or a private party.
Sample announcement & invitation
Invitation order form
Announcement order form
Orders should be placed as soon as possible for delivery in advance of graduation.
Questions can be directed to:
"The Quill"
Julie Ostarello
Upper Division Commencement 2018 Photos & Videos
Upper Division Important Information
- Reserving Seats
- Parking and Shuttle Service
- Handicap Access and Parking
- Restrooms
- Food and Refreshments
- Campus Store Special Hours
- Weather
- Baccalaureate
Reserving Seats
Seating will be on a first come, first served basis starting at 11 a.m. Families may hold up to six (6) seats in the amphitheater seating area. Overflow seating is available in the upper lawn seating area. (In past years, families interested in specific seat locations have arrived 1-2 hours in advance to be well-positioned when seating opens at 11 a.m.)
All guests are encouraged to be in their seats by 12:45 p.m. as Commencement exercises begin at 1:00 p.m. Photos must be taken from your seats, as standing in the aisles is discouraged.
Parking and Shuttle Service
Parking is available at several locations on or near campus. Transportation shuttles (via golf cart, van, or bus) will be provided for transportation to the ceremony from the following locations:
- Wilson Field parking area (located to the left of the main entrance next to the softball field)
- The Jeff and Beth Young Athletic Fields parking areas (on Viscaino Road)
- Lisbon Lane, Viscaino Road, and the Bristol Curve area
Handicap Access and Parking
If you require any special arrangements at the ceremony, such as wheelchair access or handicap parking, please contact Michelle Boatman at email@example.com or 831-625-8397.
Restrooms are available in several locations near the graduation ceremony.
- Reid Dining Hall (to the right of Rosen Amphitheater as you face the stage)
- Rosen Center (handicap-accessible restroom located in the left rear corner of the main floor level)
- Douglas Hall (up the stairs behind the upper row of seats in Wandke Amphitheater)
Food and Refreshments
As a courtesy to families arriving early, coffee, tea, water, and assorted muffins and danish will be available in the foyer of Reid Dining Hall adjacent to Wandke Amphitheater before the commencement ceremony.
A celebratory reception featuring hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will follow the ceremony at the Pirate Pool & Pedestrian Plaza from 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. We welcome you, your family, and your friends to share in this celebration.
Campus Store Special Hours
The spring weather in Pebble Beach is unpredictable. The outdoor Wandke Amphitheater can be very warm on a sunny day or cool if the weather is breezy or foggy.
You can check the weather forecast for Pebble Beach, California, on your smart phone or at weather.com.


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i love the grunge effect >D
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My 342nd wallpaper ^_^, celebrates~
I was lonely today... knowing i couldn't be with someone i care about tonight T_T,
So to relieve my frustration i made something, Bright!, Gloomy!, and Grunge!.
T_T, i miss her...
Ummn, wel heres the jist of it all, I made this for her so widescreen folks >.o~ hmm jades 2nd widescreen
Okki, i made this with all the busy work on the left hand side and this deep dark area with not much action on the right to show the lonliness of it all, the right is bust to show how active i get when with her, the word defiance, is meaning i want to defy everyone to be with her. =.=, no im not love struck either damnit lol
Total time 3 hours-
To a special someone, ill always dedicate my time too.
~As always, comment and enjoy~
I don't need your critique :P, yah figure id know what i want to make by now lol no offense darlings~
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rika23 Oct 08, 2007
aceman67 Oct 09, 2007
You may not need my Critique, but you're going to get it anyways.
Grunge is good and all, but I think you went a tad bit overboard.
IzumiChan Oct 11, 2007
Cool grunginess, I liked it~ :D
But, those black smokes are a bit too much~ x3
Apart from those, great use of textures and cool feel~ :)
jaderabbit Oct 13, 2007
lol i dont care u giving critque , just dont say anyhting that will offend my darling ~ :P
soujiokita Oct 20, 2007
I think this wall looks great! I love the grunge and colors, the text on her arm looks cool too. :) I don't know if you care or not, but you spelled "lonliness" wrong, it should be "loneliness."
theremosster Mar 03, 2009
this wall is very good
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Please help the long-suffering people of Sierra Leone as the country heads into presidential and parliamentary elections on March 7, 2018.
As you may know, Sierra Leone is always in the news for something negative. Whether it was the civil war of the 1990s, the recent Ebola epidemic and mudslides, or Sierra Leonean migrants being tortured in Libya, it seems as if the people of Sierra Leone cannot catch a break.
Like most African countries that President Trump reportedly referred to as "sh*tholes," Sierra Leone's problems are mainly due to corruption, mismanagement, and bad governance which have their roots in questionable and often fraudulent elections.
We, Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora, are very concerned that fraud and rigging perpetuated by the incumbent All People's Congress (APC) party of President Ernest Koroma could mar the outcome of the next elections in March. The signs are already apparent with attempts and measures that were taken by the APC designed to perpetuate their stay in power. These include last-minute attempts in parliament to change the constitutional requirement of 55% for an outright victory to 50% +1, use of the courts to intimidate and harass prominent opposition members by incarceration without bail, unexplained burning of opposition offices, inflation of census results to increase potential voters in their electoral strongholds, questionable and discriminatory deployment of a citizenship clause in the Constitution of Sierra Leone etc.
What hopes remain for credible and peaceful elections in Sierra Leone could lie in the following measures that we hope you can help bring about in some way through your moral and other support or advocacy for our cause that will surely make a difference in the lives of the long-suffering people of Sierra Leone:
1. Please join other members of the international community to hold President Ernest Koroma principally accountable for peaceful, free and credible elections in Sierra Leone on March 7, 2018.
2. Please help prevail upon the APC party to not impose any sudden and new "electoral laws" in the country heading into the elections of 2018, such as they did in 2012 when they suddenly and arbitrarily banned all motor vehicle transportation on polling day except vehicles operated by their APC party functionaries, the National Elections Commission, or members of the security forces.
3. Please join other members of the international community to prevail upon the APC to allow the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to grant access to the opposition to preview and verify specific polling materials, such as voters' lists and ID cards of polling center staff, at least a week before polling day on March 7, 2018.
4. Please help prevail on the APC party to allow members of the opposition and international and local electoral observers to travel across the country freely, without let or hindrance by security forces on Elections Day to verify the conduct of polling at all polling centers.
5. Please help prevail on the APC not to turn the internet off in Sierra Leone on Elections Day and not shut down cell phone service to curtail open communication across the country.
6. Please help prevail upon the security forces in Sierra Leone to not open fire on civilians who are inclined to register their protest with any aspect of the electoral process. Instead, the security forces should be compelled to arrest and detain individuals for violations of the law who could be prosecuted under the law and afforded due process following the elections.
The long-suffering people of Sierra Leone are desperate and hungry for change even as members of the very unpopular APC government have vowed publicly that they will never relinquish power. Thus, Sierra Leone is at a dangerous crossroad again, just as it previously was on the eve of the rebel war in 1991 under another APC government.
We, concerned Sierra Leoneans, fear that should the APC manipulate the conduct of the 2018 elections in their favor where the populace expects them to lose, it will serve as the flashpoint that could ignite civil strife, another conflict, mass migrations, and the unnecessary loss of lives.
Thus, we thank you for your attention and for helping shine a light on our country. We hope that your efforts will help to sustain peace in Sierra Leone.
Fodei Batty, Ph.D.
Hamden, CT. USA
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